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“Believe survivors,” the campus activists and leftist politicians admonish us. But which “survivor” statements are we supposed to believe?In the weeks following her alleged gang rape at a Cornell University frat house in 2024, “Jane Doe” was unequivocal: She had not been raped. A day after the incident, she texted one of her sex partners, saying “non (sic) of the sexual stuff was illegal and honestly I really liked being with u” — and she suggested another get-together. The next day she texted him again, including an affectionate note: “I luv you king.”She angled herself an invitation to the annual...

Again and again, throughout his long political career, Ken Paxton has gotten himself into trouble. Each time, his wife, Angela, has come to his defense. In 2022, a process server trying to deliver a subpoena to Mr. Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas, said he watched Ms. Paxton drive him away from their home in a truck. The next year, during Mr. Paxton’s impeachment trial, which aired multiple allegations of corruption and an extramarital affair, Ms. Paxton, a Republican state senator, sat stoically through the entire proceedings, which she later dismissed in a social media post as “all of...

Pittsburgh is allowing a violent serial criminal named named Delvin Dobbins to shoot and stab as many people as he wants. https://triblive.com/local/man-charged-in-pittsburgh-busway-stabbing-was-on-bond-for-previous-stabbing-break-in/

The State Department will impose “further sanctions” on the International Criminal Court in response to its attempts to charge American service members, according to a US official and an internal memo reviewed by The Post. The official said that diplomatic posts were receiving warnings Thursday that “further ICC action” was imminent, while the memo cited longstanding grievances with the US not being a signatory to the court’s founding treaty. “The ICC seeks to become the unaccountable global arbiter – positioning itself above and beyond the nation state as a supranational judicial arm of a globalist bureaucracy empowered to persecute American...

Various City of Dallas facilities will be closed in observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, October 12, 2026. Below is a list of City services affected by modified schedules.

Controversial streamer Hasan Piker weighed in on anti-Zionist protesters chanting against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Wednesday and later jeering him as he attended an evening vigil for the victims of Hamas’s October 7th terror attacks on southern Israel. “Mayor Mamdani, you can’t hide; we charge you with genocide,” was a chant heard outside of City Hall from protesters who held their own “resistance” rally and accused the progressive stalwart and fierce critic of Israel’s conduct in Gaza of siding with pro-Israel factions. Piker, who has stirred controversy this election cycle with his many incendiary comments, went...

The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a major immigration program that allows its foreign workers to transfer from an H1B1 visa to a green card, accusing the tech giant of fraud. “If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants,” Vice President Vance said Thursday at an event for his government fraud task force. Critics of the H1B1 program — which permits workers with special skills legal employment in the US — say it is overused, allows cheaper foreign workers to replace American employees,...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dined at a Palestinian restaurant chain blasted for being “openly genocidal” against Jews on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. Hizzoner ate dinner at Ayat Hinds Hall on the Upper West Side — part of a chain whose sister restaurant in Brooklyn was blasted for featuring a menu section entitled “From the River to the Sea,” in the wake of the 2023 attacks. The restaurant is named after Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian child who was killed by IDF forces in Gaza in Jan. 2024, and also pays homage...

CNN’s data analyst Harry Enten reported today that Republican voter registration has gone up significantly in several key swing states. This contradicts almost everything we are hearing about the midterms from Democrats and their liberal media allies. If all of these new Republican voters go out and vote in the midterms, the outcome could surprise quite a few people. Enten also devotes a few minutes to Florida and suggests that Republicans are pretty much a lock there to win. “When you take a look at how people are actually registering — this is not polling data — compared to where...

The Pentagon has ordered U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to complete preparations for a possible resumption of major combat operations against Iran as President Donald Trump weighs renewed strikes that could come before November’s midterm elections, according to multiple reports Wednesday. The directive, issued several days ago, comes as the administration considers strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, energy infrastructure, and other strategic targets, although Trump has not made a final decision on whether or when to authorize another major military campaign. Axios first reported the order to CENTCOM, citing U.S. officials who said discussions about renewed operations have intensified amid the...

Christa Pike, the Tennessee death row inmate who survived a failed attempt to execute her nearly a week ago, is awake, her attorneys told reporters after a court hearing Wednesday. Prosecutors and Pike’s legal team were at the Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville regarding a motion by the defense to require the state to preserve evidence from the botched execution, including syringes, drugs, IV lines, and other medical equipment. Pike’s attorneys also complained that state corrections officials had “put up roadblocks” inhibiting them from having access to her hospital room, according to a report by The New York Times....

Newly released diary pages belonging to Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the government’s most influential chief health officials for nearly four decades, show that he disparaged Donald Trump, praised Chinese health officials, and lost a set of confidential records in a ransomware attack. The files were the latest batch of entries in Fauci’s so-called diary to be released publicly by Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Paul is currently investigating whether Fauci or his aides destroyed government documents to avoid disclosure under public information requests. Government emails are generally required to...

🚨 WE TOOK A TRIP TO PRINCETON TO SEE IF THE LIBERAL BIAS WAS REAL… 👀 “We should resolve the Iran WAR with FLOWERS!” 💐 “Professors give us resources that are NEGATIVE about TRUMP” 👨‍🏫 “The term ILLEGAL ALIENS offend me!” 😳 “Socialism has its BENEFITS!” 🚩 “Everybody is DEPRESSED here!” 😭 SO… ANY LIBERAL BIAS ON CAMPUS? 🎓 3:34 VIDEO AT LINK OF STREET INTERVIEWS...........

A gold statue depicting Donald Trump fully naked and crushing a smaller man’s shoulders has been unveiled in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France. A new statue has been introduced to the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, and it’s all kinds of satirical and naked. Titled "The Orange Plague," the 2.6-meter statue by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt, is a depiction of a nude Donald Trump holding a comically sized golf club in one hand, a set of scales in the other, all while sitting on the back of a smaller, frailer man.

St. Louis Park, Minnesota mayor Nadia Mohamed says we should not "point fingers" at the Somali teens who keep shooting guns. Instead, she wants to "ban guns." https://www.tiktok.com/@nadia.mohamed/video/7693268567613082911

Schools are ending gifted and talented programs. They will no longer separate kids by ability. Why? To address “inequity.” “This is so misguided,” education researcher Michael Petrilli said in my new video. “These equity people say, ‘Oh, we’re against gifted education.’ At the same time, they’re upset that universities aren’t very diverse. Guess what? The [equity advocates] are a big part of the problem.

All Americans will bear the brunt of elected officials’ failure to justly punish Jack Smith and others who weaponized the federal government against conservatives. In exposing Jack Smith’s lawless, corrupt, and tyrannical effort to criminalize the MAGA movement, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed jarring new details about the extent of the Jan. 6-justified lawfare campaign. Smith’s partisan team carried out a fishing expedition on behalf of the Biden administration and Democrat Party that went beyond obtaining the text messages of more than 40 members of Congress despite the weaponizers knowing it likely violated the Constitution’s speech and...

BREAKING: Unvaccinated Chief Warrant Officer 5 Kennie Kelly — a Master Aviator — has officially been reinstated to the US military, with full backpay, entitlements, station preference and benefits.

...Turning Morning Circle Into Activist Training Philly Children’s Movement traces its origins to a January 2015 children’s march supporting Black Lives Matter. The organization subsequently expanded into workshops, consulting, and work with students and school administrators. Its explanation of its mission is unusually direct: “in order to create systemic change, we must change the way that people raise children.” The organization describes young people as “co-conspirators” in reshaping both their thinking and the wider society. ...

Final results from Brazil’s Sunday general elections confirmed this week that right-wing parties will hold a majority in the Lower House that, together with the majority in the Senate, will grant them control of both chambers of Congress once they take office next year. Brazilian conservative and right-wing parties, spearheaded by the Liberal Party (PL) led by Senator and presidential front-running candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, secured their best electoral performance in four decades during Sunday’s general elections. The results also automatically triggered an upcoming October 25 presidential runoff between Bolsonaro of the PL party and current incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio...