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Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries discussed extending government funding past a Sept. 30 deadline into November or December when the two spoke last week, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the private conversation. Two of the people familiar with the call said Johnson floated the short-term stopgap to Jeffries, which would avoid a government shutdown on Oct. 1 and delay what could be a bitter standoff over federal spending. Senior Republicans discussed the upcoming funding deadline during a closed-door meeting in Johnson’s office Tuesday afternoon. Johnson said in the meeting that Jeffries floated passing…

Republicans subpoenaed the documents after the FBI and DOJ said the convicted sex offender kept no “client list” The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has released more than 33,000 pages of documents related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The committee posted a link to the 33,295 pages on its website Tuesday evening. Chairman James Comer subpoenaed the files from the Department of Justice last month, after a DOJ and FBI review concluded that Epstein had kept no ‘client list.’ The disclosure prompted Democrats and some Republicans to accuse President Donald Trump of a coverup.Speaking to reporters on…

Tomas Castelazo, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Between January and July 2025, more than 1.2 million immigrants left the U.S. labor force, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by Pew Research Center. This marks the first decline in the immigrant population in decades, following a record 14 million illegals in 2023. The drop demonstrates the success of President Trump’s strengthened border security, immigration enforcement, and voluntary deportation programs. Immigrants make up nearly 20% of the U.S. workforce, including 45% of farmworkers, 30% of construction workers, 24% of service workers, and 43% of home health aides. Their absence…

Coldplay co-founder Chris Martin recognized two Israeli fans as “equal humans on earth” after welcoming them onstage and appearing surprised to learn their country of origin. “I’m treating you as equal humans on earth, regardless of where you come from,” Martin said, as if being from Israel left that question in doubt. He added: “Although it’s controversial maybe I also want to welcome people in the audience from Palestine.” The crowd greeted the revelation that the two fans were Israeli with a mixture of cheers and boos; the crowd’s reaction to Martin’s shout-out to “Palestine” was uniformly positive. Reactions on…

The Real Economics of Tariffs: Why America Holds All the Cards The debate over tariffs is often frustrating because it so seldomly touches on reality instead of whiteboard economics of the Ivory Tower. Critics focus on textbook theories about comparative advantage and free trade efficiency, but they ignore the fundamental reality of how global trade actually works today. For decades, the U.S. has played a peculiar role in the global economy: we consume what the rest of the world produces. That is not a neutral or natural arrangement. It’s the result of policy choices—ours and theirs. And tariffs are finally…

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed Monday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that President Donald Trump would like to be a dictator. Host Ari Melber said, “We were both around for the Bush era. He was widely criticized. But when people said, hey, he’s acting like an autocrat, President Bush would be quick to deny, and then we would report that and go from there. What does it tell you? Does it concern you that rather than deny the president in action and language continues to sort of launder or normalize the idea that maybe some dictators are good…

GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson launched her campaign Tuesday for Iowa’s open Senate seat, aiming to replace two-term Sen. Joni Ernst in the red-leaning state. Hinson, who has served in the House since 2021, has long been seen as a potential successor to Ernst, who announced earlier in the day that she won’t run for reelection. Hinson hinted at jumping into the race in a post on X just minutes after Ernst said she wouldn’t seek reelection — then confirmed it later with a follow-up announcement on social media. “I’m all in,” she wrote. “I’m running for the United States Senate…

A Tren De Aragua drug boat is blown to pieces by US Military forces President Trump on Tuesday provided more details on the strike against a Tren de Aragua drug trafficking boat from Venezuela, “while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States.” As The Gateway Pundit reported, over 4,000 Marines and sailors have been deployed to the waters of the Caribbean as part of a “counter-cartel mission.” We’re already seeing the results. It can be recalled that President Trump designated foreign drug cartels, including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation…

We don’t need to rescue western civilization from outside forces, we need to rescue ourselves from western civilization. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Western civilization is not worth saving. I think that’s been pretty well established by now. That’s one of the silliest things about the way rightists are always babbling about how we need to protect our way of life from immigrants or Islam or “the trans agenda” or whatever. They’re beginning with the assumption that this train wreck of a society is worth saving at all. I am not saying that westerners…

A Tunisian migrant was shot and killed by police in Marseille on Tuesday after allegedly stabbing multiple people while reciting verses from the Qur’an. UPDATE 1935: The suspected knife attacker has been identified as 35-year-old Abdelkader D. from Tunisia. Le Figaro reports that he was said to be “unstable” and had recently been expelled from a mosque over making “aggressive remarks”.UPDATE 1700: According to Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone, five people were injured in the knife attack on Tuesday afternoon, one of whom remains in critical condition. The suspected migrant attacker is said to have been in the country legally. The original…