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We’re in the middle of the Australian Open right now, one of the 4 major tennis tournaments collectively known as the “grand slams,” and it didn’t take long for a press conference to turn into a circus down in Melbourne. Several American tennis stars are being praised for how they handled a series of “baited” questions from a reporter seemingly intent on eliciting a condemnation of Donald Trump and the United States. Remember this is a tennis tournament, a pretty big one, and rather than using your press credentials to ask tennis players ab0ut… oh, I don’t know… tennis? We’re...

@PeterSchiff Get ready for an energy shock as oil and gas prices surge. This week’s huge spike in natural gas, today’s jump in crude, and across-the-board dollar weakness suggest much higher prices are coming. All of this will push already rising CPI and Treasury yields to much higher levels.

The film, which follows a young Hong Kong woman (Michelle Mao) who spends a night traversing the city with two new acquaintances (Jin Ha and Haley Lu Richardson) as she tries to make sense of dangerous visions of her future, was a true collaboration between Kogonada and six of his best friends....He asked the three actors, longtime cinematographer Benjamin Loeb, and producers Christopher Radcliff and Chung An to meet him in Hong Kong with little more than a faint idea for a movie. They started shooting almost immediately, figuring out the film as they went along....“These are six of my...

Nearly 1 million kids in the New York City school system could be forced in front of the screens for remote learning Monday, Mayor Mamdani said Friday — even though Hizzoner could reinstate traditional snow days his predecessors nixed. Public school students can at best hope for remote classes for early next week as the city braces for a potentially devastating storm that the mayor has already said could dump more than a foot of snow across the Big Apple. “I know to the disappointment of any student that’s watching this right now, Monday is either going to be a...

According to journalist Fareed Zakaria, the EU was relieved by Trump's backtracking on plans to take Greenland by forceWASHINGTON, January 23. /TASS/. Europe won't forget the disdain the administration of US President Donald Trump has shown it, The Washington Post cited an unnamed European leader as saying. In an opinion column on the foreign policy course of the current American administration with regard to Washington's claims to Greenland, journalist Fareed Zakaria quoted "one of the senior European leaders" as confirming that the EU was relieved by Trump's backtracking on plans to take Greenland by force. "But we’ve now seen a...

The Governor believes the states can compel action, while Congress won't act without pressure. Gov. Ron DeSantis is about as far away as possible from the back-and-forth of Florida’s Legislative Session, imploring lawmakers in the Rocky Mountains to make moves instead. But those moves, he says, are in the national interest. Thursday finds the soon-to-be term limited Republican returning to Idaho to again call for a federal Balanced Budget Amendment, part of the Balanced Budget Campaign supported by all Republican Governors. After spending the day meeting with legislators on the issue, the Governor was flanked by Idaho Senate President Pro...

Explanation: Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant. It lies just south of Orion in planet Earth's skies toward the constellation Lepus, The Hare. Posing with scattered Milky Way stars, its generally simple spherical shape about 8 light-years in diameter is revealed in this deep telescopic image. The beautiful and complex shapes seen within the cosmic cloud are visually enhanced by the use of long exposures and narrowband filters that capture emission from hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Otherwise Abell 7 would be much too faint to be appreciated by eye. A planetary nebula represents a very...

FBI Director Kash Patel has purged his department of agents linked to the Biden administration’s efforts to jail the Democrat former president’s electoral foe, Donald Trump. Patel forced out field office leaders and other senior agents connected to the two criminal investigations of Trump, including the special agent in charge in Atlanta, the acting assistant director in charge of the New York field office, and the former special agent in charge in New Orleans who had recently moved on to another job, MS Now reported and two senior administration officials confirmed to Breitbart News. As many as six agents in...

Antisemitism and anti-Israel views are creeping into Christian and conservative communities. Pastor Gary Hamrick, along with guests Pastor Rob McCoy, Samuel Smadja, and former Congressman Bob McEwen, delivers a biblical response to replacement theology, U.S. support for Israel, the October 7th attacks, and the takes from Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Watch this timely message to understand the real issues and stand firm in truth!

For most drivers, gas stations are a necessary evil. For fans of Buc-ee's, they are a destination - and now the beaver-branded giant is about to pop up in more states than ever before. By the end of 2026, the 'Disneyland of gas stations' will open four more of its iconic outposts, with another 15 planned in the years that follow. Scroll down to see the full list.

The city of Philadelphia sued the Department of the Interior and the acting director of the National Park Service on Thursday over reports that slavery exhibits were being dismantled in the city’s historic district. The suit, filed in federal court, seeks a preliminary injunction to restore the exhibits at the President’s House Site, part of Independence National Historical Park. The lawsuit says that “the National Park Service has removed artwork and informational displays at the President’s House site referencing slavery, presumably pursuant to the mandate” of Executive Order No. 14253, which President Donald Trump signed in March. The city said...

Attempts to change Church governance to synodal model have failed throughout historyChanging the leadership structure of the Church to make the Pope more like a CEO has been tried several times. Each time, God's intervention prevented it from succeeding. The rumbling after the conclusion of the two-day consistory held recently at the Vatican is a warning that a storm is brewing and we should prepare for it. Pope Leo XIV called the Vatican II Council “the guiding star of the Church’s path.” That star led the consistory to “lay the groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae,” to “prepare a...

Top Homeland Security officials hit back Friday at viral claims that a 5-year-old boy was used as “bait” to arrest his father and then detained by ICE in Minnesota earlier this week. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) head Marcos Charles said the little boy, identified as Liam Conejo Ramos, was abandoned in a car by his illegal migrant father as federal officers attempted to arrest the dad Tuesday as part of a targeted operation. Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled ICE on foot, leaving his son behind, the ICE official said.

Newsom has presided over the annihilation of what was once the crown jewel of American prosperity—the Golden State California now accounts for roughly one quarter of the nation’s homeless, more than any other state by far. Since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, $37 billion has been spent on homelessness programs—yet the homeless population has grown by roughly 20,000 people, not declined. At the same time, according to U.S. Census data, California has suffered net domestic population losses every year since 2020—the first sustained population decline in state history. Between 2020 and 2023, more than 430,000 residents left the state,...

A woman shot in the head by a federal agent, widespread protests, families separated and American citizens unlawfully detained. State Rep. Eleanor Chavez, D-Albuquerque, described these scenes before introducing House Bill 9, which could shutter immigration detention centers in New Mexico. “Now is the time more than ever to pass the Immigrant Rights Act,” Chavez said before the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee on Thursday. Located in rural Cibola, Torrance and Otero counties, New Mexico's detention facilities have a combined detainee population of more than 1,500 people, according to recent estimates. Though the bill would not directly close all...

An Antifa-affiliated website is on local and federal law enforcement’s radar after years of promoting anarchistic crimes and doxxing. The “Rose City Counter-Info” blog, focused mainly on Portland, Oregon, hosts numerous posts purporting to show immigration agents’ home addresses, advocating for attacks on law enforcement infrastructure and taking credit for crimes, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis. The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) told the DCNF that it is “aware” of the site and similar ones, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) twice promised consequences for the doxxing in recent months. Rose City Counter-Info promotes activism and ideological...

Missouri is moving to shut down a trailer park business bordering Whiteman Air Force Base after a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation uncovered links between the property and a convicted fraudster with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence ties. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins announced Thursday the administrative cancellation of Property Solutions 3603 LP, the operator of a Knob Noster Trailer Park that shares a perimeter fence with Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the B-2 stealth bombers. The company is ultimately controlled by a Georgia-based firm owned by a Canadian couple with ties to disgraced Chinese tycoon Miles Guo, who...

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[Catholic Caucus] Jesuits in Britain respond to Senior Catholic chaplain at Oxford removedThe Jesuits in Britain have confirmed that Fr Damian Howard SJ has stepped down from ministry following a safeguarding investigation into a complaint of professional misconduct, with an independent review now under way. Fr Damian stands accused of “inappropriate behaviour” with a student. In a statement, the order told the Catholic Herald that: “We take every complaint extremely seriously and respond with care and diligence. When this complaint was received, the safeguarding team of Jesuits in Britain carried out an investigation. Based on their conclusions, immediate action was...

The sudden collapse last fall of a string of American companies backed by private credit has thrust a fast-growing and opaque corner of Wall Street lending into the spotlight. Private credit, also known as direct lending, is a catch-all term for lending done by nonbank institutions. The practice has been around for decades but surged in popularity after post-2008 financial crisis regulations discouraged banks from serving riskier borrowers. That growth — from $3.4 trillion in 2025 to an estimated $4.9 trillion by 2029 — and the September bankruptcies of auto-industry firms Tricolor and First Brands have emboldened some prominent Wall...