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The Detroit News endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race on Wednesday, pointing to his experience in Congress, the military, and the FBI. “Mike Rogers is clearly the best choice for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat and gets our endorsement.” The newspaper’s editorial board described Rogers as well prepared for the Senate after serving 14 years in the House, including a stint as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Rogers, 63, left Congress in 2015 after representing a mid-Michigan district for seven terms. He later worked in the private sector, focusing on cybersecurity. He previously served as an Army…

The prime minister vowed to introduce bills punishing those who “defame” the country’s troops Israelis should be stripped of citizenship if they are found guilty of slandering the military, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, as the IDF faces new accusations of killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza.In a video address on Wednesday, Netanyahu lashed out at the recently released documentary ‘NAZA’, which alleges that the Israeli military and intelligence services used AI-assisted systems to select targets and treated potential civilian deaths as acceptable collateral damage. The film by Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor premiered at the Venice…

  Disgraced ex-NFL quarterback turned Black Lives Matter activist Colin Kaepernick said this week that he still wants to make a comeback to the NFL and is actively looking for his shot after nearly a decade of not playing. The 38-year-old, who was never extraordinarily good, recently appeared in an interview with Men’s Health, where he said that despite no longer even watching the NFL, he’s still desperately calling teams for his chance. “I’ll follow the stat lines to be able to see also what teams we should be calling,” he said before going on about “the history and legacy…

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen scrambled to deny on Wednesday that they launched a drone at the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia the day before amid growing condemnation from Muslim nations and organizations. The Saudi military announced it had intercepted a Houthi drone targeting Mecca on Tuesday. The Saudis said the latest of many Houthi drone and missile attacks crossed a “red line” because they threatened a city of such importance to the Islamic religion. Angry denunciations soon flooded in from other Middle Eastern nations and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which said the attack…

The World Still Loves the American Economy “The World Economy Is Becoming Wary of the U.S.,” the New York Times announced this week. The subhead pins the blame directly on President Trump: “America’s position of global economic stability is starting to look shakier as the Trump administration piles on debt and doubles down on sanctions.” “Global investors are balking at U.S. bonds. Talk of the dollar’s dwindling power is getting louder. Foreign governments are hauling their gold out of American vaults,” the Times trumpets. This sounds ominous until you examine what the money is actually doing. Much of the supposed…

In a poll published Wednesday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) held a narrow lead over Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine’s U.S. Senate race. Quantus Insights polling found Collins with 47.1 percent support and Jackson with 46.4 percent. Another five percent were undecided, while 1.5 percent backed another candidate. Collins’ lead fell to just 0.2 percentage points when voters who leaned toward a candidate were included. Collins received 47.6 percent to Jackson’s 47.4 percent. The difference falls well within the poll’s 4.3-point margin of error, leaving neither candidate with a clear lead. The poll found a sharp divide among voters based on…

Ousted board members of the U.S. Institute of Peace are asking a federal court to block the imminent carving of President Donald Trump’s name on the headquarters of the nonpartisan institution he sought to dismantle shortly after taking office.Members of the board who were removed by the administration filed an emergency motion Thursday in Washington in a dispute that has echoes of Trump’s effort to place his name on the Kennedy Center.The motion was filed as an emergency petition, alleging that a contractor has already been selected to carve Trump’s name into the Constitution Avenue headquarters that the administration sought…

The region’s hottest summer on record is expected to cut the harvest by more than 3.5 million tonnes Summer heat and drought have been projected to cut potato harvests in Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands by millions of tonnes, causing hundreds of millions of euros in losses, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) reported on Thursday.Production across the five countries is expected to be more than 3.5 million tonnes lower due to extreme weather, with the losses estimated at €498 million to €818 million ($572 million to $940 million), according to the research group.“As one of…

President Trump delivers remarks in Gastonia, North Carolina (September 16, 2026) President Trump on Wednesday slammed the Federal Reserve after a 12-0 vote to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023.  The Gateway Pundit reported that the Fed raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday, just seven weeks before the midterm elections. Trump initially responded by calling on the Fed to lower rates on Truth Social. While speaking to reporters at Charlotte airport on Wednesday, Trump blasted the “very hostile” and “very political” Board of Governors for keeping rates high and preventing the US from paying…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday arrested Ecuadorian national Xavier Jordán, one of the men accused of being behind the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in 2023. Jordán, described by Ecuadorian outlets as a businessman, has long been wanted by Ecuadorian authorities for his alleged involvement in three major criminal cases, two of which involve multiple drug trafficking, organized crime, and corruption charges. It is reportedly understood that Jordán left Ecuador on February 2, 2020, and has been living in the United States since then. Last year, Ecuadorian prosecutors also accused Jordán of being one of the seven…