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The Chicago City Council has approved allocating an additional $51 million from City funds to address the current migrant crisis. But many citizens have criticized the move, saying that the money should be used to support the local homeless population. During the May 31 City Council meeting, the members voted on a proposed allocation of $51 million to address the migrant crisis facing the city. As a Sanctuary City, Chicago has seen more than 8,200 migrants arrive within the last 10 months and is now running out of space and resources to house them. The proposal for additional funding passed...

The United States lacks an effective tool to adequately combat widespread espionage and intellectual property theft being perpetrated by China’s communist regime, according to a U.S. Treasury Department official. Despite years of competition and ongoing IP theft, the United States has not developed the tools required to target and prevent the continued transfer of sensitive U.S. technologies to China, according to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Rosen.“We currently assess we don’t have an effective tool to target the money and sophistication with know-how that goes into these sensitive and most critical technologies into countries of concern,” Rosen said during...

Former president Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s eying a “most spectacular” 250th birthday celebration of the United States if he is elected, coming days after he promised to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. But the former president, a leading GOP candidate, has made a range of other new policy proposals.Former president Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York City, on Aug. 9, 2022. (David 'Dee' Delgado/Reuters)US Celebration“Three years from now, the United States will celebrate the biggest and most important milestone in our country’s history—250 years of American independence,” Trump wrote on Truth Social....

Alternate headline: Pottery Barn rules apply to walkouts. In an 8-1 decision in which only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson fully dissented, the Supreme Court ruled today that unions have to reimburse employers for damages caused by striking workers. The National Labor Relations Act does not confer immunity to unions or workers — the latest ruling from a court that has stiffened the boundaries for labor activities in the last few years:The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that federal labor law did not protect a union from potential liability for damage that arose during a strike, and that a state court...

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the Republican base is “comfortable” with President Joe Biden because he is an older white man. Anchor Joy Reid said, “I do feel like Biden has this misunderestimated thing where people assume, ‘Oh, he’s too old. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.’ And then he keeps delivering. Today, he tripped over, I guess there was a sandbag, and Twitter and the right are going crazy. It’s the most important thing in the world. First of all, Donald Trump is 76, he’s not exactly young. And you...

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is not a good presidential candidate because he was “not a nice guy.” Cooper asked, “So next week, former Vice President Pence, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie expected to jump into the race. Is this turning into 2015-2016 all over again?”

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is in an interesting predicament. The 37-year-old multimillionaire entrepreneur has impressed conservatives with his commonsense proposals from the moment he announced his candidacy, yet virtually no one believes he can win the nomination.We’ll set aside the 2024 GOP presidential nomination business, for now, and focus on Ramaswamy’s recent comments about what he correctly sees as Telsa CEO Elon Musk and other American CEOs kowtowing to China for economic gain.Musk met with China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing on Tuesday and said he was open to expanding Tesla’s business in Communist China. In what amounted...

Explanation: Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the explosion which created this supernova remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light about 11,000 years to reach us....

Earlier on Thursday, Jeremy Boreing, CEO of The Daily Wire, shared a disturbing thread in which he detailed how Twitter had censored content because it included instances of “misgendering.” According to Boreing, the social media company canceled a deal to promote and stream Matt Walsh’s What Is a Woman documentary. That came after a screener was sent over and Twitter employees decided it was abuse and harassment for a man to call his biological daughter “her.”(See: The Daily Wire Alleges Elon Musk’s Twitter Canceled a Deal Over ‘Misgendering,’ and There are More Disturbing Revelations)As I wrote in my initial write-up...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia attacked Again | Kadyrov and Prygozhyn may start a civil war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUBtxP2ddZM The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 31st May 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). *** Greatly appreciate the viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use on each Front map! https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-462-summary/

In spite of advances in making laboratory-cultured meat products taste like the real deal, we're yet to see a single factory pumping chicken nuggets out of a vat. That might not be such a bad thing, according to a recent study by researchers from the University of California, Davis (UCD), and the University of California, Holtville. They warn current production methods of lab-grown meat could end up being way worse for the environment than beef farming, despite being touted as a sustainable alternative. Their life-cycle assessment of current meat-growing processes – which has yet to be peer-reviewed – found cultured...

Before there was J6, there was J1. On May 29th, 2020, the nationwide insurrection by the racist hate group BLM and its leftist allies arrived in the nation’s capital in a very big way. On Friday night, a violent racist leftist mob, falsely described as “peaceful” by its media allies, converged on the White House. The insurrectionists assaulted Secret Service and Park Police officers. They shouted obscenities and threatened President Trump even as they fought their way past law enforcement personnel to reach the White House. “It looks like a war zone outside the White House,” Adam Parkhomenko, the former...

Okay, so I want to leave NYC; my friend moved there a year and a half ago, and I went to visit him last summer. The place is gorgeous, and the city proper was beautiful. I was thinking of applying to state government jobs (sue me), as they might be easier to get into versus looking at Indeed, where lots of things want an associate's degree. I want to get out of the security industry and go back into an office, which is where I'm comfortable. I'm not asking for a job or apartment on here, but I'm just looking...

Editor’s note: In light of current events, Infowars is republishing an article from July 2019 that’s more relevant today than ever before. NEW FACEBOOK POLICY ALLOWS VIOLENCE AGAINST CONSERVATIVESFacebook has issued a new policy update saying it’s acceptable to post death threats and incite violence against “Dangerous Individuals,” an Orwellian term referring to conservatives. A Community Standards update published by Facebook states:“Do not post: Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; orCalls for high-severity violence (unless the...

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Team DeSantis is apparently embracing gutter tactics as their situation grows more desperate. One of Ron DeSantis’ top advisors John Cardillo, spread misinformation about a Trump crowd size in Iowa. Cardillo tweeted a video of Trump at a radio station in Iowa and claimed it was an open campaign event. Thousands have seen the video and as of now, Twitter has not applied community notes to Cardillo’s video leading many to question if Elon Musk and Twitter’s new globalist CEO are turning the platform into a defacto pro-DeSantis Super Pac.Cardillo tweeted the inaccurate video with an erroneous caption that read,...

On this date in 1970, Argentine general and former dictator Pedro Eugenio Aramburu was shot by a band of Peronist student guerrillas. Aramburu (English Wikipedia entry | Spanish) was one of the major figures behind the 1955 Revolución Libertadora that sent populist president Juan Peron fleeing to Spain. Peron was initially succeeded in the presidency by another general named Eduardo Lonardi, but before 1955 was out Aramburu had overthrown and replaced him, too; Aramburu ran the ruling junta until elections in 1958, maintaining a sharp ban on any vestige of Peronism — including even the mere mention of the exiled...

The U.S. Air Force warned military units against heavy reliance on autonomous weapons systems last month after a simulated test conducted by the service branch using an AI-enabled drone killed its human operator.The Skynet-like incident was detailed by the USAF’s Chief of AI Test and Operations, Col. Tucker’ Cinco’ Hamilton, at the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit held in London between May 23 and 24, who said the drone that was tasked to destroy specific targets during the simulation turned on the operator after they became an obstacle to its mission. Hamilton pointed out the hazards of using...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software.

I’m old enough to have been active in gay rights when you could be arrested in some American jurisdictions for a kiss. Back then, a rainbow flag outside a bar or other establishment meant you could walk in without being kicked out — or worse. Flying it was a risk — and an act of humanity. Then gay rights emerged, and Pride marches — i.e., earnest demonstrations for equality — morphed into Pride parades — i.e., silly displays. Pride Month was born, complete with corporate sponsors.