Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is making his first statement about potential voter fraud in the recent US presidential election, which he dismisses.
In the last presidential election, Donald Trump has claimed that he only lost to incumbent President Joe Biden through voter fraud, a claim that the mainstream media has portrayed as unfounded, while US postal workers have testified to serious irregularities.
In an interview with NBC, DeSantis said that he does not believe there was any fraud in the last presidential election and that Joe Biden won honestly.
– No, of course he lost. Joe Biden’s the president, says DeSantis.
This is the first time DeSantis has answered questions about the legitimacy of the election, questions he has previously avoided answering.
– Whoever puts their hand on the Bible on Jan. 20 every four years is the winner, he said.
Commenting on DeSantis’ remarks, Donald Trump’s campaign spokesman said that DeSantis should stop being “Joe Biden’s biggest cheerleader”.
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Donald Trump intends to sue The New York Times for defamation. He calls the newspaper “one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers” in US history.
Last week, the president threatened to sue the newspaper after it reported on, among other things, a sexual drawing that Trump allegedly gave to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The drawing’s signature resembles Donald Trump’s, but the president firmly denies that he drew it and handed it over to Epstein.
Now the president is suing the newspaper for $15 billion, for defamation and libel.
“The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!” he writes on his social media platform Truth Social.
Trump also sued The Wall Street Journal for $10 billion this summer following their reporting on Epstein and the president. Furthermore, the president writes that the new lawsuit will be filed in the state of Florida.
The New York Times has not yet commented on Trump’s statement.
The German government is conducting talks with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to enable large-scale deportations. The plan is to send back Afghan citizens on regular flights instead of individual expensive charter planes.
German government representatives have initiated direct negotiations with the Taliban about establishing a system for regular deportations, reports the newspaper Bild. A delegation from the German interior ministry met with Afghan representatives in Qatar in early September to discuss a permanent deportation mechanism.
Now interior minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) is planning to send German representatives to Kabul for continued talks on site, where Qatar is functioning as a mediator in the negotiations.
The new strategy represents a dramatic escalation of deportations. Instead of using charter planes for small groups, Afghan citizens would be sent home on regular commercial flights, which would enable significantly more frequent and regular deportations.
Since the Taliban took power in 2021, Germany has only conducted two deportation flights to Afghanistan – 28 people in autumn 2024 and 81 people in July 2025. All those deported were seriously criminal individuals.
Over 100,000 serious crimes
The need for deportations is urgent according to the government. Between 2015 and 2024, German police registered 108,409 serious crimes where at least one Afghan suspect was involved, according to the federal government’s own statistics.
Approximately 11,500 Afghans are estimated to currently be in Germany illegally, according to the German migration office BAMF. In total, around 461,000 people with Afghan roots live in the country, of whom 347,600 have sought asylum in the country.
The CDU/CSU and SPD wrote into their coalition agreement that deportations to both Afghanistan and Syria should resume as quickly as possible.
“We will deport to Afghanistan and Syria and start with criminals and people who pose a security risk”, they promised.
“Inhumane treatment”
The decision faces harsh criticism from asylum activists and lobby organizations, and after the latest deportation in July, the group Pro Asyl claimed that people deported to Afghanistan risk being tortured.
“Due to the dramatic situation on the ground, all deportations to the country violate the international law prohibition on deportation, since torture or inhumane treatment threatens”, they claimed at the time.
With that justification, Germany’s influential refugee organizations therefore continue to demand a complete halt to all deportations to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
The murder of conservative debater Charlie Kirk on September 10 has taken a dramatic turn. 22-year-old Tyler Robinson has been in custody since Friday, suspected of the murder.Meanwhile, journalist Kim Iversen has launched an alternative analysis that has gained widespread attention.
She describes the murder as a professionally planned operation where Israel is pointed out as a possible actor.
Charlie Kirk, founder of the organization Turning Point USA, was shot dead on Wednesday during a speech in Orem, Utah. After intensive investigation, police arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, on Friday through tips from relatives and surveillance camera analysis.
Bullet casings with inscriptions interpreted as radical left-wing symbols are reported to have been found nearby. Police have not yet commented further on the findings, but authorities are now investigating both Robinson’s motive and possible contacts with other persons or groups.
Tyler Robinson, 22, is currently detained suspected of the murder of Charlie Kirk. Montage. Photo: X/@badazn
Kim Iversen’s analysis
Parallel to the official investigation, journalist Kim Iversen has presented her own analysis that questions the lone gunman theory. She believes several factors point to a more sophisticated operation.
– I think the vast majority of people are not actually believing that it was a radical leftist. Most people believe it was a professional hit. It was an assassination done by a pro. All roads lead to that, she says.
A central point in her reasoning is that Fox News quickly reported on “foreign intelligence information” in connection with the case – something she sees as both strange and potentially revealing.
– Why would there be any foreign intelligence on this at all right now? she asks rhetorically.
Kim Iversen claims that Kirk had recently begun taking a more critical stance toward Israel. He had reportedly declined an invitation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, something she interprets as sensitive given Kirk’s significant influence among young conservatives.
Other profiles have also warned that Kirk risked becoming a threat if he openly switched sides on the Israel issue. Host Harrison Smith recently described him as ready to become the “next major anti-Zionist voice”.
– It’s a little bit too perfect, right? Charlie Kirk has a massive audience. His audience was young. the very generation that is very against Israel. And Charlie Kirk, who had been very pro-Israel,had started to question things over the last few weeks, says Iversen.
The question of who had the most to gain from the murder is central to Iversen’s analysis. She believes it is primarily Israel that has both the interest and capacity to prevent Kirk from turning his young following in a more critical direction.
– And if Charlie Kirk is starting to change his tune, who benefits the most is mostly Israel on this. They didn’t like him switching and leading his entire base of millions of youth who they’re already fragile with in a direction they don’t want., she says.
Kim Iversen also emphasizes that such an operation would not just be about eliminating Kirk, but about sending a clear signal.
– The one that has the most to gain and who has the sophistication to pull this off and who has ties into our law enforcement to be able to plant evidence like guns with trans inscriptions all over it, whatever that means.. My bet would be on Israel.
By asking the question “cui bono” – who benefits – Iversen places the murder in a geopolitical context rather than a domestic political one. In her analysis, the motive is as much strategic as personal: to avoid a crack in the American conservative movement regarding support for Israel.
Still many unanswered questions
Robinson’s arrest gives authorities a suspect to test the evidence against, but according to Kim Iversen and several other analysts, it does not rule out alternative interpretations.
Her conclusion is that the narrative of a lone radical left-wing activist is not credible, that the incident instead bears traces of a professional operation, that reports of “foreign intelligence information” are strange and suggest external involvement, and that Israel has the most to gain from Kirk being silenced just now when he had become increasingly critical.
The murder of Charlie Kirk will therefore likely continue to be discussed both within the official justice system and in alternative media where theories about geopolitical motives and foreign involvement live on.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has once again drawn attention after commenting on statistics about global population development.
In a post on X, he stated that white people constitute a rapidly shrinking share of the world’s population, and that almost no one seems to react to this fact.
Musk shared a post from the account Radio Genoa which stated that “in 1900 the white population in the world was 36% and today it is 8%.”
“White people are a rapidly diminishing minority of global population”, Musk wrote in his comment on the post, which quickly gained wide circulation.
User Rabbit Hole pointed out that “most of Europe has fertility rates below replacement levels. Whites will likely represent a shrinking share of the human population” going forward, and also received Musk’s agreement.
“Yeah, it’s just a fact. And no one seems to care”, commented the world’s richest man bluntly.
White people are a rapidly diminishing minority of global population https://t.co/34ZWgTQ96q
Musk’s comments come at a time when birth rates in the Western world are at critical and historically low levels. In many European countries, birth rates are below 1.4 children per woman, far below the 2.1 children required to maintain population levels.
Furthermore, the figures include population groups from developing countries that traditionally have significantly more children, which means that birth rates among the native population are even lower than what the statistics show.
Despite low birth rates, however, the population in almost all European countries continues to grow, which is due to large-scale mass immigration from non-European countries – a large-scale population replacement, according to critics of current migration policy.
This has led to major demographic changes in many European cities where people with non-European backgrounds already constitute a majority today – or will soon do so.
Mixed reactions
Musk’s statements have received mixed reactions on social media where many users share his concern about the West’s demographic collapse and believe this is a problem that needs to be solved urgently.
Others, however, have accused Musk of hypocrisy and point out that he has previously advocated for increased labor immigration to the United States, particularly so-called high-skilled workers from countries like India, to benefit his own companies.
