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President Donald Trump has a wicked sense of humor that he's had throughout his life, and that was much in evidence during the campaign. We saw it particularly with two humorous moves in response to his political opponents. After Joe Biden called millions of Trump supporters "garbage," Trump climbed into a garbage truck with an orange vest and had a few things to say about that.

“Uneducated” Americans are holding the country “hostage,” according to an English instructor at the University of South Carolina. “There is a reason why educated people vote blue. What we’re seeing is the uneducated population of America holding the rest of the country hostage,” Sueanna Smith wrote on X last night. “This is why there’s such a push to weaken education, ban books, and outlaw the teaching of Black history by the Republican Party.” She wrote a handful of other posts after that attempting to clarify her point, though she continued to repeat that she believes Trump supporters are not smart.

Wisconsin voters approved amending the Wisconsin Constitution to prohibit local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections, amid national debate over the issue. The Associated Press called the race shortly after 9:45 p.m., with the "yes" vote holding a commanding lead. There is substantial evidence that it’s rare for foreign citizens to vote illegally, both in the United States and in Wisconsin, and current law already bans non-citizens from voting in Wisconsin elections for state or federal offices. But Republicans sought to rewrite part of the state Constitution to also make sure only U.S. citizens may vote in...

The City of Los Angeles is not only “broke” and has spent half its reserves this year, as reported by City Controller Kenneth Mejia in September, but now is seeking to borrow at least $80 million, and thus at least $20 million in additional interest to cover liability payouts from lawsuits. “The City has spent $141 MILLION on Liability Payouts in the FIRST FOUR MONTHS of the new fiscal year,” said Mejia on X. “The City is looking to borrow $80M + pay additional interest up to $20M to pay liability payouts.” “As we've mentioned before, if there is no...

Six months ago, Georgia College and State University celebrated its recent graduate Nicholas Wimbish for managing a voting precinct at the Jones County Senior Center. He had earned an "Election Administration Certificate" through exhaustive polling, voting administrative work and classes on the U.S. Constitution, election laws, policymaking, democracy and Southern politics, the school said. Now Wimbish is facing 25 years in prison for "mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI" related to his work as a Jones County poll worker, the Justice Department announced Monday....

Update - 9:30 AM Eastern:: Late Monday night, U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Pitlyk issued her ruling on Missouri's request for a temporary restraining order as to DOJ attorneys dispatched to monitor a polling location in the City of St. Louis. Pitlyk denied Missouri's request for a TRO on the basis that the state did not adequately demonstrate that it would be irreparably harmed by allowing "two individuals at one polling place to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act." It's important to note that the proposed monitoring as to the City of St. Louis derived from a settlement...

Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, who helped build The Home Depot into one of America’s most iconic brands before turning to philanthropy and conservative politics and unabashedly backing Donald Trump’s rise in politics, died Monday night at the age of 95. Marcus’ death was confirmed to Just the News by a family friend Tuesday morning. Marcus established The Home Depot with co-founder Arthur Blank in 1978, growing the orange-clad store into a $400 billion hardware giant that became one of Americas largest employers with 2,300 stores.

The Biden-Harris administration allowed for 10 times the number of illegal immigrants into the US in October as jobs created by the private sector during the same time. This comes as border and economy have two of the top main issues for voters in the election. While businesses only created 12,000 additional jobs in October, that number was around one-ninth of the 112,500 new jobs anticipated and only about one tenth of the number of illegal immigrants that came into the US, according to data reported by NewsNation’s Ali Bradley.

A Philadelphia judge is allowing Elon Musk's America PAC to continue its million-dollar giveaway to registered swing state voters. Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta denied Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's request for an injunction to stop the giveaway, which has handed out $17 million to voters across the swing states. According to defense attorneys, America PAC plans to announce their 18th and final prize winner on Tuesday in Michigan.

Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino on Monday updated voters on an investigation into 2,500 suspicious voter registration forms that were flagged to the county's elections board last month, confirming that 17% of the forms so far are fraudulent. A total of four Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible fraudulent voter and mail-in ballot applications in the final spin into Election Day. Those counties are Cambria County, Lancaster County, Monroe County, and York County. York and Lancaster both uncovered thousands of potentially fraudulent applications, while Cambria and Monroe saw less than 50 each. D'Agostino said the majority of the suspicious forms in...

A federal judge ruled Sunday that hundreds of ballots from potential noncitizens can have their validity challenged, while critics say that it will threaten the voting rights of recently naturalized citizens. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, on behalf of the League of Latin American Citizens of Iowa and four recently naturalized citizens who were on the state's list of questionable registrations to be challenged by local elections officials. U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, sided with the state, according to Fox News....

As Election Day is just days away, Washington, D.C., Michigan, Georgia and other states around the U.S. are ramping up security, as massive protests are expected no matter who wins. In the deep-blue cities of Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit, security measures are taking place to keep election officials safe. In Detroit and Atlanta, some campaign offices have installed bullet-proof glass protecting election offices. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a warehouse that counts ballots has fencing around it topped with barbed wire, according to Reuters. The executive director of North Carolina’s State Board of Elections said that election workers have been harassed already...

Social media’s influence is causing Gen Z’s interest in skilled trades to rise, according to a report by Thumbtack – something a trade organization co-director said is “inspiring and eye-opening.” “55% of Gen Zers are considering a skilled trade career (up 12% from last year) – including 72% of those with a college degree,” Thumbtack’s report stated. Thumbtack is a company that helps people “care for and improve their homes” by finding a skilled tradesman nearby. “84% of both Gen Zers and their parents express high respect for the skilled trades,” according to Thumbtack’s report. The report shows that social...

Democrats were confronted earlier this year with a terrifying reality: a cap on out-of-pocket costs for patients to limit Medicare drug spending passed as part of Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act was set to spike premiums for millions of senior citizens just weeks before the 2024 presidential election. To avoid the political catastrophe of presiding over major premium increases in the middle of a closely contested election, the Biden-Harris administration used its authority to reroute appropriated funding to subsidize the premiums for seniors until after the election. The administration’s $5 billion budget gimmick kicked the proverbial can down the road,...

Lehigh County is the latest Pennsylvania County that is investigating hundreds of fake ballot registrations that were turned in recently by a leftist voter registration group. The Lehigh officials would not say which leftist voter registration group turned in these latest fraudulent registrations in Pennsylvania. Other counties have identified Field+Media Corps, an Arizona-based consulting firm as the organization turning in the estimated thousands of fraudulent registration forms. Lancaster, Monroe and York Counties in Pennsylvania have reported similar criminal acts and they are investigating. The Gateway Pundit has reported on similar ballot registration manufacturing operations in Michigan and Ohio.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced this week that it is moving military assets to the Middle East to deter continued Iranian aggression against the U.S. and Israel after Iran vowed this week to hit Israel following last week’s strikes in Iran. The Pentagon ordered the deployment of “additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadron and tanker aircraft, and several U.S. Air Force B-52 long-range strike bombers to the region.” The forces will arrive in the region in the coming months as the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group prepares to leave the region. “These deployments build on the recent...

President Trump and Trump-Endorsed Senate Candidate Kari Lake came out on top in Arizona one week before election day in the latest statewide polls from Data Orbital and Atlas Intel. This positive news for Kari Lake comes as The Gateway Pundit recently reported on the dirty tactics being used by pollsters to deceive the public and sway donors away from Kari Lake. As we exclusively reported, left-wing Reuters and Ipsos ran a poll that asked people who they were voting for in the Arizona Senate race but didn’t even include Lake’s name as an option. Instead, poll respondents discovered that...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida sent a reminder to the U.S. Department of Justice that they are not allowed to send monitors to polling locations after the DOJ sent a press release announcing the planned visits. The Justice Department announced Friday that it “plans to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 86 jurisdictions in 27 states for the Nov. 5 general election.” The DOJ said they “regularly deploy” staff to “monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country.” Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd wrote an email to the Deputy Chief...

Across Minnesota, more than 105 district court seats are up for election next week. But just six are contested. And only one has garnered the attention of partisan politicos. In the 10th Judicial District—which covers eight counties that wrap around the northern portion of the Twins Cities—attorney Nathan Hansen is hoping to unseat one-term incumbent Judge Helen Brosnahan, who was appointed to the bench by DFL Gov. Tim Walz just two years ago, after Judge Tad Jude announced his retirement and intent to run for attorney general. Although judicial candidates don’t typically seek political party endorsements, Hansen is bucking that...

A Riverton, Wyoming, man who has been running for a seat on his school board is facing five felony charges after police say he molested a young boy for more than year. Hunter C. DeVries, 23, was charged Monday with five counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor, each punishable by between 25 and 50 years in prison. DeVries launched his campaign for a seat on the Fremont County School District No. 25 Board on Aug. 15, with a Facebook post promising strong lines of communication between the public and the school district, support for the teaching staff and...