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U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app.

Google will be updating its maps in line with Donald Trump’s proposed name changes. Last week, Trump announced that he would be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and the Denali Mountain in Alaska to Mount McKinley. In a post on the X platform, Google said it would follow their “longstanding practice” of abiding by U.S. government name changes. “We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps,” the post read. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.” “For geographic features...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Republican senators introduce legislation to help Trump complete border wall From justthenews.com 8:12 PM · Jan 27, 2025

The Gaza Islamist death cult "health ministry" controlling regime, AKA Hamas, has used the scenes of releasing of innocent hostages (in exchange of 30/50 terrorists [1]) for propaganda, attempting to boost jihadi morale among its youth and project "strength" to world media. They have been surrounding the victims - innocent hostages (starved, but fed fully only days before release [2]) by hundreds of terrorists, knowing full well they're shielded from Israeli defenders eliminations at those hand over moments. Though the Palestinian Authority (who isn’t 'moderate' by any stretch of imagination) did expose [3] their real cowardice, by stating the facts...

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., has been telling potential donors and Florida political players that he is running for governor in 2026, the clearest signal yet that his much-expected bid is moving forward. Donalds, who represents southwest Florida, has long been rumored to be considering a campaign to replace term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis, but those rumors have ramped up in recent days. Last weekend, at a state Republican Party meeting in Orlando, Donalds sponsored a hospitality suite and told people he is running. In the past week, he has sent an even clearer sign of his intentions in a series of...

Dated before Trump took office. Various Biden administration agencies separately reported aid (separated by White House, State Department, Defense Department, etc.) so the total amount of support to Ukraine is hard to calculate. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, around July, 2024 the overall total US support to Ukraine was $189 Billion.

by Victoria Toensing and John Yoo Rather than revenge, the Justice Department should defend the constitutional rights of candidate Trump and his voters. In his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump declared that the “weaponization of our Justice Department and our government will end” and that he would “re-balance” the scales of justice. He now faces an important decision: whether to investigate the founders of the lawfare campaigns against him — beginning with New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He would have at his disposal the same legal theory that the Biden...

He frequently failed at school, so how did the ‘weirdo’ teenager Bill Gates go on to found Microsoft and become a billionaire by 31? He talks about his memoir, Source Code — and what happened when he met Donald Trump last month‘When Kent died, I didn’t know who to sit next to at lunch any more,” Bill Gates tells me. “He was my best friend. We spent hours writing code, working out whether we wanted to be an ambassador, a general or a scientist. We used to scour the biographies of famous men and later CEOs and wonder what it...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer poses with Lenawee County Democrat Party chair Bill Swift in 2024 A Lenawee County Democrat who posted an unhinged rant denying the 2024 election results and labeling immigration officials as “Nazi collaborators” is doubling down. Lenawee County Democratic Party Chairman Bill Swift called in to Talk Back Radio with Doug Spade and Mike Clement on Saturday to discuss the post, which was deleted from the party’s Facebook page shortly after it was posted last week. Swift on Saturday also called for the death penalty for the president’s supporters.

A transgender Minnesota lawmaker has argued that President Donald Trump’s expected executive order to ban those who identify as trans from serving in the U.S. military “will only make our military less ready.” State Rep. Leigh Finke (D), a biological man who identifies as a woman, became Minnesota’s first transgender legislator in 2023, Breitbart News reported. In a Monday segment with CNN’s Pamela Brown, the activist politician addressed reports of the incoming executive order, which is aimed at reinstating Trump’s ban on openly transgender enlistees and prohibition of military-funded medical transitions from his first term in office. “There is no...

For any self-identified transgender people with hopes of serving in our military, there’s good news! You still can! Just maybe don’t show up to the recruiter announcing that you have a penis and expect to be sleeping in the women’s barracks.President Trump is reportedly set to sign an executive order that will prohibit taxpayer-funded accommodations for trans-identifying people in the military. That includes hormone replacement drugs, cosmetic genital surgery, cosmetic breast removal, and mixed-sex housing. Just as when Trump did this in his first term, the media are attempting to frame the event as a cruel setback for civil rights....

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station, FloridaNaval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station, Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC), formerly known as Naval Technical Training Center Corry Station in Florida, United States, is a sub-installation of nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola that hosts several of the Navy's Information Warfare Corps training commands. IWTC is the headquarters for its Center for Information Warfare Training and is part of the U.S. Navy's Tenth Fleet.NAS Pensacola is dedicated to providing the highest level of base operating support and quality of life services for all shore activities aboard NAS...

Tom Homan, President Trump’s “border czar,” defended the immigration raids this weekend and pledged to continue working toward carrying out the administration’s enforcement goals in a Monday interview. In an interview on Fox News’s “America Reports,” Homan pushed back on criticism that “these are everyday people, these are families that are being attacked and dragged out of their homes.” “I don’t think we arrested any families,” Homan said when asked to respond to that criticism. “We’ve arrested public safety threats and national security threats. Bottom line.” “Look, President Trump won the election on this one issue: securing our border and...

Google said Monday it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" in Google Maps after the Trump administration updates its "official government sources." The company also said it will start using the name "Mount McKinley" for the mountain in Alaska currently called Denali. Last week, President Donald Trump signed executive actions that included an order to make the name changes on official maps and federal communications. "We've received a few questions about naming within Google Maps," the company said in an X post. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they...

WASHINGTON—House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced today an investigation into the policies of sanctuary jurisdictions and their impact on public safety and federal immigration enforcement. In letters sent to the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City, Chairman Comer requested documents and communications related to their cities’ sanctuary policies. He also called on the mayors to testify at a committee hearing scheduled for February 11, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. ET. “The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States and their impact on public safety and the...

Nvidia called DeepSeek’s R1 model “an excellent AI advancement,” despite the Chinese startup’s emergence causing the chip maker’s stock price to plunge 17% on Monday. “DeepSeek is an excellent AI advancement and a perfect example of Test Time Scaling,” an Nvidia spokesperson told CNBC on Monday. “DeepSeek’s work illustrates how new models can be created using that technique, leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant.” The comments come after DeepSeek last week released R1, which is an open-source reasoning model that reportedly outperformed the best models from U.S. companies such as OpenAI. R1′s self-reported training cost...

Chinese startup DeepSeek - whose new low-cost AI model rattled tech stocks Monday - suffered a large-scale cyberattack, causing it to temporarily limit registrations. Earlier in the day, DeepSeek said it was hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free app in Apple's U.S. App Store and overtook ChatGPT in downloads. DeepSeek claims it uses cheaper chips and less data, challenging the idea that advanced semiconductors, like those made by Nvidia, are needed to run AI applications. That sent major tech stocks tumbling, with shares of Nvidia falling as much as 17.8% at one...

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has put on leave about 60 senior career officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workers, sources familiar with the matter said, after Washington put a sweeping freeze on U.S. aid worldwide. SNIPAn internal memo sent to USAID employees on Monday evening said the new leadership identified several actions in the agency that "appeared to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people." SNIPSince returning to office last week, Trump has taken steps toward fulfilling his vow to remake a federal bureaucracy he...

Mexican illegal immigrants are so productive and contribute so much to the United States that she is angry that Donald Trump wants to send them back to Mexico, their home. 🚨 BREAKING: Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum condemns Donald Trump's attacks on immigrants and stresses:"The Mexicans there sustain the economy of the United States -- in the countryside, in services, everywhere!" pic.twitter.com/jHlGZYrVi5— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) January 27, 2025Uh, yeah. I get it. Makes perfect sense to me. Claudia Sheinbaum, the socialist President of Mexico, is big mad at Trump for enforcing immigration laws in the United States. She is currently...

Trump’s Justice Department went scorched earth on Monday and fired more than a dozen officials who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team. Acting Attorney General James McHenry said Jack Smith’s prosecutors and aides cannot be trusted so he terminated more than a dozen of them. The names of the fired officials were not released. Former US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate Trump in November 2022 just one day after Trump announced his reelection bid. Jack Smith indicted Trump on more than 37 counts in a Florida court in an Espionage Case...