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The photo of Bessent’s phone taken by the Associated Press during a United Nations session last week appears to show texts from Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who said, “We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China.” The messages referenced the $20 billion aid package by the Trump administration designed to help Argentina and its president, Javier Milei, a Trump ally. After the announcement of the aid, Argentina turned...

At 77 years of age and no prospects for future political office, or even an ego-flattering ambassadorship, Hillary Clinton is consigned to doing the one thing she’s done consistently since she first entered public life – spouting off. This time she was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program, and her target was “White men, of … a certain religion.” More to the point, she said, “The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was, dominated by, you know, let's say it, white men, of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain...

President Trump on Monday night announced tariffs of 10% on softwood timber and lumber alongside a 25% tariff on "certain upholstered wooden products" due to take effect on Oct. 14, according to the White House. This was the latest set of tariffs to be announced impacting the furniture industry, after Trump posted last week about a flurry of tariffs on kitchen cabinets, vanities, and other upholstered products on that will take effect Oct. 1. Trump said the lumber tariffs will help "strengthen supply chains" and "bolster industrial resilience." Yet home builders have warned this could deter investments in new homes...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to end the Gaza war has not only won support from Israel, but also from the Arab and Muslim world — and from the Palestinian Authority, which has opposed his plans in the past. The 20-point plan, as Breitbart News has noted, would fulfill Israel’s goals of freeing the remaining hostages, as well as disarming Hamas and removing it from power. It also offers the prospect of a Palestinian state — if Hamas complies with the plan and the Palestinian Authority agrees to sweeping reforms of its policies and anti-Israel culture. If Hamas does not agree,...

A lunar impact could generate debris that damages key satellites, the ISS…and potentially any lunar installations that had been constructed as part of the new space race. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is a near-Earth object approximately 53–67 meters wide that was discovered in December 2024. While initial models suggested a small chance of Earth impact, refined tracking now indicates that there is no risk to Earth, but about a 4% probability that it will strike the Moon on December 22, 2032. Earlier this year, asteroid 2024 YR4 drew global attention when its estimated chance of striking Earth in 2032 reached 3%....

The cheating scandal surrounding U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) and her time at the U.S. Naval Academy has widened after her husband, Jason, also appears to have been implicated, according to documents reviewed by the New York Post. Last week, a bombshell report from the New Jersey Globe revealed that Sherrill was barred from walking with her class at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1994 due to her implication in a sweeping cheating scandal that implicated more than 130 midshipmen. A copy of the commencement program from May 25, 1994, which was obtained by the outlet, did not include Sherrill’s...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 135,000 men to be conscripted into the army, the largest autumn draft held by the Kremlin in nine years. “From Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2025, conscript 135,000 Russian citizens aged 18 to 30 who are not in the reserve and are subject to enlistment into military service,” the decree states, according to the TASS state-owned news agency. Vladimir Tsimlyansky, head of the Russian General Staff’s mobilization department, has also insisted that the conscripted soldiers will not be deployed to the forces currently invading Ukraine, a promise Moscow has been previously accused of breaking.

In their perverse pursuit of power, leftist politicians are daily signing the death warrant for the next political assassination. It’s now a matter of when, not if. You can’t relentlessly call your political enemies “Nazis”, “fascists,” and “tyrants” without giving license to homicidal leftists to do what they do best: Attack their perceived existential threats. Just ask the family and friends of Christian evangelizer and conservative icon Charlie Kirk. Or President Donald Trump, who is intimately familiar with what the unhinged left is capable of. American politics is a tinder box right now, and leftists like California Gov. Gavin Newsom...

1 minute video of a Muslim teen who confronts elderly Christian women and tells them he wants them to die. "I wish I could break the Cross." fahhadalfarann TikTok video (no audio)

The roads just got safer in Oklahoma. On Monday, Republican Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt announced 130 illegal immigrant truck divers were arrested in a state wide sting. Stitt announced the Oklahoma Highway Patrol alongside ICE arrested the illegal commercial truck drivers on I-40 in Western Oklahoma. The majority of the drivers were using licenses issued from Democrat states and stemmed from multiple countries such as India, China, Russia Turkey, and Ukraine. Many of the CDLs given out from sanctuary states lacked basic information and Governor Stitt revealed one in particular had written “No Name Given” where the driver’s name...

When Coast Guard Officer Shane Sprague bought a 2024 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4X in Thunderstorm Gray, he expected the deal to be straightforward. He left South Florida's Doral Volkswagen on June 21 after depositing $15,000 while covering the remaining price through a trade in and financing. Unfortunately, he had no way to know that the dealership's finance manager had made a mistake with the VIN, accidentally linking his plates to a different truck. That clerical error led the dealership to report the Sierra as stolen and trigger its LoJack tracker. However, Sprague never agreed to having a tracker installed, which...

"I am proud to be Scottish. I don't want them here." Standing on the balcony of his flat in Glasgow, George drapes the saltire Scottish flag as he explains his anti-immigration stance. "We can't afford to keep all these people coming in," he says. "There's too many people coming in." George, who lives on the Wyndford estate in Glasgow's Maryhill, is not alone. Streets across the city are filling with white and blue flags hanging from lampposts. Immigration has not been centre stage in Scottish politics for many years - but the mood appears to be shifting. Glasgow is the...

Ralph Pezzullo and Stephen Gardner get deep into why Trump is gearing up for war with Venezuela. Imagine being briefed with evidence that Venezuela has been rigging elections with US AID tax payer money. Imagine learning they also been rigging elections in the US. https://amzn.to/46PPAun Stolen Elections sounds like a spy novel but its all true. http://ralphpezzulloauthor.com/ Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and others have been briefed on the mechanics of rigging elections. This is why some many have been fired, Tulsi Gabbard says our election systems are vulnerable, Trump won the presidency but his down ticket went...

A Polish lawyer representing Volodymyr Z., wanted by Germany over his alleged involvement in the Nord Stream explosions, confirmed to Reuters on Tuesday that his client was detained in Poland. Polish private radio station RMF FM reported that the man had been wanted under a European arrest warrant issued by a German court.

THE LEGEND OF BIG BALLS CONTINUES TO GROW. 🚨 JUST IN: Edward Coristine AKA “BIG BALLS” says his GRANDFATHER was a DOUBLE-AGENT 🚨“My grandfather was a KGB double agent for the Americans. He died so that I could come here and live in the free country I love.” 🤯 pic.twitter.com/SpYxvXouTY— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 30, 2025He worked for Line X which is like this sophisticated KGB line, but he actually joined the CIA and he gave the CIA a bunch of valuable intel right around the Cold War. This has been public knowledge for quite some time. However, this is...

Starmer delivering keynote address at Labour conference PM says UK faces choice between Labour or Reform UK He questions whether Nigel Farage 'loves' Britain Tamara Cohen: Starmer urges voters to reject 'politics of grievance' on left and right Major overhaul of NHS with 'online hospital' Target of sending 50% of young people to university scrapped Streeting (HHS Secretary) attacks 'con artist' Farage for 'poison'

Companies could face probes into their compliance with the H-1B visa program as part of the Trump Administration’s effort to clamp down on the program and force companies to hire more Americans. The Department of Labor announced on Friday that it was launching Project Firewall, an “enforcement initiative” that will investigate employers for potential abuse of the H-1B visa process. The initiative may be the first time the federal government has sought to broadly enforce H-1B legal standards intended to protect both the H-1B employee and American workers, such as paying wages on par with other workers of similar qualifications...

When the newly-formed Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, April 1861, they ignited the Civil War. They, at least, had a clearcut goal: to maintain an economy (and society) based on slavery. It was patently evil, but it was firmly established and it was their engine for daily life, and they didn’t want it to end. When Charlie Kirk was murdered in 2025, Civil War 2.0 kicked off. The enemy this time are not Confederates with a coherent command structure and a goal. They are an army of nihilists like the gang in The Big Lebowski, who, for one...

I've noticed a lot of double and even triple posts in the last few days. I'm wondering if there is an issue with Free Republic. Thoughts?

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