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“MEXICO CITY, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia ​Sheinbaum said on Friday her government is doing everything ‌in its power to reach a trade deal with the United States soon, following a fruitful call with her U.S. counterpart Donald ​Trump earlier in the week. "We are doing everything ​we can, within the framework of sovereignty, respect, ⁠and what is best for Mexico, to reach a ​deal soon," Sheinbaum said, adding that Wednesday's call with Trump ​was "very good" and some agreements were reached. She didn't provide further details.”

Fr. Altier emphasizes women's inherent value and strength, particularly mothers, highlighting their unique role in creation as the closest beings to God because of their capacity for love. He expresses concern about societal attitudes towards women, particularly in light of a recent case where a woman killed her children, arguing that such actions are a rejection of their divine purpose and a consequence of extreme ideologies. He criticizes the notion that women should have absolute power over life and death, drawing parallels to the biblical story of Adam and Eve and the temptation to be like God. He further states...

(FOX40.COM) — A Sacramento truck driver was released from the hospital Friday after becoming the target of a violent crime at a Wyoming rest stop along I-80 last weekend. FOX40 spoke with Jasjit Singh, a local advocate for the Sikh community who works with the organization Jakara Movement. Singh also serves as a trustee for the Sacramento City Unified School District. Singh said officials arrested a 44-year-old suspect from San Gabriel for allegedly stabbing the Sikh man 17 times. According to Sweetwater County court documents, he is facing one count of attempted murder. While Wyoming law enforcement officials have not...

Defenders of Hamas will be forever remembered as terrorist-enablers. Countless protesters, academics, and street thugs are attacking Jews worldwide — beating, harassing, and in some cases murdering them — in defense of pure evil. They blame Israel, and by extension Jews, including Jews with no connection to Israel, for the deaths of Hamas fighters and Gazan civilians. It must be made clear that 100 percent of those killed in the war between Israel and Hamas are the direct responsibility of Hamas. Hamas caused each and every death. If Hamas-supporters can’t wrap their heads around that, they have no sense of...

President returning to White House as State Department urges Americans to reconsider Mideast travel No reason given for change to Trump's schedule US President Donald Trump cut short his weekend stay at Camp David and was expected to return to the White House late Saturday, according to a White House pool report. The White House updated the president’s schedule to show his return to Washington on Marine One, with the presidential helicopter expected to arrive at the Ellipse at about 7 pm local time (2300GMT), USA Today reporter Joey Garrison reported in a pool report.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,...

TITLES AND POWER Now I see why powerful people often wear sunglasses--the spotlight blinds them to reality. They suffer from a delusion that power means something. They suffer from the misconception that titles make a difference. They are under the impression that earthly authority will make a heavenly difference. Can I prove my point? Take this quiz: * Name the last ten Heisman trophy winners. * Name the last ten winners of the Miss America contest. * Name eight people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. * How about the last ten Academy Award winners for best...

A six-year-old California murder case ended in a mistrial after the defendant’s attorney was arrested at the courthouse on suspicion of being under the influence, according to The Modesto Bee. The unusual series of events unfolded this week in Stanislaus County Superior Court, where Kelley Marie Ball was on trial in connection with a 2020 crash that killed a 12-year-old girl in Modesto. Ball’s appointed attorney, Christopher Loethen, 50, was arrested Wednesday after concerns were raised about his condition while he was in court, The Bee reported. Loethen was booked into the Stanislaus County Public Safety Center on suspicion of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) announced a sweeping crackdown on fraudulent SNAP retailers—bodegas, convenience stores, and grocery stores—across New York’s five boroughs. This investigation, dubbed Operation SNAP Back, included hundreds of undercover investigations leading to action against 170 retailers. “This is just the latest action in the Trump Administration's fight against fraud. The message is clear, if you accept any portion of an annual $100 billion taxpayer program, you must follow the rules or face the consequences,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins. “We owe it to every American...

BREAKING: The FCC accepted SpaceX’s 100,000-satellite Starlink Gen3 application for filing. Each V3 satellite is designed for up to 1 Tbps downlink, 160 Gbps uplink and six 400 Gbps space lasers. Starship launches will add ~20× the capacity of Falcon 9 launches of V2 satellites.

The deranged ex-CUNY professor who once held a machete to a Post reporter’s neck is now running a “speakeasy tattoo parlor” where she inks communist-inspired body art on her radical customers. Shellyne Rodriguez, 46, who was fired from Hunter College in 2023 shortly after being filmed menacing Post reporter Reuven Fenton with a machete and threatening to “chop him up,” has found a new calling as a tattoo artist. The Instagram for the business, called Comrade Comadre, bills it as a “speakeasy tattoo parlor and community library.” The account is filled with images of radical tattoo designs — including Soviet-inspired...

It’s not the end of the world and they know it. Anthropic has helped seed a growing AI panic in Congress through an aggressive influence campaign, as the company and its rivals pour tens of millions into a spending war that’s just getting started — and some lawmakers say it’s a disguised power grab using safety concerns to freeze out the competition. The company, which is pushing Congress to impose new regulatory “guardrails” on the AI industry, has poured $40 million through two donations to the super PAC Public First Action, with a $20 million check arriving in late July....

The slippery-slope is nearing the bottom now. The City of Seattle wants to keep employers, businesses, and private citizens from discriminating against people who like to sleep around and/or identify as an infinite list of genders. .... Notice how "male and female" has now been struck from the municipal code altogether. The law will "recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation." This idea of normalizing multiple partners is a growing movement on the Left. ... It's...

The Iran and Ukraine wars have exposed the world’s reliance on the Middle East and Russia for diesel Persian Gulf states and Russia have invested tens of billions of dollars in refineries over the past decade to grab a bigger share of the global diesel market. Now, war in both regions has sent exports plunging, squeezing supplies of a fuel that powers much of the global economy. Diesel prices are soaring—they eclipsed $6 a gallon in the U.S. for the first time last week and have kept climbing, hitting $6.45 on Friday. The surge has rattled governments and markets around...

Long lines in IRAN!! (September 18th 2026) Very short video where Iranian man explains why there are long lines and how much food costs in Iran.

This is big. Through this executive order President Trump is defining fraud, corruption and abuse within the H1B visa system as a “national security threat.” That designation gives DHS and State Dept officials an elevated power-set to immediately introduce corrective action.

The Beatles told us: "All you need is love." They were right, but along with love must come marriage. But marriage rates have plummeted, especially among young men. A Pulitzer Prize-worthy story by Sean Salai of The Washington Times crunches all the numbers. To say they are worrisome would be a vast understatement. -- In 2025, nearly twice as many men ages 18 to 39 were unmarried as were married. -- There were 30.4 million unmarried men ages 18 to 39 in 2025, up 47% from 20.7 million in 2000. -- In the same period, married men in this age...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — The city of Dearborn responded Saturday to a lawsuit accusing it of celebrating Muslim holidays and ignoring religious holidays of other faiths by blaming attacks against it on its diversity and “welcoming nature.” A statement from the Detroit suburb issued by a spokesperson came in response to a lawsuit on Thursday that accused the city and its mayor of spending thousands of dollars to celebrate Muslim holidays while ignoring Christian and Jewish holidays. The lawsuit in federal court revived complaints about city government that arose a year ago after the Dearborn mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, told Ted...

Tusk’s casualty disclosure and Kushner’s challenge to Putin bring an uncomfortable question into the open: do the assumptions sustaining the Ukraine war still add up? Diplomacy becomes more difficult when abstractions acquire numbers. For years, the Ukraine war has been discussed through broad formulations: sufficient support, sustainable defense, battlefield momentum, acceptable terms. They provide governments with considerable room to maneuver because none requires an immediate answer to the harder question of what the war is consuming and whether that consumption can continue. Donald Tusk has now supplied a number. Speaking before the Polish parliament, the prime minister said Ukrainian partners...

A grotesque homeless encampment continues to expand on Manhattan’s West Side and now covers 12 city blocks with theft, drugs and prostitution flourishing in broad daylight Under new rules in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, the NYPD is no longer authorized to clear the encampments. The city Department of Homeless Services is in charge of conducting the sweeps, but it hasn’t done so. One vagrant went so far as to call the mayor “awesome” for allowing the unsanitary encampment to thrive and halting police raids that once cleared out the unsightly settlements. “Most people would agree that leaving people on the...