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While President Trump has been trying to make progress on a deal to end the war in Ukraine, the US has also been negotiating a mineral rights deal designed to pay the US back for some of the support we've given Ukraine over the past three years since the Russian invasion. Today, both the US and Ukraine say a deal has been reached.The US and Ukraine have agreed to terms on a deal over natural resources and reconstruction, according to a Ukrainian official.The source said the terms were agreed after “everything unacceptable was taken out of the text and it...

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) announced his candidacy for governor of Florida in 2026 during a Fox News appearance Tuesday night. “We’re going to continue being the freeest state and the best state moving forward,” he said.Due to term limits in Florida, Ron DeSantis is not eligible for reelection, and Byron Donalds was the first to officially announce his bid for the Republican primary.As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump made an early endorsement for Donalds in the state’s 2026 gubernatorial race last week.Pres. Trump Endorses Byron Donalds for Governor of Florida in 2026The endorsement came amid speculation about other...

President Trump escalated his efforts to curb illegal immigration on Tuesday by requiring aliens to register in a tracking database or face prison time and fines.The Trump Administration is encouraging illegal aliens to self-deport with the new tracking system.The DHS said illegal aliens will face harsh penalties if they don’t submit fingerprints or disclose to the government if their address has changed.The Wall Street Journal reported:The Trump administration created a registry for immigrants in the U.S. illegally to submit their personal information or face fines and prison time, according to documents including a draft regulation seen by The Wall Street...

President Donald J. Trump's big, beautiful bill just mounted its first hurdle. Tuesday evening, the Congressional Budget Resolution (H. Con. Res. 14) establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034 passed on a largely party-line vote of 217 to 215. According to Punchbowl News, the budget resolution with $4.5 trillion for tax cuts and $1.5 trillion-plus in spending cuts was satisfactory to President Trump. There were several holdouts earlier in the evening, including Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN), and...

Crippling fear of walking home alone in the dark. The deafening sound of the biological clock ticking. The ever-growing gender pay gap. Sometimes it can feel as though there aren't always many benefits to being a woman in 2025 - as generation after generation are discovering the hard way that we can't, in fact, 'have it all'. But if you were to believe everything you read on internet forums, modern-day womanhood can simply be defined by its perks. They include cheaper car insurance, free meals and an all-round 'easier' life once you've bagged a 'high-value' man - i.e. someone who...

DeSantis, who is term limited from running in 2026, has spent weeks pitching his wife, Casey DeSantis, as a candidate to replace him.But Thursday, Trump endorsed Donalds, who has not declared himself a candidate, in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial race.“I know Byron well, have seen him tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and he is a TOTAL WINNER!” said Trump, adding “RUN, BYRON, RUN!”Addressing Trump’s endorsement of Donalds Monday, DeSantis criticized Donalds for not playing a role in DeSantis’s work in Florida.His comments did not seem to phase Donalds, who took the high road.“I am honored to have...

p>During a segment on Sean Hannity television program, DHS Secretary Kirsti Noem was asked for an update on her investigations into leaks of border patrol and ICE raids. Secretary Noem had previously said she would exhaust all available resources to “hunt down” those who leak to the media and put the lives of DHS personnel at risk. Within the update, Noem outlines how she has located several leakers and is using polygraph machines to ferret out those within her silo operation who are trying to undermine her objective. WATCH:Hannity

A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st US state. Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand — according to people familiar with his efforts inside the administration. Trump has said he wants to annex Canada and has vowed to press ahead with 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the country when a...

Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant called a group of black supporters of President Donald Trump “runaway slaves” and “coons” on Sunday after they appeared to mock him at a recent Black History Month reception at the White House. In a clip from his sermon on Sunday, the leader of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, highlighted a video from the reception, which first appeared on the X profile of prominent black Trump supporter, podcast host and entrepreneur David Harris Jr. The video, then shared on X by The Grio Senior White House Correspondent April Ryan on Friday, shows a...

At a church just outside Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday (Feb. 18), 33 ministers from the Christian Reformed Church in North America stood up to read aloud a declaration, officially accepting ordination in a rival denomination, the Reformed Church in America. Having stated they will abide by the creeds and confessions of the RCA, each of the ministers was then offered a loaf of bread as a symbol of fellowship and welcome. The group ordination ceremony — the first of its kind — is one of the more public signs of an ongoing split in the Christian Reformed Church on...

Last week, David Roger Franklin, 68, was handed a life sentence after pleading guilty to three counts of producing child sexual abuse material, as well as a count of possessing child sexual abuse images. Franklin previously served as the senior pastor of Wellington Assembly of God Church in Wellington, Kansas, and was also an army chaplain. According to one of his bios, he “has pastored in Kansas and Montana and served on ministry staff in Texas and Colorado” and has preached at boys camps across the nation and around the world.” He is married and has five children and multiple...

I have known Volodymyr Zelensky very well for years. As a senior official personally appointed by Zelensky, I spoke to him many times a day and observed him closely both in public and privately. We parted on good terms and without rancour. I have no personal axe to grind. But today I cannot remain silent about how Zelensky is weakening Ukraine under the guise of war. As a result of this new climate of fear I must write these words under the veil of anonymity – a necessary precaution against retaliation from the very regime I once served. It pains...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862) (Trade Expansion Act), it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. Copper is a critical material essential to the national security, economic strength, and industrial resilience of the United States. Copper, scrap copper, and copper’s derivative products play a vital role in defense applications, infrastructure, and emerging technologies, including clean energy, electric vehicles, and advanced electronics. The United States faces significant vulnerabilities in the copper supply...

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. — Oklahoma leaders are preparing to help hundreds of people who could lose their jobs at Tinker Air Force Base. Words of major cuts spread last week, and while nobody has been fired as of Tuesday, there are efforts being made in case those layoffs do happen. Tinker Air Force Base employs federal workers, but those at the state level are now chiming into play their part on how to help those who could be impacted. That includes brainstorming ways to help potentially hundreds of employees who could be without a job. "It's really kind of in...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. During my first term, my Administration took historic steps to correct a fundamental wrong within the American healthcare system. For far too long, prices were hidden from patients and employers, with inadequate recourse available to individuals looking to shop for care or obtain pricing information from a healthcare provider in advance of a visit or procedure. These opaque pricing arrangements allowed powerful entities, such as hospitals and insurance companies, to operate with insufficient...

But in the real world, if you badmouth your boss on live TV instead of telling him what you did for work last week... You no longer have a job.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) said that he doesn’t believe spending cuts are necessarily needed and “we’d be better off” if the current tax cuts expired, but he wants to see tax cuts for the middle class. Co-host Becky Quick asked, “How would you go about cutting spending?” Pallone answered, “Well, first of all, this is all being done, these Medicaid cuts are being proposed in order to pay for the Republican tax plan, which, basically, just helps the very wealthy and large corporate interests.”

[Catholic Caucus] With Francis hospitalized, Cardinal Müller calls for prayers so God gives the Church ‘good shepherds’‘Let us pray that the Lord would give His Church good shepherds after the Heart of Jesus and, in particular, that He would direct the thoughts of the cardinals towards the good of the Church and make them immune to thinking in purely worldly terms,’ Cardinal Gerhard Müller said.Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, joined other prelates, including Cardinals Raymond Burke and Giovanni Becciu, in St. Peter’s Square to pray the Rosary for hospitalized...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked Congress to approve nearly $40 billion in aid to help the Los Angeles area recover from January’s devastating wildfires