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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act in the Senate on Thursday. His bill intended to take action to “put power back in the people’s hands instead of the administrative state,” read a press release about the bill. This specifically applies to the current process involving legislation in the government in which regulations go into effect unless explicitly disapproved by Congress. Under Paul’s proposal in the REINS Act, major rules would need to be approved by the legislative branch before going to the president for signature and approval. “The purpose of this...

I recently saw a video of a new dance style, sort of a 'street dance' style, like break dancing, but much more 'fluid'. Does anyone know the name of it? I'm trying to find it again, and can't; it had a particular name, and I'm not sure if the link I saw showed up here on FR, or somewhere else. Thanks!

The latest news on USAID is going to cause the biggest leftist meltdown yet because their least favorite agency is now taking over.As The Gateway Pundit reported, USAID has been in the crosshairs for the past week, given the billions of dollars of waste exposed by DOGE. Some of the examples exposed have been absolutely stunning.(snip)Now, the news for Americans gets even better. X Owner and DOGE Chairman Elon Musk announced a short time ago that Customs and Border Protection had taken over the building.

An early morning attempted armed robbery in Chicago's Homan Square neighborhood ended with an exchange of gunfire and one suspect dead after the victim, who had a FOID card and Concealed Carry License, fired shots, police said. The incident took place around 5:18 a.m. in the 900 block of S. Homan, police said, when two unknown men approached the victim, a 28-year-old male. The suspects displayed a firearm and announced a robbery, police said, and an exchange of gunfire ensued. One of the suspects, a 42-year-old male, sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead on scene....

Mark Zuckerberg says officials from the Biden administration would 'scream' and 'curse' at them to censor anti-vaxxers Nancy Pelosi acknowledged that there has been no communication between her and former President Joe Biden after the former House speaker was asked about ex-first lady Jill Biden’s reported disappointment in her during an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday. Pelosi, who still represents San Francisco in Congress, said she hadn’t spoken to the Bidens since their falling out last summer, when the longtime Democrat banded together with party power brokers to push the then-president out of the race in the wake...

What started as a peaceful protest turned bloody when a person was stabbed in Los Angeles on Friday after a group of students walked out of school for the fourth day to protest immigration policies set forth by President Donald Trump.

A Democrat Michigan state representative announced on Wednesday that she underwent sterilization earlier this year to avoid pregnancy under the Trump administration, Michigan Advance reported. “Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America,” said state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia), who is openly bisexual. “I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate.” “If you know people who are questioning how serious this is, I’m going to repeat myself: A sitting government official...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s revoking former President Joe Biden’s access to government secrets and ending the daily intelligence briefings he’s receiving in payback for Biden doing the same to him in 2021. Trump announced his decision in a post on his social media platform shortly after he arrived at his Mar-a-Lago home and private club in Palm Beach for the weekend. “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information. Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings,” Trump wrote....

The plane has been found. Many missing.

Billionaire Elon Musk has criticized the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a nonprofit organization established by the U.S. government during Republican Ronald Reagan's presidency. "NED is a SCAM," Musk wrote on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday, in response to a user who used Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to identify "red flags of corruption or concerns" with NED. Why It Matters Musk ... is running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a Trump administration task force assigned to find ways to cut wasteful federal spending and "dismantle" government bureaucracy. Musk said in October that he could...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions. Trump’s order, coming just hours after he returned to the White House, compels the Justice Department to not only seek the death penalty in appropriate federal cases but also to help preserve capital punishment in states that have struggled to maintain adequate supplies of lethal injection drugs.

Police in Pennsylvania are trying to crack the case after 100,000 organic eggs worth upwards of $40,000 were stolen from the back of a trailer over the weekend. The theft took place in Greencastle, Pennsylvania -- located approximately 65 miles southwest of the state capital of Harrisburg -- when the eggs were stolen from the rear of a distribution trailer on Saturday around 8:40 p.m. while it was parked outside Pete & Gerry’s Organics. Pennsylvania State Police Chambersburg responded to the location and discovered that around 100,000 eggs worth an estimated $40,000 had been stolen. Authorities did not offer any...

Would you post a sign announcing that your home is a gun-free zone? Would you feel safer? Criminals don’t obey these signs. In fact, these signs are a magnet for criminals because disarmed victims are seen as easy targets. . . . A deputy in uniform has a difficult job in stopping these attacks,” said Sheriff Kurt Hoffman in Sarasota County, Florida. “These terrorists have strategic advantages in determining the time and place of attacks. They can wait for a deputy to leave the area or pick an undefended location. Even when police or deputies are in the right place...

An Atlanta ‘pastor’ is calling on black Americans to observe Lent with a “40-day fast from Target” in protest of its DEI programs ending. Jamal Bryant is a political ideologue who cosplays as a Senior pastor every Sunday morning at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, which is quite an ironic name for a church that is pro-abortion and preaches the twisted false gospel of Liberation theology. A left-wing goat of a pastor and serial adulterer who was run out of his previous church because he could not keep his hands to himself, Bryant is known for his leftist political antics....

The Trump administration has moved to push out a swathe of federal workers previously involved in combating election-related disinformation, according to three people familiar with the matter, amid allegations from congressional Republicans that their work unfairly targeted conservative speech online. Roughly half a dozen employees from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who once worked in its Election Security and Resilience division were notified Thursday night they were being put on administrative leave, said the three people, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

Judge Joseph Molina Flynn of the Rhode Island municipal court has resigned following an FBI raid on his law office. The raid is part of a broader federal investigation into immigration-related activities, coinciding with new executive orders aimed at increasing deportations. Molina Flynn, known for being the first openly gay and formerly undocumented judge in Rhode Island, has been a vocal advocate for immigrant rights.

She had the world at her feet after rising to fame in a popular Chinese television show before a surrogacy scandal ruined it all. Zheng Shuang, originally from Shenyang, China, enjoyed all the perks of being a successful actress after her 2009 breakout role in Meteor Show, including modelling for Prada and receiving nominations at prestigious award shows. The 33-year-old's personal life equally flourished, and she was enjoying a romantic relationship with one of China's biggest reality TV producers, Zhang Heng, with the pair marrying in America in 2019 before opting to become parents via surrogacy. China forbids surrogacy, but...

Kyle Becker @kylenabecker This is way bigger than the Politico scandal. U.S. taxpayers have been funding an obscure news agency called Internews Network for years. Internews is funded heavily by the U.S. government, primarily through USAID. There are 467 grants for Internews totaling a whopping $476.4 MILLION on the http://USASpending.gov website. These massive figures track with Internews' Form 990s, where it discloses tens of millions of dollars in government grants every year. What is Internews? The organization claims to be an "international nonprofit" that supports "independent media" in emerging democracies and uses media as a tool to reduce conflict. A...

Donald Trump said that he will oust board members of the Kennedy Center, while naming himself as its new chairman. David Rubenstein is the current chairman of the center and agreed to stay in that role through 2026.

he Tay-Trav show has been a little much for many people. So let the Eagles win this Super Bowl — it’s what the people want.