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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has for a long time criticized the concept of birthright citizenship — the idea that U.S. citizenship extends to anyone who was born within the U.S.'s borders. Rather than wait for a Supreme Court decision about it, Trump announced his own legislation titled "Birth-Wrong Citizenship." "We're going to deport all the losers and the haters," Trump told the press. "Some of them may have been born here — and maybe even their parents are citizens — but that's obviously a mistake because we are not a country for losers and haters." The bill would...

The leader of a trade group that represents most major automakers called on the federal government to eliminate its gasoline tax and replace it with a vehicle fee to finance road infrastructure needs. Alliance for Automotive Innovation CEO John Bozzella, whose group represents automakers such as General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai and other leading car manufacturers, put forward a proposal that urged the federal government to address the growing shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund with a vehicle fee. The proposal would function like a vehicle registration fee that’s assessed on all vehicles based on their weight, and was first...

Report: Israeli commando units participated in rescue of US navigator. Iran International reported that the IDF commando units Shaldag and Sayeret Matkal took part in the American operation to rescue the F-15 navigator whose aircraft was shot down in Iran.

Kim Freudenberg, a longtime teacher in San Francisco, knew that raising two boys meant a lot of hard conversations. She warned them about all the usual dangers: drugs, alcohol, sex, social media, riding a bike without a helmet. "Never once did I even think that I needed to say 'gambling,'" she recalls. One day, when her oldest son was 11, he was watching someone play video games on a livestream and clicked on a link in the comments. It took him to an offshore online casino. There, he got sucked in — to blackjack, poker, roulette. He could use items...

Although RCW 86 has been imaged many times before — notably by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Dark Energy Camera — new data from NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has delivered a fresh perspective. Launched in 2021, IXPE captures X-ray data and high-energy, short-wavelength light with an all-new level of sensitivity to examine the most extreme objects in the universe, including supernova remnants. IXPE was put to work on RCW 86 because of the remnant's irregular shape and the strange way it's expanding. Earlier observations from Chandra suggested that the supernova spread into a low-density "cavity," allowing it...

*** And now ***a woman was murdered by a left-wing former coworker who was angry over her support for President Trump and saw her as “racist.” The media won’t touch the story because they helped build the climate that made this kind of hatred feel righteous in the first place. This was the targeted killing of a Trump supporter by a former coworker who hated her politics and had been hostile toward her before the murder. And the press, which never misses a chance to spin every story into a lecture about how dangerous the right is, suddenly has nothing...

I posted the events nearly in real time as they transpired. I was called a liar and ridiculed; of course, no apologies are expected. They wouldn't come anyway. The following is pieced together from my Pentagon source speaking on background: The current picture of the F‑15E rescue mission inside Iran is beginning to take shape, and it’s one of the most daring U.S. combat search‑and‑rescue (CSAR) operations since the 1980 Tabas disaster — ironically, over nearly the same landscape.

One of the most defining moments in American history is the unlikely friendship between the English minister George Whitefield, who preached freedom in Christ, and Benjamin Franklin, a scientific skeptic. I saw this wonderful film and was blown away. A new hymn in the style of colonial hymns was written especially for this movie. The authenticity of the sets and costumes brought to life the pivotal years leading up to the creation of our Constitution, and two of the men who helped enshrine our God-given liberties in law.

he family of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre on Saturday urged Britain's King Charles to meet with survivors during his state visit to the United States later this month, saying the trip coincides with the anniversary of her death. In a statement shared with Reuters, Sky and Amanda Roberts said the visit would take place two days after the one-year anniversary of Giuffre taking her own life. "We strongly urge King Charles to meet with us and survivors and hear what we have to say," they said. "We are thankful to him for heeding our sister's allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,...

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) and other local authorities are under fire over a recent string of very high profile and preventable crimes committed by illegal aliens in the sanctuary state. One of Spanberger’s first actions as governor was to sign an executive order barring state and local authorities from cooperating with federal authorities for federal immigration enforcement. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pleaded with Spanberger and Fairfax County officials to stop releasing dangerous criminals back into the community without notifying ICE. In the past few weeks, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged...

California will spend up to $19 million in taxpayer funds on a public relations campaign, with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration awarding the contract to Edelman through the state’s Office of Business and Economic Development.The campaign will run from April 6 through the end of the year. It will promote California’s economy and tourism while countering what Newsom’s administration describes as “negative narratives” circulating online and in partisan media. The contract follows a request for proposals issued last month seeking a campaign to improve the state’s national image, including outreach tied to business development, tourism, workforce messaging, and potential investors. The...

With Valentine’s Day chocolates down to the bottom of the box and Halloween candy many moons away, your sweet tooth might be aching a little extra. Luckily, Easter is right around the corner, bringing plenty of beloved springtime sweets to the table—or rather, basket. Ever wonder how your Easter candy preferences compare to the rest of your state? You might be a Peeps fan, while your neighbors are reaching for Starburst—or perhaps your Easter candy soulmate lives beyond state lines. Either way, America picks favorites, and some are more surprising than others. Ready to see how your taste stacks up?...

Anyone know what’s become of Freeper Kiryandil? Last post was sometime in January.

Grandma didn’t make 3,000 donations. So who did? Here’s a graphic version of the breaking ActBlue scandal for easy consumption. The NYT Allegations: Foreign Donations and Misleading CongressActBlue is the engine behind nearly all Democratic small-dollar fundraising. It has processed billions of dollars in online donations. But a growing pile of evidence — from the New York Times, congressional investigators, James O’Keefe’s undercover reporters, and ActBlue’s own lawyers — now suggests the platform was a fundraising machine comprised of illegal foreign money and fake donors. Worse, internal memos show ActBlue’s leadership seemingly lied to Congress about how safe their vetting...

This article is based on internal legal memos, emails, resignation letters, Slack messages and interviews with current and former ActBlue employees. In early 2025, a law firm working for ActBlue, the Democratic fund-raising behemoth, delivered the organization a startling warning. The firm concluded that ActBlue’s chief executive had given a potentially misleading response to congressional Republican investigators in a 2023 letter explaining how the organization vetted donations to ensure that they were not illegally coming from foreign citizens. The letter from the chief executive, Regina Wallace-Jones, said ActBlue carried out “multilayered” screenings of contributions that helped “root out” those from...

The discovery of an unauthorized biolab in Las Vegas with links to China has raised concerns that there are more across the country - and that they could be used for bioterrorism. On January 31, Las Vegas police raided a five-bedroom house in a residential neighborhood after several people who had stayed at the home, which was listed as an Airbnb rental, reportedly became 'deathly ill.' In the house, police found a cache of weapons, refrigerators containing vials of suspicious liquids and 'laboratory-style equipment.' They sent more than 1,000 samples of the liquids to the National Bioforensic Analysis Center for...

Video at Link Very surprising report from Yingst, who said he spoke with Trump for about 15min. Trump told him that earlier on in the year, we sent lots of guns for the protesters through the Kurds. The Kurds kept the guns. This was part of Trump's "help is on the way". Trump also told him that he feels good about a deal being made tomorrow.

When Francis Ford Coppola was writing the first version of the script that would be released as Patton in 1970, he was so spoiled for anecdotes and incidents that he was able to ignore gems like one that occurred a few days after V-E Day, when General George S. Patton was in his headquarters in the Bavarian town of Bad Tölz. A Soviet general presented himself and demanded a meeting with Patton, who told his aides to "bring the bastard in." Patton's Soviet counterpart demanded that a river boat used by German soldiers to cross the Danube and surrender to...

KAROLINE LEAVITT: “You can and you should do both because actually being a mom and having a family and having a job, it gives you the greatest perspective.” @PressSec live at the This Is the Turning Point

Fans scrambling to secure LA28 tickets are getting a nasty surprise at checkout – with hundreds of dollars in fees suddenly tacked onto their orders. The first drop of presale tickets for locals to attend the 2028 Summer Olympics dropped on Thursday and Angelenos couldn’t believe the final purchase price included a whopping 24% service fee. Tickets to the highly-anticipated Games start at just $28 but can cost as much as $2,000 depending on the event or the package. So tickets packages to see the prestigious track and field gold medal events cost from $2,350 to $8,250 for premium seats....