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One day after the midterm election, two economic-related things are happening. First, the stock market is having a really good day. Democrats and their media allies would like everybody to believe it's because that party will be taking control of the House and Senate, but the actual reason might be a bit different: The stock market is soaring today because the truth is most business people would rather politicians do nothing and with gridlock guaranteed for the next two years they will get their wish. — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) November 4, 2026 Gridlock makes for a couple of years worth...

When I think of the election results from Tuesday, I am immediately reminded of what happened on November 5, 1946. It was barely one year after the end of World War II. Harry S. Truman had assumed the presidency when FDR died in April 1945. Only nineteen months after taking office, there was a mid-term national election. Here is a brief story of what happened.The nation was restless, exhausted, and bitter. Americans were grappling with post-war inflation, meat shortages, crippling nationwide labor strikes, and what many in the Washington press corps sneeringly viewed as nothing more than a failed Missouri...

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Democrats take the House. Here’s what they plan to investigate and their legislative agenda Democrats take the House. Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives, according to an ABC News projection, putting Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on track to make history as the first Black Speaker of the House when the new Congress is seated in January. So, what's next? Democrats have signaled that they will pursue both a legislative agenda and investigative track that they say aims to restore a congressional check and balance against the executive branch. Legislative priorities: Healthcare, prices, tariffs Oversight and investigations: Epstein,...

Democrat Allison Montgomery will become Alabama’s first transgender legislator after she won the state’s House District 25 on Tuesday night, unseating Republican Phillip Rigsby and persevering in a district President Donald Trump won three times. Montgomery’s victory came as Democrats had an overwhelming performance in the midterm elections. Democrats flipped control of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, as well as several gubernatorial seats, including in Texas and Ohio. State legislatures also saw Democratic victories on Tuesday night, including Montgomery’s win in House District 25 in northern Alabama. Montgomery won with 53.3 percent of the vote to Rigsby’s 46.7 percent,...

The CNN segment appears to argue that the 2026 midterm election results represent a significant political setback for Donald Trump and could reshape the Republican Party's future. Two statistics are presented to support this argument: +2,400% Reported Google search increase for the 2028 election31% JD Vance's reported current 2028 GOP nomination odds2. The Google Search Surge The first graphic claims that Google searches relating to the 2028 presidential election increased by 2,400% compared with the previous week. What this could indicateGrowing public interest in the post-Trump political landscape.Increased speculation about potential presidential candidates.Voters and political observers reassessing the Republican Party.Greater...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Daily Readings from the USCCB“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous...

The launches include Starlink of Vandenberg, including the 700th Falcon 9 overall on the 31st, plus a couple of Electrons from Mahia and a run of Chinese vehicles. Galactic Energy put the first pathfinder for a low-inclination remote-sensing constellation up on a Ceres-1S from an offshore barge, while CAS Space flew the second Kinetica-2 (the liquid RP-1/LOX tri-core version) with another batch of Qianfan satellites. ISRO’s GSLV got NVS-03 into geosynchronous transfer orbit after the previous one’s failure, and Rocket Lab’s 99th Electron carried an iQPS SAR bird. On the bigger picture side, NASA laid out the Artemis Acceleration plan...

Not on its own, and not yet. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would not abolish the Electoral College, but if states with 270 electoral votes join it, they would give their electors to whoever wins the national popular vote. It now has 222 of those 270, according to National Popular Vote, the group behind it. After Tuesday’s midterms, Democrats control enough statehouses to pass it, but nothing has been passed yet. What the compact isIt is an agreement between states. Each member promises to award all its electoral votes to the candidate with the most votes nationwide, rather than...

A glitzy Vogue cover featuring former President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff and Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has caused an uproar online. The only problem? It's not real. Self-proclaimed comedian Brian Marquis posted the fake magazine cover, which was seemingly made with AI, to Instagram on Tuesday. It went viral almost immediately, as thousands of people across the globe believed that the faux photo shoot was legit. The phony cover showed Mamdani standing in a pair of jeans, a black V-neck sweater and a long brown coat. Obama posed next to him in...

That didn't take long. Democrats had barely clinched Congress last night when their supporters were calling for the execution of Elon Musk for being a "traitor to the west." affordability? "We've begun believing through this ridiculous, unhealthy, and dangerous idolatry of innovators that they get to live by an entirely different standard," Galloway said. "Elon Musk is a traitor to the West." "We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall," he continued. "This is a traitor to the West, and he should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West." And the crowd applauded. This...

Phys.org reports that a new analysis of a skull fragment and jaw fragment found in northern China's Xujiayao archaeological site in the 1970s suggests that the fossils belonged to Denisovans. Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and her colleagues identified 18 proteins in the fossils. One of the collagen variants is found only in Denisovans, and not in Neanderthals nor modern humans. Then the researchers evaluated the shapes of the fossils and used 3D computer models to reconstruct the bones. These images were compared with fossils from Neanderthals, modern humans, and other hominins. The study suggests that Denisovans...

Well-preserved Neanderthal hand bones containing collagen have been recovered from northern Spain's Abauntz Cave, according to an IFL Science report. The bones have been radiocarbon dated to 46,000 years ago. "The cave's location is important," said Andión Arteaga of the University of Warsaw and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, and Mikel Arlegi of the Musée de l'Homme. "Abauntz lies along a natural corridor connecting both sides of the Pyrenees. [This makes] it a particularly interesting site for investigating how these late Neanderthal populations moved across the region and how different groups may have interacted," the researchers...

For all the progressive excitement around the bruising beatdown delivered to Donald Trump and the Republican party, Jeffries’ own backers include some of the most notorious power players in the tech industry. Jeffries has a lengthy history of groveling to some of the most divisive tech and weapons corporations on the planet. His donor list includes controversial figures like Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf and his COO Matthew Grimm, who together spent nearly $150,000 boosting Jeffries’ fundraising committees. Some might recognize Anduril as the AI weapons tech corporation co-founded by Palmer Luckey, a tech billionaire whose recent projects include a company...

President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader. Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) issued a stark warning on Wednesday evening after Democrats flipped a Texas Senate seat and the governor’s mansion in the midterm elections. In a lengthy statement shared on social media, the GOP senator said that “Texans will be hurt” by the blue tsunami that swept across the state and country on Tuesday. “Their assault on business will make Texas a much less attractive place to start or grow a small business,” he wrote. “Texas will become more like California if they succeed in halting all new investment into AI.” State Reps. James Talarico and Gina...

A Los Angeles Police Department helicopter narrowly avoided a possible midair collision with a U.S. Navy helicopter over Echo Park Tuesday afternoon, prompting an angry warning from the police pilot over the radio. “You guys gotta pay attention, man. That’s ridiculous,” the LAPD pilot could be heard saying after maneuvering away from the approaching military aircraft. The Nov. 3 incident occurred around 2 p.m. as the police helicopter was circling above a call for service in Echo Park, according to the LAPD. In a statement, police said the helicopter crew received an air traffic alert and spotted a military helicopter...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A woman has been arrested after crashing into a North Charleston church with her young child in the vehicle, authorities say. Aliyah Symone Reese, 21, is charged with unlawful conduct toward a child. North Charleston police responded to Grace City Church on Cosgrove Avenue shortly before noon on Oct. 27 after a vehicle struck the building. Officers found Reese standing near a vehicle with significant front-end damage. Her young child was also at the scene. Both reportedly appeared extremely distraught. Reese told officers she had encountered the child’s father and his new girlfriend at a...

This is the least I have followed politics in a two decades…and maybe that is a sign of the apathy that Republicans had yesterday. I didn’t anticipate Governor Abbott losing but it happened. Republicans need to win or lose on policy and Democrats win or lose on leader charisma. That tells me that Republican policy was bad. I never criticized Abbott before but his anti-data center talk made me change my tune. I voted for him but his negative view on data centers was dumb. Texas was doing an amazing job with data center expansion. Power prices were low because...