https://freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/ en-us Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:58:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397991/posts BREAKING: Tesla’s German registrations surged 268.7% in September compared with last year. Year-to-date registrations are up 201.9%, pushing Tesla ahead of BYD in Germany. Tesla captured 14.2% of Germany’s electric car market in September, its strongest monthly result in years. X https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397991/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:58:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397988/posts Washington — Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84. Both the longest-serving Republican House speaker and the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, Hastert's stunning fall from grace came in 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover up his sexual abuse of teenage boys during his time as a high school wrestling coach. Kendall County Coroner... CBS News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397988/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:38:13 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397987/posts Hamam al-Hammami, the copilot accused of trying to hijack and crash a flydubai aircraft bound for Israel, stated during interrogation that he had researched which airlines operate routes to Tel Aviv and consequently chose flydubai, an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. "I tried to get hired by all the airlines. I planned the operation even before I was accepted by the company," the pilot said during interrogation. "The dream was to crash into Ben-Gurion Airport," Hammami added. In recent months, Hammami had been frequenting Ben-Gurion Airport in the course of his work as a pilot. One of... The Jerusalem Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397987/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:36:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397986/posts Yemeni government forces claimed on Monday to have retaken control of key positions near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a vital chokepoint for global trade, as they launch a renewed campaign to roll back recent gains made by the Iran-backed Houthi movement. Military spokesperson Majid Al-Nuzaili claimed on X that government forces “have succeeded in controlling Bab al-Mandeb,” adding that they have “cut off” and taken control of the road between Dhubab district, which overlooks Bab al-Mandeb, and the port town of Mocha, previously seized by the Houthis. CNN hasn’t independently verified the claim. Forces, which are backed by Saudi Arabia,... CNN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397986/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:33:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397985/posts Iran’s worsening economic crisis has opened an increasingly bitter argument over who is responsible, as the government points to outside pressure and market psychology while hardliners accuse Tehran’s own economic officials of making the situation worse. On Thursday, the end of Iran’s market week, the rial fell to another record low. Year-on-year inflation has reached almost 90 percent, with food prices rising even faster. The deterioration comes as US sanctions and a naval blockade squeeze Iran’s sources of revenue. The blockade has severely constrained oil exports, while Washington on Thursday expanded sanctions into the automotive and rail sectors, targeting some... Iran International https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397985/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:28:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397983/posts Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Venezuelan national who was previously released by a New York City judge after he was charged with emerging from a Manhattan sewer. The man was reportedly part of the “mole man” trend, where individuals look for valuables in the sewer system. 25-year-old Samuel Reveron Ascanio was taken into ICE custody after being released. ICE said Reveron entered the country illegally and had a federal arrest warrant at the time of his September 24 arrest. The case started when the NYPD received a 911 call reporting three men emerging from a manhole in Manhattan.... The Post Millennial https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397983/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:20:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397982/posts A US judge dismissed a federal case on Thursday that accused a Jamaican national of illegally voting, finding the law criminalizing noncitizen voting was unconstitutional and delivering a blow to the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged election fraud. The ruling by Miami-based US District Judge David Leibowitz applies only to the case of Florida resident Chelsea Cox, who was charged in October 2025 with illegally voting in the 2020 election. It is not binding for judges in other cases. It marks a setback for President Donald Trump’s administration on noncitizen voting, a cornerstone of its push to highlight alleged election... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397982/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:17:23 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397981/posts Flávio Bolsonaro defied the polls by finishing ahead of Lula, forcing an October 25 runoff as conservative candidates captured major victories across Brazil and strengthened their position in the nation’s Senate. ================================================================== WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Flávio Bolsonaro led Lula 47.24% to 44.91% with 99% of reporting completed Sunday night. The presidential contest will proceed to an October 25 runoff after Flávio fell below the 50% needed for an outright victory. Conservative candidates scored major victories across São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina. Michelle Bolsonaro won a Senate seat, while the Liberal Party... RVM News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397981/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:16:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397980/posts Two terrorist attacks were attempted on Monday within hours of each other in Judea and Samaria. IDF forces operating near Bani Naim in the Hebron Hills saw a vehicle with three terrorists moving suspiciously. The vehicle then accelerated toward the forces' vehicle and struck it. In response, the soldiers fired toward the vehicle, and hits were identified. No IDF soldiers were hurt. According to reports from the scene, one of the suspects was killed, another was severely wounded, and the third was arrested. A few hours later, two terrorists, at least one armed with a knife, entered the grazing areas... Arutz Sheva https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397980/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:10:45 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397979/posts A group of 15 Democratic mayors governing in Republican-dominated states are building a new political operation that aims to influence national politics as a center-left alternative to both the MAGA movement and what they describe as "far-left dysfunction" from groups like the Democratic Socialists of America. The organization -- Blue Cities/Red States -- is led by Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and will launch next week in Miami with a kickoff event hosted by its mayor, Eileen Higgins. The founding mayors lead cities including Atlanta, Jacksonville, Boise, Tulsa and Memphis -- governing more than 7 million Americans across 11 red and... ABC News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397979/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:10:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397978/posts A federal judge threw out drug evidence after ruling a sheriff’s deputy violated the Fourth Amendment by pulling a month of a driver’s location history from Flock’s camera network without a warrant. U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill granted Melisa Kyle’s motion to suppress and ruled the warrantless search of automated license plate reader data unconstitutional, according to the ruling. The drug prosecution against Kyle sits in the Northern District of Oklahoma. Tulsa County Deputy Freddie Alaniz began trailing Kyle’s Mazda SUV for no reason beyond its California plate, according to the ruling. He queried the Flock system for her... The Daily Caller https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397978/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:06:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397977/posts Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone told Newsmax on Friday that newly declassified records point to CIA foreknowledge of the Watergate break-in, as a Justice Department review revisits prosecutor conduct in the 1972 scandal.Appearing on "Ed Henry: The Big Take," Stone linked his longstanding revisionist view of Watergate to a preliminary DOJ review examining whether the special prosecutor's office mistreated defendants connected to former President Richard Nixon.Stone, a political operative who has written a book arguing the agency sabotaged the break-in, said "a couple of things" now support his view that the 37th president was wrongly brought down.He pointed to records... YAHOO News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397977/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:05:08 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397976/posts SEATTLE—Like New York, this West Coast city narrowly elected a Democratic socialist as mayor last year. On the campaign trail, Katie Wilson pitched an ambitious agenda: lower costs, tax the wealthy and build thousands of shelter units for the homeless. Then came reality. In recent days, the mayor stunned allies and observers alike by proposing a city budget with no new taxes, scaled-back pledges and nearly $50 million in cuts across various departments—all while boosting spending for police officers. The small-c conservative proposal bears little resemblance to the rent freezes, city-run grocery pilots and luxury second-home taxes emerging from Mayor... Spritzler Report https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397976/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 13:00:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397974/posts A recent internal investigation concluded that some Internal Revenue Service employees improperly used their official access to snoop through the tax records of public figures. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s (TIGTA) office identified 86 “suspicious accesses” into the records of 30 different taxpayers by 52 individuals employed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from calendar years 2022 to 2025 as of November 2025, according to a TIGTA report released Tuesday. The report noted the improperly accessed taxpayer records included those belonging to “United States government officials, business leaders, and entertainers.” The IRS did not immediately respond to the... The Daily Caller https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397974/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 12:53:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397971/posts PDF LINKS AT SITE.................... Already in the crosshairs for spying on Congress, ex-prosecutor Jack Smith and his team monitored the activities of President Donald Trump’s legal defense team, journalists and campaign advisers using a pen register device that tracked the calls coming to and from his chief of staff Susie Wiles’ phone, according to newly declassified memos that reveal some of the FBI’s invasive tactics used to target Trump. Just the News reported last week that Smith obtained the phone records of several senators through a subpoena and secured a non-disclosure order from the court preventing the mobile carrier from... Just The News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397971/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 12:32:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397960/posts A California realtor has been arrested at LAX after being accused of spying for China. Wanying Zhang, also known as "Heather," was busted at the airport Sunday as she tried to board a flight to Shanghai. The 34-year-old, who lives in Irvine, Orange County, is accused of working with handlers from the People's Republic of China to surveil the son of Taiwan's president Ching-Te Lai. 'We have a problem with Beijing using Chinese-Americans for their own purposes in California," AG Bill Essayli said. "They are using them for their own foreign affairs because they are playing the long game to... California Post via Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397960/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 10:53:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397948/posts Iran’s oil minister, Mohsen Paknejad, has resigned and been replaced by the country’s top oil executive, the president’s office says in a statement, amid a blockade on Tehran’s oil exports by the United States. “Following the acceptance of Mohsen Paknejad’s resignation, Hamid Bovard,” the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company, “has been appointed as acting Minister of Oil by a decree from the president,” says the statement carried by state broadcaster IRIB. In a news bulletin on the minister’s resignation, state television runs an interview with an official from the Iranian presidential office who says Paknejad initially offered his... Times of Israel https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397948/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 04:02:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397947/posts Dear Tucker, As men with public platforms, our responsibility is to tell the truth — whether one may or may not receive payment from middle eastern antisemitic propagandists. That standard applies to me. It applies to you too, Mr. Carlson. For months, you and others have used the word "genocide" to describe what's happened in Gaza — not as a legal conclusion reached through evidence and process, but as settled, obvious fact, repeated with total confidence to millions of listeners. This week, the Gaza Health Ministry itself — the same Hamas-run body that has supplied you the death toll numbers... Townhall https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397947/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 03:56:56 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397946/posts Conservatives have yet to build the institutions, infrastructure, and legal capacity needed to counter lawfare before it destroys more lives.Lawfare grows more dangerous with every operation. This week’s disclosures about Jack Smith’s operation show how far that machinery reached. The Federalist https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397946/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 03:54:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397944/posts The Home Secretary has admitted her fellow Labour ministers are constantly lobbying her to let more migrant workers into the country. Shabana Mahmood expressed frustration about the 'sheer number' of pleas she gets from her colleagues in other Government departments for work visas, revealing she is approached every few weeks. She chided her party for 'pulling the lever' of importing overseas staff to fill vacancies, particularly when almost a million young people are not in employment or education. And she pointed out that given its focus on workers' rights, Labour should be concerned about the plight of foreign staff who... The Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397944/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 03:49:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397943/posts I’ve said before that Republicans head into the 2026 midterms in a stronger position than the national polls suggest, and Minnesota is a big reason why. Along with New Hampshire, the state has become an overlooked Senate pickup opportunity, which is remarkable, given that Minnesota hasn't backed a Republican for president since 1972.The Senate race between Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-Minn.) and Republican Michele Tafoya is a near dead heat. Big Data Poll has Flanagan ahead by two points. InsiderAdvantage has her up by one. KSTP/SurveyUSA found the race tied. Flanagan’s lead in the RealClearPolitics average is a mere 1.6... PJ Media https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397943/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 03:47:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397940/posts Bolsonaro: 47.18% Lula: 44.98% BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Brazil’s incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off in a runoff Oct. 25 for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy after neither won a majority in Sunday’s vote. AP News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397940/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 03:03:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397939/posts With a little more than three weeks to go until the Oct. 19 referendum, a new poll done for CBC News suggests support for separation has softened since spring. Janet Brown Opinion Research, in a random survey of 1,200 Albertans between Sept. 8 and 21, asked respondents the same question they’ll face on referendum day: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?” Twenty-three per cent of respondents said they’d vote... CBC News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397939/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 02:50:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397938/posts Hundreds of people are currently under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from an "unspecified form of plague" in Russia. Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region said nearly 200 people are under medical observation, according to media reports and a statement by a regional leader on Friday. The Moscow Times said that Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighbouring republic of Buryatia, confirmed that the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague. Tsydenov, however, said “there are no plague outbreaks in the republic, including in areas bordering Mongolia”. Russian media outlets have identified the woman as Daria Sh.,... Express https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397938/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2026 02:38:26 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4397933/posts Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~COL Kern W. Dunagan Info from here. Kern W. 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