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Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun stood before a federal judge in Manhattan on October 8. He admitted to four felony counts: conspiracy to violate US export controls, conspiracy to smuggle goods out of the country, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors call the 44-year-old contractor a "fixer," a label that undersells what he's accused of actually doing. That's the headline fact. Here's why it matters beyond one contractor's sentencing: Sun was charged alongside Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, who pleaded not guilty. Liaw's trial, originally set for November, was pushed back to March 2027 after his lawyer...

ecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth awarded the soldier who reprimanded him and members of his staff at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier a Joint Service Commendation Medal on Thursday. “We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist,” Hegseth said in a post on social media. A Pentagon official confirmed that Hegseth welcomed the 3rd Infantry Regiment, known as The Old Guard, to the Pentagon “where he proudly awarded Specialist Iglesias the Joint Service Commendation Medal for the execution of his duties at the Tomb of the unknown Soldier on November 11, 2026.”

From recycled apartheid accusations to ever-expanding genocide claims and newly coined terminology, the campaign to demonize Israel keeps finding new words for the same old obsession.The recycling of accusations against Israel isn't accidental. It's a propaganda strategy: when one label loses its punch, roll out another. VERBICIDE — The Deliberate Corruption Of Words This is verbicide: the killing of a word's original meaning through its deliberate distortion, inflation, and political weaponization. Words that carry profound historical, moral, and legal significance—apartheid, genocide, and now ecocide and wholocide—are repeatedly stretched, repurposed, and stripped of their precise meaning to serve an ideological campaign....

A judge has expanded an earlier order to stop New York from censoring pro-life groups that recommend the abortion pill reversal treatment to pregnant women. U.S. District Judge John Sinatra of the Western District of New York, a Trump appointee, issued an order last Friday in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates et al. v. Letitia James. The order expands an earlier preliminary injunction preventing the state from censoring talk about abortion pill reversal to include “unnamed New York members” of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA). Gabriella McIntyre, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, which...

He previously said he was open to the vice president restarting talks with Tehran, but now says a deal isn’t necessary WASHINGTON—President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. didn’t need a deal with Iran and would prefer Vice President JD Vance, who has taken the lead in negotiations, work on investigating American cities run by Democrats.“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.,” Trump posted on social media. “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have...

Two staffers of the International School of Monterey in Seaside, California, were arrested for embezzling $300,000 of the school's money. The school became alerted to suspicious activity when they noticed an excessively large order from Costco. No, really! California school staffers busted in $300K embezzlement scheme after massive Costco breakfast order blew their cover https://t.co/OlPSfvt7PM https://t.co/USIhVxbyhu— New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2026Terry Bumper, the school's former food services director, also owns a catering business called Flava 2 You, and he allegedly used the school's account to order $58,800 of eggs, bacon, and potatoes for his personal use. Article Image...

..... UPDATE: The Associated Press and NBC Washington are reporting the Logan Circle shooting suspect “is barricaded on a high floor of a residential building in the area” where the shooting occurred. There is still no publicly released description of the suspect nor of the firearm used in the attack.

Hope some people can chime in... 1. What happened to TPUSA help in the election 2. What did the Dems get for 12 million paid to Marc Elias 3. How can every county in 22 states go blue, really? 4. Can votes not be verified after an election to ensure only legal Americans are voting and votes counts are accurate? 5. Why is Thune being chosen as minority leader? 6. Why is Joe Gruters being endorsed by Trump for RNC Chair again?

Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his wife, Yolanda Hill, have filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, listing about $798,000 in debts and about $536,000 in assets, according to federal court records. The couple filed the joint petition Nov. 3 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. They are represented by Greensboro attorney Samantha K. Brumbaugh. Chapter 13 lets people with regular income keep their property while repaying some or all of their debts over three to five years under a court-approved plan. Because Robinson’s income is above the state median for a two-person...

Palantir chief Alex Karp is open to supporting Democrats in 2028, he told Politico, marking the latest technology executive and billionaire to signal support for the party after a “blue wave” in this year’s midterm elections. Key Facts Karp said Democrats have “absolutely” corrected enough to gain back his support in 2028. Karp used the word “progressive” eight times while describing his philosophy to Politico, telling the outlet he has been a Democrat his entire life and that he knows “more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir—all of our products are...

When Stephen Miller first appeared on my radio show as a high school teenager, did I see his potential? I've been asked this many times. Stephen, then a student at California's Santa Monica High School, contacted my radio show with a complaint. California's Education Code requires elementary, middle and high schools to conduct "a patriotic ritual," like citing the Pledge of Allegiance, at the beginning of each school day. Santa Monica High was not doing this. Stephen complained, without success, to his teachers, the principal and administrators. So, he called my show, cited the Education Code and talked about the...

According to a Monday memo obtained by Fox News, new White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller plans to employ a more collaborative relationship with President Donald Trump's cabinet, even making a change in the name of the position that interfaces between the cabinet and the Chief of Staff. "The White House position of Cabinet Secretary will be changed to the role of Director of Cabinet Relations, focused on providing support and reinforcement of President Trump's tremendous Cabinet Secretaries," details the memo, which Fox News Digital viewed. "Each cabinet leader serves as the best leader and communicator for their individual...

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress, who usually begins her day talking to the company's Israeli executives, talks to "Globes" about the chips behind the AI revolution.

A local school board meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, morphed into a raucous discussion of free speech and Islam Wednesday, as more than 100 people signed up to comment, primarily on the reported posts of a board member who questioned the religious nature of Islam. One week earlier on Nov. 3, the Florida chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, demanded that school board member’s resignation over an apparent Facebook share declaring, “We got lost in the myth that Islam is a religion.” The screenshot was attributed to Duval County School Board member Tony Ricardo. Action News Jax said it...

Winter is coming, and in Germany, officials are scrambling to prepare coal plants for emergency operations as gas supplies and storage levels are low. Germany has waged war on coal plants for years in pursuit of its green agenda, relying instead on gas imported from Russia and elsewhere. The nation wants to be "climate neutral" by 2045 in accordance with the Paris Agreement. Coal plants were phased out, as were nuclear plants, with the last one closing in 2023. On November 2, Clean Energy Wire reported that the nation missed winter gas storage targets to have them at least 70...

Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia. The embattled CEO resigned Thursday over reports of two extramarital affairs—one with an alleged Chinese spy, the other with a company exec who reported to him, reports the Wall Street Journal and the BBC. His scandal has rocked the world of technology given that Nvidia is vital to the AI industry and Huang is vital to Nvidia. Finance chief Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO, but the path to picking a permanent successor is murkier because Huang had no clear second-in-command. Nvidia shares fell 10% on the news, on top of earlier losses...

Agroup of transgender federal employees have asked a federal judge to halt the Trump administration’s bid to ban coverage of gender-affirming care by the federal government’s two employer-sponsored insurance programs, in advance of the new plan year in January. On President Trump’s first day in office in 2025, he issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to cease acknowledging the concept of gender identity as well as the existence of transgender and other nonbinary individuals. In the intervening months, the Trump administration has sought to purge transgender Americans from the military service branches, halt gender affirming care for federal prisoners...

A Chinese university with links to the country's military bought two of Nvidia's powerful H200 AI chips last month despite being on a U.S. export blacklist, according to Reuters. Northwestern Polytechnical University purchased the chips for 874,700 yuan ($123,000) on October 21 through a local supplier, Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology, rather than directly from Nvidia. The university is among China's so-called Seven Sons of National Defense, a group of institutions with ties to military research. Based in Xi'an, Northwestern Polytechnical conducts research related to military aircraft, missiles and satellites. The H200 is one of Nvidia's most powerful processors for training...

The same bill backs equity curricula and removes a deportation ground for noncitizens who vote illegally. ======================================================================= “Universal mail-in voting” That is what American taxpayers would help finance under Democrats’ legislation to abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Rep. Delia Ramirez’s Reimagining Safety Act would dismantle DHS and give its proposed replacement a new assignment: distributing federal grants for mail-in voting, equity-focused civics curricula and community civic-engagement programs. Twenty pages earlier, the same bill would erase the specific deportation ground for noncitizens who vote unlawfully. The proposal pairs federal support for universal mail voting with the removal of an immigration...

Texas Democrats are opening their incoming state House majority with a push to clear the way for DEI offices and programs to return to public universities across the state — a move state Republicans are expected to block but that puts the culture-war issue front and center after massive Democratic Party gains in the state. HB 358 and SB 125 would repeal a 2023 law banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at public universities, but the bills face steep odds with Republicans still retaining control of the Texas Senate. Still, the effort signals Democrats’ broader intent to...