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30 Seconds in.You Will Get it. Here is a concise bullet-point summary of the speech in the video:Trump says the United States has developed a “new and powerful relationship” with Venezuela.He claims the U.S. has secured 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, which he describes as the largest oil deal in history and “500 years’ worth” of oil.He says the oil arrangement was obtained as a result of “an attack,” without explaining further in this clip.He pledges that, if Republicans win both the House and Senate in the midterm elections, every adult American would receive a $5,000 “Trump Dividend.”He argues...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) — A evacuation order is now in effect near a reported plane crash in Blair Township. Grand Traverse 911 says residents along County Road 633 from Jefferson Place to Blair Townhall Road should shelter indoors and close their windows and vents. The order applies only to people in the indicated area. Traffic remains shut down near the crash scene, and drivers should avoid the area. Emergency officials have not released information about injuries or what caused the crash. MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK.......................

Washington state Democratic candidate Krista Perez was seen on police camera footage sobbing and praying for help during a DUI arrest. The footage was first obtained by MAGA commentator Jason Rantz for Seattle Red and later posted by Fox News and others. A Democrat running for the Washington Legislature told police she drank wine, then asked to go home before taking a sobriety test. Exclusive body cam shows Krista Perez sobbing and praying in the back of a patrol car after her Tacoma DUI arrest. Watch the video. pic.twitter.com/cc7rwvJEpF — Jason Rantz on Seattle Red (@jasonrantz) September 16, 2026 Washington...

Is it the peak of arrogance that we just assume we can make a rule, or a series of rules, that have any chance of constraining a superintelligence? The linked interview is thought provoking. https://youtu.be/QkpOFlj604s

Explanation: This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows a dust pillar in the Carina Nebula inside our Galaxy, roughly 7500 light-years away. It is formed by interstellar gas and dust, and shaped by powerful stellar winds and radiation form neighboring stars like the nearby Eta Carinae stellar system which is more luminous than 5 million suns. The star formation inside the pillar is excavating its head, creating the open lid of the chest. Astronomers estimate that there are about 70 stars in a compact cluster inside the...

CONSTITUTION X @ConstitustionX THEY SAID THE FBI DIRECTOR WAS “MISSING IN ACTION.” Then Kash Patel dropped THIS on the Senate. Watch the media bury it. Predecessors took 33 days off a year. Kash: 4 days this year. They used Reagan National like a personal lily pad — $3.5 MILLION of YOUR money. He killed that. Andrews and government fields only. Taxpayers off the hook. Least personal travel of ANY FBI Director in history. Highest work days. Highest results. Murder rate down 20 points Enough fentanyl seized to kill a quarter million Americans — 20% fewer kids dying of overdoses ALL...

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh BREAKING: A bombshell House report just found that Democrat fundraising arm ActBlue is COVERING UP donation fraud and FOREIGN MONEY, after MULTIPLE of their own members repeatedly pled the 5th Amendment before Congress — FoxSHUT DOWN ACTBLUE!!Major points of the report confirm:- "ActBlue’s policies that allegedly 'prevent' illegal, fraudulent political contributions could be bypassed easily by foreign actor"- "ActBlue’s 'passport verification process,' which allegedly prevents illegal foreign donations, is an ineffective security method that does not actually require a valid U.S. passport number" - "ActBlue repeatedly instructed its fraud prevention analysts to 'give the donor the benefit of...

AwakenedOutlaw⚒️@AwakenedOutlaw·12hThis part, right here: 👀"Her team later managed to stop a light pulse completely, store its information, and restart it. They even demonstrated that light could be converted into a matter-based form, manipulated, and turned back into light.It sounds like science fiction—but these experiments were real. They opened new possibilities for quantum information processing, optical communication, and advanced computing."Next Science@NextScience🚨 SHE SLOWED LIGHT TO JUST 38 MPH!Light normally races through empty space at about 186,282 miles per second. But Danish physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau found a way to make it move at roughly 38 miles per hour—about the speed of...

A Lake Charles home care worker was arrested and fired after giving bleach to his disabled client to drink, police said. In security video from inside the client’s home, the employee, identified by police as Reginald Andre Wilson, is seen pouring a substance from a large jug into a water bottle. He then returns the jug to the laundry area of the home before shaking the bottle and handing it to his client saying, “Here, drink this.” Detectives said the victim is physically and mentally disabled. The victim reportedly drank from the bottle and noticed it tasted like bleach. According...

Florida deputies said they got way more than they bargained for when they were investigating a domestic incident that involved a mother and her son. Christina Clemens, 46, of Lakeland, southwest of Orlando, called for help claiming that her son, Shane Clemens, 22, hit her during the domestic dispute, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. "Shane, you ought not ever lay a hand on your mama," Sheriff Judd said in a Facebook post Tuesday. According to Judd, Shane Clemens became angry after his mother called deputies and they arrested him. That's when he informed deputies that he and his...

An Alabama woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty to capital murder for placing her newborn son in a dumpster. She threw him into the trash compactor because, as she told investigators, having a baby “cost too much money.” Houston County Circuit Judge Henry D. Binford on Monday sentenced Jakayla Ashanti Williams, 21, to life without the possibility of parole. Williams accepted a last-minute plea deal moments before jury selection, avoiding the death penalty prosecutors had sought. Williams was 18 in August 2023 when she secretly gave birth to a baby boy at her...

DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican·Sep 16This is a big announcement. Leftists have had their own free legal representation for decades. Conservatives haven’t.This is because traditionally, conservatives have thought of politics as winning the debate. It’s comfortable. It’s institutional. They don’t have to be “mean” to anyone.Until, enter Oversight Project ( @ItsYourGov ). Think of them as an actiontank instead of thinktank. The first such organization for conservatives to meet leftists on their own terms.Creating the first-ever home for conservatives affected by lawfare is just the start.Jeff Clark@JeffClarkUS🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨Alert -- Critical announcement:Under the banner of The Oversight Project, I am opening a new law...

What's the current price tag on winning in college football? That all depends on the program and the situation, but the latest piece from The Athletic puts the topic into perspective. There are eleven teams that fall within the $40 million range for roster spending. All the ones many people would expect to be there. The Ohio State Buckeyes lead the nation and are approaching $50 million. They're right at the mark along with the Oregon Ducks and Texas Longhorns, who round out the top three. They are all believed to be spending roughly $50 million.

A bull elk in Estes Park, Colorado, has been strutting around town with an antler stuck in its neck after a fight during rutting season. Elk sometimes get their antler racks entangled in a fight, but one ecologist said he's "never seen anything like that." A bull elk in Estes Park, Colorado, is strutting proudly around town with a broken-off piece of a rival's antler jabbed into his upper neck. “He seems to be doing just fine. He’s kind of wearing it (the antler chunk) like a prize,” wildlife photographer Kristy Williams told Cowboy State Daily. Retired U.S. Fish and...

An Israeli-owned restaurant in New York City has found itself at the center of an online controversy after adding arayes to its menu, prompting accusations from pro-Palestinian activists that it was appropriating Arab and Palestinian cuisine. Shifka, a Mediterranean pita restaurant located at 324 Bowery in Manhattan, recently added an “Arayes Burger" to its menu, consisting of beef, caramelized onions and tahini-yogurt. According to a report by Al Araby TV, a video published by the restaurant promoting the dish sparked criticism on social media, with users accusing the Israeli-owned establishment of “stealing" another Arab dish. Al Araby presented the controversy...

Today, the Justice Department filed suit against the City of San Jose, California, and the San Jose Police Department for charging private individuals unreasonable fees to exercise their Second Amendment right to lawfully carry a firearm. At nearly $1,600 per license, the City’s application fee to carry a firearm is the highest in the nation. Indeed, San Jose’s fee towers over those imposed by the country’s biggest cities. New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and Chicago all charge a small fraction of San Jose’s fee. The Supreme Court has held that “exorbitant fees” such as San Jose’s violate the Second Amendment...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is cracking down on immigration attorneys who file what the agency calls “meritless” and fraudulent asylum claims, according to a letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller. A letter from DHS General Counsel James Percival to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) argues that the immigration court system is facing a massive backlog, with nearly 3.5 million cases and 2.3 million asylum claims pending as of July 2026. DHS attributes much of the backlog to what it calls “meritless asylum claims,” arguing that such claims can delay deportation and allow migrants to remain in...

Upheaval continues to mount for Bill Belichick at North Carolina. His son, Steve Belichick, will resign as the team’s defensive coordinator effective Oct. 27, when his medical leave ends, the school announced Thursday as it said it concluded a probe into the program’s culture. The 39-year-old, a longtime assistant for his dad with the Patriots, has been on medical leave since Aug. 6. He was embroiled in an investigation in which lawyers have been questioning people about whether he used drugs while at work, or gave drugs to at least one player, WRAL reported earlier this month. The investigation also...

US officials embraced an algorithm for detecting signals of harm from mRNA covid-19 vaccines that they knew was broken and suppressed efforts to fix it.

Five women appear lifeless in the pictures. Two more are still missing. Investigators have already counted 58 alleged victims in the digital wreckage pulled from a rotting twin house on Chew Avenue in Olney. And the man who built that house of horrors died in his bed last year at 82, never answering for any of it. Raymond “R.C.” Horsch was a pornographer who wrote books about serial killers preying on women, filmed sadomasochistic filth, and spent decades fishing vulnerable addicts out of Kensington with cash and narcotics. His son Eugene, 44, is the one sitting in federal custody. The...