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NASA announced Saturday that Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and six other aerospace companies are eligible to compete for up to $10 billion in lunar delivery contracts as the agency advances plans to establish a permanent base on the moon. The announcement, made at the MAX POWER aerospace expo and air show at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, expands NASA’s commercial lunar program, bringing together private companies to deliver scientific equipment, technology and infrastructure to the moon’s south pole. The new Commercial Lunar Payload Services framework has a maximum combined value of $10 billion over 10 years, with...

Olivia Reingold reports from Detroit, where the Muslim progressive’s election signifies a seismic shift in the scales of power. Socialism, TikTok, and anger now reign supreme. DETROIT, Michigan — “LET’S F[-------] GOOOOOO!” A blonde with a tattoo of the state of Michigan on her forearm thrusts her fist into the air. It is just after 1:30 a.m., and Abdul El-Sayed, a doctor turned podcaster, has been senator-elect for approximately one minute. Three friends next to me embrace in a hug. Hundreds of his supporters, crowded into a downtown event space, raise their smartphones. As his signature walk-out song, Tupac Shakur’s...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (11/8/26)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel's Messiah Malachi 3:33 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Holy Bible, The King James Version _________________________________________

Rioters attempt to smash the windows of a Snipes store near Châtelet–Les Halles in central Paris, France, on 18 October 2026. Matthieu Rondel/AFP. Three-quarters of a sample of suspects brought before French courts following last month’s mass riots bore Arabic–Muslim or African-origin first names, according to an analysis by leading pollster Jérôme Fourquet. The finding points to mounting indications of significant immigrant-background involvement in the looting and violence that, with the help of the far left, turned France’s protests over education and living costs into weeks of urban chaos. Fourquet, director of the opinion department at polling institute Ifop, examined...

U.S. — Democrats proudly announced that they had already delivered on their campaign promise to improve affordability, having made stock prices far, far cheaper in just a few days. Only two days after the midterms, Democrats had succeeded in reducing the total cost of stocks by historic amounts, making good on their vows. "This is what it looks like to deliver for the American people," said Representative Hakeem Jeffries, holding up a chart to show how much cheaper stocks are now. "In just 48 hours, we managed to cut the price of stocks by a collective $2.9 trillion. If we...

The Talk Shows Nov 8th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.); Rep.-elect Nancy Lacore (D-S.C.). FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: AG Todd Blanche; NYC democrat Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Panel: Michael Allen, Dasha Burns, Karl Rove and Juan Williams.MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton (D-Kan.); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); Florida Republican Gov.-elect Byron Donalds; Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. (MSDNC) Panel: Ashley Etienne, Jonathan Martin and Marc Short—EVERY one of these easily forgotten angry Leftists...

The insanity of the Democrats and their lunatic NeverTrump fringe transformed Trump from a pariah into a victim. A prominent theme in The Counterrevolution, Victor Davis Hanson’s new book about the “fall and rise” of Donald Trump, is the unwitting role that Trump’s enemies played in his rehabilitation from 2022 to 2024. I sense that the public memory of the assault against Trump and his lieutenants is already beginning to fade. It is worth revisiting, especially in light of the likely reaction by the Left to its astonishing (astonishing to me, anyway) victory in the midterms. There were essentially three...

Eight people were arrested and 43 women from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and other States were rescued during simultaneous raids at four premises in Hyderabad as police busted an alleged illegal human egg harvesting and commercial sale racket involving recruitment, transportation and accommodation of women for oocyte donation procedures. The raids were conducted by Begumpet and Saroornagar police along with the Special Operations Team of the Malkajgiri Commissionerate at premises in Prakash Nagar, Begumpet, Erragadda, Saroornagar and Gopalapuram. Police seized documents, mobile phones and other material, while the identities, recruitment circumstances and medical histories of the rescued women are...

Singer Harry Styles has been dubbed a 'Planned Parenthood champion' for his recent invitation to have Planned Parenthood affiliates distribute condoms and abortion information during each show of his 30-night residency at New York City's Madison Square Garden as part of his "Together, Together" Tour. Key Takeaways: * Harry Styles has been dubbed a 'Planned Parenthood champion'. * As part of his "Together, Together" residency at Madison Square Garden, he invited Planned Parenthood to set up tables to hand out Planned Parenthood condoms and abortion information. * Styles' lifestyle brand Pleasing also collaborated with Planned Parenthood to distribute "I'm with...

Archaeologists spent decades treating Rujm el-Hiri as a one-of-a-kind puzzle. A vast maze of basalt rings near the Sea of Galilee, nearly five thousand years old and stretching 492 feet across. Locals call it the Wheel of Ghosts. Researchers called it the Stonehenge of the East. Now satellite data shows the whole region has been slowly rotating the monument out from under the old theories, and the site is not even unique. Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev first used satellite imagery to map hundreds of features around the site, including tumuli, linear walls, and...

The November 3 midterm elections largely devastated conservatives, as a blue wave rolled over the country, seizing Republican strongholds. The performance of the pro-choice party subset proved no exception. Pro-choice incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) lost reelection to Democrat Troy Jackson in a hotly contested race. Pro-choice Republican candidate Michelle Tafoya also lost her Senate race in Minnesota to Democrat Peggy Flanagan. Republican Mike Rogers was defeated by radical Muslim Abdul El-Sayed (D) in the race for the Michigan U.S. Senate seat after Rogers made a controversial commitment not to fight the state’s liberal abortion law. “The people of Michigan...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart have united in virtually accusing Stephen Miller, President Trump’s new chief of staff, of murder. Democrat Jeffries, the presumptive next Speaker of the House, made the most explosive charge. On X he wrote: “Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands. His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor.”It reads more like someone putting out a hit— not a call for bureaucratic reshuffling. On Saturday’s edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend, Capehart echoed the charge. Discussing Miller’s promotion, Capehart was...

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Daily Readings from the USCCBThirty-second Sunday in Ordinary TimeJesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise.” Matthew 25:1–2The Parable of the Ten Virgins draws on culturally familiar language and practices from first-century Israel. Understanding the wedding customs of that time sheds light on its deeper meaning. First, the bride and groom did not choose each other. The father of the groom selected a bride for his son and spoke to the bride’s father...

"Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground. And Abel . . . brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering; but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard" (Gen. 4:3-5). True discipleship is characterized by obedience to God’s Word. In John 8:31 Jesus issued an important statement to a group of people who were showing an interest in Him: "If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine." Sadly, they rejected His...

Wisconsin Democrats, days after winning control of state government, say they will try to make Wisconsin join a multistate compact that would award the state’s 10 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, even when Wisconsin voters pick someone else. The push could have national consequences. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact takes effect only once states holding at least 270 electoral votes, a majority of the Electoral College, have signed on. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have joined so far, totaling 222 electoral votes, The New York Times reported Thursday. Virginia became the latest...

Putting aside voter discontent, the abrupt, overwhelming shift in one solidly conservative state after another is possible, but doesn’t seem highly probable.Look at the map. Just look at it. If you have spent more than five minutes listening to the heartbeat of America—the hum of truck engines, the quiet grit in the grain silos, the packed-to-the-rafters rallies, and the sheer, undeniable pulse of neighborhoods demanding fiscal sanity and secure borders—the results coming out of this midterm cycle don’t just feel wrong. They defy gravity. They defy human intuition. Was this a 2020 rigged election all over again? For millions...

“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.” From James O’ Keefe, independent journalist, posting on Twitter (X), O’Keefe writes, JUST RECEIVED IN MAIL: Complaint/Summons to appear in Court in Minneapolis, Nov 16th. Once again I’m calling on all journalists to take a stance for the 1st amendment. If they can put me in jail for asking questions, they will do it to you. https://t.co/VmWFE70ElN— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) We’ve come to the point in the proceedings when it is time to hang together or we will surely hang separately. Soft-on-crime Hennepin County prosecutor Mary Moriaty finally found a crime...

When Democrats spent election night telling Republicans to "lawyer up," President Donald Trump made it clear he isn't going to sit there and take it. It's no secret that the Democrat Party plans to weaponize its new House majority against Trump, his administration, his allies, and even his staffers. Democrats couldn't even wait for the ink to dry on the midterm results before they started promising subpoenas and investigations. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the incoming chairman of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led the charge. He issued a victory statement laying out his investigative plans and branding Trump's relatives...

By Dr. John BergsmaMany years ago I worked in a cafeteria in northern Virginia with a large group of people who mostly knew each other and lived in the same neighborhood. Around the 4th of July, they all decided to have a party, and out of politeness invited me, even though I was a bit of a stranger. They told me the party would start at “six” and I dutifully showed up at six sharp with a dish to pass. Little did I know that, in the local culture, things tended to start about two hours after the stated time....