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In the end, the winning bid came in at $72 million. News 4’s Greg Cergol reports

"Faith is the assurance of things hoped for" (Heb. 11:1). Faith is the solid ground on which we stand as we await the fulfillment of God's promises. An elderly man who, on his seventy-fifth birthday, received an invitation to fly over the little West Virginia town in which he had spent his entire life. Although he had never before flown, the man accepted the gracious offer. After circling the town for about twenty minutes, the pilot safely returned his passenger to the ground. The man's grandson greeted him excitedly, asking, "Were you scared, Grandpa?" "No," he replied sheepishly, "but I...

Suspected cyberattacks have triggered temperatures to rise in grocery store refrigeration systems in a growing number of countries across Europe. Overnight temperature spikes were recorded in stores in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden. On Monday, retailers and authorities pointed to alleged cyberattacks that underscored the vulnerability of systems that once largely operated mechanically. The head of ⁠⁠⁠⁠Sweden’s national cybersecurity centre, John Billow, confirmed on Monday to the Reuters news agency that the centre ⁠⁠⁠⁠is responding to ⁠⁠⁠⁠multiple incidents affecting store cooling systems. The temperature of freezers in several Swedish stores rose suddenly overnight, store operators ICA and Coop said,...

With Ship 42 and Booster 22 in the final process flow ahead of launch, the ships and boosters for flights 15 and 16 are moving ahead for a needed ramp up in launch rates. Construction is also winding down on the Giga Bay, and work is just getting started on an expansion at the Massey Outpost.Flight 15 Vehicles Tested Ahead of November Launch! | 9:03 Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 11,929 views | November 1, 2026

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A few pre-midterms thoughts to start the week: ~Yesterday the last undecided voter in America made up her mind: bigshot Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens announced she'd be voting for the Republican. Which isn't usually the way it goes: it's almost like the Bush family faxed her the playbook upside down. However, the Dems have cunningly neutralised such defections by signing up the dead - and not just deceased humans: 'Biscuit' the dog is latest dead felon to get their voting rights back from Spanberger, confused owner says A Southside Virginia lawmaker is demanding an investigation after a constituent received an...

I’ve written lots about how Germany and German influences affected Bohemia and Czechia. This is what led to a backlash after World War II. This article explores the little-known story of how Czechoslovakia wanted a German expulsion after the war. As with everything in life, context is key. Due to the individual fiefdoms and kingdoms in Central Europe, there had always been plenty of Germanic influence in Bohemia. The 30 years’ war is one of the most important historical episodes because it paved the way for a separation of church and state. After this point, the Hapsburgs ruled the region...

The Dallas Morning News published a glowing opinion piece praising Texas Democrat gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa. The author was billed as a “longtime Republican” and former staffer for Republican lawmakers. There was just one problem: the author was on Hinojosa’s payroll.

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The doomed Learjet co-pilot heard pleading for help in harrowing air traffic control audio before the fiery Florida crash has been identified as Nathalia Gadelha – a 20-year-old who got her pilot license while still in high school... The young aviator, who grew up in Palm Beach County, was previously featured in local media when she got her private pilot’s license at just 17 back in October 2023 — before she even had her driver’s license. “I definitely do brag because people say, ‘Oh, you can’t drive,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, but I can fly,'” she told CBS12 in an...

So think about how bad Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed must be for Stevens to cross the political aisle and endorse Rogers, the Republican candidate she initially dismissed, for senator from Michigan. So bad that El-Sayed dismissed an attack on a synagogue full of children by blaming Israel, claiming that “hurt people hurt people.” So bad that when El-Sayed was asked whether Iran or Israel was the greater threat to the US, he answered both. So bad that El-Sayed refused to denounce an advertisement that blamed Israel for high inflation. Stevens had begged for El-Sayed to stop blaming the Jewish state...

At first glance, the 2026 election looks like any other midterm. The incumbent party is exhausted. The opposition is eager to rebuke an unpopular president. Economic concerns predominate. An electoral thumping seems inevitable. Check results from 2022, 2018, 2014, 2010 and 2006 for reference. Under the surface, however, an ugly force is stirring in U.S. politics that makes this midterm campaign different. For the first time in generations, antisemitism has emerged from the shadows to influence American public life. From Graham Platner to Abdul El-Sayed, from Hasan Piker to Tucker Carlson, antagonism toward Israel, “Zionists” and foreign intervention has morphed...

It looks like Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s getting a wish-granted monkey-paw style: MTA buses are now de-facto free — at the price of making them increasingly dangerous and blowing a disastrous hole in the agency’s finances. Not to mention the larger consequence of surrendering to farebeating. MTA chief Janno Leiber last week suspended the EAGLE fare-verification program after a couple of ugly incidents, presumably under political orders not to upset the anti-policing left. And NYPD flacks say the cops have “no plans” to step in; officers haven’t been issuing more than handful of farebeating summonses for some time, and the city’s...

The predicted blue wave may never materialize. And even if Democrats retake Congress, history suggests Trump could emerge stronger, not weaker, with the presidency's expansive powers. 2022 vs. 2026In June 2022, the price of gasoline topped $5 a gallon and stayed around $4 a gallon through October, on the eve of the midterms. It is currently about $4.30. The inflation rate in 2022 hit a 40-year high of 9.1 percent—and would average 5.1 percent over Joe Biden’s four-year tenure. The 2026 inflation rate is estimated to be about 3.5 percent and, over the first two years of the second Trump...

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville was slammed for disgustingly comparing Michigan Dem Rep. Haley Stevens to a “used condom” after she endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over lefty candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Carville said Stevens wasn’t even worth a used condom to Democrats after she broke with the party days before Election Day and sold her soul to the GOP for “two cheeseburgers” in his vulgar remarks Sunday. “But your political career is over … if you think that these Republicans are gonna treat you as anything other than what they view you as, and that is, let me just...

I Wish I Would’ve Killed You!’ El Sayed Supporter Attacks Jewish Student ...Liz Benichou was participating in a campus stop with Liberty Under Fire USA when the confrontation erupted Sunday in Ann Arbor, according to The Rothman Report. Police identified the alleged attacker as a university student; Benichou is not affiliated with the school. The dispute escalated after Benichou questioned how a woman dressed like her would be treated in Iran, the New York Post reported. Footage circulating online showed the student pushing Benichou down before officers intervened. While being placed into a police vehicle in handcuffs, the student shouted...

“Back in 1836, Houston said to Travis,‘Get some volunteers and go,fortify the Alamo.’Well, the men came from Texas,and from old Tennessee,And they joined up with Travis,Just to fight for the right to be free…” That’s what TEXANS used to believe. And many of us, hopefully most of us, still do. But I’ll bet my last bottom dollar that James Talarico and his Texas Democrats don’t believe it. The question that forms the title of this article is absolutely ridiculous, of course — ridiculous to think that great men like Crockett, Bowie, William Travis, Almaron Dickenson, and approximately 180 other men,...

Republicans are trailing Democrats in seven key Senate battlegrounds, including longtime GOP strongholds Texas and Kansas, according to a poll released Sunday, just days before the midterm elections. The New York Times/Siena poll found Democratic candidates leading in five states currently represented by Republican senators — Alaska, Kansas, Maine, Ohio and Texas — while the race in Iowa is virtually tied. In Michigan, the only Democratic-held Senate seat surveyed, the party's candidate holds a double-digit lead. Don Levy, executive director of the Siena Research Institute, said the results suggest Democrats could capture control of the Senate, though he cautioned that...

Genesis 1 in motion: ============================================================= See the early universe like NEVER before: Incredible simulation reveals exactly what happened in the first 2 billion years of our history https://t.co/IPPGbJRuJf https://t.co/RyURjgKadM— Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) October 26, 2026============================================================= I'll let ya believe it was the first two billion years if you want. Go ahead. You have a brain capable of comprehending the infinite because God created you in His image, just like He finely tuned everything in the universe to be a beautiful work of engineering and artisanship. But before everyone argues about the theology, take a moment to appreciate how modern...

Conservatives score historic win in most left-wing province. Canada went tropical last week (October 24, 2026). I would have written “Hell freezes over in Canada,” but Canada is frozen most of the year, so that wouldn’t work. A political earthquake like nothing before has shaken the Great White North to its tundra core. I’ve previously vented my disdain for our Frozen Banana Republic neighbor, which locks up Christians, dismisses citizens in need of health care, and treads upon the rights of the common man while claiming to be nice in the process. The country has drifted, then rushed to the...