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He joins an increasingly crowded field hoping to take control of one of South Carolina’s Senate seats. President Donald Trump has sought a court-ordered deposition of Rupert Murdoch as part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.The president specifically asked that the court set the timeline for Murdoch's deposition to 15 days, Reuters reported.Trump has struggled to contain political fallout from his administration's handling of the Epstein case and reports about his relationship with the late billionaire have persisted throughout the controversy. The Wall Street Journal, for its...

Sir Keir Starmer has presented a UK-led peace plan for the Middle East to Donald Trump as he met the US president in Scotland. The Prime Minister started work on a plan with France and Germany over the weekend after an emergency call with the two countries’ leaders, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz. His official spokesman had said earlier that he planned to share details with key allies, including Arab states, in the coming days. In a readout of his meeting with the US president, Downing Street said the two reiterated calls for an immediate ceasefire to pave the way...

New York State Attorney General Letitia James joined California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced at a joint press conference on Monday that they are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over demands to turn over Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applicant data. The attorneys general are leading a coalition of 20 states and Washington, DC in their lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration. The coalition argues that the extensive demand for SNAP applicant data will violate residents’ privacy, put immigrants at risk, and hinder the ability of states to provide food assistance to those...

A 44-year-old man who joined local politics as the face of a Democrat-led law enabling the expungement of criminal records, being a former cocaine dealer, has been charged after allegedly assaulting a woman, according to recently released court documents. Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) — whose “clean slate” criminal justice program allowed him to wipe his own criminal record, the New York Post reported. El‑Alamin was appointed to Flint City Council’s First Ward seat in March last year, filling the vacancy left by the passing of Councilman Eric Mays. He also subsequently won the special general election held on November 5,...

A Philadelphia landlord is fighting to evict squatters who broke into her rental property and have been living there for over two months. Naydia Smith tells The Daily Wire that a couple with five young children broke into the house in April or May, at which point they began trashing the home. She was first made aware of the squatters in June, when her business partner Richard Watson’s parents received an anonymous call about the intruders. On June 7, Watson’s parents confronted and filmed a man in the house. The man — whose documents found in the house appear to...

Trump has struggled to contain political fallout from his administration's handling of the Epstein case and reports about his relationship with the late billionaire have persisted throughout the controversy. President Donald Trump has sought a court-ordered deposition of Rupert Murdoch as part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.The president specifically asked that the court set the timeline for Murdoch's deposition to 15 days, Reuters reported.Trump has struggled to contain political fallout from his administration's handling of the Epstein case and reports about his relationship with the late...

The latest attempt to demonize Israel.Ryan Grim, a “journalist” for the pro-Hamas propaganda site Drop Site News, claimed on Friday that the Israeli government “planned very specifically to cut off food” to Gaza, “and then when re-opening it, to control it militarily and have 4 aid sites for 2 million people. This was a well thought out plan agreed to at the highest levels.” To that, an X user replied: “lol Ryan is lying to you all. the aid is in Gaza waiting for the UN to pick it up. They wont do it.”That was indeed the case, as AIPAC...

Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s. In 2020, he even turned away from his own copyright, granting the public permission to use his lyrics in any format without any fee in return. A Harvard prodigy (he had earned a math degree from the institution at age 18), Lehrer...

During discussions on Sunday Morning Features about the key players pushing the Russia collusion hoax, Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer threw another name in the hat: Trump-appointed CIA Director Gina Haspel. Haspel was the CIA station chief in London in 2016 and 2017 under then-CIA Director John Brennan. She was appointed in 2018 and stepped down in January 2021 after she “threatened to resign” if Trump appointed Kash Patel as her deputy, Axios reported. “What role did she play not only in perhaps creating this, but what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director...

Some black Americans, we hear, are moving back to the land of those who sold their ancestors into slavery. That’s one way of putting it, anyway. But as is said, home is where the heart is. The heart is often happier, too, when your formerly upper-middle-class self can now live like a king in a country of relative serfs.The Associated Press (AP) covered this topic on Saturday. Relating stories of black Americans relocating to Kenya, the news organ wrote (with the expected woke suppositions):Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in Atlanta yearning for a life in a place where...

Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the United States, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down.

The Deep State is a budget-busting, bureaucratic tyranny, crushing capitalist meritocracy and social values. It is a self-directed, out-of-control monster that fights MAGA tooth and claw. However, the brilliant computer “nerds” of Elon Musk’s Department Of Governmental Efficiency are already using the first version of their Artificial Intelligence software tool. It may eventually curb the Deep State as much as possible. From an article at The Washington Post:DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulationsThe tool, called the ‘DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,’ is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which can be eliminated...

At one of #Iran’s universities, the IRGC spread the American flag on the ground, but not a single student will step on it.

Just when you think you've seen the worst, most depraved, most poisonous elements of transgender ideology, it surprises you with something new and even worse.Reduxx has the story:A three-year-old girl was triggered to enter precocious puberty following exposure to her trans-identified father's "gender affirming" topical estrogen gel. The toddler was seen by pediatric endocrinologists after experiencing breast development and vaginal discharge over a time frame of six months.At this point, my friends, I don't blame you for wanting to shut down your computer and just look away and never think of this again.

The Senate confirmed Whitney Hermandorfer to a lifetime appointment on the Cincinnati, Ohio-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a vote along party lines Monday evening. The successful confirmation vote follows the Senate processing 92 of the president’s civilian nominees thus far, nearly doubling the confirmation pace at this point during the president’s first term.. Our job now is to continue the good work that we began during the first Trump administration by filling those vacancies with more judges who understand the proper role of a judge,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said during a floor speech Thursday. “And...

A transgender illegal alien who is biologically male but presents as a woman appeared in court late last week on child rape charges in the sanctuary city of New York City, New York. Nicol Suarez, a 30-year-old illegal alien from Colombia, was in New York City criminal court on charges that he allegedly raped a 14-year-old boy in the bathroom of a bodega near Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem in February.

Illegal immigration used to be commonplace on the roadways of America, but now texas DPS, ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies are cracking down on smuggling networks coast to coast. More show notes: ICE is stopping cars/trucks/moving vans/dumptrucks, sometimes after a chase. Illegals come out like coming out of a clown car.

Literally out of all the sports there are, bullfighting is the one where you should never distract yourself by showing off during play. Or else, well, you could meet the fate of this Mexican bullfighter.

Zohran Mamdani fled to Uganda, and the details have completely exposed his grift. The self-described communist is currently the frontrunner to become the next mayor of New York City, with the press swooning over him as an Obama-type figure. As it turns out, though, Mamdani is a bit more of a fan of capitalism than he lets on. He didn't go to Uganda to help feed people in one of the world's most malnourished countries. Instead, he went there to lock them out behind a wall of heavy security so he could throw a three-day-long wedding bash, sparing no expense,...

Don Quixote tragically tilted at windmills, mistaking them for monsters. Donald Trump, on the other hand, recognizes the real monster — the subsidies, the blight, and the lies — behind the spinning blades. "The other thing I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States," Trump said during trade talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. "They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains. It’s the most expensive form of energy. It’s no good," Trump said to an audience that must have been...