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A massive outage has been reported in the Los Angeles area on Father's Day after internet and cable provider Spectrum linked the issue to "criminal acts of vandalism." "We are currently working on a Fiber cut affecting the Los Angeles area. We are sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. Thank you," the company shared in an alert on X. A spokesperson for the company told Fox News Digital that they discovered that lines had been cut due to vandalism in Van Nuys on Sunday morning, which also impacted other areas. "Early this morning our fiber optic lines were intentionally...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's LA riots press conference descended into chaos Thursday as a Democrat Senator interrupted the event. California Senator Alex Padilla began shouting over Noem before he was removed from the room. 'I'm Senator Alex Padilla, and I have questions for the secretary,' Padilla said as he was escorted out. Fox News reported Chad Pergram posted on X that a colleague told him Padilla was forced to the ground and handcuffed by the FBI. This is a developing story...

It’s an obvious fact that we have individuals living amongst us (citizens and non-citizens) fomenting violence, undertaking seditious acts, breaking our laws, and knowingly furthering false narratives intended to harm us. They are led by people employed by foreign governments or groups whose actions intend to overthrow our way of life, sow discord, alter our essential narratives, and disrupt our economic and political systems. In effect, they are levying what amounts to war against us. We’ve been here before. Before WWII, there were other anti-American groups and malicious narratives similar to what we are experiencing today. Then, as now, America...

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday, revoking an anti-white racist Obama-Biden era school discipline guidance that was issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) in January 2014. The President signed a total of seven new education executive orders relating to college universities, AI in education, and DEI practices in schools. “The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology,” the order titled “Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies” reads. In...

While career bureaucrats prepared orientation packets and welcome memos, DOGE's team was already deep inside the payment systems. No committees. No approvals. No red tape. Just four coders with unprecedented access and algorithms ready to run. That trail led to staggering discoveries. Programs marked as independent revealed coordinated funding streams. Grants labeled as humanitarian aid showed curious detours through complex networks. Black budgets once shrouded in secrecy began to unravel under algorithmic scrutiny.

1980s technology is not adequate for the purpose of running for election

My apologies if this comes off sounding a bit on the crude side, but has someone in the administration at Harvard finally started to "grow a pair?" Following months of protests and disruptions, Harvard finally suspended the student group Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC). The same group had already been placed on probation for their ongoing antics, but it never seemed to slow them down. In a letter to the group, the administration further warned them that if they continued to operate or inappropriately use campus spaces, the members would face expulsion and be banished from Harvard Yard. PSC...

Iris Chaim, mother of Yotam, a hostage in Gaza, disapproves of the conduct at the war cabinet meeting held on Tuesday in Herzliya. "We came to get answers from the war cabinet, and after a minute in the room I realized that I had come to a war, a war well managed by interested parties who are taking advantage of the families and trying to put a rift between us and the state," she said. "People shut me up just because I wanted to express support for the cabinet, they beat people who wanted to express support for the cabinet,"...

Image via Twitter The U.S. Open semifinal match between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova was developing into a classic showdown when an unexpected disruption occurred. Three climate change kooks stood up and began chanting something unintelligible. Two of the protesters were escorted out of the venue almost immediately. But the third nutcase actually glued his bare feet to the concrete floor. It took authorities almost an hour to free him. If it had been up to me, a couple of strategic cuts would have allowed the match to continue much sooner. The US Open semifinal was interrupted by climate change...

In secret audio obtained by The Tennessee Star, radical leftists who plan to “protest” the upcoming August special session of the General Assembly say they have armed security at the ready. “Also, like there are groups in Nashville who do this – keep in mind – who like, if at any point you need armed security at a protest, there are people who we trust as a community to show up and do that,” said an organizer of the Saturday meeting. The Star obtained the audio from an inside source who attended the meeting, and will be releasing it in...

Karen gets into multiple heated arguments before passengers Vote her off the plane on a Frontier Airlines flight to Atlanta . . .

In the past three weeks, policymakers had their worlds rocked by generative artificial intelligence. The problem is that they don’t know it – yet. First, a team of researchers demonstrated that Open AI’s Chat GPT3 can pass the stringent United States Medical Licensing Exam. Days later, Chat GPT 3 passed a bar exam. Finally, Chat GPT3 passed the prestigious Wharton Business School’s rigorous core examination. The Wharton researcher writes, “OpenAI’s Chat GPT3 has shown a remarkable ability to automate some of the skills of highly compensated knowledge workers in general and specifically the knowledge workers in the jobs held by...

Late on an October morning in a quiet neighborhood near Daytona Beach, Florida. FBI agent Steve Friend sits in his kitchen, fidgeting. He’s a wiry, energetic man, built like a marathoner, not muscled up but exuding fitness, not a sitter. This is not a person meant for desk work, much less staying home all day. But as a whistleblower whose name has been all over media after a complaint about statistical manipulation and other problems in the January 6th investigations, this will be his lot for a while. By that morning, the first rush of news stories about Friend’s case...

Former President Bill Clinton said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” podcast that “there is a limit” to how many migrants the United States can accept before it causes disruption. ZAKARIA: Let me ask you about another issue you guys are going to take up at CGI, refugees. And one of the things that I think the right has hammered at, with regard to the Democratic Party and President Biden, is this issue of refugees coming into the United States. And I think it’s fair to say that the asylum system seems to be broken. This was meant to be a...

No, the cowardly politicians who enabled foolish and unprecedented lockdowns do not deserve to blame the results on anything but themselves.In Joe Biden’s painful and inaccurate speech about inflation on Tuesday, he finally shifted from blaming racism for everything to blaming Covid for everything to now blaming “the supply chain” and “Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine” (that Biden baited Putin into) for everything.These “supply chain disruptions,” as everyone is painfully aware, are doing everything from starving babies to shooting up the price of everything, as Wednesday’s 8.3 percent annual inflation number affirmed again. They are also not random, and they’re...

MTG and Gaetz and others were contesting electoral empanelment of states with suspect voting practices, when riot interrupted and upset their effort. Clips montage of Ray Eps in action on 1/6. Justice and FIB are stonewalling requests for info on agents and provocateurs.

On Sunday, Anthony “Dr. Science” Fauci said that he thought a vaccine mandate for air travel would be a great idea. On Monday, having run it up the flagpole without any salutes, he walked that idea back again. But on Tuesday, to make it impossible for Americans to plan even a day in advance, Biden put vaccines for air travel back on the table. If Democrats aren’t intentionally trying to destroy America, they’re certainly doing a good job by accident. Here’s where we are:The CDC has long acknowledged that vaccines do not stop COVID infections or spread, so that means...

Dozens of industry groups warned President Biden that his vaccine mandate would intensify rampant supply chain bottlenecks. On Thursday, the Biden administration revealed its COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate for employees at businesses with 100 or more workers. Noncompliant companies may be fined roughly $14,000 per violation. In their open letter to President Biden, the industry groups — which included the American Trucking Associations, National Private Truck Council, and Truckload Carriers Association — predicted that trucking companies may lose nearly four in ten drivers due to the mandate: Our industries are committed partners in the fight against COVID-19, and we...

American truckers don’t like taking orders. But the Biden administration has increased pressure on some of them to take the vaccine—willing or unwilling.All through the pandemic, truckers endured hardships to keep America’s infrastructure running. They waited in line for hours in sight of bathrooms they weren’t allowed to use. On the road, some died alone of COVID-19.Now, with supply chains disrupted, Americans need them more than ever. But faced with the prospect of a mandated vaccination, many drivers are considering quitting.“I’d fight it,” said veteran trucker Mike Widdins, referring to a vaccine mandate. “I think a lot of us will...

President Biden on Wednesday praised his “port envoy” John Porcari for doing a “heck of job” — twice calling him by the wrong first name — while discussing mounting shipping-container backlogs that threaten the timely delivery of everyday consumer goods, Christmas gifts and even the trees to put them under. Biden applauded Porcari’s work as he announced that the Port of Los Angeles would move to a 24/7 work schedule following the emergency example of the nearby Port of Long Beach, which expanded hours three weeks ago to alleviate the mounting supply chain crunch. “I especially want to thank Joe...