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By Joe Cunninghan Former President Joe Biden plans to go to court to block the Trump administration from releasing roughly 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings of his conversations with a ghostwriter, the Justice Department said in new court filings Friday. DOJ attorneys told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that they expected Biden to seek to “prevent any such disclosures” of the recordings to both Congress and the conservative Heritage Foundation, which filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to access the materials. The Justice Department set a Tuesday deadline for Biden to file legal action and agreed to hold off on any release until June 15 if he does. A spokesperson for Biden confirmed Sunday that the former president plans to fight the release. “President Biden cooperated fully with Special Counsel Hur, and agreed to provide audiotapes of conversations with his biographer for a book about his deceased son on the condition that they would not be made publi...

By The Post Millennial A transgender-identifying New Jersey inmate convicted of sexually abusing his 7-year-old daughter is seeking a settlement with the New Jersey Department of Corrections after filing a lawsuit alleging officials denied him access to Wiccan religious accommodations while incarcerated in a women’s prison Marina Volz, born Matthew Volz, is serving a 25-year sentence after being convicted of sex crimes against his own seven-year-old daughter. Volz was sentenced in May of 2022 and initially housed at a men’s facility. Two months later, he was transferred to a women’s correctional facility. State records reportedly continued listing Volz as male until 2023, when New Jersey updated the inmate’s profile to classify Volz as female. Volz later filed a discrimination lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Corrections, alleging violations of religious freedom related to Wiccan beliefs. According to a report from Reduxx , Volz claimed the head of religious services ...

By GREG BYRNES A friend of mine's son was helping out with the youth program at a church in New York City. There were so many young people at the Sunday night Mass that they flowed out into the street. It was standing room only. The priest knew many of these young people were seeking God; there had been 80 or so baptisms at Easter. The priest also noted that many may have also been looking for a mate with whom they could build a life. Let's hope marriage and motherhood are finally coming back into style. The American poet William Ross Wallace wrote, "For the hand that rocks the cradle/Is the hand that rules the world." Giving your life to Goldman Sachs will never accomplish as much as being a mother. Corporate America's only answer to that trade-off is to offer to freeze the eggs of its female employees while they slave away in their gold-plated sweatshop. Many young people are getting wise to the gag.  Not that motherhood is easy, or that every kid ...

By Sierra Marlee A Frontier Airlines plane fatally struck a man on the tarmac as it was trying to take off for Los Angeles. Frontier Flight 4345 was attempting to take off from the Denver International Airport when a man described as a “trespasser” ran out onto the runway. He was struck and killed by the aircraft, according to a statement released on X. Look: At approximately 11:19 p.m., Frontier Flight 4345 reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN. Emergency crews responded to the scene. Passengers were bussed to the terminal and the majority have since departed DEN on a new Frontier flight. (1/4) — Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport)  May 9, 2026 “At approximately 11:19 p.m., Frontier Flight 4345 reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN. Emergency crews responded to the scene. Passengers were bussed to the terminal and the majority have since departed DEN on a new Frontier flight,” they wrote. “DEN can confirm the pedestrian jumped the per...

By Ward Clark I've mentioned before one of my favorite political cartoons, which appeared in the British press after the fall of France, Belgium, and the Low Countries to Germany in World War II. The image shows a British Tommy, in a trench coat, with his helmet on his head at a rakish angle. He stands on an outcrop of rocks, presumably on the English Channel, with waves crashing about his feet. He holds his Enfield rifle in one hand, and with the other is shaking his fist at a sky full of German aircraft. The caption: "Very well. Alone." That, folks, was Great Britain: The island foundation of an empire that spanned the globe, whose navy ruled the seas. After that war, Britain was diminished. Henceforth, it would be the United States Navy keeping the sea lanes open, a Pax Americana instead of a Pax Britannica . But Britain remained British, for the most part. That is, until Britain's Labour Party went nuts and, in a Biden-like gesture, threw the island nation...

By Kevin Downey Jr. After roughly 13 years on the job as a Washington D.C. policeman, Officer Matthew Mahl was named the first openly gay person to be chairman of the police union in 2016. Last month, Lt. Mahl was busted trying to meet a 15-year-old for sex. Mahl spent weeks sending inappropriate photos of himself, both in and out of his Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uniform, to the teen boy whom he had "met" on Reddit, and asked for naughty photos in return. Mahl "flirted" with the boy for three weeks before the two picked a time and place to meet for sex.  Mahl showed up, and so did the 15-year-old, who turned out to be a Harford County, Maryland Sheriff. Mahl is being held without bond until his next court appearance. BREAKING: Lt. Matthew Mahl who was celebrated as the first openly gay chairman of D.C.’s police union, arrested on child sex crime charges for allegedly trying to meet up with who he thought was a 15-year-old boy for sex He’s also facing ...

Close cooperation with the IDF during Operation Roaring Lion is prompting a review of a long-term US presence in Israel. Security officials say there are "no operational restrictions." US military personnel worked from Israel's underground central command center and were exposed to the IDF's capabilities, as well as its weaknesses. By Lilach Shoval In light of the close and effective cooperation between the Israel Defense Forces and the US military, Israeli security officials believe the Americans are considering moving forces to Israel from other countries in the region, or at the very least leaving a significant number of forces in Israel for the long term. The assessment is based, among other things, on the fact that unlike other countries in the region, Israel imposes no restrictions on US military activity. In addition, the US military has been given a close look at the IDF's capabilities, above all the power of the Israeli Air Force. As previously repo...

By ELIZABETH WEIBEL Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Senior Director for Counterterrorism Dr. Sebastian Gorka shared that “America is back in the business of counterterrorism,” days after President Donald Trump signed a new counterterrorism strategy document. While  speaking  to host Matthew Boyle on  Breitbart News Saturday , Gorka spoke about the White House Counterterrorism (CT) Strategy  document , and how the Trump administration was conducting “threat-based counterterrorism.” Gorka added that the Trump administration was “not using the government as a tool of politics” like former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden did. “America is back in the business of counterterrorism. Since the President authorized our first CT mission on the eighth day of the administration, we have killed more than 820 jihadis, and we have liberated 106 Americans who were previously hostages,” Gorka said. “We are concentrating on three major threat groups. Number one are the...

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By David Manney President Donald Trump has again put Europe on notice. The Pentagon plans to pull 5,000 troops from Germany, and Trump has signaled that deeper cuts could follow.  Germany still hosts major American military hubs, but locations alone don't settle strategy. Troops should sit where they strengthen deterrence, reassure serious allies, and make Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing study their maps with greater care. Poland has made the obvious case; Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Poland wants more U.S. troops, though he added he would rather not weaken European solidarity by simply poaching forces from Germany . Polish President Karol Nawrocki has been more direct, saying Poland is ready to host American troops withdrawn from Germany and pledging to encourage Trump to keep those forces in Europe. Good. Poland sits closer to the danger, spends as if it is a serious NATO ally, and understands Russia with the memory of a nation forced to learn hard lessons without t...

By Nick Arama Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on X on Friday, greeting former President Barack Obama, which drew a lot of attention.  Welcome back to Canada, President @BarackObama . Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us. pic.twitter.com/S2lrJLL5Td — Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) May 9, 2026 Welcome back to Canada, President @BarackObama . Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us. It even had a music track.  That prompted many on social media to wonder what Obama was doing meeting with Carney, since Obama is no longer in government. Carney seemed to be implying they were somehow working on something to "build a better and more just future."  The official reason that Obama was in Canada: to deliver the keynote speech at a think...