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Under the rubric of MAHA – Make America Healthy Again – President Trump has announced he has spoken to officials at Coca-Cola, and the company has agreed to begin sweetening their iconic drink with cane sugar.
Trump posted on Truth Social: "I'd like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola. This will be a very good move by them – You'll see. It's just better!"
For decades, most soft drink manufacturers in the U.S. have used high-fructose corn syrup or other sweeteners, rather than actual sugar – though some have still used sugar in their products sold in other nations.
The move comes the same week several ice cream manufacturers, under pressure from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crusade against artificial ingredients, announced they will discontinue use of several artificial dyes in their products.
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Under Joe Biden, America was creating new jobs – and virtually all of them were going to foreign-born workers.
Under President Donald Trump, that's been reversed.
A report in the Washington Stand explains how Trump's mass deportation program, removing illegal aliens, especially illegal alien criminals, from the U.S., is affecting the job market.
"The U.S. Department of Labor announced this month that "native-born workers have accounted for ALL job gains since January," the report said,
John Carney, an economics editor, said recently jobs created under Biden's administration "went to foreign-born workers."
No longer.
"When you are adding up all the people who gained and all the people who lost, the net increase in jobs is going to Americans," he confirmed. "Whereas, during the Biden administration, you had fewer Americans being employed every month and more foreigners being employed. So the net gain was all going to foreign workers, to migrants of some sort or another."
But now, he said, "it's going to Americans. It's going to native-born Americans. That's actually quite interesting, too: it's not just going to people who are legal residents of the United States, it's actually going to … American-born people.
"This is very important, again, because that's fundamentally who the country is supposed to work for, for the people we have here. And it is working for them again, for us again."
He said a ripple effect is that wages are rising, as companies no longer count on just bringing in "more workers in the pipeline."
"Without that, they have to start bidding against each other, basically a competitive bidding war for American workers. And that's what we're seeing in the wage gains."
He said those numbers even are outpacing inflation.
The report also quoted Wendy Edelberg, a senior fellow in economic studies at the leftist Brookings Institution, confirming, "As a result of this immigration policy, we will have negative net migration, which is to say more people leaving the country than entering the country this year for the first time in many decades."
Because of that there will be "stronger wage growth in some occupations, stronger wage growth in the agricultural sector, stronger wage growth for home health workers," she said.
Reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics have shown under the Biden administration, nearly 90% of job growth went to immigrants, not to Americans, with an estimated 60% of new jobs going to illegal immigrants, trends that caused damage to the American economy.
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At least nine deaths were confirmed late Sunday night in a fire that broke out at an assisted living center in Massachusetts, according to reports from state officials.
Fox News quoted a statement from the state Department of Fire Services that detailed the tragedy that happened at the Gabriel House assisted living center in Fall River.
Firefighters were summoned there about 10 p.m. Sunday and immediately encountered residents hanging out of windows screaming for help.
When firefighters arrived flames and heavy smoke already had engulfed the front of the building.
State Fire Marshal Jon Davine's office confirmed to reporters about 70 people were sleeping at the center when the fire broke out, but a cause had not been revealed.
The Daily Mail said relatives reported receiving frantic phone calls from senior residents at the center, on the Massachusetts side of the border just outside of Providence, Rhode Island.
The report said a woman identified only as Melanie said, of her father, "He was on the floor talking to me, and I am crying telling him, 'Break the window. Try to break it,' Because he is so weak, and he couldn't break it, and I am like, 'Where are you?' and he was like. 'I am in the bathroom'. 'I said open your bathroom window, and he said, 'It is open, but they are not hearing me. They are not hearing me, Melanie. I am going to die in here'."
More than two dozen people also were taken to a local hospital, said Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon.
Bacon told a press conference early Monday, after the flames largely were out, "Our heart goes out to all of the families of the people that were injured here, and the people that lost their lives here."
Leo Johnson, 45, of Fall River, told The Boston Globe he found his mother, who lived on the top floor, outside, wet because the sprinklers were going off.
Fire Chaplain Michael Racine said, "In all my years of being a Fire Chaplain tonight was the worst night of experiencing such loss of life, multiple fatalities in Fall River."
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A filmmaker who is a veteran of comedic satire, Terry Gilliam of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "Jabberwocky," "Time Bandits" and "12 Monkeys" fame, says his newest project featuring satire about wokeness may face heavy headwinds because President Donald Trump killed the movement.
"The script, in some ways, is out of date because it was a satire of the world two years ago, and Donald Trump has come along, and he is the carnival. He's turned the world upside down – everything. We may have to rework some of the story because parts of it was very specific about the wonderful world of woke before The Donald took over again. That very narrow way of thinking of life. We'll see where it goes. At the moment, I may be out of a job for another 10 years," explained Terry Gilliam in an interview documented by HollywoodInToto.com.
The report explained he saw the "woke revolution" that stifled comedy and culture under Joe Biden "and wanted to make a movie about it. After all, no one in the greater Hollywood community would even attempt such a satire."
Then, the report said, things changed: "A certain real estate mogul defied an assassin's plot and returned to the White House last fall. How could Gilliam mock the 'woke mind virus' when President Donald Trump's comeback snuffed its fading embers?"
He explained, "I think Trump has changed things considerably. He's turned the world upside down. I don't know if people are going to be laughing more, but they're probably less frightened to laugh. There have been woke activists with a very narrow, self-righteous point of view. That's frightened so many people, and so many people have been very timid about telling jokes, making fun of things, because if you tell a joke, these people say you're punching down at somebody. No, you're finding humor in humanity!"
The report said, "Gilliam is far from MAGA. He's suspicious of the world leader, particularly on immigration. He prefers an open-border approach as in England, saying undocumented citizens provide a critical workforce."
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William Thomas was a competitive swimmer in college, at the University of Pennsylvania. Good, but he never was quite good enough to win many competitions.
Then he switched to competing on the women's team, and not only won, but set records.
Which now are being erased, given the school's promise of apologies to female swimmers forced unfairly to compete against a man, a promise that was accompanied by a commitment to remove Thomas' name from the victories, and elevate all of those who finished in second place.
It's a dramatic turn in the long-running battle over transgender athletes, typified by "Lia" Thomas and his competition against women.
A report at the Daily Mail noted the school had been under fire from the Department of Education, and resolved the dispute "by agreeing to resolve alleged Title IX violations over transgender former Quakers swimmer Lia Thomas."
The DOE announced Tuesday that Penn is adopting strict definitions for male and female competitors under White House guidelines and will erase Thomas from the school's record books. "Furthermore, swimmers impacted by Thomas' inclusion in women's NCAA competitions will receive a personal apology from Penn and be retroactively awarded records and titles," the report confirmed.
The Trump administration earlier had suspended $175 million in federal funding to the school, giving university officials an incentive to reach a resolution.
"Penn remains committed to fostering a community that is welcoming, inclusive, and open to all students, faculty, and staff," school chief J. Larry Jameson said.
Thomas had captured national victories, as a woman, in the 400 freestyle while tying for fifth in the 200 freestyle at the 2022 NCAA finals.
While Joe Biden actively promoted transgenderism for all, including children and the body-mutilating surgeries for them, when President Donald Trump took office he issued an order that the U.S. government recognizes two genders, male and female.
The NCAA soon after Trump's order changed its practices to conform to Trump's additional order banning males from competitions for girls and women.
Riley Gaines, whose competition with Thomas reached headlines, has become a leader in the movement to protect women and women's sports. She said, "From day one, President Trump and [Education] Secretary [Linda] McMahon made it clear that protecting women and girls is a top priority—and today's agreement with UPenn is proof of that commitment in action.
"This Administration isn't just talking about women's equality, but instead actively defending it. I hope this sends a clear message to educational institutions: you can no longer disregard women's civil rights. And to every female athlete, know this: your dignity, safety, and fairness matter, and our nation's leaders will not stop fighting for them."
The agreement has the school restoring to female athletes all of the records, and achievements "misappropriated by male athletes."
It also promised to comply with Title IX and not allow men in events for women, with adopt definitions for men and woman based on biology and more.
His teammates on the women's team at Penn complained about being forced to undress in front of a male repeatedly in the locker rooms preparing for swim meets.
Multiple states already have adopted legislation that bans males from sports for women and girls.
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It's only days old, but the Supreme Court ruling that Tennessee is allowed to ban body-mutilating chemical treatments and surgeries on children already is having an impact.
On at least four other states with similar prohibitions.
Just last week, the high court affirmed a state law that bans the infliction of transgender procedures on minors. The 6-3 ruling revealed a pointedly leftist trio on the court demanding the agenda of chemically and surgically altering children to accommodate what almost always is a temporary gender dysphoria.
The majority opinion, supported by the conservative members of the court, was written by Chief Justice John Roberts. The ruling found the Tennessee law does not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
It was in orders issued on Monday that the court wiped out other lower court rulings that essentially promoted the transgender ideologies, the scientific impossibility that men can become women or vice versa, as being male or female is embedded down to the DNA level and does not change.
The Washington Examiner explained the cases now are being sent back down to lower courts for reconsideration in light of the ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti.
The orders on Monday involved rulings that previously blocked similar state-level bans on transgender treatments in North Carolina, West Virginia, Idaho and Oklahoma.
"The move means each case must now be reheard under the legal standard articulated in the Skrmetti ruling, which found no violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause in a ban on medical treatments for minors who identify as transgender," the report explained.
Further, the justices declined to take up a separate case from Kentucky where families were trying to challenge a similar state law.
The appeals courts now assigned the responsibility of changing the outcomes on those cases include the 4th Circuit, 9th Circuit and 10th Circuit.
"Monday's actions come as the justices continue to weigh whether to take up additional cases, including challenges to school sports participation rules in Arizona, Idaho, and West Virginia that restrict biological boys from competing on girls sports teams," the report said.
WND reported on the Tennessee case that there are up to 20 other states with similar disputes developing.
The case revolved around the fact, according to the court, the "growing number of states restricting sex transition treatments for minors by enacting the Prohibition on Medical Procedures Performed on Minors Related to Sexual Identity."
In Tennessee, SB1 "prohibits healthcare providers from prescribing, administering, or dispensing puberty blockers or hormones to any minor for the purpose of (1) enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's biological sex, or (2) treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's biological sex and asserted identity."
"At the same time, SB1 permits a healthcare provider to administer puberty blockers or hormones to treat a minor's congenital defect, precocious puberty, disease, or physical injury," the court noted.
Three "transgender minors," their parents, and a doctor challenged the law under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
A trial judge halted the law but the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed it to take effect, as the law "did not trigger heightened scrutiny and satisfied rational basis review."
The ruling said SB1 "is not subject to heightened scrutiny because it does not classify on any bases that warrant heightened review."
The law's classifications are based on age and medical condition.
"Classifications based on age or medical use are subject to only rational basis review," the court explained.
The court said, "Tennessee determined that administering puberty blockers or hormones to minors to treat gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, or gender incongruence carries risks, including irreversible sterility, increased risk of disease and illness, and adverse psychological consequences. The legislature found that minors lack the maturity to fully understand these consequences, that many individuals have expressed regret for undergoing such treatments as minors, and that the full effects of such treatments may not yet be known. At the same time, the State noted evidence that discordance between sex and gender can be resolved through less invasive approaches. SB1's age- and diagnosis-based classifications are rationally related to these findings and the State's objective of protecting minors' health and welfare."
"In today's historic Supreme Court win, the common sense of Tennessee voters prevailed over judicial activism," said Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. "A bipartisan supermajority of Tennessee's elected representatives carefully considered the evidence and voted to protect kids from irreversible decisions they cannot yet fully understand. I commend the Tennessee legislature and Governor Lee for their courage in passing this legislation and supporting our litigation despite withering opposition from the Biden administration, LGBT special interest groups, social justice activists, the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, and even Hollywood.
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Iran's "Supreme Leader," Ali Khamenei, has insisted that there was nothing significant done to Iran's nuclear weapons production facilities by last week's bombings by Israel and the U.S.
But his own foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has admitted there was.
And President Donald Trump has confirmed that if the rogue Islamic regime tries to build back better, it won't, because if there's such evidence there will be another bombing.
A report at Fox News explains Araghchi admitted on a state TV interview tat there was, in fact, "serious damage" to Tehran's nuclear operations.
The "level of damage is high," he admitted.
"All three countries — Iran, Israel and the U.S. — have reached similar conclusions about the extent of the damage, despite what a leaked intel report indicated," the report explained. "The only leader who seemingly does not agree with the assessments is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said that 'the Americans failed to achieve anything significant in their attack on nuclear facilities.'"
Even officials with the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed inspectors have "seen extensive damage at several nuclear sites in Iran, including its uranium conversion and enrichment facilities."
Trump has expressed optimism in the chances for resumed nuclear talks with Iran, pointing out "They had a war," but, "The only thing we would be asking for is what we're asking for before about, we want no nuclear [program]."
He also confirmed that should the evidence suggest that the nuclear program was being rebuilt, there would be repercussions.
Such as another bombing.
"Sure, without a question. Absolutely," he said.
He said, on social media, "His Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life. I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH,' Trump wrote.
"They have no hope, and it will only get worse! I wish the leadership of Iran would realize that you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR. PEACE!!!."
Actually, according to reports, it was Araghchi who left alive the possibility his country could return to talks.
He did caution that "no time has been set."
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The federal government is suing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz because his state has set up programs to subsidize, financially, the lives of illegal aliens.
Walz, a far-leftist who was Kamala Harris' VP pick in the 2024 presidential campaign, contributing to her landslide loss, is known for his extremist positions on transgenderism, on abortion, on guns and on illegals.
A report at Courthousenews explains he and his state are now being sued because of "several" Minnesota laws "allowing immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition rates and financial aid."
The complaint was filed in federal court in Minneapolis, and charges that Minnesota laws "explicitly classify aliens who are not lawfully present in the United States as residents under certain conditions, and thus eligible for reduced tuition and free tuition, respectively, for public state colleges while U.S. citizens from other states must pay higher out-of-state tuition rates and are ineligible for the free tuition."
The charge continues, "This discriminatory treatment in favor of aliens not lawfully present in the United States over U.S. citizens is squarely prohibited and preempted by federal law, which provides that 'an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State … for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit … without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.'"
Minnesota, the complaint charges, is violating the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution with its agenda, so the court should declare Minnesota's laws "preempted and permanently enjoin their enforcement."
Federal law "prohibits States from providing aliens not lawfully present in the United States with any postsecondary education benefit that is denied to U.S. citizens. That prohibition is categorical, yet Minnesota is flagrantly violating it. This Court should put an end to this unequal treatment of Americans that is an unequivocal and ongoing violation of federal law by entering a permanent injunction against the enforcement of Minnesota State laws that mandate the grant of unlawful state benefits to aliens not lawfully present in the United States," the filing states.
The state's financial aid program, to which it gives illegal aliens access, is called the North Star Promise.
The report noted President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders on the subject, "Ending taxpayer subsidization of open borders" and "Ending taxpayer subsidization of open borders," and each of those instructs departments and agencies to see to it that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to "unqualified aliens."
Leftist Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison also is being sued.
Minnesota simply provides recognition and privileges to illegal aliens if they meet several baseline qualifications, such as showing they've filed for lawful immigration status.
Attorney General Pam Bondi explained, "No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens. The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first."
The report noted that instate fees and tuition for one University of Minnesota branch total about $17,000 a year, a scheduled applied to those illegal aliens. Out-of-state U.S. residents are charged more than $38,000.
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A new secret investigation has been launched within the Trump administration of hundreds of scientists who are working inside the United States, but actually come from "countries of concern," such as China, according to a new report from Just the News.
The publication reported its sources have confirmed the investigation into scientists that sometimes have accessed the United States by "using visas procured with the help of the National Institutes of Health and other federal research agencies."
The concerns were heightened recently when "three Chinese scientists were arrested … trying to smuggle into America dangerous pathogens like fungi and roundworms capable of destroy crops."
The absence of a review by prior administrations of whether scientists were linked to "actors" like the Chinese military or its Community Party triggered the review.
The report explained there could be as many as 1,000 scientists from those nations, mostly from China, who have been identified as working inside NIH alone.
"The Trump administration is committed to safeguarding America's national and economic security. Taxpayer dollars should not and cannot fund foreign espionage against America's industrial base and research apparatus," White House spokesman Kush Desai told Just the News.
Officials told Just the News the urgency of the new effort underscores the lax screening procedures under the NIH leadership of Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, the prominent promoter of dangerous mRNA shots during the COVID pandemic.
The report pointed out that GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, has released a half a dozen reports or more in recent years warning that NIH and other agencies, "and their surrogates inside universities," simply don't have the safeguards to guard American research from foreign influences.
One of those concluded, "China is America's top adversary, and foreign influence remains a key risk for the country's national security. DOD and DHS officials lack specific guidance on how acquisition personnel should collect information, assess, or mitigate potential national security risks when awarding contracts for consulting services."
The report noted, "Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist who defected to the United States in 2020 and alleged the COVID-19 virus was man-made, told Just the News that most scientists in her home country who win a visa to the United States sign contracts with the communist government of China to use their time in America for their home country's benefit."
Yan said, on the Just the News, No Noise television show that, "The scientists getting visas from China to the US, they are visiting scholars, and they have signed the contract with Chinese government to go back to China, serve for China with whatever they can get from the U.S."
And Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Texas, said on the John Solomon Reports podcast, "The Chinese have been infiltrating our intellectual property, both covertly and on the surface for us to see. Yet we have sat back and allowed it to happen."
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'The district court judge in Boston has said he's going to defy the ruling. So expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court'
Instances of anarchy in the American judiciary are self-evident. There's Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who is on video diverting federal ICE agents and apparently helping an illegal alien criminal escape.
She is arguing in court now that she has absolute immunity for anything she does in her courtroom, or even her courthouse.
Just like the kings of civilizations past.
Moving to the national level, leftists long have complained that President Donald Trump disagrees with and doesn't follow the rulings of the federal court system.
On the first point, they're right, and Trump never has concealed his disagreements with some of the outlandish rulings – like the order to turn jets deporting illegal alien criminals around while they were in the air to return to America. And other entry level judges who claim to control the executive branch's decisions nationwide.
On the second point, wrong. As Trump does follow even the rulings to which he has legitimate objections.
But now a leftist and "activist" judge in Boston has decided the Supreme Court rulings don't apply to him and his court, and the outrage from leftists would compete with crickets for silence.
But the fireworks soon are expected.
It was in a 6-3 decision on Monday that the high court gave Trump's administration a huge victory: deciding that illegal aliens could be deported via "third countries" without requirements that they be allowed to present their case against that.
The fight is over what Trump's officials have called "the worst of the worst," violent criminals accused of crimes in America but who were refused permission to return to their home countries.
Several leftist organizations in America fought in the courts on their behalf, claiming they could not be moved to third countries. A leftist judge, the Biden-nominated Brian Murphy, agreed, but the Supreme Court stayed that order.
Some of the criminals have been held in a makeshift room in Africa, guarded constantly by federal officers, because the Trump administration is not allowed to finish the deportation process there.
At the Western Journal was a commentary: "Remember how President Donald Trump's administration was supposed to listen to judges when they issued injunctions, even if said judge didn't have jurisdiction over the entire nation? Well, as it turns out, that was all bogus. There is one court that has jurisdiction over the entire nation — the Supreme Court, for all you dullards out there who don't get the point — and it handed down a ruling in a controversial case. A judge appointed by President Joe Biden is deciding he can ignore that ruling — and the crickets from the left are more deafening than anything you'll hear in the late, muggy hours of a countryside summer night."
Tricia McLaughlin of the Department of Homeland Security said the ruling was a victory "for the safety and security of the American people."
Murphy, instead, insisted, his order "remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding today's stay of the Preliminary Injunction."
The Gateway Pundit noted Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller held an opinion on that.
"Yes, this is an incredible victory — the Supreme Court win. It allows President Trump, as the law has long said but the courts have blocked, to send illegal aliens convicted of rape, murder, homicide, assault, battery, and crimes against children to any country around the world that is willing to accept them. Whether that be South Sudan, Somalia, or Ethiopia — any country in the world that is willing to accept these monsters — we can get them out of our country and be free of them forever. The only thing I have to share tonight, Sean — and this is a bit of breaking news — is that the district court judge in Boston has said he's going to defy the Supreme Court's ruling. So expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court."
The fireworks didn't take long to appear.
Solicitor General John Sauer Tuesday morning was at the Supreme Court, asking for a decision.
"The district court's ruling of last night is a lawless act of defiance that, once again, disrupts sensitive diplomatic relations and slams the brakes on the Executive's lawful efforts to effectuate third-country removals. For over two months now, the Executive has labored under an injunction that this Court yesterday deemed unenforceable. This Court should immediately make clear that the district court's enforcement order has no effect, and put a swift end to the ongoing irreparable harm to the Executive Branch and its agents, who remain under baseless threat of contempt as they are forced to house dangerous criminal aliens at a military base in the Horn of Africa that now lies on the borders of a regional conflict."