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The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv– 10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in theUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ istimely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shallterminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR,...

Two large California oil refineries are shutting down, triggering mounting concerns from state legislators, industry groups and many others.Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson of the Gardena district bluntly described his concern during a recent Sacramento hearing.“This is a tremendous loss,” Gipson told NBC Los Angeles, referring to the looming closure of the Phillips 66 plant near L.A. "The jobs that it holds, the individuals… working each and every day, those individuals live in my district, they shop in my district, they add to the economy in my district."Shutting down refinery powerhousesThe Phillips 66 and Valero’s Benicia sites are set to close...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is irredeemable and must be eliminated through legislation. Failure to do so leaves the door open for future administrations to reinvigorate it and reintroduce destructive ideas and agendas into U.S. foreign policy. The idea of “development” has become too obtuse and colonized by progressives to keep the agency limited in scope beyond the Trump administration.

The first few images from the Rubin Observatory have dropped, and there are more coming later today. A mosaic of 678 images taken over seven hours of observation shows the Trifid (top right in pink) and Lagoon (center) Nebulae. Image Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially unveiled its first images, and truly, it is going to be as revolutionary as people expect it to be. Thanks to its incredible eye on the cosmos, which is the largest digital camera in the world, the images are absolutely breathtaking – and we can’t even share...

President Donald Trump thanked Iran for giving the United States advance notice of the coming missile strike on a U.S. base in Qatar. The notice, he wrote on social media, “made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured.”

Barron Trump, son of President Donald Trump, has now earned almost $40 million from cryptocurrency before his 20th birthday. Barron is left with about $25 million after taxes from a very clever investment, according to Forbes. This whopping amount is said to far exceed what some of his older siblings made when they were his age. “Barron knows so much about this,” the president noted, after the Trump family announced a crypto enterprise called World Liberty Financial. “Barron’s a young guy, but he knows it — he talks about his wallet.” Barron’s influence in both the public — and private...

Their former boss is also presumed to be in a bad mood, but mostly because his wife hates him. The mediocre white men who served as top advisers to failed president Barack Obama threw embarrassing tantrums on Saturday in response to the successful U.S. military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. Thomas Frederick Vietor IV, the lacrosse-playing frat bro and Pod Save America cohost, led the charge with a series of increasingly unhinged posts on X. He was egged on by Pod Save America cohost, former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, as well as Ben Rhodes, the former Iranian nuclear czar, and...

Mike Pence is back on the Trump Train following the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Pence heaped praise upon Trump for the attack, which has sharply divided many of the president’s conventional supporters, during an interview on Sunday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum. MacCallum began the conversation with a clip of Pence trashing the president. “The things that you point out there, the importance of the free world and the fact that President Trump made this very gutsy move, I just want to go back to the pre-election period in 2024, because you joined...

The Supreme Court issued decisions in six cases today, so that leaves just ten cases remaining on its docket for the term. It’s now possible to hazard a decent guess as to which justice will write the majority opinion in each of the remaining cases.… … …The two remaining cases from April are both big: Kennedy v. Braidwood Management (Appointments Clause challenge to Preventive Services Task Force) and Mahmoud v. Taylor (religious rights of public-school parents). Alito, Kagan, and Jackson haven’t written for April. I’ll guess Alito for Mahmoud. I can’t see either Kagan or Jackson being assigned to write...

Explanation: How do stars form? Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, later NEOWISE) satellite provide clear clues with indications that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. A likely reason for this is that the older stars in the center are actually triggering the formation of the younger edge stars. The triggered star formation occurs when hot outflowing gas compresses cooler gas into knots dense enough to gravitationally contract into stars. In the featured scientifically colored infrared image,...

As California braces for another wildfire season, forestry experts warn that decades of regulatory mismanagement — not climate change or Trump-era budget cuts — have left forests dangerously overloaded with fuel. Democrats have blamed climate change and agency rollbacks for creating tinderbox conditions, but forestry experts see a self-inflicted wound that began festering as far back as the Clinton administration. Three decades of environmental litigation, they say, has warped forest management into a Byzantine maze of legal delays and procedural dead ends — leaving millions of acres to accumulate fuel faster than anyone can clear it. The blame game intensified...

On Monday’s America This Week Walter Kirn read from a bizarre introduction to his 75th Anniversary edition paperback edition of 1984. Written by Harvard-educated author Dolen Perkins-Valdez, it came with a trigger warning. I had to go looking for the foreword by Perkins-Valdez, a black female writer whose Twitter page features a line from the “discussion questions” portion of her book Take My Hand: “History repeats what we don’t remember.”In Take My Hand Perkins-Valdez stressed the importance of remembering episodes like the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and the use of the Henrietta Lacks cell line. Her essay about 1984 argues at...

Two whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. (Credit: Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038) In a nutshell Southern resident killer whales are making tools from kelp to groom each other—the first documented case of tool manufacturing in marine mammals This “allokelping” behavior involves coordinated teamwork between whale pairs and appears to serve both hygiene and social bonding functions The behavior is unique to this critically endangered population and could be threatened by climate change affecting kelp forests ================================================================= FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — Scientists have spotted something extraordinary: killer whales are crafting their...

"Can't deny." Looks like CNN has fallen back on those words to cover those unfortunate situations where—much as commentators would like to diminish the accomplishments of the Trump administration or address inconvenient truths—pesky facts have made that impossible. Thus it was that last month, commenting on the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the DC Jewish museum, we caught CNN security analyst Juliette Kayyem, a former Obama DHS appointee, saying: "We can't deny [that] the suspect said Free Palestine." Sorry, Juliette. It would have been ever so much better if he had yelled, "Jews will not replace us!" The...

Rosie O’Donnell took to social media on Monday to promote a “recount” of President Donald Trump’s landslide victory over former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. The comedian shared a post to her Instagram Story from social media influencer Joe Braxton, who claimed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk “hacked and stole” the 2024 presidential election in his demand for a “recount.” “We Demand A Recount!” the online influencer exclaimed in the caption of his Instagram post, which was shared by O’Donnell. Braxton went on to bizarrely alleged that “Elon hacked and stole the election, then created a department...

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, slipped quietly into the depths of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), embodies the insidious nature of modern propaganda. This Act, a malignant offshoot of the original Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, dismantles the barriers that once stood between American citizens and the persuasive machinery of U.S. government-sponsored propaganda. With the stroke of a legislative pen, the distinction between truth and state-sanctioned narrative was rendered ambiguous, blurring the line between informed citizenry and manipulated populace.The original Smith-Mundt Act, birthed in the aftermath of World War II, sought to wield the power of information as a...

EDGARTOWN, MA — With the news that the U.S. military had carried out a successful bombing operation in Iran over the weekend, former President Barack Obama was reportedly distraught that President Donald Trump had bombed the cool nuke factory he had paid for. After several days of speculation, Trump revealed that the U.S. had carried out air strikes to destroy several of Iran's key nuclear research sites, leaving Obama despondent that the facilities he had fronted the Iranians billions of dollars to build were now gone. "All those years of money and hard work just blown to bits," Obama was...

In a shocking display of leftist hypocrisy, a group of activists stopped Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting a known illegal alien child predator in the Denver, Colorado, area, with ICE later confirming on social media that the alien was convicted of and wanted in Italy. For context, in a post on social media on June 21, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) explained that a group of their agents had been prevented from arresting a dangerous illegal immigrant criminal from El Salvador named Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, when a group of anti-ICE activists arrived on the scene...

Talk about getting Jim Cramered. The Atlantic’s pompous loudmouth of a staff writer David Frum committed an unforced error by publicly showcasing how he literally knows nothing about the Trump Doctrine on military strategy or foreign policy. Frum attempted to make it seem like Iran had President Trump’s number in a June 21 screed, “The mullahs of Iran join the bet that Trump always chickens out.” Frum was responding to Trump’s retrospectively deceptive tactic to make it appear he was waiting two weeks before making a decision on whether the U.S. would conduct targeted strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “A...

Israel has reportedly sent messages to Iran through intermediaries that it intends to end the ongoing war within days — despite the fact that it has been accelerating its attacks and widening its targets this week. The Times of Israel cited Israel’s Channel 12: “Israel has sent messages to Iran that Jerusalem is aiming for the air and missile war between the sides to end in days, Channel 12 reports.” Report: Israel Sends Message to Iran That War Is Nearing End A sign with an Iranian and Israeli flag that was set up up a while ago is pictured at...