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Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone. After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off...

SEATTLE - Two bins of undelivered ballots were found inside a dumpster at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, King County Elections confirmed. What we know: Officials said they recovered multiple ballots after two bins of mail were discovered inside a dumpster at Golden Gardens this week. Election workers have since reissued the mail-in ballots to the affected voters. King County Elections reported the incident to the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which are currently investigating the matter.

🚨 BOOM: The New York Times just had to pull 15 midterm polls after the "pollster" behind them ADMITTED almost all of it was FAKE. The firm is called Wedgewood Polls. It pumped out made-up numbers from June to October, and the Times put them right on its official poll tracking pages. The Times says it vetted them first. Wedgewood's own words on how easy it was to fool the media: "Far too easy." This is the same paper telling you which polls to trust. Trump has been saying it from day one. Now they're proving it for him.

We don’t watch a lot of television in our home anymore. Especially Disney. And there’s a good reason. The entire entertainment industry has departed from its seemingly harmless mission of turning us into couch potatoes and making us laugh. It has now become our primary catechism for moral and spiritual formation. And Disney has become the high priest of this secular humanistic self-worship religion masquerading as innocent entertainment for children. “Coven Academy,” produced by Disney Kids & Family, opens October 1 and will reportedly follow teenage witches, warlocks, and a vampire at an elite magical boarding school. Disney’s “First Look”...

Horse-drawn carriages will be banned in New York City after the City Council approved a new bill Thursday that will end a Central Park tradition that’s endured for more than 150 years. The ban passed in a veto-proof 40-7 vote, with two council members abstaining – despite a last-minute attempt to amend the proposal and push the ban back in 2030. The ban will take hold on June 1, 2028 and outlaw horse-drawn carriages across all five boroughs. That means about 200 carriage drivers will see their livelihoods – and entire industry – vanish from the city without a trace...

The man arrested for allegedly using a sledgehammer to behead a Marine figure on an Iwo Jima monument near Quantico, Virginia, is a Mexican illegal alien and former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient who lost his status this year, federal sources told Fox News. Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, was charged with felony destruction of property, trespass with intent to damage property and felony injury to a monument.

Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano stands accused of damaging an Iwo Jima statue. Credit: Prince William County Police Department A Virginia man has been arrested after allegedly getting caught in an incredibly sickening act that betrays those who bled for our country during World War II. As InsideNoVa.com reported, Prince William County police officers responded to an incident involving the historic Iwo Jima monument in Quantico near Richmond Highway and Fuller Road. The statue is located roughly two miles from Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. Upon arrival, officers found a thug who has since been identified as 27-year-old Miguel Alonso...

The “real” name of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has been revealed in a federal court filing with an identical surname to that of her ex-husband — and rumored brother, The Post has learned. Prosecutors referred to the Minnesota Democrat as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” in a Wednesday filing in DC federal court, which officials and legal experts said was indicative of the evidence compiled so far in an immigration fraud investigation into the “Squad” rep. A source familiar with the investigation confirmed that Omar is not the congresswoman’s “real” last name, which was first reported by...

THE Duchess of Sussex’s estranged father Thomas Markle Snr is being investigated over a huge stash of child sex images after being reported to police by his own son. Meghan’s dad, 82, is alleged to have kept the sickening hoard at his home in the Philippines, where Thomas Jnr found it. Cops investigating the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged dad are now preparing to seize the evidence. Horrified Thomas Jnr, Meghan’s half-brother, reported their father to detectives in the Philippines after making the sickening find at his home in the city of Cebu. ...

U2 front man Bono is attacking Christians and Jews who have supported Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut wasteful and fraudulent government spending with the efforts of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The “With or Without You” singer insisted that you can’t be a real Christian or Jew if you support the spending cuts to government programs such as USAID and other programs that lavished billions of U.S. tax dollars on foreign nations. He made his latest comments on the New York Times sponsored The Interview podcast. “What Christian household, what Catholic household, what Jewish, religious...

Democrats are up in arms after a so-called polling firm that projected far-left candidates as strong contenders in several primaries admitted that it had fabricated its polling data.Wedgewood Polling, which billed itself as an election survey company, released a statement Tuesday night admitting it used "fabricated numbers" for an "experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities, lack of oversight, and overall low barrier to entry in the modern political polling industry."The group's polls were cited by Abdul El-Sayed's campaign amid a high-profile primary race against Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich. The nonpartisan polling aggregator Political...

The FBI has arrested and charged a 17-year-old boy from McKinney for planning to assassinate U.S. Representative Keith Self at an event last Saturday. Federal investigators said the juvenile was also planning to carry out a terrorist attack in North Texas on behalf of ISIS. The suspect was arrested on October 5 after acquiring a firearm, according to federal law enforcement sources. Sources tell WFAA that the 17-year-old had been radicalized recently and was being monitored by federal agents. The suspect remains in federal custody, and his name has not been publicly released. “Protecting our Constitutional Republic from radical Islam...

To defend a leftist politician who spoke in front of an upside-down American flag, Axios published a fake fact check claiming the video was “doctored” by AI and that, in reality, the flag was right side up.

WASHINGTON — Liberal Justice Elena Kagan sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s conservative majority Tuesday, saying it undermined democracy in a series of rulings, including several that have prompted a new wave of legislative map-drawing that has increasingly eliminated competitive districts. Kagan, who has dissented in those cases

An antibiotic morning-after pill has been shown to be effective for preventing STIs among gay men, but some doctors worry about antibiotic resistance. This story discusses STIs and their symptoms. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Research shows that a new morning-after pill for bacterial STIs is highly effective for gay men. A possible downside - it could lead to antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Note - this story mentions sexually transmitted infections and symptoms. KQED's April Dembosky reports from San Francisco. APRIL DEMBOSKY, BYLINE: Tyler Toler (ph) has had the trifecta of bacterial STIs - chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. TYLER TOLER: Itching, burning, leaking, not...

Former judicial discipline director Christopher Gregory triggers panic across the judiciary after filing confidential misconduct records revealing widespread corruption and multi-million dollar hush-money cover-ups.Link to ChatGPT Video Transcript SummarySummary: Alleged Judicial Corruption in ColoradoThe video alleges a long-running corruption scandal involving the Colorado Supreme Court, state judicial officials, and the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline. Its central claim is that senior officials concealed judicial misconduct, arranged a multimillion-dollar agreement with a former court administrator, and retaliated against an internal whistleblower.1. The alleged $2.75 million hush-money agreementMindy Macias, a former chief of staff for Colorado's judicial branch, was reportedly facing termination...

A Trump administration fraud task force has uncovered nearly $42 million in food stamp funds meant for needy families that were instead stolen to support criminal activities as well as the lavish lifestyle of a rapper with multiple arrests — including for repeatedly exposing himself to pee off his apartment balcony. Vice President JD Vance and members of the Departments of Justice and Agriculture held a press conference in Cincinnati Wednesday highlighting the cases involving more than 40 defendants operating schemes that bilked the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and related programs. “Two-hundred twenty thousand Americans could’ve eaten for the entire...

What should have been a moment of school pride has now sparked controversy, with a high school football game in Oregon drawing attention for all the wrong reasons. A confrontation involving two rival players has raised questions about sportsmanship, respect, and the lack of intervention from adults present at the scene.

Left-wing extremism and censorship are major problems on college campuses, with everyone from students to professors to administrators holding to one ideology and doing everything in their power to make conservatives — and conservative ideals — unwelcome on campus. At Florida's Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Daytona Beach, Florida, this extremism led to school officials blocking former Florida Congressman and retired Army Lt. Col. Allen West from speaking on campus. Students with Young America's Foundation (YAF) sought to host Lt. Col. West for an event promoting conservative values, and despite trying to follow the university's procedures, members of YAF say...

American liberals have long fantasized about how different life would be in ‘enlightened and tolerant’ Europe instead of having to deal with people they regard as knuckle draggers here at home. Well, a few got their chance and what they say should serve as a dire warning. Wired magazine spoke to several Americans who fled Trump’s America for the European continent about their experiences. Let’s just say the fantasy they were sold turned out to be a lie. A progressive woman going by “Annie” had noticed Americans on TikTok, Instagram, and Reddit bragging about how exciting life was in the...