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The first round of the Brazilian presidential election takes place on Sunday. It is ostensibly between two major candidates -- the incumbent president, leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and on the right, Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsanaro who is currently under house arrest in poor health. Politico seems to be portraying President Donald Trump as the real opposition to the socialist Lula. Politico's obsession with Trump in Brazil begins with the title of their Thursday story by Camille Gus, "A new Bolsonaro could pull Brazil away from Europe — and toward Trump."

Military units will conduct a one-day voting stand-down in each election year. Service members can use the time to mail absentee ballots or vote in person. More than 418,000, or 23%, were NOT registered to vote in 2024, per the Federal Voting Assistance Program. Nearly three-quarters of active-duty members are eligible to vote absentee because they live more than 50 miles from their registered voting address.

This video from Doug In Exile discusses the launch of the new America.gov website, presented as a major administrative achievement for the Trump presidency. The video focuses on how this portal streamlines government services, such as applying for a passport or accessing veteran benefits, into one AI-powered, centralized digital location (0:15 - 3:30). Key themes and topics include: Digital Government Modernization: The video highlights how the site, which uses technology from partners like Gemini and Grok, aims to eliminate bureaucratic complexity and simplify voter identification processes (0:35 - 1:47, 5:35 - 6:35). Economic and Foreign Policy: The narrative pivots to...

To judge from many of the comments on this site, a substantial number of readers have difficulty understanding the sophisticated modes of thinking of the New York progressive. Looking at New York’s official progressive orthodoxy in action, these readers often see illogic and inconsistencies that seem to make no sense at all. And yet, despite the apparent internal contradictions, the New York progressives themselves generally achieve near or even complete unanimity as to many of the important policies that they seek to implement. How does this work? We need to take a deeper look. So I thought for today it...

Pubs are fertile ground for tall tales, with many claiming to be the oldest pub in England. What Is the Oldest Pub in England? | 7:58 | Historic England | 30.9K subscribers | 203,944 views | October 1, 2026

A stunning medical case is raising new questions about what may still be possible for patients suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s disease. A Japanese-American woman in her 80s who had spent five years barely speaking, unable to walk on her own, and incontinent of urine started talking about her own life again roughly 19 hours after a single oral dose of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, according to a case report published May 28, 2026, in Frontiers in Neuroscience. The paper, “Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration,” was written by Marcos Lago, Mariana Cerveira, and Joe Xavier...

So here we are, with diesel at $6 a gallon. Listening to the political conversation, you could easily come away thinking this all started when Iran went to war. In fact, it didn’t. Iran supplied the shock, but we had already built the vulnerability, which is a key distinction. Yes, the war in the Middle East has disrupted oil flows and tightened global supplies. The Energy Information Administration says that tight global distillate supplies and elevated crude prices are pushing diesel prices higher. U.S. distillate inventories have fallen below their five-year range, while the loss of significant refining and petroleum-product...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (10/4/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalms 42–72Psalm 42[a][b]Psalms 42–72Psalm 42[a][b]For the director of music. A maskil[c] of the Sons of Korah.1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under...

FEAR THOU NOT SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, death is the king of all fears, and fear entered into this world after the fall of Adam and Eve because they transgressed and sinned against the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS of Almighty God. Throughout all of the Holy Scriptures, God lovingly calls His people who are oppressed by the many fears of this fallen world to place all of their trust and hope in Him rather than in the false systems, false saviors, and false solutions of this demonically inverted fallen world. Again and again, the Almighty God says to His redeemed, "Fear thou not."...

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas sympathizers have insisted that we must understand the massacre in its historical context — that it did not happen in a vacuum. This much is true. To understand this context, we need to look back at a chapter of history that predates the state of Israel by two decades. That chapter is 1929. On Aug. 24, 1929, more than 3000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes and machetes marched through the ancient Jewish quarter of Hebron, then part of British Mandate Palestine. That Sabbath morning, they slaughtered 67 Jewish men, women and children, and wounded...

esterday was the eighty-sixth anniversary of the Vichy Statute, in which French authorities sealed the fate of the Jews in their jurisdiction. The Statut des Juifs was adopted by Marshal Pétain’s cabinet in the unoccupied zone in Vichy. This half of France still had a French government, and they published it in the Journal Officiel like any other statute. The statute defined a Jew: three grandparents “of the Jewish race,” or two if the spouse was Jewish. Neither conversion nor a baptismal certificate mattered since “Jew” was in the blood. The statute was drafted by Justice Minister Raphaël Alibert, and...

The Talk Shows Oct 4th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Energy Secretary Chris Wright; Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.); Brett McGurk, former Biden admin National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa; Iowa Republican gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn; Jan Crawford, CBS News' chief legal correspondent; CBS News chief pollster Anthony Salvanto. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Attorney General Todd Blanche; Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito; Jonathan Turley, American attorney, legal scholar, author, and commentator serving as the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor...

Americans overwhelmingly believe congressional seats should be distributed solely based on the number of U.S. citizens in each state. Americans overwhelmingly believe congressional seats should be distributed solely based on the number of U.S. citizens in each state. They also think there should be a citizenship question on the census. Those are two of the key findings in a new survey, obtained exclusively by The Federalist, indicating significant public support for policies — long opposed by the left — that the Trump administration is pursuing pertaining to the crucial decennial count. The survey, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on Sept....

Fall 2026 graduate-course syllabi obtained by The Dallas Express show Texas Christian University placing “settler colonialism,” “structural violence,” decolonial thinking and group “complicity” at the center of two College of Education courses. The documents do not present those concepts only as historical subjects for debate. One syllabus describes a land acknowledgment as part of “the ongoing process of breaking colonial mindsets” and asks how students may perpetuate colonial harm. Another says TCU continues to benefit from the forceful removal of Indigenous people. TCU requires all Curriculum Studies students to take “Curriculum History.” Course connects evil to settler colonialism The three-credit...

Max Verstappen has tasted victory for the first time in 2026, beating Kimi Antonelli to win a dramatic Gulf Air Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia. In a race that started nearly two hours later than scheduled, Verstappen overcame rain, software issues, two Safety Car periods and a chaotic opening to beat the championship leader by 2.3s, claiming his first grand prix victory since Abu Dhabi last year and delivering RBPT Ford its maiden win as a power unit supplier. Antonelli drove a strong race to take the runner-up spot, leading early after the race finally got underway...

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Al Qaeda called for copycat attacks on Americans and Israeli airliners in a vile post referencing 9/11 and praising the Dubai flight hijacker — whose social media accounts shared photos of one of the terror group’s leaders. The call appeared to come Friday in the latest edition of al-Bayan, a weekly publication launched in July by pro-Al Qaeda supporters, which invoked both the Sept. 11 attacks and Wednesday’s attempted takeover of Flydubai Flight FZ1073. “The war isn’t over yet — planes carrying Zionists, Americans and all the other infidels fighting against Islam are still hovering in the skies and can...

"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15). The Holy Spirit protects you from false doctrine, but that doesn’t eliminate the need for diligent Bible study. For the next few days we'll consider several benefits of Bible study. Today we'll address the broader question of why Bible study is necessary at all. Perhaps you know believers who think Bible study is unnecessary. Bible reading, they say, is sufficient because we have the Holy Spirit, who teaches us all things. Often they...

Pope Leo XIV presented the Pius XI Medal to Karin Öberg, a Harvard scientist specializing in astrochemistry, during a recent audience with members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The award, presented on Sept. 24, recognizes scientists under the age of 45 who have distinguished themselves through their research and show “exceptional promise” in their field. Öberg has spoken publicly about her conversion to Catholicism and how her pursuit of knowledge influenced her journey toward faith. In a 2011 interview with the Augustine Institute, she explained that there were aspects of the world that began to make it difficult for...