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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit repostedFarai Mazhindu@FaraiMazhindu·5hIn Haiti, they told the Haitian people the Clintons came to save Haiti.After the earthquake in 2010, the world watched Port au Prince crumble, and then the saviors arrived. Bill Clinton became the UN Special Envoy to Haiti. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, controlling America's aid. And the Clinton Foundation was right there, raising money in Haiti's name.Husband approving the projects. Wife controlling the money. Foundation collecting the donations. That was a family business.The world pledged 13.5 billion dollars. America pledged 4 billion. It was supposed to rebuild a nation. Instead,...

A new report alleges that the vineyard management company contracted by PlumpJack, the wine business founded by California Governor Gavin Newsom in which he still holds a financial stake, has a long history of employing illegal alien labor. Reporters spent weeks in Napa examining operations at Oso Vineyard, a 129-acre property PlumpJack purchased in 2022 for $14.5 million, where Renteria Vineyard Management handles field work, for a new City Journal investigation. PlumpJack’s own materials identify Oscar Renteria as Oso’s long-time vineyard manager, and neither PlumpJack nor Renteria Vineyard Management disputed the arrangement when contacted. RVM was founded in 1987 by...

A University of Chicago student who exposed remarks by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., about deterring young conservatives from working in the administration of President Donald Trump told Campus Reform in an interview that her warning has only motivated students to stand up for their political beliefs. Michael Bicksel, a second-year student and senior editor of The Chicago Thinker, has since filed a formal Senate ethics complaint against the Michigan Democrat for threatening political persecution against young Americans interested in serving in a Republican administration. “The power imbalance here is really, really stark,” Bicksel told Campus Reform, describing the controversy as...

Residents of federally funded public housing will be required to show proof of U.S. citizenship or eligible immigration status under a new rule published Thursday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The measure could displace nearly 80,000 people, including tens of thousands of citizens in mixed-status families, from their homes, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research and policy institute. Since 1995, mixed-status families have been permitted to live together in HUD-funded housing as long as federal subsidies covered only eligible household members. The new rule may force these families to decide...

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Jim Himes pushed Senate Republican leadership Tuesday to reauthorize a warrantless spying tool before Democrats take the majority. Himes, a Democrat from Connecticut, told Politico he spoke to Senate Majority Leader John Thune about reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the government to collect and search American citizens’ data without a warrant if they were in contact with targeted noncitizens. Democrats blocked the reauthorization of Section 702 over the summer and have since remained split on its passage. “My preference would be, let’s just take the win that’s on...

The intellectuals date the rise of right-wing populism to Trump’s 2015 descent down the escalator. But it had the 8 p.m. ET time slot on Fox News for the better part of two decades. The network was run by Roger Ailes, the son of a factory foreman from Warren, Ohio, who had figured out how to make Richard Nixon acceptable on television. Republicanism as presented by Fox News was not about asserting ordered liberty against the administrative state; it was the experience of being informed on what pinhead was looking down on you and how you’d show them in the...

Things are getting spicy in D.C., and I am not referring to all the backbiting in the Democrat and Republican caucuses, the Congressional investigations that will plague us for the next two years...at least...or even the sex scandals that will inevitably leak out as they always do when there isn't other news to cover. No. The ongoing saga of Ilhan Omar's immigration status, her incestuous marriage (to be fair, her brother is gay and they didn't live together, kinda proving the marriage was a sham), and her rather flexible birth date. The Department of Homeland Security is saying they have...

Pilots across the country may now receive routing and schedule recommendations from air traffic control (ATC) that were informed by an AI-powered system. The FAA told FLYING on Tuesday that its new Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories (SMART) platform is now active in the airspace of all of the nation’s air route traffic control centers (ARTCCs). The agency in a statement said that following SMART’s “successful initial rollout” in the Washington, D.C., area, it has deployed the system to all 22 ARTCCs to “reduce delays, reduce fuel consumption, and improve the travel experience for the flying public.” The...

According to ChainCatcher, U.S. President Donald Trump filed a disclosure on Aug. 21 this year reporting the sale of up to $1 million in Nvidia shares. Since the filing, Nvidia stock has fallen 29% to $160.64.

An aviation monitoring account reports the FAA has halted flights across the United States until 10 p.m. Central Time, citing frequency issues affecting the National Airspace System. OKLAHOMA -The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon, ordering flights across the United States to remain on the ground until further notice. According to an advisory issued by the FAA’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center on Nov. 13, the nationwide ground stop took effect at 2:54 p.m. Central Time and is scheduled to remain in effect until 10 p.m. Friday. The FAA cited extraordinary circumstances and safety...

A tanker collided with a docked cruise ship carrying about 129 passengers on the Mississippi River Friday. The Atlantic Asphalt tanker hit the American Cruise Lines’ American Heritage around 12:30 p.m. outside the Port of New Orleans Administration Building, Port NOLA told The Post. Harrowing footage posted to social media showed the cruise ship nearly sideways in the river. Some people were seen in the river wearing life jackets, while others appeared to cling to the vessel’s railings. “Our immediate priority is the safety of all passengers, crew members and first responders,” Port NOLA press secretary Kimberly Curth said. “This...

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a nationwide ground stop at all airports "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety." According to the advisory from the FAA, all aircraft operators were told "by order of the Federal Aviation Command Center" that airports were ground stopped and all departing traffic should remain grounded "until further notice." "Inbound flights will be managed on a case by case basis," the alert stated.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito warned on Thursday that Congress could "turn off the lights" at the high court by defunding its activities, defending the importance of an independent judiciary.The remarks occurred at the annual Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner, held one week after Democrats swept control of both houses of Congress as a tentpole for the conservative legal movement.Alito told a crowd of more than 1,000 conservative lawyers that the judiciary remains "vulnerable" to Congress, while Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Amy Coney Barrett visited Capitol Hill over the summer to advocate for increased security funding.In the same speech, Alito...

The son of former CIA Director John Brennan has been arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography, Fox News has learned. Kyle Brennan, 40, is charged with transportation of child pornography, according to a federal complaint. The case originated when Adobe CyberTipline reports flagged accounts linked to Brennan for uploading illicit files involving minors. In April and June 2024, Adobe submitted two reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding an account allegedly used to upload suspected child sexual abuse material.

The president said earlier this week that he imagines the communist government will “fall fairly soon.” President Donald Trump signaled in a new interview that he could take military action to topple Cuba’s communist government before he leaves office. “I want to get Cuba done before I leave you,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday when asked if he would order the use of military force against Cuba to free the nation. Trump said his administration is “watching it very closely” and Cuba is “doing very poorly,” calling it a “failed” country. The president said he would...

FIRST ON FOX: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is taking aim at "soulless global bureaucrats" using "rules-based order" arguments to undermine U.S. foreign policy in a speech Friday, warning that the "spirit of Marx" outlived the Soviet Union. U.S. leaders of both parties defended the "rules-based international order," the network of postwar institutions America built. Rubio is set to argue the system has been turned against the country that built it, the same case he made at his January 2025 confirmation hearing, when he called the postwar order "a weapon being used against us." In a preview of Rubio’s speech...

Five people, including two children, have been rescued after spending nearly three months stranded aboard a small boat in the Pacific Ocean, ending an extraordinary ordeal that began with what was supposed to be a brief trip between islands. The survivors were among nine passengers who departed the Micronesian islands of Murilo and Ruo on July 30, according to Fox News. The group had planned to make the roughly one-hour crossing, but a sudden storm pushed their 20-foot skiff off course and left them drifting in open water, according to reports from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. and The Times of...

The party swept into power after vowing to lower energy bills. It won’t be easy. Gushing victory speeches by Democrats who promised to tame electricity prices marked the beginning of a risky political countdown. Time is not on their side.The party’s focus on addressing cost-of-living issues by expanding clean power could increase prices before it lowers them, according to energy analysts, raising the risk that Democrats could enter the 2028 presidential cycle before fulfilling their affordability promises.“That’s a legitimate issue, and it’s not going to be solved in one political cycle,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) acknowledged in an interview this...

Ex-CIA Director John Brennan's son Kyle has been arrested for the alleged possession of child sexual abuse materials, the Daily Mail is first to report. FBI agents took Brennan, 40, into custody at his workplace in Herndon, Virginia, on Friday afternoon. A search warrant of his personal cell phone was executed by FBI last night, according to a law enforcement source. The criminal complaint was signed by a Virginia judge on Friday. Brennan is facing a felony charge for the 'transportation of child pornography' after child sexual abuse material was allegedly found on his phone, according to court documents. He...

Hicks died following what his wife, ESPN broadcaster Hannah Storm, called an “acute illness.” “Our family is heartbroken by the sudden and unexpected passing of Dan following an acute illness,”