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A foreign-born federal judge in D.C. ruled Monday that Americans are not allowed to check the citizenship of prospective voters because doing so might “purge voter rolls.”
D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, blocked the Trump administration from using an updated database called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system in order to ensure that only American citizens vote in American elections. Sooknanan became a U.S. citizen in 2009, but seemingly still retains citizenship in Trinidad and Tobago, which she said she would only renounce “if required by law.”
The Trump Department of Energy will issue loans worth a total of $17.5 billion to help fund 10 new nuclear power reactors nationwide, administration officials said on Tuesday.
The loans, provided by the agency's Office of Energy Dominance Financing—the Trump administration's renamed Energy Department loan program—will back the construction of reactors manufactured by the American nuclear power firm Westinghouse. According to the Energy Department, seven utility companies have entered into letters of intent with Westinghouse, but the agency will select just five that will ultimately receive funding to construct two reactors each.
A federal judge has rejected an attempt by the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump to force Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro off the prosecution team. In an 18-page order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden denied defendant Cole Tomas Allen's motion to disqualify both officials from the case stemming from the April 25 attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
According to prosecutors, Allen traveled to the Washington Hilton intending to kill President Trump after tracking the event through public reporting. He allegedly rushed through a Secret Service checkpoint carrying a shotgun, wounded a Secret Service officer, and was
Think lower crime rates are an unalloyed win for law-abiding residents? Think again — at least if you’re in California’s notoriously woke Bay Area.
Sure, San Francisco’s KTVU-TV knows that vehicle break-ins are down in Oakland. That’s a positive thing, particularly given that just a few years ago, people were literally leaving their car trunks open there to prove there was nothing worth stealing in their vehicles. Ergo, there shouldn’t be a downside to crime falling.
And in this case, it’s falling fast in Oakland: a 37 percent decrease in car break-ins year over year, KTVU reported last week. Great news, right?
Iranians tied to Revolutionary Guard crossing
US-Canada border illegally trigger new concerns replies
US-Canada border illegally trigger new concerns replies
National security leaders are growing increasingly concerned about Iranians with ties to the Revolutionary Guard attempting to enter the United States illegally from Canada and harm Americans as the war overseas continues.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin disclosed this week that federal immigration authorities from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Canadian police had begun to encounter Iranian nationals attempting to enter the U.S. illegally along its northern border, with the number of encounters increasing day by day. Mullin did not provide additional details. “Because of the amount of pressure President Trump has put on Iran with the peace through strength, is we’ve seen an unusual amount of Iranian nationals
The Trump administration on June 23 proposed increasing the cost of becoming an American citizen in a move that would nearly double the price of naturalization. The proposal would raise the government’s fee for filing an online naturalization application form, the N-400, from $710 to $1,280, an 80-percent increase, according to the proposal from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), published in the Federal Register on Tuesday.
For paper filings of the N-400, DHS said that it wants to raise the fee from $760 to $1,330, an increase of 75 percent.
For online filings of the N-336, a form requesting a hearing on naturalization proceedings, the fee would increase from
Seventeen Republican attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a California environmental law they argue impacts the entire country.
The lawsuit, led by Republican Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, is challenging California’s Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, according to the suit. The law — which Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2022 — imposes extensive requirements for companies, manufacturers and distributors that package or ship products to California.
“The act offends state sovereignty,” the lawsuit claims. “California is not entitled to pronounce nationwide policies; it has no power to ‘project its legislation’ into other States as if it were among equals.”
Taxpayers stuck paying off student loans
for nonprofits’ employees: ‘It’s
about who you work for’ replies
for nonprofits’ employees: ‘It’s
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U.S. taxpayers are paying off the student loans of those who go to work for nonprofits, even nonprofits one wouldn’t consider a charity, or whose mission doesn't align with many taxpayers' values.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program allows those who work for a U.S. federal, state, local, tribal government, the military, or qualifying nonprofit organizations to have their student loans forgiven after making 120 qualifying payments.
“Qualifying employment for PSLF isn’t about the specific job that you do for your employer—it’s about who you work for,” the PSLF website says. While many taxpayers might agree with providing the benefit to accept military service, public safety, health and disability work,
Voter turnout for this year’s congressional Democratic primaries has been substantially lower so far than last year — with far fewer younger voters expected to cast ballots.
The Democratic Socialists of America and liberal leaning insiders had hoped to replicate the results of 2025, when Mayor Zohran Mamdani shocked the political establishment by toppling ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other candidates in the mayor’s race largely boosted by younger voters.
“In my part of the world, turnout is a little low,” said Manhattan Democratic leader Keith Wright, referring to the 70th Assembly District in central Harlem, where his son, Assemblyman Jordan Wright, is facing a challenge from DSA challenger Conrad Blackburn.
The Zo-mentum is real.
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s far-left slate of Big Apple congressional hopefuls prevailed in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — with firebrand Darializa Avila Chevalier projected to pull off an AOC-style upset.
Former city Comptroller Brad Lander and state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez were quickly projected by the Associated Press and NY1 to win over their establishment Democrat opponents.
Avila Chevalier held a razor-thin 49.3% to 46% lead over Rep. Adriano Espaillat with 86% of votes counted late Tuesday, leading the five-term incumbent to concede. The projected win by Avila Chevalier and the congressional race victories — coupled with a likely clean sweep of Democratic Socialists of America candidates in state races
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a massive increase in global climate spending, arguing that governments and financial institutions must devote significantly more resources to addressing climate-related challenges.
In a special address at London Climate Action Week on Monday, Guterres said that governments must invest more heavily in climate-related initiatives.
“We must do far more to protect people and communities from the here-and-now effects of climate chaos,” Guterres said. “Because even at full speed, we cannot outrun climate change. Its impacts are already here, compounding and cascading.”
The massive warehouse fire in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles has been burning and spewing toxic chemicals into the air for a week now.
As RedState’s Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported, Gov. Gavin Newsom was slow to declare a state of emergency, as he and LA Mayor Karen Bass were in Chicago rubbing elbows with the Democrat elites at the Obama Presidential Center opening.
The Mayor seems to have a habit of being out of town when major conflagrations break out. To be fair, she couldn‘t have known that a warehouse would go up in flames — but she was warned about the dangerous conditions that led to the disastrous
Two Texas Senate polls put Republican Ken Paxton ahead of Democrat James Talarico: one has Paxton up by two points, while another finds the race moving from a previous Talarico lead to a narrow Paxton edge.
A new YouGov poll of registered voters dated June 12 showed Paxton leading Talarico, 49 percent to 47 percent, in the Texas U.S. Senate race. The same YouGov poll showed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott leading Democrat Hinojosa, 47 percent to 40 percent, in a Texas governor matchup.
A separate University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll showed Talarico moving from an eight-point lead over Sen. John Cornyn in April, 42 percent to 34 percent, to
The Montreal shooter’s manifesto makes it clear that he was a deranged leftist who was bitter against women, blaming capitalism and “white men” for the problems in his life, and that he was also antisemitic. Hatfield was a philosophy student at the University of Lethbridge, according to Rebel News.
Seth Hatfield from Alberta murdered a police officer, Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, and a local Jewish man, Michael Mizrahi, on Monday in a crazed shooting spree in a Jewish section of Montreal. Police ended up killing Hatfield, too, during the shootout. Hatfield apparently left behind him a long, angry, and rambling manifesto condemning private property and the capitalist system, raging
Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing yet more scrutiny after archived social media posts surfaced containing graphic remarks, controversial political statements, and comments about military veterans.
The posts, recovered from Platner’s former Reddit account and reviewed by multiple outlets, remained accessible through internet archives despite efforts to remove much of his online activity. Among the material drawing attention was a response Platner posted in 2014 to an online discussion asking users to share offensive jokes.
Under the username P-Hustle, Platner responded to a Reddit prompt asking users to share
Mamdani-endorsed state assembly member Claire Valdez secured the Democratic nomination Tuesday after defeating a crowded field in the primary for New York’s 7th Congressional District. The democratic socialist, who had been leading in the polls, defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, City Council Member Julie Won and civil rights attorney Vichal Kumar to fill the seat being vacated by Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y. Velázquez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress, announced she would not seek re-election in November after more than three decades in office.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to halt U.S. military action against Iran, the latest rebuke of the Republican president from an increasingly restive Congress.
The Senate voted 50-48 in favor of the war powers resolution, which passed the House of Representatives early this month, reflecting growing concern even among some of Trump's Republicans about the unpopular conflict that began on February 28. It was the first time both chambers of Congress had passed a resolution directing a president to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities since the War Powers Resolution
Supreme Court sides with Trump administration
in immigration case dealing with green
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in immigration case dealing with green
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Tuesday in an immigration case dealing with the government’s power over green card holders accused of crimes. The 6-3 decision centers on an immigration officer’s 2012 decision to put lawful permanent resident Muk Choi Lau on immigration parole when he returned from a short trip to China because he had been accused of a counterfeiting crime.
Lau argued that overstepped the officer’s authority, and the decision wrongly allowed the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly begin deportation proceedings after he pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit clothes in New Jersey.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 23 gave a Michigan family another chance to fight back after their home was sold by the government for about 40% of its value to pay a relatively small tax bill.
The justices sent the case back to the lower courts to consider whether the family can challenge the fairness of the way the government sold their home in foreclosure.
That’s a partial victory for Michael Pung and his family as it keeps their challenge alive. But it does so without setting the larger precedent the family
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track deportations for undocumented immigrants across the country through an expedited process that’s typically reserved for individuals who recently crossed the southern border.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a 2-1 ruling, overturning a lower-court decision blocking the efforts last year.
Advocacy group Make the Roads New York sued the Office of the Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security after it expanded the expedited removal policy, making it applicable to all immigrants who could not prove they’ve been residing in the country for more than two years.
It would seem that Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) has ambitions for higher office because he certainly has been going all in trying to get attention. Except that he doesn't seem to understand he's making all the wrong moves by embracing radical leftist things like redistributionist wealth tax grabs and the scandal-plagued Democrat candidate for Senate in Maine, Graham Platner. He might get some leftist support, but meanwhile, he's doing himself in with the center that would be vital in a general election.
Khanna has not helped himself with all his posts about what could be done by grabbing more money from people like Elon Musk. As many pointed out,
Woman who emptied Knicks trashcan on street—
then stole it — fired from JPMorgan
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then stole it — fired from JPMorgan
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A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City’s Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned. Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile. She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push into lifestyle and experiential content.
A Utah judge on Monday denied two major defense motions in the capital murder case against Tyler Robinson. Judge Tony Graf also delayed a highly anticipated decision on whether prosecutors should face sanctions over their public comments about the evidence. )snip)During Monday’s hearing, Judge Graf ruled that prosecutors may rely on certain hearsay evidence at Robinson’s upcoming preliminary hearing, and rejected the defense’s effort to subpoena an out-of-state witness to testify in person. He also announced he needs additional time to decide whether prosecutors violated a court “gag” order over pretrial publicity,
In 2019, 14-year-old Amira Hawat boarded a plane with her family from Venezuela to the United States believing her mother’s promise: she was headed to Disney World. What she didn’t know was that she would never return home. Today, seven years later, the Lipscomb University student speaks publicly about her experiences growing up in Venezuela. Her family fled the country after socialist policies led them to close their two small businesses, and she’s warning American students the same type of thing could happen here.