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The Nobel Peace Prize Goes to… María Corina Machado?


The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner on
Friday. It is not Donald Trump.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the award for her
commitment to keep “the flame of democracy glowing amid a growing darkness” in
her country and being “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian
courage in Latin America in recent times.” She has spent the past 14 months in
hiding after Nicolás Maduro declared victory in Venezuela’s last election. Much
of America and Europe believes his triumph was fraudulent.

Many Americans expected Donald Trump’s brokering of the Israel-Hamas peace
deal to earn him the prize, and considering Barack Obama won the 2009 award
because of the idea that hecould create peace, the president’s snub feels
entirely political. If Obama, Joe Biden, or any other Democrat did the exact
same thing as Trump, it would be hard to imagine them not winning the prize.
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State Department Diplomat Fired for Dating Chinese Woman


Imagine you’re a State Department diplomat living in Beijing, lonely and
seeking romance. One night, you catch a local’s eye while you’re out on the
town. A conversation begins. It gets flirty. One thing leads to another, and
you wind up at her apartment.

Unfortunately, there’s a problem. You didn’t meet your mysterious lover by
chance; it was a planned soirée. She works for the Chinese Communist Party,
which now has everything it needs to blackmail you into submission. You’ve been
compromised.

This is the exact scenario the Trump administration hopes to avoid. That’s why
U.S. government personnel in China and their family members are banned from
having romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens.

One employee still couldn’t control himself. He entered a relationship with a
Chinese national “with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party” this year,
admitting on camera that he “defied [his] government for love.” The State
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American Troops Are Heading to Israel


Since when was this a part of the deal?

The United States is sending around 200 troops to Israel to help support and
monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza, American officials disclosed on Thursday.
U.S. Central Command will establish a “civil-military coordination center” to
help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid and provide logistical and
security assistance into the ever-chaotic territory.

Members of the armed forces of Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab
Emirates are expected to be embedded with the American team, and the government
plans to send no U.S. troops into Gaza.

We don’t know what level of danger these servicemembers will face in the
Middle East. Even one being wounded or losing their life would completely
change the American perspective on this peace deal. No matter what Washington
says, the Israel-Hamas dispute is not an American issue. We hope it doesn’t
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Israel-Hamas Peace Deal Isn’t Good Enough, GOP Congressman Says



Most people we’ve talked to were happy that Donald Trump brokered an
Israel-Hamas peace deal. The conflict has gone on for long enough, too much
blood has been spilled, and America shouldn’t have to fund it any longer.
Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden disagrees.

The Wisconsin representative trashed the agreement as the result of
“negotiating with terrorists” on Thursday, saying he’s “not a fan” of the deal
to finally stop the killing.

If negotiating with enemy powers is forbidden, how else was the White House
supposed to get to peace? By continuing to pump U.S. tax dollars into the “war”
until… when? Forever? The conflict’s death toll is approaching 70,000. At what
point would the number he high enough for Van Orden to support a deal? 700,000?
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RFK Called Antisemitic for Saying Circumcision “Highly Likely” Causes Autism


Robert Kennedy Jr. turned heads at Donald Trump’s cabinet meeting on Thursday,
saying there may be a link between circumcision and autism due to infants
taking Tylenol after the procedure.

“There’s two studies which show children who are circumcised early have
double the rate of autism, it’s highly likely, because they were given
Tylenol,” Kennedy reported to the president. A2015 Denmark study
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claim.

There are plenty of normal ways to react to the HHS Secretary’s statement.
Maybe you think it’s funny. Maybe you think it’s stupid. There’s nothing
radical about either view. The same can’t be said about Congressman Jerry
Nadler’s take. According to him, RFK’s claim is… wait for it…antisemitic.

“This is an antisemitic remark,” he tweeted
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Kennedy. “I call on all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to clearly
denounce it.”

Are you kidding? What else is antisemitic? Saying you prefer cheeseburgers to
just meat and a bun? Not liking long beards? Breathing the wrong way? We’ve
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Secret Roman Colosseum Passage to Open to the Public


The Commodus Passage is a once-secret corridor in Rome’s world-renowned
Colosseum. It allowed Roman emperors to reach the ancient amphitheater unseen,
leading them directly to their reserved honor box to watch the venue’s events.
It will open to the public for the first time in nearly 2,000 years later this
month.

The passage, discovered in the 1810s, is named after Emperor Commodus, who
ruled alone between 180 A.D. and 192 A.D. He once survived an assassination
attempt while passing through the tunnel.

“Visitors can now have a taste of what it was like to be an emperor entering
the arena,” the architect who oversaw the corridor’s restoration said. “With a
little effort of imagination and the help of a virtual reconstruction, they can
appreciate the decorations, stuccoes, frescoes and marbles that covered the
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COMING IN HOT: Mom Gives Birth to Record-Sized Baby


The average newborn weighs in at roughly seven pounds, according to Stanford
Children’s Health. That’s a number new mom Shelby Martin and her Herculean son,
Cassian, could scoff at.

Cassian recently became the largest baby to be born at Nashville’s TriStar
Centennial Women’s Hospital in more than three years, weighing in at a whopping
12 pounds at 14 ounces. Photos show the hefty infant looking ready for a trip
to the weight room immediately after entering the world. A fruitful career as
an All-Pro defensive tackle could await him.

Cassian isn’t the only Hulkish baby to burst onto the scene this year. A
Florida mom nearly suffered a heart attack – and a hernia – when delivering her
nearly 14-pound son last month, and an Alabama woman birthed a 13-pounder back
in March. Unbelievable athletes, each of those women.Read more
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Commentary


He’s Sticking to His Guns


If an illegal immigrant bashed your wife’s head into a sidewalk, knocked her
unconscious, and raped her, would you want ICE to deport him?

It’s not a hard question. We’re highly confident your answer is yes. But not
everyone agrees. Enter Brandon Johnson.

The Chicago mayor refused to say that such a criminal should obviously get
booted from the United States this week, instead sighing like a professor
tolerating an unruly student when a reporter presented him with the
hypothetical.You can watch the exchange here
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else.

Anyone with a shred of common sense could write an article deriding the
mayor’s jaw-dropping position, and we’re sure Mrs. Johnson was less than
thrilled by her husband’s performance. He couldn’t even say he’d oppose a
deportation out of preference for such a criminal to live out his days in an
American prison. Eventhat would have been too much for him to stomach. So much
for supporting your wife.

Rather than taking the layup and dunking on the honorable mayor, we’d
actually like to give him some credit. Considering his other ludicrous
immigration stances, like creating “ICE Free Zones” and supporting giving
non-citizens seats on school boards, he almosthas to go all the way and extend
his love to the baddest hombres the “international community” dumps into the
United States. If your entire brand is that you’re pro-illegal immigrant, it
would be disingenuous to limit your ideology to the pleasant ones. You’d have
to fully commit, wrapping your arms around rapists, murderers, drug dealers,
and whoever the hell else comes flooding across the Southern border. “In this
house, no human is illegal” wouldreally have to mean no human. For Johnson,
apparently it does. Although insane, it’s an impressive commitment to his cause.

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Joe Biden’s favorite baseball team’s season ends in humiliating fashion.
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This Day in History


October 10, 1767: The creation of the Mason-Dixon Line. The Penn and Calvert
families hired Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to settle their dispute over
the boundary between their two proprietary colonies, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The British surveyors spent years completing their task, using astronomy to
chart the border and marking the line with stones featuring Pennsylvania’s
crest on one side and Maryland’s on the other. Americans grew to recognize the
line as the symbolic border between the free and slave states and the physical
divide between the country’s Northern and Southern cultures.


 

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