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Elon Musk’s social media platform X won in a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling over a gag order that prevented the company from informing the public when it receives government search warrants and subpoenas, the company said Tuesday. “In a victory for transparency and free speech, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in X’s favor to limit the U.S. government’s ability to issue gag orders,” X’s Global Government Affairs account announced in a Tuesday post. “These gag orders prevent X from notifying the public when it receives government search warrants and subpoenas,” X continued in its…

(AFP) — France’s Culture Minister Rachida Dati is to go on trial accused of corruption and abuse of power while she was a member of European Parliament, a judicial source told AFP Tuesday. Dati, a 59-year-old who holds ambitions to become Paris mayor next year, was charged in 2019 on suspicions she lobbied for the Renault-Nissan carmaking group while at the European Union institution. She denies the allegations. Dati is accused of accepting 900,000 euros ($1.06 million at current rates) in lawyer’s fees between 2010 and 2012 from a Netherlands-based subsidiary of Renault-Nissan, but not really working for them, while…

California’s new $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast food workers has resulted in a significant decline in employment in that sector, leading to 18,000 fewer jobs than would have been the case otherwise. That’s according to a new paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) this month, which said: We analyze the effect of California’s $20 fast food minimum wage, which was enacted in September 2023 and went into effect in April 2024, on employment in the fast food sector. In unadjusted data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we find that employment in California’s fast…

At least 28 people were shot, six of them fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. The first shooting fatality was discovered shortly before 1:00 a.m. Friday in “the 7500-block of S. St. Lawrence,” ABC 7 reported. A woman and a man were shot; the man survived, but the woman succumbed to her wounds. The weekend’s second fatal shooting occurred around 10:00 p.m. Friday “in the 2800 Block of W. Arthington Avenue.” The victim was a 22-year-old man who was standing outside when someone opened fire on him. He was transported to a hospital, where he died from his…

Sara Duterte has called on the International Criminal Court to release her father, Rodrigo Duterte Sara Duterte, the daughter of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, has condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “meddling” in her country’s politics. She has demanded that it drop all charges and release her father.Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in March 2025, six years after the Philippines exited the ICC, at Manila’s international airport. He was extradited to The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity linked to his anti-drug campaign, which some Western organizations claim led to extrajudicial killings. Duterte has denied the accusations, calling his…

The office of former President Barack Obama responded to Trump’s assertion that Barack Obama was the “ringleader” of the Russia collusion hoax. Last Friday, ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a December 2016 presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax. Barack Obama knew it was a hoax and he was involved in manufacturing and politicizing the intelligence to create the Trump-Russia collusion canard. “We assess that foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome this year. We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended…

If you don’t think Washington is in the maws of a Fiscal Doomsday Machine, think again. And the place to start is with the 30-year CBO projections—expressed as the dollar increase from the current $29 trillion level of publicly held US Treasury debt. To wit, if Washington does nothing except leave current tax, spending and structural deficit policies in place (i.e. baseline policy), the publicly-held debt will grow by $102 trillion over the next three decades, reaching a staggering 154% of what would be $85 trillion of GDP by 2054. Moreover, that outcome assumes that Rosy Scenario does not loose her footing…

Chenguang Gong, a 59-year-old resident of San Jose, pled guilty on Monday to stealing missile-tracking technology from a research and development firm in the Los Angeles area. The Department of Justice (DOJ) described Gong as a dual citizen of the United States and China. He came to the United States around 1993 and became a U.S. citizen in 2011. He earned a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Clemson and has done Ph.D. work at Stanford. He was hired by the unnamed research and development firm in January 2023 as an “application-specific integrated circuit design manager responsible for…

Protests against military age male migrants being put up in hotels in Britain appear to be spreading, as locals in Norfolk took to the streets to decry a planned site in their small town. Chants of “stop the boats” and “send them home” were heard as Britons gathered outside the Park Hotel in the Norfolk town of Diss on Monday evening, the Eastern Daily Press reported. Anger erupted in the town in the wake of a decision by the Home Office — the government agency tasked with controlling immigration — to use the hotel to house single, male migrants exclusively.…

A majority of American voters believe it is at least somewhat important to keep illegal migrants off benefit programs, a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports revealed. The survey asked respondents, “How important is it to prevent illegal immigrants from getting government benefits like Medicaid and food stamps?” Across the board, 72 percent said it is at least somewhat important. Of these, 48 percent consider it “very” important. Another 15 percent said it is “not very important,” followed by ten percent who said it is “not at all important.” Another three percent remain unsure. Despite narratives from the establishment media, there…