https://freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/ en-us Fri, 9 Oct 2026 19:29:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398600/posts French teenagers blockaded several high schools and took to the streets in cities across the country on Thursday in the latest wave of protests over conditions in schools. With demonstrations showing no sign of slowing down, around half of the French population reportedly supports the movement. ... France 24 English via YouTube https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398600/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 19:29:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398595/posts A group of visitors were camping in Washington’s Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest over Labor Day weekend when several people who identified themselves as U.S. Forest Service rangers approached their site. The rangers told the campers that they were receiving a warning for storing garbage improperly, and asked for their IDs. Several hours later, the campers woke up to a team of ICE agents shaking their tents. The agents took five adult men from the group into custody; in a statement to Outside shortly after the arrests, ICE claimed that the five men were in the country without authorization or had... Backpacker Magazine https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398595/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 19:12:53 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398594/posts Trump says he has struck a deal with Putin for Russia to sell 4.8 million tons of diesel fuel to the U.S. and global markets X https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398594/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 19:07:29 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398593/posts “Everybody's restless and they got no place to go / Someone's always trying to tell them something they already know / So their anger and resentment flow.” —Warren Zevon, Mohammed’s Radio In the stark October light, events and personalities skulk in the shadows like scavengers in an orchard of poison fruit. The dread builds as the dooryards get populated with the motorized effigies of blood-beasts, werewolves, phantoms, and ghouls. Halloween and Election Day have become the conflated celebration of a national death trip. How has it come down to our country, in a crucial election, seriously entertaining the antics of... https://www.kunstler.com/ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398593/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 19:06:25 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398592/posts Katie Zacharia has been offered the role as the next White House Press Secretary, Fox News Digital confirmed on Friday afternoon. She currently serves as the senior communications advisor to Trump Media & Technology Group, Truth Social. She is an attorney and frequent television commentator who briefly served as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She will succeed Karoline Leavitt, who left the role in late August. Fox News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398592/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 19:03:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398591/posts HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on Friday whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told reporters that if it is livestreamed, “I’m not going to be watching it.” The Republican vice president said, “I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen,” when asked about the plans that the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday. But Vance then tried to set aside the controversy over the shocking plans for a public execution and said Hasan’s crimes should not be forgotten AP News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398591/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 18:56:46 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398590/posts snip In November, 2015, Chelsea Rooney, a grad student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) came forward with the claim that Steven Galloway – a then award-winning fiction writer and, since 2013, charismatic Chair of UBC's Creative Writing program – had four years earlier violently raped a student (unnamed, but in internal investigations referred to as MC for Main Complainant, and legally thereafter alluded to as A.B.)... And here Galloway's harrowing journey through the satanic mills of peak feminist misandry began. Rooney had no personal knowledge or evidence for a single claim she made. But she was an ardent... SteynonLine https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398590/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 18:47:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398585/posts Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday the US is barring all transactions with the International Criminal Court and told America’s allies he expects their help in reining in the “rogue” body. Rubio declared in a statement the US was moving to cripple the court’s economic reach for threatening to bring cases against American troops, border agents and politicians. “For decades now, both Republicans and Democrats have rejected the idea that the International Criminal Court has any power to prosecute American citizens, to prosecute military servicemembers, or political leaders because America never joined the court,” Rubio said in a video... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398585/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 17:27:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398580/posts Any doubt to her identity was washed away when her name appeared emblazoned across her stern in raised letters: JUNEAU. Several thousand yards ahead of the cruiser, the sky was awash with searchlights, tracers and muzzle flashes exploding on the inky-black night sky like brilliant, violent lightning strikes. In the lead of the second column of American vessels, Seaman Allen Heyn sat in his 1.1 anti-aircraft mount and watched as the ships ahead shot each other to pieces. Through all the muzzle flashes Heyn could see that the Japanese ships were getting closer, yet his ship, the USS Juneau (CL-52)... https://www.nationalww2museum.org/ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398580/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 16:41:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398579/posts France’s revolting students vowed Thursday night they are only getting started and plan to continue their nationwide rioting, blockades, demonstrations and boycotts now and into the foreseeable future. FRANCE24 reports at least a dozen demonstrations supporting the high school students’ anti-establishment movement were planned across France into Friday after a rally at Place de la Bastille in Paris saw tear gas and a water cannon were fired at protesters. The mass mobilisation of students in concert with far-left political parties has seen street violence soar to record levels across France in the past three weeks. Police have made more than... breitbart.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398579/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 16:37:56 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398578/posts Country music singer Ella Langley is facing an online backlash. But it’s not about political statements, as is the case with many celebrities. It’s not even about her music. People are incensed at her because she posted pictures of herself posing with deer she hunted. Now, people on social media are all in a tizzy because she enjoys the same activities as many male country singers. townhall.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398578/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 16:28:11 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398575/posts Spain's Partido Popular are currently leading polls ahead of November's snap elections. Recent regional elections also suggest a right-wing bloc, heavily dependent on Vox, could form a new Government. With the Treaty set for ratification weeks before, we spoke to people in Main Street and asked their thoughts on the looming prospect of a new right-wing Spanish Government. www.gbc.gi https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398575/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 15:42:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398573/posts LONDON (AP) — The fate of the Chagos Islands is in the hands of one man almost half a world away. The contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base has been in limbo since U.S. President Donald Trump in January criticized a deal by the U.K. government to transfer sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius. U.K. Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said Wednesday that officials are reviewing the pact after Trump renewed his criticism of the U.K.-Mauritius agreement, calling it a “terrible deal,” during his first meeting with Prime Minister Andy Burnham in New... APNews https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398573/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 15:26:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398569/posts OAKLAND — To mark the 60th anniversary of when two Merritt College students, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, launched the Black Panther Party, party veterans, scholars and activists from around the country will gather for what’s been called a historic four-day conference and gala in downtown Oakland, Oct. 15-18. The Mercury News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398569/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 15:01:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398568/posts Trump administration imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court, Rubio says Reuters reports the sanctions would bar U.S. companies from providing services to the court itself, forcing banks, insurers and software companies to cut ties. That goes beyond earlier sanctions on individual ICC officials Rumble https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398568/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 14:55:52 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398567/posts Ethiopia and Eritrea on Friday accused each other of starting a "war of agresson" days after the two countries severed diplomatic ties. Ethiopian officals estimate that up to 8,000 Eritrean soldiers are present in Tigray supporting rebels who last month launched attacks against federal forces. Ethiopia and Eritrea each accused the other of starting a war of aggression on Friday as an internal Ethiopian conflict threatened to escalate into a regional war. Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of backing rebels in its northern Tigray state, who launched attacks against federal forces last month. The two countries severed diplomatic relations, and over the... France 24 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398567/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 14:48:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398563/posts MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Multiple packs of synthetic Kratom were found at Smoke Plus in Newbern, Tennessee, by the West Tennessee Drug Task Force on Tuesday. Agents say that during an undercover investigation, lab-created Kratom was sold to one of the undercover agents out of the back room. Synthetic kratom, $1 million in cash seized from Memphis wholesaler That is when a search warrant was issued for the smoke shop on 603 West Main Street. The task force seized multiple packs of the drug after the warrant was executed. The drugs were then sent to a lab for testing. The Newbern... WREG.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398563/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 14:19:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398560/posts Over the course of an hour-plus hearing Thursday, US District Judge Timothy Kelly signaled skepticism about the Trump administration’s arguments for allowing President Donald Trump to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Kelly, who was appointed to the bench in Trump’s first term, did not announce his decision on the media outlet’s request for a long-term order that would maintain their access to the White House while their legal challenge plays out. But the judge repeatedly told Justice Department attorney defending the ban Thursday that he was bound by DC Circuit precedent – including the precedent... CNN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398560/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 14:04:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398559/posts A Texas teen accused of stabbing a mother of five to death in broad daylight was freed from jail after posting a $2 million bond. Amaya 'Cookie' Diaz, 19, along with her sister, Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, and their friend, Kyandra Renee Faz, 21, were accused of murdering 32-year-old Caroline 'Caro' Peña on June 25. All three were arrested shortly after the butchering, but Cookie, who allegedly wielded the knife, was released from the Val Verde County Correctional Facility in Del Rio on Tuesday. Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398559/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:57:41 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398553/posts Everytown is the anti-Second Amendment activist group funded in large part by Michael Bloomberg. Everytown Research has published a report calling on AI companies to integrate user-restriction measures into their AI programs. The report is titled “Artificially Assisted Gun Violence: Chatbot Risks and Preventative Steps for Responsible AI Companies.” The report has five listed authors: Krystal LoPilato, Sriraman Madhavan, Ruhi Bengali, Olivia Li, and Justin Wagner. A common criticism of Everytown is the use of propaganda terms such as “Gun Violence“. The term creates an association of guns and immoral violence. It conflates separate issues of suicide, homicide and accidents.... AmmoLand https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398553/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:37:27 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398551/posts NASA's Curiosity rover has captured breathtaking images of a Martian dawn, revealing mysterious cliffs emerging from the darkness. Striking blue hues appear in the foreground as the morning light illuminates a series of crags known as yardangs in the distance. The striking scene was snapped at 8.30am Mars time on August 11, the 4,982nd Martian day of the rover's lonely pilgrimage across the Red Planet. The Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398551/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:25:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398550/posts Corporate media have giddily elevated a leftist-led protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that occurred while the justices heard arguments in a battle over Democrats’ climate lawfare. But the real story surrounding this kerfuffle centers around several of the demonstration’s participants and their involvement in the case. In Suncor v. Boulder, the high court will determine the fate of a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, against Suncor Energy companies and Exxon Mobil. The locality is seeking monetary damages based on allegations that the oil giants’ activities are contributing to “climate change,” which is harming its residents. The New... The Federalist https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398550/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:15:40 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398549/posts The European Union is financing a conference, #Disinfo2026, that delivers an extraordinary rebuke to the Trump administration by claiming the US is engaged in “foreign information manipulation and interference” (FIMI). EU DisinfoLab, a Brussels nonprofit, is holding its annual conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, which began yesterday and continues today. Its program lists a session titled “USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back,” and billed three Americans as speakers: Adam Fivenson of American University, the former CIA officer who writes as Alex Finley, and Emerson Brooking of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. The session description asked, “how... Public.news https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398549/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:12:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398548/posts Voters who backed Democratic former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 are far more enthusiastic about casting ballots this November than those who supported President Donald Trump, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, in a potential warning sign for Republicans heading into the midterm elections. The six-day poll, completed Monday, also found that men were more enthusiastic about voting and more certain to cast ballots than women, and that male voters showed signs of shifting toward Democrats. That could signal erosion in Republican support among a demographic that was a pillar of Trump's 2024 victory. Some 48% of 2024 Harris voters said... Reuters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398548/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:09:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398547/posts A congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped this past summer by two men while she was fixing a campaign sign. Democratic candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia says the incident occurred Aug. 14 in Sun City, a Phoenix suburb, when she was fixing the sign in the predawn hours. Greene-Placentia said she was knocked unconscious by two men, then sexually assaulted, according to a report to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office obtained by local media. Greene-Placentia is making a long-shot bid in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District to unseat GOP Rep. Abraham Hamadeh who won by 13 percentage points in 2024. The... Just the News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398547/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:05:43 GMT