Author: Press Room
At least fourteen people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Democrat-controlled Chicago, Illinois. CBS News reported the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred Friday just after 5:40 p.m. following an argument between a 42-year-old man and another man. The second man pulled a gun and shot the 42-year-old, hitting him multiple times. The 42-year-old was transported to a hospital, where he died. The weekend’s second fatal shooting occurred at 11:40 p.m. Saturday “in the area of the 5100 block of West Chicago Avenue.” Officers responded to the sound of gunfire and a found a man on the ground with…
Just a few months ago, President Donald Trump denounced Rand Paul as a “sick wacko” who opposes “everything.” Now the Kentucky senator is a key gatekeeper for one of the president’s biggest priorities. As chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Paul faces a stark choice as his fellow Republicans race to pass a party-line immigration enforcement bill by Trump’s June 1 deadline. At the same time, he’s confronting his own political future. Paul’s colleagues sidelined him last year when he refused to give as big a cash infusion for border security as the White House wanted.…
Tehran has claimed it has achieved a great victory and forced Washington to accept its 10-point plan US President Donald Trump has suspended his looming attack on Iran’s energy infrastructure, announcing a two-week ceasefire to negotiate a long-term peace agreement based on a “workable” 10-point proposal from Tehran.Just hours after warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran refused to open the Strait of Hormuz, Trump reversed course following a direct appeal from Pakistani negotiators.“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday denounced Cuba’s communist regime for running a massive healthcare fraud operation in South Florida. Kennedy revealed details of the Cuban regime’s fraud operations in the U.S. during an interview with the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, during which he discussed the progress of his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda and his office’s efforts to reform food and drug guidelines, restore trust in public health agencies post-COVID, and combat deep corruption — particularly after the Biden administration had dramatically reduced HHS’s capacity to catch fraudsters. Kennedy…
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) says he needs higher taxes on prosperous whites to fund his “Black and Brown” political machine of immigrants and minorities. “Today’s true cost of living measure confirms that the affordability crisis touches every corner of our city,” self-proclaimed socialist Mamdani declared on April 6, adding: We know that these effects are not applied evenly: So often it is black and brown New Yorkers who are hit the hardest. This Preliminary Racial Equity Plan is the first in developing a whole-of-government approach to tackling that reality … to solve decades of neglect and discrimination. Mamdani, who is an ethnic Indian immigrant from…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested a thrice-deported illegal alien accused of kidnapping a little girl after the sanctuary state of New York freed him from jail and sent him back into the community. On March 28, police in Long Island, New York, allege that 38-year-old illegal alien Carlos Corte-Corte of Ecuador kidnapped a four-year-old girl from a laundromat while she was there with her mother. Police located the girl at a nearby library hours after her kidnapping. Following his initial arrest for kidnapping and cruelty towards a child, Corte-Corte was released from jail back into the community rather than being…
The tech mogul has accused his former startup co-founder of carrying out an “illicit for-profit conversion” of the artificial intelligence firm Tech billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman fired as part of his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant, court documents filed on Tuesday show.The mogul sued OpenAI in 2024, accusing it of defrauding him of $38 million in initial funding he contributed when co-founding the company in 2015, under the understanding that it would remain a nonprofit. The AI startup, valued at $852 billion, restructured late last year, and is…
Iran reportedly violated the ceasefire agreement brokered by Pakistan in a matter of hours by once again closing the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic, ostensibly because Israel has refused to halt its operation against the Hezbollah terrorists of Lebanon. Iran’s state-run Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Wednesday morning that two oil tankers were allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz “with permission from Iran” – but the strait was then closed again “in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon.” CBS News reported that Iran’s remaining naval forces are…
A mob of teenagers swarmed Chicago’s Hyde Park on March 30, jumping onto cars and running through the streets. Multiple vehicles were damaged during the incident and neighbors said the mob did not leave the area for hours, Fox 32 reported on March 31. When speaking of the state of his own car, neighbor Jason Hale said, “Yeah, it’s bad. The hood is messed up, terrible. A thousand worth of damage, dents everywhere, footprints everywhere.” Video footage shows the young people running down a street with some of them leaping onto parked cars. The chaos included shouting, car alarms, and sirens…
The Chinese Communist Party proclaimed that it would “continue playing a constructive role” in peace in the Middle East following President Donald Trump and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announcing a ceasefire on Wednesday. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning claimed during her regular press briefing on Wednesday that China “has worked actively to help bring about an end to the conflict.” Through its state media arms, Beijing recalled that China, alongside the mediating government of Pakistan, recently published what it claimed was a “five-point initiative for restoring peace.” As that proposal included no concrete recommendations on how to end the…