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HELENA — Tuesday’s primary election was the climax of a bitter battle between factions of the Republican Party in the Montana Legislature, which led to millions of dollars in spending. After the dust settled, the more moderate and more conservative sides could each claim some victories. Eight lawmakers, all Republicans, lost their primary races. It’s the most incumbent legislators to lose renomination in a single Montana election in at least 20 years. The overall picture remains mixed. Six of the defeated incumbents were supported by the committee Conservatives4MT, aligned with the more centrist faction. The other two were part of...

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A shifting economic landscape has culminated in Texas dethroning California as the nation’s premier hub for Fortune 500 companies. Data from the 2026 Fortune 500 list show Texas leading with 57 headquarters, compared with California’s 56, marking a reversal from two years ago, when California held the lead. Additionally, corporations in Texas generated $2.8 trillion in revenue, while those in California reported $2.7 trillion in revenue. “Texas is the undisputed headquarters of headquarters,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a press release reacting to the news. “The world’s leading businesses invest with confidence in Texas because of our welcoming business...

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Palestinianism recurring pattern is to accuse the victim of the very crime that the accuser attempted to commit but failed to carry out. The earliest known false accusation of so called "genocide" against Israel by a senior Palestinian leader appears to have come from Farouk Kaddoumi in May 1974—just days after the Ma'alot massacre, in which Palestinian terrorists murdered Israeli schoolchildren and other civilians. As Israel responded by striking terrorist targets in Lebanon, Kaddoumi accused the state of "genocide," [link] establishing a pattern that continues to this day: portraying Israel's defensive actions as atrocities while downplaying or obscuring the terrorism...

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Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Boniface, Bishop and MartyrAs Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said, “How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said: The Lord said to my lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies under your feet.’ David himself calls him ‘lord’; so how is he his son?” The great crowd heard this with delight. Mark 12:35–37Today’s Gospel presents us with one of Jesus’ many teachings in the Temple area just days before His Passion. Just prior...

You might think that early Americans sounded like Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, and that the American accent developed after independence. It was probably the other way around. Up until the early 1800s, you couldn’t tell whether a person was British or American from their accents. When naval officers tried to free sailors who had been shanghaied into service in the War of 1812, they said they couldn’t tell for sure who was American or British by the way they spoke. The hallmark of the British accent — pronouncing words like “path” and “fast” as “pahth” and “fahst” or “fah”...

"Let everyone be . . . slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God" (James 1:19-20). If you resent God’s Word, you cannot grow in righteousness. Have you ever started reading your Bible, thinking everything was fine between you and the Lord, only to have the Word suddenly cut deep into your soul to expose some sin you had neglected or tried to hide? That commonly happens because God seeks to purge sin in His children. The Holy Spirit uses the Word to penetrate the hidden recesses of the heart to do His...

Less than two years after the "Champagne Problems" singer's estimated net worth was revealed to be $1.6 billion, Taylor's net worth jumped once again to a whopping $2 billion, according to Forbes. Per the business magazine's "Iconoclast 50" list, published June 3, the Grammy winner's net worth doubled since she first became a billionaire in 2023, due to her record-breaking Eras Tour...and the sales of multiple re-recorded albums. In addition, Taylor, 36, has also released two new albums...And not only that: she bought back the rights to her first six albums last year. The "Opalite" singer's financial value is made...

New York City's vast underground network has become the unlikely focus of fresh alarm. Surveillance footage shared widely online shows teams of men lifting manhole covers in the middle of the night, descending into the sewers with flashlights, tools, and protective gear, then resurfacing hours later.Police have investigated multiple such episodes, particularly in Brooklyn, yet their public message remains the same: no known threat to safety.That reassurance has failed to settle nerves in a city still scarred by past attacks and struggling under years of unchecked migration and progressive governance.Mole people? Treasure hunters? Something else? Police are investigating a string...

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., removed an archdiocesan exorcist and severed ties with his nonprofit organization on Wednesday after he went viral earlier this week for expressing his opinion that most UFO encounters are likely demonic. Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, a psychologist and priest of the Diocese of Syracuse, New York, who served as an exorcist in the Washington archdiocese for 19 years, was removed by Cardinal Robert McElroy for "linking UFOs to demonic presence," according to a statement from the archdiocese. McElroy, who has faced scrutiny and criticism for his own views on Catholic social teachings and...

If Maine Democrats were already nervous, they should be in full panic mode now. Just days after Graham Platner sat down with Senate Democrats and told them straight to their faces that nothing new would come out about him, the New York Times dropped an investigative report that should be the end of his candidacy.The Times relied on more than two dozen sources, including six of Platner’s former romantic partners, whose stories are backed up by texts, social media messages, and diary entries. The picture that emerged was rather ugly: heavy drinking, serial infidelity, emotional abuse, and physical intimidation. Platner...

When you are passing judgments on individuals regarding their character, it is not right to judge them based on their immutable characteristics as part of a group. We judge individuals based on who they are and what they do. On the other hand, when you are evaluating a group, it's just as wrong to disaggregate it into individual atoms and claim that there are no group characteristics that are relevant to making a judgment. That's why it is simultaneously true that individuals who are part of some group may be good, and the group as a whole is still harmful....

Nobody believes that Karen Bass is indifferent to whether she faces Nithya Raman or Spencer Pratt as her opponent in November. Raman is a weak candidate, and every Democrat wants Spencer Pratt out of the race for obvious reasons, not the least of which is that anybody but a leftist on the ballot is an atrocity in their eyes. When Raman collapsed after the sole mayoral debate, Raman's polling and chances of victory, which were considered good, nosedived into single-digit territory. On election night, nobody was shocked that Pratt had closed the gap with Bass, just as nobody was surprised...

ransomnote: profanity redacted for FRRealRobert@Real_RobNWhen I finished casting my ballot in the LA mayoral primary on Tuesday, the Dominion machine asked whether I wanted to review my ballot in case I had changed my mind about any of the candidates.I selected—Yes.Guess who came up first? Spencer Pratt.The machine asked if I had changed my mind, and I selected—No.Then guess what?It didn’t even bother asking me about the other candidates or ballot measures. It simply said, “Your ballot is complete.”Basically: Thanks, now [****] off.The whole [*******] thing is rigged.In other words, a communist freedom fighter who basically burned L.A. to the...

Back in January, President Donald Trump told the Iranian people, "Help is on the way." In February, he delivered on that help. Donald Trump did what presidents before him have not: told the brutal Iranian regime that, after 47 years, the American people have had enough. Iranians all over the world were ecstatic and took to the streets to celebrate. But since then, there has not been a lot of discussion of or messaging to the Iranian people, who continue to live under a violent, dictatorial regime. 🚨 IRANIANS CHEERED WITH US.VIDEO RELEASED FROM INSIDE IRANAs the internet slowly comes...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, Religious Freedom and the Media. For First Responders, Law Enforcement, and The Watchmen On The Wall, both Spiritual and Secular. "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. "(1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

College is extraordinarily expensive and becoming less useful, and those who insist otherwise are working from a model of the labor market that stopped describing reality sometime in the 1990s. Four-year courses at private institutions often cost more than $70,000 a year, and it should come as no surprise that student debt has tipped over $1 trillion . This situation is ridiculous for a film student, but it is also ridiculous for a computer science graduate whose program could not keep pace with the industry it was preparing him for – and who learned more in four months on GitHub...