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US foreign aid funded legal advice for transgender asylum seekers and other diversity initiatives in Britain, it has been revealed. Joe Biden’s administration donated at least $120,000 - almost £100,000 - to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and LGBT schemes across the UK.

'Great! I wanna report: Joe Biden. Kamala Harris. Chuck Schumer,' Senator Ted Cruz replied.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faced widespread mockery after launching a tipline to "expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety." ..."We already have that… it’s called DOGE," comedian Tim Young quipped.Tesla-founder Elon Musk joked, "Look into this Schumer guy, he’s definitely done crime!"...Judicial Network president Carrie Severino noted his mention of "’Threats to public safety...’" and wrote, "This is rich coming from Senator Schumer, who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and threatened Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, saying they...

Unless young students learn the predicate mathematics for calculus, our nation will grind to a halt. While Democrats focus on the liberal arts, which train students to be leftist activists beginning in grade school, it is the STEM studies that keep America functioning. As students ascend that ladder of mathematical logic, calculus becomes central to their ability to maintain our systems and invent new ones. Sadly, though, our schools are failing students, not just in teaching calculus but in teaching everything preceding calculus. It is widely recognized among today’s undergraduates that the STEM field is at once among the most...

Grotesquely lopsided exchanges.. Israel has committed itself to freeing 1,900 Palestinian prisoners, including many who are serving life sentences for multiple murders. And for these 1,900, Israel is getting back a mere handful of hostages — likely no more than fifty remain alive of the 98 hostages Hamas supposedly still holds — all of them innocents. Perhaps you’d like to see what 80 of those prisoners are guilty of, to begin to appreciate the danger inherent in this grotesquely lopsided exchange. How many of these terrorists will use their freedom to murder again? 82% of the 1,027 Palestinians who were...

Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, while fuming for six minutes about Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chair Elon Musk on Monday, accused the department of seeking to pull teachers from classrooms after it announced plans to review the Department of Education’s spending. Democratic members of Congress tried to force their way into the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Education after DOGE was asked by President Donald Trump to uncover wasteful spending within the department.

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Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd BOEBERT: "Implant aborted baby parts into lab animals? Have you heard of that sort of research?" GOODMAN: "Yeah. We did an analysis a few years ago showing that over 90% of experiments using human fetal tissue and putting them in animals were funded by Fauci's NIAID."

A staggering 800,000 non-citizens could reportedly be voting soon in New York City elections, as a court is considering legislation this week that would allow them to register to vote ahead of the city’s elections. A top New York court is set to hear arguments regarding the matter on Tuesday, according to a report by Politico. This comes after an appellate court struck down Democrats’ efforts to permit non-citizens to vote last year.

Of all the things I loathe about the Democrat party, its celebration of victimhood takes the cake. As is true of all political parties infected with virulent Marxism, it does not seek to help those truly in need. It does the opposite. It seeks out people who might never have seen themselves as victims and convinces them otherwise. It is a party whose growth in membership is directly proportional to Democrats’ capacity to convert Americans into victims. Once a person understands Democrats’ pathological need to harvest new victims, it becomes obvious that they are not in the business of solving...

Can we sue the organizations (NYT, Politico, etc.) who profited off of the abuse of U.S. taxpayers' money? Stopping the bleeding is one thing, but we should sue to get our money back - including those who personally profited from the fraud.

Trump discussed his administration’s effort to end the war in an interview with Fox News that aired Monday, ahead of a meeting tabled for this week between his vice president, JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “They (Ukraine) may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday,” Trump said. He stressed that he also wanted to see a return on investment with US aid for Ukraine, again floating the idea of a trade for Kyiv’s rare earth minerals. The US president’s comments will likely delight the...

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Longtime ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is said to be 'miserable' at the network after it paid President Donald Trump a $16 million settlement over his remarks about the president. Stephanopoulos erroneously claimed on-air that the president-elect was found 'liable for rape' - rather than the correct phrasing of sexual abuse - against writer E. Jean Carroll in March. Trump sued Stephanopoulos and the network for defamation soon after the segment aired, accusing the anchor of making the statements with 'malice' and a disregard for the truth. As part of the settlement, Stephanopoulos was forced to issue a public apology....

A pregnant California teenager was killed in a hit-and-run after confronting a man over his relationship with her underage sister. Kaylie Corona, 16, was two weeks away from her due date when she was struck and killed late at night on February 2 in Riverside. Isaac Blackhorse Garcia, 19, allegedly mowed down the young mother-to-be after she confronted him for having a sexual relationship with her 15-year-old sister, report KTLA. 'Investigators determined that the suspect, 19-year-old Isaac Blackhorse Garcia of Moreno Valley, had been in a sexual relationship with the victim's teenage sister,' Riverside Police said. 'When he dropped the...

President Trump's border czar Tom Homan accused the FBI of recent leaks about upcoming ICE raids targeting illegal immigrants. Homan's comments came after an internal government document that detailed a large scale raid scheduled in Los Angeles was leaked to the media on Monday. The border czar claimed the information received so far 'tends to lead toward the FBI' during a shocking admission on Hannity. He said anyone who leaks sensitive information about raids and target locations risks the lives of officers on the front lines. 'It's just not giving the bad guys a heads up... you're putting officers lives...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican skepticism in the Senate of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees has been worn down, putting his unconventional choices for some of the most powerful positions in the federal government on the verge of confirmation. Floor votes are expected this week on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in line to be the nation’s health secretary, and Tulsi Gabbard, the choice for director of national intelligence. Both are from outside traditional Republican circles and espoused views in the confirmation process that alarmed GOP senators at times. Still, their nominations have advanced to the full Senate after crucial committee votes....

Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of the nation’s judiciary, foreshadowing a possible constitutional breakdown of American government.It’s not simply that the new administration has flouted a raft of federal statutes and prompted a flood of legal challenges. It’s that some of Donald Trump’s top advisers have cast doubt on whether rulings on those lawsuits would even constrain the president.There are signs that some judges’ orders have been disregarded. On Monday, a federal judge in Rhode Island found that the administration has violated the “plain text” of his...

Santorini has been hit by a powerful, shallow 5.3 magnitude earthquake, which is the strongest to strike the Greek island during recent seismic activity in the area. The tremors were felt in Athens on Monday evening and measured a focal depth of 17km (10.6 miles). ... The tourist hotspot has been rocked by seismic activity since January and more than 12,800 quakes have been detected by the University of Athens' Seismological Laboratory. ... Landslides have occurred in many parts of Santorini due to the frequency and intensity of the tremors and experts have not ruled out a major earthquake. Seismologists...

President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Monday closing a federal executive staff development school. Though not well-known to the general public, the Federal Executive Institute was terminated “to refocus Government on serving taxpayers, competence, and dedication to our Constitution, rather than serving the Federal bureaucracy,” according to the order. The FEI was created by the Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 as a senior staff college “to endow the career leadership levels of the federal government with the capacity and motivation to bring proactive change to a huge enterprise” according to a history of the school. An alumni organization...

Hong Kong will file a complaint on recent US tariffs imposed on the city to the World Trade Organization, claiming the United States has completely ignored the city's status as a separate customs territory, chief secretary Eric Chan said on Tuesday (Feb 11). "This is absolutely inconsistent with the WTO rules. Of course, they have totally disregarded Hong Kong is a separate customs territory," Chan, the China-ruled city's number two official, told reporters. "We will file a complaint to the WTO regarding this unreasonable arrangement," he said without giving specifics. Chan was responding to a US decision to impose 10...