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Two national public employee unions sued the Trump administration over its restrictions preventing illegal immigrants from obtaining commercial drivers licenses. The American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed a petition for review against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The employee unions challenged a rule implemented by Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy restricting foreign individuals from receiving commercial drivers licenses. Commercial drivers licenses are used for operating large vehicles such as tractor-trailers and buses. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow unauthorized immigrants to receive commercial drivers licenses. In California,...

NATIONAL BOLOGNA DAY Slice it, fry it, or stack it high! October 24th is National Bologna Day, a time to celebrate one of America's most iconic and nostalgic lunch meats. It’s the perfect day to honor the simple, satisfying joy of a bologna sandwich. #NationalBolognaDay You might pronounce this sandwich meat "baloney," and that's perfectly fine, but the name "bologna" comes from its birthplace: Bologna, Italy. The original Italian sausage, mortadella, is a finely ground pork sausage dotted with flavorful cubes of lard and often pistachios. It's a true Italian delicacy! American bologna is a bit different. U.S. food regulations...

~I can't decide whether this is the sort of ad you run when your internals show you're done and you've got nothing to lose, or when it's way closer than anyone ever expected and just needs one extra push: This is the wildest attack ad I've ever seen in politics. Andrew Cuomo pulling out all the stops. pic.twitter.com/rPQ77Z3bE7 — Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) October 23, 2025 What's interesting is that in an ad playing up to every stereotype about Democrat client groups there's no mention of what is Mr Mamdani's most obvious glass-ceiling-shattering quality: his "Muslimness", as Sir Keir Starmer's working...

Last year, sensitive information concerning numerous South Korean intelligence agents has been leaked, casting a shadow over the Korea Defense Intelligence Command (KDIC) work in China and Russia. This incident prompted the KDIC to recall undercover agents based overseas back home, which put South Korean intelligence activities at risk. Moreover, the leak caused discontent in Washington and Tokyo because it came at a time when the country was expanding military intelligence sharing with the United States and Japan to confront North Korea and China. Have any actions been taken since then to repair the damage and restore the functioning of...

Before the midterms next November, one of the most important actions that congressional Republicans should take is a vote on the No Sharia Act, a critical bill that reaffirms the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and ensures that Sharia law never finds a home in the United States. The No Sharia Act, introduced by Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) last month, very simply “prohibits the enforcement of Sharia or any foreign law that infringes on constitutional rights.” It also states that “In matters involving marriage, divorce, child custody, adoption, or inheritance, no court shall apply or enforce foreign...

The centerpiece of a new exhibit in Los Angeles is a mangled junkyard of a statue, with horse and human limbs glommed together like some kind of zombie Ichabod Crane. Now dismembered beyond recognition, the piece was once a statue of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. In 2021, the statue — along with its better-known counterpart, a statue of Jackson’s friend and commanding officer Robert E. Lee — was removed from downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, four years after the city council voted to remove them. Lee’s statue met its demise in 2023, torn apart and melted down in secret. The haunting...

A Lebanon County woman who describes herself as a devout Christian was suspended from work after she refused to escort a transgender woman to a women’s locker room at a spa operated by the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. Middle District court.

BILL OF COMPLAINT The State of Florida, by and through its Attorney General, James Uthmeier, brings this suit against Defendants, the State of California and the State of Washington, and for its claims for relief states: 1. California’s and Washington’s open defiance of federal immigration laws is well-documented. Both States routinely frustrate and hinder federal law enforcement from addressing the immigration crisis and the destruction that accompanies it. 2. As relevant here, this resistance includes failing to honor the federal safety regulations regarding the commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) needed to operate eighteen-wheelers and other commercial motor vehicles. Federal law requires...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” DNC Chair Ken Martin stated that the Democratic Party’s job right now is to win elections, and if “we are truly in a dictatorship and an authoritarian regime here has completely shredded the Constitution, then party doesn’t matter, and then elections don’t matter and then the resistance looks completely different” “and we may be nearing” that moment, but for now, their job is winning elections. Martin said, “[L]et me say to you, what is the role of the Democratic Party in this moment? Our job is to win, to win elections. That is...

The Empowerment Scholarship Account, Arizona's school choice program, is projected to have over 100,000 students during fiscal year 2026, according to a new report. The Empowerment Scholarship Account, Arizona's school choice program, is projected to have over 100,000 students during fiscal year 2026, according to a new report. The Common Sense Institute released a report earlier in October showing the estimated number of students who will use ESA. Under the program, the money that would pay for a student's education in a neighborhood school follows the student to another school chosen by the parents. That includes home schooling, according to...

“From the hood” shouldn’t be a license to threaten people. This is emotional performance art wrapped in street talk. They’re not representing the struggle. They’re cosplaying for clicks. ================================================================= BRIEFING ...There’s a strange new trend in politics. Young Black female politicians are branding themselves as “hood queens” and leaning into violent, ghetto-style rhetoric. Let’s get into it. It’s one thing to grow up in a tough neighborhood and speak from lived experience. Like it or not, that’s what “gangsta rappers” do, and they make millions while they’re at it. But what we’re seeing now are these privileged Black career women...

Alaska’s new social studies standards don’t mention the Nome Gold Rush. They don’t mention the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. They don’t mention William Egan, the state of Alaska’s first governor, and they don’t mention Sarah Palin, who ran for Vice President of the United States. There’s a lot more that’s missing in the Alaska social studies standards, but you can tell right away that something is wrong when Alaska’s social studies standards leave Alaska’s children ignorant of the headlines of Alaska’s history and the most famous Alaskans. Education departments in every state are on radical autopilot when they make social studies...

U.S. Coast Guard personnel opened fire Thursday night on a U-Haul truck after its driver ignored commands to stop at the entrance of a California base, the agency said. Dramatic video shows the box truck with its headlights on reversing toward security personnel stationed around a vehicle outside Coast Guard Base Alameda at around 10 p.m. Moments later, flashes of gunfire erupted as officers shouted orders from a barricade. The U-Haul driver then hit the gas and accelerated forward. The Coast Guard said security personnel standing watch on Coast Guard Island had witnessed the U-Haul truck "driving erratically and attempting...

Real-time data shows the water temperatures underneath Tropical Storm Melissa are 600 times more likely due to climate change. The analysis is operated by Climate Central, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the science and communication behind climate change. The organization compares current sea surface temperatures to average, then overlays the current and forecast track of tropical systems. Melissa is currently a tropical storm southeast of Jamaica and southwest of Haiti. The storm will move over very warm water, around 86 degrees Fahrenheit, and that warm water will be a key piece of the storm's rapid intensification. Melissa is predicted...

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) has spent millions of dollars in 2025 supporting an array of anti-Israel groups, several of which have ties to terrorism abroad and extremist activists in the United States, a Washington Free Beacon review of the organization’s grantees shows. The RBF in April of this year awarded a $135,000 grant to 7amleh, the "Arab Center for Social Media Advancement," under the umbrella of "Peacebuilding." The organization describes itself as an advocate "for Palestinian digital rights," creating a "safe, fair and free digital space for Palestinians." Its leadership, rather than a list of notable peace activists, consists...

You can’t control happy people. So they keep you tired, anxious, and hungry. Fake meat, fake joy, fake freedom. ========================================================== Bill Gates didn’t build a better burger. He built a better leash. BRIEFING Jett here. Turns out Bill Gates’ fake beef doesn’t just taste like cardboard and misery, it’s actually making you depressed. Let’s get into it. A new study out of the U.K. just found that plant-based “meat” products, like the kind Gates has been pumping billions into, are linked to higher rates of depression. And no, not just some mild sadness. We’re talking serious neurological fallout from the...

Over the last 20 years, the Social Security COLA has averaged 2.6%, according to The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan senior group.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Wednesday instructed DHS to conduct an immediate security review of all visas granted by the Biden administration following last week’s indictment of an alleged Hamas terrorist living in Louisiana on a fraudulent visa, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Mahmoud Amin Ya’Qub al-Muhtadi, a 33-year-old Gazan man, is being held in a Louisiana jail after federal prosecutors charged him last week with participating in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror spree before moving to America with a fraudulent visa. Cotton disclosed in his letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem that there could potentially...

As speculation mounts that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will soon announce her retirement, one California lawmaker is wasting no time entering the succession race. California State Senator Scott Wiener announced his candidacy Wednesday, hours after Politico reported that Pelosi may announce her retirement soon after California votes on a controversial redistricting proposal. Wiener, who’s considered one of the most outspoken leftist members of the California State Legislature, did not name Pelosi in his campaign launch video. “My family escaped fascism in Europe. I never thought the United States would slip into fascism like we’re seeing today,” Wiener said. “San Francisco...

President Trump makes a statement from his Truth Social account that all trade negotiations with Canada are immediately terminated following the Canadian government purchasing ads to lie to the American people about tariffs. PRESIDENT TRUMP – “The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior,...