https://freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/ en-us Sun, 6 Sep 2026 12:04:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394424/posts The Talk ShowsSep 7th, 2026Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Energy Secretary Chris Wright; Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.); Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.); Ray Washburne, co-founded the M Crowd Restaurant Group, and former Trump official and political fundraiser; Michigan Secretary of State (democrat candidate for Governor) Jocelyn Benson.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Energy Secretary Chris Wright; Andy McCarthy, lawyer, former federal prosecutor, author, and columnist for National Review . Panel: Michael Allen, Francesca Chambers, Marie Harf (Party on Wayne!) and Marc Thiessen.MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen... Various driveby media television networks https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394424/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 12:04:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394417/posts An allegedly corrupt senior immigration official and his sleazy moneyman are accused of manipulating the US immigration process and approving citizenship applications for nearly $960,000 in bribes, authorities said on Friday. Investigators discovered the reported racket through WhatsApp messages between former senior United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officer Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, his financial accomplice Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, and individual citizenship applicants. The pair, located in Texas, bypassed standard procedures by funneling bribe-paying applicants directly to Ganiyu — skipping key steps in the immigration process like criminal background checks, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394417/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 11:29:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394413/posts Krakatau, the infamous volcano, just produced its largest explosive eruption since 1883. And this caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights, generated a massive eruption plume, and caused ash to fall across a wide area. Yet, how large is this eruption, and why might it have occurred? Today's video will attempt to answer these questions through the knowledge & analysis of a geologist. GeologyHub YT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394413/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 10:48:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394410/posts The Arizona House Speaker is investigating the attorney general over evidence that she may have rigged her investigation to protect the governor. Speaker Steve Montenegro wrote a letter to Kris Mayes last Thursday challenging her on the result of her investigation into alleged pay-to-play by Gov. Katie Hobbs. Montenegro said the analysis published last month contained “serious deficiencies” that indicates Mayes had conducted her investigation in bad faith and for illegitimate purposes. “The Memorandum suggests that your Office failed to pursue critical issues and reached conclusions that directly conflict with reliable evidence — including information provided by the very witnesses... ARIZONA DAILY INDEPENDENT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394410/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 09:53:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394408/posts It’s only fitting that Gloria Steinem died the same week the personification of her existence faced a hung jury. “You’ve come a long way, baby!” Women have gone from demanding abortion to performing extremely late-term abortions at home, and they’re celebrated for it. It’s like the baby murder Olympics. Steinem died exactly as she wanted – alone, surrounded by people unrelated to her having cheerfully bragged of her abortion(s) and soon to be forgotten, as any leftist woman under 40 likely thinks he’s some kind of Zionist monster, based on her name. She outlived her rich husband of three years... Townhall https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394408/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 05:26:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394407/posts President Donald Trump has spent months trying to return the Kennedy Center to its former glory, and leftists have been trying to stop him at every turn. This week, the building did their work for them. A chunk of the Grand Foyer ceiling came crashing down onto the red carpet.I’m guessing that’s still not enough proof for Democrats that the place needs work.The collapse hit overnight into Thursday, after a powerful storm tore through Washington, D.C. Meteorologists say it was the strongest system to hit the city since the derecho that flattened trees and power lines back in 2012. This... PJ Media https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394407/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 05:19:05 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394406/posts Strategic patience for the win? Iran's regime leaders thought they could force the US to buckle by strangling the global economy at the Strait of Hormuz. The US, however, has an actual blue-water navy, and that tends to matter in blockades involving a country entirely reliant on sea trade for its only valuable export economy. As the Wall Street Journal concedes, Donald Trump's Hormuz blockade is a lot less "leaky" than the IRGC's. And as Trump himself pointed out yesterday, the Strait may not matter for very much longer anyway:By squeezing the Strait of Hormuz, both the U.S. and Iran... Hotair https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394406/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 05:12:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394405/posts ICE spent months tracking down an MS-13 gang member known as “The Witch,” a convicted killer wanted in El Salvador for an execution-style murder. Now, ICE has been forced to set him free. U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta, a Biden appointee in California, ordered David Antonio Aviles Perez released from ICE custody after concluding that immigration authorities violated his due-process rights.Judge Ohta ruled that ICE erred by holding him for five months without an individualized determination of whether he posed a danger to the public or was likely to flee.A machete-wielding MS-13 executioner known as “the witch” has been cut... Red State https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394405/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 05:06:10 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394399/posts For years, one of the most visible consequences of transgender policies has played out in women's sports. Female athletes have watched biological males enter their competitions, stand on podiums, occupy roster spots and, in some cases, enter spaces once reserved exclusively for women. Whatever one's position on transgender issues, the conflict has forced society to confront an uncomfortable question: What happens when the interests of people who identify as transgender collide with protections created specifically for women? But there is another group of women caught in that collision who receive considerably less public attention. They are women in prison. And... PNW https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394399/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 03:57:57 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394398/posts US President Donald Trump's top negotiators have met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as efforts to end the war in Ukraine gather pace. Footage released by the Kremlin showed Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner being greeted by Putin, who said the current situation "is not so easy". Witkoff thanked Putin for agreeing with Ukraine to halt strikes on each other's capitals for three days. On Sunday the envoys will travel to Kyiv for more talks - their first such visit to Ukraine's capital. On Friday, Trump said Witkoff and Kushner were "bringing with them a proposal to end the... BBC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394398/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 03:52:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394396/posts An MS-13 gang member convicted in a savage execution-style murder is out of federal custody in California after a federal judge ordered his immediate release, igniting fury from the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez, 35, aka "the witch," after finding that immigration officials held him for five months without giving him a bond hearing or determining whether he posed a danger to the public or a flight risk. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin accused the Biden-appointed judge of putting the public in danger by ordering Aviles Perez’s... Fox News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394396/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 03:25:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394393/posts TV writer Vanessa Baden Kelly recently appeared on the New Rockstars podcast with hosts Erik Voss and Jessica Clemons, where she spoke about her experiences writing the comic book series — which has revealed itself to be a rehash of BLM-era preachy messaging. But she also spoke about where she came from before her TV writing career. (...) But after the year 2000, she took about a ten-year break from the entertainment industry and became a left-wing community activist. By 2011, she went back to seeking work as an actress and also as a writer. Baden Kelly claimed that her... Breitbart https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394393/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 02:57:06 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394391/posts The judge has declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case. I’m writing a much longer podcast on the women — the crazy, crazy women — but I’d also like to lay out the case as I see it and why I am grateful to the one juror who stood against the 11 and led to the mistrial. I watched every minute of this trial, all those weeks of testimony and seven days of deliberations, and if I were on the jury, I would have joined him Substack.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394391/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 02:52:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394385/posts THE LOSER WHO NEVER GAVE UP For "Sparky", school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of zero. He also flunked Latin, algebra and English. And his record in sports wasn't any better. Though he did manage to make the school's golf team, he promptly lost the only important match of the season. Oh, there was a consolation match; he lost that too. Throughout his youth, Sparky was awkward socially. It wasn't that the other students disliked him; it's just that no one really cared... Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394385/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 01:30:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394383/posts Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order recognizing 9/11 Friday — and then gave the symbolic pen to his controversial aide who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to the attack on the Pentagon.Administration officials were gathered at City Hall for a pair of executive orders — ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — one establishing a Day of Remembrance and another beefing up security against future terror threats. After Mamdani signed the last of the documents, Hizzoner gave Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, “Can you pass this?” Tisch awkwardly handed... The New York Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394383/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 01:07:25 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394376/posts The fundraising groups of Donald Trump and Elon Musk have boosted spending on US House and Senate races by millions of dollars less than two months before election day. Maga Inc, the pro-Trump Super Pac, spent $10mn on ads benefiting Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton against Democrat James Talarico, while Musk’s America Pac dropped $3.7mn this week to boost Republicans across the country. Maga Inc’s first significant expenditure this year comes as Republicans have questioned for months whether the Super Pac will spend its $400mn war chest or save it for future elections or Trump’s own interests. This week,... The Financial Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394376/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 22:54:50 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394366/posts Oneel Bou Saab keeps a photo of her father in his army uniform. Lieutenant George Bou Saab was killed serving in the Lebanese Armed Forces in 2013 during clashes with an extremist group in the southern city of Sidon, and for years his death sat inside a familiar civic story: a soldier who died defending "all of Lebanon," as his daughter puts it, not any one sect or faction. That story cracked open again this August, when parliament passed a sweeping new law that automatically reduces the sentences of people convicted in cases like the one connected to her father's... New Arab https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394366/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 20:27:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394363/posts Peter Navarro, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, confirmed Friday that Maria Bartiromo sent him internal Fox Business Network guidance about coverage of the president's 2020 election claims, providing on-the-record support for a key detail in reports surrounding her abrupt departure from Fox News Media. Navarro, Trump's senior counselor for trade and manufacturing and a longtime adviser to the president, told Puck that Bartiromo texted him a screenshot of the guidance after he had been scheduled to appear on "Mornings With Maria" to discuss voter fraud. According to Puck, Ralph Giordano, Fox Business senior vice president of programming, sent the... The Wrap https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394363/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 20:13:56 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394360/posts Two chilling videos kept out of sight for decades could be the key to persuading a court next month that Saudi Arabia was behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and that victims’ families have amassed enough evidence to continue their years-long legal battle, according to family members of victims. Federal Appeals Court judges in lower Manhattan will hear oral arguments for the first time Oct. 7 that connect the men in those videos to the Saudi government and its intelligence services, as well as the horrific attacks of that day. Both videos involve the same enigmatic figure, Omar al-Bayoumi,... https://nypost.com/ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394360/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 19:43:40 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394356/posts Lindsay Clancy supporters are flooding a fundraising page after her high-profile murder trial ended with a hung jury after an intense week of deliberations. A GoFundMe page set up for Clancy’s parents, Michael and Paula Musgrove, has raised over $1.1 million and counting – edging closer to the whopping, newly-increased $3 million target. In an update on the page Friday, the same day the mistrial was declared, organizer Brandee Mulligan announced that the financial goal would be going up. “I’ve decided to raise the goal of this fundraiser since this process has been extended, so is the time Paula and... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394356/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 18:51:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394354/posts A coalition of 17 states, lawmakers and advocacy organizations has filed 12 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold that parents and teachers have constitutional rights to know about their children despite public school gender policies.The briefs were filed in Mirabelli v. Bonta, a case involving California’s “Parental Exclusion Policies,” which the Thomas More Society led as counsel for a class of parents and teachers challenging the policies. In December, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez issued a permanent injunction blocking the policies, saying that parents have the right to know and public schools cannot socially... The Center Square https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394354/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 18:25:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394352/posts I thought this was important given the leftist judge setting free Kahilid Sheik Mohammed. The video damns us and our future here and now Do not miss Mark Steyn online https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394352/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 17:59:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394348/posts Thirty years ago last month, Congress replaced the open-ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) entitlement, the largest state-run, federally funded cash welfare program, with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. This imposed stricter fiscal discipline on states running TANF, but Congress failed to extend similar restraints to other programs. Consequently, many states circumvented TANF’s budget constraints by shifting spending and enrollment to other, still open-ended entitlements. Following the 1996 welfare reforms, states moved some recipients off TANF and onto the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Today, state legislators are shifting costs onto federal taxpayers by... CATO Institute https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394348/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 16:59:23 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394347/posts At first glance, Magdeburg may seem an unlikely stage for a political upheaval of international significance. But this weekend, the city of only about 244,000 people will be at the center of an election that could leave a far-right party in control of a German state for the first time since World War II. Magdeburg is the capital of the East German state of Saxony-Anhalt — where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is hoping to rise to power in Sunday's state election. Supporters and opponents of right-wing populist movements across Europe and beyond are watching closely to see if... CBS News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394347/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 16:54:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394342/posts Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 72-hour pause in strikes on Kyiv, the Kremlin said Saturday, as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow to try to revive a stalled push to end Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "Putin has ordered that no strikes be carried out against Kyiv for three days, starting at midnight today," presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russia's Tass news agency. He said the decision was tied to preparations for Witkoff and Kushner's planned visit to the Ukrainian capital, which Kyiv has said will take place on Sunday. Peskov also confirmed that Kushner... AP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394342/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2026 15:52:53 GMT