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The United States will impose 25% blanket tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea starting Aug. 1, President Donald Trump revealed Monday. Trump, in a pair of Truth Social posts, shared screenshots of letters apparently sent to Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung dictating the new tariff rates. The two form letters appear to be the first of what Trump said could be as many as 15 letters sent between Monday and Wednesday, the deadline when his so-called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries were scheduled to snap back to the higher levels he...

Elon Musk is threatening to primary Republicans who voted for President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” posing a challenge for the president and his allies as they look to defy midterm headwinds. Musk vowed earlier this week that Republicans who supported Trump’s megabill “will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth” as the Tesla CEO has reignited his feud with Trump in recent days. Republicans see the comments as unhelpful, with some saying if the threats come to fruition, it could risk diverting resources away in an election environment that historically hasn’t...

Yeah, they literally call it "the swastika sword" and decided to have @Idubbbz pose with it while wearing Palestine colors around his neck in a video addressed to a Jew.These are the "good guys." https://t.co/kvcX4m8iV4— SirD (@Sir_Dammed) April 25, 2025

Daily Readings from the USCCBA woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak. She said to herself, “If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.” Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.” And from that hour the woman was cured. Matthew 9:20–21What a tremendous amount of faith this woman had! She had suffered for many years and continued to suffer with her hemorrhages. How did she know that touching Jesus’ cloak would cure her? The only answer to that is...

VIDEOIt used to be that young women were warned against smoking cigarettes not only due to reasons of health but also because the inhalation of tobacco leads to the ruin of their looks. The good news is that smoking among young people has dropped dramatically in the past few years. The bad news is that extreme TDS now seems to be the leading cause of women having their appearances destroyed. Just look at what happened to Kathy Griffin. It's SCARY what happened to her and it is all due to her hatred of Donald Trump.

Guadalupe River in Kerrville transforms from docile into a raging behemoth. The raging flood waters eventually reach the top of the Center Point bridge. No music, just the sounds of the flood.

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said Saturday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” that President Donald Trump was implementing mass deportation in an attempt to “bleach America.” Wasserman Schultz said, “Again, more Trump lies, more people being thrown into a dire situation where many of them will ultimately die when they’re deported back to countries like Venezuela and Haiti, which clearly don’t have conditions in which it is safe or a place that has the environment to take people back.” …

The best common-sense and detailed explanation of the Catholic faith, $8 on the Kindle platform, audio narration enabled while reading along, from 1899, The Catechism Explained: An Exhaustive Exposition of the Christian Religion. The breeziest way to learn the Catholic faith in a deep, efficient and comprehensive way. Listen to it narrated and read along. Something is extremely wrong in Rome, a disaster that has been predicted for 100's years, the Church has been taken captive by perverts. (Forget about nice-looking Pope Leo XIV, LGBT+ booster Fr. James Martin is on the rise.) In the Old Testament this calculated subversion...

The Eagle takes flight this July. Look east after dark to find Aquila, the soaring constellation anchored by Altair, while Mars glows in the west and Venus and Jupiter greet the sunrise. Credit: Shutterstock July’s skies offer a feast: Mars glows at dusk while Mercury peeks out briefly, Venus blazes before dawn, and Jupiter joins it for a photogenic pairing. Saturn lingers past midnight, and the Moon stages close encounters with Mars and the morning planets. Sixty years after Mariner 4’s trailblazing flyby, stargazers can celebrate by tracing Aquila the Eagle soaring overhead, using bright Altair to sketch its wings...

I would like to say that Rosie O'Donnell quietly left her country of origin for greener pastures. That dog didn't hunt. Rosie left for Ireland with a great deal of fanfare behind her decision. Like her house was on fire, she grabbed her passport and fled from the land of President Trump. As her feet hit foreign soil, she didn't waste a moment declaring herself safe that day from all things Trumpian. Safe and sound across the pond, Rosie created a throne where she became something like a TikTok televangelist. From her place on high, she passes judgment on us...

The Irish government is reportedly set to reject demands from the European Union to implement hate speech legislation after Dublin abandoned plans to do so last year. In September of last year, the Irish government scrapped plans to criminalize so-called hate speech in its Criminal Justice Bill, which would have allowed the state to send someone to prison for up to five years for “incitement to hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics”. The move to abandon the controversial section of the bill came as Justice Minister Helen McEntee admitted that it did “not have a consensus” among...

MILAN, July 7 (Reuters) - Italian police have arrested a 33-year-old Chinese man who is wanted by the U.S. authorities over alleged industrial espionage which targeted projects including efforts to develop a COVID vaccine, legal and judicial sources said on Monday. The man, identified as Xu Zewei from Shanghai, was picked up last week after he arrived at Milan's Malpensa airport on a U.S. arrest warrant as part of an FBI investigation.

The Secretary General of NATO pushes through criticism for his compliments for U.S. President Donald Trump, pointing to higher spending by the alliance’s members and noting this “would not have happened” without Trump pushing the matter. America is “completely right” that NATO’s other members — Europe and Canada — had not been paying enough into the alliance, but that is now improving and its states are now heading towards equilibrium and President Trump is to thank for that, Secretary General Mark Rutte said. The remarks came in an interview with the New York Times at the weekend which tried very...

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s early March interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, in which she claimed she uncovered a “truckload” of evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein, took on new meaning this weekend after the DOJ and FBI publicly concluded the so-called “Epstein Files” do not exist. Axios exclusively reported on the DOJ and FBI’s findings on Sunday night, calling it the “first time Trump’s administration has officially contradicted conspiracy theories” that convicted sex offender Epstein was killed in order to keep secret his list of ultra-powerful clients, who many believe he later blackmailed for personal gain. Hannity confronted Bondi...

<p>U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday said the Jeffrey Epstein client list is "sitting on my desk right now" and she is reviewing the JFK and MLK files as well after President Donald Trump's earlier directives.</p><p>"It's sitting on my desk right now to review," Bondi told 'America Reports' host John Roberts on Friday. "That's been a directive by President Trump."</p>

“You want me to make a controversial statement?” Trump said “I would. I wouldn’t have changed the name. It just doesn’t have the same, it doesn’t have the same ring to me.” The prospect of a (name)change comes at a time when the Commanders could be going to Trump to get a deal done that would get a new facility to be built. Which means that, if they seek his help, they may have to do something in return. That something could include naming the stadium after the 45th/47th president. It could mean re-naming the team. It could be both

An active shooter armed with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday. Agents and local police returned fire and killed the gunman. No federal agents were hit, but one McAllen police officer was struck. Law enforcement sources say the officer is in stable condition. "This morning an individual opened fired at the entrance of the United States Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen, Texas. Both Border Patrol agents and local police helped neutralize the shooter," the Department...

President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list" or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios. The administration is releasing a video — in both raw and "enhanced" versions — that it says indicates no one entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019. The video supports a medical examiner's finding that Epstein died by suicide, the two-page memo claims. Why it matters: The findings represent...

A teenage father-to-be was among seven killed when a Northern California fireworks warehouse erupted in a terrifying explosion during his first shift there, according to his devastated girlfriend. Jesus Manaces Ramos, 18, was killed alongside two of his brothers, Johnny Ramos and Junior Melendez, when repeated explosions devastated the fireworks warehouse where they were working Tuesday in Yolo County near Esparto, according to ABC10. The teen was on his first shift at the facility, working to prepare for the arrival of his first child, his pregnant girlfriend, Syanna Ruiz, told the outlet. The blasts at the facility, which occurred just...

Russia's sacked transport minister has been found dead in his Tesla outside Moscow with a gunshot wound and the principal hypothesis is that he took his own life, state investigators said on Monday, hours after President Vladimir Putin fired him. A presidential decree published earlier on Monday gave no reason for the dismissal of Roman Starovoit after barely a year in the job, though political analysts were quick to raise the possibility that he may have been dismissed in connection with an investigation into corruption in the region he once ran. Reuters could not independently confirm these suggestions, though a...