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Le Parisien reports: 'According to our information, Jacques Moretti is no stranger to the French justice system. 'He is known for pimping cases dating back some twenty years, as well as for a kidnapping and confinement case. He was imprisoned in Savoie.'

LONDON, UK — In the wake of the swift capture and extradition of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, millions of ordinary British citizens have asked if Trump could please come do that same thing with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. According to numerous on-the-street interviews, Brits across the United Kingdom have all come together in the last 36 hours to ask if there's any possible way that Trump could just once more do that thing where he sends in Delta Force commandos to arrest a tyrant. "What I wouldn't give to see Trump post a pic of that blighter Starmer safely held...

Harvard is not cheap. Attending as an undergraduate costs $86,926 per year. On top of that, Harvard vacuums up staggering sums of taxpayer money, despite receiving $billions per year in donations and sitting on an endowment of $57 billion. But at least the students are learning something besides LGBTism, Critical Race Theory, and how to hate America. The New York Post reported last spring: The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently arriving on campus lacking “foundational skills” in high school math basics like geometry and algebra. Why is it that students...

Kunshikitty, a German streamer with over 200,000 followers on Twitch, strode through the streets of Cologne on New Year’s Eve. The lovely migrants threw stones at her, and one got her in the head. Reports say she went on her stroll to prove the streets are still safe, but she denied it.

A new statewide survey shows New York’s bell-to-bell smartphone restrictions in schools are producing real results—fewer distractions, better classroom focus, and stronger student engagement. The findings come from more than 350 school administrators who responded to a survey in November after implementing the state’s new distraction-free policy earlier this year. The responses suggest that limiting phone use during the school day is already transforming learning environments across the state. One assistant superintendent in the Southern Tier called the shift “a game changer,” adding that students are “having conversations with each other” instead of looking down at their phones. Another principal...

Quantum computers have made a massive splash over the past years, with quantum computing projects racking up billions of dollars in private and public investment. But according to a small group of physicists, quantum computers will never scale to any meaningful level. Let’s take a look at their reasoning.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Democratic Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan donned a full hijab for a press conference where she warned that conservatives want to force women into Handmaid's Tale outfits. Flanagan adjusted her head covering as she cautioned that Republicans would like nothing more than to force women to cover their bodies and be treated as property. "If Republicans had their way, women would all be shoved into Handmaid outfits," explained Flanagan as she replaced her mouth covering. "They want a culture where young women are stripped of their rights and become totally subjugated to men. Women wouldn't be allowed to...

Education has become one of the main ideological battlegrounds across the Western world and particularly within the European Union. Although the EU treaties recognise education as a national competence, in recent years Brussels has developed an increasingly sophisticated architecture of programmes, funding streams and partnerships with NGOs aimed at exerting direct influence over what happens in classrooms—especially in areas related to identity, gender and sexuality. It is in this context that the report Indoctrinating Children: How Brussels Embeds Gender Identity in the Classroom, published by MCC Brussels and authored by sociologist Ashley Frawley, must be understood. The study documents how...

From Wikimedia Commons: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887). Predictably, human nature remains constant across the centuries, driven by the same primal impulses—ambition, fear, greed, and tribal loyalty—that fuel conflict and upheaval. These enduring drives and emotions ensure that humanity cannot permanently exorcise evil; it persists, resurfacing in ever-shifting forms. In the twentieth century, Western civilization teetered on the brink of annihilation, barely surviving the twin horrors of Nazism and Bolshevism. These ideologies, shrouded in propaganda myths about “race” and “class”, respectively, unleashed unprecedented destruction, claiming tens of millions of lives and threatening the very foundations of liberal...

A Year-and-a-Half Later, Commiefornia's Fast Food Minimum Wage Is an Unmitigated Disaster And the Democrats want this for ALL OF AMERICA!................ 2:51 VIDEO AT LINK.................

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This single page insert appeared in the New Year's edition of a local Poughkeepsie, NY newspaper in 1809. It summarized the world news of the past year in humorous poetry, concluding with a request for a tip in exchange. The newspaper insert was handed down in the family of Henry Livingston's descendants.

Kickbacks to parents involved in alleged daycare and autism center fraud schemes have been a feature in the wave of scandal that has been taking place in the Somali community of Minnesota. Both allegations as well as criminal charges have highlighted the tactic being used by the alleged fraudsters. Unearthed videos from a 2018 fraud case in Minnesota show parents as well as daycare providers taking part in a daycare fraud scheme going back to 2015. In the video, a man is shown handing an envelope to parents with alleged kickback cash for their participation in the fraud at a...

More than 20 public middle and high schools in Seattle are facing scrutiny after reports that students were asked questions about gender identity and sexual orientation through a districtwide survey, without parents being informed of the survey’s content or how the responses would be used. According to National Review, the survey, known as the state’s “Check Yourself Survey,” is administered in every Seattle middle school and high school and includes questions that students as young as 10 years old are required to answer. The prompts reportedly touch on sensitive topics ranging from sexual attraction and gender identity to mental health...

Campus free expression is in crisis. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), its 2026 College Free Speech Rankings found that student acceptance of disruptive protest tactics has reached record highs. More students than ever believe it is acceptable to shout down a speaker, block entry to campus events, or use violence to silence speech. For the first time, a majority of students oppose allowing any of the six controversial speakers - three liberal, three conservative - that FIRE asked about. The average school earned an F for its speech climate; only 11 of 257 institutions scored...

Teen Discovers 1.5M Space Objects With AI | Image by Matteo Paz @matteopaz06/X A recently graduated high school student made an artificial intelligence breakthrough using retired NASA data, which led to a public recruitment pitch from the agency’s new administrator on social media, including a fighter jet ride. The teenager from Pasadena, California, used AI to identify approximately 1.5 million previously unrecognized cosmic objects in archival NASA data. His work went viral on X, capturing the attention of senior space officials. This led to an informal public recruitment pitch from Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur recently appointed as NASA administrator....

I'm just wondering, over a lifetime what the most ethical and right away to deal with money when it comes to being charitable or paying tithes? Should I just give the money once, by giving what I am able to give, or would it be better to give potentially more over the long-run, because money will tend to multiply over a lifetime and invested money can be given repeatedly.

Every three years, the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) evaluates how well 15-year-olds can apply reading skills to real-world situations.This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks the top-performing countries based on their average reading scores.The data for this visualization comes from the OECD’s PISA 2022 results.PISA measures reading proficiency in a student’s native or primary language of instruction, focusing on comprehension, interpretation, and evaluation of written texts. Top-performing systems typically score in the 550–560 range, while the OECD average is 476.Singapore Leads by a Wide MarginSingapore ranks first globally with an average reading score of 543, placing...

As national education spending per pupil rises, student enrollment is dropping and test scores across the United States are falling, which raises concern over how effectively taxpayer dollars are being used in public schools. Since 2002, K-12 public school spending has increased by more than 35%, yet enrollment has dropped 2.1%, which is over a million students over the past five years. Student achievement has also declined, with only one-third of students nationwide scoring at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading, according to the National Assessment Governing Board. Currently, 40% of fourth...