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It took nearly a year for a Lebanese illegal migrant who arrived under the Biden administration and admitted that he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping “to make a bomb” to get his deportation papers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Post Monday. Now, the Trump administration is working to finally boot him from the country. New York-bound migrant Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, admitted his ties to the terrorist group, and ambitions when he was captured by border agents in El Paso, Texas, on March 9, 2024 — and was immediately held in federal custody. During a medical screening in a processing...

Delaware Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride is the first transgender lawmaker elected to Congress. Democratic Masschusetts Rep. Bill Keating had a meltdown on Tuesday, during a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing, after the subcommittee's chairman called transgender Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride "mister." The exchange occurred during a hearing on arms control and U.S. assistance to Europe. The committee's chairman Keith Self cited a Trump administration order that only recognizes and identifies two genders, which is the person's biological gender. Self, a Texas Republican, introduced McBride, who was the first transgender lawmaker elected to Congress, as "the representative from Delaware, Mister McBride."...

Advance Auto Parts has made a bold decision that will shake the automotive retail landscape: all 138 of its California stores and distribution centers are closing. This isn’t just a minor adjustment—this is a drastic move aimed at addressing the company’s serious financial woes. The closures, which are part of a broader restructuring plan, come at a time when Advance Auto Parts is grappling with deep financial losses and a weakened market position. This is a company under siege, fighting for its survival in an increasingly tough environment. The closures, which first hit the news in November through a federal...

Critics warn these cases, which also target other large emitters, including utilities and industries, will drive up energy prices for consumers, if successful. he Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a request from 19 red states hoping to stop blue state lawsuits seeking to extract money from oil companies for allegedly causing damages from climate change. The State of Alabama was joined by 18 other Republican attorneys general, including those representing West Virginia and Wyoming, in asking the high court to stop states like California and New Jersey from seeking damages the blue states claim are caused by greenhouse gas...

A Church of England diocese has introduced a new prayer guide stating that Christianity was historically propagated through “racist European ideologies.” The "anti-racist toolkit," developed by the Diocese of Norwich's Racial Justice Action Group, and which advises clergy to move away from Eurocentric prayers, includes suggestions for addressing racial justice in church services, and is designed to align local parishes with the Church of England’s efforts to combat racism. The guidance says parishes need to prepare for demographic shifts, particularly in rural East Anglia, where Norfolk remains about 94% white, according to The Telegraph. Despite the region’s prevailing homogeneity, the...

A Bay Area city council didn’t downplay its disappointment in Caltrain over cost estimates to realign a busy intersection that’s prone to accidents on the tracks.

SNIPWhen officers arrived, the boy confirmed his mom ate his ice cream and again demanded that she go to jail for it, according to police.Police say the little one eventually agreed not to press charges, telling them he didn’t want his mom behind bars and that he just wanted some ice cream.Two days later the officers obliged, surprising the young whistleblower with two scoops of ice cream topped with blue sprinkles.

President Donald Trump shopped for a new Tesla on the White House driveway on Tuesday, selecting a shiny red sedan to show his support for Elon Musk ‘s electric vehicle company as it faces blowback because of his work to advance the president’s political agenda and downsize the federal government. “Wow,” Trump said as he eased his way into the driver’s seat of a Model S. “That’s beautiful.” Musk got in on the passenger side and joked about “giving the Secret Service a heart attack” as they talked about how to start a vehicle that can reach 60 miles (95...

Dictators crave power. President Donald Trump is using his power to give Americans more freedom. That's a massive difference. Desperate to find an effective attack against Trump, some Democrats are recycling an old one. They claim he's an authoritarian. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., invited laid-off federal workers to attend Trump's recent speech to Congress. She said she was standing "shoulder to shoulder with people in defiance to a dictator." That type of defiance led Democrats to callously withhold applause from a 13-year-old brain-cancer survivor simply because Trump introduced him. Shameful. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams recently called Trump a...

Maybe she needed the snacks for another reason … **SNIP** The failed 2024 Democratic presidential candidate went off on a bizarre (and nacho cheese-flavored) tangent while trying to make a point about DoorDash and affordable housing during her headline slot at the HumanX conference at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on Sunday. Harris, 60, left many baffled during her conversation with Nuno Sebastiao, CEO of data science company Feedzai, as she recounted ordering food on DoorDash to keep her going while watching last week’s Oscars. “We did DoorDash ’cause I wanted Doritos. And the red carpet part was about to start...

The Biden Autopen scandal is growing by the day. The Oversight Project released new analysis of Biden’s pardons for family members, Dr. Tony Fauci, General Milley, J6 Committee members and Gerald Lundergan. On January 19, 2025, just one day before Trump was set to be sworn in as the 47th US President, Joe Biden issued a flurry of pardons to his family members, Fauci and others. The Oversight Project determined that all of the pardons issued on January 19 had the same exact Biden autopen signature. WATCH:

President Donald Trump is halfway home towards cementing the first step of his government spending agenda.The House passed a continuing resolution (CR) Tuesday to continue current spending levels – with some modifications favored by Republicans – through the end of the fiscal year September 30.The vote on the relatively clean CR followed a successful procedural vote earlier in the afternoon that cleared the way for passage.The final tally was 217 to 213. Only one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), opposed the legislation. Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) was the sole Democrat to cross the aisle.Conservatives have long loathed CRs, yet Trump...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday announced the price of eggs in the United States has dropped nearly $2 in the wake of a pricing surge. Egg prices have become a hot button issue for Americans who have become shocked by the skyrocketing cost of the household staple item. Prices were impacted by an outbreak of avian flu, which Trump blamed on former President Joe Biden. Rollins explained, however, prices are returning to normal. " A good piece of news we just got in the last day or two is that the average cost of eggs has now gone down...

Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the breaking news that the Department of Education has mandated all employees out of headquarters by 6pm today, citing security concerns. Along with news that USAID is now instructing staff to shred or burn all classified documents.

WARSAW, March 11 (Reuters) - Polish border guards detained a Ukrainian woman who was sentenced in Kazakhstan to 12 years in prison for participating in an organised criminal group trading in human organs and selling 56 kidneys, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The 35-year-old woman, referred to only as Ksenia P. under Polish privacy laws, was detained at a railway crossing between Poland and Ukraine under an Interpol red notice, Marta Petkowska, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office in Przemysl, said in a statement. The prosecutors didn't say why the woman wasn't in prison in Kazakhstan at the time she was...

stunning email issued by a USAID official today will generate a national uproar and provoke another massive legal battle. Politico obtained an email from a senior official at USAID ordering the remaining staff to convene at the agency’s former headquarters on Tuesday to destroy all remaining documents by either shredding or burning them. USAID’s acting executive secretary Erica Carr told the staff to meet at the RRB 14th Street Lobby to “shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.” Carr also ordered staff to label the burn bags...

Our item of yesterday pointed out the paucity of pro-Trump Republicans on CNN This Morning under its new host, Audie Cornish, a former host of NPR's All Things Considered. Shockingly, it looks like Audie didn't read, or certainly did not take to heart, our item. Her panel today consisted of two confirmed liberals: Jackie Kucinich of the Boston Globe and Chuck Rocha, a former Bernie '20 campaign advisor, whose shtick is sporting a big cowboy hat. And for the Republican on today's panel, Cornish chose Ashley Davis, a former aide to President George W. Bush. Davis promptly proceeded to employ...

Five years ago today the World Health Organization called COVID-19 a pandemic for the first time. Much about the coronavirus was a mystery then – how exactly it spread, if we could treat it and whether we could prevent it. While the answers to those questions unraveled over the following years, a big one remains unanswered: What is the origin of COVID-19?Theories about the origin of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1.2 million Americans have sparked strong debate – much of it seemingly partisan – in the U.S. and beyond. Leading theories include an animal host that transmitted...

FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and cutting out the traditional chain of command. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Patel’s first order of business after taking the helm at the FBI was securing a direct connection to President Trump. For decades, every FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover has maintained an arm’s-length relationship with the White House. But under Trump’s leadership, Patel is taking a different approach—one that ensures the FBI is aligned with the administration’s agenda,...