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BERLIN — Germany’s embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his conservatives suffered a second major defeat to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a regional vote Sunday — a result Merz conceded was a “disaster.” But the chancellor moved to quickly quell a rising storm of speculation that he would move to step aside following the loss, which comes only two weeks after another historic defeat to the AfD in a regional contest. He appeared before cameras just minutes after the polls closed Sunday to say he would continue to push through his reform agenda and act as an anchor...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday morning that he is declaring a state of emergency ahead of what could be the strongest El Niño on record. Newsom’s office issued a statement confirming that state resources are being mobilized before the potential winter storms and associated impacts. Under the directive, state agencies can now begin protecting vulnerable communities, preparing roads and critical infrastructure, staging emergency supplies, and helping reduce risks of flooding and landslides as well as coastal erosion.

John “TIG” Tiegen@TigTiegen·Sep 20They didn’t lose the First Amendment. They lost a badge.They can still speak. They can still publish. They can still cover him. They just don’t get to do it from inside the White House.Nancy Pelosi doesn’t get to lecture anyone about the Constitution.Her gun record: • In Congress since 1987• NRA grade: F. Scores 0–8% for decades• Brady Campaign: 100%• 1994: voted for the federal assault-weapons ban• 1999: voted against cutting the gun-show wait from 3 days to 1• 2003: voted against letting commercial pilots carry• 2003 and 2005: voted against protecting gun makers and sellers from...

The Great Greenland Crisis has ended, and Donald Trump has declared victory. Last Friday, the president announced that he had reached a deal with the Danes that would give “the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns.” The barren, icy prize is finally ours. Or is it? Despite the usual bluster, bravado, and social media posts showing Greenland colored in with the Stars and Stripes, Trump’s avowed aim of annexation was not accomplished. The Dannebrog will still flutter in the Arctic breeze. According to a statement put...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to identify uniquely skilled and highly specialized foreign temporary workers to strategically supplement the United States economy. Instead, the program has been widely abused by certain employers, third-party placement groups, and outsourcing firms to undercut and displace the supply of skilled United States labor. The large-scale, systematic abuse of the H-1B program to obtain non-qualifying foreign labor has undermined the additive purpose of the program and...

Islamic supremacists are increasingly becoming emboldened in America. As a leading authority on Islamic jurisprudence, the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) is the most prominent and influential Islamic legal body in the U.S. and in Canada, and of the most prominent globally outside the Muslim-majority world. This is despite its alleged ties to jihad terror. The Sharia is divine law in Islam, and it covers every aspect of a Muslim’s life. Muslims in the U.S. who support the Sharia generally place the utmost trust in the FCNA. How anyone could deny the threat of Sharia expansion in America or...

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella signed Decree 1368 on September 8, 2026, ending the country’s nationwide suspension of firearm carry permits and restoring the effectiveness of qualifying permits already issued to private citizens.Here is a translation from the article in eltiempo.com:“’For years, the law-abiding citizen was restricted while criminals kept arming themselves illegally to the teeth. That has to change,’ the head of state said in a video on social media, emphasizing that the measure, which expressly repeals the restrictions established since 2018 and extended until the end of 2025 , does not translate into unrestricted authorization or indiscriminate...

Donald Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly will not be televised by the major US broadcasters on Monday as they band together to boycott his ban on CNN and MS NOW. Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC, collectively known as the TV pool, are protesting the White House and have decided to not dispatch cameramen or reporters to cover the president on Monday. This means that Trump's trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday will go unaired on the major networks. Still, the conservative outlet Real America's Voice (RAV) will be on...

Paramount has reached a settlement with California Attorney General Rob Bonta over a multi-state antitrust lawsuit, paving the way for its massive $81 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger, according to sources. By approximately 10:20 a.m. ET, shares in Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery jumped 6.6% and 9.8%, respectively, after reports that advanced settlement talks over the weekend had been successful. The settlement terms include a commitment to release 30 movies a year; a multiyear pledge to remain in California, after previously threatening to exit; and independent editorial boards for CBS News and CNN, sources told The Post. The Wall Street...

Justin Ashley could claim he was sick. Maybe find a doctor’s note. Perhaps there is a way to work the system and put another driver in his Top Fuel dragster Monday at the NHRA Great Lakes Nationals. Ashley isn’t interested. Rain postponed Sunday’s eliminations at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park until Monday, putting race day in conflict with Ashley’s observance of Yom Kippur, the holiest and most solemn day of the year in Judaism. Ashley will sit out. “And any other way of trying to get around that rule, I’m sure there are other ways, whether that’s pretending to be sick...

The federal government just told noncitizens who cast ballots in American elections that prosecutors are coming for them. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday it had charged 16 people in seven states with illegally voting, registering to vote through false citizenship claims, and related fraud, according to a press release from the department’s Office of Public Affairs. Many of the accused are noncitizens alleged to have voted in federal contests. The department paired the filings with a blunt message on social media. “Let this be a warning to ANYONE trying to cheat and undermine our elections,” the DOJ wrote....

A 22-year-old Nebraska volunteer firefighter wants to turn the work he already does into a career. One line on his diploma stopped him before he got the chance. Andrew Coates volunteers with the Cedar Bluffs Fire Department and holds a state EMT license. He applied for a paid firefighter position with the City of Fremont, but WOWT reported that the city rejected his application because his high school diploma came from homeschooling. The disagreement is not simply over whether Fremont can require an accredited education. It is also over what the city told applicants when Coates applied. At the time,...

Pakistan launched airstrikes into Afghanistan overnight, killing three people and injuring four others, the Taliban said Monday in response to a series of deadly attacks Islamabad blames on militants it says are harbored by Kabul.

Investing.com -- Saudi Aramco has informed at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will receive no crude oil next month following an attack on the kingdom's main pipeline to the Red Sea, according to a report from Bloomberg News, citing people familiar with the matter...

In what may be a world record for turnaround time, the litigation has already begun over the recent rescission by EPA of its carbon emission standards for fossil-fuel fired power plants. As reported here on September 17, on that date the EPA finalized its rescission of what were called its “Carbon Pollution Standards” for electric power plants. (EPA’s September 17 action did not rescind all of the Carbon Pollution Standards for power plants, but only those for existing power plants and major overhauls of existing plants; the standards for new plants remain in effect for now, although in its rescission...

Good thing, Gov. Hochul is focused on stopping ICE from arresting them. New York’s Gov. Hochul just signed legislation protecting illegal alien criminals. Meanwhile some people keep mysteriously carrying out machete attacks. Here’s one that just happened in Long Island. A man accused of fatally attacking another man with a machete in Uniondale was arraigned Friday in Hempstead. Prosecutors allege that 35-year-old Jorge Alexander Huezo Villatoro struck 40-year-old Tadeo Alvarado-Chavez on the head and body with a machete and continued the attack after the victim collapsed to the ground. Prosecutors said the victim was left in a pool of blood....

Brian Stelter, as expected, and got up on his moral high horse all weekend and lectured about censorship because President Donald Trump banned CNN MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds. However, as you shall see, Stelter's protests ring rather hollow because he himself in March 2021 suggested that Fox News be, get this, banned from the White House.First let us see Stelter complaining about the very thing he recommended in 2021 happen to Fox News, since it's just a "political tool," despite having actual journalists working at the White House:

My beloved Jewish and Gentile friend, may I ask you these very personal questions on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)? Where is YOUR atonement (covering) for your transgressions against the RIGHTEOUS Holy Law of Almighty G-d (Lev. 17:11, Isa. 53)? Where is YOUR sin-offering for your cleansing of transgressions against the Holy Law of Almighty G-d (Lev. 4, 17:11, Isa. 53)? Where is YOUR lamb to offer in your place for your transgressions (Lev. 17:11, Isa. 53)? Where is YOUR propitiation that FULLY satisfies the PERFECT RIGHTEOUS DEMANDS OF THE HOLY LAW OF G-D (Isa. 53:10-11, Zech. 12:8-14)? Have...

Britain is facing a potential slavery reparations lawsuit from Caribbean nations. The issue is due to be raised at the Commonwealth summit hosted in Antigua in November, which the King is set to attend. The Caribbean Community group confirmed last week it was 'preparing to advance reparations on the agenda of the upcoming 28th Commonwealth heads of government meeting'. Member countries have long demanded trillions in compensation for the slave trade, described by the UN this year as 'the gravest crime against humanity'. Britain abolished slavery in 1834 throughout most of its empire, decades before the US did so. The...

... If I were to write a song about journalism, I would have to title it Feces. The reaction to Trump’s announcement that he reached an agreement with Denmark to control Greenland is a classic example of people spinning gold into, well, you know what. Rather than admit the pundits were wrong and Trump once again made a great deal, the press immediately began spinning gold into, well, feces. The New York Times said, “U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says — The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected...