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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A San Antonio Church and residents of several northside neighborhoods were left to deal with damages left by “No Kings” related vandals in the aftermath of the protest in the Alamo City. The vandals targeted residential homes, traffic signs, highway overpasses, and one of the city’s largest churches. At the Community Bible Church (CBC), where weekly attendance is estimated at over 15,000 worshipers, vandals left messages spray-painted on the church grounds and building that read, “Jesus wants TRUMP gone!” and “No King but God”. CBC Pastor Ed Newton posted images of the vandalism and offered commentary...

The story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: the struggle to convert thousands of miles of abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. Facing fierce opposition and legal challenges from private property owners, leaders fought to reclaim these corridors for the public, creating a national network of scenic, car-free paths.

Authorities say the Empress Eugénie Brooch was among the stolen itemsIt is the most spectacular robbery at the Louvre museum since the Mona Lisa disappeared in 1911.And it poses serious questions about levels of security covering French artworks, at a time when they are increasingly being targeted by criminal gangs.According to France's new interior minister Laurent Nuñez, the gang that broke into the Apollo Gallery on Sunday morning was clearly professional.They knew what they wanted, had evidently "cased the joint" in advance, had a brazenly simple but effective modus operandi, and needed no more than seven minutes to take their...

@LeadingReport BREAKING: President Trump calls for Thomas Massie to be removed from Congress.

President Donald Trump was forced to board Air Force One on Sunday via the small stairs due to heightened security measures after a suspicious hunting stand was discovered nearby.Trump left Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday to return to Washington D.C., after the suspicious structure was discovered on Friday.A White House official said the discovery led to the implementation of heightened security measures on Sunday as Trump returned to the airport. FBI Director Kash Patel said the 'elevated hunting stand' was 'within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone.'The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in...

Thanks to allegedly nonexistent Antifa, every day is No Kings Day at the ICE facility in moonbat-infested Portland. Here’s what it looked like yesterday: video on link Someone has to pay all these guys to stand around defending ICE facilities from treasonous vermin who want to prevent the enforcement of immigration law. If you pay taxes in the USA, that would be you.

Welcome, and congratulations. You’ve lived long enough to see the age of flying cars—privately owned, solo-piloted aircraft, free to operate in unrestricted airspace, much as automobiles can take to the open road. And they’re all electric. I knew you’d be thrilled.Here in the future, we call them ultralight eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles). Of course, they don’t much resemble the levitating Studebakers and auto-gyrating Chevys foretold in pulp science fiction. The Pivotal BlackFly—the first series-produced ultralight eVTOL to reach the consumer market (2023)—doesn’t even have wheels. It takes off and lands on its curved keel. It’s also amphibious,...

Summary Israeli strikes kill 26 people in Gaza after two soldiers killed Gazans report explosions, gunfire, airstrikes and tank shelling Dispute over return of hostages' bodies continues between Israel and Hamas JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Sunday that a ceasefire in Gaza had resumed after an attack that killed two of its soldiers and prompted a wave of airstrikes that killed 26 people, in the most serious test yet of this month's U.S.-brokered truce. Aid into the enclave was set to resume on Monday following U.S. pressure, an Israeli security source said, shortly after Israel...

Jay Jones gave speech condemning Ralph Northam’s blackface controvery, then campaigned with him. Democratic Virginia attorney general hopeful Jay Jones gave an impassioned speech on race in 2019 which criticized then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam over wearing blackface — and then Jones embraced and campaigned with the disgraced Democratic governor during his unsuccessful bid to be attorney general in 2021 and again during his current bid in 2025.The yearbook photo depicting two people, one dressed up in Ku Klux Klan robes and the other in blackface, appeared on Northam’s 1984 yearbook page at Eastern Virginia Medical School and came to...

Recently, at the same time that I’ve watched all the idiot protesters (including some of our own politicians) and America Haters, I’ve been fascinated by the many videos like this: WW2 PrisonersThey reminded me of this old Gordon Sinclair commentary on ‘The Americans’: The AmericansThe United States of America has been a great blessing on the world and on civilization.

Nancy Pelosi prowls the political stage like a specter, her influence a dark cloud over America’s future.No longer Speaker, she still clings to power, pulling strings from the shadows with a smirk that masks her contempt for the heartland.To Americans, she’s the embodiment of elitist decay -- a figure whose every maneuver drips with arrogance and betrayal.Her legacy is a battlefield strewn with the wreckage of American values, and her recent moves prove she’s still a threat to the nation’s soul.Pelosi’s grip, though loosened, remains a chokehold on progress. She’s not just a relic; she’s a schemer, orchestrating chaos from...

A man waited more than 50 years to carry out his vengeance after being bullied at school. South Dakota man Carl Ericsson never forgot how his bully Norman Johnson pulled a jockstrap over his head in a high school locker room when he was younger. Retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson had answered his front door only to get shot twice in the face.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Sunday that the United States conducted a strike against a seventh boat Friday as the Trump administration ramps up its war on alleged drug smuggling. Hegseth said in a statement on social media that the strike was conducted at the direction of the president on a vessel allegedly affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional, a militant political group in Colombia that has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States for decades. "The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route,...

A flight en route from Hangzhou, China, to South Korea's Incheon International Airport on Oct 18 was diverted to Shanghai after a fire broke out in the cabin. A lithium battery stowed in a passenger's carry-on luggage in the overhead compartment had caught fire, the airline said in a statement on Weibo. "The crew immediately handled the situation according to procedures, and no one was injured," they said. They added that the plane was diverted for an unscheduled landing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport to "ensure flight safety". In a video circulating social media, flames could be seen emitting from...

HATE AMERICA No Kings protest had very weak turnout in Denver. And just like that, they were gone!

How a mysterious tip-off led investigators to uncover the inner workings of a highly unusual hacking operation By the time the police arrived, Elena Timofeeva was ready. The petite brunette with a heart-shaped face and deep-set eyes had spent the past eight years living a double life. In Marbella, she appeared to be an inconspicuous 43-year-old Russian transplant who had swapped her life as the owner of a small electronics business back home in Siberia for sun-touched Spanish shores. But online, she had a different persona: Drakosha (“Little Dragon”) was a top lieutenant in one of the world’s biggest ransomware...

I love the New York Post editorials. None of this above the fray, on the one hand, on the other hand bothsidesism. You know exactly where the Post stands. “Hochul absolutely has to kill the macabre doctor-assisted-suicide bill,” the October 12 editorial declares unequivocally. “Gov. Kathy Hochul must resist the coming push to sign the so-called Medical Aid in Dying Act: New York doesn’t need to turn doctors into killers,” the editorial begins. “Fans of ‘assisted suicide’ pretend it’s purely about respecting the wishes of terminally ill patients seeking a dignified exit, but medicalized killing never stops there.” There are...

The powerful song was the second single from the group’s ‘Puzzle People’ albumIt’s October 18, 1969. The Russian Soyuz 8 spacecraft returns to Earth with cosmonauts Shatalov and Yeliseyev. Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner is arrested for marijuana possession. Wyclef Jean and golfer Ernie Els are each one day old; Led Zeppelin are preparing to release their second album. Gas costs 35c a gallon in America and 6s 2d (31p) in Britain. And America’s new favorite pop single is “I Can’t Get Next To You” by the Temptations. Another triumph in the ongoing collaboration between the vocal group, producer Norman Whitfield...

From the inimitable Robert Spencer, a last-minute plea for New Yorkers to come to their senses.I haven’t lived in my hometown, New York, for 27 years, but thanks to the Internet I’ve been able to keep in such close touch that sometimes, sitting at my computer in Norway, I catch myself thinking for a split second that I’m actually still in my last apartment on the Upper East Side, right down the block from Gracie Mansion, where the mayor lives. It’s an easy mistake to make: after all, I write regularly for Manhattan-based publications; I peruse the New York Post...

The head of CBS News’ standards and practices unit — who presided over some of the network’s recent controversial, woke reporting — is out as new boss Bari Weiss looks to bring more balance to the left-leaning network. Claudia Milne, who ran the division responsible for the moral, ethical and legal implications of CBS programming, is the first senior executive to leave the network since Weiss arrived as editor in chief earlier this month. Although Milne’s job had been “slowly phased out,” a CBS source called her departure “significant.” “She was part of the woke mob at CBS News. It...