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Michigan's left-wing Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed billed county taxpayers $ 9,000 per month in consulting fees while running for Senate, according to public records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The Wayne County Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services approved a contract to hire El-Sayed for "consulting services" on April 23, 2025, six days after El-Sayed announced he was running for Senate. El-Sayed had previously served as director of the county health services department for two years, a post he resigned from on April 3, 2025. The contract, which extended through the end of the calendar year, stipulated...

Rahman Salehi, 34, of Salford, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, from Liverpool, were accused at Westminster Magistrates' Court of preparing to commit an act of terrorism or assisting another to commit an act of terrorism on or before 20 September. One of the buildings they are alleged to have carried out reconnaissance at is the Heaton Park synagogue which was attacked on 2 October 2025. Both men, who had arrived in the UK by small boat, were arrested in Manchester's Northern Quarter on the eve of Yom Kippur - the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Salehi and Ahmadyan were remanded...

Authorities are searching for a jet after it lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning. It is being reported that the aircraft in question is a medical transport plane. According to the United States Coast Guard, the FAA notified them that they lost contact with the Gulfstream “early Saturday morning.” There were six passengers onboard, USCG confirmed at 3:15 a.m. Saturday. The Coast Guard’s Northeast District stated about 20 minutes later that the Gulfstream G100, with the tail number #C-GRJP, was flying from Bermuda International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport when it disappeared off the coast of...

The Democrat Party is co-opting its socialist insurgents to defeat Trump and the GOP—but inviting ideological extremists into the fold could threaten the party’s future. This is the final installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. Like Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), America’s center-left Democrat Party faces a challenge from its extreme flank. Unlike the CDU, which has abandoned its past strategy and adopted one of confrontation, the Democrat Party is sticking with its strategy of co-option—not fusion—with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). But will the Democrat Party’s strategy prove any more successful...

Special Ops Magazine@specialopsmagIn Afghanistan, 2012, US Marine Lance Corporal Winder Perez took an RPG that punched through his thigh and stayed there, live, instead of detonating.An Army MEDEVAC crew that had been told they were picking up an injured child landed, saw the round still stuck in him, and voted to fly him anyway, even though hauling unexploded ordnance is against the rules.They made the careful run to FOB Edinburgh, where the rest of the base was held back and Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Gennari kept Perez breathing while Army EOD Staff Sgt. Ben Summerfield pulled the rocket free. Perez...

The 2026 Dog Photography Awards have recognised photographers from around the world, with around 1,900 entries submitted from 50 countries. The competition says it aims to highlight the work of established dog photographers alongside emerging talent, with images judged across six categories: Portrait, Action, Studio, Dogs & People, Documentary and Open. The 2026 prize pool includes €2,500 ($4,000 AUD) in cash and an engraved trophy. Katie Brockman from the United States was awarded the title of Dog Photographer of the Year for her portrait of a pit bull, a species she describes people holding complicated feelings for.

TEL AVIV: The FlyDubai co-pilot who officials said nearly crashed a Tel Aviv-bound flight with 182 people aboard was barred from flying by his native Oman over concerns he had adopted extremist views, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday.The co-pilot was subsequently hired by the United Arab Emirates-based airline, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. It was not immediately clear to what extent he was vetted when he was hired in the Emirates. Oman’s move to bar the co-pilot from flying was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.The attack...

Vance has said he will wait until after the midterms before deciding whether to run in 2028. Vance declined to speculate about whether a poor Republican showing could discourage him from running.

How the British people gave up their own country, their future, and the narrative of their past. The Thames and the Tower of London (Samuel Scott, 1771). With intellectual clarity and courage, Soviet-born British podcaster Konstantin Kisin has challenged the common claim that Britain has always experienced high-volume immigration and is inherently a “nation of immigrants.” He notes that the post-1066 Norman conquest added only 5,000–10,000 individuals from mainland Europe to the ruling class—a number that pales, both numerically and proportionally, next to modern net migration figures running in the hundreds of thousands annually. The unprecedented transformation of Britain’s demographic...

The FBI shared new information Friday pertaining to President Donald Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, releasing text messages he shared with an unidentified person related to a 3D printer he used to build a firearm. The information was released through a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request and contained text messages the bureau determined were "pertinent" to the investigation.The 20-year-old fired on Trump in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a presidential campaign speech, grazing his ear, and seen live on TV. An attendee at the rally was killed while attempting to shield his family. Crooks, who fired...

The midterm elections are a month away, and I would like to ask a favor: Please make sure that you vote. Please encourage your friends and family to vote. We need all the help that we can get. Perhaps you feel that voting is a useless exercise that exists to legitimize bad outcomes — a way of forcing citizens to accept responsibility for things they did not do. “You get the government you vote for,” we often hear, but that’s not exactly true. Unelected bureaucrats and judges from unaccountable agencies and Constitution-subverting courts give us a lot of government that...

Beloved, it is fall in New England, and the leaves are changing and beginning to fall; and what fool is there in New England that would say that winter is not coming and we are still in Spring (Matt. 16:3)? So ch is our Last Days world. Jan and Michelle’s latest weekly edition of Falling Into Place, Jan Markell and Michele Bachmann consider the lateness of the hour. To understand how and why things are EXPONENTIALLY ramping up, just look at Israel, one of Almighty God’s Last Day’s signs to the nations! Oh how crucial it is for God’s last...

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone’s ruling means federal contractors can’t continue construction in the national park or surrounding areas until a lawsuit opposing the work is resolved.

Miss Wisconsin is putting agriculture literacy at the forefront. Olivia Lulich made agricultural literacy a central part of her platform. She uses social media to reach the next generation who will help feed, clothe and fuel the world. The Viroqua-area schools agriculture teacher and FFA advisor has an initiative called "One to 100." It showcases how one percent of the population feeds 100 percent of our world. "I think so many of our society and generation cares about what's in our food and how it is getting to our tables at the end of the day and the best way...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (10/3/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 41[a]For the director of music. A psalm of David.1 Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the Lord delivers them in times of trouble. 2 The Lord protects and preserves them— they are counted among the blessed in the land— he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.3 The Lord sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness. 4 I said, “Have mercy on me, Lord; heal me, for I have sinned against you.” 5 My enemies say of me in...

Christa Pike is unconscious and on a ventilator after a botched execution late Wednesday evening, her attorneys said. Christa Pike, 50, was sentenced to death for a 1995 fatal stabbing, torture and beating of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. An inverted pentagram was carved into Slemmer’s chest during the gruesome murder. Pike was 18 at the time of the murder. Pike’s boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, was also convicted of the 1995 murder.

In what is clearly an existential war, will the French government fight back and, if it doesn’t, will the French people? Or, more importantly, can the French people? France’s urban areas have extremely large Muslim populations. I mean, extremely large. Now, those same populations are rampaging through the streets, attacking people, and setting buildings on fire. This is an existential problem for France, and it’s unclear whether the government will stop it and, if it doesn’t, whether the French people (mostly disarmed, of course) will step up to save themselves. Let me take this step by step. First, how big...

In the exhibit hall of a convention center in Lubbock, Texas, chef Chase Obenchain stands on a small black stage, demonstrating how to make a variation of Spanish rice. As attendees are served the dish for lunch, Obenchain adds the ingredients to a pan: garlic, onions, tomatoes – but not rice. Instead, this dish calls for sorghum. “Sorghum has a really, really beautiful way of just absorbing whatever cooking liquid that there is with it to be able to really showcase whatever other things it's being cooked with,” Obenchain said while he mixed the pearl-like sorghum grains with the vegetables....

Muslim cleric Uthman ibn Farooq called for Islam’s spread in America and praised historic Muslim military victories at a September 18 gathering in McKinney, urging Muslims in the United States to remain uncompromising in their faith. The gathering took place at Sufaraa Center’s McKinney campus, 2220 Bush Drive. The event description billed it as a “Special Night” featuring Farooq and Dr. Karim AbuZaid. “We love this country,” Farooq said, The Federalist reported. “We want good for this country. And that’s why we want Islam for this country, ’cause we think that’s the best thing. And we’re not going to be...

A $7.5 billion check from the federal government could be headed toward property tax relief for Texans. Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday that he wants to use as much of Texas’ recent border-security reimbursement as possible to reduce property taxes, while maintaining funding for the state’s ongoing border operations. Abbott made the comments at the Governor’s Mansion, where he was joined by law enforcement officials to commemorate October as Texas Law Enforcement Appreciation Month. Presenting alongside an oversized check made out from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the “People of Texas” for $7.5 billion, Abbott highlighted the federal...