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By Steven Richards & John Solomon Dr. Anthony Fauci privately sounded the alarm when he learned the U.S. Army had conducted an experiment a decade ago that aerosolized the lethal Ebola virus, which is not normally transmitted by air, and then shared the results publicly amid an ongoing outbreak in Africa, according to diary entries obtained by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul.  The then-top scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease was particularly concerned in 2016 that the Army medical research arm's experiment seemed to show that exposure to aerosolized Ebola caused more damaging effects in subjects that had been vaccinated. This was almost four years before he championed shutting down the U.S. economy and social life over the COVID-19 virus outbreak. Fauci wrote he believed such research should be kept secret, preferably classified, so that it didn’t undermine public confidence in vaccination in the African countries su...

By Bryan S. Jung The Spanish Civil Guard detained two former Venezuelan diplomats at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport after they were caught smuggling approximately 50 kilograms of cocaine into Spain.  According to CiberCuba, a team of independent journalists covering Cuba and its regional allies, the detainees are José Rafael Escorihuela Pereira, the former deputy head of the Venezuelan embassy in Madrid, and Kelvin Jesús Matos Pérez, a former embassy official and ex-brother-in-law of Nicolás Maduro Guerra, the son of the former Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro. Escorihuela attempted to evade customs inspection on September 8 by claiming active diplomatic status, but Spanish authorities discovered the narcotics in his luggage.  The arrests, which were revealed weeks later, have drawn attention to the detainees’ connections to Venezuela’s former diplomatic corps and the Maduro family. Spanish law enforcement is investigating whether Matos Pérez acted as an intermedi...

By Virginia Kruta ITHACA, NEW YORK — It’s socialist red at Big Red! Cornell University’s lefty crowd gave Democratic Socialist superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a warm, hate-filled welcome by singing anti-Israel chants at a campaign event meant to gin up support for Democrats ahead of the midterms Sunday. While warming up the standing-room-only crowd of roughly 2,000 people gathered for the congresswoman’s “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall in downtown Ithaca Sunday, Cornell University Young Democratic Socialists of America co-chairs Mina Petrova and Zoe Reisman led the crowd singing “from the river to the sea” and declaring “long live the student intifada.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks with Cornell students during a town hall in Ithaca Sunday. More Perfect Union/X “Cornell is fundamentally a capitalist institution that prioritizes billionaires and profit over students and community and is controlled by CEO trustees that are profiting off of genocide and war,”...

The Treasury secretary said only about 15M barrels of Iranian oil remain out for delivery under Operation Economic Outcast By Max Bacall Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted Sunday that Iran will complete its remaining oil shipments to China within two weeks, leaving Tehran with "nothing left to trade for anything" as the Trump administration intensifies its economic pressure campaign against the regime. Bessent said only about 15 million barrels of Iranian oil remain out for delivery now that the U.S. is blockading the ports, describing the dwindling shipments as evidence that Operation Economic Outcast has left Tehran economically isolated. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent participates in a Shield of the Americas event during the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22, 2026. (REUTERS) "They will have nothing to trade for anything, probably within the next two weeks. They are going to make their final deliveries of oil to...

By Ward Clark A person can get pretty jaded in the news business, particularly where dealing with lax justice systems is concerned. But now and then something comes across that jolts one nonetheless; something so outrageous that you have to read it two or three times to make sure you aren't missing something. This is one of those cases: Last week, we saw and reported on the arrests of five would-be terrorists who were allegedly plotting a scheme to attack the British Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Fairford with explosives. They were caught, thanks to a sharp-eyed citizen, and their plans thwarted. And, one would think that once locked up, people accused of a crime on this scale would stay locked up pending trial, right? Right? No. The Fairford Five are out on bail . This is the same Fuked-up country that jails its people for words... It's time for @POTUS to throw every UK diplomat out of the USA... btw, Our founding fathers were smarter than we thought... pic.twitter.com/vH...

A former Pentagon official warned Trump would decide how Iran 'pays' if evidence shows Tehran was behind the attempted attack on RAF Fairford By Emma Bussey Five men arrested near a key U.S. bomber base in the U.K. on Sunday may have planned a "complex," coordinated attack with potentially far-reaching security implications for American military installations globally, a former U.S. intelligence official warned. As counterterrorism police investigated after officers detained the suspects near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, a former Pentagon official also said President Donald Trump would ultimately be the one to decide the consequences if indeed the "trail leads to Tehran." The men were initially held on suspicion of offenses under Britain’s Explosives Act before being arrested on terrorism charges in connection with the airfield, a key U.S. Air Force hub and the primary European base for American strategic bombers. On Sunday, Trump said U.S. autho...

By Nick Arama We've seen a lot of wild statements from Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico.  But Talarico posted a screed on Sunday about how his healthcare positions were based on "biblical grounds," then misused Jesus to justify his takes. When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit. When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power. When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds. pic.twitter.com/cpxUXeYE5W — James Talarico (@jamestalarico) September 27, 2026 When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. So when I fight for universal healthcare, I'm doing it on biblical grounds.  When Jesus fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge to turn a profit. So when I say that no child in the state of Texas should go to bed hungry, I'm doing it on biblical grounds.  And when the Hebrew prophets saw corruption in high places, they s...

By Joe Cunnington President Donald Trump said Saturday he rejected the latest proposal Iran conveyed to the United States during indirect talks in New York this week, as regional mediators press to keep the two sides at the table nearly seven months into the war. “They have made a proposal and I rejected it,” Trump told reporters. A U.S. official said discussions between American and Iranian negotiators, carried out through mediators, remain “positive and constructive,” including on the nuclear issues at the center of the standoff. Where Iran and the U.S. Are Stuck Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi laid out Tehran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming nuclear negotiations during a new round of indirect talks with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Qatari officials passed messages between the two delegations, according to sources with direct knowledge of the talks. Iran offered to reopen the stra...

By Robert Spencer Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), an otherwise completely obscure far-left backbencher, has just made a bid not to slide into total oblivion once he finally skulks out of the Capitol for the last time. He has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, and while many other quixotic leftists have done that, Cohen has distinguished himself in filing no less than 26 articles of impeachment against Trump, which has got to be a record. Prof. Jonathan Turley remarked drily that Cohen “appears to believe that the problem with past impeachments has been brevity. His 26 articles of impeachment include everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, including the new impeachable offense of ‘self-aggrandizement.’” Wow. “Self-aggrandizement” is impeachable now? If that sticks, and in light of the fact that the last time the Democrats impeached Trump, he was out of office, Barack Hussein Obama and Old Joe Biden better tread lightly. Few, if any, of the occupan...

By Nick Arama United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz sat for an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper on Sunday.  There was a moment that was just flat-out funny when Tapper basically begged Waltz to ask Trump to let CNN back into the press pool. 🚨 LMAO!! CNN's Jake Tapper just BEGGED Ambassador Mike Waltz on national TV to ask President Trump to "let CNN back in the pool" for Air Force One and event coverage "Yesterday, the White House barred CNN from pool...I'd ask if you can convey to President Trump to let CNN back… pic.twitter.com/d5NcMf1zPx — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 27, 2026 "Before you go, sir, I just want to note, yesterday, the White House barred CNN from fulfilling our pool assignment on behalf of the five major television networks. As you know, we all pool coverage, and all of our affiliates and subscribers. "And I would just ask if you could please convey to President Trump to let CNN back...