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Infowars founder Alex Jones has announced the murder of investigative reporter Jamie White.
The Austin American-Statesman reported the death may have been by criminals who were burglarizing his vehicle.
The Austin Police Department said White was found lying on the ground in a parking lot of the apartment complex where he lived.
He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"We pledge that Jamie's tragic death will not be in vain, and those responsible for this senseless violence will be brought to justice," Jones said.
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Top Democrats, including some prominent members of Joe Biden's administration, are now without security clearances after they were revoked Monday by Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump's director of National Intelligence.
In a post on X, Gabbard cited a directive on the matter from Trump, who became victim to lawfare against him over the past four years by some names on the list, including Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Gabbard's statement says: "Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden "disinformation" letter. The President's Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden."
When Biden was in office, he famously said Trump, then a former president, should not have any intelligence briefings because of his "erratic behavior."
"There's no need for him to have that intelligence briefing," Biden told CBS News.
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DOGE, President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, has uncovered the fact that taxpayers have been paying for thousands of unnecessary computer software licenses.
And the work to cancel and end them already is under way.
A report from Fox News noted the 11,020 Adobe Acrobat licenses in the Department of Housing and Urban Development – with zero users.
There also were 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products, and only 84 were being used. And 1,776 Cognos licenses, with only 325 being used.
Of the 800 WestLaw Classic licenses, 216 were used, and there were only 400 users for 10,000 Java licenses.
DOGE chief Elon Musk explained, "There are vast numbers of unused software licenses in every part of the government. Your tax dollars are being wasted."
The announcement follows similar investigation results from the General Services Administration, Department of Labor, Small Business Administration, and Social Security Administration.
"Agencies often have more software licenses than employees, and the licenses are often idle (i.e. paid for, but not installed on any computer)," DOGE said on social media. "For example, at GSA, with 13,000 employees, there are 37,000 WinZip licenses," "19,000 training software subscriptions (and multiple parallel training software platforms)," "7,500 project management software seats for a division with 5,500 employees," "3 different ticketing systems running in parallel."
The statement confirmed, "Fixes are actively in work."
GSA spokesman Stephen Ehikian replied, "Hope we didn't make you wait too long… within 3 hours of @DOGE post, @USGSA is taking immediate action to reduce $5.5M of IT spend & working to identify additional reductions across all categories—ensuring strong stewardship of your tax dollars."
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Activist groups must cover 'potential costs and damages from a wrongly issued injunction'
For a long time federal law has allowed the government to ask courts to order plaintiffs who are suing the government to post bonds that would cover "potential costs and damages from a wrongly issued injunction."
Seldom has that provision in the law been utilized.
But it will be now, under orders from President Donald Trump, who explained in a new order Thursday, "In recent weeks, activist organizations fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and sometimes even government grants have obtained sweeping injunctions far beyond the scope of relief contemplated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, functionally inserting themselves into the executive policy making process and therefore undermining the democratic process."
Those cases include challenges to Trump's decisions to fire executive branch employees, to cut off inappropriate funding and to eliminate fraudulent activities in the federal spending.
"This anti-democratic takeover is orchestrated by forum-shopping organizations that repeatedly bring meritless suits, used for fundraising and political grandstanding, without any repercussions when they fail. Taxpayers are forced not only to cover the costs of their antics when funding and hiring decisions are enjoined, but must needlessly wait for government policies they voted for. Moreover, this situation results in the Department of Justice, the nation's chief law enforcement agency, dedicating substantial resources to fighting frivolous suits instead of defending public safety," Trump said.
He said a key to fighting such abuse is "Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) (Rule 65(c))."
That mandates "that a party seeking a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order (injunction) provide security in an amount that the court considers proper to cover potential costs and damages to the enjoined or restrained party if the injunction is wrongly issued," Trump explained.
He said enforcement of that provisions "is critical to ensuring that taxpayers do not foot the bill for costs or damages caused by wrongly issued preliminary relief by activist judges and to achieving the effective administration of justice."
He then ordered that it now is the "policy" of the U.S. to demand that parties seeking injunctions "cover the costs and damages incurred if the government is ultimately found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained."
His instructions are that the heads of executive branch agencies are "directed to ensure that their respective agencies properly request under Rule 65(c) that federal district courts require plaintiffs to post security equal to the federal government's potential costs and damages from a wrongly issued injunction."
The instruction covers "all lawsuits filed against the federal government seeking an injunction where agencies can show expected monetary damages or costs from the requested preliminary relief, unless extraordinary circumstances justify an exception."
He pointed out that the rule actually "mandates the court to require, in all applicable cases, that a movant for an injunction post security in an amount that the court considers proper to cover potential costs and damages to the enjoined or restrained party."
In some cases the requirements could prove incredible. For example, in one case recently litigated, plaintiffs demanded that the government hand out $2 billion in cash to various organizations. Should a case such as that ultimately fail, the plaintiffs could be liable for the $2 billion in damages.
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Democrats attending President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday entered the room with frowns, consulted each other with pursed lips and glares at the GOP majority, and held signs expressing their politics, which often was at odds with what the American people have chosen.
But the real test of what they are for, and significant, what they are against, came in their actions during Trump's speech.
For example, the declined to applaud when Trump announced the capture of the terrorist who masterminded the Abbey Gate attack during Joe Biden's ill-executed withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. It left 13 American service members dead.
They refused to applaud a young boy fighting brain cancer as he was made an honorary member of the U.S. Secret Service.
They declined to applaud a call for lower taxes for middle-class Americans.
The White House took note of their performance, explain, "Tonight, President Donald J. Trump delivered bold, forward-looking remarks before a joint session of Congress — highlighting the historic accomplishments already achieved in his second term and setting the course for four years of prosperity and strength.
"Unfortunately, Congressional Democrats were too consumed by their own hatred of President Trump, refusing to show support for lowering taxes, fighting childhood cancer, capturing terrorists, protecting women and girls in sports, or law and order — to name only a few."
The White House statement noted the comment from former White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, now a network commentator, who said, "The Democratic Party still has no common sense. They have no ideas and they have no heart. They couldn't even stand for the most inspiring moments of the speech."
The rest of the White House list of topics where Democrats, by and large in unanimity, remained silent:
Social media took note:
One commenter concluded the Democrats were "demons" and "gremlins."
One Democrat, Al Green, was ejected by the sergeant at arms for belligerently badgering the president while he was trying to speak.
Mark Halperin, a political analyst, pointed out the especially egregious refusal by Democrats to stand when Trump honored a 13-year-old boy fighting cancer. Trump's address noted that D.J. Daniel would be made an honorary Secret Service agent.
Halperin explained Democrats' attacks on Trump lose credibility when they act in an "aberrant" way.
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A $30 million lawsuit against the federal government over the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was summarily shot and killed by a police officer during the protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2001, apparently is in settlement talks.
That's because the defendants and plaintiffs, the estate of Babbitt and her husband, Aaron Babbitt, jointly have asked a court to delay a hearing on a motion to dismiss part of the case, as well as a motion for discovery.
Columnist Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner posted online a copy of the details in a joint status report by the parties to the U.S. District Court in Washington.
The report described it as "the latest indication that the Trump Department of Justice wants a truce in former President Joe Biden's war on those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot."
That is that federal lawyers "for the first time have signaled support for settlement talks" in the wrongful death case.
Babbitt was shot and killed by officer Michael Byrd, who had a reputation for misbehavior including once leaving his loaded service firearm unattended in a public restroom.
Byrd shot Babbitt as she was entering the House Speaker's lobby off the House floor amid the protest, and some rioting that day, by those who held doubts about the legitimacy of the 2000 presidential election.
In fact, the course of that election was altered by several undue influences, including Mark Zuckerberg's decision to hand out $400 million plus to leftist local elections officials who often used it to recruit Democrat voters, and the FBI's decision to interfere in the vote by falsely claiming that details of Biden family scandals contained in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop were Russian disinformation.
"The parties have agreed to work in good faith to narrow or resolve issues in this case," the new filing states. It was submitted jointly by federal lawyers as well as lawyers for Judicial Watch, which brought the case on behalf of Babbitt.
The reversal by the DOJ in the case follows President Donald Trump's actions to pardon hundreds of individuals who were pursued, arrested, charged and convicted by the federal government sometimes for no more than walking through an open doorway into the Capitol that day.
Judicial Watch spokesman Tom Fitton told the Examiner, "All we want is justice and we hope the Justice Department under President Trump would share that goal ultimately."
Police actually tried after the shooting to conceal Byrd, who later was promoted by Capitol Police.
The damage lawsuit charges, "Ashli remained conscious for minutes or longer after being shot by Lt. Byrd. Ashli experienced extreme pain, suffering, mental anguish, and intense fear before slipping into pre-terminal unconsciousness. The autopsy report identified the cause of death as a 'gunshot wound to left anterior shoulder' with an onset interval of 'minutes.' The fact that Ashli was alive and conscious in extreme pain and suffering is documented in videos of the shooting. Furthermore, nothing about the wound track described in the autopsy report would be expected to result in immediate death or instantaneous loss of consciousness, and Ashli's lungs contained blood, further confirming that she was alive and breathing after being shot. Ashli was pronounced dead at Washington Hospital Center at 3:15 p.m. The medical examiner determined that the manner of death was homicide."
Earlier, the court scheduled a trial for the case on July 20, 2026.
Further, court documents show, "Byrd later confessed that he shot Ashli before seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or even identifying her as female. Ashli was unarmed. Her hands were up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Lt. Byrd and other officers in the lobby."
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Conservatives can no longer afford to play by outdated rules while the left fights to win at all costs. In this powerful discussion, Elizabeth Farah of WND speaks with Will Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Article 3 Project, about the urgent need for "wartime conservatism" – a strategy that rejects passive bipartisanship and demands bold action to secure victories.
Chamberlain exposes the myth of an independent DOJ, stressing that the president has full authority over it, and details how his organization is confirming conservative judges, pushing back against leftist lawfare, and holding the judiciary accountable.
Elizabeth underscores the high stakes, questioning why Republicans hesitate to wield power effectively while Democrats relentlessly push their agenda.
They highlight immigration, Big Tech censorship, and election integrity as the real battlegrounds – issues that determine who holds power long-term. With urgency, they call on conservatives to stop fearing Democratic retaliation, eliminate weak norms like the filibuster, and take decisive legal and political action.
Drawing from his recent trip to Israel, Chamberlain points to its bold nationalist policies as a model for fighting back. The message is clear: if conservatives don't act now, they risk permanent political marginalization.
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A Minnesota public school's scheming for a student trip that would go full racist and exclude whites because of their skin color has been exposed. And the trip has been canceled.
The plan for the trip for only students who "identify as a person of color" was named in a federal civil rights complaint against Highland Park High School.
Mark Perry, a retired professor, spotted the racist plan on social media and took action.
"They maybe should have understood this was a problem before, but at least once it was brought to their attention," said in an interview with a local television station.
"That's the least I can expect then, that then they would do the right thing and comply with federal Civil Rights Laws – which in this case was cancelling the program or maybe it was too late to open it up to all students," he said.
A report in the Daily Mail explained he was told the trip was canceled within hours of having filed the complaint.
The report said the trip was intended to expose students to "digital marketing and advertising careers."
Perry told a Minnesota publication that the plan violated Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act, as well as the district's own non-discrimination policy.
"Just as it would be illegal and objectionable for [Highland Park Senior High School] to offer a field trip that explicitly excluded students of color… it's equally illegal and objectionable to host a racially segregated field trip exclusively for 'students of color,'" Perry had told school Principal Winston Tucker and BrandLab, the agency organizing the trip, in a letter.
Perry is not unfamiliar with the federal law, as he works with Do No Harm as a civil rights advocate.
"There is no 'good' form of discrimination, regardless of your intentions. It's all bad and illegal when it violates the law," he explained in a website statement.
A district official said, in a statement, "St. Paul Public Schools values our partnerships with community organizations like the BrandLab and the opportunities they provide for our students. The district remains committed to providing post-secondary and career-related opportunities to all of our students to pursue their passions."
Spokeswoman Erica Wacker explained that the district tries to follow the rules, explaining that while the district's National African American Parent Involvement Day is "designed for a specific group," it actually is "open to anyone."
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Just two weeks ago, DOGE chief Elon Musk drew attention to the fact federal employees' retirements are still processed by hand and on paper in a Pennsylvania limestone mine that is home to millions of documents and files.
Musk said the unique location and process were something "out of a time warp."
"There's a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork," Musk told reporters inside the Oval Office. "The limiting factor is the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government."
Apparently, the agency that processes those retirements, the Office of Personnel Management, was challenged by Trump administration officials to digitize the process. And, in something that contravenes the usual slowness of government work, the agency claims to have done so in a mere week.
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WASHINGTON – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit President Trump at the White House on Friday. Trump made this announcement when speaking to the media in the Cabinet Room ahead of his first official full-Cabinet meeting of his second term.
The president seemed optimistic that a deal could be done that will benefit all nations invested in seeing an end to the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
"The previous administration put us in a very bad position," said Trump of the Biden administration's inaction on a diplomatic solution to the war.
"Taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill more than Europe is paying," he said. "We are going to sign an agreement that will be a very big agreement," that "will be about rare earths and other things." Trump was noncommittal on whether that deal will be signed on Friday or what else the visit by Zelensky will accomplish.
During his media availability in the Cabinet Room, Trump also praised DOGE, saying it is "one of the most important initiatives," of his administration.
The president then allowed Elon Musk to give an update on the department's work. Musk told reporters that in order to reach a goal of ridding the government of $1 trillion in wasteful spending, "We must save $4 billion a day."
The world's richest man also gave a more complete picture of the role DOGE plays in the Trump administration, saying, "DOGE is a support function for the president and for the agency and the department to find those savings. And we bring the receipts."
When the Cabinet was asked by Trump if anyone was unhappy with Musk, they all gave the Tesla founder a round of applause as a show of support. The president himself showed support for DOGE's email campaign, claiming that the goal is to root out any workers who should not be receiving a salary from the government.
Musk further explained, "The emails were mistakenly thought of as a performance review. They're not. They're a pulse check review […] What we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead."
President Trump touched on many other topics including the dramatically reduced number of illegal border crossings, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evolving hostage-release situation between Israel and Hamas from the Cabinet Room.