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The Biden administration has paused a controversial program that was flying hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the U.S. per year after massive fraud was discovered. Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed Friday that it temporarily halted the scheme that allows up to 30,000 nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) to enter the country each month. The sudden freeze of the contentious plan comes after an internal DHS report revealed rampant fraud among the sponsors paying for the migrants to come to the country, a source familiar with the report told Fox News.

A tweet from a Democrat has sparked chaos after it appeared to suggest that Vice President Kamala Harris picked Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker prompted confusion with a post on Friday saying: 'Proud to be back with so many leaders from across our region supporting @KamalaHarris for President and @JoshShapiroP for VP!'. She included a video with footage of recent press conferences that ended with the message: 'Josh Shapiro for Vice President'. Journalist Ernest Owens then claimed he had heard from sources that the post was due to be scheduled for Monday, but...

A federal court has blocked the Federal Communications Commission‘s reinstatement of net neutrality rules that expanded government oversight over the internet. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’s ruling against the FCC on Thursday came after the federal agency voted earlier this year to reinstate former President Barack Obama’s net neutrality regulations. “The final rule implicates a major question, and the commission has failed to satisfy the high bar for imposing such regulations,” the court wrote. “Net neutrality is likely a major question requiring clear congressional authorization.” The court has paused the regulation, saying it will pick up the case...

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published an extensive report on the secret negotiations to secure the release of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russian prison. It includes a startling passage about how President Joe Biden, sometimes referred to as "Sleepy Joe," almost botched the prisoner exchange because has no idea what's going on, and strongly suggests that Secretary of State Antony Blinken is actually running the show.The following scene involves Gershkovich's mother, Ella, ambushing Biden in a handshake line at the White House Correspondents' Dinner earlier this year. She relayed a message from Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy...

The US secretary of state has said there was "overwhelming evidence" Venezuela's opposition won the recent presidential election. In a statement Antony Blinken said it was clear Edmundo González, had won the most votes - despite incumbent president Nicolás Maduro declaring a disputed victory. "Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela's 28 July presidential election," Mr Blinken said. His intervention comes as the presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia all called on Venezuela to release the full details of...

ransomnote:Transcript below. In post #1, a video clip at the same prisoner release interview shows Joe wandering on to the plane which delivered the released prisoners.Clandestine@WarClandestineKamala speaks for the first time off script and it’s a DISASTER!As myself and many others have been pointing out, Kamala cannot speak outside of structure. If she does not have a script or teleprompter, she crumbles.This is why the Dems are keeping her insulated. She is a worse speaker than Joe, but he is vegetable with dementia. He has an excuse. Kamala is just an idiot.How long will the Dems be able to maintain...

A Christian family camping in Florida was the target of false reports of child abuse, and now Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says the accusers will be investigated. JD and Britney Lott, two military veterans from Texas, and their eight kids were camping and posting to their social media following of more than 600,000 when they were contacted by Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF). The family explained the situation in a two–part Instagram series and included screenshots of the messages they received. Their story began just a few weeks after Britney gave birth to their eighth daughter, Florida’s Voice...

For the love of all that is good and right, defeating Kamala Harris is not rocket science. We will not beat her by calling her names and questioning her ethnicity or mocking her laugh. We need to beat her over the head repeatedly for the next 90+ days with her record. And every politician should be on this same sheet of music. That record includes: 1. Open borders 2. Defund the police 3. Bailing out violent criminals 4 inflation (gas/groceries) 5. Men in women’s sports and in their lockers and restrooms 6. Abortion at birth/infanticide) 7. No fracking 8. No...

The Washington, DC bar advanced its lawfare on Trump-era Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark Thursday when one of its committees recommended the attorney be suspended from practicing law for at least two years. The committee also demanded that the D.C. bar keep Clark out of work until he can “show fitness for readmission is an appropriate sanction for what was charged and proven.” In their 213-page report, Chair Merril Hirsh, Public Member Patricia Mathews, and Attorney Member Rebecca C. Smith accuse Clark of “truly extraordinary recklessness” over claims he violated bar rules by drafting a letter to Peach State...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) quipped that former President Trump has “buyer’s remorse” over choosing Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R) as his running mate, while talking to reporters Friday. “This guy is not exactly off to a good start and it is clear that Donald Trump really has buyer’s remorse with his pick,” said Shapiro, who is one of the leading contenders to be Vice President Harris’s running mate. Shapiro was responding to comments Vance made during an interview Friday in which he said that Shapiro speaks like he’s doing a bad impression of former President Obama. “I’ve seen a...

The Attorneys General of Virginia and Missouri, along with the Secretary of State of Wyoming, have announced simultaneous investigations into ActBlue over allegations of a money laundering scheme.Investigative journalist James O’Keefe III broke his first major investigation in March 2023 since the launch of O’Keefe Media Group.The legendary journalist released a video from his investigation of the Democrat’s VAST network of donation harvesters. The investigation involved: MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DONATION HARVESTINGHUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL DROPSCROSSING NUMEROUS STATES!The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on the vast far-left network of donation harvesters that James discusses in the video.The information was...

Tropical Storm watches and warnings have been issued from the Florida Keys up the Florida Gulf Coast to Suwanee. The system is crossing Central Cuba, moving at 16mph. The disturbance is expected to develop into a tropical depression on Saturday as it moves across the Straits of Florida, followed by intensification into a tropical storm by Saturday night. Governor DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 54 counties, most along the Gulf Coast and in northern Florida, to move assets in preparation for the storm. August 13 marks 20 years since Hurricane Charley made landfall near Punta Gorda FL. The...

Conservative hardliner and powerful Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good shockingly lost his seat in Congress following a recount of his contentious primary against Trump-backed John McGuire. The Virginia lawmaker's burn-it-all-down tactics in the House has made enemies out of colleagues including former President Donald Trump and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy - who he ousted last year. ... With 99 percent of votes tallied, McGuire took the win by just 393 votes and now the Freedom Caucus will be forced to elect a new chair. In a concession message, Good boasted that he'd been the 'strongest and most consistent voice...

A Hollywood mogul who has been tapped to head the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles is a serial adulterer with a “chronic condition of sleeping with people who work for him,” according to a bombshell report. Casey Wasserman, the 50-year-old CEO of Wasserman Media Group, “love bombed” his mistresses with expensive gifts, including Louboutin shoes, La Perla lingerie, handbags, and Range Rovers, sources told DailyMail.com. Wasserman, a prominent Democratic Party donor who was once photographed with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is alleged to have promised his mistresses that he would leave his wife for them — only for him...

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign on Friday blamed former President Donald Trump for the recent spike in the unemployment rate — under her and President Joe Biden’s administration. “Donald Trump failed Americans as president, costing our economy millions of jobs, and bringing us to the brink of recession,” James Singer, a Harris for President spokesperson, said in a statement, continuing: Now, he’s promising even more damage with a Project 2025 agenda that will decimate the middle class and increase taxes on working families, while ripping away health care, raising prescription drug costs, and cutting Social Security and Medicare — all...

The mother of the Las Vegas teen beaten to death by a gang of bullies last year furiously called out the county’s district attorney for allowing her son’s alleged killers to “get away with murder” after it was ruled they would no longer face prosecution as adults. Mellisa Ready was horrified when she found out the Clark County District Attorney accepted a plea deal on Thursday that would ensure the four teens charged with the death of her son, Jonathan Lewis, would avoid being locked up in an adult prison, 8 News Now reported, citing court documents. “There is no...

The New York Times published an analysis Friday in which it claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “gone rogue” by killing terrorists who had killed Israeli citizens, rather than acquiescing. The story, by Steven Erlanger, is just one of many stories that appeared Friday in the center-left media — both in Israel and the United States — accusing Netanyahu of chasing victory at the price of a ceasefire-hostage deal. Erlanger, citing “analysts,” wrote: The assassinations of senior Hezbollah and Hamas figures abroad have now sharply raised the risks of a larger regional war as Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah...

Biden appears to board the wrong plane following the awkward ceremony to welcome back released hostages.

The Kremlin has admitted that Vadim Krasikov, the assassin freed by Germany in a historic prisoner swap on Thursday, is a serving officer of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), essentially an acknowledgment that his 2019 murder of a Chechen exile in Berlin was a state-ordered hit. It also hinted that he was linked to Vladimir Putin’s personal guard. “Krasikov is an FSB employee,” Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters, adding that he had “served with some of the people working in the president’s security detail”.

---SNIP--- The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.