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For Democrats, social justice is big business. Witness Southwest Key Programs: As part of the migrant money machine, it pulled in around a brain-busting $3 billion in taxpayer funds between fiscal 2021 and 2024. The group is the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant kids — and clearly rotten to the core. The Biden Justice Department sued it in July, over accusations of “severe” and “pervasive” rape and abuse of the kids in the group’s care between 2015 and 2023 — and a congressional probe found evidence suggesting SKP even turned kids over to traffickers. But that didn’t stop the...

V NEWS FEED // Some child sex offenders imprisoned in Oklahoma may soon have to undergo chemical castration if they want to be eligible for parole. House Bill 2422 passed the Oklahoma House March 10. The legislation is now in the state Senate. Rep. Scott Fetgatter, R-Okmulgee, introduced the bill to follow through with a promise he made to the families whose loved ones were murdered in 2023 by Jesse McFadden, a convicted rapist who served 16 years in prison, according to a March 11 article on the Oklahoma House website. “A known sex offender in my district was let...

Sean Curran faces a tough task as the new director of the Secret Service: reforming the troubled protective agency months after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a campaign rally, its worst security debacle in decades.Congressional lawmakers and outside experts want Curran to shake up the agency’s leadership, overhaul security planning at big events, and even rethink the structure of the 8,000-person agency. Its problems include a chronically overworked staff and a multibillion-dollar budget that service officials say has not kept pace with rising threats against U.S. leaders.Curran, the former head of Trump’s Secret Service detail, helped shield the...

The Democratic Party has reached an all-time low in popularity in the latest national NBC News poll, as it searches for a path forward after a painful loss to President Donald Trump — and as the party’s voters spoil for a fight between their leaders in Washington and Trump. Just over a quarter of registered voters (27%) say they have positive views of the party, which is the party’s lowest positive rating in NBC News polling dating back to 1990. Just 7% say those views are “very” positive.

The line fell silent. In a phone call from the Oval Office, President Trump had just delivered unwelcome news to three of America’s most powerful auto executives: Mary Barra of General Motors, John Elkann of Stellantis and Jim Farley of Ford. Everyone needs to buckle up, Mr. Trump said on the call, which took place in early March. Tariffs are going into effect on April 2. It’s time for everyone to get on board. The auto chiefs, like the leaders of other industries, had been arguing that Mr. Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on cars coming from Canada and Mexico would...

Democrats have become so unpopular that more Americans believe that aliens are among us than agree with the Democratic Party. Dems are now held in lower esteem than lawyers, undertakers, and car salesmen. Two punishing new polls released Sunday show that the party has hit historic new lows in approval ratings nationwide — with just 27% of Americans saying they like the job Democrats are doing, according to NBC News.

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A woman was stabbed 14 times in front of her 5-year-old daughter after 22-year-old Brianna Alvelo became upset over a bad tip on a pizza delivery, documents obtained by WESH 2 show. The incident happened late Sunday night at Riviera Motel on E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway in Kissimmee, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies responded to the motel where they found the victim on the bed with stab wounds to her chest, arms, legs and abdomen, documents say. The woman was taken to the hospital, where she had surgery for a ruptured lung. The...

Summary The White House says "we've never been closer to peace than at this moment" ahead of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin holding talks on Ukraine on Tuesday Trump says he and Putin will discuss "land", "power plants" and "dividing up certain assets", while the Kremlin confirms a call between the US and Russian leaders is being planned Sarah Rainsford analysis: US officials are trying to sound positive about doing a ceasefire deal - but the tone from Moscow is sounding extremely bullish

The New York Times published an opinion column claiming the scientific community "badly misled" the public in an effort to suppress the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, even after the paper's own science writer called the theory "racist." The March 16 piece, "We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives," by Times columnist and Princeton Sociology Professor Zeynep Tufekci, argued that the scientific community long suspected COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, but purposefully "hid or understated crucial facts," to mislead the public about the lab’s "terrifyingly lax" safety precautions. "We have...

A U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed the second-highest-ranking leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) Thursday, officials revealed hours before President Donald Trump announced additional targets. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces — together with Iraqi Intelligence and Security Forces — “conducted a precision airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the Global ISIS #2 leader, Chief of Global Operations and the Delegated Committee Emir – Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias ‘Abu Khadijah’, and one other ISIS operative.” “Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed,” President Trump posted on Truth Social. “He...

CV NEWS FEED // Authorities say they arrested a 23-year-old man Sunday in connection with an alarming act of vandalism and burglary at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Wichita, Kansas, which has left the parish community shaken. The attack, which occurred early Saturday morning, involved significant destruction to religious statues, smashed glass, and the defacing of sacred spaces. An American flag was also burned inside the church. According to KWCH 12 News, the Wichita Police Department and the FBI have been involved in the investigation. “Recognizing the severity of this crime, WPD officers and investigators — alongside the ATF —...

Washington has discussed with Ukraine the control of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as part of a potential peace deal, U.S. President Donald Trump said on March 13. Trump's remarks come days after Kyiv agreed to a 30-day ceasefire proposed by Washington during the talks in Jeddah on March 11, provided that Russia did as well. The talks also concerned potential territorial concessions, according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump said that Ukraine and the U.S. had discussed a lot of details of the final deal, including "concepts of land." "We have...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued a cease-and-desist order last week to Planned Parenthood formally prohibiting the abortion giant from performing chemical abortions in the state. The order advises the company to implement a “valid” health and safety plan to protect women and treat complications from abortion-inducing drugs, as required by state law. AG Bailey cited Planned Parenthood’s “uncontroverted track record” of disregarding Missouri health and safety laws as the reason for the temporary restraining order, which makes it a felony for the organization to dispense the high-risk drugs. In November 2024, Missouri made abortion a constitutional “right” in the...

OMG...MIC DROP. DOOCY: There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does not think The US represents the values of the Statue of Liberty anymore. They want the Statue of Liberty back. So is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France? LEAVITT: "Absolutely not. My advice to that unnamed low level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States Of America that the French are not speaking German right now. So, they should be very grateful, to our great country."

America’s public high schools are strange places to find displays of the alphabet. Perhaps with plummeting standardized test scores and a substantial increase in English-as-a-second-language students in sanctuary districts, high school educators feel the need to review kindergarten basics. In Fairfax County, Virginia’s West Springfield High School, located just 17 miles from the White House, school administrators and teachers have decorated the history hallway this month with a special, leftist rendition of the alphabet. The display, titled “The ABCs to ME,” is decorated with the school’s colors: a blue background lined with an orange border. Featured in the display is...

Republican lawmakers have launched a bid to have 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' considered a real mental illness. The group of GOP senators in Minnesota filed a bill that would classify the term as an official disorder. Their proposal details how Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) manifests as 'verbal expressions of intense hostility' toward Donald Trump and 'overt acts of aggression and violence' against any person or thing that expresses support for the president. It claims symptoms include 'Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald Trump's behavior.' For years,...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s solar system, displaying the telescope’s ground breaking research capabilities. One hundred thirty thousand lightyears from Earth, the multiplanet system HR 8799 has been a primary target for astronomers studying planet formation. The new research confirms JWST’s ability to measure an exoplanet’s atmospheric chemistry and suggests the four planets formed similarly to Jupiter and Saturn, coalescing around a solid core. Viewing a Young Solar System At only 30 million years old, HR 8799 is relatively young compared to Earth’s 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Due...

A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police. The elaborate scam saw the worker duped into attending a video call with what he thought were several other members of staff, but all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations, Hong Kong police said at a briefing on Friday. “(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake,” senior superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching told the city’s public...

A federal judge in Washington plans to press the Trump administration at a hearing on Monday about whether it has violated an order he issued barring officials from removing any detained noncitizens — including several suspected Venezuelan gang members — from the country with little or no due process. The hearing was scheduled by the judge, James E. Boasberg, even as President Trump’s so-called border czar, Tom Homan, made defiant remarks on television, indicating that the administration planned to continue such deportations despite the court’s order — an action that could thrust the country into a constitutional crisis, pitting one...

A group of isolated researchers has been stranded for months on end in the most inhospitable environment – until one of the team members goes rogue, sexually harassing and eventually threatening to kill a female colleague. That could be the plot of a successful thriller or horror film. Still, unfortunately, this is reportedly what’s happening in real life to a group of South African scientists trapped in the tiny Sanae IV base in Antarctica. The story broke in the outer world because a member of the research station sent out an email to a major newspaper pleading for rescue after...