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Hurricane Polo is an absolutely monstrous storm that everyone that lives in the entire state of California should be closely monitoring right now. On Monday, it was just a tropical storm that very few people had heard about. By Tuesday, it had become the most intense hurricane in the Western Hemisphere so far this year. It experienced one of the fastest rates of rapid intensification on record, and it is now a Category 5 storm. The National Hurricane Center is calling Polo “extremely dangerous”, and meteorologists are waiting to see what it does next. Is it possible that it will...

In a new survey, homebuilders around the country say ramped-up Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns are creating huge headaches for their businesses. ... What they're saying: "ICE is becoming a very large issue and causing labor shortages," says a Houston builder in a survey conducted earlier this month by John Burns Research and Consulting, which regularly asks homebuilders about market conditions. A builder in Richmond, Virginia, says: "ICE has had significant impacts to vendors throughout Virginia/Maryland in the last 90 days. ... This has had a major impact on cycle times and the ability to start new houses." Jacksonville, Florida:...

‘The View’s Sunny Hostin boasts she was holdout juror who spared NYC’s Butcher of Tompkins Square Park cannibal killer “The View” co-cost Sunny Hostin revealed Tuesday that she was the lone holdout juror in the 1991 trial of a notorious New York City cannibal killer — resulting in the “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park” being found not guilty by reason of insanity. Hostin made the boast, which stunned her colleagues, in a discussion about Lindsay Clancy’s own insanity defense, and the attempts by Clancy’s lawyer to question the holdout juror in that case. The gruesome Butcher of Tompkins Square Park...

The new season of Fauda, released on September 8 on Netflix, is a hit around the world, as the series tends to be – but the big news is that, even as anti-Israel sentiment mounts around the world, it is the number one show in Lebanon, according to tracking sites such as FlixPatrol. Not only is it the top show in Lebanon, which has been in a state of war with Israel since 1948, but it is or has been in the top 10 in nine other Arab countries that have different relationships with Israel. At the time of writing,...

ICE watchers across the country who watched federal agents shoot people in the streets and fought to drive ICE from their cities are turning their new skills against the next authoritarian threat from the Trump administration: election interference. Volunteers who showed up a few months ago asking, “Where do I buy a whistle?” are now trained and committed members of an “ICE Watch” movement, said Zach Mueller, whose anti-authoritarian group States at the Core started hosting trainings earlier this year. “They’re not in the normal cast of characters that have been showing up to rallies over the last several decades,”...

More than 300 Utah voters were supposed to receive mail-in ballots for the June primary. Federal prosecutors say the postal worker trusted to deliver them did something else: He separated the ballots from the rest of his route, delivered none of them and dumped the mail in a church parking-lot dumpster. Now that former carrier, 34-year-old Damon Matai Seei of Payson, has been indicted on federal charges involving the unlawful destruction, delay and concealment of mail. The case is a blunt reminder that election integrity can hinge on something as ordinary—and as vulnerable—as one person doing his job. The Justice...

Gas Prices Are Out Of Control. Here’s What No One Is Telling You.We aren't simply wasting money on Ukraine. The return on investment has been overwhelmingly negative.Conventional wisdom is that “high gas prices” are the result of the war in Iran, that they’re going to result in heavy losses for the Republicans in the midterms, and that the cost of living is going to remain high for the foreseeable future. This consensus view, while not entirely wrong, is actually a simplistic and very optimistic version of events. The truth is actually worse than what conventional wisdom says. The truth is...

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- A Pensacola charter fishing group made an unusual catch on Saturday -- a large drone pulled from Gulf waters. It came from testing at Eglin Air Force Base and is now back in the military's possession. VIDEO AT LINK..................... "Hot Spots Charters" said the group was on a six-hour trip when it found the drone about 20 miles southeast of the Pensacola pass and gathered it in the aircraft. "It looked like a boat was upside down," Captain Daniel Arsenault said. "We thought it was an upside down skiff or something. So we changed our course...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Real America's Voice (RAV) today announced that its White House and presidential pool coverage, captured by RAV's internal camera teams, will be made broadly and freely available to media organizations everywhere. "At a time when a handful of legacy outlets are casting the President's decision as the death of the free press, the reality is exactly the opposite," said Parker Sigg, Vice President of Real America's Voice at Performance One Media. "Real America's Voice is pleased to provide a feed of the pool camera to all the media, even the fake...

The unrelenting rise in healthcare costs has left state lawmakers facing a $1.6 billion deficit in the 2027-28 budget year ... The best-case scenario forecast that Colorado budget writers received in June turned out to be too good to be true. Three months later, the budget picture has crumbled again, economists told the Joint Budget Committee at the state’s quarterly revenue forecasts Friday. Analysts now expect the state to face a $1.6 billion deficit next fiscal year, setting the stage for another round of grueling spending cuts for the state legislature and Colorado’s next governor. The driving force behind the...

A Chicago man who robbed a Red Line passenger while wearing an ankle monitor for another Red Line robbery he committed while also wearing an ankle monitor has been given six-year sentences for both crimes. But he caught a break because the judge ordered his sentences to be served concurrently even though he committed the crimes on top of each other. Shannon Stephens, 24, was arrested following the February 19 robbery of a 16-year-old boy on a Red Line train near Garfield, Chicago police said. Stephens and 20-year-old Markell Harper of Gary, Indiana, allegedly approached the boy wearing ski masks...

On Tuesday, he signed a document that paves the way to expanding the U.S. military presence on the island, opening new bases. But it explicitly stops short of conveying any territory to the United States. And no one — especially Denmark, which governs the vast but mostly empty space — wanted to emphasize that point, for fear that Mr. Trump might renounce the agreement he had just hailed as “tremendous for Europe and for the US.” Mikkel Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, described the final document, which was released Tuesday, as only a moderate improvement...

State officials said the incidents caused no harm to water quality or public safety.. Foreign actors gained access to computer systems at two small private water utilities in Colorado in late August, changing equipment controls before operators restored normal operations, according to the governor’s office. Ally Sullivan, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jared Polis, said the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment followed up with the providers to confirm the issues had been resolved. The governor’s office said it was unable to confirm which foreign actors and did not identify the utilities. “The two water utilities impacted are small, private...

A woke “black” and anti-Israel activist has been dubbed the “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal” after she was outed for being a white, Jewish woman who lied about her identity for years. Hannah Gann, a Philadelphia teacher, was forced to confess she was a “white woman of significant privilege and wealth” after fellow lefty activists grew suspicious of her background and confronted her. “I lied about my identity and have been lying for years. I have no Palestinian or Tunisian heritage,” she wrote in a self-aggrandizing apology on Instagram. “I am a white woman of significant privilege and wealth. Anyone who supported...

At the conference, a CCP official urged America to drop the “enemy narrative” about China. DNC Chairman Emeritus Howard Dean delivered the American welcome address at a China dialogue involving the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, a think tank identified in congressional commission testimony as “run by Chinese intelligence.” The Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament, which co-organized the event⁠, has an equally explicit allegiance. Its charter⁠ says it: “upholds the comprehensive leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.” According to the American organizer’s account⁠, Dean delivered his welcome virtually on June 23, 2026. The meeting took place in...

23 September 2026 Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Priest on Wednesday of week 25 in Ordinary Time National Center for Padre Pio, Barto, PennsylvaniaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingProverbs 30:5-9Give me neither riches nor poverty, only my shareEvery word of God is unalloyed, he is the shield of those who take refuge in him.To his words make no addition, lest he reprove you and know you for a fraud.Two things I beg of you, do not grudge me them before I die:keep falsehood and...

Subject: A thought on the media blackout… Hey everyone, Now that Fox has officially joined the rest of the legacy networks in sidelining and boycotting Trump events, I think there’s a massive opportunity here that his team ought to jump on. Instead of playing defense with the traditional press pool, why not flip the entire table? Trump and his communications team should take this opening to invite—and yes, fly in—the independent media to take over the White House Press Briefing Room for an entire week. Fill those front-row seats with people who actually speak directly to the audience: Benny Johnson,...

Newly released law enforcement bodycam footage obtained by the California Post reveals a chaotic 4:20 a.m. confrontation outside Miami’s notorious 24-hour strip club and nightclub E11EVEN, where officers were forced to draw a taser directly at WNBA player Paige Bueckers. The wild incident, which occurred on March 5th following a championship party, resulted in the arrest of Bueckers and Dallas Wings teammate Arike Ogunbowale. According to police affidavits, Ogunbowale allegedly struck a nightclub worker in the face with a closed fist before officers intervened to restore order. When Miami police officers arrived on the scene to regain control of the...

Her mea culpa about her daughter’s schooling is neither brave nor admirable.My daughter,” wrote Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2024, “is not worth more than any other child.” This assessment was offered as part of a reflection on a New York Times essay that Hannah-Jones had written eight years earlier on the subject of choosing an appropriate school. In tandem, she imparted two other reflections: that the school she’d made such a commotion about picking was clearly “failing”; and that, regardless, she still believed she had “made the right choice.”Two years later, she has changed her mind. Or, rather: Two years later,...

This is sad to see. A feud has broken out over Dolly Parton’s estate. Dolly Parton’s longtime manager Danny Nozell, who manages the entity that is in charge of Parton’s estate has filed a restraining order against Parton’s nephew Brian Seaver. Seaver, who was the head of security for Parton for several decades, was recently fired by Parton’s manager just weeks after he announced to the world that his aunt passed away. USA Today reported more on the messy situation: Dolly Parton’s estate requested a temporary restraining order against the late country singer’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, after he was fired...