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President Donald Trump is forcefully asserting that former President Joe Biden weaponized the U.S. Justice Department to silence civil rights leader Charlie Kirk and cancel his conservative organization Turning Point USA.

In a late-night post on Truth Social Tuesday, Trump wondered: "Why was the wonderful Turning Point under INVESTIGATION by 'Deranged' Jack Smith and the Corrupt & Incompetent Biden Administration."

"They Weaponized the Justice Department against Sleepy Joe Biden's Political Opponents, including ME!"

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Actor Robert Redford, who was made famous by his work in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and earned accolades for "The Way We Were," "Barefoot in the Park" and "Ordinary People," has died at the age of 89.

Reports said the Hollywood star, born Charles Robert Redford Jr. on August 18, 1936, passed away Tuesday at his home in Utah.

He once described the attraction of his career: "The idea of being an actor was to have a sense of freedom. You were free to be, to act as someone else, if you were paying attention to the people around you. … You had a chance to be an artist, because acting is an art form. You had a chance to say, 'I know this person, I've seen this person before and I want to bring that forward.'"

He won two Oscars, five Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom over his six decades in front of the camera.

He also was integral in "The Sting," "All the President's Men" and "Out of Africa."

His father was an oil company accountant and his mother held a passion for literature and the arts, and while enjoying football, tennis and track and field as a youth, he struggled to find his own career, the New York Post reported.

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Some of President Donald Trump's work to "Make America Great Again" and restore its business influence around the world has been high-profile, such as his use of tariffs to encourage other countries to be fair in their trade agreements.

Some haven't been quite that profile, but still have produced results.

Such as his campaign to build American energy development, production and sales.

That's benefited the American economy by about $5 billion … per month.

It is a report at Courthousenews that explains Europe's "trade advantage" over the U.S. plunged "by another $5 billion in July."

That's based on information that shows a months-long shift as Europeans now are buying significantly more American goods.

"The European Union's trade surplus with the U.S. fell to 13 billion euros ($14.3 billion) in July from 18 billion euros ($19.8 billion) a year earlier, according to official EU data. The shift represents the largest monthly deterioration in the trade relationship since U.S. President Donald Trump took office," the report said.

The report said the 20 EU countries that use the euro currency showed similar results, as its global trade surplus fell to 12.4 billion euros from 18.5 billion euros a year earlier.

"European imports of U.S. goods surged 10.7% to 31.2 billion euros, while U.S. purchases of European products dropped 4.4% to 44.2 billion euros. The diverging trends signal a fundamental shift in one of the world's most important trade relationships," Courthousenews said.

European exports to the U.S. have fallen as the dollar strengthened and changed purchasing patterns, with Europeans buying more American energy, technology and agricultural products.

The report said European markets are weak, with a second-quarter growth report of a dismal 0.1%, far behind America's 0.8%.

The trade changes followed Trump's insistence that European allies stop buying Russian oil and gas.

Trump, in a statement, said, "I am ready to do major Sanctions on Russia when all NATO Nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO Nations STOP BUYING OIL FROM RUSSIA. As you know, NATO'S commitment to WIN has been far less than 100%, and the purchase of Russian Oil, by some, has been shocking! It greatly weakens your negotiating position, and bargaining power, over Russia. Anyway, I am ready to 'go' when you are. Just say when? I believe that this, plus NATO, as a group, placing 50% to 100% TARIFFS ON CHINA, to be fully withdrawn after the WAR with Russia and Ukraine is ended, will also be of great help in ENDING this deadly, but RIDICULOUS, WAR. China has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia, and these powerful Tariffs will break that grip. This is not TRUMP'S WAR (it would never have started if I was President!), it is Biden's and Zelenskyy's WAR. I am only here to help stop it, and save thousands of Russian and Ukrainian lives (7,118 lives lost last week, alone. CRAZY!). If NATO does as I say, the WAR will end quickly, and all of those lives will be saved! If not, you are just wasting my time, and the time, energy, and money of the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."

A European Commission official declined comment to Courthousenews.

The report said the U.S. now supplies more than 50% of Europe's liquefied natural gas needs.

The report said the economic slowdown also has started affect Europe's job markets, with employment growth only 0.1%.

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They're dropping like flies. Another leftist has been relieved of his job thanks to insensitive remarks about the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk.

This time it's a high-school social studies teacher – Wynne Boliek of Greenville, South Carolina.

According to South Carolina U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, who made a phone call or two back to her home state upon hearing about the teacher's X post, Boliek has been put on leave.

Boliek had posted Wednesday: "Thoughts and prayers to his children but IMHO, America became greater today. There I said it."

The comment is an allusion to President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, which Kirk enthusiastically championed.

The post was highlighted on X by the account Mostly Peaceful Memes, which has posted several comments made by users who are happy about the death of Kirk.

Fox Carolina posted the statement from Greenville County Schools:

"We are aware of an inappropriate message on social media attributed to Wynne Boliek, a teacher at Southside High School. Mr. Boliek has been placed on administrative leave while we fully investigate and follow the required due process. As this is a personnel matter, we are prevented from providing further details. As always, we expect all staff members to conduct themselves in a professional manner that best represents our district and schools. Thank you."

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Fact: The one and only solution to Iran's ever-worsening crisis lies in the complete overthrow of the religious dictatorship. The international community is gradually reaching consensus on this point, and the Iranian people are more prepared than ever, their society now in a basically explosive state.

Neither war nor appeasement, but only regime change by the people of Iran and their organized Resistance, can truly guarantee peace in the region. To achieve this, however, the right of thousands of resistance units across Iran to confront the IRGC – that's the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that protects the theocratic regime – must be widely recognized. The need and timing are urgent. Every additional day granted to this regime only means more war and bloodshed. The regime's calls for negotiation are nothing more than desperate attempts to buy time. And its time is running out – as all the evidence attests.

Iran's streets are no longer under the regime's control

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A new jobs report revision, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, confirmed that for the year ending in March, meaning most of the activity was during the regime of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, there were 911,000 fewer jobs created than reported being created.

That's an average of almost 76,000 fake jobs counted being added per month, and that triggered the Liberty Daily's headline, "Revised jobs numbers show now nearly a MILLION fake jobs were reported to make Commiela Harris look better."

The Daily Caller News Foundation noted the report "comes after job growth slowed in August, with the U.S. economy adding just 22,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, according to data released Friday by BLS."

The discrepancy between jobs created and jobs reported created was "even worse than the downward adjustment of 700,000 that was previously projected, Axios reported on Tuesday."

The numbers come from the BLS after President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer last month, alleging she had "faked the Jobs Numbers" before the 2024 election to "boost" Harris."

Trump then appointed economist Dr. E.J. Antoni to replace McEntarfer.

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In a situation in California, a teacher at Cal State Channel Island has been indicted for assaulting U.S. Border Patrol agents with a deadly or dangerous weapon – a tear gas canister.

And a constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley, points out it appears to be just the latest scenario in which professors have gone ballistic, and beyond what the law allows.

The Los Angeles Times reported the federal grand jury returned an indictment of Jonathan Caravello, 37, of Ventura, on a felony count of assault "after he was arrested at a protest against an immigration raid at a Ventura County marijuana farm."

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Democrats have used redistricting in states where they are the majority for years already, eliminating as many Republican members of Congress as they can.

Republicans recently took up the agenda, with the now-approved plan in Texas that changes five districts that were seen as secure for Democrats into districts where GOP candidates will have more support.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has threatened to respond in kind in his state.

But a new analysis at the Washington Stand warns the leftist party to pull back before it loses too much more.

It cites the ironic threats from Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, responding to Texas' moves, to punish Republicans in her state by redistricting there.

"Only for the media to point out that they have no Republican districts," the analysis noted.

The facts reveal that Democrats already have pushed their schemes to redistrict Republicans out of Congress whenever and wherever they can, and now are, more or less, backed up to a wall.

Their "tantrum" over Texas "may have made for good television, but it's turning out to be a terrible strategy," the analysis noted.

"Part of the price of painting Republicans as gerrymandering cheats is exposing the Democrats' own years-long hustle of rigging congressional maps. Now that the spotlight is on, Americans are finally getting a good look at how badly the Left has abused the system in blue states. And it isn't pretty," the analysis said.

"In one of the truest silver linings of this unexpected storyline of 2025, Republicans are finally pulling back the curtain on how liberal leaders have spent decades scamming the system. While governors like Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., are showing plenty of bravado in their threats to retaliate, the reality is this: they're picking a fight they'll almost certainly lose."

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., noted the "injustices" that Joe Biden introduced during his lone term in office.

"We're starting to learn a lot more of what happened through the 2020 election and what happened through the redistricting that took place in 2021," he said. "And if you look at some of these states like California, Illinois, [and] New York, they have all redistricted in a way that has really made the balance of power very unfair."

Take Illinois, he said. "Out of the 17 districts in Illinois, only two are Republicans. Look at California. They've got over 50 some seats, and the minority is, of course, Republican."

Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., being put in the bull's-eye by Newsom's agenda, said in that state Democrats, are "going to draw the maps first, and then they say they're going to go to the ballot and ask people for permission to set aside the Constitution on that."

That would, he said, be in violation of existing state law.

"There [are] 52 members of the House in our state, [and] it's 43 [Democrats] to nine [Republicans] right now," he said. Noting that Democrats want to eliminate another five Republicans, he said, "Whatever the word democracy [means], this isn't it. This is … the most blatant example, I think, of a power play I've seen in all the years I've ever observed politics in, at least in my home state here."

Now other states, with more evenly distributed representations, are looking at their district maps – because of California's agenda.

Stutzman said, in fact, Republicans just now are beginning an effort that the Democrats long have used.

"We're looking at the numbers from the elections over the past several cycles and realizing that California, Illinois, and New York have already done this, and it gives them a huge advantage," he confirmed.

He blames the media for being complicit, because, "They didn't say anything about the fact that Republicans in Illinois [are] underrepresented in Washington, D.C. and [in] states like Indiana. … We're stepping back and saying, 'You know what? If this is the way that the game is going to be played, the Democrats have started this process already. We're going to push back, and we're going to fight back,'"

The Washington Times has warned, "Things could get worse for Democrats. … Republicans face fewer hurdles in the red states of Indiana, Missouri and Ohio, where they are considering the Trump-inspired mid-decade map changes that could boost the GOP's chances of defending their thin House majority in the midterm elections next year."

As FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter cautioned, "Democrats would be wise to do everything in their power to tamp down the 'redistricting war,' as some have called it, simply because they do not have as deep of a reservoir of potential new districts to draw in the states they control as Republicans do. Most Democratic states have already maxed out the party's share of their congressional delegations by aggressively gerrymandering over the years."

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An appeals court has affirmed that the administration of President Donald Trump does have the authority to claw back billions of dollars handed out by the Joe Biden administration as his single term in office closed down.

One government official described how the cash handouts to favored Democrat interests amounted to dumping "gold bars" off the Titanic.

The Washington Examiner reported the decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a decision by Trump-opposing Judge Tanya Chutkan that the clawbacks couldn't happen.

The new ruling now allows Trump's Environmental Protection Agency to slash billions of dollars in grants that green groups were expecting under the Biden handout program.

Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao said the clawbacks could go forward; Cornelia Pillard dissented.

The ruling said Chutkan "abused" her discretion by issuing an injunction preventing EPA from rescinding the billions in handouts.

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Long have leftists insisted that "thoughts and prayers" have no place in America when there is an eruption of evil, like this week in Minneapolis when a man calling himself a woman shot up a Catholic church, killing two students and injuring many more.

After that shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, multiple Democrats, progressives and others went public with their condemnation of prayer. A Minnesota bishop scolded the Minneapolis mayor for his comments, explaining that's what is needed at such times.

But now an analysis at the Federalist, from executive editor Joy Pullman, notes that those Democrat talking points are a red flag.

"The New York Post published excerpts of the shooter's journal posted on YouTube that include a drawing of him communing with a Satanic figure in a mirror. As I've written before, Satan-worshippers can be startlingly more direct than many Christians about the connections between their spiritual and political beliefs.

"This image is yet another striking testimony — from the dark side! — about the connections between queer ideology and the demonic. So are passages in the shooter's journal that read as if they came straight out of the mouth of a demon: 'I also love when kids get shot, I love to see kids get torn apart.' Pictures of his arsenal show a gun magazine inscribed with the words: 'Where is your God?'" she explained.

She continued, "According to reporter Andy Ngo, transgender ghouls are celebrating the attempted mass murder online. The quotes he provides read like a leftist fantasy about what a 'fundamentalist Christian' movie script would put in the mouths of trans activists: 'MORE DEAD CHRISTIANS LOL.' 'Based. Take the fight to their kids so they can feel what it's like to be attacked for your identity.' 'Future religious extremeists [sic] dying isn't a bad thing.' 'Won't someone please think of the poor innocent Christian transphobes that just want trans people dedd??'"

She cited Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Democrat member of Congress from Florida, who posted, "These children were probably praying when they were shot to death at catholic school. Don't give us your f—— thoughts and prayers."

Frost later said on television, "We've had it with the thoughts and prayers for years, for decades," prompting Pullman to note, "If you made a list of who hates prayers, Satan would be at the top of that list for sure. Prayer is perhaps the pre-eminent way to fight him. The less prayer, the less Satan is restrained. Now why would Democrats want that?"

Pulllman cited Frey's trashing of "thoughts and prayers," and noted, "The sentiments he's communicating are the straightforwardly demonic, despairing lies that prayer does not work and that God is not listening and He doesn't provide justice."

Others said prayers don't stop bullets and bashed Christians for referencing an "invisible sky-being."

There is an answer to such "demonic screeches," the analysis confirmed, revealing it's: God was there with these children in their suffering, and He is with them now. God is not dead, He is alive, and so are all who have died in the faith, who with Christ will one day be resurrected. All martyrs have overcome Satan forever 'by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.' Death is not a moment of despair for a Christian, it is a moment of triumph and glory."

She cited former Federalist colleague Emily Jashinsky, who wrote, "It's really time to retire this cheap hit on people of faith, especially in cases where they're actually the direct targets of an attack. Those little kids don't believe the prayers they were saying today shield them from earthly tragedy or excuse them from doing good works."

Pullman noted that her primary point was different:: "It's to highlight the directly Satanic words coming out of the mouths of Democrat Party leaders and followers. There's a truly shocking overlap between what Satan would say and what well-known political leftists are completely comfortable saying to hundreds of millions onscreen."