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Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro. In response, Russia called for a full meeting of the United Nations Security Council. “This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. This causes deep concern and condemnation,” Russia said in a statement from its Foreign Ministry. “The pretexts cited to justify such actions are unfounded. Ideologized hostility has prevailed over practical pragmatism and over a willingness to build relations based on trust and predictability,” Russian officials wrote, nearly five years into the...

President Donald Trump has just won a major victory in a war that has been waged against the United States for decades, without any significant response from the American side. Trump made the announcement at 4:21 a.m. EST on Saturday morning, Jan. 3, 2026: The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at...

CHRISTMAS BIBLE-ART EPISODE #21 of 33 OUCH!!! JESUS IS CIRCUMCISED G E N E S I S CHAPTER 17 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be THE SIGN OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND YOU. For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old...

"President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military carried out a "large-scale strike" in Venezuela early Saturday morning and took Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody." -President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife have been captured and flown out of the country after the U.S. carried out a "large scale strike." Trump is expected to address the nation at 11 a.m. ET from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. -The U.S. military has carried out a series of strikes on suspected drug vessels allegedly tied to the Venezuelan regime in the Caribbean Sea...

Saturday 3 January 2026 3 JanuarySainte Genevieve Roman Catholic Church, in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, USAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).First reading1 John 2:29-3:6Everyone must try to be as pure as ChristYou know that God is righteous –then you must recognise that everyone whose life is righteoushas been begotten by him.Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us,by letting us be called God’s children;and that is what we are.Because the world refused to acknowledge him,therefore it does not acknowledge us.My dear people, we are already the children of Godbut what we are to be in the...

Welcome to the techno-feudal state, where citizens are forced to underwrite unnecessary and harmful technology at the expense of the technology they actually need. The economic story of 2025 is the government-driven build-out of hyperscale AI data centers — sold as innovation, justified as national strategy, and pursued in service of cloud-based chatbot slop and expanded surveillance. This build-out is consuming land, food, water, and energy at enormous scale. As Energy Secretary Chris Wright bluntly put it, “It takes massive amounts of electricity to generate intelligence. The more energy invested, the more intelligence produced.” That framing ignores what is being...

Smith believes the government can prosecute any of us for rejecting official ‘truths.’ Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who attempted to put President Trump in prison for acknowledging that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud, testified before the House Judiciary Committee the week before Christmas. Here are the video and transcript of his deposition. Smith’s testimony is disturbing because his argument in favor of prosecuting the president boils down to this: (1) Every sensible person knows that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. (2) For President Trump to pretend otherwise reveals that he is knowingly telling a “lie.” (3)...

Netflix’s attempt to acquire Warner Bros. has set off alarms about market power and cultural reach. But the real issue isn’t this potential merger, which Paramount is challenging. It’s the extent to which the industry has consolidated so dramatically that a small circle of companies now exercises unprecedented control over cultural production and distribution. Nearly everything Americans watch is shaped by a handful of firms that not only dominate the market but broadly share the same progressive ideological assumptions. Netflix is not the outlier. Consolidation is increasingly the industry model in media and entertainment.

An abandoned box of NYPD uniforms was found in Borough Park on Tuesday. Police say a 911 call led them to the discovery around 8:30 p.m. Officers found pants, shirts, jackets and hats, officials say. The items were taken to the 66th Precinct for safekeeping.

Venezuelans celebrate after US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. President Trump offered and advance warning to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro months before the US captured him and his wife. “He doesn’t want to f--k around with the United States," the president said in an October press conference. The Official White House Rapid Response account resurfaced the clip Saturday morning -- just hours after handing down a litany of charges against the embattled dictator and his wife.

TEMPERANCE, Mich. – Several grass roots champions and rookies of the year will make their first laps at Daytona International Speedway during the ARCA Menards Series “Road to Daytona” program at the series’ annual pre-race practice on Jan. 9-10. Drivers from the ARCA Menards Series East and West, NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, NASCAR Weekly Series, ASA CRA Super Series, ASA Midwest Tour, and ASA Southern Super Series will make laps in cars prepared by 1995 ARCA Menards Series national champion (Indiana) Andy Hillenburg’s Fast Track High Performance Racing Team with support from Ilmor, Hoosier Tire, Sunoco, Eibach Springs, and JRI...

Every year in politics brings its share of curveballs, black swan events, and moments no one saw coming. But politics is also shaped by deeper forces that take months or even years to fully come into view. As 2026 approaches, the contours of the biggest debates, battles, and storylines are already forming. While surprises are inevitable, these are the major political questions and trends that could define the year ahead — and potentially reshape American politics for decades to come. Can Republicans defy history and win the midterms?This is the central political question of 2026, and virtually every other debate...

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Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sparked outrage Friday after ordering that 16 state landmarks – including Manhattan’s One World Trade Center – be illuminated in green to celebrate “the heritage and culture of Muslim Americans.” Hochul’s decision to light up the skyscraper erected on the site where the Twin Towers were knocked down by terrorists during the 9/11 attacks was decried as “tone deaf” and “disgusting” by several social media users. “The twin towers were unable to be lit green tonight,” Queens Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino wrote on X. “It’s disgusting that the Freedom Tower – which stands at...

Venezuelan writer Emmanuel Rincón has called President Trump a "true champion of freedom" after the capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Taking to X, he said: "On behalf of the people of Venezuela, thank you, President Donald Trump. You are a true champion of freedom and will go down in history as the greatest and most important president of the past century in the United States. Your name will be synonymous with liberator in Venezuela, and there will be a statue of you in our streets. Long live freedom."

The UK was not involved "in any way" in the US-led strike on Venezuela, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said. Sir Keir said he had not yet spoken to US President Donald Trump about the US operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro in the country's capital, Caracas. Asked if he condemned the US action, as a number of other UK politicians have, he told reporters he wanted to "establish facts" and speak to Trump first about the "fast moving situation". The prime minister also said he was working with the UK embassy in Venezuela to ensure around 500 British...

With the calendar now officially flipped over to 2026, we can expect to hear more serious rumblings about which Democrats have their sights set on a White House run in 2028. At the top of that list is California Governor Gavin Newsom. But Newsom’s schizophrenic relationship with left-wing gender ideology may have already alienated both hardcore progressive partisans and everyday Americans. In March 2025, Newsom outraged liberals when he appeared on a podcast hosted by Charlie Kirk, the late Turning Point USA founder. When pressed by Kirk, Newsom admitted that it was “deeply unfair” to allow biological men who claim...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(1/3/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 2:21-2521 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave...

As video of U.S. military operations inside Venezuela began to surface on social media, President Donald Trump has announced that overnight the U.S. military carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro.