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A Louisiana doctor is accused of wasting five crucial minutes while a young child in her care was drowning right in front of her. Sukanthini Subbiah, 48, was arrested by the Orlando Police Department on Wednesday and charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter of a child for allegedly allowing seven-year-old Khushil Bandi to drown. At the time of the drowning on April 10, Subbiah was visiting her mother in Orlando, Florida, with her son, who is also seven years old and was identified as DJ by police, according to an affidavit reviewed by the Daily Mail. While Subbiah was in town,...

Bangor, Maine – A protester interrupted the final debate between Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in Maine, triggering a heated exchange after Collins suggested the demonstrator was a Jackson supporter. The interruption came amid a debate that saw the candidates trade fire over numerous issues. The race between Jackson and Collins, who is seeking a sixth term representing the blue-leaning Northern New England state, is a top flip opportunity for Democrats as they try to win back the Senate majority from Republicans in the midterm elections. The latest public opinion polls indicate a race within the...

Midterm elections are where people convince themselves the stakes are lower. There is no presidential race at the top of the ballot, turnout drops, and millions of Americans decide they can afford to sit one out. But history has a way of punishing that assumption, because enormous amounts of political power can turn on margins so small they barely seem real. In 1916, America ALMOST elected Republican Charles Evans Hughes as President. Instead, his razor-thin defeat gave Woodrow Wilson a second term and, with it, one of the darkest four-year periods in U.S. history. Remarkably, it all came down to...

The moral architecture of Western civilization rests upon two interlocking pillars of intrinsic worth: the inviolable dignity of the human person and the correlative demand for personal freedom. These standards, far from being contingent historical accidents, constitute the decisive ethical achievement of a specific civilizational lineage. That lineage unites the Hebraic insistence upon the equal standing of every soul before a transcendent moral law with the Greco-Roman discovery of rational inquiry, constitutional restraint, and the dignity of the free citizen. The resulting synthesis produced a culture capable of generating institutions—limited government, independent judiciary, scientific method, market exchange under rule of...

There's a wonderful exchange between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in Alfred Hitchcock's final golden period masterpiece, North by Northwest. It was the last time the director would work with Grant, and the only appearance by Saint – who died this month at the age of 102 – in one of his pictures, playing a version of the "cool blonde" archetype that has embedded itself in Hitchcock's legend. Grant plays Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive accused of murder and on the run thanks to a case of mistaken identity, and Saint plays Eve Kendall, the attractive young woman who...

Wages in construction are rising as the nation’s labor market recovers from the flood of cheap and subsidized migrant labor imported by pro-migration policies before 2024, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The recovery — caused by President Donald Trump’s 2024 deportation mandate — is especially rapid in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has used state police to deliver many illegal migrants to the federal deportation officers. American construction workers in Florida who build the wooden frames for housing can now charge roughly $42 per hour, up from $20 per hour, Scott Brannock, president of Jacksonville-based Tidewater Homes...

Leftists say the craziest things, especially when Donald Trump is president. We’ve seen them celebrate accused cold-blooded killer Luigi Mangione, and we’ve seen them lionize Lindsay Clancy, the mother who does not deny that she sent her husband off on an errand and then ritually murdered their three children. New Jersey’s Dem Governor, Mikie Sherrill, just came up with a new moronic example of “suicidal empathy.” She’s very sad that Nidal Hasan, the terrorist who gunned down 13 innocent lives and wounded 30 more in 2009, is scheduled to be executed in early December. The reason: He’s in a wheelchair

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (10/18/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 56[a]For the director of music. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” Of David. A miktam.[b] When the Philistines had seized him in Gath.1 Be merciful to me, my God, for my enemies are in hot pursuit; all day long they press their attack. 2 My adversaries pursue me all day long; in their pride many are attacking me.3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. 4 In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to...

Elon Musk has made engineering the heroic, progressive enterprise we once thought it was, not the diddly work of guys in short sleeves with pocket protectors. In the same week that Elon Musk demonstrates his latest innovation -– a flying car -- Jeffrey Tucker examines Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary entries. These entries cover the period December 2021 to May 2023, which Tucker calls “the darkest months of the Covid era.” In the case of Musk, we see science in action, opening new and exciting possibilities. As for Fauci, we see a disturbing pattern of misusing his position to hide his...

The Talk Shows Oct 18th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.); Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio); Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon (democrat Senate nominee from Florida); Iowa State Auditor and democrat candidate for governor Rob Sand. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Tim CoKaine (D-Va.); Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.); American political consultant and pollster; former Senior Counselor to the President (2017–2020) Kellyanne Conway; Celinda Lake, democratic pollster and political strategist; president of Lake Research Partners; criminal defense attorney and host of the “Crime...

The Left's Secret Election Playbook: Fast-Track Protest Permits & Repeal Resisting-Arrest Laws Faster protest permits. Assembly areas near polls. A messaging guide that labels opponents “election traitors.” ...repealing local nuisance laws such as loitering, disturbing the peace, and resisting arrest” That recommendation appears in Local Progress Impact Lab’s protest guidance. The progressive network is now directing elected officials to that document as they prepare for the 2026 midterms. The guide, updated in November 2025, also recommends banning tear gas and rubber bullets, limiting police dispersal orders, and promptly processing and releasing people arrested at public assemblies. It urges changes to...

Again, there are multiple dynamics unfolding inside this story. However, as to the central component of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy complaining about hampered access to Starlink and/or Starshield, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sets the record straight. Ukraine has never had access to the U.S. military version of Starshield; providing that level of guidance access would be akin to the United States being in direct conflict with Russia using a proprietary U.S. military system. This is not our circus and not our war; there is no need for U.S. military conflict with Russia.

While Prime Minister Carney’s government targets the real threats coming from America and Israel, it’s welcoming back Al Qaeda. Here’s a little flashback. For years, police and CSIS spooks have kept a close eye on the Salaheddin Islamic Centre, a former warehouse in east-end Toronto. From the comfort of their cars, anonymous agents watched Ahmed Said Khadr – Osama bin Laden’s senior man in Canada – pray and mingle and collect donations for the global jihad… From the early days of the investigation, police focused much of their attention on a single suspect: 21-year-old Fahim Ahmad, the man distributing the...

I went undercover in Seattle to expose food stamp (EBT) fraud and filmed a $120 EBT card being rung up for one can of Spam and a pack of sushi. A tip from a man on the street led us to a market, a confrontation on camera, and a stolen gun that sent a mob after our security. Food stamps are supposed to feed people who are struggling. On the streets of Seattle, people told us EBT cards get sold for cash at a fraction of their value, with the cash often going straight to drugs, and we found cards...

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...when it’s time to do chores around the house, I turn on Netflix, plop my son in front of the TV, and let Disney babysit for me. He is, after all, four years old.. I didn’t realize how much this was affecting him until we passed by a toy ship from his favorite show, Jake and The Neverland Pirates. “It’s The Mighty Colossus,” my son told me, not so much speaking as shrieking. “I need it!” I said no. He erupted. He couldn’t understand why we couldn’t afford to buy every toy we saw. Soon he was in tears, thrashing...

DETROIT — Former President Barack Obama’s endorsement of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is getting a mixed reception among Black voters in Detroit, with some undecided voters saying the former president's backing isn't enough to win them over. Fox News Digital spoke with more than a dozen Black voters in Detroit, most of whom said they plan to back El-Sayed in November, but several undecided voters said Obama's endorsement had not persuaded them to support the Democrat. The reactions come as Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers seeks to win over disaffected Democrats, including Black voters in Detroit, a key...

[*** Blue language alert ***] Pick your fighter, America: Elon or Ilhan. | 12:22 Spencer Pratt | 55.9K subscribers | 92,808 views | October 16, 2026

"The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether. "They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them Thy servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward. "Who can discern his...

Literally anything can be ‘Islamophobic’ in Green la-la land. By Heydon Prowse, Spiked, October 14, 2026. You know you’re in People’s Front of Judea territory when the GEWs (Greens of England and Wales) decree that the majority of JEWs (Jews Everywhere in the World) are ‘racist[sic]’. Meanwhile, the party’s Muslim Greens grouping recently published a handy guide to what is and isn’t ‘Islamophobic’. It turns out, pretty much everything is! Including, but not limited to, the following: 1) Criticising the Koran The guidance warns against saying that the teachings of the Koran are backwards, because nothing says forward-thinking like a...