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Japan's conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has won a decisive victory in the country's snap parliamentary election, according to exit polls ...

@RupertLowe10 Right. I want to make this clear. Plenty of people have attacked our inquiry for ‘not having statutory powers’. Yeah. We know. OBVIOUSLY. We are not the Government. Clearly. But so what? Honestly, what’s the alternative? Sit on our arses and do nothing? Tweet? Wait for Labour to act? It just doesn’t work. Not for this. If what we’re doing, raises sufficient awareness and stops just ONE GIRL from being raped and abused by these muslim gangs? Then good. I say that is time and money well spent. But trust me, we are aiming for much, much more. Our...

It's a question that I had not put too much thought into until recently, but in light of the revelations over the past year from DOGE, the current fraud investigations in Minnesota, Oregon, Maine, and California (and I hope that will soon expand to all 50 states), it really has struck me that a huge proportion of our economy is probably just money laudering. Of course, we all understood at some vague level that there had to be a large amount of money laundering going on. The illegal drug trade alone is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and that...

Lindsey Vonn crashes early in Olympic downhill, taken off the mountain in a helicopter

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man was sitting in his car late Tuesday in the 1000 block of Crestwood Street in Jacksonville’s North Shore neighborhood when he was approached by four people armed with guns. The incident occurred at about 11:40 p.m., according to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office news release. The armed suspects commanded the victim to get out of the car. The man complied, exited the car, and then there was an exchange of gunfire between the victim and the suspects, the news release states. The victim shot two of the assailants; one in the leg, the other in the...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is under fire this week after a Los Angeles Times report claiming she successfully altered in her favor a critical after-action report on the devastating southern California wildfires that killed 31 people. While Bass has repeatedly denied that she interfered with the report, the Los Angeles Times reports, citing two sources, that Bass was concerned that the city could be exposed to legal liability for its lack of preparedness and removed or softened language implicating the city. One of the key changes, according to the Los Angeles Times, was altering details about failures to fully...

Longtime House appropriator Mark Amodei, R-Nev., who currently oversees spending for the Department of Homeland Security, announced Friday that he will not run for reelection in November. “I came to Congress to solve problems and to make sure our State and Nation have a strong voice in the federal policy and oversight processes,” Amodei said in a statement. “I look forward to finishing my term. After 15 years of service, I believe it is the right time for Nevada and myself to pass the torch.” Since prevailing in a special election in 2011, Amodei has grown accustomed to winning reelection...

Trump: All Your Safe Space Are Belong to Us. The inauguration of President Trump destroys every safe space and protest in Washington DC. The Invasion of the Deplorables has begun. You have no place to hide, stream your crying. All Your Base Are Belong to Us. All Your Base Are Belong To Trump

Despite the program's size, fewer families now receive direct cash assistance than in previous decades. Federal data shows that about 849,000 families received monthly TANF payments in fiscal year 2025, down from approximately 1.9 million families in 2010. Instead, states have increasingly directed funds to contractors, nonprofits and other government programs. Nick Gwyn, a policy expert with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said the shift reflects a broader transformation in how the program operates. 'The program has drifted away from the core purpose of supporting families with very little income,' Gwyn told the WSJ. More than $30 billion...

2.8.2026 QUESTION: 1.What date, in 2024, did Wikipedians succeed in 'elevating' the so-called "Gaza genocide" from 'allegations' to supposed 'fact'? 2. Who are the editors promoting it? 3. Did the so called "reliable sources" include (Islamist bigot, expansionist) Erdogan's TRT/Anadolou; Hamas linked Euro-Med; MSF (- whose members included Hamas); Qatar's Hamas-linked al Jazeera; anti-Israel blog mondoweiss and activists/journalists of Haaretz? And were UN's Francesca Albanese (with an antisemitic record at least since 2014 and dubbed 21-century Goebbeles) and Pillay/Kothary (of the 2022 "Jewish control" trope) team as well as ($30 membership, no qualifications) IAGS - central to it? 4. Did...

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Down the Memory Hole. The frenetic stories of the moment in the past have been swallowed up by the waters of Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. We see the DOJ has made a great show of arresting the leader of the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi. The Trump administration has brought the leader of the attack, Zubayar al-Bakoush, to American soil to face justice. "In 2012, Islamist terrorists carried out an horrific attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, murdering four Americans: Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty," Director of National Intelligence Tulsi...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,...

The document, issued by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and dated Friday, August 9, 2019, states that Epstein had already been found unresponsive and pronounced dead. But prison records and official accounts show Epstein was not discovered unresponsive until the morning of August 10, 2019, when a corrections officer delivering breakfast found him in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

SUPER BOWL LX: Live Thread Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

Bad Bunny is expected to perform the Super Bowl half-time show on Sunday entirely in Spanish – which has inspired fans to quickly learn the language. In October, the Puerto Rican singer – born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – kicked off the 51st season of Saturday Night Live expressing pride over the achievement in Spanish, after which he said in English, “If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn!” That declaration further stoked the anger of some conservatives who have vilified Bad Bunny for speaking out against US president Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policies. The...

The White House is in a full-blown baby boom. Second lady Usha Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, are all pregnant. It will be Vance’s fourth child, Leavitt’s second, and Miller’s fourth. White House deputy chief of staff James Blair and his wife, Sam, are expecting a baby come March, according to Louise Perry, writing for The Wall Street Journal. Perry notes a partisan gap in birthrates: “Conservatives have more children than liberals. They also are more likely to marry and marry younger. While Democrats are...

Every child learned how to throw stones at Jews because they teach it. The teacher would tell us to go out and throw stones...The teacher would tell us to go out and throw stones; then come back and open books as though we were studying. "...these Jews, we will slaughter them like Hitler did.’” Between Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Qassam Brigades, and any other terror group, and most Palestinians in Gaza, they share the same ideas about Jews. “I wanted to be a Jew because I chose life, I chose love and not hatred,” says Dor Shachar, who was born Ayman...

"To the saints . . . including the overseers and deacons" (Phil. 1:1). Faithful spiritual leaders are worthy of your appreciation and esteem. Paul's salutation includes the "overseers and deacons" at Philippi. That probably is not a reference to elders and deacons as we know them, but a general reference to all the Philippian saints, which included spiritual leaders (overseers) and those who followed (servants). That implies unity and submission within the church, which brings joy to leaders and followers alike. Hebrews 13:17 emphasizes that point: "Obey your leaders, and submit to them; for they keep watch over your souls,...

Federal immigration authorities allowed a suspect in a $100m jewelry heist believed to be the largest in US history to deport himself to South America in December, a move that stunned and upset prosecutors who were planning to try the case and send him to prison. Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores was one of seven people charged last year with stalking an armored truck to a rural freeway rest stop north of Los Angeles and stealing millions worth of diamonds, emeralds, gold, rubies and designer watches in 2022. Flores faced up to 15 years in federal prison if convicted on charges...