This was entirely predictable. New York City’s voters elected a Hamas supporting Communist as mayor. This is the result. Now that they have an ally in Gracie Mansion, New York City’s pro-Hamas citizens will most certainly escalate their attacks against New York City’s Jewish community. President Trump and AG Bondi will very likely have to intervene and provide protection for New York City’s Jewish citizens. Shame on every Jewish New Yorker who voted for Mamdani.
This isn’t a grassroots protest — it’s a coordinated, well-funded revolutionary movement.
What unfolded in Minnesota was not spontaneous outrage but a disciplined, well-funded campaign aimed at dismantling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and, by extension, the rule of law itself. The same radical networks, foreign-linked funders, and professional agitators are driving it — including China-connected billionaire pipelines and hard-left communist factions.
There’s some not very good electoral news out of Texas, and we should be paying attention to it.
Democratic Texas Senate candidate Taylor Rehmet defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Leigh Wambsganss in a Saturday special election for a seat the president won by double digits three times, multiple outlets project.
Chile’s National Institute of Statistics (INE) on Wednesday published data that showed the country’s fertility rate has fallen to the lowest level in its recorded history: just 0.97 children per woman.
The INE noted that births began to decline in Chile beginning in 2010. Last year, the fertility rate was 1.06 children and, if the trend continues, it will sink to 0.89 in 2028.
INE head of demography Miguel Ojeda predicted “the number of deaths will exceed the number of births” in 2028, “beginning a period of negative population growth.”
Bill C-218 is a private members bill that is being debated in Canada. If passed Bill C-218 would prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone in Canada.
An article that was published in the Toronto Star on December 13, 2025 titled: Should MAiD be extended to include those with mental illness? is a debate between Dr Ellen Wiebe, Canada’s most notorious euthanasia killer and Dr John Maher, a psychiatrist and ethicist who focuses on caring for people with severe and persistent mental illnesses.
The authors, led by Jacob Hough at the University of Missouri, outline the many ways that AI use can undermine medical education, like automation bias, de-skilling, and providing false information.
“These tools can fabricate sources, encode bias, lead to over-reliance and have negatively disruptive effects on the educational journey. Medical programmes must be vigilant about these risks and adjust their curricula and training programmes to stay ahead of them and mitigate their likelihood,” they write.
First lady Melania Trump’s new documentary is set to outpace projections and open to the best weekend for any documentary in over a decade.
The eponymously titled Melania was expected to open to around $5 million across 1,778 screens, according to the Hollywood Reporter. However, the film is doing better than expected with a gross of around $8 million despite negative reception from film critics.
The film’s audience is primarily women and older viewers; 72% of the film’s audience on Friday comprised of women over the age of 55, and 78% of all viewers were older than 55.
The Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has issued a clear notice that pro-lifers will welcome: pharmacies nationwide are no longer required to supply the abortion drug.
Under the Biden administration, policies in favor of abortion dramatically increased. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision — which returned abortion regulation to the states and the people — the former administration issued guidance pressuring nearly 60,000 retail pharmacies to stock and dispense mifepristone and misoprostol for patients with Medicare, Medicaid, or other federally funded coverage. This move drew significant criticism and legal challenges from the onset, as many argued it overrode conscience rights and state laws.
Activist organizations are developing curricula instructing teachers and students to be skeptical toward claims of anti-Semitism and sympathetic to pro-Palestinian causes, documents show.
Two pro-Palestinian organizations, Participatory Action Research Center for Organizing and Project48, orchestrate programs and disseminate materials that blame “white nationalism” for anti-Semitism and ask participants to consider the “bad habit” of whiteness, documents obtained by Defending Education and shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The activist programs are already finding their way into schools.
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – One of Canada’s most senior federal ministers seemed to suggest that the government needs more, and possibly new powers, to ensure it can deal in the future with “hostile actors” more swiftly than it did during the Freedom Convoy clearout in 2022.
The comments were made by Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly during a recent House of Commons industry committee meeting after she was grilled by Conservative MPs about concerns over a new bill relating to the internet.
Joly claimed that the federal cabinet under Prime Minister Mark Carney needs the new powers to deal with “a chaotic and dangerous world.”
“I think it’s important for people to remember that, since we’re living in a much more chaotic and dangerous world, the government has to deal with a lot of hostile actors that can sometimes go after our critical infrastructure including the state ones,” she told the committee.
Joly was giving her testimony regarding Bill C-8, known as An Act Respecting Cyber Security.
“Melania,” the documentary centered on first lady Melania Trump, delivered a box-office surprise with a $7 million opening weekend, according to estimates released Sunday, Feb. 1, by Amazon MGM Studios.
Directed by Brett Ratner, the film had been expected to open between $3 million and $5 million. It chronicles the 20 days leading up to President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in 2025, told from his wife’s perspective. Final box-office figures will be released Feb. 2.
Anything above $1 million is “a huge number,” said Jeff Bock, senior media analyst for Exhibitor Relations, in an interview with USA TODAY ahead of the release. “That would mean that a lot of folks who don’t normally go to the movies went to this.”
(LifeSiteNews) — In what is being hailed as a first of its kind courtroom victory against the “gender transition” industry, a jury has awarded $2 million to a young woman, who, as a teen, was disfigured by so-called “gender-affirming doctors.”
The now-22-year-old, Fox Varian, who no longer identifies as transgender, underwent a double mastectomy when she was just a 16-year-old.
Varian had testified during the trial that she had quickly regretted having her body mutilated.
“I immediately had a thought that this was wrong, and it couldn’t be true,” said the young woman. “It’s hard to face that you are disfigured for life.”
Humorless Democrats in the Trump Derangement Syndrome era can’t take a joke. Literally. Liberals in Blue state Hawaii are so joyless that they’ve criminalized satire, a mainstay of politics for centuries.
But a federal judge in Honolulu just told the leftist-led Aloha State to lighten up.
‘Kill the Joke’
In a big win for the First Amendment, Judge Shanlyn A.S. Park on Friday found Hawaii’s looming law censoring online political speech unconstitutional. The case pitted the Babylon Bee — “Fake News You Can Trust” — against Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez and the other speech silencers at the island state’s capitol, and Park’s permanent injunction stops a law that “would kill the joke.”
As the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) put it, Hawaii government officials aren’t allowed to censor political speech they don’t like. The conservative Christian network of attorneys founded to protect “religious freedom, free speech, parental rights and the sanctity of life” filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Babylon Bee and Hawaii resident Dawn O’Brien.
Add Hawaii to the list of states that tried to censor political speech and lost to @TheBabylonBee.
Today a federal court permanently blocked a Hawaii law prohibiting the distribution of “materially deceptive media” that portrays politicians in a way that risks harming “the… pic.twitter.com/ZcpaeznLP6
NEW ORLEANS, LA — In a major development reflecting the ongoing impact of the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes firearm possession by felons, is unconstitutional as applied to a Mississippi man whose only felony conviction was for “simple possession of methamphetamine.”
Charles Hembree was indicted in 2022 under § 922(g)(1) after authorities discovered he possessed a firearm. His lone prior felony was a 2018 Mississippi state conviction for meth possession. Hembree moved to dismiss the indictment, arguing the law violated his Second Amendment rights under the framework set forth in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. The district court denied that motion.
Nearly two-thirds of likely 2026 midterm election voters support deporting illegal aliens from the United States, a new poll released Monday shows.
In its latest survey of 1,004 likely 2026 voters, the political polling firm Cygnal found that respondents support removing illegal aliens from America and sending them back to their country of origin by a nearly 2:1 margin (61 to 34 percent). The poll also found strong support for ICE enforcement of federal immigration laws and agreement that illegally entering the United States is a violation of such laws.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has indicated plans to bring the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to the Senate floor for a vote, potentially using a procedural maneuver to avoid the traditional 60-vote threshold required to overcome a filibuster.
The announcement comes after a number of House Republicans, including Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Tim Burchett (R-TN), indicated that they would move to block any legislation from being sent to the Senate until a floor vote on the SAVE Act was secured. Lawmakers had attempted to attach an amendment for the SAVE Act onto ongoing government funding bills, which is expected to end the ongoing government shutdown by funding all government departments with the exception of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The last time Ottawa resident Mahnoosh Naseri spoke to her father, he had decided to take to the streets of Tehran to protest the Iranian regime.
It was Jan. 7 and Iranians fed up with the corruption, economic mismanagement and repressive religious rules of the regime were rallying like never before.
Two days later, her father left his apartment to join the demonstrators and never came home. It took his family four days to find him. He had been shot dead.
“He didn’t care anymore about his safety. What he cared about was the future of Iranian children,” Naseri told Global News in an interview.
Almost a month after Iranians mounted their biggest challenge to the Islamic regime that has ruled them for a half century, the shocking death toll is becoming more clear.
The protests began in late December and were growing by the day on Jan. 8, when Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s deposed Shah, called for mass demonstrations.
Millions marched in major cities, reassured by U.S. President Donald Trump, who had vowed that if Iran killed protesters, he would “come to their rescue.”
The uprising was the largest since the 1979 Islamic revolution, and fighters loyal to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responded with predictable violence. Activists say tens of thousands may have been killed.
To cover up the carnage, the regime cut off internet access, but as the bodies have piled up, families like Naseri’s have been finding out just how bad it was.
Hossein Naseri, seen here in Canada in 2025, was killed by Iran’s regime forces on Jan. 9.
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“This has touched a lot of people in the community,” said Ali Ehsassi, an Iranian-Canadian and the Member of Parliament for the Willowdale riding in Toronto.
Ehsassi said he had been hearing from community members whose friends and relatives had been detained or killed, and that Jan. 8 and 9 were “particularly bloody.”
While he did not know the Canadian government’s casualty estimates, the regime’s own figures mean it ranks as one of the bloodiest confrontations of its type in modern history.
“I have no doubt that the number of people who have died is very, very high, even by the standards of the Iranian regime,” the MP said in an interview.
In recent interviews, Global News spoke to Iranian-Canadians about the fate of those close to them who participated in the anti-regime events of Jan. 8 and 9.
“Slowly we learned the truth, and the truth was a massacre had taken place,” said Azam Jangravi, a tech industry professional in Toronto.
Among the casualties were 10 family members, Jangravi said, including one who was shot in the chest at a demonstration in Iran’s third-largest city, Esfahan.
The relative did not die at first but was afraid to seek medical help because the security forces were trolling hospitals to arrest protesters, she said.
After hiding in a house for two days, he succumbed to his injuries, said Jangravi, who fled Iran after she was convicted of showing her hair in public.
Muhammad Reza Madani was killed by Iranian security forces, according to his family in Ottawa.
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Another Iranian-Canadian, Pieman Azimi, said his nephew, a 20-year-old mechanic, had been gunned down during the demonstration.
His family searched police stations and hospitals for a day until finding him among the sea of bodies, said Azimi, who lives in Ottawa.
Another Ottawa resident described the shooting of a friend, who survived a bullet to the waist. Later, the friend told her how the suppression tactics had escalated.
“The first two days, they were shooting with paintballs,” said Nona Dourandish. “And then they decided to bring in military powers and their special units.”
The authorities used drones to monitor the city, and when a crowd gathered to chant anti-regime slogans, gunmen were quickly on the scene, she said, relaying her friend’s account.
“He said basically they were shooting people in their face, in their chest, so they would not get up. So they would not survive,” Dourandish said.
A retired accountant, shot dead
Naseri was close to her father, Hossein. “I can’t believe that my dad is gone,” she said. Harder still to believe was that he was among so many killed that day.
When Naseri was growing up in Tehran, she said she was repeatedly taken into custody for violating the regime’s strict dress code for women.
Her infractions included not covering all her hair with a headscarf and wearing shirts and pants that were deemed too short or too tight, she said.
Following the regime’s brutal crackdown against women’s rights advocates in 2022, she joined her brother in Ottawa in September 2023.
Hossein Naseri, seen here in Ottawa last year, joined the protests in Iran and was shot dead, family members said.
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A 73-year-old retired Tehran accountant, her father visited her in Ottawa last summer. He spent three months in the capital, attending her wedding and her brother’s graduation ceremony.
“I’m so glad that I had the chance to show him some cities in Canada. He really loved the nature here, the museums and the freedom,” Naseri said.
Although he disliked the Islamic government, Hossein had previously refrained from taking part in protests, fearing that it could impact his two children.
But early last month, Naseri spoke to him on WhatsApp, and he had decided that it was time to go out to support the demonstrations.
“He told me, ‘I know you are safe. You are there. There is no danger for you two. And right now I feel free to go and, like others, ask for what we want,’” she said.
Hossein left home at about 7 p.m. on Jan. 9, she said.
Videos and eyewitness testimony amassed by Amnesty International show that, on that night, security forces positioned themselves on rooftops and opened fire.
The “deadly crackdown” was carried out primarily by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iranian police, the human rights organization said.
Thousands died, making last month “the deadliest period of repression by the Iranian authorities in decades of Amnesty’s research,” according to the group.
Anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP, File).
Naseri began to worry when she didn’t hear from her father. She sent a message to a friend who had internet access. A week later, her aunt called.
The family had searched through bodies until finding Hossein. He had been shot in the main artery in his leg, his daughter said.
Communicating with her family has been a challenge, amid fears that international calls are being monitored. Naseri still knows very little about what happened, but she believes her father could have been saved had made it to a hospital.
She blames the Revolutionary Guard, whose mission is to defend the Islamic government from both internal and external threats. “The IRGC has long experience killing protesters.”
The Mujahedin-e-Khalq, an anti-regime militant group, announced Hossein’s death, calling him one of the “martyrs of the heroic nationwide uprising.”
Canada joined Australia and the European Union on Jan. 9 in condemning “the killing of protestors, the use of violence, arbitrary arrests, and intimidation tactics by the Iranian regime against its own people.”
But Deputy Conservative leader MP Melissa Lantsman said the federal government had to do more than issue statements.
“Canada must exploit the regime’s fragility,” she said in a statement to Global News that called on the government to set up a registry for those engaged in foreign interference.
She also urged Ottawa to expel members of Iran’s regime who have arrived in Canada, and to “work with allies to keep information flowing freely to the brave Iranian people.”
“Anything would be a step above nothing.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at a graduation ceremony for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Tehran, Oct. 13, 2019. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM.
Liberal MP Ehasassi said the government was working on a collective response together with allies, and that Canada had already listed the IRGC as a terrorist group.
But Ehsassi said Canada has been “well ahead” of other countries in adopting measures against Iran, including banning senior regime members from the country.
Last week, the European Union followed suit, sanctioning the Revolutionary Guard, saying that “Repression cannot go unanswered.”
“Our officials in various departments are in touch with each other, deciding what there is that we can possibly do,” Ehsassi said. “Obviously, I would like to see us do a lot more. I think the Iranian-Canadian community would like to see that,” he said.
“And I have every confidence that there are going to be a suite of measures.”
The U.S. has been moving military assets to the Middle East, and on Monday, Trump warned Iran of “bad things,” but he has so far refrained from an attack and Khamanei said an American strike would trigger a regional war.
Naseri thinks the era of an Iran run by extremist mullahs has come to an end. “This protest shows that the people of Iran, they don’t accept this regime anymore.”
SpaceX Wants a Million Satellites for AI: Is This the Future of Computing or a Space Disaster Waiting to Happen?
SpaceX has submitted a daring proposal to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a constellation of up to one million satellites into Earth orbit, not for Internet coverage like Starlink but as orbital data centers designed to power artificial intelligence applications on a global scale. The plan, if approved, could reshape how humanity processes data, runs AI models and thinks about computing infrastructure and it is already stirring excitement and controversy across tech and space communities.
It appears that there may be a growing divide within the GOP, and it’s got nothing to do with redacting files associated with a convicted sex offender.
Instead, surprisingly, it’s got everything to do with requiring Americans to provide key identification before voting.
The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, per Fox News, aims to enact two key provisions.
First, it would require states to obtain proof of citizenship in-person when people register to vote.
Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez consolidated her new government on Monday by appointing key ministers and meeting Washington’s new charge d’affaires, Laura Dogu, in Caracas to discuss US plans for “stabilisation, economic recovery, reconciliation and transition.” Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said talks focused on bridging historical differences between the two countries.
from www.france24.com
Trump has implored lawmakers to quicky end the partial government shutdown, promising to “work in good faith” on raised issues and concerns. The shutdown comes as Democratic lawmakers demand changes to immigration operations after the fatal shooting of two US citizens in Minneapolis in January.
from www.euronews.com
On Monday, masked anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis assaulted independent journalist Jorge Ventura and a colleague while they were filming an anti-ICE checkpoint.
“I was just assaulted by left-wing activists in South Minneapolis for reporting on a roadblock protesters set up and checking cars for ID’s,” Ventura stated on X. “The activists grew angry when I shot footage of them turning around some vehicles that appear to be ICE agents, they tried to steal my phone and shove me back into my vehicle,” he reported, adding that they also assaulted Erik Herrera, another photographer who was on the scene.
“They tried to intimate me and forced to leave by shoving,” Ventura reported, adding, “as a journalist I have the right to be here and report.”
The brutal murder of a family by a teenager in 1988 led to his being sentenced to die in prison, but new Democratic policies have led to the murderer being set free.
David Francis Brom, now 54 years old, used an axe to kill his 41-year-old mother, 41-year-old father, 13-year-old sister, and 11-year-old brother when he was only 16 years old.
There’s no denying houses of worship are targets for violence. There’s also no denying that death tolls in church shootings were kept at a minimum thanks to the heroic actions of good guys with guns like Jack Wilson, Caleb Engle, and Jeanne Assam.
According to a recent report, the White House is set to start using artificial intelligence to write new transportation regulations. It’s no longer a question whether this technology will have power over our lives — that moment has arrived.
As its influence grows, AI will be the source of even more heated political debates. Some on the left are horrified about the lack of DEI and the hateful expression in AI, while the White House has claimed it is too woke. Some say AI is scraping from predominantly Western sources, so it is too Western. Some Christians are horrified by the implications of what happens when you ask generative AI moral and spiritual questions, while others seriously argue that AI can be an ethical counselor and decisionmaker. The AI debates, be they political or moral, are all framed around competing assertions of truth.