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Springsteen performed his ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis' during Colbert's penultimate episode yesterday (May 20)Bruce Springsteen has hailed Stephen Colbert as “the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke”. Read More: ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ review: a bruising boss of a biopic The Boss appeared as a musical guest on the Late Night legend’s penultimate episode yesterday (20 May). Colbert has hosted the show since 2015, and his final week has featured guests such as David Byrne, Jon Stewart and Steven Spielberg. Though CBS have stated the...

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·7h🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Jim Jordan announces the "human sources" who infiltrated January 6th might've been PAID BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTERThis is insane. Expose it all and make arrests!REP. JIM JORDAN: "Were any of the guys they were paying, was the Biden Justice Department paying these same guys? Confidential human sources. We know 26 confidential human sources were at the Capitol in January 6.""They weren't authorized to do so. I want to know if any of these guys were double dipping and taking money from the government and from the Southern Poverty Law Center. That's one of...

According to a report from the Daily Mail, fossilized trees standing vertically through thick layers of sedimentary rock at sites across the United States are fueling fresh discussion about whether they support the catastrophic flood described in the Bible. Known as polystrate fossils, these ancient tree trunks pierce multiple geological strata—layers long thought by mainstream science to have formed over millions of years. Prominent examples appear in Yellowstone National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, and coal fields in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Researchers with Noah’s Ark Scans, a group investigating...

In a scene more befitting a thriller than routine law enforcement, a Minnesota fraud suspect named Mohammad Omar dramatically jumped from a fourth-floor balcony during an FBI operation Thursday morning, escaping custody and prompting an active manhunt. Federal officials announced the incident alongside charges against 15 individuals in what they describe as record-breaking Medicaid fraud schemes totaling around $90 million. This audacious flight comes amid a broader federal push to root out systemic fraud in Minnesota, a state long plagued by massive scams involving child nutrition programs, daycare assistance, and now expanded Medicaid initiatives. The episode raises pointed questions about...

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the woman prosecutors call the “mastermind” behind the nearly $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme to 41 years in prison. Aimee Bock, 45, of Apple Valley, was convicted in March 2025 for her role at the top of what the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office called the single largest known pandemic-era fraud scheme in the U.S. A jury found her guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery after a roughly one-month trial. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Brasel ordered Bock to pay $243 million in restitution to the...

A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: space and time can form a kind of “crystal” that may turn into a black hole.Alongside the famous gigantic black holes, physics also allows for microscopic versions. They emerge from so-called critical states, when spacetime organizes itself into a regular, crystal-like structure during a process known as critical collapse. A team from Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Wien has now succeeded, for the first time, in describing this phenomenon with an exact mathematical formula using an unusual mathematical trick. Black holes usually form in spectacular events,...

Key Points Eli Lilly said its next-generation drug cleared a crucial late-stage trial in patients with obesity, delivering significant weight loss across doses. The results bring Lilly one step closer to filing for approval of the weekly injection, called retatrutide, which works differently from existing injections and pills. The highest dose of retatrutide helped patients lose 28.3% of their weight — or 70.3 pounds — on average over 80 weeks. ==================================================================== VIDEO AT LINK........ Eli Lilly on Thursday said its next-generation drug cleared a crucial late-stage trial in patients with obesity, delivering significant weight loss across doses. The results bring...

Watch live as SpaceX debuts the latest version of its revolutionary Starship launcher on the 12th test flight for the program. Liftoff of the Version 3 integrated Starship vehicle from a new launch pad at Starbase in Texas is scheduled during a launch window that opens at 5:30 p.m. CDT / 6:30 p.m. EDT / 2230 UTC on Thursday, May 21. The mission will see splashdowns of the Super Heavy booster (Booster 19) in the Gulf of Mexico and the Starship upper stage (Ship 39) in the Indian Ocean. The Starship upper stage will deploy 20 Starlink simulators, similar in...

WASHINGTON — Objections to the Trump administration’s controversial anti-weaponization fund prompted Senate Republican leaders on Thursday to punt a vote on a GOP package to fund ICE and Border Patrol until June, two GOP sources familiar with the discussions told NBC News.

This video from Black Conservative Perspective addresses recent viral claims that Elon Musk used Starlink satellites to interfere with or "steal" the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on behalf of Donald Trump. Key takeaways: The Accusations: The host discusses claims made by Ashley St. Clair, a former political influencer and mother of one of Musk's children. She alleged in an interview that Musk spoke to her about releasing an "anomaly in the matrix" using space-based laser technology (satellites) shortly before the election (0:00-0:50, 5:44-6:35). The Left's Reaction: The creator argues that liberal commentators are using these unverified theories to cope with...

May 21 (Reuters) - Syria will attend the G7 summit in France next month as ‌a guest nation and be represented by President ‌Ahmed al-Sharaa, three sources familiar with the matter said, marking Syria's ​first participation in a summit of the group since the forum was founded in 1975. An invitation to Sharaa to attend the June 15-17 summit in Évian-les-Bains, southeastern France, ‌was hand-delivered to Syrian ⁠Finance Minister Yisr Barnieh, who attended the group's financial talks earlier this week in ⁠Paris, one of the sources said. The source, a Syrian official, said Syria's participation in the talks would likely...

Thank God and the Virginia Supreme Court that Democrats' far-left redistricting power-grab got kicked to the curb. Lest you thought that the worst thing about that despicable machination was simply that Virginia Republican voters would be disenfranchised, read on and be enlightened....ABC News ran a profile of some of the would-be U.S. House reps who have dropped out of the race, now that they would actually have run in districts where normal Americans can vote. But had the Supreme Court in Virginia not ruled the gerrymander attempt unconstitutional, these radicals would be in the U.S. Capitol come January, merrily making...

Curtis Yarvin joins Christopher Rufo and Jonathan “Lomez” Keeperman to dissect Trump’s two administrations, the hollowing out of GOP power, and performative vs. real politics and to debate America’s founding history.

🚨🚨 Today - 15 individuals have been indicted for over $90 million in an alleged massive healthcare fraud scheme in Minnesota, after a sweeping FBI investigation with @TheJusticeDept and our Interagency Partners. These charges involve the two LARGEST Medicaid fraud cases ever charged in this district and first-of-their kind charges involving 7 additional Medicaid programs. As alleged, the defendants defrauded Minnesota public healthcare resources for tens of millions, targeting programs such as Housing Stabilization Services, Child Care, Medicaid programs, Individualized Home Supports (IHS), and more. In one case, defendants even developed a scheme worth over $40 million to target the...

Explanation: This big beautiful spiral shines in X-ray light. It is about 20 times larger than our Galaxy. It belongs to Abell 2029, a galaxy cluster one billion light-years away. (To see only the galaxies, hover your cursor over the image, or follow this link.) Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the universe that are supported by gravity. Abell 2029 is formed by thousands of galaxies, surrounded by a huge cloud of hot gas and the equivalent of hundreds of trillions times the mass of the Sun in dark matter. The spiral is made of gas, mostly hydrogen and...

The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 15 defendants in Minnesota on Thursday, alleging schemes that targeted more than $90 million in taxpayer funds across state-managed Medicaid programs. Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, said the cases involve seven Minnesota-run Medicaid programs that prosecutors say were “systematically pilfered by fraudsters” who treated taxpayer-funded services as “their personal piggy bank.” “Let me be clear upfront about something: This is not the end of our work in Minnesota," McDonald said. "This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The fraud here in Minnesota is...

BREAKING: The FBI just announced one of the Minnesota fraudsters targeted with arrest this morning jumped out of a FOUR STORY BALCONY, and is now on the run Video of the suspect can be seen below. FIND HIM AND DENY HIM BOND! He CANNOT be allowed to flee the country!

[Catholic Caucus] Literal clown liturgy takes place at ‘Catholics Day’ in Germany A liturgy featuring 18 clowns was held during the “Catholics Day” celebrations in Germany.The German “Katholikentag” (Catholics Day) took place from May 14 to May 16 in Würzburg and featured hundreds of events, including church services, group prayers, discussions and debates, and cultural activities.Among the events was a “clown church service” that took place at the Stift Haug Collegiate Church on May 14. The Liturgy of the Word featured 18 clowns and was held under the motto “Overconfident and upright” (“Übermütug und aufrecht”).Instead of intercessions, the service featured...

FIRST ON FOX: A California man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly critically injuring a man outside an Escondido home known for displays of American flags, pro-Trump messages and other banners, according to local police. The 32-year-old suspect, Thomas Caleb Butler, is being held in the Vista Detention Facility in San Diego County. Around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Escondido police officers responded to reports of an assault at the intersection of East Mission Avenue and Buchanan Street. They found an elderly male "suffering from significant injuries" and said that a good Samaritan who intervened had also been hurt, according...

C-SPAN coverage features cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding the impact of screen time and classroom technology on youth. In his testimony, Dr. Horvath warned lawmakers that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform previous generations across cognitive measures like attention, memory, and general IQ. He argued that introducing digital devices into learning environments has actively contributed to this cognitive decline, as human brains are not biologically wired to learn from screens. This is the first generation in human history that is getting DUMBER...