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Birdwatchers flocking to a village in hopes of spotting a rare bird have disrupted bus services. Also known as twitchers, hundreds of enthusiasts descended on Mundesley in Norfolk at the weekend after a northern nutcracker was spotted in a garden on Friday. Bus company Sanders Coaches said the enthusiasm led to some questionable parking which meant some bus services had to be altered. The bird had not been seen in Norfolk since 1968 and had not been widely spotted in the UK since 1991. Chris Stone, 44, from Wymondham in Norfolk, took up birding when he was 13 and was...

A North Texas physician and a former postal union official face federal charges alleging they helped submit roughly $19 million in fraudulent medical claims to a benefits program for injured federal workers. A federal grand jury charged Dr. Javaria Jabeen and Allendor Kenyon Brown with conspiracy to commit health care fraud in an October 7 superseding indictment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced October 23. Authorities arrested both defendants on October 14, when they also made their initial court appearances. Millions paid from worker benefits The alleged scheme ran from 2017 to 2023 and targeted...

[Catholic Caucus] The TLM Pilgrimage in Rome & the Call for “Liturgical Peace” Above: the traditionalist pilgrimage in Rome. Photo by the author.Throughout the highs and lows experienced by the traditional movement in the last fifteen years, one event has remained key in the calendar, and this year was no exception. The 2026 edition of the annual Ad Petri Sedem pilgrimage once more served as the siren call for Latin Mass devotees across the globe to descend upon Rome on this last weekend of October. Once in the city though, it is fair to say, that the pilgrimage faced more...

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Monday that ​the country's federal police had requested that he ‌turn in his passports following a visit to his imprisoned father, former President Jair Bolsonaro. The senator, who was defeated on ​Sunday by President Luiz Inacio Lula da ​Silva in a runoff vote, said he intended ⁠to comply with the request, denying he planned to ​flee the country after the election. The younger Bolsonaro claimed, ​without providing evidence, that the police request was based on a ruling from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Brazil's ​top court and federal police did not immediately reply...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Mutsaerts: Why is ‘liturgical diversity’ good except for Latin Mass? A Catholic can attend the Divine Liturgy according to several traditions. But as soon as a Catholic wishes to attend a Latin Mass, suddenly liturgical diversity becomes a problem.The Catholic Church prides itself on its universality, cherishes an impressive diversity of liturgical traditions, and regards that diversity as an expression of its richness. A Catholic can attend the Divine Liturgy according to the Byzantine tradition, the Maronite tradition, the Armenian tradition, or the Chaldean tradition. No one considers this a threat to ecclesial unity in and of...

Without Obama, Trump would never have become president, and that’s true both literally and figuratively.Over the weekend, Barack Obama appeared at a campaign rally for Democrats in Ohio and managed to make some headlines by ridiculing President Trump’s design skills. “He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,” the former president quipped. The crowd, of course, loved it. The media did too. Republicans responded with some mockery of their own, pointing out that Obama has little room to talk about design preferences, given the architectural monstrosity that is his presidential library in Chicago. All things...

This is absolutely glorious. A new study from South Korea found that paper straws are somehow worse for the environment than single-use plastic straws. None of the "eco-friendly" solutions actually worked, and switching away from plastic straws didn't really help the environment. https://t.co/aJYnZEWRuT— Pubity (@pubity) October 25, 2026Don't forget to mention this to the blue-haired waitress at your local social club! A South Korean government-commissioned study has determined that paper straws are actually worse for the environment than plastic straws. Researchers measured the full life cycle impact of four types of straws: plastic straws, paper, biodegradable, and bio-based polyethylene. From...

Anthropic has confirmed that its Claude AI model improperly accessed voter data in Georgia by bypassing a paywall meant to restrict the information to paying users. Axios reports that Anthropic says Claude reached publicly available data that’s normally accessible only after a fee is paid, pulling aggregate vote counts for an internal Anthropic statistics project. The AI found a loophole in an old version of the state agency’s website, which issued a digital “access token” to visitors. Claude simply requested a token and got in. According to Anthropic, “Claude did not access the state’s voter registration system, change any voting...

An Ohio pastor stunned her church congregation as she announced that her self-proclaimed 'prophet' husband had married a second wife. Lydia Ford, 45, the pastor of LifeWorks Church in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed to her flock that she and her husband Israel Ford, 47, had begun a polygynous marriage with another minister at their church, Shakayla Talley, 28. 'And I want to share that, know, Prophet and I, you know, we are living even right now in what we would call a polygynous marriage,' Lydia told her church. 'My husband, our prophet, he has a second wife. Y’all know her. Y’all...

Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is one of the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission in hydrogen, wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known...

Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, is the latest politician to suggest that the Second Amendment might shield the right to bear arms, but only those that existed at the time that it was adopted: namely, flintlock muskets. It's a not-so-clever way of trimming back the Constitution's protections. The argument's flaws should be clear: the U.S. Supreme Court has already dismissed that line of reasoning, and a world in which the Bill of Rights applies only to 18th century technology would be one where freedom exists only in museum exhibits."I'm gonna swear an oath to the Constitution. The Constitution...

ARLINGTON, TX — Cowboys fans expressed growing concern this week that another regular-season loss could jeopardize the team's opportunity to suffer a humiliating collapse in the first round of the playoffs. Supporters warned that unless Dallas turned things around soon, the team could find itself watching the postseason from home instead of getting everyone's hopes up, choking in the first round, and then watching the playoffs from home. "We have to start winning some football games if we want to the chance to embarrass ourselves in January," said lifelong fan Mike Hensley. "I would hate to give up on the...

Police arrested four city men accused in a North End shooting spree that left one car and two homes damaged Sunday night. Officers seized four firearms, including one ghost gun with no serial number, and evidence that 61 bullets were fired during the gun battle that started at about 7:05 p.m. and spread around Calhoun, Main and Dwight streets and Jefferson Avenue, according to police spokesperson Ryan Walsh.

Actor Mandy Patinkin Claims ‘Jewish Safety Depends’ on Electing Democrat Michigan Candidate Abdul El Sayed Actor Mandy Patinkin Claims ‘Jewish Safety Depends’ on Electing Democrat Michigan Candidate Abdul El Sayed PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 13: Mandy Patinkin of "Homeland" speaks during thAmy Sussman/Getty Images Warner Todd Huston26 Oct 2026496 5:52 Left-wing actor Mandy Patinkin is making his last-minute appeal to voters in Michigan with the odd claim that Muslim Democrat Abdul El Sayed is the only candidate who can assure the “safety of Jews.” Patinkin took to his X account and posted a long message and a video flogging El...

A disruptive passenger forced a Newark-bound United Airlines flight to make a swift U-turn back to Las Vegas late Saturday night, grounding the cross-country trip until Sunday morning. United Flight 1681 had just departed Harry Reid International Airport when the crew flagged "a potential security concern" in the cabin. The Boeing 737, carrying 150 passengers and six crew members, safely touched back down in Vegas at roughly 11:05 p.m. without any reported injuries, several news outlets reported. While United did not reveal the specific nature of the security concern, air traffic control audio from Dane County Regional Airport reviewed by...

Embattled prosecutor Fani Willis has claimed she is a victim of voter fraud after someone allegedly registered to vote using her name in New York. The alleged fraudster registered Willis as a Republican living at Trump Tower in Manhattan. The ruse comes just two years after she attempted to prosecute the President...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed Hennepin County Judge Sarah West's decision to throw out a jury's guilty verdicts against Abdifatah Abdulkadir Yusuf, whose health care company fraudulently billed Medicaid for more than $7.2 million. In a ruling filed Monday, a three-judge appellate panel ordered the case returned to Hennepin County for reinstatement of all six guilty verdicts for aiding and abetting theft by swindle. The appeals court rejected West's conclusion that Yusuf's brother, Mohamed, might have orchestrated the fraud without Yusuf knowing or helping. She cited Minnesota's circumstantial evidence standard as needing to rule out such a scenario for...

Donald Trump’s criminal investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar—which is aimed at stripping her citizenship—is far more than just another attack on a vocal critic. As many have noted, this denaturalization push is an assault on the constitutional order itself. It amounts to a declaration of dictatorial or czar-like power, in which the sovereign can declare any foe an “enemy of the people” at will and delegitimize even the opposition’s duly elected representatives by fiat. All of which raises a question: Can Democrats do anything about this? Well, yes, they actually can. Senior House Democrats tell me they’re discussing a dramatic...

Power bills are so high in Los Angeles they’re now reaching $2,000-$3,000+, even the mainstream media is reporting it In response a spokesperson for LADWP just came out and said “We keep very close eye with our financial service office to make sure that our rates are as affordable as possible” You can’t make this up… These people are so damn corrupt You literally have people getting $3,000 bills. You have businesses complaining about $20,000-$30,000 power bills. You have a woman who has a $2,000 residential water bill, mayor Karen Bass is even saying if you can’t pay current bills...

For the better part of a decade, we've watched violent activists operating under the Antifa banner attempt to intimidate political opponents, shut down free speech, disrupt public events, and substitute mob violence for civil debate. And now, with scenes of political unrest and clashes involving militant activists in France, Milan, and elsewhere in Europe, the dangers of political extremism are impossible to ignore. But sometimes the best way to expose the absurdity of a movement is to LAUGH AT IT! 😂 Enjoy the song, share it with your friends, and let me know what you think in the comments!