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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has launched an official inquiry into allegations that a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) activist offered exam answers to black and minority air traffic controller candidates. The controversy erupted after reports surfaced that the activist had been providing unfair advantages during the examination process, raising concerns over the integrity of recruitment practices within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Duffy’s investigation seeks to uncover the full extent of the alleged misconduct that an air traffic candidate was allowed to cheat on an entry exam at the FAA. A report reveals that audio recordings captured Shelton Snow, a...

President Donald Trump has announced that the fugitive leader of ISIS, Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, in Iraq, has been killed, marking a significant blow to the terror group. In a statement, Trump revealed that the operation was a result of coordinated efforts, eliminating a key figure in ISIS leadership. The news highlights ongoing efforts to dismantle the remnants of ISIS and disrupt its operations, signaling progress in the fight against global terrorism. “Today, the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member...

Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal -- and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation's elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished. By the 1970s, non-profit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and non-partisan. Instead, they customarily violated the corpus of iconic civil rights legislation by weighing race, gender, and sexual orientation in biased admissions,...

Detransitioners’ lawsuits against the medical systems that hurt them could finally undo the industry’s embrace of transgenderism.Gender ideology is unraveling. It’s fraud all the way down. There is no good evidence that “transitioning” helps anyone, especially children. And people are realizing that the entire premise — that a boy can somehow be born into a female body, or vice versa — is superstitious nonsense. Indeed, transgender ideology is so insane that the coalition against it ranges from conservative Christians to lesbian feminists. Transgender ideology has many enemies, but the most effective are those who have been victimized by wrongly named...

Topline: A Chinese lab is continuing to receive funds from the U.S. to conduct cruel studies on beagles, according to contracts obtained by the nonprofit White Coat Waste Project and shared with the New York Post.Key facts: The $124,200 contract was awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences using money from the Pentagon, for the experiments on beagle puppies — as well as mice and rats — at the Beijing-based company’s lab from September 2023 until May 2025.The Chinese company Pharmaron uses the funds to test pharmaceuticals for neurological disorders on 300 beagles per...

The average American’s net worth across all states is nearly $595,000. However, wealth levels vary among states alongside cost of living and other factors. As Visual Capitalist's Alejandra Dander notes, according to anonymized data from nearly 2 million Empower Personal Dashboard™ users, we highlight the top ten states with the highest average net worth per person.A closer look at average net worthNet worth is calculated by taking what a person owns (their assets) and subtracting what they owe (their debts). Here are the leading states by net worth as of September 2024.Connecticut has the highest net worth of nearly $920,000,...

Here are the 26 Republicans that just voted against codifying DOGE foreign aid spending cuts into law: ROLL CALL Senator Lindsey Graham Senator Barrasso Senator Boozman Senator Capito Senator Cassidy Senator Collins Senator Cramer Senator Crapo Senator Fischer Senator Grassley Senator Hoeven Senator Hyde-Smith Senator Lankford Senator McConnell Senator McCormick Senator Moran Senator Mullin Senator Murkowski Senator Ricketts Senator Rounds Senator Scott (SC) Senator Sullivan Senator Thune Senator Tillis Senator Wicker Senator Young

Who knew that Johns Hopkins University had a head count so bloated that it could easily cut 2000 staff members? Honestly, I could have guessed that without looking up the student enrollment. It is a university of some size, and therefore has an uncounted number of useless or worse employees whom they can afford to keep on board because the federal government keeps pouring ungodly amounts of money into Higher Ed, even though the return for both the country and for the students is getting worse and worse. Johns Hopkins University announces it will fire nearly 2,000 workers over cut...

Keir Starmer has warned Vladimir Putin to stop playing games over a ceasefire as he gathers allies to hammer out peacekeeping plans. Some 25 countries will join a call led by the Prime Minister from Downing Street on Saturday to discuss forming a “coalition of the willing” to shore up peace in Ukraine. Mr Starmer will say allies need to turn the screws on Russia's economy and be prepared to support long term peace in Ukraine. Leaders from European countries, the EU Commission, NATO, Canada, Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand are expected to join the virtual summit which follows days...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared South Africa's ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, persona non grata and ordered him expelled from the United States. This immediately deprived him of diplomatic immunity and required him to leave the US in just a matter of days.Using X as his medium to announce the defenestration of Rasool, Rubio was blunt.South Africa's Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country. Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.The...

We are nearing completion of the work being done to our credit card program. We have the current version installed on our system now, but it's in test mode. We need to make sure everything is working according to our Merchant bank agreement. And then they need to make sure that it's up to their specs before approving. We also have to complete some administrative tasks before we can go live. Please do not try to make donations on that page by credit card until the work is completed and we announce we're going live. And, unfortunately, this delay has...

What does an eclipse look like from the moon? Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander just sent back a stunning image from the lunar surface. The commercial space company's lander, which touched down on the moon without a hitch on March 2 as part of a mission for NASA, took a high-definition image of the eclipse from its top deck in the early hours of Friday — and it's mighty beautiful. "Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge...

A 42-year-old transgender woman who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and spray-painted “Nazi cars” at a Colorado Tesla dealership lives with her mother due to “emotional problems” and calls herself “baby” online. Lucy Grace Nelson, also known as Justin Thomas Nelson, is accused of hurling incendiary devices at a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Northern Colorado, and vandalizing the business and vehicles on multiple occasions with graffiti “offensive and hateful in nature,” police said.

In the early to mid-1980's I watched an episode of ABC's Nightline hosted by Ted Koppel. The topic was on the plausibility that there were still Americans being held captive or were held captive after the war in Vietnam. I don't remember who the guests on the program were. What I do remember is a black & white photo that the program showed. It was a photo of a half-dozen or so Caucasian-looking men standing together. They appeared to be wearing what could have old worn uniforms or work clothes. I believe on one corner or side of the photo...

The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) Boston-based expansion team announced Friday that it will be changing its name. The change comes after a wave of transgender backlash to a marketing campaign it abandoned back in October. The team was set to be named BOS Nation FC, which it announced in a branding event in the fall alongside a marketing campaign that featured the slogan "Too Many Balls." The slogan prompted intense backlash from the transgender community, including an NWSL player. A transgender player who goes by the singular name Quinn, who plays for the Seattle Reign, spoke out against the...

An official with the FAA helped non-white applicants cheat on their entrance exam. Of course, he still has a job. Sources: https://x.com/RedWave_Press/status/18... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFVvNBZWU... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFVvQPYW8... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFVvI73Wk... https://x.com/RedWave_Press/status/18... https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/03/... https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/03/...

When Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, announced that he would vote with Republicans to clear the way for passage of a stopgap spending bill, he argued that a government shutdown would further empower President Trump and Elon Musk to defund government programs and shrink federal agencies.“Under a shutdown, the Trump administration would have full authority to deem whole agencies, programs and personnel nonessential, furloughing staff with no promise that they would ever be rehired,” Mr. Schumer said on Thursday.But many Democrats, who were stunned and enraged by Mr. Schumer’s stance, argued that it was...

Huge win for President Trump and America. A federal appeals court on Friday evening lifted a block on two of President Trump’s executive orders aimed at eliminating Marxist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies. President Trump previously signed two Executive Orders that instructed agencies in the executive branch to end discriminatory DEI policies: One EO directed DEI policies to be eliminated in federal agencies and the other EO targeted recipients of federal grants. Last month, a Biden-appointed federal judge entered a preliminary injunction against Trump’s Executive Orders. On Friday evening, a three-judge panel on the Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of...

I am; the scandal they want you to forget. This is so BIG. And here’s the punch line—there is no way the Senate wanted Dave Weldon to take the slot as CDC director. Why? Because Dave knows stuff. Bad stuff. HEAVY stuff about the CDC. Dave knows some CDC crimes that’ll make the American people jump off their couches with their hair on fire as they’re watching the TV news. And if Dave won confirmation and went over to the CDC as chief honcho, one day a lying vaccine researcher could walk into his office and start spouting a mountain...

UFO mania @maniaUFO A Tic-Tac has been spotted on Mars by the NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Mast Cam on Sol 2692... A Tic-Tac has been spotted on Mars by the NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Mast Cam on Sol 2692! Check out how its casting a shadow on the surface! Location: Mars Longitude: 137.38077432° Latitude: -4.73673265°