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Elegance Bratton’s documentary “Move Ya Body,” which tracks both the artistic evolution of house music and its historical and sociopolitical impact, emerged from the unlikeliest of sources: Hillary Clinton. Bratton and “Move Ya Body” producers Roger Ross Williams and Chester Algernal Gordon visited the IndieWire Studio at Sundance, presented by Dropbox, to discuss the origins of the film. Williams was approached by the former Secretary of State, a Chicago native with a deep passion for the city’s distinct brand of joyfully repetitive dance music. He then brought Bratton, who was eager for a fun “palette cleanser” after directing “The Inspection,”...

For an "apolitical" civil service, politics certainly seems to color many of its activities. Last week, President Trump placed 50-60 senior executives with the US Agency for International Development on administrative leave (see Trump Suspends As Many As 60 Senior Bureaucrats for Trying to Evade His Executive Orders – RedState) for attempting to sabotage his efforts to cut grants to such worthy project as transgender Nigerian dance troupes; see WATCH: Press Hounds Karoline Leavitt About USAID, and She Comes Off the Top Rope With the Receipts. Across the federal government, we hear stories of resistance brewing. The stories are probably...

Expected claims payments to Los Angeles County wildfire victims appear to have exceeded $900 million for the state’s insurer of the last resort, allowing it to tap into “reinsurance” payments from back-up providers. In a statement released Thursday, Jan. 30, the California FAIR Plan reported receiving more than 4,400 claims from victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires in the past three weeks. “The FAIR Plan is accessing reinsurance to help pay claims,” ​​the statement said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of 'any' nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States. President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said at a signing ceremony for an unrelated civil nuclear agreement with El Salvador’s foreign minister.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador's president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of all nationalities as well as violent criminals now imprisoned in the United States. President Nayib Bukele 'has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,' Rubio said. 'He's also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they're U.S. citizens or legal residents.'

New Jersey Democrat Governor talked about allowing a migrant female to live above his garage, which is like harboring a criminal if she's an illegal immigrant. Tom Homan plans to go after Gov. Murphy - who said 'good luck' to the feds who try getting to the migrant who lives about Phil Murphy's garage. The previous post we did on this was a video of Phil Murphy talking about the situation with the migrant living above his garage.

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal 🚨🇺🇸 DOGE GETS HIGH-TECH SLEEP PODS TO FUEL 24/7 EFFICIENCY DRIVE Eight Sleep's AI-powered Pods arrive at @DOGE headquarters, enabling Elon's team to optimize rest while working around the clock. The $1.94T in federal waste won't cut itself. The smart beds use machine learning to track vital signs and automatically adjust temperature for each sleep stage, achieving 78% accuracy compared to medical-grade EEG. Perfect for power naps between budget cuts.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador's president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of all nationalities as well as violent criminals now imprisoned in the United States. President Nayib Bukele 'has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,' Rubio said. 'He's also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they're U.S. citizens or legal residents.' Rubio was visiting El Salvador on Monday to press a friendly government to do more to meet Trump administration demands for...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to serve as America’s top health official could come down to a Louisiana Republican who’s openly wrestling with his training as a physician and his instincts as a politician. ... Bob Mann, a longtime Louisiana political commentator and former aide to Democratic lawmakers, said that Cassidy’s reelection bid was already in “trouble,” independent of his pending vote on Kennedy, particularly after Louisiana revamped its primary system. Unlike Cassidy’s past campaigns, Democrats can no longer cross party lines to vote in Senate primaries.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited troops at the border in El Paso, Texas, where he pledged the Pentagon’s full support to Border Patrol in gaining “operational control” of the US-Mexico frontier. Hegseth told reporters Monday that the thousands of additional troops deployed to the region are there to help free up overwhelmed border agents who are there to repel an “invasion.” He said that under the Biden admin, agents were “babysitting” and releasing migrants who were crossing illegally. Roughly 8 million migrants illegally entered the US during the Democrat’s four-year term. President Trump has wasted no time ordering the...

President Trump has responded to Canada’s decision to work with the United States to secure the northern border just two days after he imposed tariffs on Canada’s imports. President Trump imposed his long-awaited 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and 10% tariffs on China on Saturday. This was met with pushback from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced he would impose his own tariffs on the United States, which many in Canada think would be a big mistake. In the fallout from the tariffs, within 24 hours, the Canadian dollar’s value reached a record low not seen since 2003,...

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project, which spent millions of dollars on ads supporting former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, finished out last year strapped with over $863,000 in unpaid invoices, Federal Election Commission filings show. . . . the Lincoln Project is sending out a flurry of press releases taking aim at Trump’s Cabinet appointees. One, from last week, urged senators to reject Trump’s “trash” picks.

Pam Bondi is one step closer to becoming the next attorney general after her nomination cleared a procedural hurdle Monday. Senators voted 52-46 along party lines to approve a motion to invoke cloture on her nomination. Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and an ardent Donald Trump supporter, has received vocal support from Senate Republicans through her confirmation process. Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, pointed to her background in Florida where she “fought against pill mills, eliminated the backlog of rape test kits and stood for law and order.” “There’s no doubt that Ms. Bondi’s highly qualified,” Grassley...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador's president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality as well as violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States. President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said. "He's also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents.”

President Donald Trump mostly stuck to sports and avoided any talk of tariffs as he celebrated the NHL’s defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers at the White House on Monday. Trump had to delay the ceremony nearly an hour while he talked to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the tariffs. Eventually, with the Stanley Cup placed on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Trump took pictures with the team, chatted with players and Panthers owner Vinnie Viola — who he considers a good friend — and was gifted a couple of jerseys and a golden hockey stick. He...

There is something unique about the color purple: Our brain makes it up. So you might just call purple a pigment of our imagination. It’s also a fascinating example of how the brain creates something beautiful when faced with a systems error. To understand where purple comes from, we need to know how our eyes and brain work together to perceive color. And that all begins with light. Light is another term for electromagnetic radiation. Most comes from the sun and travels to Earth in waves. There are many different types of light, which scientists group based on the lengths...

It’s not just tech moguls that can get face time with Donald Trump in the White House. Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, made his way to the Oval Office on Monday. It’s a notable show of influence by a legacy media executive at a time when it seems like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI’s Sam Altman have been pointedly showing off their access to the new administration. Murdoch, who formally stepped back as the chairman of Fox Corp. and News Corp. in 2023 but who still wields outsized...

'racist' note left on a Pennsylvania school bus prohibiting students from speaking Spanish has sparked fierce outrage from community members. The controversial message reads: 'Out of respect to English only students there will be NO speaking Spanish on this bus!' Juniata County parents and school district officials learned about the jarring note last week. Both the school district and the bus company, Rohrer Bus, have profusely denied any involvement in writing the 'racially insensitive' memo, which is allegedly signed by 'owner/management.' Rohrer Bus addressed the situation in a statement on Saturday, claiming that the particular bus is owned and operated...

As previously reported, The Washington Post’s so-called conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin quit the newspaper and joined forces with Deep State hack Norm Eisen to start a media venture called “The Contrarian.” Last month the insufferable duo painfully described how they will cover everything from law, to culture to cooking in their new venture. “We do politics, we’re going to do law. But we know that any successful pro-democracy movement also has to be very vocal about culture. We’ll have a humor column, we’ll even have a cooking column, but we’re going to sprinkle in a little bit of pro-democracy flavor!”...

Homeland Security Blocks Dems From Entering USAID Building!