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The Senate voted 51-50 Tuesday evening to advance President Donald Trump's rescissions package out of committee, with Vice President J.D. Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. The three GOP senators who voted against the package leaving the committee are Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), Susan Collins (Maine), and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska). As of now, it isn't clear if the GOP has the votes for final passage of the bill. The Senate will also vote to begin debate on the rescissions package, according to the Politico news outlet. The package that was approved by the House would cut $9.4 billion in funding from the...

A Native American tribe in California whose leaders aggressively back Democrat candidates has raked in millions of taxpayer dollars for needy families while operating a lucrative casino, a watchdog found. The American Accountability Foundation released a report Tuesday, first shared with The Daily Wire, revealing that the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians has taken $28 million in federal grant funding since 1996 while operating one of the largest casinos in the country. The bulk of the money, roughly $27 million, has come since 2008, six years after the casino opened. “The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians has been quietly raking...

Pro-illegal alien Congresswoman Maria Salazar (R-FL) announced on Wednesday that she introduced a bipartisan bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), to grant work visas to illegal aliens. She says the bill is “not amnesty,” but work visas for illegal aliens is literally amnesty. Republican co-sponsors of the bill include Mike Lawler (R-NY), David Valadao (R-CA), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Gabe Evans (R-CO), Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), Don Bacon (R-NE), and Young Kim (R-CA). Salazar, the primary sponsor, has appeared along with Democrat Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, and Delaware Democrat Senator Chris Coons, a close...

Welcome to 2025, where we are still uncovering election fraud from the 2020 and 2022 elections. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating more than 100 possible noncitizens who may have voted in both the 2020 and 2022 elections, casting more than 200 ballots. In this case, most of the suspected illegal ballots were cast in Harris County. Paxton is also investigating in Guadalupe, Cameron, and Eastland counties, based on information from the Texas Secretary of State. Add the possible 100 fraudulent voters announced this week to the 33 potential noncitizens who may have voted illegally in 2024. Paxton started...

Homelessness spending at all levels — federal down to local — topped $700 million for the Portland metro area in the 2023-24 fiscal year, a newly released report found. Watch the full report tonight on #TheStoryKGW at 6:30 p.m.

President Trump signed an executive order in March designating English to be the official language of the United States. In it, he declared that it is long past time to do so to create a cohesive society and push immigrants into adopting American culture and joining the American tradition. Now, the Department of Justice is following through on the order and making sweeping changes to the federal government — and its services — to make the aggravating experience of dealing with government agencies a lot simpler. As part of new guidance, the DOJ said it was in Americans' best interest...

A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Sand Point, Alaska, on Wednesday, prompting a tsunami warning from the National Weather Service. Advertisement Sand Point is located on northwestern Popof Island, off the Alaska Peninsula. It's approximately 600 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The earthquake struck 54 miles south of Sand Point, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has resumed transferring jail inmates to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the first time in years, despite local sanctuary policies that aim to shield people from deportation. Eight inmates were released to ICE in May and a dozen more in June, according to sheriff’s department records reviewed by The Times. Eleven are Mexican, six are Guatemalan, and one each is from Colombia, El Salvador and Honduras. Their ages ranged from 19 to 63 years old. The transfers to ICE are the first by the sheriff’s department since early 2020, when records show 43...

I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola. This will be a very good move by them — You’ll see. It’s just better!

Undeterred by recent indictments alleging widespread cyberespionage against American agencies, journalists and infrastructure targets, Chinese hackers are hitting a wider range of targets and battling harder to stay inside once detected, seven current and former U.S. officials said in interviews. Hacks from suspected Chinese government actors detected by security firm CrowdStrike more than doubled from 2023 to more than 330 last year and continued to climb as the new administration took over, the company said. Bursts of espionage are typical with each new president, the officials said, and major staff cuts at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have disrupted...

“N.Y.C. art schools see record-high application numbers as Gen Z-ers clamber to enroll,” Gothamist’s Hannah Frishberg reported earlier this month. Art school has a reputation for being totally impractical and mildly dissolute. But what members of Gen Z like about art school, Frishberg explains, is that it has “a comforting, human sense of purpose.” The art school trend sounds counterintuitive at first. During times of economic uncertainty, the cliché is that young people usually go to law school or do something else that seems pragmatic, steady and lucrative. Yet art school can offer young people a set of tangible, hands-on...

ENFIELD — The 18-year old Waterbury resident arrested in connection with an Enfield crash that seriously injured two Connecticut State Police troopers July 10 is in the United States illegally and will be detained and arrested, according to federal officials. “Joel Alexander Caica Nishve is an illegal alien from Ecuador," a senior official with the Department of Homeland Security said in an email Wednesday… Caiza-Nishue … "was charged with reckless driving after he was involved in a car accident that seriously injured two Connecticut State Troopers. ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has lodged a detainer for his arrest.” …...

The last woman to reach the final table at the Main Event was Barbara Enright, who placed fifth in 1995.Leonore “Leo” Margets is making history in the world of poker. This week, she became the first woman in 30 years to reach the final table at the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. “It’s so unreal, it is a dream,” Margets told PokerGO sideline reporter Jeff Platt. She added, "How lucky I am to live this!” The Spanish poker pro was ultimately eliminated Tuesday, finishing in seventh place. She will still take home $1.5 million in prize...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area couple and whether they misled surrogate mothers around the country. Fifteen children were removed from the couple’s opulent home in Arcadia after an abuse allegation in May, and another six living elsewhere were also located, Arcadia police Lt. Kollin Cieadlo said. They range in age from 2 months to 13 years, with most between 1 and 3. “We believe one or two were born biologically to the mother,” he said. “There are some surrogates who have come forward and said they were surrogates...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider calls on Pope Leo to ‘free the Latin Mass’Bishop Schneider urged Pope Leo XIV to ‘protect’ the lay faithful who are being ‘persecuted’ by the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass.Bishop Athanasius Schneider has decried the suppression of Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) around the world as an “injustice” and called upon Pope Leo XIV to “free” the TLM.In a Sunday interview with the bishop, Christopher Wendt of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima brought up the TLM crackdown prompted by Pope Francis’ document Traditionis Custodes, which triggered a cascade of TLM closures continuing even into...

Chinese dominance in display technologies poses a critical national security threat, demanding urgent US action to secure supply chains. Last month, US energy experts uncovered hidden cellular radios inside Chinese-made solar inverters—critical components that link solar panels, batteries, and electric vehicle chargers to the grid. These rogue devices bypass installed firewalls, potentially giving China a clandestine “kill switch” over slices of America’s energy infrastructure. With China now producing over 70 percent of the world’s display panels and leading in OLED (organic light-emitting diodes) output, every Chinese console and cockpit screen—from fighter-jet helmet displays to submarine sonar monitors—risks a similar back-door...

SummaryFBI eyed judges, defense lawyers over virtual hearings for defendants in country illegally, sources sayStatus of early-stage probe into judges, defense lawyers remains unclearVirtual hearings common post-COVID, seen as routine by defense attorneysWASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department explored bringing criminal charges against Minnesota judges and defense lawyers who discussed requesting virtual court hearings to protect defendants from being arrested by federal immigration officers, according to five people familiar with the matter.In February, FBI agents in Minneapolis opened a preliminary inquiry into whether local judges and defense attorneys obstructed immigration enforcement by requesting virtual hearings, and the...

Left-wing firebrands in the House Democratic caucus raked in cash over the past three months, far surpassing endangered incumbents in their party who mostly reported lackluster fundraising numbers. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised $5.8 million in the second quarter while her colleague, Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, reported a $2.1 million haul. The fundraising period was not as favorable for vulnerable House Democrats in battleground districts, many of whom were significantly outraised by their Republican counterparts facing similarly competitive reelection contests.

A Seattle judge has ordered that a popular beach be closed because it has become a hot spot for public sex and nudity. King County Superior Court Judge Samuel Chung has given the city two weeks to handle the ongoing inappropriate behavior occurring at Denny Blaine Park. The waterfront park has become known as a nudist spot for over 50 years, though it is not specifically designated by Seattle Parks and Recreation as a clothing optional park. Residents of the Denny Blaine area have reported an escalation in aggressive sexual behaviors over the last few years at the park, and...