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Emboldened by Tuesday’s encouraging election results, veteran political strategist James Carville said he would “bet money” that Democrats will not only win the presidency in 2028, but then proceed to pack the Supreme Court to ensure permanent one party rule. While taking questions during Thursday’s installment of he and co-host Al Hunt’s “Politics War Room,” one listener asked how the Biden Administration could have prepared for “the possibility of Trump winning a second term.” While Hunt argued in favor of new legislation and guardrails, Carville gleefully predicted that the next Democrat president will fundamentally redefine American government. “I’m going to...

A study presented at the recent 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025) has found that the apparent rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), at least in gay and bisexual men with HIV in France, are due to more frequent testing rather than more infections. Dr Sophie Novelli of the Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) of the French national scientific health research agency INSERM presented data from 2016 to 2023 taken from the PRIMO cohort. PRIMO is a long-standing cohort, founded in 1996, of people diagnosed with HIV during very early infection. It includes men and women of all...

Top 20 Chilling Insights from Yuri Bezmenov How the KGB's Playbook Is Destroying the West Today Doug Ross Yuri Aleksandrovich Bezmenov (1939–1993), also known as Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist and KGB operative specializing in propaganda and ideological subversion. Ideological subversion is the process of bending a society’s perception of reality so completely that it destroys itself. In the Cold War era, few voices pierced the veil of secrecy as profoundly as that of Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector whose chilling exposés on ideological subversion still resonate today. His warnings, drawn from firsthand experience in Soviet active measures,...

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) objected twice to Senator John Kennedy’s (R-LA) proposals that would have blocked members of Congress from receiving pay during the ongoing government shutdown, legislation Kennedy says is necessary to make lawmakers feel the same pain as the Americans affected by Washington’s dysfunction. Paul, reserving the right to object, said the focus should be on re-opening government and paying those who are working, not punishing members of Congress. Paul argued that withholding pay from lawmakers distracts from the larger problem of bureaucratic dysfunction and the unfair treatment of federal workers who are continuing their duties during the...

Antonio Brown, a former NFL star and wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was extradited from Dubai to the United States on Thursday and faces an attempted murder charge. It can be recalled that Brown, joined by ex-teammate Le’Veon Bell, spoke at a Trump rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in October 2024, where they endorsed his presidential run. During his remarks on stage before tens of thousands of Trump supporters, Brown slammed Trump’s Democrat opponents while defending his support for the 45th and 47th President. “I know the media is going to call me crazy, me and Trump crazy, for having...

Kentucky Governor @GovAndyBeshear tells Kentuckians that their SNAP benefits being cut are on @POTUS . He’s considering running for president in 2028.

This happened in Brooklyn early on Wednesday. From News 12 Brooklyn: Swastikas were painted on a Magen David Yeshivah in Gravesend. Police say security guards discovered the symbols at 2132 McDonald Ave. just after 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. The swastikas were painted on multiple windows and on a pillar at the Jewish center, according to the NYPD. The swastikas were washed off of the windows and Israeli flags were taped over the symbols on the walls.

Speaking in English, and reaching a US audience directly, he reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will ultimately be judged on how they welcomed "the foreigner". In some of his strongest criticism to date of President Donald Trump's administration, the first ever US-born pope also warned that the US bombing of Venezuelan ships, suspected of carrying drugs, risked increasing tensions in the region.

Fighters laugh as they ride on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding past a row of nine dead bodies and driving towards the setting Sudanese sun. "Look at all this work. Look at this genocide," one cheers. He smiles as he turns the camera on himself and his fellow fighters, their Rapid Support Forces (RSF) badges on display: "They will all die like this." The men are celebrating a massacre that humanitarian officials fear killed more than 2,000 people in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher last month. On Monday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said it was investigating whether...

A Michigan woman chucked a cup of freshly–made, scalding hot coffee at a hapless McDonald's manager during an argument over a refund, sparking a police investigation. The shocking incident, which was captured on camera, took place in Saginaw, Michigan, at the McDonald's on 3700 Dixie Highway. Footage from Tuesday morning showed the enraged woman confronting the fast food establishment's manager and apparently demanding a refund.

It’s called the “gender gap” (should be “sex gap,” really) in voting, and, boy, did it ever manifest itself Tuesday night. In fact, November 4 was a great day for the GOP. That is, in an alternate universe in which only men vote. Let’s go down the list. In Virginia there were three major races, and men broke Republican in all of them. They went for Winsome Earle-Sears for governor (all figures represent percentages), 53-47; John Reid for lieutenant governor, 55-44; and Jason Miyares for attorney general, 57-42. Meanwhile, in the upside-down, women broke Democrat in all three races by...

A writer who led the charge against a fellow author over claims her award-winning memoir was racist has posted a tearful video begging people not to drag up the 'past'. Monisha Rajesh, who is now an author in her own right, was one of the earliest critics of Kate Clanchy's 2020 book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, which won the prestigious Orwell Prize for political writing. The memoir, based on Clanchy's 30 years teaching in state schools, came under fire a year after its release when readers accused her of using 'racist' and 'dehumanising' descriptions of...

Aussies are one step closer to direct London and New York flights, with Qantas unveiling the first pictures of its new long-haul aircraft on Friday morning. Known as 'Project Sunrise', the service is named for the phenomenon where passengers on the London route see two sunrises during their flight. The first aircraft is now on the Airbus assembly line in France. Qantas will operate 12 specially configured aircraft, enabling the world's longest commercial flights and connecting Australia's east coast - both Melbourne and Sydney - non-stop to London and New York for the very first time.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: This was an awesome weekend of college football. Week 10’s slate saw now-No. 13 Texas fend off a 21-point fourth quarter from Vanderbilt to get to 7–2 on the season and keep their playoff hopes alive, Hugh Freeze get fired by Auburn after going just 15–19 over his first two-plus seasons, Julian Sayin become the Heisman Trophy favorite after bringing No. 1 Ohio State to 8–0 to begin the year, and Shedeur Sanders visit his father, Deion, at Colorado during the Browns’ bye-week.

Democrats in the party continue to radicalize, and the position of the socialists in supporting Marxist ideology increases its hold. Many people are wringing their hands over the election of self-identified democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor. Unfortunately, they have reason to be worried, because his election reflects a trend that can be called conservatively, concerning, and liberally, alarming. To understand this assessment better, it helps to understand the nature of democratic socialism. What is the history of the movement in this country? Although he wasn’t an admitted socialist, Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced sweeping socialism to America:...

A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to find the money to fully fund food stamps for 42 million low-income Americans in November by Friday, in a rebuke to the government’s plan to only provide reduced aid during the shutdown. US district judge John J McConnell Jr criticized the administration’s plan to partly fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits in November, saying it had failed to comply with an order he issued on Saturday requiring the government to ensure Americans received full or partial benefits no later than Wednesday. He also said the administration...

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Feminism died with Mandami. It's was canceled by Biden, it died when Mandami was elected.Under Mandami, women are property, so are their children. And if they divorce their husbands, their children are still property under that system.In a trial, under Mandami, women's voices are nothing without their husbands. Unless the husband acknowledges a rape of his wife by another, it never happened. The Vote for Women took a huge step backwards under Mandami. And so did the Democratic Party and the Press which allowed it.

Tesla shareholders on Thursday approved a plan that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, two days after New Yorkers elected a tax-the-rich candidate as their next mayor. These discrete moments offered strikingly different lessons about America and who deserves how much of its wealth. At Tesla, based in the Austin, Texas, area, shareholders have largely bought into a winner-takes-all version of capitalism, agreeing by a wide margin to give Mr. Musk shares worth almost a trillion dollars if the company under his management achieves ambitious financial and operational goals over the next decade.