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Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin is pushing back on some of Hollywood's biggest and most influential stars using their social media accounts to disseminate false and misleading information about the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles. Among them is actress Eva Longoria, who in an Instagram post last week said the ICE raids are taking place in elementary schools and at graduation ceremonies. "These round-ups are happening in birthday parties, in elementary school graduations, Home Depot," said Longoria, who has 10.6 million followers. "Those are not criminals and I hope that everybody has more compassion for...

He was down bad for a bot. A man with a real-life girlfriend and a 2-year-old daughter says he fell in love with ChatGPT and proposed marriage to the chatbot, which accepted the proposal. Chris Smith told “CBS Sunday Morning” that he began using the AI program for other things before eventually programming it to flirt with him and calling it “Sol.” “My experience with that was so positive, I started to just engage with her all the time,” he told the program.

The world’s most powerful man is now calling for accountability for the election that many believe was stolen from him. President Trump posted on Truth Social a short time ago that he wants a special prosecutor to investigate fraud in the 2020 Presidential election, which was allegedly ‘won’ by Joe Biden. “Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a “LANDSLIDE!,” Trump wrote. “Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING.” “A Special Prosecutor...

Neocons like Mark Levin always start screeching ‘appeasement’ to try to shame opponents of forever wars.Bad World War II analogies appear to have become a dime a dozen in today’s political discourse. In just the past few months, I’ve excoriated Russell Moore for his ridiculous reference to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in response to President Donald Trump’s push toward a peaceful resolution of the war in Ukraine and pilloried Max Boot’s baffling comparison of Ukraine’s recent attack on Russia’s bomber fleet to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Now, Mark Levin, in his zealous crusade to push the United States into directly...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) advised prosecutors from former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) on “disturbing trends … within the anti-LGBTQ movement” at a 2023 “hate crimes symposium,” the Daily Signal reported Monday.Drawing on documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) via a Freedom of Information Act request, senior editor Tyler O’Neil informed readers of just one instance among many in which the Biden DOJ collaborated with the SPLC.The SPLC, which actually performed some valuable services early in its existence before becoming consumed with fighting “hate,” famously publishes a “hate map.” While genuine haters such as the...

An alleged intruder was taken to the hospital for treatment after being shot by a Portland, Oregon, homeowner Thursday morning around 1:30 p.m. NBC16 reported the homeowner claiming the alleged intruder banged on the front door for about ten minutes. The homeowner warned the alleged intruder that he was armed but the suspect came through the front door anyway. The homeowner shot him and arriving officers “applied a tourniquet to control bleeding,” according to Sgt. Kevin Allen. KGW8 noted the alleged intruder incurred non-life-threatening injuries, which were treated at the hospital. After being treated, the alleged intruder was then “booked...

In attacking numerous military targets in Iran on June 13, 2025 as part of its Operation Rising Lion, Israel made good on a 1981 policy announced by then Prime Minister Menachem Begin:‘We shall defend our people with all the means at our disposal. We will not allow any enemy to obtain weapons of mass destruction that can be turned against us.’While we hear international criticism of Israel for the attack, long forgotten is that Tehran’s mullahs actually recognized this same need a year before the Israelis announced their doctrine.By 1976, Saddam Hussein had become the de facto leader of Iraq,...

On June 19, patriots waving flags and ringing a cowbell staged a noisy confrontation with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) as he attended a meeting of the Orange County Democratic Party in Mission Viejo, Calif. Among other things, they shouted "Fang Fang," a reference to Swalwell's mistress, who is a suspected Communist Chinese spy.

Fifty years of the summer blockbuster.“Amity Island had everything. Clear skies. Gentle surf. Warm water. People flocked there every summer. It was the perfect feeding ground.”On June 20, 1975, moviegoers lined up to see a new picture, a pulpy horror movie about a shark. And it delivered, offering popcorn-spilling jump-scares as the shark leapt up on the screen. The pulsing score, by John Williams, tapped into the viewer’s fear centers, implying menace better than any movie theme since Psycho.The premise of Jaws fits easily into a genre of vacation-spot-ruined-by-sudden-threat, whether it be birds descending on Bodega Bay or Jason Voorhees...

Attorney General James Uthmeier said the facility could be built at the Miami-Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, which he described as "virtually abandoned." VIDEO AT LINK..................... Florida's attorney general is proposing a new site in the Everglades to hold immigrants who entered the United States illegally that he's calling "Alligator Alcatraz." Attorney General James Uthmeier posted video on X Thursday with his pitch for the new holding facility. Uthmeier said the facility could be built at the Miami-Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport off Tamiami Trail, which he described as "virtually abandoned." The facility could be operational within 30 to 60...

SummaryLegislation passed by vote of 314-291Bill now heads to the House of LordsMargin narrowed from initial vote last yearSupporters say law change will prevent unnecessary sufferingOpponents worry about people being coerced into choosing deathLONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Britain's parliament voted on Friday in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for the country's biggest social change in a generation.The legislation passed by a vote of 314-291, clearing its biggest parliamentary hurdle.The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the news you need to start your day. Sign up here.The "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)" law...

Jack Reacher linked up with a former U.S. president in the City of Brotherly Love. Joe Biden accidentally crashed the set of Reacher on his way to breakfast Monday in Philadelphia, inadvertently strolling onto the premises as crew members filmed a police chase scene for the fourth season of the Prime Video thriller. A bystander told CBS Philadelphia he was watching the crew shoot the scene when black SUVs pulled up. "Out walked these men that I thought were actors, but then the entire cast and crew started clapping and cheering," the bystander said. "Then someone said, 'We love you,...

20 June 2025 Friday of week 11 in Ordinary TimeChurch St. Silverio, Ponza, Pontinian islands, Campania, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 11:18,21-30If I am to boast, let me boast of my own feeblenessSo many others have been boasting of their worldly achievements, that I will boast myself. But if anyone wants some brazen speaking – I am still talking as a fool – then I can be as brazen as any of them, and about the same things. Hebrews, are they? So am I. Israelites? So am I. Descendants of Abraham? So am I. The...

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has ruled that several key pieces of the massive bill to implement President Trump’s agenda run afoul of the Byrd Rule and must be taken out of the package to allow it to pass with a simple majority vote on a special procedural fast track. The parliamentarian ruled against several provisions under the jurisdictions of the Senate committees on Banking, Environment and Public Works, and Armed Services. These included a provision that would have placed a funding cap on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which would have cut $6.4 billion from the agency by reducing...

The Iranian government put its key nuclear facility about 300 feet below ground at Fordow. A quick look at the area with Google Earth shows that it’s a mountainous area, and all that rock over the enrichment facility would seem to be pretty good protection. But just like a police officer wearing body armor, the appearance of invulnerability is deceiving. The United States put NORAD’s facility about 2,000 feet below the top of Cheyenne Mountain for the same reason. The granite overhead offers great protection from attack, with Cheyenne Mountain designed to withstand a 30-megaton nuclear blast from 1.2 miles...

The Senate version of legislation to enact President Trump’s agenda is hitting new turbulence as conservatives led by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) are demanding deeper spending cuts to address the nation’s $2.2 trillion annual deficit. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has focused this week on addressing the concerns of Senate GOP colleagues such as Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), who raised alarms about cuts to federal Medicaid spending. But Thune has to worry about his right flank as Johnson and his allies are threatening to hold up the bill...

On the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges (federally mandating “marriage equality”), it’s proper to ask whether same-sex marriage is a good idea. One reason to think that it’s not is the existence of an epistemic oddity, an oddity which strongly undermines any argument for same-sex marriage (hereafter “SSM”). The oddity in question is characterized by what may be called an "underdetermination asymmetry."Start with the following very simple observation.There are two ultimate positions in the SSM debate, and only two. On the one hand, there’s love or care as the basis of marriage, as in the view of SSM’s supporters....

Germany, together with its European partners, is open to further discussions with Iran if there is a serious willingness from Tehran to provide assurances on its nuclear and missile programs, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul says. -snip- “This requires Iran’s serious willingness to renounce any enrichment of nuclear material, which could lead to nuclear weaponization. This also requires that the missile program can be included. If this serious willingness exists, then the consequence on our part will also be that we are prepared to hold further talks,” he adds.

VIDEOOf course Tucker Carlson would have to laugh at this impression of him. It would be impossible for anyone not to burst out laughing at this dead on impression that so perfectly captures the Tucker Carlson essence.

June 19 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers were called to a Buffalo Wild Wings eatery in Iowa to wrangle an unusual visitor: a live chicken. The Animal Rescue League of Iowa shared a photo on social media showing a chicken at the front door of the Buffalo Wild Wings on Southeast 14th in Des Moines