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Russian agents are posting ads online, preying on the vulnerable to fight for them, and sadly, people are falling for it. The money doesn't outweigh the risks. Russia is running out of troops and as a result has resorted to recruiting Americans to fight on the front lines by offering them an incentive of a $27,000 signing bonus. The Kremlin has reportedly duped 18 Americans into fighting on their behalf against Ukraine and according to insiders, it’s a suicide mission.

The FBI is offering a $1 million reward that leads to the capture of the newest member of their Most Wanted Fugitives list, who is allegedly part of an organized crime group with ties to Southern California. During a news conference on Monday, FBI officials provided new information on Satinderjeet Singh, who is also known as Goldy Brar among other aliases. They said that he is wanted for "his alleged involvement in the Lawrence Bishnoi Organized Crime Group," which has allegedly engaged in "a variety of violent acts in Southern California, and across the United States and Canada." Singh is...

Tax-exempt nonprofits linked to foreign governments, including an adversary and state sponsor of terrorism, are actively intervening in critical U.S. elections in apparent violation of federal tax law. These organizations endorse candidates and campaign for them openly—from the pulpit, in some cases framing voting for a preferred candidate as a religious obligation—and they do it to advance an Islamist agenda opposed to the democratic values they exploit. A prime example is Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat. Most recently, over Labor Day weekend 2026, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) [EIN: 31-1054012] let El-Sayed’s campaign staff wave...

Republicans risk repeating 1992 by failing to counter economic pessimism with the facts about strong growth, falling inflation, rising incomes, and a recovering economy. Remembering the False Gloom and Doom of the 1992 Elections—and the Upcoming Midterms In 1992, Bill Clinton won the presidential election partly on the basis of his campaign’s false accusation that George H. W. Bush had overseen “the worst economic performance since the Great Depression.” Or so claimed Clinton’s running mate Al Gore. James Carville, chief campaign adviser to Clinton/Gore, amplified that message with the constant refrain: “It’s the economy, stupid.” That strategy worked for three...

Gordon Johncock, whose stirring drive late in the 1982 Indianapolis 500 earned him a second victory in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” died of natural causes Sept. 28 at his home in South Branch, Michigan. He was 90. Born Aug. 5, 1936, in Hastings, Michigan, the longtime resident of the state was the INDYCAR SERIES national champion in 1976 and won 25 races in the series. Yet, Johncock was known for winning both memorable and forgettable “500s,” each time driving for Patrick Racing. Johncock’s duel with Rick Mears in the closing laps of the 1982 race was the most thrilling...

WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two since-dismissed federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, told Senators on Tuesday that he would not be silenced “by continued threats of prosecution” over his handling of the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Smith appeared before Senate Judiciary Committee amid the Justice Department’s push to target law enforcement officials involved with Smith’s investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results as well as the probe into his handling of classified documents after...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Lindsay Clancy returned to court Tuesday for a hearing that could help decide whether she will face a second trial for killing her three young children. It was Clancy’s first return to the courthouse since her initial trial ended Sept. 4 with a deadlocked jury. A judge declared a mistrial with the jury split 11 to 1 in favor of acquitting Clancy of murder charges. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, never disputed that she killed the children, but her attorney said she had a rare condition called postpartum psychosis and was delusional and not...

The Democrats’ charge that 1992 saw the worst recession in 60 years was absurd(it worked). (The 1973 and 1981 recessions were far worse than the 1990–91 recession.) The 2025 poverty rate hit an all-time low of 10.2 percent. Median household income also hit a record high of $87,460. The brilliant Bush campaign strategist Lee Atwater, who virtually destroyed the Dukakis campaign in 1988 died in 1991 at the age of 40 from a brain tumor.

The Trump administration's recent effort to bring the law down on Rep. Ilhan Omar could go as far as seeking to strip the Minnesota congresswoman of her citizenship for alleged immigration fraud. But a criminal investigation is unlikely to yield the results the president wants, according to a former federal prosecutor. Michael Wildes, an immigration attorney, told Fox News Digital that investigators face a "very high bar" to build a case against Omar after White House border czar Tom Homan confirmed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is conducting a "criminal" investigation against the progressive "Squad" member. It all stems...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Two children who are accused of beating a 5-year-old girl began their trial Monday morning, more than a year after the girl’s mother found her injured in a field. “I literally saw the worst thing ever,” Antavia Kennibrew, the girl’s mother, said in an interview with 19 News in 2025. The trial for the girl, now 11, started Monday in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court. Prosecution painting a disturbing picture of the attack. “The girl’s clothes were taken off. She was strangled with her own shirt, the 5-year-old.” said the prosecution The 9-year-old boy took a...

The California Supreme Court did not try the Riverside count. On September 24, it decided who holds the paper. In Cervantes v. Bianco, S295866, Chief Justice Guerrero, for a unanimous court, held that Sheriff Chad Bianco’s seizure of the voted ballots from the November 2025 special election was unlawful under Elections Code section 15551. The court applied the pre-amendment version of the statute, while noting that SB 1418, effective September 19, 2026, made the provision “at least as protective of ballots as preexisting law was” [emphasis added]. The packages go back to Registrar Art Tinoco “forthwith.” The writ supersedes the...

A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with their daughter. Jonathan McKinsey, a 40-year-old gaming engineer for The New York Times, was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of a sports complex in Dublin, east of San Francisco. A police sergeant was driving nearby and saw him on the ground as witnesses began calling 911 and pointing out the couple, who were still near the scene, Dublin Police Services said in...

This guy makes the most immature and weird comments while preaching to his far-left church. What a complete flake. November 3rd is going to be a rough day for Texas Democrats. Not even all of their fake voters and cheating is going to push this clown over the finish line. He’s just too weird. Here is James Talarico preaching at his far-left church, St. Andrews Presbyterian, in Austin, Texas. The church posted the video in September 2019. He tells the assembled Christians to follow a prophetic voice like Muhammad, the Dalai Lama, Toni Morrison, or Mr. Rogers. James Talarico: “It...

The concept of “counter-revolution” has always carried an ambiguous charge. It denotes, at its core, organized resistance to the acceleration of utopian ideology inasmuch as this menace begins to devour the concrete order of ordinary life. Unlike nostalgia for a golden age, counter-revolution is the recognition that certain political experiments, once they pass a threshold of abstract purity, become engines of tyranny. The French 1790s offer the paradigmatic case. The Federalist revolts of 1793 and the far more ferocious War in the Vendée reveal two distinct modes of resistance to Jacobin radicalism. One was republican and decentralizing; the other was...

Key Points OpenAI has decided not to release its GPT-6.1 Astra model due to heightened AI safety concerns. Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI, said the model “didn’t quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and authorization, and how it communicates back to the user about the type of work it’s done.” The heads of OpenAI and rival Anthropic have both indicated recently that top AI labs should slow the pace of model development. ======================================================================= OpenAI decided not to release an upcoming artificial intelligence model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after determining that it did not adequately meet...

The Jackson, Mississippi, police chief told reporters on Monday that the hanging of Tasia Fortune, whose body was found on Aug. 3, was a "staged event" in a "a drug case gone very wrong." Police Chief RaShall Brackney also said that authorities are still investigating and expect "more arrests to be pending," as well as "charges of conspiracy" to be filed against the three suspects who were already charged in her murder. "This is apparently from what we can see, a drug case gone very wrong, in the ultimate death of Tasia Fortune," Brackney said. "So at this time, we...

PARIS (LifeSiteNews) — A French Muslim apologetics group that actively opposes a Catholic revival has predicted that France could “become Catholic again” within a few generations, following the Pope’s enthusiastic reception in Paris. On September 25 the group Miséricorde pour l’Houmanité (“Mercy for Humanity”) published a message on X predicting that “France will become Catholic again” amid what it described as a growing Catholic revival, strengthened by American Catholic influence. The group lamented that such a revival could undermine Islam’s spiritual influence in Western Europe. “I am sad when I see all this excitement around Catholicism,” the group wrote. “I...

Ten thousand U.S. households that earned over $1 million collected unemployment benefits in 2024, receiving nearly $100 million in taxpayer money, according to data shared with The Washington Times. The data was given to the newspaper by Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, who received it from the IRS and who has tracked this issue for years. Among the most common millionaire claimants were engineers, software engineers, lawyers, executive managers and salespeople, according to the newspaper. High-tax, Democratic-led states topped the list of locations in which the millionaires who collected unemployment lived. California ranked first, followed by New York, Massachusetts and...

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office bent its own purchasing rules to acquire forensic video software days before its indictment of President Donald Trump regarding the 2020 election, according to Justice Department records released by the Oversight Project. The documents, obtained through the Oversight Project’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, land before Smith testifies Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning his lawfare against Trump. They raise new questions about whether his office followed appropriate legal and ethical standards and what video Smith needed so urgently. The records show that on June 26, 2023, Smith’s Litigation Support asked Axon Investigate,...