Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Wednesday that the U.S. Marshals Service will give a $500 cash reward to anyone who provides a tip leading to an arrest in Washington, D.C., during President Donald Trump’s federal takeover.
“We have now made over 550 arrests in Washington, DC and have taken 76 illegal firearms off the streets—saving lives. You can help— (US Marshals Service) is offering a reward for any information leading to an arrest. Together, we will make DC safe again!” Bondi posted Wednesday on X with a QR code for submitting tips.
We have now made over 550 arrests in Washington, DC and have taken 76 illegal firearms off the streets—saving lives.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has given up the ghost. Each set of recommendations and guidance from the organization shows it to be a left-wing activist group that should no longer be treated with the reverence that it once was.
The AAP has split from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on COVID-19 vaccines for children. The CDC removed the COVID-19 vaccine from its immunization schedule recommendations for children, which lists vaccine recommendations from birth to age 18. The first COVID-19 vaccination recommendation for children was at six months old, along with their first vaccination for the flu.
Researchers have captured 3D images of the moment a human embryo implanted itself in a system that simulates the uterine environment, helping scientists build a better understanding of what happens during the implantation process.
It had previously not been possible to observe the implantation process in humans in real time, with traditional methods limited to still images taken at specific moments during the process.
In Australia, almost 109,000 in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles were performed in 2022, with the live birth rate per embryo transfer cycle increasing to 29.9% from 27.3% in 2018. The researchers hope that improving the understanding of the implantation process could have a significant impact on fertility rates and the time taken to conceive through assisted reproduction like IVF.
Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane — a highly potent greenhouse gas that is warming planet Earth — come from microbes that live in oxygen-free environments like wetlands, rice fields, landfills and the guts of cows.
Tracking atmospheric methane to its specific sources and quantifying their importance remains a challenge, however. Scientists are pretty good at tracing the sources of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, to focus on mitigating these emissions. But to trace methane’s origins, scientists often have to measure the isotopic composition of methane’s component atoms, carbon and hydrogen, to use as a fingerprint of various environmental sources.
A new paper by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, reveals how the activity of one of the main microbial enzymes involved in producing methane affects this isotope composition.
People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trumps beauty when it comes to taking notes. Now, with so much of my job being done on a keyboard, I worry even that scrawl is at risk.
Mine is not an isolated devolution. Parents, educators, and fellow penmanship advocates have been lamenting the end of handwritingfor years. Email began edging out cards and letters decades ago. Then smartphones hit the market, and our reliance on paper notes, wall calendars, and Post-it reminders dwindled. In US public schools, the focus has shifted from handwriting to typing, as more and more kids are exposed to iPads and computers in tandem with pencils.
In 2023, NASA conducted a groundbreaking experiment to simulate life on Mars, confining four volunteers in a habitat replica for over a year. The mission, known as CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), aimed to study how humans cope with extreme isolation, limited resources, and communication delays. While the scientific focus was on survival, adaptation, and psychological resilience, the crew discovered an unexpected ally: PS4 gaming. Beyond entertainment, video games helped the volunteers maintain cognitive sharpness, reduce stress, and improve problem-solving skills, offering insights for the future of long-duration space missions.
President Donald Trump seemed to crack on Truth Social Sunday as he condemned the media for reporting on his apparent pro-Russia stance following his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin.
Instead of pursuing a ceasefire agreement as originally planned, Trump said he would try to convince Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to concede land to the Kremlin in order to put an end to the more than three-year war.
Critics saw this outcome as an obvious bow to Putin, but the president disagreed.
“It’s incredible how the Fake News violently distorts the TRUTH when it comes to me. There is NOTHING I can say or do that would lead them to write or report honestly about me.” Trump wrote on social media.
The speed with which it has been organised is remarkable. A diplomatic source has framed the hasty gathering as “organic”; the obvious next step after the Alaska summit, the source said.
Coastal flooding and life-threatening rip currents are expected as Hurricane Erin barrels towards the East Coast this week, and the powerful storm has the potential to unleash 100-foot (30 meter) waves, forecasters warn.
Hurricane Erin emerged as the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season over the weekend, rapidly intensifying on Saturday (Aug. 16) to become a Category 5, the strongest type of hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. Erin then weakened and strengthened again and, at the time of writing, is a Category 4 with sustained wind speeds of about 130 mph (215 km/h).
The State Department just made clear that America will no longer aid or ignore foreign censorship, calling out threats to Americans and American companies.
State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce took a subtle jab at the Biden administration when on Aug. 12 she announced that new additions to the 2024 Human Rights Report, are “addressing abuses that had not previously been covered,” including the global free speech crisis developing in places like the United Kingdom (U.K.). Bruce criticized the previous administration’s approach to human rights, saying that this year’s report “Is responsive to the legislative mandates that underpin the report rather than an expansive list of politically biased demands and assertions.”
A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday permanently blocked two of President Trump’s memos aimed at ending Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at universities.
Earlier this year, the Department of Education issued an ultimatum to federally funded schools: eliminate DEI programs within 14 days, or risk losing all federal funding.
The directive, detailed in a letter from the Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), was in response to “pervasive and repugnant race-based preferences” that have turned America’s schools into indoctrination camps.
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders prepare for talks in the White House, Russia has continued to pound targets including a deadly strike on a residential building in Kharkiv.
Just hours before the talks with US President Donald Trump, the Kharkiv strike killed seven people, including two children, and injured at least 20 others.
“Among the dead are a 1.5-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. The youngest injured is just 6 years old,” Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said, declaring a citywide day of mourning.
Conservative activists are taking a core election-integrity initiative on the road in a rallying attempt to save the SAVE Act.
On Monday, Tea Party Patriots Action will roll out its inaugural Only Citizens Vote Bus Tour, a trek covering more than a dozen states — from California to Maryland — to champion the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. The bill amends the flawed National Voter Registration Act to require individuals registering to vote to provide documentary proof of citizenship before casting ballots in federal elections.
Proponents say the SAVE Act is an additional layer of election security that does not currently exist in current law. Opponents, including the vast majority of Democrats in Congress, insist there are already protections in federal law that make falsely claiming U.S. citizenship on voter registration forms a felony.
According to a news release from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International, Vaughan-Spruce only learned of the third investigation when she submitted a formal complaint to the West Midlands police force, stating that police repeatedly harass and interrogate her as she silently prays every week outside an abortion facility. She also reminded the police that courts and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have already declared that she cannot be charged with violating the buffer zone ordinance.
ADF International reported that the police denied her complaint due to the fact that the investigation against her is ongoing. She had not been informed of the new action against her.
If you want to know why the media shills for Hamas, rewatch this segment on CNN with Josh Rogin and Scott Jennings. The Gaza war was the topic, since Israel announced they were going in to destroy the rest of the terror group and occupy the rest of the strip.
Rogin then went on some cockamamie analysis about how Israel wants to prolong the war, the suffering, and said that if occupying Gaza would destroy Hamas, it would’ve worked by now. It hasn’t. My man, its last stronghold has been untouched by Israeli forces. They still have an enclave of control. Jennings rightly said that Hamas doesn’t want a ceasefire, and they don’t want to release the hostages. Nothing can happen until Hamas is gone, to which Rogin said, “Hamas is part of Palestinian society in all ways and forms. So, you can’t completely eliminate it.”
Washington Post journalist Josh Rogin says the quiet part out loud, “Hamas is part of Palestinian society in all ways and forms. So you can’t completely eliminate it.” pic.twitter.com/5WSyhmj4nf
CNN is a silly content-creating network, though Scott Jennings and “We’re Just Wild About” Harry Enten provide us with endless amounts of entertainment. Jennings for being the sole voice of reason when his brain goes into kill mode. Enten because of the animated way he analyzes polling data. At least, when we agree with the data. Otherwise, he is fake news.
Harry looked at polling data in light of Donald Trump’s common sense Washington DC reform and Democrats finding a new 80-20 issue to be on the wrong side of. Though this one is more of a 91-9 issue.
These numbers are before Trump’s DC takeover, but of note:
Trump has a fourteen point swing in how he handles crime
There is a TWENTY-SEVEN point gap between Trump and The People Who Controlled Joe Biden
Republicans lead Democrats by sixteen points when it comes to handling crime
After a pro-Hamas activist was recently arrested in Massachusetts for various acts of vandalism, his mommy complained that he’s innocent and just “being punished for his views on Gaza.”
Jermaiah Sawaqed was nabbed over a week ago for allegedly vandalizing the Massachusetts State House, George Washington Monument, and MIT Stata Center, according to WCVB.
Sawaqed, who’s “associated” with the “extreme anti-Zionist” group Direct Action Movement for Palestinian Liberation, was charged with vandalism, destruction of property, vandalizing a war or veterans memorial, and “possession, transportation or use of a hoax device or substance.”
The statistics are as sobering as they are predictable. According to Family Research Council, between 2018 and 2024, there have been 1,384 documented hostile acts against churches in America, including vandalism, arson, firebombings, bomb threats, and shootings. This represents an eight-fold increase from just five years prior. But for those with eyes to see, this surge was never a matter of if but when.
When a culture systematically abandons the God who gave it birth, when it tears down every sacred institution and mocks every holy thing, the inevitable result is not peaceful coexistence with God’s family but war. And that war has now come, quite literally, to our church doors.
The most recent and egregious example comes from Seattle, where 28-year-old Lebron Givaun — a newlywed who had recently surrendered his life to Christ — was gunned down in broad daylight as he arrived for a young adult service at Pursuit Church. Two masked assailants fired over 30 rounds from illegally modified automatic weapons into a crowd of families gathering for a church barbecue.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has opened an investigation into recent accusations that two Fairfax County public school employees arranged and funded abortions for two teenage girls without parental consent.
The Republican governor announced on August 13 that he had directed the Virginia State Police to launch a criminal investigation into accusations that Centreville High School social worker, Carolina Diaz, with the full backing of principal Chad Lehman, had scheduled appointments and paid for two minors to abort their unborn children without so much as calling their parents.
Activists marched through Washington, DC, on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in the capital, with some clashing with law enforcement and surrounding National Guard troops stationed at the National Mall.
Protesters carried signs in English and Spanish reading “No ICE! No National Guard!”, “DC Says Stop the Military Takeover,” and “Resist Fascism.” Chants of “Trump must go now!” were heard through the crowd as marchers criticized the administration’s move to crack down on rampant crime with the federalization of law enforcement.
Two more Republican governors are surging National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., in support of President Donald Trump‘s crackdown on violent crime in the capital.
On Sunday night, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine both announced their respective deployment of troops to the capital. Those deployments include 200 troops from South Carolina and an additional 150 from Ohio.
In both of their statements, McMaster and DeWine said the troops would be there for added support as Trump looks to tackle violent crime in Washington.
According to statistics from Planned Parenthood’s own annual report, 96.9% of pregnant people who came to its facilities had abortions. They provided support with a miscarriage only 0.9% of the time.
Planned Parenthood committed 187 abortions for every one adoption referral. They gave prenatal care to only 1.7% of pregnant people at their facilities—and that number has been dropping every year. Services for prenatal care are down 63% since 2013.
So, the vast majority of pregnant people who go to Planned Parenthood wind up getting abortions. How many of them decided on abortion before going to Planned Parenthood, and how many came in undecided and were talked into an abortion by employees, is impossible to know.