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His sell by date has expired. Tucker sees conspiratorial Jewish machinations driving U.S. foreign policy. Tucker has created a chasm, isolating himself from many of his former fans, me included.

Daily Readings from the USCCBThen the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something. He said to her, “What do you wish?” She answered him, “Command that these two sons of mine sit, one at your right and the other at your left, in your kingdom.” Matthew 20:20–21What a bold move by the mother of the sons of Zebedee! A common misconception at that time was that the Messiah would usher in a new political and earthly kingdom and those who held positions of power in this...

We left our sector ratings unchanged for February. Communication Services, Industrials and Health Care remain Outperform, based on their generally solid fundamentals and potential ability of the first two to benefit from artificial intelligence adoption. Consumer Discretionary, Real Estate, and Utilities remain Underperform, based partly on the pockets of consumer stress we're seeing, especially among lower-income consumers, as well as challenging fundamentals (such as a mixed outlook for the office sector).

to add more frustration to Gen Z’s plate, there’s the growing realization that for most jobs, a college degree isn’t even useful. They spend thousands of dollars, time, and resources at a university only to enter the workforce completely unprepared. Or the tasks are so mundane that basically any high school grad off the street could handle them with zero problem.

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis appears to be signaling that he is open to granting some form of clemency to Tina Peters, as he extends the deadline for such applications.In an X post on Tuesday, Polis cited sentencing disparities between former State Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, who was sentenced to probation, and the former Mesa County election clerk Peters, who was sentenced to nine years in prison.Both former elected officials faced separate cases and were convicted of multiple felony counts, including attempt to influence a public official.Peters, who is pleading for clemency after a failed presidential pardon, was found guilty...

Further to yesterday's column, a third American is dead at the hands of the "Austin man" from Senegal.Day Four began with President Trump's midnight post on Truth Social:The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better - As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought "forever," and very successfully, using just these supplies (which are better than other countries finest arms!)... The United States is stocked, and ready to WIN, BIG!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President...

Jasmine Crockett didn’t simply lose her Senate primary. She staged a slow-motion meltdown on the way out the door, complete with preemptive claims of cheating and “disenfranchisement,” long before the votes were even done being counted. Early Tuesday evening, while ballots were still being tallied across 254 Texas counties, Crockett started laying the groundwork for an excuse. She told supporters there had been “a lot of confusion” in Dallas County. She insisted that “people have been disenfranchised,” blaming Republicans for supposedly targeting Dallas and hinting darkly at votes that might not count. Then she left her own watch party early...

"It's obviously a huge geopolitical even with huge geopolitical implications..."

NEWBURGH, New York (WABC) -- New details have been revealed about the small plane that crashed into the Hudson River on Monday night near Newburgh. The occupants were identified as 31-year-old Liam D'Arcy, a certified flight instructor, and a 17-year-old male student, officials said. D'Arcy is a flight instructor with Long Island Flying, who has been instructing the student for approximately a year and a half. The Cessna 172 originated from Long Island MacArthur Airport around 6:30 p.m. during a scheduled night training session. According to investigators, the student pilot was at the controls for most of the trip as...

The victims, 26-year-old Emily Panuco and her 5-year-old son, who live in Parker, Arizona, were visiting her mother’s residence around 3:30 p.m. to see a litter of several-week-old puppies, according to a SBCSD news release. During the investigation, deputies learned that Panuco’s son approached a cardboard board box near the front door of the residence that the puppies were in when he was attacked by three adult dogs. “Panuco intervened in an effort to protect her son and was also attacked,” i The 26-year-old suffered multiple wounds during the attack and, despite life-saving measures, was pronounced dead at the scene....

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - A hotly contested primary in North Carolina was decided by just two votes and seems likely to be headed for a recount, based on initial results. Unofficial results shared by the North Carolina State Board of Elections showed challenger Sam Page held a narrow lead over incumbent Phil Berger in the Republican primary for the state Senate’s 26th District. District 26 is on the North Carolina-Virginia line and includes all of Rockingham County and a large portion of Guilford County. For the past 28 years, Page has been sheriff of Rockingham County. Meanwhile, Berger is...

Aaron Spencer won the Republican primary for county sheriff in central Arkansas as he awaits his murder trial in a case that’s drawn national attention and shaped much of his campaign message. Spencer got 53.5% of the vote, while longtime incumbent John Staley received 26.5% in the Lonoke County race, according to the Arkansas Secretary of State. Staley conceded in a Facebook message posted early Wednesday morning. A third Republican candidate, David Bufford, received almost 20% of the vote. In this politically conservative county where Donald Trump won almost 76% of the vote in 2024, Spencer’s victory makes him the...

US troops reportedly told the war in Iran is intended to bring about biblical end times, Armageddon. As conflict in the Middle East enters its fifth day on Wednesday, American and Israeli officials are pushing rhetoric suggesting that the campaign against Iran is a religious war. On Tuesday, Muslim civil rights organisation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), condemned the Pentagon’s use of this rhetoric, deeming it “dangerous” and “anti-Muslim”. ...US watchdog Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) said it has received emailed complaints that US service members were told the war with Iran is meant to “cause Armageddon”, or the...

Credits: NASA/JPL-CaltechThis image was taken by Right Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4816 (2026-02-22 11:56:09 UTC).

Cross-border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan continued on Tuesday, with intermittent fighting reported along the frontier as Pakistani forces expanded aerial and ground operations under Operation Ghazab lil-Haq. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said 464 Afghan Taliban personnel had been killed, over 665 injured, and 188 checkposts destroyed as of late afternoon, with multiple military installations targeted across Afghanistan. Amid escalating violence, including strikes on Bagram and Khugyani bases and border skirmishes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the United Nations urged both sides to halt hostilities and warned of the growing risk to civilians and worsening humanitarian conditions in the border...

On Sunday afternoon, protesters in Islamabad pressed shoulder to shoulder, most of them dressed in black, and chanted slogans that rippled through the crowd. “Death to America, death to Israel,” they shouted in unison. Among them was also Kazim Hussain, who clutched a portrait of Ayatollah Khamenei. The student, also an activist affiliated with Shia group Imamia Students Organisation (ISO), believes that the crisis unfolding in Iran was not a distant geopolitical conflict playing out beyond Pakistan’s western border. For him, it is deeply personal and emotionally moving.“This is not just an attack on Iran. It concerns all Shia Muslims,”...

President Volodymyr Zelensky is worried America and the European Union will forget about Ukraine as focus turns to the Middle East, and that the deliveries of advanced Western missiles will dry up as they’re needed to fight Iran, he told an Italian newspaper.The United States and allies attacking Iran “is right”, President Zelensky said, and brings certain benefits to Ukraine, but the brewing up of a war in the Middle East risks Ukraine’s defence because there is a limited supply of air defence missiles in the world, he has said. Speaking to Milan-published Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera as...

Utah leaders are aggressively pursuing nuclear power, but a controversial “poison pill” lingers: what to do with the dangerous waste. Now the state is exploring whether to become one of the antidotes for the nation — by potentially storing nuclear waste in the massive salt deposit in Millard County. Caverns carved into the salt dome already hold natural gas liquids, gasoline and other fuels. Separate storage of hydrogen began there this year. The Trump administration wants states to volunteer as hosts for “nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses” — sites that will take radioactive material for a variety of uses, like storage,...

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said this week that Doha has “no information” about alleged Israeli intelligence cells operating in the country, after US media personality Tucker Carlson asserted that Qatari and Saudi authorities had arrested “Mossad agents” (Israel’s foreign intelligence agency) planning bombings in both countries. Carlson made the allegation in a widely shared segment posted by the Tucker Carlson Network under the title “BREAKING: Mossad Agents Arrested in Planned Bombing Operation,” describing the purported arrests as an unreported “fact.”

Scandal-embroiled Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on Tuesday was forced into a runoff election after weeks of backlash to reports alleging he had an affair with a former staffer, who later took her own life. He will face Brandon Herrera — a 2nd Amendment influencer who goes by “TheAKGuy” on social media — in late May. That sets them up for yet another expensive and prolonged contest like they experienced in 2024, when Gonzales prevailed by one percentage point. Gonzales, who has represented the west Texas district since 2021, has faced calls to resign from several of his GOP colleagues after...