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The economy added 130,000 jobs in January — far more than economists had anticipated — while the unemployment rate edged down slightly to 4.3%, Labor Department data released Wednesday showed. Still, according to updated 2025 numbers, the job market also added a paltry 181,000 jobs for the entirety of last year, revised down from the earlier-reported growth of 584,000 jobs — the slowest pace of job growth outside recession since 2003. The releases come after private data released last week indicated the labor market remained bruising in January for out-of-work Americans, with little in the way of new jobs. Economists...

Don't. Just don't. I say this as a pastor, not a pundit. When I first saw this clip of Andy Beshear on The View, invoking his faith to defend the medical mutilation of children, my stomach dropped. Not because I was surprised. Because I was grieved. “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” I have buried children. I have prayed with parents in ICU waiting rooms. I have sat with teenagers drowning in confusion and shame. I have walked families through seasons where the pain felt unbearable....

Drones operated by Mexican drug cartels entered US airspace late Tuesday, forcing a brief closure of the skies over El Paso, Texas, a Trump administration official told The Post Wednesday morning. “Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace,” the official said. “The Department of War took action to disable the drones. The FAA and DOW have determined there is no threat to commercial travel.” The Federal Aviation Administration initially announced a 10-day restriction on air traffic over the border city, effective at 11:30 p.m. local time (1:30 a.m. ET Wednesday). Fewer than eight hours later, the FAA wrote on X: “The...

Joe Biden is apparently going to visit South Carolina later this month to celebrate his ‘lifetime of public service’ and the primary win the state delivered to him in 2020 which is credited with saving his campaign. Biden is headed to South Carolina later this month “to commemorate his pivotal primary victory and to thank him for a lifetime of public service” pic.twitter.com/yXKrr5NLPd — Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) February 10, 2026 It will be fun to see how many high ranking Democrats show up for this event and who skips it. Do you think the Obamas will be there? Would you...

Hiring increased sharply at the outset of 2026, the year's first jobs report said, blowing past economists' expectations and besting sluggish performance from the previous year. The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, according to the report, which marked a sharp increase from 50,000 jobs added in the previous month.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said “there aren’t anywhere close to the votes” needed to change the Senate’s filibuster rule to allow Republican-sponsored legislation to reform voter registration requirements to pass the upper chamber with fewer than 60 votes. Thune on Tuesday dismissed the idea that Republicans might lower the procedural threshold for advancing the House-passed SAVE Act, which would require people to show passports or birth certificates as proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Thune said he supports passing federal law to require documented proof of citizenship when registering to vote, but he dismissed talk of changing...

Dive into the latest SpaceX Starship developments in this week's update, where Booster 19 aces its cryogenic proof tests at Massey's, paving the way for Flight 12 amid ongoing Raptor 3 engine testing at McGregor. We explore massive expansions at Starbase's launch site, including new tank farms, deluge systems, and Pad 2 upgrades, plus aerial views of the rising Gigabay and hardware stacking for future vehicles like Ship 40 and Booster 20. From test tank progress and Sanchez lot innovations to McGregor's high-output engine testing - now sufficient for three full Starship stacks - we cover it all, including Elon...

A deadly shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia shocked Canada and left a small community searching for answers. The attack resulted in multiple fatalities and deeply affected students, families, and educators across the region. Emergency responders quickly secured the school and launched a full investigation into what authorities described as a major violent incident. Police confirmed that the primary suspect died at the scene. However, investigators continue to examine the timeline, possible warning signs, and whether anyone else played a role. Officials urged the public to avoid speculation and rely only on verified information as the case...

Foreign-born Rep. Shri Thanedar openly threatened to prosecute his political enemies this week — a reminder of what Democrats plan to do if they get power back. During a committee hearing Tuesday, Thanedar — struggling to speak English — threatened to prosecute Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott when President Donald Trump is out of office. “You better hope you get pardoned because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year,” Thanedar threatened. “Your agencies have lost the trust of the American people, with millions taking to...

Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced. Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969. Evanston was the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents. The payments are intended to cover housing expenses, Evanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune. Tasheik Kerr, assistant to the city manager, said during a meeting...

It's a roughly 10-15 minute investigative piece (based on typical OMG format) with hidden camera/street confrontation footage. As of right now (early Feb 11, 2026), it has around 44-45K views and several thousand likes. Key content summary James O'Keefe confronts Matthew Tyrmand (a former board member of Project Veritas) in Miami Beach. In the footage, Tyrmand allegedly admits on hidden camera to: Serving as a confidential informant for the FBI and Southern District of New York (SDNY). Providing information ("tons of sh*t") about O'Keefe and other conservative figures/organizations in attempts to get O'Keefe investigated or imprisoned. Making violent threats, including...

nvestigators from the Etzion Police Station completed their investigation into the shocking incident that occurred earlier this month, in which a man in his 30s from Jerusalem attempted to set a 12-year-old child on fire during a ride on a public bus on Highway 375, near Beitar Illit. In the footage, the suspect is seen approaching the child, confirming his identity, and pulling out a plastic bottle filled with flammable material that he had prepared beforehand. The video shows the suspect pouring the liquid onto the child's body and attempting to set him on fire with a lighter, while the...

is out thousands of dollars after they wrote two checks, not even close to that amount. They said they're victims of a check washing scheme, and believe it is taking place at their local post office. Therese Scarlati collected during her own investigation, collecting every sheet of paper, starting with those two checks. Therese sent a $165 check to her insurance company. Her husband wrote this $64 check for the water bill — both mailed on the same day, yet somehow the amounts were both changed. Her husband's was cashed for $5,700 in storage fees, while Therese's check was cashed...

In the last week SpaceX has acquired XAI and presumably related to that they submitted plans to the FCC exploring the construction of a compute cluster in Earth orbit with one million spacecraft. So, I try to use Universe Sandbox to visualize this.... and it's not easy. For technical reasons this is a limited version visualizing the kind of orbits we expect, but you can play with it yourself if you own Universe Sandbox. What Would SpaceX's Space Datacenter Plans Look Like? | 11:31 Scott Manley | 1.83M subscribers | 50,409 views | February 10, 2026

Word on the street is that tomorrow is the big day when the federal government’s phony-baloney greenhouse gas “Endangerment Finding” will finally get rescinded by EPA. It has now been more than 16 years since this idiotic and massive government power grab got foisted on the American people by the Obama EPA in December 2009. I don’t have any good insight into what the rescission documentation will look like. If the people writing it do what is really appropriate, they will heap mounds of scorn, derision and ridicule upon the Finding itself, and upon the legions fools, dopes and grifters...

In Matthew 24:12, Jesus provides His disciples with an overview of the end times. He says, “And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold” (ESV). This verse is part of a larger discussion of the end times; the passage is often referred to as the Olivet Discourse. ...

Republican officials and candidates in Texas have shifted their rhetorical attack lines from the border fears that dominated recent elections to the state’s growing Muslim population, with language that echoes the aftermath of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric has unnerved many in the state’s Islamic community while sending signals to Republicans outside Texas who might be searching for rhetorical targets now that the nation’s southwestern border has grown quiet. Ads for Senator John Cornyn of Texas have touted his fight against “radical Islam.” Texas Republican lawmakers created a “Sharia-Free America Caucus” in Congress....

A former White Sox pitching prospect is suing the team, claiming he was pushed into taking a COVID-19 vaccination in 2021 that resulted in severe allergic reactions that eventually derailed his career. Isaiah Carranza, a 12th-round draft pick of the Sox in 2018, alleges team officials warned him he would be ‘‘blacklisted’’ if he didn’t get two doses of the vaccine, meaning they wouldn’t release him from his contract for opportunities with other clubs even though he had ‘‘no prospects of moving up’’ with the Sox. Carranza got the Pfizer vaccine and soon began suffering ‘‘extreme dizziness, nausea, near-fainting and...

In 2019, Governor Newsom promised California that he would fix the state’s failing 911 system. He even spent $450 million to build a new one. But when it came time to turn it on, it did not work. Newsom is now scrapping the plan, the $450M is apparently gone, & he’s going to spend millions more. Meanwhile, Californians remains stuck on the antiquated 911 system due to Governor Newsom’s $450 million 911 scandal. I have written Governor Newsom to get answers, given the FCC’s interest in facilitating transitions to next-gen 911 systems.

There is suspicion of an Islamist terrorist attack in London. A 13-year-old boy carried out a stabbing attack on two other boys, aged 13 and 12, who are in critical condition. This morning (Wednesday), the Daily Mail reported that according to testimonies from the school, the attacker, who fled and was arrested after a manhunt, shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he stabbed his victims. The attack occurred yesterday around 12:40 PM at Kingsbury High School in the Brent district of northwest London, a school that serves students aged 11 to 18. The 13-year-old pulled out a knife and stabbed his first...