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It was two days before Christmas when David Baltzer, a physically healthy man in his 30s, received a call from a Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker offering him medically assisted death. A former soldier who had served two tours in Afghanistan, Baltzer had been receiving psychological treatment for PTSD and suicidal thoughts. He relied on veterans' benefits to survive after struggling to reintegrate into civilian life, so he was shocked when he received a letter informing him that his benefits had been cut. Upset and looking for answers, he called Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC). But rather than receiving the help he...

They may cut off funds for the Iran blockade, aiding the mullahs.Voters who rebuked President Trump for his many excesses should savor the week because politics in Washington aren’t about to get more substantive or enlightening. The first Democratic big idea is to take the government budget hostage to defund U.S. troops in the middle of a naval blockade in the Middle East. A stopgap funding measure expires on Dec. 11, and Democrat Ro Khanna this week floated “a continuing resolution prohibiting the financing of any combat activities of the U.S. military in Iran.” Democratic leader Chuck Schumer told the...

House Republican leaders are bracing for enough GOP defections to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when the measure comes to a vote this week.

Michigan has elected Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim U.S. senator in American history. This is an extraordinary moment. But anyone seeking to understand how it happened must begin with the people who made it possible, especially Black Detroit, whose organizing, relationships and determination helped secure this victory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9jbjYaZSdA A shocking election discovery in Georgia has potentially flipped a state House race after officials uncovered a missing memory card containing 388 previously uncounted votes! Republican incumbent Gerald Greene initially appeared to lose to Democrat Harry James by just 58 votes. However, after election officials discovered and counted the missing votes in Seminole County, Greene suddenly took a 262-vote lead. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched an investigation into how these votes were overlooked and why the memory card wasn't included in the original election results.

FAR-RIGHT agitator Tommy Robinson was attacked after a mass brawl broke out at a so-called celebrity boxing event on Saturday evening. Two arrests were made, and at least one person was severely injured and taken to hospital, after a brawl was sparked when a fighter, Mo Deen, jumped out of the ring and appeared to land a flying kick to Robinson’s head as he watched the bout from the front row. The far-right agitator, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was then brought into the ring at The Hub in Kilkenny, Ireland, for a face-off with Deen, whose real name...

Kilkenny, Ireland — Absolute mayhem erupted Saturday night at HSTikkyTokky’s Unhinged Promotions 3 when controversial British activist Tommy Robinson was attacked by Muslim influencer and fighter Mo Deen, sparking a wild ring-side brawl that forced police to shut the entire show down before the main event could even begin. The chaos kicked off after Mo Deen finally scored his first boxing win, knocking out overmatched opponent MrTikTokUK with a vicious stoppage after dropping him multiple times. Instead of celebrating, the streamer-turned-fighter immediately leapt out of the ring and charged toward the commentary area, gunning for Robinson, who was ringside watching...

0:1414 seconds Hello everybody, welcome to TUR TV. I'm Maya Tusy and this is your global news channel and the latest update coming 0:2222 seconds from the revolution in Iran, the lion and son revolution. Despite their best 0:3030 seconds efforts, the Islamic Republic of Iran tried uh to put pressure on the German 0:3737 seconds authorities to cancel the anti-IRGC rally of the Iranian patriots with their 0:4545 seconds opposition leader, the crown prince Raza Pahvi. But tens of thousands of Iranians decided to say, "No, not today, Satan. 0:5656 seconds We are coming out." And of course they...

More than 350 people arrived in the UK by making the perilous English Channel crossing in small boats on Saturday, the latest migration figures show. Some 363 migrants crossed in five boats, according to figures published overnight by the Home Office. This followed 161 people making the journey in three boats on Friday, breaking a four-day period of no crossings. A total of 23,129 people have now crossed the English Channel since the start of 2026. That remains far below last year’s total of more than 41,000 people, and is the lowest number for the year to date since 2022,...

During an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast released Friday, a former adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy warned the free market may be at stake if the nation does not reform its institutions. “Are we at a time right now where it feels like we’re just going to be status quo for the next four years?” former Kennedy adviser Calley Means told host Joe Rogan. “I’m worried about socialists taking over because I think unless the Republican Party actually has an anti-corruption plan to actually fix this, Americans are going to vote for a...

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Three teenagers and an adult have been charged with murder in Georgia after a mother found her 15-year-old son shot to death inside an abandoned residence following Halloween night. The Albany Police Department said investigators arrested 22-year-old Detravion Parke, as well as two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old in connection with the death of Austin Payne, 15. All four suspects were charged with murder and transported to the Dougherty County Jail, according to police. Officers responded to the 800 block of Cameo Lane in Albany on Nov. 1, where they discovered Payne dead inside an abandoned home, police said. His mother...

Let's actually explain how thermal balance of spacecraft works, and how we'd need to configure a spacecraft to eliminate the heat that's produced by computer equipment crunching numbers in a space data center. This is all very rough, and I overestimated the size of the starlink V3, but it's still in the ballpark. Real designers of course can't just use 'in the ballpark'. Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space? | 24:29 Scott Manley | 1.87M subscribers | 1,073,338 views | March 18, 2026

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) expressed openness toward the idea of abolishing the Electoral College following the Democratic Party’s decisive victory this week in the 2026 midterm elections. While speaking at the Crooked Con event in Washington, D.C., Shapiro was asked by Pod Save America host Jon Favreau about the possibility of a Democrat-led Congress leading a charge to do away with the constitutional process for electing the president. “You said in 2020 that the Electoral College should be abolished — you now have a Democratic legislature,” Favreau said. “Would you push to join the National Popular Vote Compact, which, for...

Video The Bat Yam Municipality has filed a lawsuit against the Islamic Republic of Iran, demanding more than NIS 208 million in compensation for the extensive destruction caused by an Iranian ballistic missile strike during Operation Rising Lion in June 2025. The lawsuit, filed Sunday in the Tel Aviv District Court by the Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, seeks NIS 208,330,129 in damages incurred by the municipality following the deadly attack. Bat Yam Mayor Zvika Brot and Shurat HaDin President attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner personally delivered the legal documents to a representative of Iran's mission to the United Nations in...

In plain English: for every 1,000 Trump points from 2024, roughly 850 stayed with the Republican candidate while 150 landed on the Democrat side. Republicans retained about 85% of Trump’s share in Senate races and 86% in gubernatorial races. The formula explains 88% of the variation. What makes the pattern so suspicious is its uniformity. It did not matter how red the state was. Wyoming, Ohio, Illinois, and Massachusetts all showed the same roughly 15% shift (p = 0.69).

Democrats hold 54 seats, and two races are still being counted. In Mississippi/Alaska I expect Democrats to win both. Republicans nominated candidates who couldn’t win, and in most of those races, Donald Trump made the pick. Republicans still hold the White House and that conservatives still have a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. Those checks will last only as long as Republicans keep winning elections, and the next two cycles look dangerous.

Here's the video. https://x.com/WMSBG/status/2119220946255097865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2119220946255097865%7Ctwgr%5E88be546e9216ae8aed8121fd5bd8e7027a49cc39%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.israelnationalnews.com%2Fflashes%2F696972 Here's JBN commentary. An apparent antisemitic assault in Brooklyn took an unexpected turn Saturday morning when a 52-year-old Hasidic Jewish man refused to become another defenseless victim and fought back against his attacker. Stay informed with JBN email alerts! Get the latest updates on breaking stories, global events, and community news directly in your inbox. The confrontation unfolded near Bedford Avenue and Heyward Street in Williamsburg as the man was walking to synagogue for Shabbos prayers. Embedded video. The suspect approached the Jewish man and threw an unidentified liquid at him before allegedly punching him in...

As violent mobs of Muslims and nihilist leftist youth menace the cathedral in Milan and the Louvre in Paris, torch historic buildings, and threaten revolution, I wonder if we are thinking clearly about the morality of using deadly force in defense of public order, private property, and our civilizational heritage. Put bluntly, would European police open fire on a mob if it were the only way to stop the destruction of the palace of Versailles or St. Peter’s Basilica? Should they? And if they did, would American Christians wring their hands about it, tut-tutting that “human life has infinite value.”...

Texas Republicans touched off a battle of mid-decade redistricting efforts when they embraced a plan pushed by President Donald Trump for the GOP-controlled legislature to redraw congressional districts to make them more friendly to Republicans. California retaliated with its own gerrymandering in an effort to flip five seats held by Republicans to counter the effort to redraw five seats in Texas. While Republicans redrew 15 congressional seats to try to flip over the past two years, as of Thursday afternoon they are projected to lose more than two-thirds of them. Meanwhile, California's Proposition 50 ballot initiative that redrew five seats...