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President Trump didn’t choose Pete Hegseth by accident. He picked him because Hegseth gets it. He’s not some slick DC ladder climber or Pentagon career bureaucrat trying to win over the elite cocktail circuit. He’s a warfighter who came home and never forgot that he served the American people. And more importantly, he’s one of the only men in The Swamp willing to gut the rot from the inside out. That’s why he was chosen. Hegseth is exactly what Trump’s America First agenda demands: a strong, unapologetic defense secretary who puts US interests first and rejects endless wars and who...

Pope Francis has died aged 88. He had been battling severe illness including a double pneumonia for weeks, which obviously took a massive toll on his health. Yet somehow twisted leftists are blaming Vice President JD Vance. Yes, really. Vance visited with the Pope on Easter Sunday, just hours before his death. He thanked the Pope for seeing him and told him “I know you have not been feeling great, but it’s good to see you in better health.” Francis had been in hospital for over a month and given that he was now out and conducting meetings and giving...

Ha McNeill is going to be the new TSA Deputy Administrator, as of this week. McNeill, who went to Harvard, served as the chief of staff for the former TSA Administrator David Pekoske, who was recently FIRED by President Trump, after he was reappointed by Biden and confirmed by the Senate. Earlier this year, in a press release about the administration’s reimplementation of the “Remain in Mexico” policy to keep dangerous criminal illegal aliens out of our country, DHS highlighted Pekoske’s role in attempting to terminate the Trump policy at a time when he was acting DHS secretary at the...

The Biden regime let millions of unvetted illegal aliens pour into this country—wide-open gates, no questions asked. They didn’t know who was coming in. Good guys, bad guys, gangbangers, traffickers, cartel mules, murderers… it didn’t matter. 10 million of these unvetted mystery people marched across our borders. No questions asked… https://twitter.com/10minutedrill/status/1912876200470679729 They turned their heads, shrugged their shoulders, and told the American people there was nothing they could do to stop the invasion. That was a lie, of course. A massive one. Sadly, the truth is painfully clear now: this wasn’t about compassion or asylum or any of the other...

President Donald Trump's tariffs on China have raised questions about the issue of rare earth minerals and their processing, but Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday that part of the dilemma lies in the "war on mining" that was waged under the administrations of former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden."If you go back to the Obama/Biden administrations, we are in a war on mining in this country for anything, not just rare earth minerals," Burgum told "Fox News Sunday." "It's not just 'drill, baby, drill,' but it's 'map, baby, map.' We've got these materials in our country, so [it's...

Key Events: US Dollar Index (DXY) drops to 98 amid reports Trump plans to restructure the Fed EURUSD surges above 1.15, Gold nears 3,400, and GBPUSD approaches 1.34 China threatens with retaliatory tariffs to nations aligning with US trade policy IMF Spring Meetings kick off amid heightened trade negotiations and global economic uncertainty Markets stumbled in early Monday trading following news that Trump may attempt to overhaul the Federal Reserve. Although it is illegal for a sitting president to fire the Fed Chair, the attacks have raised concerns about the independence and stability of US monetary policy, driving the Dollar...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, whose annual gathering of business and political leaders in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos became a symbol of globalisation, has resigned as chair of its trustees. The Geneva-based WEF made the announcement on Monday after revealing earlier this month that the 87-year-old Schwab, who for decades has been the face of the Davos get-together, would be stepping down, without giving a firm timeline. "Following my recent announcement, and as I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member...

The House members are Reps. Robert Garcia, of California; Maxwell Frost, of Florida; Maxine Dexter, of Oregon; and Yassamin Ansari, of Arizona. Four House Democrats have traveled to El Salvador to, in the words of one member, remind Americans that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran migrant who had been living in Maryland, was wrongfully deported to his home country. “While Donald Trump continues to defy the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held illegally in El Salvador after being wrongfully deported,” said California Rep. Robert Garcia, one of the four. “That is why we’re here – to...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Democrat judge QUITS after getting exposed for housing a Tren de Aragua terrorist in his home. 8:42 AM · Apr 21, 2025

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was a frequent critic of Pope Francis during his reign. Viganò frequently spoke out against the pope’s support for open borders and socialism. In response to Vigano’s constant condemnation, Pope Francis had him excommunicated in July 2024 for schism. Archbishop Vigano stood up against the destruction of the church, COVID mandates that crushed individual rights worldwide, and stolen elections. He called out the Pope for his destructive actions against the Church and others like support for the World Economic Forum. For this, he was excommunicated from the Holy Catholic Church. On Monday, following Francis’s death, Carlo...

The Russian president noted that initially Ukraine issued a statement dismissing the proposal "as a game with people’s lives"MOSCOW, April 21. /TASS/. Kiev initially rejected Russia's proposal for an Easter truce, but later reversed its stance following apparent external influence, President Vladimir Putin told reporters. "We all saw the initial response – they issued a statement dismissing our proposal as a game with people’s lives and similar rhetoric," Putin said. "However, it seems that someone smarter – most likely foreign handlers – advised that rejecting such initiatives would be politically disadvantageous for the Kiev regime, and they promptly changed their...

The White House has been hearing out a chorus of ideas in recent weeks for persuading Americans to get married and have more children, an early sign that the Trump administration will embrace a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values. One proposal shared with aides would reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, government-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are married or have children. Another would give a $5,000 cash “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery. A third calls...

Daily Readings from the USCCB The chief priests assembled with the elders and took counsel; then they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him while we were asleep.’ And if this gets to the ears of the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” Matthew 28:12–14The Lord of all rose from the grave, conquering sin and death, making it possible for us all to share in His glorious Resurrection! Death had lost. Satan had lost. The corrupt religious leaders had...

Putting partisan politics far above patriotism (if he has any), top Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin is outright threatening vengeance on foreign leaders who work with the Trump administration. Yes, he washes it through rhetoric about fighting “authoritarianism in our country,” but that’s simply cover for goonish threats. Raskin (D-Md.) issued it on the “Pod Save America” podcast, after progressive host Tommy Vietor cited (surely left-wing) Latin America experts as urging Democrats to warn off “any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens.” Reality check: No one is proposing any “extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”

WASHINGTON -- Four House Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to the plight of a man the Trump administration deported to a Salvadoran prison and has refused to help return — even after the Supreme Court ruled that it was the government's duty to do so. Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California arrived in the Central American nation on Sunday to investigate the condition of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had lived in the United States for more than a decade. The Trump administration deported...

As the Democrats fight to bring accused wife-beater and MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to America, it seems we now have two more oppressed victims for the Democrats to hold up as heroes -- and they're from the same Maryland county as Garcia. Yes, we've got another "Maryland Man" story for you, Dems. According to the report, Lesbia Guerra had gone missing on March 31st, which was reported by her boyfriend Keycy Barrera-Rosa, who is now in police custody. Barrera-Rosa and accessory Rolvin Eduardo Bererra Bererra are, of course, illegal immigrants. They've both been arrested in connection with...

VIDEOI was curious to see which TikTokker had the weirdest take on the death of Pope Francis. Although I did see a bunch of strange takes including a 900 year prophecy claiming his death would spark Armageddon, the observation connecting the Pope's death with Mississippi vampires is, if not the weirdest take, definitely the most creative one.

A NASCAR race turned into a wrestling match for two drivers who were involved in a crash. On the opening night of the 2025 season on Saturday (April 19) at the historic Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US, a fight broke out between drivers Zack Staley and Justin Halverson during the race. The confrontation began after the cars of the two drivers collided on the track, leading to both exiting their vehicles and engaging in a physical fight. The situation escalated quickly, prompting multiple people to intervene and pull them apart. The NASCAR broadcast captured the moment, stating,...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, two sources familiar with the incident, including a law enforcement source, told CNN. ….. The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash, the law enforcement source said.

The last dignitary Pope Francis met in his mortal life was JD Vance, the U.S. vice president, Catholic convert, and critic of the pontiff’s liberal views on mass migration. There is something powerfully symbolic about that. The scene of the two men, separated by 48 years and scarcely more than a meter, stands for the passing of one kind of Catholicism, and the rise of another. When he became pope in 2013, progressive Catholics expressed hope for a “Francis effect” that would liberalize Catholic doctrine and practice, and draw back to the Church millions disaffected by what they regarded as...