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Layoffs across the U.S. surged 205% in March when compared with a year earlier, with last month's 275,240 job cuts fueled by widespread firings engineered by billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas... Last month's cuts were led by losses in federal jobs, largely directed by DOGE, with more than 216,000 government employees fired from their jobs in March, Challenger said.

Federal immigration enforcement agents arrested over three dozen illegal aliens who they say submitted fraudulent documents to illegally gain employment at a roofing company in northern Washington state. A total of 37 illegal aliens were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Mt. Baker Roofing warehouse in Bellingham, Washington, near the Canadian border. ICE spokesman David Yost said that the federal immigration enforcement agents carried out the raid “based on an ongoing criminal investigation into the unlawful employment of aliens without legal work authorization in violation of federal...

Fake News CNN’s Dana Bash made a significant mistake smearing Laura Loomer following news of the independent journalist’s role in the firing of multiple neocon NSA staffers. As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump on Thursday fired at least three National Security Council (NSC) staffers at the agency. The terminations occurred one day after Loomer visited the Oval Office and met with the president. During Loomer’s meeting with Trump, CNN reported she asked Trump to fire several National Security Council staff members, including his principal deputy national security adviser, Alex Wong. Axios notes she was livid that multiple “neocons” had...

Police are investigating multiple calls from concerned South Bay residents about a man recording himself saying obscene things to women and posting the videos on social media. “When they would react adversely, he would run away and exclaim, “ASSAULT!” In several of the posted videos, the man is seen following women and making lewd sexual comments as they go about their daily routines. Hermosa Beach police said that detectives are investigating the incidents and encouraged anyone who believes they have been a victim of a crime to call them at 310-318-0360 or to go to the Police Department at 540...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had a simple three-word response to countries looking to respond to the United States’ broad tariffs: “Do not retaliate.” President Donald Trump announced on his self-proclaimed “Liberation Day” and declared a 10% tariff on all goods as well as retaliatory tariffs on some of the U.S.’s closest allies that he says are taking advantage of the U.S. Tariffs of 34% on China, 20% on the EU, 24% on Japan, and 32% on Taiwan are some of the more noticeable ones. Due to an existing 20% tariff, the tariffs on China went up to 54%. “My advice...

The response from the EU is exactly what we would expect to see from the end of the 80-year-old Marshal Plan.EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyden has three big concerns with the new trade/tariff reset. I strongly suggest everyone to read the EU concerns slowly to fully absorb decades of hypocrisy now surfacing:#1 The EU will not be able to compete for U.S. market share with 20% general tariffs and 25% auto tariffs.#2 The EU must deploy countermeasures against the risk of losing industrial capacity and manufacturing to the United States.And #3 The EU must defend itself against China...

Vice President JD Vance appears on Fox News this morning to discuss the trade tariffs and the ongoing MAGAnomic trade reset.The reciprocal tariffs and global trade rebalance are two components of a much larger MAGAnomic policy. Tax structures to the benefit of the working-class, upward pressure on wages and expanded GDP growth are all elements of increasing the wealth of Main Street and middle-class Americans. WATCH:.

New construction in the Huntsville area topped $509.7 million in the first quarter of 2025, according to building permits issued in Madison, Limestone and Morgan counties. Three projects totaling more than $10 million were issued permits, according to Southern Exposure Information. Topping the list is Huntsville Hospital’s Madison Street Tower expansion. Buildings at the Redstone Gateway and Cummings Research Park are the other projects.

Undercover footage obtained by Real Muckraker shows radical government-funded Chinese-American Planning Council conducting a training on how to evade ICE and to keep illegal aliens in the United States. Chinese-American Planning Council Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer Carlyn Cowen was caught on undercover video giving ICE evasion training during a radical activist meeting in New York City. This radical far-left NGO has ties to top New York Democrats such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Rep. Dan Goldman and Governor Kathy Hochul. CPC receives over $900,000 in federal funds. “Number one is hardening your physical space. Number three, identifying...

Democrats in CO are now pushing bill HB25-1312 which would take “misgendering” & “deadnaming” into account during custody hearings. Colorado father gagged for refusing to let his 13-year old son be sterilized. For that, Colorado courts stripped him of his parental rights - banning him from even talking to his child about gender, medical treatment, or the court case. "I haven't slept well forever... I'm afraid for my child."

The world’s tiniest pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and dissolves after it’s no longer needed. Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the engineers who created it at Northwestern University say it is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of new-born babies with congenital heart defects. It measures just 1.8 millimeters in width, 3.5 millimeters in length and one millimeter in thickness, but it still delivers as much stimulation as a full-sized pacemaker. The...

Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, who assumed the top government role after the resignation of his radical leftist predecessor Justin Trudeau, vowed to “fight” the tariffs that President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday — which overwhelmingly did not affect Canada. President Trump unveiled a long list of reciprocal tariffs on American trade partners on Wednesday, a day he branded “Liberation Day” for the American economy. The tariffs, he explained, were intended to target countries that levy high tariffs on American goods while enjoying nearly fully unencumbered access to the U.S. market.

China has reacted negatively to President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, with the country’s Communist Party-controlled foreign ministry accusing the U.S. of “bullying.” Trump unveiled a 34 percent tariff on Chinese goods at his “Liberation Day” event from the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday in response to China’s 67 percent tariff on American products. “In other words, they charge us, we charge them, we charge them less, how can anybody be upset,” the president said.

EUGENE, Ore. — Conservation groups across Oregon have won a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management’s logging plans. On Monday, a federal judge ruled that the BLM had illegally authorized the logging of old-growth forest lands within protected areas called late successional reserves.... ...The court pointed out that logging in these reserves would increase fire hazards and harm nearby habitats.... ...The Cascadia Wildlands Group, alongside other conservation groups,....

O’Keefe Media Group caught a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official coaching researchers how to evade DOGE and secure funding.James Welch, a National Institutes of Health genetic counselor told an undercover OMG journalist how helps principal investigators at the NIH change “race” to “ancestry” in clinical trials to evade DOGE and secure funding.“I had to go look at, like, what was leaked as far as the banned words, that DOGE is just like, control F searching for so I was trying to help [NIH investigator] suggest wording. I had suggested, like, ‘a history of ancestry’ instead of ‘race,’ James Welch...

The DNC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are suing Trump over his EO to block non-citizens from voting. This should tell you everything you need to know…

While the groups attempt to market their activism as a good-faith effort to defend so-called ‘civil and human rights,’ a deep dive into their financial backgrounds reveals their interests are far more partisan than they let on. More than 40 left-wing organizations (and/or some of their affiliates) opposing Republican efforts to prevent noncitizen voting in U.S. elections have collectively received more than $150 million from groups funded by leftist billionaire George Soros, a new analysis reveals. On March 28, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) released a letter directed at members of Congress, asking them to oppose...

Every fiber of my economic being cries out against tariffs. If they are so good, why doesn’t each state in the US have one against the products of all of the other 49? That is, Ohio could “protect” its industries against the incursions from Arizona. This is obviously silly. One of the important reasons America is so prosperous is that we have a gigantic, internal, free trade area. Donald Trump supports them on the ground that the McKinley administration was prosperous, and relied upon tariffs. But this is to commit the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy: that since...

Democrat lawmakers have been rallying behind a simple slogan in opposition to DOGE (the “Department of Government Efficiency”): “Nobody elected Elon.” The slogan might be convincing if the irony behind the statement weren’t so apparent.Much of the consternation surrounding DOGE has been due to Elon Musk’s involvement in downsizing federal bureaucracies such as USAID. But if this criticism (that nobody elected Elon) were applied to all bureaucrats, all the agencies Musk is targeting would be closed already.Unlike most federal bureaucrats, Elon campaigned alongside Trump and was a known part of the package. In this sense, he’s probably closer to being...

A recent incident at a USA Fencing tournament has sparked outrage after a female fencer was disqualified for taking a knee in protest of competing against a transgender athlete. The incident, which took place at the University of Maryland on March 30 during the USA Fencing-sanctioned regional tournament “The Cherry Blossom – D1A/VET ROC,” was captured in a viral video posted by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, or ICONS. In the video, fencer Stephanie Turner can be seen taking a knee instead of competing against Redmond Sullivan, a transgender athlete who switched from the men’s fencing team to the...