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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday his state will hold a Nov. 4 special election to seek voter approval of a new congressional map drawn to try to win Democrats five more U.S. House seats in 2026.

Fort Worth is doing away with its most prestigious form of recognition, proclamations issued on behalf of the entire City Council, after a proposed proclamation recognizing June as Pride month led to division among the council. Going forward, the highest form of recognition will be issued solely by the mayor. Council members will still be able to give lesser forms of recognition, called special recognitions, that will be issued by a single council member on behalf of the city.

Just months before his assassination, conservative leader Charlie Kirk penned a lengthy and impassioned letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reaffirming his "deep love for Israel and the Jewish people" while urging the country to radically reform how it communicates with younger generations in the digital age.The five-page letter, dated May 2, pushed back against rumors — fueled by fellow conservative commentator Candace Owens and others — that Kirk had soured on Israel.Charlie Kirk: ‘Our Civilization Is Committing Suicide'... Read MoreInstead, it revealed a man deeply committed to defending the Jewish state, though frustrated with what he called its...

Oct 3 (Reuters) - Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza proposal, and signalled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The Trump Administration's desire to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine may not be viable because current inventories are committed to the U.S. Navy and other uses, a U.S. official and three sources said. U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that Washington was considering a Ukrainian request to obtain long-range Tomahawks that could create havoc deep into Russia, including Moscow. On Wednesday, Reuters reported, opens new tab the U.S. will provide Ukraine with intelligence on long-range energy infrastructure targets in Russia.But a U.S. official and sources familiar with Tomahawk missile training and supplies...

Deputy PM David Lammy was booed at a Manchester synagogue vigil after the Yom Kippur attack. The assailant, previously accused of rape, had been freed on bail. His father condemned the attack but had praised Hamas on Oct. 7. Ynet Global|10.03.15.14:58 Jihad al-Shami, the attacker who carried out the Yom Kippur synagogue attack in Manchester, had recently been released on bail after being accused of rape and was due to appear in court soon, Britain’s Guardian reported Friday. According to the report, al-Shami was investigated over a rape earlier this year and had past convictions for several criminal offenses. Despite...

The following are clips from the U.K. published by the MEMRI Sermons by Imams in the West project. The project releases clips of inflammatory antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-U.S., and pro-Hamas, pro-Hizbullah, and pro-Houthi sermons and statements by imams in mosques and Islamist organizations throughout the U.S., Canada, U.K., and the rest of the West. Clips from the project have prompted widespread criticism of these sermons and statements from political leaders and public apologies from some imams.

As a former state commander of a major Veterans Service Organization, I know firsthand how difficult it is to obtain service records from the National Archives. That's why, when I learned that a political operative tied to Jack Ciattarelli - the Trump-endorsed Republican running for governor in New Jersey - was handed the unredacted service records of his Ciattarelli's opponent, Democrat Mikie Sherrill, my B.S. meter went off at full siren. This was a movie I had seen before. As a college student, I had the honor of chauffeuring former Senator Max Cleland around New Jersey and New York. Cleland,...

Same trio of Democratic caucus members join Republicans in failed vote as both sides dig into positionsSenate Democrats blocked Republicans’ attempt to reopen the government again, all but guaranteeing that the government shutdown rolls through the weekend.After a day off to observe Yom Kippur, lawmakers made little progress in finding an off-ramp to end the shutdown, which entered its third day on Friday. And as the government remains closed, both sides appear to be digging further into their positions.Senate Republicans’ attempt to reopen the government failed on a largely party-line 54-44 vote for a fourth time, with the same trio...

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Europe bankrolled China’s rise through green dogma—Trump and Vance warn America must choose sovereignty and strength or repeat Europe’s surrender.I serve as a Member of the European Parliament, and for many years, I have advocated for the automotive industry. I have spent years fighting misguided climate and automotive policies that cripple our industries. From that front-row seat, I can tell you plainly: Europe’s leaders have bankrolled China’s empire. If America follows the same path, you will hand Beijing the 21st century.As President Trump reminded the United Nations, nations that surrender their sovereignty in pursuit of applause inevitably collapse into dependence....

Just ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City two weeks ago, the Secret Service announced a major intelligence bust. "The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials, which represented an imminent threat to the agency’s protective operations," the Secret Service announced in a statement at the time. "In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks. This includes disabling cell phone...

They played into their own checkmate.Earlier this week, Uncle Sam’s red-white-and-blue getup, a la Cinderella’s dress, morphed into dirty rags once the clock struck midnight.If an unpropitious way to start the fiscal year, it seems more honest than the 365 days that preceded. October 1, after all, admitted that the federal government is broke. The days before it, a la Kevin Bacon in Animal House, insisted “All is well!”The counterintuitive, Baconesque, if you will, message of the government shutdown is: Remain calm. All is well!The real problem, of course, occurred not on October 1, when rules forced the federal government...

The government of Japan this week extended the application of nine laws related to spousal rights and responsibilities to same-sex couples, a significant, if limited, victory in the country’s slow march towards marriage equality. The Japanese constitution currently defines marriage as “mutual consent between both sexes.” It does not recognize same-sex unions. Three of eight of Japan’s regional high courts in the last few years have ruled that the government’s failure to grant legal recognition to same-sex couples is unconstitutional. In its Tuesday announcement, the government said it will consider same-sex couples to be in “de facto marriages” under the...

Foreign spy services from China, Russia and elsewhere are engaged in low-level warfare targeting the U.S., and American counterspies should be “operationalized” to defeat them, according to a counterintelligence adviser to the Pentagon. Shane McNeil, now studying for a doctorate at the Institute of World Politics, said the U.S. government needs to stop using counterintelligence (CI) against foreign spies as a legal compliance back office.“In today’s battlespace, CI isn’t a support function — it’s a warfighting discipline,” Mr. McNeil, a counterintelligence adviser to the military’s Joint Staff at the Pentagon, stated in an online article.If the Pentagon wants to survive...

FORT WORTH, TX (September 30, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) secured another landmark victory for individual liberty when Chief District Judge Reed O’Connor for the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Texas ruled that the federal ban on firearm possession, storage, and carry at United States Post Offices and related properties, including post office parking lots, violates the Second Amendment in the FPC case of Firearms Policy Coalition v. Attorney General Pam Bondi. As Judge O’Connor explained, “it is hard to envision that the Founders would countenance banning firearms in the post office—particularly because they did...

Another high-ranking prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia has been fired. Last month, President Trump fired Erik Siebert as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia because he refused to bring charges against Letitia James, Comey, Schiff, and others. Shortly after Siebert’s firing, Lindsey Halligan, the new Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, indicted former FBI Director James Comey. However, the night before Lindsey Halligan indicted Comey, Deep State prosecutors in the EDVA, leaked a memo in an effort to defend Comey. “Two sources familiar with the matter tell me prosecutors in the EDVA...

Bari Weiss is set to become CBS News editor-in-chief as Paramount is expected to acquire her digital outlet the Free Press for $150 million.The appointment represents new owner David Ellison’s effort to shake up the traditional network after a recent Trump-related legal settlement.Some industry observers question whether the outsider can navigate CBS’s entrenched newsroom culture without alienating the network’s existing audience. CBS News will learn a lot about its future next week when Bari Weiss, founder of the upstart news site the Free Press, is expected to enter the hallowed halls where Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace once roamed. Weiss,...

The president argues that the federal bureaucracy is useless. Shutdowns tend to reinforce that view.For any party shut out of power in Washington, there are only bad options and worse. Try to project sobriety and your base calls you weak; lodge a bunch of protests and you mostly look small. Everything you do registers between feckless and futile.So I can understand how Democratic leaders came to see a government shutdown as their last, best recourse. It’s half performance for their own furious voters, half primal scream at the unfairness of the universe.It’s also a shortsighted gambit that will do more...