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A House task force chairman says companies helping foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth so their children obtain U.S. citizenship could be engaging in a criminal conspiracy.
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, told Fox News Digital that his panel has subpoenaed several so-called "birth tourism companies" as it investigates firms advertising services to help foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth"Right now, under current law, birth tourism is illegal. You cannot come into the United States for the purpose of giving birth," Gill said.
A terror group from Egypt told the FBI it was responsible for downing TWA Flight 800 and killing all 230 people aboard, according to newly surfaced FBI records featured in a new documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the tragedy.
An explosive claim buried in a trove of newly obtained Freedom of Information Act documents is reviving decades-old questions about whether a missile or bomb brought down the Boeing 747-100 off Long Island on July 17, 1996.
Among the records obtained by the transparency nonprofit Judicial Watch is a New York teletype dated two days after the crash, case file 265A-NY-259028: “FBI headquarters received faxes
President Trump pointed out Canada’s forestry mismanagement and failure to follow through with their previous promises of investment have led to catastrophic wildfires now producing smoke streams making U.S. Northern cities and states live under dangerous conditions.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the U.S. government position, and he immediately hit back by saying the cause of Canada’s wildfires is ‘climate change’ and President Trump’s unwillingness to support the Paris Climate Treaty has created the problem that Canada is now dealing with.
In short, according to the official policy of the Canadian government, their wildfires are caused by Trump’s refusal to accept global “climate change” policies. WATCH:
Last night’s Maine Democratic Senate debate to replace Graham Platner was a train wreck. Don't believe me? Feel free to check out this excellent rundown by my colleague, Nick Arama.
Keep in mind that this not only looked like a train wreck, but it comes with the realization that this crop of misfit toys has only surfaced after the Democrats' previous muse, an accused rapist with a Nazi tattoo and an unhealthy fascination with portapotties, was forced out of the race.
Among the new group was one candidate, Ashley Webb, who believes some of the best qualifications for serving in the Senate are writing songs and books.
Olive Garden guards its unlimited pasta with a photo ID that many American voters are never asked to show at the polls.
The comparison took off after Olive Garden addressed its Never-Ending Pasta Pass in a July 16 post on X. The chain wrote that the pass belongs only to the customer named on it, cannot be handed to anyone else, and requires a valid photo ID when the holder orders. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller seized on the rule. “We’ve reached a point in society where access to fettuccine at Olive Garden is vastly more secure than deciding who is Commander-in-Chief of the country,” Miller said
United Airlines Is Offering Free Flight
Changes for Customers Angry Over Trump's
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Changes for Customers Angry Over Trump's
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United Airlines is offering free flight changes to customers who don’t want to fly into Florida’s newly renamed airport, honoring President Trump, according to an internal memo. The guidance issued by the airline appears aimed at customers who are offended by the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport, and wish to travel to another airport for that reason alone. "If a customer does not want to fly to the airport, use your empowerment to offer acceptable alternatives such as Fort Lauderdale Airport (FLL) or Miami International Airport (MIA)," the memo reads.
United Airlines denied how the memo was interpreted,
Trump says US being 'invaded by filthy
air' as he threatens Canada with tariffs
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air' as he threatens Canada with tariffs
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The US-Canada relationship was already tense, and the wildfires aren't helping.(snip)
Now, Trump is threatening more tariffs - this time in response to wildfire smoke that is drifting from blazes burning in northern Ontario into the US.
Carney has not yet responded to the latest from Trump, but he did say yesterday that he believed fighting climate change is the responsibility of all countries, including the US.
Meanwhile, Ontario Premier Doug Ford noted earlier today that Canada has helped the US fight wildfires in California, and that it would welcome similar help in return.
When Joe Biden announced that he had written a memoir of his four years as president, the reaction on the blogosphere was mockery.
Even his most ardent defenders now admit that the guy was barely functional as president, that he was kept under lock and key by White House staff for most of four years, and that the mainstream press was in on the cover-up. [snip] Well, thanks to our contacts in the publishing world and the Dementia Society of America, we were able to obtain an exclusive copy of the original manuscript of “Promise Me, America” that Biden submitted
Iranian Regime's Insatiable Drive to Wipe
Out Jews, Christians, Minorities: World
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Out Jews, Christians, Minorities: World
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The Islamic Republic of Iran, since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, has operated as a terrorist state, using the IRGC and proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis to advance its aims.
No diplomatic deal or agreement has ever permanently halted these activities: the regime views such pacts as temporary opportunities for enrichment and rearmament.
One rarely sees robust UN condemnations or widespread mainstream media outrage when Iranian attacks and plots against synagogues are carried out or disrupted.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is trying to win over Michigan voters by telling them his family's ties to the state go back to the 1800s. (snip) El-Sayed's parents came from Egypt, and this family is actually his stepmother's family, whom El-Sayed lived with while he was in college. So, no, his family's roots do not go back to the 1800s. (snip) "America is inherently racist, capitalistic, and an evil colonizer. Anyway, my family's been here for hundreds of years." That's what El-Sayed is saying.
The season of triangulation is upon us. First, presidential aspirant Rahm Emanuel tried to establish a compromise position on Israel to stave off the Democratic Party’s anti-Zionist bull rush. Now that the bull rush is on, Hakeem Jeffries—who will be speaker of the House if Democrats win enough seats in November—is trying a similar tactic.
Yesterday, more than 100 House Democrats voted to end aid to Israel. The battle appears lost—unsurprising, since the battle was almost entirely one-sided. So now Jeffries is negotiating the terms of his surrender, and those terms are similar to the ones Emanuel tried to sell to the same party.
Via Jewish Insider, Jeffries outlined some familiar principles.
Let’s see: Gulf War III is back in full swing, Mitch McConnell has become Schrodinger’s senator, but the biggest stories in America right now are a buffalo trying out to be an NFL placekicker, and Taco Bell deciding that a life-imitating-art menu is the best life after all. Too bad about the Whirled Cup soccer thing, but losing to . . . Belgium? Maybe we can appeal to the Whirled Court. Oh, wait. . .
Abe Greenwald’s July 15 newsletter discussed a bizarre scene in which Rep. Ro Khanna, an anti-Israel demagogue testing a run for president, was repeatedly badgered by left-wing podcasters to say that Palestinians have a right to kill Israelis, which they did on October 7.
The Dropsite podcasters were precisely the sort of company Khanna has been keeping lately—anti-Zionists obsessed with violence. As Abe wrote:
“Khanna came face to face with the lunacy of the mob that he’s been trying to please with tweets, speeches, stunts. And he let [Jeremy] Scahill down by refusing to speak the monstrous words that would have admitted him into the esteemed ranks of the radicals.
The United States military began conducting its seventh consecutive night of missile strikes Friday on Iran now that a ceasefire between the two countries has officially ended.
Fighting in the region resumed this week after negotiations failed to end the conflict, which was in a state of nominal ceasefire for months. In June, the countries signed a memorandum of understanding extending the ceasefire by 60 days.
"CENTCOM launched a round of strikes against Iran at 3 p.m. ET today for the seventh consecutive night," United States Central Command said on X. "The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief's direction."
Our Violent Left [Updated]
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Left-wing violence has become almost a daily fact of our political life. And I am not talking about the extreme left, I am talking about the left that represents the center of gravity in the Democratic Party.
Congressman Adam Smith illustrates the point in the tweet embedded below. Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, is a former supporter of Israel who voted with 102 Democratic colleagues to cut off military aid to that country. Smith says he cast his vote to send a message to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government, with which he is “frustrated.”
But this is perhaps the more salient point:
I am deeply concerned
Democratic strategist James Carville blasts
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major news networks for not carrying Trump speech replies
Democratic strategist James Carville criticized several major news outlets Friday for not airing President Donald Trump's primetime speech on Thursday, stating they missed an opportunity to show the president acting "loonier than a tune."
The strategist was referring to the president's speech, in which he presented new evidence detailing multiple security breaches in elections he said were concealed by a self-proclaimed "shadow government" and the Biden administration.
Mainstream media networks, ABC, CNN and NBC, all declined to show the speech on its news programs and opted to stream it online and show clips of it with commentary during their regular live programming.
Venezuela had plans to manipulate voting
machines, raising alarm in U.S. intel
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machines, raising alarm in U.S. intel
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From 2004 to 2020, the U.S. intelligence community monitored plans by the Venezuelan leadership to electronically manipulate their country’s own voting machines, including the use of substituting false votes, in order to secure victory for the ruling socialists.
President Donald Trump, who declassified intelligence information on those plans and released them to the public on Thursday, says the Venezuelan capabilities are evidence that American voting systems need to be better secured.
The Venezuelan plots specifically raised alarm bells in the United States because Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez collaborated with Smartmatic, a voting machine company that in 2005 acquired the U.S.-based Sequoia Voting Systems, to develop them.
Denmark to Ban Burkas in Schools and Universities
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Under Plans to Tackle “Parallel Societies” replies
The garment worn by some Muslim women is already banned in public places in the Scandinavian country, but the move would now expand the order into classrooms across Denmark.
In Denmark, the term ‘parallel societies’ refers to residential areas where more than half of inhabitants are from an immigrant background.
The ban on full-face coverings was introduced in Denmark in 2018, with those found to break the rule forced to pay a £1,300 fine.
Despite Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s move to extend the ‘burka ban’ to schools and universities, critics have argued that the use of the face coverings are not widespread in classrooms.
We all know that Attorney General James Uthmeier isn't playing around in Florida. When some locality decides it's going to infringe on gun rights and thumb its nose at the state's preemption law, he's quick to let them know they need to adjust their attitude or they're going to need their attorneys And in his latest fight, it sure didn't take long.
Uthmeier warned Winter Garden that it lacked the authority to declare a park as a gun-free zone. Cam wrote about that Thursday morning. Now, the signs are gone. I sincerely doubt it was an oversight. Someone somewhere decided to put that sign up,
He can run, but he can’t hide.” That saying came into the American lexicon in 1946, when legendary boxer Joe Louis was talking strategy before a match with Billy Conn, who was known for his evasive style. Unfortunately for former Rhode Island anesthesiologist Ronald Fischer, he found out that you can elude the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a while, but they almost always track you down. He managed to avoid capture for two decades after he was charged with sex crimes, but on Thursday, the FBI announced that they had their man.
President Donald Trump on Thursday released a trove of declassified intelligence documents that his administration says expose long-suspected vulnerabilities in U.S. election infrastructure, in addition to alarming intelligence pointing to prior administrations' and officials' knowledge of such issues that were kept from the president, Congress and the American people.
"The intelligence community withheld information from his president's daily brief. That's a big deal. That's where the intelligence community gives him the absolute most classified data, what he needs to know for that day, and frankly, during his first term, they withheld it. That is a black mark on the intelligence community," Rep. Keith Self, R-Tex., told Just The News.
As the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act remains stalled in Congress, a new report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shows an astounding number of deceased and illegal aliens are registered to vote in Texas.
The document, released by DHS, shows that more than 113,000 individuals who are either deceased or illegal aliens are registered to vote in the state.
DHS notes that 10 states have cooperated with the federal government’s request for their complete voter rolls: Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas.
US Central Command completed its seventh consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran Friday, hitting Iranian “military logistics infrastructure” among other targets.
“US Central Command (CENTCOM) hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities,” read a statement released by the combatant command. “US forces employed fighter aircraft, aerial drones, and warships in addition to other assets.”
“CENTCOM continues to hold Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief’s direction while fully enforcing a naval blockade against Iranian ports.”
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley took the heaviest fire after gaveling one in the day after Memorial Day. Senators James Lankford and John Hoeven were also hammered for doing the same during the Fourth of July recess. Since Trump’s second term began, more than 30 GOP senators have presided over these empty procedural sessions, convincing many in the base that the GOP Senate is choosing “tradition” over Trump’s mandate. But one of Trump’s strongest allies in the Senate says the real story is being missed.
In an exclusive interview with The Gateway Pundit, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-MO,