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Interesting back and forth with the press. Media quickly turned it to Ukraine. Seesh.

Gun owners have won a significant victory in Maryland, with the state Supreme Court tossing several gun control ordinances adopted by Montgomery County in the wake of the Bruen decision in 2022. Maryland legislators passed their own Bruen response bill after the state's "may issue" concealed carry permitting system was ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS, but Montgomery County's measures were even more restrictive. The Maryland Supreme Court opinion is thick with legalese and citations to various sections of code that can make it a little difficult to understand the scope of its decision, but the 2A group Maryland Shall Issue provided...

Jimmy Kimmel probably isn't having a bad week. Yes, he's an awful human being and, as I wrote in a recent column, rather emotionally unstable. He's currently getting what he wants, however. Like so many Trump Derangement Syndrome Democrats who have large media presences, Kimmel loves trolling conservatives. Sadly, conservatives love taking the bait and feeding the troll. Unfortunately, every time that the conservative outrage machine goes nuts about something that Kimmel says, we give his lunacy oxygen and him the attention he so desperately craves. I'm quite the attention you-know-what myself — I know whence I speak on matters...

It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to its generic Trump Derangement Syndrome — but the crazy world of the left increasingly bears scant resemblance to reality. In this alternate universe, Eric Swalwell was a liberal icon and invaluable asset for years, though admittedly a bit randy and occasionally a serial sexual predator. Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner was, at last, the left’s “real thing,” the white working-class liberal stiff who could win back the hoi polloi — although he can’t get his story straight on whether his Nazi...

Explanation: No, Earth did not recently acquire six more moons! Today’s APOD is a combination of images following the Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades across a southern Sicilian sky as twilight turned to evening on April 19. From 2023 to 2029, the Pleiades' and the Moon “visit" each other once per month due to the Pleiades' location in the ecliptic plane. April 2026 saw the celestial alignment of their visit with Venus. About six stars in the Pleiades cluster (Messier 45) are typically visible with the unaided eye. Due to the cluster’s visibility across the world, there are many myths...

Lost luggage and battered bags could soon be a thing of the past, as Japan Airlines starts testing robotic baggage handlers. Starting in May, human workers at Tokyo's busy Haneda airport will have a helping hand from an army of humanoid robots as part of a two–year trial. The Chinese–made bots will be trained to tackle ground handling tasks like loading cargo containers of luggage on and off flights. Japan Airlines (JAL) hopes that the new robotic workers will help ease staffing issues as Japan juggles a surge in tourism and a slumping workforce. The airport will trial two robots:...

A Maine city councilor will face an ethics board review after he was heard complaining about 'illegals' in his community. Bangor City Councilor Wayne Mallar, 81, discussed a proposed budget increase for multilingual services in schools at a Board of Ethics meeting on March 31. 'The school department's asking for a 10 percent increase. As far as I'm concerned, they get no increase,' he said - seemingly unaware his comments were being picked up by a microphone. 'They can't speak English, read English or write English. It's not a disability. We do not have to furnish. They're probably all illegals...

All the usual noise was stripped away Saturday night. An assassination attempt forces a moment like that, when politics fade and commentary slows. What's left is the simple reality that a life came close to ending in front of the world. It's in moments like that when people reveal who they are, not through statements crafted for headlines, but through how they carry themselves when everything shifts at once. First Lady Melania Trump didn't rush forward to fill the silence; she didn't step into the spotlight to deliver something rehearsed or immediate, but her presence remained consistent with what people...

Dramatic video shows heroic police officers tasing a knife-wielding terrorist and kicking him in the head after he allegedly stabbed two Jewish men in London on Wednesday. ‘Drop the f—king knife!” the cops yell in the shocking cellphone footage shared on X in the wake of the attack in Golders Green, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in north London.

A villager in India carried his sister's corpse to a bank after digging up her remains to prove she had died, having been repeatedly told he could not withdraw money without her being present. The incident took place at the Maliposi branch of the Odisha Grameen Bank in the Keonjhar district, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Television networks broadcast footage of the man carrying what appeared to be a corpse partially wrapped in plastic, with skeletal legs visible and slung over his shoulder. 'This created a highly distressing situation at the premises,' the bank said. The man, identified...

Former Vice President Al Gore warned a Hollywood audience Thursday that a Gulf Stream collapse could occur within 25 years, remarks that came 20 years after his climate documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” drew criticism for predictions that did not bear out. Mr. Gore, 78, appeared at the inaugural Sustainability in Entertainment Honors, co-hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. He participated in a keynote conversation with actor Bradley Whitford of “The West Wing,” timed to the 20th anniversary of “An Inconvenient Truth.” According to a Breitbart account of the event, Mr....

HUGE NEWS: A federal grand jury has decided to bring indictments against two of the violent protesters who assaulted me in Minneapolis No word yet on which of the three are being indicted, but I’m EXTREMELY grateful to the DOJ for moving so swiftly on this Justice is coming.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Wednesday (April 29), lifting off at 10:13 a.m. EDT (1413 GMT). The 6.6-ton (6 metric tons) satellite is headed to geostationary orbit (GEO) which lies 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) above Earth, according to Space.com. Blastoff! SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches nearly 7-ton satellite, nails landings in Florida | 8:46 VideoFromSpace | 2.12M subscribers | 1,583 views | April 29, 2026

Palestinian officials accused the IDF of weaponizing trained rats to invade Gaza and attack Palestinian children in a series of reports last week, marking the latest in a series of animal-related conspiracy theories directed against Israel. According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), Jamal Obeid, a member of the Supreme Leadership Body of Fatah in Gaza, accused Israel of introducing rats into previously uninfested areas of the Gaza Strip, calling it “a visible fact.” “There are rodents in some areas of the Gaza Strip... that were not known here in the Strip,” PMW quoted him as saying, based on Facebook posts...

0:1414 seconds: Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 2CTV. This is your global news channel, 0:1717 seconds: Amay Tusi, and we've had just yet another anti-Jewish attack in London, 0:2323 seconds: the capital of the United Kingdom. Uh we also had over the last few minutes the Metropolitan Police in the UK finally 0:3232 seconds: declaring this attack as a terror attack. They took their time. We have we have the statement from the Mets that 0:4040 seconds: I'm going to show you. We're also going to show you the footage of that moment when it started and of course...

An unusually divided Federal Reserve on Wednesday held its key interest rate steady as policymakers grappled with the policy impact of persistent inflation and awaited a looming leadership transition at the central bank. In what may have been Chair Jerome Powell’s final meeting at the helm, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee voted to hold the benchmark funds rate in a range between 3.5%-3.75%. Markets had been pricing in a 100% chance of no change.

Former FBI Director James Comey has surrendered himself following the grand indictment against him on charges related to a 2025 social media post in which he allegedly threatened the life of President Donald Trump. Per CNN, Comey turned himself in to federal authorities at an Alexandria, Virginia courthouse. The grand jury indictment revealed on Tuesday charges Comey with threatening to kill Trump and transmitting the threat in interstate and foreign commerce. Comey said in a video following the indictment on Tuesday, "well, they’re back. This time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And...

The weather is warming up, which, for many parts of the country, means tick season is settling in. Unfortunately, we’re off to a less-than-ideal start this year.Emergency department visits for tick bites have reached the highest rate in nearly 10 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week.So far this month, 96 out of every 100,000 emergency department visits in the U.S. have been for tick bites. That’s roughly three times as many as were recorded in March, and well over the 68 out of 100,000 recorded in April 2025.

NO search results. U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is being ferociously mocked on social media this week after an unearthed video shows her literally calling World War II "World War 11 (Eleven)." The clip is from Jan. 22, 2025, as the Democrat pushed for repeal of Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which President Donald Trump used as a tool to rapidly deport Venezuelan gang members who were in America illegally. "The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War Eleven," Omar stated, as she read from...

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D, Massachusetts) and Josh Hawley (R, Missouri) introduced the Break Up Big Medicine Act, legislation aimed at prohibiting the joint ownership of health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), providers, and wholesalers to reduce health care costs and restore competition... The legislation comes amid growing concerns about consolidation in the health care industry. In the US, 3 PBMs currently manage 80% of prescription drug claims, 2 and 3 wholesalers control 98% of prescription drug distribution... These entities are often vertically integrated, meaning a single parent company can own every component of the health care supply chain, from the...