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A staff member at a Buddhist temple heard a knock while explaining to a relative how to get a death certificate.A 65-year-old Thai woman has just experienced everyone’s worst nightmare: waking up in a coffin. On Sunday, the Wat Rat Prakong Tham Buddhist Temple outside of Bangkok posted a video of a white, open coffin in the back of a pickup truck. Inside is an extremely thin woman dressed in an orange skirt and a white top, clearly moving her arms as bystanders watch in shock. Emergency workers then move her onto a gurney and load her into an ambulance....

Turning Point USA founder said in July that young Americans could start feeling like 'permanent renting class.' ... "How do we get more young people under the age of 35 to have equity in the system? Not the Democrat version of equity, where they want to have redistribution, but actually, are they paying a mortgage? Do they own stuff? Or are they permanent renters?" Kirk asked during a July 11 appearance on "Fox & Friends." "A permanent renting class in this country is the prerequisite, is the leading ingredient for radical politics that nobody wants to see," he continued. "We...

Before we get into the weeds on the latest example of the Democrats becoming the party of, by, and for unstable white cat ladies, I must give a shoutout to the parents of Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn (D-Knoxville) for naming their daughter so perfectly. If Charles Dickens were alive today and writing political satire set in the American South, he'd have named his crazy female character "Aftyn Behn." Well played, Mr. and Mrs. Behn. Behn first gained national attention last week, when we learned — courtesy of PJ Media's own Robert Spencer — that she "hates" the city she...

“There is a time when you have to take a stand for women’s sports.”The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas, erupted into controversy after American competitor Jammie Booker — who won the Official Strongman Games World Championship over the weekend — was stripped of the title on Tuesday after organizers said Booker failed to disclose that he is a man.Booker was disqualified for violating the rules that mandate contestants compete in the division matching the sex they were born as.“It appears that an athlete who is biologically male and who now identifies as female competed in the Women’s...

Explanation: What did Comet Lemmon look like when it was at its best? One example is pictured here, featuring three celestial spectacles all at different distances. The closest spectacle is the snowcapped Meili Mountains, part of the Himalayas in China. The middle marvel is Comet Lemmon near its picturesque best early this month, showing not only a white dust tail trailing off to the right but its blue solar wind-distorted ion tail trailing off to the left. Far in the distance on the left is the magnificent central plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, featuring dark dust, red nebula, and...

Ukraine has made a significant change to one of the key points of the US peace plan by excluding the verification of international aid, according to The Wall Street Journal.A senior US official told reporters that the original wording of the plan called for an audit of all international aid received by Ukraine, presumably to identify potential corruption.However, this requirement is no longer included in the new version of the plan. Instead of verification, it is proposed that all parties receive full amnesty for their actions during the war.

Border Patrol agents in California intercepted fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in an unlikely place – children’s booster seats. Border Patrol agents pulled over an unnamed Mexican national near San Clemente, according to a November 24 press release. They searched the car, and found 11 packages of drugs – including fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine – hidden in two booster seats. “The discovery of fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin hidden within child car seats is a disturbing reminder that these foreign terrorist organizations will go to great lengths to get their products into our country and our communities,” said San Diego Sector Chief...

A suspected terrorist accused of stabbing three people in Madrid before attacking police shouting 'Allahu Akbar' reportedly told his mum he was on a mission to 'kill Christians.'The 18-year-old, a Spaniard of Moroccan origin, remains in hospital after being tasered and shot by anti-terror police when he holed himself up in a flat following the triple stabbing and violently resisted attempts to arrest him.A judge at Spain's central criminal court is now investigating the incidents on Saturday afternoon as suspected Islamic terrorist crimes.Cops had told the judge the teenager, who is currently under police guard at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital,...

Face of fake "genocide" propaganda case at ICJ: Naledi Pandor: From Anti-Apartheid Pedigree to Jihad Cheerleader – South Africa’s ShameShe was born into the struggle aristocracy – daughter of ANC legend Joe Matthews, educated at Harvard and Bryn Mawr – yet Naledi Pandor chose to spend her political capital not on building bridges, but on providing diplomatic cover for Hamas terrorists and mainstreaming calls for violent jihad against the world’s only Jewish state.(She converted to Islam after meeting her future husband).What began as garden-variety anti-Israel posturing metastasized into open celebration of “armed struggle,” keffiyeh-clad mosque speeches wishing she could fight...

"Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva," said Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council secretary, Rustem Umerov Ukraine said on Tuesday that it has agreed to the "core terms" of the U.S. peace deal proposal to end its war with Russia.Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council secretary, Rustem Umerov, posted on X: "We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations, as well as President Trump’s steadfast efforts to end the war."Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the...

Michelle Obama sparked alarm bells and speculation about using Ozempic as new footage emerged showing her having lost a considerable amount of weight. Barack’s wife shared footage on her Instagram account of a photoshoot she did over the weekend with famous photographer Annie Leibovitz. In the video, she posed in a gray t-shirt, jeans, and brown boots, looking far slimmer than the public has ever seen her. “Annie Leibovitz has always known that a photo can do more than preserve a moment — it can say something,” she said in the caption of her post. “Her book Women did exactly...

A new poll of likely Republican primary voters shows U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s support continuing to decline ahead of the 2026 Texas GOP primary, with Cornyn now falling into third place in a three-way matchup. The poll, conducted November 21–22 by Stratus Intelligence, surveyed 857 likely Republican primary voters in Texas. It found Attorney General Ken Paxton leading with 36 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt at 26 percent, and Cornyn at 25 percent. Fourteen percent of voters remain undecided. Cornyn’s favorability rating has also declined. The survey shows him at 35 percent favorable and 51 percent unfavorable, with...

https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-judge-hoping-23rd-time-is-the-charm-for-rehabilitating-violent-criminalCHICAGO, IL — A Chicago judge ruled this week that a man previously arrested 23 times for various crimes would be totally rehabilitated if let off the hook this time around. District judge Madeline Cartwright let 42-year-old serial robber, strangler, vagrant, rapist, and child abuser Jaquen Marcus off the hook following his 23rd arrest, with the assurance that this time would be different. "I just know he's going to turn his life around this time," Cartwright said. "He's been in front of my bench for theft, larceny (whatever that is), assault, jaywalking, attacking an officer, making false arrest claims, racketeering...

Here’s the bottom line: America’s farmers need help — now. In my home state of Arkansas, for instance, our farmers are set to lose hundreds of dollars per acre on their soybean, corn, cotton and long-grain rice crops this year alone. The situation has gotten so bad that Arkansas cash crop receipts are now projected to fall by $617 million in 2025. Adding to these challenges...the contrast between the steep cost of inputs (such as seed, fertilizer and diesel) and the commodity prices that farmers receive for their crops is at its highest level in 25 years. Put differently, input...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tucker Carlson’s decision to interview white supremacist Nick Fuentes on his podcast last month was a “big mistake.” “He has a lot of listeners, and I think giving Nick Fuentes that platform is a big mistake,” the Louisiana Republican told The Hill in an interview published Tuesday. Johnson said that he had not listened to Fuentes before but that he “sort of knew” who the far-right provocateur is. After listening to a compilation of some of the “worst things” Fuentes has said, Johnson called it “vile, terrible stuff.” “I mean, it’s not just antisemitic, it’s...

Who wants to see that?Oh no, perish the thought. We can’t possibly lose our current action movie landscape in which painfully diverse casts including 5’2 girl bosses defeat entire armies using the power of special effects while delivering quips originating from a now MeToo’d writer who wrote them for a teenage girl show before infecting Marvel with his brand of dialogue.They’re so popular that movie theaters are standing empty.So you can see why Semafor’s story about Trump impacting the culture is set to strike terror into the hearts of wokes everywhere.But now Larry Ellison, one of Trump’s most prominent financial...

In light of actual progress toward a peace proposal in the Russo-Ukrainian War, warmongers scrambled to hurl their favorite smear at the Trump administration. According to them, anything less than a total crushing victory over Russia is no different than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany in 1938 and paves the way for further Russian aggression.We’ve heard this accusation thrown around time after time from neocons, Democrat politicians, the propaganda press, and really anybody who is personally offended when America stays out of a foreign conflict for more than two seconds. Continuing in that vapid...

Multiple reports in American mainstream media, echoed by Ukrainian state news, indicated on Tuesday that U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll is holding meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to discuss a U.S.-proposed end to the Ukraine invasion. Reports from Reuters, CBS News, and the Associated Press, among others, suggested that talks have begun between American and Russian officials to refine what began as a 28-point peace plan presented by Washington last week. The Ukrainian state media outlet Ukrinform did not independently verify the report, but shared the report citing the American news outlets, suggesting...

The FBI only investigates threats to the DC system. The statements by the ‘seditious six’ could be viewed as threats to the continuity of government; ergo, it’s possible the FBI will take the threat seriously.WASHINGTON DC – The FBI and Department of Justice have contacted Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six members of Congress who appeared in a controversial video urging service members to ignore orders they may deem illegal, Fox News has learned.Last week, a group of Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds, including Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.;...

As U.S. gunships patrol closely to Caracas, Venezuela's narcodictator, Nicolas Maduro, is seeing few efforts to help him from his big-gun friends, such as Russia, China, and Iran.His little-gun friends, though, e.g., Cuba, are where his real problems are. They're out to kill him.According to Axios (emphasis added):Oil-rich Venezuela has long been an opponent of the U.S. and has helped prop up Cuba's dictatorship, which furnishes security that helped install Maduro in 2013 and keep him in power. Venezuela also is an ally of Iran, China and Russia.Part of the challenge of persuading Maduro to leave, U.S. officials say, is...