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Full title: Chief Justice John Roberts Caught in Secretive, Invite-Only Club for Elite Judges and Lawyers That Includes James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Amit Mehta and Ketanji Brown Jackson .... This is a shocking development.

SANTA FE — For the second time in three years, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham made waves at the Roundhouse by earmarking state capital outlay funding for construction of a new reproductive health and abortion clinic in New Mexico. The $10 million earmark in this year’s $1.2 billion infrastructure package prompted Republicans to pull their support from the bill on Wednesday, though it was still approved with Democratic support. “I just think it’s a misappropriation of taxpayer dollars,” said Rep. Rod Montoya, R-Farmington, who predicted the clinic would appeal primarily to out-of-state women seeking abortion services. During a lengthy Wednesday debate,...

While there are no scientific studies that link spaceflight to graying hair, NASA has previously suggested that spending time in space can cause “significant physiological changes.” “Imagine if all of your physiological changes were hyper-accelerated so that you passed through life cycles in weeks as opposed to decades,” NASA wrote online when the agency announced it would be launching a “space-age” research program to study space’s effects on the human body. “You’d be able to grow a beard overnight or your hair might begin graying in a matter of days or maybe menopause would come knocking by next weekend.” NASA...

The Trump administration has been inundated with lawsuits. While this is hardly surprising, the sheer volume — well over 100 as of this writing — and the speed at which unfavorable rulings have been issued against the president are remarkable. The rapid pace of these cases has muddled key legal issues. Notably, many cases involving contracts, back pay, and civil service protections likely do not belong in federal district court at all. These courts have, in turn, successfully backlogged Trump’s agenda by issuing temporary restraining orders — a unilateral command to back down without any opportunity to appeal. The Department...

Tesla emerges as cultural flashpoint in DOGE era ELON MUSK‘s flagship electric vehicle (EV) company has become a focal point of debate over the Trump administration’s government cutback campaign. Democrats have made a show of returning their EVs and celebrating Tesla’s stock decline, while the White House has pushed to prop up the company. The cultural movement around Tesla as an ideological signifier has taken a dark turn in recent days, with an outbreak of vandalism against vehicles and dealerships. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday announced the arrest of three individuals who used Molotov cocktails to set Tesla vehicles...

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MOSCOW, March 20 (Reuters) - Ukraine struck a major Russian strategic bomber airfield on Thursday with drones, triggering a huge blast and fire about 700 km (435 miles) from the front lines of the war, Russian and Ukrainian officials said. Videos verified by Reuters showed a huge blast spreading out from the airfield, wrecking nearby cottages. Russia's defence ministry said air defences had shot down 132 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions. The base in Engels, which dates back to Soviet times, hosts Russia's Tupolev Tu-160 nuclear-capable heavy strategic bombers, known unofficially as White Swans. Roman Busargin, governor of Saratov, said...

The Tesla Tiny House 2025 represents a radical rethinking of affordable housing with specifications that seem almost impossible at its price point. Measuring precisely 240 square feet (20 by 12 by 9.5 feet), the structure is constructed primarily from Tesla's proprietary GreenCore composite materials—a revolutionary blend of recycled carbon fiber, plant-based resins, and recovered automotive-grade aluminum from Tesla's vehicle production waste stream. This advanced compound, developed in Tesla's Materials Science division, has been reformulated with a 37% stronger tensile strength than traditional building materials through a new molecular bonding process. This innovative material provides R-38 insulation value while weighing 64%...

Former left-wing congresswoman Cori Bush’s husband was charged on Thursday with defrauding the federal government to illegally collect tens of thousands of dollars in loans under COVID-era small business relief programs. Cortney Merritts, who secretly married Bush in 2023, falsified details about his purported businesses in order to obtain more than $20,000 in loans from the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021 under the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, the Department of Justice said in a statement. Bush represented St. Louis before suffering a primary loss last year that she blamed on the Jews. She...

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 Boasberg now thinks he’s entitled to obviously privileged information related to discussions over fighting his order on Venezuelan terror flights. Insane. 3:44 PM · Mar 20, 2025

It’s not lost on conservatives how far America’s legacy media have gone to cover up former President Joe Biden’s corrupt family business dealings. When they weren’t outright ignoring bombshell developments documenting Joe’s involvement in the family’s money-making operation, these so-called “journalists” were more than happy to go along with the Biden White House’s talking points that the then-president had nothing to do with his son Hunter’s business affairs — despite former business associates, IRS and FBI whistleblowers, bank records, text messages, emails, reporting from a “highly credible” informant, written checks, and even Joe himself indicating otherwise. “There’s no proof that...

A federal judge on Thursday blasted the Justice Department’s latest response to his demand for more information about deportation flights that were carried out under a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act, calling it “woefully insufficient.”U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote in a three-page ruling that the government “again evaded its obligations” to provide information that he had been demanding for days about the timing of the Saturday flights. President Donald Trump had invoked the rarely used law to deport people the administration claimed were members of a Venezuelan gang deemed a “foreign terrorist organization.”...The judge called the...

It has been a month since Tom Homan, the Trump administration's Border Czar, told an enthusiastic crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was "bringing hell to Boston." "You're not a police commissioner. Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer," Homan told the audience, taking aim at Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, accusing him of releasing immigrants charged with violent crimes back into the community. WBZ-TV decided to dig into the press releases of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts to see if violent criminals are really being released by Cox or...

In a recording recently released by Billie Sol Estes’ grandson Shane Stevens, it is claimed that LBJ orchestrated a series of murders, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, to consolidate his political power. These claims are based on never-before heard audio of Clifton Carter, the former Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee and close associate of LBJ, admitting that LBJ hired Mac Wallace to assassinate JFK.

The mother of a 10-year-old girl from Milton, Massachusetts is desperate for answers three weeks after her sudden death. "I'm her mother and I'm her advocate," Shirley Pierre-Louis told WBZ-TV. "She's not here anymore, but I want to know what happened to her." Found unresponsive at father's home Pierre-Louis wants to know what happened after her daughter, Isabella Pierre-Louis, died unexpectedly in February. The cause is still a mystery. "I saw two missed calls from the father and a text message saying that an ambulance has taken Bella to Milton Hospital. She's not doing good," Pierre-Louis explained. milton-child-dies-5p-pkg.jpg Isabella Pierre-Louis...

By the time his family arrived at OHSU’s intensive-care unit on Feb. 13, Dominique Ware was unresponsive. The 35-year-old was suffering from organ failure, and he would die the following evening, two days after being rushed to the hospital from downtown Portland’s jail. No one could tell Ware’s parents and siblings what had happened. A month later, the family remains in the dark – not just about his shocking death but also about his arrest the day before he died. U.S. Marshals took Ware into custody on Wednesday, Feb. 12, and he landed at the Multnomah County Detention Center. But...

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Vice President JD Vance blasted former Vice President Kamala Harris when asked how he is handling the vice presidency differently than his predecessor, joking that he does not have “four shots of vodka before every meeting.”Radio host Vince Coglianese asked Vance asked how he is doing the job differently than Harris.“Well, I don’t have, you know, four shots of vodka before every meeting,” Vance joked. “That’s one way I think that Kamala really tried to bring herself into the role is these word salads.”“I think that I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question...

The Department of Justice announced charges Thursday against three people it says are allegedly responsible for violent incidents targeting Elon Musk's Tesla cars, showrooms and charging stations across the country. The Justice Department says three people — in Charleston, S.C., Loveland, Colo., and Salem, Ore. — are facing criminal charges that carry a minimum penalty of five years and up to 20 years in prison for a range of violent acts. They include using Molotov cocktails to set fire to Tesla cars and charging stations and possessing other "incendiary devices" and a suppressed AR-15 rifle, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland urges brother priests to confront insidious evils attacking the Church'I urge you to acquaint yourself with St. Peter Damian, a fearless defender of truth who stood against the corruption of his time,' Strickland wrote, urging his brother priests to stand up to the corruption assailing the Church.Note: The following was written and distributed by Bishop Joseph Strickland at the second annual “Catholic Prayer for America” gala at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, March 19.(LifeSiteNews) — Dear brother priests,I pray that these Lenten days we presently journey through are a time of abundant grace for you, deepening your life...