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1:28 VIDEO AT LINK. Cops were WAAAAY more patient that I would have been...........

EL SALVADOR — As Trump's deportation efforts continue, leaders from several South American countries have expressed their outrage at having their sovereign countries flooded by an influx of their own citizens. According to leaders from Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Venezuela, Trump's deportations are unjustly violating their countries' rights to not be flooded by their own citizens. "We cannot sustain the tidal wave of our own citizens coming back over our borders," complained Colombian President Gustavo Petro. "Colombia is being overrun by all the violent, criminal, rapist Colombian citizens Trump is funneling into our country. His immigration policies must be...

Amid the ongoing showdown between the Trump administration and the Ivy League, one university president has positioned himself as a leader of the academic resistance: Princeton’s Christopher L. Eisgruber. Earlier this month, the Trump administration suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants to Princeton as part of its investigation into racial discrimination and anti-Semitism at the New Jersey campus. Eisgruber, though, was defiant, telling the New York Times that he’s “not considering any concessions” and calling for other university presidents to follow his lead. This isn’t Eisgruber’s first bid for the spotlight. After the death of George Floyd...

A paint infused with a medical disinfectant can now kill harmful microbes on contact. Tested on various surfaces, it offers a new frontline defense against infections in hospitals and public spaces. Credit: SciTechDaily.com ******************************************************************** A new bacteria-killing paint shows powerful promise in eliminating dangerous pathogens like MRSA and COVID-19 from hard surfaces. Infused with chlorhexidine, a trusted dental disinfectant, the coating works on plastics and metals and activates once dry. Collaborating with industrial paint maker Indestructible Paint, the team aims to bring this innovation to hospitals, public transport, and even aerospace, helping combat the persistent threat of surface-transmitted infections and...

US vice president JD Vance with his children visits the historical Amer Fort, in Jaipur, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. The Vance family received a warm and vibrant welcome at the Fort.(PTI) The Vance family were greeted with a traditional Rajasthani dance performance and elegantly decorated elephants.(PTI) Second Lady Usha Vance wife of US vice president JD Vance carries her daughter Mirabel as they watch a cultural performance at the Amber Fort in Jaipur on April 22, 2025.(AFP) Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma welcomes US vice president JD Vance as he along with his family visits the historic Amer Fort, in Jaipur....

“Crass left-wing anti-Semitism has clearly infested the California education system,” the California Globe reports, citing the Santa Clara Unified School District in the silicon valley cities of San Jose, Sunnyvale and Cupertino. The Bay Area Jewish Coalition and StandwithUs have filed a complaint against the district charging “pervasive discrimination and bias against Jewish students” including “anti-Semitic slurs directed against Jewish students, demonization of Jewish and Israeli students,” and “anti-Semitic content and programming by teachers and guest speakers.” One high-school teacher subjected students to a Turkish government propaganda video comparing Israel’s war with Hamas to the Holocaust. According to this report,...

The Department of Education is poised to resume collections on defaulted federal student loans in May for the first time since 2020. While the first Trump administration paused referring federal student loans to collections in March 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the extended lapse has prompted Trump administration officials to worry that the federal student loan portfolio is "headed toward a fiscal cliff if we don't start repayment in collections," according to a senior department official. "The result has been that the federal government student loan portfolio has continued to grow, and we've got a record number...

The best time to view the Lyrids this year will be early morning on April 22. The best time to observe the Lyrids is in the predawn hours when the shower’s radiant is at its highest in the sky. However, be mindful that as the morning progresses, the radiant will continue to climb, but so will the approaching sunrise and the brightening skies, which will hinder visibility. The shower is known for its luminous dust trains which can be observed for several seconds according to NASA. The Lyrids are associated with Comet Thatcher, a long-period comet that orbits the sun...

Americans are scrambling to obtain a state-issued REAL ID in order to travel by plane ahead of a federal deadline next month, which comes after states from coast to coast changed their laws surrounding driver's licenses to permit illegal immigrants to drive. Americans will need to obtain a REAL ID, which is a federally-compliant driver's license or other identification that meets higher standards than state-issued licenses, in order to easily travel by air, the Department of Homeland Security explains on its website. Only legal U.S. citizens or residents can obtain the identification card, while valid U.S. passports can also still...

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg recently gave $100,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) shortly after his plans to shake up the Democratic Party with new leadership angered party insiders. The news, which was first reported by Politico and Axios, was confirmed by Hogg in an X post on Friday, where he asserted that he wasn't "playing nice" by handing the six-figure donation over to the DCCC. "This is not me playing nice. It is demonstrating my commitment to winning back the house and making Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker, which is an absolute imperative," Hogg wrote...

NAEP test scores for America’s most vulnerable students have collapsed — and the timeline tells the story mainstream media won’t: the “Great Awokening” is failing the very kids it claimed it was trying to help.

Cornell University has invited Jew-bashing entertainer Kehlani to perform on campus May 7 — defending the move as just giving its students what they want. Kehlani has a music video that starts with, “Long live the Intifada” — an inflammatory phrase that critics say promotes violence against Israelis and Jews — shared a map online that eliminates the state of Israel and refused to condemn Hamas for the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. The invite to the multi-Grammy Award-nominated R&B artist comes after the Trump administration froze $1 billion in federal funding to the upstate Ivy League school amid a civil-rights...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 gangbanger as the Trump administration has alleged. Van Hollen (D-Md.), who met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on Thursday, accused President Trump of trying to change the subject on due process concerns, while he himself attempted to shift the discussion from MS-13. “What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject,” Van Hollen told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday when asked about Abrego Garcia’s alleged MS-13 ties. “The subject at hand is that he and his administration are...

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with immense gravity, yet no visible companion, quietly roaming the depths of the Milky Way galaxy. Identified in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation, this black hole is believed to be around seven times more massive than our Sun and marks the first confirmed detection of a black hole not bound to another star. The study, published in The Astrophysical Journal and led by Kailash C. Sahu and colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute, relied on more than a decade of high-precision data...

The Brooklyn woman accused of leaving a brick scrawled with a swastika and the word “Nazi” on a parked Tesla is a super-woke family therapist who was involved in criminal justice diversion programs — and blamed Elon Musk for her heinous actions as she was taken into custody. Natasha Cohen was released on her own recognizance following her arraignment on hate-crime charges Saturday night, according to prosecutors. Cohen, 46, has a private practice, working with children, adolescents and their families for more than two decades. She has advanced training in maternal mental health, according to an online profile, and currently...

Following Professor Scott Gerber’s vocal opposition to his school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, Ohio Northern University ordered campus police to yank him out of class and march him to the dean, who demanded Gerber’s immediate resignation. A judge decried the school’s apparent “callous disregard for due process,” but because Gerber had the courage to fight back in court, ONU took things even further — filing a federal lawsuit to shut him up. But Gerber is not having it. A longtime critic of ONU’s initiatives around DEI, Gerber’s objections made him a target of administrators, who launched an investigation into...

Wisconsin teen Nikita Casap, 17 years of age, is accused of killing his parents to get enough money to assassinate President Trump and overthrow the United States government. He allegedly worked with someone with a Ukrainian phone number and someone in Russia, according to an FBI affidavit. According to Law & Crime, Nikita Casap, 17, of Wisconsin, allegedly sent a series of direct messages to an individual with a Ukrainian phone number, who writes in Cyrillic, discussing going into “hiding” before relocating to Ukraine after carrying out the plot.

The Trump administration has begun pressuring colleges by withholding federal funds, looking to revoke their tax-exempt status, and demanding greater accountability from private universities. Citing the rise of anti‑Semitic protests, incidents, and violence toward Jewish students since October 7th, the explosive expansion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, and the use of racist affirmative action programs in admissions. Universities and much of the media immediately denounced what they call an unwarranted crackdown on private institutions— (where was the outcry when the Biden Administration targeted Christian colleges?). This defensive posture conveniently ignores how many elite private universities have, for years,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As controversy swirls over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Democrat politicians have joined together to call for an individual court hearing for everyone on earth to prove that they aren't American citizens. According to Democrats, every human on planet Earth has the right to an individual court hearing following due process to prove that they aren't American citizens. "There's no way for us to know that all people on Earth aren't Americans if they don't have access to a fair American trial, which in this case means an individual court hearing with a sympathetic federal judge,"...

AUGUSTA, ME — The state of Maine has recently continued its struggle for equity by suing the federal government to allow Sasquatch to continue competing in women's sports. According to Governor Janet Mills, Maine will "always be a safe place" for Sasquatch to play women's volleyball or any other women's sport his enormous mammalian heart desires. "Deep inside Sasquatch's hulking muscles and furry coat is a little girl who just wants to play," said Mills. "We in Maine will never kowtow to the federal government's argument that 'sometimes Sasquatch rips girls' limbs off, creating an unsafe environment.' Sasquatch has not...