Free Republic

Children in Finland start school at the age of seven. They are only in classrooms half the time as most other countries. Its students outperform most others across the world. Why is that?

Nurses from the country's largest nurses union, National Nurses United (NNU), will join rallies across the United States as part of the March 28 No Kings protests. Nurses continue to condemn the Trump administration's authoritarian politics and call for the abolition of ICE, an end to Trump's war in Iran, and demand what's collectively needed for a healthy future for our society. "Nurses will continue to take to the streets to protect our neighbors and protest the fascist politics Washington is trying to force on everyday people at home and abroad," said Mary Turner, RN and NNU president. "We will...

Alarming footage on social media has captured the moment No Kings protesters were seen coughing and choking after tear gas was deployed in Los Angeles, California. The intense standoff between a small group of protesters and authorities was filmed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. The Los Angeles Police Department's incident commander declared a "tactical alert" for the City of Los Angeles after the event. "Federal Authorities have deployed more tear gas due to demonstrators throwing large concrete blocks, bottles and other objects over the fence," LAPD wrote in a statement on X. A dispersal order was issued...

The Public Theater celebrated the opening night of the world premiere play Public Charge on Wednesday evening, welcoming a range of political leaders and theater artists to mark the occasion. See photos of the event. The play is co-written by former U.S. Ambassador Julissa Reynoso and Michael J. Chepiga and draws from Reynoso’s experiences working for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Public Theater celebrated the opening night of the world premiere play Public Charge on Wednesday evening, welcoming a range of political leaders and theater artists to mark the occasion. See photos of the event. Clinton attended the opening and offered...

"A missile launched by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was seen being fired from the Dalan Kuh mountains in Isfahan province on Saturday, according to a video sent to Iran International."

Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff strolled down from his swanky new Malibu pad to schmooze with celebrities at a star-studded Malibu ‘No Kings’ rally Saturday. Emhoff spoke at the rally, which is one of 41 taking place across SoCal for anti-Trumpers who want to resist Administration.(snip) Emhoff has stayed politically active since his wife lost the presidential election in 2024, though his law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP conceded to the Trump administration, offering millions in pro-bono services to avoid an executive order targeting them. He publicly disagreed with the decision and wanted to fight the executive order but...

NECEDAH, Wis. — A kangaroo who escaped from a Necedah farm earlier this week has been found. The Sunshine Farm announced on Saturday that Chesney the kangaroo was located after being reported missing. On Saturday morning, the farm's Facebook page shared that Chesney was spotted near the power lines on the north side of the street. He was last seen in the area of 23rd and 9th. The Juneau County Sheriff's Office previously stated on Thursday that Chesney's owners were using a drone to search for him. The sheriff's office also said the following: "Apparently his dramatic ‘I’m running away...

Dozens of significant injuries have been reported at the "No Kings" rally today after a multi-scooter pileup as the protest crossed Tremont Street. Nearby trauma centers were reportedly inundated with patients who had suffered broken hips and femurs due to the collision. Area hospitals were also dealing with a mass wave of rallygoers suffering various levels of bowel and urinary incontinence. "It's old-person Armageddon out here," said emergency physician Lee Bockelman. "There are shattered hips and leaking bladders everywhere. I've never seen anything like that. They don't train you for this kind of mass casualty event." Healthcare officials accused rally...

UQ NISB IQ FJ PRYFBL QIIL RGL TMBBS RGL JIGE RCIPB MIRSLBL EIYL, UD ZIFYL CB R NBSSUBS ZISYL. —K.S.S. DIYXUBG

Learn about Pysanky - Amazing Ukrainian Eggs in this tutorial video. Hi I'm Donna Wolfe from Naztazia. I come from a family with Ukrainian heritage. Creating pysanky every spring is a part of our culture and traditional. This egg art from Ukraine goes back many generations. Beeswax, dyes, and a wax tool called a kistka are used to make these eggs. Watch as I show how to create a pysanka in this video!PYSANKY - Ukrainian Easter Egg Art [video]

Tiger Woods is paying the price for his humiliating DUI arrest in more ways than one, after going home to face his furious girlfriend Vanessa Trump after eight hours behind bars. The golf legend, 50, stunned the world when he flipped his Range Rover SUV onto its side in a high-speed crash on the millionaire's playground of Jupiter Island on Friday afternoon, clambering out of the passenger window in a daze before being arrested. He passed a breathalyzer test at the scene but refused a urine sample, with drug recognition experts 'believing he was not impaired by alcohol, but on...

So I was searching out a school a relative attended in Tuscany in the 30s. The nuns wore a distinctive wimple. As I searched on the wimple, I discovered that according to the first website brought up, that of course wimples were brought back by the Crusaders to the benighted women of the Western culture. Muslims taught western women to use wimples. Because of course Western women were too darned stupid to cover their heads themselves, although they had been doing it for millennia. I have noticed recently that many historical reads say that Islam and Muslims have taught the...

A stubborn patient has refused to leave her Florida hospital room even though she was discharged by doctors five months ago, a lawsuit alleges. Charlotte Paynter has allegedly been unlawfully occupying Room 373 at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital since October, according to a civil lawsuit filed by the hospital on March 3. Paynter, 69, was admitted to the medical facility for treatment for an undisclosed condition last year, the hospital said in the complaint obtained by the Daily Mail. Doctors issued a formal discharge order on October 6 after it was determined that she no longer needed acute care services, the...

As the MAGA faithful gather for another day of CPAC in Grapevine, Texas, they are openly celebrating what they believe is tantamount to a major midterms victory: keeping President Donald Trump from endorsing John Cornyn ahead of May’s GOP Senate primary runoff. MAGA world is taking a victory lap — and fresh comfort — in the receipts: A lack of significant spending and polling so far by not only Cornyn’s campaign, but also the NRSC and One Nation, the Senate Leadership Fund-aligned nonprofit. It amounts to a pattern the MAGA cohort reads as Washington making peace with a matchup between...

JUPITER, FL — The black half of professional golfer Tiger Woods was tased by police at the scene where the Asian half of Tiger Woods had wrecked his car. Woods' Asian half had just managed to roll his vehicle on its side while driving in a neighborhood, only to exit the car and have his black half get nailed by a taser. "Tough break there," said CBS commentator Jim Nantz, watching the video. "Tiger needs to let the black half do the driving and the Asian half talk to the police. He could really use a race caddy to help...

Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal calls for reparations for illegal immigrants ‘traumatized’ by ICE Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is calling for illegal immigrants to be paid reparations over alleged trauma they sustained from the Trump administration’s crackdown and ICE operations across the US. Jayapal made the shocking revelation on Friday in front of a panel of “experts” during a hearing she hosted titled “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Attack on Children.” “We are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this,” Jayapal said at the conclusion...

@spikedonline The factory that produces half of Britain’s salt could soon be killed by Net Zero. For the first time in history, England is set to be a net importer of the world’s most important mineral. This will be catastrophic for UK manufacturing, says Ruari McCallion

ZQD WMIONZS BY I LDXVBT’V ONYD NV NT ENXDGZ LXBLBXZNBT ZB ZQDNX GBKKNZKDTZ ZB DUGDOODTGD, XDRIXEODVV BY ZQDNX GQBVDT YNDOE BY DTEDIPBX. —PNTGD OBKFIXEN

In 2023, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay Epstein victims $290 million and separately to pay the U.S. Virgin Islands $75 million. Deutsche Bank, that same year, agreed to pay victims $75 million...CNBC has requested comment from the two law firms that represented the victims in the suit filed in October 2025 - Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Henderson.

Emmy award-winning director Marina Zenovich's Water & Power: A California Heist, a National Geographic documentary film executive produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, unfolds like a real-life version of the 1974 film noir "Chinatown," uncovering the exploits of California's notorious water barons, who profit off the state's resources while citizens endure a debilitating water crisis.