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In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C. For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. President Donald Trump’s dismal approval ratings were dragging her down in the polls, and she was falling behind her likely 2020 Democratic challenger in fundraising. Scott Reed, head of the Collins super PAC, was on a mission to close that gap. Reed was meeting that day with three executives from a Hawaiian defense contractor,...

War fever is ramping up again across Europe. This has happened several times in the four and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, usually coinciding with important national elections — particularly those in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Poland, and Germany — when certain domestic political parties have been demonized as “pro-Putin” and “security threats” to the rest of Europe. The war drums also get loud whenever increased military budgets are being debated within the governments of the Scandinavian and Baltic states, Finland, Germany, and Poland, as well as the European Commission. The ebb and flow of political battle cries against...

Japan PM Takaichi Tells Press “GET OUT!” During Trump Meeting — Trump’s Instant Response Goes Viral Run Time 4m 40s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwCabn2dQg Japan PM Takaichi Tells Press “GET OUT!” During Trump Meeting — Trump’s Instant Response Goes Viral Hilarious moment as Japan PM Sanae Takaichi just told the Fake News, GET OUT OF THE ROOM TAKAICHI: “I’d like to cover a lot of agenda items [with Trump]. Why don’t we ask the press to leave the room?” TRUMP: “Well, YOU HEARD HER!” /

Fox Pulled the Plug on Trump. Now the Admin Can Pull the Guests. Try Real America’s Voice (RAV), Newsmax, or OAN ...On Friday, President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, saying they report “fake news” and “shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES.”... ...Two days later, a Fox News executive shut off the president’s cameras. Not CNN. Not a committee in New York. Bryan Boughton, Fox News Washington bureau chief, chairs the White House television pool. On Sunday, he told subscribers that “effective today, the TV pool will not be covering...

DA Mary Moriarty in Minneapolis and DA Larry Krasner in Philadelphia have Emerging Adult Units. The goal of both pro-crime systems is to treat criminals under 26 years old like children. As the Philly DA’s office puts it, these “young adults aged 18 through 25” will be put through a diversion system that will “resolve lower-level felony” crimes without actual consequences. For these 25-year-old children, “charges may be withdrawn or reduced in order to lessen the social and economic damage that a criminal conviction inflicts.” Never mind the actual victims. In Michigan, the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act allows 25-year-old sex...

For the first time in more than 100 years, the laughing red cow has traded her trademark smile for a somber expression on select packages of The Laughing Cow Creamy Original cheese wedges rolling out nationwide. Bel Brands told Fox News Digital the frown is only temporary and promised the mystery will begin to unravel in the coming days.

...For years, Americans buying insurance through Healthcare.gov paid exchange fees baked into their premiums without ever being told exactly where that money went. The Trump administration says it found out: the Biden administration collected far more in user fees than it ever needed to run the exchange — and sat on the surplus instead of returning it. Nearly one million people across 30 states that use the federal marketplace will now receive $500 checks directly to their homes, covering, in many cases, the entire spike they saw in their premiums... ...Why does it take a change in administration for the...

New images and whistleblower complaints have once again put conditions inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miramar under scrutiny, where Democratic lawmakers say they have received reports..

NEW YORK, NY — The 81st General Assembly of the United Nations entered a high-level week of talks this week, with delegates demanding that the world take the organization seriously. For years, the UN had been largely ignored by the world's population, prompting speech after speech from delegates demanding to be recognized, or face the full might of further symbolic resolutions. "We are basically a one-world government, we should be feared," said UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. "Don't you understand that we hold the fate of the world in our hands in a sort of symbolic sense? We can just declare...

A breakdown of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry's own fatality list shows young men heavily overrepresented, while women and young children are underrepresented relative to Gaza's population. By Gila Isaacson — Sep. 23, 2026 A demographic breakdown of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry's own fatality list is circulating widely on social media. It shows that men of fighting age make up a far larger share of the dead than their share of Gaza's population. The chart compares the ministry's list of identified fatalities from October 7, 2023 through May 7, 2026 against U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for Gaza, broken...

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"Take . . . the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Eph. 6:17). God’s Word is your primary offensive spiritual weapon. All the armor Paul lists in Ephesians 6 is defensive, with one exception: the sword of the Spirit. That's your offensive weapon for defeating Satan. We've seen that Roman soldiers carried two swords: the large broadsword and the small dagger. The Greek word translated "sword" in verse 17 refers to the dagger, which was anywhere from six to eighteen inches in length and was carried in a sheath or scabbard at the soldier's side. The...

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BioRxiv The Preprint Server for Biology The DNA Legacy of Thomas Jefferson Posted September 21, 2026 Richard E. Green, Samuel H. Vohr, Joshua D Kapp, Jane E. Ailes, Samuel Sacco, Remy Nguyen, James Cahill, Peter D. Heintzman, Joanne Flores, Logan Kistler, Courtney A. Hofman, Robert C. Fleischer, Beth Shapiro, Richard Kurin doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.18.752809 This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. Abstract Allegations that Thomas Jefferson fathered the children of the enslaved Sally Hemings emerged in the context of U.S. presidential politics in the late 1700s and early 1800s and entailed...

Muslims who have long opposed a proposed church building in East Java Province are using an administrative error as a pretext to halt its approved construction, sources said. Claiming to have the backing of the entire area Muslim community, Muslim residents from the 01 neighborhood of 05 community unit in the Dukuh Kukun area of Babat Jerawat Urban village, Pakal District, Surabaya, assert that the address in official permit documents does not match the proposed church site in the CitraLand housing complex. “Residents have known about the church construction plan since around 2013-2015. The plan was previously delayed due to...

A Dakota County city of nearly 80,000 residents is set to welcome its second mosque in less than a year. The Al Hadi Association, an independent nonprofit Islamic organization, was given the green light Monday night by the Lakeville City Council to build a permanent place of worship, known as Al-Hadi Masjid. The city council approved a conditional use permit to allow a religious institution to be built at 17732 Junelle Path in Lakeville, which is zoned as a single family residential district. non-controversial and passed with a single block vote. “Our community is delighted,” Muhammad Shabaz, secretary of the...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), PriestJesus summoned the Twelve and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money, and let no one take a second tunic.” Luke 9:1–3Imagine having the power to lay hands on the sick and heal them. Though it may seem like something from the world of fantasy or superheroes, it is, in...

Neighbors remember the sound of church bells ringing on Sundays. A brick building with two sharply sloped roofs and a steeple — a Lutheran church for more than 80 years — still stands, but the cross that once stood atop the steeple is gone. About six years ago, the property was sold and turned into the Al Ihsaan Islamic Center. "They’ll turn anything into a mosque," Justin Tye, 57, told Fox News Digital during a guided tour of his hometown, where the foreign-born Muslim population has grown significantly over the past decade. Tye remembers the church as the centerpiece of...

Gaza terrorists joked about the October 2023 invasion of Israel as the attack was taking place, according to contemporaneous phone calls released in a US federal investigation on Tuesday that gave an inside view of terrorists’ immediate reaction to the Hamas attack and their preparations to join the invasion. The call logs were released in the case against Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, who allegedly assembled a team of armed terrorists and crossed into Israel to join the attack, and later lied on his visa application to enter the US. He was arrested in Louisiana last year. Al-Muhtadi was allegedly a...

BREAKING: Elon Musk on China in his new interview with CCTV Finance: “I generally recommend people go to China as much as they can, because China has so many things to see. I took the bullet train from Beijing to Xi’an. That was a great experience. The train stations are amazing. “The Terracotta Warriors are one of the wonders of the world. Just make sure you look out the window and aren’t on your phone, because there’s so much to see. Any words I say do not do justice to the incredible majesty that is China. It’s awesome.”