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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum immediately responded to President Donald Trump’s implementation of tariffs on Monday by vowing to post 10,000 troops along its shared northern border with the United States. In return, Trump agreed to delay tariffs for a month while he finalizes an agreement on security and trade with Sheinbaum. The agreement came after the two leaders spoke earlier about Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico. “We put tariffs on, they owe us a lot of money, and I’m sure they’re going to pay,” Trump told reporters of Mexico Sunday night. After Monday’s conversation, Sheinbaum posted on...

Jaden Smith's bizarre Grammys 2025 outfit choice has raised eyebrows online. The 26-year-old son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith turned up to the Grammys wearing a smart Louis Vuitton suit with a black castle on his head. The strange outfit, designed by ABODI, is being sold for $4,600 online and is described as a symbol of eternity, sensuality, and resilience. Designer Dora Abodi is introduced on the ABODI website as 'a descendant of an ancient noble family from Transylvania'

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Announcing that it has now given up entirely, the Democratic National Committee selected David Hogg as its new Vice Chair. The selection represents a powerful statement to the country that the DNC has no hope whatsoever, is an abject embarrassment, and has given in to despair. "By choosing David Hogg, we are letting the nation know that the DNC is utterly doomed," said Executive Committee member Miranda Langley. "We are forfeiting all pretense of being a successful organization, and welcome our final, total destruction. With David Hogg as our leader, the country can rest assured...

DOGE Subcommittee Chair Majorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) is calling on the Chief Executive Officers of NPR and PBS to testify at a hearing concerning the systemically biased news coverage produced on behalf of federally funded radio and TV stations. NPR and PBS have repeatedly undermined public trust by ignoring stories that were damaging to the Biden Administration, dismissing genuine calls for balanced reporting, and pushing partisan coverage. As stewards of tax dollars, NPR and PBS must provide objective and accurate coverage that serves all Americans.

The Trump administration has ordered four left-leaning news organizations including the New York Times and NBC News to vacate their dedicated office space at the Pentagon, making room for new media outlets such as The Post and the right-leaning Breitbart News and One America News. The decision was announced late Friday in a Department of Defense memo issued by spokesman John Ullyot, who wrote that the Times, NBC News, NPR and Politico must relinquish their Pentagon office space by Feb. 14. According to Ullyot, the move is part of a new annual media rotation program designed to allow access by...

VIDEOGrifter David Hogg will now do for Democrats what he did for pillows four years ago. Namely NOTHING. Despite his past pathetic yet hilarious history of FAILURE, the DNC has chosen the Pillow Boy to be their Vice Chair. Here we review Hogg's very brief "business" history as the Pillow Boy who hilariously humiliated himself in public. That grift spectacularly failed but now Hogg is on to another grift.

Target was one of corporate America’s most forceful supporters of diversity and inclusion initiatives and vowed to support Black Americans in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by police in Target’s home city of Minneapolis in 2020. But less than five years later, Target has dialed back its high-profile DEI program. In 2020, Target CEO Brian Cornell said Floyd’s murder, which took place just 10 minutes from Target’s headquarters, had a personal impact on him and Target employees, and Cornell vowed to reopen one of Target’s stores damaged in protests against police violence. George Floyd “could have been one of...

No joke: Wired wants you to believe this is a bad thing. The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. WWW.WIRED.COM https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ "Elon Musk's Government Takeover" Gotta love the pea-sized brains over at Wired. Elon Musk's takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of — and in at least one case, purportedly still in — college. Elon isn't taking over anything. He's...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me!” (He had been saying to him, “Unclean spirit, come out of the man!”) He asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Legion is my name. There are many of us.” Mark 5:7–9To most people, such an encounter would be terrifying. This man whose words are recorded above was possessed by a multitude of demons. He lived on the hillsides among various caves by the sea, and no one wanted to go near...

just spoke with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican Soldiers on the Border separating Mexico and the United States. These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl, and illegal migrants into our Country. We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one month period during which we will have negotiations headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and high-level Representatives of Mexico. I look forward to participating in those...

The Trump administration aggressively publicized the arrests of more than 8,000 immigrants by federal agents since Inauguration Day, with the promise that those detained would be part of a historic mass deportation. But NBC News has learned that some have already been released back into the United States on a monitoring program, according to five sources familiar with the operations.Since he took office, President Donald Trump and his allies have promoted immigration operations in cities like Chicago and New York, where agents across federal agencies were called in to increase the number of arrests.But arresting more people inside the United...

How the State Department created and runs an all government effort to maintain the American Empire which has now turned its guns on populism Summary: In this Analysis, Mike Benz discussed George Kennan's 1948 Memo "The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare" This Memo was Top Secret but declassified in 2005. CIA ran a highly successful whole of government operation aimed at rigging the Italian election April 18, 1948 to prevent the election of a communist and assure the election of the US's favored candidate. George Kennan wrote the "The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare" on the heels of that to...

President Donald Trump will speak with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday afternoon before the reciprocal 25 percent tariffs between the United States and Canada take effect on Tuesday. In a Truth Social post, Trump revealed he spoke with Trudeau on Monday morning and would talk with him again later in the day: Canada doesn’t even allow U.S. Banks to open or do business there. What’s that all about? Many such things, but it’s also a DRUG WAR, and hundreds of thousands of people have died in the U.S. from drugs pouring through the Borders of Mexico and Canada....

President Trump says he agreed to “immediately pause” tariffs on Mexico for a month after a “very friendly” conversation with the country’s president Claudia Sheinbaum. “I just spoke with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican Soldiers on the Border separating Mexico and the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl, and illegal migrants into our Country,” he wrote. “We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one month period during which we...

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed Monday that she reached a deal with President Trump to halt the imposition of 25% tariffs for one month in exchange for concessions on the border. Sheinbaum said Mexico agreed to reinforce the US-Mexico border with 10,000 personnel from Mexico’s national guard to help crack down on fentanyl dissemination into the US. Sheinbaum and Trump held a call Monday morning. The US will then work with Mexico to prevent the trafficking of weapons into America’s southern neighbor. “We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached...

President Trump announced he is pausing U.S. tariffs targeting imports from Mexico for a month after the country's president agreed to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to combat the flow of fentanyl.Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday that he and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum "agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one month period." The pause, he said, will allow "negotiations headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and high-level Representatives of Mexico."The president wrote that he had a "very friendly conversation" with...

USAID, the foreign aid agency that many see as a front for CIA activities, is being radically dismantled by US President Donald J. Trump and his DOGE led by Elon Musk. Two top officials were put on leave after trying to keep Musk’s team to access classified information, and soon both the X social media account with 1 million followers and also the website have disappeared. Meanwhile, both President Trump and Musk are out swinging, fighting the PR battle and revealing the true scope of the fake aid agency. Watch: Trump says USAID it’s run “by a bunch of radical...

We Cubans are fortunate that [Marco] Rubio has become America's chief diplomat, because he knows the region's challenges and will also prioritize the crisis taking place just 90 miles from U.S. shores in Cuba. As the son of Cuban immigrants, Rubio is a close observer and vocal critic of Havana's communist regime. During his confirmation hearing, Rubio said Cuba is "literally collapsing." He's right. My neighbors and I in Havana experience ongoing power outages and long lines for food and basic medications. Many necessary items are simply not available. The situation is even worse in Cuba's rural areas.… Looking ahead,...

ONE of Mad Vlad's war criminal deputy governors has been blown up by a landmine. Sergey Efremov, 51, has become the highest ranking Russian official to be killed in the conflict. -snip- The 51-year-old reportedly died after his military vehicle was blown up after hitting a mine in the Kursk region of Western Russia. Efremov, and another pro-Putin politician, died after attempting to help wounded Russian soldiers.