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The USA men's hockey team is anxious to attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, according to gold medal game hero Jack Hughes and his brother, Quinn. The USA women's gold medal hockey team declined an invitation, citing scheduling conflicts. The men's team captured its first gold since 1980 thanks to Jack Hughes' overtime heroics during a 2-1 win over Canada. (snip) "We're so proud to represent the U.S. and when you get the chance to go to the White House and meet the President, we're proud to be Americans and that's so patriotic," Jack Hughes...

ATLANTA, GA — While speaking at the Rialto Center for the Arts as part of promotion for his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, California Governor Gavin Newsom wowed a black audience by putting some hot sauce into his purple drank. "See? I'm exactly like you," Newsom said. "It doesn't get more delicious than some hot sauce in your purple drank, am I right? This isn't pandering. Back home, we call this drink a 'Newsom.'" The audience was surprised by the governor's choice of drink and unsure whether or not he was being genuine. Newsom...

A newly released CIA document reveals a chilling blueprint to manipulate minds through covert drugging experiments. The report, added to the CIA's reading room in 2025, details the government's once top-secret Project Artichoke that ran from 1951 to 1956, focusing on behavior control, interrogation techniques and psychological manipulation. The seven-page document, titled 'Special Research for Artichoke,' with an attachment labeled 'Suggested Fields for Special Research Relative Artichoke,' outlines proposals to develop chemicals capable of altering human behavior. It discusses drugs designed for both immediate effects, like truth serums and long-term influence, potentially administered through food, water, alcohol or cigarettes. Researchers...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider urges Pope Leo XIV: Grant ‘the episcopal consecrations of the SSPX’Vatican correspondent Diane Montagna publishes Bishop Athanasius Schneider's ‘Fraternal Appeal’ to Pope Leo, urging permission for the planned SSPX consecrations for the unity of the Church.Editor’s note: The following text is the full Fraternal Appeal of Bishop Athanasius Schneider to Pope Leo XIV on Vatican relations with the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, originally published by Diane Montanga on February 24, 2026.(LifeSiteNews) — The current situation regarding the episcopal consecrations in the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has suddenly awakened the entire Church....

The life I'm describing sounds like complaining about a prize. The Bucket List Is Someone Else's Idea Of My Life My Wife And I Are In The House Together All Day NowThe Friends I Thought I'd See More Are Just As Busy As I Am I Have More To Give Than Anyone Is Currently Asking For

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This is how you are to pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…” Matthew 6:7–8Prayer is so essential to our spiritual lives that we should strive to live in a state of constant prayer, all day, every day. However, saying prayers is very different from truly praying. Jesus begins by teaching that...

Starship Block 3 just entered a new testing phase and SpaceX is preparing Starship Flight 12. NASA’s Starliner Crew Flight Test report classifies the mission as a Type A mishap and confirms no crew will fly again until full requalification. Artemis II faces delay after a liquid hydrogen leak during SLS wet dress rehearsal was resolved, only for a helium repressurization anomaly in the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage to trigger rollback to the VAB. Starship Ready for Its Toughest Test Ever Starliner Years-Old Design Flaw NASA Missed | 14:47 Scientia Plus | 54K subscribers | 11,966 views | February 23,...

Around 2,500 years ago in Siberia, a young woman experienced a serious head injury, underwent surgery to reconstruct her jaw, and received a primitive prosthetic during the procedure, CT scans of the woman's mummified remains reveal...In 1994, archaeologists with the Russian Academy of Sciences excavated a small cemetery consisting of five low mounds on the Ukok Plateau. One mound held the undisturbed burial of a woman who was around 25 to 30 years old when she died. She was lying on a wooden cot and was wearing a wig. But because her burial lacked significant artifacts and only a part...

The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed a 10 percent tariff on all goods not covered by current exemptions, returning to the global rate first announced by President Trump after the Supreme Court struck a blow to the bulk of his emergency import taxes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a notice on Monday night showing imports would “be subject to an additional ad valorem rate of 10%,” despite Trump suggesting on Saturday that the rate would increase to 15 percent.

Her father decided to have her born by way of an anonymous egg donor and a surrogate mother. His obsession about having a figure skating daughter was clear: ‘I spared no money, no time,’ Alysa was intentionally created for a single-parent household; she will never know what it means to have a mother. Is this a fair and ethical decision to make?

This is such a great all-American story on top of the great all-American golds won by our Olympic hockey teams in Milan. Between Karma handing out a few lessons of her own to whiny alphabet soup sex skaters who then come in 13th, pissy free stylers who don't come in at all, and greedy snow vixens who toss over the country of their birth to compete in the freeskiing events under the flag of a repressive, authoritarian Communist regime... ...there were some really irritating moments. And the press was doing everything it could to keep raining on the red,...

We’re not sure what the actual flex is for Courier Newsroom -- a literal fake news organization heavily financed by the George Soros empire -- to be co-hosting a supposed rebuttal to President Trump’s upcoming State of the Union address aimed at “bring[ing] together elected officials, cultural figures, journalists, veterans, and organizers for a live counter-address focused on defying Donald Trump's abuses of power[.]” Last week, the radical leftist anti-Trump group DEFIANCE.ORG put out a press release boasting of its supposedly star-studded speaker lineup for its boycott titled, “STATE OF THE SWAMP: The Rebuttal to the State of the Union.”...

Cartel warfare has threatened to spill into California as a Mexican border city was engulfed in violence following the killing of a notorious drug kingpin. Suspected narco-terrorists torched vehicles at the border wall in Tijuana, a stone’s throw from San Diego, set up roadblocks and targeted local businesses on Monday. Haunting footage showed a major highway that runs parallel to the United States completely shut down while cops cautiously inspected a burning car. Violence has also spread farther up the west coast, with local media reports detailing attacks in parts of Baja California and as close to the US as...

Samphire Neuroscience offers personalized, at-home neurostimulation that adapts to women’s menstrual symptoms, helping them feel more balanced through hormonal changes. On Feb. 9, the UK-based neurotechnology startup unveiled its latest feature in the health-tech space: a patented, AI-driven neurostimulation session-scheduling system. The feature is called CycleSync, and it’s used in conjunction with Samphire’s wearable devices. The idea is simple: the brain controls key hormones like estrogen and progesterone, which impact the menstrual cycle and can cause symptoms such as mood swings, cravings, pain and fatigue. The brain also runs on electricity — rhythms that shape how you think, feel and...

KYIV, Ukraine, and MOSCOW — When the Kremlin launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the assumption in Moscow, and much of the West, was that Russian forces would take the country in a matter of days. Instead, what the Kremlin calls a "special military operation" has become the biggest land war in Europe since World War II and has lasted longer than the Soviet army's fight against Nazi Germany. Russia's war on Ukraine is a grinding war of attrition. Ukraine has managed to hold a much larger army to minimal gains while adjusting to a life under constant...

The Supreme Court will be releasing opinions from the October 2025 term this morning at 10:00 a.m.Scotusblog will be liveblogging the release and we will be following along.A list of the cases from this term can be found Here

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" shares a DM clip of the "Real Time with Bill Maher" crowd being stunned by Bill Maher's warning for any young person getting their lessons about Western civilization from pop stars like Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan. 'Real Time' Crowd Roars for Bill Maher's Relentless Truth Bombs | 2:01 The Rubin Report | 3.17M subscribers | 216,648 views | February 23, 2026

"We're either gonna get a deal or it's gonna be unfortunate for them.” — POTUS Donald Trump. The message seems to be something like the USA isn’t messing around with all those strike forces in the waters around Iran. The Islamic Republic suddenly looks like Rock-and-Hard-Place-Land. Everybody and his uncle are trying to figure out the calculus in play, World War Three or a happy ending? You’re seeing the most significant US military build-up over there in memory. Smells a little bit like the first Gulf War, 1991 — minus all those allies we roped in then. Mr. Trump (via...

Candace Owens announced on Monday that her show would be back on the air beginning Wednesday with a new “investigative series” targeting Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, eliciting an abundance of horrified reactions. The teaser trailer for the series shared by Owens on X begins with news coverage about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but quickly transitions to clips of its subject, as well as critical commentary about her, “Zionists,” and Israel. There’s even a implication that the Turning Point USA CEO is implicated in a Romanian human trafficking scandal. The series is titled “Bride of Charlie,”...

The four-building complex cost $239 million and took nearly two years to complete construction. It includes a coding classroom, a podcast studio, a newsroom, multi-media production spaces, a library and cafe. All of the new spaces are equipped with brand-new TV screens and computers. Besides the inmates dressed in matching blue and heavily armed guards standing nearby, the facility resembles a community college campus more than a prison. The new learning facility is another step in the prison’s transition into a rehabilitation center, focusing on giving inmates the tools for self-improvement and learning so that they can have successful lives...