Posts on Wednesday, September 17, 2025

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he will designate antifa, a left-wing activist group, as a "major terrorist organization." Trump described the group as "A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER," in a Truth Social announcement. The president added he will be "strongly recommending" that those funding antifa be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. The announcement comes just days after Trump said he would "100%" consider the designation.

An immigration judge in Louisiana has ordered pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the U.S., deported to Syria or Algeria for failing to disclose certain information on his green card application, according to documents filed in federal court Wednesday by his lawyers. Khalil’s lawyers suggested in a filing that they intend to appeal the deportation order, but expressed concern that the appeal process will likely be swift and unfavorable. The order from the immigration judge, Jamee Comans, came despite a separate order in Khalil’s federal case in New Jersey blocking his deportation while that court considers Khalil’s legal argument

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday threatened action against late night television host Jimmy Kimmel, as well as Disney and ABC, after Kimmel said that Charlie Kirk’s assassin may have been part of the “MAGA gang.” The host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” brought up the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Kirk and claimed that right-leaning critics hit “new lows” after they had claimed that the 22 year old suspect, Tyler Robinson, was someone who was not “MAGA.”

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr issued a threat Thursday against ABC and Disney, suggesting he would take action over comments made by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel about the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin. On Monday, Kimmel accused conservatives of reaching "new lows" in trying to pin a left-wing ideology on 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson, even though prosecutors reaffirmed those ties in Tuesday’s indictment. "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said

Disney’s ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel‘s popular late-night show off its schedule “indefinitely” after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media, said it would pre-empt airings of the program following remarks the host made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Nexstar said Wednesday that its “owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight’s show.” The company said it “strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.”

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Three officers are dead, and two others were seriously injured after a shooting occurred in York County on Wednesday afternoon. snip) WGAL said officials were allegedly serving a warrant when they were shot at by an individual. During a press conference on Wednesday evening following the shooting, Colonel Christopher L. Paris said three officers were killed and two others were in critical but stable condition.

America is getting a highly-anticipated interest rate change — the first cut of the year. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced Wednesday that the central bank will slice rates by a quarter percentage point. The call aligns with expectations: CME FedWatch projected a near-100% chance of a September policy shift in the days before the meeting. The Federal Open Market Committee cited slowing job growth as a key reason for the cut, despite inflation heating up once more. The Fed's goal is to keep employment and price increases in balance, a dual mission that has been difficult in recent months.

Air traffic controllers urgently and repeatedly ordered the pilots of Spirit Airlines flight 1300 to turn away from Air Force One Tuesday over Long Island, New York. The Spirit flight was traveling from Fort Lauderdale to Boston as Air Force One was carrying President Trump, first lady Melania Trump and many others to a state visit to the United Kingdom. "Spirit 1300 turn 20 degrees right," an air traffic controller radioed according to recordings from liveatc.net. "Pay attention, Spirit 1300 turn 20 degrees right. Spirit 1300 turn 20 degrees right, now. Spirit wings 1300 turn 20 degrees right, immediately

Former President Barack Obama implied Tuesday that President Donald Trump was to blame for Charlie Kirk’s assassination, because of “extreme” personnel and policies that aroused violent opposition. Obama was interviewed onstage by Steve Scully at the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, Pennsylvania. He mourned Kirk’s death, saying it was “horrific,” but made sure to recite an (inaccurate) laundry list of Kirk’s more controversial statements, including a false claim that Kirk claimed black women were stupid. Obama then said that Trump wanted to use Kirk’s assassination as “a rationale

More than 80% of Americans say crime is a “major problem.” In Cleveland, the numbers are sobering. [Snip] As elected officials, we have a responsibility to protect our communities when local resources are overwhelmed or when local officials refuse to use them. [Snip] This is a temporary measure, but a necessary one. Allowing the situation to worsen is a dereliction of our responsibility as lawmakers to protect the law-abiding public. [Snip] The preamble of our Constitution reads: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare,...”

It’s an account that’s a combination of horrifying and comforting. Frank Turek, a prominent Christian apologist, writer, and close friend of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, published a podcast Tuesday describing his relationship with Kirk and the harrowing moments that followed Kirk’s shooting last week in Orem, Utah. And he offered what might be the only good news to come out of it. Turek was on stage at Utah Valley University when Kirk was hit.

Former President Barack Obama addressed the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday, calling the killing a “tragedy” that poses a “threat to all of us” before scolding President Trump for contributing to a dangerous political climate. Speaking with journalist Steve Scully at the Jefferson Educational Society in Pennsylvania, Obama cast Kirk’s assassination as part of an escalating trend of political violence. “Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy,”

Up until the early 2010s, the emotional appeal of being a good, loyal Democrat was twofold: It signaled to your peers how much you cared about the poor, the environment, and the disadvantaged; and — if you were white — it was “proof” you weren’t a racist. Meanwhile, the GOP was the party of old white dudes, business tycoons, and religious weirdos. As Bill Maher put it in 2011, “[Republicans are] the squares. I’m not putting them down. You need squares to run ****.” And more or less, that’s how the media portrayed the two parties: Republicans were the stodgy old farts in “Footloose,” and the Democrats

Just days after the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, apparently by a left-wing extremist, London Mayor Sadiq Khan fired a broadside at President Donald Trump as he arrived in the UK, accusing him of having “done the most” to fan the flames of division. While Londoners may debate whether Sadiq Khan has ever been a very effective mayor, no one can doubt that during the first Presidency of Donald Trump, he put his heart and soul into beefing with America. That old headline-grabbing animosity has resurfaced again, with Mayor Khan taking to the UK’s establishment-left newspaper, The Guardian, to air his grievances and call on the British government to

Any hopes Fulton County DA Fani Willis had of resuming her office’s lawfare against Donald Trump came crashing down on Tuesday after the Georgia Supreme Court rejected her motion to continue overseeing the case against the president and other Republicans. In a 4-3 decision, the Peach State’s highest court declined to consider Willis’ appeal of a December 2024 ruling by the Georgia Court of Appeals. That decision disqualified Willis and her team from prosecuting Trump and the aforementioned Republicans following revelations that exposed acts of impropriety among the DA and her get-Trump allies.

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the first time since December and signaled more cuts are likely this year. • Central bankers opted for a quarter-point cut this time around, matching expectations on Wall Street. Stocks initially moved higher on the news, before falling into the red across all three major indexes. • President Donald Trump has been pushing for the central bank to reduce borrowing costs in order to juice economic growth, but the Fed said its decision was based on the need to support a weakening job market.

While he was vice president, Joe Biden stepped onto taxpayer-funded Air Force 2, traveled to Ukraine, and conducted personal business with Ukraine’s then-President Petro Poroshenko. He was there “to protect the interests of Hunter Biden,” according to documents released Tuesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, (snip) The new documents strengthen the information in previously released records. Last Congress, Grassley released FBI 1023 records — statements from confidential sources — alleging that when Biden was vice president, executives for Ukrainian gas company Burisma put his son Hunter Biden on the company’s board of directors to “protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” according to that “confidential human source.”

The University of California, Los Angeles has placed its controversial race and equity director, Johnathan Perkins, on leave after he celebrated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk's assassination in a series of social media posts. Perkins, a veteran diversity consultant who worked in the Office of the General Counsel at Harvard University before joining UCLA in 2019, took to left-wing X copycat Bluesky on Friday to disparage Kirk. In one post, he responded to a user who called Kirk the right's "Rush Limbaugh replacement" with the message, "Yup. Good riddance, both."

Parents called for guardrails on artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots Tuesday as they testified before the Senate about how the technology drove their children to self-harm and suicide. Their pleas for action come amid increasing concerns about the impact of the rapidly developing technology on children. “We should have spent the summer helping Adam prepare for his junior year, get his driver’s license and start thinking about college,” said Matthew Raine, whose 16-year-old son, Adam, died by suicide earlier this year. “Testifying before Congress this fall was not part of our life plan,” he continued. “Instead, we’re here because we believe that Adam’s death was avoidable.” Raine is suing OpenAI over

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday warned that the poor quality of civics education means Americans may not know the difference between a president and a king. Sotomayor bemoaned the lack of education about such issues as the rule of law, saying not enough people have a basic understanding of the power of the president and the limits imposed upon that authority by the Constitution. "Do we understand what the difference is between a king and a president?" she said at a civics conference held at New York Law School in Manhattan. "And I think if people understood

How do Americans feel about President Donald Trump’s tariffs? As the U.S. Supreme Court mulls whether the president even has the constitutional power to impose tariffs, the general public’s feelings about the import tax is at best ambivalent, at worst hostile, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows. Along with interest rate policy and soaring federal spending, Trump’s tariffs loom as among the most significant governmental economic policies proposed in the last two decades. So what do average Americans think about them? In the latest national online I&I/TIPP Poll

In myth or fictional movies, there's always a hero who does the heroic stuff. In history, though, there are heroes who perform such incredible feats of courage and valor that they're added to history. Add a generation or two, and that history becomes legend. Add another generation or two, and that legend becomes mythic. When Rome trembled before foreign hosts, in ancient times, one man stood at the opening of a narrow wooden bridge across the Tiber River. After the Etruscans attacked, the Romans panicked, and the bridge behind Horatius had to be destroyed before the enemy could use it. Scarred, one-eyed Horatius Cocles refused to yield, fighting until

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have come out against a Republican stopgap spending bill as Congress edges towards a shutdown. House Republican leaders on Tuesday released the text for a stopgap funding bill that would set aside tens of millions of dollars for security assistance for lawmakers and federal officials amid heightened concerns about political violence after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The stopgap funding bill, otherwise known as a continuing resolution (CR), would seek to avert a government shutdown on October 1 and keep the government open through November 21.

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was charged Tuesday with aggravated murder, felony discharge of firearm, and two counts of obstruction of justice.CBS News noted that other charges include “two counts of witness tampering, and committing a violent offense in the presence of a child.” Prosecutors will seek the death penalty. The charges were handed down by the Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray and aired live on Breitbart News.CBS News quoted Utah County Attorney Gray saying, “Charlie Kirk was murdered while engaging in one of our most sacred and cherished American rights,

There's bias in the media, and then there's next-level, full-throated love of the most extreme parts of the leftist movement, as exhibited by ABC News reporter Matt Gutman. Gutman, as many are aware, went on an unhinged romanticization of text messages revealed by Charlie Kirk's assassin to his love interest, where he seemingly admitted to and attempted to justify his actions. The reporter thoroughly embarrassed himself with the gushing sentiments. He felt the need to highlight the "duality" of a deranged killer and how he spoke "so lovingly" to his partner. "It was very touching in a way that I think many of us didn’t expect," Gutman said.

President Trump is getting the royal treatment. The commander in chief was warmly greeted by senior members of the royal family Wednesday as he and first lady Melania Trump arrived in the UK for a historic second state visit. The president and first lady Melania Trump arrived at Windsor Castle via his Marine One helicopter. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump were greeted by Prince William and Princess Catherine. Trump received a warm welcome from King Charles and Queen Camilla Wednesday. First Lady Melania Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump,

The race to jump off the cliff is on, as top New York Democrats line up like so many lemmings to back Zohran Mamdani. Spare me the expressions of shock. It was only a matter of time until they all fell in line. Being an elected Dem means accepting the rule that thinking for yourself is not allowed. Following orders in the name of party unity is the price of admission. The appearance of a wall of resistance against Mamdani because of his radical positions was shattered when Gov. Hochul waved a white flag and backed the antisemitic, cop-hating socialist. The Post report that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie -

U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) and State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin) have called for the Nashville Public Defenders Office to fire Esperanza Yanez after The Tennessee Star reported that Yanez made a series of posts to social media disparaging Charlie Kirk after the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated in Utah last Wednesday. Ogles wrote in a post to the social media platform X on Tuesday, “The irony of it all is that this woman supposedly fights for the rights of the accused, yet in the case of a political assassination, Esperanza stands with the killers.”

We are talking about a very dystopian future if we allow central banks to issue central bank digital currencies. You know, even if the original designers and heads of central banks who are launching this are super well-meaning, you know, let's give them the benefit of the doubt, we just know what human nature is like and history is the best guide... I think the power would be abused, if not by the original generation of launchers, then by the next generation.... It will be a completely totalitarian system of such frightening proportions,

As President Donald Trump tries to force Lisa Cook out of her job at the Federal Reserve, her lawyers have pointed to a similar event in history — one where the president lost at the Supreme Court. On October 7, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt fired William E. Humphrey from his post at the Federal Trade Commission. The reason was purely political: The president wanted someone who could advance his priorities.. "I do not feel that your mind and my mind go along together," Roosevelt told Humphrey in a letter. His term at the FTC was supposed to last until 1938. When Humphrey refused to resign, Roosevelt fired him.