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By Ward Clark To anyone with a modicum of good sense, it seems unbelievable that anyone would defend the lunatic practice of issuing commercial drivers' licenses (CDLs) to people who can neither read nor speak English, and to turn them loose on the nation's highways at the wheel of huge 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs. But that is what is happening, wherein a lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration's crackdown on CDL standards. Oral argument in this case is set for Tuesday before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. What's interesting is that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), under the direction of the notoriously strident Randi Weingarten, is now joining the lawsuit, ostensibly because its members include bus drivers and other support drivers . Today, the AFT moved to join an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Transportation, seeking to stop the agency from seizing the personal records of 17 million commercial driver’s license (CDL) holde...

  FILE/Newly-arrived U.S. soldiers inspect the ovens of the crematorium at Dachau. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) By Matt Mercer Headen was reportedly visiting Dachau, where the memorial states that 41,500 people were murdered. In social media photos, Headen is seen smiling as she stands in front of what appears to be crematorium ovens, which were used by the Nazi SS to burn the bodies of Jews and other prisoners who died or were murdered at the camp.  Headen faces incumbent Republican state Rep. John Blust in a suburban Guilford County district. On her Facebook page, Headen says she is a CPA and business owner “running to restore human decency,” an ironic statement after saying political opponents should be in concentration camps while posing and smiling in front of ovens at a Holocaust memorial site. Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. The rhetoric expressed by Headen is growing among Democrat candidates and left-wing agitators across the ...

Hezbollah has been weakened, the Houthis grow in confidence, the militias in Iraq are under pressure and pro-Iranian cells are trying to regain a foothold in Syria. At the same time, tensions between Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have come into the open. Three years after threats of a regional war, Tehran is trying to rebuild its proxy network and adapt it to a new reality. By Shachar Kleiman Nearly three years after senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri boasted in an interview with the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen network in late August 2023 that Israel's actions would lead to an all-out regional war, the pro-Iranian axis once again finds itself at a crossroads. Most of the terrorist organizations in the camp have survived, but they have changed their tactics, with some effectively turning the clock back decades. Tensions among the axis' various components have also come to the surface, while what was once the flagship project of Iran's Islamic Repub...

Xu Bo is the founder and chairman of Guangzhou Duoyi Network, one of China’s largest mobile game companies.   By Jim Hᴏft It takes a lot for the corporate mainstream propaganda machine to finally admit what everyday conservative Americans have known for years, but the truth is finally bubbling to the surface. A single American mother signed up to be a surrogate after seeing an Instagram ad promising $120,000. The agency told her the intended parent was a single father expanding his family. The intended father, leaked documents later showed, was Xu Bo, the reclusive Chinese video-game billionaire whose company has already confirmed a staggering surrogacy operation on U.S. soil, CBS reported. Every baby born here is an American citizen at birth. Those children keep U.S. citizenship for life. They can vote. They can hold federal jobs. At 21 they can sponsor family members. Agencies have marketed th...

Mohammed bin Salman approached Israel indirectly through CENTCOM seeking intelligence assistance against threat to Bab al-Mandeb. Trump is wary of direct US intervention, but airstrikes remain under consideration. By Danny Zaken Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has appealed to countries across the Middle East, and indirectly to Israel, for assistance in the fight against the Houthis, as Saudi-backed forces appear to be suffering major setbacks. According to diplomatic officials in the region, the requests were made directly to other Gulf states and Egypt. Israel was approached indirectly through US Central Command, or CENTCOM, with a request for intelligence and other assistance that could help prevent the Houthis from blocking the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Trump backed away from a large-scale attack on Iran. Photo: CENTCOM Threat to oil routes and global trade In his appeals, Mohammed bin Salman warned of the severe damage that could be inflicted on the entire regio...

By Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. Donald Trump’s $5,000 “dividend” proposal to every U.S. adult should be taken seriously, not because the arithmetic has been worked out, since there isn’t any, but because of what the idea represents. Trump equates the payout with a corporate distribution of profits in a cash dividend, even as the year’s federal deficit surpasses $2 trillion. Plenty have pointed out that the Trump dividend is unaffordable, but that’s not the issue. Much of what the federal government does is unaffordable, yet we do it anyway, so exorbitance is no deterrent. The main story about the dividend is the growing promotion of giving “free” money to able-bodied adults. Going well beyond the traditional framing of transfer payments as a “safety net,” Trump is increasingly normalizing government cash payments detached from work, production, or any specific emergency as a routine feature of American economic life. We’ve already seen Trump’s DOGE dividend teaser and his propo...

In this message from Fight the Good Fight, Pastor Josh Howerton walks through 2 Timothy 2:20-22, where Paul tells Timothy that in a great house there are vessels of gold and vessels of clay, and that anyone who cleanses himself becomes a vessel for honorable use. Learn what the Bible means by "youthful passions," why condemnation is a builder's term the enemy borrows to label you unfit for use, and what it actually takes to be useful to God. If you have ever believed that your past disqualified you from being used for anything great, this message is for you. Join the Conversation! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We have a wonderful, active, and engaged community. Come join us in the comments section below! You'll need a Hyvor account (100% free) if you don't already have one. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

By Hannah Brennan Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial, prompting Republican women to warn that the intraparty rhetoric could hurt the GOP. "I think there’s definitely a threat in the Republican Party right now," political and legal strategist Mehek Cooke told Fox News Digital. The online calls to repeal the 19th Amendment come after Clancy’s high-profile murder trial ended in a mistrial, with 11 of the 12 jurors favoring a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. Clancy admitted to killing her three children, but her defense argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Lindsay Clancy listens to testimony Aug. 10, 2026. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger) "Convict Clancy. Also Repeal the 19th Amendment!" one user posted on X. "The female jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial are speaking out about their deliberations and...

By Ashley Hume, Larry Fink Zachary Levi isn't holding back about why he packed up and left his home state of California for Texas. In 2017, the 45-year-old actor, who is starring in the upcoming action-thriller "The Fix," sold his home in Los Angeles and bought a ranch outside of Austin. During a recent interview with Fox News Digital alongside his "The Fix" co-star Liam Neeson, Levi candidly opened up about why he left the Golden State. "I grew up in California, I love California, it is a failed state," he said. "It is literally and figuratively on fire." Zachary Levi called California a "failed state" after moving to Texas.  (Getty Images) Along with his disillusionment with California, the "Chuck" star explained that his departure was rooted in a long-standing desire to rethink how the entertainment industry operates from the inside out. "Ever since I started working in Hollywood and I saw how...

By BLAZETV STAFF Some parents pour years into raising their children in faith and still are forced to watch them walk away. And as a homeschool mother of seven is watching her youngest become a prodigal, she reaches out to BlazeTV host Steve Deace to ask whether she had failed. And his answer was unequivocal: The story isn’t over. “None of the stories of your children are finished yet,” he responds. “And for those of you that have prodigal kids, you’re maybe in the most trying time of that story. But the story isn’t written yet.” Deace uses St. Augustine and his mother, Monica, as an example, explaining that she prayed for her son for “17 years.” “And he would go on to eventually become arguably the most formidable mind the church has produced in the post-canon era, even to this very day, nearly 2,000 years later,” he explains. “So that’s I think the most important thing that I could say,” he continues. “Do not quit. Do not give up. Their stories aren’t written yet. Th...

By Nick Arama Sometimes there is just some amusing karma in the world.  Now, we all know that the very liberal MS NOW likes to spend their time trying to report negative things about the Trump administration, and, of course, they tend to be very negative about anything having to do with illegal immigration.  So it turns out they had a team out at the Texas border to do a story about the border wall and objections people have to it. They were also remarking on some of the challenging landscape that people trying to get into the country would have to go past. But then the MS NOW folks had a small problem. WATCH: Border Patrol Agents Forced to Rescue MS NOW Crew After Vehicle Bottoms Out https://t.co/7ZngGBjW4q pic.twitter.com/NvcWWJbgUR — Zachary Leeman (@WritingLeeman) September 12, 2026 Antonia Hylton and her crew were reporting from Texas’ Big Bend region for the debut of “The Assignment” when their Jeep Wagoneer bottomed out shortly after a visit to the Alvarado Ranc...