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Sen. John Cornyn threw his support behind scrapping the filibuster to pass a voting restrictions bill President Donald Trump has called his “No. 1 priority” in Congress, as the Texas Republican continues to seek the president’s endorsement and stave off a bruising primary runoff election. Trump has held off on endorsing Cornyn, the pick of top Senate Republicans, over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a bid to pressure leadership to lower the threshold of votes needed to pass the SAVE America Act, which would enact citizenship and photo ID restrictions in elections while also targeting transgender rights. Paxton has...

Some rumored Windows 12 features could frustrate users and be the reason Linux finally starts looking better. First off, the rumor about a 2026 release for Windows 12 is not true. Someone translated a German article about Windows 12 releasing in 2026, and it proved to be untrue (and was later retracted). Second, there are a lot of other "speculations" as to what Windows 12 will be like. What could cause a large migration? I'm going to set the rumors aside, and instead, focus on what I believe will happen (based on the past, the present, and the future of...

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Trump Interior Sec. Doug Burgum MIC DROPS Gavin Newsom after Gavin blames Trump for his nearly $7 gas prices "That is SOMETHING coming from California! Under Newsom, California used to have 40 refineries. Now they have 8, 2 MORE are CLOSING!" "They're going to be down to 6 with Chevron and Valero closing!" "California is the most energy dependent state in America. 63% of their oil gets imported." "Now they're going to be importing refined product into San Francisco Bay and into Long Beach every day, just to keep their fleet." "They have the largest number of...

"The Democrats are betting on failure.” That’s how National Review’s Noah Rothman characterizes the Democratic Party’s response to the U.S.-Israeli attacks on the terrorist regime that controls Iran. But Rothman has it only half right. Democrats aren’t just betting on failure in Iran. They are trying to engineer it. And not just in Iran, but at home as well, where they are actively trying to undermine the economy. Because, you see, the midterms are coming up, and to Democrats, what matters isn’t the well-being of Americans or ridding the world of its chief terrorist threat. The only thing that matters...

Two Jewish men were beaten, and later briefly hospitalized, after they were heard speaking Hebrew in front of a restaurant in San Jose’s Santana Row in California, local media reported on Tuesday. Footage of the incident, shot by local witnesses, shows the pair of victims attacked by three other individuals outside the Augustine restaurant, NBC Bay Area reported. “I just turned around, and they literally started punching,” one of the victims, who wished not to be identified, told the outlet. “We got swarmed very badly. I’m in a lot of pain. I still cannot chew. My jaw hurts, my back...

Team USA suffered a massive upset at the hands of Italy on Tuesday night at the World Baseball Classic, putting their hopes of moving to the quarterfinal round in jeopardy. Italy’s Kyle Teel, Sam Antonacci and Jac Caglianone homered as Italy defeated the U.S., 8-6, in the Americans’ final game in pool play. Italian starter Michael Lorenzen allowed two hits in 4.2 scoreless innings. The U.S. got homers from Pete Crow-Armstrong twice and Gunnar Henderson, but their rally fell short. Aaron Judge had a chance to extend the game for the U.S. in the ninth inning, but he struck out.

It's the Great Fear that is just eating away at the poor folks at Politico. It was first expressed by that periodical in December when they suddenly realized that with so many Democrats (and none clearly in the lead) that in the open primary for governor of California that it was possible that with only two Republicans in that race, that both of them could end up in first and second place due to the Democrats splitting up the rest of the votes among themselves.A couple of months later in February that fear not only did not go away but...

NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Changes could soon be coming to your favorite grocery store. Lawmakers in the state capital are considering placing limits on how many self-checkout lanes can be used at once.

Spain will launch a tool to measure hate speech on digital ‌platforms as part of a broader strategy ‌to increase oversight of social media companies, Prime Minister Pedro ​Sanchez said on Wednesday. The country announced a wider plan last month to regulate social media, including a ban on its use for younger teenagers and ‌measures to hold ⁠platform executives accountable for illegal or hateful content hosted on their services. The new ⁠tool, called HODIO — an acronym in Spanish for Footprint of Hatred and Polarisation — will allow the ​government to ​systematically track the presence, ​amplification and impact of ‌hate...

"Alarming concerns": A congressional memo was one piece of evidence the FBI used for a subpoena to review Maricopa County, Arizona election records in recent days. The issue extends to other states. Before the FBI subpoenaed election records involving Arizona's largest county this month, congressional staffers dispatched to monitor Maricopa County’s vote-counting process in 2024 reported "alarming" concerns that completed mail-in ballots were stored in the same room as blanks and were sorted by a third-party printing company that had no government officials or partisan observers on site, according to a copy of the observer's report obtained by Just the...

A 600-kilogram NASA satellite will enter Earth’s atmosphere tomorrow. The Van Allen Probe A research satellite, weighing approximately 600 kilograms and launched in 2011, is scheduled to enter Earth’s atmosphere on March 11. The Space Force’s estimated reentry time is just that — an estimate. It will be updated in the coming hours, as more and better data come in.”

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(3/11/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 4040 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. 2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. 3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. 4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with...

Pennsylvania's Democrat governor is being sued by his neighbors who say he is trespassing and unlawfully occupying a piece of land that they refused to sell to him... The couple's property shares a common boundary with land owned by Jeremy and Simone Mock... The Shapiros wanted to build an eight-foot security fence along the boundary after an arsonist attacked the Governor's official mansion in Harrisburg while Shapiro was inside with his family... The couple offered to buy 2,900 square feet of land from the Mocks ... But the families could not agree on a purchase price, so the Mocks offered...

(. . .) From January 2023 to April 2024, the temperature rose by a full degree Celsius. This increase was spectacular and inexplicable. The warming during the entire industrial period (from 1850 to the present), the main reason for the IPCC’s concerns, was about one full degree Celsius. Established names in climate science, Zeke Hausfather and Gavin Schmidt, wrote a joint article in the New York Times stating that: “We do not fully understand why 2023 was as warm as it was.” Gavin Schmidt was in 2024 even more outspoken: “Climate models can’t explain the 2023 huge heat anomaly –...

The Secret Service has reportedly taken someone into custody after a vehicle collided with the White House gate(Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images) A motorist has been detained by the Secret Service following an incident involving a "suspicious vehicle" in the vicinity of the White House today. Roads surrounding US President Donald Trump's residence were cordoned off with police tape this morning after a vehicle allegedly collided with the White House gates, reports the Mirror. CBS correspondent Natalie Brand reported road closures and traffic disruption around the White House shortly before 7AM "due to Secret Service investigation". She noted that a...

11 March 2026 Wednesday of the 3rd week of LentSt Vincentius Church, Volendam, The NetherlandsReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingDeuteronomy 4:1,5-9Keep these laws and observe themMoses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. ‘See, as the Lord my God has commanded me, I teach you the laws and customs that you are to observe in the land you...

In Texas District 23 for the House of Representatives, Tony Gonzales has dropped out of the race at the request of House Republican leaders. House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican leaders called on Tony Gonzales to step aside from his current campaign. In a joint statement, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, and Conference Chair Lisa McClain said they have urged Gonzales to step aside from the race while the investigation proceeds.The investigation into ethics complaints against Representative Gonzales began after Brandon Herrera received 43.3% of the vote in the Republican primary election,...

A majority of voters favor President Donald Trump’s decision to order the U.S. military to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program and ballistic missile capabilities. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of Trump’s decision to attack Iran

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The IDF sources noted that tackling Iran's ballistic missile threat was among the military's primary goals in the war.