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The bill provides law enforcement with more authority to detain illegal immigrants who have been accused of crimes. he House on Tuesday passed the "Laken Riley Act" in a 264-159 vote. The bill received bipartisan support with 48 Democrats and 216 Republicans voting to for it. The Senate is expected to vote on it later this week. The bill provides law enforcement with more authority to detain illegal immigrants who have been accused of crimes. Earlier this year, Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was murdered by Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant, who was sentenced to life in prison without the...

“The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.”- Ilya Prigogine (Chemist-Physicist) Recipient of two Nobel Prizes in chemistryI. Prigogine, N. Gregair, A. Babbyabtz, Physics Today 25, pp. 23-28“The really amazing thing is not that life on Earth is balanced on a knife-edge, but that the entire universe is balanced on a knife-edge, and would be total chaos if any of the natural ‘constants’ were off even slightly. You see,” Davies adds, “even if you dismiss man as a chance happening, the fact remains that the...

“When I was a kid, sometimes you go out playing and then you forget it’s time for the prayers.” Hephzibah Agai was the daughter of a strict Muslim imam. “He will go and then pray and then when he’s coming back he will have a cane. Then he will come and use it on you. Very hard. So make sure you do your five prayers every day.” When Hephzibah was five years old, her mother died. Her father and grandmother raised Hephzibah and her eight siblings in Ghana, West Africa. Her father sent her to an Arab school where she...

In march of 2023 Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif) dedicated $750 million in taxpayer funds to build 1200 tiny-house homes to help mitigate the homeless crisis in his state. This works out to $625,000 per house. So far, none have been built. In North Carolina, the Amish community built 12 tiny-houses for a total cost of $300,000 in 48 hours. This worked out to a cost of $25,000 per house. All of the funds were donated by the Amish community. Newsom assailed the comparison as "unfair. First of all, the homeless situation in North Carolina arose due to hurricane damage. The...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. The Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 gun-rights ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which held that laws restricting the right to bear arms are constitutional under the Second Amendment only if a tradition of such regulation can be found in U.S. history, triggered a wave of challenges to state firearms regulations across the country. This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things,...

VIDEOOut of the THOUSANDS of supposed "insurrectionists" from January 6, 2021 only ONE, count 'em, ONE could not be tracked via cell phone data. Why? Because, aw gee, although everyone else was easily traced via cell phone data it turned out that ONLY the pipe bomber could not be identified because his cell phone data was corrupted. To quote Steven D'Antuono the lead FBI investigator attempting to identify the pipe bomber, "It just sucks for everyone!"

Elites are betraying the working class. This is how. She's not leaving the US for Israel. She's staying, despite the terrible state of the country, which she describes. Transcript linked below video.

Two Trump employees charged alongside him in the classified documents case separately asked Judge Aileen Cannon to block the release. The federal judge in Florida who dismissed Donald Trump’s indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s report detailing the findings of that investigation. Sign up for Fact Checker, our weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics. U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon barred Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland from “releasing, sharing, or transmitting” the report or any drafts or conclusions from it while a federal...

CHICAGO, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) feeder cattle futures reached life-of-contract highs, while live cattle futures hit multi-month peaks on Thursday, as meat packers struggled to find inventory, analysts said. CME March feeder cattle settled up 3.225 cents at 266.200 cents per pound, and all other contracts except January also reached lifetime highs. February live cattle futures ended up 2.000 cents at 193.600 cents per pound, having earlier reached their highest level since March 21. Beef packers are having significant problems finding enough animals to cover their production schedules for the next week, said Cassie Fish, analyst...

The King of Denmark has changed the royal coat of arms in a bid to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands – a move that many view as warning shot to Donald Trump. *snip* The updated design shows the crowns removed and replaced with a polar bear and ram - animals that symbolise Greenland and the Faroe Islands respectively.

A terrorist attack at 3:15 a.m. on New Year’s Day exposed to the world the deadly consequences of the dysfunctional leadership of New Orleans. The Crescent City has been controlled by the Democratic Party since 1872, when the last Republican Mayor left office. The current Democrat Mayor, LaToya Cantrell, is thankfully in the final year of her second term in office. She has been enmeshed in controversy from the beginning of her tenure as Mayor.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed understanding of Russia's position, which opposes Ukraine accession to NATO. "So, you know, a big part of the problem was Russia for many, many years, long before Putin said you could never have NATO involved with Ukraine. Now they have said that that has been like written in stone, and somewhere along the line, [outgoing President Joe] Biden said, no, they should be able to join NATO. Well, then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep. But I can understand their feeling about that," Trump told a press conference in...

The news of Governor Henry McMaster reappointing Dr. Edward Simmer as the Director of the South Carolina Public Health Department has understandably angered countless South Carolinians following Simmer’s failed career as the head of DHEC during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. To fully comprehend Simmer’s mistakes as the Director of DHEC, I reviewed all of DHEC’s board meetings from 2021 and boiled down the main clips so you don’t have to. As the Health Director of South Carolina during the pandemic, Simmer spearheaded all vaccination efforts of adults and children, required masks for kids in school against the legislature’s efforts...

A Senate Budget Committee investigation has revealed Swiss lender Credit Suisse had more Nazi-linked accounts than previously known and obscured such information in the past. An investigation into Credit Suisse’s World War II-era accounts, led by committee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-IA, brought to light tens of thousands of documents that show “extensive” evidence of previously undisclosed Nazi-linked accounts at Credit Suisse, according to a committee news release Saturday The bank, now owned by UBS, engaged in a “pattern of obstruction” by not fully disclosing such information during past investigations, the committee said. In reviewing...

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of a special counsel’s final report into President-elect Donald Trump, pending a decision by an appeals court. The order bars special counsel Jack Smith and the Department of Justice (DOJ) from releasing the report until the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reviews a motion submitted by Trump’s co-defendants. “Pending resolution of the Emergency Motion filed in the Eleventh Circuit ... Attorney General Garland, the Department of Justice, Special Counsel Smith, all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such individuals...

Americans United for Life is pleased to announce its Life List 2025 State Rankings. Each year, AUL releases its Life List, which ranks states from most to least pro-life based on their existing life-affirming policies. AUL looks at each state’s protections for life from conception to natural death. This includes laws on abortion, legal recognition of preborn children, bioethics, assisted suicide and end-of-life patient care, and healthcare rights of conscience. Additionally, states are awarded points for their life-affirming cultural and political landscape and momentum. Arkansas, the Most Pro-life State in AmericaThis past legislative session, the pro-life movement faced many challenges...

In the four years since the Capitol riot, Democrats have tried incessantly to turn it into a national tragedy akin to 9/11 and/or the Pearl Harbor attack. With the goal of preventing Trump from being able to seek the presidency again, they even called it an insurrection (it wasn’t) and accused Trump of inciting it (he didn’t). Their efforts failed, and Trump was reelected on November 5, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the national popular vote since George W. Bush. Oh, what a sweet victory it was. On Monday, Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris was certified, and...

Italy is reportedly close to sealing a €1.5 billion (£1.25 billion) deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX that would provide the country’s government with secure telecommunications. Giorgia Meloni’s government is in advanced talks with the billionaire tech entrepreneur and, according to Bloomberg news, a deal has already been approved by Italy’s ministry and intelligence services. Ms Meloni has built a close relationship with the Tesla billionaire, describing him last week as a “genius” who had been wrongly presented as a “monster” because of his support for Donald Trump. On Monday, the Italian prime minister sought to play down speculation about an...

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said President-elect Trump has “no shortage of nerve” for asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his classified documents and election interference cases. “They have no shortage of chutzpah. No shortage of nerve,” Schiff said during a Monday evening appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” “But for the attorney general to grant it, I think, would be indefensible for the reasons that you mentioned,” he added. Smith’s two-volume report could be released as early as Friday if Garland doesn’t decide to seal the...