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Telegram’s founder has accused Paris of bringing “absurd” charges against him Telegram founder Pavel Durov has said that France ruined its reputation as a free country by briefly detaining him last year.Durov was arrested at a Paris airport in August 2024 on charges of allowing criminals to use his messenger for illegal activities, including extremism and child abuse. The Russian-born tech entrepreneur was later released on €5 million ($5.86 million) bail and allowed to return to Dubai, where he resides.In a post on Telegram on Sunday, Durov described his detention as “unprecedented” and “legally and logically absurd.” He said the…

Image: Vessel Technologies Bethel, a wealthy suburb in Connecticut that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, does not want affordable housing to mar their pristine community. According to the Hartford Courant, Manhattan-based Vessel Technologies is planning a five-story, 75-unit apartment complex in the town, but residents in the majority white Democrat town are fighting the efforts. Diversity for thee but not for me! The developer is warning officials that they face expensive litigation if they reject the project. Per The New York Post: The stark warning came during a heated planning commission meeting last week where Vessel’s attorney delivered a…

France summoned U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner on Sunday after he published a scathing open letter in the Wall Street Journal to President Emmanuel Macron, accusing the French government of failing to adequately combat rising antisemitism and warning that “public statements haranguing Israel embolden extremists.” The diplomatic confrontation escalates tensions between Washington and Paris over France’s approach to Jewish safety and Middle East policy, with Kushner’s Wall Street Journal letter — dated Monday, August 25, but released to the press late Sunday afternoon — marking an extraordinary public rebuke from a sitting U.S. envoy to his host nation’s leader. Writing on…

The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday terminated a sex education grant to California due to the state’s refusal to remove radical gender ideology from the taxpayer-funded program, the agency announced.  HHS, through its Administration for Children and Families (ACF), specifically terminated the state’s Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grant, which is a program for students meant to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. HHS said California used taxpayer money to “teach curricula that could encourage kids to contemplate mutilating their genitals, ‘altering their body … through hormone therapy,’ ‘adding or removing breast tissue,’ and ‘changing…

Darklanlan, Wikimedia Commons A federal judge has ordered the Oakland Unified School District to grant Good News Clubs equal access to school facilities as other after-school programs. U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. issued a preliminary injunction, prompted by a lawsuit from Liberty Counsel representing Child Evangelism Fellowship’s (CEF) NorCal East Bay, requiring the district to allow Good News Clubs to meet on the same terms as nonreligious groups. The suit, filed in December 2024, followed the district’s rejection of club applications at four campuses. Judge Gilliam ruled that the district’s actions violated free speech protections, rejecting claims that…

Former Obama Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday on CNN’s “OutFront” that some is targeting “going on” with the FBI raid on the home of former National Security Advisor John Bolton. Host Erin Burnett said, “So I guess let’s just cut to the bottom line on what’s happened here. Do you believe that the raids on John Bolton’s home and his office are political payback?” Panetta said, “Well, you know, look, we don’t know all the facts here because we don’t know what the Justice Department said to a magistrate judge in order to get a warrant but when you…

A man has been arrested in Italy and will stand trial in Germany, but the pipeline mystery remains unresolved The Nord Stream pipeline bombing is back in the news after the recent arrest of a Ukrainian national, identified as Sergey Kuznetsov, at a resort in Italy. Kuznetsov is set to be extradited to Germany, where he will stand trial for allegedly coordinating a six-man sabotage team that blew up the pipelines.It is the first arrest in a case widely viewed as the largest instance of industrial sabotage in Europe since World War II. Probes were launched by Denmark, Sweden and…

A Texan exercised his Second Amendment rights on Friday night after individuals claiming to be police approached their home, looking for trouble. As Fox News reported, a Houston homeowner killed two masked men wearing bulletproof vests marked with “police” and attempting to serve a warrant. The men also had badges around their necks. The homeowner realized this was a trap after noticing no patrol cars or flashing lights were present. “They became suspicious because they have a Ring camera and the suspects were stating they had a warrant, but it’s just two people, and they’re masked up and no police…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix appears to have its first No. 1 box-office title in the streaming company’s 18-year history thanks to the sensation of “KPop Demon Hunters.” Rival studios on Sunday estimated “KPop Demon Hunters” led all films over the weekend with $16-18 million in ticket sales. Distribution executives from three studios shared their estimates for the Netflix phenomenon on condition of anonymity because the streaming company has a policy of not reporting ticket sales. Following a dominating few weeks as one of the most popular Netflix releases ever, the streamer put the film into 1,750 theaters for sing-along…

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, on Friday posted and later deleted a message on X questioning President Donald Trump’s remarks about possibly deploying the military to U.S. cities. Espaillat’s deleted post read: Foreign nations Trump has deployed the military to: 0 Cities in the United States Trump has deployed the military to: 1, possibly more to come. How is this protecting us? The comment was written as a quote-tweet in response to Trump’s statement on Washington, DC. Trump remarked, “We haven’t had to bring in the regular military, which we’re willing to do if we…