Democrats are warning that their party’s nominee to be the next senator for Texas, James Talarico, apparently lacks the amount of support from black voters he needs to flip the traditionally Republican state. “Listen, my home state of Texas, we feel incredibly encouraged for two reasons,” Ashley Etienne, formerly the...

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Enes Kanter Freedom has five questions for the commissioner of the WNBA after his ejection from a Chicago Sky game for quarreling with a player. Kanter Freedom, a former NBA player, most notably with the Boston Celtics, is challenging the WNBA's woke rules on gender by declaring himself eligible for...

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A Deerfield Beach, Florida, woman fatally shot a man previously arrested for murder on August 19, 2026 according to Broward County authorities. A witness told Local 10 News, a Miami-based TV station, that Maurice Wright Jr., 31, found out where his ex-girlfriend lived and attacked her. Wright and the ex-girlfriend...

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I look out at congregations across America and see the people who policymakers say they want to support: young couples who work hard, marry, worship, and are raising children or dream of doing so soon. Yet according to recent data, that dream is becoming less of a reality. America’s fertility...

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Earlier this week, the Canadian taxpayer found out that they were supporting, with their hard-earned money, an organization that wouldn't call the deadliest terror attack in human history "terrorism." Americans found out about it, too, and they were pretty unhappy -- especially since we're approaching the 25th anniversary of the...

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OpenAI released a sprawling report about how its artificial intelligence (AI) model went rogue and hacked another company in July. The AI lab released the 38-page report Wednesday, chronicling how its models escaped a testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face, exposing companies’ credentials at four accounts on four services...

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Oh, Lawrence O'Donnell still has a show. Right. I'd forgotten about the guy or the network he's on, currently called MS NOW after NBC spun it off. Last time I remember talking about O'Donnell was when he was lying about media coverage of President Donald Trump. (He claimed the Trump-deranged...

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An adult who tripped an opposing player during a Wisconsin youth football game has been charged with disorderly conduct. Video showed the moment when a Racine Youth Eagles player was heading for a touchdown against the visiting Milwaukee Colts when a man ran onto the field and tripped the player...

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A United Nations agency told countries to “strongly discourage” merchant ship crews from acquiring firearms to defend against piracy, despite 90 sailors being held hostage by Somali pirates. Piracy rose in 2025, according to the annual report from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) released in June, with 171 incidents of...

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Anthony Fauci’s division at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided cover for sensitive CIA research on bioterrorism threats, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. An undated interagency agreement between the CIA and Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) appears to shed light...

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An Obama-appointed judge once again temporarily barred the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out President Donald Trump’s restrictions on mail-in ballots in a Thursday ruling. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani lifted a preliminary injunction Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some of Trump’s limits could remain in place....

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Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed may have hurt himself in his campaign with his demeaning comments toward Second Lady Usha Vance, according to a new report. El-Sayed, a darling of the far left who is seeking Michigan’s open Senate seat, trashed Usha Vance after her husband, Vice President J.D. Vance,...

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Police using Flock Safety’s artificial intelligence tools can now track a vehicle based only on its location and movements. Flock’s OS Investigate, formerly known as Nightshift, is an AI tool that identifies vehicles and ranks drivers’ “associates” based on how frequently they appear together at the same Flock camera, WIRED...

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Improper enrollment across Affordable Care Act exchanges cost American taxpayers billions of dollars in 2024, according to a Paragon Health Institute analysis released Wednesday. Combining Paragon’s previous estimates of improper exchange enrollment and Medicaid expansion enrollment suggests that 14.3 million individuals enrolled in these programs in 2024, or 34% of...

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Your phone rings. Thinking it could be important, you take the call, expecting another human being on the other end of the line. Instead, you’re greeted with a lifeless automated voice warning of “suspicious” purchases or an unpaid Internal Revenue Service debt. The scale of America’s robocall epidemic is staggering,...

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Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller used artificial intelligence to write his widely circulated Wall Street Journal opinion piece criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, NOTUS reported Tuesday. Druckenmiller acknowledged to NOTUS that he used AI to help write his “Let the Bond Market Speak” column, which made the rounds across the financial...

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Proponents of “radical gender ideology” are more likely to “hold left-wing authoritarian beliefs and believe political violence is justified,” according to a Department of Health and Human Services study out Wednesday. The HHS-commissioned study also claims that individuals who held left-wing authoritarian beliefs “were more likely to justify political violence...

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After being pummeled for warning its reporters not to use the T-word in relation to 9/11, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has agreed that perhaps it can bend in this instance and call terrorism by its real name. Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC, frumped...

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates alleged that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than society can contain it. The tech titan said that the world is unprepared for the transition into an AI era, in his Wednesday essay “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.” Gates...

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A report that he would seek the White House in 2028 is fake news in all its questionable glory, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. NBC News reported Friday that Hegseth is talking about a possible run. “100% false,” Hegseth posted on X. “We told NBC that, but they...

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The New York Times recently posed a question that should never have needed asking in a free country: “Should We Read ‘Huck Finn’?” Their answer, wrapped in the usual hand-wringing about “slurs,” “job-endangering conversations” and the delicate feelings of students, amounts to a soft surrender. Educators are quietly dropping Mark...

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