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New undercover footage shows a minister at Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico’s longtime church describing evangelical churches as “almost cult-like” and claiming white men in Texas are afraid of black and Hispanic Americans gaining political power. Rev. Babs Miller, Minister to the Parish at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, also said some evangelicals treat the Bible as a “magic book” and are “slightly or maybe greatly misguided.” In the footage obtained by Texas Scorecard, Miller was asked, “What is wrong with evangelicals?” Miller responded that some people “pick words over people,” pointing to how evangelicals interpret the Bible....

Allies of Mayor Zohran Mamdani are hosting a big New York City fundraiser Monday night for Senate Democratic hopefuls James Talarico of Texas and Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Tickets for the Ohio Texas Victory Fund’s “special reception,” set for 7 p.m. in downtown Manhattan, start at $500 for regular attendance and go all the way up to $27,000 a pop for “champion” donors, according to the donation page. Hollywood star Robert De Niro is expected to introduce the Democratic candidates — whose races could determine which party controls the US Senate next year. Talarico is facing off against Republican state...

Explanation: What causes the swirl in the Shrimp Nebula? Its high speed is likely. What is sure is that Sh2-188 is one of the larger planetary nebulas on the night sky, by angular size, spanning about half the diameter of the Moon. Moreover, the white-dwarf core -- leftover from the Sun-like star that shed its outer atmosphere -- is moving unusually fast through interstellar space, creating a bow shock most visible on the upper left that is similar to a boat plowing through water. Although faint, the Shrimp Nebula glows also by compressing and brightening gas on its leading edge....

Lindsay Clancy returned to court on Tuesday for the first time since her murder trial ended with a deadlocked jury. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan for an acquittal, arguing that there was not enough evidence to prove that the 36-year-old former nurse killed her three young children. "This entire case is based on speculation," Reddington said. "Where is the admission? Where does she say that she did this?" Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the argument "laughable." Sullivan did not immediately rule. The next hearing in the case is set for Nov. 2. During the trial, Clancy's attorneys did...

Understand this election is not lost by a long, shot. We are being gaslighted with psyops polls and “just moved 3 Senate seat from leans Republican to toss up,” announcements. In July Democrat Senator Slotkin let the mask slip by saying that passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would make it more difficult for Democrats to win elections. Speaking to Indiana Democrats, she said, “[The SAVE Act] would literally allow this administration to rig our democracy so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.” ANY DEMOCRAT IN ANY STATE –...

I keep hearing that there's a white supremacy problem in America and that white people are lynching black people in droves. It's so bad, apparently, that the media (and children's YouTuber Ms. Rachel) has spent weeks arguing that black people are getting hanged across the nation for the color of their skin. Anyway ... Why did NBC News leave the mugshots out of their post?? .... If these men are guilty of hanging Tasia Fortune, 29, at an abandoned house in Jackson, the just thing to do would be to execute them by the same manner. Unless the libs would...

Sharon Jacks went to Selby General Hospital in September 2025 for a planned below-the-knee amputation of her right leg, according to a 32-page complaint filed on her behalf. The lawsuit alleges her left leg was removed instead. Jacks’ attorney, Brad Layne, said the error left his client a double amputee after doctors later had to remove the leg that was originally scheduled for surgery. “She went into surgery, and when she woke up, the wrong leg had been taken off. Yeah, it defies explanation, obviously,” he said. According to the complaint, Jacks’ right leg required amputation because of cancer. But...

If anyone needs another reason not to buy a smart appliance, Samsung just pushed a toxic update to their smart fridge systems and bricked them all. ... Affected fridges ‘suddenly lost power and stopped functioning immediately after' trying to issue a firmware update through SmartThings, Samsung's smart home platform. The SmartThings app then showed the devices as offline. Some users said that their fridge's internal display was stuck showing the message ‘Checking SmartThings app during update.' Without refrigeration, the customers' food spoiled. As a silver lining, the problem seems to be limited to South Korea. ... The problem was exacerbated...

Fearful that unrestrained development of artificial intelligence could lead to human extermination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) has introduced legislation that would establish a new federal Department of Artificial Intelligence (DAI). "Right now we face the total anarchy of the free market with regard to who will be permitted to develop this technology," the Senator complained. "We need government to step in and take control to ensure that this technology is properly managed." "All the big AI firms agree that a public-private partnership along the lines of that between the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the pharmaceutical manufactures would be the...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The University of Maine System (UMS) Board of Trustees voted Monday to accept a task force's recommendation to remove former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's name from a building and a scholarship. On Jan. 30, the Department of Justice released millions of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Mitchell's name appears more than 300 times in those files. In 2019, Mitchell was mentioned as an associate of Epstein's in testimony from one of the financier's victims. Mitchell, however, was never directly linked to child sex abuse. Advertisement A spokesperson for Mitchell said the former...

A University of Georgia student survived a plunge from her eighth-floor apartment, authorities said Monday, after she had been “dancing on a couch near a window” and fell out. The terrifying fall from the Rambler Athens Apartments at 558 W. Broad St. in Athens happened at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police records. The “student was dancing on a couch near a window that was open” and “fell from the 8th floor window and landed on the pool deck below,” the Athens-Clarke County Police Department said in a statement to NBC News.

LONDON — The British government issued an official public apology on Tuesday for interrupting whatever it was the nice Muslim men in unmarked vans were doing at 1:00 a.m. outside a military base used by U.S. forces. The five men were quickly released after brief questioning, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham personally calling each one to offer an apology for the intrusion. "We're terribly sorry for getting in your way, chaps," said Burnham. "We'll get you right on your way in a jiffy. It was that bloody fool of a farmer, calling the police and starting this whole nonsense. Really,...

Lindsay Clancy and her legal team returned to court on Tuesday, arguing that the state of Massachusetts failed to prove she killed her children — a claim that prosecutors called “laughable.” This marks the first hearing since Clancy’s triple murder trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month. The hearing in Plymouth Superior Court, which began just before 10 a.m., included a number of motions filed since the trial concluded. Judge William Sullivan immediately punted some of those motions to a later date, noting that he, and some parties, were not ready for them to be argued. One of those...

Five men suspected of plotting a bomb attack on an RAF base were released on bail on Monday after experts found no trace of explosives. Fears of a terror attack were downgraded just 36 hours after the group of British nationals were arrested by armed police close to RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire. Counterterrorism police said they were still investigating whether the men, aged in their mid-twenties and living in London, were proxies for a foreign state. It followed speculation that Iran could be responsible, after the regime issued threats against Fairford because it is a staging post for US strikes...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce plans to reduce by 20% the number of positions reserved for generals and admirals during his State of the Force address on Wednesday. Hegseth approved reduction plans for the Army, Navy, Air Force and the military's joint pool earlier this month, according to memos seen by Fox News Digital. The services were directed to implement the plans and complete the reductions by Jan. 1, 2027. Wednesday's address in Quantico, Va. is expected to lay out Hegseth's priorities for the military in the year ahead, with the reduction in senior leadership positions among the changes...

No one would claim that the Iran War has been a political godsend for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. But some Israel-First conservatives are willing to say—and lately have been incessantly saying—that the Iran War hasn’t been a political scourge. Those Israel-First conservatives are wrong, even if the devil is, at least partly, hidden in the details. The Iran War has damaged Trump’s approval ratings, consumed his presidency, and darkened the GOP’s prospects in the upcoming midterm elections. A chief proponent of the argument that Trump hasn’t suffered all that much from the Iran War is Ben Shapiro...

Throughout Graham Platner's Senate campaign, Democrats at the state and national levels repeatedly demonstrated that, at bare minimum, they were going to look away from the well-documented evidence of his antisemitism, his anti-Americanism, and his complete lack of respect for women and the boundaries they set. Worse than that, though, were the Democrats like Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) who not only knew about the scandals but who excused them by proclaiming that they had gotten to know Platner and that he was a "changed man" who was no longer sexting women who weren't his wife on problematic social media apps...

For years, privacy advice has been relatively straightforward: turn off location services, strip location metadata from photographs, keep your face out of pictures, and be careful about what personal information you post online. Artificial intelligence is beginning to complicate that advice. A new generation of AI systems doesn't necessarily need you to explicitly reveal where you are or even who you are. Instead, machines are becoming increasingly capable of extracting clues buried inside photographs, videos, voices and surveillance footage -- clues most people would never notice. Some of these technologies have obvious benefits. They could help locate hostages, identify criminals,...

Mahmoud Abbas stood before the United Nations last week--virtually--and delivered an astonishing message to the world. The Palestinian Authority's reform job is essentially finished. "We have completed the national reform program," Abbas declared, claiming his government had strengthened transparency, accountability, financial management, the rule of law and the fight against corruption. He said the Palestinian welfare system had been transformed. Education was being reformed according to international standards. Democratic renewal was underway. The Palestinian leadership rejected terrorism, extremism, antisemitism and hatred. There was just one problem. Nine days earlier, the United States government had reached almost the opposite conclusion. The...

🚨 BREAKING: New records prove disgraced Special Counsel Jack Smith not only obtained FINANCIAL RECORDS from EVERY DAY AMERICANS donating to Republicans — but Smith spied on communications between JOURNALISTS and GOP or Trump-aligned officials, per Fox JACK SMITH HAS TO BE LOCKED UP!! SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY RAGES: "Every member of this committee ought to be OUTRAGED for what happened to their constituents!" Apparently, some of the donations were as little as $5...THAT'S who Jack Smith was worried about Per Grassley, the feds will "forever possess" thousands of people's bank information as part of this sham investigation Jack Smith trampled...