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A Federal Bureau of Investigation task force has begun excavating the separate set of books FBI keeps using an inaccessible “prohibited access” file designation, according to multiple government sources. Though an internal fight over how to handle the files continues, embattled FBI Director Kash Patel has assigned personnel to examine decades of hidden history, Racket News has learned, with some files already turned over to Congress. “This is it — the deep state,” one of the sources said.

Selections from The Camp of the Saints revisit a dystopian warning about mass migration, cultural collapse, and the West’s moral paralysis—one that many readers now see as uncomfortably prophetic. The following selections come from Ethan Rundell’s new translation of The Camp of the Saints (Vauban Books, 2025), a 1973 dystopian novel about a mass migration from the developing world to Europe that triggers political paralysis, moral collapse, and the unraveling of Western civilization, and whose warnings have lost none of their force. The first passage is from the “Big Other,” Raspail’s preface to the 2011 edition of the book. It...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An investigation is underway after an attack on San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's security team Thursday evening. It happened in the Tenderloin neighborhood just before 6 p.m. near Cedar and Polk Streets. Two suspects were arrested. In video obtained by the local publication Mission Local, the mayor is seen nearby at one point during the confrontation, but moved away while one of the officers was interlocked on the ground with a suspect. Mission Local reports that this happened after a group of people blocked the SUV that Lurie and his team use. Lurie's office and the...

You may not recognize Karan Singh's name, but you've likely heard of the problem his case exemplifies: workers who entered the U.S. illegally and began driving massive trucks, even if they were clearly unqualified – creating hazardous conditions for everyone on the road. Singh, an Indian national, entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration, was released, and then claimed asylum.

Within hours of the launch of the US-Israeli assault on Iran last weekend, both the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem were shut down. Israeli occupation forces expelled worshippers and justified the closures under the pretext of wartime “preventive measures”. There are no bomb shelters in Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, nor are there public shelters. Among Palestinians in 1948 territories, around half of the population has no place to seek refuge from air attacks, according to figures from Israel’s own state comptroller. Preventing worshippers from reaching the mosques, and...

Congressman Seth Moulton’s illegal immigrant guest during the State of the Union address is referenced in police reports involving sexual assault and juveniles, police say. The Herald submitted a public records request to the Secretary of State’s Office and the Milford Police Department regarding two reports, one from June and the other from September of 2021, where Marcelo Gomes da Silva was apparently named as the person of interest. The Herald sought the police report numbered 21-23101 dated 9/15/2021 featuring Marcelo Gomes da Silva and 21-16254 dated 6/30/21 also featuring the 19-year-old. Milford Deputy Chief John Sanchioni denied both of...

Texas Democrat James Talarico once called on the federal government to hire abortionists to kill babies. The leftist Senate hopeful wanted Joe Biden to spend taxpayer dollars to hire abortionists as employees and open abortion businesses on federal property — including in every courthouse and national park — to expand the killing of unborn babies across the nation. In a June 24, 2022, letter to Biden, then-state Rep. Talarico urged “extraordinary steps” to counter pro-life protections enacted after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Among his specific demands were “leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or...

Russia has been sharing intelligence with Iran on the location of US forces in the Middle East in an attempt to help Tehran fight back, according to a new report. The Kremlin has passed on the locations of American warships, aircrafts and other military assets ever since “Operation Epic Fury” kicked off a week ago, three sources told the Washington Post Friday. “It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort,” one official familiar with the intel told the outlet.

Most students of history have likely pondered the question: Is it the times that make the man, or is it the man that makes the times? The question, though superficially intriguing, seems to have an easy enough answer: Sometimes it is the times that makes the man, and sometimes it is the man that makes the times. Rarest of all is the man who is both summoned and elevated by the times, on the one hand, and who has the courage and conviction to shape the times in return, on the other hand. It is this lattermost group of men...

The Texans' sacrifice at the Alamo and their improbable victory at San Jacinto still define our world in ways few understand.Today marks the 190th anniversary of the martyrdom of the heroes of the Alamo, who died to delay the dictator Santa Anna's army long enough so that Texian troops could rally and defend their homes. Singular among those heroes was Colonel and Congressman David S. Crockett, “King of the Wild Frontier.” Born in 1786 in that part of North Carolina which was then the renegade “State of Franklin” but not yet the State of Tennessee, “Davy” Crockett was a legend...

With Russian ground troops bogged down in a grinding war of attrition, Moscow is striving to press home its advantage in the skies – through an ever-evolving army of drones, courtesy of Iran. In early January, wreckage of a drone found in Ukraine hinted at a new high-speed model of drone being deployed by Russia in the conflict. It prompted Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to air fears over failing to keep pace. Share article Russia was initially unable to produce large numbers of kamikaze drones,...Tehran had the expertise Russia needed. It also had an existing defense relationship with Russia. Moreover,...

We hear all the time that America is hopelessly polarized, that the electronic landscape allows us to stay in our own hermetically-sealed communities, and that no one can speak with anyone across the aisle. For decades now, the Left has believed that those who disagree with it are not just wrong but evil; in the last three election cycles, we have seen those on the right taking on the same position. What if the problem is not our politics but the way we are taught to argue? For four decades, American students have been taking misconceived “rhetoric and composition” classes,...

~HEADLINES TO PONDER: Greece to Exhume 150 COVID-19 Graves After Bodies Fail to Decompose I think the plan is to raise an Army of the Undead to take Iran. ~WHAT'S DO-ABLE: Matt Walsh: "This is the status quo you're expected to accept: we can terminate the supreme leader of Iran despite all his security but we can't deport Somali fraudsters in Minneapolis... we can't do anything about the clear and obvious threats in this country right now." pic.twitter.com/A8oF1UWz0w — The American Conservative (@amconmag) March 4, 2026 There is always a risk in venturing abroad to slay dragons. As one observer...

NORTH PORT, Fla. (WFLA) — “Denise and I were soulmates,” said Denise Amber Lee’s husband, Nathan Lee. “We were supposed to be together forever; we were madly in love.” However, on Jan. 17, 2008, the dream abruptly ended for the couple. Former Florida officer who raped, murdered 11-year-old set to be executed Denise Amber Lee, 21, was abducted in broad daylight from her North Port home. She was driven around for hours, raped, and murdered. Several 911 calls were made throughout her abduction, including from Denise herself, but with communication failures between dispatchers, help arrived too late. “It was just...

Ooo la la. . . Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Behold the Tour Montparnasse, 59-stories, 689-feet high, built in 1969-1973 during the presidency of Georges Pompidou (yes, he of the inglorious Pompidou Center across the River Seine). Note that there is nothing like it in the neighborhood. Curiously, the hidden hand behind its development belonged to American real estate poobah Wylie F. Tuttle, who enlisted a consortium of 17 French insurance companies and seven banks in the project to get Europe’s then tallest skyscraper built. Minister of Culture, André Malraux at first opposed the idea, then folded...

President Trump has said that there will be no deal with Iran “except unconditional surrender” in his latest post on social media. “After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before,” wrote the US president. “IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).”

A Chicago woman with a pending robbery case is suing Target, accusing the retail giant of violating Illinois civil rights law by rescinding a conditional job offer after discovering her unresolved criminal case. Courtney McElrath-Bey, 35, claims the company unlawfully used her background against her when it decided not to hire her for a warehouse position last year. Her lawsuit, filed in February and first reported by Legal Newsline, seeks damages and could expand to cover other applicants who were denied jobs under similar circumstances. According to the complaint, Target extended McElrath-Bey a conditional offer in October for a job...

In the movie Tombstone, after the famous shootout at the OK Corral, bad-guy Johnny Ringo went looking for Wyatt Earp. Ringo was going to kill him. Instead, Val Kilmer, playing the part of Doc Holliday and friend of Wyatt, met Ringo and delivered the movie’s most famous line: “I’m your huckleberry.” The phrase “I’m you huckleberry” was 19th-century slang for “I’m the guy you’re looking for,” “I’m your man,” or “Bring it on.” It was a macho, braggadocious expression used when confronting an adversary. Macon, Georgia has lots of huckleberries. That’s unfortunate, because when two huckleberries meet, bad things usually...

Un-redact the authors of ‘hearsay’ allegations in the Epstein Files! Redactions only for victims, not those who heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend. That includes un-redacting lawyers of anonymous sources.

Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase 50,000 in February while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%, according to Dow Jones consensus estimates