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President-elect Donald Trump is setting a course to keep the H-1B visa program honest and "stop the grift" in the program, political analyst Dick Morris told Newsmax Saturday. Morris further said on Newsmax's "The Count" that he does not think there is a divide among conservatives concerning the program, which allows companies to hire foreign workers for employment in specialty occupations. "I think Trump is just enforcing his will," Morris said. "That program has been rife with corruption ever since it started under the Clinton administration. [Alejandro] Mayorkas, the head of the immigration service, was literally working with Hillary's brother...

Actress Olivia Hussey, who shot to international prominence as a teenager for her role in the acclaimed 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, has died aged 73. The Argentine-born actress, who grew up in London, died on Friday surrounded by her loved ones, a statement posted on her Instagram said. Hussey won the best new actress Golden Globe for her part as Juliet, but decades later she sued Paramount Pictures for sexual abuse as she was aged just 15 when she filmed the movie's nude scene. Her other most notable screen role was as Mary, mother of Jesus, in...

Donald Trump is set to become the first elected politician in modern history to be hosted for two state visits by the British Royal Family, The Telegraph can reveal. Number 10 and the Foreign Office are preparing to offer the incoming US president an invitation once he is back in the White House, with the backing of Buckingham Palace. It is proof of an emerging strategy from Sir Keir Starmer to use Mr Trump’s fascination with the monarchy to strike up a strong personal relationship that benefits the UK. A senior Whitehall source said: “[Mr Trump] loves the Royal Family....

Late-night comedy hosts including Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel spent 2024 repeatedly bashing now President-elect Donald Trump — and experienced another bad year as their cultural relevance and viewership continue to crash. The network comedians told a total of 1,463 jokes about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris during the recent fall election period, with a whopping 98 percent of them aimed at Trump, according to a recent study by the Media Research Center. The study covered the period from September 3 through October 25.

CDC just published its 2025 vaccine schedules. We have now gone from 7 routine vaccine injections in 1986 to over 200 routine vaccine injections in 2025. In 1986, before vaccine makers had broad immunity to liability for injuries, CDC's schedule had 7 routine childhood injections and none for adults or pregnant women. CDC's 2025 schedule has 5 routine injections during pregnancy, over 70 routine childhood injections (birth to age 18), and over 130 routine adult injections (up to age 79). Counting non-routine injections, there are even more. Here is an image comparing injections up to only 1 year of age...

Two Portland men lost their lives while searching for Sasquatch in eastern Skamania County, Washington. The Skamania County Communications Center received a report on December 25, 2024, around 1 a.m., about two overdue individuals who had planned to return home on December 24, 2024. When the pair did not return, a family member reported them missing and endangered. A recently installed Flock camera helped locate the vehicle associated with the missing men, allowing the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Coordinator to find the vehicle off Oklahoma Road near Willard, Washington. Over three days, more than 60 volunteer search...

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says that currently only Biden is authorised to engage with Russia on behalf of the United States. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Moscow is not satisfied with the proposals of US president-elect Donald Trump’s team to postpone Ukraine’s membership in NATO for 20 years and to deploy a contingent of EU and UK peacekeepers in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already rejected the “peace proposals” of Trump’s team, according to TASS news agency. Although there have been no official initiatives from the United States yet. In an interview with TASS, Lavrov said,...

Let's keep in mind that the left, Never Trumpers and RINOs will be pushing out every rumor, lie, out-of-context quote, including the kitchen sink, to fracture MAGA and cause dissent. A lot will be click bait and to keep their readers happy.

In the fine bad cattitude tradition of “making everyone angry by weighing in on multiple sides of issues of current calamity,” here comes a whole set of takes on immigration, economy, and culture. Some of it is likely to make many people mad. But let’s remember: not liking a fact does not make it false, and not agreeing with everything that someone says does not invalidate the points they make. This one seems to have really brought the bats down from the rafters, and I’m sure we’ll get a comments section for the ages. But please, can we do two...

Both crew members who were rescued from the tail section of the flight after it crashed, could not recall the events of the accident The flight attendants, who were the only surviving passengers of the Jeju Air plane that crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday, were not able to recall the tragic accident, reported The Korea Times. The two crew members were rescued by emergency workers and rushed to hospital. Fire department officials stated that the two were conscious and did not suffer from any life-threatening condition. Survivor Lee However, when 32-year-old Lee was asked to...

Government document compiles grim details of abuse of hostages, including whipping, branding with heated iron, isolation, binding, starving, maltreatment and psychological torment While in captivity in Gaza last year, two Israeli teenage hostages were forced to perform sexual acts on one another, and their captors sexually abused them, according to new details from a Health Ministry report set to be presented to the United Nations. The testimony and many other damning details are included in a report cataloging the physical, sexual and mental anguish the now-former abductees — some of them children — were subjected to, and the lasting effects...

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And don’t forget, even though conservatives are still on a post-election sugar high, the Democrats haven’t gone away. I absolutely guarantee you, they’ll be putting all kinds of pressure — fame, fortune, praise, pop-culture love — on weak-kneed Republicans in 2025. Beginning on Jan. 20, there’s going to be an open casting call for a MAGA traitor. Call him (or her) a Judas, a Brutus, or a Benedict Arnold; the fact remains that the first person to plunge a dagger into the back of Trump will be showered with candy, flowers, and wild, passionate love from the left. And someone...

NFL draft prospects opting out of their bowl games to avoid injuries has become commonplace in college football. Miami quarterback Cam Ward did something on Saturday that takes opt-outs to another level. Ward played in Miami’s bowl game, threw three touchdown passes in the first half and then sat for the second half as his teammates lost a 42-41 heartbreaker to Iowa State.

Another day, another fire at a food processing plant. One person is dead and several injured after an explosion at a poultry plant in Georgia. An explosion at Tyson Foods Plant in southwest Georgia overnight killed a woman sleeping in the cab of an 18-wheeler parked next to the facility. Several people were injured in the explosion. According to reports, a fire raged at the plant for 3 hours after the explosion. The union representing 1,600 workers at the Tyson plant said a boiler exploded. “We extend our deepest condolences to their family and friends during this difficult time. Right...

When the frequent court foes of Donald Trump’s first administration look back at the early days of his presidency, they recall “building the airplane as we were flying it,” as outgoing Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has described it. That was especially true of the intense and quick-moving court fight over the so-called travel ban, a seminal 2017 lawsuit that set the tone for four more years of legal confrontations. None of the Democratic state attorneys general who originally took Trump to court over that controversial policy will still be in office when he is inaugurated next month. But their...

n eyewitness of a South Korean jet plane crash has described the horrifying moment they knew a jet engine had exploded. Just two people - both crew members, one male and one female - are believed to have survived among the 181 people on board the Jeju Air flight, a Boeing 737-800. Government officials have confirmed an official death toll of 179. Kim Yong-cheol, 70, told Yonhap News that he was staying by the airport and noticed something was wrong. 'I saw the plane descending and thought it was about to land when I noticed a flash of light,' Cho...

“Moral wisdom.” Look at the topic, then try to guess in advance where this discussion will go. Headline this week in The Atlantic, for an essay from a writer with a covering-all-supposed-mainstream-bases employment history at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New Republic: I’m ambivalent about the death penalty — not because I hesitate to kill monsters, but because I don’t believe government never makes mistakes. But this discussion of Joe Biden’s death row commutations as an example of moral wisdom is…interesting. It works well as an example of the ways that people who make arguments for...

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -- 10:30 P.M. Major-Gen. Dix, New-York: The following extracts from Richmond papers of to-day have been received by the Department: FROM WILMINGTON. The following official dispatches were received last night: WILMINGTON, Dec. 27 -- 6 P.M. To His Excellency, the President of the Confederate States: The enemy has reembarked under the cover of his fleet. His movement is not developed. I have visited Fort Fisher, and find the damage slight, excepting the buildings not necessary for defence. Only two guns were disabled. The marks remaining indicate that the bombardment was very heavy. Maj. Gen. WRITING,...