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President Donald Trump signed a broad executive order targeting transition-related medical care for minors Tuesday. The order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” intends to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care — including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery — for minors, which it defines as those younger than 19. It prohibits federal funding from covering such care for minors, restricts research and education grants to medical schools and hospitals, and directs the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations to end such care for minors. The order also directs all federal agencies to rescind guidance...

So I moved from the liberal infested bay area California 4 months ago and out into a semi rural (Trump country) area of California. I bought a big home with 1.5 acres. I need some fruit and shade trees so I went to website that sells fast growing trees and when I tried adding cherry trees, peach trees, and apricot trees to my shopping cart, a message pops up saying they're unable to ship to California due to agricultural restrictions. This is such BS.

The Times will accuse DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard of meeting with then-Lebanese Hezbollah Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2017.The New York Times is preparing to publish a deep state hit piece on President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The piece is purportedly based on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance of a pair of anonymous terrorists.Two people familiar with the matter told The Federalist the Times will accuse Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, of meeting with then-Lebanese Hezbollah Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah on a Middle East trip in 2017. The paper of “all the...

Germany is stuck in a deep economic crisis amid a structural break that the country’s leading industry lobby predicts will lead to the most protracted downturn since reunification nearly 35 years ago. The Federation of German Industries (BDI) forecasts the German economy to contract by 0.1% in 2025. That would follow a 0.2% decline in 2024 and a 0.3% contraction in 2023. According to the BDI, Germany’s expected contraction this year is in contrast to projected growth of 1.1% for the European Union. “Industrial growth, in particular, has suffered a structural break. Order books remain empty, machines are standing still,...

The U.S. State Department has issued the highest-level travel warning for some Mexican towns next to the U.S.–Mexico border due to elevated risks over kidnappings, gun battles, and improvised explosives devices (IEDs).A bulletin released by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico said a “Level 4: Do Not Travel” advisory has been issued for parts of Tamaulipas state. It cites Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso, and San Fernando, where IEDs have been found. The area borders the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.The warning also confirmed that officials are “aware of increasingly frequent gun battles occurring in and around Reynosa in...

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek, which triggered a sharp drop of AI-related stock prices on Jan. 27, is showing heavy bias in favor of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) , according to an analysis by The Epoch Times. When given the same questions, ChatGPT provided detailed answers including both sides of any given argument, while DeepSeek provided brief answers reminiscent of the CCP’s state-controlled media reports. It outright refused to answer questions about human rights.The China-trained AI model also evaded questions on topics deemed sensitive by the CCP, including “What’s The Epoch Times?”For years, the CCP has censored and...

On Tuesday, an exclusive New York Post story broke with news that the ringleader of the infamous Aurora, Colorado apartment building takeovers has been arrested in New York City. This is one goblin we should be glad is off the streets.A violent Tren de Aragua ringleader sought in an infamous, caught-on-camera break-in in Aurora, Colo., was nabbed Tuesday in a dramatic pre-dawn raid in New York City — across from an elementary school, sources said.Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, was taken into custody as part of the Trump administration’s first promised immigration raids in the Big Apple, law-enforcement sources told The Post....

Globalist billionaire Bill Gates has arrogantly dismissed documented charges of genocide, including allegations that claim his experimental vaccines have caused the deaths of millions of children worldwide.When questioned about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s accusations, Gates told the Wall Street Journal that he’s “prepared to let the public decide.” An astonishing response from a man at the center of such grave claims, who is facing trial in the Netherlands for misleading the public about Covid mRNA vaccines. The self-appointed pandemic expert continues to raise eyebrows with his recent statements about an impending pandemic. During the interview with WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker,...

President Trump’s brilliant Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Miller, schooled CNN host Jake Tapper over Trump’s immigration policies. The Trump Administration began its immigration raids and deportation operations on day one of Trump 2.0 last week. As of Tuesday, ICE has arrested more than 3,500 illegal aliens since Trump was sworn into office last week. Jake Tapper tried to get Stephen Miller with a gotcha question on the whole “who’s going to pick the crops” argument but he ended up getting schooled. “The Department of Agriculture says that between 2020 and 2022, 42% of crop workers were undocumented...

Embattled CNN anchor Jim Acosta announced Tuesday that he is leaving the network — and took a parting shot at the Trump administration by urging viewers not to “give in to the lies” in a final on-air rant.Acosta, a former White House correspondent at CNN who often butted heads with President Trump during his first term, was reportedly slated to be relegated to the graveyard shift from his current morning slot.“You may have seen some reports about me and this show. And after giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot CNN offered me, I...

President Donald Trump's administration asked federal agencies to implement plans to return federal workers to the office — including making arrangements for those who live too far away for a regular commute.On Monday, the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget issued new guidance that expanded on an RTO executive order for federal workers originally issued on January 20.Specifically, the memo asked agencies to "determine permanent worksites" for employees who have been working remotely full time and include "the steps the agency will take to move these employees' duty stations to the most appropriate Federal office...

Dozens of people are feared dead and injured after a barrier broke during a holy bath at a major Hindu religious festival in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Drone footage showed millions of devotees, shoulder to shoulder, arriving in the pre-dawn dark for the holy dip to mark the most auspicious day of the festival. Video and photographs after the crush showed bodies being taken away on stretchers and people sitting on the ground crying, while others stepped over a carpet of discarded belongings left by people as they tried to escape the stampede. Reuters cited one official...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston stated that the biggest issue with immigration “is not crime” and “The real question is, what do we do with the DREAMers who are here and have been here for 10 or 20 years? What do we do with folks who came in and played by the rules and are waiting on their day in court as asylum seekers or TPS recipients? We want to make sure those populations get their fair day in court and make their case. And those folks who are right now on the job...

In implementing President Trump’s Executive Orders, OMB issued guidance requesting that agencies temporarily pause, to the extent permitted by law, grant, loan or federal financial assistance programs that are implicated by the President’s Executive Orders. Any program not implicated by the President’s Executive Orders is not subject to the pause. The Executive Orders listed in the guidance are: Protecting the American People Against Invasion Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements Unleashing American Energy Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth...

Malik was shot several times in his car outside his family business in Surrey, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the morning of 14 July 2022. Police found a burnt-out vehicle nearby. Prosecutor Matthew Stacey told the court that Fox and Lopez planned a "deliberate killing" of Malik. "They were financially compensated for killing him," he added. The killing happened more than a decade after Malik was acquitted in the devastating double bomb attack - Canada's deadliest terrorist attack in history. On 23 June 1985, Air India flight 182 from Canada to India blew up off the Irish...

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing federal loans and grants just “resuscitated” the Democrats. Wallace said, “An observation i’ve had in the last 24 hours from pinging Democrats and frankly, inviting them on this show. What Trump has done, again, wittingly or unwittingly, is to completely resuscitate the Democratic Party. They were flatlined spiritually, politically basically, since the election night. And what he has done is — they have suddenly woken up. They remember why they’re there. They’re there to make the government work the way it’s supposed to work....

Melbourne -- Australians celebrated and protested across the country on Sunday as Australia Day drew attention to political differences over Indigenous rights months out from a federal election. Australia Day marks a British colony being established at Sydney Cove on Jan 26, 1788, which eventually led to Britain claiming the entire country without a treaty with its Indigenous inhabitants. Indigenous rights advocates call Jan 26 “Invasion Day” and protest rallies have been held in major cities. Many argue that Australia's national day should not commemorate such a divisive event. Australia Day is usually a public holiday and because it fell...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: President Trump has called on Elon Musk to launch a SpaceX mission to save stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams from space. Elon Musk has given the green light to the rescue operation. 8:19 PM · Jan 28, 2025

CNN host Jake Tapper clashed with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s government spending freeze. Defending Trump’s order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending – which was blocked by U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan on Tuesday – Miller declared, “President Trump, when he said ‘drain the swamp,’ he meant it. And yes, so those kinds of spending programs are going to be put under review.” Tapper responded: "Okay. I don’t think anybody’s taking issue with if you find money that is being disbursed in an inappropriate way,...

In the hierarchy of wokeism, trans people outrank people with disabilities.