An international team working the boat-shaped Durupınar formation near Mount Ararat says permitted core drilling has begun both inside and outside the outline of what some believe is Noah’s Ark, and that a hole inside the area that would be the hull stopped when the bit broke on a layer harder than limestone.

Typically, petrified wood is harder than limestone.

Durupınar is a 157-meter, 515-foot boat-shaped mound first spotted in 1959 by Turkish Army Capt. İlhan Durupınar.

The group investigating, Noah’s Ark Scans, is partnered with Sivas Cumhuriyet University and says this is the first deep, dry, permitted core program in the site’s recorded history.

Noah’s Ark Scans describes itself as an “international research initiative investigating the Durupınar formation in eastern Türkiye through permitted geophysical survey, soil science, core drilling, and targeted interior imaging.”

A custom borehole drone named Gopher is being prepared for voids the team mapped with radar.

In a press release about the expedition, first provided to The Gateway Pundit, the team explained:

For more than six decades, researchers have debated whether the outline is a natural landform or the buried remains of a large wooden vessel.

Until now, work at the site has been limited largely to surface observation, photography, and geophysical scanning. A 1988 drilling attempt reached only a few holes and a fraction of the depth now being sampled. The 1988 core samples were ultimately corrupted with water used to cool the core drilling bit.

The 2026 expedition is the first program authorized to carry out a non-destructive, permitted scientific investigation that includes deep core recovery inside and outside the formation.The project’s immediate goals are twofold.

First, the team is collecting continuous cores for laboratory analysis this winter, including compositional, organic, and stratigraphic testing. Second, researchers plan to insert the custom-built GOPHER underground exploration drone into voids, tunnels, and corridors previously mapped by ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography, and related surveys. GOPHER, named for the “gopher wood” of Genesis, is equipped with a high-resolution camera, designed to enter narrow borehole access points without opening large excavation trenches.

Andrew Jones, Vice President of the Noah’s Ark Research Project, explained, “For the first time in history, we are performing an extensive, permitted deep core drilling survey inside and outside the Durupınar Noah’s Ark site, recovering samples from depths of up to 18 meters, nearly 60 feet. So far, we have recovered layers of rich organic material that we believe could be the decayed top-tier remains of the Ark. We are encountering multiple cavities, including one filled with mud and water. No bedrock or solid limestone has so far been identified in the holes drilled inside the formation. These current findings challenge claims that this is simply a natural shape made of limestone or bedrock.”

Geologists have long argued the shape is a natural landslide or limestone block.

Jones says the new holes disprove that.

“In one of the holes drilled inside the boat, approximately 4–5 meters below the surface, the drilling system had already penetrated the overlying material, but at this layer, the operation stopped as we struck a layer so hard that the drill bit broke. Petrified or highly mineralized wood are both a possibility we want to investigate through third-party lab testing.”

Jones added, “I believe this is Noah’s Ark, that’s why I’m putting the Durupinar site through the most rigorous testing possible.”

Earlier this year in a landmark decision, Turkish officials voted unanimously to give a group of American Christians permits to study the remains of Noah’s Ark.

It’s been the greatest pleasure of my life to be a part of one of the most important scientific expeditions in world… pic.twitter.com/GxMlUKswWu

— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) September 15, 2026

Lauren Witzke, co-producer of the 2022 film Died Suddenly, is fundraising and producing for the expedition.

In a Died Suddenly Substack post, she said God put the ark on her heart last November, that she reached Andrew Jones, and that she and co-producer Edward Szall joined the 2026 season because they believe physical proof of the Flood would undo “evolutionary lies.”

“I can’t explain it, and I don’t know why… I just feel like God wanted me to do this,” Witzke said in the post. “Perhaps God preserved the Ark all these years because He knew that one day a generation would be so deceived by evolutionary lies and modern technology that they would need tangible evidence of His existence to undo the falsehoods their textbooks had taught them.”

Good morning from Noah’s Ark in Eastern Turkey! A few updates:

Radar Scans have found 3 layers beneath the surface of the formation, within those layers, there are chambers, corridors, organized patterns and tunnels consisting of perfect right angles. (Genesis says that God… pic.twitter.com/8DjZpGSc3j

— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) September 19, 2026

Dr. Cenker Atilia, an archeological professor and President of the Noah’s Ark 2026 Scientific Expedition, explained, “In 2026, we conducted an extensive and scientific investigation of the site, including radar surveys, soil sampling, deep core drilling, and surface surveys. Every stage of our research has provided findings that increase our interest in the possibility that this formation may preserve evidence related to Noah’s Ark. Once the detailed soil analyses are completed, we expect to obtain important additional information that may bring us closer to understanding the true nature of the site.”

Noah’s Ark Scans has launched a fundraiser in partnership with GiveSendGo to raise funds for the 2026 expedition, lab testing, and further study of the site in 2027. Those interested in getting involved can also make tax-deductible contributions on NoahsArkScans.

The project is being conducted on location in Türkiye by Archaeology Prof. Dr. Cenker Atila and supported by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Şengönül, Rector of Sivas Cumhuriyet University, with Jones serving as Vice President of the Noah’s Ark Research Project.

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Democrats keep saying voter fraud is a myth. Homeland Security just put numbers on the table.

Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News that DHS is investigating 1,620 cases of alleged voter fraud involving noncitizens casting ballots.

The department has made 151 arrests and is reviewing 300,000 additional cases drawn from state voter rolls.

JUST IN: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says the department is investigating 1,620 cases of alleged voter fraud involving noncitizens casting ballots in U.S. elections.

Mullin says DHS has made 151 arrests and is reviewing 300,000 additional cases.

“The president was right when he said there was a tremendous amount of fraud in the election. We continue to see that. Every single vote Kayleigh that we talk about that was at the hands of an illegal canceled out a citizen that was legally registered and able to vote.” | @kayleighmcenany @SatAmericaFNC

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— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 19, 2026

“We’re scrubbing them,” Mullin said. He said investigators are comparing the rolls against people in the country illegally, legal permanent residents, and citizens to see who voted lawfully.

“The president was right when he said there was a tremendous amount of fraud in the election. We continue to see that,” he told Kayleigh McEnany. “Every single vote … that was at the hands of an illegal canceled out a citizen that was legally registered and able to vote.”

That is why so many Democrats fight to keep the rolls closed. If the lists are clean, there is nothing to hide. If they are not, the last thing they want is DHS matching names.

Mullin said the list is still growing and is compiled from the states’ own public registers. Some states cooperated. Others had to be pushed.

President Donald Trump has spent years demanding officials treat illegal voting as a crime instead of a talking point. In more than one state, movement came only after the White House made clear that looking the other way was no longer an option.

When party spokesmen insist there is “no fraud,” what, exactly, are 1,620 open cases and 300,000 files under review? An investigation is not a conviction. It is also not zero.

The larger fight is the same one behind the SAVE America Act and related election-integrity bills: proof of citizenship, clean rolls, and a system people can trust.

Representative government only works if voters believe the count is real. Without that faith, the system comes apart. People stop accepting results. They stop showing up. They stop treating the next election as a remedy.

Jan. 6, 2021, was many things. At the core was a country that no longer agreed the election machinery was honest. Democrats treat that distrust as a personality defect. They also treat every cleanup as an attack on their coalition.

The combination is obliviousness plus reflex: oppose Trump, even when he is describing a problem they used to admit existed.

Noncitizen voting is illegal for a reason. One illegal ballot cancels one legal one. Multiply that, and you do not have a close call. You have a stolen election.

Should a party that blocks access to the rolls get to lecture anyone about “protecting democracy”? Absolutely not.

Pass the law. Open the lists. Prosecute the cases. Restore the faith that makes the next election worth showing up for. If Democrats cannot live with that, they should say so and stop pretending the empty slogan is the same thing as a clean count.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Scott Jennings, the lone conservative voice on CNN, took a victory lap for Trump on the air tonight over his new Greenland Deal and it was a thing of beauty.

All of the other panelists had to just sit there and listen, as Scott reminded them of how the left screeched and sneered for months, claiming that Trump was undermining American foreign policy and endangering our relationship with Denmark.

He pointed out correctly, that the remarks from the Danish prime minister today were completely pro-America and pro-Trump.

Transcript via Overton News:

Scott Jennings forces the CNN panel to acknowledge the fact that despite all of their hysteria over President Trump’s vision for Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen herself heaped praise on both Trump and the United States.

These were the same doomers who said a deal between the U.S. and Greenland would NEVER happen.

JENNINGS: “It was a momentous thing.”

“And for a year and a half or almost two years now, I’ve been listening to everyone have a complete and total hysterical meltdown about this, about how we’ve ruined our relationship with Denmark, about how this has weakened Europe and weakened NATO, blah, blah, blah.”

“If you listen to her speech today, it could not have been more pro-American and pro-Trump and pro national security, and it was perfect!”

“And it got done despite all of the hysteria.”

“So when I hear the same hysteria, people coming out here and claiming somehow we’ve decimated the entire Iranian military, and that means they’re winning…I somehow feel like maybe, just maybe, we’re on the right track!”

Watch the video:

He rubbed their noses in it, and they deserved every single second of this.

Scott Jennings forces the CNN panel to acknowledge the fact that despite all of their hysteria over President Trump’s vision for Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen herself heaped praise… pic.twitter.com/cVNrhYN0vZ

— Overton (@overton_news) September 23, 2026

Everything Jennings says in that clip is correct.

Once again, the left mocked Trump for something and he proved them all wrong in the end.

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Democrat Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut was recently speaking with left wing podcaster Jennifer Welch and floated the idea of having the government regulate the internet in order to prevent the public from electing another Donald Trump.

Not once does it ever seem to dawn on Democrats that their ideas are the problem. No. The public is just getting things wrong, and voting wrong, and must be corrected by the government.

These are the people calling Trump supporters fascists and authoritarians.

Townhall has more details:

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy has renewed calls for censorship, arguing on Jennifer Welch’s podcast that government needs to set rules that make “people feel more powerful.” Murphy pointed to minimum-wage laws, rebuilding “healthy institutions” in local communities, and “regulating the internet” as central government projects. Never mind that the opposite is true.

Murphy went on to explain that a central purpose of internet regulation would be making Americans less likely to “fall for a bulls**t demagogue like Donald Trump,” a remarkably open admission that his goal is censorship, using government power to shape what voters see, hear, and believe.

“And so government should build a set of rules in which people feel more powerful,” Sen. Murphy said. “That’s why the minimum wage is so important, and people feel more connected. That’s why rebuilding healthy institutions in your town should be a project that government is involved in. That’s why regulating the internet so that you’re spending less time alone on Instagram should be an important government project.”

“And if people are feeling more powerful and less lonely, then they are gonna be less likely to fall for a bulls**t demagogue like Donald Trump,” he said. “And so my book is about how do you rebuild a sense of connectedness to your neighbors, a sense of power in your life so that it becomes a prophylactic to demagogues like Donald Trump.”

Here’s the video:

Chris Murphy tells Jennifer Welch that government needs to regulate social media so that people are less likely to support a candidate like Donald Trump.

From the ‘free speech’ party:

“Regulating the internet so that you’re spending less time alone on Instagram should be an… pic.twitter.com/FIT1KYfNZe

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 21, 2026

What Murphy is essentially saying here is that things would be great, if only Democrats controlled what people can see and read on the internet.

They are exactly the authoritarians that they accuse others of being.

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In a 2016 speech that is making the rounds on social media today, Abdul El-Sayed described cars as the ‘modern day cigarette.’

That should go over well… in Michigan.

Who says Democrats are out of touch with the people they want to represent?

The Midwesterner reports:

Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed agreed that “cars are the modern-day cigarette” during a 2016 speech in Boston, adding to a series of past remarks criticizing everything from American football to Fourth of July fireworks.

El-Sayed, who was serving as director of the Detroit Health Department at the time, made the remark while discussing the auto industry’s role in Detroit.

“Detroit is Motown. It’ll also be the Motor City,” El-Sayed said. “Cars are a big deal in Detroit whether or not you like them.”

“One person made an argument to me that I probably agree with,” he continued. “Cars are the modern-day cigarette. They’re just like this, like, why do we do it this way?”

Despite his antipathy toward automobiles, the Wayne County firebrand received the United Autoworkers of America endorsement last June.

Earlier in the speech, El-Sayed argued Detroit’s development around the automobile helped shape the city.

“Who built Detroit? The Fords, the Sloans, right? The Dodges of the world,” El-Sayed said. “And what did they want to tell everybody? You can have a car and have a great life, right? So they built the entire city around the car. That’s why Detroit looks like this now.”

See the video below:

In 2016, Abdul El-Sayed told a group in Boston, “Cars are the modern-day cigarette,” and admitted they are “a big deal in Detroit”: pic.twitter.com/I8PCc3VADG

— The Midwesterner (@Th_Midwesterner) September 22, 2026

The far left has been working to end the fossil fuels industry and cars are certainly part of that.

They will not be happy until only the rich can afford electric vehicles and everyone else is forced to use public transportation.

Are the people of Michigan paying attention?

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared on the Today Show this morning and schooled one of their hosts about President Trump’s new White House policy, specifically the banning of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico.

Rubio pointed out, correctly, that it often seems like these outlets are cheerleading for Iran and pushing the talking points of the Iranian regime while questioning and downplaying anything that comes out of the Trump Administration.

He also noted that no one from the administration is trying to close these outlets down, they have simply been told that they can no longer have a desk in the White House.

From NBC News:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s decision to bar three media organizations from the White House, saying in an interview on NBC News’ “TODAY” that President Donald Trump was not closing outlets or arresting reporters.

“We’re not closing CNN,” Rubio said of the ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico. “There aren’t a bunch of police officers or soldiers kicking down the doors of MSNBC or MS NOW, whatever it’s called, and arresting people and unplugging it from the grid. They’re just not allowed to work from the workspace at the White House.”

In the Tuesday interview, Rubio also addressed the war with Iran, including its impact on oil and gas prices, arguing that if Tehran were allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, it would use the threat to constrain oil shipments and drive prices up even further. He also discussed concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and the need for a developmental framework to maintain the benefits of the technology while lowering the risks…

“What he is arguing is, why should I have these people, what right do they have to be embedded in this building?” Rubio said. “They can cover the White House. They just can’t have a desk there.”

See the video below:

.@SecRubio on CNN/MSNOW/Politico’s access to the White House: “They can cover the White House — they just can’t have a desk there.” pic.twitter.com/HMwHBdLYmn

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 22, 2026

There are many Trump supporters who not only support the new policy, but think it should have happened in the first Trump administration.

CNN, MSNOW, and Politico spent years pushing the lie about Russia collusion, in what was clearly a political strategy aimed at ruining Trump’s presidency by casting doubt in the mind of the public.

They have earned this ban through years of hard work.

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