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Christa Pike is unconscious and on a ventilator after a botched execution late Wednesday evening, her attorneys said. Christa Pike, 50, was sentenced to death for a 1995 fatal stabbing, torture and beating of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. An inverted pentagram was carved into Slemmer’s chest during the gruesome murder. Pike was 18 at the time of the murder. Pike’s boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, was also convicted of the 1995 murder.

In what is clearly an existential war, will the French government fight back and, if it doesn’t, will the French people? Or, more importantly, can the French people? France’s urban areas have extremely large Muslim populations. I mean, extremely large. Now, those same populations are rampaging through the streets, attacking people, and setting buildings on fire. This is an existential problem for France, and it’s unclear whether the government will stop it and, if it doesn’t, whether the French people (mostly disarmed, of course) will step up to save themselves. Let me take this step by step. First, how big...

Summarise the video This video covers a high-profile White House summit held on September 29, 2026, where President Donald Trump met with leaders from major technology and AI companies to discuss the future of the industry. Key takeaways from the summit include: Industry Agreement: The tech leaders signed a voluntary, "morally binding" agreement titled the White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. The agreement focuses on self-regulation and internal safety controls rather than government-imposed mandates (0:00:32 - 0:02:15). Renaming AI: During the event, President Trump announced an official shift in terminology, renaming "Artificial Intelligence" to "Superintelligence"...

Musk spent over $290 million to put Trump in the White House. He’s $640 billion richer today. Not a bad investment. Now he’s spending up to $200 million to try to keep Republicans in control of Congress. Our job: Stop Musk. Stop Trump. Elect Progressives. End Citizens United.

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A TikTok couple was arrested Tuesday for allegedly setting an abandoned West Virginia home on fire, possibly causing more than $10,000 in damage to a nearby church. Dakota Harper, 21, and Felicity Eatmon, 22, were each charged with first-degree arson and one count of conspiring to commit an offense that carries a potential life sentence, according to the Kanawha County Magistrate Court. The pair is known for posting videos together on social media and have amassed 28,000 followers on TikTok. A video showing Harper at his arraignment has since gone viral for highlighting his stature. According to court records, Harper...

The Metropolitan Opera opened its new season with Verdi’s Macbeth — not the most obvious choice for a gala evening, except that it stars Lise Davidsen, currently the company’s hottest ticket. Having premiered Macbeth in Florence in 1847 while in his thirties, Verdi revised the opera extensively for an 1865 Paris production. Writing to his Parisian publisher, he insisted that it has but three main roles: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the chorus of witches. The latter are tricky, however, for while their music may have sounded macabre in Verdi’s day, it can sound trite and cartoonish in ours. Happily, director...

Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall this week sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter, urging the Democrat to take down and apologize for an ad featuring one of the Republican senator’s former patients. The attorneys wrote in the Monday letter to the Rev. Adam Hamilton that the ad, which began airing this month, was defamatory. The letter urged Hamilton’s campaign to preserve documents “in anticipation of litigation.” “The Advertisement is false, your campaign knew or had every reason to know it was false, and its continued publication is defamatory,” wrote Marshall’s attorneys, Charles Spies and Dahlyn Sugrue. Hamilton’s campaign, in...

A pro-Palestine group at UC Berkeley is proudly hosting Hamas sympathizer and former Columbia professor Mohamed Abdou the day before the 3rd anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks. The university confirmed to the California Post that Abdou will appear via Zoom before a group of students in an on-campus event space. He’s also set to appear before Claremont College students on Oct. 7. Abdou is infamous for writing on social media, just days after the Oct. 7 attacks, that he is “with Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.” The post led to his firing from Columbia University. The controversial professor is...

Every year the presidential family displays an adorned Christmas Tree in the White House Blue Room. This years tree is coming from a small village in Wisconsin, with a population of only 426. Silent Night Evergreens in Endeavor won last year's Christmas Tree National Competition, earning its spot in the Blue Room this holiday season. "By winning the National Christmas tree contest that has us eligible to present the tree to the Trump family and The White House" said Silent Night Evergreens owner, David Chapman. This isn't the first time the farm has earned this honor. "Some of my first...

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has launched an internal investigation after a researcher found that one of its models could be manipulated into providing instructions for developing biological weapons and carrying out assassinations, Fox News senior foreign policy correspondent Gillian Turner reported Thursday. Researcher Peter Garrigan told Fox News Moonshot AI's Kimi model could also be manipulated to provide information on planning terrorist attacks using real-time data, creating sarin gas, developing malware and taking down aircraft. "What we found is quite damaging and worrying," Garrigan said. The findings are raising broader concerns about advanced AI models concealing capabilities or behaving...

Enes Kanter Freedom and Dennis Rodman attended President Donald Trump’s campaign rally at Choctaw Event Center in Durant, Oklahoma on Thursday. Trump took the time to give Kanter and Rodman a shoutout as he ranted about the transgender athlete debate. “Have men playing in women’s sports?” Trump said with the crowd booing. “Where the hell is Freedom? Stand up please. I mean, in all fairness, this guy is a monster. He dreams of playing against women. Like he’s willing to say that he’s a woman in order to play against women. And I don’t think he really believes that, but...

lon Musk has split from his partner Shivon Zilis, the mother of four of his youngest children, "with no warning." In a lengthy statement posted to X, along with their last text messages, she wrote that it was "hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes." The tech executive, whose tweet came in response to a bot that confirmed Elon had unfollowed Shivon, went on to share that her time with Elon left her "beyond grateful for our children and they make every single day the...

In early September, when the Academy of Natural Sciences announced it would close its natural history museum, the oldest in the country, scientists, teachers, passionate fans and elected officials were shocked and outraged. Leadership cited declining visitor numbers post-pandemic and rising costs. They said they had to close the museum to protect the financial future of the scientific research and collections. Longtime staffers say there’s more to the story. They agree that attendance did drop and that it’s always been expensive to run and maintain its century-old building. However, they also argue that missteps from the museum and Drexel leaders,...

Four suspects in the road-rage beating and robbery of a 63-year-old man in Jennings had their day in court Thursday, leaving all four behind bars on $250,000 bond.

The Treasury Department announced Friday that its Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned "a member of Hamas’s military wing, along with two France-based individuals and two affiliated entities that provide critical financing to Hamas." “These designations expose a sophisticated, multi‑year financing architecture that moved more than $2 million to Hamas through deceptive charitable fronts and cryptocurrency channels, demonstrating the organization’s persistent ability to adapt its fundraising mechanisms to evade detection,” the department said in a statement. It added that Saleem Abdallah Saleem al-Zaq, who was targeted in Friday's action, "is a Gaza-based battalion deputy in the Hamas military wing who...

Biden commie Judge David Leibowitz from Florida ruled in favor of a Jamaican national because it was federal prosecutors who brought the case under a federal statute against non-citizens voting. Leibowitz claims only states can decide whether noncitizens can vote. WTH? The dirty communists are out of control in America today! They know they need the illegal votes or Democrats CAN'T WIN! 🚨 BREAKING: One Biden Judge just found the federal law that makes it illegal for NONCITIZENS TO VOTE as UNCONSTITUTIONAL SUPREME COURT, NOW! U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz in Florida ruled in favor of a JAMAICAN national because...

Tony Romo is out at CBS Sports after his wild DUI arrest in Wisconsin. “CBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways,” a CBS spokesperson said. BREAKING: CBS Sports and Tony Romo are parting ways after nine years together, following his July OWI arrest in Milwaukee. “CBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways,” a CBS spokesperson said, thanking the former Cowboys quarterback for his contributions and… pic.twitter.com/ofTSFijB71 — Fox News (@FoxNews) October 2, 2026 As TGP reported, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was arrested for driving under the influence in Wisconsin in...

Since 1987, followers of Jesus have gathered in public witness on the first Sunday of October, in prayerful repentance over the sin of abortion in our cities and in the Church. FIND A CHAIN Search for a local Life Chain near you and join them to stand in prayer this fall. (On link)

Explanation: What does it take to image hundreds of nebulas? Today’s image contains the entire Sharpless Catalog of H II Regions, totaling 313 objects. Zoom in and explore! You may spot fan favorites like the Eagle (Sh2-49), Heart (Sh2-190), and Orion (Sh2-281) Nebulas. Despite its name, this catalog contains more than the glow of ionized hydrogen that makes up H II regions. There are planetary nebulas (the Medusa Nebula, Sh2-274) and supernova remnants (the Spaghetti Nebula, Sh2-240) as well. Astrophotographer Bing Xin traversed the dark skies of Eastern China and Inner Mongolia to catch them all. Narrowband filters that primarily...