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A discovery buried deep beneath a remote mountainside in Turkey could offer a new clue in the centuries-old search for Noah's Ark.Researchers investigating the Durupınar Formation near Mount Ararat recently announced that pieces of charred wood were found about 30 feet below the surface.Now, the first photographs of the fragments have been released, revealing blackened, cracked wood with visible grain patterns and markings that researchers believe may have been made by ancient tools. Archaeologist Dr Cenker Atila told FOX News: 'One of the wooden pieces clearly shows signs of human workmanship. 'Its surface appears to have been slightly shaped and...

President Trump on Sunday said his deportation policies might have been “too tough” and contributed to the GOP’s historic losses in this year’s elections. CBS News’s Ross Douthat asked the president on “60 Minutes” if his immigration policy lost his party the midterms. “I think it both helped and hurt,” Trump responded. “I think I got an A-plus for closing up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, but I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs that created one violation for breaking of the law, that was what they...

The young male voters who helped propel President Donald Trump back into the White House in 2024 delivered a devastating rebuke to Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections, abandoning the GOP amid mounting frustration over the Iran War, economic struggles, and the growing perception that Washington has betrayed the America First agenda. New exit polling reveals a dramatic political reversal among younger Americans, particularly men under 45, who played a critical role in Trump’s historic comeback just two years ago. The collapse has raised serious questions about whether Republican leaders understood the coalition that elected Trump in the first place,...

During an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast released Friday, a former adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy warned the free market may be at stake if the nation does not reform its institutions. “Are we at a time right now where it feels like we’re just going to be status quo for the next four years?” former Kennedy adviser Calley Means told host Joe Rogan. “I’m worried about socialists taking over because I think unless the Republican Party actually has an anti-corruption plan to actually fix this, Americans are going to vote for a...

Alyona’s waters broke in her hometown of Kramatorsk, 10km from the front line. The city has no functioning maternity ward, so an ambulance took her to Sloviansk, a short drive under a canopy of anti-drone netting. Complications then forced her to make an hours-long trip to Kharkiv, where on October 8th she gave birth to a son. That hospital had its dangers too: during air raids mothers and newborns are rushed to a bunker. But it was safer than Kramatorsk, where on the same day a Russian bomb killed 30 people.

Russia quickly adopted, mass-produced and frequently adapted the Iranian-designed Shahed attack drone during its war against Ukraine. But it took the United States about three years to deploy its own version of the drone, Ryan said. “The technology was equally available to all. What differed was institutional speed,” Ryan wrote in the assessment, titled “Fast Following: Military Emulation and Twenty-First-Century Transformation.” The report says the ability to copy an enemy’s innovations could prove as important as inventing new military technologies. During the war, Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly borrowed each other’s drone tactics. For example, Ukraine quickly adopted fiber-optic drones...

Police kept access to Flock’s vast surveillance system long after they left the force. Some used it to track the locations of romantic partners.When Andrae Wright left his job as an investigator at the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office in 2021, he handed in his gun and badge. But he kept something powerful: his log-in credentials for Flock, a police tool he used to search a vast network of roadside cameras tracking the locations of passing cars. In the five years after leaving the force, Wright searched the system more than 60 times without being stopped by anyone at the Georgia...

It was a real head of state. An Egyptian farmer allegedly struck gold after inadvertently coming upon the remains of a royal statue of Ramses II — the pharaoh who allegedly challenged Moses in the Bible. The watershed discovery was set in motion after a villager reportedly uncovered a carved stone block while tilling the land in front of his home in Behbeit El Hagar, in Gharbia province, the Egyptian Gazette reported. He reportedly flagged the local antiquities officials, after which a team working for the Supreme Council of Antiquities launched an excavation, according to Heritage Daily. What they exhumed...

This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 10th of October 2026 0:00 — 👋 Intro: Key events of the last 12 hours 0:13 — 💰 Deal of the year: US to buy 3M tons of russian diesel 1:24 — 📈 $4.5B revenue for russia; sanctions license until April 2027 2:29 — 🚀 Russian markets skyrocket; oil hits $129 per barrel 3:24 — ⚖️ A win-win-lose deal — and Zelensky is furious 4:16 — 🚨 Zelensky's ultimatums hours before the deal 5:21 — ⛽ Ignoring Trump 6 times: 4–5 refineries & 2 data centers hit in October 7:18...

President Trump calls for Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be replaced: “I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president”

Donald Trump agreed to buy diesel from Vladimir Putin after Volodymyr Zelensky ignored his requests to stop bombing Russian oil refineries, sources have said. Mr Trump announced on Friday that Putin would "immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace", followed by another 1.5 million tons before the end of the year. The US president is facing pressure from voters over the cost of fuel before November's midterms as diesel prices have soared around 70 per cent since he launched a war against Iran. On Friday, a gallon of diesel cost $6.28, up...

I created this cool app to explain inflation to my kids. I used 1957, the year of my birth. According to the CPI $1 of goods in 1957 cost nearly $12. But look at housing, gold, silver, the Dow, the S&P 500. You will be shocked as I was and this has been my business for 16 years. www.DollarTimeMachine.com

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...

Researchers have begun drilling into a mysterious, boat-shaped formation in the mountains of eastern Turkey, hoping an underground robot will unearth the answer to one of biblical history’s biggest mysteries. Members of the Noah’s Ark Scans expedition believe the Durupinar formation, located in eastern Turkey near Mount Ararat, could mark the final resting place of the vessel described in Genesis. “Good morning from the outer rims of Noah’s ark,” the project’s marketing and fundraising director, divisive Christian activist Lauren Witzke, wrote in a Tuesday update. “Core drilling has begun and the big bang evolutionists are already in damage control mode,”...

Jimmy Corsetti@BrightInsight6·1hHere’s why the Durupinar Formation is the most compelling location of Noah’s Ark:1) Virtually the EXACT same length2) 26 Drogue (boat anchor) stones found in vicinity3) Located in the EXACT place described in the Bible📍WHY Archaeologists are SO against it:1) It would validate the Bible2) Confirmation of the Great Flood and/or Noah’s Ark would require Textbooks to be completely rewritten3) Countless archaeologists, historians, professors, and so-called “experts” will permanently lose all credibilityThey desperately want this to be debunked.The most comprehensive Scientific testing of this site is at last underway, the results haven’t even been published. YET, the naysayers are...

The auto industry has a new solution to Americans’ fear that electric vehicles will run out of juice: a gasoline engine.

Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party are dismantling democratic Hungary as we have known it since 1990. A large crowd attends a demonstration organised by the former government party-coalition Fidesz–KDNP (Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance and the Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) to protest against the 17th amendment to Hungary’s constitution, in front of the Sándor Palace in Budapest on July 9, 2026. - ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP I belong to the generation that brought about genuine regime change in Hungary. I had the privilege of being part of the overthrow of the communist regime, when, in 1990, after decades...

Back on the Menu? Why a Horrible Little Insect Could Jeopardize RFK Jr’s Quest to Heal America With Red MeatTens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of Americans may now have a meat allergy.Back in January, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did something amazing, something I and many others had been hoping he would do. He turned the food pyramid on its head. Or, rather, he turned it the right way up—finally, at long last.“For decades Americans have grown sicker while healthcare costs have soared,” Kennedy told the assembled press at the White House.“The reason is clear: The hard truth is...

Will President Trump's trade policies lay the foundation for a new Bretton Woods system, or will Beijing's economic model continue reshaping the global order? n this episode, Mike Steger examines the growing economic confrontation between the United States, Canada, Europe, and China, arguing that the real battle is not simply about tariffs, but between two competing visions of civilization. From China's strategy of dominating global manufacturing through subsidized exports to President Trump's effort to revive the American System and establish a new international economic order, Mike explains why the future of global development may hinge on rebuilding the principles that...

Iran has managed to rebuild a significant amount of infrastructure destroyed during its war with the US and Israel in recent months, ranging from bridges to missile bases, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The report, based on a review of satellite imagery, suggested that the speed at which Tehran is restoring its damaged capabilities is the reason why it is continuing to hold its own against the US after hostilities renewed earlier this month over disputes relating to the Strait of Hormuz. One set of satellite images showed that an access road leading to an Iranian missile base...