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President Trump’s deregulation effort has already delivered permitting reform.Today, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) took the final administrative action to complete one of the Trump Administration’s most significant deregulatory efforts, affirming the removal of CEQ’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations. CEQ rescinded these regulations last year; this final rule reaffirms that rescission and responds to comments received on the initial action. This final rule is now available for public inspection here, ahead of its forthcoming official publication in the Federal Register.On February 25, 2025, CEQ published an Interim Final Rule (IFR), which went into effect on April...

The Trump administration is expected to send an additional 200 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents to Minnesota amid unrest, sources told The Hill’s sister station NewsNation. This news follows reporting from The Associated Press that federal immigration officers originally deployed to Louisiana will be sent to assist in the Minneapolis operation. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was initially expected to send around 2,000 immigration agents to the state. The operation, which DHS said would be its “largest ever,” comes amid the administration’s probe into welfare fraud in the North Star State — with 85 of the defendants being...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she ordered her country’s top diplomat to speak with the highest levels of the U.S. government to work on improving binational coordination in order to keep U.S. forces from carrying out direct attacks against cartels inside Mexico. This appears to be her latest effort to protect the violent drug trafficking cartels that exert political influence at every level of her country. The announcement came in response to a series of comments made by U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who claimed that while his forces had been highly effective in stopping the maritime flow of...

Look, I want to prepare you for the absolute horror show that is to follow. To wit: The U.S. Border cops shot a man and a woman as they sat in their car on Thursday afternoon in Portland, Ore. As CNN's Brianna Keilar told her viewers, "Tensions are flying even higher in Portland, Oregon [after] a border patrol agent shot a married couple there." Have we so lost our humanity that "married couples" are now being targeted by our Border Patrol and ICE officers?! Brianna would have us believe that border cops in Portland are simply walking up to "married...

NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from freezing access by five Democratic-led states to more than $10 billion of federal funds for child care and family assistance based on what it said were concerns about fraud. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, an appointee of Democratic former President Joe Biden, said he issued a temporary restraining order for the reasons stated in a legal filing by California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York, which filed the lawsuit. The states sued the Trump administration late on Thursday, two days after the...

In this video I discuss the election of an alleged Somali criminal & fraudster Iman Osman to the Lewiston City Council despite some pretty obvious red flags This Somali cheerfully stole money supposed to be for the victims of the mass shooting in Maine,

Recent (and not-so-recent) revelations about the massive fraudulent scams that have cost Minnesota at least $9 billion have exploded across the country and have certainly put the buffoonish Gov. Tim Walz and harebrained Minneapolis mayor and pretend-Somali, Jacob Frey, on the defensive. # Both Walz and Frey have obviously been complicit in these multi-billion-dollar schemes to defraud American taxpayers and have most likely benefited financially. # Now we know for sure, as if what we learned from DOGE was not shocking enough, that the American taxpayer has been robbed blind for decades for “causes” that have been fabricated. This has...

According to a global survey of 130 countries conducted in 2019 (Kramer 2019), the US had the highest rate of children living in single-parent households of any nation in the world, at about 23%, or more than three times the worldwide level of 7% (Figure 1).The prevalence of these cases was markedly lower in neighboring Canada and Mexico (15% and 7%, respectively), and much lower in developing countries, all below 5%.For decades, the share of U.S. children living with a single parent has been rising, accompanied by a decline in marriage rates and a rise in births outside marriage (Livingston...

Portland Police Chief Bob Day wiped away tears Friday as he addressed new information showing that two illegal immigrants shot during a federal immigration enforcement encounter had ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). Day confirmed a Department of Homeland Security statement identifying the two individuals — Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras — as Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens with suspected ties to TdA. Both were shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent after Moncada, the driver of the vehicle, allegedly "weaponized his vehicle" and attempted to run over agents, prompting an agent...

A woman was placed in handcuffs by police and fined £100 for feeding pigeons in London. Video footage captured by a passerby showed the woman being detained by a group of officers and council enforcement workers in Harrow on Wednesday. A notice later handed to the woman showed she had been stopped for breaching a Public Spaces Protection Order which covers town and district centres in Harrow. The woman, who was visibly upset at times, was surrounded by at least six police officers and two council enforcement officers. The incident unfolded at around 3pm on Wednesday on the High Street...

Is marriage financially penalized in the US for low-income couples, esp. on welfare, or not [mainly asked in analyzing reasons for long term "cohabitation" (fornication) esp. among low-income parents] Marriage is often penalized for low-income couples in the US, especially those receiving welfare or means-tested benefits.Welfare and Tax PenaltiesMeans-tested benefits: Welfare programs like SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid, housing assistance, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) calculate eligibility and award levels based on household income. When two low-income adults marry and combine incomes, their joint income frequently exceeds program thresholds, causing sharp reductions or complete loss of benefits.1234SSI marriage penalty: Married disabled...

Allegan County — This is a story so bizarre and so grotesque that Netflix would never make it into a movie because it is so unbelievable. It is a story of neglect and abuse of a nursing home resident that reaches to the highest levels of power, politics, and the press. Traci Kornak, the former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, was hauled into probate court this week, suspected of embezzling from her ward, a brain-damaged elderly woman. I caught Kornak feasting on the woman’s finances nearly four years ago and have written many stories about it since. I’ve made...

Michael Fanone, the Democrats' insufferable foul-mouthed J6 mascot, says citizens need to start shooting ICE agents. "It’s time for the American people to organize and to utilize their Second Amendment right to protect themselves from what is clearly becoming unaccountable and lawless agency that’s killing Americans.” Fanone is trying to incite the murder of federal law enforcement for doing their jobs. Arrest this man.

Mortgage rates plunged to their lowest level in nearly three years on Friday after President Donald Trump said he had ordered a massive government intervention aimed at pushing borrowing costs down. In a surprise post on Truth Social, Trump said he was directing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion worth of mortgage bonds — a move that immediately rippled through financial markets... New figures out this afternoon show the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 22 basis points to 5.99 percent, according to Mortgage News Daily, matching the lowest level since February 2023...

U.S. — Political commentator Tucker Carlson expressed confusion after learning that the Iranian people were protesting their own government, saying he was absolutely dumbfounded as to why they would rebel against the greatest government on the planet. "Iran is among the greatest governments in the world, only Qatar really comes close — and it's much smaller, obviously," Carlson said. "I'm just completely dumbfounded. The Iranian people are literally voting against their own interests — except that they can't vote, actually — which is a good thing by the way." Iran's current wave of protests began at the end of December...

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A 24-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of causing a fatal crash in October that killed a bicyclist and a hit-and-run earlier this month that killed two people, police said Friday. Long Beach police say Ahkeyajahnique Owens, 24, allegedly killed bicyclist Raul Augustin Gallopa, 35, of Long Beach, in an Oct. 6, 2025 crash as well as Gilberto Lopez, 21, of Midway City, and Bobbi Smith, 24, of Buena Park, in a Jan. 4 hit-and-run. In the Oct. 6, 2025 crash, Gallopa was riding eastbound on Fourth Street around 7:53 p.m. when he attempted to make a northbound turn...

Iranian security personnel have killed at least 50 protesters in a sign of the regime's defiance of US President Donald Trump's warning of intervention if bloodshed continued. The death toll is expected to increase as local hospitals report being overrun with casualties, including many with gunshot wounds, while some families are too terrified to get medical help for fear of being arrested. Iranian rights group HRANA reported 65 deaths including 50 protesters and 15 security personnel as of January 9, while the Norway-based human ⁠rights group Hengaw said more than 2,500 people have been arrested in the last two weeks....

In an address to the Knesset on Monday, Likud lawmaker Dan Illouz decried what he said was a “new enemy” rising within American politics: Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. “We are used to enemies from outside. We fight terror tunnels of Hamas. We fight the ballistic missiles of Iran. But today I look at the West, our greatest ally, and I see a new enemy rising from within,” said Illouz, who is originally from Canada originally, in an English address. “I am speaking of a poison being sold to the American people as patriotism. I’m speaking of the intellectual vandalism...

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