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"Prince" Andrew of England, King Charles' brother, no longer is "Prince."
He's just Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
That official announcement from the "Royals" in England is the latest fallout over Andrew's links to Jeffrey Epstein, the New York billionaire and convicted sex offender who died in a city jail awaiting more charges.
It is Virginia Guiffre, who died weeks ago, who had confirmed several times that she was trafficked as a teenager to Andrew by Epstein.
Andrew earlier gave up his various "honors" but that apparently was not enough.
In a "Royal Communications" the crown released a "statement."
"His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew.
"Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has nowt been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation. These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.
"Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse."
The 76-year-old king released the changes for his brother, 65.
A report from the Daily Mail revealed, "Andrew is said to have not objected."
But the report noted his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, will keep their titles.
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President Donald Trump has used his business expertise to advocate for Americans' finances in the White House, from demanding better trade deals with foreign nations to fighting inflation, which exploded to more than 9% for a while under Joe Biden.
One plan to save money, even generate income, now is being advanced by Sen. Joni Ernst R-Iowa, who has proposed the idea of letting the government sell its vacant buildings, eliminating ongoing maintenance costs and even generating sales price income.
"For too long, the entrenched bureaucracy has used red tape to prevent these ghost towns from being sold off," she said, in a report at Fox News.
The Disposal Act "immediately lists six prime pieces of D.C. real estate on the auction block and slashes through pointless regulations to fast-track the sale of the government's graveyard of lifeless real estate to generate hundreds of millions of dollars and save taxpayers billions," the report said.
It was several years ago she released a report on the federal government's lack of use of many buildings, in her "naughty list of no-show federal agencies" following the COVID-19 pandemic closures.
Her plan is the "Disposing of Inactive Structures and Properties by Offering for Sale And Lease (DISPOSAL) Act."
It would put on the market immediately the Frances Perkins Federal Building, home to the United States Department of Labor; the Department of Energy's James V. Forrestal Building; the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, which is home to the Office of Personnel Management; Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, where the Department of Housing and Urban Development was headquartered before announcing in June it planned to move; United States Department of Agriculture's headquarters at the Department of Agriculture South Building; and the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, which headquarters the Department of Health and Human Services.
The report noted there are an estimated 7,700 vacant federal buildings nationwide, and nearly 2,300 more that are mostly empty.
"The Office of Management and Budget reported in 2023 that the annual cost of operating federal buildings deemed 'underutilized' sits at $81.346 million, while the General Services Administration reported in 2025 that deferred maintenance and repair backlogs at federal buildings exceeds $6 billion and will balloon to more than $20 billion in five years,." Fox reported.
The legislation lines up a path for more building sales in the future.
Ernst is part of the Senate's support team for Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, which is working to cut spending and save taxpayers money.
Trump himself has expressed concern over federal workers who stopped showing up at their offices during COVID, and haven't returned.
"We have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work. My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to America again. Any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately," he charged.
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A town in South Carolina is changing its ordinances and has agreed to pay damages for its scheme to censor a Christian resident's statement of faith.
It is First Liberty Institute that battled in court on behalf of Ernest Giardino, and reached the settlement.
While the town of Chapin will pay "nominal damages" for its actions, it also will be held to account for lawyers' fees.
It is a consent order, adopted by a federal court, that now enjoins Chapin and its officials from enforcing an ordinance that kept Giardino from holding religious signs on public ways in the town without a permit.
The two sides "agreed on the contents of the order" after town officials moved to change their ordinance.
"Mr. Giardino just wants to share his Christian faith with others," said Nate Kellum, lawyer for First Liberty Institute. "We commend the town for revising the ordinance language so Mr. Giardino can live out his faith in the public sphere."
The legal team explained, "A Chapin police officer prevented Ernest Giardino from holding a religious sign on a public way at the intersection of Old Lexington Road and Chapin Road on June 20, 2024, reading 'Trust Christ He paid the price' on one side and 'He Saved Others—Jesus—He'll Save You' on the other. The officer informed him that he needed Chapin's permission to share his message with a sign."
He soon was told that city requirements demanded a two-week notice for him to proclaim his beliefs, and then limited him to 30 minutes, including that he would need to change sidewalk corners every 15 minutes.
When the dispute arose, First Liberty Institute filed a case in federal court.
At the time, Kellum said, "No one should be forced to ask the government's permission to express their faith in a public space. The First Amendment is his permit. Like any citizen in any city in America, Mr. Giardino is free to peacefully share his religious beliefs on a public sidewalk."
The case challenged the constitutionality of the town's agenda. It's because the town rule regulating "demonstrations" is written vaguely enough to allow officials to claim that a man holding a sign is, in fact, a demonstration.
It accused the town of violating the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution as well as the state's Religious Freedom Act.
The case filing charged, "Through signs, Giardino can convey his message without causing anyone to stop or speak with him. Individuals in vehicles can read the statements on his sign as they drive by him. Giardino typically holds a sign in a public space for over one hour and in the late afternoon during rush hour and/or after schools have let students out, to maximize the number of people who can view the messaging on his sign. He does not use amplification or project his message orally to share his religious beliefs. He remains silent when he holds a sign, only speaking with individuals who approach him for conversation."
The filing reveals Giardino tried to obtain relief from the town without legal action, but was told by one official the town believes its local requirement "supersedes the Constitution because it's a local ordinance."
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With the government shutdown in its 29th day and federal food assistance about to vanish, disturbing videos are emerging with one black woman threatening to hunt down, roast and eat white Americans, and another threatening to kill anyone who tries to stop looting.
In one video, a woman addresses "the white man" in the U.S., saying: "I'm here to let you know that we are going to eat regardless even if we have to hunt you animals down and roast and eat you, the delectable crackers and cheese.
"We will make it happen if we have to, trust and believe me. And if it takes this government shutdown for black people to finally come from under the government and understand that we don't need to be paying our taxes into this government.
"What we really need to be doing is taking care of one another, buying land and growing our own food and building our own nation. If this government shutdown and starvation is what it's going to take, then let the party begin. It's black power, baby, and we rise."
She added: "Black Americans do not care about your government shutdown. And black Americans do not care about you taking away our EBT and our government assistance because black Americans never depended on the American government to take care of us and feed us because we never could.
"We were never able to depend on the government in spite of what you may say and what you may try to force us to believe. So you can sit back and you can mock, you can laugh and you can think that you're about to starve us to death."
In another video, a woman urges security guards to let people steal food while threatening to kill any person who tries to intervene to stop the looting.
"I would hate for you to not be able to make it back to your family and for you to not be able to make it back home because you tryin' to save the billionaire companies," she says.
"When all this sh** is over, you either will be here, or you won't. I'm just gonna say that. Either you gonna make it out, or you won't because people are not gonna let you come in between they kids' next meal."
'You're about to see the beast come out of a lot of people – people that didn't even know that they had that in them."
Yet another woman wondered aloud what you would do if she broke into your house to steal your food.
As WorldNetDaily reported Tuesday, another woman claiming she's out of food stamps is bragging online about stealing from a grocery store while urging others to steal at will and "infiltrate" churches to get cash.
"Everything out here is yours," she said. "Whether or not you take it, they call that sh** free will. I call that sh** eminent domain. You know what I'm saying? One thing I learned from the white men: Take it!"
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Leftist activists, Democrat politicians and others have taken to denying the existence of Antifa, the loosely structured organization that, across America, violently fights free speech and individual freedoms.
But police in Boulder, Colorado, itself a leftist enclave, have confirmed that it not only exists but has effective operational features.
That's because Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa put out a "hit list" on a college student, a Turning Point USA leader, claiming that he is an "active member" of "neo-Nazi" groups and responsible for "white supremacist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBTQ vandalism" in Boulder, naming him, and that student immediately was targeted in a violent attack.
The Post-Millennial explained, "The Boulder Students for a Democratic Society shared the flyer to their social media, urging followers to 'share widely' and tag the school to notify them…"
Now police are looking for a suspect in the assault.
Boulder police said "Based on preliminary information, it appears as if the suspect may have followed the victim from the University of Colorado Boulder campus onto Baseline Road just prior to the assault taking place. In the interest of transparency, detectives are also confirming that they are aware that the victim was the subject of some social media posts and a digital flyer circulated by others prior to last night's incident. Whether these played a role in the reported assault is part of the investigation, and police are not commenting further on this finding."
But an official, Sarah Huntley, explained, "The investigative focus right now is on speaking with any witnesses and on identifying and locating the individual in the photos so that we can better understand what occurred and why."
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley noted, "As Democratic leaders like Rep. Dan Goldman (D, N.Y.) insist that Antifa does not exist as a group, two Antifa groups — Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa — put out a hit list poster on a University of Colorado sophomore and leader in Turning Point USA. He was promptly attacked by a person in the signature Antifa black outfit on roller blades who used a hockey stick to mete out the punishment."
He explained police said, "The suspect is described as dressed in 'all black clothing, a black ski mask, and had a green Gatorade bottle with an orange top in his back right pants pocket. He was skating with a hockey stick. The suspect fled the scene after the victim called 911, and Boulder Police and CU Police officers searched the area but did not locate him."
He noted, "The TPUSA student was not seriously injured, but the point was made by Antifa that any critics can be tracked down and attacked."
Turley pointed out, "Recently, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) claimed that 'nobody' knows what the left-wing terrorist organization Antifa is and that it does not exist. However, he previously promoted the 'Antifa Handbook' in 2018 and praised the group as terrifying Trump. Now, however, he has joined the chorus of Antifa denials as political violence rises around the country."
He cited others who have joined the denial:
"Former House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) was widely ridiculed for denying the existence of Antifa. Others on the left have joined Goldman in this absurd claim. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel committed part of his monologue to assure viewers that Antifa is no more than a mythical 'chupacabra.' 'You understand there is no Antifa,' he said. 'This is an entirely made-up organization.'"
"The Colorado case shows just how real, violent, and organized this group is in the United States," he said.
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Zohran Mamdani, making headlines as he leads candidates to be New York City's next mayor, daily is embroiled in controversy.
For issues such as his communist ideologies. He claims they're "democratic socialist," but he insists on supporting the "seizure of the means of production," the abolition of private property and centralization of the means of communication and transport in "the hands of the state."
And his own mother's description of him as "not an American at all."
And taking money from foreign supporters, which is illegal, and has now generated two criminal referrals against him.
A report at the Independent Sentinel said the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, a campaign finance watchdog, filed the referrals claiming Mamdani got illegal cash from foreigners.
The report said the campaign claimed those issues were resolved.
But still there remain questions about some $13,000 he got from 170 donors "from outside the U.S.," the report said.
"These are not isolated incidents or clerical errors," charged Dan Backer, of the foundation.
He told Fox News Digital, "This was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race which is a clear violation of both federal law and New York City campaign finance rules. Mamdani's campaign was on notice for months that it was accepting illegal foreign contributions, and yet it did nothing meaningful to stop it."
Mamdani's campaign claimed 31 donors have "proven" their citizenship while the other 139 have had donations refunded.
The accusations charge that the campaign may have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act, under which foreigners are not allowed to support with their cash U.S. election candidates.
Backer said, "The law is crystal clear that foreign nationals may not participate in American elections, and that includes making contributions. Yet Mamdani's campaign repeatedly accepted donations from individuals abroad."
A Fox News report said the donations totaling about $13,000 from outsiders had been confirmed through a review of finance reports just days ago.
CRF sent the criminal referrals to Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg this week.
The referral seeks an investigation into possible violations of federal law.
When the campaign insisted it was returning illegal donations, the foundation charged that "returning questionable donations doesn't cure the violation."
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The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates another quarter point, giving hope to those in real estate and finance that the economy, which already has been providing positive indicators, will expand.
While inflation remains slightly above the central bank's target, the move is expected also to support the labor market.
The cut of 25 basis points puts the new range of 3.75% to 4%, and it follows a cut of the same size just last month.
The bank has been trying to fulfill its mandates of stable prices, in the range of a 2% inflation, while promoting maximum employment.
The Federal Open Market Committee said in its statement risks remain on both agendas.
One member of the board favored a half-percentage cut..
Chairman Jerome Powell issued a statement that the data available now "suggests that the outlook for employment and inflation has not changed much since our meeting in September."
The government, of course, has been shut down for much of that time by Democrats who have opposed continuing current spending for a few months, instead demanding a $1.5 trillion raid of American taxpayers' pockets for their free health care of illegals agenda.
President Donald Trump repeatedly has called for the interest rates to be lower, in order to stimulate an economy he already has revived significantly from the 9% inflation Americans suffered under Joe Biden.
Inflation currently is estimated to be running at about 3% while unemployment, two months ago, was at 4.3%.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced a sweeping move to curb the use of foreign worker visas in the state's higher education system, declaring that Florida will "pull the plug" on the use of H-1B visas at its public universities and instead prioritize hiring American and Florida-resident workers.
Speaking from Tallahassee, DeSantis said, "We can do it with our residents of Florida and with Americans." The directive, issued to the Florida Board of Governors, orders the system overseeing the state's universities to end reliance on temporary visa holders and ensure taxpayer-funded institutions hire qualified U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
The announcement comes amid growing national scrutiny of the H-1B visa program, which critics say has been exploited by corporations and universities to replace American professionals with lower-cost foreign labor. DeSantis' order makes Florida the first state to take such decisive executive action at the university level, positioning his administration at the forefront of state-led efforts to restore fairness in the labor market.
\WND staff has remained in direct contact with Florida officials throughout 2025 regarding reports of visa-related abuses impacting the state. In May, federal agencies received a multi-agency whistleblower report detailing an alleged foreign-run labor funnel operating through F-1, OPT and STEM-OPT visa pathways tied to Miles Education Pvt. Ltd. and its U.S. affiliates. That same month, the documentation and supporting evidence were also shared with Florida authorities for review.
The report requested criminal and civil rights investigations and outlined evidence involving Florida universities, employers, CPA boards and state licensing systems.
According to the report, Miles and its network of partner institutions constructed what is described as a foreign labor funnel disguised as education, exploiting student visa programs to channel low-cost foreign labor into U.S. firms while bypassing American applicants. WND independently confirmed that materials identifying Florida-based connections were included in the submission package provided to state officials.
DeSantis' leadership marks a growing shift among states seeking to address what many describe as Washington's failure to protect American workers from visa misuse. His directive could serve as a model for governors nationwide to follow.
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"You know it's going to be a bad traffic stop, when you have to repeat 'Put your pants on!'"
And it was.
That social media comment followed video of an Arkansas trooper's encounter with a naked truck driver who had parked alongside the road, and apparently was sleeping.
The driver repeatedly exhibits no understanding of English, nor recognition of road signs.
He ended up being pulled off the road, according to the video.
The incident comes at a time in America when multiple foreign drivers have been documented to fail at understanding or speaking English, or recognizing ordinary traffic requirements.
The cost has been multiple Americans' lives, as the drivers repeatedly have triggered massive violent and deadly accidents.
The problem has been defined on social media as California's agenda to deliver commercial driver's licenses to such individuals.
Other social media comments included: "That's freaking scary."
And, "Hold the company accountable."
Not the Bee reported, "This trooper's interaction with a trucker who can't speak English will be the most frustrating thing you'll watch all day."
American Truckers said, "California's treasonous Non-Domicile CDL standards are endangering motorists nationwide. How long before other states revoke all reciprocity for California CDLs?"
The driver responded "California" to the question about his employer, and also "California" when asked if there was anyone else in the truck with him.
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A woman in Columbine Valley, Colorado, just south of Denver, has beaten a citation delivered by a traffic-camera-citing cop with her own indisputable evidence. And she got a congratulations from the police chief for her detective work, but still hasn't gotten an apology for the wrongful accusation.
The charge against Chrisanna Elser came from Officer Jamie Milliman, of the Columbine Valley Police Department.
He was so overconfident that his tracking of Elser's vehicle on traffic cameras proved his case he refused to show her the video evidence.
"You have not been honest with me, so I'm not going to extend you any courtesy of showing you a video when I don't need to," he snarked at her.
She then spent days collecting evidence, mailed it to the chief, Bret Cottrell, who responded via email: "After reviewing the evidence you have provided (nicely done btw), we have voided the summons we issued."
The officer had claimed to Elser that a conviction was a "lock" because he doesn't "make stuff up."
According to the Colorado Sun, the officer's wrongful allegations were based on Flock cameras, which record traffic, and Ring doorbell cameras.
Milliman had accused Elser of stealing a $25 package from a doorstep in nearby Bow Mar.
"You know we have cameras in that town. You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing," Milliman boasted.
According to the Colorado Sun, the officer's wrongful allegations were based on Flock cameras, which record traffic, and Ring doorbell cameras.
Milliman had accused Elser of stealing a $25 package from a doorstep in nearby Bow Mar.
"You know we have cameras in that town. You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing," Milliman boasted.
Elser, fighting the obstinacy of the officer, assembled snapshots from her Google timeline, a phone tool that tracks her stops, statements from people she met that day, and more. She collected surveillance images from the locations she stopped. And dashboard video from her car.
Flock is one of the big spy camera operations in the country, providing its "evidence" to multiple police agencies. However, civil liberties advocates argue its operations threaten privacy and can be abused.
She eventually obtained access to the victim's doorbell camera, which showed the thief running away, not getting into her vehicle.
She said problems, after her exoneration, still are alarming. "We had to basically exonerate ourselves," she charged. "It's fortunate that we have our own footage to fight back something like this.
"It's a little upsetting that everyone knows that the answer to be, you are innocent until proven guilty. It seemed to be the other way around that it was guilty until you prove yourself innocent," she warned.