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The international airport just minutes away from Donald Trump's Florida home has been officially renamed. Palm Beach International Airport has, as of Thursday, become the President Donald J Trump International Airport. 'The 3-letter location identifier for PBI is changing during the overnight to DJT,' read a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alert sent out on Wednesday evening. The change comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law in March to rename Trump's hometown airport after the 45th and 47th President. Though the FAA three-letter code has changed to DJT, passengers may have to wait to see the President's initials on...

Transcript linked below video. Hard-liners have assaulted President Pezeshkian and FM Aragchi in the funeral and shouted "death to the appeasers!" in front of the television cameras, and it got into the NY Times. Here's an excerpt from Tousi's transcript, which includes footage. ..... Let's go to the peaceful funerals. It's largely peaceful because the the tensions between the government side who 2:102 minutes, 10 seconds: are negotiating with the United States and the IRGC side who are actually running the country, it's getting a little bit tense as the the police that 2:192 minutes, 19 seconds: is under the...

Conventional wisdom holds that the United States is the most violent and dangerous nation in the developed world. This dark view is frequently invoked by conservatives to demand stronger penalties for crimes and by progressives to argue for stronger gun laws. At the same time, other nations point to crime as an Achilles heel of the American system. These include two peer nations with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world – Australia and Canada. In 2025, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that “the U.S. generally sees higher violent crime rates than many other countries.” Last year,...

Summary: Title IX has evolved from a seemingly modest anti-discrimination statute into a powerful engine of feminist social engineering, complete with proportionality mandates. The result has been two systemic distortions that rest on a false premise—that differences in competitiveness and interest between the sexes are stereotypes to be engineered away through state action and cultural revolution. Equality under Title IX does not require identical outcomes or the erasure of sex differences. It requires opportunity rooted in human nature that will reveal genuine differences between the sexes. Recovering an approach that accommodates the partly natural, partly cultural differences between the sexes...

The Trump administration says it has uncovered a dramatic increase in Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants, resulting in a broad crackdown on suspected fraud that officials say has already blocked hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable payments. Administration officials said Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants, known as allografts, climbed from $200 million in 2019 to $14.4 billion in 2025—a 7,100 percent increase. The surge led the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force, headed by Vice President JD Vance, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to intensify their review of claims. Since March, the agency...

Back in April, Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson laughed at the idea of millionaires fleeing the city over the prospect of new and higher taxes.In fact, so many of them have moved there in recent months that the nonprofit community in the city, which offers various services, is completely overwhelmed.She is seemingly unconcerned about the fact that downtown Seattle is becoming a ghost town with tons of unoccupied commercial space. On the other hand, she is probably overjoyed that transgender people are migrating to Seattle in huge numbers.“Though trans people make up just 1 percent of the population in Washington...

If we play this right, we can attack China with the fiercest enemy known to man: The IRS, and that's no joke. here are times when the obvious hits you between the eyes with such force that you just can’t take two aspirin and wait for dawn. Trump v. Barbara did just that. There are supposedly about a million Chinese “birthright citizens” who can now vote in US elections. That also means that they are US taxpayers. Hmmm… Time for a little thought experiment. These US citizens in China are subject to the Internal Revenue Code. That means that they...

According to the latest data from the West Health–Gallup Affordability Index, only 49% of U.S. adults are able to afford quality care and have been able to pay for healthcare visits and prescriptions in recent months, marking a five-year low in healthcare affordability. The number of people able to afford quality healthcare has been on a steady decline since 2022, when affordability was the highest. In 2025, 2.8 million more Americans reported inability to afford healthcare. “Healthcare affordability is moving in the wrong direction,” West Health Institute chief medical officer, Zia Agha, MD, told Healio. “Notably, financial barriers are increasing...

Muhammad has consolidated its place as the most popular name for boys born in England and Wales, topping the list for the third year in a row. About 6,000 babies were given the name in 2025, almost 2,000 more than the second most popular name, Noah. They have been the top two since 2023. The gap was previously 1,580. This year, Leo and Luca rose to third and fourth respectively, overtaking Arthur, Oliver and George. Two variants of Muhammad also made the top 100, with Mohammed at 20 and Mohammad at 55, accounting for another 2,600 babies. The Office for...

VIDEOS AT LINK................. BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - A flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in at least 31 locations across Texas. State and federal officials are working to contain the outbreak, as it threatens the state’s multibillion-dollar cattle industry. The United States Department of Agriculture has confirmed 32 new World screwworm infestations in the United States: 31 in Texas and one in New Mexico. Cases span 12 Texas counties and 23 separate premises. The most recent detection, a sheep in Crockett County, was confirmed July 3. Movement restrictions in place Twenty-one Texas counties are currently under movement restrictions. Warm-blooded animals cannot...

The problem: Thugs were murdering cabbies in New York City. The solution: Get cops to drive cabs and catch the thugs...and I was the cop. It was around the early 1970s, and New York City was experiencing a wave of robbery-homicides of taxi drivers. A team of three black males was killing cab drivers after forcing them to drive to Harlem neighborhoods and taking their cash. Since I was a member of a plainclothes undercover unit, I was assigned to drive a cab during the evening hours in Manhattan. Anyone who has driven in that hustling, bustling borough knows that...

The European Parliament has approved an urgent procedure to fast-track legislation that would revive the EU's expired “Chat Control 1.0” rules. This development sets up a decisive vote on July 9 over whether online platforms may once again be allowed to voluntarily scan private user communications for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). MEPs voted 331 in favor and 304 against using the urgency procedure, allowing Parliament to bypass the usual committee stage. The procedural vote does not itself reinstate the law but accelerates consideration of a proposal that would effectively restore the temporary legal framework that expired in April.

Jasmine Crockett, the race-hustling Congresswoman who lost her Texas Senate bid to Democrat James Talarico, revealed the real reason she lost the race during a black culture festival over the weekend. At a panel discussion during the Essence Festival in New Orleans on the Fourth of July, Crockett appeared alongside Rep. LaMonica McIver (NJ-10) and Louisiana State Senator Royce Duplessis. At one point, Crockett went off on her own party and "racist" Republicans for ignoring black people, saying, "I believe that we need to make demands." "It is not enough just to be that you're not the racist Republican but...

Two American allies, Germany and Japan, already have permission to build the American interceptors, a license that President Trump says he will also grant to Kyiv. In 2022, as fears mounted over Europe’s missile defense capabilities against Russian strikes, the Biden administration granted permission for Germany to build a factory to manufacture state-of-the-art Patriot air defense interceptors. That factory has yet to produce a single Patriot — a sign of the time it can take and how difficult it can be to ramp up production of American weapons abroad, even after winning approval from the United States government to do...

Emily Jashinsky is joined by Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book, “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement,” to discuss the controversy surrounding Christopher Nolan's upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, focusing on comments by Lupita Nyong'o about telling the story from a female perspective and broader debates over casting and representation.

A completely avoidable tragedy has struck in Ireland as a result of its open-borders immigration policies, as a liberal American citizen living in the nation has been brutally murdered. As The Irish Times reported, 43-year-old Jamey Carney was found deceased in her rented home in Killarney on Tuesday at around 1:20 pm local time by a family member. Carney lived at the residence with her 13-year-old daughter. The murder was absolutely horrible. The Irish Mirror reported that Carney not only suffered serious head injuries in a brutal attack but had been hidden by a duvet being placed over her. Carney...

Advocates of generating electricity mostly with intermittent wind and sun, when challenged on how they would deal with a calm night, are always ready with the obvious answer: energy storage. Just get some batteries, store up excess power from the windy mid-days, discharge as needed, and everything will work out. Unfortunately, the advocates never acknowledge that the problem of making an electrical grid work 24/7/365 with mostly wind and solar generation is much more difficult than just storing power from the day to discharge that night. Both wind and sun are subject to regular “droughts,” just like rain. There can...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (7/9/26)[Prayer]Personalities1 Samuel 8: 8 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba. 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy...

Prosecutor General's Office hasn't established Ukraine's involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, prosecutors said on July 9, adding that the investigation and evidence collection are still underway. The statement comes a week after Germany's federal prosecutor filed charges against a Ukrainian national suspected of sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022. The suspect is Serhii Kuznietsov, Ukrainian veteran who was extradited to Germany in November 2025. Ukrainian law enforcement is investigating the case as part of criminal proceedings into Russia's war against Ukraine and other alleged offenses. Investigators are reviewing information...

An appeals court on Tuesday ruled that part of Florida’s law restricting how race and gender are taught in classrooms, specifically provisions restricting how those topics are taught in colleges, violates free speech rights. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit determined part of the Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act, or Stop WOKE Act, signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in 2022 is unlawful. The law was designed to restrict public universities, K-12 schools and private workplaces from promoting certain concepts related to racism, gender and systemic privilege. This week’s...