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It’s known as “Don Colossus.” At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer of gold leaf. For more than a year, the golden statue has been at the center of one of the stranger moneymaking ventures of the Trump era. A group of cryptocurrency investors paid $300,000 to have a sculptor create it as a tribute to Mr. Trump, an outspoken crypto proponent. Then they used it to promote a memecoin called $PATRIOT....

At least one aspect of US higher education is shifting back toward sanity: The Supreme Court has successfully killed blatant racial quotas in college admissions, a boon to all students. Yes, lefties are dismayed that black and Latino enrollment is down at the highest tier of American universities, but that ignores serious good news: Academic “mismatch” is over as students of all races are now going to the schools they are best qualified for. The Hispanic and African-American teens who no longer get waved into Yale or MIT don’t simply sit at home or take a burger-flipping job; they head...

After injuries and fatalities caused by sharp strings, falls and celebratory gunfire, an event that dates back centuries returns. In the streets of Lahore there are hints that the kite flying festival, Basant, has returned. Someone is fishing a kite from electricity cables, the distant sound of a drum beat, a flash of neon when you look up in the walled city's narrow streets to a stretch of sky. This party is above. As the sun sets across the city, on every rooftop we can see families and friends, laughing, shouting, watching as kites zig zag, circle, and soar through...

A First Nation on British Columbia's central coast is asserting ownership over privately held lands, basing its legal challenge on a landmark ruling from last summer's B.C. Supreme Court decision that paved the way for Indigenous title claims against private property. In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth explains how the BC NDP government, under Premier David Eby, is systematically stripping away your private property rights with Indigenous claims that now override the property you sweated for, saved for, built your dreams on, and thought was yours forever. Transcript SummaryThe transcript is a video script from Dan Dix...

Savannah Guthrie took to social media again with an emotional video in the disappearance of her mom, Nancy, begging the abductor to return her “valuable” mother Saturday and offering once more to pay a ransom.“We received your message and we understand,” the “Today” anchor said on Instagram, alongside her brother Camron and sister Annie.“We beg you now to return our mother to us, so that we can celebrate with her,” she added, later saying that her mother’s return is “very valuable to us” and “we will pay.”

STOUGHTON, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) - A police department in Wisconsin used a drone to find a person it said was repeatedly defecating in a public park. The Stoughton Police Department reported Thursday it received dozens of complaints about feces and used toilet paper found along a park’s walking path. Officials did not specify which park. The department said it used drones and trail cameras to identify the suspect. The department determined a pattern using the trail cameras and noted the person would defecate in the park during early morning hours. Officers made contact with the person, identified as a 46-year-old...

Video intro: The Epstein Files have revealed something no one saw coming: Jeffrey Epstein was working for the KGB! No, you're not going crazy! The (((mainstream media))) thinks you're dumb. Join me as we take our first dive into the 3 Million pages that were released and why all the people who want to "move on" from Jeffrey Epstein, share certain, defining qualities.

“Typically, players use the facilities of whichever host team is having the game. Although 2026's game is being held in the San Francisco 49ers home field, Levi's Stadium, neither team will be using the 49ers practice facilities. While teams choose different practice facilities for a variety of different reasons, the 49ers' facility's proximity to an electrical substation has fueled conspiracy theories about it causing injuries.“

Former President Bill Clinton launched an angry attack against House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, with just weeks before his appearance before the Committee to testify about his links to Jeffrey Epstein Clinton accused Republicans of “running scared” and using him “as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court” Former President Bill Clinton launched an angry attack against House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, as his appearance before the Committee to testify about his links to Jeffrey Epstein approaches.Clinton gave Comer both barrels in a series of posts on X.“I have called for the full release of the Epstein files,”...

Nelvis Gonzalez Purdencio charged with sexual abuse of family member under 12 in Maryland sanctuary county Salvadoran has been under deportation order for two decades An illegal alien who has been under a deportation order for more than 20 years was busted catching a flight out of the U.S. to evade child sex abuse charges in Maryland, authorities say.Nelvis Gonzalez Purdencio, 43, was caught on Sunday at Dulles International Airport just prior to boarding a plane bound for his home country of El Salvador.Gonzalez Purdencio was wanted in Montgomery County, MD, for sexual abuse of a minor within his family.Additionally,...

They’re getting gold medals in ungratefulness. Woke Team USA members expressed “mixed emotions” about representing the Stars and Stripes at the Winter Olympics, sparking calls by some Americans to boycott the Games. Freestyle skier Hunter Hess ignited the firestorm Friday after telling reporters that wearing the American flag doesn’t mean he backs everything “going on” in the US. “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now,” Hess said at a press conference ahead of competition. “It’s a little hard, there’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of and I think a lot...

The lead singer and songwriter of 3 Doors Down, Brad Arnold, has died after a battle with cancer, the rock band announced on X. He was 47. "He will be deeply missed and forever remembered," the band said in a statement on Saturday. The band is best known for 2000s rock hits like Kryptonite, Here Without You, When I'm Gone, and Loser. In May 2025, Arnold announced that he was ill, and had received a diagnosis of stage 4 clear cell renal carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, which had metastasised into his lung.

Senate Bill 6035 would allow the Washington Secretary of State to provide an online voting portal for certain categories of voters, including service members, overseas voters and disabled voters Washington is currently one of over 20 states being sued by the Department of Justice for failing to provide statewide voter-registration lists to federal investigators. Most of these states are Democrat-led or battleground states Democrats in Washington State have put forward a new bill to allow online voting.Senate Bill 6035 would allow the Secretary of State to provide an online voting portal for certain categories of voters, including service members, overseas...

North Korea is executing schoolchildren for watching South Korean TV shows and listening to K-Pop, including Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game,” according to Amnesty International. Escapees told the human rights group that teenagers and even middle school students have been publicly executed, sent to labor camps or subjected to brutal public humiliations for consuming foreign media banned by the regime. The accounts are based on 25 in-depth interviews conducted in 2025 with North Koreans who fled the country between 2012 and 2020, the organization said. Most were between ages 15 and 25 when they escaped. One interviewee said people, including...

A small group of pro-wealth activists clashed with socialist demonstrators Saturday over California’s proposed “billionaire’s tax,” as dueling protests played out on the streets of San Francisco. The rally, dubbed the “March for Billionaires,” drew supporters of the state’s ultra-wealthy residents, who are in the crosshairs of a proposal that would force them to hand over five percent of their net worth to California each year. Organizer Derik Kauffman said many onlookers assumed the march was a joke, given it was staged in ultra-liberal San Francisco. “Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive,” reads a message on the event’s...

Bob Fosse was up to his usual tricks when he was asked to do some extra work with Janet Leigh during pre-production on My Sister Eileen, his fourth Hollywood movie role and his first as a choreographer. Leigh was nervous and asked Columbia, her studio, if she could rehearse with him "to get sort of seasoned" and started three weeks of what amounted to a private tutorial with the man who would become the most famous choreographer in American musicals. (Leigh has said she had never made a musical before but that wasn't true: in 1951 she had starred in...

Besides scrutiny from the feds, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s winery could land the embattled power couple in hot water with imams too. Political consultant Tim Mynett converted to Islam to marry Omar, a practicing Muslim — but selling booze is strictly banned in Islamic law, which considers anything to do with alcohol sinful — or “haram.” “I assure you that they got married in accordance with Islam and the law, and Ilhan’s husband converted to Islam,” a spokesperson for Omar’s office told BBC Somalia at the time of the 2020 wedding. It was Mynett’s California-based wine company eStCru, together with...

Natasha Owens slamming the cantsingsteen.

Green Day have changed the lyrics to two of their most famous songs ahead of the band's upcoming Super Bowl performance. Green Day, comprising Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool, will perform at the Super Bowl's opening ceremony show on Sunday, February 8. The Grammy Award-winning band, which has outwardly condemned Donald Trump in the past, will be singing a number of their biggest hits as the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots prepare to take the field at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Following the American Idiot's hitmakers' performance, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny will perform,...

Dear Republican presidential nominee for the 2028 election: I am here from the future to tell you why you just got crushed, as the EU censor-plex completely encircles the MAGA movement and the White House is not doing nearly enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQuF7LBqT7A