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“ Several 'doomsday planes' were spotted circling above the US on Tuesday, just hours after the CIA director made a surprise visit to Moscow. Flight enthusiasts spotted at least five Boeing E-6 Mercury aircraft along the West Coast and in the central region of the nation. These giant unmarked planes, constructed using the frames of the Boeing 707, are built to survive a nuclear war and coordinate America's military response from the air if bases on the ground are attacked. Public flight trackers began following the aircraft at around 1:30pm EST, although the main planes appeared with blank or missing...

The Montana gunman who massacred eight family members – including four children – at a home he then torched has been ID’d as a 44-year-old relative who had been told to move out of the home, according to two of the victims’ father. The mass shooter was identified as Alan Smith, according to Brad Ireland, whose ex-wife and two children were among those killed in the shocking rampage. Ireland said that Smith had recently been asked by the family to move out of the home before the shooting occurred.

Dean has a sidearm which may be allowed in Canada. This is the Reichsrevolver Model 1883 with replacement cylinder pin. The group was shot with 200 grain Ultramax .44 Russian loads. They do not appear to be available any more.By Dean Weingarten | Contributing WriterThis correspondent has been considering a trip to Canada to do some research.The current Canadian government has stopped all importation of handguns for the foreseeable future.However, Canada does not classify antique guns as firearms. The requirements to qualify as an antique are strict. The handgun must have been made before 1898. The handgun may not...

So if you’re keeping score, Josh Shapiro is now opposed to data centers. Loudly and forcefully — for Pennsylvania voters to hear from Allentown to Ligonier, and for progressive Democrats to hear from Des Moines, Iowa, to Charleston, South Carolina. For Pennsylvanians, I understand if you’re confused. After all, Shapiro had been passionately for data centers — making a play to be the national leader and offering tax incentives and expedited concierge service for new applications. ---SNIP--- A governor so lacking in core values that he shamelessly moves from leading a press conference welcoming Amazon’s data centers to posturing TV...

U.S. Senate (R) Darline Graham (R) 13,029 55.7% Ralph Norman (R) 10,358 44.3% Votes in: Estimated 6.1% Updated every 2 minutes at this link: https://www.wbtv.com/politics/election-results/

How is the Secretary of Agriculture not willing to talk about where Americans are getting their beef from?

And now you understand Bessent’s obsession. The entire funding base of the US government is, at the margin, LEVERED. The buyers are not holding the bonds with their own money.. they are holding them with borrowed money, rolled overnight, against collateral that gets marked to market daily. That is a magnificent machine when repo is cheap and calm, and a doomsday device if repo ever seizes: a repo spike forces margin calls, margin calls force bond sales, bond sales push yields up, higher yields trigger MORE margin calls.. and suddenly the buyer of last resort is selling into a falling...

Saudi Arabia's futuristic megaproject Neom has come to a standstill, as the extraordinary costs of the planned city have collided with financial reality. After sinking more than $50 billion into Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's dreams of a sci-fi metropolis, the kingdom is now spending billions of dollars more to wind down contracts, leaving mammoth-sized partially built structures to gather sand in the desert. WSJ's Eliot Brown analyzes internal documents and satellite images to show how and why the world's largest construction project came to a halt, and what comes next for Neom. Why the World's Largest Megaproject Collapsed...

BAYCHESTER, The Bronx (WABC) -- Three people were shot, one of them fatally, after an apparent car meetup early Sunday in the Baychester section of the Bronx. The gunfire broke out during the street takeover at East 233rd Street and Boston Road at 5:40 a.m. Police believe multiple people opened fire and dozens of shots, as many as 60, were fired at the scene. An 18-year-old man, later identified as Werling Mendez, was shot in the head and died. Additionally, a 20-year-old woman was shot in the foot and a 22-year-old man was shot in the chest. Both victims were...

State Rep. James Talarico holds a narrow lead over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the closely watched U.S. Senate race, according to a new Texas Politics Project poll that also found Democrats reporting greater enthusiasm for voting. Talarico leads Paxton in latest poll By the numbers: The latest polling from the Texas Politics Project shows Talarico with a 3-point lead over Paxton, 42%-39%. The poll also shows Libertarian candidate Ted Brown with the support of 3% of those polled, while 14% said they haven't thought about it enough to form an opinion. Democrats are more enthusiastic about vote and...

U.S. President Donald Trump and leaders from around the world sent messages of support to Ukraine on Aug. 24, the nation's Independence Day. This year's holiday marks Ukraine's fourth Independence Day since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. "The people of Ukraine have an unbreakable spirit, and your country's courage inspires many," Trump said in a letter of support posted to social media by President Volodymyr Zelensky. "As you mark this important day, know the United States respects your fight, honors your sacrifices, and believes in your future as an independent nation."

As a governor and senator, Huey Long is best remembered for his radical proposals to redistribute wealth by force and for criticizing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" as not expansive or progressive enough. So when Vice President J.D. Vance says out loud that he finds Long "great" and "interesting," that's worth keeping in mind.

Have you found a girlfriend yet, young man? I ask because people are pairing off at the lowest rates in modern history. While many argue over the causes, everyone—both left and right—agrees on the culprit: men. The internet is awash in articles positing some variation of the title “Where have all the good men gone?” On the left, one of the most prominent works on this question is the New York Times’ essay “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back” by Rachel Drucker. Leftists never consider the mess that is the modern dating world—or their role in creating it—and...

Explanation: What’s creating this giant hole in space? This is not a black hole — it’s a shadow. It’s Earth’s shadow. Since at least the time of Aristotle, people have noted that Earth's dark shadow on the Moon during a partial lunar eclipse is circular -- although never a whole circle. Using modern digital technology, though, the images of multiple lunar eclipses can be combined to show Earth's complete shadow. The featured image compilation by a perseistent astrophotographer is constructed from 22 years of lunar eclipses. The Moon is not eclipsed every month (moon-th) because the Moon's orbit is slightly...

The Trump administration threatened to tear down the Kennedy Center if plans to add President Trump’s name to the front of the building and also make extensive repairs are blocked. Without the president’s support, the Kennedy Center will need to be demolished and replaced with a new structure, lawyers for the Trump administration warned in a legal brief filed late Monday. And donors will flee — leaving the center in a “financial and structural death spiral” — if they don’t see Trump properly honored with his name on the entrance of the building, they argued.The attorneys, led by Assistant Attorney...

Podcast titan Joe Rogan believes that hip-hop’s relative lack of commercial success in 2026 can be attributed to the Trump administration’s defunding of the USAID. Rogan made the claims about hip-hop during the Aug. 13 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with comedian Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir. Podcast titan Joe Rogan believes that hip-hop’s relative lack of commercial success in 2026 can be attributed to the Trump administration’s defunding of the USAID. Rogan made the claims about hip-hop during the Aug. 13 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with comedian Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir....

Former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg supports the idea of Ukraine extending general mobilization to include women, he said in an interview with Naspravdi MAX YouTube channel on Aug. 24. In the interview, Kellogg said he considers women’s military service an important part of civic duty.

Pope’s newspaper pushes feminist rewrite of Catholic doctrine The Pope’s newspaper has published a series reimagining historic Catholic teaching on the devil, sin, and Church history through a feminist-revisionist lens.L’Osservatore Romano – the official newspaper of the Holy See – published a series of articles in its July 2026 women’s supplement, Women Church World, in which several scholars attempt to dismantle the Traditional doctrine on the devil and his real existence, original sin, the capital vices, and the relationship between theology and the Magisterium, applying a feminist-inspired doctrinal revisionism.“Historically, the world can be divided into two distinct periods: one in...

As anyone who has seen even snippets of the atrocities live-streamed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel can attest, they took ecstatic glee in their spree of murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping. It reveals a demonic sadism that normal people, not warped by a culture of obsessive Jew-hatred and supremacist religious fervor, simply cannot wrap their heads around. Similarly, today’s Democrat Party, thoroughly captured by the far Left, is warped by a toxic brew of Trump Derangement Syndrome, anti-white racism, and hatred of the “colonialist,” capitalist West. They revel in their own sadistic fantasies and...

Wilhelm Dörpfeld was a German architect and archaeologist, a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects... In 1877, Döerpfeld became an assistant at the excavations of Ancient Olympia, Greece, conducted under Richard Bohn, Friedrich Adler, and Ernst Curtius. He later became the technical manager of the project. The group uncovered, among other artifacts, an intact statue of Hermes by Praxiteles. The excavations revived the memory of the ancient Olympic Games and contributed toward the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in 1896. In 1882, Dörpfeld joined Schliemann, who was then excavating Troy... The two eventually became...