After all the good that President Trump has done and continues to do, Tucker, Kelly Jones, and Owens have turned against him, and this one issue of war with Iran is enough for them to do what? Vote for a Harris-style candidate who will spend years avenging everyone who disagreed with them? See what you think of VDH’s analysis: [embedded content] Personally, I find their disloyalty to be self-serving. They are all driven by agendas, and they are willing to let this country fall into the hands of communists and radical Islamists. I don’t think they can be trusted ever…
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On Friday, PolitiFact writers Samantha Putterman and Maria Briceno gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio a “half true” rating for his claim that the United States is not the reason that Cuba is experiencing 22-hour blackouts. According to Putterman and Briceno, it is true that economic mismanagement—the words “communist” or “socialist” appear nowhere in the article—has led to the decay of Cuba’s energy system and the original blackouts. However, in the “If your time is short section,” they write, “The U.S. government’s oil blockade has worsened the situation. The U.S. cut off Venezuela’s oil shipments to Cuba and threatened tariffs…
A former prosecutor for the Justice Department was officially charged with allegedly emailing confidential records connected to former special counsel Jack Smith and his investigation into President Donald Trump. Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, 62, is facing a total of four criminal charges in connection with her handling of Smith’s final report from the probe. She’s looking at one felony count of obstruction of justice, one felony count of concealing government records, and two misdemeanor counts of theft of government property valued at less than $1,000. The indictment, which was filed in the Southern District of Florida, stated that Lineberger allegedly changed…
New reports have revealed that the United States is experiencing a corporate exodus that is drastically changing America’s business landscape, and Democrat-run states are the ones who are going to be hardest hit by the shakeup. This goes far beyond simple bragging rights. Having corporate headquarters located in your state means an influx of high-paying jobs, investment and tax revenue, and a significant boost for local economies, as well as political influence. One of the country’s largest commercial real estate brokerage firms, CBRE, is reporting that 725 companies have moved their headquarters between 2018 and 2025. Many of these businesses…
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), a hardcore Trump supporter who is a candidate for U.S. Senate, is going to move forward in a runoff after a powerful primary election showing on May 19, 2026. The GOP primary race was stacked, however, three candidates were seen as the top contenders going into Election Day. Those three were Rep. Buddy Carter, Rep. Collins, and former college football coach Derek Dooley. Collins, who created a successful trucking company before deciding to get into politics, campaigned himself as being the most dedicated individual to the America First agenda, pledging to execute President Donald Trump’s legislative…
Humberto Cruz, 19, a top right-handed pitching prospect for the San Diego Padres, has opted to self-deport to his native country of Mexico after entering a guilty plea to a federal misdemeanor charge connected to the transportation of illegal aliens within the United States. Cruz signed with the Padres out of Monterrey, Mexico in February 2024 and received a bonus of $750,000. The young man was ranked as the ball club’s number five prospect by several scouting outlets before he was busted for human smuggling. The incident that may have cost him his career in Major League Baseball, practically every…
House Republicans in the state of Minnesota are now demanding that a Democratic lawmaker be booted from her seat as tax chair after she had a complete and total mental meltdown and told another GOP lawmaker to go kill himself. The nasty exchange took place after Democrats were unsuccessful in their attempt to trample the Second Amendment rights of Minnesotans through the passage of a gun violence package during a vote. The Democrat in question, Rep. Aisha Gomez, was caught on video throwing a temper tantrum, screaming at the top of her lungs at Republican Rep. Elliott Engen of Lino…
The Brookline Police Department stated that it was following department policy when it refused to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the federal law enforcement agency took an illegal immigrant into custody who was later involved in a “public safety concern” while being apprehended by agents. Police Chief Jennifer Paster penned a letter that informed residents in the local community that local police arrested illegal immigrant Edual Ulloa, 25, following a traffic stop. Brookline Police charged him with having a forged license plate, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, failure to stop for police, traffic offenses, and an…
In the wake of news that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) planned to introduce a joint resolution on Wednesday, May 20, that would ban foreign-born citizens from serving in Congress, whether as senators or representatives, or from being judges or Senate-confirmed appointees, supposed conservative Scott Jennings totally freaked out online. Rep. Mace, commenting on the matter of her resolution, which would affect more than a dozen members of Congress who aren’t natural-born citizens, most of them Democrats, in a statement to Fox News, “If you hold power in the American government, you should be a natural-born American citizen. For too long…
WASHINGTON—In recent GOP primaries, President Donald Trump has had a Midas touch.The candidates he endorsed against Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), multiple Indiana state lawmakers, and other Republican incumbents triumphed in high-profile contests.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you’ve been running headfirst into verification prompts seemingly everywhere you go online, you aren’t alone. Whether you’re jumping through hoops to satisfy a CAPTCHA or checking boxes to verify your identity, these brief interruptions are becoming hard to ignore. The reason behind it? Look no further than AI. As Swinburne University of Technology computer science professor Yang Xiang writes for The Conversation, the sheer number of AI bots on the internet is now reason enough for some websites to require verification. On…
President Donald Trump pulled no punches in a furious post on Truth Social about the state of things in South Carolina, calling on voters in the state to help him remove and replace a RINO who is known for his anti-MAGA views. calling the RINO, who is running for the state’s attorney general position, to be blocked from that office. As background, the president has been waging a lengthy campaign to try to keep the RINOs out of office. That campaign has largely been successful, with the president manage to remove the RINOs from state level seats like in Indiana,…
A never-ending flood of content generated by artificial intelligence is reshaping the internet and the way people engage with information faster than ever.From news summaries to social media posts to academic research, the sheer volume of machine-assisted materials has been correlated with a spike in “cognitive offloading”—a phenomenon in which people outsource critical thinking and verification to automated systems.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) said that he wants to hear from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the anti-weaponization fund and there need to be questions asked and answered about the fund. Emmer said, “I would like to hear from Todd Blanche. I understand that they started to hear from him yesterday as to exactly what this is. Great. Let’s find out what it is before everybody crucifies it.” He added, “[W]e’re going to find out what it is. I’m not going to give it a term. I want to…
Workers remove a body after three people were found dead and more than a dozen first responders were exposed to an unknown substance in Mountainair, N.M., on May 20, 2026. Savannah Peters/AP PhotoFentanyl and methamphetamine were found at a home in rural New Mexico where three people were discovered dead this week and crews responding to a suspected overdose became sick, authorities said Friday.Authorities in Mountainair, a town of less than 1,000 south of Albuquerque, were working “under the assumption” that fentanyl was to blame. First responders’ symptoms ranged from mild to severe, University of New Mexico Hospital Chief Medical…
In politics, there are three fundamental elements for success beyond the quality of a given candidate: strategy, tactics, and policies. The first two elements are designed for a party and its candidates to market their vision of the future. But tactical and strategic considerations come up empty if they are not linked to issues and policies popular with the voters. And that is the fundamental problem with the Democrats’ just-released, widely panned so-called autopsy of their crash and burn in 2024. The Democrats’ report about an election that cost them every bit of power was compiled by an independent agency…
Nevadans cast midterm ballots at The Galleria at Sunset mall in Henderson, Nev., on Nov. 8, 2022. John Haughey/The Epoch TimesEarly in-person voting for Nevada’s June 9 primary begins May 23, with 1.3 million of the battleground state’s 2.45 million registered voters eligible to cast ballots in selecting Democratic and Republican candidates for the Nov. 3 general election.But the bottom line is the 965,000 Nevadans registered on May 1 as independents–who cannot vote in the state’s closed party primaries–will ultimately decide the winning candidates in the fall.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different…
As part of the president’s new settlement deal with the IRS, the administration is establishing a $1.776 “anti-weaponization” fund. But they’re doing so, somehow, without congressional approval. This sidestepping of the legislature has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle upset, and it could cost President Donald Trump whatever remains of his legislative agenda. The Senate was prepared, for example, to take up a revised version of the $72 billion reconciliation on Thursday to fund ICE and CBP. The House was set to do the same on Friday. But those plans fell through as Republicans balked, dropping the idea for…
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease affect cognitive abilities, but in many cases, the condition isn’t discovered until there are obvious signs such as forgetfulness and memory loss. But scientists are discovering more warning signs, and a new study suggests one of them might be your handwriting. The Handwriting Alzheimer’s Study A 2023 article by USC Today announced that more than seven million Americans were unaware they had mild cognitive impairment (MCI). A study published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy examined data from 40 million Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older and “compared the proportion diagnosed with the rate expected in this…
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Flag of Burkina Faso “Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Friday condemned Western ‘tyranny’ in wanting to ‘impose’ homosexuality, and rejected any attempt to stop the application of a new law toughening sentences for same-sex relations,” reports Africa News. In mostly Muslim Senegal, “gay rights advocacy is frequently denounced as a tool used by Westerners to impose foreign values. At the end of March, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye signed a law doubling the maximum penalty for same-sex relations. Dozens of arrests have already been made under the legislation.” Senegal’s prime minister denounced western pressure on Senegal to recognize gay rights as…
Kamala Harris reckons she has “new” ideas for a potential Democratic government.
(Thérèse Boudreaux,, The Center Square) In an epic breakdown of negotiations, Congress is leaving town without voting on Republicans’ roughly $72 billion budget reconciliation bill.Senate Republicans ultimately deadlocked Thursday over whether to include restrictions on the Department of Justice’s controversial new “anti-weaponization fund” within the party-line bill, which funds federal immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years. Because both chambers return the first week of June, Republicans will almost certainly miss President Donald Trump’s deadline of June 1 when he wants the legislation on his desk. The Senate had already delayed a vote on the bill due to its…
It is no secret that RFK Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, doesn’t like psychiatrists, and he has had good reason, based upon his personal life experiences. For example, his aunt, Rosemary Kennedy, was treated with a prefrontal lobotomy at age 23 in 1941, a dark chapter in the history of psychiatry that left her institutionalized for life. He credits his own recovery from addiction to abstinence-based 12-step programs, focusing on spiritual principles and peer support, rather than on psychiatrists or medication. So, it is no surprise that he is drawn to curtailing psychiatrists’ powers. And he has begun…
Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok. Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult to injury, she says, her CEO, who hails from India, told her to train the man he selected to replace her before laying her off. Despite stints at Google and Cisco and two years of job hunting, Mary can no longer compete in a job market saturated with…
In all honesty, these days, I rarely attend large social gatherings, such as awards ceremonies or galas. Maybe it was because I spent so many years attending such events, often handing out resolutions to honorees during the political chapter of my life. Nonetheless, I accepted my friend’s invitation to attend my alma mater’s distinguished alumni dinner so I could catch up with some old friends and partake of a free meal. (Some things never change.) I knew of the two honorees and their significant accomplishments to our school and our community, and, having seen my father and mother being bestowed…
The subhead of the New York Times review of The Devil Wears Prada 2 reads as follows: “In this sequel, Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Miranda (Meryl Streep) encounter a series of crises that set the stage for a larger existential catastrophe.” Having seen the movie, I’m not sure what the allegedly “existential catastrophe” (the words are those of the review’s author, Manohla Dargis, and not an editor) is meant to be, but I suspect it has to do with what some of us regard as the very non-catastrophic collapse of the business model of the media, which is sometimes called…
On her eponymous Monday show, MS NOW host Chris Jansing presided over a discussion of GOP efforts to redraw South Carolina’s congressional districts in which her Democrat guests claimed that blacks are being “disenfranchised” in South Carolina and that white Americans refuse to vote for black candidates because of “racism.” It was not mentioned at all in the 11-minute segment that one of the state’s two U.S. Senators — Tim Scott — is black and had even previously been elected in one of the state’s white-majority congressional districts. But he’s a Republican. Jansing gave a melodramatic introduction: JANSING: Today a…
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Illegal entries into the U.S. in April remained significantly lower than during the Biden administration but are slightly up from what they were in April 2024 and over the last few months, according to newly released U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.Illegal border crosser apprehensions and encounters nationwide totaled 31,311 in April, excluding gotaways. Gotaways is the official CBP term for foreign nationals who illegally enter between ports of entry and evade capture. CBP does not publicly report this data. The Center Square exclusively reported it at the height of the border crisis after receiving…
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, May 23, 2026Hunter Biden speaks about his struggles with addiction during an episode of commentator Candace Owens’ eponymous podcast on May 21, 2026. | Screenshot/YouTube/Candace OwensHunter Biden opened up about his struggles with addiction and the difference between guilt and shame in handling the consequences of sin during a two-hour interview with podcaster Candace Owens that aired Thursday.”I’ve heard you call me a crackhead many times, and the truth of it is I was a crackhead,” the second son of former President Joe Biden told Owens, who apologized for repeatedly attacking both him…
By Jarrett Stepman, Op-ed contributor Saturday, May 23, 2026Suspected shooter Luigi Mangione is led into the Blair County Courthouse for an extradition hearing Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Mangione has been arraigned on weapons and false identification charges related to the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. Mangione is incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, awaiting extradition to New York. | Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesSometimes evil isn’t just banal. It’s direct, open, and unrepentant.That was the case on Monday afternoon as three “credentialed” journalists showed up to cover the Luigi Mangione trial in New…
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By Jay Atkins, Op-ed Contributor Saturday, May 23, 2026Unsplash/Possessed Photography This spring, a strange new scene has begun unfolding at college graduation ceremonies across America.At the University of Central Florida earlier this month, commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield attempted to encourage graduates by describing artificial intelligence as “the next industrial revolution.” The response from students was immediate and visceral: thousands booed her from the audience.Just days later, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt received a similar reaction while speaking to graduates at the University of Arizona. As Schmidt discussed the coming impact of artificial intelligence and the responsibility this generation will bear…
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Affordability has become a top household term this year for voters concerned about California as the June 2 gubernatorial primary nears.Sixty-one candidates are on the ballot, but the seven with the highest poll numbers are Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco, followed by Democrats Xavier Becerra, Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, Matt Mahan and Antonio Villaraigosa, although not necessarily in that order. In fact, new polling this week shows this November’s race for governor of California may come down to Republican Steve Hilton vs. Democrat Xavier Becerra. Hilton is a former television news personality and political adviser in the United Kingdom.…
By Brandon Showalter, Opinion writer and social commentator Saturday, May 23, 2026Getty Images Have you been perplexed by all the incessant talk of “Christian nationalism”? Have you ever been snidely referred to as a “Christian nationalist” in the last few years, when you maybe didn’t even know what it meant?If so, you’re not alone. Confusion around this fraught subject is understandable. I offer the following as a broad, big-picture read on this dizzying landscape. When “Christian nationalist” and “Christian nationalism” started emerging in media discourse with increasing frequency a few years ago, I, too, was disoriented. I’ve noticed that the reaction among…
The Department of Justice swore in 82 new immigration judges on May 20, 77 permanent and five temporary, in the largest single class in the agency’s history, as the Trump administration races to clear a backlog that still tops 3.5 million pending cases.The ceremony took place in the DOJ’s Great Hall in Washington, D.C. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche presided and framed the hiring surge as a direct result of presidential leadership and a rebuilt commitment to the rule of law inside immigration courts. The new judges bring the total immigration bench to 700, the Executive Office for Immigration Review…
Federal agents arrested Muhammad Omar hours after he allegedly jumped from a fourth-floor balcony Thursday morning to escape custody, a dramatic, caught-on-camera flight that briefly embarrassed an otherwise sweeping crackdown on what prosecutors call a $90 million Medicaid fraud ring in Minnesota.FBI Director Kash Patel announced the capture on X, posting a photo that showed Omar hobbling while holding one shoe. The suspect had been on the run since earlier that day, when he reportedly fled federal agents who arrived to take him into custody ahead of a major interagency press conference. Omar is one of fifteen individuals indicted for…
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin released a 192-page post-election report on Thursday, not because the party was ready to face its failures, but because frustrated operatives forced his hand. The study, authored by Democratic consultant Paul Rivera, had been finished since December and shelved by Martin, who now says burying it was a bigger mistake than publishing it.The report itself reads like an indictment drafted by the defense. It calls for “a renewed focus on the voters of Middle America and the South, who have come to believe they are not included in the Democratic vision of a stronger…
Senate Republicans were days from finishing a $72 billion package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. Then the Department of Justice announced a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, and the whole effort came apart in a single Thursday morning meeting on Capitol Hill.The result: President Donald Trump’s June 1 deadline for immigration enforcement funding is now, by all accounts, impossible to meet. Republican senators are leaving Washington with no vote scheduled, no timeline to return, and a list of unanswered questions about where their own administration’s money is going. Senate Majority Leader John Thune tried to put…
President Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday that he does not know whether he will attend Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding this weekend, pointing to the Iran conflict and the weight of his responsibilities as reasons the timing is difficult.The comments came after Page Six reported Monday that Trump Jr. and fiancée Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach, Fla., socialite, plan to marry at a private island in the Bahamas with only a few family members and friends present. Asked whether he would be there, the president framed the decision as a lose-lose proposition with the press, and made…
New York Democrats pushed a sweeping legislative package through both chambers on Thursday, banning local law enforcement from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and restricting federal agents from operating in hospitals, parks, and other public spaces across the state. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who first rolled out the proposal earlier this year, is expected to sign it into law.The measure amounts to one of the most aggressive state-level efforts to obstruct federal immigration enforcement in the country. It doesn’t just codify existing sanctuary policies, it builds an entire enforcement apparatus aimed at punishing local governments and officers who dare…
Albert Itzkowitz, a 75-year-old longtime kosher bakery owner and former emergency medical volunteer, was found dead with gunshot wounds along the Kissena Lake shoreline in Flushing, Queens. The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled his death a homicide, and police say they have no suspect description.NYPD officers discovered Itzkowitz’s body just before 5 p.m. Monday, the New York Post reported. He had been shot in the neck and back. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police announced the homicide ruling on Thursday, days after the body was found, and urged the public to come forward with any…
A federal judge in Minnesota sentenced former Feeding Our Future Executive Director Aimee Bock, 45, to 41.5 years in prison on Thursday for her role in a scheme that siphoned nearly $250 million in pandemic-era federal funds meant to feed children. The judge also ordered Bock to pay $243 million back to the federal government.It is the longest sentence handed down so far in a case that has swept up nearly 80 defendants and produced more than 60 convictions or guilty pleas. Federal prosecutors had asked for 50 years. Bock’s attorney pushed for three. The sentencing caps one of the…
Justice Clarence Thomas authored a commanding 8-1 Supreme Court opinion Thursday holding that cruise lines can face liability for using property the Cuban government confiscated after the 1959 revolution, a ruling that revives litigation against four major cruise companies and sharpens Washington’s legal posture toward Havana at a moment of rising friction between the two governments.The case, Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, turned on Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, a 1996 law that allows U.S. nationals to sue entities that “traffic” in confiscated Cuban property. Newsweek reported that the ruling effectively sends the case back to lower…
Rep. Ilhan Omar fired back at Vice President JD Vance this week after Vance said the Department of Justice is actively investigating the Minnesota Democrat for alleged fraud and immigration violations. Omar’s response: it’s not happening, and anyone who says otherwise is making things up to land cable news hits.But the congresswoman’s flat denials land against a backdrop of amended financial disclosures, a House Oversight Committee probe into her husband’s business records, and long-unresolved questions about her immigration history, none of which she has put to rest. Vance stated on Tuesday that the administration’s anti-fraud task force is directing resources…
View of a street of Havana during a blackout on March 16, 2026. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty ImagesCuba’s communist regime faces growing pressure due to a worsening economic crisis, rising unrest, and additional U.S. sanctions.Meanwhile, U.S. officials said they see little chance for peaceful change as Cuban regime leaders continue to tighten their grip on power and ignore calls for reform.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
A blast at a shipyard on New York’s Staten Island Friday injured several people, fire officials say. AP Digital EmbedNEW YORK—One person has died after a fire and two explosions Friday at a New York City shipyard, officials say.Officials said 36 people were injured, most of them firefighters and other first responders, and one civilian died at the scene.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iran is reconstituting its military capabilities that were degraded by the US-Israeli bombing campaign much faster than expected and is already producing new drones, CNN reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with US intelligence. One US official told the outlet that some US intelligence estimates indicate Iran could fully rebuild its drone capabilities within six months. “The Iranians have exceeded all timelines the IC had for reconstitution,” the official said. The other work Iran has done includes replacing missile sites, launchers, and production capacity for other weapons systems. Other US media reports have said that the United…
Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil speaks at a rally to welcome him home after being released from immigration custody, outside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City on June 22, 2025. Caitlin Ochs/ReutersLawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a foreign-born Columbia University graduate who led pro-Palestinian protests after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, said on May 22 that they will ask the Supreme Court to review his high-profile immigration case after a federal appeals court refused to reconsider his case. In a split 6-5 decision, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled…