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Before the Iran war, Qatar was one of the biggest natural gas exporters in the world. After only eight months, the Gulf state is now buying supplies from its principal competitor — the United States. QatarEnergy struck a deal Thursday with U.S. exporter Cheniere Energy to buy 4 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) annually through 2054. The purchase price is indexed to the U.S. Henry Hub price plus a fixed fee. Deliveries are expected to begin in the 2030s. “We look forward to reliably supplying QatarEnergy from both Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi into the second half...

In Torrance, California, a large and influential suburb of Los Angeles, the No Kings protests have shown up with frequent vengeance. From June 14, 2025, to the current election season, registered Democrats, wokesters, progressive leftists, democratic socialists, the full-blown socialists, and the racialist ethno-nationalists have shown up in large numbers to tell the world how much they hate Trump. They love setting up along the main thoroughfare of the city, standing in front of Torrance City Hall, holding up their banners, calling the president all kinds of evil. Speakers from the main liberal, left-wing, progressive, Berniecrat (you get the idea)...

At least 6,000 homeless addicts — many from out of state — were lured to California detox centers by “body brokers” working for a pair of accused fraudsters in a $1.6 billion rehab scheme considered the largest in history, federal prosecutors revealed. Los Angeles rehab king David Young, 71, and his son Nathan Young, 39, allegedly offered free flights, groceries and other perks as part of their substance abuse scam to traffic addicts into dozens of California rehab centers, according to Department of Justice prosecutors.

Democrats don't just want to "tax the rich" - they want to tear down the very systems that make it possible to get rich in the first place. This November, voters in California will decide whether to enact a first-in-the-nation wealth tax of five percent on every resident whose net worth exceeds $1 billion. Polls show a tight battle – but even if the measure fails, it is unlikely to deter Democrats’ escalating war on wealth that should alarm every American. It’s hardly breaking news that Democrats want to raise taxes to pay for expensive social programs. But in recent...

NASCAR champions, the late Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch, along with NASCAR Vice Chairman Mike Helton and four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Rick Mears have been selected for induction into the 2027 National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame by vote of the membership. The NMPA is proud to announce and celebrate these four accomplished honorees, whose legendary careers have impacted motorsports for decades. The late Kyle Busch, 41, who passed away in May after a brief illness, is a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and his combined 234 victories in NASCAR’s three premier series – the NASCAR Cup Series (63),...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich awards Democrat billionaire who funds abortion Billionaire Democrat Michael J. Sacks donated $600,000 toward Illinois’ ‘abortion access infrastructure,’ and has served as a board member of the Obama Foundation.Cardinal Blase Cupich is honoring Michael J. Sacks, a major abortion funder, in Chicago next week.Sacks is receiving the Nostra Aetate award from the Archdiocese of Chicago despite his publicized, direct financial support of abortion. An announcement from Mundelein Seminary, published by the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, lists Sacks as a recipient of this year’s award from the archdiocese.“Join His Eminence Blase Cardinal Cupich and...

France is on fire. Cars torched, city halls ablaze, hundreds of police officers injured, businesses looted, and the media still calls it “student protests.” It is nothing of the sort. It is a calculated campaign by organized, well-financed hard-left networks to sow anarchy across Western civilization. And according to Issues & Insights, the Democratic Socialists of America already have the playbook to bring the same chaos here. DataRepublican, the Pentagon analyst turned online investigator, has obtained thousands of transcripts and hundreds of recordings from DSA-aligned strategy sessions. The public pitch is familiar: abolish the Senate, impose term limits, dismantle constitutional...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Annual Latin Mass pilgrimage barred from entering St. Peter’s Basilica The Vatican Secretariat of State told the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage’s chief organizer that their procession is banned from St. Peter’s this year, according to a new report.The faithful attending this weekend’s Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage will no longer be permitted to enter St. Peter’s Basilica, per a Friday report.Vatican journalist Diane Montagna, citing Christian Marquant, the pilgrimage’s chief organizer, reported Friday that the Vatican will bar priests, religious, and lay faithful participating in the 15th annual Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage from entering St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, Oct. 24,...

Huge immigration enforcement win for President Trump before the full Fifth Circuit (10-7): Illegal aliens detained under Congressionally enacted law are not entitled to a bond hearing under the Fifth Amendment. Huge win for the administration in their law enforcement efforts "A nation ceases to be a nation if it can’t protect its borders." Judge Ho joins the opinion in full and writes separately. "[I]llegal aliens have not only a de facto constitutional right to remain in our country unlawfully, but an incentive to make this their home." Judge Oldham also concurs. He writes "separately to clear up some confusion...

#NEW: As Talarico arrived to cast his ballot in Austin, I asked him about the deadlock race, his message to voters who believe his positions are too liberal for Texas, and his criticism of billionaires backing Paxton, despite billionaire donors also pouring millions into a super PAC supporting his own candidacy. He didn’t answer any. ----- Voters say that you're too liberal for Texas. Any reaction? - You've been saying that billionaire voters are funding this election, but billionaires are also spending money on your race. Isn't it the same thing?

I voted early yesterday in Texas and noticed every name at the top of the list was a Republican. is this the case in every precinct and in every city in Texas?

The first Starship built for astronauts may already be standing inside the Starfactory. We think we found it. And today we take you through it, deck by deck, from the docking port in the nose down to the airlock that opens onto the Moon. NASA released a new Moon Base update, with the plan for a permanent base at the lunar south pole, and Starship just picked up one more cargo contract for the Moon. At Starbase, the service platform is off Pad 2, the chopsticks are rehearsing for Flight 15, and SpaceX showed us, for the first time, what...

Tucho’s New Document Identifies the Crisis… and Makes it Much Worse Rome knows the Catholic faith is in crisis. But in "Venite ad Me", Tucho’s new document offers a diagnosis that ignores the Vatican II revolution, and remedies that make matters worse. Robert Morrison examines the contradictions, the surprising passages on traditional liturgical sensibilities, and what the Church’s own perennial teaching says about the way forward.“Today, a specific investigation into the sudden decline of Catholicism in countries where it was deeply rooted is necessary to understand its causes and develop an appropriate pastoral response.” (Paragraph 119 from Venite ad Me)On...

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Horse-drawn carriages will be banned in New York City after the City Council approved a new bill Thursday that will end a Central Park tradition that’s endured for more than 150 years. The ban passed in a veto-proof 40-7 vote, with two council members abstaining – despite a last-minute attempt to amend the proposal and push the ban back in 2030. The ban will take hold on June 1, 2028 and outlaw horse-drawn carriages across all five boroughs. That means about 200 carriage drivers will see their livelihoods – and entire industry – vanish from the city without a trace...

PARIS — To accommodate modern French sensibilities, the NFL has announced that their first ever game to take place in Paris will include special endzone messaging by having "Allahu Akbar" painted onto the field. While not unusual for the NFL to paint social justice-oriented political messages into the endzone, such as "Inspire Change," "End Racism," and "Vote," this will be their first overtly religious message. The upcoming game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints will be the first time the NFL has played a game Paris, so they wanted the message to be more suitable for the...

Trump and Mehmet Oz force Albany to face up to rampant Medicaid fraud. One major Trump Administration achievement has been exposing fraud in entitlement programs that has been hiding in plain sight. The latest targets are New York’s sham adult day care centers, which state officials are finally investigating after a push from Washington.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday said FBI agents and New York officials raided dozens of “social” adult day care facilities. CMS also sent notices to centers warning they could be ousted from the program because it had uncovered evidence of fraud, which agency...

Undercover video captured canvassers aligned with Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) saying they don’t believe in asking about immigration status or actively encouraging self-identified noncitizens and felons to register and vote. All of that, of course, is completely illegal. Everyone knows that Arizona elections are incredibly corrupt. There is still a very significant Republican population in the state, and it voted for Donald Trump both in 2016 and 2024, and yet for some reason Democrats keep winning state and local offices. At a certain point we have to ask: is Democrat control of Arizona dependent entirely upon fraud? Would Katie Hobbs...

That headline might seem a bit provocative, but it’s serious. Because while the violence across Europe has been described as “student protests,” it is anything but that. In fact, it’s a calculated effort by highly organized and well-financed extreme left groups to sow anarchy across Western civilization. Here in the U.S., the hard-left Democratic Party has all but declared it’s no longer a party of working-class people and middle-class taxpayers. It’s dominated by the Democratic Socialists of America and closely allied and networked with the global movement to destroy capitalism and impose socialism. An exaggeration? Nope. According to “DataRepublican,” a...

For decades, the battle over Israel has been fought in the halls of the United Nations, across university campuses, and in the streets of major cities. But an increasingly bitter confrontation is now unfolding in a place many Christians might never have expected: inside the Church itself. At the heart of the dispute is a question that reaches far beyond Middle Eastern politics. Does the Jewish people's return to their ancient homeland represent the fulfillment of biblical promises, or has the coming of Jesus Christ changed how those promises should be understood? The answer is dividing Christian denominations, challenging longstanding...