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April 30, 2025 WASHINGTON — On April 30, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement to establish the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. In recognition of the significant financial and material support that the people of the United States have provided to the defense of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, this economic partnership positions our two countries to work collaboratively and invest together to ensure that our mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery. Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, the Treasury Department and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will work together...

US Vice President JD Vance has claimed that Ukraine will be unable to win the war if military action continues. During the podcast show the Charlie Kirk Show, Vance said that that Kyiv "won't win the war" if military action continues, during what America has described as a "critical week" for peace talks. The Vice President also said the US could still walk away from the negotiating table, saying, "I can't say with 100% certainty that we're going to be able to do it." "If this doesn't stop, the Ukrainians aren't winning the war," the VP added. "It has to...

“LAPD officers have been working through the painstaking process of recovering and rendering approximately 500 firearms safe,” he said in an LAPD news release. “We recognize that these firearms may hold significant sentimental value to their owners, whether as family heirlooms, historical pieces or personal mementos, and we are doing our best to reunite them with their owners.” “Despite the condition of these recovered weapons, the department remains committed to ensuring that these items are properly processed, identified and when appropriate, returned to their rightful owners,” the LAPD media release states. All community members must be able to provide personal...

There is a tendency these days to conflate successful diplomacy with garnering favourable headlines. Negotiating powder is rarely kept dry. Keeping an opponent guessing about one’s intentions and capabilities is secondary to issuing punchy soundbites that play well with the media. Politicians, feeling the hand of history on their shoulder, fall victim to grandiosity — until grim reality taps them on the other one. This is now happening to Sir Keir Starmer as he watches his vaunted “coalition of the willing” for a muscular European peacekeeping force in Ukraine evaporate. As reported in this newspaper, appeals from Britain and France...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A former Waco elementary school teacher was arrested Tuesday on allegations she used an electronic dog whistle to force compliance by a 6-year-old autistic student. Amber Escamilla, 46, a former teacher at Bell’s Hill Elementary School, 2100 Ross Ave., remained jailed Wednesday in lieu of $3,000 bond after her arrest on an injury to a child or disabled person charge, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. According to arrest records, Waco Independent School District police detectives received a referral from Child Protective Service workers about possible abuse of an autistic student...

Amelia Shulman (name changed for privacy) had been teaching high school students in Georgia for three years when, in 2024, she decided it was time to consider another career. A major factor was administrators’ indifference to classroom disorder. “Higher-ups at the school—and superintendents at the district level—are really pushing teachers to just take the path of least resistance if a kid is acting out,” Shulman said. “The goal is to have very low numbers of students facing major disciplinary action, but that doesn’t reflect what’s actually happening at the school every day.” On April 23, the Trump administration moved to...

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A West Australian energy company is building a liquified natural gas (LNG) production and export terminal in Louisiana to expand the U.S. liquified natural gas export market. Perth, Australia-based Woodside Energy on Tuesday announced its plan to develop a three-train, 16.5 million ton per annum (Mtpa) liquefied natural gas production and export terminal in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, called Louisiana LNG. Gov. Jeff Landry said the company's and a New York company decisions to invest $17.5 billion in the project was because of President Donald Trump’s “commitment to unleash American Energy.” The Biden administration sought to ban new exports of LNG...

The ACLJ just filed a federal lawsuit to defend a courageous pro-life advocate whose constitutional rights were blatantly violated by local officials in Carbondale, Illinois. We told you earlier this month that while we were live on air during our broadcast, a pastor reached out to us after some of his parishioners were being targeted for criminal citation by police just for having pro-life signs. We went right to work, in real-time, de-escalating the police and ensuring that our clients were not arrested that day. We quickly followed up with a demand letter to the city attorney, which has been...

A non-binary Canadian's $70,000 gender affirming surgery - that will see her keep her penis and get a vagina constructed - will be fully funded by taxpayers, a top judge ruled. K.S., who was born a male at birth, uses female pronouns but does not identify as either fully male or fully female Dr. Irena Druce, an endocrinologist at the Ottawa Hospital, submitted a 'Request for Prior Approval for Funding of Sex-Reassignment Surgery' - which cost $10,000 to $70,000 - for K.S. after completing multiple assessments on her along with Yael Sela, a mental health counselor. Together, they determined K.S....

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The United States and Ukraine have signed an agreement over access to Ukraine’s natural resources, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The deal will provide the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources, including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas, Bloomberg reported.

As Planned Parenthood has expanded its so-called “gender-affirming care” over the past decade, detransitioners who obtained hormones from the corporation have publicly repudiated Planned Parenthood’s dangerous transgender practices. Planned Parenthood disproportionately targets young people aged 18-22 with its so-called “gender affirming care.” As can be observed by reading stories of detransitioners, most describe having been vulnerable and even struggling with mental illness when they sought “treatment” for gender dysphoria from Planned Parenthood. The cross-sex hormones left some of them with permanent issues. Though the number of people negatively affected by Planned Parenthood’s “gender affirming care” will never be known, some...

Ukraine and the United States are now poised to sign a long-anticipated mineral resources deal after a last-minute sang delayed the signing on Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a post on Telegram

The Texas Senate has passed a bill to allow citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, mails, or distributes abortion pills in Texas for $100,000. Senate Bill 2880 would help expand the Texas Heartbeat Act, which was passed in 2021. Under the Texas Heartbeat Act, abortions cannot be committed after a preborn child’s heartbeat is detected, which is typically around 21 days gestation. The law is unique because rather than enacting criminal penalties, it allowed individual citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who violates the law. Last December, New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter was caught shipping abortion pills to women in...

A major study just revealed that the abortion drug mifepristone is far more dangerous than U.S. health agencies have admitted, prompting calls for President Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reinstate more stringent safeguards surrounding the drug’s prescription and use, reinvestigate the health risks, and if warranted, reconsider its approval altogether. The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) released its report Monday, revealing that the rate of serious adverse complications associated with mifepristone is at least 22 times higher than the 0.5% touted by the FDA. In a letter to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)...

As record demand for 40 Days for Life continues to grow, Planned Parenthood is in a death spiral. Tune in to Built to Win on Tuesday, April 29, for a full report on how 40 Days for Life’s post-Roe plan is ahead of schedule…and why you play a critical role on where we go from here. video is 1:30 minutes long

BREAKING: President Trump hints at suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus to conduct mass deportations🚨

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