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THE 2026 FIFA World Cup is posing a threat to the United States’ expected $30 billion boom. Hotel and flight sales have proven lacklustre with one million tickets still unsold ahead of the World Cup. Overseas soccer fans appear uninterested in attending the upcoming World Cup in the USA. International fans are choosing to boycott the tournament, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s US Hotel Outlook Report. Nearly 80 percent of hotels in nine American host cities claim that they are operating behind initial projections. It has been suggested that FIFA releasing 70 percent of its room blocks...

A Chicago alderman, incensed by the upcoming closure of a Walgreens store amid safety concerns, stated that the corporate retailer should be charged with "first-degree corporate abandonment." Ald. William Hall, along with several community members, held a news conference Monday to voice their anger over the company's decision to close the location in Chicago’s 6th Ward in the Chatham neighborhood. "Walgreens should be charged with first-degree corporate abandonment," Hall said. "It should be a crime, the way they're treating our elders. It should be a crime, the way they're treating our families." The store is slated to close on June...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., refused to respond to a request from a Minnesota committee seeking more information on her ties to the massive fraud scandal in the state, prompting a failed subpoena vote on Tuesday, but the committee’s chair says more options exist. The subpoena, which required a two-thirds committee vote in favor to pass, only got five out of the six votes needed despite the committee's Republican majority. "We have reached out to Representative Ilhan Omar on multiple occasions, inviting her to testify and inviting and requesting documents," State Rep. Kristin Robbins, chair of the House Fraud Prevention and...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is pausing “Project Freedom,” the U.S. military’s effort to guide commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, one day after the operation began. Trump, in a Truth Social post, said the decision was based in part on “the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement” with Iran. Stock futures rose following Trump’s announcement, which raised hopes for a peace agreement that would end the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran and reopen the economically vital strait. It also represented a surprising about-face from the Trump administration, which just hours...

How time travel could work: Scientists have uncovered a way to send messages into the past Time machines may seem better suited to science fiction than the physics lab, but experts say this futuristic technology could become a reality. Researchers have revealed how time travel could really work by using the laws of quantum physics. While their method won't let you hop back to the time of the dinosaurs, scientists say it could be possible to send messages into the past. The researchers even say this mind–bending technique would work just like in Christopher Nolan's sci–fi epic, Interstellar. In the...

Pratt is a genius! Video depicts him as a Batman-like super hero and Bass as the Joker!....

Influential pastors are claiming that they have been told to prepare their followers for shocking revelations about UFOs which may upend belief in the Bible. Perry Stone, a well-known evangelist, author and Bible teacher from Tennessee, warned that fellow pastors were recently invited to a secret meeting with US intelligence officials to prepare for the release of secret files on extraterrestrials. According to Stone, the officials warned a small group of pastors with a large reach in the Christian community that the government was about to release reports and possibly videos of aliens and spacecraft which were not from this...

Republican strategist Karl Rove said Monday that current polling does not foreshadow a “tsunami” for Democrats in the upcoming midterms. “So, this election’s going to be a wild one. It’s going to be very close, in my opinion. It’s going to be settled by a relatively small number of contests. Somebody’s going to win, somebody’s going to lose. Likely, the House goes Democrat, Senate stays Republican,” Rove told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum on “The Story.” “But the idea that this is going to be a tsunami, like we’ve seen in the past, I think it’s not borne out by the...

U.S. President Donald Trump called on Americans to observe Shabbat from sundown on May 15 to nightfall on May 16 in a proclamation signed yesterday. Israel365News reports that Trump is the first American president to make such a declaration. In his statement, he referenced George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue and highlighted how Jewish Americans help fulfill the founding promise of the nation as it marks its 250th year. “In special honor of 250 glorious years of American independence and on the weekend of Rededicate 250 — a national jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving — Jewish Americans...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday called for Anthony Fauci, former longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to be indicted for what the senator claimed was his lying under oath about gain-of-function research. “6 days from now, on May 11th, the statute of limitations expires on the possibility of indicting Anthony Fauci for denying under oath that he funded gain-of-function research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, the origin city of the pandemic,” Paul wrote on social media. Paul was referencing the May 11, 2021, hearing held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,...

RealRobert@Real_RobN·4hHere it is:The Georgia Election Board officially confirms INTENTIONAL HUMAN INTERVENTION—the predicate for a CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY.Simply put: it was scanned twice, it was counted twice—intentionally, maliciously, and deliberately.• 17,852 votes counted with no ballot images • 20,713 original votes from tabulators out of thin air • 3,930 duplicates counted and inserted into the CERTIFIED count via a criminal conspiracy,How was this done?Joseph Rossi: “Ballots were scanned on one day, and then they were randomly picked these batches of ballots and created a new batches and scanned a second day on a different tabulator.”“We now know with certainty that this duplication...

A top Chicago Democrat mocked an Asian police officer's penis size after being arrested for driving under the influence and tried to pressure an emergency room doctor who treated her to not testify, a court heard. Samantha Steele, 47, who represents Chicago's District 2 covering most of the North Side and northern suburbs, was charged with misdemeanor DUI after her November 2024 arrest. Her trial began Monday. Bodycam video shown in a Richard J. Daley Center courtroom captured Steele refusing a field sobriety test and then being arrested after stepping out of her car, according to the Chicago Tribune. She...

Sarah Rogers is known for keeping America’s allies in check. She has little patience for European censors who stifle free expression.Last Saturday, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Sarah Rogers—under secretary of state for public diplomacy—was sitting next to congressional leader Steve Scalise when she heard “shots fired” through the radios of Scalise’s protection detail.Cole Tomas Allen—a teacher from California—had stormed a security checkpoint and, heavily armed, was headed for the ballroom and President Donald Trump when he was apprehended by the Secret Service. Rogers recalls how “armed men—law enforcement—charged into the room toward where we...

Nick Sortor@nicksortorSubscribeClick to Subscribe to nicksortorBOMBSHELL: Secretary Rubio just stated that he believes the War Powers Act, which Democrats keep trying to invoke to stop President Trump's Iran operations, is UNCONSTITUTIONAL"The War Powers Act is unconstitutional, 100%. Now, this is not the position of me, not the position of the President of the United States now.This is the position of EVERY SINGLE president that has occupied this position since the day that law passed.It's completely unconstitutional. Now, we comply with it in terms of notification because we want to preserve good relations with Congress, right? And we do that, but...

The suspected hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship, which has killed three people and sickened at least seven others, has two likely causes — and both are bad news for the 150 passengers on board, experts said. The more likely scenario would be passengers contracting the virus from the feces, urine or saliva of infected rats or mice. That’s the usual transmission vector, according to physician Zaid Fadul, a former Air Force flight surgeon — although the World Health Organization insisted Tuesday that no rodents have been found on the stranded liner. But there’s one strain of the...

Eric Trump@EricTrumpFor the first time, I am extremely proud to share the OFFICIAL logo for the Donald J. Trump International Airport in Palm Beach, Florida. There is no person more deserving of this incredible honor than @realDonaldTrump! Congratulations Dad!Looking forward to seeing flights landing at “DJT” very very soon! Looking forward to seeing flights landing at “DJT” very very soon! May 5, 2026

James Buchan, a former fisherman in the Scottish port of Peterhead, has swallowed his hostility towards Nigel Farage. The 38-year-old's longstanding distrust of the populist Reform UK leader and Brexit campaigner has been eclipsed by his fears for the local economy, which he said had been hollowed out by decades of ruinous British government policy. This week, he plans to vote for Reform for the first time, seeing the party's pledges to maximise oil and gas ‌production in the North Sea and restrict the access of European fishing boats as the best chance of reviving the town's fortunes. "Some of...

RealRobert@Real_RobNThis is:Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and United States Homeland Security Advisor, CONFIRMS:It’s worse — it’s not 20 to 30, but over 40 House seats.Democrats extorted over 40 House seats by counting illegal aliens in the Census.“The combination of illegal alien apportionment, flawed censuses, and unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered districts created an artificial 40+ House seats for Democrats.”@StephenM: “40 Democrat House seats wouldn’t exist but for illegal aliens!”President Trump has instructed the U.S. Department of Commerce to begin planning a “new and highly accurate census” that would exclude illegal aliens from the population count.“Let’s not forget:...

“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty – come and join the Platner party!” is the collective refrain from Democrats (with rare exceptions) as they close ranks around the guy with the Nazi tattoo. Now that Governor Janet Mills has dropped out of the primary race, the opportunity for Graham Platner to be the Democrat candidate for United States Senate in Maine is all but assured, and Democrats are willingly spinning this news as “happy and gay.” Yes, yes, Graham Platner covered up his Totenkopf tattoo with a really shitty wolf-ish thing, but let’s all remember two things. First, he knew...