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RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at his office in Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Wednesday. A friendly conversation took place during the meeting, Saudi Press Agency reported.

Is Trump's Gestapo getting on your nerves? Looking for ways to show support for undocumented Americans by standing up to federal law enforcement? You're not alone. Rest assured, there are things you can do to show you're part of the resistance. The Babylon Bee has put together the following list of simple ways you can do today to resist ICE: Eat some tacos: They were probably made by illegal immigrants, but even if they weren't, they're still delicious. Perform routine maintenance on your agent-ramming SUV: Running down ICE is best done with proper oil changes and tire pressure checks....

A Democrat running to be Ohio’s attorney general promised to kill President Donald Trump if he wins the November election. Elliot Forhan, a former state representative and current attorney general candidate, posted a plan outlining how he would “kill Donald Trump.” “I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump,” Forhan said in a video. “I mean I’m going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence presented at a trial conducted in accordance with...

Peter Schiff: ‘The dollar is going to collapse, the dollar is going to be replaced by Gold. We are headed for an economic crisis that will make the 2008 financial crisis seem like a Sunday school picnic.’

President Donald Trump ripped the decision to keep Bill Belichick out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the first ballot on Wednesday. Belichick didn’t get the 40 votes needed from the 50-person panel of media members and other Hall of Famers, ESPN reported, citing sources. The snub drew outrage from across the sports spectrum, including Patrick Mahomes, LeBron James, Jimmy Johnson and others. Trump added his voice to the chorus in a post on Truth Social, while also criticizing the NFL’s dynamic kickoff rules. "It is the same mindset that gave pro football the new and unwatchable ‘Sissy’...

The only surviving photo of my grandfather – Gershon Eliezer Rubinstein – whom I am named after – In the middle of a winter’s night in 1940 he was dragged from his home in Wierzbnik Poland, at gunpoint, thrown into jail, then sent to his death at Treblinka Concentration Camp. His crime ? Being a Jew.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The malodorous substance sprayed on Representative Ilhan Omar at a town hall meeting has been identified as Somali food. A man seated on the front row of the town hall suddenly rose and began shouting at Omar midway through the event before spraying her with Somali cuisine that had been fed through a blender. "Oof. It smells like rice and bananas," said security guard Jim Palmer as he secured Omar. "This is the most awful stench I have ever encountered. We need to get that substance down to the laboratory immediately. It's either poo mixed with rancid...

A giant reservoir of "secret" fresh water off the East Coast that could potentially supply a city the size of New York City for 800 years may have formed during the last ice age, when the region was covered in glaciers, researchers say. Preliminary analyses suggest the reservoir, which sits beneath the seafloor and appears to stretch from offshore New Jersey as far north as Maine, was locked in place under frigid conditions around 20,000 years ago, hinting that it formed in the last glacial period due, partly, to thick ice sheets. Last summer, researchers went on an expedition to...

@GBPolitcs BREAKING: Reform UK has reported the Labour Party to Greater Manchester Police, alleging a breach of the Representation of the People Act 1983 @grok Reform UK alleges Labour breached Section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, which prohibits false statements about a candidate's personal character to influence an election. In the Gorton and Denton by-election (Greater Manchester), Labour posted an edited video of Reform candidate Matt Goodwin saying he was "unfortunate enough to be in Manchester" with low energy, captioned to imply he dislikes the area. Full context: He was comparing a Reform event to the...

Duke Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina is offering a course that explores the intersection of “queerness” and Christianity. The course seeks to “broaden the discussion of queerness and theology for a productive intervention.” The class is titled “from Baptismal Font to Queer Theology” and awards one unit of credit. ”This course examines and excavates ‘queer’ in relationship to theology and theory,” a course description reads. “Is queer driven by identity politics, an umbrella term for sexual identity, gender identity, antinormativity politics, social locations, or is queer descriptive of something entirely different? Does queer have an agenda?”...

At the end of this year, Gov. DeSantis will be term-limited out of his job. What better way to spend his time than by traveling the country, promoting a Balanced Budget Amendment using Article V? He wouldn’t be running against Vance, or Rubio, or Newsom or any Democrat. He’d be running against Congress. If we get five more states, for a total of 32, Congress may propose an amendment itself.

"Minnesota Democrats hate ICE because they're deporting their voters." —Gunther Eagleman on "X". Neville Roy Singham. Isn’t it obvious by now that the seditious mischief roiling Minneapolis is some kind of a demonstration project for a China-backed overthrow of the whole country? This is not hard. And, apparently, the Democratic Party is either a willing accomplice or a hostage in thrall to its captor — like Patty Hearst, the heiress kidnapped and bamboozled by psychotic Maoist maniacs who styled themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army, until she was happily making bombs and robbing banks with them (and ended up in prison)....

Everyone keeps repeating the same two claims about the Pretti shooting: “He had a right to carry.” “He had a right to film.” Both statements are true. And both are meaningless without context. In this episode, I explain why focusing on abstract rights while ignoring real-world behavior leads to bad conclusions — and dangerous lessons. Carrying a firearm doesn’t make you more entitled to confrontation. It makes you more responsible for avoiding it. Filming law enforcement doesn’t mean you can interfere with an active operation. And slogans about “rights” don’t override duty-to-retreat laws, lawful orders, or basic survival reality. This...

Göbeklitepe-style T-shaped pillars discovered in Adıyaman reveal the wider Taş Tepeler culture and reshape the Neolithic map of Upper Mesopotamia. A remarkable new archaeological discovery in southeastern Türkiye is reshaping our understanding of the Neolithic world. In Adıyaman’s Samsat district, structures resembling the iconic “T”-shaped pillars of Göbeklitepe have emerged after water levels receded in the Atatürk Dam reservoir. This find strongly suggests that the cultural sphere known as Göbeklitepe or Taş Tepeler culture extended much farther than previously documented. The discovery was made near Kızılöz village, where falling water levels exposed stone features along the shoreline. Following a local...

Way back in 2012, climate “scientist” Michael Mann, then at Penn State University, sued four defendants for defamation. The four were commentators Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg, who had written blog posts about Mann, and National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, entities which had respectively hosted the Steyn and Simberg posts. The occasion for the Steyn and Simberg posts was that independent investigator Louis Freeh had issued a Report that had castigated Penn State President Graham Spanier for having whitewashed the conduct of the university’s assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky, in a sex abuse scandal. Steyn and Simberg had...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson (D) stated Monday that the state government aims to “partner” with the anti-ICE groups illegally tracking and hounding federal law enforcement agents. The governor expressed support for the anti-ICE insurgency in his state just one day before the FBI launched an investigation into the Signal chat groups organizing the the anti-ICE insurgency in Minnesota. Ferguson held a press conference alongside Washington’s Attorney General Nick Brown (D.) to condemn ICE after two agitators in Minnesota were fatally shot by federal agents. Brown was widely criticized last month after he warned independent journalists to stop investigating alleged fraudulent...

One thing that’s overlooked in Rules for Radicals – even by Alinsky himself – is the key role played by what I call “Alinsky Republicans” or “Alinsky conservatives.” These are the people who, despite their professed opposition to everything Alinsky and his book were trying to achieve, act as the catalyst – the trigger or fuse – for the climactic events leading to victory for radical activists. These are the defeatists, the doom trolls, who, after being frozen and personalized in good Alinskian fashion, simply give up, throw in the towel and sell out the cause they supposedly represent. They...

President Trump derided Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) as a “fraud” Tuesday night before suggesting the lawmaker arranged an attack in which she was sprayed with an unknown substance by an audience member during a town hall event. “I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud,” Trump, who has previously called for Omar to be either jailed or deported, told ABC News when asked if he had seen video of the incident. “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her. “I haven’t seen it. No, no. I hope I don’t have to bother,” he added.

Just as it did one hundred and sixty-five years ago, the Democrat Party appears to be making war against the federal government. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz have identified tens of billions of dollars in welfare fraud flowing through the Democrat-controlled state of Minnesota. President Trump has suggested that the level of Minnesota fraud may top a hundred billion dollars as investigations proceed. The public is slowly learning that members of the state’s substantial population of Somali immigrants have been abusing state and federal programs to enrich themselves at...

The fried chicken market has exploded in the past two years, with heavily backed newcomers such as Popeyes, Dave's and Wingstop appearing on high (main ) streets across the country. "Fast-food in the UK is undergoing a significant transformation, with chicken shops leading a rapid expansion in store numbers, a phenomenon that can be seen in high streets across the country," say food industry analysts Meaningful Vision. "Our data reveals a tale of extraordinary growth, fierce competition." In 2024, chicken shop growth outpaced all other fast-food segments by nearly 12%, with London accounting for 21% of openings, the West Midlands...