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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is financially backing left-wing climate lawfare in the United States, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and dark money expert Scott Walter revealed the shady details while testifying before a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday. The hearing, titled “Enter the Dragon—China and the Left’s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominance,” was held by the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights, dug deep into how China has funded the push for progressive courts and to weaken American energy production, following a bombshell State Armor report exposing Energy Foundation China’s (EFC)…
Senate Republicans are planning to take an initial vote at noon on Saturday to take up the megabill. Leadership laid out the timeline during a closed-door lunch on Friday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) said after the lunch. A person granted anonymity to discuss internal scheduling confirmed the noon timeline but cautioned Republicans haven’t locked in the schedule yet. Senate Majority Leader John Thune did not tell senators at the lunch that he currently has the votes to take up the bill. Several senators are not currently ready to vote “yes” over concerns about Medicaid language or…
Refugee status is being denied on grounds that people can relocate to safer parts of Ukraine, according to the newspaper The UK has begun turning down asylum claims from Ukrainians, asserting that applicants can safely relocate to other parts of Ukraine, the Guardian has reported.A London-based legal firm told the newspaper on Friday that it receives weekly inquiries from Ukrainians whose refusal letters commonly state that they do not meet the threshold for persecution under the Refugee Convention, as applicants are deemed able to relocate to safer parts of Ukraine.The letters also cite the availability of public services in Ukraine…
Orbán does not want Ukraine and its war in the European Union. For the last three and a half years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has stood almost alone against the constant pro-Ukraine war mongering in Europe, only very recently joined by Slovak PM Robert Fico. Orbán has consistently opposed Ukraine’s entrance on the EU, and has called a national referendum in Hungary about this, in which no less than 95% of those participating rejected ‘dragging’ the war-torn country into the troubled union. ‘They said NO to war, NO to economic ruin, and NO to Brussels’ delusions. With over 2…
ToplineThe Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for parents to broadly object to content in schools that they find objectionable on religious grounds, a ruling that centers on books with LGBTQ themes—but critics warned could “radically change” what public schools teach.Protesters in support of LGBTQ+ rights and against book bans demonstrate outside of the Supreme … More Court Building on April 22 in Washington, DC.Getty ImagesKey FactsThe Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along party lines in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a dispute over the school district in Montgomery County, Maryland, and its decision not to let parents opt their children out of…
Israel’s top military official disclosed that elite Israeli commandos operated covertly inside Iran during Operation Rising Lion, as part of what intelligence and nuclear experts now assess was a campaign that inflicted systemic, not just tactical, destruction on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, said in a televised address Wednesday, “After 12 days of unprecedented fighting, I can say that the IDF operated at its best and fully achieved the aims and objectives of the operation.” He emphasized that the mission had one clear goal from the start: “to remove the existential threat…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has hired three prominent OpenAI researchers to bolster the company’s efforts in developing superintelligent AI. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has successfully recruited three top researchers from OpenAI in a bid to accelerate its superintelligence efforts. Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, who were instrumental in setting up OpenAI’s Zurich office last year, have now joined Meta’s ranks. The move comes as Zuckerberg intensifies his drive to place Meta at the forefront of the rapidly evolving AI landscape. The three researchers bring with them an impressive background, having previously worked together at Google…
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien accused of being an MS-13 gang member and human smuggler, should he get released from jail ahead of a federal trial against him. During a hearing in federal court on Thursday, DOJ prosecutors said they plan to deport Abrego Garcia to a third country, not his native El Salvador, should he be released from jail. The prosecutors also said, though, that they do not have a timeline for when they would seek such a deportation against Abrego Garcia. The illegal alien is expected…
All four Muslim Democratic House members are denouncing “racist smears” against Zohran Mamdani from lawmakers in both parties since his New York City mayoral primary win, according to a statement provided first to POLITICO. “The vile, anti-Muslim and racist smears from our colleagues on both sides of the aisle attacking Zohran Mamdani cannot be met with silence. These hateful, Islamophobic, and racist tropes have become so entrenched and normalized in our politics,” said Reps. Andre Carson of Indiana, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Lateefah Simon of California in a statement. The lawmakers said that “at a…
Coast Guard repatriates 182 migrants to Haiti (Credit: Department of Homeland Security) More than half a million individuals from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere will have to go back home in the coming months as Team Trump continues to enforce immigration law properly. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Friday in a press release that she will terminate ‘temporary protected status’ (TPS) for the country of Haiti. The TPS designation for Haiti ends on Aug. 3, 2025, and the termination will go into effect on Tuesday, September 2, 2025. There are roughly 520,000 Haitians currently living…