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When Stephen Miller first appeared on my radio show as a high school teenager, did I see his potential? I've been asked this many times. Stephen, then a student at California's Santa Monica High School, contacted my radio show with a complaint. California's Education Code requires elementary, middle and high schools to conduct "a patriotic ritual," like citing the Pledge of Allegiance, at the beginning of each school day. Santa Monica High was not doing this. Stephen complained, without success, to his teachers, the principal and administrators. So, he called my show, cited the Education Code and talked about the...

According to a Monday memo obtained by Fox News, new White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller plans to employ a more collaborative relationship with President Donald Trump's cabinet, even making a change in the name of the position that interfaces between the cabinet and the Chief of Staff. "The White House position of Cabinet Secretary will be changed to the role of Director of Cabinet Relations, focused on providing support and reinforcement of President Trump's tremendous Cabinet Secretaries," details the memo, which Fox News Digital viewed. "Each cabinet leader serves as the best leader and communicator for their individual...

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress, who usually begins her day talking to the company's Israeli executives, talks to "Globes" about the chips behind the AI revolution.

A local school board meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, morphed into a raucous discussion of free speech and Islam Wednesday, as more than 100 people signed up to comment, primarily on the reported posts of a board member who questioned the religious nature of Islam. One week earlier on Nov. 3, the Florida chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, demanded that school board member’s resignation over an apparent Facebook share declaring, “We got lost in the myth that Islam is a religion.” The screenshot was attributed to Duval County School Board member Tony Ricardo. Action News Jax said it...

Winter is coming, and in Germany, officials are scrambling to prepare coal plants for emergency operations as gas supplies and storage levels are low. Germany has waged war on coal plants for years in pursuit of its green agenda, relying instead on gas imported from Russia and elsewhere. The nation wants to be "climate neutral" by 2045 in accordance with the Paris Agreement. Coal plants were phased out, as were nuclear plants, with the last one closing in 2023. On November 2, Clean Energy Wire reported that the nation missed winter gas storage targets to have them at least 70...

Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia. The embattled CEO resigned Thursday over reports of two extramarital affairs—one with an alleged Chinese spy, the other with a company exec who reported to him, reports the Wall Street Journal and the BBC. His scandal has rocked the world of technology given that Nvidia is vital to the AI industry and Huang is vital to Nvidia. Finance chief Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO, but the path to picking a permanent successor is murkier because Huang had no clear second-in-command. Nvidia shares fell 10% on the news, on top of earlier losses...

Agroup of transgender federal employees have asked a federal judge to halt the Trump administration’s bid to ban coverage of gender-affirming care by the federal government’s two employer-sponsored insurance programs, in advance of the new plan year in January. On President Trump’s first day in office in 2025, he issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to cease acknowledging the concept of gender identity as well as the existence of transgender and other nonbinary individuals. In the intervening months, the Trump administration has sought to purge transgender Americans from the military service branches, halt gender affirming care for federal prisoners...

A Chinese university with links to the country's military bought two of Nvidia's powerful H200 AI chips last month despite being on a U.S. export blacklist, according to Reuters. Northwestern Polytechnical University purchased the chips for 874,700 yuan ($123,000) on October 21 through a local supplier, Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology, rather than directly from Nvidia. The university is among China's so-called Seven Sons of National Defense, a group of institutions with ties to military research. Based in Xi'an, Northwestern Polytechnical conducts research related to military aircraft, missiles and satellites. The H200 is one of Nvidia's most powerful processors for training...

The same bill backs equity curricula and removes a deportation ground for noncitizens who vote illegally. ======================================================================= “Universal mail-in voting” That is what American taxpayers would help finance under Democrats’ legislation to abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Rep. Delia Ramirez’s Reimagining Safety Act would dismantle DHS and give its proposed replacement a new assignment: distributing federal grants for mail-in voting, equity-focused civics curricula and community civic-engagement programs. Twenty pages earlier, the same bill would erase the specific deportation ground for noncitizens who vote unlawfully. The proposal pairs federal support for universal mail voting with the removal of an immigration...

Texas Democrats are opening their incoming state House majority with a push to clear the way for DEI offices and programs to return to public universities across the state — a move state Republicans are expected to block but that puts the culture-war issue front and center after massive Democratic Party gains in the state. HB 358 and SB 125 would repeal a 2023 law banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at public universities, but the bills face steep odds with Republicans still retaining control of the Texas Senate. Still, the effort signals Democrats’ broader intent to...

The races have been called in all but the Alaska Senate race, and the message is clear: Democrats who pushed back against tenets of the transgender-advocacy platform paid essentially no price at the ballot box last week. Of the 32 pertinent congressional or governor’s races I tracked in the Midterm elections, just two went to the Republicans, including in the Nebraska Senate race and New York’s 21st congressional district. And it seems evident that the Democrat Mary Peltola will triumph over the Dan Sullivans in Alaska. As for the seven ballot measures that restricted transgender-related rights, five succeeded.

The French are holding talks with German officials to understand how Berlin would use deep precision strikes in order to align strategies should the Continent go to war with Moscow, according to six officials cited by the Financial Times. A source suggested there are fears that attacking Russian targets with conventional weapons could provoke 'a nuclear response' from Moscow. He said: 'If the Russians don't get the signal right you could get to the nuclear threshold without realising.' ... Germany has led efforts to re-arm Europe and is developing ground-launched missiles with a range of up to 2,000km (1,243 miles)...

This is an excerpt from an opinion article by former U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland. America has crossed the Rubicon with Iran. There is no going back to the world that existed before this war, no matter how much we might wish otherwise. We have attacked Iran’s military infrastructure, inflicted enormous damage on its economy and demonstrated that the United States is prepared to use overwhelming force. Now, at precisely the moment when we have gained the upper hand, Washington seems increasingly preoccupied with how quickly we can declare victory, bring down gasoline prices and move on.

While foreigners represent only 20% of attendees at Oktoberfest on average, they represent nearly 80% of recorded sexual crimes ... During this year’s Oktoberfest in Germany, which saw millions of visitors, new police data shows that 78.5 percent of recorded sexual offenses were perpetrated by foreigners. This is the first time police released a breakdown of the nationality of sexual crime arrests at Oktoberfest, and the results dispel a long-standing leftist claim about German men and sexual assault and harassment. The breakdown of the data shows there were 82 recorded offenses against sexual self-determination, including five rapes. There were 65...

President Trump said Thursday that the United States no longer needs a deal with Iran, declaring that "those days have long since passed." Instead, he's directed Vice President JD Vance to train his sights on the ever-growing crime and corruption taking place in Democrat-run cities and states. Trump singled out Minnesota, California, and Illinois as "poorly run, corrupt disasters" in a Truth Social post earlier this morning, warning that "Billions of Dollars (are) being stolen each and every month." He also claimed the federal budget could be balanced by straightening out the massive corruption alone. Then the president turned to...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after his extramarital affair raised national security concerns, in a spectacular downfall for the longtime head of the chipmaker, a vital player in the artificial intelligence boom. Huang faced growing calls to resign after his affair with a Chinese businesswoman who reportedly was also acting as a spy for Beijing. His troubles compounded late Wednesday after media reports said Huang had another extramarital affair with an Nvidia employee who reported to him. The ouster sets off a scramble to find a permanent replacement to lead Nvidia, which did not have a succession plan. The...

🚨 WOW! A mysterious object the size of a SCHOOL BUS may be hurtling toward Earth, and scientists aren't sure it's even an asteroid. It's reportedly been moving abnormally for the past few years and is EVEN ACCELERATING. One Harvard professor says it could be a MAN-MADE SPACECRAFT launched by the Soviet Union in 1988. A lost Soviet probe coming home almost 40 years later. You can't make this up. The good news is NASA is finally run by someone serious. Jared Isaacman is set to weigh in.— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 12, 2026SOURCE: https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2120876132836766189

President Donald Trump announced that he has directed Vice President JD Vance to drop negotiations to end the war with Iran and instead focus on alleged “CORRUPTION” in Democratic-run states. In a Thursday morning Truth Social post, Trump announced the new assignment for his vice president, who has spent months spearheading diplomatic efforts to end the conflict and recently blamed the war for Republicans’ devastating midterm election losses. "I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S. The Blue...

Nvidia (NVDA) stock tanked Thursday after Jensen Huang resigned as CEO. The company's CFO, Colette Kress, will serve as the interim head of the business until a permanent successor is named. Nvidia stock dropped 13% on the news before paring losses. The leadership shakeup followed a report from The New York Times on Wednesday that embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair. The company's board was reportedly meeting on Wednesday night to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the report, Huang, whose relationship...

Tom Homan threatens prosecution as 2,000-migrant caravan heads north A caravan of around 2,000 migrants left southern Mexico this week, with some hoping recent Democratic midterm victories could open a path into the US. Border Czar Tom Homan warned those attempting to cross illegally will face prosecution and deportation.