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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance will make an announcement on Obamacare fraud Tuesday morning at the White House, The Post has learned — after launching crackdowns that restricted funding for other federal healthcare programs. Vance has focused heavily on alleged theft of taxpayer money in multibillion-dollar medical programs in his role as Trump’s fraud czar — generally coupling allegations with action to block the distribution of funds deemed at-risk for misappropriation. The announcement comes as the Trump administration turns up the heat on President Barack Obama’s namesake health insurance overhaul, with President Trump vowing earlier this month to “stop...

Has anyone else noted Islam creeping its way into crossword puzzles? I've seen this occurring with increasing frequency over the last few months. Today I saw 3 clues in 3 puzzles: "Religion with five pillars (Islam)"; "Mosque prayer leader" (Imam); and "Muslim feast" (Eid).

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President Trump unveiled his new granite helipad on Monday, but none of the major TV networks carried the event as tensions between the media and the White House escalated. Trump used a pair of golden scissors to cut the red, white and blue ribbon on the project he dubbed “a work of art” while surrounded by construction workers who built the White House pad, which features the seal of the United States and is estimated to cost $6 million. The White House aired the event on its social media channels, but Marine One, sitting on the helipad behind the president...

Wealthy Chinese couples are implanting their embryos into American women so their children can be born as US citizens, The Post has learned. The service is provided by a surrogacy agency, Patriot Conceptions, which operates between China and the US and has been accused of hiding details of who the biological parents are from surrogates. Women who carry babies for the agency are recruited informally through social media and collect between $60,000 and $120,000 dollars for their services. The children are then swept off by their parents to be raised in China, where it is seen as a status symbol...

A new study has proposed the existence of a hidden solar system planet candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the infamous, hypothetical Planet X. This new world, dubbed "Planet Y," could be around the same size as Earth and may exist alongside another popular Planet Nine candidate; potentially bringing our solar system's planetary tally to 10, if both can be confirmed. Did the Sun Pull a Rogue Planet into the Solar System? | 10:19 Territory | 123K subscribers | 146,224 views | September 21, 2026 Narrated by Mathew McQuinn

A new Skid Row encampment popped up across the street from NYU dorms — with vagrants bragging that living on the streets of the Big Apple is “much better” under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The 30-foot-long shantytown at East Ninth Street and Third Avenue sits just outside Ukrainian Village Park, with a long blue tarp covering office chairs, luggage and bicycles on the sidewalk, in plain sight of both passersby and the college students who live across the street, The Post has learned. “Some people are nice, some people think we invade their space,” Raymond, 45, who lives in the shelter,...

Are data centers draining Arizona's water? Today, Project 48 officially launches a public information campaign to take on that question and the bigger debate over Arizona's growth. We're putting the facts where Arizonans can see them: on digital billboards across the Valley, online, and in your hands. Arizona has added millions of people and built a $600 billion economy while using less water statewide than it did in 1957. Data centers account for less than 1% of Arizona's total water use. Explore the research, see our sources, and send us the data center questions you want answered: 🔗 project48az.com/datacenters 📱...

A veteran Chicago police dispatcher was pinned inside her wrecked car, with nine broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae, when a man climbed into the back seat and stole her driver’s license and credit cards, prosecutors say. The man’s girlfriend then got into the front seat and began patting the injured victim’s waistline, apparently looking for more valuables. Victoria Mesarina, a dispatcher with the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications for 26 years, was driving home in uniform when another vehicle slammed into the driver’s side of her car in the 3300 block of West Douglas Boulevard around 2:30...

🏆 WE DID IT! 🏆 For the first time since 1914, there have been no North Atlantic hurricane formations by September 21st. Fay did not attain hurricane strength overnight, and has since weakened, with maximum sustained wind speeds dropping from 70 to 50 mph. Weakening is expected to continue over the next couple of days. No other storm formations are expected for at least the next seven days (but that can change). The only other two times that this has happened since 1851 were in 1905 (October 8th) and 1907, respectively, and like 1914, the 1907 season featured no Atlantic...

A Montgomery County, Maryland, proposal to impose new requirements on publicly funded community media has sparked resistance from within the left. Brutus was a member of the Roman Senate’s “deep state.” Every faction spawns fanatics who, to their peril, see only the facts that justify their zealotry. For today, here and now, we are being reminded again that the Dem’s deep state is real, embraced by real people concentrated in real places. One of those places is Montgomery County, Maryland, MoCo, a suburb of Washington, DC. This post will connect the actions of little MoCo to the large deep state...

IRGC police captain assassinated. Balluchi insurgents 86 another mass murderer. "Gas leaks" abound. Trump is ending Iranian civilian airlines. Unidentified objects in skies.

Solomon’s Stables is an underground structure located beneath the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Despite its traditional name, there is no historical or archaeological evidence linking it directly to King Solomon (reigned circa 970–931 BCE). The name originates from medieval Crusader traditions, as they believed the vast underground halls were once used to house the horses of King Solomon. The structure consists of a series of vaulted halls supported by massive stone pillars, showcasing a sophisticated architectural style that dates back to the Herodian period (circa 37 BCE–70 CE). The stables were historically part of the Temple...

🚨 BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for HuggingFace hack > "The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents." > "It is humans who are responsible, not the AI." > "What we shouldn’t do on safety is to give these labs a liability exemption, which is what they are asking for." > "The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate." It’s OVER

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Less than 24 hours after a 5-year-old was killed and two others were injured in a shooting in northwest Harris County, a suspect has been arrested, the sheriff's office said. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez confirmed on Sunday night that 47-year-old Jeremy Porter was arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting death of Zah'layah Walter. He was booked into the Harris County Jail. According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the shooting happened on Grant Road near Jones Road on Saturday around 11:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the latest wave of legal turmoil enveloping the nation's capital, cable network CNN sued the Trump administration for allegedly violating its First Amendment rights to fabricate the news. CNN, MSNOW, and Politico expressed outrage after President Donald Trump expelled the outlets from the White House, arguing that his administration was denying them their constitutional rights to make things up and report them as facts. "He has no right to keep us from making things up," said CNN personality Kaitlan Collins. "It is the right — and indeed the duty — of major news outlets in the...

Explanation: When does a nebula look like a comet? In this crowded starfield covering over two degrees within the high-flying constellation of the Swan (Cygnus), the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula. A compact star forming region, the cosmic Cocoon punctuates a nebula bright in emission and reflection on the lower right, with a long trail of interstellar dust clouds to the left, making the entire complex appear a bit like a comet. Cataloged as IC 5146, the central bright head of the nebula spans about 10 light years, while the dark dusty tail spans nearly 100 light years....

Video Transcript SummarySummary of Patricia Leidl’s testimony before the Allison Inquiry (Day Three, 10 September 2026) Patricia Leidl (age 64), a former World Health Organization communications director and researcher, testified about severe health problems she attributes to her second COVID-19 vaccine dose. She previously worked in WHO’s HIV department, for USAID, as an advisor to the UN Population Fund, and wrote the first draft of WHO’s 2002 report The State of the World’s Vaccines. In that report she had written that an effective coronavirus vaccine was unlikely because the virus mutates too quickly, and noted that vaccines typically take 7–15...

ransomnote: I became interested in this content based on the 3 minute video excerpt in an x.com post which I will put in post #1. The content intrigued me so I found the whole video (1 hr 11 min), posted the video page description of it and had GROK summarize the transcript (below).TLDR: The midterm elections are framed as decisive. They will determine whether the United States continues shifting toward sovereignty or remains controlled, trapped, and fighting endless proxy wars. Scott Bessent chasing the money behind the Iran war somewhere nobody expected. Mark Carney walking out on Trump. Europe refusing...

Jennifer Eckhart, a former Fox Business associate producer and podcast host, was found dead Friday at her Martin County, Fla., home, authorities said. She was 36. Eckhart appeared to have died by suicide, Martin County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Christine Christofek said in a statement. Eckhart hosted “REINVENTED,” a podcast that her website described as featuring prominent figures in business, sports and entertainment who had overcome adversity on their path to success. The most recent episode was posted in March and featured former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg. Eckhart previously worked as an associate producer at Fox Business. In...