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The Seattle Seahawks will go up for sale after Super Bowl LX, league and ownership sources familiar with the arrangement told ESPN, ending years of questions about when the team would seek new ownership following the 2018 death of former owner Paul G. Allen. Sale discussions have taken place at ownership and league levels for at least the past week, the sources said. The Seahawks and the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers have been owned by Allen's estate since the former owner and Microsoft co-founder died in 2018 after a yearslong battle with cancer. His sister, Jody Allen, has controlled the...

Transcript SummaryFormer CNN anchor and current independent journalist Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles (at a Beverly Hills hotel, where he was covering the Grammy Awards) on the night of January 29, 2026 (around or after 11 p.m. local time, into early January 30).The arrest relates to his presence and filming during a January 18, 2026, anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Protesters disrupted a Sunday service, alleging one pastor (David Easterwood) worked as an acting ICE field office director in St. Paul; they chanted and interrupted worship.Lemon, who had advance knowledge of...

TEXAS – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Debra Lynch, a Delaware-based nurse practitioner who runs Her Safe Harbor, an organization accused of shipping abortion-inducing drugs into Texas in violation of state law. According to the lawsuit, Her Safe Harbor routinely sends mifepristone and misoprostol across state lines. The organization advertises abortion pills by mail and promises delivery to Texas within days. Lynch reportedly acknowledged that she and her staff “mail a lot [of abortion drugs] to Texas,” mentioning cities including Houston, Tomball, Fulshear, Beaumont, El Paso and other major cities. The legal action comes after...

A freelance journalist reported on billions of dollars stolen from welfare programs in Minnesota. Congress did not uncover this scandal; a member of the public did. How did Congress respond? Did they open their own investigation, or claw back money from Minnesota? No, they simply decided to spend another $5 billion on welfare. If Congress cared so much about addressing welfare fraud of the kind found in Minnesota, why is the Senate considering a spending package that includes yet another $5 billion in taxpayer funded welfare for refugees? Can Democrats and big government Republicans be so obtuse as to propose...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate is poised to vote on a series of amendments and then pass a massive package of appropriations bills to fund the federal departments and agencies. Thune announced votes on seven amendments, including a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to repeal $75 billion in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and another by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to bar the Trump White House from rescinding funding through pocket rescissions. The Senate will also consider an amendment sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to remove $5 billion from...

Hillary Clinton accused the MAGA movement of transforming “savagery” into a moral value, arguing in a sweeping new essay the idea that “compassion is weak and cruelty is strong” has become an “article of MAGA faith” – which she warned has become a “rallying cry” to Christian nationalism. In a 6,000-word article published in The Atlantic on Friday, titled “MAGA’s War on Empathy”, Clinton framed recent federal actions in Minnesota as a turning point that exposes what she called a deeper ethical breakdown within President Donald Trump’s movement. She opened by describing her reaction to video footage showing the killing...

"Ukraine saw a rare overnight lull in attacks on energy infrastructure after President Trump personally urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pause strikes — but the Kremlin said Friday the brief reprieve will last only through Sunday. There were no overnight strikes on energy facilities in Ukraine after Trump called on Putin to spare them as frigid temperatures leave civilians in danger of freezing to death, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post to X. “Over the past night, there were no strikes on energy facilities,” Zelensky wrote. But that didn’t stop Moscow from continuing to hit other civilian...

Senate rallies, advances funding package in key test after earlier stumbleSenate Republicans and Democrats locked in an agreement to move forward with a behemoth funding package, smashing through resistance on both sides of the aisle. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., teed up the final vote for the package Friday after hours of quelling resistance among Senate Republicans. Lawmakers will plow through several amendments before voting on the package, which is expected to pass and head to the House. That also means that, despite their best efforts, a government shutdown is all but guaranteed given that the deadline to fund...

@TuckerCarlson Most Americans just want to live in a sovereign country that cares about them. That’s not a partisan position. It’s a baseline demand. Cenk Uygur explains.

In the largely unregulated world of IVF, safeguards for embryos, and in some cases, the parents who donate and seek to adopt them, are tenuous at best.When disputes or clinical mishaps call into question frozen embryos’ ownership and parentage, the law offers little to no protection. Federal regulations for laboratories holding embryos are voluntary. In 49 of 50 states, frozen embryos are deemed property with no right to life. Louisiana is the only state where embryos created using IVF are regarded as “juridical person[s]” and where destroying them is illegal. In Tennessee, where the NEDC is located, lawmakers recently codified...

FOX 2 - A sitting judge and Detroit area attorney were among four suspects charged in an embezzling scheme victimizing incapacitated individuals' estates. Dig deeper: The US Attorney's Office said Nancy Williams, 59, Avery Bradley, 72, Judge Andrea Bradley-Baskin, 46, and Dwight Rashad, 69, were charged via indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The indictment also charges Bradley with one count of wire fraud, Bradley, Bradley-Baskin, and Rashad with several counts of money laundering, and Bradley-Baskin with a single count of making a false statement to federal law enforcement agent. Bradley-Baskin is a district judge on Michigan’s 36th District...

[Catholic Caucus] The Question of the Traditional Mass in Pope Leo XIV’s PontificateWe find ourselves in the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, and there are reasons for cautious optimism. Several signs suggest that the Holy Father wishes to address some of the more pressing challenges inherited from his predecessor.Among these is the thorny question of access to the Traditional Latin Mass (what was once called the Extraordinary Form or Tridentine Mass) and the restrictions imposed by Traditiones Custodes.I approach this question with the disposition we ought to have toward any successor of Peter: giving the benefit of the...

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...