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Hinson faulted Turek for missing votes in the state House and for taking advantage of a per diem for state lawmakers even when he was not there. “You took the per diem, you stole from taxpayers, you should refund that money,” Hinson said. Turek did not respond to that criticism during the debate. You trash the president during the primary and now you’re doing ads saying you’re going to work with him,” Hinson shot back. “It’s a tale of two Tureks.”

Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich says her organization feels "vindication" after a new Justice Department report revealed the FBI opened dozens of assessments involving parents following a controversial Biden-era directive targeting threats against school officials, including an investigation stemming from a tip that cited one mother's membership in a "right-wing mom's group." "My reaction and our reaction at Moms for Liberty is vindication," Descovich told Fox News Digital. "We feel… we're finally being heard." Descovich said parents involved with her organization became fearful of speaking publicly after the Justice Department and FBI's response to heated school board battles beginning...

Texas authorities executed a man on Wednesday, the first execution in the nation since Christa Pike survived two lethal injections in Tennessee in late September. Jamaal Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8:03 p.m. after receiving a fatal dose of pentobarbital at the state prison in Huntsville. He was convicted of killing Vickie Swartout, 42, during a store robbery in 2000. Howard’s attorneys unsuccessfully sought to block the execution by arguing that he was intellectually disabled and that he faced risks similar to those in Pike’s case because both states use pentobarbital for lethal injections. Asked by the warden if...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio furiously shut down media questions about explosive new allegations against U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle on Thursday, while Guilfoyle herself stood nearby as he prepared to leave Athens. As he stood before reporters, Rubio was pressed over a new Wall Street Journal report alleging Guilfoyle asked Trump donor Eric Deters to cover a $100,000 credit card bill shortly before her Senate confirmation hearing and offered access to administration officials in return. The secretary of state, however, made clear he had no intention of addressing the report on the tarmac when grilled by reporters, instead...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was spotted Wednesday dining at a Palestinian restaurant — named for a child killed in Gaza — right after attending a candlelit vigil marking the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel. Mamdani visited Hinds Hall on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a branch of Palestinian chain Ayat. The restaurant takes its name from Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in January 2024 alongside her family by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) while fleeing Gaza City. NYC @NYCMayor making quite a statement. Having dinner at the only Palestinian restaurant on the...

We are now less than a month out from the mid-term elections, and the single biggest theme that the Democrats have chosen to run on appears to be “affordability.” How can this possibly be? We live in the age of immediate availability of information, let alone artificial intelligence to track down anything that might previously have been challenging to find. If you want a state-by-state comparison of costs for any particular thing, you can get it in a fraction of a second. The results are in: the Democrat-run states are less “affordable.” The Democrats and Republicans propose opposite strategies for...

Deep Space Updates - Space News Laying out all the space stories from the last couple of weeks, SpaceX managed the feat of launching all 3 of it's Falcon 9 variants in one day, and that was 3 days after launching Starship to Orbit for the first time on flight 14. Rocket Lab signed a deal which will mean they'll build more boosters than SpaceX did for Falcon 9, NASA has a new space telescope, ESA's JUICE visited the Earth again. Blue Origin Taller Lunar Lander, SpaceX Launches All Its Rockets - Deep Space Updates Oct 6th | 35:27 Scott...

Democrat congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia, who is running in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, says she was out fixing a campaign sign at 2 AM when she was hit in the back of the head and fell unconscious. Greene-Placentia said she awoke with her pants down and one of her attackers still assaulting her, according to an interview with the Phoenix New Times. Then, according to Greene-Placentia, her assaulter called her a "democratic b*tch, not a very good f*ck." According to USA Today, Greene-Placentia reported the assault on Aug. 31, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed, and went public with what...

With less than a month to go before the midterms, the questionable polls keep piling up. I've been saying for a while that I think the GOP will outperform the polls this year, and a fresh report from CNN backs that up. According to CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten, there's some incredibly good news for the GOP in both the short term and long term, which may matter more than the polls. CNN anchor John Berman set up the segment by noting that plenty of surveys show the races slipping away from Republicans. He then asked Enten what the...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is facing criticism over remarks she made during a recent forum on fascism, Israel and Gaza. Wilson appeared Sept. 24 at Town Hall Seattle with authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor to discuss their book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World. At the event, Wilson praised the authors’ work and said she was “proud to share a stage” with them. After a video about a proposed vision for redeveloping Gaza, Wilson said the imagery juxtaposed “the genocide in Gaza” with “that AI-generated paradise, where someone’s obviously going to make a...

A beloved bronze statue of explorer Matthew Flinders has been cut down and stolen from a Mornington Peninsula park, leaving locals furious. The bronze statue at the entrance to Mornington Park was cut off at the ankles on Monday night in an attack similar to several others carried out by far-left extremist anti-Australian vandals in Melbourne in recent years. “It is with great sadness to announce that the Matthew Flinders bronze statue in Mornington, Victoria, has been destroyed by mindless, uneducated cancel culture vandals. I can’t begin to describe how angry this makes me feel right now,” one local said...

Forty years ago this month, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), a law intended as a grand bargain: legalizing millions of illegal aliens while establishing workplace enforcement to end the economic magnet that encouraged illegal immigration. Spoiler alert: the amnesty happened, the enforcement did not.

Another NFL star is raising questions about the U.S. moon landing. In a recent interview, New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye shared he’s unsure if the United States really landed on the moon in 1969. Maye made his comments during a recent radio interview where he stated, “I’m not really sure 200% if we went there or not.” Boston 25 News was the first to report on Maye’s comments on the moon landing: New England Patriots QB Drake Maye has revealed he isn’t quite sure a famous touchdown really happened. During an appearance on WEEI on Monday, the topic of...

The e-commerce giant just dropped what it’s calling Amazon’s About You — essentially a showcase of your personality based on previous purchases, conversations with Alexa for shopping, any written product reviews and more. Technically, the retailer has been offering personalized shopping recs for years, using algorithms to push products it thinks you will like. Today, it does the same thing but on a bigger scale. This time, the popular commerce site has created an editable section for shoppers — which some folks are calling a personal dossier — where all of your habits and likes are displayed for you. The...

Four seconds. Four brutal seconds of utter silence that must have felt like an eternity for CBS News immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez as he stared blankly at White House Border Czar Tom Homan, completely incapable of answering a simple question from the latter during an interview on Friday. Montoya-Galvez learned the hard way that you better do your homework when attempting to embarrass Homan with a statistic about ICE detention deaths. Failure to do so can result in permanent humiliation especially if you blank out for four full seconds and as an encore continuing to fail to provide an answer...

A New Hampshire fisherman caught the state’s largest bluefin tuna weighing over 1,100 pounds — smashing a record that had stood for more than a decade. Brandon McGirl was hoping to reel in anything when he boarded the Out of Line, a Savage Charters NH boat captained by Jamie Savage, on Saturday for an overnight fishing trip out of Rye Harbor on the New Hampshire Seacoast, WMUR reported. “It was very difficult conditions to try and fish. It was a little bit rougher than we were hoping for,” McGirl told the outlet. The crew chased the fish for about a...

President Donald Trump is set to honor a distinguished group of tech leaders, including Elon Musk, at the White House's Science: A New Golden Age Summit on Thursday (October 8). President Trump will present the National Medal of Science to Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and AMD CEO Lisa Su. According to the White House, these awards recognize significant contributions to science and technology. The summit will also see Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, receiving the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. These medals are the highest honors in...

Meet the most anticipated car of the year - the new Jaguar Type 01! Explore new & used car deals with Carwow: https://bit.ly/Change-Your-Car-0710 The Jaguar Type 01 has been unveiled! It’s been almost two years since Jaguar showed the Type 00 concept car to the public, and it’s fair to say the production car looks remarkably similar to the concept! Jaguar was aiming for a full reset with the Type 00 concept. The question is, does the production car help it achieve its goal? Let’s take a closer look… The similarities to the Type 00 Concept are clear. For starters,...

No one has ever had a valid excuse for shrinking from the duty to fight evil. When I came home from the war in Korea in 1955, I realized America was moving away from its cultural base, a foundation rooted in civilization strongly influenced by Christianity. I could sense it in mainstream media turning toward the Left. This essentially Marxist spin in commentary and news reporting indicated that America was facing domestic enemies as well as foreign ones. Naming this country’s Marxist enemies, for that is what the Left consists of, inevitably points to communists, socialists, and various other collectivists;...

There are tens of thousands of foreign academics in this country. Many of them hate us. And do whatever malicious mischief they can. Take Guangtian Ha, an assistant professor of religion at Haverford College and Chinese Muslim scholar, is now accused of pretending to be a Groyper using an X account named ‘America1st’ to send antisemitic death threats. It makes me wonder how many of these trolls all over X, pretending to be American admirers of Hitler are some Chinese or Pakistani troll with a PhD. (Incidentally, we’ve got a fairly sophisticated troll of this variety operating on our site...