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MADISON, WI — Hundreds of people gathered Saturday for another "No Kings" rally in Madison. Protesters began at James Madison Park and marched peacefully to the Wisconsin State Capitol. The rally was one of thousands held nationwide to promote early voting and encourage people to head to the polls. Previous "No Kings" demonstrations largely focused on protesting Trump administration policies. This time, participants said the event was about bringing people together, regardless of ideological differences. “I think it’s really important that people come together. I’m OK with different opinions,” said Charlie Berthoud, a protester and local pastor. Madison’s "No Kings"...

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is facing lingering frustration from inside his own political backyard over the cancellation of an event that was supposed to take place on Oct. 5 with a Black civic-service group. The Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium (CT-AACES) expressed deep frustration in an email, sent to the Talarico campaign and obtained by Fox News Digital, after the campaign cancelled an event – which had 325 confirmed registrants – during Talarico's two-week absence from the campaign trail due to illness. CT-AACES said the cancellation left them with "irrecoverable financial loss," and that Talarico's campaign...

The left is not just indifferent to innovations like Musk’s flying cars. No, they actively hate such things. I have been interested in Teslas since a neighbor told me about the cars back in 2013, a year after the Model S made its debut. It was quite some time before I saw one for real. I agreed with my friend that they were spiffy-looking cars. Then I saw the video of Elon Musk revealing the Model S P85D in the fall of 2014. I was hooked. As I noted the following year, I am in some ways an unlikely enthusiast...

The National Football League says it is continuing forward with plans for the upcoming Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New Orleans Saints game in Paris, amid ongoing unrest in the French capital. The Steelers and Saints are poised to play the first-ever NFL regular-season game next weekend in Paris, at the Stade de France. Ongoing protests over school conditions in recent weeks have led to violent clashes with police. The movement, which began in the Paris region and rapidly spread nationwide, has seen teenage students in their final years of high school block access to buildings and clash with law enforcement.

Amid the controversy currently surrounding Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s immigration status, attention is also being paid to an older controversy from 2020 regarding her 2020 Democratic primary battle. Roughly two years into the Democratic lawmaker’s congressional career, she was challenged by attorney and mediator Antone Melton-Meaux, a well-funded opponent. But according to an investigation, there was a problem. Project Veritas, then run by James O’Keefe — currently head of the O’Keefe Media Group — alleged in September 2020 that a cash-for-ballots and ballot harvesting operation was being carried out in Minneapolis.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the EU will “not abandon Ukraine and the Ukrainian people” and that Kyiv’s request for extra funds will be examined, while addressing the media at a summit in Brussels Friday. Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked EU leaders to provide Kyiv with an extra €70 billion next year to help with the country's ongoing fight against Russia.

ST. LOUIS — The entire day had been building to this moment. First there was the procession, then the readings and songs and the sponsors who explained why they felt she was ready for what was to come. She prostrated before the altar inside the old church, her chest heaving with emotion as the Litany of the Saints was said. She sat in a folding chair, tears trickling down her cheeks, while each person in the pews came forward to place their hands on her head in a quiet blessing. And as the noon hour arrived and Anna Girresch —...

Seven years ago in an article entitled “Tectonic Shifts Adds Champagne to Million Dollar Math Prize, I declared in the Times of Israel (7-15-2019) that I’d gift a $1,000 bottle of champagne—aside from the million dollar prize offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute—to the genius who finally cracked one of the seven great Millennium Prize math problems: solving the Navier-Stokes equations. snip he Navier-Stokes equations are as requisite for climate science as the Pythagorean theorem is for triangles. Yet climatologists have limped along without them for the last two centuries, and an honest appraisal of what the discipline has produced...

A small plane crashed on a highway in San Jose Saturday with three people on board. The prop plane crashed in the area of Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Dr. shortly after 3 p.m., with two adults and a child inside, according to the San Jose Fire Department. The occupants were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries “out of an abundance of caution,” the department said. No vehicles were involved in the crash, which caused a minor fuel spill that was absorbed. Photos from the scene showed the mangled plane’s nose crushed and bent against the roadway. When asked for...

The greatest danger is not that Europe fails to recognize its mistakes, but that it recognizes them, understands their consequences, yet still cannot bring itself to act. Europe is approaching the point where choices become consequences: guaranteeing cradle-to-grave social benefits, taking in millions of unskilled immigrants, struggling with vastly different cultural expectations, and transferring national sovereignty to an all-powerful European Union aligned more with the World Economic Forum than with its citizens. All the while, economic growth, public finances, and a lack of political cohesion present unprecedented challenges that compound every problem. What happens when a society makes commitments it...

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...