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Ron DeSantis is making his first swing through the early primary state of South Carolina on Wednesday as he continues to lose the endorsement battle with former President Donald Trump. The Florida governor, who has not yet announced a presidential run despite every indication he intends to do so, will speak in North Charleston, Summerville and Spartanburg about his Florida Blueprint. Visits by popular politicians to South Carolina, along with Iowa and New Hampshire, are indicative they are weighing a presidential run.

It sounded too good to be true, and it was. Travel from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles in two hours via high-speed rail. California voters in 2008 approved Proposition 1A, authorizing $9.95 billion in general obligation bonds to build this so-called “bullet train.” They were told not only that the total cost would only be $33 billion but also that the entire 500-mile system would be running by 2030. Fat chance. In March of this year, the California High-Speed Rail Authority released its latest progress report. The project is now projected to cost $127 billion, and there is...

Prior to the 2020 election, The Gateway Pundit released sordid details from the Hunter Biden laptop. The mainstream media and regime lapdogs refused to report on the criminal conduct of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and the Biden Crime Family, in order to protect them days before the 2020 election. The Gateway Pundit reported in October 2020 on Hunter Biden’s Russian orgies, his many nights with Russian hookers, his father wiring him money for his prostitutes, and his fears of being blackmailed by the Putin regime. Now there is more evidence that it was not just Hunter Biden who was linked...

Suspected felons have walked free in half of cases since Alvin Bragg took office, sparking fears that some of New York’s worst criminals still roam the streets, DailyMail.com can reveal. The proportion of cases in which the Manhattan DA’s office has not asked for felony suspects to be held on bail has more than doubled since 2018, according to its own data. It has sparked fears that more suspects will be released before trial, leaving them free to reoffend.

Preparations for the Rally of Millions in favor of judicial reform are in full swing. So far, hundreds of groups have been registered across the country for transportation to the demonstration that will be held the day after Independence Day. In response to demand, demonstration organizers opened a website with details and the possibility to register for transportation. The organizers report that the demand for shuttles is increasing and the list of hubs from which shuttles will depart is constantly expanding. The Rally of Millions will take place next Thursday, the day after Independence Day, at 19:00 in front of...

Educators in all Florida public schools for all grave levels will now be banned from teaching students about gender identity and sexual orientation in a sweeping move announced by Ron DeSantis's board of education on Wednesday. The move marks a huge expansion of the The Parental Rights in Education law - also dubbed the 'Don't Say Gay' bill by critics - which was signed last year by the governor and sparked a firestorm across the country. Critics of the policy claim it could harm children who identify as gay and transgender. While the previous version of the law prohibited instruction...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pitt police issued an Emergency Notification Service alert on Tuesday evening for a "public safety emergency at O'Hara Street" amid a protest over a campus speaker. In a tweet, campus police said, "Stay away from the area," including the O'Hara Student Center. At 9:41 p.m., Pittsburgh police ordered everyone on O'Hara Street to disperse hours after everything started around 3 p.m. The scene was cleared around 10:15 p.m. and buildings and streets began to reopen.

RCMP photos provided to Western StandardA man was arrested after an individual drove a Hyundai Elantra through a school in Morley, Alberta. Police released images of the vehicular rampage which caused more than $150,000 in damage. Cochrane RCMP were called to Morley Community School April 12 at 6.44 am following reports a vehicle had been driven through the school’s hallways. The vehicle was located and seized shortly afterwards.

The biggest concern is what GEC paid Park Advisors to do: fund and coordinate the censorship of Americans’ speech and our supposedly free press. The State Department’s Global Engagement Center used a cutout corporation headed by a former intelligence officer to fund and promote the blacklisting of conservative media outlets and other censorship endeavors, research by The Federalist reveals. When Elon Musk gave a group of independent journalists access to internal Twitter communications, the resulting “Twitter Files” quickly revealed the existence of a Censorship-Industrial Complex that included an array of federal agencies colluding with social media companies to censor disfavored...

Ralph Yarl, the 16-year-old boy who was shot twice for ringing the wrong doorbell in Kansas City, Missouri, is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a traumatic brain injury. Yarl, who was shot in the head and arm by suspect Andrew Lester, 84, was pictured sitting on a bench, smiling, with one of his attorneys, Lee Merritt, according to an Instagram post from author and activist Shaun King on Wednesday King described the teen as a “walking miracle with a head of steel” after he was hospitalized following Thursday’s shooting that left him in critical condition. “Ralph suffered...

The Nebraska Legislature passed LB77, the Constitutional Carry bill today at 11:28. The vote was 33 to 14 for the third cloture vote. Each closure vote requires 33 votes to move the legislation forward. Nebraska Governor (R) Jim Pillen has said he will sign the bill. Nebraska will be the 26th state to restore Constitutional Carry. Florida has enacted permitless carry. There are 27 permitless carry states. All Constitutional Carry states have permitless carry, but Florida does not allow general open carry, so is not a true Constitutional Carry state.

We don’t have enough lithium, cobalt and nickel to build even one generation of batteries for all EVs and stationary power storageTo phase out ICE and fossil fuels we need a better plan; that includes recycling and alternate battery tech (vanadium, zinc)ASX stocks looking to build battery recycling businesses include Neometals, Hannans, Lithium AustraliaThere are not enough minerals, like lithium, cobalt and nickel, in the currently reported global reserves to build even one generation of batteries for all EVs and stationary power storage, according to a recent report.Associate Research Professor Simon Michaux from Geological Survey of Finland GTK says those...

President Donald Trump is continuing to reach out to Americans across the nation. On Thursday, April 27, he will give a speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Making America Great Again. 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump to Deliver Remarks on Making America Great Again in New Hampshire pic.twitter.com/ggWWHRSstP— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) April 17, 2023His continued dedication to putting America First has led him to raise a whopping $34 million in 2023 alone, via RSBN.At his recent NRA appearance, President Trump criticized the weaponization of law enforcement against law-abiding citizens and funding the war in Ukraine as...

A coroner has ruled that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should be added to the death certificate of a 'fit and healthy' NHS doctor who died ten days after receiving the jab. Dr Stephen Wright, 32, who worked as a clinical psychologist in south-east London, suffered a blood clot to the brain after having his first dose of the jab in January 2021. Senior coroner Andrew Harris today described the case as 'very unusual and deeply tragic'. The frontline health worker was among the earliest groups of people to be given the vaccine during the pandemic. A small group of people,...

Cheyenne police entered a man’s home unlawfully to arrest him, the Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled in overturning his conviction. The high court in its Monday order reversed Myron Martize Woods’ 2021 Cheyenne Circuit Court conviction of interference with a peace officer for fighting officers who entered his home unlawfully to arrest him. The conviction stemmed from Feb. 13, 2020, when police investigated a dispute between Woods and his ex-girlfriend over the care of their son. Woods’ ex-girlfriend said he had grabbed her neck, but a jury later acquitted Woods on that domestic battery charge. Cheyenne Police Department officers went...

We would like to think that many of the better trends and changes that have taken place in how we live have been determined by logic and governed by choice. The sad reality is that many of our preferences as a society are not organic or even the best choice when put under a microscope. Our choices or how we handle a problem often fall short. Outside influences such as politics and money often override what is best for us overall. If this were not the case the world might be a much better place to live. It is not...

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his White House bid official Wednesday with a campaign kick-off event in Boston, standing alongside his actress wife, Cheryl Hines. Kennedy gave a rambling speech, remarking how the U.S. would have a 'really funny first lady' if he's elected, while admitting that most of the Kennedy clan wasn't backing his run for the Democratic nomination against President Joe Biden. 'There are other members of my family who are not here today,' the 69-year-old Kennedy scion said to laughs after giving shout-outs to the handful who were in the crowd. 'I know most...

Seattle firefighters responded to the report of an explosion in the basement of an apartment building Wednesday morning. At about 9:37 a.m., firefighters and police responded a report of the sound of an explosion in the 100 block of 1st Avenue North. As a precaution, the building was evacuated. HazMat crews also responded to the scene.

Fighting between the army and paramilitary forces continued in Sudan Wednesday with air strikes and explosions heard throughout the capital, despite a US-brokered ceasefire that was due to come into effect on Tuesday evening.

As we have been discussing for months, the United States ended its “job recovery” from the COVID-19 recession in December of 2022, when it finally surpassed the December 2019 level (158.8 million Americans employed) reaching 159.24 million Americans employed. Job creation above the U.S. pre-pandemic high is now at 160.9 million Americans employed or roughly 2.1 million jobs “created” above the pre-pandemic high as of March 2023. We are also concerned about the world economy as it seems to be returning to trading blocs and other forms of fragmentation while simultaneously looking to replace globalization and free trade. Brazil, Russia,...