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Many people want to be done with Covid lockdowns as a topic. The trouble is that Covid lockdowns are not done with us. Nothing like this had ever been tried in real life, a forced stoppage of most human activity as it affects the material and social world. The impact would be far reaching, long lasting, and devastation – one of the more significant calamities of modern times. Prevailing economic weakness and resulting stagnation for living standards is only one result. It’s nowhere near over. The Friday, March 6, 2026, jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was far...

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10,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens getting SSN and the drivers licences and then registered to vote Democrate. Creating a 1.7 trillion dark money slush fund.......

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. (WFTV) — Two high school girls in central Florida are charged with attempted murder of another student. Video from the back seat of a police cruiser caught them laughing about their plan. Isabelle Valdez, 15, and Lois Lippert, 14, were seen laughing and smiling as if they were heading to a party. In reality, they were on their way to jail. “This is such a bonding experience. I love this,” Lippert laughed. “I was going to do my makeup this morning for the mug shot, but I couldn’t find anything,” Valdez said. Prosecutors played the video...

A Corpus Christi woman who sued a local Marine pilot, claiming he spiked her hot chocolate with abortion pills and killed their unborn child, is now facing a $1.1 billion counter suit. The original lawsuit was filed Aug. 11, 2025, at the federal courthouse in downtown Corpus Christi and made national headlines. It named NAS-Corpus Christi Marine pilot Christopher Cooprider, accusing him of secretly dissolving abortion pills into his pregnant neighbor's hot cocoa, ending the life of their unborn child. Cooprider is being represented by high-profile attorney Mikal Watts, who is taking on the case for free and seeking over...

NASA is targeting a launch of Artemis II as early as April 1 to send four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the moon and back. The decision Thursday came after an in-depth flight readiness review, where managers met to discuss the mission. "All the teams polled 'go' to launch and fly Artemis II around the moon," said Lori Glaze, of NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. The crew — NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — were at the flight readiness review. NASA had planned to launch the...

An armed suspect crashed his truck into the hallway of a Detroit-area synagogue where children were attending preschool on Thursday and was shot dead in a confrontation with security personnel, with no one else seriously injured, authorities said. The attack unfolded during a surge in US antisemitic incidents and in a period of heightened security concerns around Jewish and Muslim places of worship since US and Israeli forces launched airstrikes on Iran on February 28, sparking an intensifying war across the Middle East. An FBI official said it will investigate the attack as a “targeted act of violence against the...

Establishment Republican Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) appeared visibly rattled when confronted by a conservative reporter about his record opposing key elements of President Donald Trump’s agenda. During a tense exchange with journalist Alison Steinberg, Cornyn was asked why Trump should back him in the ongoing Texas Republican Senate race given his long history of clashes with the America First movement. Rather than directly addressing the question, Cornyn attempted to dismiss the reporter and accused her of working for one of his political rivals. Steinberg asked Cornyn what he would say to voters questioning his alignment with Trump’s policies. “What do...

Jill Biden is giving her perspective from a since-demolished part of the White House, with the former first lady penning a memoir called “View From the East Wing.” In the book, announced Wednesday, Biden will share “her White House experiences for the first time, in her own words,” publisher Gallery Books said. “She reflects on the Biden presidency and its impact on her family. She brings you behind the scenes, from Camp David to Air Force One, from grading papers in the Rose Garden to witnessing the abrupt end of her husband’s bid for reelection,” the publisher said in promotional...

ROTC students subdued and killed a gunman who yelled “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire Thursday in an Old Dominion University classroom, killing one and wounding two, according to the FBI, which said the shooter had been in the Army and pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to aid the Islamic State. Dominique Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Norfolk field office, said at a news conference that the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students showed “extreme bravery and courage” and prevented further loss of life by stopping the suspect, identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh. The ROTC students subdued him...

At least six French soldiers were wounded in a drone attack targeting a joint Peshmerga-French base in the Makhmour area of Iraq on Thursday. "Today, six French soldiers providing counter-terrorism training to Iraqi partners were wounded after a drone attack in the Erbil region of Iraq," the French army said in a statement, adding that they had been taken to the nearest medical facility.

Washington — An Iranian vessel sailed too close to the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, and the U.S. fired at the vessel, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The officials said a U.S. Navy vessel attempted to fire on the Iranian vessel using its 5-inch, 54-caliber Marck-45 gun, a fully automated naval cannon that is mounted to the forward deck of Navy destroyers and cruisers and has served as the fleet's standard deck gun since the early 1970s. While it's...

Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf channel that carries 20 percent of the world’s oil, according to U.S. officials, an effort that could further complicate American efforts to restart shipping there. While the U.S. military said it had destroyed larger Iranian naval vessels that could be used to quickly lay mines in the strait, Iran began using smaller boats for the operation on Thursday, according to a U.S. official briefed on the intelligence.

The non-profit White Coat Waste (WCW) has uncovered disturbing evidence of animal abuse at the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC), where taxpayer dollars are funding barbaric procedures on cats, including former pets sourced from local shelters. According to records obtained by WCW, UMC maintained a colony of homeless cats acquired from Jefferson City, Missouri’s public animal shelter, using them as blood donors in ways that risked anemia and dangerously low blood levels. These cats, many likely lost or abandoned pets because they had microchips, could be confined for up to two years before potentially being euthanized if deemed “medically necessary” rather...

Olympic bobsled champion Kaillie Humphries surprised President Trump Thursday by awarding him the Order of Ikkos medal during White House women’s history month event with Melania Trump. “Every Olympic medalist in the United States gets an Order of Ikkos that they get to hand to somebody in honor and recognition of somebody who’s made a meaningful contribution to their journey to the podium, because Olympic medals are never achieved alone,” Humphries explained. “I’m so honored to present this, my Order of Ikkos medal, to you, Donald Trump,” she revealed. Humphries, who took home two bronze medals at the Milano Cortina...

Britain is now militarily incapable of defending the Falkland Islands, a leading Argentinian international relations expert has warned, declaring its power “practically nonexistent” and reigniting concerns over the UK’s ability to protect its overseas territories. Carlos Perez Llana, former Argentine ambassador to France and a respected academic, delivered the stark verdict while analysing Europe’s faltering role in the escalating Middle East crisis involving the United States, Israel and Iran. Speaking on the Argentinian current affairs programme Modo Fontevecchia, broadcast on Net TV and Radio Perfil, Mr Perez Llana said: “It’s plausible to think that today Great Britain couldn’t defend the...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A local Christian-based organization is going after the Tuscaloosa Public Library after it cancelled the organization's meeting due to the political climate. Now, attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Eagle Forum of Alabama. The suit against the Tuscaloosa Public Library board of trustees claims they violated the Eagle Forum’s freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, as well as the Alabama Religious Freedom Amendment.

As US President Donald Trump makes intermittent comments about the war with Iran nearing its end, Iranian officials on Thursday vowed an unrelenting campaign across the Middle East, echoing comments attributed to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowing revenge against the US and Israel. “While starting a war is easy, it cannot be won with a few tweets. We will not relent until making you sorry for this grave miscalculation,” Iranian security chief Ali Larijani said on X. Larijani also threatened to target power grids in the region if the United States attacked the Islamic Republic’s electricity supplies. “If they...

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2017 for attempting to provide material support to ISIS The suspected gunman who opened fire at Old Dominion University (ODU) has been identified as a former Army National Guard soldier convicted of supporting ISIS. Multiple federal sources confirmed to Fox News that the suspected shooter at ODU is Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36. Jalloh is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone, Fox News has learned. In 2017, Jalloh, a former member of the Virginia National Guard, was sentenced to 11 years in prison plus five years supervised release...

Catch-and-release is succeeding…or failing spectacularly in New York City depending on your perspective. Thanks to Democrat control in Gotham and Albany, the latest horror show demonstrates how the people who voted for soft-on-crime politicians are getting exactly what they voted for, good and hard. Our latest poster child for ending progressive “catch and release” is Damon Johnson, 47, a one-man crime spree. He’s racked up a jaw-dropping 131 prior arrests in New York City since his first bust back in 1995 And those are just the crimes the cops caught him (allegedly) committing. Yet thanks to Team Soros prosecutors and...