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Democrat Mary Peltola extended her lead over Republican U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in Alaska’s Senate race after the state Division of Elections tallied an additional 5,000 ballots on Thursday, bringing the total number of ballots counted to over 256,000. In the governor’s race, Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins had over 50% of first-choice votes after the latest ballot count, ahead of three Republican candidates. Kreiss-Tomkins said Wednesday that he expects that after all ballots are counted, he will have a comfortable majority of votes on his way to becoming the state’s first Democratic governor since 2002. Thousands of absentee ballots remain...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin [In the Dioceses of the United States]“Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.” They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.” Luke 17:33–37In today’s Gospel, Jesus recalls the tragic...

The Associated Press has called the Kansas gubernatorial race for Democrat Cindy Holscher, who defeats Republican Ty Masterson. Holscher and Masterson were neck and neck on election night, leading to a post-election audit because the margin was so narrow. She will replace outgoing Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a two-term Democrat who could not run for a third term due to term limitations. With her victory, it will be the first time the same party has won three consecutive gubernatorial elections in Kansas since four-year terms began in 1974. Masterson said Thursday that he called Holscher and congratulated her. "I've called...

Texas Democrat Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa says she plans to freeze residential electricity rates within hours of taking office, declaring an emergency over rising energy costs. That idea is likely to trigger the first major tug-of-war between Hinojosa and a Texas legislature with plenty of Republicans. Hinojosa says the move is part of her effort to address Texas’ affordability crisis and force corporations to pay more, although she did not clarify what more means. The proposal is already raising questions about its legality and potential impact on the state’s competitive energy market. Nick Loris, president of C3 Solutions, told Fox News...

Left wing Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen has confirmed he's going to challenge longtime Democrat leader Chuck Schumer to become Senate Majority Leader. Despite having orchestrated the Democrats' 'blue tsunami' in the midterm elections, Schumer remains unpopular with the party's liberal base. In an interview with Jen Psaki on MS Now Thursday night, Van Hollen confirmed he will try to usurp Schumer.

Make no mistake. The Jensen Huang scandal isn't just a story about someone's private life. It's a lever. And it's going to be used for one thing: taking control of AI. I'm not saying the facts are made up. Jensen admitted the affairs, and the investigation should run its course. I'm saying: look at what's being built on top of it. Look at the sequence. Early November, Democrats win both chambers of Congress. Right after, they announce a flood of AI bills. One congresswoman calls for a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence, on day one....

Activist Greta Thunberg broke out into hysterical laughter when she learned that the climate change group she founded was still protesting. Thunberg looked shocked when she was informed that she was filming a documentary the same day Fridays for Future, which she had formed in 2018 when she was just 15, was holding a protest in Berlin. “Is it?” she asked, looking surprised before breaking into loud laughter. “Really? They still do that?” Thunberg’s bizarre reaction came as part of her appearance in “On Tanks into the Climate Crisis How Activism is Criminalised” documentary. She and her friend continue cracking...

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...