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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Photo: Jordan Conradson/TGP) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded on Thursday to questions about Rep. Maria Salazar’s Dignity Act, which would give illegal aliens a path to citizenship or renewable seven-year legal status.  Leavitt told the Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese that the President had not seen the legislation and that he “will not support amnesty for illegal aliens in any way.” WATCH: Reese: Congresswoman Salazar introduced legislation that would give some illegal immigrants in the country a path to citizenship. Ten Republicans signed on to what she’s calling the Dignity Act. I’m curious…

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“It’s dark on the Left now. They’ve reached that predictable moment where inflicting pain is all they have left.“ — Sasha Stone Theories on the Epstein mess fly around like a murmuration of starlings wheeling across an angry summer sky. The birds are just birds. They are not the storm clouds in the background. Mark the difference. You can rightly say that Mr. Trump has handled this Epstein business rather awkwardly — especially last Wednesday’s little show of vexation in the cabinet meeting, barking, nothing to see. . . just move along. What? You’ve been watching the Epstein psychodrama unspool for…

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President Donald Trump signed on Friday the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, a substantial crypto-based legislation that sets a light-touch regulatory framework on stablecoin issuance. Trump, who joked the bill was named after him, signed the legislation at the White House with many of his Cabinet members in attendance, as well as lawmakers and leaders in the crypto industry. “This could be perhaps the greatest revolution in financial technology since the birth of the Internet itself. A lot of people are saying that,” Trump said, before he appeared to ask the Winklevoss twins, who founded…

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Days of clashes triggered by an alleged sex assault by an asylum seeker placed by the government into a hotel in the town erupted into violence in Epping, Essex on Thursday night with police promising arrests. Two people were arrested overnight in relation to scuffles in Epping, Essex (15 miles north-east of central London) said to have taken place over the presence of a migrant hotel in the town, and the alleged sexual assault committed by an Ethiopian asylum seeker resident against a 14-year-old girl. Essex police said in their statement that Thursday night’s protest was initially peaceful, saying of…

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Wells Fargo suspended travel for all of its employees to China on Thursday after the Chinese government slapped an exit ban on banker Chenyue Mao. Mao is an American citizen who was born in Shanghai. She is a managing director for Wells Fargo, working from an office in Atlanta. According to the bank, her duties include helping international companies manage their working capital in different countries. Mao specializes in “factoring,” the practice of selling accounts receivable to third parties. The seller gets cash immediately, while the buyer or “factor” proceeds to collect on the invoices they purchased at a discount.…

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LONDON (AP) – The U.K. on Friday sanctioned Russian military intelligence units and officers it said were behind preparations for a 2022 bomb attack on a theater in southern Ukraine that killed hundreds of civilians. Britain’s foreign ministry said it sanctioned 18 officers working for Russian military intelligence, known as the GRU, along with three units. It said the officers were also accused of targeting the family of a former Russian spy who was later poisoned in the U.K. with a nerve agent. More than 70 different attacks since 2022 have been attributed to Russia by Western officials who say…

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US President Donald Trump has filed a libel lawsuit against billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his media empire over a Wall Street Journal report that claimed he sent a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.The suit, filed Friday in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, names Murdoch, News Corp, Dow Jones, and two Journal reporters as defendants, according to multiple media reports. While the full complaint was not immediately available, court records confirm the case has been docketed.“I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his ‘pile of garbage’ newspaper,…

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US Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed a motion asking a federal court to release grand jury transcripts associated with the Epstein cases. FLASH: Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Atty General Todd Blanche have filed motion in New York “to release grand jury transcripts associated with” Jeffrey Epstein casehttps://t.co/b2m0AacTNy pic.twitter.com/tASYcUjKbG — Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 18, 2025 On Thursday evening, President Trump asked Bondi to produce all pertinent grand jury transcripts related to Jeffrey Epstein. “Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to…

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – The French military completed its withdrawal from Senegal on Thursday, the last West African country where it maintained a permanent troop presence, amid waning regional influence in recent years. France has faced opposition from leaders of some of its former colonies in Africa over what they described as a demeaning and heavy-handed approach to the continent. The French military handed over Camp Geille, its largest base in Senegal, along with a nearby air facility, to the Senegalese government during a ceremony in the capital, Dakar. Gen. Pascal Ianni, head of French forces in Africa, said the…

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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has reintroduced the “Audit the Fed” bill, with Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) and other Republicans joining the effort to expose the Federal Reserve’s ethics scandals, lack of transparency, and $2.5 billion luxury headquarters renovation. Paul has put forward the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, widely known as “Audit the Fed,” to require a full audit of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors and regional Federal Reserve banks by the Government Accountability Office. Backed by a group of Republican senators and taxpayer watchdogs, the bill aims to give Congress deeper oversight of how the central bank manages trillions…

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