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A city had a rude awakening when it tested its electric buses for security flaws. Some cities have gone all-in on their dedication to renewable energy and electric public transportation, but discovering that a jurisdiction does not actually control its own public property likely was not part of the idea. This turned out to be exactly the case when Ruter — the public transportation authority for Oslo, Norway — decided to run tests on its new Chinese electric buses. Approximately 300 e-buses from Chinese company Yutong made their way to Norway earlier this year, with outlet China Buses calling it...

I’m afraid of death because it inflates the definition of what a person is, or love, until they become the same, love, the beloved, immaterial.

Ten people are in hospital - nine with life-threatening injuries - after a stabbing spree on the 18:25 train service from Doncaster to London King's Cross on Saturday Police received calls from passengers on board the service at about 19:40, alerting them to the incident The train then made an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, where armed officers and emergency services rushed to the platform At about 21:45, the mayor of Cambridgeshire announced that two people had been arrested and were in custody - Cambridgeshire Police later confirmed this Counter-terror police have since joined the investigation, while officers work to...

@SenRonJohnson The records that were made public yesterday were not obtained from an agency — they were obtained through a whistleblower. We need more whistleblowers who want to see the integrity and credibility of @TheJusticeDept and @FBI restored. I am concerned that the partisan actors burrowed into these agencies are sabotaging the efforts of the Trump Administration

“Now when John, while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to Him, ‘Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?’” (Matthew 11:2–3). Even the righteous John the Baptist was not totally freed from worldly influences that could cause him doubts about Jesus. The Lord’s ministry did not completely square with what most Jews, including John, thought Messiah would do. The Christ could not set up His own kingdom without first freeing Israel from Roman bondage and injustice. But He had done nothing to oppose Rome. And Jesus’...

Republican U.S. Representative Thomas Massie, a longtime critic of both President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, has accused America’s political and business elite of benefiting from “immunities and privileges exceeding those of Royalty in Britain," as the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remained stalled in Congress. It comes after Andrew, a brother of Britain's King Charles III, was stripped of his title of "prince" and evicted from his residence in Windsor, England, amid scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein. In an email to Newsweek, Massie said: “On the day the House...

Just finished a long AI5 design review with the Tesla California and Texas chip engineers. It’s going to be great. And AI6 and AI7 will follow in fast succession. AI8 will be out of this world.

Back aways, we reposted a story that told the grim truth about the fate of babies with Down syndrome in Denmark. In 2019 there were virtually none—just 18! When I read “The last children of Down Syndrome” by Sarah Zhan, I immediately thought of the 2017 story from CBS News about Iceland titled “What kind of society do you want to live in? Inside the country where Down syndrome is Disappearing.” Zhan’s is a brilliantly written piece that appears in the Atlantic magazine. The subhead puts the story in the larger context: “Prenatal screening is changing who gets born and...

“Do not look to shooting stars, on which fragile wishes are entrusted. Look higher still — toward Jesus Christ, the Sun of righteousness, who will guide you along the paths of life.” In an address to young people gathered at the Vatican on October 30, 2025, Pope Leo XIV delivered a stirring call to students worldwide: “Do not settle for appearances or fads; dream of more; long for something greater.” The meeting, part of the Jubilee of the World of Education, was filled with joy, laughter, and reflection. The Pope combined warmth, wisdom, and wonder in his speech — inviting...

However, to move to the center is, by definition, to move in the direction of the other party, toward the hated enemy and away from your most passionate supporters. Nobody wants to do that! Which is why, in times of political defeat, there is a bottomless appetite for prescriptions that reassure the defeated party members that they just need to be truer to themselves, more effective, more ruthless. And no ambitious politician wants to be the first to throw cold water on these hopes. This is the psychological spot where many Democrats find themselves today. It is completely obvious that...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,...

In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong, joining millions of mainland Chinese who risked their lives to escape hunger, indoctrination and repression under Communist rule. Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election. She views socialism as a curse she barely survived when she fled China and fears that Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and the Democratic mayoral nominee, is a threat to her adopted home. Ms. Song cannot understand the...

Next stop: meet with President Trump next April 3 at the White House.

Many of Egypt's historic artifacts are found in museums outside the country, but those within the country are about to be displayed in its new Grand Egyptian Museum. The museum fully opens its doors next week. One of Egypt's world-famous artifacts outside of the country has been on display for over a century in Germany's capital Berlin. German archeologists found the bust of ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti in 1912 and took it from Egypt to Germany. Egypt wants it back. Sebastian Conrad, Professor of Modern History at the Freie Universität Berlin and author of "The Queen – Nefertiti's Global Career."...

Dodgers first repeat winners since the Yankees in 2000. Congratulations Dodgers and congratulations Blue Jays on a great World Series.

@AndrewKolvet on X: Concerned parents just sent us this image of what’s believed to be teachers in @vailschools. in Tuscon, Arizona mocking Charlie’s murder with costumes that read “Problem Solved” and blood down the left side of their shirts. Teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona’s Vail School District have sparked national outrage after dressing up in Halloween costumes that appeared to mock the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk. Photos circulating online show several teachers wearing white shirts splattered with red stains over the left side—the same area where Kirk was fatally shot in September—along with the phrase “Problem...

This week Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin visited former President Nicolas Sarkozy being held at the Sante prison in Paris... New taxes for France's 2026 Budget considered in the National Assembly yesterday a limited tax on holding companies approved. But a major tax on... Four Bulgarians convicted for spraying graffiti on a Holocaust memorial in Paris. The 'red handprint' defacing of the memorial said to have been a Russian action to sow division in France... And video from a Yellow Vests protest this afternoon... On Friday National Rally presidential candidate for 2027 Jordan Bardella at a book signing... This week by...

By Dr. John BergsmaThe Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, or more popularly, All Souls Day, is entirely unique in the Church's liturgical calendar. Although it is a very significant liturgical observance that attracts substantial Mass attendance (in regions where piety is healthy) on par with solemnities and other major feasts, it is neither a solemnity nor even a feast, and the spirit of the day has a unique mix of penitence, consolation, and intercession. The challenge for the homilist on All Souls is to offer consolation to those who grieve for lost loved ones without implying the canonization of...

I found this entertaining. I realize many eschew FB, but I can’t find it anywhere else. https://www.facebook.com/reel/796202876569652

In this fraught international context, Trump is acting totally saneDonald Trump has exercised the nuclear option, sort of. Sitting somewhere in South Korea, the President launched a Truth Social post on the topic of nukes: “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.” Then he thanked the world for its attention and sallied into a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping.That timing isn’t coincidental. The Red Dragon has spent the last decade hoarding nuclear warheads – almost as if there...