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Trillions of dollars could be on hold, according to an Office of Management and Budget memo.The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end. Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never...

The department of Justice building in DC is being evacuated due to a unknown threat. https://twitter.com/i/status/1884332429844119823

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is "immediately pulling" retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News. The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to "undermine the chain of command" during President Donald Trump's first term, officials say. The Pentagon will also be removing a second portrait of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon. This one is from the Army's Marshall Corridor...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Chicago ICE Field Office Enforcement and Removal Operations Director Samuel Olson stated that agents are “in a difficult situation here in Chicago” because many of the people they’re trying to apprehend “were previously arrested by local or state authorities and we’ve placed holds on many of them and they were released from the facility into the communities again.” Olson said, “It’s kind of an arduous process, right? It’s — we’re in a difficult situation here in Chicago because a lot of the targets that we’re looking at were previously...

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(too much here for our 'ol tired eyes. check out the link) Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in US history, came out swinging and highlighted Trump’s accomplishments after only one week in office. Karoline Leavitt: Good afternoon, everybody. How are we? Good to see all of you. It’s an honor to be here with all of you. A lot of familiar faces in the room, a lot of new faces, and President Trump is back and the golden age of America has most definitely begun. The Senate has already confirmed five of President Trump’s exceptional cabinet nominees....

The rear section of a passenger aircraft caught fire at an airport in South Korea on Tuesday (Jan 28), forcing the evacuation of 176 people on board, authorities said. The Air Busan plane, an Airbus A321, was set to fly to Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport in southeastern Busan but caught fire at around 1015pm local time, the transport ministry said in a statement. A total of 169 passengers and seven flight attendants and staff were evacuated down inflatable slides, it said. The statement gave no information about the cause of the fire other than to say it broke...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt held her first briefing Tuesday and kicked it off with huge changes to how she'd conduct briefings. Leavitt announced that two seats usually reserved for White House staff would become 'new media' seats - and those individuals would get to ask the first questions. Traditionally the wire service, the Associated Press, gets the first question - while the White House Correspondents' Association dictates which outlets get which seats in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. 'Starting today this seat in the front of the room, which is usually occupied by the press secretary's...

Waymo, one of the companies at the forefront of driverless tech, confirmed to KTLA that it will begin testing fully autonomous passenger cars on L.A. freeways this week. Fully autonomous for Waymo means “without a human driver.” The driverless white vehicles with radar gizmos attached to the roof and sides have already been ferrying riders on city streets across the area, from Santa Monica to downtown L.A. However, this is their first time conducting driverless tests on the interstates. “Our initial testing will begin on the 10, 110, 90, and 405 (freeways),” Waymo told KTLA 5 News. The initial tests...

After months of speculation and sky-high conspiracy theories, the mystery around those mysterious drones has finally been grounded. Sort of. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt relayed a message “directly” from President Donald Trump during her first press briefing on Tuesday, Jan. 28, addressing the drones that have been seen over the tri-state since late last year. “After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) for research and various other reasons,” Leavitt quoted Trump as saying. “Many of these drones were also hobbyist, recreational, and...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Donald Trump would continue to work at “break-neck speed” when Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle asked about the president’s swift pace during Tuesday’s press briefing. Boyle and Axios co-founder Mike Allen received the first two questions of the first briefing of the second Trump adminsitration after Leavitt announced a “new media seat,” which is situated where White House press secretary staff usually sits. “You laid out several of the actions that President Trump has taken. Obviously, it’s a stark contrast from the previous administration, the break-neck speed from President...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: Compromises to the Mass are ‘extremely dangerous’ to ‘Catholic life’'The emphasis on mercy and inclusion at the expense of repentance lessens the understanding of the Mass as a holy sacrifice that requires proper preparation and reverence, and this could lead to the taking of the Eucharist unworthily,' writes Bishop Strickland. (Editorial note: The following is a letter from Bishop Strickland.)Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am writing this letter to talk to you about the Holy Mass. As St. Padre Pio said, “It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do...

Famed rapper Snoop Dogg lost more than 500,000 followers on Instagram and nearly 20,000 on X after his appearance at the Crypto Ball, a celebratory event tied to Donald Trump’s inauguration. The “Gin and Juice” singer’s Instagram dropped by 571,800 and 17,177 on X as fans accused Snoop of hypocrisy due to his past criticism of Trump. Snoop Dogg, who boasted 88.1 million followers on Instagram as of Monday, isn’t the only A-list celebrity to have followers abandon him in droves over perceived support for the Republican president. Kim Kardashian, the reality television star and entrepreneur, lost nearly 150,000 social...

A Biden appointee tapped for acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) no longer occupies the position, a source familiar confirmed to the Daily Caller. The former Principal Deputy Director of DNI, Stacey Dixon, was picked by the Trump transition team to be acting DNI, according to Politico last week. Dixon was replaced by Lora Shiao to serve as acting DNI, according to the agency. snip Dixon is a staunch advocate of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and she made diversifying the intelligence community a key priority as Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

The daughter of former President John F. Kennedy is speaking out against Health and Human Services Secretary designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lambasting her cousin as a “predator” with “dangerous” views on vaccination who is “unqualified to fill” the role. Former US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy strongly urged senators in a video message posted on X to reject President Trump’s nominee, the day before the first of two high-stakes Senate hearings. “He lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed,” Kennedy said, reading her missive to members of the...

Hayley Woo told AsiaOne she was written out of her only action scene in the Chinese New Year movie Baby Hero after she contracted Covid-19.It's her very first action movie but unfortunately, you won't get to see Hayley Woo in action. However, she did fight a five-day war with Covid-19 during the filming of Baby Hero in Thailand. In an interview with AsiaOne on Tuesday (Jan 21), the 32-year-old actress shared with us that her character Leena had to be written out of the sole action scene she was involved in after she contracted Covid-19 and was quarantined. In...

NY AG Letitia James sues the Trump administration after freeze on federal funding

But what does 80 per cent full feel like exactly? How do you gauge if you don’t have much of an appetite after exercising or feel ravenous after intermittent fasting? rowing up, many of us were taught this lesson: Finish up your rice because there are children starving elsewhere in the world. As virtuous as it is not to waste food, it might have bred a whole generation or two of guilt-ridden people like myself. I prickle with anxiety every time I see unfinished rice on a plate or leftovers destined for the bin. So, I assuage my guilt by...

iconic scene from The Godfather depicting Bonasera whispering into the ears of Vito Corleone The catalyst for the events in The Godfather is an important wedding, where viewers meet many core characters, including the antagonistic Don Barzini (Richard Conte). The Godfather still holds up today as one of the best movies of all time, partly due to its characters and their various tense allegiances. Many of the relationships in the Godfather trilogy are different from how they appear, with characters being required to show respect, even to their enemies. This is especially apparent in the first movie when Don Barzini...