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Saudi Arabia has officially ended its “kafala” system of rules for migrant labor, a system that effectively turned some 13 million migrants into indentured servants and gave their employers total control over their lives. Kafala is an Arabic word that means “sponsorship.” The system was created in the 1950s as a means of importing, and controlling, low-cost migrant labor during the Saudi oil boom. Under kafala, every migrant worker is assigned to a local sponsor or “kafeel,” who would manage all aspects of the worker’s life in Saudi Arabia. The kafala system was never anything more than a scheme for…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday said that Democrats are aiming to reverse many of the hard-fought gains President Donald Trump has achieved by reining in President Joe Biden’s historic levels of deficit spending. “The budget deficit began to shrink dramatically beginning in the second quarter of this year when there was no overlap with the Biden administration. From April to September, the cumulative deficit totaled just $468 billion. This is the lowest reading since 2019 and is down nearly 40 percent from the comparable period last year when Biden was spending recklessly,” Bessent wrote on X, sharing a chart…

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has arrested nearly half a million illegal aliens in the last nine months, Secretary Kristi Noem revealed, with the majority having criminal charges or criminal convictions. “Since January, the Department of Homeland Security has arrested over 480,000 criminal illegal aliens — 70 percent of those individuals have criminal charges against them or have been convicted of those criminal charges,” Noem said at a press conference in Sarasota, Florida, on Monday. Noem said DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are “focused on the worst of the worst, bringing these individuals to justice.”…

Republican congressional leaders are making plans for a new spending punt as the shutdown drags on, and any new version is likely to postpone the next deadline until 2026. House and Senate GOP leaders are debating a wide range of options for a new continuing resolution to fund the government, given that their current preferred vehicle funds the government only through Nov. 21. The most likely option would run into mid to late January, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the private conversations. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise confirmed Wednesday that a longer stopgap is under consideration, but…

The heist at the Natural History Museum in Paris marks another incident in a rising trend of high-profile burglaries in Europe A Chinese national has been charged over a €1.5 million gold heist last month at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, Franceinfo reported on Tuesday, citing the prosecutor’s office.The disappearance of nearly 6kg of gold was discovered by museum staff on the morning of September 16. The nuggets had been part of a permanent exhibit.According to prosecutors, the stolen items included Bolivian nuggets donated to the Academy of Sciences in the 18th century, pieces from Russia’s Ural…

ATI Government Solutions Contract Manager Melayne Cromwell caught on hidden camera by O’Keefe Media Group admitting to a “pass-through” scheme exploiting federal minority-preference contracts Following the explosive O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) undercover investigation, Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced that ATI Government Solutions and three of its top executives have been officially suspended from conducting any new business with the federal government. The bombshell announcement comes just days after OMG released footage exposing ATI’s alleged exploitation of the SBA’s 8(a) minority contracting program, a system meant to help socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses compete for federal contracts. As…

The House Oversight Committee submitted an information request to the Wikimedia Foundation that owns Wikipedia in August with a deadline of September 10 for providing requested documents, with which the Foundation has failed to comply with according to Jewish News Syndicate citing a press assistant for one Committee member. Republicans on the Committee are investigating bias, particularly anti-Israeli bias, at the online encyclopedia. Aaron Bandler at JNS quoted a statement from Carlie Baker, a press assistant to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) who is chair of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Government Innovation. Baker stated that “The Wikimedia Foundation…

Democrats are making history but doing it for the wrong reasons, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on the 22nd day of the Democrat shutdown, reminding Americans of some of the things Democrats demanded in their “dirty” counterproposal to open the government, including restoring funding of left-wing pet projects in foreign countries. “This is now the second longest government shutdown of any kind ever in the history of our country, and it’s just shameful,” Johnson said at the beginning of the press conference. “Democrats keep making history, but they’re doing it for all the wrong reasons.” Johnson reiterated — as…

A felon with an AR-15 in his truck was arrested Monday morning at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airport after his family reported him for allegedly making threats to harm people. FOX 13 reported that police were alerted to the suspect, Billy Joe Cagle of Cartersville, by his family, who called and warned that they believed he was headed to Atlanta to harm people. Cagle entered the airport but did not have a gun with him when arrested. Following his arrest, police searched Cagle’s vehicle and found a rifle. The rifle had one round in the chamber and 26 rounds in the magazine. Alive 11 noted…

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is “strongly” considering running for Senate, she said on Wednesday, raising the prospect of adding yet another marquee name to what is already a crowded Democratic primary. Crockett cited the Republican-led remap of the state’s congressional districts earlier this year as a reason she might seek higher office in an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Lurie Daniel Favors Show.” “I am looking,” she said. “Because if you want to take my seat of 766,000 away, I feel like there has to be some karma in that to where I take your seat that is for 30 million…