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🚨 JUST IN: CROWDS CHEER as President Trump's motorcade just ARRIVED to Madison Square Garden in NYC for NBA Finals Game 3, after he flew in from Marine One There he is, waving! Some liberals booed, but patriots began to drown them out 🤣 LFG! First sitting president to do this! Stay safe, Mr. President 🙏🏻

Link Gaetz allegedly punched driver in face, broke windshield and fled last September Police in British Columbia say a former NHL player remains at large a day after authorities announced charges against him in the alleged attack on a taxi driver in Metro Vancouver. Link Gaetz, 57, is facing charges of assault and mischief under $5,000 in the unprovoked attack of a Maple Ridge, B.C., taxi driver on Sept. 17, 2025. Mounties say Gaetz is accused of abruptly telling the taxi driver to stop after being picked up, then punching the driver repeatedly in the face and trying to break...

The search for a ninth planet in our solar system could reach a turning point as soon as this year, according to a planetary scientist involved in the hunt for a mysterious object believed to be lurking in the outer reaches of the Solar System. For the past decade, astronomers around the world have been searching for evidence of another resident in our planetary neighborhood. As far back as 2016, there were already hints that something might be out there, given the odd orbits of distant objects like Sedna, discovered in 2003. Now, two astronomers—California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researchers...

Noncitizens in a key blue state were on the voter rolls for years — and some even voted in prior elections, according to documents obtained via public records request. The New Jersey Republican Party (NJGOP) and the Republican National Committee (RNC) requested voter rolls from all 21 counties in the Garden State and found multiple instances of noncitizens seeking naturalization asking to be removed from the rolls, claiming they were unknowingly registered to vote. Most were registered as Democrats. Noncitizens cannot vote in state or federal elections, and the candidates for citizenship worried that being on the rolls would disqualify...

VIDEOLA election petitioners were caught on tape giving homeless individuals other voters' information, instructing them to forge voter names and signatures, and offering cash and drugs as incentives to register to vote.

Brendan Sorsby's lawyer argued last Monday that the NCAA should have reinstated the Texas Tech quarterback to play this upcoming season due to his rampant gambling being tied to a mental health disorder. The squabble between both sides had been ongoing since the NCAA was alerted that Sorsby had placed numerous bets on his own football team while enrolled at Indiana, starting with the 2022 season, along with thousands of other wagers on different sports. On Monday, Judge Ken Curry ruled that the case attorney Jeffrey Kessler presented was enough for Sorsby to be granted a temporary injunction by the...

During an appearance on the Unity Over Division podcast, U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D) echoed Joe Biden by saying the Second Amendment is “not absolute.” Talarico said, “I believe in the Second Amendment just as much as I believe in the First. We have a right to bear arms to protect ourselves, our families. We have a right to own weapons for sport or for hunting. But like any freedom in the Bill of Rights, it’s not absolute.”Breitbart News reported that on February 26, 2020, during a CNN Town Hall, Biden argued that the Second Amendment was not “absolute.”...

As the U.S. prepares for an extravagant celebration of its founding principles, fewer Americans see their country as exceptional, a new poll finds. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research highlights many Americans’ feeling of unease over the future of its representative government — particularly among young people. It presents a jarring contrast as communities around the country commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary. Only about one-quarter of Americans say the U.S. stands above all other countries in the world, the new poll found, while 44% say it’s one of the greatest countries in the world, along...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) 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...

Whenever he gets in trouble — which is pretty often — Graham Platner has a ready response: It’s the Jews! OK, he mostly just says “AIPAC,” and waves at Benjamin Netanyahu ultimately calling the shots, but he’s still making it sound like an international Jewish conspiracy. The Democratic candidate for a Maine US Senate seat has been hit by reports he has a history of abusing women, revelations that he long (and until last month) maintained an active profile on the “Kik” predator app, plus his own admissions to sexting multiple women since his 2023 wedding. All of it after...

A 22-year-old Alabama woman is suing Carnival Cruise Line after losing both legs during a Bahamas shore excursion. The lawsuit alleges excursion employees overserved her alcohol and marijuana before the accident. Her attorneys claim negligent safety practices led to the propeller accident that caused her life-altering injuries. MIAMI - A 22-year-old recent Alabama college graduate who lost both legs after a catastrophic accident during a Carnival Cruise Line shore excursion in the Bahamas is suing the cruise line and the excursion operators, according to her attorneys.

Republican, Trump-backed candidate Steve Hilton won the second of two spots in the California Governor’s Primary race on Monday evening, nearly a week after election day. Decision Desk called the race for Steve Hilton on Monday evening after another mail-in ballot dump favored Democrat Steyer – but it wasn’t enough to put him over the finish line. Hilton will face off against Democrat Xavier Becerra, the former Health and Human Services Secretary for Biden. Becerra has 27.66% to Hilton’s 25.10 %, according to Decision Desk. Trump celebrated the win. All eyes are on California’s primary elections as Democrat candidates surge...

A federal judge sided with Maryland and a coalition of Democratic-led states on Friday, halting the enforcement of new conditions on billions of dollars of federal food assistance under the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, notes that the fertility rate in the U.S. has fallen by 22 per cent since 2007, when the first iPhone went on sale in the country... Until 2011, the iPhone was only available in the U.S. to subscribers of AT&T, allowing the researchers to compare birth rates in counties with near-universal AT&T coverage to counties with little or none in the four years since the first iPhone’s release. Their findings suggest a striking relationship between iPhone access and declining birth rates... As for why exactly this is, the researchers present...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New JerseyJoint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst (JB MDL) is a United States military facility located 18 miles southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. The base is the only tri-service base in the United States Department of Defense and includes units from all six armed forces branches. The facility is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force's McGuire Air Force Base, the United States Army's Fort Dix and the United States Navy's Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, which were merged on 1 October 2009. It was established in accordance with congressional legislation implementing...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took action “toward drafting” an affordability agenda for 2027 that puts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in charge of health care, and transgender-identifying Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) in charge of caregiving, according to multiple reports. Sarah Ferris, a Capitol Hill report with CNN shared a photo on X that showed working groups for housing, gas and utilities, groceries and goods, caregiving, and healthcare. According to the photo shared by Ferris, Reps. Laura Friedman (D-CA) and Emilia Sykes (D-OH) were put in charge of the housing group. Reps. Nikki Budzinski (D-IL) and Mike Levin (D-CA) were...

Alarmed by Trump’s public flirtation with supporting a Florida abortion-rights ballot measure, Live Action founder Lila Rose traveled to the president’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club in September 2024 for a private intervention. During a sit-down that lasted more than two hours, Rose tried to persuade the president to adopt a stronger pro-life position on the campaign trail. She showed Trump videos narrated by former abortion doctors explaining how procedures are performed in graphic detail, hoping to convince him not to abandon a social-conservative movement that had stood by him for three presidential campaigns. But his response unsettled her... “That...

In a joint letter signed by former ministers and all of the Labour chairs of Westminster select committees, the UK Government has been told there is an “urgent need for accountability and concrete consequences in response to Israel’s violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are spiralling by the day”. The letter to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper was co-ordinated by Melanie Ward, the Labour MP for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy and the former chief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). It comes as Israel launches air strikes on Iran despite a so-called ceasefire, closes all...

Police in Bangkok have arrested a security guard accused of stealing cash from donation boxes at Wat Pho after he allegedly climbed over the temple wall, covered his head with a cloth and recited what he described as a spell to conceal himself before carrying out the theft. Lt. Gen. Siam Boonsom, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, together with Maj. Gen. Pallop Aemla, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, and Maj. Gen. Chaikrit Pho-a, commander of Metropolitan Police Division 6, announced the arrest of Ratchathan, 43, on 4 June. He was apprehended at the entrance to Soi Lat...

The knife-wielding madman accused of slashing five people at random in one of New York City's busiest transit hubs has been identified. Hector Deleon, 51, has been identified as the alleged homeless man who attacked five people at the notorious Penn Station at around 7pm on Sunday. The suspect was tackled to the ground in the minutes following the Sunday stabbing spree. Deleon was hospitalized on Monday, and has yet to be charged, according to The New York Post.