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Transgender mass shooter Robin Westman confessed that he “was tired of being trans” and wished he “never brain-washed” himself in a manifesto posted online before he slaughtered two children and wounded dozens more at a Minneapolis church. In a twisted handwritten journal he shared on YouTube before the massacre — much of which is encrypted in a homespun code of Russian Cyrillic script and English words — Westman groaned about his long hair and his decision to transition. “I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being...

An Illinois man is facing homicide charges after allegedly slipping abortion pills to his girlfriend without her consent. WMBD-TV reported that 31-year-old Emerson Evans of the community of Normal appeared Monday in McLean County Circuit Court. Judge Amy McFarland agreed to prosecutors’ request to detain Evans pending a trial. Evans faces two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, a felony comparable to first-degree murder. Emerson Evans pressured his girlfriend to abort — she refused. So he told the police he "made the decision for her." Evans bought abortion pills for $50. Then allegedly drugged his girlfriend without her...

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has revised travel rules and allowed men aged 18 to 22 to cross the border, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Telegram on Aug. 26. Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 have been prohibited from leaving the country since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, with some exceptions. Men aged 25 to 60 can be conscripted into the armed forces. On Aug. 12, Zelensky asked the Cabinet to relax border crossing rules for Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22. On Aug. 18, Svyrydenko announced that the Cabinet was working on rules that would permit...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign that the group is under stress from development. The sightings of members of Mashco Piro tribe come as a logging company is building a bridge that could give outsiders easier access to the tribe’s territory, a move that could raise the risk of disease and conflict, according to Survival International, which advocates for Indigenous rights. The Mashco Piro are among the world’s largest uncontacted groups,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a bold response to the recent shootings in left-leaning cities, Democratic leaders courageously stepped up to demand common-sense prayer control. Sources disclosed that the Democrat Party has decided to take a stand by calling for common-sense regulations on prayer in order to address the recent spate of transgender, leftist school shooters opening fire on innocents. "In these difficult times, it's important to reduce perpetrators' motivations to attempt mass murders," said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. "That's why I support reasonable prayer restrictions — the only way to stop shooters from targeting little children is to abolish prayers....

Singer Gloria Gaynor‘s recent financial support for Republican politicians seemingly made her the perfect candidate for the upcoming Kennedy Center Honors hosted by President Donald Trump. According to Federal Election Commission records, the Grammy winner known for the disco anthem “I Will Survive” donated nearly $22,000 to right-wing politicians and groups from August 2023 to June of this year. The records show Gaynor — under her birth name Gloria Fowles — donated hundreds or thousands of dollars to the campaigns for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley,...

​Albuquerque, New Mexico- On Saturday August 16, Abortion Free New Mexico volunteers arrived at the Whole Woman's Health abortion center in Albuquerque to encourage moms with hope and help. Upon arrival the Water Authority was present and informed volunteers that the building had no running water. About an hour later one of the abortion center workers' husband arrived in a pickup truck with Texas license plates and began tinkering with the main water line for the building. Even though the building had no running water at least two couples went in for abortion procedures. One was dropped off by a...

The Energy Department projects that next year, data centers and other commercial facilities will use more electricity than households for the first time.Electricity costs continue to climb nationwide, and experts say infrastructure is a major factor. "I think it's important to understand that most of your electricity bill is infrastructure," said Mike O'Boyle, acting policy team director at Energy Innovation. "And you're paying for the infrastructure we have right now." O'Boyle said modernization of the nation's aging infrastructure is colliding with higher demand and rising natural gas costs, which account for about 40% of U.S. electricity production. "It's kind of...

Speaking with former CNN host Christ Cuomo on his “The Chris Cuomo Podcast,” veteran journalist Matt Taibbi commented on the “treasonous conspiracy” that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others in the Trump Administration have exposed, saying that arrests of those Obama officials involved could be coming. As background, Matt Taibbi is a longtime journalist who first rose to prominence for his reporting on Goldman Sachs’s involvement in the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, exposing the investment bank as a “vampire squid.” He then gained notoriety with his skeptical reporting regarding the “Russiagate” scandal, being one of the few leading...

NEW YORK, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched on Wall Street to campaign for an array of issues, including economic justice, and diversity and inclusion, in downtown New York on Thursday. "We're coming to Wall Street instead of Washington this year," said Reverend Al Sharpton, one of the event's organizers. He accused Wall Street of benefiting from government tax cuts at the expense of programs such as Medicaid and food assistance. "Corporate elites are running America, and we want to try and do something about that," said Jackie Barham, a marcher who attended with other members of Brooklyn...

🚨 JUST IN: A Washington DC news reporter revealed a disturbing truth in Union Station for all Democrats who opposed President Trump deploying the National Guard across the nation's capital. "In my opinion? It looks cleaner than it has - in YEARS."

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday said she would ask the United States to share the $15 billion it expects to extract from convicted Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada with her country's poor. Sinaloa drug cartel co-founder Zambada pleaded guilty in a New York court on Monday to murder and drug trafficking, particularly of fentanyl — a powerful narcotic responsible for tens of thousands of US overdose deaths annually. In pleading guilty, the 77-year-old avoided the possibility of the death penalty but still faces life imprisonment at a sentencing hearing due at a later date. As part of...

A family has been award nearly a billion dollars after suing a Utah hospital for botching a mother's delivery and leaving the parents with a severely disabled baby.Anyssa Zancanella was awarded $951 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit after a judge said her daughter, Azaylee, would have been safer being born in 'the bathroom of a gas station, or a hut somewhere in Africa.'Zancanella said her healthy pregnancy with her first daughter began to awry after her water broke while on a short trip to the Salt Lake City area in October 2019.Hours away from her doctor in her home...

As Michigan lawmakers debate next year’s budget, the Democratic lieutenant governor — who’s running for governor in 2026 — floated an idea to hit back at some of the Trump administration’s spending cuts and get more money into the state government’s coffers: raise taxes on the wealthiest Trump supporters. In a video obtained by The Daily Wire, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist told a group of Democrats earlier this month that the Trump administration has “attacked our people” by cutting funding to universities and “attacking those of us who are getting our health care from Medicaid.” Gilchrist made the remarks...

The BBC has defended its use of female pronouns to describe a transgender killer who stabbed their partner to death with a samurai sword. Joanna Rowland-Stuart, who was born male and was known as John Stuart, attacked Andrew Rowland-Stuart at their Brighton home in 2024... A number of people contacted the BBC to complain. One wrote: “Using female pronouns to refer to a man is not accurate.” Another said: “The suspect is a man. When the public see the words ‘wife’ and ‘woman’ they will assume you mean an adult human female.” However, the BBC rejected the complaints. Some complainants...

F-1 HEINEKEN DUTCH GRAND PRIX 2025 Live Thread, Circuit Zandvoort, First Grand Prix 1952, Number of Laps 72, Circuit Length 259 km, Race Distance 306.587km, Lap Record 1:11.097 by Lewis Hamilton (2021), Sunday, 9:00AM ET

From dollars to Gaza and messaging to polls, nothing is going right. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) held its annual summer meeting this week in Minneapolis, beginning on Monday, August 25. The party no doubt went into the three-day event hoping to find some direction as it fumbles with messaging and faces plunging poll numbers, party division, fundraising issues, and a massive drop in voter registration. Instead, the event was another tiresome display of cognitive dissonance and wishful thinking: a lot of talk about change without displaying a willingness to break away from the destructive path it continues to...

French police are refusing to intercept migrant dinghies in the water and are yet to receive any new orders from Paris, it has emerged. In another huge blow to Sir Keir Starmer’s small boats plan, senior figures condemned a lack of officers, training and equipment. And one admitted police do not “really want to go into the water to stop people”. In a stark assessment, Marc Musiol, a UN1TE representative for border police at Calais, Dunkirk, and Coquelles, declared “there’s nothing on the horizon to suggest that we’re going to change the way we work”. He said: “As of today,...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Republicans may take the unusual step of holding a convention ahead of the 2026 elections as both parties fight for control of Congress. “We won every aspect of the Presidential Election and, based on the great success we are having, are poised to WIN BIG IN THE MIDTERMS,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I am thinking of recommending a National Convention to the Republican Party, just prior to the Midterms,” he continued. The president did not provide details on the timing or location of the proposed convention, but normally, the gatherings are reserved for...

Last week, the RealClearPolitics Institute of News & Information (RCPINI) introduced its current project exploring the loss of trust in southwestern Pennsylvania. As we noted, the loss of trust in society and in our institutions is one of the defining challenges of our times, and one that seems particularly relevant in a region that has witnessed seismic political shifts over the past 20 years. This week we begin diving into our polling results. As mentioned in our initial piece, we partnered with Emerson Polling, one of the most accurate pollsters in the country, to produce a high-quality, large-sample poll of...