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Guy Benson: I want to rewind 20 years because I’m actually having some flashbacks...2006, you’re Secretary of State, there are wars underway, Iraq was not going well, and there was a midterm election. We remember how that went. It was a brutal one for the Republican Party. Dr. Condoleezza Rice: As President Bush said, “a thumping,” I think, was what he said. Guy Benson: A thumping, and here we are with another thumping with a few parallels, though not exactly the same. How does an administration react internally to an electoral shock to the system that way? Dr. Condoleezza Rice:...

Serbia’s media regulators are dictating which outlets citizens can get their news from after the country’s longtime nationalist leader Aleksandar Vučić lost to a student-led movement last month, prompting one of the voices behind a sanctioned publication to bring attention to the censorship with an international appeal. Dragan J. Vučićević, the founder and editor-in-chief of Belgrade-based newspaper the Informer, spoke out on the Informer TV show Kolegium after that program, along with others, were struck with bans and warnings from Serbia’s Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) for insulting certain politicians. While wearing a T-shirt bearing the face of U.S....

Nearly 2,200 migrants have reached Spain’s Canary Islands by boat over the past two days, Spain’s maritime rescue service said on Sunday. The archipelago off northwest Africa is a major entry point for migrants, mainly from West Africa, attempting the dangerous Atlantic crossing in makeshift boats. More than 13,000 of the just over 28,000 people who arrived in Spain by sea between January and the end of October landed in the Canary Islands, according to the Interior Ministry. Spain declared a migration emergency on the islands on Tuesday following a rise in arrivals in recent weeks, particularly from sub-Saharan Africa....

Police say witnesses reported the couple was assaulted on and off a bus near 33rd and Ames, and both sustained visible head and facial injuries in the afternoon attack OMAHA, Neb. — A video showing a woman being attacked by a larger group of students on a Metro bus is raising serious concerns in the neighborhood and across the metro about public safety on the bus, along with violence committed by teens

Australia and the Philippines signed a new defence pact on Sunday aimed at fast-tracking military cooperation and “bolstering deterrence” in a region marked by China’s growing military presence. The agreement, which updates a decades-old memorandum, was signed on the sidelines of a leaders’ meeting in Manila, with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in attendance. Manila and Canberra have steadily increased defence cooperation in recent years, including joint maritime patrols in the strategically vital South China Sea and land-based military exercises. US ally the Philippines has been engaged in years of confrontations with China over disputed areas of the South China...

OPINION:The 2026 midterms delivered the Democratic Socialists of America its most successful electoral performance in history. Six DSA-endorsed candidates won U.S. House seats on Nov. 3, quadrupling the party’s representation from two to eight members when the 120th Congress convenes in January. Christians looked at those results, the “Squad,” and the socialist organizations they believe are undermining this country and asked a familiar question: How do we dismantle this? That is the wrong question to ask. The better question is why we keep sending our children into the very institutions where these organizations recruit their future members. The indoctrination pipeline...

15 November 2026 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time St Albert The Great Catholic Church, Palo Alto, CAReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingProverbs 31:10-13,19-20,30-31A perfect wife...

District says teacher was 'offered a variety of ways in which she could practice her faith while not encroaching on the religious freedoms of her students'.. A veteran Connecticut public school teacher who says she was escorted out of her school with a crucifix in a box after refusing to remove the religious symbol from her classroom is taking her First Amendment fight to a federal appeals court, with oral arguments scheduled for Dec. 7. Marisol Arroyo-Castro, who has taught for more than 30 years .. was stunned when a school administrator informed her that displaying the crucifix was illegal...

The son of former CIA Director John Brennan was charged on Friday with “transportation of child pornography,” according to court documents and a U.S. law enforcement official. Kyle Brennan, of Warrenton, Virginia, was charged after an FBI review of his cellphone found 88 images that appeared to depict minor girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. John Brennan is a longtime antagonist of President Donald Trump, and the Justice Department has been investigating the former CIA director for more than a year. A criminal complaint...

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Democratic House and Senate majorities built on wins in Trump districts and red states are acting as a brake on lofty progressive proposals DENVER—James Talarico stood before hundreds of Democrats who gathered here to plot a new course for their party and called for Congress to pass an agenda as bold as Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. “We have a mandate the size of Texas,” said Talarico, who won an upset victory in the state’s Senate race. He ticked off universal health coverage, a national ban on gerrymandering and other policy ambitions during his remarks Thursday. But he and other incoming...

The House Oversight Committee just dropped its 15-month report on Jeffrey Epstein, and it reads like a catalog of institutional collapse. Federal investigators and prosecutors failed so thoroughly after 2005 that Epstein kept abusing young women for years. Nineteen people sat for transcribed interviews or depositions. Most of them claimed they saw nothing. A few got caught changing their stories. Democrats remain obsessed with pinning criminality on President Trump even though the committee found no documents implicating him. Survivors are still waiting for the full reckoning. The official title is “A Review of the Federal Government’s Mishandling of the Jeffrey...

Iran ramped up strikes in Bahrain early Sunday morning, carrying out a six-drone attack on a U.S. airbase.Bahrain said it had intercepted “several aerial attacks” before they hit their targets. Iran, meanwhile, claimed it had struck a base. This comes two days after Iran reported it had attacked a U.S. early-warning radar facility also in Bahrain, but the U.S. military denied it, saying it had intercepted the drones without damage.The Gulf kingdom had not been struck by Iran since a blitz in September. U.S. Navy Secretary Hung Cao at the time said that the Iranian military “blew the hell” out...

Barely a week after the midterm elections, Democrats are debating how to turn newfound support among young men into a lasting coalition, while Republicans are trying to understand why the group abandoned them so decisively. An estimated 59% of men ages 18 to 29 voted for Democratic ​US House of Representatives candidates, compared with 37% for Republicans, according to Tufts University's Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. That marked a sharp reversal from 2024, when AP VoteCast found young men ‌backing President Donald Trump over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by 14 points, 56% to 42%. That...

Explanation: Where will the next meteor appear? Even during a meteor shower, it is practically impossible to know. Therefore, a good way to enjoy a meteor shower is to find a place where you can sit comfortably and monitor a great expanse of dark sky. And it may be satisfying to share this experience with a friend. The meteor shower depicted was the 2022 Leonids and the view is from Hainan, China looking out over the South China Sea. Meteor streaks captured over a few hours were isolated and added to a foreground image recorded earlier. Leonid meteor streaks trace...

LOGANVILLE, Ga. - A potential Islamic training center and mosque planned for Lee Byrd Road in Loganville has sparked controversy among residents, drawing hundreds of people to a Loganville City Council meeting on Thursday night. Loganville mosque proposal controversy What we know: Hundreds of people packed the Loganville City Council meeting on Thursday night to discuss a proposed 20,000-square-foot Islamic training center on Lee Byrd Road. Dozens of people spoke during the meeting, with each given five minutes to address the council. Some attendees stood in the parking lot and waited nearly five hours for their turn to speak. Councilmember...

Russia’s Security Council reportedly lifted an unofficial ban on killing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top generals during a high-stakes meeting with strongman Vladimir Putin, according to several pro-Kremlin news outlets.Kyiv’s repeated raids on Russia’s oil export hub on the Baltic Sea, including the 10th recent blow to the critical port of Ust-Luga in the St. Petersburg area proved the catalyst for the decision, Blokot reported.(snip) Officials reportedly said they could use heavy hypersonic weapons to target bunkers and motorcades carrying Ukrainian leaders and top army commanders.(snip)The Kremlin tried to take out Zelensky in the early stages of the...

Since the first presentation 2016, much new relevant data has become available, resulting in a revised version of the original book being published in 2021 and a sequel, entitled "After 1177 BC," appearing in 2024. This illustrated talk will update the original lecture, presenting a streamlined version of what we now know, or think we know, about the Late Bronze Age Collapse, its aftermath, and its potential relevance to our world today. Professor Eric Cline’s primary fields of study are biblical archaeology, the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present, and the international connections between Greece, Egypt,...

People (who have never been to Israel) have been telling me that if I walk with my cross in Jerusalem, people will spit on me endlessly. So, I went directly to the JEWISH QUARTER to test it. What happened next will BORE YOU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YexPiT39obc

Democrats are in a position to make it easier for healthcare professionals to help people kill themselves after securing new trifectas in six states following the 2026 midterms. In 2025, one out of 215 deaths in Hawaii was the result of ingesting lethal drugs prescribed under the state’s 2019 assisted suicide law, the National Right to Life Committee stated in a Friday press release. Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin could join Hawaii and the 13 other U.S. jurisdictions that legalized assisted suicide if newly empowered Democrats revive past efforts during the next sessions of the state legislatures they...