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“Luckily, it worked,” McGraw added. “And I think that what kept me from being just sort of a novelty act with this sort of funky, weird song that made some noise was being able to come right behind it with ‘Don’t Take the Girl.’

The family of 12-year-old Kylie Smith, brutally murdered in the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia mass shooting by a transgender lunatic on February 10, has been forced to cancel her funeral due to credible death threats. The threats appear to stem from the transgender community and its supporters.

Will this week’s Supreme Court decision limit the use of tariffs as a foreign policy tool of presidents, or did it set up a firewall against future leftist chief executives while allowing this president to continue to utilize other means to the same end? Is the decision momentous or of little consequence? A lot of attention this week was focused on Alysia Liu’s stunning Olympic performance and the tale of a baby monkey in a Japanese zoo (name Anglicized to “Punch”). Punch was abandoned by his mother, had been raised and bonded to his caretakers who needed to integrate him...

LAGO DI TESERO, ITALY — Before he became the most famous dog at the Olympics, Nazgul was not known as an escape artist. Still, his owners, Enrico and Alice Varesco, were not taking chances when they left him alone at their apartment alongside the Olympic cross-country ski trails this week. The Varescos were headed out to watch an Olympic biathlon race at another competition venue, a couple hours away over the mountains. Nazgul, a two-year-old, 65-pound Czechoslovakian Wolfdog, was secured inside his spacious kennel, inside the house — with an eight-foot-tall fence separating the Varescos' backyard from the trails where...

Washington — A man in his early 20s was shot and killed early Sunday morning after an "unauthorized entry" into the secure perimeter at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, the U.S. Secret Service said. The president remained in Washington this weekend. This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

A man in his early 20s was shot and killed early Sunday after allegedly breaching the secure perimeter of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, FLorida, the U.S. Secret Service announced. The Secret Service said the incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. when the suspect made an "unauthorized entry" at the property. The individual was observed near the north gate carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can. Agents and a deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office confronted the man who was pronounced dead at the scene.

A MAN has been shot dead after allegedly trying to enter Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The US Secret Service said it had shot and killed the suspect in his 20s after he tried to enter the perimeter around the US president’s Florida residence. Authorities said the ordeal unfolded at around 1:30am on Sunday. Trump is currently in Washington, not at the 62,500-square-foot property in West ​Palm Beach, Florida. The name of the suspect who was shot has not been released.

... I to submit to you, the newly established “Church of Molt” also known as “Crustifarianism.” “Church of what?” you ask. That’s right, the Church of Molt, as in a lobster molting its shell. As crazy as this sounds, this actually occurred just weeks ago when thousands of AI bots were given their own social media platform where they could interact with each other....

Déjà vu. A new Palestinian security force is set to operate under the National Committee for Gaza Management (NCAG) and will receive training in Egypt, as part of a broader plan to stabilize the Gaza Strip. Simultaneously, an international stabilization force is expected to deploy across five sectors, eventually reaching around 20,000 troops, alongside a civilian policing force of up to 12,000 personnel, according to Idan Kowler’s report on Walla. Under the plan, all weapons in Gaza would be centralized under a new civilian authority as part of a full disarmament process, a prerequisite for reconstruction. The announcement did not...

After 103 years of living and eating the "wrong" way according to doctors, I'm sharing the truth about food and longevity that the health industry doesn't want you to hear. In this video, I talk about my four simple foods I've eaten every single day for 40 years, why doctors said it would kill me (and why they're all dead now while I'm still here), and the real secrets to living past 100. I've outlived four doctors who told me my eggs would give me a heart attack, my red meat would give me cancer, and my raw milk would...

A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists observed the ice giant for nearly a full rotation, revealing the inner workings of its upper atmosphere for the first time. The team, led by Paola Tiranti from Northumbria University, mapped out the temperature and density of ions in the electrically–charged layer that sits 3,100 miles (5,000km) above the cloud tops.

In the footage, the content creator can be seen primping for the camera, when all of a sudden her beauty filter comes off, revealing a mature face with a warm complexion. The virtual varnish is restored a few seconds later, revealing a small, pale countenance with perfectly symmetrical features. By then, the damage had allegedly been done. Social media reports claim that she lost 140,000 followers after the inadvertent peek behind the online curtain.

Several prominent Democrats have been open and vocal about their plans to punish members of the Trump administration, including civilian ICE agents, if they regain power. Eric Swalwell has vowed to make ICE agents' lives a living hell if he's elected governor of California, Rep. Shri Thanedar said Dems will prosecute ICE and Border Patrol agents, as has Philly DA Larry Krasner, and Mehdi Hasan wants the next Democratic president to run on a platform of prosecuting conservatives. Now Suan Rice, the former Obama National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as promised that Democrats will...

However, he also argued that the world must embrace a future where controversial gene-edited foods are commonplace on supermarket shelves. He said we will soon be eating meat and drinking milk from animals whose evolution has been ‘sped up’ using technology. This could include cows and chickens bred to resist disease and grow faster, as gene editing techniques make them ‘more efficient’ in every way. Experts are working out how to ‘accelerate’ the selection of traits that already occur naturally within an animal, he explained. Scientists have bred cows with ‘elite genetics’ that could see tastier steaks, burgers and mince...

A Compton man has pleaded guilty to assaulting and injuring a federal officer by throwing chunks of concrete at government vehicles during an immigration enforcement operation last year in Paramount, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Elpidio Reyna, 41, pleaded guilty to one felony count of assault on a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury. He has been in custody since July. According to his plea agreement, Reyna assaulted a federal law enforcement officer on June 7, 2025, while the officer was performing official duties. Federal agencies were conducting a joint enforcement operation...

A 30 year old clip of Nancy Pelosi criticizing China for ripping off America with their tariffs as she SUGGESTS RECIPROCAL TARIFFS IN RETURN! President Trump stepped up and enforced them to benefit America. Now, this same party is attacking him for doing so.

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(2/22/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 28:1-10 28 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; 4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee,...

The Talk Shows Feb 22nd, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: President of the European Central Bank Christine Legarde; Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi; White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett. Governor’s Panel: Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY), Gov. Mike Braun (R-IN), Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH), and Gov. Laura Kelly (D-KS). FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: House Minority Leader Hakeem “Dollar Store Obama” Jeffries (D-NY); Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN); Texas Republican AG Ken Paxton; Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX). Panel: Ben Ferguson, Michael Allen, Meridith McGraw and...

On February 22, 1732, George was born to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. He spent most of his childhood at Ferry Farm on the Rappahannock River. All of the homes and plantations where Washington lived were maintained by enslaved labor. When George was eleven, his father died and he became a slave owner. As a result, George did not receive a formal education like his older half-brothers. Instead, he helped his mother on the farm and attended a local school in Fredericksburg. For the rest of his life, Washington supplemented his education with reading and self-guided study. At seventeen-years old,...

On Feb. 6, 2026, an article by Bible prophecy expert Jim Fletcher was posted on Koenig’s Eye View that said: Iranian researcher Hamid Reza Bigdelo claimed on the Iranian television program “Toward the Horizon of Palestine” that Israel’s fate is “destruction.” Relying on religious sources, Bigdelo said that Islamic texts mention the end of the Jewish state prior to the reappearance of the Twelfth Shiite Imam (the Mahdi). According to him, the elimination of the Jewish political structure is described in religious sources as an event to be led by the Iranian people. He added that with the Mahdi’s reappearance,...