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Hoping to avoid misinformation about President Donald Trump’s nominees and appointments on Wikipedia? Good luck. Wikipedia has designed a protocol that directly and unerringly produces the worst descriptions about conservatives and Republicans by virtually guaranteeing that right-leaning media sources cannot be cited. The once reliable online encyclopedia ran off the rails under the leadership of its previous CEO Katherine Maher, who made sure that not a single right-leaning outlet was deemed “reliable”—a stark contrast to the 84 percent of leftist media Wikipedia deems reliable. A new study by Media Research Center Free Speech America found that Wikipedia, the encyclopedia behemoth,...

Mexican drug cartels are ordering their members to attack US Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives in a desperate bid to thwart the crackdown at the border, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post. The alert, which cites social media posts and other sources, cautions federal agents “to remain cognizant of their surroundings at all times” in the face of the new threat. “On February 1, 2025, the El Paso Sector Intelligence and Operations Center (EPT-IOC) received information advising that Mexican cartel leaders have authorized the deployment of drones equipped with explosives to be used...

Several Democrat lawmakers said on Feb. 2 that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should commit to avoiding all decisions related to vaccines if he becomes the next U.S. health secretary.“Given the breadth of your involvement in vaccine litigation, such a recusal would help ensure that you and your family do not benefit financially from official government actions that you will oversee and control,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), wrote in a letter to Kennedy.President Donald Trump has selected Kennedy, a lawyer, to take over the U.S. Department of Health and...

For all the fretting, teeth gnashing, and howling at the moon here over the disruption in the Green Grift that is the wind industry and offshore wind particularly, nothing is quite as satisfying as watching the original practitioners of the fraud - the Europeans, fall on their dull, unrecyclable turbine blades.A couple of things have happened recently that signal tough times are ahead - a dunkelflaute or 'dark doldrums' - for the European wind industry and those governments that have gulped the green Kool-Ade to the very last drop in the pitcher, foisting the unreliable on their citizens even as...

Demonstrators opposed to President Donald Trump's immigration policies gathered at City Hall Monday and are marching through downtown Los Angeles. The gathering comes one day after hundreds of protesters rallied and marched downtown, eventually blocking the 101 Freeway and causing major traffic delays.

The British police constable who was one of the first people to investigate grooming gangs in the city of Manchester has written a summary of her years-long battle to get the police force to take the situation seriously. Maggie Oliver had only been on the force for seven years when she learned about the case of a 15-year-old girl who had been groomed, abused and eventually killed by Mohammed Yaqoob, a 50-year-old Pakistani man who injected her with too much heroin leading to an overdose. Oliver was put on the case and quickly began to uncover the full extent of...

For years, California’s Democratic leaders have operated as if their primary responsibility isn’t governing the state but waging a perpetual legal war against Donald Trump. Now, as Trump returns to the White House, Sacramento is gearing up for yet another battle, allocating $50 million to fight his immigration policies and protect its progressive agenda.This isn’t a new strategy—California sued the Trump administration over 120 times during his first term, spending at least $42 million in taxpayer funds in the process. But this time, it’s different. This time, California has crises of its own making that are spiraling out of control....

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.

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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...