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The President was granted the authority to pause crude oil export in the law Congress passed to permit crude oil exports. Trump order it to lower crude costs and gasoline prices before the midterms. Should he do it?

The most off-putting thing about the NFL asking two teams to fly 16 hours to the other side of the world and play a key division rivalry game in Australia the first week of the season was the league agreeing to give the performative antics of some lady named Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin a stage during its pregame ceremony. Aunty Joy, as she is affectionately called by her followers, which include people in the Australian government, is an Indigenous Australian and Senior Wurundjeri elder of the Kulin Alliance, Victoria. And what that title means is that she is often tasked...

ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul is exploring building a new 3,000-bed state prison — the largest in New York — in a baffling reverse-of-course after shuttering numerous correctional facilities. The state Corrections Department is seeking proposals to construct the massive proposed $750 million facility somewhere in the state, according to stunning documents released this week and obtained by The Post. “The proposed facility will include approximately 3,000 beds, multiple new housing and support buildings, security systems, and significant site and utility infrastructure improvements,” the documents said. As to where the new prison might be located, the documents only said it...

The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, according to government documents. President Trump has repeatedly blamed vandals wielding knives or box cutters for damage to the pool’s “American flag blue” liner, even after the Justice Department dropped charges that it had brought against people accused of vandalizing the national landmark. But the documents, which have not previously been reported, make clear that the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, found...

The New Jersey hairdresser accused of hiring a hitman she met on Tinder to murder her ex-boyfriend and his teenage daughter was indicted Wednesday in connection with the contract killing plot. Jaclyn Diiorio, 28, faces two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in an attempt to commission a murder-for-hire, according to the Department of Justice Diiorio used her cell phone and tried to pay a confidential informant to kill her ex-boyfriend — a Philadelphia Police officer, Matthew O’Hanlon — and his 19-year-old daughter, a federal indictment filed Sept. 3 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania...

President Donald Trump closed out night one of the Republican National Committee (RNC) first-ever midterm convention with one simple plea: “Pretend that I’m on the ballot.” “I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. Just one more time, because if we lose, you’re going to lose your border, you’re going to lose your tax cuts, you’re going to lose your safety and security, you’re going to lose your wealth,” Trump said. It’s an important ask, given how Republicans have struggled to turn out voters when Trump is not literally on...

“AI can kill us all by the end of the decade.” — Jacob Coxon, 2026 “Climate change will wipe out humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.” — Greta Thunberg, 2018 “100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next 10 years.” — Paul Ehrlich, 1970 Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon made news this week with a grim prediction about AI. “The people building AI,” he posted, “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” “No other human activity poses this level of danger,” he...

9/11 Exposed The Weakness Of A Post-Christian WestWe didn’t just get the Muslim world wrong. We got America wrong too.A quarter-century removed from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, several things are now obvious that were not at all obvious to American elites in 2001 (although they should have been). Perhaps the most obvious, as I wrote earlier this week, is that the attacks inaugurated a religious war that we have lost, or at least are in the process of losing. The West failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict because it was committed to a secular liberal account...

What Are We Teaching Children About 9/11?Twenty-five years later, some instructional materials criticize America’s response to terrorism instead of informing students about the ideology and perpetrators of the attacks.September 11, 2026, marks 25 years since al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and murdered nearly 3,000 innocent people in the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.A generation of students has grown up with no memory of that day. What they understand about it depends on what we choose to teach them. Judging by some of the materials available, Americans should be concerned.One of the nation’s most elite schools of education—the University...

Saudi Arabia’s critical East-West oil pipeline system was struck on Thursday, with multiple pumping stations hit in an attack that could threaten one of the kingdom’s most important crude export routes, according to CNN, citing two U.S. officials familiar with the matter... ...OilPrice.com reported that NASA FIRMS had detected multiple large fires near the East-West pipeline, while Sentinel-3 imagery appeared to show a massive plume of black smoke stretching across western Saudi Arabia. One U.S. official said the attack involved drones originating from Iraq, although responsibility for the strikes has not yet been established... ...It also remains unclear whether the...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were seen yukking it up during the somber reading of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero during the 25th anniversary service. The New York City Democratic Socialists of America darlings appeared all smiles in a live feed of the ceremony, interspersed with shots of a man cradling his head in his arms and bawling his eyes out and friends and family reading out the names of their departed loved ones from the podium.

The Heavy Yoke of 9/11 Twenty-five years after September 11, we’ve failed to confront the ideology that drove the terrorists.Twenty-five years ago this morning, 2,977 people were murdered in the space of 102 minutes. Most of them had gone to work. Some had boarded an airplane. Among them were 343 New York City firemen who climbed the stairs of the World Trade Center towers while everyone else came down, knowing what that act meant. Aboard a plane over Pennsylvania, 40 passengers and crew learned by telephone what was happening and took their plane back from the men who had...

Prices increases remained stubbornly high in August with little relief in sight for weary American consumers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that consumer prices rose by 0.4 percent in August month over month, leaving the annual CPI inflation rate at 3.4 percent, flat with the 3.4 percent figure in June. 'Apart from the hot core inflation, today’s data doesn’t even cover the most recent oil price spike above $100,' Nic Puckrin, markets expert and former Goldman Sachs analyst, told the Daily Mail. The August inflation numbers are the last impactful data report to come out before the Federal...

Remember all that weaponry Joe Biden’s administration ordered our soldiers to leave behind when we pulled out of Afghanistan? Well we just armed terrorist groups around the world. Sorry to spoil your morning coffee, but let’s recall that terrible day when thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. Remember that day when President Biden back in 2021 decided to walk away and leave a ton of military equipment behind? It was bad, really bad. Well, whatever happened to those weapons anyway? Many of us predicted that they’d fall in the hands of the bad guys. Here is one story I...

A new sculpture has been unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square, where it will stand for the next two years. “Lady in Blue,” by New York-based artist Tschabalala Self, is a bronze statue of an anonymous young Black woman wearing a form-fitting blue dress, matching heels and glass beaded jewelry. She’s strong and she’s going places. It is the 16th statue to be installed on the so-called Fourth Plinth, as part of an ongoing public art commission first launched by the Royal Society of Arts and today supported by the Mayor of London, Arts Council England and Bloomsbury Philanthropies. “Lady...

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were caught laughing together at the 9/11 25th anniversary memorial service on Friday. The Democrats were seen bursting into laughter at the Ground Zero event in lower Manhattan, while the names of 9/11 victims were being read and mourners stood silently around them. At the same moment, loved ones of the victims of the attacks were reading names of the deceased, and others were seen crying at the memorial. It comes after Mamdani appeared at the event despite being urged not to attend by 9/11 victims groups, which he refused...

A wealthy Washington, D.C., suburb's public school district is advising teachers not to link 9/11 with radical Islam and to be sure to create "safe spaces" for Muslim students as the nation somberly marks the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. The guardrails in a six-page instructional guide, "25th Anniversary and Commemoration of 9/11" and distributed to teachers, has prompted critics to accuse Fairfax County (Virginia) Public School's liberal leaders of coddling post-9/11 sensitivities rather than teaching history. "It's sort of a vanilla way to do things," retired Navy Vice Admiral Lou Crenshaw, who was...

For Immediate Release. September 5, 2006 In Their Own Words: What the Terrorists Believe, What They Hope to Accomplish, and How They Intend to Accomplish It The Terrorists On September 11 Osama Bin Laden: The 9/11 Attacks Were "An Unparalleled And Magnificent Feat Of Valor, Unmatched By Any In Humankind." BIN LADEN: "On the blessed Tuesday 11 September 2001 … they launched their attacks with their planes in an unparalleled and magnificent feat of valor, unmatched by any in humankind before them. … Yet with the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York, there occurred an even bigger destruction:...