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A Philippines FA-50 fighter jet and its two-man crew are missing after flying in support of ground forces fighting communist rebels in the southern Mindanao region, a military official said on Tuesday (Mar 4). Air force spokeswoman Colonel Consuelo Castillo said the jet was flying "over land" on the way to its target area when it went missing during a "tactical night operation in support of our ground troops". While she declined to provide mission specifics, Philippine Army spokesman Colonel Louie Dema-ala confirmed to AFP that the missing FA-50 was part of a squadron sent "to provide air support" to...

Former White House adviser Susan Rice said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a “setup.” Rice said, “Obviously it is a very sad day and an embarrassment for the United States on the world stage. But let’s step back and analyze what’s happened here I think there’s no question that this was a setup. You heard Donald Trump say at the end of that clip you played, this is great television. This was a setup. I mean, excuse me, Vladimir Zelensky was compelled to agree to a horrible deal...

Transgender activists stormed the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers consider a bill that would eliminate “gender identity” as a protected class from state civil rights law. “Hundreds of Iowans again packed the Iowa Capitol rotunda to protest the bill, waving pride flags, holding signs and chanting ‘no hate in our state’ and ‘you represent us.’ A line of protesters led out the building’s door as more people waited to be let inside,” the Des Moines Register reported.

Joe Biden allowed remote work dominate the civil service for so long, a cafeteria in the Department of the Interior remained shutdown years after the pandemic ended. Similarly, the department of housing and urban development resembles 'a taxpayer-funded Spirit Halloween' that looks almost like no one has been inside since Biden took office. The Interior was one of many departments that did not require employees to return under the Biden administration and a photo taken Thursday shows it as a complete ghost town, according to Fox News Digital. 'You have federal workers showing up to protest President Trump's plan to...

President Trump on Tuesday appeared to blame Ukraine’s leaders for the three-year war with Russia, arguing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “should have never started it.” Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, after massing troops on the border and demanding a ban on Ukraine ever joining the NATO alliance. The invasion took place nearly a decade after Russia took over Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Trump vowed to end the war during his presidential campaign and on Tuesday repeated his claim that the war would never have started if he had been president. He spoke after U.S....

Jack “Ziz” LaSota, leader of a so-called “death cult” linked to at least six deaths across the United States, is in custody after months on the run, officials in Maryland confirmed Sunday. Also in custody is Michelle Zajko, a person of interest in the double homicide of her parents in Pennsylvania, and Daniel Blank, another member of the group. LaSota, 33, was taken into custody on Sunday evening in Allegany County in northwestern Maryland. According to county jail records, LaSota, who uses female pronouns, is being held on charges of trespassing on private property, obstruction and having a handgun in...

sprawling web of violence across America, which has left at least six dead, has been linked to a fringe group of radical Berkeley pseudo-intellectuals known as the Zizians. Investigators across the country are piecing together connections between the double homicide of a wealthy married couple in Pennsylvania, a deadly shootout in Vermont and two brutal knife attacks on a landlord in Vallejo. Four people who are allegedly Zizian cult members are in custody facing homicide charges, despite multiple escape attempts. Three members of the fringe group are missing and wanted, including the leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, who faked their death...

Weeks after the murder of a border patrol agent that revealed a trans terror cell may be behind years of serial killings across the U.S., the FBI appears to finally be taking the group seriously. Watch my video to learn about the belated FBI raid in Chapel Hill, N.C. The militants are already gone.

The Trump administration has moved to push out a swathe of federal workers previously involved in combating election-related disinformation, according to three people familiar with the matter, amid allegations from congressional Republicans that their work unfairly targeted conservative speech online. Roughly half a dozen employees from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who once worked in its Election Security and Resilience division were notified Thursday night they were being put on administrative leave, said the three people, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

The US Postal Service (USPS) said it has stopped accepting parcels from mainland China and Hong Kong until further notice. Letters will not be affected by the suspension, said the company, which declined to offer a reason for the decision, external. However, on Tuesday new rules came into force which closed a loophole that allowed small packages worth $800 (£641) or less to be sent to the US without paying tax or fees. It was one of the measures announced by US President Donald Trump who imposed an additional 10% tariff on all goods imported to the US from China....

...This story will likely have your blood boiling. Two of Biden’s illegals are accused of murdering a 63-year-old man in his own home in the Chicago area.... ...But here’s the truly infuriating part—they never should have been on the streets in the first place. Not only were they here illegally, but they had been arrested just days before and were let go by officials. Instead of being behind bars or deported, they were free to commit an unspeakable crime. ...

As we’ve been reporting, President Donald Trump, new Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan have unleashed the forces of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and agents have been busy rounding up illegal aliens—including many hardened criminals—and repatriating them to their home countries. Although the left is crying over the lawful treatment of our “friends and neighbors,” many of the folks they’ve nabbed are the last people you’d want living next door to you. Among those captured was a vicious ringleader of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, which has spread to at least...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week.“We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” said Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Kansas Health System. But the high case counts in this outbreak were a “stark warning," he said.The outbreak has killed two people since it started in January 2024, Kansas state health department spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh said. Health...

CHICAGO — Chicago police are preparing to arrest two undocumented migrants to face charges of home invasion and murder in connection with the brutal slaying of a man in his Norwood Park home, an alderman said this afternoon. Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd), chair of the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety, shared the news on Twitter. “Two in custody for this horrific home invasion and murder,” Hopkins wrote, “both offenders are undocumented migrants, one from Ecuador, one from Venezuela

#BREAKING: Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv Israel. Two lightly and moderately injured. Terrorist eliminated by an Israeli civilian woman with a gun. pic.twitter.com/k2dNqLH8gW— Breaking News (@TheNewsTrending) January 21, 2025Video at link#BREAKING The Palestinian terrorist from the attack in Tel Aviv is an American Muslim. pic.twitter.com/prAxoD4Mle— Breaking News (@TheNewsTrending) January 21, 2025

A Border Patrol agent in northern Vermont was fatally shot in the neck by what is reported to be an illegal immigrant, just after President Donald Trump was being sworn in hundreds of mile in Washington on a promise to deem the border crisis a "national emergency" on his first day in office. NewsNation's Ali Bradley reported Monday that the border agent was shot while conducting a traffic stop. The shooter, whom Bradley referred to as a "visa overstay," was also reportedly killed.

On Friday night, the government ministers approved the hostage deal, and the Ministry of Justice published a list of 735 security prisoners scheduled for release in exchange for 33 hostages held by Hamas for over a year. This list includes senior terrorists responsible for some of the deadliest attacks in Israel's history, including commanders of terrorist organizations and planners of attacks that claimed the lives of hundreds of Israelis. Link to full list .....

January 2021, the unelected vote fraud fake president came in. Eggs were 99¢ a dozen. They rapidly went up to three, four, five. Now they are ten dollars a dozen as the illegitimate “administration” leave. Crazy.

If you thought awarding Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson the Presidential Citizens Award was Biden giving the middle finger to America on his way out the door, you ain't seen nothing yet. We watched as Joe Biden (and his handlers) continued to dishonor the Office of the Presidency as he finally exits the political stage in little more than two weeks. Last week, in a clearly partisan effort, he cheapened the prestige of the nation’s second highest civilian honor, the Presidential Citizens Award, awarding it to J6 Committee chair and vice chair Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney who were complicit...

The American astronauts who have been stranded in space for seven months have hinted at the toll their unexpected mission is taking. Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, were heard telling NASA bigwigs 'eventually, we want to go home' during a video call on Wednesday. The pair first landed at the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5 and they have been stuck there ever since. Their visit was only supposed to be eight days long. But due to safety concerns, NASA decided to send the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they arrived on back to Earth without anyone inside. In...