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The director of national intelligence nominee cleared a major hurdle, but there are still a handful of GOP senators who could oppose her on the floor.The Senate Intelligence Committee approved Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence in a private vote Tuesday, sending her to the full Senate floor for consideration. While the panel vote represented a major hurdle, her confirmation by the full Senate still isn’t certain. She can only afford to lose three Republican votes, if all Democrats vote against her, as expected.

Explanation: Yes, but can your rainbow do this? Late in the day, the Sun set as usual toward the west. However, on this day, the more interesting display was 180 degrees around -- toward the east. There, not only was a rainbow visible, but an impressive display of anticrepuscular rays from the rainbow's center. In the featured image from Lekeitio in northern Spain, the Sun is behind the camera. The rainbow resulted from sunlight reflecting back from falling rain. Anticrepuscular rays result from sunlight, blocked by some clouds, going all the way around the sky, overhead, and appearing to converge...

The Senate Intelligence Committee narrowly approved Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to be President Donald Trump director of national intelligence cleared a key Senate committee Tuesday. The Senate Intelligence Committee advanced the former Democrat congresswoman's nomination in a closed-door 9-8 vote, and it now heads to the full Senate for consideration. A vote has not been scheduled yet. Following a contentious confirmation hearing last week, where some Republican senators questioned Gabbard harshly, GOP support for her fell into place following a campaign over the weekend unleashed by Trump supporters and allies, including Elon Musk. Until three GOP members seen as swing votes announced their support, it wasn’t clear...

‘We will pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people,’ interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin wrote to Musk.The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia released a statement Monday assuring he will take legal action against any attempts to impede Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).“We must keep all our American government employees safe and we must protect the American people’s property,” interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin wrote in a letter addressed to Musk, released on X, adding that “anyone imperiling others [is] violating our laws.”“We...

That means Kash Patel will be firing thousands. I am speechless.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has just become the first fascist in the history of humankind to use his despotic powers to reduce the size of the government. While most other fascist leaders throughout history have used their power to increase the scope of government influence in their respective countries, Trump has broken with tradition to become the very first fascist with a focus on dismantling his own government's overreaches. "Only time will tell, but Trump must have something extremely nefarious up his sleeve if he's doing his fascism by making government smaller," said Lee Glyde-Jennings, who teaches several...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is already sending shockwaves through the political establishment after gaining access to the Treasury Department’s critical payment system, which processes approximately $5 trillion in annual government disbursements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent authorized DOGE’s access following the abrupt departure of longtime Treasury official David Lebryk, who had repeatedly blocked Musk’s attempts to gain control. Lebryk announced his retirement after being placed on administrative leave, marking a significant shift in Treasury operations. The payment system handles essential government functions, including payments for Social Security and Medicare. Industry experts are now warning that any disruption could...

Guatemalan transgender organizations scooped $2 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development, and oxymoronic diversity, equity, and inclusion “scholarships” in Burma took another $45 million. Advancing DEI in Serbian workplaces was financed with $1.5 million, and $47,000 was found for a transgender opera in Colombia. These and many other left-wing grifts are being brought to light by early Trump administration moves to get bloated federal spending under control. It is incontestable that such egregiously unnecessary programs richly deserve the chop. But there is a yawning abyss between the thousands, millions, and even billions of dollars wasted on them and...

Shares of vaccine companies fell after a Senate panel voted to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services to the full chamber. Moderna’s stock fell more than 4%, shares of BioNTech dropped 3% and shares of Novavax and GSK both fell around 1%. Pfizer’s stock fell almost 2%, even after the company reported fourth-quarter results that topped expectations.

Just days before Elon Musk began a purge at the U.S. Agency for International Develop (USAID), the foreign aid agency was warned in a stinging memo from its own internal watchdog that it had created serious "vulnerabilities" by doling out billions of tax dollars to overseas countries and groups without fulling vetting for terrorists and fraudsters or demanding transparency from recipients of America's largesse.The memo, which was published by the Inspector General of the U.S. Agency for International Development in late January, details some long-standing concerns about how safeguards against misuse of funds and the proper authorities to hold violators...

Congresswoman Nancy Mace continues to prove she's a pistol not afraid to push the limits. Canada's tough talk in the tariff war with the United States lasted all of *CHECKS NOTES* a couple days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bent the knee.I guess all that tough guy talk wasn't really backed up by much other than maple syrup.Nancy Mace dunks on Justin Trudeau. Trudeau announced on Monday that Canada will send "nearly 10,000 frontline personnel" to protect the border and will work harder to stop the flow of drugs into the country.

The Biden administration wasted $236 billion in improper payments throughout 71 federal programs in 2023, according to the Government Accountability Office. The improper payments underscore President Donald Trump’s vow to clean up the administrative state and his support of DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) and of Elon Musk’s audit of the federal government to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. The massive sum — three-quarters of which was reportedly overpayments – was just a portion of the federal deficit ($1.8 trillion) under the Biden administration. The New York Times reported the Government Accountability Office’s analysis: Mr. Musk has told administration officials...

The Trump White House on Tuesday drafted an executive order to abolish the Department of Education, NBC News reported. Trump vowed to wage war with Education Department and give power back to the states. “On Day 1, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto the shoulders of our children,” Trump said. “And I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate.” Trump said he wants to strip the entire...

Just two weeks ago I warned, to echo Mark Twain, that rumors of DEI’s death are greatly exaggerated. While “the label ‘DEI’ is new, the product it identifies is more than half a century old,” I stated. … And make no mistake, its predicates are still embedded in our culture.”For this reason, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) will “live on under a different guise,” I later added. For “it’s as much a symptom as a cause.” This brings us to a headline the New York Post ran just this weekend.“No ‘death’ for diversity,” it reads: “How DEI is being rebranded...

FBI Agents who worked on January 6 cases and Trump witch hunts sued the Justice Department to block their namesAs previously reported, names of the FBI officials who worked on January 6 cases and Trump witch hunts have been identified.According to NBC News, there were more than 2,400 cases in total.The FBI officials who worked on the J6 cases and Trump investigations were identified by a case management system.There are reportedly 5,000 employees who have been identified as subject to potential firing.

UFC President Dana White shared President Donald Trump’s defiant response after the UFC chief begged the then-candidate to quit politics following the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. “Why are you doing this stuff? Stop,” White told Piers Morgan on a recent episode of Uncensored. “I told him to stop so many times. It’s just like, ‘You have such a good life, and you could do all these other things’. But the thing is, with President Trump is, he believes in God, and he’s very religious…He believes that, to his core, that God has spared his life...

4 February 2025 Tuesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time The Cappella Corsini in San Giovanni in Laterano in RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 12:1-4We should keep running steadily in the race we have startedWith so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us, we too, then, should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started. Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of...

The Senate voted 77-23 on Tuesday to confirm former Georgia congressman Doug Collins as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, placing him in charge of the department responsible for providing critical care and support to America’s veterans. Collins, a Republican and former Air Force chaplain, secured bipartisan backing, with all 53 Senate Republicans and nearly half of the chamber’s Democrats supporting his confirmation. The vote capped off a smooth confirmation process, as Collins faced little opposition during his nomination hearing before the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee in January. Collins now steps into a key role within President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, tasked with...

Many residents in the Hispanic and black communities of New York City came out to cheer as ICE agents hauled away dozens of the immigrant gangsters who have been terrorizing them. "Get them the hell off the street so people don't have to walk in fear," said Evelyn Brown, a Bronx resident. "We have been begging the police to help protect us from these thugs, but haven't gotten it. That's why we voted for Trump. Now that he's in it only took a few days to get some action." Trump's "immigration czar" Tom Homan explained "we were able to take...