June 26, 2026

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President Donald Trump acknowledged on Friday that former President Barack Obama is likely to dodge accountability for his role in the Russian collusion hoax on account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024, immunity for official acts ruling in Trump v. United States.

Trump suggested, however, that the high court’s ruling “doesn’t help the people around him at all” — an allusion to those Obama cabalists who hatched, then perpetuated the Russian collusion hoax on the American people.

The FBI has, for instance, launched a criminal investigation into ex-CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey for perjury and potentially other crimes related to the Trump-Russia hoax. Former DNI James Clapper indicated he would “lawyer up” after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred damning documents detailing the genesis of the hoax’s manufacture under Obama to the Department of Justice.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe hinted Sunday that twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton might also face the music over her apparent hand in what Gabbard has referred to as an alleged “treasonous conspiracy.”

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Documents released over the last month have exposed a post-election plot designed to derail President Donald Trump’s first term. The recently declassified material reveals former President Barack Obama sought to continue the Russia-collusion hoax Hillary Clinton had launched during the presidential campaign by directing select members of his intelligence community to craft the deceptive Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election. However, a close reading of these documents reveals Obama holds even more culpability than previously discussed.

As The Federalist reported earlier, the CIA’s review of the ICA established Obama not only knew of and “condoned the politicalization of the intelligence community, but that the former president directed the politicalization.” According to the CIA’s “lessons learned” analysis of the deceptive ICA released by the Obama Administration, on December 6, 2016, then-President Obama directed “then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper to conduct a comprehensive review of all available intelligence and provide the IC’s best assessment of Russian activities related to the election,” ordering Clapper to complete the review before Trump’s inauguration. And according to former CIA Director John Brennan, the White House worked with him to “established crucial elements of the process,” including directing the CIA to take “the lead drafting the report.”

That White House-directed process included sidelining the National Intelligence Council (“NIC”) which, under standard protocols held “control over drafting assignments, coordination, and review processes” for intelligence assessments. Not only that, but Brennan — the man Obama charged with leading the drafting of the ICA — also marginalized CIA and ODNI analysts, ignoring their conclusion that intel did not support the view that Russia “aspired” to help Trump win the 2016 election. Brennan also trumped the analysts’ objection to referencing the Steele dossier in the text of the ICA and including a summary of the Clinton-funded fake dossier in an annex to the report.

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President Donald Trump is reportedly “furious” about the incessant questions he continues to receive on his decades-old relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a sentiment that boiled over during an appearance in Scotland on Monday.

A question from the traveling White House press corps set off Trump, who truculently attacked Epstein as a “creep” who was thrown out of Mar-a-Lago after harassing women at his golf resort.

“I threw Epstein out. Persona non grata. And that was it. I’m glad I did. And by the way, I never went to the island. And Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times,” he said angrily.

Trump’s answer harkens back to last week’s revelation that President Clinton allegedly contributed to a booklet of well-wishes presented to Epstein for his 50th birthday. Clinton is said to have praised Epstein for his “childlike curiosity,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

“It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends,” Clinton’s letter allegedly reads.

A spokesman said Clinton “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,” according to a statement.

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Maxwell, Jeffery Epstein’s former confidante and girlfriend, is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.

In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, obtained by the Washington Examiner, Durbin said the DOJ should not commit to offering a pardon or commutation of Maxwell’s sentence in exchange for information, crediting “serious questions about the potential for a corrupt bargain between the Trump administration and Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Durbin’s letter was also co-signed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), another member of the Judiciary Committee.

However, since Democrats are in the minority and have no subpoena power, the letter may carry little weight with Blanche. The letter reflected how Democrats are trying to keep pressure on the Trump administration over the Epstein files, a matter that has upset many of President Donald Trump’s supporters.

The letter from Durbin said the meetings between Blanche and Maxwell were “highly unusual” and should have been conducted by line prosecutors with more knowledge of the case and those who better understand whether Maxwell was lying or telling the truth.

Durbin wrote that because Blanche conducted the interviews, it led him and Whitehouse to believe they were “another tactic to distract from DOJ’s failure to fulfill Attorney General Bondi’s commitment that the American people would see ‘the full Epstein files.’”

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A Democratic member of Congress said the quiet part out loud over the weekend, admitting that prominent party officials knew the Trump-Russia collusion allegation was a hoax but chose to pursue it anyway in order to hamstring Trump at the start of his first administration.

The offhand remark by Rep. Jason Crow (D-WI) on “Fox News Sunday” was flagged by conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley, who called the admission “damning” in light of “falsehoods” being promulgated by U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and others.

“That is a particularly telling and frank[ly] damning statement since figures like Adam Schiff were out spreading the false collusion claims,” Turley wrote on X.

In a column, the George Washington University law professor described the Trump administration’s effort to tell “the story of the real Russian conspiracy: how high-ranking officials in the Obama Administration seeded this false claim with the help of an eager, unquestioning press corps.”

“Not surprisingly, the media (which spent years repeating the false Russian collusion claims) is doing a full-court press to kill the story. Yet, many of these key figures are retaining counsel in anticipation of the unfolding investigation. Many previously secured contracts with MSNBC or CNN, or book deals, where they doubled down on the false claims detailed in these new documents,” he wrote.

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Donald Trump‘s lawyers are asking a federal court for a quick deposition of media mogul Rupert Murdoch in the president’s defamation lawsuit over a Wall Street Journal article about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump’s lawyers request in the filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that the court compel the owner of the Wall Street Journal to be deposed within 15 days, in part because of his advanced age. The filing argues Murdoch, 94, “is believed to have suffered recent significant health scares,” which underscores the urgency of having him testify quickly.

“Taken together, these factors weigh heavily in determining that Murdoch would be unavailable for in-person testimony at trial,” the filing reads.

The Trump lawyers allege Murdoch should be compelled to testify because he spoke to Trump about the story before it was published and is “widely known for having a hands-on approach over editorial decisions related to News Corp’s periodicals.”

“Because Defendants published the Article after President Trump spoke directly with Murdoch and advised him that the letter referenced in the Article was fake, Murdoch’s direct involvement further underscores Defendants’ actual malice and intent behind the decision to publish the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements about President Trump identified in the Complaint,” the filing reads.

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A weird A-block report on NBC’s Sunday Nightly News makes crystal clear the urgency of narrative for the legacy media. In this instance, a dirty frame sets up a palette cleanser following the lead story- the consequential trade agreement between the United States and Europe announced at President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort in Scotland.

Watch as Sunday anchor Hallie Jackson repurposes the “distraction from Epstein” narrative in order to reclaim viewer focus:

HALLIE JACKSON: Even overseas, the president

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In a charged and sobering conversation on Monday’s War Room, Nigel Farage joined Steve Bannon to issue a stark warning about the United Kingdom’s deteriorating state, highlighting societal decay, unchecked immigration, and a political class he described as “completely and utterly rotten.” Against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s second-term success—sealing the U.S. border and restructuring global trade—Farage positioned himself and the Reform UK movement as the last line of defense for Britain’s sovereignty, values, and safety.

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A Massachusetts district judge blocked the Trump administration on Monday from effectively defunding Planned Parenthood for a year.

Judge Indira Talwani ruled that the withholding of Medicaid funds possibly violated the First Amendment’s right of association, according to court documents. The case stems from a provision in Trump’s tax bill that eliminates Medicaid reimbursements to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in 2023 for one year, regardless of the other services the provider offered.

“The court’s order does not require the federal government to spend money not already appropriated for Medicaid or any other funds,” Talwani wrote. “Instead, this order grants preliminary relief that prevents Defendants from targeting a specific group of entities — Planned Parenthood Federation Members — for exclusion from reimbursements under the Medicaid program where Plaintiffs have established a substantial likelihood that they will succeed in establishing that such targeted exclusion violated the United States Constitution, and where Plaintiffs satisfy the remaining requirements to obtain a preliminary injunction.”

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah filed a joint lawsuit against Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), following the passage of Trump’s tax bill.

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Researchers are one step closer to developing a gel that can be used to repair and regenerate tissue.

The team from Columbia University in the US has created an injectable hydrogel using a by-product of milk and yoghurt – extracellular vesicles (EVs).

Experiments in mice showed that within one week the yoghurt EV hydrogel promoted the formation of new blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis which is required for effective tissue healing and regeneration.

“Being able to design a material that closely mimics the body’s natural environment while also speeding up the healing process opens a new world of possibilities for regenerative medicine,” says Artemis Margaronis, a graduate research fellow at Columbia Engineering.

Extracellular vesicles are tiny sacs that are secreted by cells and carry important materials like proteins, DNA and mRNA. EVs allow cells to communicate and transport complex materials, something scientists have found difficult to replicate in the lab.

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Earth is about to witness a close celestial visitor as asteroid 2025 OL1 approaches our planet. Roughly the size of a small aircraft, measuring about 110 feet in diameter, this space rock will make its closest pass on July 30, 2025. Travelling at an impressive speed of 16,904 miles per hour, it will safely skim past Earth at a distance of approximately 1.29 million kilometres. Though this event may sound alarming, NASA assures that the asteroid poses no threat. This flyby underscores the critical need for continuous monitoring of near-Earth objects and the evolving strategies by agencies like NASA and ISRO to defend our planet.

NASA tracks asteroid 2025 OL1 for closest pass on July 30: Speed and distance

At roughly 110 feet in diameter, asteroid 2025 OL1 is about the length of a small passenger plane. Moving at a rapid speed of nearly 17,000 miles per hour, it covers the vast distance between Earth and its orbit quickly but safely. Although over a million kilometres away at closest approach, this flyby is significant because it offers scientists a chance to study an asteroid up close, better understand its trajectory, and refine detection techniques for future near-Earth objects.

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The New Zealand government has been accused of covering up data on the nation’s Covid “vaccine” deaths in order to support its own narrative that the mRNA injections are “safe and effective.”

The government’s Royal Commission has been tasked with investigating the nation’s COVID-19 response.

However, the body is facing intense criticism for ignoring key scientific data and creating a narrative that unquestioningly supports government policies and the “safety” of mRNA “vaccines.”

The inquiry, now in Phase Two, is focusing on the mass “vaccination” campaign.

However, the Commission is being accused of dismissing credible concerns and cherry-picking evidence to back its conclusions, sidelining any serious scrutiny of vaccine safety.

The Commission received extensive briefings from groups like Voices for Freedom and New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out on Science (NZDSOS).

The briefings included peer-reviewed studies and official data.

 

Washington State Judge Rules Christians not Christian Enough for Religious Protections Against Vaccine Mandates

Washington State Superior Court Judge Tanya Thorp has thrown out a lawsuit from City of Seattle employees who claimed they were fired for their religious beliefs. The dozen employees objected to the Covid-19 vaccine on religious grounds, but the judge ruled they weren’t religious enough.

The judge also claimed that the law does not require employers, not even government employers, to accommodate personal choices “merely because they are framed in religious terms.”

EXCLUSIVE: Judge rules against Seattle employees fired for religious refusal of COVID vax – The Post Millennial

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Judge Tanya L. Thorp claimed that prayer is not a reasonable manner for decision making.

King County Superior Court Judge Tanya L. Thorp has ruled in favor of the City of Seattle in a high-profile lawsuit brought by dozens of former city employees who were terminated after refusing to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Thorp ruled that none of them had sincerely held religious beliefs when they objected to the vaccine mandate. She said their beliefs are “secular cloaked in religious vernacular,” and that prayer is not a reasonable manner for decision making.

In her ruling, Thorp agreed with arguments presented by the city’s outside counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, granting a motion for summary judgment on most of the plaintiffs’ claims. The employees from City Light (SCL), the Seattle Police Department (SPD), Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), and the city’s Finance/Admin department (FAS) had alleged violations of Washington’s Law Against Discrimination (WLAD), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, failure to accommodate religious beliefs and wrongful termination.

The Mystery of the Declining U.S

The Mystery of the Declining U.SThe Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released the latest numbers on U.S. birth rates and it shows women on average are having 1.6 children each, meaning it has reached the level referred to as “civilizational suicide.” The general fertility rate (GFR) has declined by 22% since 2007 alone.

American Birth Rates Rates Drop To Levels Of Civilizational Suicide– thefederalist.com
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“First world nations are dying,” Pat Buchanan warned in his 2002 book The Death of the West.

“They face a mortal crisis, not because of something happening in the Third World, but because of what is not happening at home and in the homes of the First World.”

And what was not — and still is not — happening at home is childbearing. Buchanan was referring to fertility rates, which have been on the decline for decades.

Data released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows U.S. birth rates are dropping to levels of civilizational suicide, with women having on average 1.6 children. According to the CDC data, birth rates dropped for women aged 15-34 between 2023 and 2024 while rising for women aged 40-44. The general fertility rate (GFR), which is the number of births per 1,000 females ages 15-44, “is down 22% from 2007 to 2024.” While fertility rates are down, the number of births increased by roughly 1 percent between 2023 and 2024, according to the data.

Women are delaying having children or completely casting it aside — thanks in part to the rise of the obnoxious hyper-independent girl boss mentality that has asserted that marriage and motherhood are shackles, along with the “loss of religiosity” and “availability of birth control” and abortion, as pointed out in these pages by David Harsanyi.

The result? The country is dying.

An I&I/TIPP Poll asked 1,421 U.S. adults “Do you think the Democratic Party has become too radical in its views and policies?” 45% of respondents said yes, 36% of respondents said no, and 18% said they were not sure. Even among Democrats, 22% said yes.

Democrat Doom Loop Continues: Poll Finds Most Americans Feel Democrats are ‘Too Radical’– lidblog.com
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The Democrat doom loop is continuing to destroy the left-wing party with a new poll finding that most voters now feel that the Democrats are just too radical to earn support.

The I&I/TIPP Poll of 1,421 U.S. adults was taken at the end of June and asked, “Do you think the Democratic Party has become too radical in its views and policies?”

Apparently, the answer was yes.

Per Issues and Insights:

A strong plurality of 45% of all poll respondents said yes, while 36% said no and another 18% said they weren’t sure. The poll’s margin of error is +/-2.7 percentage points.

As would be expected, the question elicited predictable differences among Democrats, Republicans and independent and third-party voters.

Among Democrats, for instance, 64% answered “no,” while 22% said “yes.” Republicans were quite different, as befits the current political schism, with just 16% noes and 73% yesses. Independents were at a 40% plurality for yes, and 33% no, with a hefty 27% not sure.

But a key point to make with regard to the political breakdown is that more than one-in-five Democrats believe their party is too radical, sharply reducing the number of reliable votes for the party come election time.

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill that allows his administration to dissolve the country’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. The response from the people has been to protest the move in the major cities, including Kiev. These protests continue.

Anti-Corruption Protests Erupt In Ukraine– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the first major anti-government protests since the conflict in wider Ukraine began in 2022 after lawmakers passed a bill that will weaken two anti-corruption agencies.

The bill, which has reportedly been signed by Zelensky, has drawn significant domestic backlash from activists and lawmakers and could strain the beleaguered nation’s relationship with western allies.

The law significantly curtails the independence of Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the affiliated Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), according to a report from Axios. Both bodies, which were designed to be autonomou, were established following the 2014 “Maidan Revolution” which led to the removal of then-President Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russia figure, and the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine’s Eastern provinces that ultimately led to the current war.

Leaders in the European Union and the United States had pushed for the establishment of such institutions in order to clean up Ukraine’s long-standing corruption issues. The issue took a backseat following the Russian invasion of wider Ukraine, though the issue has now been reignited as the current conflict slogs on through its third full year.

Protesters in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev chanted “we’re not suckers” and “corruption equals” death while holding up candles. Protests continued into the night Tuesday and are expected to continue tomorrow.

The protests come as relations between Zelensky’s government and the Trump Administration have improved dramatically in recent weeks following a contentious Oval Office meeting earlier this year. The Ukrainian leader has since signed a new economic agreement with the U.S., while Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on Russia, as well as any country that purchases Russian oil, if they do not come to the negotiating table with 50 days.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, who judges according to the principles of her anti-American party, the DNC-CCP, and not the constitution, wants you to believe that ALL judicial orders should be followed, no matter what, and no one, not even the President, can dare defy a judicial “order.”

Kagan said in a response to a question about ignoring unconstitutional court orders, “That’s just not the way our system works, not the way rule of law in this country works. That’s true for the Supreme Court, and it’s also true for every district court. Unless and until an appellate court or the Supreme Court says otherwise, judicial orders are judicial orders and need to be respected.”

Supreme Court Justice Kagan Tells Trump to Stop Threatening Judges and Obey Court Orders– conservativeroof.com
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Liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan launched a thinly veiled attack on President Trump during a judicial conference on Thursday.

Kagan did not mention President Trump by name, but she warned against threats and emphasized that court orders must always be obeyed.

As reported by Politico:

As the Trump administration’s clash with the judiciary intensifies, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan issued a message on Thursday: Stop threatening judges, and always obey court orders.

But Kagan spoke in vague terms and did not say who her warning was aimed at. She did not directly mention President Donald Trump, even as some lower-court judges have already found that the administration has defied their commands.

“That’s just just not the way our system works, not the way rule of law in this country works,” Kagan said at a judicial conference here.

“That’s true for the Supreme Court, and it’s also true for every district court. Unless and until an appellate court or the Supreme Court says otherwise, judicial orders are judicial orders and need to be respected,” she added.

Kagan cautioned the hundreds of judges in the audience not to respond to verbal attacks by lashing out in their decisions, but by carrying out their duties as they normally do.

“The response to perceived lawlessness of any kind is law, and the way an independent judiciary should counter assaults on an independent judiciary is to act in the sorts of ways that judges are required to act,” Kagan said.

President Donald Trump was not happy after Hamas pulled out of the hostage deal. His response to Hamas was grim and final, saying, “They pulled out of the negotiations, which was very unfortunate. Hamas never really wanted a deal. I think they want to die, and that’s very bad. We’ve reached a point where the job needs to be finished. They walked away from the talks, and now there will be fighting. We’ll need to clean them out. We’ll need to get rid of them.”

Trump Says Hamas Leaders to be ‘Hunted Down’ After Terror Group Rejects Hostage Deal– legalinsurrection.com
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After Hamas rejected a U.S.-backed hostage deal, President Donald Trump slammed the terrorist group for having no intention of negotiating a ceasefire agreement, adding that its leaders in Gaza “are going to be hunted down.”

“They pulled out of the negotiations, which was very unfortunate,” President Trump said. “Hamas never really wanted a deal. I think they want to die, and that’s very bad. We’ve reached a point where the job needs to be finished.”

“They walked away from the talks, and now there will be fighting. We’ll need to clean them out. We’ll need to get rid of them,” he added.

The president made those remarks at the White House on Friday, a day after the U.S. Middle East peace envoy, Steve Witkoff, recalled the hostage negotiating team from Doha, Qatar. Israel also called back its negotiators following Hamas’s rejection.

 

France Stabs America in the Back With Announcement, Hamas Immediately Takes Advantage – RedState– redstate.com
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French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that he and his nation will formally recognize a “Palestinian State,” rewarding the murderous terrorists who still control Gaza and the West Bank. That will officially take place at the UN General Assembly, set to happen in September. Hamas was quick to take advantage, thanking Macron and stating that this new “state” will include all of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital.

In an attempt to cover his own backside, Macron ended his statement by saying that Hamas must be “demilitarized” and that this new “Palestinian State” should fully recognize the sovereignty of Israel. Expectedly, he doesn’t bother to explain how he plans to accomplish any of that, nor does he hinge his recognition of said “Palestinian state” on those things being agreed to. They are just idle words from a weak man who leads a weak country that is more than happy to wither away at the hands of Islamists, both domestically and abroad.

 

Horror in Syria: Christian Pastor, Entire Family Slaughtered Amid Chaos and Violence– www.cbn.com
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Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at Christian Solidarity International (CSI), told CBN News that Syrian government forces have gone after these groups, killing innocents in the process.

The most recent incursion unfolded last week and had deadly consequences.

“Syrian government forces have once again launched an attack on religious minority populations — this time against the Druze, a religious group which makes up about 3% of Syria’s population, and who are considered heretics by jihadist groups,” CSI wrote in a statement. “Between July 14 and July 18, Syria’s Islamist-controlled government sent troops to occupy Suwayda province, a mountainous region of southern Syria where the majority of the population is Druze. Upon entering population centers in the province, government troops carried out numerous atrocities.”

This violence might not have been limited only to the Druze population. While details are still unclear about motives and precise details, Khaled Mazhar, the pastor of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church in Suwayda city, was killed alongside 11 other family members.

“We’re still putting together the details on what exactly happened, but we know that Pastor Khaled Mazhar was attacked by armed fighters sometime last week in Soweda City,” Veldkamp said. “He, and his wife, and his children, and several other of his relatives — 12 people in all — were all killed. And there’s a 13th person who survived only because they thought that she was dead, basically.”

 

442 ‘sponsors’ for illegal immigrant minors arrested on suspicion of child abuse, other crimes after Biden allowed 450,000 unaccompanied kids across border | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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The Trump administration has been able to locate over 13,000 of the minors.

442 child migrant “sponsors” have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse or other crimes after the Biden administration allowed 450,000 illegal migrant children into the US without adult supervision. This comes as the Trump administration has been able to locate 13,000 of the minors that were allowed into the country under the border policies of the previous administration.

NewsNation’s Ali Bradley reported, citing information from authorities, that 442 of the sponsors for the children so far have been arrested by ICE for being involved in suspected child abuse or other crimes.

Canada Gets Rid of Disabilities Minister as it Euthanizes More People– www.lifenews.com
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The decision of the Canadian government to abolish a government ministry for people with disabilities has been blasted as “a real slap in the face”, coming at the same time as the country’s euthanasia and assisted suicide programme continues to expand.

When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his new cabinet, it was noted that no minister with responsibility for people with disabilities had been appointed. The post, which had previously been held by Kamal Khera, was abolished, and people with disabilities have shared their dismay and disappointment about the decision, as plans to expand Canada’s euthanasia and assisted suicide programme continue.

Decision blasted as “a real slap in the face to eight million people with disabilities in Canada”

Disability rights professor David Lepofsky, who is blind, said “For the prime minister to do this is a real slap in the face to eight million people with disabilities in Canada”. Lepofsky also said the decision is a sign to people with disabilities that they are not a priority.

A new reality of organ donation– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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When a nightmare situation turns into the subject of a Health and Human Services Department investigation, people pay attention. Such is the case with misconduct in the nation’s organ transplant system.

Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health Resources and Services Administration directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to investigate a Kentucky-based organ procurement organization and found “systemic disregard for the sanctity of life,” per the report’s title.

The investigation was motivated in part by the case of Anthony Thomas Hoover II, who nearly had his organs removed while still alive after a drug overdose. After the Biden-era OPTN found no discrepancies and concluded Hoover’s case without action, the current administration “demanded a thorough, independent review of the OPO’s conduct.” In examining instances of authorized-but-uncompleted organ donation, the HRSA found sufficient evidence pointing to “poor neurologic assessments, lack of coordination with medical teams, questionable consent practices, and misclassification of causes of death, particularly in overdose cases.”

Hoover’s case is extreme but not solitary. The release of the HHS report comes at a time when critical coverage of the organ transplant system has seen an uptick. At least a month before, the New York Times researched the matter and found several similar instances. Such buildup displays what the HHS report warns against: “entrenched bureaucracies, outdated systems, and reckless disregard for human life.”

China Is Increasingly Holding U.S. Citizens Hostage Indefinitely– thefederalist.com
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China imposed exit bans on two U.S. citizens: a senior executive of U.S.-based Wells Fargo Bank and a federal employee of the U.S. Commerce Department. These incidents underscore the significant risks of conducting business or traveling in China.

Very little personal information is public regarding the federal employee affected by the exit ban, likely due to his affiliation with the U.S. government and concerns for his safety. According to the South China Morning Post, he is a naturalized U.S. citizen who originally came from China and is a veteran of the U.S. Army. He traveled to China in April to visit family but has been unable to leave since then. The reason for the exit ban is unclear, but The Washington Post suggests it may be related to his alleged failure to disclose his U.S. government employment on his visa application to Chinese authorities.

In contrast, more information exists about the Wells Fargo executive affected by the exit ban. Her name is Chenyue Mao, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from China, and a managing director in Wells Fargo’s Atlanta division. Mao is reportedly an expert in factoring, a process in which exporters in one country “sell unpaid invoices to third parties, who then collect payments later from importers in another country.” Mao has previously collaborated with Chinese companies in trade financing and factoring.