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Within days of taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that has been misconstrued by most of the talking heads out there as "ending birthright citizenship." This characterization uses an overly broad brush to paint over what is actually an extremely nuanced issue with regard to the interpretation of citizenship in the 14th Amendment.Section 1 of the amendment starts off with one of the most consequential lines of any of the Reconstruction Amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens...

On Monday, Elon Musk came under fire from the mainstream media and radical Democrats, including and especially Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for a gesture interpreted as a Nazi salture. Musk quickly received an assist from the Anti Defamation League (ADL), and now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also weighing in.This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people...

Trump’s incoming Secret Service Director Sean Curran is expected to clean house on his first day on the job, according to Real Clear Politics. “On incoming Secret Service Director Sean Curran’s first day in the new role, 5-10 senior leadership officials, including former Director Ron Rowe, were warned that they would either be fired, moved, or pressed into retirement, according to three sources in the Secret Service community,” RCP reporter Susan Crabtree said on Thursday. President Trump on Wednesday announced Sean Curran, one of the agents who surrounded him following the Butler assassination attempt, as the new Secret Service Director....

Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis, Helen Mirren... Carlos Gascon? Even though one of these things is not like the other, they all have something in common: They've been nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Actress." Look, I couldn't care less about the Oscars, and I'm sure most of you agree. Hollywood has long proven that it is out of touch with reality and out of touch with the rest of the country. But as a woman — an actual biological woman in case we have any confused liberals lurking around — I'm so sick of...

A Connecticut drug kingpin convicted in the deaths of an 8-year-old boy and his mother was granted clemency by President Joe Biden — in a stunning 11th-hour move slammed by fellow Democrats. Adrian Peeler, 48, of Bridgeport, served 25 years in state prison on conspiracy charges in the deaths of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son, Leroy “BJ” Brown, in January 1999, CT Mirror reported. The two had been slated to testify a month later against Peeler’s brother, fellow drug gang leader Russell Peeler, who was on trial for killing Clarke’s boyfriend, rival dealer Rudolf Snead ... The stunning move...

It's been a whirlwind of a week over January 6 and the select committee of all Democratically-appointed members who were supposed to investigate the events of that day. On Monday, outgoing President Joe Biden issued several preemptive pardons, including for members of that select committee, even though at least one such member, now Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) didn't think it was the greatest idea. Later that same day, upon taking office, President Donald Trump issued pardons for the January 6 defendants. Now, as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced on Wednesday, there's to be a new select committee.Teri Christoph, writing for...

President Donald Trump partially blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, launching a war that continues to this day. Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. sent billions in aid and weapons to Ukraine to help fend off the invaders. On the campaign trail, Trump was critical of the aid, which many congressional Republicans have vehemently opposed. As a senator, Vice President JD Vance said last year that blocking assistance to the country was his second-biggest priority. Speaking with Sean Hannity for...

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A Tennessee congressman has proposed amending the Constitution to allow Donald Trump to serve a third term as president. Rep. Andy Ogles filed a Joint Resolution in Congress this week advancing a change to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which currently restricts presidents to two terms. In his resolution, Ogles included several stipulations to the change if it passes, including barring any president being elected to a third consecutive term after serving two in a row. 'And no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to...

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to give away sovereign territory in the Indian Ocean which contains a strategically critical U.S. base is so “stupid” he must be on drugs to consider it, a Republican Senator says. President Trump and the new U.S. Secretary of State (foreign affairs minister) Marco Rubio have been briefed on the Chagos Islands situation created by the British government, says U.S. Republican Senator from Louisiana John Kennedy — no relation to President John Kennedy — and that the dictates of the United Nations should be ignored. Reminding others on the Senate floor (1hr 55m)...

The Air Force has started shutting down its diversity and inclusion offices and boards to comply with President Donald Trump’s sweeping order to root out DEI from federal agencies, but the process will not be completed overnight, an official told Air & Space Forces Magazine.

Legal service providers help individuals navigate immigration court proceedings. The Department of Justice, under new leadership following the inauguration of Donald Trump, has told legal service providers who receive federal funding to stop providing legal orientation and other work intended to support immigrants at immigration courts. In a memo obtained by ABC News, the DOJ ordered all such legal providers on Wednesday to "stop work immediately" in those areas. "This email is to send you notification to stop work immediately pursuant to the Executive Order on the following task orders," the memo said. The programs listed in the memo include...

With all this talk about the Chinese government infiltrating the United States through TikTok, many have asked: Aren't the Chinese already doing so through the purchase of U.S. farmland? About a year and a half ago, Georgia Rep. Mike Collins delivered a speech to the U.S. House of Representatives, citing a 2021 report that China owned 384,000 acres of American agricultural land at that time — a 30% jump between 2019 and 2020 — and some of that land surrounded an Air Force base in North Dakota, making it a clear threat to national security. Grand Forks, N.D., apparently ended...

San Francisco’s gourmet doughnut cafe George’s Donuts & Merriment is receiving online backlash just weeks after opening due to a sizable donation its co-owner’s startup made to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. Hims & Hers, a San Francisco-headquartered telehealth company co-founded by George’s Donuts co-owner Andrew Dudum, recently made a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural committee, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle (Dudum is also the CEO of Hims). But despite the donation coming directly from Dudum’s health startup, the fallout over the large contribution is now extending to the cafe, with a barrage of negative...

CNN’s Jim Acosta is reportedly fuming over his demotion to the network’s late-night graveyard shift and has threatened to walk away from the struggling network altogether. This development comes as far-left CNN undergoes a significant restructuring under CEO Mark Thompson. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Acosta, formerly CNN’s White House Correspondent and a prominent anti-Trump activist, may soon be getting a downgrade. Acosta currently hosts CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta on weekdays at 10 am. Yet, according to ex-CNN reporter Oliver Darcy, who now runs a media-focused newsletter called Status News, CNN chief Mark Thompson wants to move Acosta’s...

One of the Washington Post’s longest tenured editors denounced the paper in stark terms on Wednesday night, declaring that it has “utterly lost its soul” after publishing an op-ed drawing false equivalence between pardons issued by Joe Biden and Donald Trump. “The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden’s questionable pardons with Trump’s outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable,” David Maraniss, a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner who has been with the paper nearly 50 years, wrote on Bluesky. “The newspaper I’ve been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.” Maraniss didn’t link to the editorial in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, ahead of the 2025 March for Life tomorrow in Washington, D.C., U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released the following statement honoring the event and reintroduced his Defund Planned Parenthood Act. “As a physician, I took an oath to do no harm. As a father and grandfather, I’ve witnessed the miracle of life firsthand,” said Dr. Paul. “My commitment to protecting life isn’t just personal, it’s rooted in both science and principle. Life begins at conception, and I’ve spent my time in the Senate fighting to protect the right to life.” The Defund Planned Parenthood Act would...

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Somewhere in the bowels of the CNN Building in Atlanta is a video clip that has been on file since the channel began in 1980. The footage is of a military band performing “Nearer My God To Thee.” The explicit instructions are that this particular tape is not to be released for broadcast “till the end of the world confirmed.” Morbid perhaps, but Ted Turner can’t be disparaged for thinking of the big picture. His CNN was going on the air with the then-traditional national anthem and would stop for nothing until the apocalypse. This being the dawn of the...

Canadians are in for another year of record-breaking heat, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)'s latest report. The Canadian Centre for Climate Change Modelling Analysis forecasts a global mean surface temperature of 1.45 C above pre-industrial levels in 2025. It's slightly cooler than the record-high temperature of 1.55 C above the level in 2024, but the forecast is certain that it will be hotter than any year on record before 2023. "High temperatures are forecasted to persist despite the end of the El Niño event that warmed the tropical Pacific and boosted global temperatures in 2023 and 2024,"...