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A top Republican senator whose phone toll records were secretly subpoenaed during Jack Smith's investigation of President Donald Trump sued the former special counsel in his personal capacity Wednesday, arguing he was never lawfully empowered to wield the authority behind the Arctic Frost investigation. The lawsuit, Senator Marsha Blackburn v. John L. Smith, argues the prosecutor lacked lawful authority to serve as special counsel and violated the lawmaker's rights by obtaining the records. Blackburn is asking a federal court to declare Smith's appointment unconstitutional, order the records destroyed and award $1 in nominal damages. The case therefore seeks to test...

End Wokeness @EndWokeness · Muslim co-pilot stabs pilot and tries to take down plane with 180 passengers Media: https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2105313535865876581

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Dallas arrested 121 people during a summer enforcement initiative at Lake Lewis in Texas, including two confirmed members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua terrorist organization. A three-year ICE Homeland Security Investigations-Dallas investigation led to indictments against multiple defendants accused of running a sex trafficking and money laundering conspiracy out of the Paris Adult Bookstore in Dallas. Conducted from June 27 through Labor Day weekend, the operation involved multiple law enforcement agencies with a goal of identifying illegal foreign nationals and assisting with lake-related investigations. Those arrested had criminal histories of assault, family violence, assault causing...

The U.S. can deport the leader of a large mosque in Wisconsin on the grounds that he is a threat to national security, an immigration judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Salah Sarsour, an outspoken supporter of Palestine, in March. Sarsour alleged the federal government was targeting him for speaking out against Israel and advocating for Palestinian rights. In June, a federal judge agreed and ordered Sarsour released, the Associated Press reported. Sasour was born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and was imprisoned in Israel in 1988 after confessing to throwing a Molotov cocktail and...

Five men were arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act next to RAF Fairford U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said there were “strong indications” that Iran played a part in a foiled attack on RAF Fairford last weekend, when five masked men were arrested next to the air base which has been used by the U.S. to bomb targets in Iran. “We will say more in due course, but we can confirm our belief that we believe Iran to have played a part,” Burnham told the BBC. The comments by Britain’s leader back up earlier assertions by U.S. Secretary...

Explanation: Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries. Some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way galaxy, the island universe is an enormous 200,000 light-years across. Also known as NGC 772, it sports a prominent, outer spiral arm in this detailed cosmic portrait. Tracking along sweeping dust lanes and lined with young blue star clusters, Arp 78's overdeveloped spiral arm is pumped-up by galactic-scale gravitational tides. Interactions with its brightest companion galaxy, the more compact NGC 770 seen directly below the larger spiral, are likely responsible....

President Trump will announce a $54 billion overseas investment in the battleground state of Alaska later Wednesday, part of a slew of manufacturing and jobs plans the White House is unveiling ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election. The money from South Korea will build a liquified natural gas facility as part of $350 billion in US investments pledged by Seoul as part of a trade deal agreed in July 2025. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who is facing a tough re-election campaign, is expected to join Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the Oval Office for the announcement. Wednesday’s...

Nikole Hannah-Jones regrets sending her daughter to a ‘bad school’. But she misses the crucial reason why it failed its pupils Back in 2002, not long after the US was struck by terrorists, and I watched the world spin into chaos, my mother told us we had to leave our apartment. She had lost her job the year before and had fallen behind on rent. We were evicted. We moved in with my great-grandmother and shared a bedroom for two years. My mom enrolled me in the local school in Kansas City, Missouri. In sixth and seventh grade, from age...

[Catholic Caucus] St. Michael vs Lucifer: The Archangel’s Battle for the ChurchSt. Michael’s battle cry, “Who is like unto God?” stands against Lucifer’s “Non Serviam.” In an age of apostasy, attacks on the priesthood, abortion, euthanasia, and rebellion against God’s created order, the Archangel’s “Serviam” summons Catholics to defend the Faith without compromise.Each year on September 29, the Catholic Church honors St. Michael the Archangel. His name, “Mi-cha-el”, poses the challenge, “Who is like God?” Yet behind that question stands a profound commitment: St. Michael personifies Serviam (“I will serve”), the direct antithesis of Lucifer’s defiant Non Serviam (“I will...

Don’t look now, but Germany’s “ruling” Christian Democratic Union party has not only lost another state election, but lost it so badly they didn’t even win a single seat.Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has suffered the worst defeat in its history, failing to win a single seat in a crucial German state election. The chancellor’s centre-Right party won 4.9 per cent of the vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, final results confirmed on Monday.The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is north of Berlin on the Baltic Sea, stretching between the German state of Schleswig-Holstein and Poland.The hard-Right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) took...

It seems impossible that it's been almost exactly 17 years since U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and opened fire on soldiers at the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Center in Killeen, Texas. By the time Department of the Army police officer Kimberly D. Munley and Sgt. Mark Todd exchanged gunshots with Hasan and disabled him; he had killed 14 people — including an unborn baby — and wounded 32 more. Before going down, Hasan shot Munley three times, in the right hand, left thigh, and left knee. She survived, but never fully recovered from her injuries. Hasan's...

Florida has carried out theexecution of Curtis Wilkie Beasley, 77, by lethal injection, for the barbaric claw hammer murder of Carolyn Monfort, 62, Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Florida State Prison near Starke. Beasley was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. In 1995, Beasley was temporarily staying at Monfort's Polk County home while doing maintenance work at an apartment complex Monfort managed. Monfort knew Beasley through her daughter's ex-husband, who knew Beasley from high school. On Aug. 21, 1995, Beasley savagely beat Monfort to death with a claw hammer, then stole $800 and her car. Beasley eventually fled to Alabama and assumed...

,b>No raping? No lies? You can’t do journalism that way.When 60 Minutes debuts its 59th season, the one thing we can be certain of is that the media will announce that it’s a disaster and blame Bari Weiss and clamor for government intervention. The former New York Times columnist who had the temerity to not only leave the storied paper, but also start her own successful media venture, The Free Press, before getting hired to clean up CBS News, and to do all that while questioning wokeness and defending America and Israel, is more loathed than Trump in media circles....

(QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Former Charlotte City Councilwoman Tiawana Brown has filed an appeal of her 10-month federal prison sentence, saying she believes “it’s the right thing to do.” According to a notice of appeal filed on Thursday, Sept. 24, in federal court, Brown is appealing the judgment to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also asked the court to appoint separate counsel. Brown addressed this week’s sentencing in two separate Facebook Live videos. “I filed an appeal today on my case. So y’all [are] probably seeing that on the news. I filed an appeal because it’s the right...

The White House began mailing $500 refund checks on Wednesday to nearly 1 million Americans the Trump administration says were overcharged for their ObamaCare insurance. The Treasury Department checks will go out to more than 950,000 Americans across 30 states who use healthcare.gov, the federal health insurance marketplace, the Hill reported. "For years, the Biden administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now I’m returning it to you!” President Trump wrote in a letter that will be sent with the checks. Approximately 19.2 million people enrolled in Affordable...

The US federal workforce has plunged to about 2.7 million employees under the Trump administration — the lowest level in 60 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The government has shed more than 300,000 workers since President Trump returned to office in January 2025, shrinking the federal workforce by about 11%, according to the latest analysis from the BLS. The majority of the cuts occurred in the first year of Trump’s second term, with federal employment remaining at a consistent level through 2026. Active military personnel — which number about 1.35 million — and employees at America’s intelligence...

UK PM: Iran behind RAF base incident. Andy Burnham says Britain believes Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident, marking the first official confirmation of Iranian involvement in what amounts to an attack on British soil. Trump criticises decision to release suspects on bail.

Democrat U.S. Congresswoman Summer Lee from Pittsburgh said:https://www.wtae.com/article/allegheny-county-parental-leave-diaper-bank/73874570“We continue to have a Black maternal health crisis. Black mothers and infants face health outcomes that are dramatically worse than White families, and far higher than in comparable cities nationwide.”She makes an excellent point.So I did some research, and came across this information.I’d be very curious to hear what Summer Lee has to say about this information.https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/119846… an analysis of maternal deaths from 2018 through 2023… Among 7,901 maternal deaths over this 6-year period, the leading cause was unintentional drug overdose, accounting for 1,152 deaths (5.2 deaths per 100,000 live births), followed...

The UK government's plan to house 1,250 Muslim adult male asylum seekers at a military camp that backs onto the playing fields in the Village of Piddington has inspired the village leaders to apply to become part of the United States. Piddington chair Tim McNally said "our current population is only 350. We'd become a small minority in our own community with the addition of more than a thousand alien invaders with drastically different moral codes that blame women and children for tempting them to abuse, rape. or murder them living right next-door to us." Parish councilor Joe Marshall agreed,...

Democratic Maine Senate hopeful Troy Jackson complained that Jewish residents of his state have been reluctant to label Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip a genocide, saying that hesitation was “only because they’re Jewish.”Jackson, who has faced pressure from his left flank to more forcefully condemn the Jewish state, made the comment Tuesday to Portland’s NBC affiliate. “It’s unfortunate that there are people here in Maine that don’t like to use that term only because they’re Jewish and what that means to them, with the Holocaust,” said Jackson, according to Jewish Insider. “[Israel’s war in Gaza] fits that...