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Several thousand Boeing machinists in the Midwest who assemble military aircraft and weapons voted Thursday to approve a new contract, ending a three-month strike that saw them reject four earlier offers from the company. The breakthrough five-year labor agreement includes a 24% wage hike across the life of the contract and a $6,000 signing bonus, according to the union representing the 3,200 workers who walked off the job on Aug. 4. “We’re proud of what our members have fought for together and are ready to get back to building the world’s most advanced military aircraft,” the International Association of Machinists...

Western automotive and green energy executives who visit China are returning humbled — and even terrified.As The Telegraph reports, the executives are warning that the country’s heavily automated manufacturing industry could quickly leave Western nations behind, especially when it comes to electric vehicles.“We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just EVs,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told The Verge last month. “And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number...

Over the past few years, a huge number of schools in the United States and around the world have banned cell phone use among their students.Gothamist spoke to students about their experience with the ban, and the number one takeaway didn’t have to do with anything to do with hot-button topics like social media addiction or cyberbullying. Instead, it was that kiboshing phones is forcing kids to actually talk to each other in meatspace again — and it’s making schools way noisier, for better or worse.“Sometimes I would take naps in the lunchroom, but now I can’t because of the...

Teriomas Tremice Johnson, 31, is accused of leaving her three children in a Pontiac, Michigan, apartment that did not have running water and was littered with human waste and rotten food. Now, the father of Johnson's 9-year-old daughter is speaking out after the child and her siblings were found living in what authorities call "deplorable condition." "I stayed there for hours. I was determined not to leave until I came back with my daughter," said Julian Gary. "This was going on for a while, and I'm sick of it. I'm tired of having to chase to protect my daughter." Gary...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the introduction of compulsory digital ID cards on Friday for people who work in the UK — a measure to tackle illegal immigration and maintain control over borders. "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's as simple as that," Starmer said in a keynote address during London's 2025 Global Progress Action Summit. The policy, which he said would be required by the end of the current parliament, aims to address concerns about illegal workers in the shadow economy and maintain fairness in...

“‘You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight’” (Matthew 11:25–26). God does not exclude intelligent people from His kingdom but those who rely on their own intelligence for salvation. The apostle Paul was a scholar, but he didn’t abandon that brilliance to become a Christian. However, he did stop relying on that training to understand the things of God. Intellect is a gift from God, but it becomes an impediment to authentic knowledge of Him when trust in it supersedes trust in...

A teenage boy testified in Canadian court that his lesbian adoptive parents spent five years torturing him and his brother by forcing them to wear hockey helmets and wet suits for hours on end. The 13-year-old, identified only as J.L., is the prosecution's star witness in the ongoing murder trial of Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney, who are accused of killing J.L.'s older brother in 2022 by systematically starving him and leaving him soaking wet in their Toronto-area basement. The older brother, referred to as L.L., was found on December 21, 2022, in the couple's Burlington home lying on the...

A South Carolina mass killer was executed by firing squad on Friday after his last-ditch attempt to avoid the death penalty was rejected. Stephen Bryant, 44, was shot by three volunteers with rifles shortly after 6pm, more than 20 years after he killed three people during a vicious crime spree. Residents in Sumter County were left terrified by his eight day rampage, which saw him taunt police by writing a message in his victim's blood. Days before his execution, Bryant petitioned the South Carolina Supreme Court to stay his death penalty as he sought to blame his sickening crimes on...

Press release – Calls for Scottish Government to reject extreme abortion up to birth plans 14 November 2025 – A review of abortion law in Scotland commissioned by the Scottish Government, and undertaken by a group chaired by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider, has recommended that Scotland scrap the 24-week time limit and allow abortions on social grounds, including for sex-selective purposes, right up to birth. In Scotland, 98% of the 18,710 abortions performed in 2024 were done so under section 1(1)(a) of the Abortion Act, which is interpreted by abortion providers to allow abortions to...

First Lady Melania Trump is spearheading a “Fostering the Future” initiative to reform and improve our foster care system. Yesterday, at the White House, the president signed an executive order to increase resources and investment for children in the system and those “aging out.” That’s good for these kids. Trumps’ executive order did something else, too. Democrat-controlled states are refusing to allow parents to foster children unless the parents agree to affirm the child’s gender identity, seek hormone treatment and deforming surgeries for the “trans” child, etc. The parents are told they cannot talk to the child about religious views...

Microsoft has agreed to end its discriminatory practices against pro-life and conservative faith-based organizations The computer business reportedly discriminated against pro-life groups by refusing them proper discounts on software that every other customer qualified received. Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life conservative legal group said that Microsoft had applied a litmus test to deny discounts to nonprofits holding traditional religious views on life and sexuality. Alliance Defending Freedom alleged that Microsoft withheld discounts from the group itself, as well as from pro-life pregnancy resource centers and other nonprofits that decline to hire LGBTQ individuals for religious reasons. Investors backed by ADF...

Cedric Irving Jr., 27, was taken into custody early Friday morning after allegedly shooting the 66-year-old athletic director dead at Laney College in Oakland. Lee added: 'Gun violence has stolen the life of a man who dedicated himself to building up the young people of this city.'

A member of the Communist Party USA was elected this month to the Ithaca Common Council in New York on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, defeating an independent candidate in a two-way race for the city’s Ward 5 seat. A November 7 People’s World report shared by the Communist Party USA confirmed that Hannah Shvets, a Cornell University student elected November 4 as an Alderperson, is a member of the organization’s Ithaca club. The report added that she also ran with support from the Democratic Socialists of America and its student affiliate, the Young Democratic Socialists of America,...

China’s economy continues to drag as fresh October data shows weakening momentum across consumer spending, industrial output and fixed-asset investment. The latest numbers point to one of the steepest investment declines China has seen in decades, raising new concerns about the durability of Beijing’s recovery hopes and what the slowdown means for global markets. China’s October Data Shows Broad Softening Across the EconomyNew figures from the National Bureau of Statistics reveal that key engines of China’s economy decelerated again in October.Retail and Production Lose Momentum• Retail sales rose 2.9 percent year over year in October. This is down from the...

The government shutdown that caused an interruption in the payment of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits also revealed some disturbing aspects of the program. The most immediate impact was the outpouring of complaints from some recipients asserting their right to steal the food that they had previously bought with the federal aid they had been receiving. Some of these protests were selfie videos of grossly obese beneficiaries. This suggests that SNAP money is not staving off starvation, but is fueling unhealthy eating. Receipts indicate that 20% of the SNAP money is spent on soda, candy, and salty snacks. Secretary...

Watch in full: In a world exclusive from inside the White House, GB News’s Bev Turner sits down with President Donald Trump for an explosive and revealing interview. President Trump launches a blistering criticism of the BBC, insisting he has an ‘obligation’ to pursue a $1billion lawsuit over what he describes as a deeply misleading edit of his January 6th 2021 speech. While the BBC has already issued a public apology, President Trump tells GB News that the matter is far from over. He argues that pursuing legal action is essential to preventing such misrepresentations happening again. “This was so...

@ShadowofEzra Thomas Massie breaks down how Jeffrey Epstein built a system designed to trap underage girls and shut them up. He says Epstein would lure girls as young as 14 with quick-cash “massage” offers, only for it to turn sexual, and then he’d use shame and fear to keep them coming back on command. Girls were pushed into recruiting another girl just to escape the abuse, locking them into a cycle that left them feeling guilty, responsible, and scared to ever speak. Once they hit the age of consent, Epstein handed them off to powerful, wealthy men, who could bury...

Ever since the 2016 presidential election, a troubling swath of Americans have developed a not-so-rare condition known as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Those suffering from the condition often exhibit several symptoms, including paranoia, hysteria, intense hostility toward President Donald Trump, aggression toward his supporters, and a tendency to dye one’s hair purple. It appears that the number of people experiencing this malady has not declined over recent years. Indeed, it has actually increased, according to psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert, who discussed the matter during a recent appearance on Fox News with Harris Faulkner. When asked to identify the condition, Alpert responded, “People...

Democrats have spent the past week flailing wildly, throwing accusations at President Donald Trump about Jeffrey Epstein without a shred of evidence to back them up. The desperation reeks. (snip) Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Texas took the charade to absurd new heights Thursday on CNN's The Arena. She made wild, unsubstantiated claims about Trump obstructing subpoenas and blocking transparency, admitting she had no idea what the Department of Justice actually has or plans to do. She then speculated, without any evidence, that Trump might have personally ordered investigations into Epstein shut down. When host Kasie Hunt pressed her for proof,...