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Trump Deal with UK Appears to be Framework for Larger Deal

pgnewser May 10, 2025

Trump announces trade deal with UK, cutting tariffs on autos, steel and aluminum – PBS News
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The U.S. president talked up the agreement to reporters from the Oval Office, even as the fine print remains in flux despite his prior statements that a full agreement was signed

“The final details are being written up,” Trump told reporters. “In the coming weeks, we’ll have it all very conclusive.”

The president said that the agreement would lead to more beef and ethanol exports to the U.K., which would also streamline the processing of U.S. goods though customs. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the baseline 10 percent tariffs would stay in place, while U.K. officials said that Trump’s auto tariffs would go from 27.5 percent to 10 percent on a quota of 100,000 vehicles and the import taxes on steel and aluminum would go from 25 percent to zero.

Trump cautioned that the agreement with its preservation of a 10 percent tariff was not a template for other countries pursuing possible trade deals with the U.S. He said he intends to charge higher rates on other countries as part of any agreement — a sign that the import taxes could stay in place in ways that economists warn would reduce economic growth.

 

65 Columbia University Library Attackers Suspended

pgnewser May 10, 2025

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Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has requested fingerprints and the names of the arrested individuals to check their visa status.

Columbia University has suspended at least 65 students accused of participating in the violent anti-Israel Butler Library takeover on Wednesday. Another 33 individuals, including alumni and those from affiliated institutions, have also been barred from campus, a school official said. This comes after the univeristy vowed to take immediate disciplinary action.

Dozens of masked protesters stormed the library while students were studying for finals, with some handing out pamphlets that glorified an alleged terrorist. Members of the group committed acts of vandalism and assaulted two security guards, resulting in an NYPD response to clear the building. According to police, 80 arrests were made, which included 61 females and 19 males. The group chanted phrases such as “Free Palestine” and demanded that the university divest from Israel.

Trump Is Collapsing the Left’s Patronage Networks– www.dailysignal.com

pgnewser March 31, 2025

Trump Is Collapsing the Left’s Patronage Networks– www.dailysignal.com
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President Donald Trump has launched a political counterrevolution in the early days of his second presidency. One of the most profound ways he’s doing this is by effectively cutting off the Left’s massive, government-funded patronage networks.

What’s making Trump’s moves so effective is that many of these networks are based on government functions that long ago either waned in usefulness or have completely abandoned their purpose.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin appeared on One America News Wednesday and explained how the Left has insidiously transformed the federal government into a Democratic Party funding apparatus.

Zeldin explained how the EPA under the Biden administration was used as a slush fund to give money to activists.

“The EPA was absolutely being used to push out this green slush fund to their friends,” Zeldin said. “By design, the director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction fund leaves one of these NGOs, goes to work for the Biden administration to design this whole setup, and then sees his former employer get $5 billion.”

Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don’t yet point to conspiracies – WTOP

pgnewser March 20, 2025

Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don’t yet point to conspiracies – WTOP
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Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 gave curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.

Assessments of the roughly 2,200 files posted by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration on its website came with a huge caveat: No one had enough time as of Wednesday to review more than a small fraction of them. The vast majority of the National Archives’ more than 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination have previously been released.

An initial Associated Press review of more than 63,000 pages of records released this week shows that some were not directly related to the assassination but rather dealt with covert CIA operations, particularly in Cuba. And nothing in the first documents examined undercut the conclusion that Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

“Nothing points to a second gunman,” said Philip Shenon, who wrote a 2013 book about the assassination. “I haven’t seen any big blockbusters that rewrite the essential history of the assassination, but it is very early.”

CIA headquarters ‘on lockdown’ as man armed with shotgun ‘opens fire’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk

pgnewser March 20, 2025

CIA headquarters ‘on lockdown’ as man armed with shotgun ‘opens fire’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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A SWAT team was called to CIA headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia, after a man allegedly began shooting a shotgun into the air. The facility is now on lockdown, according to reports.

Crime scene negotiators are reportedly on the scene in McLean as of about 10:35am EDT (2:30pm GMT) alongside Fairfax County Police Bomb Squad with the Fairfax County Police, according to DMV News Live. CIA Police is also on the scene.

The incident is unfolding at Georgetown Pike and Dolly Madison Boulevard and the threat has prompted a huge emergency presence.

The armed suspect was reportedly observed sitting on a bench near the facility’s gate along Route 123 while in possession of a firearm, local news outlets reported.

Egypt’s plan for the reconstruction of Gaza– thehill.com

pgnewser March 20, 2025

Egypt’s plan for the reconstruction of Gaza– thehill.com
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For over 16 months, Palestinians in Gaza have endured unspeakable humanitarian circumstances unseen since the Second World War. Almost 2 million people in Gaza have been internally displaced, with more than 150,000 people killed or injured according to the UN, 50 percent of hospitals and medical facilities destroyed, 88 percent of schools partially or fully shattered, 68 percent of agricultural areas damaged and 68 percent of roads have become dysfunctional.

As the statistics reflect, Israel’s war didn’t turn out to be just a war against Hamas, but expanded to the entire civilian population and its critical infrastructure.

To address this crisis of colossal magnitude, two critical steps need to be taken. First, we must immediately provide a comprehensive and thorough humanitarian plan that alleviates the suffering of Palestinians and restore life back to Gaza through early recovery programs and reconstruction.

Second, it is imperative that we offer a political roadmap that brings decisive closure to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict once and for all culminating in an independent Palestinian state and ensure that this latest horrific round of violence becomes the final one. Let me address both steps.

Planned Parenthood Admits the Abortion Pill is Dangerous– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser March 20, 2025

Planned Parenthood Admits the Abortion Pill is Dangerous– www.lifenews.com
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Planned Parenthood has admitted that the abortion pill can be dangerous. This was pointed out by American Life League in what its national director Katie Brown Xavios labeled a “rare moment of honest transparency.”

“Planned Parenthood has confirmed the dangers that American Life League has been warning about for decades. No, abortion pills are NOT safe, especially when they come from an unregulated source,” stated Xavios. “The irony in all this falls on the fact that Planned Parenthood themselves refer women directly to these online vendors that send pills recklessly and without any authorization or regulation. But let’s not forget, even the ‘safest’ pills still result in a dead baby. The business of abortion pills is never safe, for mom or for baby, and Planned Parenthood is to blame.”

Venezuela Debuts Website to Report ‘Unjust Deportations’ of Illegals from U.S.– www.breitbart.com

pgnewser March 20, 2025

Venezuela Debuts Website to Report ‘Unjust Deportations’ of Illegals from U.S.– www.breitbart.com
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Venezuela’s socialist regime launched a new website Tuesday that allows individuals to report alleged “unjust deportations” of Venezuelan illegal migrants from the United States “before it’s too late.”

The website is managed by the “Committee for the Defense of Venezuelan Migrants,” an organization directly affiliated with the Venezuelan socialist regime that describes itself as an organization “committed to the defense and promotion of human rights focused on denouncing and making visible the situation of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.”

“We are a collective committed to the defense and promotion of human rights focused on denouncing and making visible the particular situation of vulnerability of Venezuelan citizens in the United States, whose presidential policy has been dedicated to stigmatize migration,” the website reads. “The persecution, imprisonment and deportation of Venezuelans without due process is an aberration that should not be indifferent to us and that constitutes an anachronistic and illegal act that evokes the most nefarious episodes of human history.”

Despite Phone Call with Trump, Putin Abandons Ceasefire and Bombs Ukraine in a Major Attack– www.cbn.com

pgnewser March 20, 2025

Despite Phone Call with Trump, Putin Abandons Ceasefire and Bombs Ukraine in a Major Attack– www.cbn.com
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There will be no 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine after all. That’s Russian President Vladimir Putin’s message to President Trump after the two spoke for nearly two hours on the phone Tuesday.

Air raid sirens blared in Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine just hours after Putin refused Trump’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire on land, air and sea.

Residents in the Ukrainian capital were forced to shelter underground after Russia launched 147 Iranian-made drones and six missiles overnight.

Elon Musk’s X ordered to hand over information about anonymous account – Irish Legal News

pgnewser March 19, 2025

Elon Musk’s X ordered to hand over information about anonymous account – Irish Legal News
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Elon Musk’s X has been ordered to hand over information about an anonymous user who made allegedly defamatory posts about Belfast solicitor Kevin Winters and others.

Mr Winters, of KRW LAW, has been instructed by a number of individuals, including retired gardaí, who allege they were defamed by the user, identified only as “Malachy O”.

The posts, which were made in May and June 2023 and have since been deleted along with the entire account, targeted ex-Garda whistleblowers and others who were highly critical of alleged Garda wrongdoing.

Mr Winters said his clients, based in the Republic of Ireland, believe the “Malachy O” account was controlled by someone connected to An Garda Síochána.