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‘He’ll gut you like a trout!’ Bondi replacement spells trouble for Dems
Donald J. Trump yanked the plug on his attorney general, Pam Bondi, Thursday — tossing her from the top law enforcement post and immediately elevating her hard-charging deputy, Todd Blanche, to take the reins on an interim basis. The Beltway chatter class may be...
Dems’ Easter snub: Where’s Joe? Party fires ‘brutal smack down of Biden’
In a tone-deaf Easter weekend post, the party’s official X account tried to serve up some warm-and-fuzzy nostalgia. Instead, it triggered a backlash over what many are calling a glaring and telling omission: President Joe Biden. The now-viral post featured former...
Trump admin building a health care cost bomb set to explode right before midterms
Some Americans could face significant new health care affordability challenges shortly before the 2026 midterm elections. In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a nearly flat Medicare Advantage (MA) rate increase which, if...
Stephen A. Smith loses it on caller who says Biden didn’t open borders
SiriusXM host Stephen A. Smith snapped at a caller who said he had no recollection of former President Joe Biden implementing an open border policy during a Wednesday episode of “Straight Shooter with Stephen A.” The Biden administration reportedly presided over the...
Shooter at Virginia college had past conviction for supporting ISIS
The person who was shot and killed after opening fire at Old Dominion University on Thursday was identified as Mohamed Jalloh, a former National Guardsman who was convicted of supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in 2017, multiple media outlets reported....
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Report: $460B in HUD spending barely impacted housing affordability
(The Center Square) – The typical American has to save for at least a decade to afford a home in their state, despite the federal government spending nearly half a trillion dollars on housing programs since 2015, a new report reveals. Open The Books analyzed...
Meta appears to steer ‘Ceuta’ searches to warning statement, resources for moving to ‘new country’
Meta told its users to “be careful” and offered them “migration info” when they searched for the name of an area where a mass migration crisis taking place, according to multiple screenshots posted to X. The big tech company’s social media platforms displayed a...
Voters to decide who will fill Swalwell’s seat in Congress
(The Center Square) – Voters in California’s 14th Congressional District will head to the ballot box Tuesday to choose the successor to former U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell. Swalwell, D-San Francisco Bay Area, resigned in April from Congress amid sexual misconduct...
No price tag on Trump’s plan to claim the Strait of Hormuz
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump says he'll declare the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, but no federal agency has said what controlling the key oil chokepoint would cost taxpayers. "After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly...
Navy awards Raytheon $22.9B to boost Tomahawk production
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a $22.9 billion, multi-year contract to accelerate production of Tomahawk cruise missiles, aiming to build more than 1,000 of the long-range strike weapons a year. The Department of War announced the award...
Economic alarm that foreshadowed 2008 crisis is blaring again
The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed to its highest level since 2007 Monday as investors grew jittery over the federal government’s fiscal crisis and the Iran war. The yields on Treasurys rose to 5.31% as uncertainty over the end of a ceasefire between Iran and the...
