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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron met in the White House Monday, with the potential ceasefire agreement between Ukraine and Russia on both leaders' minds.

Speaking in the Oval Office about the need for a peace deal, Trump said, "It could lead to World War III if it's not solved. You know, there'll be a point at which it's not going to stop at those two countries [because] there's such involvement from other countries."

The bilateral meeting came after the two joined a call with all G7 leaders, where Eastern European security was also the main topic of discussion.

"We had a good discussion this morning for the G7 here for the [anniversary of] the third year of this war in Ukraine," Trump said. "And I think our common objective clearly is to build..a solid longstanding peace."

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The Supreme Court is being asked to hear a case that the justices could use to reform – fix actually – a practice through which the government can deny individuals their 4th Amendment rights.

It is the New Civil Liberties Alliance that is asking for a review of the Harper v. O'Donnell case that concerns financial records unlawfully seized by the Internal Revenue Service.

Sheng Li, litigation counsel for the group, said, "The judge-made third-party doctrine was ill-conceived from the start, with dozens of states repudiating it over the past half century. The doctrine has become even less defensible in the modern age, where sharing confidential information with third-party companies such as internet, healthcare, and even cryptocurrency companies, has become an increasingly common part of American life."

The legal team explained the IRS took financial records belonging to NCLA client James Harper and more than 14,000 others from the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange through a "John Doe" summons.

"IRS took Mr. Harper's documents without any individualized suspicion to believe he had under-reported his income or failed to pay taxes. The Supreme Court should take the opportunity to fix the third-party doctrine, which the government has relied on to strip away the Fourth Amendment rights of millions of Americans who share data, such as internet browsing histories and medical records, with third-party companies," the alliance explained.

The case history includes a ruling from the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals that Harper could take the IRS to federal court for gathering private financial information about his use of virtual current from third-party exchanges without a lawful subpoena.

However, a federal judge in New Hampshire then failed Harper, by dismissing his case against IRS in May 2023, incorrectly ruling that he had failed to state a claim. The First Circuit invoked the third-party doctrine to uphold that dismissal last September.

The NCLA pointed out, "The Supreme Court must revisit the third-party doctrine to recognize Fourth Amendment protection for Mr. Harper's cryptocurrency data and other digital records, which Americans now routinely store with third-party service providers. Digital records are a modern-day individual's 'papers' and 'effects' that the Fourth Amendment explicitly safeguards against government's prying eyes. Justice Sonya Sotomayor has observed that the third-party doctrine is 'ill suited' to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks."

"The Constitution promises security to Americans in their 'papers and effects.' Until the Supreme Court clarifies its rulings for the digital age, that promise is unfulfilled," said John Vecchione, a litigation counsel for NCLA.

It was in 2019 that the IRS notified Harper that it had obtained his financial records concerning ownership of bitcoin "without any particularized suspicion of wrongdoing."

The IRS took those records "without a valid subpoena, court order, or judicial warrant based on probable cause."

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In the midst of Black History Month, MSNBC is canceling its prime-time political show hosted by black anchorwoman Joy Reid, news to which some conservatives are cheering.

The unabashedly left-leaning network axed "The ReidOut" as part of a major shakeup by the cable broadcaster. Reid has been at MSNBC since 2016, and anchored the 7 p.m. slot since 2020.

"Joy Reid, aka the race lady at MSNBC, just had her show cancelled because it was unwatchable," said Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA.

"Good riddance to the most vitriolic, lowbrow, and unhinged race hustler ever allowed on national television."

Best-selling author Matt Walsh said: "Deeply saddened by the passing of Joy Reid's MSNBC show. It was a great resource for right wing podcasters looking for a clip to play and make fun of. I can't tell you how many slow news days Joy helped me through. I hope she finds somewhere else to spout her inane bullsh**.

"Joy Reid was one of the most toxic people in the media," said Charles Gasparino, a Fox Business senior correspondent and author of "Go Woke Go Broke; The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America." "Good riddance."

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There long have been legitimate concerns when Americans travel to restrictive nations – those that don't accept the multitude of rights Americans enjoy – such as North Korea. Or China. Or even Islamic regimes like Iran, or Saudi Arabia.

Now, the American Center for Law and Justice is warning about travel to the United Kingdom.

The legal organization has posted online an analysis of the threat the UK's ideological leftism now poses.

"The UK has declared that it will charge and prosecute Americans for their social media posts, written while still in America, if they travel to its borders. The ACLJ has prepared a legal memo detailing the specific laws at play and the danger for Americans. Specifically, it details how your speech on the internet could violate the UK's broad 'hate speech' laws and how you could be arrested as soon as you step foot in the UK for your posts back home," the ACLJ reports.

"If an American speaks in the United States in a way that UK officials construe as affecting their national interest or even producing substantial effects within the country, even if it's just a statement about your Christian faith or your political stance, then you could be arrested upon entry to the UK," it warned.

This of course, would be entry to the nation famed worldwide for the Constitution-inspiring Magna Carta.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is "hopeful" Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a rare earth minerals deal with President Donald Trump this week, adding that "the Russians hate this deal."

Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Bessent said: "Common to a lot of misperceptions, the Russians hate this deal."

"The morning that I arrived in Ukraine to get into Kyiv … you fly to Poland, you take a 10- hour night if train in. The Russians, unfortunately, bombed Kyiv. There was a missile barrage four hours before I got there.

"It was the first time that such a barrage had a taken place since November. So I think that was a strong signal from Russian leadership that they don't like this deal because it gives President Trump more negotiating leverage.

"So if the Russians don't like it, my view is Ukrainians should."

"President Trump created this idea himself. It is a win-win," Bessent continued.

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A hospital is being informed that requiring ultrasound technicians to take part in the facility's abortion business violates their rights.

It is the American Center for Law and Justice that has dispatched a letter to Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M.

The business, which no longer has a religious affiliation, a few months ago changed its policy to demand that ultrasound techs help in abortions – a reversal of the previous practice.

"This shift has put employees in the impossible position of choosing between their livelihoods or their religious convictions," explained the legal experts at ACLJ.

The hospital is demanding in its new policy that techs participate, and exemptions are not assured.

"If an employee is unwilling to participate and an accommodation cannot be ensured, they risk job reassignment or termination. Moreover, even if an alternative position is available, the employee must endure a four-week unpaid leave until a transfer is finalized," the ACLJ explained.

When the techs submitted a conflict of conscience form, there wasn't an answer.

So the ACLJ dispatched a formal demand letter to Presbyterian Hospital explaining what the hospital is required to do under federal law, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Church Amendment.

Those "explicitly protect healthcare workers from being compelled to participate in procedures that violate their religious beliefs," the ACLJ said.

The organization said, "We have demanded that Presbyterian Hospital provide written assurances confirming that our clients will be fully exempt from assisting in any abortion-related procedures without penalty or adverse action. Should the hospital fail to comply, we are prepared to take all necessary legal and administrative actions to defend the conscience rights of these dedicated medical professionals."

The ACLJ explained the law is clear: "Employers must provide reasonable accommodations for sincerely held religious beliefs unless doing so imposes an undue hardship – a standard that the U.S. Supreme Court has reinforced in recent rulings."

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You might call it the "Make Germany Great Again" movement, as the European nation heads into elections tomorrow and the populist Alternative for Germany Party seeks a mandate to govern.

Its candidate for chancellor is Alice Weidel, a Chinese-speaking economist who is raising two sons with her Sri Lankan-born woman partner.

In a recent speech, Weidel sounded like a female Donald Trump, promising an ambitious Germany First agenda.

"Close the borders completely," she said, according to the English translation of a clip posted on X, "and reject every illegal entrant and every person without papers."

She said her party would send a message to the world: "The German borders are closed!"

According to a Reuters report, in a policy dubbed the "firewall," other German parties have a consensus not to team up with the AfD to form a coalition government after the election – an agreement U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance decried when he met Weidel while in Europe this week.

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Plaintiffs in a lawsuit that focuses on the Mountain West Conference's inclusion of a man on a women's volleyball team say they want the judge hearing the dispute removed from the case for his bias.

The judge preliminarily had ordered the women plaintiffs, three University of Wyoming volleyball players and a handful of other women, to "call a female-identifying transgender person 'she.'"

That ruling from U.S. District Judge Kato Crews shows his bias, and that he's already decided the case, the plaintiffs charge.

A report in the Cowboy State Daily explains the plaintiffs are challenging a decision by the Mountain West Conference and San Jose State to have a man on the SJSU women's volleyball team.

"Blaire Fleming's inclusion on the SJSU team prompted teams to boycott and forfeit games with the Spartans and ended with SJSU taking second place at the conference tournament," the report explained.

The lawsuit charges that the transgender agenda activists in the school and conference violated Title IX which forbids sex discrimination and also the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

A lawyer for the plaintiffs, William Bock III, told the judge regarding the order to refer to the man as "she," that, "This case concerns whether Blaire Fleming is a man or a woman."

The lawyer charged, "An impartial forum cannot exist where the court has so forcefully signaled the court's personal views on sex and gender identity that the court is willing to use its contempt power to enforce those views."

It was a rule the judge created for his own courtroom that commanded people "to use others' preferred pronouns or risk being charged with contempt," the court filing says.

Crews previously has used the incorrect "she" and "her" references to cite Fleming, and the plaintiffs motion points out that that decision, especially requiring others to follow that arbitrarily ideology, indicates "Crews must have made up his mind about the key issue in the case."

The rule, Bock charges, violates free speech rights and is a prior restraint on speech, and Bock noted while the judge may want a courtroom where all feel "welcome and respected," that's not enough to correct its violation of the First Amendment.

Support from leftists for Crews is well-established. He was recommended by Democrats Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and nominated by Joe Biden.

He undermined his own qualifications during his nominating hearing when Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., asked him to define a Brady motion, a common tenet in criminal law, and he was unable to do so. He was confirmed over almost unanimous Republican opposition.

That precedent from the Supreme Court requires prosecutors to turn over evidence favorable to a defendant.

He earlier refused to provide relief to female volleyball players who had protested the presence of a male on the San Jose team.

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It's not just a "gravy train" that is dumping millions of taxpayer dollars into a broadcast scheme that delivers leftist propaganda, it's a "gravy train with biscuit wheels."

That's from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who recently took to the floor of the Senate to blast the continued funding of National Public Radio, the Corporation Public Broadcasting, and the Public Broadcasting System.

Those organizations often have been criticized for having a leftist ideology and inserting that regularly into the news reporting.

Kennedy brought with him examples of that activity, through headlines that actually were created by the organizations.

Such as, "Eating less beef is a climate solution," "There is no neutral. Nice white people can still be complicit in a racist society" and "Scientists debunk lab accident theory of pandemic emergence."

"No fair-minded person with an IQ above a single cell organism would conclude that this is anything but biased to certain points of view," he said.

A report at RedState explained that Kennedy was calling on Congress "to stop funding all public broadcasting."

Kennedy said the taxpayer-funded organizations are "the perfect example of a project the American people no longer need and should not fund."

He said the outlets can broadcast what they want.

"But, I'm not for taking $500 million every single year and giving it to these stations (CPB) to the exclusion of everybody else. That's immoral. We are running $36 trillion in debt. This is disgraceful in 2025. It is disgraceful whether it is left-of-center opinion journalism or right-of-center opinion journalism. It is disgraceful to the American people to have to fund this rot. It doesn't mean the rot doesn't have a right to exist, but they don't have a right to taxpayer money," he warned.

The report also noted that NewsBusters' Executive Editor Tim Graham wrote about the same time, "NPR Is National Public Relations for the War on Trump."

He explained, "At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations, badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute. Nobody is allowed to question the concept of 'systemic racism' on NPR. They're deeply invested in that ideology. It's why NPR favors describing race riots against cops as 'rebellions.'"

He explained, "The half of the country that voted for Trump shouldn't have to support this clearly hostile radio network with our tax dollars. Lambda Legal and all the other leftists should pony up for NPR's supine press releases since NPR's 'newscasts' aren't diverse or inclusive enough for conservatives."

Kennedy noted that since 1970, Congress has given NPR more than $14.5 billion and it has purchased a $200 million office building, pand ays its hosts as much as $532,000 a year.

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg handled one of the Democrats' many lawfare cases against President Donald Trump before he took office the second time.

He took some questions about business reporting activities that would have been misdemeanors had not the statute of limitations expired already. But he claimed they were felonies because they were in pursuit of some other, unidentified crime.

Hearing the case was Juan Merchan, who had donated to leftist causes, and whose daughter was a Democrat activist making money off her father's courtroom decisions against Trump, including his decision to allow salacious testimony from an ex-porn star and a convicted perjurer. Merchan also ruled the jury's decision didn't have to be unanimous, unheard of in American justice.

Bragg and Merchan, with the help of a leftist Manhattan jury, convicted Trump on 34 counts.

And while that verdict now is on appeal, the lower court isn't entirely out of the picture, as FBI Director Kash Patel wants to know the details of that money flow, and much more.

He has announced he is working with members of Congress for subpoenas to be issued to Merchan's daughter's company, "who made $15 million plus from the illicit information pouring out of her father's courtroom."

He said, "I want to know the bank records, because money doesn't lie. I want to know how deep it is and how much of it went to the family," for the "false conviction" of Trump.

Earlier, the Daily Caller News Foundation pointed out how Merchan "spent seven minutes" "bemoaning that then President-elect Donald Trump's election victory prevented him from imposing a sentence normally given to an 'ordinary citizen.'"

Merchan ultimately handed down a sentence of "unconditional discharge." That includes no fines, jail or probation.

He claimed that the trial, in which Trump essentially was convicted of describing legal expenses as legal expenses, with its salacious testimony, was ordinary, but the sentencing was different.

Merchan said, "It is clear from legal precedent … that Donald Trump, the ordinary citizen [and] Donald Trump, the criminal defendant, would not be entitled to such considerable protections. I'm referring to protections that extended well beyond those afforded the average defendant who winds their way through the criminal justice system each day. No, ordinary citizens do not receive those legal protections. It is the office of the president that bestows those far-reaching protections to the office holder."

Merchan's jury had claimed Trump falsified business records to cover a $130,000 payment for a non-disclosure agreement with porn actress Stormy Daniels.

Trump explained he is "totally innocent" and said he was treated "very unfairly" throughout Merchan's court proceedings.

Bragg claimed the payment to Daniels was labeled legal expenses by accountants, and experts have confirmed the case never should have been opened. Some of those called for Merchan to be disbarred for his activities.