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The Wuppertal Suspension Railway, which opened on 1 March 1901 has glided above the Wupper River for 125 years and now carries over 80,000 passengers every day, according to Mayor Miriam Scherff. She says its suspended technology offers a fast, environmentally friendly link between districts along a 13-kilometre stretch of narrow valley.

The Trump administration's recent effort to bring the law down on Rep. Ilhan Omar could go as far as seeking to strip the Minnesota congresswoman of her citizenship for alleged immigration fraud. But a criminal investigation is unlikely to yield the results the president wants, according to a former federal prosecutor. Michael Wildes, an immigration attorney, told Fox News Digital that investigators face a "very high bar" to build a case against Omar after White House border czar Tom Homan confirmed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is conducting a "criminal" investigation against the progressive "Squad" member. It all stems...

What is the progress of the White House Ballroom? I tried to look it up with google (cough) and while it said "As of August 2026, construction of the new White House ballroom is reported as roughly 65% complete, the only pictures that the internet shows are of the demolition at the site. Hasn't something (65%) been built by now? Could someone please post some pictures?

A Congressional Research Service study last year discovered that at the very minimum, the Obama administration had spent a total of $4.4 billion on outside advertising contracts between fiscal 2009 and 2013, including $892.5 million in the final year. That total didn’t include other in-house advertising and promotional activities that could greatly add to the total cost. The biggest spenders in 2013 included the Department of Defense ($419 million), HHS ($197.4 million), the Department of Education ($128.8 million) and the Department of Veterans Affairs ($61.8 million). According to the CRS figures extracted from the Federal Procurement Data System, here is...

Officials are currently working with public relations firms Weber Shandwick and Porter Novelli under contracts worth more than $50 million in all in order to prepare for the open enrollment period. Republicans have criticized the administration’s promotional spending for ObamaCare, arguing that it misuses taxpayer money.

Chanel Rion OAN@ChanelRion·21hThey say keeping CNN out is “viewpoint discrimination.”In 2020, DOJ told them inviting me — even based on viewpoint — is not a First Amendment violation.I am the OAN reporter in this letter.WHCA kicked OAN out of the rotation. Roped off my chair. Made me stand in the back.Then Brian Karem’s lawyer screamed that Stephanie Grisham inviting me as her guest was unconstitutional.DOJ’s answer, on White House letterhead:- The briefing room is White House property.- The club’s seating chart is a practice the Press Secretary “merely acquiesced” in.- Special access to a particular reporter is not a First...

Mr. Will Johnson@WillTheRealDeal·15hWhy is it a problem for a free Black man to love his country? Why would people go out of their way because a Black man decided to think independently?Have you noticed that White Conservatives are the ones who want Black people to succeed, not the socialist left? Everything I’ve said is true, and many of you can’t help but say hateful things.I’m never going back! Let that sink in.

Larry Alex Taunton@LarryTaunton·22hPassing time in a tightly packed airport coffee shop recently, I ended up in conversation with a thirty-something couple sitting only inches from me. I was coming from Mexico City and they were going there. After the usual banter, I asked where they were from and learned they were New Yorkers moving out of that city. They didn’t offer a reason and I didn’t press for one.They asked me what I did for a living and I explained that I was a writer currently investigating how cartels were smuggling people into the US. I say I was chatting...

Sayer Ji@sayerjigmi1/ 86% of Americans told the Washington Post they want every Epstein file released.Nearly 3.5 million pages already are. But the problem is that almost no one has read or thoroughly evaluated them.I’ve spent nine months reading them, with my team. Here is what’s in the public record, with the documents:Sep 27, 2026 Sayer Ji@sayerjigmi·Sep 272/ The files are not mainly a story about one man’s crimes, though those are documented and monstrous.They show finance, philanthropy, science, and state power operating as one, with a convicted predator at the switchboard for a decade after his 2008 conviction.My primary conclusion...

https://x.com/laralogan/status/2104417902866673771 Lara Logan@laralogan·15hHave you have ever wondered what they are hiding when you see a document that has been redacted? Well you’re about to find out & in this case its as bad as it gets. In her new book, “The Grand Conspiracy, How Obama weaponized the Deep State to destroy Donald Trump”, Svetlana Lakhova, @RealSLokhova, reveals what was redacted in Peter Strzok’s notes when he was Dep Director of Counter Terrorism for the FBI. He made these notes as he was being briefed by his boss, then FBI Director James Comey who was at the meeting on January 5th...

Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive1.) A House Democrat filed 26 articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday. Then a different Democrat went on NBC Sunday morning and told you, out loud, which Republican he does this with. 💎🧵 Sep 28, 2026·Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·5h2.) The filing is Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, House Judiciary, September 24. Twenty six articles. His own press release calls Trump "the most impeachable President our country has ever endured." Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·5h3.) The articles read like a wish list. Sowing doubt in elections. Waging war on Iran without Congress. Extrajudicial killings in international waters off Venezuela. Deploying...

FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey resigned after one year on the job, according to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and MSNOW. Andrew Bailey had been overseeing election matters. Last August, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel tapped then-Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to serve as Co-Deputy Director of the FBI. It is unclear why Bailey resigned. Later Monday morning, Andrew Bailey thanked President Trump, AG Blanche and Kash Patel for the opportunity to serve in the FBI. "I want to thank President Trump, AG Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel for the opportunity...

Christian@InTheTrenchesUK·7hTHIS MORNING. RAF FAIRFORD. 00:45.A pensioner called 999. Not MI5. Not GCHQ. A villager spotted three suspicious vans heading toward a US bomber base and dialled 999.Five men arrested under the Explosives Act, then upgraded to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act: preparation of a terrorist act. Three vans. 85 homes evacuated at 1.30am. Army bomb disposal robot inside a 400-metre cordon. Counter Terrorism Policing now leading. Major incident declared.The operation was not intelligence-led. A resident made a phone call. That is what stopped it.The IRGC already told you this was coming.In July 2026, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued...

Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·5hThe artillery crew warned him that the coordinates he had just given them were his own position. German soldiers were surrounding them and the American troops were retreating.He and his observer team stayed behind.His final message over the radio was: "Fire it! There's more of them than there are of us. Give them hell!"This is the story of John R. Fox..1/5 Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·5hThe artillery crew warned him that the coordinates he had just given them were his own position. German soldiers were surrounding them and the American troops were retreating.He and his observer team stayed behind. His...

QThestorm@17QStorm·4hOz just explained how Obamacare stays rigged.“You could be a billionaire and get Obamacare.”The statute says the subsidy stops at four times poverty. A Maryland court just blocked CMS from checking the tax returns that would prove it.Oz says the shop doing it a Democratic-aligned lawfare group he believes is Soros-funded has sued them 150 times on these rules. They just won the income check.Biden judge. The “file and reconcile” rule is frozen with it, so exchanges cannot even cut off people who never filed a return. Fourth Circuit is set for October.Last Tuesday they dumped more than 760,000 phantom...

President Donald Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping if he would like to buy American weapons during the communist politician’s three day trip to the States last week, according to U.S. Ambassador to China David Purdue. The ambassador shared the surprising news during an interview on Fox News Sunday with anchor Shannon Bream. “President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.’ He actually asked President Xi if he would like to buy some, at one point,” Purdue said. The comment came as he defended Trump’s relationship with Taiwan, with Purdue arguing Trump has...

Susan Kokinda@SusanKokindaaParody account2 Trump Just Cracked Iran After 47 Years-1 #trend #flyp: #top #foryou #viral #trendingNOTES AND QUOTES BEGIN~~~Susan Kokinda: ....that is not Lindsay Graham's regime change, and Donald Trump made that very clear in an aside at the G7 summit.At the G7, Trump was asked what he would say to Republicans like Lindsay Graham who are sceptical of the MOU.Trump joked that he would have to talk to Graham, and that Lindsay would be 'in big trouble.'Kokinda notes that if Lindsay is skeptical about the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), you can only imagine what he thought of Trump's remarks...

Mike Netter@nettermike·16hFor those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:🚨mSo here's the REAL story:Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed...

President Donald Trump shared a fiery string of social media posts attacking Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) over a viral ad in which she accused the president of having “betrayed” Hispanic voters. In a series of posts on Truth Social late Saturday, the president amplified criticisms of Salazar and calls for her ouster from Congress. “We need a NEW Republican to replace Salazar,” one user wrote in a post shared by Trump. “I guess she misread the tea leaves,” another Trump-boosted post read. “I should have voted for the guy who primaried her,” a third Trump-shared post said. Salazar claimed...