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Terrified Dutch students made to live side-by-side with 125 refugees to aid their 'integration' were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, an investigation has reported. Stek Oost, located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam, was sold to the Netherlands as the dream solution to the housing and refugee crisis. A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to 'buddy up' so the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands more quickly. But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence,...

Donald Trump’s desire for Greenland is not just about access to oil, minerals and control of the new strategic and commercial corridors opening in the region. It’s also about data. Specifically, the most important data in the world. For decades, Pituffik Space Base – formerly Thule – in Greenland has been central to US space defense and Arctic strategy. It’s the US military’s only base above the Arctic Circle and their most northerly deep-water port and airstrip. It’s home to the 12th Space Warning Squadron. Its massive AN/FPS-132 radar has 240 degrees of coverage surveying the Arctic Ocean and Russia’s...

There’s an old saying that when the cat’s away, the mice will play. But in Minnesota, even when the adults are standing right there cheering them on, the mice still can’t help themselves. The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes has become ground zero for progressive hysteria over federal immigration enforcement. Schools shuttered for days. Attorney General Keith Ellison filing lawsuits against the feds. Parents forming human shields outside school buildings like we’re living in some kind of war zone. The entire state apparatus has been mobilized against ICE agents who are simply doing their jobs. And for what? For enforcing...

Two Brooklyn marketers plead guilty in federal court to taking part in a wide-ranging Medicaid fraud scheme that prosecutors say relied on illegal kickbacks, sham billing, and money laundering connected to two social adult day care centers and a home health care company. Manal Wasef, 46, and Elaine Antao, 46, both of Brooklyn, were admitted to conspiring to commit health care fraud after investigators concluded they helped steer Medicaid recipients to specific providers in exchange for bribes and other illicit payments. Authorities allege the operation resulted in more than $68 million in Medicaid billings for services that were not provided....

Fox News segment (uploaded Jan 15, 2026) reports on violent protests in Minneapolis after an ICE arrest/shooting involving a Venezuelan migrant. Agents were ambushed and beaten; protesters vandalized vehicles and attacked federal property. President Trump posted on Truth Social warning "corrupt" Minnesota leaders (implying Gov. Walz and others) to stop the "travesty" and professional agitators or face federal intervention. A police advocate calls it domestic terrorism enabled by weak local leadership. ~5.5 min clip from 'The Faulkner Focus'.

16 January 2026 Friday of week 1 in Ordinary TimeBlessed Joseph Vaz Church, Mudipu, IndiaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading1 Samuel 8:4-7,10-22The people of Israel demand a kingAll the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. ‘Look,’ they said to him ‘you are old, and your sons do not follow your ways. So give us a king to rule over us, like the other nations.’ It displeased Samuel that they should say, ‘Let us have a king to rule us’, so he prayed to the Lord. But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Obey...

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., isn’t up for re-election until 2028, but that isn’t stopping his onetime progressive allies from accelerating their effort to challenge him in a primary. On Friday, the Working Families Party launched a new website, PrimaryFetterman.com, that will serve as a hub for its effort to unseat the senator. It features pages dedicated to opposition research on him, volunteer recruitment and even a link to request donation refunds from his campaign — which the party said it will promote via digital ads. The new website comes after the progressive group, which supported Fetterman’s 2022 run for Senate,...

Previously, Noble Capital RSD initiated legal proceedings demanding $225.8 billion based on alleged obligations under sovereign bonds issued during the Russian EmpireMOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. The filing of a lawsuit in a US court by the American firm Noble Capital RSD against Russia for a purported payment of $225.8 billion - claimed to be for "tsarist debts" - can be viewed as an act of "legal aggression" orchestrated by Russia’s adversaries, according to Federation Council Deputy Speaker Konstantin Kosachev, speaking to TASS. Previously, Noble Capital RSD initiated legal proceedings demanding the sum based on alleged obligations under sovereign bonds issued...

Protesters harassed a man driving a rental SUV after appearing to mistake him for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, a video that went viral on X Thursday shows. The video, which was originally posted to TikTok, shows the man opening the trunk of a white Chevrolet Suburban GMT1YC as a woman inspects its contents. Another woman noted that the man, who later in the video said that he worked for a media outlet, “has a lot of camera equipment” before accusing him of being an ICE agent. “I’m not. I tried to tell the first lady. Nobody believed...

The Queens senior citizen who killed a would-be mugger during an early morning shooting reported to prison Wednesday to serve a four-year sentence for criminal weapons possession. The then-65-year-old was returning to his Queens Avenue apartment around 2 a.m. after buying a pack of cigarettes when he was confronted by a menacing Cody Gonzalez.

Every woman wants a hunky, conservative dude to marry. The hard part is knowing how to attract them. The Babylon Bee is here to help with the following list of beauty tips that will land the based MAGA man of your dreams. Walk into your hair salon and say, "Give me the Trump!": In seven short hours, you'll have the perfect hairstyle for getting a man's attention. Speak fluent Elvish: It sounds beautiful, and he won't know when you're mad at him, which will be great for your relationship. Be sure to match your AR-15 with your purse and...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A pair of boys were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old Portland convenience store employee last month. The two boys, ages 12 and 15, face murder and robbery and were lodged at the Robert L. Harris Juvenile Justice Center in Vancouver. Santi Ram Rai was shot while he was working at a convenience store in the 1700 block of SE 139th Ave., on Dec,9, 2025. A medical examiner has since confirmed that he died of homicide by gunshot wound. After a month-long investigation, detectives identified that the two suspects lived in...

Trump’s pick for ambassador to Iceland, former U.S. Rep. Billy Long, told Arctic Today that he apologizes for comments he made Tuesday about making Iceland the 52nd state with himself as governor. He said the comments, which, according to Politico, he made on the House floor Tuesday night, were made in jest in response to a joke about Jeff Landry, President Trump’s U.S. Special Envoy to Greenland, becoming governor of Greenland. “There was nothing serious about that, I was with some people, who I hadn’t met for three years, and they were kidding about Jeff Landry being governor of Greenland...

Yale University has finally achieved the academic version of Nirvana, a state of perfect peace and enlightenment. A recent study found that the faculty had finally purged every Republican donor from its ranks. While 98 percent of the political donations went to Democrats, not a single professor could be found who gave to a single Republican candidate. The complete lock for Democrats is in a country that is split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. The Yale Daily News reviewed more than 7,000 Federal Election Commission filings from 2025 listing Yale as the employer: “Of 1,099 filings that included ‘professor’ in...

(I wanted to kick the hornet's nest, to ask a pointed question. I didn't want to rely on a single source, I tried ChatGPT, Grok, Yandex and Co-Pilot. Only two of the sources were reasonably accessible. Here are the results.) Question to Co-Pilot On a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIU4VO7nCuY titled “The Iran War Almost Started — Here’s What Stopped It | Larry C. Johnson” on the YouTube channel “Lezzet Yöresi”, former CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson commented on the issue of intelligence agencies closely allied with financial power centers projecting currency manipulation as an instrument of economic warfare: “Let's go back...

This is no longer about rhetoric. It is about numbers, timing, and alignment. When more than two dozen sitting members of Congress travel to Minneapolis—not to conduct formal oversight, not to coordinate with federal authorities, and not to restore order—but to hold a shadow hearing accusing federal law enforcement of kidnapping, brutality, and constitutional violations, the pretense of neutrality collapses. You do not send 24 lawmakers to “listen.”You send them to signal.From “Illegal Orders” to Public DefianceThe late-2025 video in which Democratic lawmakers with military backgrounds urged U.S. service members to refuse “illegal orders” now reads less like an isolated...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Must Get the Bishops' Appointments Right – Cardinal BurkeLeo XIV’s consistory in January did not involve a general debate, Cardinal Raymond Burke told Edward Pentin for his Substack.com-account on 16 January.The consistory adopted a format closer to Francis’s synods, with discussion confined almost entirely to small groups:"All the discussion took place in the small group, and then in the general session there was simply a report from the secretaries."Divide and ConquerBurke added that the way the consistory was structured did not allow for so-called free interventions.The two plenary sessions permitted only brief interventions: "Each intervention was...

Riverview Mayor Mike Cornell Jr. was arrested and charged Thursday, according to St. Louis County Police. St. Louis County Prosecutors charged the 39-year-old mayor with four counts of second-degree statutory sodomy, three counts of first-degree sodomy or attempted sodomy, one count of first-degree harassment and one count of possession of child pornography. St. Louis County Police said Thursday there were four victims, including two minors under the age of 17, and the timeframe these alleged crimes took place was between December 2016 and the present day. According to the St. Louis County Police’s probable cause statement, Cornell committed forcible sex...

MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - For five months, Fox 9 has been investigating what appears to be rampant fraud in a massive state program. This fraud is suspected of costing Minnesota taxpayers as much as $100 million a year. The Fox 9 Investigators reporting is based on public records and nearly a dozen government sources who have direct knowledge of what is happening. These sources have a deep fear, and there is evidence to support their concerns, that some of that public money is ending up in the hands of terrorists. SUITCASES FILLED WITH MONEY This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International...

A good Federal Reserve don’t. Print money, that is. The Federal Reserve prints a lot of money (M2). Unfortunately, it largely benefits elites (the top 1%). The bottom 50% get some benefits, but the gains in net worth largely benefits the elite class. This sounds like a legal Somali daycare scheme. Perhaps The Fed should be renamed “The Federal Quality Learing Center.” Yes, Somalis have daycare centers in Columbus Ohio. Thanks Governor Dewine for doing absolutely nothing to reign in their fraud. /sarc