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President Donald Trump isn’t playing games with Communist China anymore.Trump has unleashed a crushing 104% tariff on Communist China, effective immediately.According to Fox Business, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dropped the bombshell earlier today, confirming that the tariffs kicked in at noon ET. Why? Because China’s commie overlords refused to back down from their own retaliatory duties on American goods.According to FOX Business Network’s Edward Lawrence, the White House made the move swiftly and decisively.“White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says 104% additional tariffs went into effect at noon eastern time because China has not removed its retaliation,” Lawrence...

After back and forth between two federal agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have reached a deal to aid in the deportation efforts of illegal immigrants.The agreement will allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to access taxpayer information to locate illegal immigrants subject to deportation.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the agreement, which allows the IRS to turn over information about undocumented immigrants already facing deportation orders and are under federal criminal investigation.Under the agreement, ICE can submit names and request address confirmations for illegals who have been...

A bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress last month could offer long-awaited relief to small tech companies hit hardest by an obscure federal tax change — one that many founders say is threatening their survival. The American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2025 (HR 1990), introduced last month by US Reps. Ron Estes (R-KS) and John Larson (D-CT), would restore the ability for companies to immediately take tax deductions on research and development costs, including software development labor. The act would undo the controversial Section 174 change that took effect in 2022, which now requires businesses to amortize those costs...

Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in the U.S., continues to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding. Specifically, according to its latest annual report, the abortion giant received nearly $700 million in that year alone. Yet there are multitudes of reasons why Planned Parenthood should be defunded. Planned Parenthood has been caught covering up the sexual abuse of children, with multiple victims testifying over a number of years as to how Planned Parenthood aborted their children and returned them to their abusers. Over 15 years ago, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose went undercover at Planned...

After previously saying her number one concern about President Trump’s tariff program was Beijing dumping all their excess products into the EU at a discount, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces she is coordinating the tariff response with China.Apparently, the EU recognizes the ideological alignment of support from Canada just isn’t going to be enough to pressure President Trump and retain leverage into the U.S. market. This is quite a remarkable admission from von der Leyen all things considered. [STATEMENT]President von der Leyen held today a phone call with Premier Li Qiang to discuss the state of EU-China...

The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to help homeland security officials find immigrants they are trying to deport, according to court records, committing to sharing information in what would be a fundamental change in how the tax collector uses its tightly regulated records.In a court filing, the Trump administration said that the I.R.S. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement had reached the agreement on Monday and that the two agencies had not yet shared any information. Under the terms of the deal, a redacted version of which was submitted in the case, ICE officials can ask the I.R.S. for information about...

President Donald Trump has said his administration will raise the Pentagon's budget. We have to build our military and we're very cost-conscious, but the military is something that we have to build," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. "And we have to be strong because you've got a lot of bad forces out there now." Newsweek has contacted the White House and the Department of Defense for comment via emails sent outside regular business hours.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced two more arrests in addition to the midwife who was arrested last month for committing illegal abortions in the state. Jose Manuel Cendan Ley, 29, and Rubildo Labanino Matos, 54, are both charged with assisting midwife Maria Margarita Rojas (a.k.a. “Dr. Maria”), 48, who was arrested and had her license suspended after she was charged with committing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of abortion businesses in the Northwest Houston area. She was arrested as a result of a months-long investigation led by Paxton’s office. According to Paxton, Ley worked as a...

A new survey finds an “assassination culture” growing on the American left since the attempted killing of President Donald Trump in July 2024. Data released Monday from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found “48% and 55%” of “left of center” people “at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.” The findings come after a historically violent election season in 2024, which saw two assassination attempts on Trump in July and September. “These attitudes are not fringe—they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” the NCRI wrote. The...

Tech billionaire and DOGE chief Elon Musk is constantly under fire these days by the lunatic left, but on the real world, where relevant things are in motion, he continues to excel and thrive. His SpaceX company is reported to be about to considerably expand its share of military business, as the Pentagon considers overhauling a program to deploy hundreds of missile-tracking satellites into low orbit. Washington Post reported: “Competitors have fallen so far behind SpaceX that many fear they won’t be able to catch up, leaving NASA and the Pentagon with few other options as it faces increased competition...

The FTC is not suing Meta for its past leftism or current MAGA-ism but for its longstanding, documented monopolism. Even Big Tech’s toughest conservative critics must admit Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have had a good few months. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s reelection last November, the $1 trillion company finally scrapped its worst woke initiatives, from Facebook’s infamous “fact-checking” regime to its internal DEI programming. Its sites are apparently no longer throttling political content. And Zuckerberg has even rebranded himself — going “all-in on a MAGA-dominated Washington,” buying a $23 million home two miles from the White House,...

TOI Correspondent from London: A massive fire erupted at a food stall during the Baisakhi Nagar Kirtan procession in west London's Southall district on Sunday, injuring several people and forcing organisers to cancel the high-profile Sikh community event. The blaze broke out at about 12.45 pm on South Road — the main route for the annual religious procession — when a canvas food stall caught fire, igniting several propane gas canisters inside. Videos from the scene showed towering flames, panicked worshippers fleeing, and volunteers moving gas cylinders away desperately to prevent further explosions. Seven individuals suffered burn injuries, according to...

Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter demanding that the federal subsidies they have been receiving for decades must not be discontinued. In the letter they said "we hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to continue our work without being interrupting by the cost-cutting mania unleashed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The assertion that research must be of benefit to justify taxing the public to pay for it is a formula for fostering ignorance." "No one really knows what is useful before it...

CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer may really be an inverted soothsayer, as yet another of his predictions went in the complete opposite direction. That’s probably what happens when your brain just happens to be screwed on backwards. Cramer was blowing whatever gaskets he had left over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs during the April 4 edition of his show, heralding stock market Armageddon of 1987-like proportions as early as April 7 if Trump didn’t reverse course. “The implosion of our markets continues,” cried Cramer, dubbing tumbling stocks on Friday a “man-made obliteration.” He predicted three “modalities:” a “quick bear...

Prosecutors claim Routh, 58, was communicating through an encrypted app with someone he believed had access to military-grade weapons. In messages cited in the Southern District of Florida filing, Routh allegedly said, “Send me an rpg or stinger and I will see what we can do… [Trump] is not good for Ukraine.” “I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected,” Routh reportedly added. The government says the exchange, which involved discussion of price and shipping for anti-aircraft weaponry, demonstrates Routh’s intent to kill Trump. He also allegedly sent an image of Trump’s campaign plane to the contact and wrote,...

Judge James Boasberg made his next move in the Alien Enemies Act case on Tuesday after the Supreme Court vacated his orders. In an unsigned order, the US Supreme Court on Monday vacated Judge Boasberg’s orders barring the Trump Administration’s removals of Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. Last month, Judge Boasberg granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the Trump administration from deporting thousands of Venezuelan nationals believed to be members of Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang under the Alien Enemies Act. Far-left America-hating leftist groups, such as the ACLU and Democracy Forward, rushed to a...

The Supreme Court of the United States lifted a block from U.S. District Judges James Boasberg, which prevented the Trump administration from deporting suspected illegal alien gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. While the ruling from the Supreme Court is a win for President Donald Trump and his administration, it was described as “narrow and focused on the proper venue for the cases, rather than on the administration’s use of a centuries-old law to justify its decision” to deport suspected illegal alien gang members, according to the New York Times. Per the outlet, in a 5-4 decision, the...

A Christian nurse has been suspended from her role in Britain’s National Health Service after she spoke out about allegedly being disciplined for refusing to refer to a biologically male convicted paedophile patient as a woman. Jennifer Melle has been suspended by the St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, London over allegedly breaching patient confidentiality after she spoke out about being previously disciplined by the NHS Trust for refusing to use female pronouns when referring to a male convicted child sex abuser while under her care. Despite Melle claiming that the patient had racially abused her and physically threatened her, the...

NEW YORK — Some relief is flowing through financial markets worldwide Tuesday as stocks bounce to recover some of their historic losses since President Trump dramatically raised the stakes in his trade war last week.The S&P 500 was up 3.2% in early trading, though it still remains 15% below its record set in February. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 1,143 points, or 3%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 3.6% higher.The bounce was global. Stock indexes rose 6% in Tokyo, 3.4% in Paris and 1.6% in Shanghai. The price of crude oil also...

Cheap political attacks have been part of American life since before the ink dried on the Constitution. Even George Washington took fire from scornful scribes accusing him—the man who freed us from the shackles of the British crown—of monarchist leanings. But the latest hit job on Donald Trump’s tariff policy—accusing him of “sparing” Russia while targeting Ukraine—stands out for its sheer dishonesty. It’s not just lazy. It’s willfully misleading. The claim—explicit or implied—echoed across the New York Times, Axios, BBC, and the global peanut gallery—that Trump “spared” Russia while targeting Ukraine is more than misleading. It’s a lazy distortion at...