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Violent clashes erupted outside an Israeli military detention facility as ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrated against the arrest of draft evaders amid the ongoing dispute over military conscription. Footage showed large crowds confronting police and attempting to breach the perimeter of the prison, where individuals accused of avoiding military service were being held. The protests highlight deep divisions within Israeli society over efforts to expand military service requirements to the Haredi community. The issue has become one of the most contentious political and social debates in Israel, with opponents arguing that mandatory service threatens their religious way of life, while supporters insist...

This week the Los Angeles City Council voted 10-5 to place an election reform proposition on the November ballot. Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez explained "most members of the Council are tired of the nonstop harassment over voter ID we're getting from Republicans at the local and national level. I mean, the insistence that voting ought to be confined to citizens is simply unfair. Everyone who resides in the City should have a say in who governs them. This includes individuals who have no mailing address. Why should the homeless and poorest inhabitants of our City be denied a voice?" The Councilman...

Angry protesters in Albania vandalized a construction site linked to a controversial development project, accusing political leaders of enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary citizens. Demonstrators denounced Prime Minister Edi Rama and opposition leader Sali Berisha, saying Albanians have been forced into emigration while their ancestral lands are exploited. The unrest reflects growing opposition to major development projects and alleged corruption.

Starmer’s premiership was devoted to suffocating the popular will. No wonder he was hated.So he’s gone. Keir Starmer has resigned. The adults are out of the room. He waltzed into Downing St two years ago to the effusive gushing of the liberal commentariat, and now he’s slinking out. He and his slack-jawed media cheerleaders promised us an era of blissful if boring stability. What they gave us were riots, division, betrayal after betrayal, and an unprecedented assault on the ancient liberties of our nation. The lesson of the Starmer epoch? Never trust a technocrat.Few tears will flow over the death...

The United States has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into South Africa’s HIV and AIDS response. But times, just like South Africa’s government, are changing. The money US taxpayers sent was supposed to help a country carrying one of the heaviest HIV struggles in the world. But now, after years of growing tension between D.C. and an anti-white, tyrannical Pretoria, Team Trump is pulling the plug and signing a death warrant for a country run by tyrants. This multi-million dollar decision comes as South Africa faces down more concern over racism and hatred of white Afrikaners. Politicians and...

Shayma Alzubi was reassigned after social media posts supporting Sharia were brought to light. A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the Fort Worth Independent School District over its decision to reassign a newly promoted high school principal after parents and community members raised alarms about her pro-Palestinian and pro‑Sharia social media activity. In May, Fort Worth ISD announced that longtime district administrator Shayma Alzubi had been promoted to serve as principal of Western Hills High School for the 2026–27 school year. Alzubi signed her principal contract and compensation paperwork earlier that month, according to the suit. Days...

[Catholic Caucus] WATCH: Young Catholics pray Rosary to protest Fr. James Martin’s pro-LGBT conferenceMembers of Tradition, Family and Property Student Action and other Catholics prayed the Rosary outside of Fr. Martin’s heterodox Outreach conference at Georgetown University.Several young Catholics prayed the Holy Rosary outside Georgetown University this weekend during Father James Martin’s pro-LGBT Outreach Conference.Members of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) Student Action, along with many young faithful, peacefully prayed the Rosary outside the Jesuit university after receiving over 31,000 signatures for a petition opposing the June 19–21 conference, entitled “Walking Side by Side: Celebrating Five Years of Outreach Ministries.”In...

A new order says OnStar data sharing went too far, and now the brakes are on. - FTC says GM sold location and driving data without clear consent. - Order bars sharing with reporting agencies for full five years. - Drivers can opt out and request old data about them be deleted. If you’ve ever had the creeping suspicion that your car, and the company behind it, knows more about you than it probably should, you’re not imagining things. But the pushback has already started. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just slapped a ban on GM preventing it from...

Armie Hammer is back in a leading role with the release of Citizen Vigilante.The new action-thriller from filmmaker Uwe Boll is now available on all major TVOD platforms like Apple TV, YouTube, and Prime Video in the United States as of Friday (June 19), giving viewers a chance to see the film from home. (snip)Citizen Vigilante story is Sanders (Hammer), a wealthy American businessman living in Zagreb who inherited a massive real estate empire from his late father. Intelligent, isolated and emotionally scarred, Sanders transforms himself into a feared underground vigilante targeting violent criminals, rapists and corrupt judges who escaped...

Three hikers died of suspected heat illness in less than a week in Grand Canyon National Park, the National Park Service said on Friday, bringing the total number of heat-related deaths this June to four. In a news release on June 19, the NPS said that park personnel had responded to two separate incidents in the Inner Canyon that resulted in three deaths. On June 12, a 72-year-old male hiker passed away on the South Kaibab Trail after showing symptoms of heat illness. On June 16, two more hikers, a 67-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman, died on the North...

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A massive exodus out of California is expected to happen after SpaceX’s historic and OpenAI’s confidential IPO, unleashing an unprecedented wave of tech millionaires to Florida. Following SpaceX’s IPO on June 12 that set the company’s valuation above $2 trillion and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, around 4400 SpaceX employees also became millionaires. “The California area codes have already started showing up. It’s just that the conversations are evolving,” Fort Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority CEO and President Jenni Morejon said to Fox News. “The wealth doesn’t hide here… and I really think what we’re seeing now with AI...

It's hardly news that women have been steadily moving ever further left politically at a pace – "radically" – that far outstrips men, whose views tend to be stable. Especially Gen Z. According to a Gallup poll, women age 18-29 have over the last 25 years stretched a left-leaning gap from their male peers from 12 points to 23 points, nearly double. And although they have passionate "feelings" about their leftist ideals, they tend as a collective to fall short on logic, respect for free speech and intellectual coherence, more so than men. And that is bad news for our...

[Catholic Caucus] The Confessions of Monsignor Paglia and the Crossroads for Moral Catholic TheologyWhat kind of moral vision does the Church want? Does she want a watered-down morality, a sort of “minimalist Pelagianism”? And what hope does the Church wish to offer to the wounded person in search of meaning?n an interview granted to Settimana News on May 21, 2026, Bishop Vincenzo Paglia claimed a decisive role in the dissolution of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family and its replacement by a new academic entity, as well as in the radical transformation of the Pontifical...

Recently the head of German domestic intelligence, Sinan Selen, held a meeting in the Bundestag building where he laid out for a select audience the threat of Islamist infiltration into the country’s political institutions. More on his warning can be found here: “Germany’s Intelligence Chief Warns of Islamist Infiltration of Political Institutions,” by Jules Gomes, Middle East Forum, June 14, 2026: Sinan Selen, Cybersec22, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0At a closed-door meeting for select guests in the German Parliament building, the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence service, warned of high-level...

General Motors on Tuesday announced it's releasing a software update that allows some electric vehicle (EV) owners to send power back to the electric grid. The update allows owners of GM's vehicle-to-home energy system, which allows the EV to power the home during a blackout, the expanded capability of sending electricity to the power grid. Owners of the system would be able to sell power from their vehicle back to utility providers at times when demand is high, with GM getting a portion of the proceeds. EVs are viewed as an untapped resource for balancing the electric grid to meet...

Judge Tony Graf ruled against Tyler Robinson's defense team and will allow hearsay evidence during July's preliminary hearing, he ruled Monday. Graf said that while the hearing is a "critical stage of the criminal process," it's not a trial. "The court does not understand this principle to mean that constant constitutional protections are categorically inapplicable at a preliminary hearing, rather, because a preliminary hearing serves the limited purposes of determining whether probable cause exists, the scope and operation of a particular constitutional protections must be evaluated in light of that purpose," he said. Robinson's attorneys were trying to block hearsay...

A newly surfaced video shows Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico welcoming a climate activist organization to Texas and praising its work, a position that appears at odds with his campaign’s efforts to portray him as a supporter of the state’s energy industry. In a June 2024 video promoting the expansion of Third Act into Texas, Talarico thanked the group for coming to the Lone Star State and said he looked forward to working “alongside” the organization. “I’ve been fighting climate change my entire career,” Talarico said. Calling Texas “the front line in the fight to save democracy and our...

A real story out of Massachusetts. Yes, according to police, 34-year-old Alexander Marano was enjoying a refreshing Sunday morning au naturel on the Ludlow Mills Riverwalk when he allegedly spotted a man walking his 8-year-old pit bull. I'm not joking about this next part: Marano reportedly charged the pair, threatened the owner with a nonexistent shotgun, and proceeded to choke the dog. When officers arrived and located the fully naked suspect, Marano helpfully surrendered with his hands up. No weapon was found, but they did recover his clothes, watch, and wallet nearby. Even in a suspected drug-fueled or mental health...

James Franco's recent TikTok posts about an alien invasion in his garage has his fans confused. Earlier this month, the 48-year-old actor joined TikTok, where he posted cryptic claims about "some serious s- -t" that was going on. In the footage, James wore a blue T-shirt covered in handwritten drawing and two pieces of tape as he urged his fans to follow him, confirming his video was neither AI nor a hoax. Days later he began sharing more videos where he expressed that he feared he was under surveillance; however, he never disclosed exactly what was his cause for concern....