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A stark graph showing a 1,533% increase in terror arrests in the U.K. this year comes with an interesting asterisk: it's mostly protestors whose "terror" offense occurred at pro-Palestinian marches, typically in the form of spoken or printed messages ...

Here's a wild shot at getting voters to turn out for the midterm elections: have them vote for their favorite gun. The question "Which of the following guns should be designated as the state gun of Idaho?" will be on ballots there after legislators ...

A Peruvian man named after two European despots won election in Queropalca, a district with about 730 residents in the south American nation's Huánuco department. Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores, 45, won the race by just 25 votes as the candidate of ...

The Pentagon's first military execution since World War II is scheduled for December 3, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says it will be livestreamed for the public. Fort Hood shooter ...

Christopher Paul is running unopposed to become the chief of police in Elizabeth, Louisiana, a village of 417 people. Paul, however, was recently charged with raping two 13-year-old girls twenty ...

Following his meeting with top AI executives yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that artificial intelligence will henceforth be known as "super intelligence." The order, which applies ...

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R--Iowa) is in his tenth decade of life and is displeased at the prospect of a Democratic governor appointing his replacement should he die in office.

House leader Mike Johnson ended congress early to avoid a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth, President Trump's crusader-tattooed "Secretary of War," and opinion polls show why. Never popular in the ...

The AP reports that U.S. president Donald Trump asked China's president if he wanted to buy US arms on Sunday, describing a deal that would "upend generations of U.S. policy ...

Matthew Ammel, the former bodyguard and boyfriend of former Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, was arrested after allegedly breaking into her home while she was out of town and causing ...