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In his first at-bat since becoming an American citizen, Cincinnati Reds slugger Eugenio Suárez got a new walk-up song. When he stepped to the plate in the second inning, Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA" began playing throughout Great American Ball Park. The music change was orchestrated by his teammates after Suárez left the team earlier this week to take the U.S. naturalization test in Miami and ultimately passed to become an American citizen. "It's very, very cool," Reds manager Terry Francona told reporters Sept. 4. "He was excited and he should be. It's very neat." Prior to the Reds-Brewers...

Police were slow to react to an "exceptionally well organised" protest that ground the Port of Dover to a halt for hours, a council boss has said. Kevin Mills, who leads Dover District Council, told the BBC that demonstrators "caught several agencies on the hoof" when they arrived on Saturday. Hundreds of masked men chanting "stop the boats" blocked roads, causing miles of tailbacks and preventing access to the port. Kent Police is yet to comment, but cabinet minister Jonathan Reynolds said officers "did deal with it swiftly". Mills said the force "appeared to be quite slow to keep the...

A popular Egyptian TV presenter has been sentenced to death by hanging after she was convicted for her role in a massive drug trafficking ring. Sarah Khalifa, a 39-year-old former host of Egyptian crime show “Mission Impossible” sobbed in court as she was ordered to be executed in Cairo, Al-Jazeera reported. “Please listen to me, sir. My parents raised me well; they are people who pray, and I don’t need drug money,” Khalifa, who has more than 2 million followers on social media, pleaded to officials. Khalifa and 11 others were sentenced to death after they were convicted of operating...

The Alternative for Germany party has a strong lead in a regional election, but it is unclear whether it will be able to form the country’s first far-right state government since World War II, exit polls indicated Sunday. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, went into the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt seeking an absolute majority in the state legislature to govern on its own. That would overcome the so-called “firewall” of mainstream parties’ refusal to work with AfD. A first state government would be the biggest prize in the party’s 13-year history, at a time of widespread discontent...

Ramaswamy announced Sept. 2 that he had accepted debate invitations from a local NBC affiliate in Cincinnati. Hours later, Acton's campaign issued a statement that boiled down to a hard no. Acton campaign manager Phil Stein said in a written statement that Ramaswamy is a "scam artist" who spreads lies about Acton and her family.

6 September 2026 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time The Collegiate Church of Saint Begga, Andenne, BelgiumReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingEzekiel 33:7-9If you do not speak to the wicked man, I will hold you responsible for his deathThe word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: ‘Son of man, I have appointed you as sentry to the House of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, warn them in my name. If I say to a wicked man: Wicked wretch, you are to die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked...

A former Columbus police officer has pleaded guilty a little over four years after he fatally shot an unarmed man. Ricky Anderson pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless homicide in the death of Donovan Lewis, doing so to avoid a potential murder trial. The agreement did not include a recommended prison sentence. Anderson faces up to three years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would open a federal child care program — built to help low-income parents hold jobs or finish school — to households where one married parent stays home, The New York Times reported Saturday. No federal program currently pays a parent to forgo work and raise a child at home.This one would be the first, according to the report, which cited people familiar with the discussions and a draft document the newspaper reviewed. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan is not final. The money would come from the Child...

Constance Margaret Fisher, born Constance Margaret Sirois on March 26, 1929, in Oakland, Maine, was an American murderer whose crimes occurred in two separate episodes twelve years apart. She is frequently described as a serial killer because she killed six victims during separate periods of criminal activity, although the case can also be viewed as two acts of familicide. All six victims were her own children, and all six died by drowning. Fisher's case became especially notorious because the first three killings resulted in her confinement in a psychiatric hospital rather than imprisonment. After several years of treatment, she was...

MAGA, Inc., the super PAC linked to President Donald Trump, has made its first major midterm buy with $10 million in ad spending to support Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his Senate race, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission. Paxton and Democrat state Rep. James Talarico are locked in a tight race in which polls continually show the two candidates neck and neck. The race is one of roughly a dozen that will determine if the GOP holds its Senate majority in the midterms. The $10 million will go toward digital and TV ads...

Besheer Mohamed @bmoham Sep 3 I wrote a data essay on Muslim Americans 25 years after 9/11 – American Muslims have grown in numbers and political visibility, but views of Islam are more negative now than they were six months after the attacks, and far more partisan

Considering the millions living in this country, it is no surprise that many Americans become victims of criminal illegal aliens. A 33-year-old woman living in Framingham, MA, was strangled to death in her home in late August by an accused man who is an illegal alien from Brazil. Flavio Alcantara Dias, 43 years old, is accused of strangling Brianna Connolly to death at her home. She was 33 years old. Thomas Brandt, who is the assistant DA in Middlesex County, said the accused, Dias, called 911 around 12:30 p.m., asking for the police and saying a homicide had occurred. According...

Phones rise across the room as Chris Rabb steps to the front. It is the second day of the national summit for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in Chicago, and Rabb is fresh off an upset that launched the movement’s summer winning streak, defeating party-backed rivals in a Democratic congressional primary outside Philadelphia. Activists in red shirts move closer to take selfies. Some wear DSA’s rose insignia; others have slogans about ICE or Gaza stretched across their chests. “All right, comrades,” Rabb says, using the group’s preferred form of address with a satisfied grin. He asks whether anyone is...

Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is set to travel to Los Angeles in September for a high-dollar fundraiser with Hollywood celebrities, according to a report. Politico reported that "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof and his wife, Heidi, will host a fundraiser for Talarico in Brentwood on Sept. 10. Tickets for the event start at $500 and go as high as $13,500, according to the outlet. This will be Talarico’s second Hollywood fundraiser in a few months. The first was held in June and was described by Page Six Hollywood as a "glitzy Dem fundraiser" at the home of Hollywood producer...

Mercury, the tiniest and least-explored planet in the inner solar system, is hiding mysteries far larger than itself — and finally, scientists will soon be getting not one but two spacecraft designed to decode the strange world. That's thanks to the BepiColombo mission, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that launched in October 2018. After a harrowing journey through the inner solar system, the mission is tackling a crucial maneuver on Thursday (Sept. 3): separating its science equipment from the transport that carried it all that way. By April 2027, scientists...

In just a few months, the Trump-McMahon administration has saved U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by fighting fraud. The White House Fraud Task Force is assisting the Department of Education (ED) to ensure the government isn’t wasting educational funding on nonsense, or letting taxpayer money go to criminals. Thanks to common-sense reforms led by @WHFraudTF and @EDSecMcMahon, ED has saved American taxpayers more than $400 MILLION by cracking down on fraud, waste, and abuse. And we’re just getting started. pic.twitter.com/9dzIdgw7UK — U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) September 3, 2026 As a victim of federal student loan fraud myself,...

Only if they vote for him. It's pretty obvious he's a phony. The Democrats' crazy train just keeps coming, each boxcar a wonderland of leftist lunacy. Michigan's swing 7th District has gotten a beaut, a mild-mannered J.D. Vance-looking Democrat named William Lawrence, who all of a sudden has deleted a lot of his tweets. Yeah, it's a lot of them. Hundreds. According to Mediaite: A Democratic congressional candidate is distancing himself from now-deleted social posts in which he cheered for open borders, promoted a Democratic Party “civil war,” and blasted the nuclear family as part of a “violent way or...

American colleges and universities are panicking, for good reason. Enrollment across all of academia has been dropping for years, and starting now, there will be fewer and fewer college-aged people every year for the forseeable future. Colleges are scrambling for a way to survive. Big schools are slashing their course offerings. Small schools are making desperate plays to find a niche in a shrinking market. The bitter irony is this: American colleges and universities brought this crisis on themselves. The Baby Bust has a thousand causes, but some of the most significant anti-natal cultural and economic trends were created by...

FRANKFORT, Illinois (WBBM) -- A mother has been charged with murder after her 2-year-old child was killed inside a home in Frankfort, Ill. Police said Corie Walsh, 38, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Police said Walsh is in custody and was in the hospital for medical treatment. Friday afternoon she was transferred to the Will County Adult Detention Facility ahead of her detention hearing. Court documents have revealed unsettling and disturbing details about the toddler's death. Frankfort police said officers were called to the home in the 22700 block of Brook Stone Court around 4 p.m. Tuesday...

Democrats have made summer pilgrimages to Nantucket, tapping the wealthy Massachusetts island’s donor class as candidates and party leaders stockpile campaign cash ahead of November. Nantucket and neighboring Martha’s Vineyard have long been magnets for political fundraising, and Democrats are again tapping the islands’ deep-pocketed donor networks as candidates and party leaders build their war chests ahead of November’s midterm elections. As of June 30, the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had about $136 million in combined cash on hand, compared with roughly $277 million held by their Republican counterparts, according to federal...