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250 years ago, a new nation was born from the belief that freedom and opportunity belonged to the people. And, if necessary, was worth fighting for. Since then, more than 41 million men and women have answered the call to defend our freedom. This monument honors them. Standing tall in Washington, D.C., The National Military Monument™ is a living tribute to the generations of military members whose service and sacrifice made this historic milestone possible for our country.

The lobbying group has more than doubled its spending on political campaigns, while rarely mentioning Israel. It has placed a large financial bet on today’s Michigan Senate primary. In less than five years, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has become one of the biggest spenders in American elections, flooding the airwaves in congressional races across the country. Since its first involvement in elections, the amount of money AIPAC-affiliated political action committees have spent on campaign advertising and outreach to voters has more than doubled, from $29.3 million to $67.2 million, with much of it spent in Democratic primaries. The...

Even the bookie couldn’t believe the bets that Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter was throwing down. In the latest episode of a “30 for 30”-style documentary, “The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani,” the bookie for Ippei Mizuhara, who pled guilty to stealing millions from Ohtani, admitted to ESPN that even he was dumbfounded by the vast wagers that were being placed. “He was absolutely bananas, the amount of bets he was making,” bookie Matthew Boyer told ESPN in the podcast. “He was trying to dig out a hole, and that hole made him even poorer of a gambler because he’s betting big payout...

They didn’t love his swagger. Former Mayor Eric Adams got heckled and shouted down during a Wisconsin meeting as he tried to pitch locals on an AI data center, a wild video shows. The excruciating video — first reported by Hell Gate — shows the one-term mayor awkwardly introduce himself to the Wisconsin Rapids crowd, with his name met by an avalanche of boos during the Saturday meeting. “You belong in prison!” one attendee shouted, referencing Adams’ controversially dismissed federal corruption case. The cheesehead kerfuffle is the latest post-mayoralty headscratcher from Adams, who opted not to run for a second...

Foreign buyers pulled back from the U.S. housing market over the past year, buying $45.3 billion worth of existing homes, the second-lowest level on record, according to a new report. Foreigners bought those homes from April 2025 through March 2026, according to the National Association of Realtors 2026 International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate report. That's a 19.1% decrease in dollar value and a 14% drop in the number of properties purchased from the previous 12-month period. International buyers purchased 67,100 properties, the second-lowest level since NAR began tracking foreign buyer activity in 2009. The median purchase price was...

Here name is Teresa Tran. She is a Mom, a Community Leader. She set her sights on running for Springfield City Council. Good for her. Except now Teresa had to file a Police Report, because some in the Democratic Party Don't like it, YOU KNOW, THE KING MAKERS?? Things are gonna get interesting. But don't stop there. Even any Republicans in Springfield who wants to run for office will get the SAME treatment from their party. It's the duopoly. It's a fight that must be exposed. Tired of the US 4 NO MORE, CLOSE THE DOOR.

Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) expressed support for nuking the Senate filibuster and pledged to stand “100% behind” President Trump during a debate Monday in the South Carolina Senate primary race for her late brother’s seat. The debate marked Graham’s first political test in her barely two-week-old campaign to succeed one of the most influential GOP senators in history – her older brother, Lindsey Graham, who died of an aortic rupture last month. “One of the first things I did was co-sponsor the Save America Act,” Darline Graham noted. “As I said earlier, I’m willing to stay through recess to get...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani /Image: Video screenshot @NYCMayor/X ========================================================================== Radical socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has purged a longstanding advisory board of business and civic leaders. The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City is a city-affiliated 501(c)(3) nonprofit that raises private donations to support public programs and City Hall priorities by partnering with agencies, philanthropies, and community groups. According to Bloomberg News, Mamdani sent letters thanking the advisory board members for their service. A separate communication from the fund stated that the entire board of advisers would be disbanded. The New York Post reports: It’s raised hundreds...

Explanation: What causes unusual knots of gas and dust in planetary nebulas? Seen also in the Ring Nebula, the Dumbbell Nebula and NGC 2392, the knots' existence was not initially predicted, and their origins are still not well understood. Pictured here is a fascinating image of part of the Helix Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope showing tremendous detail in infrared light. The cometary knots have masses similar to the Earth but have sizes typically several times the orbit of Pluto. One hypothesis for the fragmentation and evolution of the knots includes existing gas being driven out by a...

President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his criticism of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, accusing one of his longtime allies of “choking” after her office dropped criminal charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. In the Oval Office, Trump expressed frustration with Pirro, who was appointed U.S. attorney in part because of her close relationship with the president. “I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro, really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella, and people get away with things, and it’s a disgrace,” Trump told reporters. The president was referring to news that broke...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s universal childcare plan will cost 50% more than he advertised, according to a new study. The proposed program is estimated to cost a whopping $9 billion annually, approximately with an average cost per child roughly $27,000, according to the report from the Center for New York City Affairs, a nonpartisan research organization affiliated with the New School. “An estimated $8.7 to $9.3 billion would be needed annually to fund universal child care in New York City,” the report, which was released on Monday, states. That’s $3 billion more than the mayor previously said his ambitious universal free...

California's High-Speed Rail Authority repeatedly missed key deadlines to buy its trains, a failure federal officials cited when they pulled $4 billion in funding a year ago. More than a year and a half after the original deadline, the authority still cannot say when it expects to award the contract. The state says that the date remains "TBD." Approved by voters in 2008, the project was originally designed to link San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours with electric trains capable of reaching 220 mph. There's no direct line between the two major cities, and the ride now...

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh: 🚨 WTF!? The Chinese Communist Party has flown Democratic Socialists of AMERICA members to China, as DSA members take a "pledge" to the CCP. This is BETRAYAL. They should have to renounce their citizenship and never return!

A new Irish government jet may struggle to land in bad weather, because it was ordered without key equipment from an Israeli firm, according to a report in Irish outlet The Journal. The 53 million euro (61 million USD) Dassault Falcon 6X aircraft would normally include Elbit’s FalconEye low-visibility system, a system of cameras and censors that gives pilots additional information amid fog or darkness. In August 2024, Ireland said it would no longer award Israeli companies defense contracts, citing an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice against Israeli settlements in the West Bank. According to the report,...

AI has rapidly become a huge economic factor while affecting everything from capital investment to how much you pay for an iPhoneThe U.S. economy keeps putting more eggs in the artificial-intelligence basket. Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to meet AI computing needs and issuing billions of dollars of debt to help make those purchases.AdvertisementThe rapid data-center build-out is powering construction spending, hiring and municipal revenues. Meanwhile, a stock-market rally fueled by the rise in shares of chip makers and other companies benefiting from the AI boom has led to a massive increase in household wealth. That...

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A stone-faced Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that his former son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), has put his family through the “seventh level of hell” as calls grow for Miller to step down from Congress. It was the latest public appearance by Moreno, whose daughter, Emily Moreno, has accused Miller of abusing her and their daughter. Emily Moreno has claimed that Miller pointed a gun at her head, doused her with scalding hot water, shoved her into a wall, and fractured their daughter’s collarbone. Miller has vehemently denied the allegations. Approached by TMZ DC’s...

Years before Chad Williams, 24, showed up at the new Twin Falls fast food joint, he expressed horror at the randomness of an armed carjacking in his hometown of Waddell, Arizona. “He would have killed you or me for walking out of our front door at the wrong time over a truck he would sell for just $8,000.” Williams, whose X bio said that he was a “former foster care youth” and that he participated in Boys State — a leadership program for top students — in 2019, stopped posting in July 2025. He mostly commented on news of the...

Another violent, cursing Democrat takes a fall. Kirill Basin, a democratic candidate for Congress, was arrested on Keawakapu Beach on Saturday. Kirill is running against incumbent U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda in Hawaii. He was arrested after a violent altercation at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei. South Kihei is a census‑designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, located on the leeward (south) side of Maui, between Maʻalaea and Wailea. The ambitious Democrat was filmed taunting a group on the beach, saying, "What you gonna do? What you gonna do?" He was then filmed getting knocked out cold in one punch from a...

@RupertLowe10 I want to be really clear with my words here, as I have done since the day I launched Restore Britain as a national political party. Islam’s influence over our way of life is far too large, far too powerful, far too much. I visited streets in Greater Manchester where the local British population have been replaced, there is no other word for it - replaced. We were almost chased out. Why has that been allowed to happen? Go and watch the vote count for those areas. Stacks and stacks and stacks of Labour votes. A mountain of them....