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A three-judge D.C. Circuit panel of Obama appointees on Tuesday affirmed a lower-court order blocking the IRS’s mass “Data-Exchange Procedure” that handed Immigration and Customs Enforcement last-known addresses for tens of thousands of people ICE said were under criminal investigation for remaining in the country after a final removal order. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under Secretary Kristi Noem and the IRS reached a landmark interagency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to break down federal bureaucracy silos and aid in national deportation efforts. Under the agreement, ICE sent requests to the IRS to cross-reference…

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay on the company’s website Saturday warning that no AI lab has done enough on alignment and monitoring to justify continuing to scale systems at maximum speed. Meanwhile, OpenAI has just launched its most powerful AI model to date. In the essay, Pachocki claims that voluntary slowdowns are likely to become common across the industry until shared safety standards are established. “This is a time that calls for extreme caution,” he wrote. OpenAI would unilaterally hold back further scaling when needed, he said, but he argued that broader action from industry and government…

The United States under the Trump administration is stepping into the Russia-Ukraine war because “Europeans don’t want to engage,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a Breitbart News event. While speaking with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle and Breitbart News Finance and Economics Editor John Carney, Bessent was asked if he thought there was “a deal in the offing to end the war in Ukraine.” The question comes after President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Moscow, Russia and Kyiv, Ukraine. Bessent expressed that the Trump administration “thought it was important” to have the…

Trump Economic Advisor Christopher Phelan said at Breitbart’s State of the Economy event on Tuesday that job gains have soared higher than 77 economists’ predictions. “Not only was this jobs report three times higher than the Bloomberg median estimate, it was higher than every single one of them – it wasn’t just higher than the average,” said Phelan about the August jobs report blowout. “I think there’s a lot of good things going forward.” Economists had expected the economy to add 55,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to tick up to 4.2 percent from 4.1 percent in July. Instead, the…

Monday on MS NOW’s “The 11th Hour,” Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) said President Donald Trump is attempting to “subvert a free and fair election.” Neguse said, “In my view, behind Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert a free and fair election is to also create chaos and doubt about the mail ballots system. As you know, here in Colorado we have a gold standard system that we’ve had in place for over a decade. The vast majority of Coloradans that I represent in western and northern Colorado, in rural Colorado and in suburban Colorado, vote by mail. It is a tried and…

The Israeli prime minister made the decision under pressure from the US, the agency’s sources have said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the removal of illegal settler outposts in the occupied West Bank, Reuters has reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.Netanyahu made the demand under pressure from Israel’s main ally, the US, which recently expressed concerns over the rise in attacks on Palestinian homes by the Jewish settlers, the agency said in an article on Sunday. It was not immediately clear when the demolitions would start, it added.The Israeli outlet Ynet claimed earlier that the prime…

The Trump administration continues to target left-wing extremist groups aligned with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. Photo by Becker1999, licensed under CC BY 2.0 On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Palestine Action, a UK organization proscribed as a terrorist group in July 2025. The designation also included the transnational group Masar Badil and the Italy-based digital services provider Autistici Inventati as part of a broader action against the growing threat of violent far-left terrorism. Palestine Action was founded in 2020 by Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard as a UK-based direct-action group.…

Stopping mass migrations means working Americans make more money and have more jobs, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a Breitbart News policy event, describing the underlying fundamentals of the economy as “fantastic and accelerating.” When asked about the state of the economy, Bessent described the underlying fundamentals as “fantastic and accelerating.” “They’re accelerating, and we saw it with that jobs number. And when jobs number can be noisy, but when was the last time you got upward revisions?” Bessent asked. “And you know, we’re seeing too that somehow supply and demand does matter in the labor market, especially when…

During a portion of an interview aired on Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) stated that if Democrats attempt to impeach President Donald Trump if they take the majority in the House “it will be a sideshow and a distraction. What I don’t want to do is see another impeachment that amounts to nothing except a virtue signal, and that’s important. I just don’t want a sideshow,” but Democrats should go “wherever the facts lead.” Co-host Amna Nawaz asked, “On the accountability front, do you want to see Democrats impeach the President if they win back the majority?”…

The world’s most expensive weapons program remains plagued by technical flaws, soaring costs, and uncomfortable questions about its combat value The F-35 multi-role fifth-generation fighter has made headlines for various reasons: its deployment in the conflict with Iran, deliveries to nations participating in the F-35 program, new missiles designed for the aircraft, and staggering operational costs. Even though production of the F-35 has surpassed 1,000 units, doubts persist regarding the program’s overall effectiveness and the aircraft’s compliance with all the standards of a fifth-generation fighter. Let’s take a closer look. In June 2015, a report by an American test pilot appeared…