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President Trump was given a massive gold crown Wednesday by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who proclaimed a new “golden age” of the nations’ alliance.
Trump, known for his love of the precious metal, which he has used extensively to redecorate the Oval Office, also received the Grand Order of Mugungwha, South Korea’s highest honor, featuring a large medal on a golden necklace.
“It’s as beautiful as it can possibly be…. I’d like to wear it right now,” Trump told his host, who told him the award recognized Trump’s efforts to improve relations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
If anyone had dared to tell me last winter that I would eventually vote to make Andrew Cuomo New York’s next mayor, I would have shot back, “Never.”
I was still thoroughly disgusted with the former governor, had applauded his forced 2021 exit from Albany and saw no evidence he was doing anything to make himself fit to hold public office again.
In the three-plus years since his resignation, he had continued to play defense and attack his critics, including me, but had done nothing to demonstrate he had learned anything or accepted any responsibility for his historic collapse.
Suddenly, Bill Gates is admitting that climate change won’t lead to “humanity’s demise” after all.
Now he tells us, after he long joined other climate alarmists in warning of “disaster,” as the West burned trillions on “decarbonizing” and steered economies toward the stone age.
The “doomsday view” that “cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization” is “wrong,” the Microsoft co-founder writes; people will “be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.” His 2021 book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” somehow missed these truths; he predictied instead that global warming “could be worse” than COVID.
Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), the lead Senate Republican negotiator on a bill to pay key federal workers during the shutdown, says he has offered Democrats a proposal to pay all federal workers — essential and furloughed federal employees — while federal departments and agencies are shuttered.
Johnson told The Hill that he believes Senate GOP leadership supports his offer, but he says the proposal will be discussed in more detail at the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon Tuesday.“Are they going to take ‘yes’ for an answer?” Johnson said of whether his Democratic colleagues would accept the latest offer.
“We’re willing to add furloughed workers,” he said, calling it a “big” concession.
Chinese state media ran a few victory laps on Sunday and Monday after news that U.S. and Chinese negotiators reached a provisional trade agreement after two days of talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The essence of China-US economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win results, and the two countries gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation,” Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said after participating in the Kuala Lumpur talks on Saturday and Sunday.The U.S. team included Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer. Bessent said on Sunday that a “framework”
My antennae are always on the lookout for any signs of a return to that dystopian world of community masking. As a staunch and longstanding critic of this ineffective and harmful ‘pandemic’ restriction, I have – over the last few weeks – been troubled by what seemed to be an increase in the number of TV images and social media pics where the protagonists are wearing a face covering. Surely, I wondered, our world cannot be losing its sanity again? Alas, three recent observations suggest that my fears may be justified.First, the World Health Organisation (WHO) – that high-profile globalist mouthpiece –
Pilot Unions, Associations Call for Passage
of Clean CR to Reopen Government, End
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of Clean CR to Reopen Government, End
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Several pilot unions and associations have issued statements calling for the passage of a clean continuing resolution (CR) in order to reopen the government and end the ongoing shutdown.
Unions such as the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations (CAPA), the NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots, the Allied Pilots Association (APA), and the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA), have issued statements calling upon lawmakers to support a clean CR, which Democrats have continued to opposeThe statements from the unions come as roughly 13,000 air traffic controllers are currently working without being paid during the ongoing shutdown.
Here in America, the Springsteen biopic opened to a truly dreadful $9.1 million. With billions more customers available overseas and Springsteen’s status as a global superstar, you’d think that’s where the money is.Nope.
The movie only scooped up another $7 million internationally, which means that its overall global take was a measly $16 million.
How bad is that?Well, box office analysts believed the worst it would do just here in America was $15 million, and it ended up only barely topping the domestic worst-case scenario all over the world.
Is this a case of “Go woke, go broke?”
Well, as I wrote on Sunday,
President Javier Milei’s party won Argentina’s midterm vote Sunday, a result that will give the libertarian leader a strong foothold in Congress to continue pursuing aggressive free-market policies that have won praise and a financial lifeline from Donald Trump.
Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, received 41% of votes nationwide with 92% of ballots counted, according to data published by Interior Minister Guillermo Francos on Sunday. It led in most of Argentina’s provinces and finished well ahead of the main opposition party, which in all of its iterations garnered about 32% of the vote, local newspaper Clarin said.
One aspect of the government shutdown that probably wasn’t anticipated by Chuck Schumer and other Democrats, is that it has revealed to the public just how many people receive food stamps.
Years ago, when the program was still called ‘food stamps’ it was seen as something that struggling families might use temporarily to get through a hard time. Then it was re-branded as the ‘SNAP’ program and destigmatized. People were encouraged to enroll. Now there are many more people using the program, many who probably don’t even really need it.
A new report being shared with Democrats is filled with bad news about their party.
Their brand is in the gutter and they are experiencing growth only among white liberals, while alienating pretty much every other group. This is something that we all began to see with the outcome of the 2024 election, but this report confirms it.
Part of the party’s problem is that they don’t stand for anything other than being anti-Trump. When they do stand for something, it’s on the 20 percent end of an 80-20 issue. How much longer can they drag on like this?
'Irony Is Dead': Newsom Makes Desperate
Move After DOJ Announcement About Prop
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Move After DOJ Announcement About Prop
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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom will have monitors monitoring the monitors following the announcement from the Department of Justice that they will be in the state to make sure all is on the up and up for the Newsom-orchestrated special election on November 4th.CA Attorney General Rob Bonta has accused President Donald Trump of having monitors in the state in order to "sow seeds of doubt" about the integrity of the special election on Prop 50, which centers around voters determining whether the so-called temporary removal of the independent redistricting commission is okay to do.
The Home Office has “squandered” billions of pounds on asylum hotels, a damning report by MPs has found, blasting the department’s “incompetence” that has allowed private companies to make “excessive profits” from the crisis. The Mail has more.
There was “manifest failure” by the Home Office to “get a grip” of contracts with private companies it appointed to house asylum seekers, they concluded.
As a result, the firms had been allowed make “excessive profits” from the Channel crisis.
In one of the most damning reports ever published into the dysfunctional department, the MPs said the Home Office was “not up to this challenge” and demanded a series of major changes.
Shock New Report Lays Out the Full Scale
of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore
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of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore
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Fresh insights into the ecological devastation caused by onshore wind turbines around the world are contained in a shocking new paper published last month by a group of ecologists in Nature. The paper is paywalled and has attracted little mainstream media interest, but it highlights research that illustrates that the effect of utility-scale wind energy production “can be far reaching and sometimes have large and unexpected consequences for biodiversity”. An annual figure of around one million bats are killed in the countries with the highest number of turbines, but harmful effects are seen in many other parts of the ecosystem.
Are Young Britons Moving Right?
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Since the turn of the century or thereabouts, the rule in British politics has been that the young lean Left and the old lean Right. This trend is seen in many countries but is more pronounced in Britain than almost anywhere else.
At the last General Election, the vast majority of young people voted for Labour, the Lib Dems or the Greens. According to Focaldata, less than 25% of 18-24 year-olds voted for Reform or the Conservatives. According to Lord Ashcroft, it was 23%. According to YouGov, it was only 17%. And according to Ipsos, it was only 15%.
Are the young now moving Right? That’s what some headlines are claiming.
During his closing argument in a Sonoma County trial that could reverberate throughout America’s animal rights movement, Deputy District Attorney Matt Hobson seized several opportunities to stress something that should have seemed obvious: The defendant — not animal agriculture — is on trial here.
His need to reiterate that point Tuesday spoke to the unique nature of this case. It’s not just that Zoe Rosenberg, a 23-year-old Berkeley undergrad and animal rights activist, is facing nearly five years in prison for taking four chickens valued at around $24 from a Petaluma-area poultry processing facility. By spurning a plea agreement, she had intended to force an examination of the meat industry’s practices.
From Argentina to Japan, MAGA is going global.
President Donald Trump’s slogan has long been “America First,” and his movement is all about making America great again — language the president’s foes misunderstand as meaning “isolationism.”
In fact, strengthening America requires strengthening our friends and allies as well — and Trump sets an example for those leaders in Latin America, Asia and Europe who want to make their nations great again, too.There’s no paradox here.A robust international order is impossible if America has to sacrifice its own industrial capacity, and our people’s economic security, to global free trade.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is calling for an investigation into New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani over allegations that he concealed his ties to terrorist and socialist organizations during his naturalization process.
Ogles sent a second letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday, urging her to investigate Mamdani’s naturalization documents. His first letter to Bondi on the matter was sent in June.
“Since that initial inquiry, additional public reporting has raised further questions about Mr. Mamdani’s past statements and associations, including his refusal to disavow violent, anti-American rhetoric and continued public praise for individuals convicted of providing material support for Hamas,” Ogles wrote.
Last week, Democratic Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) said her party planned to use the suffering inflicted on Americans by the Schumer Shutdown as "leverage" against Republicans in negotiations on re-opening the government. It was a refreshing, albeit appalling, moment of honesty.Clark knew what she said was terrible because she later tried to walk it back, claiming what she said wasn't what she meant.
Now her colleague, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), has offered more proof that Democrats have every intention of using the suffering of Americans as political leverage during the Schumer Shutdown.
New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was hit with two criminal referrals Tuesday filed by a campaign finance watchdog accusing the lefty socialist of accepting illegal contributions from foreign donors.
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed the referrals – alleging Mamdani may have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and New York Election Code – with the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Tuesday.
The referrals were filed after The Post reported earlier this month Mamdani’s campaign raked in nearly $13,000 in contributions from at least 170 donors with addresses outside the US – including one from his mother-in-law in Dubai.
North Korea fires cruise missiles ahead
of US President Trump's visit to South
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of US President Trump's visit to South
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New Delhi:
North Korea announced Wednesday that it successfully launched multiple sea-to-surface cruise missiles into its western waters, just hours before US President Donald Trump’s arrival in South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju. The tests, conducted Tuesday, were described by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as part of the regime’s ongoing effort to expand the “operational sphere” of its nuclear-armed military.
KCNA reported that the missiles flew for over two hours and “accurately struck their targets,” demonstrating what it called the “advanced precision” of North Korea’s new weapon systems.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee has released a 100-page report [pdf HERE] highlighting how people around Joe Biden hid information about his cognitive incapacity and worked around the issue using his autopen signature to authorize presidential actions.
The House committee has released the video and transcript of all the witnesses questioned during their investigation [SEE HERE] to support their contention and referral to the Dept of Justice for a criminal investigation of the events.
New York City mayoral favorite Zohran Mamdani (D) bashed both the cops and Israel in a wild, conspiratorial clip unearthed on X. (Snip) “For anyone to care about these issues, we have to make them [inaudible],” he continued. “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the ID F.” “We are in a country where those connections abound. Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here,” added Mamdani.
Democrats will end the filibuster when
they’re back in power, so Republicans
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they’re back in power, so Republicans
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The Senate filibuster is an odd rule. It says 60 votes out of the 100 Senators are necessary to end debate on a piece of proposed legislation.
Absent those 60 votes, the legislation never gets put to a vote. The effect is that it takes not just a majority of the Senate – 51 votes out of 100 – to pass legislation. It takes a supra-majority of 60.
The filibuster rule is not in the Constitution. In fact, it’s not even in a statute. It’s simply a rule dreamed up by the Senate. In various forms, it goes back to the 19th century, and has been tweaked many times since then.