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A couple thought they were about to meet their third child. Instead, the mother found herself fighting for her own life.

A New York GOP congressional staffer miraculously survived a freak lightning strike while he was walking to his dentist appointment on Staten Island.

There are always a few twists and turns with roster machinations that fall into the "mild surprise" or even "quite a surprise" category.

Anthony Fauci “violated his oath as a physician” when he advocated for massive shutdowns during the COVID pandemic and pushed vaccines as the “solution to everything,” Dr. Monique Yohanan charged in an interview for The Post’s Pod Force One podcast.

Tom Homan has avoided the pyrotechnics favored by the attention-seeking Kristi Noem, with robust immigration enforcement free of militarized raids and cinematic clashes with protesters.

Now-disgraced California Dem Eric Swalwell told the FBI he considered the glamorous grad student whom he first met in 2012 before he took office, as his main point of contact with APAPA, according to declassified FBI files.

Moving to big coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles could mean lowering the odds of getting married.

Daughter claims nurse who cared for her dad with Parkinson's took deed to his SC home for just $5 before his death

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward sent letters to eight companies about recent increases in retail beef prices.

Mainstream Media Runs Spin Campaign As Deportations To Haiti Increase

When the Trump Administration ended Temporary Protection Status for migrants from 11 different countries, the mainstream media's attention immediately gravitated to only one:  Haiti.  

It was the numerous problems surrounding the NGO and Biden organized surge of 15,000+ Haitian migrants into Springfield, OH that captured the interest of the American public during the election campaign of 2024.  The mass migrant shift, representing nearly 30% of Springfield's total population, looked like a calculated foreign invasion, not the random immigration of desperate refugees. 

Evidence of extensive cash flows to migrants also raised eyebrows (along with local accusations of disappearing pets).  The entire situation was odd.  Everything about immigration under Joe Biden and the Democrats resembled a strategic operation rather than an act of benevolence to save needy foreigners. 

Haitian migrants, for some reason, remain one of the most aggressively contested groups for the political left when it comes to deportations.  And, now that protection status has been removed, the sob stories from progressive outlets are ample.  The problem is, most of these news stories rely on false claims or the omission of important details.  Their only goal is to inspire outrage. 

Recently the Miami Herald took on the subject of deportations to Haiti, painting a rather grim picture of children and innocent long time residents of the US being hijacked and dumped in a strange, dangerous and unfamiliar land. 

The Herald title reads:  "ICE sends second deportation flight to Haiti in a week. There are kids aboard"

It seems to suggest that little children are being thrown on planes and kicked to the curb in Haiti.  Of course, the paper admits later in the article that these children were accompanied by their families.  In other words, families were deported, not "children". 

This is a tactic commonly used by the leftist media over the past two years.  Stories of children being "kidnapped by ICE" have been circulated numerous times.  And, in every case it turned out that a parent or parents in the US illegally were apprehended and the children were taken to be reunited with them (or deported with them).  As it should be.

The Herald strategically maneuvers to manipulate public empathy:

"The youngest person aboard the ICE Air flight was a 3-year-old born in the U.S., according to information shared with the Miami Herald after the passenger arrived. The deported parents of the children condemned the move, telling the Herald that they found it “scandalous” that children born in the U.S. were being sent to Haiti. They also condemned the Haitian government for agreeing to take them back when the government is not prepared to accept returnees.

One of the children, a little boy, played with a toy as his parents reluctantly spoke..." 

Why is it supposed to be sad when foreigners overstaying their welcome in the US have to go home?  It's hard to say, but the establishment media acts as if the implications are apparent.  Kids staying with their parents is a good thing, right?  Anchor babies aside, these children don't belong in the US either. 

The story that got a rebuttal from ICE, however, was the deportation of a professional boxer living in Florida by the name of Jay Dabelus.  Dabelus was born in the Bahamas and his parents held Haitian nationality.  He lived in the US for 20 years, and 16 of those years were spent under TPS guidelines. 

Why in all that time did he never try to get a green card?  It's hard to say, but this is a common story among illegals living in the US for long periods - most of them got comfortable and just didn't bother.  The Herald describes Dabelus' situation as if he has no ties to Haiti:

“I don’t know anything about Haiti,” he said, speaking in English. “I was born in The Bahamas and had been living in the USA for twenty-something years.” 

“I don’t have any resources, family members or people to aid me, so I am just trying to see how I can go,” he said. “I got my high school diploma. Everything that I have and have received in life is from Florida, from the United States.” 

The story, which was also apparently picked up by the Associated Press, caught the attention of DHS.  ICE had some important details to add.  Dabelus has a Haitian citizenship and a Haitian passport.  In other words, the guy belongs in Haiti.  Who cares if he's a boxer?  

Yes. ICE removed Jay Dabelus to Haiti. What the Associated Press conveniently left out of this gotcha piece is that he has dual citizenship in Bahamas AND Haiti.

An immigration judge ordered Dabelus removed from the country years ago, but he had a HAITIAN passport and stayed in… pic.twitter.com/onxahTlTxB

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) September 1, 2026

The mainstream media has been consistently running interference for illegal aliens for years, turning non-stories into supposed tragedies whenever a migrant is sent back home.  The headlines should simply read:  More migrants sent back to where they are supposed to be.  Instead, the public is flooded with tales of despair and injustice at the very notion that some people don't belong in the US.  

The narrative is growing tiresome.   

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 05:45

Pierre Damas Bel's family believes he took his own life as a result of President Donald Trump's immigration agenda.

Sweden Signs Deal To Buy 4 Frigates From France, Deepen Defense Cooperation

Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times,

Sweden inked a deal with France for a quartet of Naval Group frigates during a ceremony in Stockholm on Aug. 31.

A Swedish flag in Stockholm on April 4, 2020. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images

The event in the Swedish capital was attended by the leaders of both nations, French President Emmanuel Macron and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who also agreed to deepen their defense cooperation more broadly.

The ships ordered by the Swedes will be manufactured by French state-controlled defense manufacturer Naval Group at its main surface shipyard in Lorient, located on Brittany's Atlantic coast, Macron said in an Aug. 31 post on X.

"This is the excellence of our defense industry that is recognized," Macron said, adding that it was also emblematic of "two nations that share a common vision of European sovereignty and security."

"From the Baltic to the Atlantic, we are strengthening together our capacity to protect Europe and building a more sovereign, more powerful, more credible European defense."

Macron thanked Sweden for showing confidence in France.

Kristersson said in a post on the same platform that delivery of the frigates would start from 2030, adding that Stockholm and Paris had also signed "a framework agreement on a strategic platform for defense cooperation between our countries."

"The agreements strengthen the operational Swedish-French security policy cooperation, as well as in the field of defense materiel and industrial development," he said, adding that the move strengthened Swedish security.

He also welcomed closer cooperation in "the Baltic Sea region and the Arctic, in NATO's Forward Land Forces Finland, support for Ukraine, [and] countering Russian hybrid threats."

The ships will cost Sweden 4.3 billion euros ($4.9 billion) and will be of the Frégate de Défense et d'Intervention (Defense and Intervention Frigate) (FDI) type, with a length of 400 feet and a displacement of 4,500 metric tons.

Such vessels are already in use by both the French and Greek navies, according to a Swedish government statement announcing the deal. The statement said the vessels will be equipped with advanced air defense capabilities, including Franco-Italian Aster 30 surface-to-air missiles and the Anglo-Italian-developed CAMM-ER surface-to-air missiles, among other weaponry.

They will additionally be armed with several Swedish systems, including RBS15 long-range anti-ship missiles, Torped 47 anti-submarine torpedoes, Giraffe 1X radar, 57- and 40-mm guns, and Trackfire, a remotely operated, fully stabilized weapon station.

All the Swedish-made elements will be manufactured by either Saab or BAE Bofors, with the new ships' main focus on air defense and anti-submarine warfare.

Of the broader agreement, Macron said in a speech at the ceremony: "We are building a new strategic framework. We are giving ourselves the means to act together."

"We have joint exercises and deployments. We share capabilities, and we have Franco-Swedish industrial partnerships," he said, adding that this "demonstrates the strength and importance of this European pillar of defense and how Franco-Swedish cooperation is becoming, well, an essential element of this European pillar."

Sweden and France are member states of both NATO and the European Union.

The move comes at a time when defense spending is ramping up across the continent, driven by the ongoing war in Ukraine, NATO's recent expansion, and the United States' stated desire to pivot from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Sweden became the newest member of NATO in 2024, after ditching a long-maintained policy of nonalignment, keeping itself out of military alliances for some 200 years.

Stockholm changed its stance on the alliance following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, as did the neighboring nation of Finland, which joined NATO in 2023.

On Aug. 28, Stockholm agreed to help surveil and protect Finnish territory until at least the end of the year, amid increased tensions in the Baltic region.

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 05:00

It's that time of year again.

It's that time of year again.

From innocents killed in broad daylight to the plague of homeless encampments to the violent crime that grips too many city neighborhoods, New York City has progressives to thank for its endemic disorder.

Affiliates of a terror-linked organization are active on US college campuses — and their calls for "resistance" have recently escalated into violence and intimidation.

Sean is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Sean is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Police completely closed the train station in the southern German city of Augsburg on Wednesday morning after a suspicious object exploded and another suspicious object was found nearby.

Visualizing Canada's Biggest Export Partners

More than two-thirds of Canada's merchandise exports flow to the United States - its most significant trading partner, which makes the ongoing tit-for-tat tariff spat with the Trump administration a serious threat to their economy. 

In the first half of 2026, Canada sent $214.8 billion (C$298.2 billion) in goods to the U.S. - roughly 68% of its total merchandise exports. The UK came in second at 9.2%, which was heavily influenced by precious metals transactions. China came in third at 5%. 

Or, as visualized by Visual Capitalist's Sofie Gilbert: 

As Gilbert notes further; Japan, Mexico, and South Korea followed at 1.5%, 1.2%, and under 1%, respectively. Together, those five markets received $45.8 billion (C$63.6 billion) over six months, roughly 21 cents for every dollar shipped to the U.S.

The United Kingdom Number Needs a Caveat

The dataset places the United Kingdom second overall at 9.2%, or $28.9 billion (C$40.1 billion).

Statistics Canada notes that the UK figure includes significant precious metals transactions, a pattern confirmed by Global Affairs Canada’s State of Trade 2025 report, which identifies gold exports as the primary driver of Canada’s UK shipment growth.

This helps explain why the UK’s 9.2% share is so high relative to Canada’s broader trade relationship with the country. Excluding precious metals, the EU and China are larger destinations for Canadian exports.

Why Tariffs Matter Despite Covering Just 5% of Exports

Canada-U.S. trade negotiations broke down in August 2026, with 50% tariffs now in effect on a range of Canadian goods. Canada’s reliance on a single dominant export market limits how quickly affected trade can be redirected elsewhere.

The new duties cover roughly C$28 billion worth of Canadian exports, about 5% of what Canada ships to the U.S. annually, according to BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic. BMO estimates the tariffs could cut half a percentage point from Canada’s GDP growth.

That estimate highlights the broader risk of trade concentration. The EU and China each absorb only about 5% of Canadian exports, meaning even substantial growth in those markets would replace only a fraction of the volume currently sent south.

Canada is the largest export partner of 25 states, so the trade exposure runs both ways. However, with more than two-thirds of Canadian exports destined for the U.S., Canada has considerably more at stake in any disruption to cross-border trade.

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 04:15