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Breakfast is barely under way and President Donald Trump has already discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, the Royal Family – and now he is on to the dangers of a furtive South American foe... [snip] It’s a sunny Saturday morning at Trump International Golf Club at West Palm Beach, Florida, and the President is preparing for an important golf match. It is always a hard-fought, four-way game with his caddie RJ Nakashian, a golf professional, club professional John Nieporte and his old friend and White House peace envoy, Steve Witkoff. They are all seated at Mr Trump’s regular table in...

Progressive Researchers Claim They Are 15-20 Years From Finding Out What A Woman Is U.S. — Progressive researchers working with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU ) said they were only a mere 15-20 years away from finding out what a woman is. "We're very close," said Dr. Nina Rangleford, a medical doctor and biology expert. "We've studied hundreds of human bodies and cross-referenced those findings with what people feel. We're confident we'll be able to provide an accurate definition of what a woman is in just 15 years. Twenty, max." Researchers said they have left no stone unturned in...

Gun violence legislation could get a second chance after Democratic Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is inaugurated on Jan. 17.A bill to ban the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines is one of several anti-gun violence proposals previously vetoed by Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that could become law in 2026 under Democratic Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger.On Jan 7, Democratic Del. Dan Helmer reintroduced a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates to ban large-capacity magazines and prohibit the importation, sale, purchase, or transfer of assault firearms in the commonwealth. Youngkin vetoed similar bills in 2024 and 2025 after they passed in...

President Donald J. Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan is a broad healthcare initiative that will slash prescription drug prices, reduce insurance premiums, hold big insurance companies accountable, and maximize price transparency in the American healthcare system. This plan will deliver money directly to the American people, not insurance companies, big pharma and special interest groups—putting patients over industry leaders’ profits, just as he promised. The Great Healthcare Plan also builds on the successes of his first term by promoting competition, eliminating wasteful spending, and putting consumers back in control. President Trump Announces The Great Healthcare Plan:“I am thrilled to announce my...

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said Friday she has vetoed a tax cut plan passed by Republicans a day earlier. Republicans sent SB1106 — known as the Arizona One Big Beautiful Bill – to Hobbs’ desk as one of the first actions of the new legislative session, which started Monday. They said it applied President Donald Trump’s tax cuts to the state tax code and would deliver Arizonans $1.1 billion in tax relief over three years.

In a recent episode of her podcast, Candace Owens said Charlie Kirk told her he was a “time traveler” who was sent to “X-Men school,” and alleged he was monitored since childhood. Controversial US political commentator Candace Owens claimed in a recent episode of her podcast that the late activist Charlie Kirk told her that he was a “time traveler,” and knew that he would die young. “It is an absolute fact that Charlie Kirk thought that he was a time traveler. He told me he was a time traveler. Repeatedly,” she claimed. Owens told listeners that “awareness is the...

The US president is expected to chair the board, which is to oversee a Palestinian committee charged with managing war-ravaged Gaza as the peace plan enters its second stage. Since the plan came into effect in October, Israeli attacks have continued in the enclave, where key questions remain over withdrawal and disarmament. US President Donald Trump on Thursday, January 16, announced the formation of a Gaza "board of peace," a key phase two element of a US-backed plan to end the war in the Palestinian territory. "It is my great honor to announce that the board of peace has been...

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...