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Republican Senators postponed a vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general amid concerns over his handling of the Trump-IRS settlement.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who “planted the seeds of compassion.”

Where Tourists Outnumber Locals

The world’s busiest tourist destinations are not always the countries with the highest number of visitors per resident. In smaller nations, annual arrivals can exceed the local population many times over.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 25 countries with the highest number of international tourist arrivals per resident, using the latest available data from UN Tourism via Our World in Data and population figures from the World Bank. Territories have been excluded.

Andorra: The Tourist Playground

Andorra stands in a league of its own. The country welcomes roughly 4.2 million international visitors annually despite having only about 82,000 residents, resulting in 51 tourist arrivals per resident—more than five times Monaco’s second-place ratio.

Sandwiched in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, Andorra receives many visitors from its two larger neighbors. In recent years, the country has also attracted growing numbers of visitors from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.

RankCountryInternational Tourist Arrivals per Resident
1🇦🇩 Andorra50.86
2🇲🇨 Monaco9.01
3🇲🇹 Malta6.26
4🇮🇸 Iceland5.58
5🇵🇼 Palau5.28
6🇦🇱 Albania4.83
7🇧🇸 Bahamas4.66
8🇧🇭 Bahrain4.17
9🇭🇷 Croatia3.97
10🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda3.52
11🇲🇪 Montenegro3.26
12🇸🇲 San Marino3.20
13🇲🇻 Maldives3.20
14🇨🇾 Cyprus2.97
15🇱🇮 Liechtenstein2.91
16🇦🇹 Austria2.90
17🇸🇨 Seychelles2.77
18🇵🇹 Portugal2.71
19🇬🇷 Greece2.67
20🇧🇧 Barbados2.49
21🇩🇰 Denmark2.40
22🇸🇮 Slovenia2.38
23🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates2.28
24🇮🇪 Ireland2.20
25🇸🇬 Singapore2.16
Despite having no airport, Andorra has become a major tourist destination. Tourism accounts for roughly four-fifths of its economy.

Visitors are drawn to its ski resorts, spas, and mountain scenery, particularly around the capital, Andorra la Vella. The country’s long-standing duty-free status is another major attraction.

Island Nations Draw Millions

While Andorra is landlocked, many of the other countries near the top of the ranking are islands. Nations across the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific depend heavily on foreign visitors.

Malta, for example, welcomes 6.3 tourists for every resident, placing it just ahead of Iceland at 5.6.

The Bahamas leads the Caribbean at 4.7 tourists per resident, followed by Antigua and Barbuda at 3.5 and Barbados at 2.5. In the Indian Ocean, the Maldives and Seychelles receive 3.2 and 2.8 tourists per resident, respectively.

Larger Countries Also Make the List

The ranking is not limited to microstates and island nations. Portugal, Austria, and Croatia each have populations in the millions yet still receive more international tourists than residents each year.

Portugal welcomes 2.7 tourists per resident and has emerged as a major tourist destination. Visitors are drawn to historic cities such as Lisbon and Porto, along with the beaches of the Algarve.

Further east, Austria receives 2.9 tourists per resident, while Croatia receives 4.0. Their historic architecture, coastal scenery, and picturesque towns attract travelers from across Europe and beyond.

Wondering how these countries compare with the world’s most-visited destinations? Check out France is the Most Visited Country, With Over 100 Million Tourists per Year on Voronoi, the new app from Visual Capitalist.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 07/30/2026 – 02:45

A representative for George Clooney confirmed the evacuation to People and shared a letter the couple sent to Brignoles Mayor Didier BrémondThe couple and their 9-year-old twins left their home in Brignoles, in France’s Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, as fires threatened large swaths of the Mediterranean, the outlet reported. A representative for George Clooney confirmed to People that the couple sent a letter to Brignoles Mayor Didier Brémond before leaving.”Dear Didier, At this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment,” the letter began.DEADLY FRENCH WILDFIRES THREATEN MISSILE PLANTS, NUCLEAR SITES AS FOURTH HEATWAVE LOOMS”As we evacuate Brignoles we want to emphasise 2 things, first we hope you and the people of our city are safe and second that Amal and i are committed to making sure that whatever happens to our village, we are part of this community and we’ll be part of making it whole,” the letter continued. “We love Brignoles and our friends who live there.”Fox News Digital has reached out to Clooney’s representatives for additional comment, including whether the family has safely evacuated and if there is any update on the condition of their home.The evacuation comes as wildfires continue to scorch southern Europe.EUROPE’S FIRES REVEAL DEADLY MIX OF RECORD HEAT, HUMAN ERROR, ARSON AND LAND MISMANAGEMENTAs of Wednesday, an uncontained wildfire roughly four times the size of Paris was burning across southwestern France.  The blaze was separate from the fire threatening the Brignoles area, where about 3,000 people were evacuated. Fires also continued to threaten parts of southern Europe, and three firefighters died in Greece as crews battled extreme heat, drought and strong winds, according to The Associated Press.More than 300,000 people have been forced to evacuate in France and Spain, including residents and tourists.Temperatures climbed to nearly 104 degrees Wednesday in France’s Gironde region, where the country’s largest wildfire prompted the evacuation of roughly 220,000 residents and vacationers at its peak. While many have since returned, tens of thousands remain displaced.HEATHER LOCKLEAR SAYS SHE LIVES ‘FAR AWAY’ FROM HOLLYWOOD AND STAYS OUT OF THE SOCIAL SCENEIn an October 2025 interview with Esquire , Clooney said he and Amal chose to raise their family on a farm in France to give their children a quieter upbringing away from Hollywood.”A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid, I hated the whole idea of it,” he said. “But now, for them, it’s like—they’re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in. They have a much better life.”Clooney also said he was “worried about raising our kids in L.A., in the culture of Hollywood.””I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life,” he said. “France — they kind of don’t give a s— about fame. I don’t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi. I don’t want them being compared to somebody else’s famous kids.”

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted the New Jersey man who attempted to murder writer Salmon Rushdie on additional terrorism-related charges.

The End Of Freedom – The Last Breath Of A Dying Continent

Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup,

They are killing us slowly.

Not with bullets or blades, but with spreadsheets and algorithms, with policies drafted in climate-controlled rooms by people whose children will never shiver through a winter night without heat, whose pantries will never echo empty, whose futures remain secured behind gates we cannot approach.

In 2026, 333 million Europeans—more than the entire population of the United States—have fallen into energy poverty, a euphemism that cannot conceal the raw human suffering it describes, a bureaucratic term that sanitizes the screams of families watching their lives dismantled piece by piece.

Since 2021, utility costs have surged 47%, while wages stagnate in a cruel arithmetic that reduces families to penury. The numbers do not lie, even when governments do. Behind every percentage point stands a human being with a name, with memories, with children who ask why the heat does not work. Behind every data point lies a tragedy that statistics cannot capture—the sound of teeth chattering beneath thin blankets, the smell of cheap candles burning down to nothing, the silence of a home where conversation has stopped because speaking requires energy that hungry bodies cannot spare.

Look at these figures and understand that they represent flesh and blood. In Greece, 40% of households now face the impossible choice between heating and eating—a statistic that translates to grandmothers wrapping themselves in newspapers, to children doing homework by candlelight, to parents skipping meals so their sons might have warmth for one more night. The Greek winter of 2026 brought temperatures that dropped to -8°C in regions where insulation remains a luxury, where families huddle in single rooms wearing every garment they own, where the decision to turn on a heater for one hour means skipping dinner for three days.

Germany, once the industrial titan of Europe, now bleeds 15,000 manufacturing jobs each quarter, its factories darkening like dying stars. The Rhine Valley, which hummed with production for generations, now echoes with the footsteps of workers carrying boxes of personal effects, of security guards locking gates that may never reopen, of communities watching their purpose drain away like water into cracked earth. Energy bills now exceed rent payments by 23% across twelve member states, a reversal of economic reality that breaks families before they even begin, that ensures the poor remain poor and the middle class joins them in descent.

In Portugal, elderly citizens have begun collecting firewood in public parks, risking fines and arrest to secure warmth their pensions cannot purchase. In Poland, organized crime networks now control the black market for coal, selling inferior product at extortionate prices to desperate families who know that burning treated wood releases toxins but choose poison over freezing. The European Commission reports these trends as “energy market adjustments,” as if describing the migration of birds rather than the collapse of human dignity.

But the economic strangulation serves merely as prelude to a more comprehensive destruction. Step into any supermarket in Milan after 7 PM and witness the new normal: empty shelves where fresh produce once stood in abundance, security guards monitoring cooking oil purchases as if guarding gold reserves, elderly women weeping quietly beside discount bins where bruised vegetables wait for hands brave enough to claim them. The Italy that exported culinary culture to the world now imports 60% of its grain from nations that view food as geopolitical leverage, as a weapon more effective than any missile.

Since 2020, grain prices have exploded 89% above official inflation metrics—a divergence that suggests manipulation rather than market forces, that indicates the invisible hand not of economics but of design. Dutch farmers, whose families worked the same soil for twelve generations, face mandatory livestock culls of 30%, their herds destroyed while industrial shipping emissions remain conveniently exempt from the regulations that destroy their livelihoods. The nitrogen crisis, they are told, requires sacrifice—yet the sacrifice falls always on the small, never on the large, always on the many, never on the few.

One in four European children now experiences food insecurity, a phrase that cannot capture the hollow eyes of a seven-year-old who has learned not to ask for seconds, who has learned to hide hunger behind smiles, who will carry the developmental scars of malnutrition into adulthood where they will manifest as reduced cognitive function, compromised immune systems, shortened lifespans. We are not merely impoverishing the present; we are devouring the future, consuming generations yet unborn to feed the insatiable appetite of a system that demands perpetual growth from finite resources.

In France, the breadbasket of the revolution, bakeries now close on alternating days because electricity costs make continuous operation impossible. The smell of fresh bread, which once defined French morning, becomes a luxury available only to those with means. In Spain, the olive harvest of 2025 failed catastrophically, not from drought as officially reported, but from a combination of policy-induced fertilizer shortages and the abandonment of farms that families could no longer afford to maintain. The trees that survived Roman invasions and Moorish conquests now die from spreadsheets, from regulations, from the cold mathematics of a globalized economy that values efficiency over existence.

The pattern transcends incompetence. It reveals intention. In the winter of 2023, three blood moons appeared over European skies—a celestial alignment that agricultural calendars have associated with famine since Babylonian times, that medieval manuscripts connected to periods of profound transformation and upheaval. Each occurrence coincided with major policy announcements: nitrogen restrictions on farming that reduced output by design, digital currency frameworks that promised convenience while delivering surveillance, biometric identification expansions that normalized the scanning of human bodies as if we were inventory rather than souls.

Modern observers dismiss these correlations as superstition, as primitive attempts to explain phenomena that science now understands. Yet the timing defies probability, defies coincidence, defies the comfortable explanations that allow sleep at night. The fourth blood moon of 2024 marked the introduction of programmable money trials in twelve member states—currency that expires if not spent according to algorithmic criteria, wealth that exists only at the pleasure of invisible systems, savings that can be frozen, redirected, or erased with the stroke of a bureaucratic key.

Ancient wisdom warned that when the moon weeps blood four times in succession, the hidden hands reveal themselves. And so they have. Not as conspirators in smoke-filled rooms—that image serves only to discredit—but as something far more terrifying: a consensus among the powerful that the masses must be managed, must be reduced, must be brought to heel through mechanisms that appear natural, appear inevitable, appear as the unfortunate but necessary consequences of progress and planetary survival.

Beneath the visible governance, a parallel architecture operates with mathematical precision that would impress any engineer. Digital ID systems have penetrated 89% of the population, harvesting biometric data at unprecedented velocity—fingerprints, iris patterns, facial geometry, gait analysis, voice signatures. The human body itself has become the password, the key, the identifier that cannot be forgotten or stolen because it cannot be separated from the person. Twelve nations currently run Central Bank Digital Currency pilots, and in three—Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands—cash transactions above minimal thresholds have been effectively criminalized, forcing participation in systems that record every exchange, every preference, every relationship.

The average European appears on surveillance cameras 300 times daily, a density of one lens per thirteen citizens that renders privacy obsolete, that ensures the watched internalize the gaze, that transforms free citizens into self-policing subjects who no longer require external control because they have built the prison within their own minds. Social credit architectures have advanced beyond theory into implementation; your carbon footprint, vaccination status, social media sentiment, and political expression now determine access to housing, travel, banking, and employment in ways that newspapers report only after the fact, only when resistance has become impossible.

In China, the system was explicit, overt, acknowledged. In Europe, it arrives wrapped in sustainability, in public health, in security, in the language of care and protection that disarms opposition because who can argue against safety, against health, against the planet? Yet the result converges: the individual subordinated to the collective, the collective defined by algorithms, the algorithms controlled by entities that answer to no electorate, no constituency, no human being at all.

The psychological occupation proves equally devastating as the material one, perhaps more so because it attacks the will to resist before resistance can form. Mental health pharmaceutical prescriptions have increased 340% since smartphone saturation achieved critical mass in 2015, the curve of consumption matching the curve of adoption with correlation coefficients that statisticians cannot dismiss. Youth suicide rates in high-surveillance nations now exceed those of countries recovering from active warfare, suggesting that the destruction of privacy and autonomy kills more efficiently than bombs.

The human attention span has collapsed 67% since 2010, precisely as social platforms achieved dominance—a cognitive destruction that prevents focus, prevents resistance, prevents hope by ensuring that the populace exists in perpetual distraction, in fragments of engagement too brief to sustain coherent thought, too scattered to organize collective action, too fragmented to remember what freedom felt like before the devices arrived to save us from the boredom they themselves manufactured.

When survival requires navigating digital bureaucratic labyrinths that change weekly, when sustenance demands protocol compliance that shifts unpredictably, when warmth itself becomes contingent upon behavioral standards that no one fully understands, the will to liberty atrophies like an unused limb. The muscle memory of freedom fades. The imagination of alternatives dies. The acceptance of domination becomes not merely practical but psychological, a preference for the known cage over the unknown wild.

Yet the human spirit persists in spaces beyond measurement, in cracks the algorithms cannot seal, in moments the cameras cannot capture. In Romanian villages where electricity remains intermittent, grandmothers still hang garlic against evil eyes and track planting by stars their ancestors named millennia ago, maintaining knowledge that predates the nation-state by centuries. Spanish shepherds navigate mountain passes using oral traditions that have survived Roman occupation, Moorish rule, fascist dictatorship, and now digital colonization—knowledge that exists in bodies rather than databases, in relationships rather than networks, in the spaces between words rather than the words themselves.

These practices represent what the architects of control fear most: connections deeper than data, loyalties beyond programming, souls that refuse digitization, communities that persist despite rather than because of the systems imposed upon them. When the shepherd knows the mountain without GPS, when the grandmother knows the plant without app, when the child knows the story without screen, the project of total information remains incomplete, the vision of total management remains unrealized, the dream of total control remains frustrated by the stubborn persistence of organic life.

The blood moons have passed, but their warning remains etched in memory, encoded in stories that survive despite educational systems designed to erase them. Control revealed loses power to persuade. The moment the prisoner recognizes the cell, the bars become intolerable. The European soul, ancient and stubborn, remembers freedom even when taught to forget, carries the genetic memory of resistance even when conditioned for compliance, preserves the capacity for outrage even when numbed by entertainment and pharmaceuticals.

Reclamation requires not revolution but reconstruction—the patient rebuilding of human scale against the crushing weight of globalized abstraction. Community gardens planted in defiance of zoning codes that mandate grass over sustenance. Barter networks operating outside taxable surveillance, exchanging eggs for bread, labor for teaching, care for companionship. Children taught to navigate by stars and identify edible plants alongside their coding lessons, maintaining parallel competencies that ensure survival when the systems fail.

Each act of organic creation resists the mechanized future planned for us. Every conversation held face-to-face rather than through monitored platforms reclaims territory from digital occupiers. Every meal grown rather than purchased, every skill shared rather than outsourced, every relationship maintained through presence rather than proxy—these constitute the insurgency of the real against the virtual, the biological against the synthetic, the human against the machine.

The statistics will worsen before they improve. The winter of 2026-2027 promises to be the harshest in decades, with meteorological predictions converging with economic collapse to create perfect conditions for mass mortality among the vulnerable. The food shortages will deepen as Ukrainian grain remains blocked by conflict, as climate manipulation experiments produce unpredictable weather patterns, as supply chains designed for efficiency over resilience continue their inevitable fragmentation. The surveillance will tighten as artificial intelligence achieves capabilities that render human discretion obsolete, as predictive algorithms identify potential dissent before it forms, as pre-crime prevention moves from fiction to policy.

Yet liberty endures in silence beyond camera reach, in spaces between transactions, in moments of genuine connection that cannot be commodified or controlled. It waits only for the courage to claim it, for the recognition that safety purchased with freedom becomes its own prison, that comfort secured through submission becomes its own torture, that survival at the cost of humanity becomes its own death.

The architects of this system believe they have accounted for all variables, modeled all outcomes, predicted all resistance. They have not accounted for the human heart, which persists in loving despite betrayal, in hoping despite evidence, in fighting despite certainty of defeat. They have not modeled the moment when a mother, watching her child shiver, decides that compliance costs more than resistance. They have not predicted the cascade that follows when enough individuals make this calculation simultaneously, when the illusion of consent dissolves, when the machinery of control encounters the immovable object of human dignity.

The blood moons have passed, but they will return. The hidden hands have revealed themselves, and in that revelation lies our opportunity. For power that operates in shadow depends upon the acquiescence of the ignorant; power exposed to light invites the resistance of the informed. We are no longer ignorant. The question that remains is whether we will act upon our knowledge, whether we will pay the price that freedom demands, whether we will reclaim the liberty that is our birthright or surrender it forever for the temporary warmth of chains.

The choice remains ours—while choice remains possible. The window narrows with each passing season, each new regulation, each additional digit of surveillance. The future being constructed around us is not inevitable; it is being built by human hands that could be stopped by human hands. But the stopping requires recognition, requires courage, requires sacrifice that the comfortable find difficult to contemplate and the desperate find impossible to avoid.

In the end, the question is simple: will we live as men and women, with all the risk and responsibility that freedom entails, or will we exist as managed resources, with all the security and servitude that submission provides? The answer will determine not merely our own fates but the trajectory of human civilization for centuries to come. The blood moons watch and wait. History holds its breath. The moment of decision approaches, and with it, the reckoning that delayed justice always demands.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 07/30/2026 – 02:00

Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton has been fined and suspended from attending the team’s next five home games, the WNBA confirmed to Fox News Digital.The suspension and fine come after Keaton allegedly called a pair of teenage Sophie Cunningham fans “f—ing insane”  during a game on Tuesday, independent Seattle-based journalist Brandi Kruse told Fox News Digital. Kruse was in the arena and accompanied the girls, who were there to watch Cunningham and the Indianaa Fever take on the Storm.Cunningham addressed the incident involving Keaton in an X repost of Fox News Digital’s report late Wednesday night.WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS WNBA STAR SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM AFTER SHE SPEAKS OUT IN SUPPORT OF PROTECTING WOMEN’S SPORTS”I truly believe there is a safe space and love for EVERYBODY. Biological girls, biological boys, trans women, and trans men. Everyone is welcome at my table! You can disagree and still be kind. Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe. You’ll be hearing from me soon yay for gifts. Truly embarrassing of the co-owner. Unfortunately shows the type of leader she is,” Cunningham wrote.Storm majority owner Ginny Gilder issued a statement Wednesday apologizing for the co-owner’s comments during the game.”We are aware one of our co-owners made comments to two fans in attendance at last night’s game. We apologize that this happened. Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect,” the statement read.SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM RALLY ROCKS WNBA GAME AS ‘SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS’ ACTIVISTS FACE COUNTERPROTESTTwo girls went to the game wearing XX-XY Athletics gear to celebrate Cunningham coming out in support of saving women’s sports, and even got to sit court-side. But the night took a dark turn, and now they are viral martyrs. The Storm put out an apology after a team co-owner allegedly shouted insults at the girls during the game. Additional footage, distributed by Fox News Digital, of them in a confrontation with another fan at the game has ignited further outrage.The incident drew so much attention that famed “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling even cast judgment on the night that is bound to live in WNBA infamy.Rowling and other prominent social media users amplified the girls’ account of the incident.The night began with a rally outside Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle to celebrate Cunningham’s recent public stance.A small group of counterprotesters supporting transgender inclusion also gathered outside the arena.Kruse, who helped organize the event and went into the game to accompany the girls during portions of the night, said she saw Storm players make mocking gestures toward them. Separately, the girls alleged that Keaton approached them and used profane language.”They were giving them thumbs down — like, to their faces,” Kruse said.Kruse said the girls then told her that an older woman associated with the Storm had approached them, yelled at them and called them “f—ing insane.”The girls later pointed out the woman sitting directly across from them beside Storm legend and team co-owner Sue Bird, according to Kruse. When Kruse alerted an arena security guard, she said the guard identified the woman as “one of the owners of the team.”Kruse later identified the woman as Keaton, who has previously been publicly identified as a member of the Storm’s ownership group.Kruse said she pressed security to confront the woman, arguing that the alleged conduct violated the arena’s code of conduct. Climate Pledge Arena prohibits abusive or obscene language and says violators may be ejected.”Had this been any other fan under any other circumstances who swore at and called some teenage girls ‘f—ing insane’ until they cried, they would’ve been ejected,” Kruse said.Kruse said one of the girls broke down in tears during the game after the alleged exchange.”I look over at halftime, and she’s sobbing,” Kruse said. “They were so excited for those seats, like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of their favorite players. They stayed up the night before making signs.”Kruse also claimed that the girls were not forced to put down their signs in support of Cunningham, despite online rumors, but that they chose to put them down after the alleged harassment.”The report that they told the girls to put those signs away is not true,” Kruse said. “The girls put their signs away because of what happened with Celeste, and they just felt so scared and uncomfortable, they decided not to hold them anymore.”Before the game, the Storm said it was aware of the planned demonstration and was “tracking it closely.” The team said it remained committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment for all guests.Storm head coach Sonia Raman addressed the rally after the game but did not discuss the allegations involving the girls.”We always want to be an area where people feel welcome coming into this building,” Raman said, adding that the organization coordinated with arena security. “From what I understand, that was successful.”The comments came before Kruse publicly detailed the allegations involving the teenagers.The Fever, meanwhile, distanced the organization and Cunningham from the rally. A team public relations representative interrupted when head coach Stephanie White was asked about the gathering during her postgame press conference.”Neither our organization nor Sophie had any knowledge of this demonstration and no contact with its organizers,” the representative said.The representative added that the Fever remained united around winning games and building its fan base before directing reporters back to basketball questions.Neither Cunningham nor Clark was made available to reporters after the game. Mitchell and Monique Billings appeared beside White instead. When White was asked about the rally, she also said the team and its players were not aware of it and had not been in touch with the organizers.

The Trump administration is seeking to use a specialized federal court for the first time since Congress created it three decades ago in an effort to deport an Afghan woman accused of aiding an Islamic State-inspired terror plot in the U.S., according to court records made public on Wednesday.Nazira Haji Zada, of Fort Worth, Texas, is the first person facing deportation through the Alien Terrorist Removal Court after her arrest earlier this week.The court is scheduled to hold an initial hearing on Thursday in Washington, D.C., in the government’s effort to deport Haji Zada.”The allegations in this case show the matriarch of an ISIS-sympathizing family aiding in a plot to launch a mass casualty attack on American voters on Election Day. The Department’s application in this court makes clear that terrorists have no place in the United States of America,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.’SOMETHING BIG’: FEDS REVEAL HOW RELATIVES OF SUSPECTS IN FOILED WHITE HOUSE UFC PLOT SAW WARNING SIGNSAccording to an FBI memo dated July 15, authorities “developed information” that Haji Zada supports the Islamic State and had her children pledge their loyalty to the terrorist group.Haji Zada “supported” a plot by family members to carry out an ISIS-inspired attack in the U.S., according to the memo.She was identified in court filings as the mother and mother-in-law of two Afghan men who were convicted in Oklahoma in connection with a 2024 Election Day terror plot.Her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, was sentenced in November to 15 years behind bars. He previously agreed to be deported after his release from prison.Haji Zada’s son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, who previously worked as a security guard for a U.S. military installation in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State. Prosecutors said he attempted to advance his attack plans by ordering AK-47 rifles, liquidating his family’s assets and purchasing one-way tickets for his wife and child to travel back to Afghanistan.The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996 but never received a petition until this month, when the Justice Department filed an application attempting to deport Haji Zada.The longtime-dormant court hears government applications seeking the removal of noncitizens alleged to qualify as “alien terrorists” under federal immigration law when the evidence supporting removal includes classified information.FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN MOVES TO IMPEACH JUDGE WHO ORDERED CONVICTED CUBAN PLANE HIJACKER FREED FROM ICE”Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court three decades ago to remove from the United States alien terrorists who never should have been here in the first place,” Blanche said.The court is made up of five federal judges from various districts across the country who are appointed by the Supreme Court’s chief justice.For the time being, the court says all proceedings will take place at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Patrick Clancy’s painstaking account of the night his three children died may have given prosecutors their clearest framework yet for arguing that Lindsay Clancy was lucid, deliberate and criminally responsible at the time of the killings, a legal expert says.Testifying Wednesday in Plymouth Superior Court, Patrick walked jurors minute by minute through the errands that took him away from the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on Jan. 24, 2023: a trip to CVS for a child’s stool softener, followed by a stop to pick up dinner.HEATED LINDSAY CLANCY COURTROOM EXCHANGE OVER 911 CALL, CRIME SCENE PHOTOS SETS STAGE FOR MOM’S MURDER TRIALHe said Lindsay called him back while he was inside CVS, understood why he was there and calmly approved a generic substitute. When he returned home, he found an eerily quiet house, blood inside the couple’s locked bedroom and Lindsay injured beneath an open second-story window.When Patrick found Lindsay Clancy lying on her back beneath their bedroom window, he said she had deep cuts on her wrists and a red line across her neck.LINDSAY CLANCY’S EX-HUSBAND DETAILS ‘BIG SPIRAL’ AS EXPERT SAYS ONE PART ‘SCARED ME’ IN MOM’S MURDER TRIAL”What happened?” he recalled asking her.”I tried to kill myself,” she responded, according to Patrick.He then asked, “Where are the kids?”LINDSAY CLANCY’S EX-HUSBAND DETAILS PILL USE AS EXPERT SAYS EVIDENCE COULD SHAPE MURDER TRIAL”They’re in the basement,” Lindsay told him.Patrick testified that she did not say the children were injured, in danger or needed help.Attorney Shari Karney said those seemingly mundane details, the text messages, phone call, dinner order and timing of Patrick’s drive, may become critical as prosecutors try to prove Lindsay understood her actions when the children were strangled with exercise bands.”I call this case murder versus madness,” Karney told Fox News Digital.Karney said Patrick’s testimony largely helped the prosecution because it portrayed Lindsay as responsive and organized shortly before the killings. The state, she said, is attempting to “squeeze that timeline” as tightly as possible around the precise moment the children were killed.WATCH: Patrick Clancy recounts finding wife after she said she tried to kill herselfFOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X”That’s fairly lucid,” Karney said of Lindsay’s ability to discuss the CVS purchase and coordinate the takeout order.SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWSBut the defense is expected to argue that competence during routine tasks does not establish criminal responsibility during the killings. Lindsay’s attorneys contend she suffered from severe mental illness, including postpartum psychosis, and was impaired by a shifting regimen of psychiatric medications.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MOREPatrick testified that Lindsay later told him she heard a man’s voice telling her that if she did not act then, she would “lose her chance.” He also said she had never previously told him she was hearing voices or experiencing psychosis.Karney said the case will likely turn on whether jurors view the killings as a calculated act or “a catastrophic collapse” caused by severe psychological illness.WATCH: Lindsay Clancy breaks down as jury hears husband’s frantic 911 callSEND US A TIPThe emotional stakes were on display when prosecutors played Patrick’s 911 call for the jury. The recording was barred from broadcast or reproduction under a court order, and the pool camera remained trained on Lindsay.She sobbed and buried her face in her hands as the call played.GOT A TIP?Karney said that reaction could help both sides.For the defense, she said, it humanized Lindsay as a “shattered, broken” mother confronting the consequences of the worst night of her life. For prosecutors, the same reaction captured the horror of the killings.LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCASTBefore the recording was played, Judge William Sullivan warned jurors not to allow sympathy, anger, passion or pity to influence their verdict.”You must not be influenced in any way by the unpleasant nature of some of the evidence,” Sullivan said, reminding jurors that their verdict must not be based on “sympathy, anger, passion or prejudice or pity.”GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAILClancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, has pleaded not guilty to three counts each of murder and strangulation.

Trump advisor Stephen Miller went off on Dr. Fauci during an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday evening.
Earlier Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former NIAID director and face of America’s disastrous COVID response, finally appeared under subpoena Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
After enjoying his celebrity status and appearing on all of the networks during the Covid pandemic, all of a sudden Fauci doesn’t want to talk.
Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment in his opening statement in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on his actions that led to the COVID pandemic and his many lies told to the American public.
Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times, prompting Senator Rand Paul to move to hold him in contempt of Congress.
Stephen Miller went off on Fauci after the explosive Senate hearing.
“Trump was the one who questioned the origins of COVID. President Trump is the one who questioned the need for requiring every single American to be tested over and over and over again!” Stephen Miller said.
“He’s the one who questioned whether we should require children and healthy adults to be subject to restrictions for an illness that primarily targets the elderly,” Miller said.
“He fought to reopen the government. And if you remember the Biden campaign in 2020 spent hundreds of millions of dollars demonizing president Trump for fighting to keep America safe to open,” Miller said.
“At every single step every day the news cycle was the so-called health care establishment attacking President Trump for questioning the experts,” he said.
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Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday announced the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a vote to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer any questions during the hearing.

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