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HOW BIG IS ONE? As a man walked a desolate beach one cold, gray morning he began to see another figure, far in the distance. Slowly the two approached each other, and he could make out a local native who kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he hurled things into the ocean. As the distance between them continued to narrow, the man could see that the native was picking up starfish that had been washed upon the beach and, one at a time, was throwing them back into the...

Friday’s Bolton raid and the rebuke of Trump’s $500M fine show what happens when justice is not impartial.If you are a liberal alarmed by the Friday raid on the home of former national security adviser John Bolton, well, you should be. It’s possible that if charges come out, we’ll learn that Bolton committed a security breach that would have been prosecuted under any president. But there are reasons to suspect otherwise, given that President Donald Trump and FBI director Kash Patel have endorsed lawfare against their political enemies, including Bolton.This is a crisis for American democracy, because even if charges...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson One year ago today, RFK Jr. endorsed Donald Trump for President. From Nick Sortor 3:08 PM · Aug 23, 2025 ·

It’s not just you. It really is impossible to keep track of all the political news. But one thing is pretty reliable: When Donald Trump has a bad week, he will use social media to make a presidential announcement.Last week was one of those bad weeks. President Vladimir Putin of Russia landed in America as if he had V.I.P. tickets to a private Taylor Swift meet-and-greet. He made no concessions in Russia’s war on Ukraine, and Trump belatedly realized that he had been played. Plus, that Jeffrey Epstein thing just won’t go away.So, true to form, the president took to...

Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher Exposes the Crime of the Century on The Dr. Maria ShowCatastrophic new data are emerging on COVID-19 mRNA injections — pointing to nothing less than a transgenerational crisis. The evidence now shows an unprecedented rise in infant mortality, mounting proof of sterilization, total collapse of birth rates, and the devastating “Cascade of Harms” being documented in the scientific literature. I broke down these findings in detail during my recent interview on The Dr. Maria Show on Lindell TV. Below is a comprehensive summary of the most critical evidence uncovered so far: For decades, infant mortality in the...

Decision comes as Trump administration implements continuous vetting for roughly 55 million visa holdersSecretary of State Marco Rubio's announcement this week halting work visas for foreign commercial truck drivers drew praise from conservatives in the wake of a deadly accident in Florida."Effective immediately, we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers," Rubio announced on X on Thursday. "The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers."The move follows a deadly crash in Florida in which an illegal immigrant from India allegedly...

The Trump DOJ called Garcia a "clear danger" who must be held accountable.Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gangbanger and illegal immigrant facing human smuggling charges, could be deported to Uganda, Garcia’s legal team says. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security allegedly told Garcia’s legal team on Friday that their client could be sent to Uganda if he refused to accept a plea deal offer on serious smuggling charges. If not accepted by Monday, the departments allegedly said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would start the process of deporting Garcia to Uganda. If, however, the deal was...

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv's ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow's invasion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing U.S. officials.Reuters could not immediately verify the report.The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the news you need to start your day. Sign up here.The news came as U.S. President Donald Trump has grown more frustrated publicly over the three-year-old war and his inability to secure a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.After...

Petty Officer Jinchao "Patrick" Wei, 25, was convicted of six federal charges including espionage. Prosecutors say he passed sensitive Navy ship information to a Chinese intelligence officer for $12,000. Wei is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 1 and faces a lengthy prison term.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared a state of emergency in Rio Arriba County, Española, and nearby Pueblos due to ongoing challenges curbing violent crime and drug trafficking. The order, which may include National Guard deployment, authorizes up to $750,000 for the state emergency management department. Critics condemned the move as inconsistent with her past remarks regarding President Donald Trump's federal guard deployments.

A biotech CEO is taking Uber to court after an illegal immigrant driver was caught on camera violently assaulting him in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, sending his dog crashing to the pavement. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Charleston County, alleges TC BioPharm CEO Bryan Kobel, 45, suffered a concussion in April after Uber driver and illegal Russian national Vadim Nikolaevich Uliumdzhiev, 42, attacked him in a King Street restaurant parking lot. Uliumdzhiev was arrested and released on a $10,000 bond for second-degree assault and battery, according to Charleston County Sheriff’s Office records. He was later placed on an immigration hold...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell hinted that the central bank might cut interest rates in September. Powell spoke on Friday at an event titled “Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy,” an economic symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.He said that higher tariffs and a tighter immigration policy have slowed labor force growth and gross domestic product, which is a measure of economic activity using final goods and services produced in the U.S. “There is significant uncertainty about where all of these polices will eventually settle and what their lasting...

A dispensary in northeast Albuquerque is out more than $50,000 after thieves smashed a vehicle through their front entrance and raided the shelves. The CEO of Dark Matter Dispensary said two people rammed a car into their building, not once, but six times around 3 a.m. Thursday. It completely destroyed their front entrance, which had a steel rolling door covering the glass facade. He said the two were teens, and they used two vehicles. One to gain entrance and the other to get away. Now, he’s offering a reward for anyone who has information on who the perpetrators are.

Metalworking projects are turning an object of death into something full of life that sustains life in New Mexico, advocates say. Gardening tools, musical instrumentals, bug sculptures – all of the metal for these projects comes from gun buyback events. People get cash or something of cash value when they turn in their guns, which are dismantled into that metal. “Two years ago, in honor of two students that they lost last year to gun violence, they actually made a working electric guitar and a working xylophone,” said Miranda Viscoli, executive director of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence. Viscoli’s...

"The Moscow Police Department released the bodycam footage from one of the officers who responded to the Idaho Murders crime scene on King Road after Bryan Kohberger killed four University of Idaho students. In the footage, officers spoke to the surviving roommates and witnesses on scene who reported seeing a man, dressed in all black, wearing a mask, telling the victims “you’re going to be okay, I’m going to help you.” Kohberger stabbed Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle to death inside the off-campus home in the early hours of November 13, 2022. He pleaded guilty to...

The Salinas Police Department now has a labubu. The plushie has been sworn in and now goes by the name Officer Lapopo. The Salinas Police Department says that it "continues to hire quality officers to help safeguard this awesome community, but we thought this special hire should get a shout out." They also took the opportunity to extend a call for recruitment.

An interesting thing is happening right now and its really a fantastic opportunity to highlight just how useful our current roster of audio books is in the context of how home schoolers and others can remind our fellow Americans that yes, our Founding Fathers did get it right - and that includes on the topic of slavery, and where can you find the truth? How can you give others the truth? How can we all join together to undermine America's historical class who does not want anybody to know the real American history? Slavery was indeed bad. Let's get that...

March 14 (Reuters) - An online voting system that was criticised by some defeated candidates at parliamentary elections last year will be rolled out for use across Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed electronic voting procedures into law on Monday. A coalition of defeated parliamentary candidates in Moscow claimed they were cheated of victory in a parliamentary election last September by the system and sought to try to overturn the results via lawsuits and public pressure.

Wyoming and 10 other states’ claims that giant investment companies conspired to drive coal production down and drive prices up — increasing people’s energy costs — are at least plausible enough to keep a lawsuit alive, a judge has ruled. Wyoming filed suit in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Texas in late November against Blackrock Inc., State Street Corp. and Vanguard Group Inc. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led the litigation. Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, West Virginia and Wyoming also signed the complaint. The states allege the three massive investment companies acquired substantial stockholdings in...

Nearly 50 people involved with the effort shared details with POLITICO about the tightly guarded process. When word got out that Texas might undertake an extraordinary mid-decade redistricting at Donald Trump’s behest, a handful of top California Democratic operatives floated an idea to Rep. Zoe Lofgren: Could California respond in kind?Lofgren, the chair of California’s 43-member Democratic delegation, consulted in June with a trusted data expert who dismissed it as absurd — a foolhardy end-run around the state’s popular redistricting panel with no guarantee of yielding enough blue seats to fully offset Texas. Deterred by those misgivings, California Democrats instead...