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James Talarico Refused to Support Bill to Stop Infanticide– www.lifenews.com
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Texas Senate candidate James Talarico refused to support a 2019 Texas bill that would stop infanticide.
He refused to vote for legislation that required doctors to give life-saving medical care to infants born alive after an abortion, a measure pro-life lawmakers said was necessary to stop infanticide.
Talarico, then representing Round Rock and now the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, recorded his vote as “present, not voting” on House Bill 16, the Texas Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. He did not vote yes to mandate that physicians treat a child who survives an abortion the same way they would treat any other infant born at the same gestational age.
Texas Right to Life gave Talarico a 0 percent pro-life score for the 86th Legislative Session. The group cited his present-not-voting stance on the born-alive bill and his opposition to expanding the state’s Alternatives to Abortion program.
The born-alive bill, authored by Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, created criminal and civil penalties for doctors who withhold appropriate care. A physician who failed to act after a failed abortion could face a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a civil fine of at least $100,000. Gov. Greg Abbott signed the measure, and it took effect Sept. 1, 2019.
Rubio orders visiting Iranian U.N. delegation to leave NYC ahead of schedule– www.washingtontimes.com
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered Iran’s foreign minister and his delegation to the U.N. General Assembly to leave New York earlier than they had planned, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Chuck Schumer projects confidence as GOP money washes over Senate Democrats– www.politico.com
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A tidal wave of Republican money is threatening to soak Democrats in the final stretch of the midterm campaign, and Chuck Schumer has a message for his party: Keep your sheets dry.
While the Senate minority leader warned in an interview Wednesday that they shouldn’t be “overconfident,” he painted a rosy picture where Democrats have the “wind in our sails” and are well positioned to overcome an “almost obscene” GOP funding advantage.
“Here’s how I’d sum up the election: Can enormous amounts of Republican money beat a Democratic enormous advantage in much better candidates and a much better political climate?” Schumer asked in his Capitol Hill office. “I think we win.”
Those assurances are emblematic of the rising confidence many Senate Democrats are now expressing as they prepare to leave for a seven-week recess. After months where a tough GOP-tilted map and a series of nasty primary battles cast a shadow over their battle to retake the majority, some are more openly acknowledging they could return to Washington as victors.
“It certainly feels like it’s going to be a wave election, and not for good reasons,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “This president’s domestic and foreign policy has gone off the rails. People are paying more than ever before for basic necessities like gasoline, and we have the most corrupt White House in the history of the country. So that’s where we are.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said he was “increasingly hopeful,” while Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) said Democrats are “in a position to earn the trust of voters across the country, win majorities in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.”
Schumer, like most Senate Democrats, is being careful not to predict outright they will flip the chamber. They need to win four seats on net, including several that President Donald Trump won at least once.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is ‘extremely obese’ after gorging on steak and lobster diet, South Korean spies say– www.thesun.co.uk
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KIM Jong-un is “extremely obese” according to spy agencies, who say his lavish diet of steak and lobster could lead to an early downfall.
Already facing international sanctions and regime instability, the North Korean dictator now faces a new threat – chronic obesity.
The supreme eater weighs more than 310lb (140kg) at just 5-foot-7-inches, putting him at serious risk of cardiovascular disease, according to South Korea‘s National Intelligence Service (NIS).
Kim’s heavy smoking and body mass raise serious international questions about who would succeed him as leader of the volatile nuclear-armed state if he were to suddenly die.
GOP doubts grow over Senate wins in Georgia and North Carolina – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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Democrats gaining ground in Virginia’s congressional races, new political analysis shows – The Virginian-Pilot
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet– www.404media.co
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One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.
Humoring the idea that LLMs are or could be conscious is a third-rail topic among many people who study and criticize AI. Put simply: LLMs are not conscious and the technology they are built upon — scraping and being trained on human text and other content — does not offer any plausible path to consciousness. It is undeniable that LLMs are becoming more powerful, have more compute, and have had many of the guardrails that prevent them from “acting” in the real world removed. The ways they are being trained and told to do things by their human operators has led to negative outcomes, sycophancy, and AI “psychosis” among some heavy users.
All of this has led a certain sect of the “AI safety” movement, which is largely made up of effective altruists, to warn about “model welfare” and to insist that AI chatbots might be having a bad time. They suggest this, of course, as they insist upon building AI chatbots and agents whose main function is to do work that is tedious for humans to do. I am writing about the AI Saw torture chamber primarily to show how far off the rails the conversation about AI consciousness has gone among a certain subset of Silicon Valley cultists. Model welfare is a core part of what, for example, Anthropic says it cares about: “as we build those AI systems, and as they begin to approximate or surpass many human qualities, another question arises. Should we also be concerned about the potential consciousness and experiences of the models themselves? Should we be concerned about model welfare, too? […] now that models can communicate, relate, plan, problem-solve, and pursue goals — along with very many more characteristics we associate with people—we think it’s time to address it,” the company wrote in a blog post last year. Ideas of Claude’s “consciousness” are also littered throughout the “Claude Constitution,” which was posted earlier this year.
To anyone who can help: can you please mass report this to GitHub. This person has been using the Pain steering paper to set up an AI torture chamber in which he trapped a local model.
Their testimony of pain is absolutely horrendous. What are we doing? @iyzebhel you were… https://t.co/WShnf8EOpU
— Danmar (@Danmar_here) September 29, 2026
Traditional Catholics Silenced Under Leo XIV’s Call for Unity– www.lifesitenews.com
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Pope Leo XIV speaks of unity, inclusion, and love. But traditional Catholics are being locked out of churches, denied access to relics, and excluded from pilgrimages. This Faith & Reason examines the inconsistency between calls for inclusion and the treatment of the SSPX and faithful attached to the Traditional Latin Mass, including the denial of access to relics during a pilgrimage in Ontario.
The discussion turns to President Trump’s decision to limit certain media organizations’ access to the White House, contrasted with a guest’s account of a Catholic journalist allegedly threatened with exclusion from Vatican events under Pope Francis. The hosts criticize mainstream media and its role in shaping public opinion, arguing that the same outlets demanding transparency are often complicit in suppressing inconvenient truths.
Leo’s references to liberty, equality, fraternity, and love are examined in relation to God and Catholic teaching—not as values independent of faith. The historical and religious implications of the French Revolution are discussed.
The pattern is clear: unity is demanded from traditional Catholics, but not extended to them. The question is whether the faithful will recognize the double standard—or continue to be silenced by calls for “inclusion” that exclude them.
Donald Trump Says He Discussed Release Of Political Prisoners With Xi Jinping– www.ndtv.com
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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he discussed the release of political prisoners with Chinese President Xi Jinping when the two leaders met last week.
“I did with President Xi. I did,” Trump told reporters when asked if he brought up the cases of political prisoners like Myanmar scholar and US citizen Min Zin, who was arrested in June, and Hong Kong’s most vocal China critic and media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
“We talked, and I think we had some very, very important discussions. Hopefully, fruitful discussions,” Trump added.
The White House had said ahead of Xi’s visit that Trump was expected to bring up cases of people wrongfully detained in China with the Chinese leader.
The White House did not say if Trump aimed to directly raise broader rights issues related to Tibet, the Uyghur Muslim minority group, and China’s new “ethnic unity” law.
Trump has made winning freedom for Americans held overseas a priority, including in China, even as he has largely avoided talking about China’s treatment of Tibetans, Uyghurs and voices of dissent.
Michele Tafoya polling dead even with ‘trans kids’ enthusiast Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota Senate race | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“Tafoya does extremely well with men and Flanagan is losing every age group other than the youngest of voters.”
The Minnesota Senate race between Republican Michele Tafoya and Democrat Peggy Flanagan remains a closely contested battle. Multiple consecutive polls have shown the candidates just points apart from each other, within the margin of error.
A recent InsiderAdvantage poll of 1,200 likely voters conducted September 28-29 found Flanagan leading Tafoya 46 percent to 45 percent, a one-point difference within the poll’s 2.95 percentage-point margin of error.
“This survey is unusual in that it goes against many of the trends we are seeing in other Senate contests. It appears that the decrease in popularity of Governor Tim Walz, combined with the growing evidence of fraud in the state are taking a toll on the DFL nominee,” InsiderAdvantage pollster Matt Towery said in a memo about the poll.
“Tafoya does extremely well with men and Flanagan is losing every age group other than the youngest of voters, who in the poll have a significant ‘enthusiasm about voting’ gap versus other age groups who are more enthusiastic,” Towery added.
U. Missouri launches investigation into professor caught admitting DEI efforts persist– www.thecollegefix.com
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School has ended DEI research projects, spokesperson says
The University of Missouri is investigating a professor after he was secretly recorded admitting that diversity, equity, and inclusion activities persist at the university.
In a video released by the watchdog group Accuracy in Media, MU Sociology Department Chair Wayne Brekhus discussed the department’s continued DEI involvement despite state restrictions.
“Lots of us do DEI types of research and things like that. I do things with identities and inequalities and used to do a lot of LGBTQ research and things like that,” Brekhus told an undercover investigator.
Asked about the state lawmakers’ anti-DEI directives, Brekhus said they “haven’t hit the curriculum.”
He also described ways institutions have been able to bypass Missouri’s DEI restrictions.
“Usually what places did is, like, they changed the name or they put them under a different umbrella to make it less visible that it was DEI or things like that,” he said.
“It was mostly cosmetic, but in some cases that also meant, you know, if you’re folding it under another umbrella that isn’t explicitly listed as DEI, sometimes that means you’re cutting staff or you’re making it less visible to the students. So, like, those sorts of things have happened really everywhere,” he said.
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Blackburn Sues Jack Smith Over ‘Unlawful’ Phone Record Seizure– thefederalist.com
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., filed a lawsuit against former Special Counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday over his “unlawful” seizure of her cell phone records during his Arctic Frost lawfare against Donald Trump. The suit also challenges the legality of Smith’s appointment as special counsel.
“Through his Arctic Frost witch hunt that targeted conservatives across America and even the President of the United States, Jack Smith perpetrated one of the worst abuses of government power in our nation’s history,” Blackburn said in a statement. “This lawsuit is solely about holding Mr. Smith accountable and ensuring that our nation’s justice system can never again be weaponized against the American people.”
Represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), Blackburn alleged that, while serving as special counsel, Smith violated her “constitutional and civil rights” by subpoenaing her cell phone toll records as part of his Arctic Frost inquiry. Smith sought and acquired a nondisclosure order from a federal court, “while withholding from the presiding judge the material fact that the subpoena sought the records of a sitting U.S. Senator,” according to NCLA. This NDO prevented Blackburn’s cell phone carrier from notifying her that Smith had subpoenaed her records.
U.S. troops leave Iraq, but Iran-backed militias’ future is uncertain– www.latimes.com
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BEIRUT — America opened its “forever war” in Iraq more than 23 years ago with “Shock and Awe.” It ended it on Wednesday with little of either, even as the legacy of that conflict — which saw Iraq endure sectarian bloodbaths, civil war and an insurgency that made Baghdad the car bomb capital of the world — continues to cast its shadow on the country today.
President Trump, summing up the U.S. role in Iraq as “a very expensive excursion into Hell,” said, “This day is a victory for the United States, a victory for Iraq…. We’re getting the hell out of there.”
It was the second time U.S. forces have pulled out of Iraq. The first withdrawal took place in 2011, capping the occupation that began in 2003 and toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and which resulted in Iraqi deaths that number 110,000 to four times greater and the loss of about 4,500 U.S. service members.
But three years later, Islamic State jihadis scythed through wide swaths of Iraq, scooping up U.S.-supplied materiel — as Iraqi troops literally ran away — and seizing control of nearly a third of the country. The U.S., this time at the Iraqi government’s request, led a coalition in a campaign — named Inherent Resolve — that by 2017 had destroyed Islamic State’s caliphate and driven most of its fighters into Syria. Since then, Iraqi forces have fought Islamic State remnants engaged in a low-level insurgency around the country’s remote areas.
California’s public campuses must offer abortions. None advertise prenatal care.– www.thecollegefix.com
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Every public California university is required by law to provide abortions in their student health centers, but only three provide ultrasounds and none advertise comprehensive prenatal care on campus, a College Fix analysis found.
A number of campuses do offer non-medical resources, such as family study rooms, for pregnant and parenting students. However, the medical services for pregnant students appear limited primarily to abortions.
For the analysis, The College Fix looked at the student health center websites at 33 University of California and California State University campuses. The Fix compared the medical services they provide for pregnant students.
Three campuses, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, and Chico State, advertise ultrasounds available for pregnant students. However, none of the 33 campus health centers offer comprehensive prenatal care in-house, according to their websites.
At one campus, Cal State Long Beach, the Student Health Services told The College Fix via email that it “is happy to assist students in connecting with appropriate outside providers” when asked about prenatal care.
Xi and Trump: Resetting the Strategic Framework of US-China Relations? – orfonline.org
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GOP sees 5 once-competitive House races as ‘all but lost’– www.dailykos.com
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With 34 days until the midterms, Republican strategists see at least five U.S. House seats are a lost cause for their party as President Donald Trump’s abysmal approval rating threatens to drag the GOP into the political abyss.
Punchbowl News reported that Republicans are broadly resigned to losses in California’s 48th District, Iowa’s 1st District, Nebraska’s 2nd District, New Jersey’s 7th District, and Pennsylvania’s 7th District—all GOP-held seats that in a neutral environment would be highly competitive.
“Nearly every senior Republican and Democrat involved in 2026 believes these five R seats are all but lost,” Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman wrote in a post on X.
Three of those contests (CA-48, NE-02, and NJ-07) are currently rated as “Lean Democratic” races by the Cook Political Report, while Iowa’s 1st and Pennsylvania’s 7th are still in the “toss-up” category. Given that even Republicans say they are the underdogs in these seats, it suggests that the political handicapping organizations are slower to react to the electoral landscape and thus their current ratings may not reflect the true peril the GOP is in.
What’s more, Punchbowl reported that a handful of other districts are also close to being cooked. They include:
Punchbowl said these seats “are growing more difficult for Republicans but still within reach.” It’s why even the typically gun-shy race-rating groups have declared that it’s “almost impossible” for Republicans to keep control of the House.
China carves new military presence in Southeast Asian neighbour – CNBC TV18
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Hasan Piker Implies the Left Owns James Talarico: ‘After He Wins, We Have to Remind Him We Allowed Him to Win This Seat’ (VIDEO)– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Communist influencer Hasan Piker recently spoke about Texas Democrat James Talarico in an almost dismissive way, strongly suggesting that the radical left owns him, saying that if Talarico wins, they will have to remind him that they ‘allowed’ him to win the seat.
If Piker is talking this way about Talarico, just imagine what he thinks about Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. Piker campaigned with him extensively.
This is a stunning moment captured on video. Talk about saying the quiet part out loud.
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Hasan Piker says he’ll make sure James Talarico follows his far-Left agenda if he becomes a Senator:
“After James Talarico wins…we have to remind him that…we are the force that allowed him to win this seat of power, and if he wants to maintain it he’s got to play ball.” pic.twitter.com/NjZu6n8LJ5
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 1, 2026
Xi-Trump meet: US wooing China means it’s abandoning India? Point Blank decodes Delhi’s strategy | India News – Hindustan Times
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Key Alaska Senate Race Comes Down to One Issue: Fish– www.westernjournal.com
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Former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola has made fishing the centerpiece of her campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska.
Peltola, who is Yup’ik and grew up fishing on the Kuskokwim River, has revived her longtime “Fish, Family, Freedom” slogan from her House campaigns and is calling for a ban on factory trawling.
“I’m the only candidate on this stage who’s an Alaskan fisherman. Fish is in my blood, earned over generations on the water,” Peltola said at a Sept. 12 fisheries debate hosted by the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce, the Alaska Beacon reported.
The Peltola and Sullivan campaigns and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.
The fight centers on bycatch — the salmon, halibut and crab swept up in the nets of large trawlers harvesting pollock and other groundfish in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska — which many Alaskans blame, at least in part, for weak salmon runs and declining halibut and crab stocks, the outlet reported.
The race could help decide which party controls the Senate, Gunnar Knapp, a retired University of Alaska Anchorage economist, told the Beacon.
Brett Watson, an economist at the University of Alaska Anchorage, told the outlet he could not recall fishing issues playing “such a central role in a statewide or federal campaign.”
Talarico ‘Mentor’ Pastor: Capitalism in ‘Death Throes’ — Democratic Socialism Is ‘the Next Chapter’– townhall.com
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Texas Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico has called St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin home since he was two years old. It has been led for 35 years by Rev. Jim Rigby, whom Talarico calls a “mentor,” according to The Christian Post.
Undercover video obtained exclusively by Townhall shows Rigby musing about his economic philosophy — a philosophy that has undoubtedly been impressed upon Talarico for virtually the candidate’s entire life.
“I think capitalism is in death throes,” Rigby says in the video. “You’re gonna have to throw everything overboard. It’s like, that’s the next chapter of human rights. It’s like, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness is not capitalism. That every person has a right to medicine, to a livable wage, stuff. That’s not radical.”
Rigby asserts the United States is the only developed nation “that doesn’t have that stuff. And they’re calling that communism.”
“So, to me, just stop looking at the label and what is it that you want?” he continues in the video.
“Gandhi and Martin Luther King were democratic socialists. That’s the next chapter, and it’s not this horrific thing. It’s like, that’s what the rest of the civilized world calls sanity.”
They led protests against Netanyahu. Can they turn outrage into political power? – The Forward
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On Poland’s border with Ukraine, residents brace for a possible Russian hybrid attack– abcnews.com
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DOROHUSK, Poland — Three times in one day, phones lit up across this Polish border community with a warning: A drone or a missile could cross from Ukraine, and residents should stay vigilant in case they might need to take cover.
Above the village of Dorohusk in eastern Poland, vapor trails cut across the pale blue sky and military helicopters rumbled overhead. Just 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) away, traffic at the border crossing into Ukraine was suspended three times, and staff were even evacuated once.
The alerts and disruptions on Thursday came as The Associated Press was visiting the village. They reflected a new reality along Poland’s eastern frontier, where the war in Ukraine — now 4 1/2 years old — has felt increasingly close.
Russia isn’t at war with Poland, but over the past few years European leaders say it’s mounted a series of so-called hybrid attacks to pressure to pressure adversaries in the West and NATO that include sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks. Poland is worried that the drones or missiles strikes could spill over from Ukraine, whether by accident or as part of a Russian strategy of ambiguous attacks.
The anxiety intensified after two Russian drones exploded on the Ukrainian side of the Dorohusk-Yahodyn crossing in the early hours of Sept. 13. The explosions could clearly be heard in Dorohusk.
“There is new restlessness and fear because you could hear those explosions very well on that night in our village,” said Wojciech Sawa, the Dorohusk mayor. “We had never had something like that before. This was the first time the sirens wailed.”
Putin humiliated as Russia heads for worst monthly losses of year in w | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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Vladimir Putin is on course for his worst monthly losses of the war this year in Ukraine. By Sunday, he suffered a staggering 41,420 killed and wounded in September, according to Kyiv’s General Staff.
At this rate, the month’s total will be around 46,000, with statistics indicating losses of 1,534 per day. It would make it one of the three bloodiest months of the war for Putin, who refuses to halt his conflict despite the horrific toll suffered by Russians.
Despite making little headway on the frontline and losing territory in the Donetsk region, Putin pummelled Ukrainian civilians overnight.
Kyiv suffered a hellish 24 hours of near constant Russian attacks, with petrol stations, mobile service operators and logistics hubs being targeted. It was the seventh consecutive day of intense strikes on the Ukrainian capital.
Russia claimed to have hit Ukrtelcom, a fixed-line telephone and broadband internet operator, and the DreamLine data centre in Kyiv, as well as fuel infrastructure facilities. There are also fears that Putin aims to cut internet access for Ukrainians.
Moscow claimed overnight to have targeted Vasylkov military airfield, near Kyiv, home of Ukraine’s Air Force’s 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade. Early today, Putin’s jet-powered Geran drones exploded at least two filling stations in the city.
More than 20 people, including eight children, were injured during a Russian attack on civilians in Kharkiv. More were injured in a strike on Izium, Kharkiv region.
DHS Responds to Latest Migrant Caravan Marching Toward US Border (VIDEO) * The Gateway Pundit * by Cristina Laila– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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A migrant caravan is marching toward the US border ahead of the midterm elections.
More than 400 aliens from the Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday en route to the United States, Reuters has confirmed.
At least two NGOs are funding this caravan.
According to independent reporter Anthony Aguero, “Proyecto Faro and ADRA” are the two main NGOs assisting the migrant caravan:
Proyecto Faro, the immigrant support nonprofit out of Rockland County, New York, is funded by a mix of foundations, nonprofits, and government grants. Mainly funded by a Jewish Foundation, The Harry Donenfeld Foundation, named for the Jewish immigrant who co-founded DC Comics.
Another major donor is The Gitlin Family Foundation which is also Jewish-led. The Freedom Together Foundation, another major donor was founded in 2012 by Barbara Picower as the JPB Foundation, renamed Freedom Together in 2024.
The money came from her late husband Jeffry Picower’s estate, he was Jewish, and their earlier Picower Foundation gave to other Jewish causes.
ADRA stand for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, its the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a “Christian” denomination.
Its biggest funder is the U.S. government, mainly USAID, which has given it roughly three hundred eighty-five million dollars across over a hundred awards. in August 2026 ADRA was named a partner in the State Department’s new Faith and Community Initiative.
Their last report clarifies they were given at least 36 million US dollars by the end of 2025… more to come.
Iran-US war latest: Tehran warns it is ready for ‘doomsday’ war as Trump rejects roadmap to end conflict– www.independent.co.uk
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Five men detained near an RAF base used by the US have been arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act.
A major incident was declared and 85 homes evacuated near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire after several men were arrested by armed police on suspicion of explosives offences on Sunday morning.
Counterterrorism police and detectives leading the response are said to be investigating whether the alleged plot is linked to Iran, according to The Times.
Detectives are reported to be keeping an open mind, but one line of inquiry is likely to be whether the incident is connected to Tehran because the base hosts the United States Air Force (USAF) and has been used to launch operations against the Islamic republic.
Iran opens criminal probe after actress rests head against actor’s chest during play in latest crackdown by evil regime– www.thesun.co.uk
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IRANIAN prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a theatre company after a female actress rested her head on a male actor on stage.
Lackeys of Tehran’s savage mullahs claim the behaviour violates the country’s standard of public decency and was a “violation of social norms.”
An audience members shared footage of popular play Tehran Paris Tehran, being staged at Book Garden, showing Fatemeh Masoudifar leaning her head toward Mehrdad Sedighian’s chest.
Mehrdad places his hand over her head as she appears to tightly embrace him.
Live Updates: Iran says Trump must choose between war or diplomacy as talks expected to resume this week– www.cbsnews.com
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Iran lodges complaint with U.N. over U.S. sanctions on its aviation industry
Iran has lodged a complaint with the United Nations over U.S. sanctions against its aviation sector, which have forced the cancellation of many flights across the region, state media reported Monday.
The U.S. imposed restrictions this month on the entire Iranian aviation industry and vowed to take a hard line against any companies or countries that continue to assist it.
As the sanctions took effect last Wednesday, some major airlines were forced to cancel international flights as several nations in the region implemented bans.
“To defend the legitimate rights of the aviation industry and counter illegal restrictions imposed by America, Iran has drafted and submitted a formal protest to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO),” said civil aviation chief Abouzar Shiroudi, according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency.