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Poland is to launch an investigation into possible links between Jeffrey Epstein and Russian authorities. Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to determine whether the convicted paedophile was working for the country's secret services.

Two former Underdog Pet Rescue of Wisconsin dogs are headed to one of the most-watched sporting events of the year — the 2026 Puppy Bowl. Anson and Avro will represent Wisconsin in this year’s Puppy Bowl, making them the only dogs from Wisconsin selected to participate in the nationally televised event. Both pups have since been adopted by loving Madison-area families and will reunite with Underdog supporters at a Puppy Bowl viewing party hosted by Underdog Pet Rescue, where they will attend in person and meet fans. Event details can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/events/2450176842105030 Anson’s story is especially meaningful. A...

US private employers added fewer positions than anticipated last month, according to the private payroll processor ADP, starting 2026 off on a downbeat note. Private payrolls grew by just 22,000 in January, ADP said Wednesday, below economists' expectations of 45,000 positions. The tally for last year was perhaps an omen. "Job creation took a step back in 2025, with private employers adding 398,000 jobs, down from 771,000 in 2024," ADP chief economist Nela Richardson said in a statement. "While we've seen a continuous and dramatic slowdown in job creation for the past three years, wage growth has remained stable." Manufacturing...

"Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said he would pull 700 immigration agents out of Minnesota, leaving about 2,000 on the ground in the state. Mr. Homan cited “unprecedented” cooperation by local officials as the reason for the reduction."

Documents mentioning the Rothschilds began to disappear from Epstein's files. The rules-based world has been slightly tweaked

On Friday evening, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against the state’s largest children’s health provider. The complaint accused Rady Children’s Health in San Diego of taking steps to illegally terminate gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Between the White House ballroom currently under construction, and the proposed Arc du Trump currently in the planning stage, Washington DC could look entirely different when President Trump leaves office. The classic elements are genuinely inspiring. PRESIDENT TRUMP – “This beautiful building will be, when complete, the much-anticipated White House Ballroom — The Greatest of its kind ever built! It is a rendering from the Treasury Building, directly across the street, and replaces the very small, dilapidated, and rebuilt many times, East Wing, with a magnificent New East Wing, consisting of a glorious Ballroom that has been asked for by...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Struggling paper expected to announce sweeping job cuts

A set of internal documents published by the Republican members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee (Judiciary GOP) has sent shockwaves through Brussels. Released under the title The EU Censorship Files, Part II, the investigation presents documentary evidence of a sustained strategy by the European Commission to influence public debate on social media and digital platforms, pressuring major tech companies to censor lawful content, alter their internal rules, and restrict certain political viewpoints. https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/2018683758006665352 The revelations go far beyond an abstract debate over content moderation. According to the material made public, the Commission has directly or indirectly intervened in at...

According to a statement released by the University of Vienna, an international team of researchers has identified a rare genetic condition in the remains of a mother and daughter who were buried in an embrace in the same grave more than 12,000 years ago. The burial was discovered in 1963 at Grotta del Romito in southern Italy. Romito 1, the remains of a woman who stood under five feet tall, held the remains of Romito 2, an adolescent girl with pronounced limb shortening, and an estimated height of about 3.5 feet. DNA analysis also showed that the daughter carried two...

One of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, has broken his silence following allegations surfacing in the latest round of documents released regarding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 'The focus was always, he knew a lot of very rich people and he was saying he could get them to give money to global health,' Gates said in an interview with Nine News on Wednesday. Gates gave his 'only Australian TV interview' with the network during a trip to the country for the Australian Open, which ran from January 12 to February 1 at Melbourne Park. The billionaire continued: 'You know,...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani decided to throw his cops under the bus in the non-fatal shooting of Jabez Chakraborty, a 22-year-old man, who charged officers while wielding a large knife.

STOP Everything! If You Use LINUX, You Need to Watch This NOW! The Hardware Report Feb 3, 2026 #Linux #OpenSource #CyberSecurity Is your Linux system actually secure? In today’s video, we’re breaking down a critical update every Linux user needs to see. Whether you’re on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, or Mint, the "set it and forget it" mentality could be putting your data at risk. #Linux #OpenSource #CyberSecurity #LinuxTips #TechNews #Ubuntu #ArchLinux #Privacy #LinuxTutorial #SysAdmin From hidden security vulnerabilities to essential kernel tweaks that boost performance, we cover the "must-do" steps to keep your distro running fast and safe. Don't wait...

alifornians have a right to be angry about Minnesota. It’s getting all the federal government attention for its illegal immigration, street violence, fraud and graft when California, in fact, is the king of all those civic sins. Yes, Minnesota and its lead city, Minneapolis, are impressive in the scale of fraud, estimated currently at billions of dollars, according to the Cato Institute’s recent “Fraud Update.” Not bad for a blue state, especially one with just 5.8 million people. But let’s be honest. Minnesota’s inhabitants are mere pikers compared to those in the Golden State. There, the level of fraud and...

This piece is premised on the book American Stasi, available free at AmericanStasi.com, and at all major booksellers. The book attempts to show that the nations of the West have all deployed East German Stasi-like ground surveillance in their communities, to monitor all the citizens, and make sure none can ever rise high enough in government to see the rampant fraud and abuse. The surveillance is most notable through its vehicular units, which follow established procedures, and which you can even see on Google Streetview, as they perform surveillance on the Google car as it moves through communities. Here we...

4 February 2026 Wednesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time Corsini Chapel, in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano, RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading2 Samuel 24:2,8-17David takes the guilt on himself to save IsraelKing David said to Joab and to the senior army officers who were with him, ‘Now go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and take a census of the people; I wish to know the size of the population.’ Having covered the whole country, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. Joab gave...

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) argued Americans would be “justified” shooting ICE agents if they believed they were “masked hoodlums” attacking them — and not one of the government’s “goons,” as he put it.The Democratic lawmaker made the eyebrow-raising statement during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. “If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped. You would be justified in shooting the person to protect yourself,” Nadler said. He said President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has spurred “fascism in our streets.”Nadler then pointed to the recent shooting death of Renee Good...

BASF plant in Ludwigshafen, 1881.In its ‘Climate & Energy’ newsletter on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal’s report on Germany’s chemicals industry headlined ‘The Agonising Decline of One of Europe’s Core Industries’ reads less like an industry report than a forensic examination of an industrial autopsy. Once Europe’s formidable manufacturing powerhouse, Germany is now presiding over the steady dismantling of one of its most foundational industries – chemicals – under the combined weight of self-inflicted energy scarcity, climate moralism and geopolitical miscalculation. In Politico’s view, the auto sector has already assumed the role of Exhibit A in Germany’s economic self-harm. But...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(2/4/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 21:22-122 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said,...