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While many Ukrainian hospitals are struggling to cope with the endless influx of wounded, a maternity ward in the western town of Hoshcha lies eerily deserted. The hospital in Hoshcha has recorded just 139 births so far this year, down from 164 in 2024, and a far cry from just over a decade ago when more than 400 babies were born every year, according to local authorities. "Many young men have died," gynaecologist Yevhen Hekkel lamented in his office. "Young men who, bluntly speaking, were supposed to replenish Ukraine's gene pool." Authorities are wrestling with a crucial question as Ukraine...

Belgium? Really? Of all the places in the world you would not expect to be a cesspool of nearly open corruption, Belgium pretty much tops the list. But there it is. Belgium is basically a narco-state, a top Antwerp judge has warned.https://t.co/zH0fSm2mfR— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) October 27, 2025Like so many things that sound insane when you say them, the claim that Belgium is now more akin to Mexico than a land of peace and chocolates is easy to dismiss as the fever dream of a cranky conspiracy theorist than a reflection of reality. But, according to an Antwerp judge, who published...

Apparently, many people in Minnesota are certifiably insane, considering that they voted for Tim Walz as their governor and have veered about as left as any state in the union. The latest to spout ridiculousness is Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, who advised citizens on Tuesday to call 911 if they see ICE agents “kidnapping” people. ICE raids reportedly heated up in the city on Wednesday after massive welfare fraud was uncovered by the feds, much of it committed by the large Somali community there.City leaders are freaking out over the ICE presence, and apparently would rather let illegal aliens...

Hoo boy. Sometimes, you might do something so embarrassing, so humiliating, that you want to hide in the closet. The prestigious science journal Nature may be thinking about doing that right about now, because on Wednesday, they officially retracted an influential 2024 climate report that predicted gloom and doom, death and misery, and impending economic catastrophe. As is the case with so much of the leftist climate narrative, their wild claims were quite simply unproven:In April 2024, the prestigious journal Nature released a study finding that climate change would cause far more economic damage by the end of the century...

We saw Democrats start to go down a dangerous road with the video that six Congressional lawmakers released, encouraging members of the military to refuse illegal orders. They didn't cite any illegal orders, but many blasted the video as an attempt to incite the military. The Department of War said it would be reviewing Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly's participation in the video. Then Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) made a disturbing comment, saying there could be "consequences" for any military members who conducts a review of Kelly. Gallego also revealed he was supposed to be in the video and had...

The producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," Blake Neff, called out podcast host Candace Owens for her "reckless disregard for the truth" and the "evil lies" he said she's made about the assassination of the late co-founder of Turning Point USA. In a post and video shared on X, Neff made it clear that the gauntlet has been thrown against Owens and her numerous accusations and lies about things like how Kirk's friends and his organization allegedly knew and approved of his murder, among many other claims. "For the past three months, we've received a flood of questions about Candace...

MINNEAPOLIS — A day after The New York Times reported federal immigration officials would launch an operation targeting Minnesota's Somali community, the mission began. NBC News told KARE 11 on Wednesday morning that a senior law enforcement official confirmed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation is now underway. The news comes after Twin Cities leaders, including both Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors, held a press conference Tuesday in response to The Times' report, pushing back on the federal government's stance on the deportation of immigrants and refugees. The Minnesota branch of the nonprofit Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) held...

“‘To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven’” (Matthew 13:11). In the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:10) we see two aspects of the kingdom of heaven. “On earth” refers to the present kingdom, mediated through God’s servants, and “in heaven” refers to God’s universal, direct reign. Through the centuries the present kingdom has attracted both true and false citizens. Only God can infallibly distinguish true citizens (the redeemed) from false ones. Jesus shows that many branches that seem to belong to the vine actually do not. The spurious ones will be pruned away and...

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FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) — The CEO of a Fresno-area home health care company is facing federal charges after investigators say he stole millions of dollars meant to care for American veterans.According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 66-year-old Cashmir Chinedu Luke was arrested at San Francisco International Airport while trying to board a flight to Nigeria.Federal prosecutors say Luke ran Four Corners Health LLC, a company that provided in-home, non-medical care for elderly veterans through the Veterans Community Care Program. The company served veterans in Fresno, Tulare, Merced, Mariposa, Madera, San Francisco and Contra Costa counties.Investigators say that between December 2019...

If there was ever a perfect case study in just how destructive the Democrat Party’s top two policy priorities — mass welfare distribution and unchecked immigration from the Third World — are to America, it’s what continues to unfold in Minnesota.Federal prosecutors have uncovered hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars stolen over the past five years by Somali descendants living throughout the state in pockets of immigrant-dense communities. The schemes led to more than $1 billion in theft of welfare money intended for the impoverished who are supposedly unable to feed and house themselves. The dollars instead were pocketed primarily...

Bill Cosby’s sprawling New York townhouse was sold less than a month after being listed for $29 million, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky identified as the buyer through an offshore company – Film Heritage Inc. While the final sale price remains undisclosed, the deal marks the end of a turbulent financial chapter for the disgraced entertainer and his wife, Camille, according to the New York Post. The purchase coincides with a $100 million corruption scandal engulfing Zelensky’s administration, with several of his closest allies accused of involvement in a massive kickback scheme. Earlier this year, the Cosbys were accused in...

Dearborn, Michigan, was back in the national spotlight last month after a far-right protest spiraled into street clashes, a near-Quran burning, and the latest debate about religion, identity and political extremism in America's largest Muslim-majority city. The drama began when Jake Lang – a January 6 rioter, newly pardoned by Donald Trump, and now a long-shot Republican US Senate candidate in Florida – arrived in Dearborn with an entourage, cameras, and a self-styled 'anti-Sharia' crusade. He carried bacon in one hand and a Quran in the other, marching through the city center in combat gear and trolling locals, daring them...

EXPOSED 🚨 A NGO headquartered in Minnesota is getting paid $2,375 for every Somalia immigrant they bring into the United States “Why are Somalians in America? I looked into it — The main group bringing in Somalians is Lutheran Social Services — it turns out they get $2,375 for every Somalian they bring over” “We have to ask the question, why are they coming over here in the first place? And another surprise, turns out our government was funding a dictatorship in Somalia — This is where the movie Black Hawk Down comes from. But overall Somalis have no right...

Leftists walk a fine line, making pronouncements that are valid in the narrowest technical sense but effectively seditious. An obvious example is the Seditious Six calling for military personnel not to obey “illegal” orders, while refusing to clarify what they mean by that. True enough, no one should obey orders that are clearly illegal. But the obvious message is that servicemembers should not obey orders that leftists wouldn’t like. Otherwise, they might be punished once Democrats take power. Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis police chief under the ultramoonbat Jacob Frey, provides another example by advising citizens to call 911 on ICE agents...

This is a good post, but note that it, like other posts on x.com, doesn't acknowledge that Trump is making the changes we need to stop the takeover of our country. 4 minute video at the link.https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1995983346221154813 Amy Mek@AmyMek·Dec 2🚨 DO AMERICANS EVEN KNOW WHO THIS MAN IS?THIS IS WHY I FIGHT SO HARD TO WARN YOU ABOUT WHAT’S COMING...LEARN ABOUT MY HERO GEERT WILDERS!Most Americans have never heard the name @geertwilderspvv, and that ignorance is precisely how the West dies.Wilders isn’t some fringe figure or backbench bureaucrat.He is the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), one of the...

Representative Nancy Mace is reportedly planning to discuss retiring early from Congress with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who announced her resignation in late November. New York Times reporter Annie Karni wrote Wednesday that the South Carolina Republican has told those around her she is frustrated with Speaker Mike Johnson and sick of the way he has run the House, primarily with how women have been treated there. News 4 reached out to Mace's team for comment and was directed to the congresswoman's latest post on X, where she said that there is frustration that discharge petitions are "the only way...

Authorities have released of the name of the suspect accused of throwing Molotov cocktails into a federal building, adding that they believe he was “motivated by anti-immigration enforcement sentiment.” The incident occurred on Monday, with the suspect identified as 54-year-old Jose Francisco Jovel. Authorities have released images showing the moment Jovel allegedly carried out his act. Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement that the building he targeted “houses our U.S. Attorney’s Office, ICE, and is where illegal immigrants are processed.” “Jovel was targeting our immigration enforcement operations and wanted to...

In an effort to return common sense, practicality and affordability to the American consumer base for automobiles, President Trump announced the elimination of Je Biden’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for manufactured cars and trucks.Under the auspices of the “green new deal” the Biden administration mandated ridiculous quotas for EVs and demanded lower power combustible engines or pay a climate change tax. These CAFE standards resulted in a surcharge for large vehicles, large engine autos and SUVs, and essentially bifurcated the auto consumer into those who could afford to pay for efficiency and stability and those who could not.We’re...

HOLEE SHIZZLES‼️ Starting next week, 21 Democrat-controlled states will lose federal SNAP funding for refusing to comply with USDA anti-fraud data requirements. - in the states that did comply, they found 186,000 dead people social security numbers being used - 500,000 people that received benefits more than twice - multiple people received benefits in 6 states - In February, for the first time ever, the Federal Government asked for alls rates to turn over their data to root out the fraud. —— 29 Red states said yes —— 21 Blue states said no “So as of next week, we have...