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President Donald Trump's goal is to eliminate taxes for people earning less than $150,000 per year, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said. "I know what his goal is — no tax for anybody making under $150,000 a year. That's what I'm working for," Lutnick told CBS News on Wednesday. He said that major tax cuts could be implemented without causing spiraling national debt through tackling overseas tax fraud. Why It Matters The proposal to remove taxes for people earning less than $150,000 per year would impact the vast majority of Americans. In 2022, around 93 percent of Americans aged 15...

@RapidResponse47 NO TAX ON TIPS. NO TAX ON OVERTIME. NO TAX ON SENIORS' SOCIAL SECURITY.

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees Kyiv’s long-term independence. Vance said the option of sending U.S. troops to Ukraine if Moscow failed to negotiate in good faith remained “on the table,” striking a far tougher tone than did Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who on Wednesday suggested the U.S. wouldn’t commit forces. “There are economic tools of leverage, there are of course military tools of leverage” the U.S. could use against Putin, Vance said....

Social media/X is abuzz with questions and speculation about what the pardon process might be for persons convicted for their actions on January 6. These questions were supercharged last week by a comment attributed to an unnamed “transition official” stating that all convictions will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, throwing a wet blanket on the expectations/demands by some that pardons be given to everyone convicted of any crime. The transition official’s comment leaves open the possibility that some who have been convicted – or maybe even some who have not yet had a trial – might not receive any...

DeSantis began 2023 as the best positioned Republican candidate to challenge Trump for the party's presidential nomination, according to polling tracked by 538. But he begins 2024 as another name on the growing list of rivals who failed to shake the former president's popularity among the GOP --- DeSantis' early actions since leaving the race have already sparked speculation that the governor, who is only 45, could make another White House run in the future. A source close to him said that he has privately expressed interest in running again as early as 2028 and has brought it up as...

A "rigged election" is equivalent to war since both "put into power" a "victor," argues plaintiff, and therefore allegations of a rigged election must be investigated. The Supreme Court is set to reconsider whether to hear a lawsuit alleging President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Vice President Mike Pence, 291 House members, and 94 senators violated their oaths of office by refusing to investigate evidence of fraud in the 2020 election before certifying Biden as the victor on Jan. 6, 2021, allowing for Biden and Harris to be "fraudulently" inaugurated. The plaintiff, Raland J. Brunson, seeks the defendants' removal...

American Airlines has agreed to purchase 20 supersonic Overture planes from Boom Supersonic...Boom says the Overture jet will fly as fast as Mach 1.7, or 1,304 mph...Boom will build the jet at a new manufacturing plant in North Carolina and expects to roll out the first model in 2025, with the first flight in 2026...Overture will enter commercial service by the end of the decade.

We are officially in the horror movie where the monster never dies, the virus never ends and our next election sees Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. Yes, the two most polarizing presidential nominees of modern times refuse to go away. Clinton and Trump are more alike than they realize. Namely, they each live in a reality of their own making.

(CNN)A Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade could bring abortion bans to as many as half the states in the country already poised to prohibit the procedure. Such a move would also have knock-on effects on the primarily blue states that would maintain access to abortion. A Roe v. Wade reversal -- and the flood of abortion restrictions such a ruling would usher in -- stands to affect the distance women would have to travel to their nearest clinic, according to a new report released this week by the Guttmacher Institute. The institute, which favors abortion rights used...

Many Americans are fed up with Biden’s sweeping COVID-19 injection mandates. It’s a gross violation of medical freedom and bodily autonomy. Biden’s nationwide mandate violated the constitutional rights of 100 million Americans. Workers in many fields have voiced their outrage over the mandates. Some groups are prepared to fight for their rights against this dictatorial decree. Circulating rumors indicate truck drivers have a protest planned in response to the authoritarian COVID-19 mandates. Named #PatriotShutDown, talks of a trucker protest spread across multiple platforms. Check it out: Has anyone heard of the #PatriotShutdown? Hamilton County Prosecutor Deters issued a warning...

Donald Trump sent a letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to start "decertifying" the 2020 election, on Friday. The letter, which was posted to Twitter by Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington, claims to have enclosed evidence of "large scale voter fraud" in Georgia. Trump refers to 43,000 absentee ballots which he claimed violated the chain of custody rules. "I would respectfully request that your department check this and, if true, along with many other claims of voter fraud and voter irregularities, start the prices of decertifying the election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is, and announce...

There's a potential nuke of a case in Georgia on Monday at 13:30 regarding the Georgia Senate runoff from January 5th that has a very good chance to flip the Senate back to the GOP. I'm trying not to use click-baity words in titles, so you tell me if this is a possible "nuke": This one is different because it involves the Georgia Senators and not President Trump. If it moves forward, clowns Stacey Abrams and RINO rat Raffensperger would be deposed, and best of all, the judge has the authority to call for a new senate election, shifting control...

Our Founding Fathers gave us a republic by which our revolutions are fought at the ballot box. I can assure you: There is a revolution taking place within the grassroots of our society. There is a remnant of freedom-loving, America-loving, God-fearing activists of all races and of all socioeconomic levels arising in every state across America, committed to taking back our country from the radical, godless Marxists who have infiltrated every level of our government—right up to the White House. These average, everyday Americans are outraged at witnessing—over the course of the last four years—corrupt U.S. intelligence operatives, Democratic leadership,...

Senator Karen Fann announced this weekend that the Arizona Senate will not be releasing numbers this week.

President Donald Trump will wield his fortune and name to help Republicans flip the House of Representatives during the next nationwide election, an adviser said on Jan. 14. “President Trump is going to make sure we get the House back in 2022,” Jason Miller, a Trump campaign adviser, said. “He’s got a ton of money. He’s the biggest name. He’s going to get that done.” Miller was speaking on Steve Bannon’s “War Room.” Bannon is a former Trump strategist. Trump’s plans after leaving office, which he’s scheduled to do next week, are unclear. He has posited starting a company to...

"ISIS bride" Hoda Muthana, who has been asking to return to the United States, is not an American citizen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Wednesday, contrary to her family lawyer's assertion.

An American woman captured by Kurdish forces after fleeing the last pocket of land controlled by Islamic State says she “deeply regrets” travelling to Syria to join the terror group and has pleaded to be allowed to return to her family in Alabama. Once one of Isis’s most prominent online agitators who took to social media to call for the blood of Americans to be spilled, Hoda Muthana, 24, claims to have made a “big mistake” when she left the US four years ago and says she was brainwashed into doing so online.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick – a Democrat serving a 28-year sentence for corruption – is seeking President Donald Trump’s help to get out of prison early, according to reports. Kilpatrick, writing on the Free Kwame Project website, says he has undergone a spiritual transformation since resigning from office in 2008 following a text-messaging sex scandal. “By God’s grace, I have received a pardon from Him, through Christ Jesus. I pray that I will receive the opportunity for Pardon/Clemency from the President of the United States as well,” he writes.

Israel Police will recommend indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery and breach of trust in two cases Tuesday night, Israel's Channel 2 and Channel 10 reported. After a 14-month-long investigation, police are expected to announce on Tuesday that it found enough evidence to recommend the state’s prosecution to indict Netanyahu for bribery and breach of trust in Case 1000, the “gifts affair" and Case 2000, the "Yediot Aharanot Affair." In Case 1000, the “gifts affair,” it is alleged that Netanyahu improperly accepted expensive gifts from different businessmen. In Case 2000, the “Yediot Aharonot affair,” Netanyahu allegedly negotiated with publisher...

The United States could reduce Pentagon spending by over a trillion dollars in the next decade-spending $5.2 trillion rather than the currently planned $6.3 trillion- by adopting strategy of military restraint. That’s the bottom line of a study I produced along with several colleagues as part of “Developing Alternative Defense Strategies 2016,” an exercise organized by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, where groups from five think tanks used CSBA’s “Strategic Choices” software to reimagine the U.S. military budget.The others all increased military spending. The teams from the Center for New American Security and the Center for Strategic and...