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A man who was captured on camera making a failed burglary attempt in Hialeah appeared before a judge, Thursday. Dean Young, 26, stood before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Victoria S. Sigler after being charged with attempted burglary and criminal mischief. According to the police report, Young allegedly parked his gray Hyundai next to a landscaper’s van that was working outside of a home near East 19th Street, Wednesday afternoon. Ring camera video from the homeowner, Nercy Toldeo, captured the moment the would-be burglar snuck into the back of the van, where he soon found out he wouldn’t be going anywhere....

Many were triggered by the Bad Bunny halftime show at Super Bowl LX, largely because it became the latest fuel for the American outrage and counter outrage machine. Some complained to the FCC about the supposedly profane nature of the lyrics they loudly complained they didn’t understand anyway, because they weren’t in English. Whatever the language, an initial FCC review concluded that the show didn’t violate applicable decency regulations. Via Charles Gasparino of the New York Post, the FCC determined that the songs sung weren’t blue. They were, as Gasparino puts it, “scrubbed of lyrics that normally include references to...

America’s richest citizens are quietly transforming their estates into military-grade compounds equipped with underground bunkers, biometric security systems, moats, and private armed forces. The scale and urgency of this shift raises a question the mainstream press seems reluctant to ask: What exactly are they preparing for? *** The wealthy are spending between $100,000 and $1.5 million on security installations that include underground bunkers, laser-powered perimeter defense systems, and biometric access controls. Some are purchasing specially trained protection dogs for as much as $175,000. The message is unmistakable: traditional security measures no longer feel adequate, even for those living in America’s...

Breaking Palantir was allegedly hacked. An AI agent was used to gain super-user access and here”s what the hackers allegedly found: Peter Thiel and Alex Karp commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a massive scale. They have thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk. They have backdoored the devices, cars and jets of world leaders and accumulated the biggest archive of blackmail material. Palantir is creating nuclear and bio weapon capabilities for Ukraine and is working closely with the CIA to defeat Russia. They believe they...

Elon didn’t reverse that through inspiration. He reversed it by building companies that required understanding manufacturing or failing completely. SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade through systems, how physical iteration costs months and millions per failure. No debugging. No patches. Just physics that doesn’t negotiate. Boyle: “Training two generations of engineers.” The product isn’t the cars. It’s the people. Look at who’s founding America’s critical hard-tech companies now. The common thread isn’t Stanford or MIT. It’s time on factory floors at SpaceX or Tesla. They learned welding. They learned that “impossible” just means...

After the National Park Service removed the rainbow flag from Stonewall National Monument in NYC, Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Sunday afternoon that he plans to introduce legislation "to designate the pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag.” https://abcnews.link/JdGOPu9

A ghost story falls in the category of fantasy. And former ABC reporter Tara Palmeri's Halloween-in-February hot take in Vanity Fair on Thursday, "Epstein’s Ghost Is Calling All the Shots in Trump’s White House," certainly falls within the realm of fantasy. She updates Banquo's ghost to the 21st century and engages in the fantasy that Epstein's ghost is somehow haunting Trump's every move.Since no incriminating facts in the Epstein files could be found about Trump, Palmeri performs the pretense of somehow channeling the president's soul and concluding that his every waking (and sleeping) moment is being haunted by Epstein's ghost....

As a mom of three kids, Christina Mott had been counting the days until her oldest son, Colton, got his driver's license. It falls on her to drive each of them — age 10, 12, and 16 — to three different charter schools every day, and then to extracurriculars and social outings. "Having him able to drive himself would free up a lot of time," she says. If only. While out one day on his learner's permit, Colton rolled through a red light and a stop sign. He panicked and decided to put his license on hold indefinitely. "Getting in...

A bill introduced into the Colorado State Senate last week would make Colorado the first state in the U.S. to fully decriminalize prostitution if it became law. Senate Bill 26-097 would require the entire state to decriminalize “commercial sexual activity among consenting adults,” both for people who buy sex and who would sell it. This would be unique in the U.S., as the only other states with any form of legal prostitution, Maine and Nevada, still have certain rules around it. In Nevada, for instance, prostitution is only legal within licensed houses of prostitution, or brothels, and some counties in...

Daily Readings from the USCCBThe Pharisees came forward and began to argue with Jesus, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. He sighed from the depth of his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” Mark 8:11–12The Pharisees struggled with skepticism, resistance, and trickery, reflecting the tragic reality of hearts closed to grace. They should have been the first to rejoice in the coming of the Messiah but became Jesus’ staunchest critics and persecutors. Their rejection shows how pride and hardness...

Australia's Destanee Aiava has announced her retirement from tennis at the age of 25 and claims she is turning her back on the game's "racist, misogynistic, homophobic and hostile" culture. Aiava, who has Samoan heritage, will walk away from a sport she has likened to a "toxic boyfriend" at the end of the current season. She announced her impending exit in an expletive-laden Instagram post in which she revealed she had been targeted by social media trolls. Aiava, who has Samoan heritage, will walk away from a sport she has likened to a "toxic boyfriend" at the end of the...

Anyone who has not watched "The Last Valley," starring Omar Shariff and a young Michael Caine, a vastly underrated film from 1971, should not miss it. The link below is to the first 12 minutes of the film on YouTube. [link in the source article] Here is another link to the complete film in higher resolution. It was recently uploaded and may not last long on YouTube. [link in the source article] This level of 30-Years-War savagery may be coming back to Europe. If you think Protestants vs Catholics got pretty nasty and ugly in the early 1600s, wait until...

BREAKING - Video of a Washington State high school student screaming “I want my mommy” as she’s being arrested after assaulting officers during an anti-ICE school walkout is going viral. Get your children out of public schools now.

The Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism announced that Oxfam, the British-founded confederation of 21 independent NGOs, will cease operations in Gaza effective February 28, 2026, pursuant to a decision by the Ministry, which oversees the registration of humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. The announcement follows a February 13, 2026, interview on Channel 4 News, in which Oxfam CEO Dr. Halima Begum made a series of public statements regarding internal dynamics within the organization. In the interview, she alleged that she was pressured to use the term “genocide" in relation to Gaza without sufficient factual...

A beloved former Team USA skater was gunned down in a Missouri Starbucks drive-thru allegedly during an armed robbery by a maniac with a long rap sheet who was wanted for two similar shootings days earlier. Gabrielle “Sam” Linehan, 28, was inside her car at the coffee hotspot in St. Louis’ Tower Grove East neighborhood when Keith Lamon Brown allegedly held her at gunpoint before opening fire just after 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to a probable cause statement viewed by The Post. Brown, 58, was caught on surveillance video wearing a high-visibility vest and helmet when he walked up to...

On Thursday (February 12) President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin held a press briefing at the White House where they announced the issuance of the final rescission of what is known as the “Endangerment Finding” — the 2009 Obama-era regulatory edict purporting to find that CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” are a “danger to human health and welfare.” The regulatory document finalizing the rescission then came out the next day, February 13. The Rescission Document has the title “Rescission of the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards Under the Clean Air Act.” It is...

Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement that allow officers to make federal immigration arrests have increased by 950% in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new analysis of ICE data. As of Jan. 26, there were 1,168 agencies with officers trained to help ICE, up from 135 during the Biden administration and 150 at the end of Trump’s first term, according to the analysis by FWD.US, a nonpartisan policy organization. The Trump administration has called on local law enforcement to support its growing deportation operations nationwide, reviving a controversial “task...

“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” – Matthew 24:30 Most people choose to ignore the Second Coming prophecies of the Bible. Those who ignore these prophecies think they have an endless amount of time. When these events begin to unfold, they will suddenly and regretfully realize that for them, time has run out. Abraham Lincoln said, “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by...

Among those attending the 40th anniversary bash for the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, one guest stood out – King Charles III. The presence of the UK’s sovereign at an Islamic studies institute was hardly a surprise, however. And not just because he is the centre’s patron. Charles, it is fair to say, is an unabashed Islamophile. He may have claimed some three decades ago that, as king, he intended to be the defender of faith – rather than the defender of the faith as his official role has it – but there is definitely one faith that he prefers...

Look to the moral foundations formed from the beginning.“They are programmed…,” Soviet defector and ex-KGB man Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago about the ideologues we call “leftists.” “You cannot change their mind…. You are stuck with them.” It’s common for people to say today when contrasting our two major ideological groups, “Conservatives think leftists are misguided; leftists think conservatives are evil.” I, though, am different. I know leftists are evil. That is, practically speaking. Theologically speaking, I’m not judging their souls or inborn nature. Putting it plainly, however, and alluding to the reality that leftists have embraced evil, I will...