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Massive left-wing funding from ACTBLUE goes into this. It is happening RIGHT NOW against ICE. "She is a professional protester. I found her at almost 100 different protests. Let's look at her portfolio, shall we? Here's her outside Trump Tower saying TikTok time's up.""Here's her saying ban guns, not drag. Amazing. This is her telling us that lies have consequences."

Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A Utah police department's use of artificial intelligence led to a police report stating -- falsely -- that an officer had been transformed into a frog.

Democrats in Congress could face a series of primary challenges from the far left over their support for Israel, possibly upending the 2026 midterm elections. A messy primary season could drain Democrats of valuable resources they need in their quest to take back the House. "The main, centrist Democratic Party as a whole is doing a terrible job managing this whole process," Mark Botnick, a former adviser to ex-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, told Politico. "That's not to say the Israeli government has made it easy for them. It's fine for someone to be against their policies, but it's...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 35-year-old Chinese national was charged this week with taking pictures of B-2 bombers and other “vital military installations” at Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) back in December, according to federal court documents. According to court documents, Wu admitted to investigators that he had taken videos of the B-2 bomber, as well as Whiteman’s perimeter fencing, gate and military equipment. He then showed investigators his phone and the photos he had taken. Further in the court documents, Wu is described as a Chinese national who illegally entered the country on June 22, 2023, near Nogales, Arizona....

With evidence emerging of more than $9 billion worth of taxpayer fraud in Minnesota, the media are finally starting to cover the problem of criminals stealing from the taxpayer. But fraud is by no means limited to Minnesota—it is a nationwide problem that leaders at both the federal and state levels need to tackle before it gets even worse. Even the New York Times was forced to take notice, publishing an explosive article showing evidence of more than $1 billion of taxpayer money stolen by about 80 different Somali immigrants to Minnesota. Just days after the Minnesota story broke, a...

Labour has been accused of backing cousin marriage by refusing to support a Private Members' Bill seeking to ban the "medieval" practice. Shadow Minister Richard Holden warned Labour MPs were "turning a blind eye" to cousin marriage after today's scheduled second reading vote was stalled. The Basildon & Billericay MP put pressure on Sir Keir Starmer’s Government to support his proposed ban, with the Prime Minister last year rejecting his request to whip Labour MPs in support of prohibiting close family members from tying the knot. Mr Holden told GB News: “If you don’t back first-cousin marriage, you can just...

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy knelt on the Senate floor on Thursday to urge Senate Majority Leader John Thune to bring up another reconciliation bill. The Republican Party is weighing another reconciliation bill, with Thune saying a potential option could be related to alleged Minnesota fraud, Fox News reported on Thursday. Kennedy made the plea during a speech addressing the alleged fraud. “We need to do another reconciliation bill to fix the welfare system and stop the stealing. Stop the stealing. And we can do it with all Republican votes,” Kennedy said. “So please, Senator Thune, pretty please. As I’ve...

Earlier this week, Kevin Downey Jr. wrote about what he calls "affluent white liberal women," or AWFLs, pegging them as the biggest internal threat to America. Not foreign enemies. Not terror cells. Just well-off women with pronouns in their bios and too much time on their hands. He described them as attention-seeking harpies who push extreme gender ideology, drag their kids to medicalized gender clinics, and parade them at sexualized drag shows labeled as "family-friendly." These are the same people, he argued, who want to defund the police, defend criminals no matter how violent or foreign, and censor anyone who...

Sir Keir Starmer could send British troops to Greenland as part of a NATO mission to help guard the Arctic for Donald Trump, it has emerged. The Prime Minister is said to share the US President's view that action must be taken to deter Russia's threat in the polar region. Mr Trump has recently ramped up warnings he could seize Greenland for security reasons, and has not ruled out using American military force to do so. But, in a phone call with the US President on Wednesday evening, Sir Keir told Mr Trump the future of the island should only...

Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers addressed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis this week during a postgame press conference on Friday. "What happened in Minnesota was a straight-up murder, in my opinion," Rivers said when asked about athletes participating in politics. "It’s awful. This lady was probably trying to go home, and she didn’t make it home, and that’s really sad. The whole ICE thing is, it’s a travesty." Rivers then accused ICE of racism. "It’s clear to me we’re attacking brown people, and I just happen to be brown," Rivers said about the death of Renée Nicole Good. "I don’t...

"It's official. I'm running for Mayor of LA." After a year of calling out Democrat leadership for its handling of last year's devastating Los Angeles wildfires, Spencer Pratt is offering Angelenos an alternative: himself. Pratt, who shot to fame playing a villainous version of himself on hit MTV reality show "The Hills," lost the Pacific Palisades house he shared with wife (and former castmate) Heidi Montag and their children in the January 7, 2025, conflagration. Since then, he has emerged as one of the most prominent critics of L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom, both Democrats. Fired...

Like many of us, Katie Pasitney entered the new year with a resolution. Hers, however, is not personal or private, but public and political: to hold the Canadian government accountable for what it did to her family, their farm, and the more than 300 ostriches whose blood still stains their British Columbia property. Pasitney recently spoke to Align after what she calls the worst Christmas season of her life — describing weeks of shock, trauma, and severe depression in the wake of the government's November 6 culling of Universal Ostrich Farms' entire herd. Death sentence The culling was the sad...

President Trump has found a powerful but obscure bulwark in the appeals court judges he appointed during his first term. They have voted overwhelmingly in his favor when his administration’s actions have been challenged in court in his current term, a New York Times analysis of their 2025 records shows. Time and again, appellate judges chosen by Mr. Trump in his first term reversed rulings made by district court judges in his second, clearing the way for his policies and gradually eroding a perception early last year that the legal system was thwarting his efforts to amass presidential power. When...

Iran has warned it will retaliate if attacked by the US, as protesters defied a deadly government crackdown on Saturday night. Videos verified by the BBC and eyewitness accounts appeared to show the government ramping up its response to the protests, which have spread to more than 100 cities and towns across every province in Iran. Medics at two hospitals have told the BBC that more than 100 bodies had been brought in over a two day period. The nationwide death toll is feared to be far higher. The US has threatened to strike Iran over the killing of protesters....

In response to the crimes being committed in Minnesota by immigrants, the Trump administration has ordered 2,000 federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to conduct a 30-day crackdown in the Twin Cities area. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif) said "while Gov. Walz and I might very well end up as rival contenders for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president, this intrusion on state sovereignty is unwarranted. Tim is a man of character, strength, and compassion. The fact that he has suspended his bid for reelection so he can focus on finding and prosecuting the daycare fraud...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reported severe conditions across multiple regions following intensified Russian strikes on critical infrastructure. According to his shared X statement on January 11, he confirmed that attacks have disrupted electricity, heating, and water supplies during freezing winter temperatures. He detailed a significant escalation in the volume and variety of Russian weapons used over the course of one week. Additionally, he stated that Russia launched almost 1,100 attack drones, more than 890 guided aerial bombs, and over 50 missiles. These included ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile.

In her autobiography A Lonely Life, Bette Davis remembers making All About Eve with none of the rancour or drama that should provide all the dirt an essayist would look for when writing about the film. Her part was supposed to go to someone else, but when Claudette Colbert injured her back while filming Three Came Home, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz had producer Darryl F. Zanuck call Davis. "I can think of no project that from the outset was as rewarding from the first day to the last," she writes. "It is easy to understand why. It was a great...

The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to subpoena Rolling Stone contributing editor Seth Harp after he shared a picture and biography of a Delta Force commander that he said played a central role in the recent U.S. military operation in Venezuela. Harp posted the commander’s biography — which included the officer’s first and last name and the fact he had a wife and five daughters — to X on Sunday. The journalist later claimed X locked his account until he deleted the post, according to a Monday statement he posted on the social media platform. The Daily Caller News...

Seriously, FA and FO seem to be foreign concepts to entitled liberal white women. Why don’t you all make this viral? I think this would put a lot of sand up GloboLeft panties. [The song is at the link.] Ghost Lesbians in the Sky by Johnny Wilder (apologies to Johnny Cash) Audio Player 00:00 03:18 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. An old lesbian went riding out One bright Minnesota day Upon a road she rested As she tried to stop ICE anyway When all at once a mighty mess Of bulb head illegals she saw Plowin’...

The Democratic Socialists of America — for whom New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a vocal supporter — and a Chinese Communist Party-linked activist network are leading a two-front resistance effort against President Donald Trump, with street protests seeking to blend efforts opposing ICE with the arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. The coordinated organizational effort by the DSA and affiliated protest groups is fueled in large part by funding from CCP-linked wealthy Marxist businessman Neville Singham. That network produced a new slogan over the past few days — “No Wars. No Kings. No ICE.” — which sought to...