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US Vice President JD Vance has claimed that Ukraine will be unable to win the war if military action continues. During the podcast show the Charlie Kirk Show, Vance said that that Kyiv "won't win the war" if military action continues, during what America has described as a "critical week" for peace talks. The Vice President also said the US could still walk away from the negotiating table, saying, "I can't say with 100% certainty that we're going to be able to do it." "If this doesn't stop, the Ukrainians aren't winning the war," the VP added. "It has to...

“LAPD officers have been working through the painstaking process of recovering and rendering approximately 500 firearms safe,” he said in an LAPD news release. “We recognize that these firearms may hold significant sentimental value to their owners, whether as family heirlooms, historical pieces or personal mementos, and we are doing our best to reunite them with their owners.” “Despite the condition of these recovered weapons, the department remains committed to ensuring that these items are properly processed, identified and when appropriate, returned to their rightful owners,” the LAPD media release states. All community members must be able to provide personal...

There is a tendency these days to conflate successful diplomacy with garnering favourable headlines. Negotiating powder is rarely kept dry. Keeping an opponent guessing about one’s intentions and capabilities is secondary to issuing punchy soundbites that play well with the media. Politicians, feeling the hand of history on their shoulder, fall victim to grandiosity — until grim reality taps them on the other one. This is now happening to Sir Keir Starmer as he watches his vaunted “coalition of the willing” for a muscular European peacekeeping force in Ukraine evaporate. As reported in this newspaper, appeals from Britain and France...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A former Waco elementary school teacher was arrested Tuesday on allegations she used an electronic dog whistle to force compliance by a 6-year-old autistic student. Amber Escamilla, 46, a former teacher at Bell’s Hill Elementary School, 2100 Ross Ave., remained jailed Wednesday in lieu of $3,000 bond after her arrest on an injury to a child or disabled person charge, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. According to arrest records, Waco Independent School District police detectives received a referral from Child Protective Service workers about possible abuse of an autistic student...

Amelia Shulman (name changed for privacy) had been teaching high school students in Georgia for three years when, in 2024, she decided it was time to consider another career. A major factor was administrators’ indifference to classroom disorder. “Higher-ups at the school—and superintendents at the district level—are really pushing teachers to just take the path of least resistance if a kid is acting out,” Shulman said. “The goal is to have very low numbers of students facing major disciplinary action, but that doesn’t reflect what’s actually happening at the school every day.” On April 23, the Trump administration moved to...

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A West Australian energy company is building a liquified natural gas (LNG) production and export terminal in Louisiana to expand the U.S. liquified natural gas export market. Perth, Australia-based Woodside Energy on Tuesday announced its plan to develop a three-train, 16.5 million ton per annum (Mtpa) liquefied natural gas production and export terminal in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, called Louisiana LNG. Gov. Jeff Landry said the company's and a New York company decisions to invest $17.5 billion in the project was because of President Donald Trump’s “commitment to unleash American Energy.” The Biden administration sought to ban new exports of LNG...

The ACLJ just filed a federal lawsuit to defend a courageous pro-life advocate whose constitutional rights were blatantly violated by local officials in Carbondale, Illinois. We told you earlier this month that while we were live on air during our broadcast, a pastor reached out to us after some of his parishioners were being targeted for criminal citation by police just for having pro-life signs. We went right to work, in real-time, de-escalating the police and ensuring that our clients were not arrested that day. We quickly followed up with a demand letter to the city attorney, which has been...

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Ukraine and the United States are now poised to sign a long-anticipated mineral resources deal after a last-minute sang delayed the signing on Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a post on Telegram

The Texas Senate has passed a bill to allow citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, mails, or distributes abortion pills in Texas for $100,000. Senate Bill 2880 would help expand the Texas Heartbeat Act, which was passed in 2021. Under the Texas Heartbeat Act, abortions cannot be committed after a preborn child’s heartbeat is detected, which is typically around 21 days gestation. The law is unique because rather than enacting criminal penalties, it allowed individual citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who violates the law. Last December, New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter was caught shipping abortion pills to women in...

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, President Trump and his team held a cabinet meeting Wednesday. Team Trump spent a good portion of the meeting touting the president’s impressive record on issues ranging from immigration to the economy.Liberal reporters present at the meeting responded by peppering the Trump Administration with several silly questions, including about MS-13 gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But an actual journalist stepped up and asked a question concerning activist judges outrageously continuing to handcuff Trump’s executive powers, particularly on deporting illegals.The reporter cited the rampant abuse of injunctions by radical-left judges to sabotage Trump’s immigration policies...

Swing-voting moderates are rallying to President Donald Trump as Democrats continue their desperate opposition to the enforcement of the nation’s popular immigration laws.“The voters in the middle that we need to win on immigration are being turned off by the Democrats’ radicalism in attempting to stop the deportations of gang members, drug dealers, and human traffickers,” said a tweet from author Jeremy Carl. “Trump’s immigration policy [among reachable swing voters] is more popular than ever,” he added.The data was revealed by the polling firm Echelon Insights, which showed 62 percent of swing-voting independents back Trump’s policy, up from 52 percent...

The far-Right activist Tommy Robinson is reportedly being bankrolled by Tesla and X owner Elon Musk, months after the convicted criminal caused a rift between Musk and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Robinson has faced a slew of legal setbacks in recent months, including losing an appeal to shorten his 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court after he repeated libellous comments about a Syrian refugee. The activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also lost a challenge against his segregation in jail in March and was charged under the Terrorism Act for failing to disclose his mobile phone PIN...

This next story is a natural outcome in the flow of goods. Remember, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the first quarter is a hindsight review. Meaning the information released today was based on activity in January, February and March 2025.U.S. companies surged the purchasing of import goods, mostly from China, by more than 50% in the first quarter. They were/are building inventory. So, what happens in China starting in April?Hong Kong, CNN – China’s factory activity contracted at its fastest pace in 16 months in April, as steep US tariffs took a heavy toll on the manufacturing sector,...

A teacher in Maine repeatedly called for the killing of President Trump and his supporters in a shocking slew of social media posts - even acknowledging that her boss 'will have to fire me' over the call to violence. JoAnna St. Germain, an English teacher at Waterville Senior High School, took to Facebook to share her inflammatory thoughts on how to 'take out' the president. 'The Secret Service has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it,' she wrote. 'You are the ones with power. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral,...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is suspected of "covering up" the true extent of the devastating explosion that rocked the Shahid Rajaee port in Iran's southern coastal town of Bandar Abbas. On Tuesday, the death toll reported from Tehran after the explosion had risen to 70, with another 1,200 said to have been injured from the blast. But, according to information from eyewitnesses and the impacts of the blast radius, those figures are expected to be drastically underreported amid concerns of escalating internal unrest, sources have told Fox News Digital. According to information provided by the National Council of Resistance...

The absolute key to the first quarter GDP result is to remember that ‘imports‘ are a deduction in the economic equation of Gross Domestic Product. The GDP is the valuation of all goods and services produced in the USA *minus* the value of imports.The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases the results of the first quarter GDP. The overall economic growth seems low at –0.3% until you look at how U.S. companies responded in February and March to the tariff announcement.Companies proactively purchased massive amounts of products in advance of the tariffs leading to an overall increase in imports of...

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Tuesday that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin sees an opportunity for the “first time in decades” for a U.S.-Russia relationship recalibration.“I think that … he sees the opportunity for the first time in decades, to recalibrate the relationship of the Russian Federation with the United States, and it’s clear,” Witkoff told radio hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby on their WABC show.“I’ve had four meetings with him, and not one of them was less than three hours,” he added. “And there was one that was close to five hours.”In the first few months...