The price you pay for a product may depend not just on demand, but on what companies know about you.Surveillance pricing is a growing practice nationwide, where businesses use individualized prices to maximize profits, based on calculations about what the consumer is willing to pay. We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
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A U.S. Marine intelligence specialist activates a small unmanned aerial system during a simulated assault and seizure at Glen Airfield, Australia, on July 5, 2025. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Victor GurrolaU.S. forces stand to receive a massive boost in their drone warfare capabilities if Congress approves President Donald Trump’s military budget request for fiscal year 2027.Earlier this month, the Trump administration put forward its 2027 budget plan, including $1.5 trillion in military and defense-related spending.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
An app for Kalshi is shown in Chicago, on Feb. 25, 2026. Scott Olson/Getty ImagesA betting industry that has grown exponentially over the past two years is facing increasing scrutiny over a series of alleged insider trading scandals that have rocked congressional races and recently led to the arrest of a U.S. soldier.Last week, Gannon Ken Van Dyke was indicted after betting on the mission to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
The First Amendment protects unpopular, offensive, and hateful speech. Todd Blanche, Trump’s acting AG after he fired Pam Bondi, criticized millions of people on X and other social media for daring to take the president to task for his many breaches of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. During a news conference, the new AG included the non-assassination attempt on the president’s life and the now standard “manifesto” of the suspect released to the public to make the point something needs to be done about words the state considers terrorism. ]]> The AG did not outright call for limiting…
‘George Washington cited this verse in whole or in part more than 40 times’America needs the Bible more than ever. Thankfully, at the Museum of the Bible last week, they had various leaders read through the whole book. Even the president participated. Two months before it happened, I wrote about it, calling it “An Ambitious Bible Reading Plan.”Get Daily Emails AmericaReadsTheBible.com explains their vision: “In honor of the 250th birthday of the United States, America Reads the Bible serves as a spiritual celebration of our nation’s founding ideals and a call to rediscover the truth that still anchors us today.” Just as in the…
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”—Benjamin FranklinEverything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not government overreach, endless war, corruption, surveillance, or the steady erosion of constitutional rights.Get Daily Emails No, the real threat, it seems, is speech. Dangerous speech. Hateful speech. Critical speech. Speech that dares to challenge power. In the wake of the reported assassination attempt on President Trump, the Trump administration has wasted no time advancing a dangerous narrative:…
Last weekend, my Institute for Peace and Prosperity hosted another conference here on the Texas Gulf Coast. Not only did we have a full house attending the conference – which is in a way the most important thing – but in this era of profound disappointment and disillusionment, we struck a note of optimism, thankfully, due to our wonderful line-up of speakers. The main topic of the conference, titled “War is Back on the Menu,” was, of course, the disastrous decision by the Trump Administration to launch an unprovoked war against Iran – both last June and again on February…
The creative force behind one of the most recognizable heroes of 1980s pop culture has died, closing the chapter on a career that helped define a generation of toys and animation. Roger Sweet, widely credited with developing the character He-Man, died Tuesday morning at the age of 91, according to his wife, Marlene, per Page Six. She said he passed away peacefully at a care facility following a period of declining health linked to dementia. In his final months, Sweet faced serious medical challenges. Marlene previously shared that he suffered a fall while walking alone and could not recall what…
Even if the most dire climate scenarios are accurate, and humanity must transition away from fossil fuel, it can’t happen overnight. The rational approach is to first develop alternative sources of energy without precipitously destroying the industries that reliably produce oil and natural gas. Once alternatives are available at a competitive price and in sufficient quantities, demand naturally migrates to the alternatives. Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry, recognizing that their core business is to provide energy, actually stays healthy by also investing in the transition. None of that is happening in California. The approach the state’s politicians have chosen…
Some books arrive carrying the wrong label, and The Technological Republic is emphatically one of them. Critics have been quick to reach for the term “technofascism,” conjuring images of a surveillance state run by defense contractors, Silicon Valley conscripted into the machinery of empire. This is a lazy and fundamentally dishonest reading. What Karp and Zamiska have written is something at once more ambitious and humanistic: a sustained philosophical argument for recovering the shared beliefs and cultural commitments that give democratic societies the will—and the right—to defend themselves. The book is not a blueprint for coercion, but rather a diagnosis…
On April 21, the DOJ flipped on the light in the SPLC’s kitchen and spotted a scurrying cockroach called “wire fraud and money laundering.” It is hard to say how I learned this news—I think my husband Peter was the first person to tell me—because I got a large number of texts and email messages from my friends and supporters almost immediately. This also happens any time the New York State Attorney General Letitia James is in hot water. It’s nice to be remembered. It’s not what I hoped to be remembered for, but I’ll be reading every word. Quoting from the DOJ Press…
The assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, was never a random act of madness. It was the inevitable result of years of systematic demonization, dehumanization, and deliberate incitement by the political Left and its media allies. They didn’t merely oppose Kirk’s ideas. They cast him, and conservatives more broadly, as existential threats to democracy, as fascists who deserved not to be debated but to be destroyed. Less than eight months later, on April 25, 2026, that same poisonous atmosphere produced another assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, this time aimed at President Donald Trump and senior…
Ever since allegations of widespread and rampant fraud in Minnesota made the headlines, a great many people – well, on the political right, at least – have been wondering what would be done about it and when. On the morning of April 28, those questions were answered.Twenty-two Minnesota businesses, most of them owned or managed by members of the state’s large Somali community, were raided by federal agents. “Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a spokesperson for the Department of Justice told…
The immigration battle between the Trump administration and activist judges will once again be brought before the nation’s highest court today (April 29). The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Miot and Mullin v. Doe, consolidated cases challenging the administration’s efforts to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, respectively. Plaintiffs in both actions have secured stays in the lower courts against the government’s nonrenewal of TPS status. The Trump administration is asking SCOTUS to lift the stay, so that deportations of Haitians and Syrians in the United States under the program can be…
Well, that was a shocker. Out of nowhere, the United Arab Emirates surprised global energy markets and the geopolitical world by announcing it would leave OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and its broader alliance, OPEC+, on May 1. While the news came at an inopportune time for energy prices, the oil-soaked writing may have been on the wall for quite some time – and that could make President Donald Trump smile from ear to ear.UAE Out of OPEC In what could be a severe blow to the 12-member cartel, the UAE said it will pursue an independent…
It looks like the great state of Tennessee is catching up with its neighbors.
Elon Musk arrives at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., on April 28, 2026. Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP PhotoLOS ANGELES—Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday as the first witness in a high-stakes federal civil jury trial in Oakland, California, accusing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of defrauding him and betraying the company’s founding mission: to operate as an open-source nonprofit dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.The lawsuit stems from a bitter feud between the two tech titans over the organization they co-founded in 2015, which has since become one of the world’s most valuable and…
A new creative chapter is unfolding for Goldie Hawn, but the actress says one constant in her life continues to bring her lasting fulfillment: her decades-long relationship with Kurt Russell. According to Fox News, as she prepares to release her first children’s book, “The After-School Kindness Crew: Pooch on the Loose,” co-written with Lin Oliver, Hawn reflected on the personal philosophy that has guided her through both her career and her private life. “My life’s mission is to be happy. My life’s mission is to be an example for my children and my family,” Hawn said during an interview with…
More than 20 locations in Minneapolis were raided Tuesday as federal authorities crack down on alleged fraud linked to Somali-owned businesses in the Democrat-run state.The targets included childcare facilities that were registered with the state but allegedly billing for care they did not provide, Fox News reported Tuesday. Video footage shows officers exiting one of the facilities: 🚨 NOW: Federal agents are FLOODING the Quality Learing Center in Minneapolis as they conduct RAIDS at 20+ mostly Somali locations across the area Per DHS: “Homeland Security Investigations in cooperation with our law enforcement partners executed criminal search warrants in… pic.twitter.com/GhU7HQ8nr6 —…
The third dreadful assassination attempt against President Trump was an opportunity to assess where we stand on the question of political violence. In this decade, the media has demonstrated a profound double standard. The horrible riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a four-year obsession for the liberal media, and supposedly smart people compared it to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 – as in January 6 was “worse than” the other disasters. But the George Floyd riots in 2020 were presented dishonestly as peaceful protests. We all remember reporters standing in front of fires saying it was “peaceful,” or…
In a manifesto reportedly sent to family members moments before he attempted to storm past security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday evening (April 25), Cole Tomas Allen wrote, “Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these last 31 years.”Though Allen, who was charged Monday with attempting to assassinate the president, didn’t specify which church he was thanking, context about his parents’ church, publicly available information about his involvement in a Christian student ministry and the religious language in his manifesto provide a glimpse into the religious background of the would-be assassin.…
A viral mural showing the Islamic Republic’s new ayatollah among dead Iranian leaders has deepened speculation he was killed or gravely wounded in the 28 February strikes on Tehran.A mural depicting Mojtaba Khamenei alongside dead Iranian commanders and officials has gone viral in Iran, fueling speculation that the country’s new ayatollah may be dead or gravely wounded nearly two months after he was last seen in public. The mural, unveiled in Mashhad Ardehal west of Kashan and titled “Martyrs of the Epic Struggle,” depicts deceased top Iranian military and political leaders, including Qassem Soleimani, former President Ebrahim Raisi and Islamic…
A major shift in lifestyle has taken Jonah Hill far from the spotlight that once defined his career, as the actor revealed he quietly relocated years ago in search of a different pace of life. According to Fox News, while speaking during a live taping of the SmartLess podcast, Hill shared that he left Los Angeles behind and settled in a small community near San Diego to focus on raising his family. The move, he explained, came shortly after becoming a father for the first time. “So real quick, before we go any further, my wife is here. My best…
King Charles III stood before a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday and gave a speech about everything America inherited from Britain. He named the inheritance by name. The British Enlightenment. English common law. Magna Carta. The 1689 Declaration of Rights that, as he put it, gave us “many of the principles reiterated – often verbatim – in the American Bill of Rights of 1791.”He told Congress that Magna Carta has been cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789. Some of those rulings, he noted, set the rule that the president’s power is subject to checks and…
A federal case out of Illinois has drawn attention after a woman admitted to paying for and distributing disturbing online content involving animals. According to Fox News, Amanda Leigh Fourez pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges tied to the creation and distribution of so-called “animal crush videos.” Officials said the videos were commissioned through online networks and later shared with others in private groups. Prosecutors allege Fourez spent thousands of dollars to have the material produced and then helped circulate it online. “Fourez paid thousands of dollars to commission bespoke sexual torture videos of monkeys and later she distributed…
Recently, New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel temporarily stepped away from his role with the team. Saturday, Vrabel attended counseling, and it was a distance away from Foxborough. He ended up being seen in an airport, and an unidentified photographer took advantage of the opportunity to confront him regarding the photo scandal involving former The Athletic reporter Dianna Russini. (RELATED: Alleged Music Playlist From Dianna Russini For ‘Mike’ Comes To Light Amid Risqué Photo Scandal)Video was obtained by TMZ of the photographer, who the outlet says isn’t employed by them, approaching Vrabel while he was at an airport in…
A conference committee vote Tuesday advanced a measure that would let nieces and nephews inherit Hawaiian home leases, keeping ancestral land within extended families.HONOLULU (CN) — Hawaii lawmakers moved a step closer Tuesday to expanding who can inherit Native Hawaiian homestead leases, approving a compromise version of legislation that supporters say will prevent trust land from slipping out of families’ hands due to a lack of an eligible heir.The committee quickly adopted Conference Draft 1 of House Bill 2309. All eight members — five from the House and three from the Senate — voted in favor. It now advances to…
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen † . Posted in Uncategorized
By Cory Brock, Op-ed contributor Wednesday, April 29, 2026Getty Images The question is evocative. That’s by design.The way this question gets asked matters. Words like “need” and “kill” carry emotional freight. In popular usage, “kill” evokes a sense of arbitrariness, motivated by anger, revenge, or irrational emotion. We must understand that our theological language requires distinction from everyday language, or we may accidentally paint a picture of God the Father acting against the will of God the Son at the cross, which is certainly not true. But the emotional power of the language can shut down careful thinking before it starts.That’s often…
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner walks toward the West Wing following a TV interview at the White House on Feb. 19, 2025. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP PhotoThe Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) rescinded a policy from the last administration that threatened to raise home construction costs by at least $20,000, HUD said in an April 28 statement.In April 2024, the two departments announced the adoption of Minimum Energy Standards for newly built single and multifamily homes, with the standards applying to air sealing, window lighting, insulation, lighting, and heating and cooling…
By Patricia Johnson, Op-ed contributor Wednesday, April 29, 2026iStock/:adamkaz The New York Times recently published another masterclass in Marxist division. In his April 21 opinion piece, Yale professor Samuel Moyn argues that while ageism exists, America’s real problem is “gerontocracy.” Older Americans are supposedly “hoarding” wealth, power, housing and opportunity at the expense of the young. He calls for seniors to “give more” through forced downsizing, higher property taxes on long-term homeowners, mandatory retirement ages, and reweighting political power toward younger voters.This isn’t thoughtful analysis. It’s deliberate brainwashing aimed at college youth, designed to turn sons and daughters against their…
Punch lines of dead people voting in North Carolina met a measure of demise, with the State Board of Elections saying it had removed 34,000 registrations for which the individual had died.Using the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, known also as SAVE, the board submitted nearly 7.4 million records on April 17 in a routine list maintenance protocol. “While we expected to find some cases, this is higher than we anticipated,” said Sam Hayes, executive director of the State Board of Elections. “The benefit of entering into cross-state and federal database checks is that it allows us to…
Plans to redraw Florida’s congressional districts, which could give Republicans a gain of four seats as the midterm elections approach, has been approved by a committee in the House of Representatives.The Legislature, called into a special session by second-term Republican Gov. Ron Desantis, could approve the redistricting plan on Wednesday. Its the latest domino movement from the 2025 request of second-term Republican President Donald Trump asking Texas Republicans to redraw their districts. At stake: majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. It was 220-215 Republicans after the 2024 cycle; today it is 217-212 with one independent that was formerly Republican…
(The Center Square) – Federal prosecutors plan to dig into past comments made by the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday and possibly add additional charges.Cole Tomas Allen, a resident of Torrance, California, will face a detention hearing in the District of Columbia federal court on Thursday. Federal prosecutors are continuing to gather their evidence ahead of a formal hearing set for May 11. Allen was charged with attempted assassination of a sitting U.S. president, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, and interstate transmission of…
The U.S. House Rules committee, in a 9-4 vote, advanced the farm bill, FISA extension and Senate-passed budget resolution to the House floor for a vote.The committee met in a marathon two-day session to consider amendments to the Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2026, which was scheduled to hit the House floor on Thursday. Lawmakers filed more than 360 amendments to the 802-page farm bill. Congress is expected to pass the farm bill every five years and has been under pressure to advance the legislation, a move that has not been done since 2018. Democrats on the Rules…
A years-long effort has resulted in the extradition of a Chinese national facing multiple espionage charges in Houston.Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited to the U.S. from Italy over the weekend and appeared before a federal judge in Houston on Monday. He faces a nine-count indictment for his role in a People’s Republic of China HAFNIUM computer intrusion campaign targeting U.S. companies, which also compromised thousands of computers worldwide, according to the Office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. Zewei was taken into custody in Milan, Italy, last July at the request of U.S. authorities, The Center…
With the revelation that Planned Parenthood – though ineligible – received about $90 million in taxpayer funding via COVID loans under the Biden Administration, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America urged Congress to keep tax dollars from funding abortion.President of SBA Pro-Life America Marjorie Dannenfelser told The Center Square that “Congress must act before July 4 to keep Big Abortion defunded through reconciliation, or else last year’s victory in the Working Families Tax Cuts will expire and abortion businesses will be fully funded to the tune of more than half a billion dollars again.” “Taxpayers should never be forced to fund…
Steve Kerr, the outspoken Golden State Warriors head coach and nine-time NBA champion, now says he regrets calling President Donald Trump a “buffoon”, and concedes he gave a “really weak answer” when asked about China’s crackdown on Hong Kong protesters in 2019.The admissions came in a recent interview with the New Yorker, where Kerr reflected on years of sharp public commentary that made him one of the most politically vocal figures in professional sports. For a coach who built a second reputation as a reliable critic of conservative politics, the reversal is striking. Kerr told the New Yorker he wished…
A Richmond Circuit Court judge denied Republican efforts to block the results of Virginia’s redistricting referendum on Sunday, handing Democrats a procedural win even as a separate circuit court has already declared the entire referendum unconstitutional, setting up a high-stakes showdown before the Virginia Supreme Court.Judge Tracy Thorne-Begland ruled that the Republican National Committee, the Virginia GOP, and their co-plaintiffs failed to show they could prevail on several key arguments, including their claim that the new congressional maps lacked the compactness required under Virginia law. The ruling came just days after voters narrowly approved a set of Democratic-drawn congressional lines…
A team of geneticists at the University of California, Davis says its new research upends the dominant scientific model of how modern humans emerged, concluding that Homo sapiens likely arose not from a single ancestral population in Africa but from several genetically connected groups spread across the continent over hundreds of thousands of years.The finding, built on 44 newly sequenced genomes from the Nama people of southern Africa and extensive computer modeling, directly challenges what scientists have long called the “Out of Africa” framework. That model held, for decades, that one main ancestral group gave rise to every living human.…
Jessica Biel has reportedly told her husband, Justin Timberlake, that she will leave him if he does not “clean up his act,” capping a turbulent stretch that includes a 2024 DWI arrest, a guilty plea, eyewitness claims of public intoxication, and years of tabloid scrutiny over his conduct.The Daily Mail reported that Biel “issued an ultimatum” to the 45-year-old singer, with an unnamed insider saying the 44-year-old actress has “had it” with his recent behavior. A source quoted in the report said Biel would “pull the trigger” if Timberlake “messes up again.” Page Six reported that it reached out to…
Abdul Saleh told a television reporter last year that bodega workers were getting shot, robbed, and ignored by police. On Saturday night, the 28-year-old was gunned down outside his family’s deli in Manhattan’s Alphabet City, one day after returning from Yemen, where he had met his 2-year-old son for the first time.The killing happened just after 11:30 p.m. outside Sal’s Deli and Grocery, at the corner of East 13th Street and Avenue B. Police said an argument broke out inside the store, spilled onto the sidewalk, and ended with gunshots. Saleh was struck in the torso. EMS workers rushed him…
A federal appeals court on Monday cleared the way for Department of Homeland Security officers to use tear gas, flash-bangs, and pepper balls outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, striking down two lower-court injunctions that had tied officers’ hands for weeks. The pair of 2-1 rulings from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dismantled restrictions that two federal district judges had imposed, and delivered a pointed rebuke to the legal reasoning behind them.The decisions mark a clear win for federal law enforcement at a facility that has been the site of repeated, large-scale…
North Dakota state Rep. Liz Conmy, 67, was killed April 25 when a small plane crashed and caught fire shortly after takeoff from Crystal Airport in Minnesota, federal aviation officials confirmed. The pilot also died. No one on the ground was hurt.The Beech F33A went down in Brooklyn Park, about 11 miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis, shortly before noon. The Federal Aviation Administration said two people were aboard and that the aircraft departed and crashed “under unknown circumstances.” The National Transportation Safety Board dispatched an investigator to the scene the following day. Conmy, a Fargo resident and mother of four,…
House Speaker Mike Johnson called on the Secret Service to “tighten up” its security protocols Monday after a gunman breached a checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night, an incident that forced the rapid evacuation of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other senior officials from the Washington Hilton. Newsmax reported that Johnson, who attended the dinner, delivered his sharpest criticism yet of screening measures at one of Washington’s most prominent annual events.The suspect breached a checkpoint and attempted to move toward the main ballroom before law enforcement stopped him, triggering gunfire near a security…
Two new reports from the education watchdog group Defending Education lay bare what critics have long suspected: the nation’s largest teachers unions have operated as a massive political spending operation, directing more than $1 billion toward liberal advocacy groups, Democratic campaigns, and progressive causes over the past decade, all funded substantially by dues collected from classroom educators.The research, first reported by Fox News Digital, tracks spending from the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, along with their state-level affiliates, using federal filings and campaign finance records. At the national level alone, the NEA and AFT directed roughly…
First lady Melania Trump called on ABC to remove Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves after the late-night host joked in a pre-recorded sketch that she had “the glow of an expectant widow”, a line that aired just days before an armed man attempted to enter the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton, targeting President Trump and other administration officials.The first lady posted her response on X, calling Kimmel a “coward” and accusing the network of shielding him from consequences. President Trump followed on Truth Social, calling for Kimmel to be fired outright. Disney, ABC’s parent company, did…
By Gabriel Andreson, Op-ed contributor Wednesday, April 29, 2026iStock/Liubomyr VoronaI grew up in a Christian home with both of my parents serving as pastors. Faith wasn’t something distant or occasional — it was part of how we lived. I knew Scripture. I knew how to pray. And if I’m honest, I carried an assumption that many believers quietly hold: if my faith was strong enough, anxiety wouldn’t have a place in my life.But it did.It showed up most clearly during seasons of pressure — when I stepped into leadership, took on greater responsibility, and felt the weight that comes with…
(CN) — Eight candidates vying to be the next governor of California squared off in a televised debate Tuesday night that featured rapid-fire 30-to-60-second answers.One of the candidates, Chad Bianco, a Republican sheriff, called it an “hour and a half you’re never going to get back.”It was perhaps an unfair description for a debate that was, as one student questioner put it, “a bit of a mess,” but one that also showcased a panoply of ideas, policy prescriptions and political viewpoints, to say nothing of stylistic differences.Tom Steyer, a hedge fund manager turned progressive activist in the Bernie Sanders mold, who…