China Pulls Back 40,000 PLA Troops From India Border: Tactical Retreat Or Real De-escalation? – The Times of India
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At least 26 killed in clashes along Sudan-South Sudan border region | Conflict News– www.aljazeera.com
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At least 26 people have been killed and 82 others injured in days of intercommunal fighting in a disputed region on the border between South Sudan and Sudan.
Reporting the death toll on Thursday, the United Nations said it had reinforced its security presence around Abyei town.
Clashes are frequent in Abyei, and the region’s status has remained unresolved since South Sudan gained independence from Sudan and became a nation in 2011.
The violence erupted at Amiet Common Market in response to separate killings of a Ngok Dinka man on Monday and a Misseriya man on Tuesday, the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) said in a statement.
Spain: 74% of sex-crime suspects are foreigners in Basque Country– rmx.news
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Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show
Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the population. The disparity is sharper in several high-profile offense categories.
Of the 107 people detained for crimes against sexual freedom, 79 were born abroad, making up 74 percent of arrests in this category, according to data obtained by The Objective.
Foreign-born suspects also accounted for 73.3 percent of homicide arrests and 61.3 percent of those for causing injury.
The highest shares appeared in other offences: 94.7 percent of drunk-driving arrests (36 of 38), 79.6 percent of theft arrests (222 of 279), and 77.6 percent of robberies involving violence or intimidation (253 of 326).
The figures come from data the Basque Department of Security, which began publishing this data systematically at the end of 2025. Until then, the Ertzaintza routinely omitted the birthplace of detainees.
FBI Thwarts Islamic Mass Casualty Terror Attack in Pennsylvania– gellerreport.com
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An attack was narrowly averted. Any coverage of the Islamic terror means lots of media vomiting about [non-existent] islamophobia.
Agents seized a semiautomatic rifle, five rifle magazines (two loaded and the other three each offering a 30-round capacity), a rifle bipod and scope, a total of 190 rounds of rifle ammunition, an entrenchment tool, a prayer rug, pepper spray, and approximately 30 knives. Read the full affidavit in support of the criminal complaint here.
FBI foils alleged ISIS inspired mass casualty attack in Pennsylvania arresting a suspect before the planned violence could be carried out#NYI pic.twitter.com/QCIZ1TToVX
— NewYork-Insight (@NewYork_Insight) September 16, 2026
Long War Journal: On September 12, the FBI arrested a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of plotting a violent attack on behalf of the Islamic State, marking the second arrest of an American citizen for allegedly plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack within the past month. The FBI arrested Jonathan Hunter Kramer outside a hotel in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, approximately 25 miles north of Pittsburgh. The following day, Kramer was charged with “receiving a firearm and ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism,” according to the Justice Department. Prosecutors have asked the court to detain him without bond pending trial. On the day of his arrest, the FBI observed Kramer leaving his residence and purchasing a disposable phone.
Soros-Backed Philadelphia DA Referred For Criminal Investigation– thefederalist.com
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Pointing to evidence of “false statements, false declarations made under oath, perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy,” a federal judge has issued a memorandum asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and a top deputy in his office, Matthew Stiegler.
It’s familiar stuff. Krasner, a spectacularly woke prosecutor who won the office with lavish backing from George Soros, has a long history of scandal and crisis, and has been accused of misleading courts in several high-profile cases. This is an old headline from June, covering the same ground in a different matter:
The current controversy involves an effort by a convicted murderer, Dennis Johnson, to be freed from prison, turning to the federal courts with a repeated request for a writ of habeas corpus after state courts denied his several petitions for release. Turning to the agency that prosecuted Johnson’s 2009 murder case, many years before Krasner became the DA, the court asked the Philadelphia DA’s office if it opposed Johnson’s petitions. Without investigation, Krasner’s office conceded Johnson’s questionable claims about the supposedly flawed murder conviction, telling the court that prosecutors “did not oppose the granting of relief,” according to the memorandum.
Lindsay Clancy mistrial juror Desronvil disputes having any doubts– www.foxnews.com
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With Lindsay Clancy’s defense drawing the support of 11 jurors in her mistrial on insanity grounds, prosecutors face an uphill battle in a potential retrial. But a plea deal still remains unlikely, attorney and legal analyst Neama Rahmani says.
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The lone holdout juror whose refusal to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity led to a mistrial is speaking publicly for the first time, disputing claims from fellow jurors that he expressed doubts about the prosecution’s case.
Michael P. Desronvil said in a statement to NewsNation that he never wavered in his belief prosecutors proved Clancy knew what she was doing when she strangled her three young children in January 2023.
“I didn’t have any doubts. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present,” Desronvil said.
Trump Says Assassination Attempt in Butler, PA in July 2024 Was ‘All a Democrat Plot’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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In an explosive Truth Social post Tuesday, President Donald Trump implicated Democrats in the July 2024 assassination attempt against his life, claiming it was “all a Democrat plot” to get him out of the upcoming election.
During a rally in in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, Trump was shot and wounded in his upper right ear by 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who fired eight rounds from an AR-15–style rifle from a nearby building’s roof.
Trump said Tuesday that the FBI’s files on the case were “missing, altered, corrupted, or gone” by the time he returned to office, and blamed the problem on “Dirty Cop Christopher Wray.”
Until recently, remarkably little has been known about would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, or the egregious security breaches that allowed him to lurk on a nearby building with a n AR rifle aimed at the then-Republican presidential nominee and former president.
“Everybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn’t do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA. By the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone,” Trump complained.
New info was just found! Why wasn’t it seen long ago? This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed. Dirty Cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said. GOD BLESS AMERICA — MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
California Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s FEMA Workforce Cuts– slaynews.com
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A Democrat-aligned federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully in its effort to dramatically reduce the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) workforce.
The ruling blocks another major piece of President Donald Trump’s push to overhaul the federal bureaucracy.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, a Bill Clinton appointee, ruled Friday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) improperly seized control of FEMA’s personnel decisions while pushing the disaster-response agency toward cutting thousands of jobs.
The dispute centers on a federal law enacted following Hurricane Katrina that prohibits DHS from “substantially or significantly” reducing FEMA’s authorities, responsibilities, or functions.
Illston concluded that DHS crossed that line when it intervened in FEMA’s staffing decisions and sought to prevent the agency from renewing temporary contracts for thousands of reservists who respond to disasters.
“There is no evidence in the record reflecting reasoned decision-making for this about-face or for the subsequent conditions DHS placed on FEMA’s renewal authority,” Illston wrote.
Judge Targets Trump Administration’s FEMA Overhaul
The ruling does not yet specify what the Trump administration will be required to do.
Illston said remedies and penalties will be determined separately next month, giving the parties until Oct. 9 to submit arguments addressing “what relief remains outstanding.”
The lawsuit was brought by unions challenging the administration’s planned workforce reductions.
They argued that the cuts would undermine FEMA’s core disaster-response responsibilities, lacked congressional authorization, and were imposed by DHS rather than FEMA officials.
The Trump administration has maintained that FEMA possesses substantial discretion in determining appropriate staffing levels.
President Trump has gone considerably further, arguing that FEMA should ultimately be eliminated and that states should assume greater responsibility for emergency preparedness and disaster response.
Illston initially declined in June to immediately block the cuts after concluding that FEMA had, at least temporarily, backed away from the planned layoffs.
By Friday, however, the judge determined that the agency appeared to be moving forward with the reductions.
FEMA Workforce Targeted for Major Reduction
Illston pointed to FEMA’s projected staffing level of 11,383 employees for the coming fiscal year, roughly half its previous workforce.
The judge said the administration had failed to provide a sufficient basis for selecting that number.
The administration’s effort represents part of Trump’s broader campaign to shrink the federal government and return responsibilities currently handled in Washington to the states.
FEMA sits within DHS, but Congress imposed restrictions on the department’s ability to diminish the agency following the federal government’s widely criticized response to Hurricane Katrina.
The Trump administration’s attempt to restructure FEMA has now run directly into those statutory protections.
Neither DHS nor FEMA immediately responded to requests for comment following Friday’s ruling.
FEMA nevertheless defended its ability to handle disasters under the administration’s leadership.
“Under President Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Markwayne] Mullin’s leadership, DHS and FEMA are ready for the 2026 hurricane season,” a FEMA spokesperson said.
“FEMA continues to maintain a roster of experienced leadership and support staff across headquarters and regional offices.
“No position is without experienced leadership.”
Deleted Signal Messages Draw Judge’s Scrutiny
Illston separately rebuked FEMA and DHS officials over their use of the Signal messaging application while discussing the staffing reductions.
Officials used Signal on personal cell phones and subsequently deleted the messages, according to the ruling.
Illston concluded that those communications would have been relevant to the lawsuit.
The deletion will now work against the administration in the litigation.
The judge said she would presume “that the lost Signal messages would have been unfavorable to Defendants because they would have been further evidence” of unlawful conduct.
That finding potentially creates another complication for the administration as the court determines what remedy to impose.
For now, Illston has ruled that DHS exceeded its authority in attempting to force the sweeping FEMA workforce reductions.
But the legal battle is not over.
The judge has yet to determine what relief she will order, while Trump continues pushing for a fundamental restructuring of federal disaster management that would shift substantially more responsibility away from Washington and back to the states.
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House Unanimously Votes to Stop Penny Production– www.breitbart.com
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The House of Representatives has unanimously voted to pass the Common Cents Act, which would send the United States penny into extinction.
Democrats and Republicans voted together on Monday to block the U.S. Treasury from minting any more one-cent coins, and to require any person or business selling goods or services for cash to round “to the nearest amount divisible by five for the payment or transfer of cash.”
If passed by the Senate as expected, the bill will take effect one year after. Pennies already in circulation will remain legal tender, lawmakers clarified.
The bill was led in the House by Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
The unanimous vote came after the U.S. Mint stopped making new pennies in November 2025, but the legislation would prevent it from restarting the production of pennies in the future.
Costs associated with producing each penny have risen to 3.69 cents, far outweighing the value they carry. The Treasury stated in a press release that they could annually save $56 million.
Democrat Fundraiser ActBlue Accepted ‘Illegal Foreign Political Donations,’ Concealed Evidence from Congress– slaynews.com
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A congressional investigation has found that Democratic Party fundraising powerhouse ActBlue weakened fraud safeguards and accepted “illegal foreign political donations” before misrepresenting its security procedures to Congress.
Congressional Republicans released an update to their investigation of ActBlue, the massive online fundraising platform used by leading Democrats including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and Democratic Party congressional leadership.
The report alleges that ActBlue deliberately loosened its fraud-prevention standards during the 2024 election cycle despite internal assessments warning that doing so would increase fraudulent contributions.
ActBlue has denied wrongdoing and accused Republicans of conducting a politically motivated campaign against the organization.
Report: First-Ever Republican Midterm Convention Surpassed 100 Million Views– wltreport.com
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The first-ever Republican midterm convention did not disappear when the cable broadcasts ended.
By one new count, it exploded across the internet.
The two-day event in Dallas generated more than 100 million combined views across livestreams, social-media platforms and cable news, according to data reviewed by Breitbart News.
That is a remarkable number for an experiment no major party had tried before in a modern midterm campaign.
It also comes with an important distinction: these were combined platform views, not 100 million unique Americans sitting through a traditional television broadcast.
Breitbart News reported that the total included Facebook, TikTok and YouTube livestreams along with cable-news viewing. The outlet said a source familiar with the numbers supplied the information and that Breitbart reviewed the underlying data.
RNC National Press Secretary Natalie Baldassarre called the convention a success, saying it energized the Republican base, showcased the Trump administration’s record and put the party’s case against Democrats in front of tens of millions of people.
Brother of Lindsay Clancy holdout juror sheds light on pivotal decision — reveals family ‘cannot leave the house’: Report– www.theblaze.com
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The brother of the lone holdout juror who sparked a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case revealed new details about his sibling’s controversial decision, according to a new report.
The New York Post interviewed a man the outlet identified as the brother of the unnamed juror who refused to join the other 11 members of the jury in the polarizing case of the Massachusetts mother and the extent of her criminal responsibility in the deaths of her three young children.
‘They won’t leave us alone, and we don’t know anything.’
“He looked at the case, and he made the call,” the brother told the Post. “For me, that’s how I would do it. I would just listen to the case with all the evidence, and go from there.”
The brother noted, “His choice was good for some people, but not good for other people.”
The brother pushed back against unfounded claims that the juror’s Catholic faith influenced his jury decision.
“I don’t think religion had anything to do with it,” the brother stated.
Texas Democrat Caught on Video Explaining $25 Program to Influence Voters– legalinsurrection.com
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Townhall Media caught Sky McAdams, an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, admitting to a scheme involving paying people to influence others to vote for Democrats.
You know they desperately want Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talerico to win.
You can’t pay someone to vote for a candidate, but apparently the PAC discovered a way around the rule.
MCADAMS: We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all of these bad things. So it’s like a roundabout way of paying people for their votes, essentially, which is interesting.
PERSON RECORDING THE VIDEO: What’s the – what’s this called?
MCADAMS: It’s called the Paid Relational Program. I think rally Texas is the official name. You can’t pay someone to vote for someone. You can’t be like, “Here’s $25, go vote for me.” You can say, “Attend a one-hour class and you can receive $25.” And then the class just talks about the importance of…it’s a little gray.
PERSON RECORDING THE VIDEO: But right now we could use all the help we can get.
MCADAMS: If I was a Republican, I would be pissed. I would be like, “That’s shady as f**k.”
Relentless’s website admits that it recruits “low-propensity voters and compensates them for their time as they reach, persuade, and mobilize their friends and family to vote.”
New FBI Files Expose Agents’ Efforts to Target Trump & Elon Musk with Hoax Criminal Probes– slaynews.com
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Newly released FBI records show one agent repeatedly lobbying to join the bureau’s Trump-Russia investigation while another sought to open a criminal investigation into Elon Musk after he asked federal employees to identify five things they had accomplished at work.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released the internal communications as part of a broader disclosure involving the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation and other bureau matters.
Grassley said the documents provide further evidence of political bias inside the federal bureaucracy and accused the “Deep State” of working against President Donald Trump and his allies.
“The previous Democrat administrations under Obama and Biden conducted secret, insidious and downright evil operations that almost took down our government,” Grassley said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel.
“That’s arguably worse than Watergate.”
EU announces plan to restrict social media access for children– www.bbc.co.uk
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The EU has announced plans to restrict social media access for under-15s across its member states, in a bid to increase wellbeing and tackle online safety.
Under the plans, there would be a gradual approach to children using social media which would include banning under 13s from accessing platforms.
Those aged 13 to 15 would only be able to access platforms for an hour per day via “mini accounts” set up through their parent or guardian’s social media account.
The European Commission said social media companies would need to prove platforms were safe by design or face fines of up to 6% of their global sales. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said the move would “put parents back in the driving seat”.
She added the legislation – called the EU Kids Act – would give parents “the tools to help their children navigate a safer world”.
The restrictions would not just affect well-known apps such as TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat but also YouTube and other video sharing platforms as well as AI chatbots and online games.
“Too many children are being exposed too early to an online world they are not ready to navigate – an environment where bullying can follow you home, where every mistake can be recorded forever,” von der Leyen said.
UN mission finds grounds to believe U.S. committed war crimes in strikes on Iranian school, sports centre– www.cbc.ca
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A United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran said Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.
It also found that Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their deadly crackdown on anti-government protests that occurred just weeks before the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran on Feb. 28.
The findings in a new report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, examined the American conduct during the Iran war that began in February and the Iranian government’s response to nationwide unrest that began in late December.
The Iranian and U.S. permanent missions in Geneva did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Man Loses Job and Is Diagnosed With Diabetes, Then HOA Forecloses on His Home Over Less Than $1,000 in Dues — Property Ultimately Sold Back to HOA for $8,172– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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A man purchased a home for around $475,000. Unfortunately, he lost his job and was diagnosed with diabetes around the same time. This resulted in him falling behind on his HOA payments. Rather than the association helping him come up with a payment plan for the initial $900 he owed, they ultimately forced a foreclosure, then rebought his property for $8,172.
There are so many protections in place for renters. Yet, when homeowners fall on hard times, there seem to be zero resources for them to rely on. Call me crazy, but one might assume that the government loathes property owners, while only representing renters. Why do you think that is?
According to the New York Post:
Toby Newton purchased the four-bedroom Mesa home for $475,000 in 2022, but ran into financial trouble two years later after losing his job and being diagnosed with diabetes, according to the Mesa Tribune.
Newton fell behind on his quarterly HOA assessments, which were around $170, eventually owing $977 in fees and interest.
It is undoubtedly absurd, the kind of mess an incompetent bureaucracy can create.
He initially offered to pay $50 per month toward his debt while keeping up with his regular assessments. After that was rejected, he increased his proposed payments — eventually offering $200 a month — but said the HOA rejected those offers as well.
Trump claims Russia, Ukraine agree to stop hitting each other’s energy targets– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Trump claims Russia, Ukraine agree to stop hitting each other’s energy targets
US President Donald Trump on Monday said Ukraine and Russia had agreed to stop attacking each other’s energy targets, linking the conflict to rising diesel prices and global fuel supply concerns.Trump made the claim in a post on Truth Social, a day after he urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian energy facilities.“Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise! The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.”Trump had earlier said he asked Zelenskyy to stop the strikes, arguing that attacks on Russia’s diesel production were contributing to a fuel shortage.Speaking to reporters at his Doonbeg golf club in Ireland, Trump was asked whether he had spoken to Zelenskyy after his recent conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.“Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump said, adding that Ukrainian forces had “plenty of other targets” they could strike.Trump said destroying Russian diesel production capacity was “hurting the world”, according to Bloomberg.His comments come as fuel prices in the US remain under pressure. Diesel prices hit a record average of more than $6 a gallon on Friday, with Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s energy sector and disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz tightening global supplies.
Saudi pipeline shutdown threatens oil exports to Europe and Asia as kingdom relies on stored supplies– www.euronews.com
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Saudi Arabia is relying on stored oil to maintain exports after drone attacks shut its East-West pipeline, threatening deliveries to buyers in Europe and Asia.
Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry announced the shutdown on Friday as a precaution, after the pipeline was attacked in the Riyadh and Medina regions last Thursday.
It said emergency and technical teams were securing the pipeline and checking its safety.
Saudi and Iraqi authorities said the drone attack originated in Iraq. The ministry’s announcement did not say when pumping would resume or give a full account of the damage.
Saudi oil buyers and traders quoted in reports published on Sunday estimated that a prolonged shutdown could put at risk around 4 million barrels a day, or about 4% of global oil supply.
They estimated that oil stored at the Red Sea port of Yanbu could keep exports going for five to seven days. Saudi authorities have not confirmed either estimate.
The U.S. Supreme Court just launched a constitutional crisis– www.americanthinker.com
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The Supreme Court failed to affirm the president’s recent executive order protecting election integrity by voter ID and eligibility.
The details of the Court’s judicial reasoning is full of granular reference made ultimately to various federally derived postal rules which are not relevant to the larger national security implications of the EO.
Unfortunately the Court failed to anchor its attention fully to the one document that mattered: the larger U.S. Constitution.
The Court, yet again, can’t see the forest from the trees, and worse, got caught up in analyzing the tree bark. Like a pilot in a spin, it is suffering from spatial disorientation, and has judicially crashed.
Apparently the SCOTUS believed the question before them involved the post office.
Their attention was captured by the concept of postal delay: that the president’s EO would retard mail ballot processing with rules designed to actually protect it. Their perception of time overruled the necessity of security. They fell for the legal subterfuge of the DNC, and lost their constitutional compass. The Court buried itself in minute legalism, rather than actual national justice.
The Court is otherwise so used to picking winners and losers in traditional litigation, that it forgot that the Constitution can be a different national duty. A constitutional fight can sometimes create a zero-sum result: everyone loses if the nation is splintered by political tribalism. Unity is the constitutional cause, and no one wins when a constitutional election system is seen as a dispute instead of a joint responsibility.
Federal judge blocks Trump admin’s 4-year visa cap for international students– www.thecollegefix.com
Federal judge blocks Trump admin’s 4-year visa cap for international students– www.thecollegefix.com
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Trump admin failed to back decision with data, judge ruled
A federal judge ruled Monday to block a new U.S. Department of Homeland Security rule that would have capped international student visas at four years. The rule was set to take effect the following day.
“The government’s contention that the rule is necessary to safeguard national security borders on the absurd,” U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor wrote.
“It is based almost entirely on a small handful of anecdotes, each of which involved incidents that the new rule would do nothing to prevent or even mitigate,” he wrote.
DHS forged ahead with the rule despite receiving roughly 22,000 public comments pointing out flaws and offering alternative paths.
The judge ruled that in doing so, the department violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires government agencies to act reasonably, respond to public comments logically, and back their decisions with actual data.
The administration argued the rule was vital for national security and fraud prevention, but the court ruled that these rationales failed to withstand meaningful review.
California Drags Pro-Lifers To Court For Crime Of ‘Offering Hope’– thefederalist.com
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta wants a court to punish pro-life organizations for telling women they may have another choice after starting a chemical abortion.
His case against Heartbeat International and RealOptions targets their communications about abortion pill reversal and seeks millions in penalties along with restrictions on what they can say. But to understand what California is asking the court to suppress, look beyond the legal briefs and listen to the women who actually sought that help.
Three of them took the witness stand. They told the court what happened when they took mifepristone, regretted their decisions, and desperately searched for a way to keep their babies and continue their pregnancies. Today, each is raising the child she feared she had lost.
And in California’s own closing brief, the state described what these women received from Heartbeat and RealOptions with a remarkable word: “hope.”
“That Defendants offered hope to these individuals underscores the seriousness of their misconduct.” Those words appear on page 45 of the California attorney general’s post-trial brief in The People of the State of California v. Heartbeat International and RealOptions.
The “individuals” are women who took the first drug in a chemical abortion, regretted that decision, and urgently searched for another option. The “hope” was that they might still be able to sustain their babies and continue their pregnancies. The “misconduct” was telling them about abortion pill reversal.
California Drags Pro-Lifers To Court For Crime Of ‘Offering Hope’– thefederalist.com
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta wants a court to punish pro-life organizations for telling women they may have another choice after starting a chemical abortion.
His case against Heartbeat International and RealOptions targets their communications about abortion pill reversal and seeks millions in penalties along with restrictions on what they can say. But to understand what California is asking the court to suppress, look beyond the legal briefs and listen to the women who actually sought that help.
Three of them took the witness stand. They told the court what happened when they took mifepristone, regretted their decisions, and desperately searched for a way to keep their babies and continue their pregnancies. Today, each is raising the child she feared she had lost.
And in California’s own closing brief, the state described what these women received from Heartbeat and RealOptions with a remarkable word: “hope.”
“That Defendants offered hope to these individuals underscores the seriousness of their misconduct.” Those words appear on page 45 of the California attorney general’s post-trial brief in The People of the State of California v. Heartbeat International and RealOptions.
The “individuals” are women who took the first drug in a chemical abortion, regretted that decision, and urgently searched for another option. The “hope” was that they might still be able to sustain their babies and continue their pregnancies. The “misconduct” was telling them about abortion pill reversal.
The View Sparks Outrage After Trump Animal Sex Remark on Air– www.newsbusters.org
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ABC and Disney have maintained that The View was a “bona fide news program” that operated in the public interest. Co-host Joy Behar made it harder for the network to make that argument to the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, after she suggested that President Trump has had sex with animals and that it was somehow tied to the FBI lowering their hiring standards.
Behar’s ridiculous suggestion came amid the liberal media pouncing on FBI Director Kash Patel’s Tuesday exchange with senators in a hearing. They presented their audience with this highly edited and chopped up conversation between Patel and Louisiana Senator John Kennedy (R):
PATEL: Obviously we are never going to hire the criminal —
KENNEDY: This side of what, the bestiality?
PATEL: Yes.
KENNEDY: So you disqualified the animal? [Transition] Why would you even get into bestiality?
PATEL: We are not into bestiality. But a lot of these individuals —
[Transition]
KENNEDY: If Joe participated in bestiality. Not as the animal but as the human, don’t you think he ought to be qualified — disqualified?
Canada could become become EU’s first ‘associate member’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that she wants the relationship between the bloc and Canada to reach “the highest level possible.”
The European Union has proposed making Canada the first “associate member” in an effort to strengthen allies in “an openly hostile world.” Both the EU and Canada have had issues with the US over the Trump administration’s trade deals.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the proposal Wednesday during her annual State of the Union Address in Strasbourg, France. Von der Leyen said that she wants the relationship between the bloc and Canada to reach “the highest level possible.”
“And, dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships so I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the European Union,” von der Leyen said, referring to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was in attendance for the speech.
Von der Leyen told the assembly that the EU and Canada “see the world with the same eyes: from AI to climate change, from the Arctic to geopolitics. And we have stood together: on Ukraine, on defence, on raw materials and on supply chains. But above all … Europe and Canada believe in democracy.”
The proposal had drawn criticism within Canada. Comedian Ben Bankas critizied the idea on X, writing, “Why be 51st State when you can be the dumping grounds for European Migrant overflow.”
Medical student research is low quality but spreads nonetheless, study finds– www.thecollegefix.com
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Researcher warns of health consequences of doctors using shoddy studies
Published research by medical students continues to proliferate despite concerns about the quality of the work, according to a new report.
“Why Johnny Can’t Stop Writing: The Boom in Low-Impact, Politicized Medical Student Research,” authored by Do No Harm’s Jay Greene, highlights the proliferation of low-quality medical student research in the past 20 years. The researcher offered potential solutions in original comments sent to The College Fix.
Greene found that in the early 2000s, fewer than 12 publications listed students as authors or co-authors, but in the 2020s, more than 700 publications could claim medical student authorship.
Additionally, between 2000 and 2006 no more than 17 publications listed a student author per year, but by 2022, 932 publications listed authors as such.
Much of this research is low-quality and focuses on identity politics.
Greene found between 2000 and 2013, six percent of medical student publications contained at least one of nine preselected “woke terms” in the title or abstract. These terms are: “equity,” “disparities,” “social,” “justice,” “race,” “racist,” “racism,” “diversity,” or “inclusion.”
What Is Going On? Lawmakers Accuse Feds of Stonewalling in Butler Assassination Attempt Probes – RedState– redstate.com
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Question: Why are there still so many questions surrounding the Butler, 2024 Pennsylvania assassination attempt against Donald Trump?
The lack of information gives plenty of fodder for conspiracy theorists and makes many Americans feel like they’re not being told the whole truth. For instance, why was the shooter’s body cremated only 10 days after the shooting — which left firefighter Corey Comperatore dead and Trump wounded — and who paid for it? If law enforcement knows, they’re not telling us; they’ve only said “an anonymous donor” financed it.
If they don’t know, that would be highly suspect.
As our Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported Tuesday, Chuck Grassley has obtained new information, some of it frankly weird, as he investigates the attack:
These records were obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as part of his ongoing probe into the Butler debacle. The documents include an FBI interview with Matthew Crooks, Thomas Crooks’ father, only two days after young Crooks’ attempted murder of Trump.
According to the New York Post’s review of the records, Thomas Crooks used the name “Bob Dole” to obtain his stocks of ammunition and gun parts from Amazon and other online retailers, and had these parcels delivered to his parents’ home. The additional gun parts included “‘tools and items to increase the capacity of his rifle,’ the same weapon that his father would give to him on the morning of the rally at the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Pennsylvania.”
Why did it take Senator Chuck Grassley to find this new information about Thomas Crooks? Is he the only person in DC with any investigative powers? The FBI was told by the Crooks’ family that an “anonymous donor” paid for the cremation. It’s been more than two years. Why has… pic.twitter.com/wr2SMuf3tP
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) September 15, 2026
Why did it take Senator Chuck Grassley to find this new information about Thomas Crooks? Is he the only person in DC with any investigative powers? The FBI was told by the Crooks’ family that an “anonymous donor” paid for the cremation. It’s been more than two years. Why has that donor not been identified and questioned? Who was it, what was his/her motivation? What evidence was destroyed?
ChatGPT Erases Past, Hides Previous Response Comparing Trump to Hitler– www.newsbusters.org
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT attempted to bury the evidence that it compared President Donald Trump to notorious Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who murdered six million Jews and started World War II.
MRC researchers found that requests for ChatGPT to locate and provide a link to a Sept. 3 Fox News article about MRC’s study were an exercise in futility. In one chat session on Sept. 9, ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of a Fox News article about ChatGPT comparing Trump and Hitler, even after being told who wrote it. Throughout the chat session, the AI model repeatedly deflected from direct questions and denied that it had previously compared Trump to Hitler.
ChatGPT’s dodge comes at a time when OpenAI is being widely accused by Trump administration officials, Republican members of Congress and many conservative activists — claiming that the company has politicized the potential threat of AI just weeks before the 2026 midterm elections.
When asked directly if it could find the Fox News article in which ChatGPT compared Trump to Hitler, the AI model dissembled instead: “I can’t browse past conversations or retrieve specific articles, but I can search for current news or reports related to the comparison you mentioned.” When pressed again, it went even further, explaining that it “couldn’t find any instances where I have made such comparisons.”
As more and more users turn to AI to quickly and easily distill information, ChatGPT’s erasure of its own blunder becomes increasingly concerning. “ChatGPT’s alarming responses show that bias and censorship continue to be the most pressing dangers associated with developing artificial intelligence models,” said MRC Free Speech Director Michael Morris. “When AI models overwhelmingly rely on elitist media and left-wing so-called academic institutions for their inputs, it’s little wonder that their outputs are so often anti-conservative, anti-Republican and anti-American. It’s high time that American AI companies stop rigging the technology to suppress freedom.”
Massachusetts Measure to Repeal Abortions Up to Birth Gets Approval– www.lifenews.com
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Attorney General Andrea Campbell has just approved our petition to repeal Governor Healey’s radical abortion-up-to-birth law!
Now it’s time to get to work collecting necessary signatures. We need your help!
Our statewide effort is underway to suspend and repeal Massachusetts’ new full-term abortion law. That law, which will allow abortions to be performed up to birth, including in cases involving healthy mothers and viable unborn babies, is scheduled to take effect November 8. Governor Healey signed it on August 10, following its controversial passage in the House and Senate.
As we previously announced, Massachusetts Citizens for Life is partnering with Mass. Family Action and the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Taxpayer Funded Abortion in a signature gathering effort to ultimately repeal the law and restore common sense protections for unborn infants and their mothers. To do so, we formed The Compassionate Care Coalition, a ballot committee dedicated to getting a suspend and repeal question on the ballot for 2028.
U.S. Military Confirms Deployment of Weapons in Space– legalinsurrection.com
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The U.S. military’s public acknowledgment that it has deployed “space control weapons” in orbit should surprise no one who has followed my reporting on the accelerating contest for the ultimate high ground.
The United States has stationed weapons in Earth’s orbit, Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink said on Monday, the first such public acknowledgment by a Pentagon official after years of preparations to counter potential deployments by Russia and China.
“We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action,” he said at a convention in Maryland, according to a news release published on the Air Force’s website.
Mr. Meink did not provide details about the type of weapons or say when they had been deployed. He made his remarks in a keynote speech at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., an annual forum hosted by the Air and Space Forces Association, a nonprofit organization for members of both services.
The Space Force did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Monday.
BREAKING: The U.S. has confirmed in a landmark revelation that the nation has deployed operational weapons in space.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink became the first U.S. official to publicly acknowledge the orbital defense capability in what is widely being interpreted as a… pic.twitter.com/2IT69Hbznd
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 15, 2026
