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Bernie is loaded ... Bernie Sanders personally contributes $1 million to Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate campaign. ... Bernie, a millionaire communist with multiple homes (his net worth is at least $2.5 million), thanked his fellow communists for supporting the Muslim communist. ... Bernie previously transferred $250,000 to El-Sayed's campaign. He says they must defeat the Jews ... El-Sayed is apparently hard-up for cash, having only ONE multi-million-dollar vacation home in the United Arab Emirates. ... El-Sayed and his wife earned $686,000 in 2025 and also own vacation rentals in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Bangalore, India. They are worth up to...

A psychiatric patient was frightened into taking his own life when a nurse suggested he might be detained against his will, a coroner has said. Jonny Doughty, 42, was found fatally injured at his home in Fair Oak, Hampshire, in August 2024. The company boss should have been given a hospital bed by Southern Health NHS Trust, coroner Nicholas Walker said. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust, which has taken over from Southern Health, said it fully accepted the coroner's findings and had made improvements. Doughty's widow said "Before he got ill, Jonny was the most wonderful person....

Adolf Hitler's Alpine mountain retreat, known as the Eagle's Nest, was engulfed in flames on Friday night while police arrested a 33-year-old male suspect. The residence, called the Kehlsteinhaus, is above the town of Berchtesgaden. It was one of several buildings in the area used by the Nazi dictator and his entourage during World War Two. Hitler also used the area as a backdrop for propaganda films portraying him as a lover of animals and nature. Local media reported that site had been "largely destroyed", with the public urged to avoid the area.

A romantic camping getaway in the New Jersey woods allegedly turned into a nightmare when a Bergen County man burned his girlfriend and abandoned her in the wilderness, authorities say. Justin D. Martin, 36, of Saddle Brook, faces attempted murder and aggravated arson charges following the horrifying Oct. 15 attack in the Colliers Mills area of Plumsted township. According to court documents, the badly injured woman managed to find a worker in the woods and desperately begged him to call 911. The call came at 1:36 pm. She told the worker her boyfriend had tried to kill her and burn...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit priest suggests saints are ‘often’ gay 'The saints are often themselves instructive as queer saints,' said Father James Keenan, S.J., citing a 'queer theologian.'Father James Keenan, S.J., during the keynote address for this year’s annual Outreach Conference, blasphemously cited a “queer theologian” to suggest that saints are “often” homosexual.During his keynote address for the 2026 Outreach Conference at Georgetown University, the Jesuit cited the work of Flora Tang to claim that the saints are “often themselves instructive as queer saints.”Keenan, who has served as a theology professor at the nominally Catholic Boston College for over 20 years,...

About 7,300 years ago, Kikai produced the Kikai-Akahoya eruption, a giant event that released an estimated 133 to 183 cubic kilometers of magma in dense rock equivalent. The eruption reshaped the landscape, sent ash across large parts of Japan and left behind a vast caldera south of Kyushu. Now, new seismic research suggests that the magma reservoir involved in that ancient eruption is not empty. It is being refilled.>Snip< One of the most important findings is that the magma under Kikai is probably not simply a leftover pocket from the eruption 7,300 years ago. Chemical studies of later volcanic rocks...

An overnight fire engulfed Eagle's Nest, a historic Nazi-era site once used by Adolf Hitler in Germany's Bavarian Alps. Firefighters faced difficult conditions battling the flames at the mountaintop location, while one suspect has been taken into temporary custody.

R&B legend Stevie Wonder is suing to evict his ex-fiancée from his Studio City home she’s been living in rent-free for nearly four decades. The Motown icon filed a lawsuit against former flame Carmen Efferson in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, after she cursed out his legal representatives and refused access to the home for a property tax inspection, the complaint says. Efferson allegedly refused to vacate the home on Oak Glen Drive when the singer’s legal reps tried to get her out of his home, which she has been living in since July 1988 per an oral agreement,...

Explanation: This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was snapped on October 7th, 2014. At the time the comet-chasing spacecraft was about 472 million kilometers from planet Earth, but only 16 kilometers from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Looming beyond the spacecraft near the top of the frame, dust and gas stream away from the comet's curious double-lobed nucleus. Bright sunlight glints off one of Rosetta's 14 meter long solar arrays. In fact, two exposures, one short and one long, were combined to record the dramatic high contrast scene using the CIVA camera system on Rosetta's still-attached Philae lander. Its chosen primary landing...

[Catholic Caucus] The Precarious Situation of China’s Underground Catholics Upon the election of Pope Leo XIV, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian stated: ‘We hope that under the leadership of the new pope, the Vatican will continue to have dialogue with China in a constructive spirit, have in-depth communication on international issues of mutual interest, jointly advance the continuous improvement of the China–Vatican relations, and make contributions to world peace, stability, development, and prosperity.’The ‘constructive spirit’ was nothing else than the continuity of the provisional agreement designed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin in 2018 with the blessing...

Netflix released a documentary about the legendary late comedian last week. But what I remember most about him is something he said in a 2018 tweet: ‘How could a man be a cynic? It is a sin.’I’ve long believed that to understand a society, a culture, its people, there’s no better place to look than comedians. Comedy is a medium that does its best to defy performative opinions. It lives and dies on the instant feedback of a raucous chorus of laughter, the desperate silence of a failed punch line. There’s no room for ambiguity. Something is funny or it...

Hillary Clinton may no longer be the most influential voice in the Democratic Party, but she remains a member in good standing of the party establishment. So when she expresses support for expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court, it tells us that what was once a radical idea has gone mainstream. “We should seriously look at expanding the court while the Democrats are in power,” Clinton said on a recent podcast. “You know, it used to be that you’d have one justice for each circuit. We now have 13 circuits, we should have 13 justices.” Adding four...

Quran is "Word of God" and Muhammad "chosen by God" - says Italian bishops’ school material. The publication, Schede per conoscere l’Islam (“Sheets for Understanding Islam”), was prepared by the CEI and the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI). It comprises 11 teaching sheets intended for use in Catholic religious instruction in Italian schools. They were presented at Palazzo Borromeo in Rome on October 21, at an event attended by Cardinal Matteo Zuppi.Sheet 2 describes Muhammad as “chosen by God to carry His message and to establish and guide the new community of believers.” It also presents him...

Some drivers who are caught speeding make some of the most outlandish excuses when they face the cops. One woman in Florida was flustered when a deputy asked why she was driving 90 miles per hour and she tells him that she was late to visiting her mom who has cancer. The driver didn't have a license, though, which led deputies to search her vehicle. And that's when they found many things that she didn't want them to know about. (snip) Bodycam footage shows a deputy asking [Tosha] Cisco why she was driving 90 miles per hour in a 50-mph...

Please pray for my husband John, who was admitted last night through the ER to the hospital with a Troponin level of 3 that jumped to 5. Other types of tests corroborate. Cardiac issues and on oxygen, resting comfortably just awaiting what tests the doctor will do next. He had a major M.I., 4 stents in April 2025 and has congestive heart failure (35% ejection fraction), but has been doing very well since and was reasonably recovered except for periods of weakness and need for extra sleep. Such a wonderful courageous man, I love him so very very much. Always...

Otzma Yehudit chairman and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Friday criticized efforts by the Likud party to attract voters away from his party, claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to establish a broad coalition with Gadi Eisenkot in which Ben Gvir would have limited influence. In a Facebook post published before the start of Shabbat, Ben Gvir urged his supporters to reject what he described as Likud's campaign to draw votes away from smaller right-wing parties. He warned that a weakened Otzma Yehudit might leave him outside the next government. "I need your help to ensure that...

Who edits this stuff? A rant from the New York Times editorial board compares the Trump administration to some of history’s worst dictatorships:The revocation of a political opponent’s citizenship has long been a tool of authoritarian repression.The Soviet Union stripped Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the dissident author, of his citizenship in 1974 and deported him to West Germany. Czechoslovakia revoked the citizenship of Milan Kundera, another celebrated author, in 1979. East Germany and Romania, under Communist rule, took similar steps against critics, as did Chile under Augusto Pinochet, Greece under its military dictatorship, Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini. More recently,...

It’s surprising that it’s gotten to this point. The warning signs have been obvious for weeks. A soccer match between PSG and Lyon recently was moved from Sunday to Monday, at the direction of French authorities. If the NFL won’t do the prudent thing and move the game to London, the powers-that-be in Paris should direct the NFL to bump Steelers-Saints to Monday, too. There’s no reason to wait. They should make the move now.

A growing number of Minnesota Democrats are speaking out against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s upcoming appearance at an event featuring controversial far-left Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker. Democratic state Sen. Omar Fateh is organizing the sold-out event, the first in a new conversation series called “I’m the Host Now,” in Minneapolis on Monday. A description on Eventbrite says the discussion will focus on Minneapolis, politics and the community. “I am honored to be able to share space alongside two fearless champions for our people who fight for us and the future that we want to build,” Fateh said...

In this episode, your window reveals a timelapse of one of the most dramatic urban evolutions in human history. For over two millennia, Rome was shaped by political revolutions, wars, plagues, the rise and fall of empires, and a continuous cycle of destruction and renewal. Among its most dramatic chapters is the era of the Domus Aurea. After the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, Emperor Nero seized vast areas across the Palatine, Esquiline, and Caelian hills to build his sprawling Golden House, complete with an enormous artificial lake at its heart. Just a few years later, that same...