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NEW YORK (AP) — Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, citing the Trump administration’s authority to expel noncitizens whose presence in the country damages U.S. foreign policy interests. The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel’s treatment...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday defended a state agency’s involvement with a $10 million donation to a charity founded by his wife as a “cherry on top” deal using funds from a settlement between the agency and the state’s largest Medicaid contractor. State law mandates that money from the settlement be put in a trust fund or a general fund under legislative oversight. DeSantis called the settlement “100% appropriate”

Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records regarding Jeffrey Epstein, including any records on the identities of clients or associates of Epstein (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-01056)). Judicial Watch sued the Justice Department after it failed to adequately respond to four separate FOIA requests for records concerning Jeffrey Epstein, including a specific request for records “depicting the identities of clients or associates of Jeffrey Epstein.” Epstein document requests were sent to the Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy,...

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has some terrible news. Donald Trump is rapidly turning America into an oligarchy.

https://babylonbee.com/news/texas-bans-sale-of-assault-rifles-with-capacity-of-less-than-30-roundsAUSTIN, TX — In a landmark move for the state, the Texas legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to ban the sale of assault rifles that have a capacity of less than 30 rounds. Governor Greg Abbott was expected to sign the bill into law as soon as it hits his desk, limiting Texas gun owners to purchasing assault rifles with copious round capacities. "It's dangerous to have assault rifles in our community that can't fire more than 30 rounds before reloading," said Texas state senator Billy McCoy, who co-authored the bill. "It's irresponsible, and we can't let it keep happening."...

The US Air Force once made plans for a 'gay bomb' that would use chemical aphrodisiacs to make enemy soldiers 'irresistibly attractive to one another.' The bizarre plan, formulated by the military's Wright Laboratory in 1994, was part of a six-year non-lethal weapons development project costing $7.5 million that was ultimately scrapped. A three-page document obtained by the Sunshine Project, an anti-biological weapons organization, details the laboratory's proposal for a bomb 'that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay.' The scientists theorized that this would make their units 'break down' because 'all their soldiers became irresistibly...

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MELBOURNE, Fla. – A video of Florida Institute of Technology President John Nicklow, released by James O’Keefe, appears to show Nicklow discussing how to alter the language of diversity, equity, and inclusion —or DEI — courses to comply with a state ban on the practice, supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis.Nicklow released a statement, alleging the video was illegally recorded without consent during a private faculty meeting and was heavily edited.“Unfortunately, that private meeting was illegally recorded and shared with the O’Keefe Media Group, which is known for distributing selectively edited and deceptive video content,” Nicklow said. “The video has since...

Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US special envoy Steve Witkoff concluded late on Friday after more than four hours, Russian media reported. Interfax news agency said Witkoff, President Donald Trump's envoy for the Middle East and increasingly involved in Russian affairs, had left the site of the talks, the presidential library in St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city.

IRNA – Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has rejected the idea of holding direct negotiations with the United States as long as the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran is in place, saying Washington has agreed to hold indirect negotiations. Speaking at a meeting with Algerian elites and media figures in Algiers on Tuesday, Araqchi said bilateral talks should be conducted on equal footing, not under maximum pressure and military threats. “As long as maximum pressure and threats exist, there is no ground for fair negotiations, and we will not hold direct negotiations,” he said. However, he hastened to add, the path...

US District Judge Indira Talwani said the DHS did not interpret the law properly and asserted the migrants have a right to be in the US. The DOJ argued that the parole programs were discretionary and it is up to the government to decide when it can cut the program. Last month is was reported that President Trump was set to strip the status of 532,000 migrants living in the United States who were flown in on Joe Biden’s parole program.

You just can’t keep Boston’s first Muslim illegal alien city councilwoman down. Not even being arrested by the FBI or pleading guilty for taking kickbacks inside a city hall bathroom was going to keep Tania Fernandes Anderson from going to work each day.Some members of Congress are complaining that they can’t come to vote in person, but they have no excuse. If the first Muslim illegal alien criminal councilwoman can still come to work after pleading guilty, then so can anyone. (Until they’re locked up.)But a politician who was accused of planning to “use the money from the scheme to...

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday lambasted a government lawyer who couldn’t explain what, if anything, the Trump administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The U.S. government attorney also struggled to provide any information about the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite Thursday’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that the Trump administration must bring him back. “Where is he and under whose authority?” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis asked in a Maryland courtroom. “I’m not asking for...

Explanation: Made with a telescope shaded from bright sunlight by an umbrella, on April 5 a well-planned video captured a crescent Venus shining in clear daytime skies from Shoreline, Washington, USA at 11:57AM Pacific Time. It also caught the International Space Station in this single video frame. In close conjunction with the bright planet, the faint outline of the orbital outpost seen at a range of about 400 kilometers appears to be similar in size to the slender planetary crescent. Of course the ISS is much smaller than Venus. Now appearing as planet Earth's brilliant morning star and climbing above...

Former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers told FBI agents that the crux of a Pulitzer Prize award-winning Washington Post story on the Russian collusion hoax was “wrong," according to newly declassified documents obtained by Just the News. Admiral Rogers, who retired in 2018 after four years as National Security Agency chief and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, spoke with FBI agents and a key member of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in June 2017, where he threw cold water on a May 2017 story by the Post titled, “Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe...

Federal judge Trevor Neil McFadden on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration could go ahead and require all illegal immigrants to register and carry documentation. The requirement became effective on Friday. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and other co-plaintiffs had sought a stay and injunction pausing enforcement of the rule. McFadden’s opinion focused on the plaintiffs’ lack of standing. He said the plaintiffs could not prove their arguments that the registration rule significantly harmed their operations as well as illegal immigrants’ speech rights. What does the rule require? Illegal immigrants must register their addresses and fingerprints and must carry...

The United States imposed new sanctions on five Iranian entities and one individual accused of supporting Iran’s nuclear program. IRNA - The United States Department of the Treasury issued new sanctions against Iran just two days after President Donald Trump announced plans for discussions with Tehran regarding its nuclear program. In a statement on Wednesday, the Treasury identified five Iranian entities and one individual as targets for their alleged support of Iran’s nuclear program. Among the designated groups were the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and its subsidiary, the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company. The sanctions also included Majid Mosallat, head...

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says TODAY is the deadline for all foreign nationals in the U.S. for over 30 days to register with the federal government. Non-compliance is a crime! Watch the short video on the linked X post. She is dynamite. Strong, assertive, no-nonsense. Such a breath of fresh air compared to the nappy haired lesbo alien we had last administration. TranscriptThe deadline for registration under the Alien Registration Act is today. All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime, punishable...

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The Democrats’ once-vociferous endorsement of high tariffs on foreign countries has evaporated. Fizzled. Gone kaput. The reason: President Donald Trump’s recent imposition of tariffs, and particularly high tariffs on China, something Trump has advocated for years. Yet if Trump is for it, Democrats must oppose it, even if opposing it makes no sense. Thus did White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt read back Representative Nancy Pelosi’s pro-tariff tirade of 1996, while others pulled up quotes from Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Tariff TussleTrump is taking heat for imposing tariffs on Mexico,...