Free Republic

Ukrainian attacks set an oil export terminal ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday, as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones across Russia in one of its largest ever aerial bombardments. The attack comes amid deepening tensions between Ukraine and Washington, with U.S. President Donald Trump criticizing Kyiv for its strikes on Russian oil infrastructure. One person was killed and five more were wounded in the attack, which sparked fires at both the Petersburg Oil Terminal and the city’s Ruchi oil depot, said local Gov. Alexander Beglov. A logistics center belonging to Russian retailer Ozon and a data center for local...

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin publicly called on Democrats to intimidate young conservatives who want to work for the Trump administration by prosecuting the president’s staffers. Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst, contended that Democrats must “go after” and make examples out of officials in President Trump’s orbit who engage in corruption to send a message to young people who may want to join the administration. “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,’” Slotkin mused at a University of Chicago event last...

In perhaps the most damning act of #Resistance yet, Gavin Newsom’s California is refusing to even check if a few thousand specific registered voters are in fact noncitizens. Washington sent Sacramento a list of 20,000 suspected violations to check out; Newsom & Co. responded: Pound sand — so the feds are taking California to court. Gov. Newsom and other Democrats are screaming that Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections, or maybe to set up another claim of “fraud” if he loses — but it sure looks like they fear what they might find if they look under the...

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism over his decision to attend a Celine Dion concert Friday night, on the eve of nationwide demonstrations that descended into violence, leaving hundreds of emergency personnel injured and nearly 1,800 people arrested. Macron and his wife, Brigitte, were spotted at Dion’s concert at the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, according to French media reports. The couple reportedly arrived and left discreetly and were among roughly 35,000 spectators at the performance. The concert came after Macron spent Thursday and Friday in Brussels attending a European Council meeting. During a news conference in...

This is a daily occurrence, and yet western media remains silent. Tens of thousands of Christian men, women, and children have been slaughtered and beheaded, women and children raped and kidnapped, entire villages wiped out in minutes, al by Islamic terrorists. Remind me what occupation they’re fighting against? This is ethnic cleansing and pure hatred against non-Muslims. This is what actual genocide looks like. Beyond the massacres, there are also thousands of church burnings, abductions and forced conversions of Christian children and women to Islam. But because it doesn’t fit the (anti-Israel) narrative, almost nobody cares.

𝕏 keeps growing 𝕏 recorded 13.43 BILLION website visits in Q3 2026, up from 12.67 billion in Q2, per Similarweb • 13.43B total visits • +6% quarter-over-quarter growth • +760M additional visits in a single quarter 𝕏 continues to grow as it evolves into much more than a social platform, with SI, payments, creators, video and real-time news all coming together in one ecosystem

"The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul" (Ps. 19:7). God can transform you through His Word into the person He wants you to be. Many today doubt the power of Scripture in dealing with the deeper aspects of the human heart and mind. The Bible may be helpful for certain superficial or "spiritual" problems, they say, but it's too simplistic and inadequate for the more complex psychological issues of modern man. The truth is, however, the best psychology can do is modify external behavior. It cannot redeem and transform the soul. Only God can do that through...

A California man allegedly killed his wife and burned her body before he told cops U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took her into custody while she checked the mail.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A hiker was taken to a trauma center after being struck in the head by a cactus in Scottsdale on Saturday morning. Scottsdale Fire and Phoenix Fire crews responded to the Bell Pass Trail just after 7 a.m. on Oct. 17, after receiving a report of a woman struck in the head by the desert plant. The hiker was found roughly two miles from the trailhead in steep terrain. Paramedic e-bike teams were able to reach the woman and treat her on the scene. Using a Big Wheel and UTV, the injured hiker was taken off the...

"The first shotgun we have is the Benelli M4 drone guardian. This shotgun is based on the famous Benelli M4, but what makes it special is the advanced impact barrel, which has a series of overboards, forcing cones, and extra-long choke tubes to maximize the velocity of our tungsten shot. This tungsten shot was specially designed for drone use. It's a very hard material, and it gives us that penetrating capability at about 100 meters. We can take down class one, class 2 drones at about 100 meters using the Benelli M4 with the Norma Adler shotgun shells. We also...

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...