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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told the House Oversight Committee that Jeffrey Epstein may have considered blackmailing him about his extramarital affairs, according to the transcript of his June 10 closed-door testimony to Congress released Wednesday. (snip) Gates insisted he had “never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct” but admitted the man had made “veiled threats” that Gates could have associated with his affairs.
The Party of Violence: Extremist Michigan
Congresswoman Screeches About Punishment
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Congresswoman Screeches About Punishment
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Democrats are proving daily that they have now become the Party of Violence.
They celebrate Charlie Kirk’s murder. They fangirl over (alleged) assassin Luigi Mangione. They fundraise for Karmelo Anthony, who stabbed and killed a high-school football player over a minor dispute.
On Tuesday, far-left “Squad” member Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) came to the defense of a domestic terrorist who shot a law enforcement agent in the neck. Justice came swiftly, and he was sentenced to 100 years in the slammer.
It’s not that an Antifa thug tried to murder an officer that’s the problem, Tlaib wrote on X, it’s that Donald Trump is the devil incarnate
Following the Trump administration’s aggressive restructuring of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a striking pattern emerged across Latin America. Left-wing governments, long dominant in several countries, suddenly stopped winning national elections.
Center-right and conservative presidential candidates have swept to victory in Bolivia, Chile, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, and Colombia since Trump ordered the cancellation of the bulk of USAID’s programs.
Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy flipped his war powers vote Wednesday night just hours after Trump administration officials pulled him into the Situation Room.
Cassidy was briefed in the Situation Room by Vice President JD Vance and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Iran, prompting him to change his vote against the war powers resolution later that night. The briefing came after Cassidy got into a shouting match with President Donald Trump over Iran during a heated, closed-door lunch on Capitol Hill, where several senators clashed with the president.
DHS Drops Massive Gang Arrest Numbers—And
They're a Damning Indictment of Biden's
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They're a Damning Indictment of Biden's
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 10,000 gang members since President Donald Trump returned to office. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the arrests include alleged members of MS-13 and the Tren de Aragua gang, along with suspects wanted in their home countries for alleged crimes ranging from murder and extortion to racketeering and drug trafficking.
Border Patrol has now gone 13 straight months without releasing a single illegal immigrant into the interior after apprehension at the southwest border. In May, agents recorded 9,998 apprehensions, a figure DHS says is 94 percent below the monthly average during the Biden administration. During the surge in December 2023,
North Carolina tax return preparation business owner has joined seven former colleagues in pleading guilty to a scheme that sought almost $25 million in false COVID-19 relief tax refunds.
The Justice Department on Wednesday announced that the company’s owner, Nejlai Mitchell, filed fake tax returns based on a paid sick and family leave credit — which Congress passed to help struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic — from April 2022 through May 2023.
The IRS paid out approximately $13.9 million in false tax refund claims due to the conspiracy, which operated out of the North Carolina cities of Lumberton and Hope Mills, according to documents and statements presented in court.
The former Los Angeles fire chief is suing Mayor Karen Bass for defamation related to the devastating Palisades Fire.
Kristin Crowley was removed from her position on Feb. 21, 2025, weeks after the blaze began. The fire, which hit the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and nearby communities such as Malibu, burned 23,448 acres, destroyed 6,833 structures and killed 12 people.
In the lawsuit, Crowley claims Bass made and continues to make false statements about her and has damaged her reputation. Bass demoted Crowley but did not fire her from the department, where Crowley continues to work as an assistant chief in the Valley Bureau.
Another democratic socialist, pro-Palestine, pro-Iran candidate has won in New York City. Unlike Mamdani, she is more candid. Her organization openly states that it seeks the destruction of Western civilization.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, defeated five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat, 71, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the Democratic primary for NY-13 on June 23. A Columbia University alumna, Muslim, and current PhD candidate at CUNY, Avila Chevalier is a member of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America, endorsed by UAW Region 9A and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and advances to the November general election in what is a safe Democratic seat.
Rupert Lowe, a British politician who has served as a member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth since 2024 and the leader of Restore Britain, has released "The Rape Gang Inquiry Report," an independent, survivor-led report into Britain’s rape gang scandal. The 219-page report finds that at least 250,000 girls in the UK were groomed and raped largely by Muslim Pakistani men.
The report reveals that organized child rape gangs operated across at least 149 local authority districts while police, social services, schools, health services, and politicians failed to protect vulnerable girls, allowing them to be subjected to crimes such as repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy,
Second Lady Usha Vance took to social media Wednesday afternoon to have some fun at the expense of the New York Times, which had just published an absurd article in which the author vigorously clutched her pearls over the recent MAGA baby boom. Egads, wrote Vanessa Friedman (who is apparently the paper's chief fashion critic), not only is Vance enjoying her pregnancy, she's flaunting it for all to see! To which Mrs. Vance basically replied, "Oh well."
Friedman's premise seemed to be that the second lady – along with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller,
Hegseth's Pentagon Shake-Up Steamrolls
Ahead As Last Man Out of Afghanistan Gets
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Ahead As Last Man Out of Afghanistan Gets
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The man who was the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan during the disastrous military withdrawal of August 2021 has submitted his resignation at the request of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. U.S. Army Gen. Christopher Donahue, who currently serves as commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command, will relinquish his command on July 2, 2026, a spokeswoman for the Army confirmed Wednesday. The move is widely seen as part of the ongoing efforts by Hegseth to reorganize the Pentagon, in part by shrinking the number of generals in active service and growing the number of lower-level troops.
By reporting the sensational claims of UNICEF, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano joins in the fearmongering of climate alarmists whose credibility suffers from a lack of scientific facts.
Drawing on UNICEF’s The Children’s Climate Risk Report 2026, the paper’s front-page, June 16 story, “Emergenze climatiche: Il cielo sopra i bambini” (Climate Emergencies: The Sky Above the Children), claims that half of the world’s children are “threatened daily” by “extreme climate events.” The article lists the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as a way to mitigate “climate risks.” UNICEF’s report also urges the phasing out of fossil fuels in favor of “renewable” energy.
But are children, or is anybody, really endangered by a climate crisis?
As the Gateway Pundit recently reported, multiple members of Antifa were just sentenced to a collective 450 years in federal prison for the 2025 attack on an ICE facility in Texas.
Eight members of the group were sentenced to 50 years each. The ringleader got a sentence of 100 years.
People on the radical left are outraged about these sentences because they are not accustomed to seeing their side held accountable by law enforcement, but the media spin has been something to behold.
The same media that called the Tea Party dangerous and racist back in 2010 are now actively trying to spin this major news about Antifa.
An illegal alien has been charged with stealing a U.S. citizen's identity and fraudulently obtaining about $800,000 in federal benefits over nearly 20 years.
Veronica Yaraset Molina, 51, of the Dominican Republic, has been accused of theft of government funds, healthcare fraud, passport fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
Yaraset Molina was arrested this morning and presented earlier today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang.
Yaraset Molina, a Dominican national who has been unlawfully present in the United States since at least approximately 2000, and who assumed the stolen identity of a United States citizen, engaged in a nearly 20-year scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $800,000 in federal benefits,
Long Island school clerk caught tearing
up ballots, trashing votes to help her
candidate win: probe replies
up ballots, trashing votes to help her
candidate win: probe replies
A Long Island school clerk overseeing board of education elections tore up ballots and threw them in a dumpster to help her favorite candidate win, a newly revealed internal probe found.
Hempstead Union Free School District Clerk April Keys allegedly rigged the May 19 trustee election by smuggling official ballots out of her office and handing absentee ballots to favored candidate Victor Pratt so he could trash them [snip]
according to a 51-page petition filed by the district with the state Education Department.
Pratt won by just 81 votes — boosted by a suspiciously large number of absentee and early mail ballots
Felix Jeronimo-Rojas is a criminal illegal alien from Mexico who entered our nation illegally five times. If that wasn't bad enough, Jeronimo-Rojas was recently sentenced to five years in prison for a heinous act on New York City's subway system. He pleaded guilty to all charges
Jeronimo-Rojas was arrested after he raped and robbed the body of a man who died on the subway system. Now the state of New York is possibly going ot release this monster from jail.
The U.S. economy grew at a significantly swifter pace than previously estimated during the first three months of the year.
Gross domestic product, the government’s broad economic scorecard, rose at a 2.1 percent annual rate in the January through March period, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The figure is seasonally and inflation-adjusted.
The upward revision, the government’s third and final monthly adjustment to the estimate of economic growth, stemmed from a lower estimate for imports. Imports are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP.
Consumer spending growth was also revised lower
Times Have Changed: Socialist Venezuela
Thanks Trump, Asks Private Sector for
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Thanks Trump, Asks Private Sector for
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The interim “president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez issued several statements on Wednesday thanking the government of the United States for offering aid following a devastating earthquake in her country — a dramatic reversal from her previous stance of actively discouraging starving Venezuelans from accepting American aid.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Venezuela late on Wednesday about 104 miles from the national capital, Caracas, crippling entire neighborhood blocks of buildings and substantially damaging the capital’s main airport. Local outlets reported at least ten collapsed buildings in the capital and fears of many people trapped under rubble, as well as dangerous situations involving electrical wires.
Well, well, well. The Supreme Court learned the meaning of "Temporary" in "Temporary Protected Status." And, in an even more stunning decision, they also said that Mexico is not "The United States of America," so it's not correct to say that a person in Mexico who tries to enter the United States has "entered the territory of the United States" and is protected by the rights of a person who is already here.
Shocking, I know. Water is wet, too. And the decision reaffirming that will be 6-3 as well, with the liberal justices declaring that we have to ask the water whether it identifies as wet.
Team Trump’s fraud crackdown is turning up billions in stolen taxpayer money, even as Democrats do their best to ignore, deny and even enable it. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s announcement Tuesday of a massive takedown — 455 perps collared across nearly every US state and territory — roped in a whopping $6.5 billion in scams. The operation marked “the greatest combined federal and state effort combating health-care fraud in history,” Blanche noted.
The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump two major immigration victories on Thursday morning, both having to do with his administration's efforts to reduce asylum claims.
In the first case, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the court held that migrants who are turned away at the border before entering the United States are not entitled to apply for asylum. In the second case, Mullin v. Doe, the court ruled that Haitian and Syrian nationals in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) could not receive judicial relief postponing the revocation of their status while they challenge the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke it in court.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii gun restriction that limits when people can carry firearms on certain private properties open to the public, saying it infringes on the right to bear arms. On a 6-3 vote, the court invalidated the measure that requires people with concealed carry permits to seek permission from a property owner before entering. It has been dubbed the "vampire rule" because, as in the classic novel "Dracula" and related tales, vampires can only enter someone's home if they are invited in. The court, often supportive of gun rights, concluded that the provision violates the Constitution's Second Amendment.
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6–3 on June 25 to strike down a Hawaii gun law that banned residents from carrying concealed weapons in privately owned public places, such as gas stations and shopping malls.
The majority opinion in Wolford v. Lopez was authored by Justice Samuel Alito.
Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor dissented in the case, which was closely watched by gun rights advocates.
Alito said the Second Amendment “has the same meaning in all parts of the United States.”
“It cannot give way to ‘the spirit of Aloha’ in Hawaii … any more than it can yield to the spirit of the Big Apple …
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided with the maker of the Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.
The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer, which acquired Roundup when it bought its original manufacturer Monsanto in 2018.
The decision is a victory for the Trump administration, but one that could be tricky politically since allies in the Make America Healthy Again movement want to rein in pesticide use.