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Some of us are old enough to remember Matthew Lesko, the lanky, fast-talking late-night TV pitchman who promised people free government money to those who bought his books. There are, Lesko said in one of his countless ads decades ago, “15,000 programs you can use to get a better job, get an education, or start your own business. Those who know about the programs are the ones who get the money!” Lesko was right about how easy it is to get taxpayer money. What Lesko didn’t say is that it’s easy to do even when it violates the law —...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen opened fire at a soccer field in central Mexico on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 12, authorities said. Salamanca Mayor Cesar Prieto said in a statement posted to social platforms that the gunmen arrived at the end of a soccer match. Ten people died at the scene and one died later at a hospital. The mayor said a woman and a minor were among the wounded. Prieto said the attack was part of a “crime wave” in the city and appealed to President Claudia Sheinbaum for help to control the violence. The...

@TuckerCarlson Gold has so dramatically outperformed the S&P this century that you’d think CNBC would be recommending it to investors. But they’re not. Peter Schiff explains why. (0:00) Why Schiff Decided to Start Buying Gold (10:45) You're Being Lied to About Inflation (23:39) How the Government Secretly Rigs the Economy (25:25) The Unemployment Rate Is Much Higher Than You Think (27:27) What Was the Result of the Big Beautiful Bill? (30:10) Is the Housing Bubble About to Pop? (36:20) The Real Reason College Got So Expensive (40:30) The Real Reason Healthcare Got So Expensive (43:50) Crypto vs. Gold (58:11) Will...

Voters feelings about the affordability of the following items: Transportation: 🟢 Affordable +53 Utilities: 🟢 Affordable +53 Food: 🟢 Affordable +47 Groceries: 🟢 Affordable +43 Having a family: 🟢 Affordable +7 Health Care: 🟢 Affordable +3 Housing: 🔴 Unaffordable -10 Education: 🔴 Unaffordable -24 NYT/Siena poll | 1/12-1/17 RV

Inside a Portland Antifa cell: arrests, weapons and an attempted murder. PORTLAND, Ore. — Two trans members of an Antifa cell in Portland, Ore. were arrested over an attempted murder shooting attack. Rem Heathen, real name Michael Richard Fadich (born May 20, 1987), and Jennifer “Feya” Michelle Bitgood, real name Shawn Michael Bitgood (born May 1982), were allegedly involved in an attempted murder on Dec. 21, 2025 in the Mt. Tabor neighborhood of southeast Portland. A man was found with gunshot wounds in a parking lot of an apartment complex. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Rem...

A missing Kansas elementary school teacher was discovered dead in the snow just 300 yards from where surveillance footage last captured her Friday as a massive winter storm swept the country. The body of 28-year-old Rebecca Rauber was found covered in snow in a wooded area of Emporia on Sunday, near where she was last seen leaving a bar days earlier, police told KWCH. Police said Rauber was located by K-9 Daisy of K-9 Search and Rescue Kansas. Rauber, a second-grade teacher at Riverside Elementary School, is believed to have died from hypothermia just hours after she disappeared. Police said...

“I can’t watch the new NFL Kickoff. Like many others, I just turn my head,” he wrote on Truth Social. “The ridiculous new Kickoff Rule takes away the prestige and power of the game,” he continued. He concluded by saying he hoped college football didn’t follow suit. The league instituted a new format for the 2024 season in which the kicker stays on his team’s 35-yard line but the rest of the coverage unit lines up on the opposing team’s 40-yard line. They cannot move until the ball hits the ground or a player in the designated landing zone —...

SAINT PAUL, MN — With tensions between ICE agents and leftist protesters in Minneapolis running high, Governor Tim Walz said he was willing to do anything to keep Minnesota residents safe except cooperate with federal law enforcement. Walz, the failed vice presidential candidate who will not be seeking re-election as governor, said he would exhaust every potential solution to stop the bloodshed except for working with ICE to enforce immigration laws in Minnesota. "I'm open to any solution but that one," Walz told reporters. "I am here to serve and protect the residents of the great state of Minnesota and...

The Minnesota National Guard was seen handing out coffee and donuts to anti-ICE protesters in St. Paul on Sunday. Video captured guardsmen in yellow vests offering donuts and coffee out the back of a vehicle. One National Guard member told WCCO-TV that this was a "demonstration of safety and security." The Minnesota National Guard posted on X earlier this month that if troops were deployed to the Twin Cities, they would wear reflective vests "to help distinguish them from other agencies in similar uniforms." The guardsmen in the video were seen one day after a Border Patrol agent shot and...

On local Twin Cities radio this morning a representative of an unnamed business said the liberal upheaval in the state is causing some businesses to rethink expansion in Minnesota. The individual, who did not want to be identified, said businesses and industry are seeing job recruitment as more challenging due to sanctuary city policies and unruly protests. Red states are more attractive.

The wife of a homeless charity boss who allegedly cheated California taxpayers out of $23 million dollars was spotted dashing out of her $7 million dollar mansion Sunday — as neighbor’s dished on the couple’s lavish lifestyle. Alexander Soofer and Ashley Afraimian allegedly blew $40,000 just on landscaping at their Westwood estate, which the feds claim was bought with fraudulently obtained funds meant to help Los Angeles’ homeless community. “The neighborhood is buzzing,” one local resident said. “Taking money marked for the homeless. Its horrible, horrible” said another outraged neighbor. Afraimian, dressed in a grey sweater adorned with blue stars,...

At least 11 people were killed and another dozen injured when gunmen opened fire on locals who had gathered at a football pitch in the city of Salamanca in central Mexico on Sunday. Witnesses said armed men arrived at the grounds in several vehicles and shot at those gathered there seemingly indiscriminately. Many families had stayed behind to socialise after a match between local clubs. At least one woman and one child were among those killed. The motive behind the shooting is not yet clear. Guanajuato, the state in which Salamanca is located, registered the highest number of murders in...

When you choose to bring a fourth child into the world you’re making a bet on the future. This New Virility is a powerful rejection of the miserable mindset of the SSRI-gobbling Chardonnay pseudo-women and their sexually inadequate male-identifying (sometimes) would-be mates. JD Vance has an opportunity to take the lead here

“This is how tyranny looks in the modern world. It arrives dressed as dialogue, consensus, and expertise. It is imposed by people who sincerely believe they are doing nothing at all.” —DataRepublican. Davos — The World Economic Forum (WEF)— is toast. Trump, Bessent, and Lutnick exposed the wretched org of overcompensated squishes to too much light and heat and it flared into such a pathetic little smoldering cinder that its spoxpersons said the meeting might get moved out of Davos altogether next year to Dublin or Detroit. Closer to the people, you understand (except there are hardly any people left...

So much for insensitivity and heartlessness, every time Republicans try to do this. Senate Democrats recently signaled that they would be willing to shut down much of the government—again—rather than vote for a package that includes funds for immigration enforcement. This seems a bit tone deaf, as securing the border and immigration enforcement were two of the main reasons President Trump was elected. Several things are at play here. Democrats are so scared of losing the new and burgeoning voting bloc they illegally imported into the U.S. that they will do anything to protect it, American citizens be damned. If...

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The saddest thing about this is that the Republicans will work with the left to ensure their victory. The United States is facing an existential threat. My guess is this summer will be the most violent, damaging domestic summer since the Civil War. And I predict the left will win and come out victorious on the other side. They will, after winning this new civil war, seek to eliminate the last vestiges of republicans. I use a small r because while some Republicans are true republicans, most are not. And when the left wins the war, those RINOs are going...

A “Jetsons”-style “air taxi” may be transporting New Yorkers before the end of the decade, its manufacturer says. The UK-based tech company Vertical Aerospace touted its futuristic Valo aircraft, a four-seat electric vehicle designed to fly up to 100 miles at 150 mph, at an industry preview in Manhattan last week — calling the contraption a first because of its zero-emissions power source. “If you think of mass transport … the infrastructure just doesn’t work anymore,” company CEO Stuart Simpson told The Post in unveiling the craft, which has a pilot and is roughly the same size as a chopper...

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