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Lufthansa is rumoured to be selling off two of its Boeing 747-8s with reports that the buyer is the US Air Force. While the carrier has yet to officially confirm the move, we know that Lufthansa was planning to hold on to its newer 747-8s and operate them into the 2030s.

Top FBI Whistleblower Kyle Seraphin shares exclusive intel on FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, his staff & the future of the Trump Administration: Breaking Exclusive! Dan Bongino's Staff Has Quit, His Office Is Empty And He Is Set To Officially Resign Within The Next 48 HoursTop FBI Whistleblower Kyle Seraphin Breaks Down The Latest Developments And Makes Major New Predictions On The Future Of The FBI, DOJ and Trump… pic.twitter.com/0nH2cEkD89— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) December 17, 2025

If Europe’s elites want war, they should pick up a rifle and fight. After the European Commission levied a several-hundred-million-dollar fine on Elon Musk and his social media platform X earlier this month, journalist Michael Shellenberger wrote a damning post in which he excoriated Europe’s rank censorship and state-sponsored propaganda. He accused the commission of engaging “in a deception campaign aimed at confusing” Europeans and Americans into thinking that European elites’ “goal” is anything other than “to censor the American people.” Shellenberger pointed out that Musk’s fine came while European governments are demanding backdoor access to all private text messages...

For those asking in the comments, Dr. James Tour's company that he references is Metallium Ltd. Ticker symbol in the US is MTMCF. (This is NOT a sponsored episode. We have no financial relationship with Dr. Tour's company. We just think his tech sounds really cool.) == In a few years, America may not need to buy critical minerals from China anymore, says synthetic chemist and nanotechnologist James Tour. Why? Because of a method called flash Joule heating that he and his team have been studying at Rice University. China currently has a near monopoly on global processing capacity of...

My father died tonight, December 16, a month shy of his 96th birthday. Norman Podhoretz passed peacefully and without pain, with a new translation of The Odyssey on his desk that had been sent to him by his friend Roger Hertog. It sat next to a copy of Alexander Pope’s legendary translation, which he had asked my sister Naomi to order for him so he could compare the two. At the very end of his life, Norman Podhoretz was his truest self, a man of letters. His greatest teachers, the men who had the most profound effect on him—Lionel Trilling...

..... Frederick Trump was a poor German barber’s son who crossed the Atlantic as a teenager and died a wealthy American businessman. In between, he chased the Gold Rush, ran hotels and brothels on the frontier, and laid the financial foundations for one of the most controversial political dynasties in modern history. This is the story of the immigrant who started the Trump dynasty. In this full-length biographical documentary, we follow Frederick Trump’s journey from Kallstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria to the raw, lawless world of the American West and the Klondike Gold Rush. Long before Donald Trump entered...

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is driving a major overhaul to pivot the US military away from Europe and the Middle East and refocus operations on the Western Hemisphere, sources indicate to the Washington Post. Top Pentagon leadership are finalizing a plan that would dramatically downgrade America's military presence in traditional theaters while consolidating power closer to home – marking a fundamental shift in US strategic priorities. The proposal would reduce US Central Command, US Africa Command and US European Command to subordinate status under a new umbrella organization called US International Command – stripping these Middle Eastern and European-focused...

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called those concerned about whether she married her brother "sick" after the far-left lawmaker was approached by Fox News Digital about border czar Tom Homan, signaling that federal officials have started digging into records pertaining to the matter. Homan said last week that records and files related to Omar's potential immigration fraud were being pulled and looked at after President Donald Trump revived the years-old scandal amid an ongoing debate over the Somali Medicaid fraud scandal taking place in Omar's state of Minnesota. While Homan suggested that fraud likely took place, he also signaled that...

The recent terror attack at Bondi Beach, near Sydney, Australia, started about 6:45 p.m. on December 14, Australian time. Two terrorists opened fire with long guns on a Jewish celebration of the first day of Hanukkah. Sixteen people are reported dead, including one of the two attackers. Two police officers are among the 38 people killed or wounded, according to Wikipedia. In a dramatic video from 9 Australia News, a bystander, later identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, surprises one of the terrorists from behind. He puts the terrorist, who is armed with a shotgun with an extended magazine and a...

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day. Universal Pictures is proud to release a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars SAG winner and Oscar® nominee Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Oscar® winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple) and two-time Oscar® nominee Colman Domingo (Sing...

The person of interest, Mustapha Kharbouch, previously published a 2024 manifesto with the Institute for Palestine Studies—since deleted—in which he explicitly framed campus agitation as a form of revolutionary struggle and called for sustained confrontation. His own words are damning: “Our refusal to be complacent in the heart of the empire is the bare minimum of love and care we can show our people in Gaza,” and “Palestine is becoming a question of how we want to fundamentally rearrange our world.” This

“He spoke another parable to them, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened’” (Matthew 13:33). Small things often have a great influence, which is the first point of Jesus’ parable here. The influence is analogous to the effect a small piece of leavened dough, as it permeates and rises, can have on a larger lump of unleavened dough. Here the influence represents the power of God’s kingdom, which is much greater than its initial, small appearances. The smallest part of the kingdom will influence...

"What is the point of food stamps if it’s just for 'real food?'" - Hannah Moore to @KMOV reporter John Kipper.

JUST IN : Las Vegas teens who ran over and killed a retired police chief for fun while he was riding his bike, sentenced to up to life in prison. Jesus Ayala 20, and Jzamir Keys, 18, intentionally mowed down two bicyclists, killing 64-year-old Andreas Probst. Ayala and Keys were previously seen giggling in court, showing no remorse for their horrific stunt

Do you know the value and importance of speaking God's word out of a believing heart. The scriptures tells us about what God's word spoken out of us does for us and we need to know so we can speak it and get the benefits of it. In Hebrews 3:1 it reads, Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. That word profession is the same word confession which mean to say the same thing. So, Jesus has a ministry in heaven right now ministering for us based on...

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century leading man Gil Gerard died at 82 at his Georgia home on Tuesday following a brief battle with cancer, his wife Janet said. 'Early this morning Gil - my soulmate - lost his fight with a rare and viciously aggressive form of cancer,' Janet said. Janet continued, 'From the moment when we knew something was wrong to his death this morning was only days.' Janet added: 'No matter how many years I got to spend with him it would have ever been enough. Hold the ones you have tightly and love them fiercely.' Prior...

(The Center Square) - A Republican legislator behind California’s mid-decade redistricting lawsuit said the political consultant who drew the newly approved congressional districts isn’t showing up to defend them. “He didn’t show up in the Elections Committee, he won’t show up in the Appropriations Committee, and now he won’t show up in court,” Assemblymember David Tangipa, R-Fresno, told The Center Square on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- All 1,600 employees of the brand new electric vehicle battery plant in Kentucky will be laid off before Ford converts it to manufacture batteries for data centers and other utilities. Ford will turn the Glendale factory into a battery-storage business for customers such as utilities, wind- and solar-power developers, and massive data centers that train artificial intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. And Ford announced Monday it plans to begin shipping the battery energy storage systems from its Kentucky and Michigan plants in Late 2027, a shift to "higher-return opportunities." In total, the company said...

Border Patrol officials said the first mile of the new "smart border wall" has been completed in Arizona's Tucson Sector... ...Earlier this year, CBP and the Department of Homeland Security announced 10 new contracts valued at $4.5 billion to add a "Smart Wall" along the southwest border. One of the contracts was to construct 23 miles of new secondary border wall and 66 miles of system attributes in Arizona. "The Smart Wall is a border security system that combines steel barriers, waterborne barriers, patrol roads, lights, cameras, and advanced detection technology to give Border Patrol agents the best tools in...