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The right to vote in a free and fair election is fundamental to our democratic republic, and Congress should ensure Americans’ voices at the ballot box are not diluted by the ballots of illegal aliens and other noncitizens. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act strengthens the integrity of our elections by closing a loophole and requiring individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections. Every state requires an individual to be a citizen to register and vote in state and federal elections, and it’s a felony to falsely claim to...

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has just confirmed massive news for election integrity patriots across the country. After weeks of tireless work, Lee announced that he had secured 50 Senators to support the motion to proceed on the House-passed version of the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act). This is a major victory for those fighting to ensure only U.S. citizens vote in U.S. elections. But the battle isn’t over—it’s just entering the most critical phase. With the motion to proceed now viable, Senator Lee is laying out the exact roadmap to bypass the obstructionist swamp and get this bill...

Meanwhile, Moscow is citing fictitious Ukrainian counter-offensives to explain why it doesn’t control territories its forces were claiming they’d seized in Zaporizhia oblast; it looks like Putin’s frontline commanders are afraid to tell the high command they’re failing. Poor Vlad: Having caught on to how Putin’s thugs were using hijacked Starlink terminals to guide their drones in massive long-distance attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid and civilian population, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now blocking of Russian access to Starlink, disabling Moscow’s frontline command-and-control communications for another game-changer. Russia’s damning whine: Blocking it from Starlink is (somehow) a violation of international law....

A poll shows that around 40% of under-40s across Britain would refuse to serve in the armed forces if WW3 broke out. Meanwhile, 30% said they would still refuse to serve even if the nation was facing an imminent invasion. Experts across the world believe we've never been closer to a global conflict since the end of WW2 as tensions mount over Iran, Greenland, Venezuela, Israel and Palestine, and Russia and Ukraine.The UK recently raised the age limit for Army reservists from 55 to 65, a clear signal of its preparation for conflict. However, a 2024 YouGov poll shows that...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the case Friday for the passage of the SAVE America Act, accusing opponents of the bill of favoring access to the ballot box for illegal immigrants.Noem was in the Phoenix area, where she pushed the Trump administration's efforts to shore up election integrity and voter security.She touched on the Save America Act, a bill that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, photo identification to vote in federal elections and that states remove noncitizens from their voter rolls.She noted that wide majorities of Republicans and Democrats approve of the legislation.However, she...

A maniac pushed a woman onto the subway tracks and punched another lady in the face in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Saturday — and was later arrested at a nearby shelter, police and sources said. A 51-year-old was shoved and a 43-year-old was socked on the R subway line at 53rd Street and Fourth Avenue around 8:45 a.m., according to cops. A 25-year-old person of interest was taken into custody at the shelter, police sources said, noting both victims suffered facial injuries as well as pain to the legs and back.

The probe of “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) husband Tim Mynett and his shady business ventures could go global. House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) wants the House Ethics Committee to look beyond the US at Mynett’s failed business ventures and include places such as Somalia, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates. Mynett’s investment firm Rose Lake Capital wanted to build solar panels in Africa and his main business partner received a $10,699 air ticket to Dubai after talks about a deal there, The Post has reported.

After a self-imposed political exile to Ireland after President Donald Trump’s re-election, Rosie O’Donnell quietly returned to the United States. During an interview with Chris Cuomo on his new show, “SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings,” the 63-year-old actress revealed she recently returned to the country to visit her family. The actress moved to Ireland with her teenage daughter in January 2025, just prior to President Trump’s second inauguration. “I was recently home for two weeks, and I did not really tell anyone,” she told Cuomo. “I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for...

This special investigative report from Operation Rescue details shocking new connections between Planned Parenthood and the concealment of sexual abuse by one of America’s most notorious predators, Jeffrey Epstein. The notorious “Epstein Files” contain the mention of “abortion” over 280 times. In one of these mentions, the facts are clear and demand public scrutiny and accountability — especially in regards to Planned Parenthood. According to victim accounts documented in FBI investigative files, a young woman — just about 17 years old — discovered she was pregnant as a result of sexual abuse and grooming by Jeffrey Epstein. In urgent need...

[live in about ten minutes] NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will spend the next several months in low Earth orbit on NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission. While there, they will conduct various science experiments and technology demonstrations to benefit life on Earth and in orbit, furthering our journey back to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond. NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 Arrival & Welcome Remarks | less than 10 minutes NASA | 12.7M subscribers | 1,576 waiting | Scheduled for February 14, 2026

American-born Olympian Eileen Gu scored millions from China in 2025 – a staggering payout exposed in a public budget before officials quickly scrubbed her name from the record, according to a report. The champion freestyle skier, who competes for China, cashed in on a jaw-dropping $6.6 million from the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau last year – a hefty sum that was shared with fellow US-born Olympian figure skater Zhu Yi, according to the country’s budget, the Wall Street Journal reported. Yi – who renounced her US citizenship – also performs under China’s flag.

Former ESPN personality Sarah Spain grumbled on her podcast recently that sitting near “demon” Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Winter Olympics in Italy made her feel “ill.” The “Good Game with Sarah Spain” host described her proximity to the top Trump administration officials – about 20 feet away, according to Spain – as one of the “low lights” of covering the US women’s hockey team as they demolished Czechia at the Milano Cortina games last week. “Twelve minutes into the first period, that area suddenly is awash with large men in suits with...

On Wednesday, the Palmyra Police Department arrested a woman and a juvenile following an investigation into an incident where a middle school student allegedly ingested LSD. The investigation began on September 19, 2025, when officers assisted EMS at Pal-Mac Middle School for a student who required hospitalization. Police allege the child ingested the illegal substance after obtaining it from a shared living space within a home on Cuyler Street. On Wednesday, a juvenile offender was arrested and charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child and Reckless Endangerment in the Second Degree. The juvenile was processed and released to...

After a self-imposed political exile to Ireland following President Donald Trump’s re-election, Rosie O'Donnell quietly returned to the United States. During an interview with Chris Cuomo (snip) the 63-year-old actress revealed she recently returned to the country to visit her family. The actress moved to Ireland with her teenage daughter in January 2025, just prior to President Trump's second inauguration. "I was recently home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone," she told Cuomo. "I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out...

Researcher Valeria Piano employs two different technological methods to decipher a carbonized scroll from Herculaneum. First, she uses a microscope to examine the texts, and then she studies images of the scrolls produced with infrared light. Her work has brought to light a history of Rome written by Seneca the Elder, long thought to have been lost forever. The Discovery of Seneca the Elder's Lost Roman History | 3:08 Secrets of the Dead PBS | 12.7K subscribers | 3,726 views | February 13, 2026 YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai follows.

Beyond all reckoning, the goofy DOGE geniuses did it! It’s done. For six years, they guarded this data like the nuclear codes. Yesterday, DOGE slapped it on the internet, ribbon-wrapped for Valentine’s Day. DOGE —whose death was obviously slightly exaggerated— just dropped a tactical nuke on both the vaccine debate and welfare fraud— and launched the biggest crowdsourcing project in human history. Yesterday, Axios ran the story headlined, “Elon Musk declares victory with Medicaid data release.”

Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett just went there.In an explosive interview with Benny Johnson, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) didn’t hold back, tearing into Barack Obama’s sudden political rise and his administration’s alarming proximity to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.While the mainstream media continues to run cover for the Democrat elite, Burchett is asking the questions they refuse to touch: How did Jeffrey Epstein operate so freely while Obama was in the White House?The conversation kicked off with breaking news regarding Kathryn Ruemmler, Obama’s former White House Counsel, who recently resigned from Goldman Sachs.Ruemmler’s name has surfaced repeatedly in connection to Epstein, raising...

When Ash began receiving services and care that aligned with his gender identity, it changed his life. “I have made tremendous strides with my mental health,” Ash said, speaking before an audience of approximately 50 people Friday inside the Capitola Branch Public Library. “I think a lot of that would probably not stand up without gender-affirming care because gender-affirming care has made me feel like I have a life worth living.” That care has included doses of testosterone for almost a year, but Ash, 17, emphasized that a more expansive definition of “gender-affirming care” was essential to appropriately capturing all...

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Fox News' Matt Finn that no one was arrested and no one remains in custody following an operation in Tucson conducted Friday in connection to the Nancy Guthrie case. Sources told Fox News Digital that at least three people had been detained in connection to a search warrant conducted at a residence in Tucson late Friday about two miles from Guthrie's home. Photos gave a partial view of one man handcuffed and detained in the parking lot of a Culver's restaurant nearby in connection to the search warrant, but no charges were confirmed. Authorities...

Zelensky: The Ukrainian Army is the strongest army in Europe. And I think it is simply not smart to keep this army outside NATO