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Paramount considers moving CBS News out
of NYC in battle with AGs Rob Bonta, Letitia
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of NYC in battle with AGs Rob Bonta, Letitia
James: sources replies
Paramount is considering the option of moving CBS News out of the Big Apple as his legal battle with New York and California’s attorneys general is heating up, The Post has learned.
One point of leverage for Paramount is potentially moving its news operations out of New York City as California AG Rob Bonta leads a coalition of 12 lefty states in an effort to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, people close to Paramount told The Post on Wednesday.
While CEO David Ellison would prefer not to relocate CBS News, there have been broad discussions internally about a potential move to another city.
Over Easter, Matt Ford suggested Donald Trump might one day soon be hunted down by the International Criminal Court and put on trial like a mass-murdering warlord from the Balkans or the Congo.
“There will be no post-presidential peace for Donald Trump,” Ford thundered in the pages of The New Republic, before providing a litany of high crimes and misdemeanors that would justify a meeting with fate at The Hague.
“The shuttering of the Kennedy Center may be the least of Trump’s second-term sins,” Ford opined.
“In the first year since returning to power, Trump and his subordinates have pushed the country toward fascism and oligarchy.
It’s no secret that socialism is advancing in the U.S. The latest development in this ominous trend occurred on August 4, when Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive backed by democratic socialists, defeated the establishment-backed congresswoman Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.
At the same time, our culture is under constant attack by radicals seeking to transform our national ethos. Despite some claims to the contrary, the cultural upheaval known as “Wokism” is very much alive and well. As John Murawski writes in RealClearInvestigations, the movement in recent years,
Fighter jet intercepted civilian plane
over Ohio town while Trump attended teen
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over Ohio town while Trump attended teen
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United States military officials said Tuesday that one of its fighter jets intercepted a civilian plane that was flying through restricted airspace in Ohio above a town that President Donald Trump was visiting for a high school athletic event.
The president attended the finale of the 2026 Patriot Games in Geneva, Ohio, where over 100 high school students ages 14-17 representing states and territories competed against each other in a showcase of determination, resilience and hometown pride.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command said it intercepted the aircraft at approximately 6:15 p.m. Eastern and dispensed flares that may have been visible to the public on the ground.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) allegedly labeled people such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Attorney General Bill Barr as “conduits” of Russian disinformation, according to a recent report.
A report from Just The News revealed that a spreadsheet that was “recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files” and that the White House Government Transparency Task Force “made public,” contained names such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama, along with Pompeo and Barr.
The U.S. military’s limited airstrike campaign did not move the needle. Trump’s threats to wipe Iran off the face of the earth didn’t either. Every time there appears to be a breakthrough in diplomatic talks, a wrench gets thrown in the mix, halting progress.
Now the president is turning his focus on economic warfare, leaning on crippling sanctions and a U.S. naval blockade to force Iranians to the table in hopes of reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Regional experts who spoke with The Hill said the Trump administration might not get what it wants out of the efforts, some panning the strategy,
Recently, the Left in general and Democrats in particular have been criticizing a lot of things that this administration has done. This came up with the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Todd Blanche, and people suggested that, though he may have been qualified, he had too close a relationship as a personal attorney, or he acted in a legal capacity with [President] Donald Trump, and therefore there would be an incestuous relationship between the [Justice Department] and the White House.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated socialist Francesca Hong in the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary on Tuesday. Hong was best known for saying Thanksgiving should be canceled, the Senate should be dismantled, the police should be abolished, and that the sight of white people inside a fast food restaurant nearly gave her an anxiety attack.
According to outlets like Politico, Hong’s defeat proves moderates are still strong, and that an “emerging insurgency” of socialists is merely an overhyped narrative being peddled. Of course accepting Politico’s spiel requires you to also accept its central premise: that Crowley is a moderate.
It should be no surprise that a Canadian bank would be in lockstep with that country’s disdain for lawful firearm ownership. After all, Canada’s bent on confiscating lawfully owned firearms from owners who did nothing to violate the law.
The outlook for personal freedoms in Canada is decidedly murkier after Canada’s ill-advised crackdown on protests against the government that led to arrests of hundreds in 2020. It seems the stereotype of Canadian “nice” isn’t holding up these days.
That’s especially true when it comes to the firearm industry.
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), the largest bank in Canada, holds CA$2.325 trillion (or $1.76 trillion U.S. dollars) in total assets.
Ukraine and a coalition of European partners are accelerating the development of the Freyja anti-ballistic missile defense system, with a minimum viable product (MVP) targeted for the first half of 2027 and a working prototype expected by the middle of 2027.
The multinational program was launched following the formation of an anti-ballistic coalition at a summit in Paris on July 13, 2026. The meeting brought together leaders from 10 European nations, senior European officials and representatives from major defense companies to begin coordinating the development of a new European missile defense capability.
According to Davyd Aloian, Deputy Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council (NSDC), an international steering committee will soon
Newly declassified documents show that the FBI and other members of the intelligence community were actively trying to cover up the Biden family scandals in 2020, heading into an election, while Donald Trump was still in office.
The documents are among those that Tulsi Gabbard declassified when she was Director of National Intelligence. Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge shared screenshots of the documents showing there was a special team, “Round River,” focused on delegitimizing the Hunter and Joe Biden Ukraine scandals. The intelligence community even terminated certain confidential sources who had been working with them for a long time because they reported or confirmed negative information on the Bidens.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is departing her post at the end of August to spend more time with her family, President Trump announced.
Leavitt, 28, a mother of two and the youngest ever White House press secretary, gave birth to her second child, Viviana, in May and had officially just returned from maternity leave last month.
Trump, 80, hailed her as “one of my most trusted aides.” “Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Former SPLC Finance Officer Arrested on
Fraud Charges over Payments to White Supremacist Informants replies
Fraud Charges over Payments to White Supremacist Informants replies
A former chief financial officer for the Southern Poverty Law Center who was tasked with overseeing the group’s controversial project tracking “hate groups” in the U.S. was arrested on Wednesday, as part of the Department of Justice’s larger investigation into the SPLC.
Heidi Beirich was arrested in California on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of white supremacist groups — including payments to an informant whom she was allegedly romantically involved with.
Prosecutors say Beirich, who has not worked at the SPLC for several years, was previously in charge of overseeing “payments of donors’ money” to people inside the hate groups.
Four white clergy members and one white seminarian are running for Congress as Democrats, part of a growing trend of white politicians seeking to court Christian voters while embracing left-wing ideas.
Unlike Democrats of the past, these five candidates represent a party that has shifted drastically, embracing policies ranging from same-sex marriage and unfettered abortion access to feminism and forced diversity. Sarah Trone Garriott, James Talarico, Robb Ryerse, Anna Golladay, and Lindsay James are attempting to blend the language of “faith, freedom, and family” Christians with the increasingly progressive policies of the modern left.
White clergy members running for Congress as Democrats are a rarity. Since the 1970s, only three have been
Ward Churchill, the former University of Colorado professor whose writings and outspoken political views ignited a national debate over academic freedom and free speech, has died.
His former lawyer says Churchill died of a stroke.
Iliff School of Theology Professor Emeritus Tink Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, said Churchill "was part of the American Indian Movement from the early 1980s. All of the people who criticized him never read his body of work. His books get at the truth of what happened and is happening to American Indians on Turtle Island, this continent. It persistently challenges the usual narrative of what I call the American romance."
Milwaukee County executive David Crowley wasn't supposed to win Tuesday night. Every poll tracked by RealClearPolitics over the past two months showed DSA candidate Francesca Hong cruising to victory in the Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial primary by double digits. PPP had her up 18 points. Marquette had her up 22. Instead, Crowley, the establishment’s preferred candidate, walked away with the nomination.
So what happened? Were the polls just catastrophically wrong, or is something else going on? It's a fair question, especially given what unfolded on primary night itself.
WASHINGTON — The feds nabbed 10 suspects accused of operating a decade-long marriage fraud scheme that resulted in around 1,000 sham weddings between Chinese nationals and US citizens for the purposes of getting the Asians green cards.
Each of the defendants arrested Wednesday face charges of conspiring to commit marriage fraud and immigration document fraud as well as conspiracy to encourage the unlawful residence of aliens in the US.The fake unions were purchased for up to $100,000 a pop and involved the submission of fraudulent applications to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on behalf of mostly Chinese nationals seeking lawful permanent residency.
Democrats wanted a frontrunner in California’s gubernatorial race. What they did not envision was Xavier Becerra, whose abrupt rise from afterthought to favorite has left former Biden administration officials — his one-time colleagues — reacting with a mix of incredulity, mockery and resignation.
“It’s like: ‘We need to figure out a candidate who can win!’ But then…him? Really?’” said one former Biden administration official. “It’s amazing.”(snip)Six former Biden administration officials, all of whom were granted anonymity to speak candidly about a former colleague, acknowledged the subject of Becerra’s unlikely rise has come to dominate their group chats and conversations. “It gets the biggest laugh every time we send around a poll,”
Weird things happening in MI: Are Dems
sacrificing the Senate seat to kill the
‘Marxist movement’? replies
sacrificing the Senate seat to kill the
‘Marxist movement’? replies
Something very strange is going on in the Mitten State, better known as Michigan.
And it’s not just that Abdul El-Sayed, the Marxist Muslim insurgent who Dem Party leaders desperately dislike and didn’t want as their Senate nominee, managed to beat their establishment candidate anyway.
…
That part already happened.
The strange part is what’s happening right now.
El-Sayed is set to face-off with Republican Mike Rogers in November in a race that could help decide control of the United States Senate.
It’s a big deal.And then, one week after Sayed’s big win, CNN’s KFile came barreling through the door like the Koolaid Man, with what looks exactly like a Republican
A federal appellate court handed the Trump administration a win on Tuesday in its bid to fast-track the deportation of paroled foreign nationals brought in the United States by former President Biden.
In its per curiam ruling, a three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court blockade against the Department of Homeland Security’s directives suggesting officials use expedited removal to speedily deport migrants. The decision throws out an August 2025 ruling by Biden-appointed District Judge Jia Cobb, who claimed that the migrants “played by the rules” and the federal government subsequently “changed the game.”
Hopefully this will be a lesson to multiple people, including President Donald Trump. There is no room for softness on the topic of deporting illegal aliens.
In one of the biggest examples of a mistake in Republican campaigning, three weeks before the primary election Minnesota Governor candidate Mike Lindell made the fatal mistake of advocating for greater leniency for illegal aliens, with inferred amnesty in his immigration platform. The backlash was fierce, righteous and directly targeted. Lindell was blasted.
Last night, despite the support and endorsement from President Trump, Lindell was resoundingly defeated by Lisa Demuth, the speaker of the Minnesota House.
FBI had 14 informants on Biden corruption
but ran secret op to dismiss evidence
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but ran secret op to dismiss evidence
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The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as Russian disinformation “conduits,” according to explosive intelligence community documents declassified by the White House. A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI...
Just weeks after announcing that it will lose up to $4.5 billion this year making electric cars, Ford unveiled its next plug-in attempt: the Ford Fathom truck.
So it goes with EVs.
No matter how loudly consumers say they don’t want them, those “in the know” keep telling us that the future is electric and that success is just around the corner.
Last month, for example, the mainstream press was giddy over a slight rebound in EV sales in the second quarter compared with the first. As Business Insider put it, “The U.S. EV market comes back from the dead. Thank high gas prices.”
Tucker Carlson is likely running for President of the United States.
It pains me to say that, because he is a truly disgusting human being, and you and I will be tarred with the same brush as he will be. He used to be one of "us," if a bit on the boisterous side. And to our credit, as if that were enough, the guy was and remains deviously brilliant.
I don't expect Tucker to get a ton of votes, but he certainly can get enough to change the outcome of a presidential race should he decide to pop into the race. He does have almost 18 million followers