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The European Commission has issued a long list of complaints against Google over its advertising procedures, announcing a roughly $3.2 billion fine to punish the American company.
And President Donald Trump has reacted with a warning, and a threat.
In fact, he's suggesting that he could invoke Section 301 of America's Trade Act, which gives the government "a range" of authorities "to investigate and take action (e.g. impose a tariff) to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and respond to certain foreign trade practices."
A report at Courthousenews explains the European attack, the "hefty penalty" being the "tech giant's fourth EU antitrust fine."
The report explained, "The European Commission accused the California-based company of distorting competition in online advertising by systematically favoring its own services over rivals, harming competitors, advertisers and publishers across the bloc."
Trump posted on social media, "Europe today 'hit' another great American company, Google, with a $3.5 Billion Dollar fine, effectively taking money that would otherwise go to American investments and Jobs. This is on top of the many other Fines and Taxes that have been issued against Google and other American Tech companies, in particular."
He called it "Very unfair" and warned, "The American Taxpayer will not stand for it!"
If this continues, "I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies," he said.
The European tech experts complained that Google's control over multiple layers of the digital advertising ecosystem creates fundamental conflicts of interest.
The company, in fact, has a long list of various software programs in the ad industry, including operations that service advertisers seeking to place ads as well as publishers looking to sell ad space.
Terea Ribera, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, threatened publicly, "Google must now come forward with a serious remedy to address its conflicts of interest, and if it fails to do so, we will not hesitate to impose strong remedies."
Google said it would appeal.
"The European Commission's decision about our ad tech services is wrong and we will appeal. It imposes an unjustified fine and requires changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money," said Lee-Anne Mulholland, a Google vice president.
The next step in the fight probably will be response from Google, due in November to the commission, which included in its statement a threat to try to force Google to sell parts of its business.
Courthousenews said, "The fine represents the latest escalation in Europe's regulatory crackdown on major American technology companies. The EU executive previously issued preliminary charges against Google in 2023, suggesting that forcing the company to divest portions of its advertising technology operations might be necessary to restore fair competition."
Internally, the EU has had conflicts.
In fact, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič days ago blocked a planned Google penalty over concerns it would hurt EU-U.S. trade negotiations.
Google, in fact, also faces cases raising concerns about its advertising operations inside the U.S.
"In April, a federal judge ruled that Google illegally monopolized parts of the advertising market, with a remedies hearing scheduled to begin Sept. 22. Separately, in a case focused on Google's search monopoly, a federal judge ruled this week that the company must end exclusive search deals but will not be forced to sell Chrome or Android," Courthousenews said.
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A task force under President Donald Trump is tracking – and working to eliminate – the anti-Christian bias installed in the federal government under Joe Biden.
Biden, in fact, "weaponized the full weight of the federal government against Christians," according to a new report from task force members.
A report from Fox News said it obtained a copy of a report from the "Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias," headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
It was assigned to make certain "any unlawful and improper conduct, policies, or practices that target Christians are identified, terminated, and rectified."
Its initial assessments covers "the damage that can be done when religious liberty is not protected and preserved for all Americans," and it promised, "The federal government will never again be permitted to turn its power against people of faith."
The report affirms that "the rule of law will be enforced with vigor, and every religion will be treated with equality in both policy and action."
In a nation where protections for religious liberties are written into the Constitution, it stunningly noted, "The days of anti-Christian bias in the federal government are over. Faith is not a liability in America—it is a liberty."
So far, its initial review of federal agencies and actions have found "numerous instances of anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration."
White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers, in fact, told Fox News Digital that the Biden agenda targeted Christians and "trampled on their fundamental First Amendment rights."
"Unlike Joe Biden, President Trump is protecting Christians, not punishing them."
Fox reported offenses were found in the Department of Defense, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Labor, where officials "deprioritized, mishandled, or denied requests for religious exemptions to the Biden administration's COVID-19 mandate."
The Biden administration also used the Department of Education to try to impose record-setting fines on Christian universities like Liberty University and Grand Canyon University.
And, Fox reported, the Department of Homeland Security under Biden set up "accommodations" for followers of Islam, Rastafarianism and sects of Judaism, but ignored Christian perspectives.
And Biden's Department of Justice "pursued novel theories" to prosecute those speaking their Christian faith, and utterly failed to "address and prosecute violations of the law where anti-Christian bias was demonstrated by the persecutors."
That involved persecuting and imprisoning dozens of people under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, used by Biden to protect abortion businesses. They were jailed for praying outside abortion industry outlets.
"Yet, the same DOJ refused to apply the FACE Act to protect places of worship and crisis pregnancy centers," the report charged.
The FBI worked under the biased agenda that "radical-traditionalist" Catholics were domestic "terror threats" and the Treasury Department allowed Christian organizations to be "de-banked."
The State Department's anti-Christian bias was evident in that non-Christian workers were allowed leave for holidays, while Christians were not.
Further, Biden's pro-LGBT bias was installed throughout the government, the report said.
The investigation, and corrective actions, are just getting under way, officials confirmed in the Fox report.
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It's been three years since a "politically motivated investigation" by the Joe Biden administration resulted in a reduced rank for Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician who held the rank of admiral.
Now he's back at that rank, obliterating the Biden regime's attempt to reduce his rank for all of his retirement to captain.
Further, the military also has granted military honors to Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester at the January 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capital, who was shot at point blank range and killed by a security officer there at the time.
It is RedState that detailed the restoration of Jackson's rank.
"Jackson was a triggering figure for Senate Democrats and some Republicans during Trump's first term. The oleaginous Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson allowed Montana Democrat Jon Tester to turn Jackson's nomination hearing to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs into a character assassination campaign. He was twice nominated to the rank of rear (two-star) admiral, and Mitch McConnell declined to allow a vote either time."
Then the Democrats jumped into the fight when Jackson retired in 2019 and Biden was inaugurated.
There were anonymous claims he misbehaved while White House physician, and when a Department of Defense investigation failed to substantiate any offense, the Biden administration had the inspector general reissue the report with a different conclusion.
Jackson explained, "If I had retired and not gotten into politics, this investigation would have never gone anywhere. This was happening because I am a perceived threat to the Biden administration and because a few political appointees in the Department of Defense want to make a name for themselves."
On social media Jackson announced, "I was, and still am, a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and Joe Biden is a retired old FOOL."
Further, the U.S. Air Force confirmed it is providing Babbitt with military funeral honors.
The Biden administration had denied that to her family.
But government watchdog Judicial Watch said a letter from Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier extends an offer to allow the special funeral procedures to take place.
The letter said the circumstances of the situation were reviewed and Biden's determination "was incorrect."
Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest as she attempted to climb through a barricaded door to the speaker's lobby near the House chamber.
The government also agreed to pay her family about $5 million to settle a lawsuit over her death.
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In a move reminiscent of President Bill Clinton staffers removing the "W" key from White House keyboards, someone on President Trump's tech staff is trolling former Democrat employees of the executive branch via LinkedIn, by making sure 47's photo appears in their online profiles.
If a Democrat worked in the Obama or Biden administration and lists that job in his or her profile, since "The White House" is the employer, the current president's photo is displayed.
"Liberals HATE IT!" remarked Eric Daugherty on X.
A Trump parody account on X imagined former President Obama opening his LinkedIn account:
Remarked a writer at Red State: "Once again, Trump and his team have outmaneuvered the Democrats. What are they going to do, delete the fact that they worked at the White House, probably the biggest job many of them have ever had? Are they going to nuke their entire profile because they just hate Trump that much?
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A longtime antagonist of President Donald Trump is quitting Congress.
U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat who represents a large portion of Manhattan, also orchestrated an impeach-and-remove campaign against Trump during his first term, but ultimately failed.
Nadler now has announced he will not seek election again next year.
It will mark the end of Nadler's 34 years in Congress, where he consistently has maintained ultra-liberal and extreme progressive positions.
"Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that," the outgoing representative. 78, told the New York Times in a statement.
He was referring to Joe Biden's catastrophically failed campaign for re-election in the 2024 presidential vote, a bid that collapsed after he appeared in a debate with Trump and stumbled, mumbled and fumbled most of the event.
His mental decline already had been evident for considerable time, with him forgetting the names of his family members, his written instructions from staff on where to sit when he entered a meeting, and even his insistence on calling the names of dead people.
The terminal future for Nadler's career in Congress was apparent when he was forced to relinquish his House Judiciary Committee seat at the beginning of the term, to a younger Democrat.
He repeatedly has warned about Trump, claiming he is pursuing "incipient fascism," one of the left's talking points against Trump.
A report at the Gateway Pundit commented, "The 78-year-old lawmaker said that someone younger will do a better job right now as the Democrat party tries to court the younger generation."
The party's popularity has been plunging after Kamala Harris was picked by Democrat party elites to replace Biden as last year's candidate, and lost in a landslide.
The Gateway Pundit pointed out during his impeachment scheme against Trump, "Nadler lied about Trump and viciously attacked him as a 'dictator' from the Senate floor."
Then came the controversial activity during the 2020 election, and ultimately, voters returned Trump to the White House in 2024.
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President Donald Trump on Monday demanded drug companies justify the success of COVID shots, saying the Centers For Disease Control is "being ripped apart over this question."
In a lengthy post on Truth Social, the president stated: "It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!
"With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW. I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not???
"They go off to the next 'hunt' and let everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the Drug Companies Covid work.
"They show me GREAT numbers and results, but they don't seem to be showing them to many others. I want them to show them NOW, to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!!
"I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as 'BRILLIANT' as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why??? Thank you for your attention to this very important matter!"
In 2020, during the president's first term in office, the Trump administration launched Operation Warp Speed, which accelerated testing and approval of COVID jabs as the coronavirus swept across America.
The World Health Organization indicates at least 70% of Americans have gotten both shots of the COVID-19 vaccine as of 2025, with more than 711 million doses having been administered in the U.S.
But the vaccines administered by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, came under fierce criticism in 2021 for failing to stop breakthrough infections, as many who got the shots developed COVID-19 nonetheless.
"This development is a total game changer and is sending shock waves throughout the global establishment," Alex Jones of Infowars said Monday.
"Trump knows he was set up and knows the truth is coming out so he is getting ahead of it. Mark my words this is over the top good news!"
"The whole thing's already come down. The whole world is waking up. The majority of people know it's pure poison. Three percent even take the new, stupid boosters. So Trump understands he was set up."
"We've been all over this," Jones added. "It's the shot that kills you, the shot that erases the immune system."
Trump rarely mentions the pandemic except for praising the rapid development of COVID vaccines, which he termed a "Christmas miracle" in December 2020.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll in May, only 30% of Republicans now believe the COVID shot is safe, while 55% of independents and 87% of Democrats feel that way.
Trump's secretary for Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been grappling with health officials at the CDC after putting a stop to emergency authorization for COVID shots and changing their standards to exclude most children and healthy adults.
Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired Wednesday after serving less than a month in that position. The White House told the New York Times she was booted because her opinions on inoculations differed from those of Kennedy, a well-known skeptic of vaccines.
"When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted," said Monarez's lawyers Abbe Lowell and Mark Zaid.
"This is not about one official. It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science."
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As Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook challenges President Donald Trump's push to fire her for alleged mortgage fraud, a top Trump official is offering her advice.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with guest host Jackie DeAngelis on the Fox News Channel, Peter Navarro, the White House senior counsel for Trade and Manufacturing, said: "What I think Lisa Cook needs to do is get up and explain to the American people what she did.
"Is there a reason that's legitimate for what seems like the worst kind of home fraud?"
DeAngelis agreed, saying, "I think the American people would love to hear it if she would stand up and explain that to us."
Navarro explained: "With respect to the president's ability to fire [Cook], of course he does."
"Here we've got a a case of what appears to be apparent malfeasance. This is not a slap-on-the-wrist thing."
"I went to prison, Democrats put me in prison for defending the Constitution. And I was there , there were a couple of guys there who had similar kind of bank-loan fraud. They were there for years. They had their assets forfeited and they had burdensome restitution."
Navarro discussed his opinion piece in the Federalist, in which he said Trump is perfectly right in firing Cook "for cause."
"Cook's 'cause' is alleged malfeasance tied to her mortgage paperwork. According to public reporting, in June 2021, Cook obtained a $203,000 mortgage in Michigan. Just two weeks later, in July 2021, she signed for a $540,000 mortgage in Georgia.
Each loan reportedly included a primary-residence occupancy clause requiring her to move in within 60 days and remain for at least one year unless the lender consented. If, as alleged, both applications represented those properties as 'primary residences,' two homes in two states two weeks apart creates an irreconcilable timeline absent lender consent. Those facts remain subject to litigation, but they are sufficient to test integrity and meet a for-cause threshold pending judicial review."
"Cook's firing is not about her incompetence and partisan weaponization of Fed policy — 'cause' though her incompetence well might be. Nor is Cook's firing an attack on the Fed's independence.
"Cook's firing is about the paperwork: two mortgages, two states, two weeks apart, both allegedly marked as a 'primary residence.' On the face of such alleged malfeasance, cause exists, and that is enough for a president to act while the courts resolve the rest.
"The lesson is simple: In public service, integrity is judged in real time, not deferred until a jury renders a verdict."
On another critical issue, Navarro says White House officials "feel very optimistic" about overturning an appeals court decision that said Trump's sweeping tariffs are unconstitutional.
"If we lose the case, President Trump is right. It will be the end of the United States," Navarro warned.
On Friday, Trump himself said of the tariff ruling: "A Highly Partisan Appeals Court incorrectly said that our Tariffs should be removed, but they know the United States of America will win in the end.
"If these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country. It would make us financially weak, and we have to be strong. The U.S.A. will no longer tolerate enormous Trade Deficits and unfair Tariffs and Non Tariff Trade Barriers imposed by other Countries, friend or foe, that undermine our Manufacturers, Farmers, and everyone else.
"If allowed to stand, this Decision would literally destroy the United States of America. At the start of this Labor Day weekend, we should all remember that TARIFFS are the best tool to help our Workers, and support Companies that produce great MADE IN AMERICA products.
"For many years, Tariffs were allowed to be used against us by our uncaring and unwise Politicians. Now, with the help of the United States Supreme Court, we will use them to the benefit of our Nation, and Make America Rich, Strong, and Powerful Again! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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Former President Bill Clinton was spotted at in airport with a portable defibrillator, sparking questions about the 79-year-old's health.
As Fox News report, photographs taken in the Hamptons show someone accompanying the former president and his wife, Hillary, carrying what appeared to be a medical device. The New York Post reported that it resembled a Propaq MD Air Medical Bag.
This comes two months after Clinton was seen stumbling on a New York City sidewalk outside the 92NY, a cultural center in the Big Apple. He was attending an event for his book, "First Gentleman," a political thriller he co-authored with James Patterson, according to the Post.
In 2004, Clinton underwent quadruple bypass surgery. At the time, ABC News reported that doctors said Clinton narrowly avoided a major heart attack and had nearly 100% blockage in some of his arteries when he underwent surgery.
At the time, Clinton appeared on "Good Morning America," stating, "That was my fault. I don't blame my doctors or anybody else. … I was insufficiently vigilant."
After another heart surgery in 2010, Clinton started eating a near-vegan diet, leading to PETA naming him its "2010 Person of the Year."
According to the Fox report, the former president has also experienced more recent health challenges, including a 2021 hospitalization for a urinary tract infection, a battle with COVID-19 in 2022 and another hospitalization for the flu.
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A report at the Gateway Pundit describes how the statutory Secret Service protection for a former vice president like Kamala Harris extends for six months after leaving office.
Joe Biden had put the taxpayers on the hook for paying for an extra year of those expenses.
Now they're canceled.
The report explains, "President Trump struck another blow against his 2024 Presidential rival, even as she considers another desperate bid for the presidency. As CNN reported, Trump revoked Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection on Thursday."
Federal law provides six months of tax-funded protections for her after she left office, and that ended on July 21, but Biden, before leaving office, had granted her an additional year of tax support.
CNN said the reasons for Biden's decision were "undisclosed."
The Gateway Pundit charged, "How unsurprising that Biden and his handlers would make a mockery of the law once again.
CNN obtained the new instructions that detail, "You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,"
The letter noted the agents now will disappear and she will lose as well services that include an "analysis of threat intelligence and covering in-person situations, emails, texts and social media."
The change comes just has Harris is launching a tour promoting herself and a book.
Harris' office said, "The Vice President is grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety."
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What could involve major law enforcement operations, tracking down and arresting illegal aliens, and assignment of National Guard troops, soon could be coming to Chicago, one of the most crime-ridden cities in America.
A report at CNN confirmed the administration of President Donald Trump is making preparations for a "major immigration enforcement operation."
It could be happening as early as in a few days.
The report said the information was from sources "familiar" with the arrangements.
"President Donald Trump and his aides have repeatedly slammed Chicago over policies that limit cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration enforcement," the report said.
The city still is feeling the effects of the millions and millions of illegal aliens allowed into the country under the administration of Joe Biden, and his open borders practices.
Many ended up in Chicago when authorities in Texas, flooded with wave after wave of border crossers, shipped them north.
Chicago already has been put in a bull's-eye by the Trump administration, which sued over its so-called "sanctuary" practices in which illegal aliens purportedly are protected from federal law.
Now the operations are expected to expand, with officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and possibly other agencies, involved
Reportedly armored vehicles already are being moved to Chicago.
The plan already has been developed and put into operation in Los Angeles, where officers flooded locations where illegal aliens were known to be. Some 5,000 arrests have been made there.
White House border czar Tom Homan said that planning for Chicago was still underway.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, "Without getting into specifics and repeating any operational details, the president has been clear repeatedly that we're going to be prioritizing enforcement in these sanctuary jurisdictions as a matter of public safety and national security."
A report at the Gateway Pundit said it's part of Trump's moves against sanctuary locations.
He said, "I think Chicago will be our next, and then we'll help with New York."