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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots by Antifa and other activists since June 2025 may have now claimed what could be the first killing tied to this anti-ICE operation in Portland, following a Friday-night drive-by shooting. Instead of using an actual gun, however, the angry shooter, a woman, used a reported non-lethal BB-type gun and shot at least one right-wing livestreamer in the face and arm multiple times. Others may have been hit as well. Since June 2025, local police have, in effect, stood down as Antifa agitators threatened, rioted, and attacked anyone entering or leaving the Immigration and...

A majority of Americans say they prefer President Donald Trump's approach to border security and immigration than they do former President Joe Biden's, according to new polling data. The poll from Napolitan News Service found that 52% prefer Trump's handling of the issues to 33% who prefer Biden's. The remaining 15% said they were not sure. The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted by pollster Scott Rasmussen Feb. 4-5, after two people protesting deportation actions in Minneapolis were shot and killed by federal agents in separate incidents. "Democrats think they have a winning issue by attacking ICE and keeping...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as utility workers he’d seen outside his family’s Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis. They wore high-visibility vests and spotless white hard hats, he noticed, even while parked in their vehicle. His search for the Wisconsin-based electrician advertised on the car’s doors returned no results. On Tuesday, when their Nissan returned to the lot outside his restaurant, Ramirez, 31, filmed his confrontation with the two men, who hide their faces as he approaches and appear to be wearing heavy tactical gear beneath their yellow vests. “This...

Weather agencies and climate scientists have pointed to the possibility of an El Niño forming in the Pacific Ocean later this year – a phenomenon that could push global temperatures to all-time record highs in 2027. Both the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology have said some climate models are forecasting an El Niño but both cautioned those results came with uncertainties. Experts told the Guardian it was too early to be confident, but there were signals in the spread of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific that suggested an El Niño could...

New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias on Saturday said the Indian subcontinent could emerge as one of the most suitable partners for legal migration to Europe, citing the continent's ageing population and near-negative population growth. Speaking at the India-EU Forum 2026, Dendias said migration was a global, long-standing phenomenon that would continue, but stressed that Europe must develop a balanced, structured migration framework. "Migration is a world phenomenon. It was part of what was happening in the world in the past, and it will remain in the future," he said. Highlighting Europe's demographic challenges, Dendias...

The violence and size of the anti-ICE riots in Minnesota took federal officials by surprise. But maybe they shouldn’t be shocked. As it turns out, and as is often the case when it comes to far-left demonstrations, outside money, organizations and foreign influence are firing the revolt. As Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche this week told “The Ingraham Angle,” investigators discovered a “massive fraud going on all through Minneapolis, all through Minnesota, and suddenly it turned. It turned almost on a dime, and it became suddenly all about ICE, all about getting ICE out and how horrible ICE was...

Just in the past few weeks, it has come to the attention of the American People that, in many cities across the country, Teachers are taking entire classes of students out of school to demonstrate against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are enforcing Federal Law by removing Illegal Alien Criminals from our midst. These mostly far-left teachers are also teaching their students about how to “demonstrate” against their own government, and how to act in ways that might injure them. Yes, that’s what Teachers, paid with YOUR tax money, are indoctrinating your children to do. Yeah, these “teachers.”...The...

In the world of scientific research, some discoveries change the very fabric of how we understand human development and the intricate connections that shape our lives. Katie Hinde, a pioneering researcher and biologist, is one such figure whose groundbreaking work has reshaped our understanding of breast milk.

...as scientists link a surge in orca activity to collapsing ice, while fishermen celebrate a new gold rush and climate activists demand a total fishing ban (continuation of headline) The morning the whales came, the harbor in Nuuk went quiet in a way that had nothing to do with silence. Motors idled low, conversations broke off mid-sentence, and a line of people abandoned their coffee cups on the dock to lean over the railings. Out there, barely a few hundred meters from the ice-streaked shore, the black-and-white backs of orcas cut through the steel-blue water like a row of moving...

Amber Glenn, a figure skater with Team USA in the Winter Olympics, claimed that it had been a “hard time” for the LGBTQ community under the Trump administration. While speaking to reporters, Glenn claimed that the Trump administration’s policies weren’t “just affecting the queer community, but many other communities,” according to The Blast. “It’s been a hard time for the community overall and this administration. It isn’t the first time that we’ve had to come together as a community and try and fight for our human rights,” Glenn told reporters. “And now, especially, it’s not just affecting the queer community,...

Not in Britain's repertoire anymore.Well, seems that Great Mediocre Britain is continuing its slide into obscurity and irrelevance.I admit it is somewhat depressing to have a ringside seat at the destruction via self-loathing of one of the great Empires of history.If you think I exaggerate, google “British Museum” and see how much whinging, snivelling, and garment-rending British “scholars” are indulging in regarding “stolen artefacts”.Uh huh. You know what happens to “repatriated” artefacts?Museums after Islamist Douchebags get doneSo far, religious fanatics haven’t gone running into the British Museum with sledgehammers because pre-Islam artefacts are heresy. Yes! Let us tear our shirts...

Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle by a dominant 62-38 margin—a massive 37-point overperformance compared to the 2024 presidential result. Republicans had hoped to score their first legislative pickup of any kind during Donald Trump’s second term, and they had good reason to think they might succeed in the 60th House District. Voters in the district, which includes part of Assumption and Iberville parishes (Louisiana’s equivalent of counties), had long backed state and local Democrats but had moved decidedly toward Republicans on the federal level in recent...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(2/8/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 24:10-27 10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. 11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. 12 And he said O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee,...

Meet Politico's Supervillains of the TDS Universe. Artist Natalia Delgado provided us with a rendering of the sheer villainy of a howling mad J.D. Vance, whose angry piercing gaze seems about to burn the hearts out of sensitive Georgetown liberals whose world has been turned upside down in the wake of the 2024 election.Behind Vance, staring ominously out at the world, is the spooky Big Brother hypnotic glare of the unholiest of all unholy supervillains, none other than Orange Man Bad. Who, oh who, can combat the overwhelming power of the MAGA supervillains? Fortunately, Politico reporter Gregory Svirnovskiy on Thursday...

The Talk Shows Feb 8th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Mark Warner (Deep State-Va.); Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas); Dr. Scott Gottlieb, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) ; David Becker, Executive Director and Founder at Center for Election Innovation & Research. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.); Sen. Mark Warner (Deep State-Va.); Fox News Law Analyst Paul Mauro, retired NYC Police Inspector. Panel: Francesca Chambers, Tiffany Smiley, Whine Williams and Roger Zakheim. MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen...

Another sterling week for the Trump administration, another interval of agony for his opponents. The attention of those less politically minded is focused on the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy -- always fodder for the would-be Colombos and Miss Marples -- and the Olympics. Yet this week saw some victories for the administration along with some serious unfinished business. The ousted dictator Nicolás Maduro seems isolated, depressed, and devoid of funds sufficient to hire teams of lawyers to defend him. Any claims he might have for immunity seem destined to fail. The evidence establishes he was born in Colombia;...

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