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A federal judge on Monday decried the prison treatment of President Donald Trump's alleged would-be assassin, and apologized to him for restrictive confinement imposed by jail staff…The judge said even Jan. 6 defendants were only house in a Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF), a less restrictive form of prison housing. "Pardons may erase convictions, but they don’t erase history," he said. "They were hanging gallows outside."
A taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark is getting splash-back for a “Muslims only” event next month after a local Islamic group rented out the facility.
A flier for the DFW Epic Eid event on June 1 noted three times that attendance was strictly for Muslims — and modest swimsuits are required.
“Seems like a civil rights violation,” one outraged commenter said.
“Should we expect a ‘Christians Only’ day?” another commenter asked.
Radio host Dana Loesch asked, “How is a taxpayer-funded, city-owned entity allowed to discriminate against non-Muslims at a public water park?” After the backlash, the organizer of the event, Aminah Knight, told The Post that she is backtracking on how
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The bombshell dropped. Donald Trump announced that Operation Freedom, an effort to guide ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, will begin on Monday morning, Middle East time. According to Trump, the operation will be centered on helping the vessels leave the Persian Gulf, in response to countries asking "the United States if we could help free up their Ships, which are locked up in the Strait."
It sounds innocuous enough. In fact, Trump cast it as a “humanitarian operation,” but one that is obviously protected by sharp teeth. In a subsequent social media post on X, CENTCOM elaborated on the mission, which has obviously been studied and prepared for
Dashboard camera video captured a United Airlines flight striking a Baltimore bakery truck on the New Jersey Turnpike on Sunday afternoon as the airplane was preparing to land at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Chuck Paterakis, senior vice president of transportation and logistics and co-principal at Baltimore-based H&S Bakery, told CBS News Baltimore that the driver was traveling to a Schmidt bakery depot in Newark and was about to exit the highway when the truck was hit.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is already in a precarious position when it comes to keeping his seat in the upcoming midterm elections. His relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) might make things even worse.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings revealed that the SPLC contributed over $700,000 to his campaign during the 2020 race, according to Fox News. Oddly enough, this places Ossoff in the same category as the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups whose leaders have received oodles of cash from the organization.
Ossoff and the SPLC have a longstanding relationship.
Further Proof You Can't Hate the Media
Enough: 60 Minutes Smears 'White Nationalist'
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The Democrats are certainly guilty of leading parts of the country down a socialist, “progressive” path that has left many of our cities in ruins. They divide the country with their polarizing, violent rhetoric, and they regularly spit on patriots who think it’s OK to celebrate our country. But they have long had a partner, one that has caused as much if not more damage than they have: the mainstream media, or whatever name you want to call the collection of leftist legacy outlets that for many years dominated the news landscape. (Thanks to conservative outlets like RedState, their dominance is fading,
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson conceded this week to violating state ethics law, agreeing to accept a $4,000 fine for letting his former chief strategy officer take a taxpayer-funded flight with him last year.
The order Ferguson signed earlier this week could resolve a complaint the state Executive Ethics Board received last July, alleging that the governor misused state resources and gave the former advisor, Mike Webb, special privileges.
The board will consider approving the agreement during a meeting on May 8.
If approved, Ferguson will face a $4,000 fine, with half suspended if he pays $2,000 within 45 days—
For decades, Tehran has delayed, promised, denied, escalated, and recalibrated — all while rebuilding its capabilities... and preserving the machinery of regime survival.
The Iranian regime is not sustained by ideology alone. It is sustained by money, contracts, ports, banks, smugglers, foundations, front companies, privileged merchants, terrorist proxies, and commercial collaborators. Washington... must target the networks that feed it.
The regime does not move money through uniforms and official titles. It moves money through family members, front companies, exchange houses, shipping firms, insurance brokers, commodity traders, gold dealers, charities, banks, and offshore accounts. Every one of these channels must be mapped, exposed, and disrupted.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from pneumonia but is still hospitalized in “critical but stable condition,” his spokesperson said on Monday.
(snip) Giuliani is currently “being monitored as a precautionary measure” in the hospital, noting that the former mayor had been diagnosed with an airway disease in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City.
“On September 11th, Mayor Giuliani ran toward the towers to help those in need, which later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease,” Goodman wrote in the post, referring to the World Trade Center towers that collapsed in the attacks.
The government of Fujairah, one of the seven emirates of the UAE, stated Monday that an Iranian drone strike had led to a significant fire in a significant oil industrial area.
"Competent authorities in the Emirate of Fujairah confirmed a large fire in the Fujairah Petroleum Industries (FOIZ) area, caused by a drone strike originating from Iran," read a statement from the Fujairah Media Office. "Fujairah Civil Defense teams immediately responded to the incident and are continuing their efforts to control it."In a second statement, the Fujairah government confirmed that "three Indian nationals sustained moderate injuries and have been transferred to the hospital to receive the necessary treatment."
Graham Platner officially became the de facto Democratic nominee for the Senate in Maine last week after Gov. Janet Mills dropped out. The far-left base is happy, but it has no idea what’s coming. Even though Platner hits all the right notes that leftists love to hear, the baggage he brings is huge. And it sounds like it’s going to be brutal. During a discussion on 2WAY, Mark Halperin relayed what one NRSC spokesperson told — that the party is going to go so negative on Platner that "he'll have to leave the state. He won't just lose the race."
Townhall’s own Larry O’Connor was part of the conversation
A growing number of states and large school districts are imposing new limits on students’ screen time, shifting away from a heavy reliance on digital devices in early education.
The moves come as lawmakers and educators respond to concerns about student attention, reading proficiency, and the effectiveness of one-to-one device programs. At least five states — Alabama, Utah, Missouri, Kansas, and Tennessee — have advanced or passed measures in 2026 to cap or reduce instructional screen use, particularly in elementary grades.
Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest, voted unanimously this month to develop a comprehensive screen time policy for the 2026-27 school year. The resolution calls for maximum in-school screen
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates said Monday it came under attack by Iran for the first time since a fragile ceasefire took hold in early April. The attacks appeared to be in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for global energy.
The UAE Defense Ministry said Iran had launched four cruise missiles, with three shot down and one falling into the sea. Authorities in the eastern emirate of Fujairah said an Iranian drone sparked a fire at a key oil facility, wounding three Indian nationals.
Border Patrol agents working in Tampa, Florida, have arrested their 1,000th child sex offender in just four months. The 1,000th arrest was of a Trinidadian man convicted of five felony child sex offenses in Hillsborough County with a lengthy criminal record.
They’re working out of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Miami Sector’s Tampa Station, one of the oldest Border Patrol stations in the country.
The Tampa Station first opened in 1925 to respond to large smuggling rings entering Florida using Cuban fishing boats. It is the only station on Florida’s west coast. Its area of responsibility covers 12 counties in central and western Florida, spanning 190 miles long and 125 miles
California, Texas, Arkansas are catering to far-left Islamists, and in doing so, they are moving the needle on the Islamification of America. What happened to the separation of church and state? California has introduced legislation to officially recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays, following similar moves in other states like Washington, New Jersey, and Illinois. On April 8, the California Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement voted 19–0 to adopt AB2017, followed on April 22 by the California Assembly Committee on Appropriations, which voted 7–0 to adopt the bill.
The only religious holiday that is recognized by the state is Christmas, but
The anti-ICE Left faced a tough weekend: one of their websites, which had tens of thousands of sign-ups, had its data exposed. It was part of an effort to mobilize a response force regarding operations that enforce federal immigration law. You’ve seen what these people do when activated; they’re irrational. And some of these people, like Renee Good, have been shot in the face because they’ve tried to harm federal immigration officers. Good tried to run over an ICE agent in Minneapolis. The site, GTFO ICE, was created by an anti-Trump commentator and former DHS official, Miles Taylor, and pretty much everyone’s information got exposed.
The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated access to the chemical abortion drug mifepristone through telehealth, mail, and pharmacies on a temporary basis as the Court continues to hear a case involving access to the drug.
A lower court issued a ruling on Friday ordering the Food and Drug Administration to bring back a requirement that doctors prescribe the chemical abortion drug only after an in-person exam. Drug makers appealed the ruling, with the High Court placing the order on pause until at least May 11 while justices weigh the case, in which Louisiana has challenged the drug’s expanded access.
Nissan has officially canceled its plans to manufacture electric vehicles at its Mississippi assembly plant, opting instead to produce a lineup of body-on-frame trucks and SUVs.
Motor1 reports that Japanese automaker Nissan has made a significant strategic pivot, abandoning a previously announced $500 million investment designated for electric vehicle production at its Canton, Mississippi facility. The company informed suppliers of this decision on April 30, marking a dramatic shift from its 2021 commitment to transform the plant into an EV manufacturing hub.
According to the automaker’s official statement, the decision aligns with current market conditions, customer demand patterns, and the company’s updated strategic direction. The Canton facility, which had been earmarked
Wild dashcam video shows the nightmarish moment a United Airlines plane struck a bakery truck on the New Jersey Turnpike while coming in to land at Newark Airport.
Footage inside the truck shows the driver, who works for the Baltimore-based H&S Bakery, looking happy and relaxed while driving along the Turnpike Sunday afternoon when the terrifying saga unfolded.
He had been belting out a tune just as the whistling sound of incoming United Airlines Flight 169 could be heard overhead.
The confused driver glanced up quickly as one of the jet’s wheels made impact with the truck’s window — sending glass flying.
The deranged firebug accused of igniting the devastating Palisades Fire had become “fixated” on Luigi Mangione in the lead-up to the deadly blaze — and then allegedly suggested the inferno was started out of “resentment of the rich,” prosecutors said.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, was obsessed with the accused health care CEO killer and had routinely searched “free Luigi Mangione” and “lets take down all the billionaires” online, court documents show. In the weeks and hours before allegedly sparking the blaze that triggered the catastrophic Palisades Fire, Rinderknecht — who worked as an Uber driver — ranted to customers about Mangione’s arrest, too.
“Many of defendant’s Uber passengers on
For months, I’ve been a bit confused about “affordability,” the latest Democrat meme. Then, early last week, I read a piece about “affordability” and realized: “of course.” Affordability is just the Democrats’ latest excuse for giving out free stuff to their supporters, paid for by you and me. Even though I can’t find the article that I read, I wrote about “affordability” on my Substack.
If you look at the Congressional Progressive Caucus “New Affordability Agenda” you realize that Affordability is not just about free stuff, but something else.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized and in critical condition, according to his spokesperson.
“Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition,” Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s spokesman, wrote in a post on X on May 3. “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak.”
Goodman provided no other information about the nature of Giuliani’s condition or the reason for his hospitalization.
If there’s a lesson to be learned from the collapse of Spirit Airlines, it is that today’s Democratic Party should never be in charge of anything.
Does that seem like a stretch? Not when you consider the facts.
Four years ago, Spirit and JetBlue started talking about merging operations. Spirit was struggling to stay afloat, thanks in part to the massive run-up in inflation under President Joe Biden. The merger would have been a lifeline to Spirit and would have ensured low-cost competition survived.
But Democrats — led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren — decided that they knew better.
At least 12 wounded in shooting at Oklahoma’s
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At least 12 people were hospitalized after a shooting at an event full of young adults near Lake Arcadia in Oklahoma City on Sunday night, according to reports.
Police swarmed the lake in Edmond around 9 p.m. after multiple 911 calls reported a shooting, Edmond Police officials said in a press conference at the scene.
The gunfire erupted at a large “Sunday Funday” party where many young adults were in attendance, News on 6 reported. “This is obviously a very terrifying situation and we understand the concern from the public and those involved and we are working extremely hard to find the suspects,” Edmond police spokesperson Emily Ward said.