Category: Breaking

The Hill   Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested Tuesday on charges of sex trafficking and engaging in interstate prostitution, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The indictment contains more than a dozen counts, and includes allegations of sex trafficking between December 2008 and March 2015. Jeffries allegedly leveraged his…

Breitbart   Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized material in addition to her book Smart on Crime, an analysis by Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium found Tuesday. The additional allegations of plagiarism diminish the credibility of the Harris campaign’s denial of plagiarism. The Beacon’s Sibarium reported Harris also plagiarized pages of congressional testimony from a Republican colleague and…

The Hill   The Cook Political Report on Monday shifted the Pennsylvania Senate race into the “toss-up” category and moved the Nebraska Senate contest from likely to “lean Republican” with just 15 days until the November election. With Pennsylvania shifting to the right from “lean Democrat,” three of the “blue wall” states…

New York Post   Should former President Donald Trump win back the White House, as many as 4.5 million migrants who entered the US illegally will be a “first priority” for deportation, House Speaker Mike Johnson told The Post in an exclusive interview. Trump, 78, has already floated the removal of…

Breitbart   Swing states are disproportionately facing unaffordable home prices, an analysis conducted by the Washington Post reveals, and it is crushing middle class Americans. Since 2019, when former President Donald Trump was in office, unsustainable housing costs and rents have increasingly burdened Americans living in swing states like North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, and…

Catholic News Agency   The Catholic population in Europe fell by nearly half a million people in 2022 but continued to increase in every other part of the world, according to data released by the Vatican this week. According to the Vatican numbers, released by the Holy See’s Fides News…

Breitbart   A whopping 37 percent of credit card holders have either maxed out or come close to it since inflation gripped the nation under the policies of the Biden-Harris administration, a Bankrate/YouGov survey found Thursday. Credit card debt rose significantly due to rising costs,which soared about 20 percent on…

Axios   Israeli officials said Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israel Defense Forces in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Hamas has not commented publicly on the reports. Sinwar was the mastermind of the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which killed 1,200 people and set off Israel’s year-long war against Hamas in…

Center for Immigration Studies   I recently came across a CIA report that was a shocker: Of the three countries with the highest net in-migration—that is, the highest proportion of migrants entering compared to those leaving– in the world, Ukraine is first and Venezuela is third. Why are a war-torn country and an…

NBC Montana   Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on Wednesday announced the arrest of an illegal Venezuelan migrant convicted of assaulting a New York City police officer in Times Square. Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel is one of several individuals who were caught on video kicking and beating two New York City…

CBS News   President Joe Biden on Thursday said an additional $4.5 billion in student debt is being canceled for about 60,000 teachers, nurses, firefighters and others, bringing the number of public service workers to get relief during his administration to more than 1 million. More than $73 billion in loans have…

CBS News   The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a top election official had no authority to declare unconstitutional a state law that restored the voting rights of those who have been convicted of a felony, issuing a decision with implications for the upcoming election. In July, Nebraska Secretary of…

Politico   Elon Musk’s SpaceX is suing a California agency that rejected his company’s plan to increase rocket launches from an Air Force base in Santa Barbara County, arguing that commissioners engaged in political bias while making the decision. Attorneys from Los Angeles-based law firm Venable LLP filed the complaint against the…

Breitbart   Former President Donald Trump vowed to “just ban it” when questioned at a town hall for women that aired on Wednesday about keeping men from playing on female sports teams and entering female spaces. The all-women town hall was held in the battleground state of Georgia and aired at 11:00…

FAIR    Illegal aliens and open-borders advocates are re-grouping after their first attempt to sue the University of California stalled. The plaintiffs sued the University of California in early October claiming it was illegally denying them on-campus jobs. The lawsuit was filed just days after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation that would…

Washington Examiner   With just 21 days until the election, Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly leads former President Donald Trump in national polls. However, Trump maintains a slight edge over Harris among the seven battleground states on which the race hinges. That’s a shift from a month ago when the Democratic nominee had the advantage among swing-state voters.…

Breitbart   Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report in TheFreePress.com. TheFreePress.com described some of the harms inflicted on youth migrants under the lax policies set by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas’ tenure: Sex-trafficking victims often suffer horrific…

New York Post The proof of Tren de Aragua’s violence in Aurora, Colo., is written in blood. A fed-up landlord in the Denver suburb has shared a bloody photo of one of its workers after the man was allegedly beaten to a pulp by members of the brutal Venezuelan prison gang…

Fox News Business True Value retail stores, which are independently owned and operated, are not part of the bankruptcy True Value, which sells hardware, tools, lumber, plumbing and heating supplies, and other home improvement goods, has between $500 million and $1 billion in total liabilities, according to its Chapter 11…

The Verge Google plans to buy electricity from next-generation nuclear reactors. It announced the deal yesterday, which it says is the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase electricity from advanced small modular reactors (SMRs) that are still under development. Google inked the deal with engineering company Kairos Power, which plans to get…

CBS News Florida residents who fled hundreds of miles to escape Hurricane Milton made slow trips home on crowded highways, weary from their long journeys and the cleanup work awaiting them but also grateful to be coming back alive. “I love my house, but I’m not dying in it,” Fred Neuman said…

The Hill   Vice President Harris has a 3-point edge over former President Trump in battleground Pennsylvania, according to new polling. The New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College survey, released Saturday, shows Harris leading Trump 50 percent to 47 percent among likely voters in the Keystone State.   Pollsters and analysts say Pennsylvania more than any…

NBC Montana  If interest rates go down, so should mortgage rates. That’s what many people expected after the Federal Reserve lowered rates by 50 basis points last month, but that hasn’t been the case. The opposite has been happening with rates going up. According to data from Mortgage Daily News, the average 30-year fixed mortgage…

Semafor The New York publisher who is now the lead bidder for the Telegraph, the British Conservative Party’s newspaper of record, is still working to assemble investors to back the $550 million deal. Dovid Efune, the bidder, has approached the group founded by the conservative American business figure Charles Koch,…

Foreign Affairs Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it “the age of depopulation.” For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline. But whereas the last implosion was caused by a deadly…

The Hill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed Thursday to unseal additional filings from special counsel Jack Smith laying out his election interference case against former President Trump, something Trump’s attorneys signaled they plan to challenge. Chutkan agreed to a request from Smith to unseal exhibits that accompany his 180-page brief asserting that prosecutors can still bring much…

NBC News Hurricane Milton wrought havoc across Florida, where it whipped up tornadoes, cut power for more than 3.3 million energy customers, put some 11 million people at risk of flooding and caused at least 12 deaths. Milton was moving into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday morning after making landfall…

Breitbart   Top Democrat politicians and operatives fear polling numbers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania show Vice President Kamala Harris running behind former President Donald Trump, Axios’s Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei reported.  The report confirmed private Harris campaign polling from earlier this week that showed Harris is in a lot of trouble, according to political…

CBS News The trial of Bryan Kohberger, who has been charged with killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, has been set.  The trial will begin on Aug. 11, 2025, and continue through Nov. 7, 2025, according to a scheduling order issued by the state of Idaho. It had been scheduled to…

The Hill Incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is trailing Republican rival Tim Sheehy by 8 points in the Montana Senate race, according to the latest survey from The New York Times/Siena College. The polling, released Thursday, shows Sheehy garnering 52 percent support from likely voters in the state compared to Tester’s 44 percent. Four…

Politico Eight days into the fiscal year, the federal government has spent nearly half the disaster relief that Congress has allocated for the next 12 months. The rapid spending — which is likely to accelerate as aid flows to states pulverized by Hurricanes Helene and Milton — soon will force…

The Post Millennial A professor at the University of Kansas has been put on administrative leave after telling students during a recent lecture that men who do not vote for a female president should be lined up and shot. The comments were made by Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student-athlete…

The Weather Channel   H​urricane Milton will make landfall in Florida tonight into early Thursday where it poses a major threat to life and property as it hammers the state with destructive storm surge, devastating wind damage, potentially catastrophic flooding rainfall and several tornadoes. “The track of Hurricane Milton continues…

Catholic News Agency   Home schooling continues to grow even as the pandemic is no longer a contributing factor, according to a September study that found multiple states reaching all-time-high numbers of home-schooled students.   The Johns Hopkins School of Education’s Homeschool Research Lab in its 2023-2024 report on home school growth found…

Breitbart   Private Harris campaign polling shows Vice President Kamala Harris is in a lot of trouble, political analyst Mark Halperin said on The Morning Meeting with Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine. Despite Harris being up three points nationally according to the New York Times poll, Halperin said he sees her support as precarious. While highlighting…

CNN Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Electoral College “needs to go,” while acknowledging “that’s not the world we live in,” during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday, according to a pool report. “I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need…

Breitbart Former President Donald Trump holds an edge over Vice President Kamala Harris on several economic issues, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The survey, conducted as the 2024 presidential election approaches, shows Trump leading Harris on handling matters such as the stock market, the job market, cost of living, and…

CBS News TikTok was sued Tuesday by 14 attorneys general who allege the social media platform is misleading the public about its safety. The app, they say, is harming children’s mental health, with some kids getting injured or even dying because of TikTok’s viral “challenges.” The lawsuits, filed Tuesday, also claim that…

Axios Vice President Harris said during an interview with ABC News’ “The View” on Tuesday that “there is not a thing that comes to mind” when asked whether she would’ve done anything differently than President Biden. Voters largely disapprove of Biden’s handling of issues like inflation, but Harris has benefited from the…

New York Post It was an early win for Donald Trump. Supporters of the former president in upstate New York won a last-minute court victory allowing them to illuminate a 100-foot wide “Vote for Trump” sign — despite their city’s effort to block the massive political endorsement. Anthony Constantino —…

NBC Montana Abortion-rights ballot measure supporters across the country have raised nearly eight times as much as groups campaigning against the amendments on the November ballots. But that advantage may not translate into a huge benefit down the stretch in Florida, the most expensive of the nine statewide campaigns to…

Fox News The FBI and Department of Homeland Security on Friday warned that the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel could motivate some people to engage in violence within the United States.  In a public service announcement, authorities said the anniversary may motivate extremists and others…

Breitbart Former President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail with Vice President Kamala Harris in the final month leading up to the election. Harris, who appears to be losing momentum, needs all the help she can get to stave off former President Donald Trump’s potential return to the White…

Catholic News Agency   A Christian mother of four has been sentenced to death by a trial judge at the Special Court in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, for allegedly spreading blasphemous messages via the messaging service WhatsApp. She must also pay a fine of 300,000 Pakistani rupees (about $1,000). Shagufta Kiran,…

The Hill   Former President Trump said in a Wednesday interview with NewsNation that he would revoke the protected status of Haitian migrants and have them removed from Springfield, Ohio. “It has nothing to do with Haiti or anything else. You have to remove the people, and you have to…

Washington Examiner   President Joe Biden said he does not support Israel carrying out retaliatory strikes on Iranian nuclear sites even as the United States looks at ways to defend its ally. “The answer is no,” Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews when asked about Israel considering any strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program.…

Washington Examiner   President Joe Biden said he does not support Israel carrying out retaliatory strikes on Iranian nuclear sites even as the United States looks at ways to defend its ally. “The answer is no,” Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews when asked about Israel considering any strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program.…

New York Post Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband is being accused of slapping his ex-girlfriend for flirting with a valet worker at a ritzy gala in 2012, a new report claims. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, 59, supposedly struck his then-girlfriend — described as a successful New York attorney — in the face…