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Shocking video posted to social media shows a black male beating and kicking a white high school girl on a bus in Youngstown, Ohio, as the driver refused to pull over and intervene. The Boardman Local School District launched an investigation after a black male brutally beat and appeared to choke a white teen girl on a bus transporting students to Mahoning Valley Community School last Friday. The victim, a 10th grade girl, was taken to a hospital with severe injuries. The Gateway Pundit is unable to publish the video but it can be viewed here (warning on disturbing content)....

A crucial test this week could bring SpaceX one step closer to revolutionizing spaceflight — or cast new uncertainty on the company’s boldest ambitions. SpaceX will for the first time attempt to bring every part of its massive Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, back to dry land — intact — during a mission set to launch on Friday between 5:45 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. ET. The aim is to develop a fully reusable launch system, a goal the company has deemed the “holy grail” of rocketry because it would eliminate the need to throw away multimillion-dollar rocket parts...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. American Civil War Song: When Johnny Comes Marching Home I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and...

Egypt seeks death penalty for man who converted from Islam to Christianity Prosecutors have called for the maximum punishment against Said Abdelrazek, who faces charges of ‘showing contempt for Islam’ and harming ‘national unity’ after converting to Christianity An Egyptian man who converted to Christianity faces the death penalty after leaving Islam.As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Said Abdelrazek stands accused of promoting ideas and beliefs that are allegedly “harmful to national unity and social peace” as well as “showing contempt for Islam and challenging its fundamental principles.” However, human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Coptic Solidarity, report that he is...

The New York City mayor is aiming to end the Strategic Response Group, fulfilling a key campaign pledge. NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to unveil a plan for disbanding the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group as early as this week, according to three people with knowledge of the long-awaited announcement. In dissolving the counterterrorism and protest-response unit, the democratic socialist mayor would fulfill a key 2025 campaign pledge with the aim of mollifying an increasingly restive base. Mamdani’s plan is expected to involve nixing the SRG and potentially replacing it with a new civilian unit...

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·14hHe was an American Olympic runner at the 1936 Berlin Games. He finished eighth in the 5,000 meters and shook Hitler's hand.Six years later his Air Force B-24 crashed into the Pacific. For forty-seven days he drifted on a raft with two other men. One died. Sharks circled every night.Then the Japanese Navy picked him up and sent him to a prison camp in Naoetsu, on the Japan Sea coast.For over two years, a camp guard the prisoners called The Bird beat him with a belt buckle, broke his nose, made him hold a wooden beam over his head for...

I hope the Democrats understand what the results of the midterms really mean. They didn’t just win Congress in a landslide. They landed a two-year job interview with the American people, with the presidency in 2028 as the real prize if they do well, a chance to prove in hard policy terms they should be handed the White House. Or they could squander it beating up on the lame-duck President Donald Trump. Democrats have clearly been facing restiveness from their base over failing to stand up to Trump. They are unlikely to cooperate with the administration. If a faction of...

TheOrdinaryAmerican@TheOrdAmericanTrump Teams Up With Bukele & Topples London’s Empire In HaitiMY VIDEO NOTES BEGIN~~~Trump and Bukele teaming up fighting proxy war against the City of London. Four El Salvadoran technicians kidnapped. Bukele told the gangs send the techs to me or I'll bring in troops. The gangs gave them 4 dead bodies, Bukele said 'that's not them' and moved 2000 troops to Haiti.Someone asked Trump about it, 'That's terrible, How can El Salvador go in there like that. Let the UN handle it..." And Trump said, 'Hey, he's got to do what he's got to do. He's got to protect...

The president called the Nvidia chief on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of supporting him even as the spy scandal was intensifying. President Trump called Jensen Huang on Tuesday, before the Nvidia chief stepped down amid a rapidly unfolding spy scandal, and urged him to keep fighting for his job, according to two people briefed on the conversation.The call was the latest instance of Mr. Trump defending and protecting Mr. Huang, who had become a high-profile ally and an influential adviser on artificial intelligence. The president continued to back him to the end, even after U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that...

Dozens of Iraqis visit Baghdad’s first Jewish museum each day to view faded school certificates, handwritten ​documents and family photographs… The ‌museum occupies the historic Shamash Jewish School, founded in 1928 on Al-Rashid Street, a prominent thoroughfare in Baghdad. Iraq’s Jewish community opened the museum last month in a rare public celebration of the country’s Jewish heritage. The museum also pays tribute to prominent figures from Iraq's Jewish heritage, including celebrated singer Salima Murad. Born into a ​Jewish family in Baghdad, Murad rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s as one of Iraq's most acclaimed vocalists, known for performing...

Back in October, we told you about Nafisa Fai, who was running for a county chair in Oregon. The Somali-born politician made a trip to Minnesota of all places to campaign, where she spoke Somali in front of an upside-down American flag — not unlike Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar. As we reported a few days later, the Oregon Journalism Project retracted its headline and story describing the video as a “deepfake” that was circulated by right-wing social media accounts to brand Fai as un-American. Axios had already run with the Oregon Journalism Project's original story, which relied on a...

Jim Caviezel says Muslims want to kill him: ‘I have a fatwa on me’ ‘I have a fatwa on me,’ Caviezel told podcaster Benny Johnson, adding, 'They have a right to cut my heart out in their Islamic belief’ after appearing in the film ‘The Stoning of Soraya M.’ Catholic actor Jim Caviezel, famous for playing Jesus Christ in The Passion of the Christ, announced that Muslims want to kill him because he has spoken the truth about Islam and Sharia Law. “I have a fatwa on me,” Caviezel told podcast host Benny Johnson. “They have a right to cut...

It requires us to assist patients who want suicide and to falsify death certificates. For more than 150 years, Catholic institutions have cared for New Yorkers in need.In 1849, the Sisters of Charity, founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, responded to a cholera epidemic by founding the city’s first Catholic hospital. The Misericordia Sisters came to New York in 1887 and founded Misericordia Hospital, which eventually relocated to the Bronx and became known as Our Lady of Mercy Hospital. The Little Sisters of the Poor arrived around 1870, begging for food and money to care for the elderly poor. Mother...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Wednesday that Supreme Court justices could become impeachment targets when Democrats take control of Congress in January. AOC is accusing the Court of having “legalized” President Donald Trump’s alleged criminal conduct. The New York Democrat made the remarks during an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju following Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections. She was also asked whether Democrats would pursue the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” she said. “There...

The debate over the progressive push for Medicare for All has dominated the early days following Democrats’ landslide victory last week. But leading progressives are floating another idea as a first step that could get broader buy-in from the Democratic caucus: lowering the Medicare age from 65 to 55. Incoming House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) told us he’s open to the idea and could even mark it up next year. “I’m open to that. I don’t know about [age] 55, but I’m open to a conversation about it,” Neal said. “I think that’s the way to...

AUGUSTA, MAINE – The Elections division today completed ranked choice tabulations for the November 3, 2026 General Election Congressional District 2 race. Based on ranked choice tabulations, the final results are as follows: Paul LePage (170,890, 50.81%) - Winner Matthew Dunlap (165,432, 49.18%) The race went to ranked choice voting after election night results reported by the municipalities yielded 170,263 first choice votes (49.894%) for Paul LePage (R); 164,845 first-choice votes (48.307%) for Matthew Dunlap (D); 123 first-choice votes (0.036%) for declared write-in candidates, and 6,017 blank votes (1.763%). In Ranked Choice Voting races, the winner must receive a majority...

Giving evidence to the inquiry, Sheen Handoo, X's compliance and safety lead, confirmed the clip was "still live" for adult UK users behind a sensitivity warning. She said the video did not breach the platform's policies, despite Rudakubana having watched it shortly before the killings. Rudakubana, 20, is serving a life sentence after murdering six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar in an attack on a dance class in Southport in July 2024. Eight other children and two adults were seriously injured. Handoo, who joined X in 2020, said: "I would first like to...

The only way to end the Ukraine war is for Europe’s largest militaries to immediately deploy their troops there and “push for peace”, the former Secretary General of NATO has said. U.S. President Donald Trump is “siding with Putin” and European states must use force to bring the Ukraine war to an end and ensure they have a seat at the negotiating table at the end of it, former NATO Secretary General between 2009-2014 Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said in a series of statements. Rasmussen, who was Prime Minister of Denmark before his tenure at the top of the Western...

RFK JR: “People who take the flu shot are protected against that strain of flu, but they’re 4.4x more likely to get a non-flu infection … It injures your immune system so that you’re more likely to get a non-flu viral upper respiratory infection”

Perfect driving records mean little as auto insurers try to squeeze monthly premiums to cover terrifying hidden repair costs and illegal uninsured drivers .... If you have opened a renewal notice recently, you have probably asked yourself: why is my car insurance so high? You have not had a speeding ticket in a decade, your driveway is completely free of fender benders, and your daily commute has not changed. Yet, somehow, the monthly premium automatically pulled from your checking account looks like it belongs to a reckless teenager driving a bright red sports car. You are certainly not alone in...