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The White House is warning lawmakers that funding used to pay personnel at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is close to being depleted, sounding the alarm about potential disruptions to airport security and other critical operations if Congress does not act soon.
In a memo sent late Tuesday, the Office of Management and Budget cautioned that stopgap funding measures used to cover payroll for agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) could be exhausted as early as May. The administration urged the House of Representatives to move quickly on a budget resolution already approved by the Senate, describing the situation as increasingly urgent.
“DHS will soon run out of critical operating funds, placing essential personnel and operations at risk,” the memo stated.
The warning comes as the House faces internal divisions that have slowed progress on legislation aimed at restoring full funding to the department. Speaker Mike Johnson is navigating disagreements within his narrow Republican majority, leaving the chamber largely stalled on several key issues, including the Homeland Security budget.
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Oregon officials declined to cooperate with ICE and released Kumar on April 2, he was caught by immigration authorities April 22.
Federal immigration authorities arrested Rajinder Kumar, an illegal immigrant semi-truck driver accused in a crash that killed an Oregon couple married just 16 days, after local officials released him from jail earlier this month.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Kumar allegedly jackknifed his semi-truck and trailer on November 24, 2025, blocking both lanes of US Highway 20 in Deschutes County. A Subaru Outback then struck the truck, killing driver William Micah Carter and passenger Jennifer Lynn Lower.
The Department of Homeland Security said Kumar was released from jail on April 2, 2026, after Oregon officials declined to cooperate with ICE. Federal agents arrested him on April 22. Kumar is now being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, and has been placed in removal proceedings.
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After a rare US visit from King Charles III, reports point to a productive and amicable meeting with President Donald Trump that signals continued strength in the relationship between the two nations.
At one point during Tuesday’s state dinner, the British monarch gave a bell to Trump and explained why he felt it was an appropriate gift.
Here’s what Fox News reported:
The King gifted Trump the original bell from HMS Trump, a British submarine launched in 1944 that served in the Pacific during World War II.
“Tonight, Mr. President, I am delighted to present to you as a personal gift the original bell,” Charles said, noting it “may stand as a testimony to our nation’s shared history and shining future.”
Other memorable moments from the dinner were shared widely via social media:
President Trump claimed the U.S. had “militarily defeated” Iran as he spoke during the White House state dinner with King Charles III on Tuesday night, adding that the British monarch “agrees with me more than I do” that Iran should not be in possession of nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/GoYzUf1zDn
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 29, 2026
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On April 20, Democrats joined with union leaders to announce a so-called “discharge petition” on the Faster Labor Contracts Act. With strong Democratic backing for the petition, and if they can convince a handful of Republicans to join them, the House will be forced to vote on a bill that Democrats are calling “pro-worker.” Yet, Republican representatives should know: The Faster Labor Contracts Act is a direct attack on workers’ rights.
Don’t take it from me. Take it from a union official who was invited by Democrats to testify at a congressional hearing last year. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) asked the shop steward, who’s with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, about the Faster Labor Contracts Act. The bill is so named because it imposes an expedited deadline for contract negotiations between businesses and unions.
President Trump’s Remarkable Remarks Welcome The British King– gellerreport.com
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And he did so with a remarkable address outside of the White House. President Trump:
Here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, honoring the British king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence, but in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate. Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea. For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and Great Britain’s distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride, and that’s what it is: glory, destiny, and pride…. So today, we look back on 250 years. Let us remember what has made our countries the two most exceptional nations the world has ever known, and together, let us go forward with even stronger resolve to carry on our sacred devotion to liberty and to the traditions of excellence that have been our shared gift of all mankind .
READ IN FULL: Trump’s speech welcoming King Charles III on state visit
By Washington Examiner Staff, April 28, 2026:
This is a transcript of President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday as he welcomed King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the United States on their state visit in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Charles will address Congress later Tuesday. Scroll to the bottom of the story for a slideshow from the event.
Thank you very much, everybody. What a beautiful British day this is, and it really is.
Your Majesties, members of the British delegation, friends, service members, and distinguished guests, welcome to the beautiful White House. Great honor to have you. Melania and I will never forget the spectacular honor Your Majesties showed us during our extraordinary visit to Windsor Castle last September. Now it is our tremendous privilege to host you, and you’re going to have a wonderful short stay, but stay nevertheless. Then you’re going over to Congress, and you’re going to make a speech that’s going to make everybody very envious of that beautiful accent of yours. Very elegant. He’s a very elegant man.
Here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, honoring the British king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence, but in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate.
Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea. For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and Great Britain’s distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride, and that’s what it is: glory, destiny, and pride.
The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance. Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage. Their hearts beat with an English faith in standing firm for what is right, good, and true.
In recent years, we’ve often heard it said that America is merely an idea, but the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of 1776. The American founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic.
Fate drew a long arc from the meadow at Runnymede to the streets of Philadelphia that ran through the lives of people born and bred on the British code that no man should be denied either justice or right. American patriots today can sing, “My country ’tis of thee / Sweet land of liberty,” only because our colonial ancestors first sang “God save the King.”
We see today a living symbol of this centuries-old bond just a few dozen feet to the left where I stand — there her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, an incredible woman who I had the privilege of getting to know. Queen Elizabeth II, a very, very special woman who is very greatly missed on both sides of that mighty Atlantic, long ago, planted a young tree. It was a very young and beautiful tree, and look at it now. It’s tripled in size and tripled in strength, very much as our nations have, even more than tripled. Like our nation itself, it was laid with British hands, but grew in American soil. Today it stands tall and proud, reaching ever higher, and this morning, it reminds us that the mightiest of trees, like the greatest of nations, must be anchored by the strongest and deepest of roots.
In the centuries since we won our independence, Americans have had no closer friends than the British. We share that same root, we speak the same language, we hold the same values, and together, our warriors have defended the same extraordinary civilization under twin banners of red, white, and blue.
My wonderful mother, Mary McLeod. Mary McLeod was born in Stornoway, Scotland, the Hebrides, and that’s what they call very serious Scotland. There’s no question about it. Some places, they say, ‘Well, it wasn’t really Scotland.’ The Hebrides, that’s real serious Scotland. That’s where they had their greatest of warriors, their greatest of warriors. She came to America at 19, met my incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him. We loved her, we loved him, Fred, and they were married for 63 years. And excuse me, if you don’t mind, that’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling. Sorry, just not going to work out that way. We’ll do well, but we’re not going to do that well. Sixty-three years and my mother, I just see it so clearly. She loved, I told the king that she loved the royal family, and she loved the queen. And any time the queen was involved at a ceremony or anything, my mother would be glued to the television, and she’d say, “Look, Donald, look how beautiful that is.” She really did love the family, but I also remember her saying, very clearly, “Charles, look, young Charles. He’s so cute.” My mother had a crush on Charles. Can you believe it? Amazing. How I wonder what she’s thinking right now?
But beneath those beautiful flags, eight decades ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt famously met on a ship in the North Atlantic to outline a vision for the free world after World War II. That understanding of our nation’s unique bond and role in history is the essence of our special relationship, and we hope it will always remain that way. The ship where the two great leaders met was called the Prince of Wales, the very title that His Majesty the King held longer than any other individual in British history, and he held it with great pride and respect.
It said that when Prime Minister Churchill first met this future king, many decades ago, he was so impressed. He made the statement, “He is so young to think so much and so well,” and the bust of your great prime minister rests proudly again in the Oval Office. Very proud to bring it back. We brought it back.
Throughout His Majesty’s life, the world has witnessed that same thoughtfulness which first struck Britain’s greatest prime minister. His Majesty’s intellect, passion, and devotion have been long, really a long blessing, a blessing to the British people, but not only to his own country, but to the cherished bond between the United States and the United Kingdom. And I am very certain that it will continue that way long into the future.
In a few hours, His Majesty will stand in the heart of the United States Capitol as the very first British king ever to address a joint session of the United States Congress. So he’s going to be addressing Congress, and I’m going to be watching. I was thinking of going, but they said, ‘I don’t know, that might be a step too far.’ I would love to go. It’s not supposed to be protocol, but I would love to be with you.
But there, the direct descendant of King George III will speak to the direct successor of the very body that gathered in Independence Hall on July 4, 1776. If John Adams and George Washington or the king’s fifth-great-grandfather could see that sight, they might be absolutely shocked, but probably only for a moment. Surely they would be delighted that the wounds of war healed into the most cherished friendship. Think of that, very, very long ago, difficult war, and yet those wounds did indeed heal into the most cherished of friendships, most cherished. They would be moved beyond words to know that the soldiers who once called each other redcoats and Yankees became the Tommies and the GIs who together saved the free world as brothers in arms and brothers in eternity, and nobody fought better together than us.
If they could see us today, our ancestors would surely be filled with awe and pride that the Anglo-American revolution in human freedom was never, ever extinguished, but carried forward across centuries, across oceans, and across history, until it became a fire that lit the entire world.
So today, we look back on 250 years. Let us remember what has made our countries the two most exceptional nations the world has ever known, and together, let us go forward with even stronger resolve to carry on our sacred devotion to liberty and to the traditions of excellence that have been our shared gift of all mankind.
Your Majesties, thank you once again for making this important visit. We are so honored.
May God forever bless the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and Northern Ireland, and may God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much, everybody, thank you.
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As more than two-thirds of U.S. public schools say they already can’t sustain free meals for their students, one economist is sounding the alarms and says the Trump administration’s updated dietary guidelines may make these financial troubles even worse.
For the 2023-2024 school year, the government provided 4.8 billion lunches to the nearly 29.4 million students belonging to the National School Lunch Program, at a cost of $17.7 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture data. Part of this sum takes the form of cash reimbursements to schools serving free or reduced-cost food to students, with free lunch costing roughly $4.70 per student per meal.
Many schools, however, say the assistance they receive to feed students the subsidized meals are not enough. A recent survey of more than 1,170 school nutrition directors from the trade group the School Nutrition Association (SNA) found this year, 69.6% reported insufficient reimbursement rates to cover the cost of school lunches, an increase from 67.4% the previous year. More than half of the directors said there is “serious concern” about the financial sustainability of their school nutrition programs over the next three years, up from 46% from the 2024-2025 school year.
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Modern cells are highly intricate systems. They contain internal scaffolding, tightly controlled chemical processes, and genetic instructions that guide nearly everything they do. This complexity allows them to survive in diverse environments and compete based on their fitness. In contrast, the earliest cell-like structures were extremely simple. These primitive compartments were essentially tiny bubbles, where lipid membranes enclosed basic organic molecules. Understanding how such simple protocells eventually gave rise to the complex cells we see today remains a central question in origin-of-life research.
A recent study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo takes a closer look at how these early structures might have behaved on ancient Earth. Instead of proposing a single explanation for how life began, the researchers focused on experiments that simulate realistic environmental conditions. Specifically, they examined how variations in membrane composition affect protocell growth, fusion, and the ability to retain important molecules during freeze/thaw cycles.
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Beyond the bubble of hardened MAGA cultists and a smattering of elite pundits, the joint American-Israeli war on Iran announced by a somnolent President Trump on February 28 is widely regarded as a pointless fiasco that is doing incalculable and growing damage to the global economy. The fact that the president once again unilaterally extended the ceasefire with Iran last week means that he still has no credible ideas about how to get traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz. He’s similarly flummoxed when it comes to imposing America’s settlement terms on an emboldened regime in Tehran—despite his constant insistence that the war has resulted in an unprecedented, monumental American victory.
Regardless of if or when Trump’s crack negotiating team featuring zero Iran experts returns to Islamabad to meet with Tehran’s delegation, the status quo in the Strait of Hormuz is untenable. Oil prices are creeping up again after dropping on President Trump’s flurry of hallucinatory statements on April 17 proclaiming that the war would be wrapping up soon. The end was inevitably near, Trump insisted, because Iran had agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz, forgo the ability to enrich uranium forever and relinquish its stockpile of what the president with almost child-like wonder calls “nuclear dust.”
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US President Donald Trump’s approval rating sank to the lowest level of his current term, as Americans increasingly soured on his handling of the cost of living and an unpopular war with Iran, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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King Charles III called Tuesday for the United States and Britain to renew their longstanding transatlantic alliance, in a speech at a White House state dinner hosted by President Donald Trump amid tensions over Iran and Ukraine.Speaking alongside Trump for the first time during his four-day state visit, Charles skirted around any direct mention of the bad blood between the US leader and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
But as in his rare address to Congress earlier in the day, the British monarch highlighted a partnership in which London and Washington had “stood together in the best of times and worst of times.””Tonight, we are here to renew an indispensable alliance which has long been a cornerstone of prosperity and security for both British and American citizen,” said Charles.
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I didn’t have plans to write about the latest Jimmy Kimmel saga. I thought my colleagues, Scott Pinsker, Catherine Salgado, and Matt Margolis did more than a fine job on that story, and there was really nothing left to say. But then I saw something where the Trump administration sort of pulled a thread from that situation, and it’s at least indirectly tied to another situation—and now the whole thing is unraveling.
Ever since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he and his administration have not wasted a minute trying to implement an agenda that is even larger and more ambitious than the one he laid out on the campaign trail in 2024. Most politicians over-promise and under-deliver. Trump has done the opposite.
The latest example of this comes to us courtesy of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which announced on April 28 that it is moving up its review of the ABC network’s eight local broadcasting licenses over the network’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.
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DUBROVNIK, Croatia — DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — Croatia and Bosnia signed an agreement Tuesday to build a gas pipeline designed to reduce energy dependency on Russia in the volatile Balkans region.
The Southern Interconnection pipeline will link Bosnia with Croatia’s gas network and the liquefied natural gas terminal on the Adriatic Sea island of Krk. Bosnia has designated a U.S.-based company, AAFS Infrastructure and Energy, as the project’s investor and developer.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and the chair of Bosnia’s Council of Ministers, Borjana Kristo, signed the deal in the presence of U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on the sidelines of a summit of the countries of the Baltic, Black and Adriatic regions.
Plenkovic on social media said the gas pipeline would help diversify supplies: “We are strengthening energy security and independence … which is especially important in these challenging global circumstances.”
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Britain’s King Charles told the U.S. Congress on Tuesday that despite an age of uncertainty and conflict in Europe and the Middle East, the UK and the U.S. will always be staunch allies united in defending democracy, at a time of deep divisions between the two long-time allies over the war with Iran.
“Whatever our differences, whatever disagreements we may have, we stand united in our commitment to uphold democracy, to protect all our people from harm, and to salute the courage of those who daily risk their lives in the service of our countries,” Charles told U.S. lawmakers during a rare speech to a joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, and after a prolonged standing ovation at his entrance with Queen Camilla.
Charles’ address came on the second day of a four-day state visit to the U.S. during a tense time in relations between the two countries, after U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for what Trump says is his lack of help in prosecuting the Iran war.
“I come here today with the highest respect for the United States Congress – this citadel of democracy created to represent the voice of all American people to advance sacred rights and freedoms,” Charles said.
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Federal authorities raided over 20 locations across Minnesota, in connection with an ongoing investigation into massive public assistance fraud. The story should have run across all three major broadcast network evening newscasts but only made it to air on one. The Elitist Media does not like this story.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, April 28th, 2026:
WATCH: @NBCNightlyNews had the sole report on the Minnesota fraud raids across the broadcast network evening news dial.
TOM LLAMAS: In Minnesota tonight, federal and state agents executing more than 20 search warrants at businesses across the Twin Cities, raids linked to a… pic.twitter.com/OcLVyFyn48
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 29, 2026
TOM LLAMAS: In Minnesota tonight, federal and state agents executing more than 20 search warrants at businesses across the Twin Cities, raids linked to a growing fraud scandal that has reached the steps of The White House. Maggie Vespa has been following this one for us and has this story.
MAGGIE VESPA: Tonight, new raids rocking Minnesota, with video showing federal and state authorities executing more than 20 search warrants at sites across the Twin Cities, including autism centers, child care facilities and at least one senior center. All, federal authorities say, tied to allegations of widespread welfare fraud within Minnesota’s large Somali community.
NICK SHIRLEY: It’s just a simple question: where are the children at?
VESPA: Allegations reignited by this viral video posted four months ago by a right-wing influencer claiming multiple Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota were fraudulently collecting state subsidies while sitting empty. But according to the state agency in charge, those centers were operating “as expected.” Today’s raids marking the boldest move yet by a White House fraud task force led by Vice President Vance.
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The State Department, following reports by Fox News and The Bulwark, confirmed it would offer a limited-edition passport to mark this year’s 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.
The articles included two images set to appear inside the passports, one of Trump’s official photo imposed over the Declaration of Independence, with his signature — in gold — underneath.
The second showed a historic painting of the US Founding Fathers.
“As the United States celebrates America’s 250th anniversary in July, the State Department is preparing to release a limited number of specially designed US passports to commemorate this historic occasion,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said on X, linking to the Fox News piece.