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April was not the cruelest month for investors—although the tariffmageddon-obsessed naysayers may be smarting. Despite a month of wild swings and gloomy forecasts, U.S. stock markets ended April nearly flat, brushing off predictions that Trump’s trade policies would trigger a historic collapse. The S&P 500 finished the month down just 0.8 percent. The Dow dropped 2.1 percent, and the Nasdaq edged lower by 0.3 percent. That mild performance stood in stark contrast to a mid-April Wall Street Journal article that warned of a “Trump rout” and suggested the Dow was on track for its worst April since 1932. It wasn’t....

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” ” that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was a “great judicial hero” for finding probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for disobeying his order to halt deportations. Raskin said, “Judge Boasberg goes to great pains to restate the precedent going back to 1967, Walker vs. Birmingham, holding that you’ve got to comply with a court order, even if you know, they were in the wrong court, even if for some reason there’s a change. Look, Judge Boasberg, who was a President Bush appointee when he originally...

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett played down economic concerns over President Donald Trump's tariffs, saying the president has talked to world leaders all weekend and will listen to proposals for great deals. "He's doubling down on something that he knows works, and he's going to continue to do that," Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said on Fox News. "But he is also going to listen to our trading partners, and if they come to us with really great deals that advantage American manufacturing and American farmers, I'm sure he'll listen." Trump has...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of a massive underground city lying beneath Egypt’s famous Giza pyramids. Researchers from Italy and Scotland used advanced radar technology to produce detailed images from deep below the surface, revealing possible hidden structures 10 times the size of the pyramids themselves. The report highlights eight distinct vertical, cylinder-shaped formations stretching over 2,100 feet beneath the pyramids, along with a series of additional unidentified structures located another 4,000 feet further down. However, some experts remain skeptical of the claim, insisting that such a feat would be structurally impossible. -------- Mail Online reported: Professor Lawrence Conyers,...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has rolled out 31 groundbreaking actions to dismantle the suffocating web of radical environmental rules strangling America’s economy.These bold reforms advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders, promising to unleash American energy dominance, drastically lower living costs for American families, supercharge economic growth, and restore constitutional governance by empowering state authorities.“Today, I’m pleased to make the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history,” declared Administrator Zeldin in a fiery video statement.“The Environmental Protection Agency is initiating 31 historic actions to fulfill President Trump’s promise to unleash American energy, revitalize our auto industry, restore...

On Monday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said that while there are changes that need to be made to FEMA, the agency has been fully cooperative with helping the state out with the recent flooding in Kentucky, the state’s disaster declaration for the floods was turned around by President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “in near record time”, and Trump, Noem, “and FEMA are doing a great job here with us right now.” On “CBS Mornings,” Beshear said, “[L]et me give credit to the Trump administration. We have seen FEMA operating just like they did in the...

President Donald Trump said he was “saved by God to Make America Great Again,” making the powerful remarks during his inauguration speech right after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Trump said during the speech that he has “been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history” in the last eight years alone. “I’ve learned a lot along the way the journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one, that I can tell you,” the president said before briefly speaking about the moment he almost lost his life while...

The Golden City is losing its shine. Housing prices in San Francisco have plunged to pre-pandemic levels amid widespread layoffs in the tech sector, SFGATE reports. Despite still being one of the more expensive metropolitan areas in the US, prices for condominiums and co-ops in the city were down 14.7% from May 2022 and now average $986,000. Those prices have not been seen since 2015, according to Zillow data analyzed by Wolf Street. According to the outlet, condo prices doubled between 2012 and 2022, but have now declined by 30% in the past two years. The Millennium Tower, notorious for...

During an interview with NPR released on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton stated that Democrats “can’t keep asserting that things are great in the economy.” And that while there are some strong aspects to the economy, “we’re saddled with some cost of living challenges — which are not unique to the United States — but it’s pretty hard if you’re out there in the middle of the country and you’re working hard and you’ve got two or three kids and you have to watch every penny you make. And, secondly, the economic benefits of the current recovery have been widely...

New polls show Donald Trump has a chance to flip three states Joe Biden won narrowly in 2020. If that scenario comes to pass, the Republican nominee could have 255 electoral votes, meaning he’d be able to win the presidency by wresting one more swing state from Kamala Harris’ grasp. In Pennsylvania, per a CBS-YouGov survey of 1,273 registered voters, Trump and Harris are knotted at 49% each, with the vice president ahead 50% to 46% with independents. (But 12% of independents not leaning Trump say they could vote for him still, while 4% of non-Harris indy voters say the...

Westbrook Partners is poised to lose the Four Seasons San Francisco at Embarcadero hotel at a foreclosure auction. The auction comes six months after the Florida-based investor led by Paul Kazilionis defaulted on a $72.5 million loan tied to the 155-room luxury hotel at 222 Sansome Street, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Late last week, the landlord of the 345 California complex affiliated with Chicago-based Metropolis Investment Holdings, sued Westbrook for allegedly failing to pay nearly $400,000 in rent and fees. Westbrook declined to comment on the complaint. The investment firm is still negotiating with its lender to try to...

If you live in certain states, wine can be found at the supermarket, which helps trim a stop off your run of errands on a busy day. I mean, we're certainly not skipping the wine, are we? Grocery store wine gets a bad rap for being generic, boring and altogether a bit basic, but that doesn't mean there aren't some goof bottles to be found among the hard iced teas and boozy seltzer. To get the skinny on good grocery store vino, we turned to an expert in the field. "You can find good wine at the grocery store," says...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation” said if she thought fomer Presdent Donald Trump was a “great” candidate she would not have run for president. Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: You said you’re on standby. In other words, you haven’t been asked to campaign. Are you advising at all on his debate preparation or speaking to the campaign? HALEY: I’m not and you know, that’s his choice. He can, you know, whatever he decides to do with his campaign, he can do that. But when I called him back in June,...

When Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, my heart burst with pride for my home state. As a daughter of Minnesota, it has been thrilling to watch how quickly the country has gone wild for Walz. Of all the refreshing qualities he brings to the ticket, making kindness cool again may be what this country needs most right now. Walz’s leadership success is a clear rebuke of the harshness towards the vulnerable that has, disturbingly, become normalized. Walz’s record from a lifetime in public service shows that respecting and uplifting those around us creates opportunities...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin is tarnished as a result of Russia’s unprovoked invasion and occupation of Ukraine. Xi has been distancing China from Putin’s predations gradually — out of deference to his two biggest customers, the United States and European Union. But on Sept. 15 his displeasure about the war became public. Putin himself admitted at a press conference following a meeting with Xi that China had “concerns” about his war in Ukraine. So did India. But there is one more elephant in the room: Siberia, a region bigger and richer than any place...

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would make a great president of the United States in recent comments. “I feel like I would make a great president,” Schwarzenegger said in a recent interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). “But I feel that, at the same time, everything I’ve accomplished was because of America.”

Tim Wakefield, one of the masters of the knuckleball pitch who won two World Series titles with the Boston Red Sox, has died. He was 57. it was revealed earlier in the week Wakefield was battling brain cancer. "Our hearts are broken with the loss of Tim Wakefield," the Red Sox said on Sunday.

Videos posted by Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins and independent journalist Auden Cabello show open train cars in Mexico filled with migrants being taken north to the U.S. border. From the Darien Gap in Panama, from Central America and through Mexico there is a tsunami of migrants from all around the world headed to illegally enter the United States thanks to Joe Biden’s open borders.

I will mostly let Christine Anderson speak for herself other than to confirm that what she says is correct, if not understated.We are all imminently facing the most dangerous, ruthless totalitarian movement in all of human history. Covid was just the first trial. Much, much more is to come.Anderson knows what she is talking about. The Great Reset agenda, of which LifeSiteNews has written a great deal, is moving rapidly toward implementation.There is still hope, but that hope depends upon a great awakening of the masses and non-compliance becoming the norm.Far too many are amazingly still too trusting and asleep...

During an interview with ABC News that aired on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris responded to reports that she has the lowest approval rating of any Vice President by stating that while there are some polls out there “that also say I have great approval ratings.” We have to point out “that there are attempts to create distractions away from the accomplishments of our administration” on the economy and “what we have done to restore America’s integrity on the international stage.” Host Linsey Davis asked, [relevant exchange begins around 8:28] “There are reports that say that you have the lowest...