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November 13, 2025
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| The Shutdown's Over. Now What? |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| The House got a lot of good-natured ribbing from the press this week when they touched down in D.C. for the first time in six weeks. "Remember," Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan joked, "the big white building with the giant dome is the Capitol. That's where the House floor is. We know, it's been a while." After a month and a half, members might've needed a map to their offices before heading across the street to vote. But despite the long (and ultimately pointless) hiatus, even Democrats reluctantly agreed to flip the sign on Congress to "Open." |
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| Docs: Way Forward on Gaza Peace Plan Is Unclear |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Weeks have turned into months, and progress on President Trump's 20-point peace plan for Gaza appears to have stalled. Frenetic negotiations alongside the U.N. General Assembly achieved historic buy-in from Muslim-majority nations in September, resulting in the return of all the remaining living hostages in October. But another month has passed, and those peace deal partners seem no closer to disarming and replacing Hamas's government in Gaza. |
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| Huge Peer-Reviewed Studies Show COVID Vaccine Linked to Flu, Kidney Disease |
| by Mark Tapscott |
| People who got the COVID vaccine are significantly more likely to become afflicted with upper respiratory ills like flu, pneumonia, and tuberculosis, as well as acute kidney injury (AKI), according to reports in two international peer-reviewed medical journals. |
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| Data Shows Social Media Sites Are the Primary Way Children Are Exposed to Porn |
| by Dan Hart |
| Evidence continues to emerge that children are being subjected to pornography at increasingly younger ages, due mostly to accidental exposure on social media sites that do not enforce restrictions on user-posted pornography. |
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| How Mass Immigration Remade NYC and Sent a Foreign-Born Muslim to the Mayor's Office |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| New York City was once the quintessentially American metropolis, the birthplace of John Jay and the home of the Roosevelts, the Astors, the Rockefellers, and the Vanderbilts, a forge of American industry, ingenuity, and culture. Now, New York is still the largest and most populous city in the U.S., but it's become a multicultural, multiethnic bazaar, teeming with foreign languages, foreign foods, and foreign customs, carved up into ethnic immigrant enclaves. Last week, New York demonstrated just how deeply this foreign incursion has entrenched itself when voters elected a Ugandan-born Muslim and self-described socialist, Zohran Mamdani, as the city's new mayor. |
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| Malta Prosecution of Christian Convert a Harbinger of LGBT Objectives in U.S. |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| In a case with long-term ramifications for the United States, Maltese Christian Matthew Grech has been charged with violating the Mediterranean country's so-called "conversion therapy" ban for simply sharing his personal testimony of Christian conversion from an LGBT lifestyle in a broadcast interview. After three years of litigious persecution, the verdict in Grech's case was postponed on Thursday at the last minute, and for the second time. |
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| Are Children the Real Victims of Obergefell? |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Shortly after the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk and Christian woman, was prosecuted for refusing to sign same-sex marriage licenses due to religious conviction. So, she appealed, asking the high court to consider her case and to correct many wrongs done against her. Many saw this as a chance to reverse the controversial ruling - an opportunity seemingly slammed shut by SCOTUS. While some have expressed optimism that it's only a matter of time before this case is brought up again, there's another conversation taking place: Who's the real victim of Obergefell? |
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| Little Mogadishu: How Somalian Tribal Feuds Influenced American Elections |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| In the late 10th and early 11th centuries, Sheikh Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, a descendant of Muhammad's uncle Aqeel Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib, fled his homeland in the Arabian Peninsula following an argument with a family member and settled in a region today known as Sanaag, which is claimed by both Somalia and Somaliland. Since then, the clan that Abdirahman established in the region has grown to become one of the largest and most influential Somali clans in the Horn of Africa, called the Daarood. Why does this matter to Americans? |
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| The Bullet That Could Put Cuba's Dictator in the International Court of Justice |
| by Yoe Suarez |
| "I want to thank the Lord for saving my life." This is how Osiris Jose Puerto Terry began his speech at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy a few months ago. He still had one of the bullets fired at him by the National Revolutionary Police during the anti-socialist demonstrations of July 11, 2021 (11J) lodged in his body. |
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