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Former Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) has registered as a foreign agent for a shadowy European NGO to lead "fact-finding" missions to the West Bank—part of a seemingly elaborate propaganda campaign against Israel. The ex-Squad member, who once warned pro-Israel advocacy groups that she was coming to "tear your kingdom down," signed on as an independent contractor for the International Federation for Rights and Development (IFRD), a Brussels-based "human rights" nonprofit, according to disclosures she filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act last week. According to the contract, IFRD will pay $25,000 to Bush and her friend and campaign manager,...

Texas. There is absolutely something rotten in Texas. The vote totals aren’t “off.” They’re literally impossible. They’re a Marxist fantasy. They’re a little child’s fairy tale. Red rural Texas districts turned Democrat blue? For Talafreako? You’re telling me white male Christian hunters, and fishermen, and gun owners decided to vote Democrat for the first time in their lives because they all now hate President Trump? Two years after electing him in a Texas landslide? After he secured the border? After he cut their taxes?

The 20-year-old co-pilot on the doomed Learjet that crashed in Florida last weekend was remembered by her flying instructor as “the most naturally gifted pilot” who was “born to fly!” Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras — who earned her pilot license in high school, even before she could drive — “aced” all her flying exams, longtime instructor Chris Kirk said alongside a selfie of them beaming together in the cockpit. “She was without a doubt the most naturally gifted pilot I have ever taught, and I have been teaching for 40 years!!” he posted on Facebook while proudly saying he was one...

Audio between an air traffic controller and a female pilot flying the Learjet 60 during a flight in May has resurfaced following Sunday’s tragic incident in Palm Beach County. A man and woman in the cockpit were scolded by air traffic controllers after they appeared to make unapproved altitude adjustments during turbulent conditions, according to audio obtained by the Daily Mail and the U.K. Sun. What happened with the Learjet 60 in May? The plane was flying near Newark, N.J., at the time when an air traffic controller asked the crew, “Why are you climbing?” The female pilot answered: “We’re...

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania State University, alleging the school is violating federal law by providing reduced tuition to illegal immigrants and not affording U.S. citizens the same reduced rate. Federal law states that “an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the...

Eight small towns, from Lockhart’s barbecue pits to Hatch’s chile fields, show that great food doesn’t need a big city or a hard-to-get reservation. A great food scene doesn’t always require a crowded city or a Michelin reservation booked months out. Some of the best food in the country comes from towns with a few thousand residents and one specific thing they do better than anywhere else – a barbecue tradition, a crop, a way of cooking a specific food in a specific pot. These eight towns built their identity around food long before "foodie" was a word, and each...

How did the scattered followers of an itinerant preacher come to form the most populous religion in the world? Tim Whitmarsh—a classicist at the University of Cambridge —offers a compelling answer in his new book, Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity. To wit, Christianity took much of its shape from the cult of Augustus. The Augustan age saw a unique revolution that redefined authority, space and literature, remaking both the inner world and the outer. Augustus drew on centuries-old Roman prophecies to cast himself as the promised one. According to his propaganda, Italy experienced auguries...

Expect a surge of gun sales, but also gun control legislation after Tuesday’s dominance in midterm election by Democrats in the U.S. Congress and in various states where the power is shifting to liberal politicians.That’s according to Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Chairman Alan Gottlieb.Tuesday’s election saw Democrats win seats across the country. Gun control groups heralded the wins.“This wave of progress flipped control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, a rare shift seen only twice before in the last 70 years,” said a statement from Brady United, a gun...

Kyle Fellers missed half his daughter’s senior-year soccer games after a dispute over a pink wristband. Two years later, Bow School District has a federal judgment declaring that it violated the parents’ First Amendment rights, plus a settlement providing $275,000 in legal fees and costs. The wristbands carried two letters: XX. Apparently, defending girls’ sports required parents to defend their right to wear something smaller than the average school identification badge. From KSAT: In a dismissal order Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe said the men have a First Amendment right to silently wear the wristbands and that school...

Cardinal Parolin confirms Pope Leo’s approval of China bishop appointments despite ‘imperfect’ agreement Cardinal Pietro Parolin has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has approved episcopal appointments under the Vatican’s agreement with China, acknowledging that the arrangement remains imperfect but insisting that dialogue with Beijing must continueCardinal Pietro Parolin has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has given his assent to episcopal appointments made under the agreement between the Holy See and China, while acknowledging that the arrangement remains imperfect and defending the Vatican’s decision to continue implementing it.Speaking to journalists on Thursday, 5 November, the Vatican Secretary of State reaffirmed that...

Woke 2.0 in America is, unfortunately, off to a strong start, as singers now feel emboldened to shamelessly mock our nation's beautiful national anthem. As Yahoo Sports reported, the NBA's Golden State Warriors celebrated their annual Pride Night during their home game against the Miami Heat. As part of the Warriors' Pride Night celebration, they had openly gay singer Jason Brock perform the national anthem. Brock is a former finalist on The X Factor USA and a prominent male cabaret singer in San Francisco. He certainly qualifies as a national anthem singer based on talent. But Brock decided to use...

Mark Ruffalo is backing a petition pressuring House Democrats to deny Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker’s chair, escalating the actor’s public activism after Democrats overturned the House majority in the Nov. 3 midterms. ======================================================================= WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW * Mark Ruffalo is promoting a petition urging House Democrats to reject Hakeem Jeffries as the next Speaker. * The petition argues that Jeffries represents the Democratic establishment rather than Democratic voters. * Jeffries has remained a firm supporter of Israel and U.S. military aid during the war with Hamas. * Ruffalo recently appeared in a celebrity video message during Macklemore’s “Free...

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in politics, it’s that when you win, it’s never as good as it seems.” Rogan O’Handley (DCDraino on X) Half the country is doing an end-zone war dance, the other half is scratching its weary head. That was some election! But you know what? The numbers are a little. . . queer. I mean queer in the old-school sense. Peculiar. Puzzling. Kind of. . . fishy. . . maybe statistically impossible? What I think happened: Democratic Party election ninja Marc Elias knocked himself out for two years registering new voters by the bale, as...

Democrats’ midterm gains have opened a path to fundamentally changing how America elects its president, potentially locking in the national popular vote winner through an interstate agreement.Check Voting Info The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would leave the Electoral College formally intact while changing how participating states award their votes. A member state could back one candidate at the ballot box and still hand every electoral vote to that candidate’s opponent. That is because the agreement commits participating states to awarding their electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes nationwide, regardless of the outcome within their borders. The compact...

WASHINGTON—The White House delivered a warning to conservative groups on Thursday: We’re watching you. Two days after voters rebuked President Trump and his party, the administration moved to hold together a coalition that was beginning to splinter. The White House Office of Public Liaison, which works with outside groups, sent a memo to more than 3,000 conservative organizations that laid out a list of Trump’s accomplishments in office and pledged to prevent newly ascendant Democrats from reversing them. The memo concluded with a sentence that was highlighted in yellow. “As always, we are monitoring statements, press releases, and media engagements...

Two more DOJ officials abruptly resigned on Friday just days after the Democrats swept the midterm elections. The top prosecutor who was spearheading the Russiagate case against John Brennan - US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Quiñones - resigned. US Attorney General Todd Blanche made the announcement on Friday. "United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones submitted his resignation from the Department of Justice," Blanche said. "We are grateful for Jason’s leadership in combatting violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime, including the indictment of Raúl Castro. Jason has served...

The Left is already demanding punishment after an MLB All-Star called out Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) — and political Islam — in the wake of Tuesday’s midterms. Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Anthony Santander, an All-Star in 2024 before suffering a major shoulder injury during his team's American League championship run the following year, reshared two videos to his Instagram story after Michigan elected El-Sayed as the next U.S. senator from that state. One was captioned “America voted for Sharia Last Night.” The other was titled “Islam is not peaceful.” Ah, it seems like only yesterday people could state the obvious...

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch announced Thursday he won’t seek another term at the helm of his chamber next year, acknowledging his tenure was doomed after 26 Democratic state representatives signed a statement calling for a change in leadership. The seismic statehouse shakeup comes in the wake of revelations over the summer that Welch was aware of sexual harassment allegations against disgraced ex-state Rep. Harry Benton, D-Plainfield, almost three years before additional complaints prompted Benton’s resignation. The call for new leadership was distributed late Wednesday by North Side state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, the most vocal public critic of Welch’s...

Tesla’s most revolutionary product didn’t even last a decade. On Friday, in the middle of the night Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on X.com that Tesla Cybertruck production will stop in the middle of 2027. The reason? According to Musk it’s to make room for Cybercab production. Musk make the announcement on X.com, which was formerly Twitter before he bought the platform in a hostile takeover, at 12:30 am on Friday. The executive has since posted nine times on X effectively burying the post, though it’s currently trending on the platform he owns. The quiet part out loud: The Cybertruck...

The U.S. economy added jobs at a much stronger-than-expected pace in October, while the unemployment rate moved lower as the labor market showed surprising strength...In addition to the strong payroll gains for October, prior months were revised up substantially...