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Fatima Hassouna, a war documentarian who had covered the conflict in Gaza on the ground for 18 months and the subject of a new documentary to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next month, was killed along with seven members of her family in an Israeli strike this week. “If I die, I want a resounding death, I do not want me in urgent news, nor in a number with a group,” Hassouna wrote in a post on Instagram in August 2024. “I want a death that the world hears, an effect that remains for the extent of the...

US President Donald Trump has signaled a potential U-turn on his trade war with China amid continued market volatility, saying the high tariffs on Chinese goods will “come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.” Trump’s remarks, made at a White House news event Tuesday, appear to mark a rhetorical climbdown after weeks of tough posturing and tit-for-tat retaliation that sent tariffs on China beyond a staggering 145%. “145% is very high and it won’t be that high,” Trump said in a question-and-answer session with reporters in the Oval Office. “It won’t be anywhere near that high. It’ll come down...

President Donald Trump’s first 100 days haven’t even been completed yet and CNN is already whipping out "Great Depression" scare porn to describe the current stock market under his administration. No, you didn’t misread that. “We’re suddenly talking about the Great Depression when discussing Trump’s stock market,” read the insane April 22 headline of CNN Business Executive Editor David Goldman’s latest anti-Trump flapdoodle. “Trump’s stock market is throwing off some jaw-dropping statistics. How extraordinary? We’re now making comparisons to the Great Depression,” he continued. Making freakishly outlandish claims seems to be a trend for Goldman, as he’s the same so-called...

President Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariffs, particularly on China, and recent attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell caused alarm among some of his top advisers and America’s biggest CEOs, who warned of financial chaos and store shelves that could go bare, people familiar with the conversations said. The warnings — and the markets’ own volatility this week — seemed to have broken through. Trump backed down Tuesday from his threats to try to remove Powell from the job, telling reporters in the Oval Office: “I have no intention of firing him.” That prompted sighs of relief on Wall Street. A...

Podcaster Joe Rogan and comedian Tim Dillon slammed CNN over the network’s biased personalities and its misunderstanding of the podcast world. Dillon was recently interviewed by CNN and told Rogan it was an interesting experience that helped him learn about the media. “Their whole thing now is that podcasters are the most powerful people in the world,” Dillon said, later claiming the CNN interviewer was surprised that he appeared for the interview at all. “She goes, ‘I can’t believe you would show up. People have said that they can’t come on because Joe Rogan would get mad at them’ and...

News over the weekend that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer was included in a second group chat where he shared sensitive military operations details has focused attention on the prominent role she has occupied at the Pentagon without being formally employed during her husband’s short tenure running the US military.

Recent polling has revealed that most Americans do not believe President Donald Trump wields excessive power. Many respondents felt Trump either has a reasonable amount of power or too little, contrary to claims made by some Democrats. The data has challenged the narrative that Trump acts like “a king,” recently pointed out by CNN analyst Harry Enten. Enten stated, “Americans largely do not believe Democrats’ claim that President Donald Trump is behaving like ‘a king,'” adding that “the majority of Americans think the president either does not have enough power or has the perfect amount of power.” Enten said, “So...

In what might be the rarest admission ever on CNN, the hate-Trump network’s top legal analyst agrees with the White House — notably, aide Stephen Miller — that the U.S. Supreme Court did not order the Trump administration to bring a deported illegal alien back to the United States. Chief Legal Correspondent Paula Reid bluntly stated the upshot of the SCOTUS ruling in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal Salvadoran accused of membership in the feral MS-13 terror gang. “They did not,” she said of the ruling by the nine justices, “order the administration to return him to...

For Canadian voters, blink and you could practically miss this campaign. Not only is it lightning fast at just five weeks long, but the ho-hum pace of the race means that the tone and tenor haven’t changed much since the election was called in late March. That doesn’t mean Canadians have tuned out, quite the opposite: early ratings indicate they watched with interest as national leaders – including Prime Minister Mark Carney and his key rival Pierre Poilievre – debated in both French and English the last couple of evenings in Montreal. Two men not on stage were nonetheless top...

President Donald Trump repeatedly needled CNN and its primetime anchor Kaitlan Collins on Monday during an exchange in the Oval Office about deported El Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia.President Trump took several shots at CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins as she peppered him with questions in the Oval Office Monday over the wrongful deportation of an El Salvadoran national who the US Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the United States for now. Trump repeatedly needled Collins, who is also the network’s White House correspondent, including calling her a “low-rated anchor” and slamming CNN’s credibility as he took questions alongside...

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 WOW, EVEN CNN? Chief legal correspondent Paula Reid goes on the news and says Trump is *NOT* violating the Supreme Court ruling by not flying Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. Will Democrats listen now? "They did NOT order the administration to return him to the United States. They said that they need to facilitate his return. They could have said 'we order him returned,' but they didn't do that." @StephenM and @MarcoRubio said this yesterday in the Oval Office, and so did AG Bondi. "The Supreme Court appeared to defer to the executive branch...

CNN’s Scott Jennings was having none of the hand-wringing on Monday’s panel discussion over the Trump administration’s handling of the deportation of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia — the latest cause célèbre of the radical left. While the liberals on the panel tiptoed around legal technicalities and rhetorical posturing, Jennings delivered a blunt reality check that left the rest of the table scrambling. Anchor Abby Phillip tried to tee up criticism of Trump by focusing on “the optics” of sending “Americans” to El Salvador — even though Abrego Garcia is an illegal immigrant. But Jennings wasn’t distracted. “Yes....

“I suppose you are not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States” Bukele is a LEGEND

CNN anchor Dana Bash cut away from President Donald Trump’s Oval Office remarks on Monday to protest his claim that CNN “hates our country.” Trump made the comment during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, jabbing at the network over coverage of illegal immigration, particularly at the southern border, and saying that CNN “didn’t like putting out good numbers” that reflected well on his presidency. “We’re a great country, but we had stupid people running this country. And I can say what they’ve done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It’s...

VIDEOMushroom Man aka Donie O'Sullivan of CNN just lost what little credibility he had by treating the Patriot Front as something legit in his "Misinfonation: Extreme America." The biggest Misinfo of them all is pretending that the Patriot Front with its physically fit young members (nary a potbelly in sight), fresh blue and khaki uniforms, U-Hauls at the ready to transport their equipment and personnel, highly police escorts to protect them from the public, and dopey shields and drums (which comes off as a leftwing version of what the right is) is anything other than a Fed Front. And to...

Remind us again about who was president in March? You wouldn't know if you only depended on the CNN News Central report on the very unexpected DROP in the rate of inflation in March that was presented by reporter Matt Egan. Despite all his gushing about the drop in the inflation rate, Egan couldn't bring himself to mention the T-name. Oh, and the other name missing from Egan's report was Joe Biden despite having presided over monthly increases in the inflation rate throughout his time in the White House from 2021 through January 20, 2025.Watch Egan present the very good...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” CNN Senior Correspondent Donie O’Sullivan said that it is “concerning” to see fans of Luigi Mangione cheering violence, his supporters are “people who have actually been really hurt and who are in a desperate situation and have a rage, a sort of rightful rage.” O’Sullivan said, “[M]ost of the time, we’re speaking about right-wing extremism in this country, and that is because that is, by a massive margin, where the extremist attacks have come from, right? From Charlottesville to January 6. However, the reason why we’re focusing on the Mangione fans here is...

US government is set to return nearly $63,000 to infamous J6er John Sullivan, who also goes by Jayden X. Sullivan reportedly made the money from his filming of the protests and rioting that day. ... Antifa-BLM organizer John Sullivan was sentenced in April 2024 to six years in prison for his actions on January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol. Antifa-Insurgence leader John Earl Sullivan was arrested in Utah after the US Capitol riots. As reported previously, Antifa protester John Sullivan was caught on video posing as a Trump supporter during the rioting at the US Capitol on January 6th....

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson “They/them pronouns actually. Thank you.” Anddddd CNN’s ratings just dropped even lower 🤣 9:03 PM · Apr 9, 2025

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely on a sweeping wartime authority to rapidly deport alleged gang members.The unsigned decision in the case, the most closely watched emergency appeal pending at the Supreme Court, lets Trump invoke the 1798 law to speed removals while litigation over the act’s use plays out in lower courts. The court stressed that people deported going forward should receive notice they are subject to the act and an opportunity to have their...