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Former Army Special Forces officer and Republican Florida representative Mike Waltz was removed from his post as national security advisor to President Trump Thursday. The spin from the leftist media was immediately that he was fired over his role in the “Signalgate” non-scandal—but Vice President JD Vance says that’s just not so. Waltz was almost immediately announced as the new ambassador to the United Nations, and in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Vance said that it should be considered a “promotion,” not retribution for the Signal brouhaha. He’s done his job, the VP said:President Trump removed Mike Waltz...

Democrats might want to rethink making Kilmar Abrego-Garcia the face of their movement if newly released body cam footage is any indication of where things are headed. And to be clear, that's rhetorical, because it's absolutely an indication of where things are headed. For those unfamiliar with the Abrego-Garcia saga, the illegal immigrant was recently deported back to his home country of El Salvador. Because he was sent to CECOT, the Central American nation's gang prison (mostly made up of MS-13 members), controversy broke out about whether sufficient due process was given. Multiple judges have been involved, and the Trump...

A missile fired from Yemen intercepted before it could reach Israel... Russian air defenses confronting a major drone attack... Israeli Air Strike Near The Presidential Palace In Damascus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz saying the attack is: "a clear message to the Syrian regime..."... White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says an investigation is underway into racial quotas... The late night vote count in the UK underway...Reform UK Party with major gains... Tonight tensions among the Druze community in both Israel and Syria... Citing 'logistical and technical reasons' the fourth round of talks between...

A Southern California homeowner discovered a hidden camera disguised with fake grass on his property — part of a growing trend in which burglars plant covert cameras in yards in the area to monitor homes and track when residents leave... George Nguyen, who is a homeowner in West Covina, California, was watering the hedges in his front yard after dark on Friday (April 25) when he noticed a light coming from one of the bushes. However, when Nguyen investigated further, he discovered that the light was coming from a well-hidden device — with a lens and a green light —...

Board members who oversee the California high-speed rail project raised concerns over the financial commitments. Rail CEO says project could take roughly 20 years to complete if private sector can be utilized. As California’s High-Speed Rail Authority awaits word from the Trump administration over its future support for the train, leaders who oversee the project sounded the alarm about its financial viability.The authority’s board of directors voted Thursday to approve contracts for the development of Central Valley station designs and to solicit and approve construction bids for the Fresno station. Ahead of the votes, board member James Ghielmetti raised concerns...

The state requires voters to prove their citizenship. An error led to chaos, suspicion and confusion, signaling broader challenges for Republican-led efforts across the country.PHOENIX — For 30 years, no one questioned Danny Dobosz’s citizenship when the lifelong Republican cast his ballot. So when a letter arrived from a local election official last month asking him to send back a copy of his birth certificate to prove he was an American citizen who was eligible to vote, he tossed it in the trash at his home in Yuma, Arizona. Dobosz, an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump who was born...

One of the radical-left judges involved in sabotaging President Trump’s immigration agenda has been Loomered in brutal fashion. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston, a Biden nominee, issued an injunction on Tuesday barring Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in the Eastern District of California from stopping illegal aliens without a warrant or proving that the person is a threat to flee before they can get a warrant. Thurston’s decision came after several individuals were arrested in January during Border Patrol’s “Operation Return to Sender.” This was just part of President Trump’s smashing success...

Watch this British voter react to a Labour doorbell ringer. Not much left to the imagination.

Jill Sobule, the singer of the groundbreaking 1995 hit “I Kissed a Girl,” has tragically died. The musician and songwriter perished in a Minneapolis house fire early Thursday morning, several of her former colleagues confirmed to The Post. Sobule was 66. She became a household name with “I Kissed a Girl,” which is widely viewed as the first openly gay-themed tune to make it into the Billboard Top 20. Millennials will know Sobule for her song “Supermodel,” which was featured in the 1995 coming-of-age teen classic film “Clueless.”

Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a list of activists and investigate them, people familiar with the matter said.A top Trump appointee in the Justice Department ordered an aggressive investigation in the last several months of student protesters at Columbia University, raising anger and alarm among career prosecutors and investigators who saw the demand as politically motivated and lacking legal merit, people familiar with the episode said. The demand for the inquiry into students who protested Israel’s conduct of the conflict in Gaza also prompted pushback from a federal magistrate judge, who believed some of...

(College Station, T.X., April 29, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a second round of payments coming this week for specialty crop producers through the Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program, providing up to $1.3 billion in additional program assistance. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) already delivered just under $900 million in first round payments to eligible producers.

Prime Minister and Defense Minister announce Israel has struck a target close to the presidential palace in Damascus: "We will not permit any threat to the Druze community." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced early Friday morning that Israel had struck a target close to the presidential palace in Damascus. "This is a clear message to the Syrian regime. We will not permit Syrian troops to move south of Damascus or any threat to the Druze community," they said in a joint statement...

<p>Judge Shelley Joseph, the $207,855-a-year Boston Municipal Court magistrate, will face a public hearing in June for her “willful judicial misconduct” for allowing an illegal immigrant to slip out a side door to avoid ICE agents.</p><p>The Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct told the Herald Tuesday that a hearing is tentatively set for June 9 in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Her attorney, Thomas Hoopes, could not immediately be reached to see if he will go forward with the hearing or strike a deal beforehand.</p>

A Democratic congressman from the South is in hot water after claiming he did not defend migrants getting deported, 'because I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot.' 'First, they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depots trying to get work so that they could feed their families,' Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said during a congressional hearing on Wednesday. 'I didn't say anything about it, because I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot,' the Democrat continued. The lawmaker appears to have been making his own version of a poem by a Martin Niemöller. The work, titled 'First...

Soros-backed prosecutor Mary Moriarty is being blasted for deciding not to file criminal charges against an admitted Tesla vandal and Minnesota government staffer, who caused $20,000 in damages to vehicles built by Elon Musk last month. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty — who has financial ties to George Soros — is facing backlash for not charging 33-year-old Minnesota state government employee Dylan Bryan Adams after he admitted to attacking six Tesla vehicles in a politically motivated vandalism spree last month. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says it will seek “diversion” over charges against Adams — a Minnesota Department of Human...

Police body cam video footage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia allegedly being involved in human smuggling, as noted by Tennessee State Troopers. The incident happened during a traffic stop in Tennessee in 2022. “He’s hauling these people for money,” a trooper could be heard saying”

(LEX 18) — 50-year-old Kentucky Powerball jackpot winner James Farthing has been charged with battery on a law enforcement officer after he allegedly kicked a Florida police officer in the face during a bar fight, according to arrest affidavits. According to the affidavits, Farthing and his girlfriend, 42-year-old Jacqueline Fightmaster, were both arrested on Tuesday after the reported fight at TradeWinds Resort at St. Pete Beach, just days after Farthing won the jackpot at a Clark's Pump N Shop in Georgetown. An arrest affidavit states that around 11 p.m., during an argument, Farthing allegedly punched a hotel guest in the...

Canada held elections on Tuesday, and in a stunning development, Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party completed the comeback. While the conservatives did make gains compared to the last decade, left-winger Mark Carney will remain prime minister, and the bill is about to come due. After suffering under years of Trudeau's disastrous leadership, Canadians had a chance to change course. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who was the odds-on favorite to win the election just a few months ago, had promised to lift his nation out of its decline, promoting personal and economic freedom. The choice should have been clear. Instead, the voters...

The Biden Autopen scandal is growing by the day. The Oversight Project gathered every document they could find with Biden’s signature – ALL used autopen signatures except for the announcement that he was dropping out of the 2024 election. New analysis of Executive Order signatures showed an “increased use of the autopen as President Biden’s mental and physical decline accelerated,” the Oversight Project revealed on Thursday. Joe Biden used a wet signature on every Executive Order during the first year and a half of his presidency. However, in late spring and early summer 2022, everything changed, and Biden’s autopen appeared...

IntroductionVaccination campaigns are widely considered to be a public health success story. Since Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine in the 1700s, they’ve significantly reduced disease rates around the world and are credited with saving millions of lives—primarily in low- and middle-income countries. In the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been a rise in vaccine naysayers and a consequential uptick in disease outbreaks; misinformation about side effects is a root cause, experts say. Even in countries with low communicable disease rates, illnesses are getting harder to protect against as people opt out of vaccinations. Another major challenge is...