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🚢 After more than 19 months in Mobile, the historic SS United States is scheduled to begin its final voyage Monday, November 9, at 9 a.m., weather permitting. 🌊 The 990-foot ocean liner will be towed from Modern American Recycling Services Pier 4 on the Mobile River, through Mobile Bay and into the Gulf of Mexico. The ship is expected to reach its destination Tuesday, approximately 22 nautical miles southwest of Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Sinking operations are scheduled to begin Thursday, November 12, at 10 a.m., creating what officials describe as the world's largest artificial reef. The U.S. Coast...

Ross Douthat: “So you think your deportation policy went too far?” Trump: “Yeah, I think it was too tough”

I've been pontificating and wringing my hands over the electoral debacle of last week, but now it is time to form a plan to circumvent the coming evil and debauchery. I've been thinnking about this and come up with a few ideas. I believe we will be reasonably safe if Trump exercises his veto for the next few years. But after that all hell will be set loose. The electoral and societal machinery will probably elect a DEI DSA socialist in 2028. They will attempt o destroy the Christian religion. They will continue to destroy the nuclear family. They will...

The widow of Alex Klinner, the Alabama airman killed in combat operations in Iran in March, said she voted Tuesday for Doug Jones and other candidates Alex “would have supported.” "Alex struggled serving under an administration that so blatantly views our military members as expendable. And I hate that he died because of it."

Nvidia’s board of directors announced Sunday that it’s launching an independent investigation following reports that CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese spy operation. Nvidia also published a message that Huang sent to the company admitting that he had an affair with Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based chip company Megaspeed (though he didn’t mention her by name). A memo circulating among U.S. policymakers earlier this year claimed that Alice Huang had been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to spy on Nvidia’s CEO. “I owe my family and all of you an apology,” Jensen Huang wrote....

“Every great cause,” wrote the philosopher Eric Hoffer, “begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Having led the anti-slavery movement to its culmination some 160 years ago, and since setting the stage for explosive national growth and prosperity in the latter 19th century, the guiding principle of today’s GOP is . . . ? We shouldn’t be disappointed, ever, by the Racket Republicans. As a group, what do Republicans in Congress stand for other than reelection? Hardly a week goes by in which patriots aren’t saddened. Name the issue. Democrats pack up like dogs....

Two passenger jets narrowly avoided a potentially catastrophic midair collision shortly after taking off from Los Angeles International Airport early Saturday, after one aircraft made an unauthorized turn into the other’s flight path. An Air France Airbus bound for Papeete, Tahiti, reportedly came within just 400ft vertically of an American Airlines Airbus headed to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Following the Democrats’ sweeping victory of statewide offices on Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court will shift from 9-0 Republican control to 5-4 Republican control in January. As part of the shift, Ellis will be replacing the Republican Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock. Ellis previously served as a justice on the Austin-based Third Court of Appeals. In her first public statement since the election, Ellis told the Dallas Morning News that she wants to ensure that any judges who officiate weddings in Texas also do so for homosexual couples, removing the religious freedom exemptions. “One thing I’d like to do is work...

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) was the top pick of attendees at a progressive convention in Washington, D.C., to be Democrats’ standard-bearer in the 2028 presidential election. Of the 990 poll respondents at Crooked Con, hosted by Crooked Media, 38.4% of attendees selected Ossoff as their first choice for the 2028 Democratic nominee. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came in second with 16.6% of the vote, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came in third with almost 14%. The conference brought together elected officials, journalists, and political strategists for panels, strategy sessions, media appearances. Several floated 2028 contenders appeared at Saturday’s event...

Conservatives and leftists alike have quickly embraced the notion that America’s perception of President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran, and of its being a never-ending war, would keep the price of gas and diesel high. This, they believed, is the reason for inflation in the full range of goods and services. On its surface, the logic is sound and true. But were these specific economic pressures enough to cause the level of political devastation to Republicans we just saw? The experts are telling us that Republicans not named Donald Trump, at the federal, state, and even...

@sgtnewsnetwork SO IT BEGINS:☪️🇺🇸Two brazen Muslim cops breaking the law in NYC - One officer puts his hands on a woman and threatens to wake away her dog - Neither cop can say what law she broke NEW YORK HAS NO IDEA WHAT THEY HAVE DONE BY ELECTING A RADICAL MUSLIM AS MAYOR! https://x.com/sgtnewsnetwork/status/2119524356804301192?s=19 video

Islamic police- “We can do what ever we want.” Across the UK/Europe, walking dogs in public is being outlawed because Muslims are offended by dogs and now it’s coming to the United States..

Char Brodersen, a grandson of [Chuck] Smith, read a statement during the Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa service on Nov. 1, saying the church “believes and practices the ordination of both men and women to pastoral ministry as a recognition of the priesthood of all believers and the unique gifting of individuals by the Holy Spirit to continue the mission and ministry of Jesus in the Church and in the world.”

Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang has admitted having an affair two days after the FT reported his alleged romantic relationship with a woman the US intelligence community believes was working as a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security. Huang revealed the affair in an internal message to employees on Sunday that was obtained by the FT. “I owe my family and all of you an apology,” he said in the message on Sunday afternoon. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did I am deeply sorry”....

New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a stern warning to the Democratic Socialists of America on Saturday: if you challenge incoming presumptive House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, plan to take her on, too. “For those who live in his district and are so drunk of power to think that they’re going to run against this man, you’ve got to get past this neighborhood and Tish James,” she crowed while speaking at a Brooklyn Democratic leadership event on Saturday during the SOMOS political conference in Puerto Rico. “We are going hard. We are going hard for our speaker,” said James to...

On November 5, 2026, the city of West Hollywood, California, unanimously passed an ordinance allowing throuples, foursomes, and other multi-partner “domestic relationships” to register with the city clerk. These registered polyamorous partnerships receive limited legal protections, including hospital visitation rights and certain tenancy safeguards, while the mayor and activists celebrate the expansion of “non-traditional family structures.” Attorney and activist Christina Fialho, who pushed for the measure, did not hide the trajectory.“This law is just the beginning,” she told the Los Angeles Times, adding that it could help people “envision a future they previously considered out of reach.”

Protests of Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia by dozens of masked bikers on the eve of the Kristallnacht anniversary were drowned out by a massive crowd of heckling counter-protesters on Sunday. The boycott, which targeted restaurants run by Jewish Americans in Philly’s ritzy Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, came face-to-face with a large counterprotest aimed at supporting the businesses. However, the protest was forced to shut down early, with organizers claiming “safety concerns.” Lines at the Jewish-owned businesses stretched out the door as supporters publicly come out to back them. Social media posts for the protest demanded that the businesses leave the city....

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With the midterms over, President Trump’s advisers and foreign allies have been racing to shape his decision on whether to end the Iran war or reignite it. Voters soundly repudiated the war at the ballot box, then Vice President JD Vance questioned whether it was worthwhile on social media. Before that post, Vance told the president that he intended to blame the defeat on the war, U.S. officials said. Another camp, which includes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper, have supported a return to major combat operations during recent briefings on military options, U.S....

Alabama Equality celebrated two milestones for LGBTQ representation in Alabama after Democrats Brett Jones and Allison Montgomery defeated Republican incumbents Tuesday. Montgomery became the first openly transgender person elected to the Alabama Legislature, and Alabama Equality said Jones will become the state’s first openly gay sheriff. Jones won the Madison County sheriff’s race with 84,068 votes to Sheriff Kevin Turner’s 74,639, according to unofficial returns. Montgomery won House District 25 with 12,456 votes to Representative Phillip Rigsby’s 10,929. The district includes parts of Madison and Limestone counties. “Alabama made history on Tuesday,” Alabama Equality Chairwoman Patricia Todd said in a...