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The fact that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to fight one another is sometimes described as a sign of vitality, particularly as compared to the enforced unanimity of the Trump-era GOP (give or take an MTG or Thomas Massie). But sometimes, fairly personal disputes are blown up into factional battles that really don’t merit an ideological interpretation. That seems to be the case with the vote of disapproval in the House yesterday for veteran congressman Chuy Garcia of Illinois. Garcia recently chose to retire from the House due to distressing family and medical concerns, but he timed his announcement...

The video was clandestinely captured by another family member who has given us permission to show it to you. It appears to be a parent attempting to physically discipline her child. The sheriff's office now confirms the woman is the mother of the 12-year-old child that is about to be struck with a strap or belt 22 times... the beating lasting about 15 seconds. It is difficult to watch. The woman then pulls the child up from the sofa by his hair, then unleashes a torrent of profanity. This video has also been viewed by investigators with the Mobile County...

President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department will issue a new rule that prevents illegal aliens and foreign nationals from securing income tax credits such as the lucrative Earned Income Tax Credit and Additional Child Tax Credit, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the agency would issue new regulations regarding who is eligible for such income tax credits under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are enforcing the law and preventing illegal aliens from claiming tax benefits intended for American citizens,” Bessent told Breitbart News. In...

called him a ‘grave robber’ in unhinged posts.... A man found murdered outside a swanky Long island yacht club was stabbed to death in an ambush attack by his ex-girlfriend’s new beau as his former lover egged him on, prosecutors said Thursday. 226 brutal Comments

Speaker Mike Johnson defended Donald Trump’s declaration Thursday that some congressional Democrats engaged in “sedition” after the president suggested those Democrats should be executed Thursday. Johnson said it was the Democrats who were acting “wildly inappropriate” by suggesting that military members should disobey unlawful orders from Trump. By post “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH,” according to Johnson, Trump was simply “defining the crime of sedition.” “That is a factual statement,” Johnson said, adding attorneys would have to “parse” the language in the criminal act. Trump had previously reposted another Truth Social user, who wrote, “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!” Johnson...

Politico's Playbook on Wednesday announced what could be the biggest world news story of the year. An end to the bloody Ukraine-Russia war via a peace deal negotiated by the Trump administration. So guess where the immediate focus of the story was? If you have been following the absurd obsessions of Politico recently you would know the answer despite not quite believing it: Jeffrey Epstein. In fact their obsession in the Playbook story by Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns, "A peace deal ‘as soon as this week’," came immediately after their joyous announcement:

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Virginia Beach high school assistant principal is one of two men accused of threatening violence against law enforcement, including local police officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Virginia Beach police said John W. Bennett, 54, and Mark B. Bennett, 59, were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit malicious wounding. John Bennett is employed as an assistant principal at Kempsville High School. A spokesperson for Virginia Beach City Public Schools said he has worked for the division since 2009 and is currently on leave. He was arrested in Virginia Beach at...

Circuit: Las Vegas Strip Circuit First Grand Prix: 2023, Number of Laps: 50, Circuit Length: 6.201 km, Race Distance: 309.958km, Lap Record: 1:35.490 Oscar Piastri (2023)

The dog may have protected its owners from bears. Exploring new caves during the Upper Palaeolithic was fraught with danger, which is why one group of ancient humans in Italy made sure to take their trusted four-legged companion with them when they stepped into the darkness. Analyzing the fossilized foot and paw prints left behind during this subterranean excursion, researchers say that these 14,400-year-old tracks represent the world’s oldest direct evidence of humans living alongside a domesticated dog. A total of 25 preserved canid prints were discovered in various chambers of the Grotta della Bàsura in northwest Italy. In some...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) paid tribute Thursday to her late father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, as a great statesman who put country over party and as a loving father who inspired in his family a deep sense of patriotism. In her eulogy at her father’s funeral service, Liz Cheney recalled comments the late vice president made to her a few years ago, reflecting on his 40-year career in public service and his love of being an American. The former vice president said, according to his daughter: “The path I had traveled was partly due to the circumstance of...

Over the past year: 2.5M native-born Americans GAINED employment; 670K foreign-born workers LOST employment. 3.4M native-born Americans JOINED the labor force; 708K foreign-born workers LEFT the labor force. Under @POTUS, ALL job gains have gone to native-born workers.

Shocking new photos from the deadly Kentucky UPS plane crash reveal the moment one engine of the Boeing erupted into flames during takeoff. The MD-11 jet could be seen falling to pieces on the runway during the Nov. 4 flight, which killed 14 people — all three crew members plus 11 on the ground. The left engine flies off during takeoff and appears to smash into the fuselage of the plane, according to new photos released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB’s preliminary report found that a pylon that held the engine had “fatigue cracks” and signs...

The ice giant Uranus is pictured shining against the blackness of space. Its blue surface is marked by lighter clouds and an equatorial band, while a large pale cloud hovers over its polar region. A Hubble Space Telescope view of Uranus captured in February 2019 (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. Wong and A. Hsu (University of California, Berkeley)) ============================================================= November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though you'll still need a telescope if you hope to...

Explanation: It was one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. First seen in late 2010, the featured cloud formation in the northern hemisphere of Saturn started larger than the Earth and soon spread completely around the planet. The storm was tracked not only from Earth but from up close by the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting Saturn. Pictured here in false colored infrared in February, orange colors indicate clouds deep in the atmosphere, while light colors highlight clouds higher up. The rings of Saturn are seen nearly edge-on as the thin blue horizontal...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has spent $66 million of taxpayer money on grants to radical left-wing groups that conduct overt political operations to defund the police, close prisons, abolish ICE, decriminalize prostitution, promote open borders, target minors with transgender ideology, promote anti-Israel extremism, impose crippling climate mandates on new housing — and increase taxation to pay for it all. An examination of 13,000 grants since Hochul took office in 2021 shows a massive investment in far-left causes, with $66 million paid so far and almost $50 million promised for a total contract value of $113 million. “Our tax dollars should go...

A bombshell investigation by a local Salt Lake City station has uncovered that critical surveillance video showing accused murderer Tyler Robinson turning himself in to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office has mysteriously disappeared. KUTV 2News had requested the surveillance footage of Robinson’s surrender just weeks after the brutal assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Kirk is said to have been gunned down with a single .30-06 rifle round on September 10, while speaking at a Turning Point event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The shooter allegedly used a scoped Mauser Model 98 bolt-action rifle. Robinson’s parents...

Are you wondering how long do microwaves last? You’ve come to the right place! Understanding the lifespan of your microwave can help you plan for its replacement and budget accordingly. The lifespan of a microwave can vary depending on the frequency of maintenance, type, brand, and extent of use. A well-maintained microwave can last up to 10 years.

The Ukrainian president’s campaign promises of peace and public integrity look wobblier than ever.In 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky swept to power in a shocking landslide victory, taking 73 percent of the run-off vote. He won on a platform with two major planks: first, implementing the Minsk Agreements and making peace with Russia, and second, fighting high-level corruption in Ukraine’s government. Both planks are now in splinters. The Minsk Agreements are dead, Ukraine and Russia are almost in their fourth year of hideous war, and the scandal of high-level corruption has crept into Zelensky’s innermost circle.Upon being elected, Zelensky told reporters that...

On the election of Zohran Mamdani in New York’s mayoral race. We wonder if Zohran Mamdani, New York’s thirty-four-year-old socialist mayor-elect, is familiar with the wit and wisdom of Margaret Thatcher. We know that he has gone to the school of Frantz Fanon, the author of The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and an apologist for violence as a “liberating force,” since Mamdani wrote his senior thesis at Bowdoin College on Fanon and that progenitor of modern revolutionary sentiment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Thatcher, our readers will recall, was the prime minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990. She is widely...