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Mike Huckabee has condemned a days-long blockade of several homes in the West Bank, including one owned by a dual US citizen US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has branded Israeli settlers besieging three Palestinian families in their West Bank homes “terrorists.” The days-long siege has targeted several properties, including one owned by a dual US citizen.According to the UN, the blockade in the village of Qusra began last Sunday, leaving approximately 15 Palestinians, including at least two children, trapped in their homes without access to electricity or water supplies. The Palestinians are also believed to be running out of…

Screencap of Twitter/X video. Margaret Cho is one of those stand-up comedians who has become less funny as she has gotten older and more woke, which is a shame because she wasn’t too bad back in the 1990s. Today, she comes off as a humorless scold, and a far left one, naturally. During a recent appearance on a podcast, she talked about how if you make jokes about trans people, trans people die. The host doesn’t challenge her on this at all, he just nods along, as if what she is saying is completely normal. It isn’t. Breitbart News has…

Conservative President of Colombia Abelardo de la Espriella declared a state of economic emergency on Wednesday to expedite the country’s recovery in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck the South American nation this week. The declaration, a faculty granted by the Colombian constitution, grants special provisions to de la Espriella that allow him to issue specific decrees to address the ongoing emergency caused by the earthquake. Colombia is still recovering from a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the country on Monday morning. Speaking on Wednesday night alongside First Lady Ana Lucía Pineda, de la Espriella detailed that, as of…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused his predecessor Xavier Becerra of gutting a team responsible for policing fraud across trillions of dollars. “My predecessor, Xavier Becerra, when he came into my agency, there were only 80 people in program integrity, 80 people,” Kennedy said. “This is for 50 states and five territories.” Becerra allegedly stripped nearly the entire team tasked with guarding $2.2 trillion in annual HHS payments against fraud, said Kennedy during a White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud press conference. Kennedy said those employees were responsible for monitoring roughly four million transactions each…

Valery Melnikov says his Mariupol series was pulled after complaints over his past work for RIA Novosti German camera maker Leica has excluded a Russian photographer from its prestigious Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) following Ukrainian criticism over his links to the Russian RIA Novosti news agency.Valery Melnikov, a three-time World Press Photo winner, said in a social media post this week that his long-term series, ‘Mariupol. Open Wounds,’ had initially been selected by the Leica jury for the 2026 shortlist before being dropped.The project, which Melnikov has worked on since 2022, documents civilians living in the Black Sea port city of…

Rabbis on Monday urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop painting Israel as the Evil Empire because of the toll his remarks are taking on innocent New York City Jews. The meeting between 10 Jewish leaders and the Muslim pro-Palestinian mayor came against a backdrop of rising anti-Semitism in New York City. Anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 8.5 percent through the first seven months of the year, New York Police Department officials said last week, according to The Wall Street Journal. The rabbis collectively sought to have Mamdani tone down his rhetoric on Israel. “There were rabbis from across…

Authorities in Colombia continue to struggle to meet the needs of the tens of thousands estimated to have been injured, displaced, or otherwise affected by the devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week, telling local media on Thursday that hospitals near the epicenter are totally overwhelmed and city streets are in a state of “total chaos.” Complicating matters, reports from Colombia detail ongoing aftershocks that interrupt search and rescue operations and threaten to send buildings that remain precariously standing crumbling down, trapping even more people. Many residents in the western Colombian department, or state, of Chocó where the earthquake hit are wandering…

Children’s YouTube and Netflix star Ms. Rachel has added support for reparations over slavery and Jim Crow Laws to her growing catalogue of left-wing causes, taking her latest stance via an Instagram post to her five million-plus followers. Ms. Rachel, AKA Rachel Accurso, took an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2014 essay The Case for Reparations to illustrate the need to “reckon” with America’s history of slavery. “Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never…

The US military buildup in the region is relying on heavily dilapidated infrastructure, a new report by the Pentagon inspector general has indicated US military installations across the Pacific are in an alarming state of decay, a new Pentagon inspector general’s report has found, calling for “immediate attention” to fix crumbling infrastructure.The heavily redacted report, released this week, is part of an ongoing audit of US military facilities in the region. Inspections at 11 installations have revealed various severe issues, including collapsing ceilings, corroded walls, and a significant presence of mold. Additionally, there is extensive use of hazardous construction materials…

Kansas State Senator Cindy Holscher. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kansas State Democrats The Kansas Democratic Gubernatorial nominee is under fire after a disgusting and extremely sacrilegious post she made about Jesus Christ resurfaced this week. As The Washington Examiner reported on Wednesday, State Senator Cindy Holscher had an exchange she had with a right-leaning user on X. In it, she criticized Senate Bill 149, legislation introduced that year that sought to restrict drag performances accessible to minors. The argument occurred back on March 7, 2023. At one point during the exchange, Holscher outlandishly suggested that Jesus Christ, who Christians regard as the…