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President Donald Trump shared that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is not replaceable, days after she announced she would be stepping down from her role at the end of the month. When asked by Alexis McAdams, a national correspondent with Fox News, if Leavitt was “replaceable,” Trump said “no.” Trump also joked that Leavitt “likes her children more than she likes Trump.” WATCH — Karoline Leavitt: Communism Should Never Be Allowed to Lead the United States: “Is Karoline Leavitt replaceable?” McAdams asked. “No, she’s not. She really isn’t,” Trump answered, adding that “she’s done a great job.” “Do you have somebody…
President Trump on Monday welcomed hero lifeguard Ryder Williams to the Oval Office after the teen saved a little boy’s life. 16-year-old Ryder Williams saved a 10-year-old boy from drowning in violent waves in Santa Cruz, California, last month. Ryder Williams repeatedly ducked under the whitewash as waves continued to crash on him during the rescue. Bystanders tried to rush into the shore break to help the lifeguard pull the boy out of the churning water. The teen lifeguard held onto the drowning child and would not let him go. Watch the video here. After the video of the rescue…
Cuba’s communist regime allegedly attempted to kidnap a group of Cuban athletes who recently defected in the Dominican Republic, the athletes denounced to 14 y Medio over the weekend. For decades, the Castro regime has maintained absolute control over the nation’s athletes, using them in propaganda to falsely claim the “success” of communism in sports despite Cuba’s recurring lackluster performance in international competitions. Cuban athletes permitted to travel abroad to represent their country at international sporting events are subjected to draconian surveillance to prevent them from fleeing communism. In recent days, five Cubans athletes successfully managed to escape from the Cuban delegation…
More than half of Democrats hold a more positive view of socialism as opposed to capitalism, according to a recent CBS News/YouGov poll. The poll, which surveyed 2,287 adults in the United States between August 12-14, found that there is a 26-point difference between Democrats’ positive views on socialism and capitalism. Among Democrats, 58 percent were found to have a positive view of socialism, while 32 percent have a positive view of capitalism. The poll also found that 18 percent of Democrats have a negative view of socialism, while 50 percent have a negative view of capitalism. The poll also…
The House Ethics Committee announced Monday it is investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez for allegedly “engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer.” The investigation into the California Democrat comes as the House is poised to consider ethics overhaul legislation as soon as next month that would, among other things, ban lawmakers from having sexual relationships with all congressional aides. The New York Post previously reported that Gomez, 51, had an intimate encounter with a House staffer. In a statement Monday, Gomez acknowledged cheating on his wife in years past but maintained that his extramarital affairs were “consensual in nature…
The USS Benfold is the latest US Navy vessel to leave its crew deprived of basic necessities A US Navy destroyer spent four days without power in the South China Sea last month, depriving its crew of hot meals, flushing toilets, and air conditioning, CNN has reported. The report comes as US sailors in the Persian Gulf are facing similar conditions.The USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, suffered an “engineering casualty involving its generators” while on an exercise in the South China Sea last month, a Navy spokesman told CNN on Monday.The Benfold lost the ability to maneuver on…
On Monday President Trump held a press briefing at The White House. His guests of honor included hero lifeguard Ryder Williams from Santa Cruz who recently was caught on film rescuing 10-year-old Aaron Bohnen at Seabright State Beach in California. President Trump honors hero lifeguard Ryder Williams at the White House. – WH screengrab On Sunday, President Trump dropped a foreign-policy bombshell, ordering Secretary Pete Hegseth to substantially reduce the massive joint military exercises set to begin with South Korea on Monday. In a blistering Truth Social post, Trump said the long-planned drills are too expensive for American taxpayers and…
The creative and financial failures at the Disney Grooming Syndicate march on in both its theatrical releases and, especially, a massive pile of Disney+ original (and very expensive) streaming series no one watches. According to Nielsen, not a single Disney+ original streaming series ranked in the top 20 most-watched streaming series so far this year. In fact, Disney has not even done a decent job acquiring series. Only two acquired series in the Nielsen top 20 streaming series are on Disney+: The Simpsons at number 18 with 10.2 billion minutes streamed (no doubt aided by the fact that there are…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed via its public health agency on Sunday that at least 2,325 people have died of Ebola infections in the current outbreak in the east of the country, making it the deadliest such outbreak in the country’s history. Experts noted that the extremely high death toll is likely not a full count of the people killed by the disease, as the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) was slow to identify an outbreak in the affected area, and that only one other known Ebola outbreak – the 2014-2016 outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia…
Iranian citizens are telling foreign media outlets that survival is growing difficult as the price of food and other basic commodities soars by 400 percent under pressure from the U.S. blockade, even as the regime in Tehran insists the food situation is under control. “I’m in survival mode,” a 33-year-old cryptocurrency trader from western Iran using the alias “Nima” told The National on Monday. Nima said his grocery bills have tripled from prices that were already painfully high before the conflict with the United States began and some items have quadrupled. He said this is forcing him to “choose between…