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Two heroic off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers patrolling in Minnesota saved the life of a four-year-old boy who drowned after falling into a hotel pool. The young boy’s panicked mother approached the off-duty officers last Friday as they were eating at a restaurant in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth hoping they could help save her unresponsive son. The officers jumped to the rescue. The child had been under water for over five minutes after jumping into the pool to find a toy, the local police department said. The agents performed CPR on the child for several minutes before...

Greenpeace is fighting for its life in North Dakota's court system, where a judge has decided to order the environmental group to pay an expected $345 million to an energy company whose Dakota Access oil pipeline construction drew protests nearly a decade ago. A jury last year found three Greenpeace entities liable for numerous claims and awarded more than $660 million to Energy Transfer in damages, which Judge James Gion cut nearly in half. Once the order he promised Tuesday is formally entered, both sides are expected to appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court. The $64 billion, Dallas-based energy...

Democrats desperate to take the wind out of President Donald Trump's sails and torpedo his State of the Union address Tuesday with heckles, boycotts, and low-energy critiques may be upset to learn that the Americans who tuned in were overwhelmingly receptive to the speech and its contents. A CNN poll found that a near-supermajority of "speech-watchers" said that Trump's policies will move the country in the right direction. David Chalian, the network's political director, told talking head Jake Tapper, "64% say Trump's policies would move the country in the right direction, 36% say the wrong direction." "Look at the growth...

‘I hope they put Jack Smith behind bars for this!’ said Mark Davis, one of many conservative victims of the special counsel and ‘Arctic Frost’. The people who cheered on Jack Smith’s corrupt investigations into Donald Trump and his allies are suddenly silent after a bombshell report detailing the Biden FBI’s politically-charged spying ops. Reuters this week reported the Democrat-led FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by current FBI Director Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, Trump’s campaign manager who now serves as his White House chief of Staff, in 2022 and 2023 when they were private citizens. Two anonymous...

Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee implored his colleagues Wednesday to help him identify his fellow conservative senators who do not support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. The comment comes after Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned earlier Wednesday that the Republican conference in the upper chamber was not unified on the prospect of using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE Act. "Not unified on using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act?" Lee posted on X. "It’s time to *get* unified. We can’t afford the consequences of inaction. GOP senators who aren’t supportive should...

Four people were stabbed and killed at a home where an elderly woman had tried to obtain a domestic violence protective order against her son. Washington state police responded to a report that a 32-year-old man was violating a protective order on Tuesday when they realized the order had never been served, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office. They rushed to serve the order against him, but as they were on the way, other calls came in about a man stabbing people at the same address near Tacoma. When they arrived, they found that he had allegedly stabbed four...

@Nigel_Farage Reform has today reported the many cases of ‘family voting’ to the Electoral Commission and Greater Manchester Police. What was witnessed yesterday is deeply concerning and raises serious questions about the integrity of the democratic process in predominantly Muslim areas. If this is what was happening at polling stations, just imagine the potential for coercion with postal votes. If action isn’t taken now, then we will ensure it is after the next General Election.

Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) isn’t just leading in the Texas Democrat U.S. Senate primary anymore. She’s pulling away, and she’s doing it as early voting is already underway. The latest statewide survey, conducted Feb. 2 through Feb. 16 among likely Democrat primary voters, shows the Dallas congresswoman expanding her edge over state Rep. James Talarico. Early voting began Feb. 17 and runs through Feb. 27 ahead of the March primary, which means this shift is happening while ballots are being cast. “Crockett leads Talarico 56 percent to 44 percent among likely Democratic primary voters statewide.” Twelve points. That is...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice held off on searching President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents until then-President Joe Biden could receive a “brief” and officials could “coordinate” with the White House Counsel’s office, according to unclassified emails obtained by The Post. The emails undercut Biden’s claim that he had no prior knowledge of the FBI raid on his political rival’s home. They also reveal the desire by at least one top DOJ official to charge ahead with a dramatic search, saying he didn’t “give a damn about the optics.” The communications, which were first reported by Fox News,...

f there had been any confusion over what Democrats believe or whom the Democrat Party supports, this week has been clarifying. Susan Rice — the serial liar who falsely blamed the September 11, 2012, murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on an Internet video; weaponized Intelligence Community surveillance by illegally unmasking the names of Trump transition officials in 2016; and pushed the Russia Collusion Hoax for the last decade — went on a podcast to promise retribution for any American seen as bending the “knee to Trump.” The woman who ran Joe Biden’s White House explicitly promised that “this...

Iran mines Bitcoin at $1,320 per coin on subsidized electricity and sells it at $68,000. A 50x gross margin. Not a hedge fund return. Not a venture multiple. Fifty times on power costs alone, running on electricity priced at half a cent per kilowatt hour while Iranian civilians suffer rolling blackouts because 700,000 mining rigs are draining 2,000 megawatts from a collapsing grid every single day. 95 percent of those rigs are illegal. The IRGC runs the largest operations, exempt from electricity bills, consuming power from facilities that simultaneously cause blackouts in hospitals and homes. The regime legalized mining in...

@ElectionMapsUK *JUST FOR FUN CLAXON* If the proportional swing in Gorton & Denton was applied to national voting intention figures (Scaled up so big 5 parties ≈ 93%): RFM: 415 - 34.6% GRN: 100 - 24.3% LAB: 38 - 19.8% SNP: 35 - 3.0% LDM: 31 - 7.0% PLC: 7 - 1.0% Others: 4 - 3.5% CON: 1 - 6.8%

A long list of Hollywood A-list talent is joining leftist activist billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs to star in a feature film about climate change. The film appears to be a major effort by a huge number of Hollywood A-listers, including Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Amy Ryan, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany, and Jason Clarke for a film billed as a “darkly comic drama” about global warming. It will be produced by Sony Pictures Classics with Tom McCarthy to direct, Deadline reported. The film, based on the Nathaniel Rich book, Loosing Earth, is supposedly a true story “set at a...

Manhattan prosecutors declined to pursue an assault charge against Gusmane Coulibaly on Thursday night, instead charging him with misdemeanor obstructing government administration and a harassment violation in connection with the viral Washington Square Park snowball fight. Coulibaly, 27, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday evening and released on supervised release, hours after the NYPD announced his arrest in the case stemming from a massive snowball fight after Monday’s blizzard. In court, prosecutors said that after reviewing the evidence, they were unable to prove that an officer suffered a physical injury caused directly by Coulibaly’s conduct and therefore did...

Denise Richards is strapped for cash. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star was ordered by a judge to cough up $5,000 a month in temporary spousal support and an additional $30K in attorney’s fees Thursday. Richards looked frantic when Judge Nicole Bershon made the order, muttering, “I can’t afford it.” Richards then briefly addressed the court about her financial situation saying she “was blowing through everything she was making” when she was married to Phypers from 2018 to 2025. “I could barely pay a retainer for my attorney,” she said. When asked if she had any investments, Richards said...

27 February 2026 Friday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church) St. Gregory of Narek Armenian Church in Cleveland Ohio Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingEzekiel 18:21-28I prefer to see the wicked man renounce his wickedness and liveThus says the Lord: ‘If the wicked man renounces all the sins he has committed, respects my laws and is law-abiding and honest, he will certainly live; he will not die. All the sins he committed will be forgotten from then on; he shall live because of the...

BRANSON, Mo. — Two men are facing felony charges after Branson police said they threatened two Black residents during a Feb. 10 disturbance and displayed what appeared to be firearms. According to online court records, Chaz Royal Beck, born in 2007, of Branson, and Dylan Eric Julian, born in 2003, are each charged with first-degree harassment, a Class E felony.

The millionaire philanthropist murdered in his Maryland senior living center was allegedly gunned down by a staffer who disguised himself as a woman — then shot at a state trooper who pulled him over. Marquis Emilio James, 22, was arrested and charged with the Feb. 14 killing of 87-year-old Robert G. Fuller Jr. at the Cogir Potomac Senior Living Facility, the Montgomery County Department of Police announced Wednesday. James, who worked at the facility as a medication technician since October, allegedly wore a wig and a mask before killing Fuller around 7:30 a.m. Police noted nothing appeared missing from Fuller’s...

In the wake of Vice President JD Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, announcing that some Medicaid funding going toward Minnesota would be paused due to fraud concerns, Governor Tim Walz claimed that "the person who’s angriest about this fraud is me." "I don’t know why this is so hard to understand, and I will continue to say this. You can trust me on this. The person who’s angriest about this fraud is me. There is certainly no political upside to having fraud in your state, and it undermines the very...

The Florida Legislature is close to reforming the requirements for voluntary armed security in churches. The bill exempts voluntary church security members who have concealed carry permits from the requirements of Florida statutes that regulate the members of private security services. Private investigative, security, and repossession services are regulated under Chapter 493 of the Florida Statutes. Section 6102 spells out who the provisions of the chapter shall not apply to. HB 95 has cleared its House committees and was added to the House Second Reading Calendar on Feb. 10, 2026. SB 52 passed the Senate 39–0 on Feb. 11, 2026,...