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Donald Trump won the 2024 election with a mandate on illegal immigration. He promised to shut down the previous administration's border crisis and to oversee mass deportations that target millions of new unlawful arrivals. He has largely achieved the first part of that pledge, with illegal crossings absolutely plummeting to a mere trickle. Border Patrol agents now have so few illegal immigrants to interdict that some of them have been detailed to assist with interior enforcement actions many miles from the border. The newly-signed 'Big Beautiful Law' contains enforcement resources and provisions that will help entrench this progress in a...

Over 10 years, Trump has forged an incredible and undeniable record.Despite Democrats’ hopes, the Epstein files saga won’t separate Trump from his base. Trump’s supporters have stuck with him through far worse over the last 10 years. Not only have they “stuck,” they have increased in number and intensity. Only Democrats’ delusions — and desperate need — lead them to believe Trump’s supporters won’t “stick” now.The Jeffrey Epstein files are perfect headline fodder: salacious scandal involving famous men and underage girls. Epstein’s suspicious suicide in jail prevented all the dirty laundry from getting washed in public.How much more dirty laundry...

A Canadian psychologist had her license revoked after she had sex with one of her clients and gave others illicit drugs. Tatiana Zdyb, of London, Ontario, lost her license on Wednesday after the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario found her guilty of professional misconduct. Zdyb had sex with a patient whom she saw from November 2017 to September 2022. The unidentified man began therapy with her on November 14, 2017, and the pair entered into an intimate relationship around the time their sessions were coming to an end. The pair are still together, as of March 2025,...

The Department of Transportation has released a long-secret list of its most overdue and over-budget projects, revealing billions of dollars in taxpayer money committed to projects that can’t seem to get across the finish line.The list includes an interstate redesign in Columbus, Ohio, which is running nearly 20 years behind schedule and double the initial cost, and California’s much-maligned high-speed rail, whose costs have tripled.Maryland’s Purple Line light rail also made the list, at double the initial cost and at least six years behind schedule.Those and the other projects, 15 in total, account for more than $12 billion in federal...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that India's purchases of Russian oil are helping to sustain Moscow's war efforts in Ukraine and it is "most certainly a point of irritation" in New Delhi’s relationship with Washington, although not the only point of irritation. In an interview with Fox Radio, Rubio claimed that the US President is frustrated with the fact that India continues to buy oil from Russia despite having so many other oil vendors available and helping to fund Russia's war effort against Ukraine. -snip- One of the biggest points of contradiction that has stopped India...

SACRAMENTO — Texas real estate agent Tara Jarrett opened the online class with a prayer, bowing her head and closing her eyes.“Dear Heavenly Father,” she began. “I ask that you would just speak to me and through me as I deliver this detailed message tonight.”What followed was a lesson on revenge.Jarrett walked the attendees, logged in from California and other states, through the process of filing liens to punish public officials, such as politicians and judges, who they alleged aren’t upholding their oaths of office. Those liens are recorded in state Uniform Commercial Code databases, public filings intended to alert...

The president clamors for the Fed to lower interest rates because it serves his wild spending.No one likes to be told no, especially Donald Trump. To refuse the president is to invite a battle that he will pursue to the bitter end. So the Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday to leave interest rates unchanged, at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent, was hardly a routine vote. It was a loud no from the majority of voting members — including the president’s designated nemesis, Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell — to Trump’s demand that “interest rates have to come down.”The retributive president...

The official cause of death for WWE Legend Hulk Hogan has been released. As the New York Post reported, The Pinellas County Forensic Science Center announced that Hogan died from acute myocardial infarction, which occurs when the blood flow to the heart muscle suddenly becomes blocked. The New York Post also obtained documents showing that Hogan had a history of an irregular and rapid heart rate. He also had a history of cancer called leukemia CLL. This cancer affects white blood cells called lymphocytes. This is the first time it has been revealed that Hogan had battled cancer. As The...

The agency asked five climate skeptics to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Scientists are pointing out its errors.Sea level rise is not accelerating. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be good for plant growth. The computer models used to predict global warming tend to exaggerate future temperature increases.These arguments, routinely made by people who reject the scientific consensus on climate change, were included in an unusual report released by the Energy Department on Tuesday. The report, which is meant to support the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to roll back climate regulations, contends that the mainstream...

Explanation: A long time ago in a galaxy 50 million light-years away, a star exploded. Light from that supernova was first detected by telescopes on planet Earth on July 14th though, and the extragalactic transient is now known to astronomers as supernova 2025rbs. Presently the brightest supernova in planet Earth's sky, 2025rbs is a Type Ia supernova, likely caused by the thermonuclear detonation of a white dwarf star that accreted material from a companion in a binary star system. Type Ia supernovae are used as standard candles to establish the distance scale of the universe. The host galaxy of 2025rbs...

Sir Keir Starmer must recall Parliament to discuss the Channel migrant “emergency” after the number of arrivals surged past 25,000 in record time, critics declared. Some 898 asylum seekers were intercepted on 13 boats on Wednesday – an average of 70 people per dinghy. It takes the total so far this year to 25,436 in 432 boats – the first time the milestone has been reached in July. And the Daily Express can reveal frustration is beginning to boil over among seafarers navigating the Channel. An exasperated P&O Ferries captain asked a French navy vessel: “Is that the same dinghy...

The president said Mexico agreed to eliminate non-tariff trade barriers, though he did not specify what those were.President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day extension to a trade deal deadline with Mexico, delaying the imposition of new tariffs.The announcement came just hours before the Aug. 1 deadline, which would have triggered a 30% tariff on products imported from Mexico."The complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border," President Trump said on Truth Social. "We have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same...

When the Texas Civil Rights Project needed lawyers to help dozens of people arrested during U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, legal director Dustin Rynders turned to a familiar strategy. He contacted major law firms that for decades had provided free legal services to nonprofits like his. On that April day in Houston, he called his usual contacts, many at firms that had previously handled challenges to Trump’s immigration policies. Before Trump’s return to the White House, they typically offered swift “pro bono,” or free, legal help – a standard public service provided by elite U.S. firms. This time, they...

Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday released the newly declassified annex from former special counsel John Durham’s report “The Durham annex contains previously classified information exposing a reported Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia,” Grassley said. Recall that it was just reported that FBI Director Kash Patel recently found the annex to the Durham report in a “burn bag” at the FBI. According to the newly declassified documents, Hillary Clinton personally approved the Trump-Russia hoax just a few days before FBI counter-intelligence agent Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016 to distract from her...

Disturbing new images have revealed the horrific injuries sustained by a woman after she was attacked during a mass brawl in Cincinnati last weekend. Footage surfaced online over the weekend showing the woman, known only as Holly, and a man being savagely attacked in the downtown area of the Ohio city. Republican state Senator Bernie Moreno said in a post on X that Holly had given him permission to share the damning pictures of her horrific injuries. Both sides of her face were extremely bruised following the assault, with her right eye a dark shade of purple and almost closed...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel and AG Pam Bondi coordinated in the declassification of the annex Grassley made public The credible foreign sources indicating the FBI and the Obama administration would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump–Russia narrative — before the bureau ever launched its probe — were allegedly tied to George Soros' Open Society Foundation, according to an explosive document declassified Thursday morning. The appendix to former Special Counsel John Durham’s report released by the Senate Judiciary Committee sheds stunning light on what Chairman Chuck Grassley describes as "one of the biggest political scandals...

An argument over bed sheets and blankets evolved into a physical altercation that resulted with a woman being arrested for attempted murder. Polk County Sheriff's deputies responded to a residence in Fort Meade at around 5:18 pm on Sunday, July 27, 2025, following the report of a battery occurring. The victim told deputies and detectives that 26-year-old Anaya Durandisse Williams had gotten extremely upset about about the type of bed sheets and blankets that the victim set up in Anaya's room. Anaya escalated the argument further by grabbing the victim by her hair and hit her on the head with...

"That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level."Newly declassified intelligence documents released Thursday revealed Hillary Clinton personally approved a campaign plan to “smear” then-candidate Donald Trump with false Russian collusion claims to distract from her email scandal during the 2016 presidential race.Special counsel John Durham uncovered the information during his multi-year investigation into intelligence activities during the 2016 election.The intelligence, released Monday by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), came from two memos obtained by the Obama administration containing “confidential conversations” between members of the DNC and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville woman is facing multiple charges after trying to give her former mother-in-law a serious allergic reaction using bell peppers. Louisville Metro Police (LMPD) arrested Tiffany Gregory, 34, on Monday after months of alleged stalking and harassment. According to an arrest warrant, the victim told police she had received multiple threatening messages from Gregory. She said Gregory would also drive by her home multiple times. The woman said one of those messages, sent on April 4, included a video from Gregory’s phone of the victim standing in line at Walgreens. On July 7, LMPD said Gregory...

Tulsi Gabbard issued a new document today. It included a whistleblower statement, from a former “Deputy National Intelligence Officer at the National Intelligence Council.” I never even heard of this agency. The former official blew the whistle because his objections to the Russiagate report were suppressed. He wouldn’t sign off on the use of unverifiable evidence in the Russiagate assessment. He said the dossier material was inserted during a car ride with James Comey, James Clapper, and John Brennan. These people are unbelievable. After some debate, I declined to alter my own analysis based on this suggestion. To provide context...