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Bestselling author and journalist ‪@douglasmurray‬ shares firsthand insights from the frontlines of Ukraine and Gaza, offering a vivid look at the human cost of war and the stakes for global stability. In this wide-ranging conversation with ‪@Foxla‬'s ‪@elexmichaelson‬ Murray also weighs in on U.S. campus protests, cultural shifts, and key election issues shaping America’s future. Transcript linked after video.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) joined the chorus of Democrats and pro-abortion activists reacting furiously to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday. Waters, flanked by Rep. Al Green (D-TX), joined activists outside the Supreme Court following the ruling, telling reporters: “The hell with the Supreme Court, we will defy them.” “You see this turnout here? You ain’t seen nothing yet,” the California Democrat, who serves as chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, also warned.

Singer explains Benatar’s antinatalist philosophy, which bases its moral framework by weighing the consequences of existence, in this way: “everyone will suffer to some extent, and if our species continues to reproduce, we can be sure that some future children will suffer severely. Hence continued reproduction will harm some children severely, and benefit none.” Singer then invites readers to engage in a thought experiment: "So why don’t we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required — we could party our way into extinction!"

In what the FBI is calling an “intentional act of terrorism,” an explosive device inside a car was detonated on Saturday outside the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. The explosion, felt more than a mile away from the blast site, killed one person and injured four others, and is being referred to as the “largest bombing ever investigated in Southern California.” Los Angeles FBI field office assistant director Akil Davis said at a news conference on Sunday that the suspect is believed to be 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, whom law enforcement said had “stated in writings...

An individual allegedly linked to the primary suspect in a car bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic has been arrested, Fox News has learned. The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Daniel Park, was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City overnight, and is charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist. Park waived his identity and probable cause hearings in a Brooklyn federal courtroom Wednesday and is set to be transported to California to face prosecution. Park allegedly supplied Guy Edward Bartkus with the materials needed to construct the explosives, with the last...

The man authorities say is responsible for bombing a reproductive center in Palm Springs, Calif. on Saturday has been identified as Guy Edward Bartkus. The 25-year-old is from Twentynine Palms, Calif., authorities said during a news conference Sunday morning. He is described as a "pro-mortalist," the New York Post reported. The car bomb he allegedly set off killed him and injured four people. There was "no loss of any sensitive material" as a result of the bombing at the IVF clinic, an FBI Los Angeles assistant director in charge said, referring to embryos.

Fatima Hassouna, a war documentarian who had covered the conflict in Gaza on the ground for 18 months and the subject of a new documentary to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next month, was killed along with seven members of her family in an Israeli strike this week. “If I die, I want a resounding death, I do not want me in urgent news, nor in a number with a group,” Hassouna wrote in a post on Instagram in August 2024. “I want a death that the world hears, an effect that remains for the extent of the...

If there is no emotional connection to their own children, how could there ever be a desire for peace, coexistence, and mutual respect for the Israeli people? Speaking to the children of Jenin in their native Arabic language, N12 Israeli television reporter Ohad Hemo confirmed what we’ve all known for a long time: the realization of why there can never be peace between Israel and the so-called Palestinians who live in Samaria. With special permission from the IDF, Hemo made his way through the rubble, which was once home to 14,000 people who lived in the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp,...

The left's pathological hatred of Elon Musk has reached a new level of insanity. The crusade against Musk and Tesla has already turned violent, with dealerships being firebombed and vehicles being vandalized. But now the same people who constantly screech about climate change want to kneecap the most successful electric vehicle manufacturer in history because its CEO doesn't share their political views. In New York, a Democrat lawmaker is actually trying to ban Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers. State Sen. Pat Fahy (D-Albany) isn't even trying to hide her Elon Derangement Syndrome-fueled vendetta. "No matter what we do,...

Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is defending Islamic terrorists again. This time, it's the Iranian backed Houthis in Yemen. On Monday, Tlaib decided to weigh in on Trump administration national officials using Signal to discuss military action against the group. She made it clear she's upset about the current campaign to stop Houthi attacks. The White House has a different view. "Democrats and their media allies have seemingly forgotten that President Donald J. Trump and his National Security team successfully killed terrorists who have targeted U.S. troops and disrupted the most consequential shipping routes in the world. This is a coordinated...

Imagine for a second that an organization existed that carefully and deliberately planned and executed the firebombing and destruction of a certain brand of automobiles and its dealerships, and the support infrastructure for that brand, with the purpose of such attacks being to extort others into silence and submission. Back in the day we would have considered that a criminal conspiracy (in all likelihood under RICO laws), and we would have arrested and prosecuted the leaders of that rogue, terrorist organization. Guess what? You don't have to imagine. That organization exists today and it's called the "Democrat Party."

“Leftists Were Planning To Completely Destroy America, Western Civilization, and By Extension The World If They Would Have Been Able To Stop Trump From Winning Reelection. For Now The Globalists’ Plans Have Only Been Put On Hold And To Fully Secure Humanity’s Future Survival They Must Now Be Removed Completely From Any Position Of Power and Treated Like The Dangerous Death Cult They Are. ” (Elon Musk Issues An Emergency Warning To The American People, Alex Jones on X)Since WWII on through to our own time the world has been in a situation of deliberate deconstruction and reconstruction on the...

An Israeli government spokesman slammed Hamas as a “death cult” after it paraded the coffins containing the remains of four civilian hostages, including those of a baby and a child, during a propaganda stage show in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday morning. “Hamas is not a resistance movement. Hamas is a death cult that murders, that tortures and parades dead bodies,” government spokesman David Mencer told journalists during a press briefing. The Palestinian terrorist organization “has no place amongst civilized nations. It has no place in Gaza,” he said. One of the bodies has been identified as...

Innocents in Gaza? Children and infants attend Hamas 'ceremony' for hostage release.Hundreds of Gazan civilians, including infants and children, attend Hamas cynical 'release ceremony' showing off bodies of four killed hostages.Israel National News. Feb 20, 2025.Hundreds of Gazan "civilians" were seen Thursday morning attending Hamas' "release ceremony" - including infants and children who were brought to watch the event.Following the ceremony, which saw the remains of four deceased hostages handed over to the Red Cross - social media users began to call to implement US President Donald Trump's plan to encourage Gazans to emigrate. Many of the posters noted that...

A child has been stabbed to death and four others injured in a mass stabbing attack in Villach, Austria today. The suspect is a Syrian migrant. He reportedly shouted, “Allahu Akbar.” When police responded he smiled and put up the one finger salute that many Muslims do. The deadly mass stabbing follows the deadly mass ramming attack in Munich, Germany two days earlier by an Afghan migrant suspect. Deadly Islamic attacks are a regular occurrence in European countries with large Muslim immigrant and migrant populations. ... We keep seeing this happen. Children murdered, women harassed and raped. Roads taken over...

As pro-life titans go, who could ever surpass the late Rep. Henry Hyde? Author of the Hyde Amendment, his against-all-odds victory has conservatively saved 2 ½ million babies. It is the rock against which the Abortion Industry has bashed its head for over 44 years ever since the Supreme Court—by the narrowest of 5-4 margins—upheld it in 1980. Up to that point in time, the federal Medicaid program paid for 300,000 abortions a year, a number that was steadily rising. [By the way, one of most devious stratagems, even by pro-abortion standards, is to insist that if only people “really”...

The federal judge who suggested Trump administration officials could face criminal contempt over the spending freeze on Monday is a Democrat donor... McConnell donated hundreds of thousands to Democratic campaigns and political action committees, including 2008 presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, according to Federal Election Commission records. He also donated over $8,000 to Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s 2006 senate campaign. McConnell volunteered as director of the Rhode Island branch of Planned Parenthood for four years, according to Roll Call.

Assisted dying cases would no longer have to be signed off by the High Court under changes suggested by the bill's supporters. The proposed law currently says a High Court judge must check each person is eligible and has not been coerced into making the decision to die. But BBC News has been told Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP behind the bill, will suggest replacing this with a panel of experts who would oversee applications. It comes after concerns were raised over the court's capacity to hear each individual case.

Senior Hamas Official Khalil Al-Hayya Upon Signing Ceasefire Agreement: October 7 Will Continue To Be A Source Of Pride; Our People Served As An 'Impenetrable Shield' For The Resistance; Israel's Supporters Will Be Punished, Even If It Takes Time.

The recent terrorist attack (14 dead, 35 injured) in New Orleans by a homegrown former soldier, Shamsud Din Jabbar, who had “become radicalized” by ISIS has called America’s attention to the threat of Islamic extremism in the USA. Has the enemy without become a serious enemy within? And if so, what can be done to protect ourselves from further atrocities? We previously contended with the murderous events of 9/11 (2001), with downed planes and 3,000 dead; the Washington sniper and his pal (10 killed in 2002), who liked to pick off people at gas stations; the Fort Hood massacre (2009)...