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ICE is law-breaking ‘law enforcement’

We've seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their car windows, shooting pastors with pepper balls, shoving women to the ground, separating mothers from their children and killing an unarmed American ...

Europe aims to end reliance on American for security

BRUSSELS (AP) — "Intimidation," "threats" and "blackmail" are just some of the terms being used by European Union leaders to describe U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that he will slap new tariffs on nations opposing American control of Greenland. European language has hardened since ...

Where the wind whispers and the birds sing

“And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles; they can always fly away from this rain and this cold; you can hear them singing out their telegraph code; all the way down the Telegraph Road,” – Mark Knopfler The wind kicks up snow dust and swirls it around my head as I walk. I ...

Almanac for Jan. 20, 2026

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2026. There are 345 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1981, Iran released 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president of the United States, succeeding Jimmy Carter. Also on this date: In 1841, the island of Hong Kong was ceded by China to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997. In 1936, Britain's King George V died after his physician injected the mortally ill monarch with morphine and cocaine to hasten his death. The king was succeeded by his eldest ...

Almanac for Jan. 19, 2026

Monday is Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2026. There are 346 days left in the year. This day in history: In 1937, Howard Hughes set a new transcontinental speed record in his H-1 Racer aircraft, flying from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in seven hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. Also on this date: In 1853, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il trovatore" premiered in Rome. In 1861, Georgia became the fifth state to secede from the Union; it would join the Confederacy the following month. In 1942, a German submarine sank the Canadian liner RMS Lady Hawkins off Cape Hatteras, North ...

Where there aren’t fathers, birth rates collapse

Where are the babies? Social conservatives keep asking what's happened as the U.S. fertility rate crashes to its lowest level ever. But the answer should be another question: Where are the fathers? And by fathers, we do not mean men who merely spread their seed and then take off, but men who ...