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Soccer may be the world’s most popular sport, but in the U.S., its rise to mainstream status has been anything but smooth. Despite steady growth, the game still faces hurdles that have slowed its acceptance, from cultural disconnects and stiff competition from other major sports to challenges in youth development and infrastructure. While more Americans are embracing the sport, breaking into the country’s deeply rooted sports culture remains an uphill battle. The question isn’t whether soccer can thrive in the U.S., but what it will take to finally cement its place among the nation’s biggest sports. 16. Resistance to Adopting...

Washington was rocked in early October with the revelation that the Biden administration, by way of Jack Smith’s investigation into the 2020 election, had ordered the FBI to seize data from the cell phones of eight Republican senators and congressmen. Over the past month, revelations about Smith’s operation, codenamed “Arctic Frost,” worsened. More individuals, including Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz and even President Donald Trump himself, were targeted. As were conservative organizations like Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and the America First Policy Institute – the latter of which didn’t even exist in 2020. Plus, it turned out District Judge...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter announced she will run for the California State Senate in 2028. Christine Pelosi made the announcement amid reports that she could potentially run to replace her mother, who announced last week that she would retire in 2027 after more than 40 years in Washington. Instead, the younger Pelosi will run to replace State Senator Scott Wiener, who is running for Pelosi’s House seat. “We need leaders who advance our San Francisco values and build power for the people. And that’s the kind of representative I will be in the California State Senate,” Christine Pelosi,...

Since 1963, 75% of all nationwide injunctions have been against President Trump. 90% of those injunctions came from Democrat-appointed judges. Yet the Admin has a 92% win rate at SCOTUS. President Trump isn’t the one abusing his power. It’s Democrat-appointed judges.

A man allegedly in the U.S. illegally and accused of driving a truck at the center of a deadly pile-up in California pleaded not guilty to multiple charges Friday. Jashanpreet Singh, 21, of Yuba City, California, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. -snip- The DHS said Thursday that Singh is a “criminal alien” from India. Singh first entered the U.S. in 2022 through the southern border and was “released” under the Biden administration. -snip- Two of the three people killed in Wednesday’s crash were identified as Clarence Nelson and his...

The family of a 21-year-old Indian-origin truck driver, who has been accused of causing a semi-truck crash that left three people dead in the US, on Friday rubbished claims that he was intoxicated while driving, saying he was an ‘Amritdhari Sikh’ (baptised Sikh). Jashanpreet Singh allegedly rammed his truck into slow-moving traffic in Southern California on Tuesday, Fox News reported on Wednesday. -snip- Back home in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, Singh’s family is in shock after they learned about the incident. The family hails from Purana Shala village in Gurdaspur. Singh’s father Ravinder Singh on Friday trashed the allegations that his...

Purana Shala villagers in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district Friday rallied outside a gurdwara in support of California truck accident accused and local boy Jashanpreet Singh. Jashanpreet Singh, 21, has been charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) by the US authorities. Refuting allegations of drug use, Jashanpreet Singh’s father, Ravinder Singh, said at the rally, “He is an Amritdhari Gursikh, someone who has lived by the principles of Sikhism his entire life. He has never consumed drugs – he hasn’t even been near them. These accusations are completely unfounded.” “We mourn the lives lost in this tragic incident, but our son...

During a July 16 episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show” on “Real America’s Voice,” Kirk explained that he believes Protestants do not venerate or talk about Mary enough. He said she “is the solution” to “toxic feminism in America.” But let me first say, I think we as Protestants and Evangelicals under-venerate Mary. She was very important. She was a vessel for our Lord and Savior...I think that we, as Evangelicals and Protestants, we've overcorrected. We don't talk about Mary enough. We don't venerate her enough. Mary was clearly important to early Christians. There's something there. In fact, I believe...

A combination of climate change and natural erosion is thought to be threatening the highway, vital for school buses, emergency services and local businesses. “Last Chance Grade and Highway 101 isn’t just a road — it’s a lifeline,” said state Senate President Pro Tem Sen. Mark McGuire, who represents the north coast. DEL NORTE COUNTY, Calif. — In March 1972, Kurt Stremberg’s parents gave him a predawn ride from their house in northwest California to his friend’s home in the tiny town of Klamath, about 20 miles south of Crescent City on Highway 101. Stremberg, then 24, and his buddy...

from the Middle East and Africa. We, as critics of mass immigration and multiculturalism, must understand why individualism, honesty, guilt, and deferring gratification are particular to the West. Helpfully, authors like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ed Husain can explain. You do not understand how these people think. They will not produce the same civilisation as us.

If progressivism prevails, we may have to go without benefits of civilization that have been taken for granted for centuries. Stores are an example. From the moonbattery-addled Seattle area: Kroger announced its plans to permanently close two more grocery stores, one in Kent and one in Everett… The stores belong to Kroger’s Fred Meyer subsidiary. Kroger noted that the closures could affect approximately 360 workers from both stores. A Fred Meyer spokesperson explains why the closures were necessary: “Unfortunately, due to a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment that adds significant costs, we can no longer make...

Chicago, long infested with crime and poverty, keeps crawling ahead of its rivals to remain the champion of one more side effect of its decline. Pest control company Orkin said that the deep-blue Democrat-dominated city is top in the nation in bed bugs for the fifth consecutive year. Orkin bases its list on data from metro areas where the company has been called in to provide bed bug treatments between May 15, 2024, and May 14, 2025. Both residential and commercial calls are counted. ... Although Chicago remains on top, Orkin noted that Hartford, Connecticut, crawled onto its list of...

Electricity shortage in the southwest! In order to reduce costs and CO2 emissions, people in Baden-Württemberg should use as little electricity as possible on Friday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The transport capacity of the power lines from the north of Germany to the southwest was overused, the transmission system operator TransnetBW in Stuttgart informed via the app “StromGedacht”. In order to stabilize the grid, large amounts of electricity from conventional power plants and from abroad are needed, it continues. In 2024, Germany will import more electricity from its European neighbors than ever before! "With your help, the high...

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed his outrage in a post on Truth Social after New York Judge Juan Merchan set a sentencing date of January 10 in his New York “hush money” case. Trump said that if the judge’s decision is allowed to stand, “it would be the end of the Presidency as we know it.” If it is not overturned or postponed, the sentencing will occur just ten days before Trump returns to the White House. Trump responded to the date being scheduled by writing, “Every Legal Scholar and Pundit, including the highly respected, and sadly recently passed, David...

President-elect Donald Trump's guilty verdict on 34 felony counts in New York won't be thrown out due to his presidential election, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday, keeping one of the only remaining criminal cases against Trump alive as the judge set Trump’s sentencing for Jan. 10, just 10 days before his inauguration.

Out-of-state ballots that the U.S. Postal Service delivered to the Cascade County elections office in Great Falls, Mont., are seen on Nov. 7, 2024 .... ...Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters Tom Toller announced that election results were updated on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 5 p.m. on the county's website, with the next update scheduled for Friday, Nov. 22, at 6 p.m.. ...The county provided an estimated count of unprocessed ballots, noting that the figures are subject to change as ballots undergo signature verification and eligibility checks. The current estimate includes 1,934 vote-by-mail ballots, 1,736 provisional ballots, 562 CVR...

Hundreds of millions of Americans risk experiencing power shortages this winter if weather conditions are harsh, according to a new report published by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a power grid watchdog. Nearly all residents of the Northeast, Texas and Midwest could face energy shortfalls in the event of a colder-than-usual winter, the NERC report states. The lack of grid reliability is driven largely by growing electricity demand as well as the replacement of coal-fired and older natural gas-fired generators with energy-limited resources such as solar power. ... “Foreseeable extreme cold temperatures have the potential to push the...

The IRS portrayed the ultimatum as part of a diversity program for “development of future leaders” but Gary Shapley's lawyer alleges it is retaliation. IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, whose testimony to Congress changed the course of the Biden family corruption case and resulted in Hunter Biden’s felony convictions, has been given an ultimatum from his agency: accept a forced transfer, a demotion or leave the agency, according to correspondence reviewed by Just the News. In a letter dated Oct. 15, Shapley was given three options for his future at the IRS: leave his post as a supervisory special agent in...

Pennsylvanians must be given a chance to vote on Election Day if their mail ballots have been rejected because of a disqualifying mistake, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. That means voters who fail to correctly sign or date the return envelope or fail to use a secrecy envelope are entitled to cast a provisional ballot on Election Day at a polling place and have it counted, as long as that ballot wouldn’t be rejected for some other disqualifying issue. In a 4-3 decision, the court said that provisional voting was meant to assure access to the right to vote,...

Democrat Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul’s Department of Justice raided the home and office of conservative Wausau Mayor Doug Diny in connection to Diny’s removal of an unsecured absentee ballot drop box, sources tell The Federalist. The raid took place Wednesday afternoon, according to a source with information on the stunning law enforcement operation. The source, who asked not to be identified because of the developing nature of the case, tells The Federalist that law enforcement officials took cell phones and other electronic devices supposedly relevant to the investigation. That included Diny’s wife’s cell phone, the source said. An official...