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President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday is likely to be a test run of the message Republicans will give to voters in November's elections for control of the House and the Senate. The president and his party appear vulnerable, with polls showing much of America distrusts how Trump managed the government in his first year back in office. In addition, the Supreme Court last week struck down one of the chief levers of his economic and foreign policy by ruling he lacked the power to impose many of his sweeping tariffs. Though Trump is expected to focus...

An Idaho woman was arrested Monday after investigators said she stole an ambulance and drove it into a building housing Department of Homeland Security offices in an alleged attempt to set it on fire. Sarah Elizabeth George, 43, of Boise, is accused of stealing a Canyon County Paramedics ambulance from outside St. Luke’s Meridian around 11 p.m. on Feb. 18, crashing it through the entrance of the Portico North building and pouring gasoline across the lobby floor before fleeing on foot, according to a federal criminal complaint. Authorities identified George after what Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea described as five...

There it was on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times: with a small assist from the United States, the island nation of Cuba has almost entirely ended the use of fossil fuels. Finally, we have the first country in the world to achieve the climate movement’s Holy Grail and nirvana — Net Zero! Or at least a very close approximation. This should be cause for a huge celebration. You would think that the Times, which has been demanding the elimination of fossil fuels for at least a couple of decades, would be leading the celebrations. But weirdly, now...

...Chlorophyll, the main photosynthetic pigment of plants, absorbs mainly blue and red wavelengths from the Sun and reflects green ones, and it is this reflected light that gives plants their leafy color. This fact puzzles some biologists because the sun transmits most of its energy in the green part of the visible spectrum...DasSarma thinks it is because chlorophyll appeared after another light-sensitive molecule called retinal was already present on early Earth. Retinal, today found in the plum-colored membrane of a photosynthetic microbe called halobacteria, absorbs green light and reflects back red and violet light, the combination of which appears purple.Primitive...

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Robert Carradine has died at age 71. He took his own life. The actor is best known for his roles in The Long Riders, Revenge of the Nerds, and Lizzie McGuire. A beloved member of the storied clan of actors, Robert was the bedrock of his family, according to surviving older brother Keith Carradine. But he struggled for two decades with Bipolar Disorder and ultimately it got the best of him. The family issued this statement to Deadline: “It is with profound sadness that we must share that our beloved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother Robert Carradine has passed away....

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, had a stark warning for Texans as he fights to keep his job in the Senate, saying a vote for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could mean a Democrat wins the Lone Star State seat for the first time in three decades. “Ken Paxton will be the kiss of death for Republicans on the ticket in November of 2026,” Cornyn said. Cornyn made his comments as he crisscrossed the state in a mad dash to shore up support as early voting began in Texas earlier this week. He’s deadlocked in a battle for political survival in...

They make Jeffrey Epstein look like Mother Teresa. Even while Epstein drama is consuming the country, David Allen Funston is being set loose. Funston became notorious for luring children as young as four years old in Sacramento into his car with candy and dolls then raping them. A little girl had a knife held to her throat while he raped her so badly she bled. One 5-year-old girl was raped, beaten and left by the side of the road. He raped a little boy and kidnapped two sisters, 4 and 5, before he was finally stopped. Funston was known as...

Drug lords have been killed or captured, and cartels have splintered or collapsed, only to see more violent ones replace them and the illicit trade expand. So, 60years of war on drugs, what has actually worked? ...The Sinaloa Cartel, after all, did not go away after its chief, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, was captured and extradited to the United States. ...Rather than simply going after kingpins like Mr. Oseguera, the authorities need to take a holistic approach to dismantle these groups more completely, analysts say. The Mexican government has to use a combination...

This revelation has made the Yunxian skulls from Hubei province the oldest evidence of our early human relatives, known as hominins, in East Asia, according to research published Wednesday (Feb. 18) in the journal Science Advances...H. erectus has long been considered the first human relative to leave Africa, with 1.78 million to 1.85 million-year-old fossils found at the Dmanisi site in Georgia being the earliest evidence of humans in Asia. But stone tools discovered at two sites in China dated to 2.1 million and 2.43 million years ago have complicated that picture, since they predate experts' theory of when H....

Controversial conservative political commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson made several false statements during his Feb. 18 interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. He claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s family did not speak Hebrew and had no historical ties to the region. This is incorrect: the leader’s paternal grandfather, Nathan Mileikowsky, was a Zionist rabbi who delivered sermons in Hebrew—uncommon at the time—and ensured that his family spoke the language at home. His father, Benzion Netanyahu, born in Warsaw, was a historian of medieval Jewish history who spoke Hebrew fluently, taught Hebrew literature and...

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (TNND) — A New York man was arrested after he shot a woman in the face with a crossbow, according to authorities. The Nassau County Police Department on Tuesday identified him as 21-year-old Samy Sedhom. Police said he was charged with the following: Attempted murder Assault Criminal possession of a weapon Tampering with physical evidence Stalking

Elite fashions harden into dogma, dissent becomes taboo, institutions fall in line—and only when reality intrudes does yesterday’s madness begin its overdue collapse. How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support—and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed? There is usually a multi-step process on the road to these self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity. The suicidal impulse so often begins with left-leaning researchers in elite universities (i.e., the tenured in search of a novel, grant-getting theory). They begin insisting that a new existential...

The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), created by John Lott, has published research on the ratio of active shooting attacks by people who are mentally confused about their gender identity, commonly referred to as “transgender.” In 2024, according to the CRPC research, transgender individuals were 12 times as likely to commit an active shooting attack compared to the population as a whole. In 2024, Politifact published an article claiming that mass shootings by transgender people is a small number of all mass shootings. As the CPRC research points out, this does not tell us if people who identify as transgender...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(2/24/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 29:1-15 29 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. 3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon...

"This is the proportional response that Russia has the right to," the Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman stressedMOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. A nuclear strike on targets in Ukraine, as well as in France and the United Kingdom, would be considered lawful and justified in the event that London and Paris provide Kiev with nuclear capabilities, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on Max, commenting on Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service’s (SVR) reports about such plans by the two European countries. According to Medvedev, this information "radically changes the situation." "This is a direct transfer of nuclear weapons to a...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston police have arrested 20 people in connection with a South American burglary ring and recovered $4 million in stolen property, according to investigators. The ring is believed to be responsible for more than 60 home break-ins across the Houston area, including seven in West University Place. Eyewitness News has learned HPD's Westside Crime Suppression Team took one of the "major players" into custody last month. Chilean national Patricio Munoz and his wife, Tania Barra, were arrested Jan. 28. Investigators said the couple was funding and directing many of the break-ins. Munoz was previously charged and...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Gainesville police arrested a man early Saturday morning after he allegedly pointed a firearm at a woman and punched her in the face. Police say Tristin Miller, 19, of Trenton, was at the victim’s apartment on Southwest 20th Avenue attempting to beat up her boyfriend. Miller began yelling at the victim and pointed his gun at her and did not have a lawful reason to do so, according to the report.

The apple falls far from the tree Massive Scoop: Tucker Carlson's Father Was a Zionist. Former FDD fellow Joel Mowbray reveals the deep pro-Israel roots of the late Dick Carlson, sharing a moving account of their time together at Yad Vashem. Mowbray draws a sharp contrast between the elder Carlson’s lifelong Zionism and the Israel-hating rhetoric of his son, Tucker, exposing a stark generational rift.