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#10 Biden Pledges $1B in Aid to Africa as North Carolina Residents Continue to Struggle After Helene - Greg Wehner for Fox News, Citizen Free Press (community note), End Wokeness, Real America's Voice/Natalie Winters, and Salty Goat on X
President Biden pledged $1 billion in humanitarian support to Africans displaced by historic droughts and food insecurity on Tuesday, as North Carolina residents continue to rebuild after the devastation left by Hurricane Helene. "The United States continues to be the world's largest provider of humanitarian aid and development assistance. That's going to increase, you know, that's the right thing for the wealthiest nation in the world to do," Biden said while speaking in Angola. "Today I'm announcing over $1 billion in new humanitarian support for Africans displaced from homes by historic droughts and food insecurity. We know African leaders and citizens are seeking more than just aid. You seek investment...
#9 Appeals Court Judges Rule In Favor Of Federal Deportation, Texas In Razor Wire Case - Bethany Blankley for The Tennessee Conservative, Tom Homan Border Czar News, Mario Nawfal, and Kyle Becker on X
A panel of three judges unanimously ruled that the federal government has the authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally over the objection of local authorities, while another panel of three judges ruled in favor of Texas in a lawsuit filed over its concertina wire barriers. A 29-page ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was written by Judge Daniel Bress, with judges Michael Hawkins and Richard Clinton concurring.At issue is an April 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operators on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights used to deport illegal foreign nationals...
#8 Judge Weighs Whether to Order Fani Willis to Comply With Lawmakers’ Subpoenas Over Trump Case - Kate Brumback for Yahoo News, George, Chuck Callesto, Kyle Becker and Amuse on X
A judge is weighing whether a Georgia state Senate committee has the right to subpoena testimony and documents from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as it looks into whether she has engaged in misconduct during her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump. The Republican-led committee sent subpoenas to Willis in August seeking to compel her to testify at its September meeting and to produce scores of documents. The committee was formed earlier this year to examine allegations of “various forms of misconduct” by Willis, an elected Democrat, during her prosecution of Trump and others over their efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 election loss in Georgia...
#7 Mexico Plans to Modify its Constitution to Ban Toxic US Genetically Modified Corn - Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards for THe HighWire, Carey Gillam, and US Right to Know on X
Finally, Americans are encouraged that our nation is standing at the threshold of becoming healthy again. The typical American diet, which is quite literally killing us, is packed with processed foods, toxic chemicals, added sugars, and fast foods void of nutritional value. For far too long, government agencies have put profit over people and turned a blind eye to the foods and toxins they encourage Americans to consume. One such tainted food product and poison is genetically modified (GM) corn and glyphosate. Corn, one of the most commonly grown grains in the world, is a staple food for one-third of the human population and is prominent in many American diets. In 2024, GMO corn accounted for nearly 94 percent of the corn planted in the US, occupying over 86 million acres. American corn is so contaminated that neighboring Mexico, the second largest importer of US corn after China, has vowed to ban the use and cultivation of GM corn...
#6 New Study Demands Immediate Moratorium on COVID-19 mRNA Injections - Nicolas Hulscher, MPH for Courageous DIscourse, DrRay, and Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH®, and The Vigilant Fox on X
Oldfield et al. just published a new study in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons titled "Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 modRNA Vaccines: Dangerous Genetic Mechanism of Action Released before Sufficient Preclinical Testing."
#5 Allegations Against Pete Hegseth are 'Disturbing': Lindsey Graham - Sonam Sheth for Newsweek, Eric Daugherty, Todd Starnes, Libs of TikTok, and Eric Methany on X
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that it will be "difficult" for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, to get confirmed by the Senate. Graham called the allegations against Hegseth "disturbing," telling CBS News, "I think some of these articles are very disturbing. He obviously has a chance to defend himself here, but some of this stuff is it's going to be difficult..." Hegseth was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017. He has not been charged over the matter...
#4 Chicago Residents Blast Brandon Johnson Over Spending on Migrants - Andi Shae Napier for The Washington Examiner, George, Reporter William J. Kelly, and Kristy Tallman on X
Chicago residents called out Mayor Brandon Johnson at a City Council meeting Monday for spending over half a billion dollars of the city’s budget on sheltering migrants. The money has been going to the New Arrivals Mission, a program designed to provide short-term emergency shelter to meet the needs of the humanitarian crisis. The program was started in 2022 and has since cost the city $574.5 million. In addition to the strain the initiative is placing on the budget, the city is staring down a budget deficit of a billion dollars. In an attempt to fill the gap, Johnson proposed a roughly $60 million property tax increase at the City Council meeting. Residents wasted little time in responding...
#3 Kash Patel, Trump’s Pick to Lead FBI, Hit With Iranian Cyberattack, Sources Say - Katherine Faulders and Luke Barr for ABC News, Jesse Kelly/Breaking 911, Disclose.tv, Eric Daugherty, and Breanna Morello/CNN on X
The FBI director nominee Kash Patel was hit with what is believed to be a cyberattack emanating from Iran on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the situation. President-elect Donald Trump nominated his longtime ally Patel on Saturday after announcing he planned on firing FBI director Christopher Wray. Patel has been a staunch supporter of Trump for years and served in his first administration in a number of roles. Kash Patel was a key part of the first Trump administration's efforts against the terrorist Iranian regime and will implement President Trump’s policies to protect America from adversaries as the FBI Director," said Trump transition spokesman Alex Pfeiffer...
#2 Thousands of Federal Employees Land Work-From-Home Deal Ahead of Trump - Josh Eidelson for Bloomberg, Tom Kambeitz, Bill Ackman, JD Vance News, Johnny Midnight,
A Biden administration appointee has agreed to lock in hybrid work protections for tens of thousands of Social Security staff, part of a slew of organized labor efforts that complicate President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to reshape the federal workforce. The American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing 42,000 Social Security Administration workers, reached an agreement with the agency last week that will protect telework until 2029 in an updated contract, according to a message to its members viewed by Bloomberg...
#1 Village People Singer Who Wrote ‘Y.M.C.A.’ Says Trump Using the Song Has Brought in Millions - Clarissa-Jan Lim for MSNBC, George, Steve M, End Wokeness, Fox News, and MrAntiEstablishment
Victor Willis, one of the members of the group Village People, has endorsed President-elect Donald Trump’s public use of the song “Y.M.C.A.,” saying it has brought him great “financial benefits” and threatening to sue news outlets that refer to the song as a “gay anthem.” In a lengthy post on Facebook on Monday, Willis, who co-wrote the hit 1978 song, explained that he changed his mind about Trump’s use of the song after realizing that Trump “seems to genuinely like Y.M.C.A. and he’s having a lot of fun with it.”
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