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Virginia 2026 Bills — Key Points in Plain English Eviction & Tenant Protections SB 48 — More Time Before Eviction Tenants get 14 days instead of 5 to pay late rent before a landlord can file for eviction. SB 273 — Easier Access to Eviction Diversion Program Tenants only need to pay 10% upfront (not 25%) to enter a payment plan. No longer need to be employed — just need income to make payments. Courts must give tenants info about the program. Localities can set their own rules. SB 313 — Limits on Landlord Fees Landlords cannot charge extra fees...

America should not play global judge, jury, and executioner. This role is bad for us. It harms our economy and rots our national character. Moreover, foreign wars distract from much more important goals here at home. Trump’s decision to pursue the Iran war, for instance, distracts from his much more important domestic policy goals on immigration, inflation, and dismantling leftist-controlled institutions. The political capital required to wage this war of choice is simply too high. The downside risks of being sucked into a months- or even years-long war are too great. The threat to the global economy from a sustained...

Trump loyalist Laura Loomer apologised for some of her anti-India social media posts after they sparked outrage, adding she would not regret her stance on the H-1B visa programme.American political activist and staunch Donald Trump loyalist Laura Loomer on Saturday apologised at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi for some of her anti-India social media posts, which had drawn sharp criticism for their highly racist and derogatory nature. In multiple posts on X, Loomer had made crude stereotypes and remarks about Indians, questioning their presence in the United States, as well as making disparaging comments about hygiene and...

President Donald Trump and some of his closest advisers were caught off guard by the scope of Iran’s military response to U.S. strikes, while key Gulf allies have privately expressed anger at the White House’s decision to escalate the conflict, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The publication reported Friday that “the president and some aides were surprised at the breadth and scope of Iran’s retaliation,” which included missile and drone launches targeting regional countries from Azerbaijan to Oman, according to people familiar with the matter.” Gulf allies have reacted sharply behind closed doors. “Allies in the Gulf are...

To understand how China has corrupted academic research in the West, including in the United States, begin at the top. China is currently headed by a man, Xi Jinping, who is himself an academic fraud. While serving in various government posts between 1998 and 2002, Xi was enrolled in an “in-service” doctoral program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His dissertation on the marketization of rural areas was ghost-written by one of his staff members in a local government in southern Fujian Province, Liu Huiyu. She was later given a plum post at Jiangxia University in Fujian handling “library materials.” Xi’s...

Anti-Zionist activists accuse Israel supporters of eating babies and raping children, shout ‘death to America,’ wave terrorist flags NEW YORK — Anti-Zionist protesters chanted for terrorist groups, accused Israel’s supporters of eating babies and raping children, and chanted for death to Israel and the US at a protest for Al Quds Day in New York City on Friday.

“The Islamic Republic threatened to strike Ukraine Saturday, days after Kyiv shipped military experts to the Middle East to help the Gulf states defend against Iranian drones. “By providing drone support to the Israeli regime, failed Ukraine has effectively become involved in the war,” said Ibrahim Azizi, head of Iran’s national security committee, Saturday on X. “It has turned its entire territory into a legitimate target for Iran,” he threatened.”

Almost 40 per cent of new homes built by 2030 will be needed for migrant housing, Conservative Party analysis shows. The research is based on the Office for Budget Responsibility's latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook which expects a net migration of 1,172,792 people between 2026 and 2030. The means there would need to be around 499,000 extra homes to house new arrivals, according to the ONS average household size. During the next four years, the UK is forecasted to build 1.34million new homes, meaning 37.1 per cent could be used to home migrants. The figure was used to hit out...

The Pentagon has ordered a Marine expeditionary unit with about 2,200 Marines and three Navy amphibious warships from Japan toward the Middle East, a significant new U.S. force movement amid tensions tied to the war with Iran. U.S. officials told ABC News that the deployment centers on the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, a forward-deployed force based in Japan that normally operates in the Indo-Pacific. At the center of the movement is the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, led by USS Tripoli, an America-class amphibious assault ship. USNI News reported that the Tripoli had been operating in the Philippine Sea earlier this...

Online sleuths think they have uncovered missing retired Air Force general William Neil McCasland’s anonymous social media account — which claimed another general was murdered for his dealings with nuclear material. McCasland, 68, went missing from his Albuquerque, NM, home on Feb. 27 — which is the same day that the person behind a conspicuously credentialed X account centered on spacecraft and advanced science made their last post. The account @tmbspaceships claims to be run by a “retired 38-year active duty” United States Air Force with a PhD in engineering — listing the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), the...

Explanation: Want to visit a planet that has 3.14 days in a year? Then plan a trip to K2-315b, an earth-sized planet orbiting around a cool, red, M dwarf star about once every 3.14 days. The exoplanet's discovery, based on publicly available data from the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope's extended K2 mission, was announced in 2020. K2-315b's measured orbital period in days is nearly equal to the extremely popular irrational number Pi. That puts the exoplanet so close to its parent star that its surface is likely very warm, baking-hot in fact. And this Pi planet is over 185 light-years...

Tucker Carlson, the American antisemitic influencer, says U.S. President Donald Trump and senior U.S. officials should be prosecuted over the decision to strike Iran. In last night's interview Carlson said, "There are other players here. I didn't realize it would be a joint operation with a country that believes in Amalek. Whoever made that decision should be in jail." .....

Political analyst Dick Morris warned Saturday that escalating conflict with Iran could damage President Donald Trump politically if U.S. war aims expand beyond limiting Tehran's ability to threaten the global economy. Speaking on Newsmax's "Saturday Report," Morris said Trump's core supporters remain loyal but cautioned that the broader American public may not tolerate the economic pain that could accompany a prolonged confrontation. "I think the MAGA base has long patience with Donald Trump," Morris said. "But the American people are probably not willing to accept the level of pain economically in the world that is commensurate with what Iran is...

By Dr. John BergsmaThe drama increases as we progress toward Easter. This Sunday’s readings are united by the themes of anointing and light. The First Reading (1 Samuel 16:1-13) recounts Samuel’s anointing of David as King over Israel. Samuel journeys to Jesse of Bethlehem, and scrutinizes each of his sons in search of God’s chosen king, but to no avail. Finally, the youngest of the eight, David, is called in from shepherding the sheep. This at last is the future king: Reading 1: 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a: The LORD said to Samuel: "Fill your horn with oil, and be...

A former U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) official said Iran is holding the world’s energy supply hostage using "World War I-style" tactics. Iran has responded to U.S. and Israeli strikes by halting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil. The regime is using sea mines, which it has reportedly stockpiled by the thousands, to make traversing the strait difficult and deadly. "This is a nightmare more than 30 years in the making," former CENTCOM Communications Director Col. Joe Buccino (Ret.) said Saturday on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "What you just indicated there on your wall is...

My solution is simple and market based – make colleges co-sign or share default risk on any federally backed loan The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals just slammed the door on the Biden era’s SAVE student loan repayment plan. On Monday the court told a district judge to approve the Trump administration’s settlement with Missouri and kill the program for good. More than seven million borrowers who had been coasting in forbearance for a year and a half now face the music. They will have to switch to one of the old repayment options or start writing real checks. It...

[Catholic Caucus] Spanish cardinal secretly gave socialist gov’t power to redesign Benedictine basilica: reportRecently published documents show Cdl. José Cobo Cano quietly signed a pact with Spain’s socialist government to allow parts of Valle de los Caídos basilica to be repurposed as a museum.Cardinal José Cobo Cano of Madrid, Spain, signed a secret agreement allowing the Spanish government to transform parts of Madrid’s Valle de los Caídos basilica for political and ideological use, a new report reveals.According to Spanish newspaper El Debate, on March 4 and 5, 2025, Cardinal José Cobo Cano signed a secret agreement with Minister Félix Bolaños...

We don't know who is voting. We do not know if any elected official is legitimate. We are not a sovereign people if we don't know who won the election. The theft of the 2020, 2022 and 2024 elections has moved to the Grand Jury stage, probable cause established and records seized in Maricopa and Fulton Counties. Next up, Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee. All five should and may well lie under close Federal supervision on voting day during the 2026 midterms.Did John Thune get a clench in his noble behind when eye-patch-pretend-pirate-guy lost his primary? Added to Trump’s relentless pressure...

The already heated Texas Senate primary just got a major shakeup after longtime Republican power broker Karl Rove publicly backed incumbent Sen. John Cornyn—a move many grassroots conservatives say perfectly captures everything wrong with the GOP establishment. Rather than helping Cornyn, the endorsement is being widely interpreted by America First activists as a political liability that could strengthen Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the race. The development came after the endorsement became public on social media, with observers noting that Rove’s support for Cornyn may actually energize conservative voters who have grown deeply distrustful of the Republican establishment. Establishment...

Two secret battlefield letters written by George Washington during one of the toughest winters of the Revolutionary War have recently surfaced and are now up for sale — just in time for America’s 250th birthday celebration this July 4. Four years into the American colonist’s bloody struggle to break free from British rule, Gen. Washington, from his headquarters in Morristown, NJ penned the letters revealing how the Continental Army tried to monitor loyalist activity and British troop movements across the Hudson River during the winter of 1779 to 1780. Those messages, carefully preserved by descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers, are...