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A pregnant mom with an autoimmune disease and her nine-year-old son were rushed to hospital after a gang of kids viciously beat them in the street. Carshawnda Hatter, 33, and her two young kids were walking home from Orville Bright Elementary School in Chicago on Monday when the brutal attack unfolded. Horrifying video showed the group of school-aged children following the victims on the sidewalk while screaming profanities at them in the moments leading up to the vicious assault

Zelensky has been hit with an ugly corruption scandal in which some of his closest allies stand accused of war profiteering. His reaction was to sign a letter of intent to buy 100 French Rafale jets and 150 Swedish Gripen fighters. Kyiv doesn’t have enough to fill its $60bn budget black hole, let alone to buy billions in jets. Ukraine is going to run out of money by February unless the EU agrees to raise a €140bn loan secured against Russian assets held mostly in Belgium. It has no hope of repaying that loan unless the Kremlin is compelled to...

GrabAGun, the first publicly traded firearms retailer, has outperformed the overall industry in sales in 2025. Marc Nemati, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), stated that sales increased by 16% compared to an industry decline. Sales are good despite the stock price dropping 70% after the company went public. In 2025, Donald Trump Jr. became an advisor, then a stockholder in GrabAGun. GrabAGun went public in July 2025, becoming the first and currently only firearms retailer listed on the NYSE. GrabAGun is designated PEW on the NYSE.The price of the stock increased from approximately $11.80 in early January to over $17.20 on...

The “same kind of consequences” faced by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein must be inflicted on “perpetrators of heinous crimes” linked to the disgraced financier in the United States, a congressman has said. Thomas Massie, a Republican representative, also pointed to the sacking of Peter Mandelson, the UK’s ambassador to Washington, as an example of the fallout faced by those with ties to the late pedophile. Speaking alongside survivors of Epstein at a press conference outside the US Capitol, Massie said: “There’s becoming a reckoning in Britain that needs to happen in the United States: a prince...

States across the country have potentially illegally issued about 194,000 Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) to foreign truck drivers who would not meet English language standards set by the Department of Transportation (DOT), Secretary Sean Duffy reveals. Duffy revealed the alarming statistic in an interview on Fox Business Channel, stating that some 200,000 CDLs have been issued to foreign nationals and that of those, 194,000 are suspected of having been issued illegally. “People can’t understand the English language, they can’t read signs, and they don’t know the rules of our road. That’s a problem,” Duffy said. “Americans aren’t safe.” Duffy also...

A firm representing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) solicited Jeffrey Epstein for donations and to get him to attend a dinner with then-President Barack Obama, newly released files revealed. Thousands of pages of documents from Epstein’s estate published by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week included a 2013 email from a representative of Jeffries’ asking Epstein to meet with and give money to the Democrat leader. House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) exposed the email on the House floor during consideration of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed 427-1: https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1990866192358055989 New York City-based firm Dynamic...

President Donald Trump hosts Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for an opulent White House state dinner attended by global titans Elon Musk, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jeff Bezos, and leading CEOs. This star-studded "Royal Night" signals massive U.S.-Saudi investment deals, energy partnerships, and a bold diplomatic realignment reshaping Middle East power dynamics. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel. Live coverage of the private White House dinner between U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the East Room at 0015 GMT (November 19, 2025), following greetings at 2340 GMT. The evening concludes...

There is nothing finer than to sit back on Thanksgiving morning and turn on the TV to watch a huge heaping of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as the turkey sits in the oven. This is a tradition that started back in 1991 on Comedy Central. Now the celebration of cheesy movies and celluloid turkeys will be available on various digital platforms including the MST3K FAST channel that’s free on various services including PlutoTV and Tubi. This year is special since movies from The Return and The Gauntlet that ran on Netflix will be part of the FAST Channel. There’s enjoy...

In it, Kawas - who holds a Master's in Islamic Liberation Theology from a university in South Africa, connects the attacks on 9/11 to the 'American system'. 'The system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people, so this is a long trajectory and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11,' she said.

“‘Come to Me . . .’” (Matthew 11:28). Although infinitely beyond human comprehension, God’s sovereignty and human responsibility are inseparable in salvation. God sovereignly provides the grace that draws sinners, but they must humbly come in faith and commit to obey the Lord Jesus before salvation becomes complete. Christ makes this clear when He says, “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” (John 6:37). Redemption comes not through human creed, denominational preferences, favorite rituals, certain pastors, priests, or theological gurus—but only through the atoning...

A Tennessee state court judge temporarily blocked on Monday Republican Governor Bill Lee's deployment of National Guard troops to the city of Memphis, ruling that the use of troops was likely not legal under the state's militia law. Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal of the Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville said the militia law required Tennessee's General Assembly to call in the National Guard for public safety. She ruled that crime rates in Memphis were not a "grave emergency" or "disaster" that would authorize Lee to send troops in his role as commander-in-chief of the state’s military forces. Her order...

A stunning report from UC San Diego has exposed a dramatic collapse in academic readiness that should alarm anyone who cares about California's education system. The numbers are jaw-dropping: between 2020 and 2025, the share of incoming freshmen requiring remedial math instruction for skills below middle school level surged nearly thirty fold—from about 1 in 100 students to roughly 1 in 8. ****** The reality check came through placement testing. When UCSD's math department assessed Fall 2023 students in remedial courses, the results were sobering: 25% couldn't solve "7 + 2 = ___ + 6," and 61% couldn't round 374,518...

The Polish authorities accused two Ukrainians on Tuesday of working with Russia to sabotage train tracks, implicating Moscow in an attack that slightly damaged a crucial supply line from NATO countries to Ukraine on Saturday. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the attacks “perhaps the most dangerous situation for the security of the Polish state today since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine.” He raised the threat alert for certain critical rail lines to Poland’s second-highest level. Mr. Tusk told Parliament that the two Ukrainian men had been identified but that they fled into Belarus before they could be...

For all the talk about artificial intelligence and quantum supremacy, the fate of civilizations still depends on breakfast. ChatGPT can’t grow corn. Empires rise on stomachs as much as on silicon. And America’s food system – long dismissed as safe and self-sufficient – has quietly become a front line in the US-China rivalry. We act as if lunch is inevitable, but Beijing knows that food is power. A new report from the America First Policy Institute should wake us up. Washington long treated agriculture as a post-political space where globalization could do no harm, and was therefore happy to let...

Ministers are facing a growing revolt from Labour backbench MPs over sweeping changes to immigration rules. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Monday laid out plans to shake up Britain’s asylum system in a bid to stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. The hardline reforms, based on policies in place in Denmark and the US, include potential visa bans for some countries, the fast-track removal of failed asylum seekers and changes to refugee status. But at least nine Labour backbenchers have already publicly expressed concern about some of the measures, with one MP describing them as encouraging “the same...

Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy NASDAQ index on Wall Street has started to fall. And even leaders of the industry, such as the Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have started to warn about valuations getting out of control. We already knew that AI was driving a boom in investment. But this week there are worrying signs the market is about to crack. The only real question is whether that turns into a full scale crash. Bitcoin, as so often, is leading the market rout. More than $1 trillion has been wiped off the value of...

Notionally, Americans have never been better off. The ructions in tech stocks over the past few weeks cannot detract from the fact that the US economy has been outgunning other developed economies all century. The overall graph of real disposable income for Americans continues to trend upward, almost as if the sharp dip during the pandemic had not happened. That is certainly not true everywhere: in many countries, Covid has been followed by stagnation in GDP and wages. Yet, for all the wealth generated, many Americans simply do not feel that they are living in a thriving country. On the...

A drone struck a Turkish-flagged tanker and set it ablaze on Monday in southern Ukraine’s Odesa region, officials said, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a deal to import U.S. liquefied natural gas through the area. The MT Orinda was hit during the offloading of liquefied petroleum gas at Izmail port, Turkey’s Directorate for Maritime Affairs said. All 16 crew on board evacuated and no one was hurt, it said. Russia has used drones, missiles and artillery to repeatedly batter the Odesa region, especially its Black Sea ports... Ukrainian officials didn’t comment specifically on the tanker, although regional...

What’s clear is that the 2024 election was not the final boss. It didn’t destroy wokeism. You have to picture the spider in The Lord of the Rings, Shelob, crawling back into her cave after being stabbed by Samwise. Is she injured? Yes. Dead? No. She will probably be back to kill you. Republicans and pundits and podcasters will come up with all sorts of reasons for the latest losses (including blaming the Jews), but it comes down to fundamentals. Ground game. Optics. And of course, “It’s the economy, stupid!” The GOP has no ground game in part because it...

The U.S. labor market has long been measured by the number of job openings, but a closer look reveals a troubling truth: Not all postings are real opportunities. An analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) shows a structural imbalance. Millions of job postings never result in an actual hire, creating what’s become known as the “ghost job economy.”