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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday he has fired all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel and replaced them with a new slate of experts — many of whom are known skeptics of the COVID-19 vaccine narrative that dominated the federal government for years. .... Snip.... The sweeping overhaul targets the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—a behind-the-scenes body that decides which shots Americans (and their children) are told to get and when. For decades, ACIP has quietly rubber-stamped every Big Pharma product shoved in front of it, often with zero transparency, zero...

A federal judge on Wednesday barred the Trump administration from continuing to detain Mahmoud Khalil under a rarely cited law invoked by the secretary of state — and suggested that Mr. Khalil could be released as early as Friday. However, the judge, Michael E. Farbiarz, paused his own order to give the administration a chance to appeal, saying it would not go into effect until 9:30 a.m. on Friday. And he left a pathway for the government to continue to detain Mr. Khalil for other reasons, though he suggested he would be skeptical were authorities to do so. ***Though Judge...

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Wednesday that legal immigrant voters are in favor of President Donald Trump’s hawkish immigration policies. Foreign-born citizens have moved to support the political right’s views on immigration, with the Republican Party currently holding an eight-point lead on the question of who is more trusted on immigration policy, Enten said on “CNN News Central,” citing his own aggregate data. In 2020, the Democrat Party held a 32-point lead among this demographic on the same question. “Immigrant citizens, immigrant voters and foreign-born voters have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024...

Senator Rand Paul said he was disinvited from the White House picnic. Senator Paul, a critic of President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ called it “petty vindictiveness’ in remarks to reporters on Wednesday. Rand Paul said he was not given a reason and he isn’t sure if the call came down from President Trump. WATCH:

The influx of refugees from the mess liberals have made of California threatens to turn the Phoenix area into New Los Angeles. Let’s see if law enforcement can still serve a search warrant to probable illegal aliens without being set upon by moonbats: ***VIDEO ON LINK*** A statement from Homeland Security Investigation, via Fox 10 Phoenix: “Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a federal search warrant in Peoria, AZ. The search warrant was … in furtherance to a narcotics and human smuggling case. One person was arrested on federal charges and one other person was turned over to immigration officials. Special...

“From L.A. to Rafah, there is one common oppressor — Death to the colonial empire,” warned Isra Hirsi, daughter of Minnesota “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a viral Instagram post praising anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles while linking U.S. immigration enforcement with the Gaza conflict, and casting both the U.S. and Israel as colonial powers to be violently dismantled.

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump caused the Los Angeles immigration unrest. Waters said, “The backup plan is the President of the United States should do what he didn’t do when we were invaded in the Capitol. When they had the insurrection that he led, he should get on the phone and talk to the local police, he should talk to the people that he’s had deployed there. And he has a responsibility in all of this. He started this. There should be no violence. He should not continue to support violence.”...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) claimed that immigration raids conducted in Los Angeles on Friday are to blame for the rioting and looting that has occurred in the city. During a press conference on Wednesday, Bass spoke about how “everything was peaceful” in Los Angeles and other cities and that “things began to be difficult on Friday” when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted raids. Bass also suggested that the riots, looting, and violence that have ensued were “provoked by the White House,” and claimed that “maybe we are part of a national experiment to determine how...

BREAKING: 300+ arrested as violent Anti-ICE protests spread from Los Angeles to cities nationwide. Marines and National Guard have been deployed amid looting, Molotovs, and flashpoint confrontations Another streamer covering the various protest. I don't know much about this stream, but he's covering l.a. right now.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: The DNC has voted 294–99 to nullify the election of David Hogg as Vice Chair and hold a new vote. 5:31 PM · Jun 11, 2025

NEW: Leonard Leo is STILL sneaking Never Trumpers into the judiciary. Just last week, 4 nominees for the 8th Circuit Eastern District of Missouri had their judiciary committee hearing, and it’s SO bad. Every single one of the nominees agreed with Sen. Durbin that President Trump must follow the orders of radical judges who issue nationwide orders halting deportations of criminal aliens to places like El Salvador and Venezuela. Even worse, one nominee, Maria Lanahan, is married to Michael Lanahan, who worked for the Club for Growth—an organization that spent millions of dollars AGAINST Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries....

Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and over 30 other mayors of nearby cities on Wednesday called for an end to federal immigration enforcement raids amid protests. Protests in Los Angeles turned violent over the weekend after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted raids last week, resulting in detentions and deportations of illegal immigrants. The violent protests led to President Trump sending the National Guard and Marines to the city over California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) objection. "A week ago, everything was peaceful in the city of Los Angeles, and in all of the representatives behind me, in their cities,...

Senator Tom Cotton stated on social media platform X that the Secretary of Defense confirmed Iran is actively working toward developing a nuclear weapon. Cotton described Iran’s government as a “terrorist regime” and warned that its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to U.S. national security, allies, and regional stability. He emphasized that such a development must not be allowed to occur.

BREAKING - Protesters have taken over the streets of Chicago, completely halting traffic, with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson refusing to take any action.

Responding to reports that the sixth round of nuclear talks between the US and Iran will likely be postponed, a source familiar with the matter tells The Times of Israel that the timing of the meeting was never confirmed and that remains the case.

https://www.c-span.org/program/booknotes/silent-coup-the-removal-of-a-president/145388 "In a controversial new book on the Nixon resignation, Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, the authors said that White House aide John Dean was responsible for the cover-up of the 1973 Watergate break-in, that General Alexander Haig was attempting to unseat President Nixon, and that General Haig was also "Deep Throat." The authors say that their book has been rejected by some critics because it "cuts too close to the bone of what's been accepted for 20 years." Mr. Colodny is a former Maryland politician and Mr. Gettlin was a reporter for Newhouse Newspaper in Washington."

SANTA MONICA, CA — In a beautiful, tear-jerking moment, President Trump and Elon Musk were reunited on the shores of Santa Monica, jumping and laughing in each other's arms once more. The two splashed in the water and ran along the shoreline together, giggling like a couple of young schoolgirls. "It feels so right," said Musk, jumping again into Trump's waiting arms. "This is where we belong. I'm home." Neon-clad and muscles gleaming, the pair agreed to let bygones be bygones and get back to working together. Onlookers clapped and cheered, rejoicing to see the men embracing each other. "It...

U.S. — CNN reported another peaceful night in Los Angeles, as the overwhelming majority of cars in the city were not currently on fire. Additionally, the network reported that most police officers had not had bricks thrown at them, most federal agents had not been shot at, and most of the stores in the city had not been looted. "It's another quiet night in L.A.," reported anchor Wolf Blitzer. "As you can see, the majority of cars in the city are not burning to ashes, and most people have not been assaulted or murdered. Only a very small percentage of...

Minnesota's woke attorney is spending $150,000 of taxpayer money on a PR firm after a series of embarrassing scandals. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty tapped the Wren Collective in a $150,000 deal which she says will be used to break down complex legal topics to the public. Moriarty has found herself engulfed in a series of recent scandals, including the Justice Department opening a civil rights investigation into her office after she allegedly ordered her staff to follow a policy that considered racial identity in cases. The DA also has also faced criticism for letting a state worker who keyed...

By Paul Sperry RealClearInvestigations: A nonprofit founded by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams to protect voting rights paid more than $20 million to a lawyer who is a close friend and helped set up two of her private businesses, according to tax and state incorporation filings and other records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Abrams’ Fair Fight Action redirected the tax-exempt donations and government grants to Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, her former campaign chair between 2019 and 2023. Most of the funds covered legal expenses charged by the boutique law firm Lawrence-Hardy co-founded, for a failed race-bias lawsuit filed against Abram’s Republican opponent, Gov....