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Election officials are preparing for the possibility of immigration enforcement activity at or near polling sites in November.Immigration enforcement is sowing chaos in Minneapolis and across the country. Democrats, elections officials and civil rights groups fear it could interfere with this November’s elections — and are scrambling for a response.They’re warning that the White House’s deployments of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents could act as a voter suppression tool should armed officers conduct raids at or near polling locations, scaring citizens into staying home.“You have to see what’s happening: Trump is trying to create a pretext to...

🚨 BREAKING: D*AMNING 12-page indictment of Don Lemon RELEASED, he's about to FAFO big time after terrorizing a Minnesota church! "Conspired and agreed with one another [to] injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate multiple persons, including the clergy, staff, and congregants of the Cities Church, in the free exercise and enjoyment of the rights and privileges secured to them by the laws of the United States, and because of such persons having exercised such right, namely, exercise of the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship, as secured by Title 18, United States Code, Section 248(c),...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific’s Big Boy will return to California this spring in the first leg of its planned coast-to-coast trip for America’s 250th anniversary, the railroad has announced. The first segment of the trip will be a round trip from Cheyenne, Wyo., beginning March 29 and concluding April 24, with two major public displays: April 10-11 in Roseville, Calif., and April 18-19 in Ogden, Utah. A full schedule will be released closer to the start of the tour. The eastern portion of the trip is still being finalized but is expected to begin in late spring. No passenger...

VIDEOAs you can see, Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan was regularly posting on TikTok right up to the day, January 25, 2026, when she was EXPOSED as being an Administrator of the Signal chat under the not very secret code name of "Flan Southside" directing Minneapolis insurrectionists with instructions on how to IMPEDE federal law enforcement officers. The very interesting thing is that her TikTok posts CEASED right after her exposure as one of the insurrectionist ringleaders in her role as "Flan Southside." It will be very very interesting to see what, if ever, she posts on TikTok the next...

President Donald Trump is making a huge mistake campaigning on the economy -- an economy that’s projected to have expanded well over four percent at least in the fourth quarter of 2025. At least, that’s the newest hot take being blurted into cyberspace by CNN. CNN Business Senior Writer Allison Morrow, who’s developing quite the reputation for mastering the art of incoherence, published yet another example of brain-dead anti-Trump screeds January 28, “Trump wants to refocus voters’ attention on the economy. He might regret it.” Yes, that's a real headline. So what exactly — pray tell — should Trump talk...

Pride Fighting Championships veteran Henry “Sentoryu” Miller has died at the age of 56 after a lengthy battle with a myriad of health issues. News of his death was first reported by Japan-based outlet Chunichi Sports on Friday. Born in 1969 to military family stationed in Tokyo, Miller moved to St. Louis, Missouri, as a child and grew up there while learning wrestling. After graduating from high school, the man who would soon become “Sentoryu Henri” did not go to college to train further or pursue the Olympics. Instead, he returned to his birth country to become a sumo wrestler,...

(snip)As part of the changes, the mayor directed the Seattle Police Department to investigate, verify, and document reports of immigration enforcement activity. If officers are sent to a location where apparent enforcement is underway, they will document the activity with in-car and body-worn video, verify the identification of apparent federal agents, and secure scenes of potentially unlawful acts to gather evidence for prosecutors, according to the announcement.(snip)

The Fatal Encounter That Sparked National ScrutinyThe killing of Alex Pretti has remained a focal point of national debate over federal immigration enforcement and the use of force. Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was shot and killed by federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation on January 24. Bystander video from that encounter shows officers confronting Pretti at close range before shots were fired and, later, an agent removing a handgun from Pretti’s waistband after he was down on the ground. ✕ Remove AdsFederal officials have said agents believed Pretti posed an...

Alex Pretti wasn’t killed while “protesting.” ... If Pretti had been a mere protester, he’d very likely be alive today. ... Run-of-the-mill protesters don’t seek out federal agents and harass and obstruct them. They don’t follow and block their vehicles. And they don’t establish a robust communications network to deploy resources and create maximum disruption of law enforcement operations. Pretti was part of this effort, which is more a form of low-level and (by and large) nonviolent insurgency than conventional protest. ... That Pretti, we now know, made it a practice to court violent encounters with federal agents while armed...

Virginia Democrats have introduced a host of new tax proposals that would tax a range of services, including dog walking and gym memberships despite running on a campaign to increase affordability. More than 50 proposals and new rules were introduced for the new legislative session, including additional local sales tax in all Virginia counties and cities, 7News reported. The new proposed policies include: dog walking and grooming tax gun and ammunition tax new income tax brackets storage facility tax dry cleaning tax home repair tax new personal property tax on electric leaf blowers and electric landscaping equipment

Explanation: NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus, it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming molecular cloud. This telescopic close-up spans over two full moons on the sky or just over 15 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with telltale hints of contrasty red emission from Herbig-Haro objects, jets and shocked glowing gas emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains...

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a federal judge ruled Friday, foiling the Trump administration’s bid to see him executed for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.” Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge that had enabled prosecutors to seek capital punishment, finding it technically flawed. She wrote that she did so to “foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury” as it weighs whether to convict Mangione. Garnett also dismissed a gun...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based on NASA's Apollo lunar samples... This surprising case of cosmic cannibalism is thanks to supercharged solar winds and, more importantly, our own planet's magnetic field...Ever since NASA's Apollo missions first returned lunar samples to Earth in the early 1970s, scientists have been puzzled by traces of volatiles -- substances that vaporize at relatively low temperatures, including water, carbon dioxide, helium, argon, and nitrogen -- that they found...

Dozens of protesters swarmed a California restaurant on Wednesday evening after mistaking TSA workers for ICE agents. The TSA agents, who were off duty and simply trying to have dinner, had to call for help because the situation escalated so rapidly. According to a report from FOX 11 Los Angeles reporter Matthew Seedorff, the incident took place at the Ten-Raku restaurant in Lynwood, where the federal employees were dining. The protesters chanted and surrounded the restaurant, with some waving Mexican flags. Seedorff, who was on the scene, attempted to speak with an apparent organizer of the protest, but they said...

Unsigned tabulator tapes and missing records demand answers On Wednesday, the FBI seized 700 boxes of Fulton County, Georgia’s 2020 presidential election records.Last month, Fulton County officials admitted they didn’t properly verify 315,000 votes in the contentious 2020 election, where Joe Biden won the state by a slim 11,779 margin.County attorney Ann Brumbaugh told the state’s elections board in a Dec. 9, 2025, meeting that the county didn’t properly sign tabulator tapes after the election, which was in violation of state regulations. Tabulator tapes are printed receipts from tabulation machines used to verify that the number of voters matches...

Together with 150 waltzing couples, André Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra perform Lara's Theme & Light Cavalry live in Maastricht. André Rieu & 150 waltzing couples - Lara's Theme & Light Cavalry [video]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicizes a $12 billion hole in New York’s budget over the next two years—and draws some political battle lines.The honeymoon is officially over.That was the deeper meaning of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s somber Wednesday morning City Hall press conference disclosing the not-exactly-shocking news that regarding the next two fiscal years New York faces a $12 billion hole in the city’s finances. The budget gap itself was old news, disclosed first by Comptroller Mark Levine nearly two weeks ago—in an announcement whose details owed much to his predecessor, former comptroller Brad Lander’s final report, which had projected “a $2.18...

Bombshell revelation in the Epstein files shows Bill Gates was asking Jeffrey Epstein for "antibiotics" to give his wife, Melinda — because he contracted an STD from "Russian girls" The emails also mention a "description of [Gates'] p*nis" ABSOLUTELY SICK! No WONDER the Dems got quiet about the files. Their heroes are all over them!

Lawmakers are seeking answers about the director of national intelligence’s presence at a search of the Fulton County elections office. Democratic senators called Thursday for a briefing on why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard joined an FBI search of the Fulton County, Georgia, elections office related to the 2020 presidential election.“What the heck is she doing on the FBI serving a domestic warrant? If this doesn’t concern the heck out of every American, it sure as hell should,” said Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is requesting the briefing from Gabbard’s office. “This...

To every liberal calling Don Lemon’s arrest “an attack on journalism”, where were you when: - James O'Keefe - Nick Sortor - Nick Shirley - Cam Higby - Savanah Hernandez - Andy Ngo - Steve Baker and many others were physically attacked, arrested, or received death threats? "This is an attack on the 1st Amendment!" No, it's not. Don Lemon broke the law. Being a journalist doesn’t get you a free pass for committing crimes. Plain and simple. Nobody is above the law. Don Lemon belongs in jail. Cry more.