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A severe and potentially game-altering weather alert has been issued ahead of the Chicago Bears’ NFC Divisional Round playoff matchup against the Los Angeles Rams. Brutal cold with temperatures plunging to -10°F and sustained winds of approximately 19 mph are forecast to create extremely challenging conditions Sunday at Soldier Field. According to an early outlook from AccuWeather, daytime highs in Chicago are expected to struggle to reach -9°F, with the “feels-like” temperature hovering around -11°F. Overnight lows are projected to drop to -10°F, with AccuWeather’s RealFeel dropping further to -14°F. An additional 1.5 inches of snow is anticipated during the...

Tensions continued early on Thursday in Minneapolis, as protesters clashed in the streets with law enforcement, following a second shooting in about a week involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security said a federal law enforcement officer shot a person, who they say had fled a traffic stop and then, along with two other people, began attacking the officer. That shooting followed the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, on Jan. 7. DHS officials said Good was allegedly attempting to run over law enforcement officers when an ICE officer fatally shot her -- a...

Iranian leaders are moving tens of millions of dollars out of the country as they begin “abandoning ship” amid the deadly protests in Iran, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax on Wednesday. “We are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship, because we can see millions, tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country, snuck out of the country by the Iranian leadership,” Bessent said. “So they are abandoning ship, and we are seeing it come into banks and financial institutions all over the world. The ongoing protests in Iran began in response to the country’s...

15 January 2026 Thursday of week 1 in Ordinary Time St. Ita Church, ChicagoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading1 Samuel 4:1-11Israel is defeated and the ark of God is capturedIt happened at that time that the Philistines mustered to fight Israel and Israel went out to meet them in battle, encamping near Ebenezer while the Philistines were encamped at Aphek. The Philistines drew up their battle line against Israel, the battle was hotly engaged, and Israel was defeated by the Philistines and about four thousand of their army were killed on the field. The troops returned to...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(1/15/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 9:18-2918 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told...

A Greenville, South Carolina, police officer was ambushed in his patrol car after a suspect pulled up beside him and opened fire in an attack captured on surveillance video and ending with the gunman dead. Video released by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) shows a vehicle pulling into a parking lot and stopping directly alongside the driver’s side of a marked patrol car. Seconds later, gunfire flashes in the darkness as the suspect opens fire before driving away, leaving the officer wounded inside the patrol car. The wounded officer was rushed to a hospital for treatment and has...

President Trump may very well have ended twenty-six years of communist dictatorship in Venezuela. By cutting off Venezuelan oil and economic relief to Cuba, there’s a chance that sixty-seven years of communist dictatorship will soon come to an end in Castro’s Caribbean prison, too. Right now Iran’s Islamic dictatorship is teetering and showing signs of potential collapse — forty-seven years after Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy “boys” allowed theocratic tyrants to take the strategically pivotal country before also taking fifty-two Americans hostage for four hundred and forty-four days. Finally, the European Union now realizes that President Trump is serious about keeping...

Summary Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has been sacked by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch for "plotting to defect" Badenoch says she had "clear, irrefutable evidence" that Jenrick was "plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible" to her party A senior Conservative MP close to Badenoch tells the BBC they had "incontrovertible evidence" that Jenrick was about to defect including a "full speech and media plan" Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says while no deal has been signed, he had conversations with Jenrick and plans to call him today Henry Zeffman analysis: If...

In this Downfall parody, Hitler gives Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, a call to discuss the widespread protests in his country. Harangues him to step down, but Khamenei is impervious and in denial, as was Hitler.

Can Trump finally bring the gravy train to a screeching halt? During the Biden years, as inflation soared, Jerome Powell somehow said that inflation was transitory: Powell flirts again with a dangerous way to describe inflation: ‘Transitory’A fraught word resurfaced in the Federal Reserve’s lexicon again this week: ‘transitory.’ Yet somehow, he never blamed Biden’s energy policies (hundreds of billions in subsidies), open borders (hundreds of billions for various programs for illegals), or bureaucratic regulations, which all directly contributed to massive amounts spending, which in turn, created inflation when the Fed created the dollars needed for the bill. One of...

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Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him fame among paranormal enthusiasts and scorn from the scientific community, has died. He was 90. Von Däniken's representatives announced on his website on Sunday that he had died the previous day in a hospital in central Switzerland. His daughter Cornelia confirmed the information to Swiss news agency SDA. Von Däniken rose to prominence in 1968 with the publication of his first book "Chariots of the Gods," in which he claimed that the Mayans and ancient Egyptians were visited by alien astronauts and...

Boeing warned plane owners in 2011 about a broken part that contributed to a UPS plane crash that killed 15 last year but at that point the plane manufacturer didn’t believe it threatened safety, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. The UPS plane crashed in November 2025 shortly after taking off in Louisville, Kentucky, when the left engine flew off the wing as the plane rolled down the runway. Three pilots on the plane that was headed for Hawaii were killed along with 12 more people on the ground near Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport. The NTSB said Wednesday...

Stirring song in English, on-scene footage, protest slogans in Farsi.

The explosion of the budget deficit was one of the most worrisome things that happened post-Covid. While inflation peaked in 2022, the deficit kept getting worse because of the “fiscal doom loop” caused by bloated spending and higher interest rates. At this time last year things were still looking extremely grim. The deficit was stuck around $2.1 trillion on a rolling 12-month basis, or 7.3% of GDP--the largest non-emergency deficit we’ve ever had. And the10-year Treasury yield was stuck above 4.7%, worsening the situation daily. Now, though, we are experiencing a dramatic improvement. The latest numbers which we got yesterday...

Renee Good’s former father-in-law, Timmy Macklin Sr., urged Americans to turn to God and love one another when asked by CNN about her death. He said he did not blame Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for what happened, but suggested that the country’s drift away from faith played a role, noting that if Renee had embraced God, she might not have ended up in the situation that led to her death a week ago.

At least four Democratic members of Congress say federal prosecutors are seeking to question them after they participated in a video urging members of the military to refuse illegal orders. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., says she found out about the investigation when she received a call from the office of Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. The New York Times first reported Slotkin's knowledge of the investigation. Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., say federal prosecutors have also asked to question them about the video.

In this video I expose the billion dollar fraud scandal that has caused the country to erupt as billions of dollars of fraud has been exposed and caused Tim Walz to drop out of re-election.

In a Wednesday Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing regarding the safety of abortion pills, an OBGYN refused to say whether men can get pregnant. The question was first asked to Dr. Nisha Verma by Senator Ashley Moody. "Ms. Verma," Moody asked, "can men get pregnant?" Verma first corrected Moody, saying "Dr. Verma," before responding to the question with "Um, I mean..." and smiling without answering properly. Senator Josh Hawley took up the question and asked Verma again, "Dr. Verma, I wasn't sure I understood your answer to Sen. Moody a moment ago, do you think that...

The US and the UK issued warnings on Thursday against travel to Israel, as tensions spiraled over the Iranian regime’s lethal crackdown on protests in the country and amid indications an American strike on the Islamic Republic could be imminent. US President Donald Trump repeatedly warned, as demonstrations grew, that the regime’s use of deadly force against protesters would lead to American intervention. With thousands now reported dead, US military action has for several days been seen as imminent. Iran has threatened that if the US attacks, it will target Israel as well as US bases in the region. The...