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“What the K-shaped economy gets right, what it exaggerates, and what believing the worst version is costing a generation.”The bottom half of American households owns about 2.5% of the nation’s wealth. That number is real, and it ought to bother you. However, that number is also higher than it was in 2019 and 2015, and roughly six times higher than the 0.4% low it hit in 2011. You will not read that in many places because it doesn’t “fit the narrative.”Unfortunately, the K-shaped economy headlines have settled into a single unvarying note, and after a while, people stop hearing anything...

When it comes to investigating and exposing voter fraud in Michigan, Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf continues to be the most committed law enforcement official in the state. After speaking with a whistleblower who works inside the Michigan Secretary of State’s office, Leaf released a video explaining his account of how non-citizens are allegedly registered automatically, and why clerks cannot clean it up after the fact.WOW!🚨🚨🚨MI SOS @JocelynBenson is more crooked than anyone knew!!!@SheriffLeaf confirms:A whistleblower has revealed that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s election software is programmed to automatically register non-citizens—including illegal aliens—to vote whenever they update or...

Seventy-seven percent of Israelis, including 86% of Jewish Israelis, believe a large-scale terrorist attack modeled on the October 7 Hamas massacre could originate from Judea and Samaria, according to new polling data released by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). The number has climbed steadily for over two years, and it now sits alongside a defense establishment warning that the threat is not theoretical. The JCFA survey, conducted September 2-4 among 703 Jewish and Arab Israelis by Dr. Menachem Lazar’s Lazar Research Institute, found that 75% of Jewish Israelis and 67% of all Israelis oppose establishing a...

The agency is also axing Biden-era rules that would have forced coal-fired plants to shutter and gas-fired plants to complete costly environmental upgrades.. The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is planning to propose the permanent repeal of federal regulations of power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions, asserting that such rules have "virtually no benefit," the Washington Free Beacon has learned. In tandem with that proposal, the agency is finalizing plans to gut other Biden-era climate rules that forced existing coal-fired plants to close down and stymied future gas plant development. Together, the moves represent a historic action that the EPA says is...

The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send agents to polling stations violate the Voting Rights Act. Civil rights groups and labor unions sued the Trump administration on Friday, asserting that its aggressive immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send armed agents to polling sites amounted to voter intimidation and violated the Voting Rights Act. Brought by a coalition of Black, Asian and Latino civil rights groups and unions, including the N.A.A.C.P. and the Service Employees International Union, the lawsuit seeks to block any effort by the Trump administration to deploy federal...

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依@japan_nobunaga·12hMarch 2011. An entire Japanese island was CUT OFF.Kesennuma Oshima. 3,000 people trapped.No power. No water. Harbor obliterated. Freezing cold.The experts said: "No ship can dock. It's impossible."The US Marine Corps looked at the raging sea and said:"Watch us."They fired up the LCACs.Massive hovercrafts built for storming hostile enemy beaches.Ripping across the debris-choked water at 40 knots.Huge jet engines roaring. Spray flying 50 feet into the air.They didn't wait for a harbor.They rammed right onto the frozen sand.Out rolled bulldozers. Generators. Hot water units. Clean food.Marines jumped into the freezing mud to rebuild the power lines.Why?"Because the children need a...

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依@japan_nobunagaWhen Fukushima exploded, foreign embassies told everyone to FLEE.Commercial planes turned around. Ships steered away as fast as they could.An invisible radiation cloud was drifting across the ocean.And where was the USS Ronald Reagan?STEERING DIRECTLY INTO IT.AT MAXIMUM SPEED.The radiation alarms were screaming on the bridge.Every textbook said: "Turn back. Save yourselves."The Captain and his crew said:"There are Japanese families shivering on rooftops out there. WE DON'T TURN BACK."24 hours a day, in freezing sleet, they ran their desalination plants to the brink of failure.Sailors gave up their OWN fresh water.They stopped taking hot showers.They ate cold rations.Why?To produce tens...

Explosions were heard in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh late tonight... power grid collapsing in Cuba... Trump signing the sanctions legislation...aimed at Iran and Russia... the Turkish banking regulator revoking the operating license of an Iranian bank branch... The US lifting sanctions on the nation of Eritrea...across the sea from Yemen's west coast... AI issues surrounding US-China relations... an incident where AI led the US military to believe a Chinese vessel was carrying nuclear... Yemen War air attack alerts...multiple parts of Saudi Arabia... investigation into diversion of parts for the US F-35 warplane to Hong Kong... Nations allied with the US...

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a "critical threshold" and will soon break apart, forming a new ocean. That said, 'soon' is a relative term – it'll still take a few million years more, but that's a blink of an eye on a geological scale. "We found that rifting in this zone is more advanced, and the crust is thinner, than anyone had recognized," says Christian Rowan, a geoscientist at Columbia University. "Eastern Africa has progressed further in the rifting process than previously thought." The most intriguing...

Ultimately, the purpose of this website is educational: to chart communism's human-rights violations in a format in which its horrors can quickly and accessibly be comprehended.

he bison in Yellowstone National Park that seriously injured a man in a viral attack last week will not be euthanized after park officials confirmed the wild animal will remain in the park despite the shocking encounter. Yellowstone officials said that "no management action" will be taken against the bull, according to TMZ. The decision comes after the bison charged Carl Isom-McDaniel, leaving the grandfather with multiple broken bones that required surgery, Fox News Digital previously reported. YELLOWSTONE BISON ATTACK WITNESS BELIEVES MAN SAVED HIS GRANDSON BY TAKING BRUNT OF ATTACK The frightening video, captured by wildlife photographer Mike MacLeod,...

A French tourist died this month after becoming stranded in California's Death Valley National Park amid sweltering temperatures. The National Park Service (NPS) announced the death of Pierre Michel Formosa, 68, on Aug. 21. Park officials said Formosa and his travel companion, also a French national, were driving on West Side Road along the Badwater Basin on Aug. 17 when their vehicle "became stuck in mud." "With no other vehicles in the area, the men began walking across the salt flats toward Badwater Road to seek assistance," park officials said. Temperatures were as high as 116°F — and eventually Formosa...

Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data. Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS. A sixth official, who like the...

Ninety-five percent of faculty who responded to The Crimson’s annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey said they were dissatisfied with U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office, more than a year into Harvard’s battle with the White House.Roughly ninety-two percent of respondents said they were “very dissatisfied” with the president’s second term, and another roughly four percent said they were “somewhat dissatisfied.” The combined figure marked a slight dip from last year’s survey, when 96 percent of faculty expressed dissatisfaction with the Trump.Trump quickly zeroed in on Harvard after taking office in January 2025, attempting to pull nearly...

Stephen Adams tells the court he has spent nearly 2 years in jail with almost no contact from appointed counsel and says he still hasn’t seen the evidence against him. Judge Stevens reacts with disbelief and demands answers over the apparent breakdown in representation and due process.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On Sept. 18, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins a grateful nation in celebrating the 79th birthday of the United States Air Force and honoring the generations of airmen whose service and sacrifice have helped defend America at home and around the world.Born from the U.S. Army Air Forces, the Air Force was established on Sept. 18, 1947, with the signing of the National Security Act of 1947. In the nearly eight decades since, airmen have built a proud legacy of courage, innovation and excellence while answering the nation’s call in times of war and...

An illegal immigrant rideshare driver accused of sexually assaulting a teenage female passenger in Maryland has a history of sex abuse in New York, federal authorities said. Abdoulaye Dia, of Lanham, Maryland, was charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault and third-degree sex offense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. On Tuesday, Montgomery County Police officers were called to a hospital where an underage teen girl reported a rape. She told police she was raped by an Empower rideshare driver. Dia, a citizen of Guinea, took her to a parking lot in Silver Spring, where the alleged assault occurred....

He’s the Doogie Howser of the dorms! A 13-year-old Long Island whiz kid with an Einstein-level IQ has been accepted to NYU’s master program — after overcoming cancer and Tourette’s syndrome, according to school officials and his mom. Pint-sized prodigy Joe Petraro-Hyppolite plans to study sports medicine at the university next fall and will likely be the school’s youngest grad student ever, according to reports. “My IQ is 168,” Joe Petraro-Hyppolite, of East Rockaway, told CBS. “Whenever I tell people, it’s like, ‘Oh, Young Sheldon, Doogie Howser.’” By comparison, Albert Einstein’s IQ is believed to have been around 160, which...

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Friday that all 50 states along with Puerto Rico and DC have opted into his “most favored nations’’ drug-price initiative to lower prescription costs for Medicaid recipients. The president strong-armed 26 major pharmaceutical companies into enacting the special drug pricing for federal agencies to match the rates paid in eight other high-income nations, including Canada, Germany, Japan and the UK. “They all succumbed to the dollar,” Trump said of the US states and others who have now joined what he called his “GENEROUS” initiative, passing along the cost saving to state-administered Medicaid programs covering roughly...