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China Moves to Confiscate Nearly 62,000 Bitcoin Linked to $2.8 Billion Fraud Case Authorities in China are set to seize almost 62,000 bitcoins worth around $5 billion in connection with one of the country’s largest fraud schemes [1]. According to Bitcoin Magazine, the assets to be seized were from Qian Zhimin of Tianjin Lantian Gerui Electronic Technology. Prosecutors accused Qian of recruiting co-conspirators to sell fake wealth management products nationwide between 2014 and 2017 without approval from financial authorities, per a report from Shanghai news outlet The Paper. The scheme raised around 40.3 billion Chinese yuan ($2.8 billion), and Qian…

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Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola rescheduled several campaign events following a car crash that resulted in “minor” injuries. Peltola campaign manager Cheryl Bruce said in a statement that Peltola and her family “sustained minor injuries” in the crash, but medical professionals had advised the candidate to reschedule events in Fairbanks and Bethel until later in the week to give her time to recover, NBC News reported.  Bruce said that Peltola is “disappointed” over the delay starting her Alaska Always Tour, but she is eager to resume campaigning.  Peltola was driving to the Alaska Federation of Natives’ annual banquet Saturday when…

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A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court on Sunday asked pointed questions about a Trump administration lawsuit seeking to force California officials to disregard thousands of mail-in ballots the Justice Department claims were sent to noncitizens ahead of the midterms. Circuit Judge Mark Bennett of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, during rare weekend oral arguments, said that the DOJ lawsuit could not be reconciled with a constitutional provision known as the Elections Clause, which grants states the authority to set election processes, NBC News reported.  Bennett, a Trump-appointed judge, told Justice Department attorney Matthew Donnelly, that the DOJ…

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Under the harsh glare of overhead lights at a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley, Lazarus II lay motionless. Dr. Robert E. Cornish, who’d asphyxiated the rangy white fox terrier with ether and nitrogen, watched the clock. Six minutes after the final heartbeat, the scientist gathered up the dog and strapped him to a teeterboard, a see-saw-like invention whose back-and-forth, up-and-down motion Cornish believed was key to restoring the blood’s circulation.  He pushed a saline solution primed with oxygen, heart-stimulating adrenalin, and the liver extract heparin into a vein in Lazarus’ thigh, then lowered his head over the…

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a direct appeal to Cubans on Friday, encouraging them to partner with the CIA if they want to see change in the communist country.“To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba – now is the time,” Rubio said in an Oct. 23 post on X. “The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.”The CIA followed up Rubio’s post on the same platform with the same message in Spanish and…

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By Michael Gryboski, Editor Monday, October 26, 2026The campus of Gateway Seminary, located in Ontario, California. | Gateway StaffGateway Seminary, a California-based theology school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, has reported record enrollment for its fall semester.According to the reported fall enrollment, the seminary has 1,095 students, up from 971 in fall 2025. New student enrollment rose 46% to 338, the largest incoming class in Gateway’s history.In comments emailed to The Christian Post last week, Gateway President Adam Groza said the total headcount includes enrollment in the core programs at the seminary, including master’s, doctorate and certificate programs, “as well…

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Elon Musk and Robert Reich – wiki commons Little man syndrome. Four foot ten inch Robert Reich called for Democrats to steal Elon Musk’s businesses and nationalize them on Sunday. The guy talking to Bill Clinton is calling for the Government to confiscate SpaceX and Starlink from Elon Musk. Robert Reich. (Those are not AI photos) https://t.co/AvRruXXxqF — C3 (@C_3C_3) October 25, 2026 Reich is taking a page directly from Joseph Stalin and all of the communists since then. Former labor secretary Robert Reich on Sunday called for Democrats to “defund” Elon Musk and take control of his companies. Robert…

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Serious violent and property crime rates took a sharp dive in 2025, dropping 25 percent and 19 percent, respectively, according to preliminary Justice Department findings obtained exclusively by Breitbart News. The estimates show roughly 669,000 fewer victimizations involving rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault than in 2024. Households also experienced about 3.5 million fewer property crimes over the same 12-month span. The Bureau of Justice Statistics report puts the rate of violent victimization excluding simple assault at 7.4 per 1,000 residents age 12 and older, down from 9.9 in 2024. The estimated number of those victimizations declined from…

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A three-way summit between Presidents Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping has not as yet been confirmed, but it seems likely to take place on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit scheduled for Nov. 18-19 in Shenzhen, China. This is a cause for anxiety among some European leaders, who fear that they and their protégé, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will be excluded from discussions on Ukraine’s future.To forestall this possibility, the EU is trying to promote Finnish President Alexander Stubb as its own envoy to the future peace talks. This seems a doomed endeavor, since Stubb…

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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump administration is pushing back against unfounded accusations of election interference after the DOJ filed a lawsuit against Alaska over what the Alaska Division of Elections has characterized as a scheme to confuse voters in the state’s U.S. Senate race.Attorney General Todd Blanche and other DOJ officials defended the lawsuit over the weekend in a series of televised interviews, clarifying that the DOJ is seeking to protect election integrity rather than interfere with Alaska’s election. At the center of the controversy is the presence of two Dan Sullivans on the ballot. The Senate seat is currently…

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On Monday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough unloaded on Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers appearing on Meet the Press, and how he couldn’t handle NBC moderator Kristen Welker’s questions. Two weeks ago, Welker gave a softball interview to his opponent Abdul el-Sayed, and nobody on Morning Joe had a comment. Scarborough wasn’t in that Monday, but it also didn’t come up that Tuesday. But now, Rogers was bumbling and stumbling:  “Mike Rogers had one of the worst days I’ve seen a Senate candidate have yesterday. Just a horrific performance live. Kristen Welker asked him some very basic questions. He couldn’t say…

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Communist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won his fourth presidential election, and one of his first statements is a promise to shut down free speech. He is targeting social media; X is high on the hit list.  However, it’s not just X; he also plans to target Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and others. He is also talking about criminalizing it. They are all American companies. Controlling US social media limits our First Amendment. Government regulation of speech means only government speech gets through. Lula will control what people see, read, and share. Lula said that they can’t have “the interference coming…

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Lula da Silva during the solemn swearing-in ceremony of Dr. Cristiano Zanin Martins as a Justice of the Supreme Federal Court in Brasília. In a stunning last-minute power grab that has enraged Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin, Lula’s former personal attorney whom the communist president appointed to the Supreme Federal Court (STF), unilaterally extended voting nationwide by two hours on October 25 during the presidential runoff against Flavio Bolsonaro. According to explosive reporting from Brazilian journalist Malu Gaspar of O Globo, every minister on the TSE was against the idea. The consensus inside the electoral…

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It’s a good thing to be reasonable. But how exactly do you do it?What exactly is reasonable? How do you know if you’re being reasonable?Beats the heck out of me.But we got an interesting stab at the concept of reasonableness recently in a ruling by a federal judge in California that got a small amount of publicity over just one aspect: the reasonableness of attorney fees.“The ultimate touchstone is reasonableness,” the judge wrote. A billing rate of $3,000 an hour is “patently unreasonable.”What was reasonable for that lawyer, according to the judge, was $1,600 an hour.That was the part of…

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Ever since U.S. military forces captured Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Delcy Rodriguez has walked a tightrope. Maduro taunted Donald Trump and ran his narco-state with impunity, boosted by ties to Iran, China, and Hezbollah. After getting a big whiff of Consequences American Style in the new Donroe Doctrine era, Maduro’s #2 has become compliant to the point of obsequiousness. Rodriguez may be a Chavista, but she’s also well aware of the realities of survival in the Trump era. Advertisement Survival may not rely entirely on Trump, however. After nearly a year in exile, opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize…

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This Week in Historyby Dianne Hermann “In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and our libertiesthat remain the foundation of our nation today.” Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) Oct. 26-Nov. 1, 2026 October 26 1787 – The “Federalist Papers” were published calling for the ratification of the Constitution. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the series of 85 articles and essays. 1881 – Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp along with Doc Holliday were involved in a gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, against Billy and Ike Clanton along with Tom and…

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A viral video from a San Diego parking lot shows a crowd of protesters repeatedly screaming “F*ck you, White boy!” and other racist comments at white ICE officers during what appears to be an immigration enforcement operation. One man in the group declares he “can’t be racist because I’m a brown person” before launching back into the same taunt. The footage, shared widely on X, shows the confrontation unfolding in broad daylight outside the Diamond Palace Chinese restaurant. Officers in tactical gear stand near vehicles as protesters approach and hurl insults focused on the agents’ race. One particularly aggressive man…

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Views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Could the midterm wild card be a jer? The […] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. To continue viewing this content please join our BPR Insiders team! Insiders have access to BPR extras including special offers and free merchandise from We the People stores. If you’re already a member, please log into your account to read this article. Latest posts by I.M. Slugga (see all) We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing,…

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Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell joined The Derek Hunter Show Friday afternoon to discuss Free Speech Week and the MRC’s 2026 Free Speech Week Award winner, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  Hunter opened the segment by noting how Kennedy usually makes headlines only when others mention or attack him. Bozell agreed, emphasizing that aside from President Donald Trump, Kennedy remains one of the most censored public figures in America.  As someone who continuously faces censorship firsthand, including in his current role serving in the Trump administration, Kennedy earned this year’s award for his ongoing…

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(Ben Seevers, Money Metals News Service) It is becoming more common for those on the right to be skeptical or downright hostile to free markets. Since President Trump entered the political scene over a decade ago, conservatives have increasingly abandoned free market principles.The same is true for the religious right. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic and presumptive successor to President Trump, has been a vocal opponent of free market principles throughout his career in the US Senate and the Trump administration. On the academic side, Patrick Deneen, a political philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, has decried free…

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IDF: Majority of Palestinian olive harvest proceeding as planned, protected by security forces By All Israel NewsMonday, October 26, 2026Israeli soldiers gather at the scene of an earlier fire exchange between armed Palestinians and Israeli forces following an incident at the norther checkpoint of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Oct. 23, 2026. Israeli troops on October 23 shot dead two suspected Palestinian assailants in the West Bank after a shooting that left at least five people wounded, officials said. | Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP via Getty ImagesSecurity forces are stepping up operations across Judea and Samaria (West Bank) ahead of…

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X owner Elon Musk responded to claims that SpaceX is “restricting Starlink in Ukraine” as the war with Russia continues. A CNBC article detailed how issues with Starlink have caused problems for Ukraine’s military, including the loss of drones and restrictions on strikes that have been hindering Russian logistics. Ukraine’s deputy ambassador to the U.S., Denys Sienik, published an X post lamenting the speed loss and hoping that something will change. Look: Starshield/Starlink speed restrictions remain in place. Every day matters for Ukraine, because every Ukrainian life matters. Our people are waiting for positive news, hoping that the restrictions will…

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Not long after his latest interview, President Donald Trump found fault with Fox News for actions he believed were keeping the midterm elections close. Rally coverage, poll tracking, interviews, and prediction markets are all counted among the ways corporate media can influence voter turnout ahead of an election. As such, with early voting well underway and Election Day just over the horizon, Trump slammed Fox News for allegedly giving too much airtime to the opponents of Republican nominees. In a Truth Social post while making his way to Michigan for another stump speech, the president insisted, “FoxNews is spending far…

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Myles Moewll interviews a grieving Michigan mother who lost her daughter. An organization called the MAHA Institute has been hosting events across the country to promote the ever-growing Make America Healthy Again movement. Their latest event in Washington, DC raised questions on the harmful affects of social media. During the panel, Charay Gadd, a Mom from Michigan tearfully told a heartbreaking story about how her daughter, London Izabella-Ryén Gadd died at only twelve years old. According to Gadd, her daughter died of a pill overdose after being prescribed SSRI and blamed what she called “failures” that range from medical professionals,…

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A trip to Michigan found President Donald Trump steadfast in warnings about Abdul El-Sayed, going as far as to suggest a unique treatment should the “jihadist” be elected to the Senate. With little more than a week remaining until Election Day, the chief executive maintained his marathon of cross-country rallying with a stop in Port Huron on Sunday. It was there that Trump raised the Democratic Senate nominee’s concerning ideological ties as he argued a win for El-Sayed would make him the first lawmaker to “have to go through a metal detector.” On stage at the McMorran Place Arena, the…

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is optimistic that his party will do well in the midterms while at the same time peddling a paranoid conspiracy theory about President Donald J. Trump and the GOP. With voters set to go to the polls a week from tomorrow, the man who will almost certainly wield the speaker’s gavel if the Democrats retake the House warned that Republicans could be cooking up a “diabolical scheme” to thwart the results if Election Day doesn’t go their way. CNN’s Manu Raju caught up with the trash-talking New Yorker, who is on the cusp of…

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Comic Bill Maher had high praise for President Donald J. Trump, but it appears that the warm and fuzzy feelings aren’t mutual. In what could be a new record, Trump unloaded on the HBO host in a scorching 1,300+ word Truth Social post, branding the old-school liberal as a “loser,” a “major POTHEAD,” and a “dumb SLEAZEBAG” as well as a liar, piledriving his new fan into the dirt. On Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the host rejected criticism of his recent White House dinner with Trump, telling the audience, “F**k you, I like these dinners,”…

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A collection of non-governmental organizations staffed by former members of the military, federal government, and intelligence community is reportedly working to undermine the Constitution following the midterm elections. The alleged network of former military officers, intelligence officials, and ex-USAID personnel is coordinating to advise state governments on scenarios involving military intervention during the 2026 midterm elections, according to investigative researcher Jennica Pounds, better known online as DataRepublican. The groups, which include Renew to Thrive and National Security Leaders For America (NSL4A), have backed anti-Trump protests, discussed when the federal government could be declared illegitimate, and entertained the idea of “extra-constitutional”…

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Senate Democrats and attorneys for Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola filed a motion on Friday asking a federal judge to dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit, which raises issues with there being two similar names on the Alaska ballot. The Trump administration Thursday filed a lawsuit against Alaska and the state’s elections officials, arguing that “voter confusion” stemming from the ballot having candidates with the same name could cost the incumbent, Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, his seat to Democrat Mary Peltola.  Sen. Sullivan is running against Peltola and Dan J. Sullivan, and the lawsuit argues that Dan J. Sullivan’s campaign is…

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Benjamin Jacob, University of South Florida professor, and a team of researchers, are using artificial intelligence to target breeding grounds for mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus in an effort to address an outbreak of dengue fever in Florida. Cases of the disease have spiked this year, where 425 locally acquired cases have been reported. There were an additional 288 international cases reported as well.  The outbreak was largely concentrated in Hillsborough County, which surrounds Tampa, The Hill reported.  Jacob’s system uses satellite images along with weather patterns and known breeding grounds to identify potential locations quickly. The information is then handed…

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Fire in a five-story residential building in Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast, after Russian strikes on October 24, 2026. Photo courtesy of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/DSNS of Sumy Oblast. Russian drones, missiles and guided bombs struck cities across Ukraine between October 23 and 24, killing civilians in five oblasts. Regional reports compiled by the Kyiv Independent put the toll through the morning of October 24 at four killed and 78 injured. Overnight into October 24, Russia launched 126 drones, 61 of them jet-powered, and air defenses downed or suppressed 101. On the morning of October 24, a drone destroyed a…

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That headline might seem a bit provocative, but it’s serious. Because while the violence across Europe has been described as “student protests,” it is anything but that. In fact, it’s a calculated effort by highly organized and well-financed extreme left groups to sow anarchy across Western civilization.Here in the U.S., the hard-left Democratic Party has all but declared it’s no longer a party of working-class people and middle-class taxpayers. It’s dominated by the Democratic Socialists of America and closely allied and networked with the global movement to destroy capitalism and impose socialism.An exaggeration? Nope.According to “DataRepublican,” a well-known data-crunching online…

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The NGO-Media-Democrat complex is laying the groundwork for a Color Revolution. They already have the plans, as DataRepublican has conclusively demonstrated. They have recruited politicians, including Blue-State governors, lawyers, media allies, and over a thousand ex-military, ex-USAID, and ex-intelligence-community members, and they have a boatload of money stockpiled from often dark sources, including the communist-aligned Singham funding network.  Advertisement And they have been engaged in a massive propaganda campaign using controversies such as the Seditious Six video and media stories about how serving military members are bravely bucking their orders. https://t.co/YDwDh7pnPV Nothing to see here— just military boards defying the chain…

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Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. President Trump has an election problem. Many of his economic policies are designed to produce long-term benefits. Voters, however, will cast their ballots on November 3, based largely on what they are experiencing today. Unfortunately for Republicans, the latest news includes rising inflation, weak job creation, a nearly $2 trillion federal deficit, persistently weak consumer sentiment and an expensive war with no clear end. That combination will likely cost the GOP at least control of the House of Representatives. Troubling Economic Numbers Last month’s annual inflation rate rose to…

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A report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) president John Lott shows armed citizens stopped a third of all “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025. Lott then presented the CPRC data as a correction to FBI reports which claim armed citizens only topped 3.9 percent of the incidents. He noted that during his time in the Department of Justice during President Trump’s first term, his duties “included evaluating the FBI’s active-shooter reports.” In so doing, he “discovered that the reports omitted or misclassified numerous cases in which armed civilians stopped attacks.” Lott noted the FBI identified 418 “active shooter incidents” from 2014…

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Business18 sources·Updated Oct 26, 2026·1 min readApollo Global Management is taking a nearly 10% minority stake in Mubadala Capital, the alternative asset arm of Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company. Apollo and other strategic investors are expected to commit a combined $5 billion to Mubadala Capital’s investment strategies at initial close. Mubadala Investment Company remains majority shareholder. Mubadala Capital will keep operating independently, with existing management retaining authority. The firm announced the deal on Oct. 26, 2026; it is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026. The step builds on a multibillion-dollar Apollo-Mubadala partnership established in 2022 and extended…

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An election worker processes mail-in ballots at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during California’s state primary election in the City of Industry, Calif., on June 2, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty ImagesA federal appeals court on Sunday expressed skepticism over the Trump administration’s bid to require California to set aside mail-in ballots from voters whom the government suspected of being noncitizens.The Ninth Circuit of Appeals held an emergency teleconference hearing after the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal seeking the court’s intervention.During the hearing, Circuit Judge Mark Bennett said California has the authority under…

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Business24 sources·Updated Oct 26, 2026·1 min readMeta plans to raise up to $95 billion in equity to finance expanding AI infrastructure. On October 26, 2026 it launched about $35 billion in offerings: $22.5 billion in Class A common stock through forward sale agreements and roughly $12.5 billion in mandatory-convertible preferred stock. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are running both sales. A separate at-the-market program would sell up to $60 billion in nonvoting Class C shares, a class Meta announced on October 21 and expects to begin trading in early 2027. Under the forward agreements, Meta delivers shares and receives cash…

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Over 30,000 Spaniards peacefully gathered in Madrid on Sunday to demand solutions for Ceuta as the North African exclave nears the third month anniversary of the ongoing mass illegal migrant invasion of its territory. Sunday’s peaceful demonstration at the Spanish capital city was organized by Mujeres Caballas, a female civil organization that arose in the aftermath of the late July migrant invasion of Ceuta. The group reportedly identifies itself as an apolitical, multi-religious organization of women united in the defense and future of their city. According to Spanish outlets, Mujeres Caballas started as an initiative from women who immediately began to suffer the…

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You’re arguing with psychosis. They’re screaming about things that aren’t there. The first task of defeating political opponents is to understand who they are. What is it that Democrats think they’re doing? And what they think they’re doing in 2026 amounts to a relentless ritual hallucination in the service of an institutional status quo. They’re making up a fake world in their heads to protect their paychecks: in media, in academia, in government, in the results-not-required world of the nonprofit organization. If you doubt that, go read the opinion pages of The New York Times, the agenda-setting newsletter of the…

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The institutions of family and faith “have long been among America’s most reliable antidotes” to the historical plagues of social isolation, a new report from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) states. These institutions remain the best remedy for today’s crisis. Marriage and the family are in trouble. Cultural shifts such as no-fault divorce have caused an unprecedented spike in family breakdowns. In recent years, marriage rates plummeted to their lowest point in recorded history. This coincides with the sharp decline in fertility rates, which are now far below population replacement level. Time alone behind computer screens has increasingly replaced…

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Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during an interview in Washington on Oct. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesAttorney General Todd Blanche on Oct. 25 defended suing to pre-challenge the results of the race to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate.“We’re not saying that the federal government is going to decide who the next senator from Alaska is,” Blanche said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” program.“What we’re asking the court to do is make sure that after the election, if it’s clear that there was confusion, if it’s clear—and that’s for a court to decide at a…

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Business17 sources·Updated Oct 26, 2026·1 min readEQT has agreed to acquire Appalachian gas producer Range Resources in an all-stock deal valued at about $12.8 billion in equity, or more than $50 billion including debt. Range shareholders will receive 0.987 EQT shares per share, a roughly 20.6% premium to Range’s prior closing price; EQT and Range investors are expected to own about 73% and 27% of the combined company, respectively. The merger would create a major U.S. natural-gas producer, with expected output above 9 billion cubic feet per day, nearly 3 million net acres, more than 30 years of drilling inventory…

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Newly minted UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has triggered alarm bells across the nation by suggesting — at least tacitly — that the Brexit referendum result be undone. What is still regarded as the greatest democratic exercise Britain has ever engaged in is on the ropes as senior figures begin the careful massaging of an EU reunification message.Burnham stated openly that he wants to see the UK rejoin the EU. This, despite the fact that when on the campaign trail just a few short months ago, he assuaged voters’ concerns, saying that the rejoining debate shouldn’t even be had —…

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The New York Times story about the wunderkind Democratic candidate for Alaska governor wasn’t quite as optimistic as its headline in Thursday’s paper — “How a Democrat Positioned Himself to Be Alaska’s Next Governor” — but it was close. The loosey-goosy, feel-good lede by Times’ Pacific Northwest bureau chief Anna Griffin was more befitting of a local hero profile than a journalistic enterprise from the self-described national “paper of record.” The man who could become Alaska’s first Democratic governor in a generation — and the youngest in the young state’s history — is a moderate who does nothing in moderation.Stories…

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