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Charles Kelley, a founding member and co-lead vocalist of the country music group Lady A, revealed he has been diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer. Kelley said he has multiple myeloma. “Hey everybody, just wanted to give a quick update on some health issues I’m dealing with,” Kelley said in an Instagram video alongside his wife Cassie McConnell Kelley. “I had this – a couple random rib fractures that happened, which sparked my doctor into having me do several different blood tests,” he continued. “And one of the blood tests we did, they found a blood cancer in...

Four people familiar with the hiring plans told The New York Times about the push. ICE had about 29,000 employees in July, according to federal data cited by the paper, roughly 8,000 more than when Trump took office. Meeting the new hiring goal would add another 17 percent to the workforce. Some agents have been under pressure to work seven days a week. They’re making arrests and managing cases, and ICE wants thousands more officers to share that workload. Congress has already approved the funding. Seven-day workweeks are a pretty good argument for using it to get more people hired....

Update - 10:12 AM Eastern: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now issued a statement regarding the Wednesday incident involving the Flydubai passenger jet bound for Tel Aviv. BREAKING: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made his first public statement following the suspected attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai flight carrying Israelis. pic.twitter.com/TvgU2hev7f— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) September 30, 2026Citizens of Israel: This morning was the most serious security incident ever on a flight destined for Israel from Dubai. Almost all the passengers on the flight were Israelis. During the flight, as they approached The Land, one of the pilots stabbed the second...

In a cynical effort to look busy and fool their imbecilic base into thinking they are working for them, the Democrat/communist/Muslim coalition running California out of existence has surpassed itself for producing busy work. California is putting teenagers as old as 15 through a state-mandated seat-belt fit test—and those who fail it will have to remain in a child restraint such as a booster seat. The new rule takes effect January 1, 2027. It applies to children ages 8 through 15, meaning it reaches right up to a teenager’s 16th birthday. The law stops short of ordering every 15-year-old into...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that one of the pilots of a flydubai plane bound for Tel Aviv had planned to crash the aircraft and kill its mostly Israeli passengers, after the flight made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Netanyahu said Saudi Arabia had arrested the co-pilot and was interrogating him after the incident aboard flydubai flight FZ1073. “During the flight, as they approached the country, one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot, and apparently tried to crash the plane with everyone on board,” Netanyahu said in a video message, calling the passengers “heroes” who “prevented...

"Muslim friends and citizens, tax-paying citizens, and Muslims in nations were just appalled and could not believe what we saw on our TV screens. These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it’s important for my fellow Americans to understand that,” President George W. Bush had claimed in remarks at a mosque after 9/11 while accompanied by terror-linked Islamists. “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace.” Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently asked...

A federal appeals court Wednesday morning halted the execution of the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row about an before it was scheduled to occur. In a last-minute decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District said it needed to review claims that Christa Pike’s legal team made in a bid to stop her execution. “The interests of justice and the finality of Pike’s impending execution compel the entry of a short stay of execution in order to properly analyze the parties’ fully briefed arguments and resolve the issues on the merits,” the court said. It’s unclear how...

Tracing its intellectual lineage back to the Muslim Brotherhood-linked doctrines of Ismail Raji al-Faruqi and the 1977 Lugano conference that spawned the war plan to take over the West, RAIR examines how the late John Esposito established a legacy of ideological apologia at Georgetown University through projects like the Bridge Initiative. All funded by the American taxpayer! John L. Esposito, the longtime Georgetown University professor of Islamic studies and founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), died on July 15, 2026, at age 86 from complications of heart surgery. Esposito was an apologist for...

A former member of the Democratic Socialists of America has issued a dramatic warning about the far-left group’s growing political influence ahead of the November midterms.

A Florida woman was arrested and accused of leaving her four minor children, including an infant, alone while she went on a weekend cruise, according to police. The suspect, 29-year-old Nathalie Belizaire, of North Miami Beach, is accused of four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm. Belizaire’s attorney denied the allegations. According to North Miami Beach police, the father of one of Belizaire’s children, who is 2 months old, had seen on a post on her WhatsApp story on Thursday “depicting what appeared to be a cruise ticket purchase.” That day, he spoke to Belizaire, who told him...

There are more charges than ever, but once again, it’s really for daring to stand against the Left. Well, this isn’t going to go anywhere, at least unless the Democrats win a big victory in November, but Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) is (mercifully) on his way out of Congress, and apparently this is his bid for immortality. Just like the New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who miraculously transformed an arguable misdemeanor into 34 felonies in order to give the left a weapon against Donald Trump, Cohen has now shown an impressive talent for making mountains out of molehills,...

Pennsylvania's renewable energy mandate is finally facing a constitutional test. In a lawsuit filed September 3, West Virginia argues that Pennsylvania's requirement that many qualifying renewable generators be located within the state violates a basic principle of interstate commerce: states cannot rig markets to favor their own businesses. The case highlights a broader problem with renewable energy mandates: their high cost. Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia mandate that electric utilities purchase increasing percentages of their customers' electricity from specific types of 'green' generating resources. Qualifying suppliers are issued renewable energy credits, or RECs, which utilities must purchase. Utilities...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Aces center A'ja Wilson received a technical foul after confronting a fan at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Tuesday night during a 99-89 loss to the Indiana Fever in Game 2 of their first-round series. The incident happened with just over four minutes left in the fourth quarter after Indiana's Sophie Cunningham was called for a foul on Wilson. As Cunningham protested the foul, a fan seated behind the baseline stood up and pointed at Wilson. Wilson then stepped toward the fan and said, "You don't point at me, you don't point at me." As the fan started to sit...

"I do not think we should be letting people run any software they want on their self-driving car." ==================================================================== The software that powers self-driving cars is no longer the domain of proprietary systems built by billion-dollar companies. Open source assisted driving systems like Comma AI’s Openpilot have made it possible for anyone tech savvy enough to turn their set of wheels into a self-driving experiment. If you have $1,000 to spare and possess a willingness to serve as a lab rat in pursuit of automotive automation, you can buy a kit from Comma to retrofit your grocery getter with autonomous-driving...

Commie Canada and the dis-United Kingdom should be renamed the “Dumb and Dumber” of the British Commonwealth. King Charles III’s North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump crosses Lake America and liberates Canada from its delusional leaders. What a showboating dunce. The U.S. singlehandedly sustains Canada’s economy and national security, yet the tiny central banker huffed and puffed in a hilariously Napoleonic display of fake strength. In the same interview with the failing Times, Con-man Carney...

The first woman sentenced to death in Tennessee in 200 years said she is “at peace” before her rare execution — as the state’s governor declined to get involved in her last-ditch bid for clemency. “Whether my clemency is granted or not, I am at peace,” convicted murderer Christa Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News before learning that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee would not grant the condemned killer clemency. “I am not afraid to die,” the killer wrote to the outlet. “I’m only nervous about the process.” Pike, 50, is slated to be executed on Wednesday by lethal...

.... ANew York education group is planning a trans middle school—and wants its approach to reach classrooms far beyond New York. Trans Formative Schools spells out its ambition: “Eventually, we aspire to support trans teachers to launch trans schools around the country and the world.” Its plans extend to teachers already working in other schools. The organization proposes national educator training and free classroom materials combining conventional academic subjects with sex education and activism. It already operates a free afterschool program welcoming students ages nine to fifteen. Its advertised activities include “Activism/Transing School.” ..

New York City has one of the most expensive housing markets in the country among large cities, and maybe even the most expensive by some measures. By contrast to most other parts of the country, the majority of housing units here are rented rather than owner-occupied. Latest data from Zillow.com gives a city-wide average rent (across all apartment sizes and types) of $3650. In Manhattan, according to this New York Post piece from August 12 (citing data from the Corcoran brokerage firm) the average rent has hit $6,655 per month. According to the politicians in power, the reason for these...

All passengers were safe and accounted for, the spokesperson said, without providing any further details. Yasmin Abu Kasis, whose daughter Miriam was on the flight, said that her daughter had told her that she had heard screaming and that a man took a knife, put the pilot on the floor, and that there was blood everywhere.