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President Trump posted a map showing New Mexico rebranded as “New America” during a rapid-fire Truth Social storm on Sunday. The post, one of 34 made in less than an hour, showed a map of the southwestern state with the word “Mexico” crossed out and replaced with “America.”The rebrand would be the latest America-themed name change by the president after he ordered that the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario be rechristened the Gulf of America and Lake America, respectively. Trump renamed the Gulf of America after coming back into office in January 2025, claiming the change in name would...

The federal workforce has contracted by 336,000 employees since President Donald Trump took office, reflecting his administration’s drive to reduce the size of the government bureaucracy. Federal government employment fell by another 5,000 in August to 2.674 million, the Labor Department said Friday. That is down from 3.010 million in January 2025, a decline of 11.2 percent. Over the past year, federal payrolls have shrunk by 242,000 workers. Excluding the U.S. Postal Service, the decline was even larger, at approximately 251,000. Postal Service employment increased by around 9,000 during the same period, partially offsetting the broader reduction. The contraction has...

President Trump laid out his plan Wednesday to help Republicans win 35 key midterm races in the final stretch before the fall elections. Beginning in October, a month before the critical Nov. 3 contests, the president plans to hit the campaign trail and host several tele-rallies as part of his push to keep the House and Senate in Republican hands, he explained in remarks to GOP lawmakers and administration officials at a White House Rose Garden dinner. “I’m going to take the final 30 days, maybe a little bit more than that, because it’s all about 35 races,” Trump said....

🚨 JUST IN: USPS confirms their new requirements for mail-in voting is OFFICIALLY in effect and applies IMMEDIATELY to the November 2026 election, after an activist judge DISSOLVED her block on Trump's order LFG! 🔥 Under Trump's order, ballots can only be mailed to those on DHS and SSA lists of confirmed U.S. citizens age 18 or older who reside in that state. The lists draw from federal citizenship, naturalization, Social Security, and SAVE-program recordsAdditionally, USPS will NOT accept or deliver those ballots if a state does not submit a “mail-in and absentee participation list” (voter names, addresses, and unique...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada. The Republican president signed an executive order in the Oval Office that updated the lake's name for the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.

The Palace says the couple will continue to be non-working Royals and private citizens. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, ‌are moving back to the United Kingdom with their children, Buckingham Palace confirmed Wednesday.

Trump administration revokes more than 175,000 visas.Well, not all at once, but revoked in the year-and-a-half since Trump returned to office. The pace is running about 10,000 revocations per month. Every day, I hear or read from some leftist that each and every one of the 8 billion people outside of America have an absolute and unchallengeable right to come here at any time, for any reason, and stay for any duration under the diplomatic theory, “no one is illegal.” No other nation has adopted that rule, to do so would be suicidal. *** A quote from the State Department,...

National Republicans are rallying around a complete political unknown who stunned the party by winning a Michigan congressional primary over President Trump’s hand-picked candidate. Thomas Smith, a retired GM engineer who sells salsa that retails at Flint farmer’s markets, spent virtually nothing yet convincingly beat Trump-backed Amir Hassan — a US Navy vet and former federal law enforcement officer who raised $727,000. “He’s just as shocked as everyone was on election night,” a Smith campaign consultant told The Post. “He understands that this was not expected, but he also understands that people have spoken.” Smith won 50.4% of the vote...

The maximalists wanted regime change, the minimalists wanted nothing, and the doubters see only waffling. Carafano’s answer: the victor gets to define victory — and everywhere you look, the region is moving Trump’s way. Iran War Turns into Trump Middle East Triumph: We are about to see the biggest reshaping of the Middle East since Moses led the Jews out of Egypt. Like the pharaoh, who missed every warning sign up to the parting of the Red Sea, the critics and questioners of Trump’s tug-of-war with what’s left of the Iran regime seem obtuse to the prophetic truth that the...

According to the Atlanta Fed’s GDP Now REAL time model, Q3 Real GDP is 5%. The subcomponents of GDP growth are as follows: So much for the doom and gloom of Trump’s tariff “war” or Trump’s Iran “war.” 5% Real GDP growth is outstanding! And The Fed keeps on printing money (M2)! Keep on printin’! The Q3 Real GDP report is so good, I feel like yodeling!

Just hours before his successor is expected to be confirmed by the Senate, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte on Tuesday announced what appear to be sweeping staff reductions at the embattled intelligence coordination hub. “Good News! In addition to the Historic DECLASSIFICATIONS (Transparency!) by the President, we are, this morning, Executing a 5th and Near Final Round of TERMINATIONS, an approximately 30% Staff Reduction from Weeks Ago,” Pulte posted on his social media account Tuesday morning. “The Intelligence Community must protect the American people, NOT the political whims of the bloated and corrupt elite class.” Pulte’s announcement of...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals barred lower court judges from releasing migrants who claim the Constitution requires their release before they can be deported. “Another big win out of the 5th Circuit,” said an X post by James Percival, the General Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security. He continued: DHS’s [2025] change in legal position on illegal alien detention restored the policy set by Congress and rejected a misreading of the law that perpetuated open borders for decades. “It’s not too late to take a $2,600 check and a free flight home,” he added, referring to the push...

WASHINGTON – President Trump marked the 250th birthday of the United States Saturday night with a speech paying tribute to the “glory” of America while vowing to protect it from the “cancer” of communism. “For 250 years, the United States of America has been the hope, the promise, the light, and the glory among all of the nations of the world, all over the world. They try and be like us. Nobody can be like us,” Trump said to a cheering crowd of more than 150,000 people on the National Mall who braved a thunderstorm-forced evacuation to hear the president...

Nearly 1 million people who bought President Trump’s memecoin have lost money through the end of June, according to a report by the cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. Their losses total $3.81 billion. The analytics firm’s assessment was calculated this week after Mr. Trump signed an annual financial disclosure showing that he walked away with a $636 million payout on the same crypto bet, part of a haul of at least $2.2 billion from all of his business ventures in 2025. Once a crypto skeptic, Mr. Trump embraced the profit-making opportunity of digital currencies in 2024, while he was running for...

Lindell Also Responds To The Incredible News That He Is Leading By A Large Margin In All Major Polls In The Upcoming Election For Governor Of Minnesota! Mike Raises The Alarm That Traitorous Republicans In The US Senate Are Still Blocking The Save America Act Ahead Of The Critical Midterms In November The Founder Of My Pillow Also Breaks Down The Latest Developments Connected To Trump's Takedown Of The Venezuelan Dictatorship That For Decades Has Been Stealing US Elections! Video Transcript SummaryMike Lindell described becoming fully convinced of election fraud on January 9, 2021, after being presented with evidence pointing...

In the fourth and final decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mullin v. Doe, a case concerning whether the Administration may terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations. In a majority opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court held that the challengers—TPS beneficiaries from Syria and Haiti—were not entitled to interim relief blocking the termination of their TPS designations. The Court concluded that the TPS statute limits judicial review of non-constitutional claims and prevents courts from second-guessing the agency’s TPS termination decisions on those grounds. Justice Thomas filed a concurring opinion. Justice Kagan filed a dissenting opinion,...

People have also mischaracterized the deal itself. This is not the end of the negotiations or the war. This is the very beginning of the problems for Iran. Once the kinetic part of the war stops, they have to face the people, and the people are angry, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

Donald Trump’s approval rating is soaring in a new survey, with the president’s poll numbers reaching a level that hasn’t been recorded in months. Trump’s approval rating now stands at 47% in the latest Daily Mail/JL Partners poll -- a 4-point increase from the 43% rating recorded in the survey’s last three months and a 5-point climb from his all-time low in mid-March. The 47% approval rating is Trump’s highest since February, before he decided to launch joint strikes with Israel against Iran. Meanwhile, the president’s disapproval rating is 53% in the latest survey, four percentage points lower than the...

Bill Pulte has begun firing Deep State intel officials just days into his role as Acting DNI. “The Deep State firings have begun” a source told CNN. It is unclear how many people have been fired. [tweet] Federal housing regulator Bill Pulte showed up to work a day early last Thursday and asked for a list of all employees as he decided whom to fire. According to CNN, Pulte met with lawyers last Thursday evening. Pulte officially began his job as Acting DNI last Friday. Earlier this month, President Trump announced his nomination of US Attorney for the Southern District...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump set a new world record this week by winning the same war with Iran for the 27th time this year, shattering the previous record of one.According to White House officials, Trump first won the war with Iran in February. However, the war started again the following week, but was quickly won, and Trump has continued winning the war multiple times since."No one thought we could win the war so many times," Trump told reporters. "We won it very strongly. Then we won it again bigly, and then we won it even more. Frankly, nobody...