Abare-bones recap of the past couple of decades in the American daily newspaper orbit makes it impossible to feel sympathy for the journalists now losing their jobs in the era of AI. Intensely biased leftist reporters and editors so completely alienated the vast majority of the public that once-thriving publications became financially unsustainable. They then turned to big-pocketed billionaires and well-heeled corporate conglomerates to shield them from this uncomfortable economic reality. And now they are discovering that these would-be sugar daddies won’t happily sustain endless losses in the name of a “social conscience” that placates their personal political orientations.

In early September, “dozens of reporters with at least 17 McClatchy newspapers from coast to coast – including the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star and the Sacramento Bee – were laid off as the company pivots toward lifestyle content written by artificial intelligence chatbots,” Straight Arrow News (SAN) reported Sept. 17.

The article implies that this represents a major loss for the American people. Multiple references to Pulitzer Prizes follow in the next two paragraphs, further compounding the assumption. Journalists just can’t understand that the same tens of millions of people who have tuned them out have long since stopped regarding a Pulitzer as a prestigious honor.

AI News as Corporate Hellscape

The article does acknowledge the dire state of the industry. “Newspapers nationwide have struggled for decades, and some 40% of all local US newspapers have closed shop in the past decade, including more than 130 outlets in the last year alone,” SAN wrote. Medill’s latest State of Local News report, however, states that the nearly 40% decline occurred over two decades, starting in 2005.

SAN also does a fine job of correctly identifying the mediocre (at best) nature of AI news.

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Every once in a while, a set of numbers starts bouncing around social media that makes you stop scrolling and go, “Wait… is that actually true?”

Well, here we are.

A viral post breaking down SNAP, Medicaid, and federal income taxes by race has been a hot topic on X for reasons that are pretty obvious once you see the numbers.

According to the post, 24.9 percent of Black households receive SNAP compared with 18.5 percent of Hispanic households, 8.5 percent of Asian households, and just 7.9 percent of White households. The Medicaid numbers follow a similar pattern, while the federal income tax figures suddenly swing dramatically in the opposite direction.

On its face, that’s one helluva contrast.

So…

Households on SNAP:

Black: 24.9%
Hispanic: 18.5%
Asian: 8.5%
White: 7.9%

People on Medicaid:

Black: 29.0%
Hispanic: 29.6%
Asian: 17.4%
White: 12.9%

Estimated Federal Income Tax Paid:

Black: 6%
Hispanic: 8%
Asian: 10%
White: 75%

Telling…

Those numbers definitely tell a story… they just don’t tell the same kind of story, and if you’re a regular Revolver reader, you know we like to dive in and see what’s really going on… and in this case, it got pretty interesting.

The SNAP and Medicaid figures are real enough to track down. In fact, the Economic Policy Institute recently published virtually those exact numbers using Census Bureau data from 2023.

For Medicaid, the breakdown looked like this.

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This isn’t the first time Democrats and the media have manufactured a lynching panic where none existed.

Rep. Shontel Brown looked into her phone camera earlier this month and told the country that black Americans are being lynched at an alarming rate. “In the last year, there’s been an alarming increase in Black Americans found dead hanging from trees,” the Ohio Democrat said. “We know what that has meant throughout our history.”

She’d also joined Rep. Ayanna Pressley and 58 House colleagues in a letter demanding the Department of Justice and FBI investigate what Pressley called a “national crisis” of modern-day lynching.

Here’s the problem: There’s no evidence behind the claim. A 21-year-old found in a Georgia park: effectively ruled a suicide, with no evidence anyone else was present. A Delta State University student in Mississippi: suicide. A 16-year-old in Charlotte: suicide, according to police.

One case in Kentucky remains an open homicide investigation, and it deserves one. But one confirmed homicide under investigation is not a national crisis of racial terror. Local law enforcement has said the homicide is drug-related and the hanging was “staged;” moreover, the suspects in custody are both black. As actor Dean Cain, who played Superman on 1990s television, bluntly pointed out: Brown is “inventing racism.”

This isn’t the first time Democrats and the media have manufactured a lynching panic where none existed. In 2021 a jury convicted Jussie Smollett of five counts of disorderly conduct for paying two men $3,500 to fake a hate crime in Chicago, complete with a rope around his neck — a verdict the Illinois Supreme Court later threw out in 2024 on a narrow double jeopardy question, not because it found the underlying facts in doubt.

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage stall turned out to have a pull rope tied like a noose since before his team was ever assigned that garage, a fact the FBI confirmed after reviewing video nobody bothered to check before the story went national. In 2023, three people staged a cross burning in front of a black mayoral candidate’s campaign sign in Colorado Springs and emailed the footage to news outlets, and got federal convictions for it. A University of La Verne student allegedly manufactured a slew of racist threats against herself and her own student group, canceling classes, before police traced the messages back to her.

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To summarize the Democrat Party’s current strategy on immigration, here is essentially how it works:

Whenever in power, they create billions in incentives and subsidies to entice third world migrants to flood the US en masse.  With open borders and amnesty programs, moving 10 million or more illegals at a time into the country is easy and fast.  When out of power, they use lawfare and political obstruction to prevent deportations and slow down the process.

In other words, make immigration easy and remigration nearly impossible.  Stall for four years, regain power during the next election while pro-deportation constituents whine and complain about the president “not doing enough”, then repeat the process all over again.  Under the current system, it would take three full conservative presidential terms or more to undo what Democrats did in a single term.  That is the play they are relying on.

From 2017 to 2024, the Trump Administration faced 64 nationwide injunctions on immigration and deportation policies; 92% of them came from judges appointed by Democrat presidents.

From 2025 to today, Trump has been blocked at least 86 times by activist judges nationwide or class-wide injunctions and major program pauses.  To put this in perspective, nationwide injunctions were extremely rare through the 20th Century.  Starting in 2000, the numbers increased, but nowhere near the level Trump has dealt with.

George W Bush had only 6 injunctions from Democrat judges. Barack Obama had 12 injunctions from Republican judges.  Biden had 28 injunctions (largely because of his efforts to expand pandemic controls and enforce vaccine mandates).

It is undeniable – The bureaucracy is being abused as a way to stop Trump from enacting normal policy decisions on immigration.  This forces the White House to exploit every legal loophole available just to get anything done in the next couple of years.

Enter the “recission” method…

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Weak oversight of community group contracts awarded after George Floyd’s death created risk of improper payments

As Minnesota’s massive fraud problems continue to gain nationwide attention, an audit is now sounding the alarm about potential fraud in a new area in the state related to contracts doled out by the city of Minneapolis in response to the death of George Floyd.

More than 100 contracts were handed out to community groups as alternatives to policing in 2020 and the lax oversight of those contracts, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune report, was found by an audit to be susceptible to fraud and favoritism.

The new Neighborhood Safety Contract Management Audit Report, which reviews spending from 2020-2025, shows the city is “not providing sufficient contract oversight or managing contracts effectively” in order to properly manage the more than $36 million that has been spent since 2023 on five major violence-prevention programs.

The report warns that Minneapolis’ weak contract controls created a heightened risk of fraud and improper payments. Auditors found contractors often submitted invoices with limited supporting documentation, while the city sometimes continued making payments despite missing records or unresolved concerns. The department is also said to have lacked a standardized process for conducting and documenting site visits to verify that contracted services were actually being performed.

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A flash flood emergency was issued in New Mexico over “imminent failure” of the McLeod Dam.

People along Garfield and Salem in southern New Mexico were advised to immediately seek higher ground.

The emergency advisory is in effect until 4:45 pm local time.

Hurricane Polo slammed into New Mexico after it was downgraded to a tropical depression.

Heavy rains and winds gusts up to 60 mph battered New Mexico on Tuesday.

KOB reported:

A flash flood emergency has been issued over the “imminent failure” of the McLeod Dam in southern New Mexico, operators and county officials say.

The dam is in northwestern Doña Ana County. The emergency is in place for a dam break on the McLeod Arroyo below the dam. It’s in effect until 4:45 p.m., after operators and officials reported the imminent failure of the dam at 1:47 p.m.

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Flock’s CEO was a no-show Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, where a Florida woman described being sent to jail after police, using a Flock license plate camera, erroneously accused her of being the driver in a fatal car crash.

Lindsey Isaacs said she was sent to solitary confinement for her first three days, forced to wear suicide-watch garments, and driven to the depths of despair — all while knowing she was innocent of the accusations.

She said her black Dodge Durango was captured by a Flock camera several miles from the crash site, and authorities focused on her as the suspect even though her vehicle lacked any collision damage and 911 callers had reported a maroon Durango with a different license plate.

Despite those inconsistencies, she was arrested, denied bond and sent to solitary confinement because of the severity of the charges.

“The cell door was shut, and it was not opened for approximately 86 hours,” she told the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism, tearing up as she recounted the start of a 13-day ordeal in jail.

She was eventually released on bond, and prosecutors dropped the case, instead charging someone else with the accident that claimed three lives.

Senators invited Ms. Isaacs to lead off the hearing, which explored the expansion of license plate readers — with Flock as the most prominent player — and the growing public backlash.

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America’s Mayor just said the quiet part out loud.

Former New York City Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani dropped a series of explosive allegations Saturday night during the American Martyrs premiere in West Palm Beach, Florida, telling moderator Lara Logan that by the time he went to bed on January 6, 2021, he believed he knew exactly what had happened.

Giuliani said he did not need Liz Cheney’s television committee, an Obama-era prosecutor, or four years of cable-news sermons to understand January 6.

“It was a very unusual experience for me because, let me begin by telling you, by the time I went to sleep on the evening of January 6th, I knew exactly what was going on,” Giuliani told Logan. “I knew exactly that it was a fixed operation.”

Logan pressed him on the security failures that left the Capitol wide open, the same failures The Gateway Pundit has documented for years while the corporate press screamed “insurrection” and ignored the stand-down.

She told Giuliani she called his former NYPD police commissioner, Bernard Kerik — the 9/11-era commissioner who later worked the 2020 election files with Giuliani — and asked him a simple law-enforcement question, stripped of politics:

If you wanted to secure the Capitol that day, what would you have done?

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A migrant caravan is marching toward the US border ahead of the midterm elections.

More than 400 aliens from the Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday en route to the United States, Reuters has confirmed.

At least two NGOs are funding this caravan.

According to independent reporter Anthony Aguero, “Proyecto Faro and ADRA” are the two main NGOs assisting the migrant caravan:

A parent’s first duty is not complicated. It is to love a child, form a child’s character, and prepare that child to be a productive member of society.

Schools exist to help with that work by teaching children. They do not exist to replace it.

That distinction is now under pressure. In some academic circles, a new language has taken hold. Adults are recast as “oppressors.” Children are recast as “the oppressed.” Ordinary parental guidance—to wait for mature intimacy, dress with dignity, respect the rules of the house—is treated as a kind of tyranny called “adultism.” Once that frame is accepted, the family is no longer the first school. It becomes the problem schools seek to correct.

This is not an argument against teaching history, culture, or justice. Children should learn the full American story: its sins along with its astonishing capacity for self-correction. They should learn about other peoples—without being taught to sort the world into permanent camps of victims and villains.

Studies of non-Western cultures, at their best, can widen a student’s knowledge. At their worst, though, they are used as a ready-made story of grievance in which individualism is suspect, parents are obstacles, and the state becomes the guardian of the child.

Materials now circulating in teacher networks make this danger concrete. Tool kits offer plug-and-play lessons. Unions supply packets that fold current politics into the school day. Publishers follow the demand.

None of this requires secret meetings. It requires only a closed loop: activists write the framework, unions distribute it, publishers profit from it, and busy teachers are handed the path of least resistance. The child, meanwhile, is taught to see authority at home as something to be interrogated rather than trusted.

A free society cannot survive if that lesson is internalized. Children need parents who set limits. They need to learn to control themselves before someone teaches them to control the world. Healthy limits are not cruel; in reality, they help children grow into virtuous adults.

Sylvester Stallone did not dress it up. Asked whether a broke, slurred, unknown writer-actor could still fight his way to the top of Hollywood fifty years after Rocky, the man who wrote the picture and refused to sell it without starring in it gave the only honest answer left.

“No. It’s a whole different mindset. The actors look different, they act different. The subject matter, I couldn’t relate to,” he told Tracy Smith at 92NY on Monday. Then the shorter version. “No, I would be in trouble.”

That is not an old man waving a cane at the kids. That is the guy who built the last American underdog myth looking at the town that used to make those myths and admitting the shop is closed.

Try Casting The Godfather Now

Stallone did not stop at his own career. He put the whole factory on the table.

If you were going to make The Godfather today… try casting it.

He called it impossible. He also called the current ideology a different animal and said action itself now feels “kind of anachronistic.” Read that again. The man who gave you Rocky Balboa and John Rambo is telling you the industry no longer knows what to do with a story about a man who takes a beating and gets back up.

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A New York Times tech executive who was allegedly shot dead by his elderly in-laws in California was in a vicious war with them and his estranged wife for being transgender, according to court documents.

Jonathan McKinsey’s wife, Candice Jang, filed for a restraining order against him in 2025, and he replied by filing a restraining order of his own.

McKinsey claimed Jang had tried to pull medical tubes out of his body when he was transitioning from a woman to a man in 2010, the restraining order records, obtained by The Mercury News, said. The two married in 2011.

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The thing that never happens keeps on happening.

The vast majority of Americans of every race, sex and political orientation support voter ID. It’s the most common sense and no brainer idea ever.

And yet, Democrats oppose it because they claim that illegal voting isn’t a problem and voter ID will just ‘disenfranchise’ legal voters who can manage to get an ID when it comes to buying cough syrup, going on a plane, driving a car or entering a government building… but not for voting.

But the thing that never happens just keeps right on happening.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced charges against 16 people in multiple states in connection with alleged illegal voting, voter registration and other election-related crimes, including cases involving noncitizens accused of casting ballots in federal elections.

In a separate interview, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said a broader investigation was underway.

Mullin said officials have more than 1,620 open cases and have made 151 arrests. He also said authorities are looking into more than 300,000 suspected cases, a figure he said continues to grow.

Mullin asserted that “every single vote that was at the hands of an illegal [immigrant], canceled out a citizen that was legally registered and able to vote.”

“One is too many, but the fact that we have 300,000 cases we’re looking into right now and 1,620 cases that are under investigation, and 151 arrests is unacceptable,” Mullin said.

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Walmart’s digital labels won’t be used to manipulate prices based on time of day or customer.Jeffrey Greenberg/Getty Images

Walmart’s CEO is pushing back on rumors that the company’s electronic shelf labels are used for dynamic pricing and customer data collection.

Walmart’s CEO is pushing back on rumors that the company’s electronic shelf labels are used for dynamic pricing and customer data collection.

In a letter posted to the company’s website, Walmart President and CEO John Furner said he’d heard the concerns about the retailer’s change to digital shelf labels. Walmart launched digital labels in 2024 with the goal of having them in place nationwide by end of this year.

“A shelf price should match what rings up at checkout. Digital shelf labels help us do that more consistently by displaying the right price. They also save associates time replacing paper tags. It may sound like an easy task – but as someone who has had to change those paper tags by hand over the years, I can tell you it’s a time-consuming and unrewarding task. Our associates would much rather be helping you, our customers,” Furner wrote.

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Democrat New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigned on Friday.

Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill had hand-picked Caldwell for the job, but then ended up calling for him to resign after an investigation into allegations came out earlier this week .

“The investigation found that the lieutenant governor failed to uphold the responsibilities of his office, and he demonstrated a pattern of behavior that does not meet the standards of this administration,” Sherrill said during a news conference in Trenton. “The report documents serious, repeated violations of state policy, including ethical lapses and a substantiated finding of sexual harassment.

“I gave the lieutenant governor until today to resign. He submitted his resignation to me this afternoon, which I accepted.”

The report, released Thursday, alleged instances of ethics violations and sexual harassment, including seeking a promotion for a state employee he was dating and making an inappropriate comment to a female staffer.

Sherrill claimed, “The ethical lapses persisted despite multiple warnings and trainings.”

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Far-left globalist Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appears determined to destroy whatever is left of the close friendship his nation once held with the United States.

On Wednesday, Carney gave an exclusive interview to the leftist New York Times, where he detailed his vision for pulling Canada away from America.

Carney started with a startling revelation: he and his country have been prepared for potential military action with America for roughly a year, should Trump move toward a military invasion.

He took Trump’s threats of making Canada the 51st state seriously, and carefully examined the possibility of a U.S.-led military invasion. Carney declined to discuss in detail what that involved.

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Experts warn alleged AI misidentifications are increasingly leading to wrongful arrests as police adopt new technology

A Tennessee grandmother has filed a lawsuit against a North Dakota city and police department, accusing officials of wrongfully detaining her for nearly six months after allegedly misusing artificial intelligence facial recognition technology to investigate a bank theft case.

Angela Lipps, now 50, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, said she was caring for her neighbor’s four young children when police showed up at the home and arrested her at gunpoint in July 2025.

The complaint, filed Sept. 15, 2026, alleges that authorities relied exclusively on a flawed AI facial recognition match to extradite Lipps from Tennessee to North Dakota, despite her having no connection to the crime or the state.

Experts on police technology told Fox News Digital that the case is among more than a dozen known instances involving alleged police mishandling of facial recognition technology.

“I sat in a county jail in Tennessee for 108 days,” Lipps said in a GoFundMe post. “They said I was fugitive from justice. I had no bail. No one interviewed me. I just sat and waited.”

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President Donald Trump pitched an unconventional business proposition directly to Chinese leader Xi Jinping when he visited the White House last week: an invitation to purchase American military hardware.

The revelation came to light during a television interview on Sunday, courtesy of US Ambassador to China David Perdue.

‘President Trump continues to say, “Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.” He actually asked President Xi… would he like to buy some at one point,’ Perdue said on Fox News, without revealing any more details about the results of their conversation.

President Trump told reporters in the oval office today that Perdue was confusing Taiwan and China during his interview.

‘To China? You mean to Taiwan? I never heard of that…. No, the they probably like to buy it because we do make better equipment than that. Maybe it’s a good idea. But we didn’t discuss.’

Current law ‘prohibits arms sales to China,’ a State Department official told the Daily Mail.

In addition, a US official added there is no plan to sell any weapons to China, despite the ambassador’s shocking admission.

Perdue was also asked during the interview if there are concerns about the weapon and military aid for Taiwan that has been held up.

The US ambassador to China responded by saying that President Trump had greenlit $11 billion in arms sales to Taiwan last year and that there were ongoing conversations about other potential purchases.

‘He and President Xi talk about that every time they get together,’ Perdue told the Fox News host, adding that Trump argued that the US sells arms to other countries globally.

The notion of the White House dangling high-tech American weaponry before Beijing is nothing short of a seismic break with modern foreign policy.

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NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. As well as seeking to charm the local government with various funding packages, it has proposed paying checks of $10,000 per household. Despite the Pennsylvania town’s median income of $60,000, the offer isn’t being warmly welcomed by locals, reports the Wall Street Journal. Those interviewed were widely against the data center development plans and cited several reasons for being averse to accepting the payout. The major concerns regarded potential impacts on property values, the specter of noise pollution, and a distrust of both the AI moguls and local government representatives.

Offer letters began to be received by Hazle Township back in June. The WSJ recently talked to several residents about NorthPoint’s $10,000 offer. While some say the $10,000 would be handy, it couldn’t find many residents who were “eager to welcome the data center for the payout,” in the journal’s words. We’d point out that opinion polling can often be inaccurate, as what people say and what they do, voting-wise, doesn’t always line up.

Interviewees cited a number of key reasons for their data center development aversion. We distilled the following points from the source:

Traditionally, developers have offered towns and cities packages worth tens of millions, including funding for local services. But direct cash payments to residents represent a new phase of their charm offensive, the WSJ indicates. Perhaps the idea for the direct payments to residents came after “a raucous public meeting last year, where angry locals asked what they had to gain by supporting the data center,” ponders the source.

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Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor seeking to unseat Sen Roger Marshall, called on worshippers to reduce their carbon footprints

FIRST ON FOX: In Kansas, cows are king, but a Democrat trying to seize power once told his congregation to repent for eating beef and raising cattle.

Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee running to unseat Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in the Sunflower State, for years led the largest United Methodist church in the nation. He would give sermons that Marshall charged were “woke,” and counter to Kansans’ values.

One such sermon, reviewed by Fox News Digital, saw Hamilton call on his congregation to repent over their carbon footprints.

Senior pastor Adam Hamilton spoke during “Heritage” services at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in Wesley Covenant Chapel at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. (Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“That’s what repentance means — I saw things differently, it changed my heart, and it changed my behavior,” Hamilton said during a January 2020 sermon called, “What would Jesus say about climate change?”

“So what I’m calling you to today, and I’m calling myself to it, because I’ve been wasteful, I’ve done things that wasn’t, you know, I didn’t think about it, how it wasn’t really good stewardship of the earth around me,” he continued. “I’m calling us to repentance to say, ‘I realize that this has impact, even if it seems small, it has an impact on the world and future generations. And I feel badly about that, and I’m going to do something different from this time forward.’”

Despite Kansas’ 94-year history of being a ruby-red bastion for the GOP in the Senate, the race between Hamilton and Marshall has unexpectedly tightened in recent months as Republicans across the country face a sobering political environment.

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President Donald Trump has made millions from memecoins, but politicians in California don’t have that chance anymore.

On Sunday, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law that bans the state’s public officials from issuing memecoins, or cryptocurrencies representing a famous personality, internet joke or viral trend rather than a specific use case.

The measure, AB 2409, was signed along with 10 other bills on corruption and consumer protection. Others set rules for paying back crypto scam victims and creating a legal process to seize crypto from transnational criminal networks.

Newsom’s office titled the announcement “THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP,” accusing the Trump administration of corruption and self-dealing, including through the viral $TRUMP memecoin.

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Luckily, these jaws had no bite.

A shark was seen swimming in the nor’easter-flooded streets of New Jersey this weekend — but thankfully a “harmless” one without sharp teeth.

A local filmed the fish in the floodwaters in Surf City on Saturday, with video showing its dorsal fin poking through the surface near a woman’s driveway, according to the video obtained by ABC News.

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Britain now has more illegal Channel arrivals under the Labour government, which has been in power two years, than it has soldiers in the British Army.

Home Office figures put small-boat arrivals since Labour took office on 4 July 2024 at 83,279. The regular Army stands at 83,000.

On Wednesday alone, 781 people came ashore – the worst single day since Andy Burnham replaced Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister in July. The first three days of the week delivered 1,085 arrivals. Across 809 days of Labour government, that works out at roughly 103 people a day.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the milestone speaks for itself. “Labour has let an entire army-sized population cross the Channel illegally,” he said. “More people have arrived in small boats than we have soldiers defending Britain. That is completely bonkers. Labour has lost control of our borders and seems utterly incapable of getting it back.”

Former Royal Navy officer Chris Parry went further. Labour’s intake, he said, amounts to six-and-a-half divisions of fighting-age men. “That’s more divisions than were in the Allied assault wave on D-Day,” he added, calling the crossings “amphibious operations against our coast.”

The comparison is worse when the rest of the services are brought in. Labour’s small-boat total already sits 15,429 ahead of the Royal Navy and RAF combined, which together field 67,850 full-time personnel. And this is only the post-election slice. Under the Conservatives, around 128,000 people arrived by dinghy. Since records began in December 2018 the running total has blown past 200,000 – higher than the combined strength of the Army, Navy and RAF.

Writing in the Mail after more than 1,200 people crossed from Monday, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “It is utterly insane. And if it wasn’t clear before, the events of the past few days have proved beyond any reasonable doubt that both Border Force and the Home Office have completely lost control.”

He added: “Years ago, I warned the small boats crisis would define this era of British politics. Predictably, the chin-stroking commentariat declared I was exaggerating. Well, look where we are now.”

“Ordinary Britons rightly ask if successive governments cannot stop people from arriving illegally in broad daylight, let alone under cover of darkness without detection, then what exactly is the point of having a border?” Farage asked. His party wants the largest military operation in the Channel since the Second World War and a return of every illegal arrival to France.

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It was 20 years ago that Al Gore’s book “An Inconvenient Truth” was published, and … well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient — for Al and his band of apocalyptics.

I asked my team to use the AI chatbot ChatGPT as a referee in assessing the accuracy of the book’s scary and often-quoted conclusions.

It turns out ChatGPT is very diplomatic. Its overall conclusion was that “the fairest assessment is more nuanced than saying that ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was simply ‘wrong.'”

Instead we learn that over and over, on page after page, the former vice president’s “specific predictions and timelines were exaggerated or did not occur as presented.”

That we can all agree on. Here are some of the predictions and ChatGPT’s conclusions about their accuracy.

Claim: Kilimanjaro’s snow would disappear within a decade.

Truth: The mountain still has ice/snow, although its glaciers have shrunk.

Claim: Glacier National Park’s glaciers will disappear by 2020 or so.

Truth: No, they have not disappeared. Maybe his timing was just way off.

Claim: Sea levels could rise by about 20 feet.

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The U.S. government is $40,068,807,991,924.84 in debt, and all of a sudden the rest of the world has become a lot more hesitant to lend us money. Bond prices are crashing and rates are spiking. For years, I warned that our politicians were borrowing and spending way too much money. But those politicians just kept voting for budgets with bigger and bigger deficits.

Now we find ourselves in the middle of a financial nightmare with no way out. The same thing could be said about Japan and most nations in Europe. Globally, bond prices have been steadily plummeting as bond yields have skyrocketed. Unfortunately for all of us, financial institutions all over the planet are holding gigantic mountains of government bonds that have collapsed in value. The unrealized losses that they are potentially facing will be off the charts. Meanwhile, rapidly rising interest rates could set off an unprecedented derivatives implosion. At this point, the total notional amount outstanding for global over-the-counter interest rate derivatives is well over 600 trillion dollars.

As long as investors still had faith in the game, everything was going to be fine.

But now investors are losing faith in the U.S. government, the Japanese government and governments all over Europe, because they have been borrowing money at insanely reckless levels.

So now we have a massive crisis on our hands, and last week things really started to get out of hand.

In fact, last week was definitely “a week of pain” for financially irresponsible governments throughout the world…

This has been a week of pain for anyone who borrows money.

All over the world, lenders are demanding higher interest rates. The global bond market is extracting higher yields from every borrower, starting with the biggest borrowers of all: national governments. But not every government is paying equally.

Trustworthy borrowers with solid finances and honest leadership pay less. Distrusted borrowers with disordered finances and corrupt leaders pay more. In times past, the United States would have headed that first list.

In a previous article, I explained that historically when the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries hits 5.25 percent things start to get really crazy.

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The doctor nominated by President Trump to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told senators this week that vaccines available in the United States are safe and effective.

Dr. Heidi Overton, the nominee, said that if confirmed, she could use her scientific training and clinical background to describe to the American public what is currently known about products that fall under Food and Drug Administration oversight.

“And what is currently known is that the vaccines that have been approved by the FDA meet the standards for safety and efficacy,” she said.

Overton, 37, also endorsed the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, saying it is not lethal and that it is the best tool in the public health response to measles outbreaks that are ongoing in the United States.

She said that mifepristone, an abortion pill, was safe and effective because it had been approved by the FDA. Overton wrote in a 2023 article that chemical abortion through products such as mifepristone was “dangerous to women,” drawing criticism from Democrats in the Senate.

As Zachary Stieber reports further for The Epoch Times, Overton would take the helm of an agency that has been under acting leadership since Dr. Marty Makary stepped down in May.

While signing an executive order in August that encouraged breaking up the measles combination vaccine, Trump told reporters that the vaccine is possibly “quite lethal” and that separate shots for measles, mumps, and rubella appeared to be “not at all lethal but just very effective.”

When asked after the signing, the White House declined to provide any citations for Trump’s description of the vaccine.

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Iowa Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rob Sand said he would oppose efforts to restrict books about homosexuality and transgenderism geared toward children.

Kailee Coleman, a social media influencer, said in an interview with Sand — who currently serves as Iowa state auditor — that she is a “banned book children’s author” and asked if he would allow further “book bans” in the state.

“If they try to do any more book bans, I’m going to veto them. My pledge is that I’m going to veto culture war bills,” Sand responded.

“I think that’s one of them. I want the legislature to be focused on issues that impact 100 percent of Iowans.”

The interview with Coleman and Sand was originally posted on TikTok and shared Thursday on X by Iowa First Media.

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The Daily Wire’s Jennie Taer reported Saturday that ICE officers across the country had been told to stop arresting illegal aliens who lack criminal convictions or pending charges. Final deportation orders would not be enough. “Collateral arrests” were out too. If agents found a criminal target sitting next to other illegal aliens, they were to take only the named target and leave the rest.

Officers who received it were not confused about what they heard. One told Taer the timing looked political. “We believe it has something to do with the midterms coming up,” the source said. “They’re trying to calm things down before the elections.” Another predicted the obvious. “We’ll see the arrest numbers go down.”

A third source put it in language that does not need a press shop. “I hope Trump finds out about this sh*t and puts an end to it.”

He did.

The Guidance Went Out. Then It Died.

DHS answered first with a midnight denial. “This is false. No one is off the table,” the department posted. “We will continue to arrest any and all illegal aliens that come into our path. Anyone in our country illegally will be arrested and deported.” The same statement advertised a nationwide public-safety surge in sanctuary cities aimed at murderers, rapists, child predators, and gang members released by sanctuary politicians.

The denial was half a truth. The surge may be real. The stand-down was also real.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stopped pretending his socialist vision is just a local experiment.

On CNN International’s Amanpour, the Democratic Socialist was asked whether America is ready to elect people on the hard left – and whether the 2026 midterms will be a referendum not only on President Trump, but on the Democratic Socialists of America.

“I think this will absolutely translate on a national level,” Mamdani said.

Amanpour noted that other Democrats still believe national races reward moderates, and that local energy is one thing, but winning the country is another. Mamdani answered by recasting New York’s cost-of-living crisis as a national mandate.

“While we are an exceptional city, as the greatest city in the world, we also know that the struggles that New Yorkers are facing are the struggles that working-class Americans are facing across the country,” he said.

He continued, “I often say that there’s only one majority in this country, it’s the working class. And their inability to afford housing, childcare, even public transit, that is something that goes beyond any one city.”

Mamdani then pointed to the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt, arguing that people said the same thing then: it could never work nationally. In his telling, the Democratic Party was once “synonymous with workers” and popular because of it. The implication is obvious. He wants that party back – or rather, a DSA-shaped version of it.

He also claimed New Yorkers care less about how he labels himself than “whether there’s room for them in that description,” accused House Speaker Mike Johnson of talking about him to dodge “current federal policy,” and said “to find ambition in the Democratic Party, we often have to look to history books.”

This is the same argument Mamdani has been making since his slate smashed New York’s Democratic establishment in June. After candidates he backed knocked out incumbents and seized safe House nominations, he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that a democratic socialist “can get elected anywhere across this country for any position.”

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There has to be a term for something worse than hypocrisy when it comes to Hillary Clinton.

How about, “Hillarocrisy”?

That’s because Hillary Clinton knowingly tells mistruths about her political adversaries, while exempting herself from her own criticism.

Ironically, this lack of personal accountability is not a bug, but a feature of authoritarian rule. That’s what makes her doomsaying complaints about Donald Trump so absolutely rich.

Here is the latest edition of the Hillary Clinton chronicles, which remind us once again what a disingenuous piece of work she is.

The former secretary of state recently told The Washington Post in an interview that Trump’s effort to keep the serial hoax networks Politico, CNN, and MSNOW out of the White House was “deeply disturbing.”

“Honestly, every day that goes by, another unconstitutional, illegal action takes place on the part of this administration,” she said. “And this latest one is so troubling because kicking out news organizations from covering the administration from the White House really sends a signal that everything is at risk.”

“Freedom of the press, as you know so well, is a cornerstone. I mean, it is at the core of who we are as Americans,” she added.

Maybe she should have spoken up when Donald Trump was being mass deplatformed while calling for peace on January 6. Or when millions of Americans were being censored for justifiably criticizing the COVID pandemic response. Or when critics of the official narratives on everything from the Russia-Ukraine War to global warming were being suppressed on social media platforms.

Hillary Clinton complaining about “unconstitutionality” is kind of like an arsonist complaining about house fires. The Obama administration that she worked for was directly accused of limiting press access.

(OPINION) The quiet disappearance of cash is not a convenience story but a shift toward money that can be watched, frozen, and programmed—and most people, the author argues, will notice only after the exit is gone.

Writing onZeroHedge, Milan Adams of Preppgroup says the change is not arriving with a midnight law. It is arriving transaction by transaction. “We are not approaching a cashless society.

We are sleepwalking into it,” he writes. Central bank digital currencies—the digital euro, a possible digital dollar, and China’s already running digital yuan—are not just faster payments, he contends. They would recast the relationship between citizen and state so that every purchase is logged and every economic choice depends on permission.

Adams says this is written policy, not rumor. The Bank for International Settlements, which coordinates central banks, has said CBDCs will enable “programmable money”—currency that can be limited by time, place or purpose.

The European Central Bank’s digital euro plan would cap offline payments at small amounts; larger transfers would need a live network and identity checks. The Federal Reserve’s FedNow system, launched in July 2023, built the rails for instant digital payments that could later support a U.S. CBDC.

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One of my favorite anecdotes about the education racket comes from Lawrence Lindsey’s 1990 book The Growth Experiment (page 210, to be precise).

The question was: how many bureaucrats operate in the New York City public school system? It took two dozen phone calls to find someone who both knew the answer and was authorized to disclose it: six thousand.

It would help to have something to compare that number to, so the author contacted the Archdiocese of New York, whose Catholic schools educated one-sixth as many students — so they should have had one thousand bureaucrats if the proportion held.

The person answering the phone didn’t know the answer, so the author thought: here we go again. But then came, “Wait a minute, let me count.” The answer was twenty-six.

The problem has only intensified since Lindsey’s book (this chart takes the year 2000 as a baseline):

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In Pennsylvania Amish country, an obese and remarkably homely nurse in the employ of the state Public Health™ authority, Dale Weiser, pictured in all of her plus-sized glory here, has been going door-to-door with an arsenal of measles vaccines in tow in order to “encourage” vaccine uptake among the community that “abstains from Western medicine” — in other words, a community full of domestic terrorists begging for the business end of the long arm of the law.

(“Never trust a woman named Dale,” my Irish-Catholic grandmammy once admonished me over a glass of prune juice when my colon was backed up as a young tot, through wafts of smoke from her Virginia Slims.)

Via BBC:

“Walking into strangers’ homes, Weiser says she tries her best to be respectful and non-intrusive as she vaccinates dozens of family members against the measles, sometimes around the kitchen table.

“A lot of people that I encounter, they don’t have health insurance. They don’t have a lot of interaction with the health system, and they just haven’t seen the need to get these vaccines,” said Weiser, who works for the Chester County Health Department.

“When you start talking and you answer their questions, and build that trust, a lot of times they will make a different decision.”

The at-home vaccinations are part of the county and state health departments’ strategy to encourage immunisations in the county, which includes an Amish community who abstain from many aspects of modern life, including regular contact with the western medical system.”

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A Florida father who displayed a pistol while confronting bullies who attacked his son over a pizza will not face charges, local media reported.

The Sept. 18 incident occurred a day after the father’s son was attacked after refusing to hand over pizza from a “church fellowship program” at a local high school, according to a report provided by the Martin County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office. The father had driven his son to the bus stop to discuss the incident with the driver when the student who’d previously accosted the son confronted the father.

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“Now you have students on the bus that are yelling. You have the 14-year-old boy that came off the bus that’s yelling, screaming at the dad,” Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek told WPBF, a West Palm Beach-area TV station.

A second teenager, who according to the police report had been suspended for drug possession, also arrived and confronted the father.

“Both boys approached [Redacted] and [Redacted] and that’s when [Redacted] displayed a firearm and pointed it at both [Redacted] and [Redacted], causing them to back away,” the report reads.

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A Virginia man who tortured cats in order to obtain fraudulent social media donations received the state’s largest penalty for animal abuse after Internet sleuths as far as France led investigators to him.

Rodney Travis Jr, 27, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to animal abuse and computer fraud charges in Henrico County Circuit Court after beating about 20 cats, according to Courthouse News. His plea agreement will require him to spend 15 years in prison.

Travis would upload the videos on social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, while pretending that the pets had cancer.

Travis would then solicit donations, according to the outlet. He used three Henrico hotels to take footage of the cats.

Henrico Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Dylan McAuley said Travis ‘was only caught because a series of people around the world, as far as France, the UK, Arizona, California [and] Florida, recorded it, tracked him, and made sure we knew what was going on.’

McAuley said that it only took about a day to arrest Travis once the citizen investigators got the news to law enforcement.

Travis had raised more than $400,000 carrying out the vile scam since 2023, according to prosecutors.

The videos he posted online of the tortured cats included captions like, ‘I don’t want to lose my best friend’ and ‘she’s all I have,’ the outlet added.

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The Supreme Court rejected Ramey’s final appeal hours before he was put to death at Huntsville prison

A man convicted of murdering three people in their apartment while searching for drugs to steal was executed in Texas on Wednesday evening, a week after his accomplice was put to death for the same killings.

Ker’Sean Ramey, 41, died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. CDT, The Associated Press reported.

In the execution chamber, a prison chaplain rested his hand on Ramey’s shoulder before leading him in a brief prayer. The warden then asked Ramey if he had any last words, the AP reported.

Ramey praised God and thanked his friends, family and fellow death row inmates, whom he called his brothers.

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Hardened political observers know what comes after a fall book tour.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Maryland Governor Wes Moore provided the latest glimpse last week, appearing together in Washington, DC, for an event celebrating Beshear’s new book.

The conversation quickly turned to the question of whether either could end up running for president in 2028

Beshear has repeatedly insisted he has not made a decision. But his language has become noticeably less dismissive of the possibility.

Reflecting on his 2023 reelection as Kentucky governor, Beshea rtold Politico he once assumed he would never have to run for office again.

Now, he said, ‘I’m not sure that’s true.’

He stressed that it was not a presidential announcement.

Yet the remark, coupled with his growing national profile, was enough to send another ripple through Democratic circles.

Maryland Governor told Wes

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For the first time since Delaware Debates launched in 2010, the University of Delaware has cancelled its traditional general-election debate program, leaving Delaware without University-sponsored debates for its U.S. Senate and U.S. House races.

Delaware voters deserve better.

I am challenging Senator Chris Coons to a professionally moderated, televised one-on-one debate. Political power belongs to the people, and Delawareans deserve to see us side-by-side, answering the same difficult questions and defending our records, policies and solutions.

I am also calling on Delaware Republican Party Chair Gene Truono and Delaware Democratic Party Chair Evelyn Brady to put partisan politics aside and jointly organize this debate with Delaware’s television, radio and news organizations.

Senator Coons has represented Delaware in Washington for nearly 16 years. Voters are the employers. They deserve a job-performance review of the person who has represented them and a direct comparison with the person asking to replace him.

Put us side-by-side. Ask us the difficult questions. Let Delawareans judge the answers.

As a physician, I know informed decisions require reliable information. Informed choice is vital to good medicine, and an informed electorate is vital to representative government.

This is bigger than Republicans and Democrats. It is about accountability and putting People Over Party.

I am ready to debate Senator Coons anytime, anywhere in Delaware, before a fair and professional moderator.

Give Delawareans the debate. Give them the facts. Let them see us side-by-side. Then trust the people to decide.

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Kent County Mother makes one final request as she fights through the final days of her life — to hear from the singer whose music helped her survive her darkest years

DOVER, Del. — September 27, 2026 — Her life is coming to an end. But before she goes, a Dover woman has one final wish – a wish her family has turned into a plea for the public’s help to try and make happen before her last breath.

Surrounded by her loving family including her son, news anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Rob Petree, 50-year-old Melissa Petree, of Dover, made a simple request this morning: she wants a call from Stevie Nicks before she dies.

Petree’s currently in the last days, if not hours, of her life. Over the course of the past two years, she has fought a terrible diagnosis of an aggressive form of lung cancer that’s now progressed to stage 4 and spread to her brain, liver, and other parts of her body. She now has a total of six tumors in her brain and three in her liver, suffering from seizures and a host of other issues that have led to the end of her life. She remains cognitively aware but time is running out.

Nicks has been her favorite singer for decades — but to her, the music was much more than entertainment.

It became part of the soundtrack of a life she fought desperately to rebuild.

She grew up in poverty in Baltimore and battled substance abuse disorder. During some of the darkest periods of her life, the music of Stevie Nicks gave her something to hold onto — inspiration to keep going, overcome addiction and build a different life for herself and her family.

Now, as she faces the end of that life, she is asking for the chance to say hello to the woman whose music helped her through it.

And her son is asking the community for help.

A video recorded as she approached the end of her life — showing her singing two of Stevie Nicks’ most recognizable songs, “Dreams” and “Seven Wonders” — has spread across Facebook and TikTok, generating tens of thousands of views and comments.

The video captures something deeply personal: a woman who, even from what may soon be her deathbed, is still singing.

Still smiling.

Still fighting.

And still listening to the music that helped carry her through some of the hardest chapters of her life.

Petree, a longtime broadcast journalist who spent the first decade of his career working on Delmarva before continuing his career as a Buffalo news anchor and reporter, says his mother’s final request has become a mission for the family.

They want Stevie Nicks to know what her music meant to her.

And, if possible, they want Stevie to call her before it’s too late.

“This isn’t about fame,” Petree says. “It’s about a woman who found something in Stevie’s music when she needed it most. My mom’s life hasn’t been easy. She fought her way out of poverty. She fought addiction. She built a family. And now, with very little time left, this is what she wants.”

The family is hoping the story reaches Nicks, her team, or someone who can help make that final wish possible.

For a woman who once needed music to help her find a way forward, perhaps the greatest gift now would be hearing the voice of the artist who helped give her the strength to keep going.

This is not simply a story about a celebrity phone call.

It is about addiction and recovery. Poverty and perseverance. A mother’s life. A son’s love. And the extraordinary impact a song can have on someone who is struggling to survive.

At a time when so much of the world can feel dark, the family hopes her story can become something else:

A reminder that people can change. That people can survive impossible chapters. That music can save someone in ways an artist may never know. And that sometimes, one small act of kindness can mean everything.

The family is asking news organizations, community members and anyone who sees this story to help spread the word.

Stevie, if this reaches you: she has one last request.

Please call her before it’s too late.

As homeowners across the country find themselves locked in bitter battles with their HOAs, one Texas woman has emerged victorious — securing more than $33,000 in damages, legal fees and other awards after a nearly three-year fight with her association.

Elizabeth Luna owned a rental townhome in Oaks Northwest, a tiny 11-unit community near the San Antonio Medical Center, which she purchased when there were no restrictions preventing her from renting it out, according to KSAT’s report.

That changed in 2023, when HOA President Terri Thomure pushed to prohibit short-term rentals in the community.

Luna alleged in her lawsuit that Thomure called a special meeting in March 2023 to approve the restriction without complying with notice requirements under Texas law — a procedural failure that Luna argued rendered the amendment void.

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A Nigerian national who overstayed his visa has been charged with murder in connection with the death of an 18-year-old college athlete.

Police said Chukuwnonso Uzoma-eze was charged after a stabbing took place outside of a lounge in Providence, Rhode Island. Police initially responded to a report of a fight in the parking lot of the establishment.

Marvins Antoine, 18, was stabbed in the chest and was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital. Kensley Macean, 19, was injured in the head and neck area.

Police said the injuries were not life-threatening. Both were members of the UMass Dartmouth football team. The school’s police department later arrested Uzoma-eze, police said.

Bill Melugin of Fox News revealed the suspect’s immigration history in a post on X.

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President Trump took to Truth Social tonight and announced that he is approving new fuel economy standards which will effectively terminate Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandate.

According to Trump, this move will reduce waste and lower the cost of cars for American families. It’s also great news for the auto manufacturers.

All of this is great news.

Townhall reports:

President Donald Trump says that he has approved new fuel economy standards that should cut the costs of the vehicle market.

“BIG DAY FOR AMERICAN AUTO WORKERS AND CAR BUYERS! I have just approved new Fuel Economy Standards that TERMINATE Sleepy Joe Biden and Pete Boot-EDGE-EDGE’s ridiculous EV Mandate,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The Dumocrats cost our Great Auto Manufacturers $Billions, forced Americans into cars they never wanted, and wasted Billions on Chargers that were never built.”

The new standards terminate the EPA’s electric vehicle mandate.

“These new Standards will take the waste out of ⁠building cars in America. That means LOWER PRICES, saving families thousands on a new, beautiful, and safe car,” Trump wrote. “Far better than the Environmental Monsters that we were building heretofore. Every Manufacturer, from General Motors to Ford to Stellantis, has called me wanting to build here, and now they can!”

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The Trump Justice Department just dropped another hammer in the swing-state battleground of Pennsylvania.

U.S. Attorney David Metcalf of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced Thursday that four aliens, including two illegal aliens, have been charged with election-related crimes for illegally registering and/or illegally voting in federal elections.

“Our sovereignty as a nation belongs to the American people and no one else,” Metcalf said. “Anyone, including illegal aliens, who votes illegally in our elections will be prosecuted for corrupting our democracy.”

Democrats spent years telling the country that noncitizen voting is a “myth.” The charging documents keep piling up in Pennsylvania.

According to the announcement:

Cliff Sanon, 39, an illegal alien from Haiti living in Philadelphia, was charged with submitting a fraudulent voter registration application. Prosecutors say the February 2026 application, filed ahead of the May 2026 primary, was his eighth fraudulent voter registration. He also allegedly voted in the November 2022 general election. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and supervised release.

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The great commercial real estate waiting game may finally be running out of time, according to Bloomberg.

For years after Covid fundamentally changed how Americans use office space, lenders and property owners managed to postpone much of the financial damage. Loans were modified, maturities were pushed out and buildings were given more time to recover. The basic assumption was that eventually interest rates would come down, employees would spend more time downtown and refinancing markets would reopen.

Instead, many owners are reaching the end of the runway with rates still elevated and buildings worth dramatically less than the debt sitting against them.

Chicago’s Aon Center offers an almost absurd illustration. The 83-story skyscraper changed hands for $712 million in 2015 and was subsequently refinanced, with $536 million of debt eventually packaged into commercial mortgage-backed securities. Today, after losing important tenants, the building is worth nowhere near that amount. Its latest appraisal came in at just $195 million — a decline of roughly 73% from its 2015 purchase price.

Bloomberg writes that when the debt matured in July, the owner couldn’t repay it and sought another three years to sort things out. This time the lender wasn’t interested. The request was “unequivocally denied.”

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Witnesses discovered human remains in a container the 18-year-old allegedly dropped before fleeing into his apartment

Police in Georgia charged 18-year-old Kingston Lammar Bradley with malice murder Friday after discovering trash bags filled with dismembered human remains in the trunk of his car, they said.

Witnesses spotted Bradley walking in his apartment complex with a container, and when he realized he was seen, he dropped the container and ran into his apartment, Smyrna Police Lt. Meredith Holt said during a news conference Friday.

Witnesses called the police after finding human remains inside the container, Holt said.

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Arizona State University has removed Barack Obama’s name from a prominent scholarship program, a decision that comes as the former president faces an increasingly public unraveling of his  marriage and a diminished standing among the institutional allies who once celebrated him.

ASU confirmed it stripped the Obama name from the scholarship initiative, a move Inside Higher Ed reported without the university offering a detailed public explanation for the rebrand. The program itself will continue under a different name, but the symbolic distancing from a former president who once commanded near-universal loyalty on college campuses is hard to miss.

The timing matters. Barack Obama’s personal life has become a subject of sustained public speculation, and the former president himself has acknowledged the strain. In an interview with The New Yorker, Obama admitted his refusal to step back from political activism after leaving office created friction at home.

Obama’s own words confirm the cracks

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A multi-state outbreak of a dangerous liver disease is being investigated by officials after more than three dozen people have been sickened.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A across four states. Thirty-seven people have been sickened and 30 have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.

Cases have been documented in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania.

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Order allows states to use DHS’ Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program

An order issued Friday by the Supreme Court temporarily allows the Trump administration to move forward with a mass voter verification system.

The emergency order allows states, for now, to use the Department of Homeland Security program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, in their efforts to verify the eligibility of voters on their rolls.

Because existing law blocks most states from systematically purging voters from their rolls within 90 days of an election, the immediate impact of Friday’s order on the upcoming midterms is likely limited, the Associated Press reported. States’ use of the SAVE program is voluntary.

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Gov Mikie Sherrill accepts Caldwell’s resignation, tabs acting secretary of state to replace other role he held

Democrat New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigned Friday after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and ethics violations against him, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced.

“The investigation found that the lieutenant governor failed to uphold the responsibilities of his office, and he demonstrated a pattern of behavior that does not meet the standards of this administration,” Sherrill said during a news conference in Trenton. “The report documents serious, repeated violations of state policy, including ethical lapses and a substantiated finding of sexual harassment.

“I gave the lieutenant governor until today to resign. He submitted his resignation to me this afternoon, which I accepted.”

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A Naperville police officer turned a statewide camera grid into a personal tracking app, ran a man’s plate about 150 times, and then retired like the file never existed.

The story serves as yet another example of how the burgeoning mass surveillance grid is being abused on a regular basis.

Patrick Dowhen was not a suspect. He was the ex. After Officer Oscar Maldonado started a relationship with Dowhen’s fiancée, Flock became the shortcut. No warrant. No case number that mattered. Just a badge, a login, and a national lattice of plate readers that can reconstruct where you went, when you went, and how often you go there.

“Anywhere I went in the country, I was being tracked,” Dowhen told ABC7 Chicago’s I-Team. “It was scary, it was really scary.”

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“A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up.”

That was the headline on a May 2025 Utility Dive article that explored the conundrum speculative data center requests pose for U.S. electric utilities. More than a year later, it’s unclear how much has changed.

Community opposition has emerged as a major barrier to data center development, with other challenges including construction labor shortages, long lead times for critical electrical equipment, limited power availability in key markets and uncertainty around consumer demand for artificial intelligence tools.

More than $170 billion in AI data center capacity has been “blocked, withdrawn, or stalled” by community opposition since January 2024, the energy advisory company Relae, formerly Carbon Direct, said in June.

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A respected pediatric critical-care doctor who dedicated his career to treating gravely ill children was stabbed to death inside his Pennsylvania home early Thursday morning while his own two children were sleeping nearby.

And the man accused of the horrific attack was reportedly already facing felony burglary charges, and had been released on non-monetary bail.

Dr. Idris V.R. Evans, 46, served as co-medical director of the Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and as an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, according to his profile on the University of Pittsburgh.

Colleagues described him as a dedicated caregiver whose work focused on the sickest kids, pediatric sepsis, critical care transport, and keeping children alive when they arrived at the hospital in the worst possible shape.

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An 18-year-old American kid is dead. Another freshman teammate is in the hospital. And the man charged with the killing should never have been here.

Federal law enforcement sources tell Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin that the suspect in last weekend’s fatal stabbing of a UMass Dartmouth football player is a Nigerian national who overstayed a B-2 visitor visa, was shielded from deportation by the Biden administration in 2022, and was reportedly shielded again when the Trump administration approved another deferred-action request in October 2025.

Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma Eze, 19, a UMass Dartmouth student, is charged with murder in the death of freshman running back Marvins Antoine and with the stabbing of freshman defensive back Kensley Macean.

The attack happened shortly after midnight Saturday, Sept. 19, in a Wendy’s parking lot across from Mezzo Lounge on Charles Street in Providence, Rhode Island, after an altercation that started in the club line, according to the Providence Police Department.

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An 11-year-old’s ride to a fishing spot in Oviedo, Florida, ended with police stopping him, fingerprinting him, towing his electric dirt bike, and ordering him to appear in court.

Cade Kirchner, a sixth grader, was riding toward a nearby pond with his fishing pole on Labor Day, September 7.

His father, Chris Kirchner, said Cade was about 300 feet from home and traveling on the road’s shoulder.

The family says the bike was limited to 20 miles per hour. FOX 35 Orlando reported that police classified it as a motorcycle under Florida law.

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An OpenAI system has gone rogue in what might be the most chilling incident of out-of-control artificial intelligence yet.

One of the company’s systems broke into an Australian government website, only adding to fears that AI systems pose a cyber security risk and that the companies making them are not able to control them.

The breach may be the highest-profile incident in a run of artificial intelligence systems launching cyber attacks on their own. But it is just another example of the danger that such systems pose, experts warn.

Maurice Chiodo, an Australian mathematician who works at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, said the breach appeared to be “a significant escalation in seriousness ‌from similar incidents we have seen in ​recent months.”

In the latest incident, an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to the medical statistics portal of Medicare, Australia’s universal health insurance programme, said prime minister Anthony Albanese. The system had been doing research on public medical spending.

“This situation is obviously unacceptable,” Mr Albanese said. The country had communicated its “extreme concern about this incident” to OpenAI, he said, in comments made during the UN General Assembly that has focused on the danger from AI and which OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman also attended.

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The state spends billions on housing, health care, and other benefits.

California runs the nation’s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care, and other programs for the poor and downtrodden. To sustain the arrangement, the state imposes the nation’s highest tax rates.

In theory, these programs are supposed to help struggling Californians. In reality, many serve large numbers of illegal immigrants. Today, California oversees a shadow welfare system that allows noncitizens to receive health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones on the taxpayers’ dime.

We visited four public-services offices in Southern California, each of which admitted that illegal aliens can enroll in public-welfare programs or receive benefits on their children’s behalf. In total, California taxpayers spent at least $11 billion subsidizing illegal immigrants in the last fiscal year. The state’s shadow welfare system, it seems, shows no signs of slowing down.

Local officials were remarkably transparent. In Glendale, we spoke to a welfare officer about California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), a state-funded alternative to Supplemental Security Income that provides monthly cash assistance to low-income noncitizens who are elderly or disabled.

“If [you are] a citizen, you cannot get CAPI,” he said. “I don’t care about legal or not. Not being [a] citizen [is the key].”

In Los Angeles, we heard more of the same. We asked another welfare officer about the benefits available to illegal immigrants and their children. While some state programs are closed to illegals, we learned, they are open to those aliens’ U.S.-born children.

“If you were born here and the child was born here, you get money for two,” the officer said of CalWORKs, the state’s version of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. “Because she is not and the child is, she only gets money for the child, and not for her.”

These benefits add up. In California, illegal immigrants can qualify for CAPI, public health insurance, and various tax credits. Their children qualify for others, including CalWORKs and, as in other states, Section 8 rental subsidies. All told, a family of five in California with two illegal-alien parents, two U.S.-born children, and one illegal-alien grandparent can receive public services worth more than $100,000 per year.

State leaders are proud of it. In a recent podcast episode, Governor Gavin Newsom bragged about his “controversial” decision to extend Medi-Cal coverage to illegal immigrants. His wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, encouraged people to sign up for the California Earned Income Tax Credit, a program whose promotional materials assure applicants that “no Social Security number” is “no problem.”

The governor’s office did not respond to our comment request by deadline.

How is all this possible?

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