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WASHINGTON, D.C.—After admitting on national television that she had not anticipated the intensity and length of America's inflation pains, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was seen in her office poring over a copy of Economics for Dummies. The secretary, hired for her brilliance in possessing a checklist of acceptable physical characteristics, has been praised for her renewed desire to understand how moneys work. "Huh, I was way off when I said inflation risks were small and manageable," Yellen was overheard muttering to herself while using a crayon to circle the book's key principles about how money does not grow on trees....

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is in Yuma, Arizona to interview with the Yuma Sun before Gadsden Elementary School board Member and former San Luis Mayor Guillermina Fuentes pleads guilty to her role in running a sophisticated ballot trafficking operation during the 2020 primary election. Nonprofit Executive Tony Reyes has reportedly left the country as this investigation has targeted his organization’s employees. The Gateway Pundit reported that Guillermina Fuentes will plead guilty today for illegally harvesting ballots for Democrats in Arizona.

A Tale of Two Uvalde FathersThe sickening massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas has rightly horrified our nation.Some politicians and commentators are once again calling for stricter gun controls. Others fault the abject failings of America’s mental health care system. A few—perhaps the wisest among us—contend that the collapse of morality and virtue in the U.S. best explains such atrocities.Meanwhile, violence remains endemic in many of our major cities, almost a given considering how long our officials have tolerated it. Chicago is a continual battleground, the list over Memorial Day weekend registering...

U.S. border officials are quietly bussing a vast flood of wage-cutting, rent-spiking migrants into Americans’ towns and cities, despite the court-ordered preservation of the Title 42 barrier. “It’s like 8,000 to 9,000 a day now,” and there are more on the way, migration monitor Todd Bensman told Breitbart News.

The Biden Administration recently announced plans to begin limited construction of barriers and gates along the U.S.-Mexico Border. The plans call for projects that include new and replacement components to come from Trump-era allotments.

Sloviansk (Ukraine) (AFP) – The bombing in eastern Ukraine is becoming more intense and, with no water or electricity, 100 people or so heeded the mayor's call on Thursday to evacuate the city of Sloviansk which sits in Russia's crosshairs. "The situation is getting worse, the explosions are stronger and stronger and the bombs are falling more often," 18-year-old student Goulnara Evgaripova told AFP. Outside an administrative office, she boarded one of five minibuses earmarked to take people out of the city in the Donetsk region that Moscow wants to control. One Russian strike killed three people, wounded six and...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country be referred to as “Türkiye,” the state-run news agency reported. The move is seen as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird by the same name and some associated negative connotations. Anadolu Agency said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman to U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, confirmed receipt of the letter late on Wednesday. The agency quoted Dujarric as saying that the name change had become effective “from the moment” the letter was received. President...

Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler shot down what he called President Biden's "fantastical" claim in the Wall Street Journal that the American Rescue Plan would lower the average family’s annual utility bill by $500. In Biden's WSJ op-ed published Monday, he wrote "a dozen CEOs" of massive utility companies in the United States told him earlier this year that his plan would provide ample benefits for Americans. These benefits include $500 shaved off of American’s utility bills and a transition away from "energy produced by autocrats." Kessler noted Thursday that while Biden is promising massive savings, the White House is...

Masks are no longer required on public transportation or in public places. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to recommend masks for travel, releasing a new statement on May 3 upon the expiration of their previous mandate that required masks, which was struck down by a judicial decision in the federal court system. Are you looking to up your stash of N95 masks for upcoming travel in light of this news? You're in luck, because N95 face mask availability is high, and N95 prices are lower than ever.

President Joe Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters on Thursday that drivers will have to pay at least four dollars a gallon for the foreseeable future. “The price of gas is likely to remain above $4 per gallon,” she said, based on data from the Department of Energy. Granholm has said in the past that high gas prices will encourage people to buy more expensive, fuel-efficient vehicles.

Former President Donald Trump endorsed former Thiel Capital Chief Operating Officer Blake Masters for U.S. Senate in Arizona on Thursday. In a statement, Trump lauded Masters as a “great modern-day thinker” and “one of the most successful businessmen and investors in the Country.”

Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY) warned law-abiding gun owners that Democrats will do everything in their power to ensure AR-15s and similar types of firearms are confiscated during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. The hearing was to consider H.R. 7910, the "Protecting Our Kids Act," which would raise the legal age to purchase "certain semiautomatic centerfire rifles or semiautomatic centerfire shotguns" from 18 to 21 with "exceptions." The bill will also "modernize the prohibition on untraceable firearms [and] encourage the safe storage of firearms." Jones said Congress will pass gun control legislation and nothing, not the fillibuster in the...

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Outspoken Elon Musk has doubled down on his new work-from-home ultimatum sent to Tesla staff Tuesday, sending out a second email to say 'if you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned.' 'Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week,' Musk, 50, wrote in a second email sent to staff just hours after the first, which was leaked and reported by Teslarati. The message, shared by Twitter user @SamNissim, bears the subject line 'To be super clear' and was sent to an email list labeled 'Everyone' at 10:51 pm....

Forget about holidays! Millions of Americans are putting off retirement as inflation continues to soar and President Joe Biden takes the brunt of the blame. A new survey, conducted by BMO, shows that 25 percent of Americans are considering putting off retirement as the US experiences seemingly runaway inflation that is devaluing savings accounts.

A gunman who killed four people at a Tulsa hospital Wednesday targeted a doctor who had treated him and bought the AR-15-style rifle used in the shooting on the day of the attack, police said. Michael Louis was armed with a rifle, which he had purchased at 2 p.m. Wednesday, and a handgun when he went to St. Francis Hospital shortly before 5 p.m., officials said. He opened fire inside the Natalie Building, killing Dr. Preston Phillips and Dr. Stephanie Husen, receptionist Amanda Glenn and a patient, William Love, police said at a news conference Thursday. Tulsa Police Chief Wendell...

VIDEOIt has been two weeks since I last checked out the baby section of Walmart here in Broward County, Florida and it is STILL completely devoid of liquid baby formula. In fact, not only is all the liquid formula still absent, it appears there is even FEWER powdered baby formula. Yeah, Team Biden declared over two weeks ago that they are on top of this and they seem to be as successful in this endeavor as they are in lowering gasoline and food prices.I will probably check the same shelves at this Walmart in a couple of weeks but don't...

On paper, Russian military modernization should have produced a force that could over-match the Ukrainian army. For more than a decade, funds for modernization were allocated to State Defense Orders for everything from next generation aircraft and tanks, to new communications and battlefield control systems. Russian R&D did its part (mostly), turning out systems that won attention and praise at trade shows, while commentators steadily built the Russian army up as an example of a dangerous foe that proved you could achieve more with less in the military procurement space. Then they invaded Ukraine, and the image was shattered. I've...

Russian President Vladimir Putin underwent treatment for advanced cancer in April, according to a report quoting three high-ranking US intelligence officials. Newsweek published the report Thursday, citing information the three intelligence officials – who represent three different US intelligence agencies – shared from a recent White House assessment of the Russian leader’s health status. In late May, US intelligence officials put together their fourth comprehensive assessment of Putin’s medical condition. The three officials, from the office of the Director of National Intelligence, a retired senior Air Force officer, and a Defense Intelligence Agency official, said that Putin appears to have...

Brandon Straka is the founder of the #Walkaway movement which is hundreds of thousands of people walking away from the Democrat party. For this, he was targeted on Jan 6 while being outside the Capitol. He is hosting an event with Kari Lake in Scottsdale next Saturday night.