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Monday, January 19, 2026

The president has intensified his criticism of Canada in private conversations with aides in recent weeks over what he sees as the country's vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic.


At least 21 people have died in a train collision in southern Spain and left dozens more injured, as authorities warned the death toll could increase in Spain's worst rail crash in more than a decade. Carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks, colliding with an oncoming train in Adamuz, near the city of Crdoba. Read more


DHS Border Patrol recruitment video (quoting Isaiah 6:8): "I heard the voice of the Lord saying....and I said, Here am I. Send me.'" "God doesn't ask for the most polished, or the most powerful. He asks for the willing ... and ready to move where he leads. It's a choice to face the unknown and to trust that God will equip you along the way."


L.A. County Public Defender Noah Cox noticed the disturbing trend. Many of his clients seemed to struggle answering even the most basic questions about the crimes they'd been charged with, questions like, "Where were you that day?" It seemed, Cox said, "like they were having troubles related to some sort of intellectual ability."


Britain's so-called Brexit wars dominated parliament for years. Now the Labour government is bracing for new battles as it eyes legislation to move closer to the European Union.


Sunday, January 18, 2026

Don Lemon captured anti-ICE protesters storming a church and confronting a pastor who they believed works as an immigration agent during a chaotic scene that sabotaged the church's service on Sunday. Lemon recorded the protesters during a livestream on his YouTube program. The protesters ran into Cities Church in Minneapolis and started screaming and chanting slogans like "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" and "ICE OUT" repeatedly. "They've stopped the service [and] a lot of people, a number of people have left," Lemon reported.


Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, one of the wealthiest people in the technology industry, had named his 191-foot yacht "Izanami," a reference to a Japanese Shinto deity associated with creation and death. However, the name was later dropped after Ellison was informed that when spelled in reverse, it reads "I'm a Nazi," a phrase widely considered offensive. The incident was detailed in a profile published by Vulture. Following this discovery, the yacht's name was changed, the report said.


The U.S. Geological Survey, the federal government's earth sciences arm, discovered new oil and gas reserves in the Permian Basin -- enough to supply the United States for 10 months.


The annual DOD suicide report, a critical data source for US military suicide prevention which is typically published each fall, is missing and Pentagon spokespersons had no clear answers as to where it is and when it will be finally released.

US Military Veterans Suffering Appalling Suicide Rates and PTSD


Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has made it clear he's concerned about America's low birth rates, and the country's aging population.


U.S. District Judge William Young said he'd force the Trump administration to "jump through hoops" if it wants to deport more pro-Palestine protesters.


In this horrendous "Year of "Mars," Russia is targeting nuclear power plants to destroy Ukraine's infrastructure to freeze and demoralize the people this winter, also raising the specter of potential radiological contamination in the beleaguered country.

Ukraine Nuclear Plants


TWO BROOKLYN MARKETERS pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to defraud Medicaid in a $68 million kickback scheme tied to adult day care and home health services that were billed but not provided, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release. Manal Wasef and Elaine Antao, both 46, admitted to steering Medicaid recipients to two Brooklyn social adult day care centers and a home health care fiscal intermediary in exchange for illegal cash bribes. Prosecutors said the scheme ran from 2017 through 2024 and involved laundering proceeds through shell entities to fund kickbacks. The guilty pair agreed to forfeit about $1 million. They each face up to 10 years in prison


I am but one in a sea of many Americans viewed as a threat to the established order. I was once a part of that order. I helped build it. It would turn out I couldn't survive because I couldn't follow the rules of thought and speech that are mandated by everyone on the Left, especially those at the New York Times. It's personal, you see. I used to believe that if all I did was read Page One of the New York Times, I'd be well-informed. Brainwashed is more like it.


President Donald Trump's tough-on-crime rhetoric appears to come with a caveat for people in his political orbit. Trump this week quietly commuted the sentence of James Womack, son of longtime Arkansas Republican Rep. Steve Womack, granting clemency to a man who pleaded guilty in 2023 to distributing more than five grams of methamphetamine.


To all the federal agents who make up U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection " you know, the ones out there who are so humble they wear masks over their faces, lest they be publicly lauded for their good deeds " I want you to know something: You're doing great, everybody loves you and you're definitely going to wind up on the right side of history! I realize you've been getting some negative feedback on your recent visit to Minneapolis, due to things like shooting and killing a mother in her car, firing chemical agents directly into protesters' faces and breaking down doors to arrest hardworking migrants with no criminal records. And you've lost a podcaster. Read more


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