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As expected, Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve board of governors, on Wednesday left the interest rate unchanged, keeping the 4.25%-4.5% goal he's demanded since the first of the year.

President Donald Trump has been calling for him to lower it.

And the pressure for a reduction, which likely would give the Trump economy another boost, grew earlier in the day when the government announced the second quarter GDP was 3%, "way better than expected."

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Vaccine manufacturers can make, market and sell their products in America without any fear of a side effect that would harm someone.

They have no liability for damages or injuries from their products since the creation in the 1980s of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.

That forces American taxpayers to pay individuals for those injuries, through the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

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A lawmaker is proposing to cut back on her nation's exploding death toll from assisted suicide by introducing new limits on the circumstances in which doctors legally can terminate their patients.

The plan, according to a report at the Federalist, comes from Member of Parliament Tamera Jansen, in her "Right to Recover Act," in Canada, which was joined by MP Andrew Lawton, whose own personal story serves as an example of what is at stake.

It was CBN that reported only months ago that through the end of 2023, assisted suicides were responsible for 5% of the deaths all across the nation, with 15,434 people dead of that cause. That was a surge of nearly 16% from just the year before.

More than 60,000 human lives have been ended in Canada since it became legal in 2016, CBN reported, with "Health Canada" claiming the "Medical Assistance in Dying" scheme is a "service" that lets "someone who is found to be eligible to receive assistance from a medical practitioner to end their life."

Now it's offered not only to those who are considered terminal from a diagnosis but also to these who have disabilities, such as "hearing loss," and it is scheduled to expand in in 2027 to those with all sorts of "mental" conditions.

Under the program, doctors simply administer lethal poison to their patients.

In one case, for example, a woman who sought mental health help because she was suffering from frequent suicidal thoughts in fact was pointed to the MAID program because there were "no beds" available for her.

Now in a report by Andrew Koonan, of UnveilTV which produced the docuseries "MAID in Canada," ehe xplained there are those who want to apply the brakes.

"Both Canada and California have approximately the same population, but 15 times more Canadians die by MAID than Californians. That's because in California, a doctor gives the lethal drug to the patient, and the patient must administer the drug, taking his own life," he explained. "In Canada, the patient can have the doctor inject the life-ending cocktail of drugs. Canadians pick their doctor almost every time, ostensibly freeing themselves of the stigma of suicide but with the same, unalterable result."

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Democrats this week have gotten stung badly, twice, by social media statements they posted themselves.

One involved their claim that under "Trump's America," American grocery prices reached "records high in 2025."

They tried to erase that quickly from the web, as their own chart confirmed that grocery prices were relatively low and stable under President Trump's first term, but exploded under Joe Biden's term in office.

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A court ruling has declared class action status for all the victims of a government cash confiscation scheme that has been operating in Indianapolis.

It is the Institute for Justice that confirmed a ruling from Marion County Superior Court established the new ground rules for the dispute.

Magistrate Judge Anne Flannelly confirmed that there were several issues at stake, including that the state was confiscating cash at a FedEx transit location where parcels "have no link to Indiana beyond the parcel's temporary en route presence."

Further, she said, the state's lawsuits to confiscate cash use "boilerplate forfeiture complaints that give property owners no notice of the factual and legal basis on which the state claims forfeiture."

The IJ confirmed that last year, Henry and Minh Cheng sued the Marion County prosecutor over that office's practice of forfeiting cash routed through the busy FedEx processing center at the Indianapolis airport. Prosecutors tried to forfeit the $42,000 inside the Chengs' package, and did so without alleging any specific crime.

That money was returned, but they have gone to court seeking a permanent end to the "unconstitutional" practices.

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Top Trump adviser Kari Lake says managers at Voice of America met numerous times with Chinese officials in a scheme to influence more favorable U.S. coverage of the communist country.

In an interview with the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show, the president's senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media said the meetings were discovered in a probe that revealed undue foreign influence on VOA's operations.

"We found out in our investigations over the months that I've been here, that the CCP, operating out of the embassy in Washington, D.C. … were meeting regularly with VOA management to tell them how they should be covering China," Lake said Tuesday night.

Lake explained the coverage was slanted to put China in a positive light, and at least one official in VOA's Mandarin language division actually voiced support for the Chinese Communist Party at one of the discussions.

"I mean, you can't make this stuff up. It's so crazy," she said.

"But then over the years, it got more brazen, and I understand that VOA management, some of them, actually went over to China and met with CCP officials there."

Lake also confirmed previous reporting by Just the News that "VOA hired multiple Chinese nationals with ties to Chinese state media, and sponsored hundreds of visas for other foreign journalists to come work at the USAGM subsidiary."

Just the News reported: "The agency used J1 cultural exchange visas, which are not designed for use as a general work authorization, to sponsor more than 400 foreign journalists from 2009 through the end of the last administration. Nearly 100 of those are from countries that could present particular security concerns, including at least three Chinese nationals who worked for Chinese Communist Party-controlled state-owned media outlets."

"This agency started hiring non-Americans, people from foreign countries, many people, hundreds upon hundreds from countries that are hostile to America, hired them, brought them into our country to tell America's story," Lake explained.

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After a long battle with Parkinson's disease, British rock icon and frontman for Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne died Tuesday at 76.

A family statement reads: "It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time."

As reported in Variety, in January 2020, following two years of escalating health problems, Osbourne announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's. In February 2023, he issued a statement saying that he was retiring from touring, citing spinal injuries he had sustained in a 2018 accident.

Tributes and well-wishes flood X as fans and friends paid their respect to the music legend. The following video chronicles Osbourne's career from the end to beginning:

Just weeks before his death, Osbourne performed for the last time, in Birmingham, England.

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Bullying and harassment have been confirmed at universities in the United Kingdom, by those who advocate for the leftist gender ideologies prevalent in today's academia.

A report from the Christian Institute said university staff members and students both have suffered "extreme personal consequences" for declining to adopt the "wokeness" agenda of leftists.

A new report commissioned by the United Kingdom government looked at 130 responses to a call for evidence held on University College London's website, and it revealed that more than 58% of respondents reported "self-censorship and chilling effects."

Right behind on the list of impacts was "bullying, harassment and ostracism," at 42%.

"The new report cites recent investigations into bullying and harassment in academia. The report stated that several respondents to the Khan Review 'suffered extreme personal consequences, both to their careers and to their physical and mental health, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and extensive sick leave as a result of bullying, harassment and discrimination," the institute explained.

"The failure to adequately support and defend these individuals is a stain on the higher education sector," the report said.

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Still representing themselves as board members, taking votes, adopting resolutions

The U.S. Department of Justice is going after workers fired by President Donald Trump who have refused to leave.

The details are documented in a column posted on the website for constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.

It explains that the DOJ has petitioned for a writ of Quo Warranto against three people who had served as board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, fired by Trump, because they "continued to hold and exercise their office."

The CPB, which funds NPR and PBS, was hit this week with the loss of more than a billion dollars when Congress adopted a rescissions package that pulls that money back from what was allocated for the organization.

Named are Laura G. Ross, Thomas E. Rothman and Diane Kaplan, who are accused of "usurping and purporting to exercise unlawfully the office of board member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."

It explains Trump "lawfully removed each defendant from office on April 28, 2025."

And it explains, "As recent Supreme Court orders have recognized, the President cannot meaningfully exercise his executive power under Article II of the Constitution without the power to select—and, when necessary, remove—those who hold federal office. Personnel is policy, after all."

The three, told they were dismissed, "immediately sought a preliminary injunction against the president and other officials, seeking to enjoin the government from completing their firing," court filings noted.

The commentary said, "Their effort was unsuccessful as the court held that their claim the president lacked authority to remove them from office was unlikely to succeed."

The DOJ's complaint now accuses the three of "continuing to usurp the office of Board Member of the CPB by 'participating in board meetings, voting on resolutions and other business that comes before the board, and presenting themselves to the public as board members. All of this [was] manifestly unlawful.'"

The former board members charged that CPB was created by Congress as a "private corporation," and they are not subject to the president's authority to dismiss them.

They claimed the president's actions violated the Administrative Procedure Act and violated the separation of powers.

The DOJ pointed out that CPB board members are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, like other federal officials, Congress restricts the makeup of the board, limits their compensation, and has charged the organization with taking actions "to achieve the objectives and to carry out the purposes" of the law.

Further, it is a "designated federal entity," is subject to inspections by an inspector general, and is subject to congressional oversight hearings.

But, court filings charge, the three held board meetings in May and June where they voted "in their official capacity," adopted resolutions and acted "as if the preliminary injunction they sought had been held in their favor."

Actually, the court filings confirm the president, under his Article II powers, with his "power to appoint someone … presumptively carries with it the incident power of removal."

It cites a Supreme Court ruling regarding Amtrak, which was set up as a corporation and not a government agency.

"The Supreme Court held 'that where, as here, the Government creates a corporation by special law, for the furtherance of governmental objectives, and retains for itself permanent authority to appoint a majority of the directors of that corporation, the corporation is part of the Government for purposes of the First Amendment. … The Supreme Court later applied similar analysis to hold that Amtrak is also 'a governmental entity for purposes of the Constitution's separation of powers provisions.""

The DOJ is asking that the court enter a judgment for the defendants to "be ousted and excluded."

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President Donald Trump in one interview endorsed the idea of a special prosecutor looking at the scandal over Jeffrey Epstein, his charges, his apparent suicide in jail in New York, and all of his files and documents, such as a "client list," used by the convicted sex offender suspected of trafficking young girls to celebrities.

But what will develop still remains uncertain.

"I think they could look at all of it. It's all the same scam. They could look at this Jeffrey Epstein hoax also, because that's the same stuff that's all put out by Democrats," he said. Asked about a look at Epstein, he said, "They've already looked at it, and they are looking at it, and I think all they have to do is put out anything credible."

His comments came in an interview with the Just the News, No Noise program.

He said he approved of the FBI decision to open a probe into what could have been a wide-ranging conspiracy under Barack Obama that could have included Obama appointees James Clapper, John Brennan and James Comey, chiefs of the CIA and FBI.

He also committed to declassifying two highly sensitive pieces of intelligence to help further the prosecutor's efforts.

He said he is "happy" with the FBI announcement to investigate events, collusions and conspiracies from about 2016 until 2024 "by Democrats and government officials as a continuing criminal conspiracy," the report said.

"It was a disgrace what happened, what happened in 2016 and what happened in 2020. It's a disgraceful situation. And our voting has to be straightened out. I always say if you don't have borders, if you don't have fair and free voting, you don't have a country," he said.