SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California’s top financial officer on Friday said the governor’s proposed budget has filled a deficit of almost $3 billion, a stark contrast to the legislative analyst’s forecast of an $18 billion shortfall.Governor Gavin Newsom’s fiscal year 2026-27 budget calls for $248.3 billion in general fund expenditures.…
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President Donald Trump (C) speaks during a meeting with U.S. oil companies’ executives in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 9, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFPWASHINGTON—President Donald Trump invited executives of large oil companies to the White House on Friday to discuss investment opportunities that will restore…
We need the 3-2-1-0 system, ASAPPublishedJanuary 9, 2026 4:20 PM EST•UpdatedJanuary 9, 2026 3:09 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThis has been one of the funkier years in recent memory when it comes to the NHL standings at roughly the halfway point of the year.The Eastern Conference is about as congested as you’ll…
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signalled that he may reconsider the nine-year prison sentence imposed on former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Speaking with a local CBS affiliate, Polis admitted the punishment was “harsh” and said he was considering a potential commutation of Peters, who was seeking to blow the…
President Donald Trump announced Friday that U.S. oil companies will be spending at least $100 billion in Venezuela to rebuild the necessary capacity and infrastructure. Trump met with many big oil and gas companies, including Chevron, Exxon and Valero, to discuss investment opportunities in Venezuela’s oil infrastructure. After announcing the…
A polar bear sits on an ice sheet in the Arctic waters of Greenland, in this file photo. MB Photography/Getty ImagesGreenland should hold talks with the United States government without Denmark being present, a Greenlandic opposition leader said on Jan. 7, as Washington’s push for control of the Arctic island…
Silicon Valley, a Proxy State Orchestrating Regime Change in Iran The Tech-Colony Complex Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In Tehran, the streets are tense, the internet is down in many places. In a bid to try and stem a foreign-backed destabilisation operation, Iranian government has imposed a nationwide blackout, cutting citizens…
Preterm Cleveland, the infamous abortion operation that killed Lakisha Wilson in 2014 and has continued harming women, first announced its search for a new medical director last September on social media. Just one month before Preterm admitted the vacancy, Operation Rescue reported shocking new details regarding a woman described by Preterm staff…
A 79-year-old Florida boater accused of killing a teenage ballerina in a hit-and-run boating crash while she was wakeboarding in Miami has avoided jail time after accepting a plea deal that resulted in probation and fines, as reported by the New York Post. Carlos Guillermo “Bill” Alonso, 79, was sentenced…
Former special counsel Jack Smith will publicly testify to the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, confirmed.Smith previously sat for a closed-door deposition in connection with his probe into President Donald Trump’s handling of classified materials and his efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election. “He’s coming in,” Jordan…
President Donald Trump meets with oil executives Friday at the White House to discuss investments in Venezuelan oil in order to rebuild its energy sector.The CEOs of ConocoPhillips, Exxon, and Shell are at the meeting, along with representatives from Chevron, Halliburton, Valero, and Marathon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Energy…
Zach Bryan released his new album “With Heaven On Top” for fans Friday.PublishedJanuary 9, 2026 3:00 PM EST•UpdatedJanuary 9, 2026 2:34 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkZach Bryan’s new album “With Heaven On Top” has arrived.The talented country singer might be a bit polarizing and controversial, but there’s no question he’s one of…
President Donald Trump meets with oil company executives at 2:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 9 at the White House to discuss possible strategies for reviving Venezuela’s struggling oil sector. …
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Syria’s Defense Ministry announced a ceasefire on Friday after three days of clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo that displaced over 140,000 people.There was no immediate response from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, while a local Kurdish council rejected calls for the evacuation…
The Good Book is always good news. The United Kingdom is decadent in many ways, with a leftist-Globalist Labour government fraying the social fabric with unchecked mass migration, killing the economy with ‘green’ suicidal policies, and using rampant censorship to keep citizens in line. But now, we’ve come to the…
A serial rapist once sentenced to nearly 900 years in prison could walk free in about 14 years thanks to new California laws after his resentencing. Judge James Arguelles reduced the sentence of Roy Waller, 65, known as the “NorCal Rapist,” from 897 years to life to 858 years to…
What a start to the best weekend of the year. Now, to be fair, this is only the second weekend of the year, but it’s easily going to be the best. And the LIBS let us get to it! Dummies. While they were busy picketing in Minnesota, we coasted on by…
A precious baby is alive today because a mother in crisis chose courage, love, and Life. Within the last 10 days, a newborn was legally and safely surrendered in a Safe Haven Baby Box at Fire Station 9 in Lubbock, Texas. This marked the first baby ever placed in this…
The drills are bound to further strain ties between the U.S. and South Africa, which has been especially targeted for criticism by the Trump administration.CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships launched a week of naval drills with host South Africa off the Cape Town coast Friday…
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s comments regarding the ongoing Somali fraud exposé in Minnesota. Bessent said that the Treasury Department was investigating several money transfer services for their involvement Today, in an update, Secretary Scott Bessent held a press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota with…
MANCHESTER, England (CN) — The European Court of Human Rights is questioning the U.K. government over its 2019 decision to strip Shamima Begum of her British citizenship, raising fresh scrutiny of a case that has long divided courts, politicians and the public.The court confirmed it is examining whether Britain violated…
If you do not agree with Mina Kimes about the Minneapolis ICE shooting, she does not consider you a real person.”The ghouls on this app are reacting to this the way you’d expect, but they are not real people,” Kimes wrote on X this week, responding to coverage of Renee…
If Mangione’s case remains death penalty-eligible, the start date could be pushed further to early 2027.MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal jury could hear Luigi Mangione’s murder case as soon as October of this year.Federal prosecutors said in a court hearing on Friday that they had reached a loose agreement with…
Kim and Luis Solano say their businesses were devastated by the fire, which sent heavy metals into the air and down into the soil and water of the Monterey Bay.(CN) — A lawsuit against an energy company over a massive toxic fire at lithium-ion battery storage site in the Monterey Bay…
President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during his ‘Liberation Day’ event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesThe U.S. Supreme Court on Friday did not issue its highly anticipated ruling on the legality…
An age-old activist group popularized the protest tactic that 37-year-old Renee Good reportedly used before an immigration agent shot and killed her in Minnesota. Local and federal officials as well as former acquaintances attested that Good was in a Minneapolis neighborhood to monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity during the fatal…
The tree-lined neighborhood of my home state of Ohio was idyllic, a lovely little slice of Americana. For the violence of abortion to be endured by the women and children there is truly heartbreaking. While paging through abortion statistics, I came across a statistic that stopped me cold in my…
Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris is calling on Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden to resign or take a leave of absence over allegations he threatened a state lawmaker. In a letter, Harris said “grave and mounting” accusations against McFadden have eroded public confidence and justify his departure amid an…
NASA/Space X Crew-11: NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, Japanese Kimiya Yui, and Russia’s Oleg Platonov. Medical emergency in space. Once again, an emergency in space makes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) change its plans in an urgent fashion, after two astronauts were left stranded in orbit…
Federal policies should encourage marriage and children, says a new Heritage Foundation report that proposes ways to reverse the trends of broken homes, declining marriage rates, and low fertility rates in the United States. The conservative think tank released the report, titled “Saving America by Saving the Family,” on Thursday,…
It’s really starting to look like Rep. Ro Khanna’s push for a California tax on wealth is going to be the biggest own goal in the state’s recent history. As you may recall, this whole thing started with a plan by the SEIU to push a “one-time” 5% tax on about…
While many Amazon Prime customers received settlement refunds last month as part of the company’s settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), there is still a chance for others to file a claim for compensation.As part of the $2.5 billion settlement last year, the company agreed to pay $1.5 billion…
Actor Rob Schneider called Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey a “lunatic” and “disgrace” on the “PBD Podcast” Friday for the mayor’s inflammatory rhetoric after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman in his city. Frey demanded ICE “get the fuck out of Minneapolis” during a Wednesday press…
New York Giants Fans Celebrate Miami Dolphins GM Pick Because He Seemingly Lacks Harbaugh TiesPublishedJanuary 9, 2026 3:15 PM EST•UpdatedJanuary 9, 2026 3:15 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkJohn Harbaugh is currently the most accomplished coach in the entire NFL coach hiring cycle — sorry, Mike McCarthy — and he is clearly atop…
An age-old activist group popularized the protest tactic that 37-year-old Renee Good reportedly used before an immigration agent shot and killed her in Minnesota. Local and federal officials as well as former acquaintances attested that Good was in a Minneapolis neighborhood to monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity during the fatal…
A video released Friday by the Minnesota-based news outlet Alpha News that purportedly came from the ICE agent who fatally shot a motorist during an encounter earlier this week on a Minneapolis street, appears to show the victim and her partner taunting agents before the shooting and the driver accelerating…
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., on Friday called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign in the wake of a fatal shooting in Minneapolis, Minn., involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.”Kristi Noem should resign — before more Americans are killed. She needs to be held to…
Friday morning on NBC’s Today, correspondent Maggie Vespa misled viewers by telling them from the scene of anti-Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota that, a day earlier at the White House, Vice President JD Vance stated “without evidence” that the woman who died when she hit an…
Sparks flew on Friday’s (pre-recorded) episode of The View as ABC co-host Ana Navarro called out co-host Sunny Hostin for her support of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. All week, Hostin was proclaiming that America’s arrest of Maduro was “illegal” and “unlawful.” Since Navarro wasn’t on the show for most of…
It is well known that the media likes to make themselves the main character of every story they can, but Tuesday’s PBS American Experience documentary about the atomic bombings on Japan took things to a whole new level. The main takeaway for PBS’s assembled cast of BlueSky historians is not…
This thoroughly disgusting. This is what Zohran Mamdani supports. It’s evil. “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here,” the group could be heard shouting as cops barricaded them across the street from the synagogue. The red-green alliance is encouraged in New York City. Zohran allows terrorizing Jews…
Tennessee and other Southern states consistently rank high in patriotism, military service and volunteerism, gun culture, Christianity, and conservatism, and they also vote Republican. Image generated by AI based on author prompts. Driving to a breakfast buffet featuring grits and biscuits and gravy, I passed countless churches, most with an…
“The House has now stripped that earmark out of that spending bill. But again, this is how easy money has been flowing to bad actors in Minnesota.” The post House Axes Omar’s $1M Earmark for Restaurant-Based ‘Substance Abuse Clinic’ first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Single family homes are shown in a residential neighborhood in Miramar, Fla., on Oct. 27, 2022. Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe landscape for mortgage rates shifted dramatically after President Donald Trump said on Jan. 8 that he’s directing representatives to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae…
An IRS investigator faces multiple felony counts for supposedly killing his wife and setting up a catfish scheme so that a stranger would take the blame.FAIRFAX, Va. (CN) — A man charged with plotting the murders of his wife and another man — with an assist from the family’s au…
America Sold: The Most Heinous Crime In American History Today one of the biggest issues for those of us who are awake, involved and willing to push back, is the constantly increasing stranglehold on power over We The People being exercised by what is supposed to be a Government Of…
A home is constructed at a housing development in Lemont, Ill., in this file photo. Scott Olson/Getty ImagesPrivately owned housing starts for all property types in October 2025 declined to their lowest level in nearly six years, according to a Jan. 9 report from the Census Bureau.The report shows starts…
Cellphone footage showing perspective of the federal agent at center of shooting of an anti-ICE agitator in Minneapolis was released Friday, showing the woman stepping on the gas upon seeing the officer in front of her vehicle. The ICE agent has been identified as Jonathan Ross, 43, a conservative Christian…
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier via pxhere The EU’s increasingly unpopular, globalist political class is crashing out after President Donald Trump ordered the US to withdraw from a wide array of international organizations tied to climate policy, gender ideology, and what his administration has labeled “woke global governance.” The decision has…
The case with Trinidad Chambliss will likely lead to a lawsuit against the NCAAPublishedJanuary 9, 2026 2:40 PM EST•UpdatedJanuary 9, 2026 2:30 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkOle Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss was asking the NCAA for a sixth year of eligibility, based on medical reasons that kept him off the field during…