Kao/Navatek funneled money through a faux nonprofit to a Super PAC supporting Collins to bribe her for government contracts. He then emailed Navatek executives confirming Collins would funnel $32 million to their company. He admitted to this to the FBI; there are paper trails of the money and emails confirming the corruption. Confronted with a lengthy prison sentence, Kao cooperated with investigators in hopes of securing a reduced sentence by exposing the full scope of the conspiracy. His disclosures"previously unreleased to the public"alleged that the Corner Bakery encounter was merely a single component of a widespread pay-to-play system implicating prominent members of Congress, beyond just Senator Susan Collins. Read more
Even Donald Trump's most loyal political disciples are jumping off the president's sinking ship. Florida Representative and Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds dropped all mentions of Trump from his campaign website Tuesday, peeling himself away from the president's wake for the first time. Read more
Back in February, two Tomahawk missiles hit Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the Iran war. The blasts killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children.
Pasta sold nationwide at Walmart stores is being recalled over possible listeria contamination, according to a recent announcement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Bettergoods Authentic Italian Lemon Alfredo Fettuccine was recalled after "routine sampling" in two states found the finished product may contain listeria monocytogenes, "an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems."
A Toronto man has been acquitted of a choking attack on a young girl after a judge ruled that he had been under the influence of marijuana and said that the attack was due to a "psychotic episode." During the attack, he invoked Allah, according to court documents. Ahmed Baig pleaded not guilty to assault causing bodily harm and assault by choking after an August 2023 attack in which he left his home wearing only a towel after vaping cannabis. The towel fell off and he started chasing a family that he encountered in the driveway. "He ran into the driveway and picked up a seven-year-old girl. He threw her to the ground, punched her and strangled her. He then abruptly left the driveway, and a short time later was arrested by police. At the time of arrest, he wore only a T-shirt," Justice Mara Greene wrote, recounting the incident. Read more
n 1861, a small new England town erected a monument to Hannah Duston " possibly the first in the U.S. to honor a woman. But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero. Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death. Read more
Sep 10, 2026
What if Christianity isn't really about going to heaven when you die? In this special edition of Unbelievable, N.T. Wright joins Dr John Nelson at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford to unpack the central argument of his book God's Homecoming.
The complaint accuses Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and the city of violating the Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from favoring one religion over another, as well as Cleveland's free speech and equal protection rights. According to the complaint, the city spent $1,500 on "Ramadan Kareem" banners and $5,000 on a lighted crescent moon in Peace Park last year. It also alleges the Dearborn Police Department sold Ramadan-themed T-shirts while Cleveland's emails seeking comparable recognition for Easter and Passover went unanswered.
A couple things that capitalism gives you that socialism and collectivism doesnt: Privacy and individualism. Capitalism guards these things. You cant have them in a progressive ideology. The left MUST know who is rich and who isnt. They have to know where to aim their hate. They have to know where and who to physically TAKE things from to give away. That's how socialist democracies work. The exact thing our Constitutional Republic was made to avoid and is morally against. Take from those who produce and give to those who dont. But also, it gives the leftist something to make it look like they are morally correct. The capital they dont have. I truly believe some leftists want to help the poor. Problem is, they are just poor themselves and they dont have the money to do so. So they end up hurting and demonizing those very people who would and could be the ones to take care of the poor. The wealthy people they dont know.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- The city of Dearborn responded Saturday to a lawsuit accusing it of celebrating Muslim holidays and ignoring religious holidays of other faiths by blaming attacks against it on its diversity and "welcoming nature." A statement from the Detroit suburb issued by a spokesperson came in response to a lawsuit on Thursday that accused the city and its mayor of spending thousands of dollars to celebrate Muslim holidays while ignoring Christian and Jewish holidays. The lawsuit in federal court revived complaints about city government that arose a year ago after the Dearborn mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, told Ted Barham, a local pastor, that he was not welcome in the city and he would stage a parade when he left. The lawsuit by Margot Cleveland, a journalist for The Federalist, accused the city and its mayor, a Democrat, of favoring the Muslim faith over other religious beliefs in a city with a population of over 100,000 people that is majority Arab American. Read more
Data shows small businesses lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during Operation Metro Surge. A Hennepin County program launched to help them ended up shutting down. Nearly half of the applications for taxpayer-funded recovery money were fake. "We caught the fraud before we spent any money," Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lunde said. Lunde says it was an unfortunate win. In March 2026, Hennepin County Commissioners approved $2 million to help small businesses cover rent or mortgage payments as Operation Metro Surge kept customers away. Read more
Settler colonialism is not a story of friendly relations throughout. The confrontation with an unfamiliar other creates wariness and suspicion and often leads to violent outbursts in which non-combatants become innocent victims. The story of Manhattan in the seventeenth century was no exception, as the bloody conflict between Dutch settlers and Native Americans in 1643 shows. On the evening of 25 February 1643, soldiers and settlers of the colony of New Netherland massacred a large number of Native American men, women, and children belonging to Munsee nations on and around Manhattan. The victims were surprised in their sleep. They had assumed they were safe because they had recently sought shelter near New Amsterdam from Indigenous enemies. Dutch sources indicate that at least eighty and perhaps up to one hundred and twenty Munsees were murdered. Read more
Here is the translated transcript of the defining, concluding portion of General Juan Velasco Alvarado's historic address delivered on June 24, 1969, which announced the Agrarian Reform Law and fundamentally shifted the social structure of Peru: Read more
The link video is Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home (2010)
A country-folk song that seemed to be "popular" only on college stations.
"This will go down in history as the worst public project in world history," Strickland told The Center Square. "The mismanagement has been dramatic over a long period of time. It's not shocking that now they've uncovered wasteful, unaccountable spending." Read more
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of one of the most famous novels on climate change, says he has done more than 600 speaking events since "The Ministry for the Future" was published in 2020 -- but he won't read the first chapter out loud. In those opening pages, a prolonged heat wave grips a large swath of northern India. Told from the perspective of an aid worker named Frank, the book starts with a breakdown of the electrical grid, generators that run out of fuel and high temperatures combined with high humidity that lead to death everywhere. Unable to get relief, people die on rooftops, on the streets and in a lake. In the end, the heat kills 20 million people. "I just have this instinctive sense, no, this is too harsh," said Robinson during an interview with The Associated Press last month. "This is too ... I'm not willing to read this one aloud." Read more
