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A new phase in India’s mineral development strategy is taking shape in the eastern state of Odisha, where exploratory studies have identified up to 20 metric tons of gold deposits across several districts. The discovery, led by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), marks the most significant gold find in the region to date and has triggered preparations for the state’s first public auction of a gold mining block. While modest by global standards, the reserves are seen as strategically relevant in a country that remains heavily reliant on gold imports, with annual volumes consistently exceeding 700 metric tons, according...

Even the greatest escape artists find there is one thing from which they cannot escape: death. Harry Houdini was no different. But what started as a seemingly clear-cut case of appendicitis evolved into a century-long mystery that is still argued over to this day. Was Houdini actually the victim of foul play? Houdini died nearly 99 years ago on Oct. 31, 1926. His death being on Halloween is the least mystical aspect of his case when you look at the many enemies he had made. Psychics, mediums, and spiritualists all had it out for Houdini, and there was plenty of...

Dictionary.com has named "67" (pronounced sik-sehh-vin) as the 2025 Word of the Year. Not joking. https://t.co/UXHZisA5Bw names ‘67’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. pic.twitter.com/VxpXjmeRFu— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 29, 2025A number has been named Word of the Year -- and it's not even allowed to be pronounced "sixty-seven." the alphabet finding out that a number won “word of the year” pic.twitter.com/ugfatdn70j https://t.co/KRKXt9cuok— wiLL (@willfulchaos) October 29, 2025You're supposed to do this when you say "67": I gotta send it over to Dictionary.com for an explanation for why they chose 67. But what does 67 mean? Perhaps the most...

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Missing a boarding time for a cruise ship could end up fatal. An 80-year-old Australian woman was discovered dead on a remote island after she was left behind by the cruise ship she was traveling on. The woman was hiking on Lizard Island with a group of other passengers, but was separated from the group after she decided to take some time to rest. The Coral Adventurer cruise ship ended up leaving the woman on the island, but returned several hours later to find her after she was discovered not to be on board. On Sunday, she was discovered dead....

The Soros clan, along with other family foundations of the liberal elite, Knight, MacArthur, Ford, Omidyar, and the Rockefellers, have announced that they’re teaming up to fight investigations by the Justice Department. While Alex Soros, George’s son, bragged that he would not give in, “over my dead body”, the presidents of the MacArthur and McKnight Foundations have declared that everyone needs to dust off their “crisis plans” and put their “legal teams on speed dial” ahead of a crackdown. What are they afraid of? The Unite in Advance coalition was formed so quickly by the big liberal grantmaking groups funding...

Chimpanzees are not “persons” capable of being “imprisoned” for purposes of habeas corpus. It’s not every day a court is asked whether chimpanzees have constitutional rights just like people do, but that was the novel question before a three-judge panel of the Michigan state court of appeals earlier this month. The answer, of course, was no. Chimpanzees are not “persons” in the eyes of the law, the appellate court held, denying the petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of seven chimps by the Nonhuman Rights Project, an advocacy group dedicated to securing legal rights for “nonhuman animals.” In fact,...

History shows that such leaders offload resentment onto their enemies. New York City is poised to elect Zohran Mamdani, a self-identified democratic socialist, as its next mayor. Mamdani has run a sophisticated campaign based in part on his intersectional identity as a Muslim immigrant and in part on promises cherished by progressive whites. Mamdani’s policy proposals are wrapped in slick advertising and catchy slogans, such as “Afford to live, afford to dream.” But his agenda is standard-issue socialism with hard-left cultural politics: free buses, government-controlled housing, platoons of social workers, and millions in funding for child sex-change operations. Such policies...

This is Not the Bee. All of those models are biological males. It's the UK, so I guess I'm not surprised. They could've just called them "Women Impersonators of the Year."

Summary: The video shows an interaction between an Arkansas Highway Police officer and a truck driver who was illegally parked and found mostly naked in his truck (0:00-0:04). The officer attempts to question the driver, who struggles to understand and speak English (0:25-0:51). The officer then asks the driver to put on clothes and tries to get information about his log book and company (0:56-1:50). The video highlights the driver's inability to comprehend basic English commands and traffic signs (2:40-9:54). Despite possessing a driver's license, he cannot read or explain the meaning of signs like "trucks must enter weigh station,"...

The recent news cycle has showcased stunning examples of leftists earning near-constant ridicule as their fabrications blow up in their faces. The Left's moral posturing crumbles under even cursory scrutiny and reveals a consistent pattern of hypocrisy, fabrication, and embrace of extremism. References to pots and kettles, glass houses, specks, beams, rakes, and petards are all getting a workout, and it's glorious to behold. Conservatives are basking in schadenfreude, needing only videos of Democrats performing perp walks to make our joy complete. New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani claimed his hijab-wearing aunt faced Islamophobic harassment on the subway post-9/11, and tried...

As the clock ticks down the last days before the 2025 elections, we’re hearing more calls for the GOP and conservatives in general to intervene in the NYC election to prevent Zohran Mamdani from being elected mayor. What we don’t hear is an answer to the question of why? Why, exactly, should the GOP and the MAGA movement waste time, effort, and political capital to prevent the Democrats from throwing themselves off the cliff? Why write another chapter in the never-ending saga of Republicans pulling Dem chestnuts out of the fire and the getting kicked in the face immediately afterward?...

As all good true believers know, the only reason that Socialism has thus far always failed in practice is that real Socialism has never yet been implemented. And thus we have my home town of New York, until now the world capital of capitalism, about to put into office a self-proclaimed Socialist, or maybe Communist, to give Socialism just one more shot. How could large numbers of seemingly intelligent people believe that this could work? One reason is a remarkable lack of news coverage of the economic status and trajectory of the places that avowedly practice Socialism. My mission here...

“Protests are meant to be the voices of the unheard. Yet these protests are the voices of those who never shut up.” — Unnamed Observer of No Kings, reported by Roger Kimball. Over the weekend, you might have noticed, the Portland, OR, police cleared out the Antifa encampments down around the city’s ICE facility, carted away their lavish riot supplies, and warned them not to congregate on the street there. For now, anyway. Hmmmm. . . . Why do you suppose that happened? Antifa has been rioting freely around federal buildings in Portland since the Summer of Floyd, 2020. Did...

Sapir Cohen and Sasha Troufanov were two of the Israelis seized on October 7, 2023, and taken to Gaza. Sapir was released after 55 days, and Sasha was released after 498 days. Sapir spent almost all her imprisonment in the tunnels, while Sasha spent half of his imprisonment above ground and half below, almost entirely in solitary confinement. Yesterday, they spoke at our local Chabad synagogue, and what they said is worth sharing. Sapir and Sasha are both tech people (he actually worked for Amazon). They met on a dating app, although Sapir had decided on October 6, as they...

A message from Zohran Mamdani to the Jewish community of New York City X video

It won’t catch any fish, but the discovery of as many as 20,000 silver coins and pieces of jewelry dates back to the early Middle Ages. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A fisherman digging for worms at his summer home in Sweden instead discovered over 13 pounds of buried silver treasure. The hoard comes from the early Middle Ages, and includes mostly coins (and some jewelry). The entire cache of silver was tucked inside a copper pot. A Swedish fisherman searching for gooey, juicy worms to use as bait near his summer home near Stockholm instead...

UFC heavyweight Tom Aspinall’s vision has been severely impacted after he suffered an injury Oct. 25 in a match-up against Ciryl Gane at UFC 321. Andy described his son’s troubling condition. “His right eye can’t — still can’t see anything. Said it’s just gray. [Doctors] tested him on words and he just couldn’t see anything,” he said. “His left eye 50%. He went about four letters [down the chart] and then couldn’t see letters. So, one’s really, really blurry — and one’s still not working.” Andy told ESPN on Sunday that Tom narrowly avoided “bone damage” to the region but...

The account "EBT of TikTok" has dozens of videos of entitled Americans complaining that YOU, the taxpayer, aren't feeding them in addition to your own struggling family. Let's start with a woman who says she would have aborted her kids if she knew she wouldn't get food stamps. Look at this next guy, who is wearing a nice hoodie in a nice car while he threatens violence if he can't get some of YOUR tax dollars to shove food down his gullet. [Warning: Language] ALL VIDEOS AT LINK................... Dude looks like he drives a newer car than me! Next, there's...

The rates, pricing and other data for 2026 Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance plans were publicly posted on the federal Healthcare.gov marketplace on Wednesday, just three days ahead of the start of open enrollment. The health research nonprofit KFF said the average increase in premiums for ACA plans will be 26 percent next year, based on data for “benchmark” silver plans, which are the midtier plans in each region that most people purchase and are used to set the subsidy amounts. But KFF found the amount that people pay for coverage is set to rise 114 percent on average because...