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  • State Department Employee Steals Thousands of Pages of “Top Secret” Classified Documents, Meets with Chinese Officials

    10/14/2025 1:19:58 PM PDT · by Red Badger
    Gateway Pundit ^ | October 14, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A State Department contractor stole thousands of pages of “TOP SECRET” classified documents and met with Beijing officials. Ashley Tellis, an expert on India and South Asian affairs, removed the top secret documents from secure locations and met with Chinese officials. The classified documents were located in Tellis’s Virginia home during a raid. “On Sept. 25, he allegedly printed U.S. Air Force documents concerning military aircraft capabilities. Federal prosecutors allege that he met with Chinese government officials multiple times over the past several years,” Fox News reported. Prosecutors said in September 2022 that Tellis brought a manila envelope with him...
  • Automated border checks start in Europe

    10/14/2025 1:10:23 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 4 replies
    From Sunday, non-EU travelers entering Europe’s Schengen open-borders zone will be photographed and fingerprinted at border crossings, as the European Union rolls out its much-delayed automated border checks. The aim of the new system is to eventually replace the manual stamp on passports and secure better information-sharing between the bloc’s 27 states. The border-check system will allow authorities to know when people entered and exited a country, with the goal of better detecting anyone overstaying and people refused entry. […] Non-EU nationals arriving for short stays in EU countries — except Cyprus and Ireland — will be asked for their...
  • At least 9 dead across Mississippi after 5 shootings this weekend

    10/14/2025 12:23:37 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 8 replies
    FOX10 News ^ | October 12, 2025 | FOX10 News
    BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Five shootings in 24 hours across the Magnolia state left at least 9 dead this weekend. Most of the shootings happened after high school football games on Friday night. The last two happened at Alcorn State and at a Jackson State University event at Veterans Memorial Stadium on Saturday. At Alcorn State, one person is dead, and two others were injured near the Industrial Technology Building. Officials said no arrests have been made at this time. Jackson Police Department Interim Chief Tyree Jones said a child was hit by gunfire near the tailgate section during JSU’s...
  • LIVE: Donald Trump Welcomes President Javier Milei | Trump's $20 billion Gift to Argentina | N18G

    10/14/2025 11:12:33 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 7 replies
    YouTube.com ^ | 10/14/2025 | CNBC-TV18✓
    LIVE: Donald Trump Welcomes President Javier Milei | Trump's $20 billion Gift to Argentina | N18G
  • Trump says six were killed in US strike on another boat allegedly carrying drugs near Venezuela

    10/14/2025 11:05:59 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Tue 14 Oct 2025 13.59 EDT | Anna Betts
    UN has condemned US strikes on small boats it believes to be trafficking drugs as extrajudicial executionsDonald Trump said the US has struck another small boat that he accuses of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing six people.“The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed,” Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social social media platform.The United Nations has condemned the US strikes on small boats it believes to be trafficking drugs as extrajudicial executions. The US defends the attacks as countering...
  • BONNER COHEN: Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility In Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year

    10/14/2025 11:04:51 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 37 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | October 09, 2025 | Bonner Cohen
    The sun will soon be setting on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011, the gargantuan project was hailed by President Obama’s first energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, as “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.” Instead, it has become yet another example of central planners squandering taxpayer money on an ill-conceived green-energy boondoggle. Covering five square miles of the sun-drenched Mojave Desert, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas, Ivanpah features three 459-foot towers and 173,500 computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats. “The mirrors reflect...
  • Trump administration quietly canceled the nation’s largest solar project

    10/14/2025 11:02:44 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    CNN Lite ^ | October 14, 2025 | Ella Nilsen, CNN
    The Trump administration’s cancellation of the largest solar project in the United States has sparked confusion and concern among Republicans and Democrats alike. Known as the Esmerelda 7, the collection of seven solar projects in rural Nevada was set to generate up to 6.2 gigawatts of energy when complete, enough to power 2 million homes. That’s an eye-popping amount of power to add to an electrical grid that desperately needs more of it, due to the insatiable demand from AI-related data centers and increasing residential needs. Under former President Joe Biden, the federal government was moving the sprawling project through...
  • Daughter Of Detained Pastor Warns Of A Coming ‘Wave’ Of Christian Persecution In Communist China

    10/14/2025 10:59:34 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 5 replies
    DailyWire.com ^ | Oct 14, 2025 | Leif Le Mahieu
    Nearly two dozen Christian pastors and church leaders were rounded up last week. The daughter of a Christian pastor detained by the Chinese Communist Party alongside nearly two dozen church leaders is warning of a coming “wave” of Christian persecution in China, she told The Daily Wire. Last week, the Chinese government rounded up prominent pastor Mingri “Ezra” Jin and at least 22 other church leaders and locked them up in a detention center in Guangxi, a region in southern China. Jin and the others detained are connected to the Zion Church, one of the largest underground church networks in...
  • Trump moves heaven and earth for Charlie Kirk in Israel to fulfill poignant promise to Erika

    10/14/2025 10:56:30 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 12 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 11:12 EDT, 14 October 2025 | Updated: 12:44 EDT, 14 October 2025 | CHARLIE SPIERING
    Donald Trump refused to let a historic Middle East peace deal delay him from honoring a fallen friend.As White House aides rushed to arrange Trump's last-minute trip to sign the monumental Gaza peace agreement, the President issued one non-negotiable demand: be back by Tuesday, October 14 — what would have been Charlie Kirk's 32nd birthday, the day he's posthumously awarding Kirk the Medal of Freedom.'He's a friend of mine, a friend of all of ours, a friend of all the people right here,' Trump said Friday evening in the Oval Office, vowing to return in time for 'a great celebration'...
  • Illinois Activist Judge Orders ICE to Tear Down Security Fence Protecting Federal Facility

    10/14/2025 10:56:25 AM PDT · by C210N · 35 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 10/14/2025 | Jim Hᴏft
    U.S. District Court Judge LaShonda Hunt, a Biden-appointed federal judge in Illinois, has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE to dismantle a security fence protecting the federal immigration processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, a facility that has been the site of violent protests and anti-ICE riots since the launch of President Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz earlier this fall.
  • LIVE: President Trump Participates in the Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom Ceremony – 10/14/25 4pm EDT

    10/14/2025 10:41:02 AM PDT · by Lakeside Granny · 17 replies
  • Johnson dares Democrats to challenge Trump’s move to pay military

    10/14/2025 10:32:34 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 11 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/14/25 11:56 AM ET | Filip Timotija
    House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) dared Democrats on Tuesday to challenge President Trump’s administration move to repurpose previously appropriated funds to pay service members during the government shutdown. “If the Democrats want to go to court and challenge troops being paid, bring it. OK,” Johnson said during a press conference at the Capitol.The Speaker said his understanding was that the administration had “every right” to move funds that had been appropriated by Congress to the Department of Defense, including research and development accounts that had not been spent and that could be used for military pay.Trump over the weekend directed...
  • HuffPostThinks God’s a Fascist

    10/14/2025 10:26:09 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | October 13, 2025, 10:07 PM | John Mac Ghlionn
    Morality isn’t made by committee.The latest sermon from HuffPost’s pulpit insists that “vertical morality” explains why MAGA Christians seem so unchristian. The author, in her infinite wisdom, claims that obedience to God makes people cruel, authoritarian, and conveniently Republican. In other words, faith with a backbone is now a threat to democracy.Let me start by asking a rather important question: if morality doesn’t descend from above, where exactly does it come from? From X polls? From whatever influencer cries loudest on TikTok? The article paints “vertical morality” as a primitive hangover from patriarchy — a moral monarchy that demands...
  • Atmospheric river storm slams into Southern California amid evacuation and flood warnings

    10/14/2025 10:21:46 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Oct. 14, 2025 Updated 6:10 AM PT | Clara Harter
    A “rare and potent storm system” hit Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, triggering evacuation warnings in burn scars due to the risk of debris flows. Up to 1.5 inches of rain was expected in valleys and along the coast, and 4 inches in the mountains and foothills. An atmospheric river hit Los Angeles in the early hours of Tuesday morning, bringing with it scattered downpours, powerful winds and fears of flooding. Evacuation warnings have been issued in areas ravaged by January’s firestorm — including the burn scars from the Palisades fire, the Eaton fire in Altadena, the Hurst fire in...
  • Global economy shrugs off Trump’s tariffs, at least for now, IMF says

    10/14/2025 10:16:08 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 13 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 10/14/2025 9:00 a.m. EDT | David J. Lynch
    The International Monetary Fund says the global economy is performing better than expected despite Trump’s tariffs, but future growth prospects are at risk.The global economy is performing better than expected amid a historic upheaval in U.S. trade policy, but President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs are beginning to erode prospects for future growth, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday in its latest forecast. Global growth this year is projected at an annual rate of 3.2 percent, up 0.2 percentage points from the fund’s July forecast and 0.4 points higher than April’s, which was prepared as the president finalized his announcement of...
  • Kennedy: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is calling the shots in the Democratic Party

    10/14/2025 10:14:30 AM PDT · by metmom · 34 replies
    you tube ^ | October 4, 2025 | Senator John Kennedy
    Senator John Kennedy presentation to the Senate on who's in charge of the Democrat party and her role in the shutdown, in his usual unfiltered way. Video is 21 mins long
  • China Wants Foreign Scientists. The Public Says No, Thanks.

    10/14/2025 10:10:57 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Oct. 14, 2025, 9:44 a.m. ET | Vivian Wang
    Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond.When the Chinese government announced a new visa to attract young science and technology talent, it advertised the move as another step toward becoming the leading scientific power, one to which people from around the globe would flock.To many in China, it was a gross mistake.In the days before and since Oct. 1, when the visa was supposed to come into effect, commenters have accused the government of inviting foreigners to steal jobs from Chinese people, at a...
  • China and the US have long collaborated in ‘open research.’ Some in Congress say that must change

    10/14/2025 10:07:44 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 3 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 8:01 PM CDT, October 13, 2025 | DIDI TANG and DAVID KLEPPER
    WASHINGTON (AP) — For many years, American and Chinese scholars worked shoulder to shoulder on cutting-edge technologies through open research, where findings are freely shared and accessible to all. But that openness, a long-standing practice celebrated for advancing knowledge, is raising alarms among some U.S. lawmakers. They are worried that China — now considered the most formidable challenger to American military dominance — is taking advantage of open research to catch up with the U.S. on military technology and even gain an edge. And they are calling for action.“For far too long, our adversaries have exploited American colleges and universities...
  • Breaking: DOJ alleges State Dept employee removed classified docs, met with Chinese officials

    10/14/2025 10:06:39 AM PDT · by bitt · 40 replies
    https://justthenews.com/ ^ | October 14, 2025 12:59pm | Natalia Mittelstadt
    The employee, Ashley Tellis, is also a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of Defense The Department of Justice said Tuesday that a State Department employee allegedly removed classified documents and met with Chinese officials. The employee, Ashley Tellis, is also a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of Defense, and is considered a subject matter expert on India and South Asian affairs, according to the DOJ, https://www.foxnews.com/us/state-department-employee-allegedly-removed-classified-docs-met-chinese-officials
  • Amazon to hire 250,000 workers for holiday season, matching last year’s target

    10/14/2025 10:04:45 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 4 replies
    Scripps News ^ | 10/14/2025 | Scripps News Group
    In September, the company announced a $1 billion investment to increase worker pay and lower health care costs.Despite concerns about tariffs and a slowing economy, Amazon’s hiring target matches last year’s."As we prepare for the busy holiday season, we look forward to welcoming 250,000 new teammates to our operations network," said Sandy Gordon, vice president of global operations at Amazon. In September, the company announced a $1 billion investment to increase worker pay and lower health care costs.Amazon, which employs about 1 million people in the U.S., said regular full- and part-time employees earn an average of $23 an hour...