Posts on Friday, April 11, 2025
The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.
It's a significant shift in policy for schools that had previously been considered “sensitive locations” to be insulated from such law enforcement activities, under a federal policy the Trump administration rescinded. The change comes as federal officials are revoking the visas of international students. Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, the University of Florida in Gainesville and the University of South Florida in Tampa are all seeking to deputize their campus police for immigration enforcement, representatives for the schools confirmed to The Associated Press.
A Pennsylvania judge accused of shooting her ex-boyfriend in the head while he slept may spend decades behind bars — as she was convicted of attempted homicide and aggravated assault charges Wednesday.
After two hours of deliberations, a jury convicted Sonya M. McKnight, a magisterial judge in Dauphin County, on both charges she faced — one count of attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault.
White House relocates Obama portrait to
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A dramatic depiction of President Trump moments after he was grazed by a would-be assassin’s bullet replaced a portrait of former President Barack Obama at the White House on Friday.
The new painting — which appears to be an artistic interpretation of one of the iconic images captured by New York Times photographer Doug Mills in Butler, Pa., last July — is hanging in a prominent spot in the Grand Foyer of the East Wing of the White House, social media posts from the White House and White House officials show. (Photo) The artwork depicts Trump, with blood splattered across his face and the American flag in the background,
British police took five Greenpeace activists and its UK director into custody after activists tossed 80 gallons of red dye into a pond at the U.S. embassy in London on Thursday.
The group announced in a statement that it was seeking to “highlight the death and devastation caused in Gaza as direct result of the US’ continued sale of weapons to Israel,” according to Fox News.However, the group took great pains to point out that its protest was carbon-neutral and environmentally friendly.
“Twelve activists tipped the non-toxic, biodegradable dye from containers emblazoned with the words ‘Stop Arming Israel’ into the large pond located in front of the embassy building i
President Donald Trump has authorized the United States military to take full jurisdiction over federal lands along the U.S.–Mexico border in an aggressive push to seal the border and repel the ongoing invasion of illegal immigrants, traffickers, and cartel operatives.
The memorandum, National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-4, directs the Secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, and Homeland Security to facilitate the immediate transfer of federal lands—including the Roosevelt Reservation—to Department of Defense (DoD) jurisdiction.
This will allow for the rapid construction of new border barriers, deployment of advanced surveillance systems,
In a stunning development that underscores the deep-seated corruption within the Democratic Party, Massachusetts State Rep. Chris Flanagan (D) was arrested and charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records. The indictment follows a series of unethical actions, including creating a fictitious persona to conceal his involvement in a deceptive campaign mailer and allegations of misappropriating funds during his tenure at the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Cape Cod. Despite these serious allegations, Flanagan was sworn into his second term in January 2025, highlighting the troubling tolerance for misconduct within the state's political leadership.
An Australian comic has canceled a trip to the U.S. after claiming legal advice warned she could be stopped at the border due to her previous jokes about President Donald Trump’s administration.
Stop laughing, she’s serious.
The Guardian reports Alice Fraser, who has appeared on Australia’s national broadcaster ABC and the BBC, was due to head to New York in May to promote her new book, A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance.
According to the outlet, the stand-up planned to apply for an O-1B visa, which permits comedians to live and work in the U.S. if they demonstrate “extraordinary ability” in the arts.
Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that it was “beyond wild” fact that no one is questioning President Donald Trump’s “mental acuity or fitness to serve.”
Crockett said, “When we start to talk about these tariffs, these tariffs are not limited to any one type of people. It’s not limited to Democrats, Republicans or Independents. It’s not limited to urban or rural. We know for a fact if we look back just at his last administration, what it did to the soybean farmers, right. And we ultimately ended up having to give them money to supplant the fact that they lost so much money.
A top Siemens AG executive from Spain, along with his wife and three children, have been identified as being among the six victims who died when a helicopter plunged into New York City's Hudson River on Thursday.
The helicopter's 36-year-old pilot also perished.
Agustin Escobar worked for the German global technology company for more than 27 years, most recently as global CEO for rail infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, a Siemens spokesperson told Fox News Digital. He was also vice president of the German Chamber of Commerce for Spain since 2023, per his LinkedIn account.
Escobar's wife, Merce Camprubi Montal, worked for energy technology company Siemens Energy as a global commercialization manager,
Siemens Executives Killed In New York
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TOPLINE Two Siemens executives and their children who were vacationing from Spain were killed after a sightseeing helicopter crashed in the Hudson River in New York City on Thursday, according to the company and Spanish officials, as details about the victims from the latest aviation disaster are revealed publicly. Agustín Escobar, who served as chief executive of Siemens’ rail infrastructure division, and his family were killed in the helicopter crash on Thursday, (snip)
Escobar’s wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, served as an executive with Siemens Energy, a separate company, according to her LinkedIn page (Siemens Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comment).
A woman who allegedly socked a pro-life activist during a street interview in Harlem, New York, last week has been arrested, the New York Post reported.
Brianna J. Rivers, 30, was arrested on Thursday and is facing one count of second-degree assault for allegedly punching 23-year-old Savannah Craven Antao in the face during a video interview about abortion, according to the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
“Just got word from detectives Brianna J Rivers was arrested! God is good!,” Craven Antao said in an Instagram post.
“Thank you detectives at the 28th precinct NYC! #BlueLivesMatter #JusticeIsServed #ThankYouGod,” she added in the post caption.
A federal judge will block the Trump administration from ordering Cuban, Haitian, and Venezuelan illegal immigrants.
This development comes amid several court battles over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and could be a temporary setback to the administration’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.
From The Associated Press:
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said she would issue a stay on an order for more than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to leave the country, sparing them until the case advances to the next phase. Their permits were to be canceled April 24.
During a hearing, Talwani repeatedly questioned the government’s assertion that it could end humanitarian parole for the four nationalities.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz told state Medicaid directors Friday there will be no Medicaid funding for “gender reassignment” surgeries or hormone treatments for minors.
“As a doctor and now CMS Administrator, my top priority is protecting children and upholding the law. Medicaid dollars are not to be used for gender reassignment surgeries or hormone treatments in minors – procedures that can cause permanent, irreversible harm, including sterilization,” Oz said in a written statement obtained by Breitbart News.
More than a dozen illegal aliens have been charged with stealing the identities of Americans, defrauding the Social Security Administration in the process, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announced on Friday.
According to ICE officials, 18 criminal illegal aliens were each charged with aggravated identity theft, misuse of Social Security numbers, and false statements regarding American citizenship with intent to engage in illegal employment. If convicted, the illegal aliens each face anywhere from 2 to 12 years in prison. Those illegal aliens charged are:
Less than a year after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon, the Apollo program had become so routine that people didn’t really pay attention to Apollo 13 when it launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, at 2:13 p.m. Media coverage was sparse, and so were the crowds in attendance.
“NASA was reminded again of waning interest in space exploration with a launch turnout of around 200,000 people,” Space.com recounts. “It was a crowd that paled in comparison to the 7 million who had come to see Apollo 11 liftoff almost a year earlier.”
Let’s be frank.
While it’s common to indulge in a hot dog at a baseball game, a new poll reveals that most Americans do not know that the tubular meat may be one of the wurst things for their health.
“Tens of millions of Americans could eat hot dogs this baseball season, but most of them are unaware that doing so raises their risk of colorectal cancer and other diseases,” said Noah Praamsma, a nutrition education coordinator for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which conducted the poll.
The Education Department on Friday referred a Title IX investigation into Maine schools to the Justice Department after the state affirmed it would continue to force female athletes to compete against biological males.Maine and the Education Department reached an impasse after a month-long battle over trans-identified males participating in women’s and girl’s sports. Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning this practice nationally.
Maine indicated it would not comply with the executive order after the Trump administration gave it a period of time to sign a resolution agreement affirming that it would cease pushing men into women’s sports.
Letitia James famously campaigned for the office of New York Attorney General on a platform of sticking it to Orange Man Bad. New York being what it is these days, the TDS attack dog won the election and became the Historic™ first black female NY AG, if you care about such things. And now, it looks like she may also have the distinction of becoming the first black female NY AG to earn herself fraud charges.
As you may recall, James filed a civil lawsuit against Donald Trump in 2023, when he was between presidencies. She accused Trump and his family business of engaging in financial fraud
A bombshell report from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed that migrants on the federal government’s “Terrorist Watch List” were able to secure Medicaid after being released into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration.
According to DOGE officials, about 6,300 of Biden’s migrants — paroled into the U.S. interior with no immigration status — were either on the Terrorist Watch List or had criminal records and yet were still rewarded work permits and Social Security numbers.
In a age of lightning-fast information and leaks over secrets, it's remarkable how quiet things are on who may have been behind the two known assassination attempts on President Trump last summer, one of which almost succeeded.
We still don't know.
But Byron York at the Washington Examiner thinks the Ukraine angle of Ryan Routh's second attempt in Florida is worth a closer look.
He writes:
It is remarkable how little we know about the two 2024 attempts on President Donald Trump’s life. We don’t know much about Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who shot Trump in the ear during a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Nor do we know much
Trump's Tariffs Are Working!
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Donald Trump’s tariff plans may have looked like a gamble at first, but they’re a gamble that’s paying off in plenty of areas. While leftists and some on the right are wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth, the Trump administration is seeing results.
While the U.S. has China backed to the edge of the tariff cliff, corporations all over the world are investing in America. Let’s look at some examples.
The largest U.S. toy manufacturer is investing millions to significantly increase its presence in Tennessee and Florida. Cra-Z-Art is moving much of its manufacturing from China back to the U.S.; it’s one of the few companies that makes toys here,
Let’s get one thing straight: Jasmine Crockett isn’t ‘ghetto.’ She’s not from ‘the streets.’ She’s not the hood-savvy voice of the everyday black American struggling to survive in an America where Democrats have failed them. No, Jasmine Crockett is a fraud. And what’s worse? She’s a carefully packaged fraud, hand-picked and propped up by the Democratic Party to sell one of the most insidious lies of all: that this caricature of blackness — loud, ratchet, grammatically incorrect — is somehow authentic. Let me be clear: the problem isn’t that Jasmine Crockett is educated....
Quite how the Government expected to hold “more than five” independent inquiries into grooming gangs for £5 million when the Telford inquiry alone cost £8 million is anyone’s guess.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper now insists Labour hasn’t watered down its pledge to “deliver the meaningful change victims deserve” with the announcement of a “more flexible approach” involving the setting up of “victim-led panels”. Yet handing a pittance to the very local councils who seemingly turned a blind eye to these vile crimes for them to mark their own homework isn’t justice.
This Is Why 'Assault Weapons' Laws Are
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Here's the problem with pretty much every gun law ever proposed, all the way back (at least) to the 1934 National Firearms Act: The people who write them don't know anything about guns. Case in point: The infamous federal 1994 "Assault Weapon" ban, which didn't ban anything and didn't accomplish anything. The 1994 law banned certain cosmetic features of those rifles, like flash hiders and bayonet lugs; gun makers quickly started selling “post-ban” models with no flash suppressors and bayonet lugs, which made them perfectly legal.
And bayonet lugs? Seriously? Bayonet lugs? When was the last time you heard of a drive-by bayoneting?
An immigration judge has ruled that Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is eligible for deportation under a decades-old federal statute.
Immigration Judge Jamee Comans found that due to his involvement in the pro-Palestinian protests that rocked Columbia University in the waning days of the Biden administration, Khalil’s continued presence in the United States raised “potentially serious foreign policy consequences.”
It’s the latest development surrounding the efforts of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to deport Khalil under the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which allows the secretary to make the determination
FBI Arrests 'Mr. Satan' for Plot to Assassinate
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In a twisted case of déjà vu, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that a Butler, Pennsylvania man has been taken into custody for, amongst other things, threatening to assassinate President Trump and assault other administration officials. Thirty-two-year-old Shawn Monper now faces federal charges of making "threats to assault and murder President Donald J. Trump, other U.S. officials, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents."
Butler was, of course, the site of the July 13, 2024, Trump campaign rally where another would-be assassin shot the president in the ear amidst a series of security failures that led to Kimberly Cheadle's resignation as director of the United States Secret Service.
Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza said Friday that Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett would be a disastrous presidential nominee for her party due to her far-left policies and tone. Crockett, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has risen to prominence with her incendiary anti-Republican rhetoric, including calling wheelchair-bound Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels.” Cillizza, during a YouTube livestream, said Crockett appeals primarily to activist Democrats but would struggle in a general election — likening her to Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Jasmine Crockett would be a disaster as the Democratic nominee,” Cillizza said. “You think
Mahmoud Khalil can be deported over his involvement in anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University, an immigration judge ruled Friday in the closely watched case.
The ruling in Louisiana federal court came in the government’s bid to boot the Syrian-born permanent resident out of the US over his anti-Israel activism at Columbia.
But Khalil won’t be deported immediately — his lawyers will get the chance to fight the proceedings before a final determination is made.
Khalil, 30, was arrested on March 8 by ICE agents inside the building of his university-funded Manhattan apartment where he lived with his pregnant wife, an American citizen.
The winning isn't limited to international trade. The Trump administration is dealing with the problem of illegal alien criminals, too. In the latest news from that quarter, Immigrations & Customs Enforcement has just picked up an illegal alien and convicted child sex offender in Fairfax County, Virginia - after a county judge suspended his sentence and set him back out on the street. ICE detainers for this goblin have been ignored by county authorities.
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Dramatic video showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting convicted sex offender 21-year-old Ander Cortez-Mendez in Falls Church, Virginia, on April 2nd. US border agents arrested Cortez-Mendez
Exclusive: Commerce Department Lays Off
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The Commerce Department sent reduction in force (RIF) notices to 32 employees working in the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) this week in accordance with the White House’s directive to shutter the agency, two sources familiar with the matter tell National Review. Wednesday’s layoffs came after dozens of employees working at the agency were placed on administrative leave in late March.
The Commerce Department’s latest move represents the administration’s broader efforts to shrink the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy and dismantle any government programs and entities that Republicans view as being even remotely tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds announced Friday that she would not seek another term in office, saying she would be leaving politics to prioritize her family.
Reynolds has led Iowa since 2017, after then-Governor Terry Branstad was appointed by President Donald Trump as ambassador to China. During her tenure, Republicans passed the largest income tax cut in state history, election integrity measures, and legislation on abortion and transgenderism as they controlled both the state House and Senate.
“Serving as your governor has been the greatest honor of my life, an opportunity that not so long ago I never could have imagined,” Reynolds said
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Nearly 700 pages of declassified records from the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation into now-discredited claims of the 2016 Trump campaign's collusion with Russia were turned over to Congress by the FBI this week and obtained Thursday exclusively by Just the News.
You can read the declassified documents below, reorganized by subject for easy access and listed alphabetically:
In the wake of the horrific California wildfires in January, impacted homeowners not only lost their property, but either had their insurance policies canceled outright, were hit with massive increases in their insurance premiums, or pushed onto the FAIR Plan, the state insurance exchange which forced homeowners to accept less coverage than their homes required. While all this was going down, Insurance Commissioner Richard Lara was too busy traveling around the world on the taxpayer dime to care.
According to an investigation by ABC7's "7 On Your Side," they obtained and combed through hundreds of public records, uncovering details of at least 46 cross-country and international trips. Lara traveled
Trump Admin Continues to Think Outside
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As President Donald Trump rolls out the agenda he campaigned on, like mass deportations and tariffs, the left loves to think they are playing gotcha with Trump voters when they snarkily ask, "Is this what you voted for?" Well...yes. This is exactly what we voted for, and we hope he keeps going. Thanks for asking. This usually causes more smoke to erupt from lefty ears, but Americans absolutely voted for Donald Trump to clean up the mess left by Joe Biden. As agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and ICE carry out the deportations of criminals and gang members, there is also a new way to get
Protests against President Donald Trump’s administration have been cropping up nationwide. They appear to have two things in common — gray hair and a lack of energy. Are Americans supposed to believe these are organic? Or are they organized by left-wing groups to undermine Trump’s administration?
Now the answers to those questions are becoming clear. The “Hands Off” protests of April 5 and earlier anti-Tesla protests were supported by a coalition of powerful leftist groups, including The Indivisible Project, and organized through Mobilize America — which was initially founded as a Democrat PAC. Now leftist organizers are planning more demonstrations across America for the socialist holiday May Day.
A Democratic lawmaker in Massachusetts was arrested and charged after he allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars from a local trade association to fund both personal and political expenses.
Massachusetts state Rep. Christopher Flanagan, 37, was indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records on Friday, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Flanagan served as the executive officer of the Home Builders Association in Cape Cod and received a salary and benefits ranging from $65,800 to $81,600 from 2019 to 2024 when he was working there. Flanagan also received $97,546 and $100,945 in 2023 and 2024, respectively, from his position as a legislator.
Self Own: China Taunts Americans with
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The Chinese Communist Party is attacking Americans with AI-generated videos depicting them as overweight slobs working in sweatshops in the wake of President Donald Trump introducing tariffs on China.
In a desperate attempt to attack the United States, China appeared to inadvertently admit it forces its own people to slave away in sweatshops — where workers make low wages for long hours under poor conditions — by sharing AI-generated videos depicting Americans working in those conditions, instead.
The videos show AI-generated Americans — who the Chinese fantasize about being all overweight — making products like Nike shoes while they drink soda and eat potato chips.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) on Thursday unveiled that it would use social platform X to make announcements going forward, instead of traditional press releases or memos typically posted to the website.
“The agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public — formerly known as Twitter,” Linda Kerr-Davis, SSA Midwest-West (MWW) Regional Commissioner told employees in a call Thursday, according to Federal News Network (FNN).
“This will become our communication mechanism,” she told reporters.
The shift comes as communications staff at the agency has dwindled due to reassignments in front-facing roles at field offices across the country. Officials announced that Regional SSA offices would
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) filed a lawsuit seeking $2.5 million in damages after a U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officer entered his office, prompting claims from the GOP congressman that he is “worried and anxious” about his interactions with the agency.
The suit stems from a 2021 incident in which an officer entered Nehls’s office over the Thanksgiving break, relaying that he found the door to the office wide open.
Upon seeing a white board with “suspicious writings mentioning body armor with an outline of the Rayburn Building next to the Longworth building with an ‘x’”’ marked” on the map, the officer forwarded the information to supervisors.
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A federal judge on Friday sided with the Trump administration in allowing immigration agents to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship despite a lawsuit filed by religious groups over the new policy.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington refused to grant a preliminary injunction to the plaintiffs, more than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans.
She found that only a handful of immigration enforcement actions have been conducted in or around churches or other houses of worship and that the evidence doesn’t show “that places of worship are being singled out as special targets.”
The groups argued the policy violated the right to practice their religion.
Musk’s critics want him gone tomorrow and are thrilled that, as a Special Government Employee, his tenure is legally capped at 130 days in a 365-day period. But President Trump has several options if he wants to keep Musk on past the expiration date.
Elon Musk’s role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is formally designated as that of a Special Government Employee (SGE), a status that limits his service to 130 days within any 365-day period. His tenure is expected to end around late May 2025, when that cap is reached.
While the White House has expressed interest in keeping Musk involved, any extension would require either legal
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba announced that the office is investigating New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin over their instructions not to cooperate with ICE on certain warrants.
Habba said, “[T]he Governor has on his website, currently, dos and don’ts for his local state law enforcement. Those dos and don’ts instruct them not to cooperate with illegal immigrants who have administrative warrants that have been issued by the court, after due process, saying that they are no longer welcome here. They have gone through the court system. They are
The Social Security Administration is literally killing thousands of numbers that were assigned to illegal aliens.
With a Social Security number, illegal aliens can work in the United States and receive a wide range of taxpayer-funded benefits. The Trump administration is trying to take away the incentive for illegal aliens to stay in the United States and swiftly remove them from the system, treating them the same as it would someone who had died.
The Trump administration is putting the Social Security numbers of more than 6,000 illegal aliens into the same database that dead people’s numbers go into, a novel maneuver that effectively strips the individuals of their numbers and makes
On Thursday night at a CNN town hall, a Democratic congresswoman said she regretted voting for the Laken Riley Act, adding, “immigrants across this country who are here legally and have followed the law are being terrorized right now.”
The Laken Riley Act requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain illegal immigrants who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. It also authorizes states to sue the federal government for decisions or alleged failures related to immigration enforcement. The legislation was named after Laken Riley, who was a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student murdered in February 2024 by a 26-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant while she was jogging.
Freshman Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., is already taking aim at the Washington establishment by teaming up with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a fellow Pennsylvania Republican, to try to enact term limits for members of Congress.
McCormick introduced a joint resolution on the Senate floor on Thursday that would mandate that U.S. senators and representatives can serve a maximum of 12 years in each legislative body. The bill reflects legislation previously introduced by Fitzpatrick in the House. That means senators can only serve two six-year terms in the Senate and representatives can only serve six two-year terms in the House.
The legislation wouldn’t apply to members who have served beginning before the 118th Congress
Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, is facing pressure to resign after his new law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, cut a deal with the Trump administration earlier this month to scrap diversity programs and offer free legal services to Trump-approved causes. Emhoff allegedly opposed the deal, but that doesn't mean he's going to give up his partnership at the firm anytime soon. Harris and Emhoff are desperate to amass personal wealth before she inevitably runs for governor in 2026, and Willkie Farr is shelling out "around $6 million" a year for Emhoff's services, according to the New York Times.
While most people would consider $6 million
In less than a month, air travelers at U.S. airports and people entering some federal buildings must have a REAL ID.
On Wednesday, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) "reminded the public that starting Wednesday, May 7, 2025, every air traveler 18 years of age and older will need to have a REAL ID-compliant state-issued driver’s license, instruction permit or identification card or another acceptable form of ID to board a U.S. commercial aircraft," according to a media release.
REAL IDs have a gold star in the upper right-hand corner, TSA said.
"With the upcoming federal enforcement of REAL ID exactly four weeks away,
The CEO of Eos Energy on Thursday discussed the battery-making company bringing its manufacturing back to the U.S. several years ago and competing with China with FOX Business’ Jeff Flock.
Eos Energy brought the manufacturing of its "long duration energy storage (LDES) systems" back to the U.S. from China in 2018. The battery maker now produces its batteries in Turtle Creek, a city located in Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley.
"We not only innovated this product in the U.S., but we’ve always believed we can build it in the U.S., and we’ve proven that to be true," Eos Energy CEO Joe Mastrangelo told Flock when asked about relocating the company’s manufacturing and competing
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, literally tore up a list of 70 orders former President Joe Biden enacted that he said stymied the Last Frontier’s energy capabilities, and spoke Thursday about a bright future for the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Sullivan described the Trump administration’s openness to building an 800-mile LNG pipeline to power the U.S. and trade with Asia.
The pipeline would run from Prudhoe Bay – on the Arctic Ocean – to the Kenai Peninsula near Homer. Currently, essentially the only way to transport liquefied natural gas on the North Slope is via the AK-11 Dalton Highway of "Ice Road Trucker" fame, which is considered very inefficient and dangerous.
Ksenia Karelina, an American citizen who was wrongfully detained in Russia, is back in the United States after being freed in a prisoner swap on Thursday and she has a message for President Trump. “Mr. Trump, I'm so, so grateful for you to bring me home and for American government. I never felt more blessed to be an American and I'm so, so happy to get home. Thank you — Thank you so much.”
The dual Russian-American citizen was released Thursday in a prisoner swap.
I've shared this anecdote before here on the pages of RedState, I'm certain. One of the very first lessons I learned my very first day of law school was a rule that stood me in good stead over nearly 30 years of practice: Don't p*** off the judge. It's both wise and practical advice. Typically, when you are before a judge, they hold your fate in their hands — generally, this is only in the metaphorical sense, but a judge who's predisposed to agreeing with you is preferable to one who's predisposed to making your life miserable any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued a warning to all workers in the United States, proclaiming during a town hall that the jobs currently filled by employees around the country are not going to be there in the next decade.
“I want everybody to think about this. Most people — we have millions of federal employees. Most people are not federal employees. And I think many people are saying, ‘Wow, that’s outrageous. I really feel for these federal employees thrown out on the street,’” Sanders said during the Wednesday night town hall moderated by CNN host Anderson Cooper.
“But I want you to think about this. If Musk
Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” that the SAVE Act, a bill requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, was “totally unnecessary.”
Carville said, “Well, let’s start with a massively unnecessary idea. There has been study after study, and I mean a lot of studies and good studies, that say that the amount of fraud in American elections is almost undetectable. We’ve looked for that, failed. So you ask yourself, if somebody — if an elderly person, doesn’t have a driver’s license or a married person takes a husband’s name, which my wife chose not to, but other people do, that’s people’s own
The officer in charge of a US Space Force base in Greenland was stripped of her command after she sent out a mass email that distanced herself from statements by Vice President JD Vance and the Trump administration days after his visit last month.
The Space Force announced late Thursday that it removed Col. Susannah Meyers as leader of Pituffik Space Base “for loss of confidence in her ability to lead.”
“Commanders are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct, especially as it relates to remaining nonpartisan in the performance of their duties,” the Space Operations Command’s statement read
Revealed: NY Attorney General Letitia
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This article originally appeared on White Collar Fraud and was republished with permission.
Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, has built her career on exposing deception. But a quiet real estate transaction in Norfolk, Virginia—carried out just weeks before the Trump fraud trial she championed—now raises serious questions about her own compliance with New York law.
A declaration buried in legal filings states her intent to make a Virginia house her principal residence:
“I HEREBY DECLARE that I intend to occupy this property as my principal residence.”
President Donald Trump’s deputies are wiping up the Social Security Numbers that were quietly given to illegal migrants by prior administrations.
The multi-stage plan has already wiped out more than 6,300 numbers given to migrants with criminal records, terrorist affiliations, or cancelled visas.The Washington Post reported on Thursday night:
The move, requested by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, is aimed at putting pressure on the undocumented immigrants to leave the country, according to a White House official.
Chinese social media accounts are leaning into Beijing’s trade war with the US by putting out AI-generated posts of Americans clocking in for factory jobs — including one showing President Trump and Elon Musk on the production line for fresh pairs of Nike sneakers.
Videos and memes boosted by Chinese media and posted by government officials are mocking Trump’s “Make America Great Again” moniker while displaying the expected higher price of goods either made in US-based facilities or imported there under punishing 125% tariffs.
Trump and Musk are sitting side by side wearing blue jumpsuits and working on the Nike shoes, while Vice President JD Vance pieces together an iPhone, sporting denim
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) seems intent on seeking the record for most unhinged comments from a Democrat. She's certainly had some whoppers just this week alone.
As I reported on Wednesday, there was this unhinged remark where she said we needed "immigrants" [translation: illegal aliens] to do work she compared to slave labor.
"So I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact that we are a country of immigrants. [snip]
President Donald Trump responded that if this was the Democrats "new star," they were in "serious trouble."
Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy had to fight off a bird during a live appearance discussing a dispute with Mexico and tariffs on “Fox and Friends” Friday. China announced it was increasing tariffs on American imports to the Communist nation to 125% on Friday, according to The Associated Press. Doocy was reporting on both the tariffs and President Donald Trump’s actions in a water dispute with Mexico when the bird landed on his head in the middle of the segment. “Peter, I appreciate–” “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said when the bird, which appeared to be a pigeon, landed on Doocy’s head...
The rapid change in Ursula von der Leyen now starts to make sense. According to a press release [SEE HERE] from European Big Pharma, they recently had a meeting with the EU Komisar and threatened to leave Europe if the trade system is not renegotiated quickly.President Trump is on the cusp of announcing a big change in tariffs against foreign pharmaceutical companies in an effort to get the manufacturing of medicines brought back to the USA.(snip)
In a proactive move, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), went to the European Commission (EC) yesterday to hold talks with von der Leyen, calling for radical change
Tennessee state Sen. Bo Watson says his bill allowing school districts to deny students who are undocumented was a financial one.
A bipartisan group of senators who voted against the bill said they thought the bill had a moral cost, including Watson's friend from his home county, Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga.
The bill passed 19-13 with several Republicans joining Democrats in voting against it. Schools could require documentation of citizenship, proof that the student is in the process of obtaining citizenship or a visa. The school systems could refuse to allow undocumented students to attend school or charge them tuition.
A top House panel that oversees public land policies is investigating five green groups that brokered a settlement with federal officials in the waning days of the Biden administration, forcing family-owned ranches to vacate their leases on federal property over environmental concerns, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Under the January 2025 settlement between the green groups, owners of 11 multi-generational ranches, and the National Park Service, 12 of the 14 existing organic dairies and cattle ranches located across Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California will be abandoned by early 2026. The agreement was made possible by the Nature Conservancy, a Virginia-based group which financed the agreement and will pay
There was a time when liberals promised to “get the government out of your bedroom” and then they decided that the government should be in your bathroom instead. And I’m not just talking about the transgender movement which really took off later, but the obsession with controlling every aspect of human life to save the planet.
President Trump ended Obama’s War on Lightbulbs. Now he ended the War on Showers.
Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make America’s showers great again.
The Order directs the Secretary of Energy to immediately rescind the overly complicated federal rule that redefined “showerhead”
What will Kamala Harris do next? That's been the question bouncing around since she suffered one of the most embarrassing Despite having a billion dollars to spend over a three-month period, making her dollars go further than basically any other candidate in modern history, and having the press so in her corner that they laughably tried to remake her as a cultural icon, Harris still managed to not only lose, but lose in an electoral college landslide. In a sane world, the question wouldn't be what she does next. It'd be where she retires to while she collects lucrative checks presidential election defeats in modern history.
The globalist empire of Big Tech is being dragged into the light, and U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is leading the charge.
In a scathing letter sent Thursday, Hawley invited Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, following explosive testimony from a former Meta executive turned whistleblower.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, who served as Facebook’s Director of Global Public Policy from 2011 to 2017, delivered a bombshell under oath: Meta didn’t just sell out American users — it surrendered to the Chinese Communist Party.
In her riveting testimony, Wynn-Williams exposed Meta’s secret project—code-named “Project Aldrin”—an initiative that allegedly handed China’s
Lakeville Public Schools has agreed to pay $30,000 in legal fees after a lawsuit over "Black Lives Matter" posters put up in the district.
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The Upper Midwest Law Center, a conservative nonprofit law firm, celebrated the settlement in a news release on Thursday.
The law firm brought the lawsuit on behalf of a group of parents and students in 2022, claiming the district put up political Black Lives Matter posters but disallowed other political posters, like "Blue Lives Matter" or "All Lives Matter" posters.
The controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, practically begged the United States to rejoin the UN-run agency after President Trump made good on his vow to pull the plug on U.S. participation on his very first day back in office.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to formally withdraw the United States from the WHO, citing its failure to hold China accountable and its role in pushing radical globalist health agendas that undermine American sovereignty.
Trump’s executive order halted all U.S. funding to the WHO, redirecting those resources to domestic health initiatives
An increasingly desperate China on Friday pleaded with European Union (E.U.) members to join with Beijing in resisting “unilateral bullying” posed by punitive tariffs introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Chinese President Xi Jinping made the call as he met Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. State news agency Xinhua said Xi had stressed the need for cooperation between the bloc and China in weathering Beijing’s mounting trade war with Washington.
It came 24-hours after Australia rejected the same plea from Beijing, as Breitbart London reported.
A shadow primary for Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) Senate seat could soon spill into the open as Democrats wait with bated breath to see whether he runs in 2026.
Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, is weeks, perhaps days, away from announcing if he will retire at age 82 or pursue a sixth term that would put the aspirations of a younger crop of Democrats indefinitely on hold.
An open primary in blue Illinois would attract a wave of high-profile Democrats seizing what could be a once-in-a-generation chance to claim one of the state’s two Senate seats. Some have even made public overtures that they would run.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it will no longer give states federal dollars to fund portions of their Medicaid programs that have nothing to do with providing health services to low-income Americans, such as internet services and housekeeping.
The powerful agency that oversees the Medicaid program sent a letter to states on Thursday that it no longer intends to approve or renew requests for federal matching funds that are not directly linked to healthcare expenditures.
“Mounting expenditures, such as covering housekeeping for individuals who are not eligible for Medicaid or high-speed internet for rural healthcare providers, distracts from the core mission of Medicaid,
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) will run for governor of Colorado and attempt to keep the state under Democratic control after the term-limited Gov. Jared Polis steps down.
The state’s senior senator announced his entrance into Colorado’s 2026 gubernatorial race in a video on Friday. Polis, who has led the state since 2019, is term-limited and cannot seek reelection.
Bennet’s campaign launch sets up a faceoff between him and Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser, who announced his campaign earlier this year. Bennet, the former Denver Public Schools superintendent, was first elected to the Senate in 2009 and ran for president in 2020.
At least four major Florida universities are planning to or are already partnering with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement through an agreement initiated by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
University police departments are signing up for ICE training and receiving the same powers to enforce immigration laws as local cops through what’s called the 287(g) agreement.
The agreement allows campus police to assist with immigration enforcement efforts and potentially speed up deportations.
While the governor’s directive doesn’t call campus police out by name, it makes one thing clear: law enforcement agencies, including those tied to campuses, are expected to fall in line.
The University of Florida, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic
The Trump administration is revoking the parole of thousands of immigrants who they have found to have criminal records or to be on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center watchlist, a senior White House official told the Daily Caller.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has identified 6,300 individuals who were paroled into the United States since 2023, during the Biden administration, but are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center or have a criminal record, a senior White House official shared with the Caller. The source was granted anonymity to discuss the details not yet announced. Every individual CBP identified is having their parole, which gives them benefits such as work authorization,
President Donald Trump made it clear he is working on a plan to remove federal funding for sanctuary cities on his Truth Social platform on Thursday. In an early morning post, the president said, “No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims.”
Trump went on to criticize sanctuary states and cities, declaring, “They are disgracing our Country and are being mocked all over the World. Working on papers to withhold all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Traps to exist!!!”
The indication that the president is working on papers to withhold all federal funding for any city or state that “allows these
US Attorney Alina Habba to open investigation
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Acting US Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba is opening an investigation into Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy over his order for state law enforcement to refrain from assisting federal immigration enforcement officers, according to reports.
Habba, former personal lawyer and spokesperson for President Trump, announced the impending investigation on Fox News’ “Hannity” Thursday night — slamming Murphy and NJ Attorney General Matt Platkin over an order to state police that prevents officers from carrying out or assisting in warrants listed in federal databases.
Item number 710 on Aimee Bock’s defense exhibit list from her recent federal trial is an audio recording of a meeting with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. (snip) They begin by complaining that East African businesses are facing racism by state agencies, telling Ellison they "create unnecessary roadblocks and hurdles and at times conduct business in a very racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic manner."
Ellison sympathizes and offers to make some calls, saying that "just getting the question, just getting the inquiry from the AG is sometimes enough to make people knock it off."
Every other day the media rolls out another entry about the economic benefits of open borders and mass migration. And every time they do that it just shows how incidental the benefits are to the losses.
IRS to Lose Billions in Revenue If Migrants Stop Filing Taxes – Bloomberg
The Internal Revenue Service is projected to lose more than $313 billion in revenue in the coming decade as undocumented workers are poised to pay fewer taxes after the agency struck a deal to share data with US immigration authorities.
The IRS is expected to lose $12 billion in revenue for the remainder of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, according to a report
The White Coat Waste Project is a Washington watchdog group whose primary agenda is to identify and stop wasteful and unnecessary animal testing and experimentation by the federal government or federal contractors. That's a laudable goal; there are some things for which animal testing is still necessary - more on that later - but the things that WCW is identifying don't fit that mold.
In their latest coup, the group has been instrumental in reviving a Trump 45-era policy to end animal testing by the Environmental Protection Agency, and when you look at some of the testing that was being done, you can see why.
The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”
Lyons was one of a series of Trump administration speakers at the 2025 Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center, including Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar”, and Kristi Noem, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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The United States Senate, by a vote of 54-45, confirmed Elbridge Colby as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. This means that the number three official at the Pentagon will be what one report described as a “hard-nosed realist” who understands America’s military strengths and limitations.
Colby served in the Pentagon during Trump’s first term and is credited with being the principal author of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, which advocated shifting America’s focus from small peripheral conflicts to great power competition. More recently, Colby has recommended prioritizing the Indo-Pacific at the expense of Europe and the Middle East.
On Thursday, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced blowback for claiming a GOP bill “threatens” voting access for millions of married women.
Clinton, who is also a former United States senator and first lady, reacted to the House passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which aims to require individuals to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in elections for federal office.
“Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don’t match their birth certificates,” Clinton said. “Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.”
Caine confirmed as nation’s top military
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The Senate has confirmed retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making Caine the first member of the National Guard to rise to the level of the nation’s top uniformed position.
Caine’s confirmation, in a 60-25 vote shortly after midnight today, was a rare show of bipartisanship that saw more than a dozen Democrats support the nomination — a sign that Caine had assuaged concerns brought about by President Donald Trump‘s involvement in his unconventional nomination.
Caine was nominated by Trump on the heels of the president’s firing of his previous chairman Air Force Gen. CQ Brown,
A key FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades, was motivated in part by "monetary compensation," and continued snitching even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, newly declassified documents show.
The nearly 700 pages of once-secret documents, obtained by Just the News, were recently turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan after President Donald Trump ordered them declassified at the start of his second administration.
They provide the most extensive portrait yet of former FBI informant
The Department of Homeland Security recently awarded anti-terrorism grants to a Florida mosque linked to pro-terror Islamic clerics, 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and an anti-Semitic pastor who claims "the Jews" conduct "secret rituals" at holy sites in Jerusalem.
DHS gave nearly $300,000 to the Deen Center, Inc. on Jan. 31 as part of its Nonprofit Security Grant Program, according to the federal spending database USASpending. The grants to the Tampa-area mosque were approved by the Biden administration in October, according to Florida state records.
While the program—overseen by FEMA—is designed to help religious institutions protect against terrorist attacks, the Deen Center has embraced clerics, activists, and Muslim scholars who have promoted terrorist attacks
At this point in time, most of us are aware of Elon Musk’s dream of taking civilization and human consciousness to Mars in our lifetime.
What we may not be aware is just how soon he expects to be doing it.
Back in March, Musk wrote on X: ‘Starship departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely’.
And today, the tech billionaire confirmed this perspective, adding an unexpected twist: Tesla’s Optimus robots are to be used to explore the surface of Mars in this first trip.
The family of five aboard the doomed tourist helicopter that plummeted into the Hudson River Thursday was tragically in New York City to celebrate the birthday of one of their three young children.
Agustin Escobar, his wife, Merce Camprubi Montal, and their three kids — ages 4, 5 and 11 — were killed along with an unidentified pilot when the chopper went down into the murky waters of the Hudson.
The family had just arrived in the Big Apple from Barcelona, Spain, to mark the birthday of one of their children, Spanish newspaper El Diario reported.
Former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd appeared on the Piers Morgan show this week and admitted something that was obvious to millions of Americans over the last few years.
Todd suggested that people in media avoided pointing out signs of Joe Biden’s decline because they were afraid of being perceived as doing something that helps Trump. Everyone knew this, but it’s nice of Todd to admit it.
Most people in media are on the left, and as a result, they are terrified of angering their viewers on the left. So they will even deny reality if it means keeping their fellow tribe members happy.
The Optimum Tariff: The Idea Behind Trump’s Trade Strategy
For decades, American elites have spoken of free trade as though it were a moral commandment engraved in stone—unquestionable, sacred, eternal. Tariffs, they say, are relics of the past. Economic heresy. An automatic road to higher prices, shrinking output, and worldwide retaliation. What they don’t tell you—what most of them don’t know—is that some of the most brilliant economists in history developed a theory proving exactly the opposite: under the right conditions, tariffs can make a country richer.
Former Cuban judge Juana Orquídea Acanda was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents and faces deportation for hiding her links to the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), Cuba-focused outlets reported on Wednesday.
Acanda Rodríguez — a 62-year-old woman from Matanzas, Cuba — reportedly arrived at Miami International Airport on March 20 under an immigrant visa arranged by her son identified as a U.S. citizen. CBP reportedly detained Acanda Rodríguez upon her arrival and accused her of withholding key information during her immigration process — most notably, her communist affiliation and
Pharmaceutical company Novartis announced plans to build seven facilities in the United States and expand others in a $23 billion investment over five years on the heels of President Donald Trump’s announcement of forthcoming tariffs on imported drugs.
The Swiss company revealed the major investment in a press release.
“This commitment enables Novartis to expand on its current manufacturing, research and technology presence across the country with 10 facilities, including 7 brand new facilities, creating nearly 1,000 new jobs at Novartis and approximately 4,000 additional US jobs,” the release said.
No doubt you’ve already heard the news that inflation actually declined in March on a month-to-month basis for the first time in almost three years, and fell to 2.4% on a yearly basis. This is horrible news, at least for the Democratic Party, which continues to hope for the worst under President Donald Trump.
Economists had actually expected inflation to rise for the month. Instead, this is the first time since July 2022 that the index declined. “Surprising,” said a number of headlines.
Recall for a moment last year’s bold promise from Trump on inflation: “Prices will come down and come down dramatically and come down fast,” he said.
Pituffik Space Base commander Space Force Col. Susannah (Susan) Meyers was relieved of command Thursday after a report by Military.com that she had sent a base-wide email to personnel at the Greenland base after a recent visit by Vice President J.D. Vance distancing herself from President Trump’s national security policy on Greenland. Meyers had assumed command last July of the 821st Space Base Group at Pituffik.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell posted the announcement by Space Force of Meyers being relieved of command within hours of the report by Military.com.
Parnell: “Actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense.”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns Americans
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy gave a warning to wallet-wary Americans in the wake of President Trump’s tariff agenda — saying the everything site many have come to rely on may have to up prices on common items.
Jassy issued an equivocating warning to Amazon customers that the world’s most popular online retailer is facing challenges from the Trump administration’s tariff push, stating in an interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on “Squawk Box” on Thursday that the levies could create “macro issues” that hit the average Joe square in the budget.
“I’m guessing that sellers will pass that cost on,” Jassy said
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Senate Republicans continued their campaign Thursday to roll back stringent energy regulations that were issued during the final months of President Joe Biden’s term.
The Senate voted 52-42 to repeal a Biden Department of Energy regulation banning some natural gas water heaters by 2029. The resolution now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature. No Republican Senators voted against the repeal. House Republicans, led by Republican Alabama Rep. Gary Palmer, voted to repeal the gas water heater ban in February.
The Supreme Court has issued further guidance in the case of Salvadoran national Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, and while it doesn't fully affirm the district court ruling, it's rather a mixed bag as far as the Trump administration's position on the matter. For background, we'll refer back to Bonchie's initial reporting on the case: Following Judge Xinis' ruling, the administration filed an emergency application for stay with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied that application.
The administration then filed an application with the Supreme Court requesting that the district court's injunction be vacated and seeking an immediate administrative stay. On Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered that stay.
The political media landscape here in the United States has been undergoing a great change for several years. For those of us in conservative digital/new media, the pace of the change seemed almost glacial until last year. Things started to pick up in late 2022 when the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk was finalized, then really blew up during last year's presidential election.While the Democrats' go-to media sources for prevarication dissemination have been weakened, they still have a lot of fight left in them. This battle is far from being over.
The press and its Democrat allies are screaming bloody murder about President Trump terminating the legal status of those who entered the U.S. under the CBP One app, a questionable entry program for foreign nationals which sported a near-100% approval rate, from which applicants could seek asylum and receive two full years of work authorization, and a host of free benefits whether the asylum was granted or not. It was a no-lose proposition for illegals even if their applications were found to be junk
They insist that Trump was cruel for ending the program, because use of the app made anyone entering the U.S.
Fighting against the wishes of their voters is a classic Republican pastime — and this week is no different.
When they apparently thought nobody was looking, a cabal of GOP senators comprised of Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Utah’s John Curtis, Kansas’ Jerry Moran, and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis — who’s up for reelection next year — quietly sent a letter on Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader John Thune regarding ongoing negotiations over the party’s reconciliation package. Their concern? That the final version of the legislation containing priorities backed by President Trump (tax cuts and border security) will also include provisions fully repealing President Biden’s wrongly named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),
China announces countermeasures by raising
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China announced countermeasures by raising tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% starting Saturday.
The U.S. and China have escalated a new trade war by raising tariffs even as U.S. President Donald Trump hit a pause on tariffs for other countries. China notably had said it would fight the American tariffs with its own countermeasures, calling Trump’s actions “economic bullying,” which led Trump to retaliate by continuously hiking up tariffs this week.
Trump’s universal tariffs on China total 145%. When Trump announced Wednesday that China faced 125% tariffs, he did not include a 20% tariff on China tied to its role in fentanyl production.
Historians will look back and judge Prime Minister Netanyahu as one of the most remarkable war-time Prime Ministers. He will always have to deal with the fact that Israel was shocked on October 7th in the most tragic of all circumstances. He was in charge. Even if much of the fault lies with many of the leaders of the military and intelligence, he still is the commander in chief of the Military, and therefore bears ultimate responsibility for what transpired. There has nearly never been a war that one country fought on seven fronts simultaneously as effectively as Israel has. Right after October 7th,
Global Terrorism Index 2025, published by the Institute for Economics & Peace, reveals that the primary instigator of global terrorism during 2024 was the Islamic State (ISIS) and associated groups -- such as al Qaeda, Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and al- Shabaab -- together responsible for more than 7,500 deaths.
Although the West is experiencing escalating terrorism in countries such as Sweden, Australia, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, the Sahel region evidently remains the "global epicentre of terrorism, accounting for over half of all terrorism-related deaths in 2024." Here, conflict deaths exceeded 25,000 for the first time, of which nearly 4,000 were directly connected to terrorism.