https://freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/ en-us Fri, 6 Nov 2026 08:15:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402015/posts The national elections, just completed, added five states that will be completely controlled by Democrats next year, i.e., legislature and governor. They are, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Every one of these is ripe for legalizing assisted suicide, as that policy is now part of the liberal/progressive issue agenda. Most have already seen serious efforts to legalize doctor-prescribed death — even when Republicans held some power. Indeed, the electorally late (defeated for reelection) Governor Joe Lombardo of Nevada vetoed a legalization bill a few years ago. Other states that are already governed by a so-called Democratic trifecta, but which... National Review https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402015/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 08:15:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402010/posts Luke Rosiak @lukerosiak Ram Chhetri came to the US as a refugee, but this might be worst day of his life: It's the moment he realizes the $80k-$160k/year salary he's bilked from Medicaid for no-show work is coming to an end because @realdailywire caught the truth on camera. We conducted months of surveillance that shows why "home care aide" is now the *most common job* in states like NY, CA, MN, and PA: Because a large part of those jobs are unambiguous Medicaid fraud. Thanks to home care, Bhutanese refugees now make more money than actual PA families. The state... X twitter https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402010/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 05:58:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402009/posts Republican voters in search of silver linings need look no further than the collective fate of their party's own amnesty-mongers. Tuesday's midterm tsunami, which wiped out GOP control of Congress, also washed away a group of Republican legislators best known for having betrayed the party's base by co-sponsoring the DIGNIDAD Act of 2025, an amnesty bill masquerading as immigration reform. As of Thursday afternoon, eight of those co-sponsors had lost their bids for re-election to the House of Representatives. Moreover, the full statistical picture looks even worse for those amnesty-loving Republicans. More on that in a moment. As for the... The Western Journal via MSN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402009/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 05:52:43 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402008/posts The 2026 midterm elections have clearly been very good for Democrats across the board. But their House majority is trending toward historic numbers. CNN is projecting that Democrats have won more than 250 House seats, with a net gain of around 40 seats. And they could hit or even exceed 260 total seats by the time all is said and done. That would give them around an 85-seat majority and make it the biggest Democratic majority since the early 1990s — the tail end of decades of Democratic domination of the House. If Democrats get to 260 seats, it would... Cnn https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402008/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 05:48:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402005/posts DENVER (KDVR) — Several Lakewood police officers were injured in a shooting Thursday night, a source tells FOX31. KDVR Fox31 News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402005/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 04:44:10 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402004/posts Security guarantees for Ukraine and a new European security strategy were the main topics of meetings in Brussels on November 5 with representatives of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and NATO. Head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service Rustem Umerov said this in a Telegram post, Ukrinform reports. "Together with representatives of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and NATO, we discussed what security guarantees for Ukraine from the United States and other partners should look like, as well as a new European security strategy. We are continuing work on this track. We will share details... ukrinform https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402004/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 04:31:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402003/posts WASHINGTON – Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Department of Transportation (DOT) published a fact sheet that warns organizations of ongoing cyber threat activity targeting industrial refrigeration and cold chain monitoring systems. Critical infrastructure sectors that widely use these systems include Healthcare and Public Health, Chemical, Food and Agriculture, and Transportation Systems. Globally, malicious cyber actors are targeting vulnerabilities and weaknesses in unpatched or internet-accessible electronic temperature controllers and commercial refrigeration controllers in retail grocery and cold storage facilities. If successfully... United States Government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402003/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 04:24:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402002/posts New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani scored a legal victory Wednesday after a state appeals court cleared the way for his administration to move forward with a controversial tax on high-end second homes, according to The New York Times. The Brooklyn-based appellate court reversed a September ruling by a Staten Island judge, who found that the city mishandled the tax's rollout and ordered officials to start over. The city appealed the decision while continuing to implement the tax, also called a pied-à-terre tax. The ruling marks a win for Mamdani's progressive agenda, which includes raising taxes on wealthy New Yorkers... MSN via Fox News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4402002/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 03:56:37 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401998/posts Rep. Anthony Ealy, who won his third term to the Missouri House on Tuesday, was arrested by the Jefferson City Police Department on an assault charge. Cole County’s inmate portal said Ealy was arrested at 11:57 a.m. on Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree domestic assault and disturbance of the peace. The assault charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $2,000 fine. The disturbing-the-peace charge carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Missouri court records did not show that prosecutors had charged Ealy as of Thursday morning. The... kansascity.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401998/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 03:35:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401996/posts The U.S. government is warning of an "ongoing cyber threat" facing industrial refrigeration units, after reports of cyberattacks targeting freezers and fridges in supermarkets around the world, U.S. military bases, and at least one blood bank. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, the FBI, and several other federal government departments warned in a joint statement on Thursday that hackers are targeting and compromising internet-connected refrigeration and cold chain monitoring systems in grocery stores and cold storage facilities. The statement said that the hacks are hitting critical infrastructure, such as the food, agriculture, transportation, and medicine-shipping industries. "If successfully exploited, the actors could... yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401996/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 02:46:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401993/posts Democrats’ historic triumph was fueled by a rare coalition of voters. WASHINGTON — Democrats heralded a new era in American politics Wednesday after voters broke Republicans’ control of government and delivered a pivotal rebuke of President Trump. Victories that handed Democrats control of the House and Senate on Tuesday night came in historic form, with margins outstripping expectations and double-digit shifts to the left by nearly every voting bloc. In some of the reddest states in the union, even Republican redistricting efforts designed to shield districts from competition were not enough to prevent Democratic inroads. The sweeping wins were driven... Los Angeles Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401993/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 02:16:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401992/posts FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe Come on in, we're open Need a place just to hang out? This is it. We serve coffee, tea,or maybe some hot cocoa to warm the bones?Topped off with great conversation in front of a warm fire. No worries in the FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe. Grab a cup and start a conversation.You never know who you might meet in the Cafe. Glad you could... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401992/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 02:00:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401991/posts Paraguay’s central bank has seized a major digital bank with ties to President Santiago Peña ... ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay -- Paraguay’s central bank seized a major digital lender with close ties to President Santiago Peña early Tuesday, throwing the savings of millions of customers and hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds into limbo. The Central Bank of Paraguay said that its board voted unanimously Monday to put Ueno Bank into resolution after its solvency ratio — a measure of a bank’s capital against its risk-weighted assets — fell below half the legal minimum. Unlike bankruptcy proceedings in court, resolution... ABC News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401991/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 01:51:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401987/posts When even a blue wave midterm election can't save your failing leftist propaganda outlet, that's a pretty good sign that your outlet really sucks. Salon found that out the hard way today, as the once-mildly popular online publication announced that it is going out of business after three decades of pushing leftist agendas, narratives, and just plain weird stories. In their valediction, Salon's editors lamented their current irrelevance while giving everyone a final laugh by declaring themselves "journalists." The business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years. After careful consideration, we have reached the difficult decision... Twitchy.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401987/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 00:52:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401986/posts (The Economic Collapse Blog) — What in the world just happened? Words like “tsunami” and “wipeout” are being used by the pundits, but I don’t think that they are strong enough. It is clear that much of the population was frustrated with the Republican Party. But instead of seeking out another alternative, voters overwhelmingly chose to hand the keys to the political party that made a giant mess of things when they were in charge earlier this decade.The 4 years of the Biden administration were absolutely horrific, and the Republicans were given control of the White House, the Senate and... Discern Report https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401986/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 00:45:53 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401984/posts Few, if any, major Democratic elected officials have navigated the politics of the past few years as deftly as Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA). Shapiro easily won three straight statewide elections in a state that voted for Donald Trump two out of three times, and elected a Republican senator, too. Shapiro is obviously smart. He probably has the highest IQ of any statewide elected Democrat in America. He’s also shrewd. He has been pragmatic: Remember, he threw out all sorts of regulations and normal constraints in order to repair a collapsed highway overpass in a matter of days. While other prominent... American Enterprise Insitute https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401984/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 00:42:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401983/posts President Donald Trump met with his national security team Thursday to discuss whether to resume military operations against Iran, senior officials confirmed to Fox News. There were meetings at the White House Wednesday and Thursday, the officials said. Nov. 9 marks a new moon in the Middle East, meaning little to no moonlight — a condition favorable for military operations, they added. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office earlier Thursday that Washington would “make a decision” on resuming the war. “Do we want to go further” with strikes to ensure Iran's nuclear program is dead and that “it will... Fox News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401983/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 00:39:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401981/posts We’ve got to make sure that nobody has to worry about high healthcare premiums,” former president Barack Obama said at a recent Democratic rally. “We have a lot of work to do.” The high cost of health insurance has become a central issue for Democrats campaigning to seize control of Congress. It’s not a made-up issue: Average premiums have increased more than 40% in the last four years, and have more than doubled in the past decade. How did healthcare costs get this high? Much of the blame rests with Obama’s signature achievement: Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act. By... American Enterprise Institute https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401981/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 00:23:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401980/posts President Trump signed a proclamation Thursday making the Oval Office and Cabinet Room in the White House a national monument. Trump noted Congress would have to ratify the proclamation, and that “no major modifications” would be able to be made to the rooms without approval from Congress. “It’s a symbol of our country, and the greatness of our country,” Trump told reporters, referring to the Oval Office. “If anyone ever decides to come and start knocking down walls, you call me, and I will come back here, and I will make sure it never happens,” the president said. The Hill https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401980/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 00:21:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401979/posts I have always had mixed feelings about Trump's tariff agenda, and here's why. On economic grounds, tariffs are a terrible idea, but Trump had a point about many of the trade deals in place, which were often built around bribing allies into supporting us politically (or sometimes helping countries that struggle economically). Trump's agenda to renegotiate trade deals had some merit. Exit polling on tariffs. The GOP has opposed global tariffs since WW2 and for good reason. It’s bad economics and bad politics. Article One gave tariff power to Congress and we must reclaim it. I got this from Erick... Hotair https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401979/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 00:21:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401978/posts In the fallout from losses in Tuesday's midterm elections for the Republican Party in state and federal races, Democrats are eyeing members of President Donald Trump's administration as targets for impeachment. One of the first names to float to the top has been that of Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth.On Thursday afternoon, Hegseth put out a video in an X post, with his department's - and the president's clearly defined America First rules of engagement over the next two years with "the Democrats and the Deep State radicals" who hate us."President Trump's War Department has never been afraid to... Red State https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401978/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2026 00:00:11 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401977/posts Socialists and liberals across the Democrat Party today have helped send stocks sliding with their authoritarian plan to clamp down on AI. The party won Congress and decided to forget healthcare and gas prices and go after data centers. Now investors have to reckon with what they have promised. Bernie Sanders is once again angrily leading the charge.By mid-afternoon, the Dow had dropped about 1,700 points, erasing its post-election rally. The Nasdaq fell more than 5 percent, and the S&P 500 lost more than 4 percent. Chip stocks had their worst day since March 2020. Fears that Democrats would stop... Red State https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401977/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2026 23:55:57 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401975/posts Nithya Raman is projected to become Los Angeles’ next mayor after defeating incumbent Karen Bass, NBC News projects, marking a major political shift in the nation’s second-largest city. Raman, 45, is poised to become the city’s first Indian American mayor, American Bazaar reports. Born in India, she moved to the United States as a young child and attended Harvard and MIT before becoming an urban planner. A member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Raman campaigned on homelessness, housing affordability and changing how City Hall operates. Her candidacy surprised many. Raman had endorsed Bass for reelection before announcing her own... Euroweb https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401975/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2026 23:37:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401974/posts So, in the spirit of calmate, some advice to Republicans after Tuesday's midterm drubbing: calm down and reassess the not-so-distant future political terrain. In 2028, Republicans will at least retain the White House. Here's why. President Donald Trump remains president and commander-in-chief for the next two years. Democrats can yell and scream — and they will. After all, they are Democrats. But they have no choice but to deal with the man many in their party routinely refer to as a "fascist." A Democrat House has no power to prosecute, no matter the upcoming hearings over alleged corruption and self-dealing... townhall.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401974/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2026 23:29:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401972/posts Dozens of Honduran migrants departed San Pedro Sula on Election Day, marking the country's third caravan since September, with participants hoping the midterm elections would create an opportunity to enter the United States, according to Latin Times. The Trump administration has maintained its hard-line immigration policies, with U.S. Embassy officials warning migrants against making the journey and threatening visa revocations for caravan organizers. "Here in Honduras, we have nothing left," 47-year-old Jimena Morazán told Latin Times. Morazán joined the caravan with five family members. The state of Honduras is a factor for migrants seeking to leave the country. The homicide... wnd.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4401972/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2026 23:24:07 GMT