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A judge in the United Kingdom has ordered President Trump to pay more than $820,000 in legal fees to the company representing former British spy Christopher Steele after he unsuccessfully sued over a dossier. In 2022, Trump filed a claim against Orbis Business Intelligence, a firm founded by Steele, a former MI6 agent who published a 35-page dossier that featured claims about Trump ahead of the 2016 election. Trump argued the company violated British data protection laws and that he suffered a personal and reputational damage because of the claims. However, in 2024, London Judge Karen Steyn tossed out the...

President Donald Trump has stated multiple times that he wants to eliminate income taxes and replace them with tariffs. Such a decision would be one of the most significant changes to the tax code in decades, and it could help Americans save a lot of money. The government still needs to collect funds, so the tax code could shift to a combination of tariffs and sales tax. However, even if the IRS isn’t eliminated, Trump has floated the idea of no one paying taxes if they earn less than $150,000 per year. According to the TaxAct tax bracket calculator, a...

House of David has just aired its season 1 finale on Amazon Prime Video, proving to be a hugely popular show that almost no one is talking about in traditional media circles. But it’s #2 on Amazon’s top 10 shows list, behind only Reacher season 3 which also just aired its finale. House of David is putting up numbers ahead of the new season of The Wheel of Time and the most recent season of Invincible, and for a fraction of the cost.

General Motors (GM) plans to expand production at one of its plants in Indiana thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign-made cars. On Wednesday evening, Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on all foreign-made cars to protect the nation’s auto industry from unfair trade competition. GM executives said they will be increasing production of light-duty trucks at the automaker’s Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Indiana, according to an exclusive report by Reuters on Thursday.

The Trump administration threatened on Thursday to withhold federal funding from public schools unless state education officials verified the elimination of all programs that it said unfairly promoted diversity, equity and inclusion.In a memo sent to top public education officials across the country, the Education Department said that funding for schools with high percentages of low-income students, known as Title I funding, was at risk pending compliance with the administration’s directive.The memo included a certification letter that state and local school officials must sign and return to the department within 10 days, even as the administration has struggled to define...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis faces new phase of papacyIn 1990, as Argentina's Jesuits were divided over the church's role in the country's politics and society, frustration with the future Pope Francis' leadership style resulted in his two-year exile in Cordoba. Then-Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio used his solitary time in a Jesuit residence to pray, write and read — including a five-volume series on the history of the papacy.Francis later would describe his "dark night of the soul" as a "time of purification" for his inner life. Three decades after that spiritual crisis — at age 88 — Francis is facing...

CHP officer stops traffic on I-8 to rescue mama duck and her duckling Traffic came to a stop Thursday morning as the birds waddled against oncoming traffic in the breakdown lane.

Stocks plummeted Thursday, sending the S&P 500 back into correction territory for its biggest one-day loss since 2020, after President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs, raising the risk of a global trade war that plunges the economy into a recession.The broad market index dropped 4.84% and settled at 5,396.52, posting its worst day since June 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 1,679.39 points, or 3.98%, to close at 40,545.93 and mark its worst session since June 2020. The Nasdaq Composite plummeted 5.97% and ended at 16,550.61, registering its biggest decline since March 2020. The slide across equities was broad,...

PULSE POINTS:❓What Happened: The number of Americans filing initial claims for unemployment benefits decreased by 6,000 to 219,000 last week, according to the Labor Department.👥 Who’s Involved: The Labor Department released the data in its regular unemployment claims report.📍 Where & When: The report covered the week ending March 29, with data provided on March 22 as well.💬 Key Quote: The department stated the decline was less than predicted applications, which analysts forecasted at 226,000 new claims.⚠️ Impact: The decrease suggests stability in the labor market, keeping claims within a long-standing range of 200,000 to 250,000, although the total benefiting...

Mainstream liberal media has been relentlessly attacking Elon Musk because his commitment to transparency and free speech threatens to expose waste, fraud, and corruption—much of which could implicate powerful Democratic figures and institutions. Elon Musk’s influence disrupts the carefully curated narratives pushed by legacy media, which is why outlets like Politico resort to publishing misleading headlines—such as the recent claim that Musk is stepping down soon—in an effort to undermine his credibility and control the narrative and make it appear the left is winning. The media’s smear campaign against him isn’t about accountability; it’s about silencing a disruptive force who...

The Establishment’s Big Guns Come Out Blazing Against TariffsOlivier Blanchard is a renowned economist—former chief economist of the IMF, Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus at MIT, and Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. When he speaks, the establishment listens.So, when Blanchard took to social media Wednesday morning—or “Liberation Day,” as President Trump is calling it—with a long post warning that Trump’s forthcoming tariffs could plunge the U.S. economy into recession, the commentariat responded with glee that their bias against Trump’s economic proposals was being confirmed from on high. His argument boils down to this: tariffs may initially...

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday evening that for the “first time in probably 40 years,” the United States has a president in President Donald Trump who is reversing the trend of the U.S. serving as a “piggy bank” for the rest of the world.“So for 40 years, America has been the piggy bank of the world,” Vance said when asked about the importance of the president’s announcement on Wednesday. “We absorb all of the ridiculous trade practices and economic practices of friend and foe alike. For the first time in probably 40 years,...

Bloomington, MN police Dept put out a video asking for help identifying an individual who keyed a Tesla and promised consequences. A few hours later she was identified. She FA. Now she’s gonna FO. (Except she's not.)

A phony Queens doctor left one of his patients brain-dead after a botched attempt to remove her butt implants inside his illegal home clinic, sources and court papers said Wednesday. The 31-year-old woman visited Felipe Hoyos-Foronda’s unlicensed liposuction clinic on 35th Street near 20th Road in Ditmars Steinway to have what sources said were butt implants removed around 1 p.m. Friday. During the bungled procedure, Hoyos-Foronda — who claimed he was a doctor in Colombia — administered lidocaine to the victim through a syringe, causing her to go into cardiac arrest, according to a complaint filed in Queens Criminal Court.

Germany’s outgoing Chancellor voices the frustrations felt across the European ruling class at President Donald Trump tearing up the status quo on trade, decrying an “attack”.The European Union, which has been hit with tariffs twice as high as post-Brexit Britain given the bloc’s protectionist policies and tariffs on imports, is expressing its distress and even outrage at President Trump’s bid to reform the United States’ trade relationship with the world.Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz who is still technically in power nearly six weeks after he lost the Federal elections in February spoke in defence of the globalist status quo on Thursday....

During an interview with Thursday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration was prepared for liberal judges at the federal level interfering with deportation efforts.Vance said the Trump administration was willing to litigate all the way to the Supreme Court.“We can limit the jurisdiction of certain courts,” Vance said. “Even when certain courts make a ruling, say that you’re not allowed to deport a person for a certain reason, we can still deport that person for another reason. So it’s not like deportations have stopped, but yes, the radical courts are a problem. But...

The three nations announced on Sunday that they have agreed to accelerate negotiations on their trilateral free trade agreement and enhance cooperation in supply chain management and export controls, according to China's Ministry of Commerce. Amid tariff increases by the United States and growing economic fragmentation worldwide, China, Japan and South Korea — three manufacturing powerhouses that depend heavily on foreign trade — are likely to form closer ties to preserve Asia’s economic stability and create a buffer against unilateralism, said trade experts and business leaders on Monday. The three nations announced on Sunday that they have agreed to accelerate...

Eric Adams will not seek the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor — instead pushing all his chips in on a longshot run as an independent candidate. Hizzoner dropped the bombshell news in a campaign video announcement Thursday — just the day after a federal judge killed his corruption case for good. “More than 25,000 New Yorkers signed my Democratic primary petition, but the dismissal of the bogus case against me dragged on too long, making it impossible to mount a primary campaign while these false accusations were held over me,” Adams said in the six-minute spiel. “But I’m...

Stellantis is halting production at two manufacturing plants, one in Canada and another in Mexico, just a day after President Donald Trump announced 25-percent tariffs on all foreign-made cars.During a speech in the Rose Garden on Wednesday evening, Trump announced the auto tariff and the United States reciprocal tariffs, marking an end to the nation’s decades-long free trade policy that has eliminated millions of American manufacturing jobs.Stellantis, whose former CEO Carlos Tavares was the highest paid auto executive — raking in nearly $40 million annually before his resignation in December of last year — has announced that its Windsor Assembly...

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent rival teams to Washington for talks with the Trump administration as ceasefire negotiations for the war in Ukraine are underway, according to an independent investigative Russian news outlet. On Thursday, Kirill Dmitriev, a businessman and Putin's investment envoy, announced that he is in Washington this week to hold talks with U.S. officials. The official, who runs Russia's sovereign wealth fund, is meeting Trump ally Steve Witkoff at Putin's request, he said. Putin also gave the go-ahead for another rival team to engage in talks with Washington, news site Agentstvo reported on Thursday. The two teams...