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Following President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting children from irreversible gender procedures, hospitals across the country have started canceling appointments or ceasing their transgender programs for children.“It’s already having its intended effect — preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex,” the White House said in a Monday release. “Hospitals around the country are taking action to downsize or eliminate their so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ programs.”“President Trump will always protect American children,” the White House added. “Promises made, promises kept – again.”In New York, NYU Langone Health...

It’s galling to hear sleazy Democrats like Rep. Jamie Raskin and self-serving government bureaucrats whine about “due process” as Donald Trump sets about cleaning house in the out-of-control administrative state. Last time Trump was president, he and his appointees were sabotaged and obstructed by Machiavellian Deep Staters who perverted concepts such as “due process” into protective shields around wrongdoers and turned them into weapons against their adversaries — that is, anyone trying to carry out the wishes of the democratically elected president. That won’t be happening again. It’s called democracy. The FBI raided Trump’s home and rummaged through his wife’s...

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Secret Service Agent: DEI Contributed to Near-Killing of Trump By Susan Crabtree - RCP StaffFebruary 03, 2025 Secret Service Agent: DEI Contributed to Near-Killing of TrumpRashid Ellis A Secret Service agent is for the first time publicly speaking out against the agency’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which he says contributed to the first assassination attempt against President Trump last summer. A 13-year veteran of the agency who has served in an elite unit and top protective assignments, Rashid Ellis sat down for an interview with the Independent Women’s Forum, a Virginia-based conservative nonprofit. IWF is in the process of...

Fans of the Toronto Raptors have become the latest group of Canadian fans to boo the U.S. national anthem during a professional sports game. The Canadian fans booed during the Raptors 115 to 108 win against the L.A. Clippers on Sunday. Raptors fans were not the first Canadian sports fans to boo the U.S. anthem in the wake of announcements of tariffs set by U.S. President Donald Trump. Last week, Canadian fans at two NHL games booed during the U.S. national anthem, and now Canadian NBA fans are joining them.

Since 25 November when then US president elect Donald Trump first to impose import tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China ( see ““), gold markets in New York and London have been signalling fears that these tariffs would include gold and silver imports from Mexico and Canada. These fears have now been fully confirmed, since on Saturday 1 February, Trump has gone ahead and imposing “a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China”, with the tariff impositions set to come into effect on Tuesday 4 February. Given that the...

This comes as an email was sent to USAID staffers saying that "At the direction of Agency leadership" the headquarters facilities "will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3." The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is reportedly being merged with the State Department, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as USAID’s acting administrator. According to CBS News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs, sources said that USAID will be moved under the purview of the State Department, which will bring cuts to the workforce. It will remain a humanitarian aid entity. IMAGE According to...

Begun in Britain, finished in Hollywood after the outbreak of war, Alexander Korda’s glorious Arabian Nights super-production started the decade in a riot of exotic colour. The Thief of Bagdad sees Indian-born child star Sabu playing the boy thief who helps the usurped king of Baghdad regain the throne taken from him by the evil vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt). Their magical journey takes in a mechanical flying horse, a magic carpet ride, an all-seeing eye and a giant, wish-granting genie – all rendered with primitive but forever enchanting blue-screen and matte painting effects. Michael Powell was one of the six...

Hi everyone,I just wanted to share that Andrew was in a major car accident on Friday night. He suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and immediately underwent brain surgery upon arrival at the ER. He is currently in the intensive care unit fighting for his life. This community has been the most enormous blessing to us both this past year. You are all more than just his subscribers, you are people who recognize just how special he is and show up to honor that week after week with your time and kind words. I feel confident that he would want...

Mr. Elon Musk DOGE United States Government SENT VIA X: @elonmusk Dear Elon, It was good to work with the DOGE team this weekend. We must keep all our American government employees safe and we must protect the American people's property. Anyone imperiling others violating our laws. I recognize that some of the staff at DOGE has been targeted publicly. At this time, I ask that you utilize me and my staff to assist in protecting the DOGE work and the DOGE workers. Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws....

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte agreed with US President Donald Trump regarding Greenland, particularly on the issue of defense, Bild reports. "When it comes to defense in the Arctic, Trump is right. What I think is very good is that the Prime Minister of Denmark immediately began negotiations with President Trump. Essentially, it was about the high relevance of defense in the far north," he said. According to Rutte, this applies not only to Greenland but also to Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Canada. "We all need to work together to protect these territories. And Trump is right," emphasized the...

Is US taxpayer money fueling George Soros' global influence? Let's find out.* US conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation claimed in 2017 that George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) had been made "the main implementer of USAID’s aid" since at least 2009. * But the Soros-USAID collaboration began much earlier. A 1993 USAID document shows the agency signed an agreement with the Soros Foundations’ Management Training Program to train 30 "professionals" from Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. * In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a series of color revolutions shook Eastern Europe, with George Soros' network of NGOs...

Florida Republican Sen. Ashley Moody detailed on Thursday the obstruction she faced when she tried to investigate the second assassination attempt against now-President Donald Trump. Moody recently served as attorney general of Florida until she was appointed to take the Senate seat vacated by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In her last office, she took up the mantle of investigating the second attempted Trump assassination, which took place one Sunday morning in September at Trump International Golf Club in Florida while the then-Republican presidential nominee was hitting the links. She detailed the absurd levels of resistance to her investigation mounted...

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Weighing in on the Trump administration’s actions of the past week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he didn’t know President Trump would “screw up so soon.” The comment, published Monday by Semafor, followed an issued-then-rescinded Office of Management and Budget memo that called for a federal loan and grant pause, causing a political uproar, and the weekend announcement of weighty tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, which also resulted in mass frustration. “There’s a long way to go. This is going to be a pattern,” he added. On Wednesday, Schumer went after Trump over the memo and gave...

"The secretaries can set the priorities for the department, but they can't actually tell us what to do." A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official was caught on undercover video admitting that the agency intends to defy the directives of newly confirmed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, according to footage released by James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group.Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for DHS, was recorded saying that the agency’s career bureaucrats do not allow political appointees to interfere with their operations. He told the undercover reporter, "Kristi Noem? I f*cking hate her." “The secretaries can set the priorities for the department,...

The owner had just left the dealer's yard when the engine of the brand-new Cadillac Escalade failed, and they had to call a tow truck to take it back.

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...