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For more than a century, one trend has defined American politics: the relentless expansion of federal power. The Founders built a limited framework of law and order to protect liberty and promote a flourishing society. That framework has morphed into a sprawling leviathan that reaches into nearly every aspect of American life. Each crisis, often of the government’s own making, brings the same answer: more bureaucracy, more spending, more control.

Generations of Americans have paid the price to support a self-described “problem-solving” class that fails to solve anything — and demands even more to fix the failures it created. Under President Trump, however, the country finally has a leader who sees bureaucracy not as the solution but as the root of the problem.

The choice is clear: a government that serves the people — or an unaccountable leviathan that consumes them.

In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal exploited economic collapse to justify a sweeping expansion of federal agencies. Lawmakers used the crisis to transform the relationship between government and the free market.

By the 1960s, Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society pushed federal overreach farther, binding millions of Americans to Washington through government handouts. Decades later, after 9/11, George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act, giving federal agencies unprecedented access to Americans’ private lives — all in the name of national security.

Today, the federal government reaches into your doctor’s office, your child’s classroom, and even your kitchen appliances — often without a single vote in Congress.

This unchecked sprawl, always justified by its own failures, has saddled taxpayers with $37 trillion in debt, a crushing weight that future generations must carry.

Enter Donald Trump.

In fewer than 100 days, Trump removed 126,000 federal workers and targeted another 100,000 positions for elimination. He gutted USAID — a bloated redistribution agency infamous for funding “Sesame Street” in Iraq — cutting more than 99% of its workforce. The IRS shed 3,600 auditors, directly rejecting President Biden’s plan to hire 87,000 new agents through the Inflation Reduction Act.

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For the first time in years, an American president has moved decisively to dismantle the administrative state — rejecting Washington’s bipartisan instinct to grow government and funnel more power to unelected bureaucrats.

No one should be surprised that Trump’s efforts to downsize the federal government have sparked outrage from Democrats, who now portray federal workers as the new victim class. Their narrative paints Trump and Republicans as “cruel” and “heartless.”

But here’s the truth.

While more than
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, Washington’s bureaucratic elite dominate six of the 10 richest counties in the country — all clustered around the nation’s capital.

During the 2008 financial crisis, 8.6 million Americans lost their jobs — 5.5% of the national workforce. Yet Washington barely flinched, shedding just 1.1% of its taxpayer-funded positions. While global economies collapsed, the D.C. bureaucracy grew, kept afloat by billion-dollar federal contracts. Politicians demanded more money for “problem solvers” to solve the problems they created. After all the “assistance” and bailouts, average Americans were left with just one thing:
nearly $1 trillion in new debt.

Trump’s war on the administrative state doesn’t stem from cruelty — it reflects a long-overdue reckoning with bloated federal power. His success represents a win for working Americans. While Trump has made historic gains against the bureaucracy, many of his reforms remain tied up in court, blocked by forces determined to preserve the status quo.

If real change is the goal, Congress must do more than applaud. Lawmakers must codify Trump’s actions and pass his proposed spending cuts. The choice is clear: a government that serves the people — or an unaccountable leviathan that consumes them.

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Lots of people are wondering whether Pope Leo XIV is a reformer in the same vein as Pope Francis or more of a traditionalist like Francis’ two predecessors. It depends on the issue, but to those who think he is a clone of Francis, they are wrong. Importantly, he is not an ideologue.

It is striking to see some celebrating what they claim is a “woke” pope, while others are bemoaning that he is one. Neither is right.

The left exists for one thing — power — and leftists are masters at deceiving people.

Beware: All the alarms going off are false.

An article published at Alternet is cheering “Our New Woke Pope.” Why? Because he criticized Vice President JD Vance for saying love should begin with loving your family, then others.

Then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, an Augustinian priest, said on X that “J.D. Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”

It is absurd to conclude from this that the new pontiff is a “woke” pope. Vance was saying love must be set in proper order, and many Catholic theologians agree. No matter, theological disputes are common in all religious circles, but standing alone they do not make anyone “woke.” This is simply a childish way to politicize matters.

Then we have right-wing commentator Laura Loomer. She is branding our new pope “woke” and a “Marxist.” She is badly educated.

To show how crazy those on the extreme left and right are, consider what the Nation is saying. It is a left-wing publication that championed Stalin, the genocidal maniac. Those at the outlet are raising the flag for Pope Leo XIV because they see in him what Pope Leo XIII stood for during his pontificate.

Those at the Nation are right to say our new pope identifies with Leo XIII, but wrong to say that the late 19th and early 20th-century pope was a social justice warrior in the left-wing tradition. They are heralding him for his “sharp critiques of capitalism.” Maybe if they actually read the 1891 encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” they wouldn’t sound so silly.

Pope Leo XIII wrote this encyclical eight years after Marx’s death in 1883. He foresaw the horrors that Marx’s ideology would deliver. He said that “ideal equality about which they entertain pleasant dreams would be in reality the leveling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation.” He also made the case for private property, which is hardly an expression of socialism.

Orthodox Catholics will be happy to learn that Pope Leo XIV is strongly pro-life. He is opposed to abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide. He is also pro-marriage and the family, properly understood.

He has criticized in no uncertain terms the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.” This is great news for practicing Catholics — the ones in the pews who actually pay the bills — but not for dissidents. He has also condemned gender ideology being taught in the schools of Peru. “The promotion of gender ideology is confusing, because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist.” As such, he opposes the exploitation of sexually confused young people.

On immigration, Leo is much more in the liberal camp. He is opposed to the Trump policies and has even criticized the president of El Salvador for his crackdown on illegal immigration. How the heads of state are supposed to deal with those who are crashing their borders, causing misery for its citizens, is something he may have to address.

Is Pope Leo XIV a Republican, a Democrat, or an independent? He’s a Republican, having pulled the GOP lever in the 2012, 2014, and 2016 elections. But apparently he did not vote in the 2016 general election and chose to vote by absentee ballot in 2024. It appears he is more of a Bush Republican than a Trump Republican. But he is certainly not a “woke” or “Marxist” activist.

If some progressives who wanted Francis II are not expressing dismay in public, don’t be fooled. It is because they want to have entrée with the new pope. The left exists for one thing — power — and leftists are masters at deceiving people.

It looks like practicing Catholics will have in Pope Leo XIV someone they can rally around.

This essay was adapted from an article originally published by the Catholic League.

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Every Republican ran for office last year promising to slash the record spending levels that fueled Biden-era inflation. Yet, every GOP proposal now adds to the deficit. Republicans can’t agree on a single major program to cut. At the very least, one might expect them to eliminate federal subsidies that prop up blue-state Medicaid schemes and high-tax policies. Instead, they plan to burn their political capital shielding those same states from the consequences of their choices.

Forget “inflation” or “invasion.” The buzzword in Washington this month is “SALT.” Lifting the cap on the state and local tax deduction is the message GOP leaders chose to go with. Brilliant!

Blue-state Republicans should export red-state policies, not act as lobbyists for high-tax regimes.

Salt may season food, but in tax policy, SALT leaves a bitter taste. Before Trump’s 2017 tax reforms, taxpayers could deduct unlimited state and local taxes from their federal burden, with some restrictions for the wealthy under the old Alternative Minimum Tax. This allowed blue-state politicians to raise state income and property taxes knowing Washington would offset the pain through greater deficit spending. Trump’s bill capped SALT deductions at $10,000 and lowered federal rates across the board.

Now, a bloc of blue-state Republicans has hijacked the budget reconciliation process to push what amounts to an unlimited national subsidy for high-tax states. With existing tax cuts and Trump’s new priorities already straining the budget, these Republicans want to burn $1 trillion over 10 years to spare New York and California politicians from a taxpayer revolt.

After rounds of internal negotiation, House leaders offered a compromise: Raise the SALT cap to $30,000 for families earning less than $400,000. The SALT caucus rejected the offer. “A higher SALT cap isn’t a luxury. It’s a matter of fairness,” declared New York Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik, Andrew Garbarino, Nick LaLota, and Mike Lawler. Fairness? They want the rest of the country to go deeper into debt to prop up New York’s failed policies.

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Blue-state Republicans should export red-state policies, not act as lobbyists for high-tax regimes. Their job is to pressure local Democrats to cut taxes — or to help conservative voters move out. Instead, they keep fueling blue-state profligacy and shielding the very politicians who caused the mess.

Worse still, these lukewarm Republicans want to spend over $1 trillion on blue-state tax breaks instead of using that money for broad-based tax cuts that would actually boost growth. They’ve even floated raising the cap to $62,000 for individuals and $124,000 for families, with no income limits. Most of those benefits would go to households earning over half a million dollars. For comparison, the Tax Foundation reports the average American pays about $13,890 in federal income taxes. Yet, these Republicans want to let wealthy blue-staters deduct nearly 10 times that amount.

And what of Donald Trump — the be-all and end-all of the Republican Party? He pressures the Freedom Caucus to drop its demands to end blue-state Medicaid grift, but he says nothing about the SALT holdouts. Instead, he endorsed Stefanik and Lawler for re-election.

Trump left New York for Florida to escape New York’s oppressive tax regime. So why back politicians who insist on making the rest of the country pay for it?

If Trump won’t rein in these RINOs, Republicans will head into the midterms without a message — and they’ll need smelling salts to revive a self-immolated mandate.

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Joe Allen is quite the jack of all trades. He’s an author, a researcher, an arena rigger, an editor for Steve Bannon’s “War Room,” and one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in the intersection of AI, transhumanism, and spirituality.

It’s the latter role Nicole Shanahan is most interested in.

“What is your definition of transhumanism?” she asked him on a recent episode of “Back to the People.”

It’s “the drive or the quest to use science and technology to go beyond the human,” Allen said.

It’s a merging of human and machine, in other words, and while it sounds like dystopian fiction, the concept is entirely real, and it’s happening right now.

We don’t have cyborgs yet, but given the fact that transhumanism has snaked its way into the reproductive world, which is booming today thanks to America’s fertility crisis, it’s likely only a matter of time before they walk among us.

Nicole points to transhumanist companies that are currently manufacturing human eggs in a lab “without any input from a female ovary” and then fertilizing them with either “real sperm or synthetic sperm, which can also be grown.” In other words, pseudo-human beings are being created by machines in laboratories.

Trying to stop this, she says, is “impossible” — as is halting the development of organoids or the implantation of brain chips.

“That leaves us with the fact that the transhumanist cyborg machine human is going to exist,” she says frankly, calling it a new attempt at the age-old ploy to steal the human soul.

“Now is the time that we have this very narrow window to create a fork for the future of humanity,” she tells Allen.

As terrifying as sharing the world with transhumanist creations is, Allen says there are two pieces of good news: One, the “god-like” AI we’ve been told is coming down the pike is likely a “sales pitch” that overexaggerates the actual product. Yes, humans will regard these technologies as “digital deities,” and yes, “they [will] have real power,” but they likely aren’t as superhuman as we’ve been told.

Secondly, “if we believe that we are intended to be more human than machine, and if we believe that there are realms far beyond this one to which we’re accountable, then we’re going to fight for it, and it’s going to be across the world,” says Allen.

“It’s going to be a massive fight,” but “you have to have faith in the human spirit, the human soul, and the God that is within and above and moving through it.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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President Donald Trump issued a consequential executive order that undermines the power of the federal government to prosecute Americans for obscure rules passed by unelected agencies.

The order, entitled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations,” was issued Friday and limits the federal government from prosecuting Americans for violating regulations without ill intent.

‘It will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.’

“The United States is drastically overregulated. The Code of Federal Regulations contains over 48,000 sections, stretching over 175,000 pages — far more than any citizen can possibly read, let alone fully understand. Worse, many carry potential criminal penalties for violations,” reads the order.

The order calls for federal agencies to make a list of regulations that carry a criminal penalty and make it public within 365 days. It also disfavors prosecutions where there is no evidence of bad intent against the accused, in favor of prosecutions against those who knowingly violated regulations.

The order was praised by those in favor of limiting the power of the federal government, including attorney Laura Powell of Californians for Good Governance.

“The federal regulatory code, spanning 175,000 pages, contains countless criminal offenses — literally countless, as no one knows the exact number,” she explained.

“This lack of clarity violates the due process requirement of fair notice,” she added. “Many offenses are strict liability, meaning you can be convicted even if you were unaware your actions were illegal. This has empowered the administrative state to function as an unaccountable fourth branch, bypassing Congress’s legislative authority.”

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Powell added, “This is a step in the right direction for people who value freedom and the rule of law.”

Steven Nekhaila, the chair of the Libertarian Party, praised the order but said it should only be the beginning of an effort to disentangle the federal regulatory code.

“President Trump’s recent executive order addressing the over-criminalization of federal regulations is a commendable step toward restoring individual liberties and curbing governmental overreach,” wrote Nekhaila.

“However, this executive action should be the beginning, not the end, of efforts to dismantle the labyrinth of federal regulations that infringe upon personal freedoms,” he added. “We urge continued vigilance and action to ensure that laws serve to protect rights rather than punish inadvertent noncompliance.”

The Heritage Foundation noted that James Madison had warned about overcriminalization when he wrote, “It will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

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Nationwide injunctions — once unknown in American legal tradition — have exploded in popularity, driven by single federal district court judges eager to block policies enacted by the political branches. Supreme Court justices appointed by presidents of both parties have raised alarms about the trend.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett have criticized these injunctions in written opinions. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan have raised similar concerns in public comments. In the 2018 Trump v. Hawaii decision, Thomas called them “legally and historically dubious.” Speaking at a Ninth Circuit judicial conference, Kagan reportedly remarked, “It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”

The question before the court is fundamental: Do elections matter, or do lower-court judges run the country?

Solicitors general from both parties have also objected. Joe Biden’s solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar, warned last year that nationwide injunctions cause “substantial disruption” to executive functions. Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris earlier this year called them an “epidemic.”

The Supreme Court will now decide whether these bipartisan objections reflect genuine constitutional concerns — or partisan convenience. Take Mary McCord, for example. A former Obama White House official and adviser to the January 6 Committee, she co-signed the respondents’ brief defending the nationwide injunctions in this case. But would she have supported them when courts used them against her own administration?

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in Trump v. CASA, Inc., along with the related cases Trump v. Washington and Trump v. New Jersey. At issue is the Trump administration’s “modest request” to limit the scope of nationwide injunctions issued by district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington state. These injunctions blocked enforcement of the president’s day one executive order on birthright citizenship, even before courts ruled on the legal merits.

(Full disclosure: I submitted a brief in the case on behalf of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, urging the court to restore the original meaning of the 14th Amendment — one that excludes both temporary visitors and illegal immigrants from automatic citizenship.)

The case against universal injunctions follows directly from the Constitution. Article III, Section 2 limits judicial power to “cases or controversies,” designed to resolve disputes between parties, not to dictate national policy. Nationwide injunctions go well beyond the plaintiffs and defendants involved.

Article III, Section 1 vests judicial authority in the Supreme Court and “such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” District courts possess geographically defined jurisdictions. A single federal judge in, say, Maryland or Washington state was never meant to issue rulings that bind the entire country.

Nationwide injunctions routinely disrupt government operations. Different district courts can issue conflicting injunctions, creating legal chaos and making compliance virtually impossible. That’s exactly what happened in 2022 after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a common abortion drug. Just hours later, Judge Thomas Rice in the Eastern District of Washington issued a competing order — this one prohibiting the FDA from altering its approval of the same drug in half the country.

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These injunctions also fuel rampant forum-shopping. Predictably, left-leaning jurisdictions like Massachusetts, Maryland, and Washington state produced most of the nationwide injunctions during the Trump presidency — just as Texas courts served that role under Obama and Biden. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kagan have both warned about this manipulation. Members of Congress, legal scholars, the American Bar Association, and even the Judicial Conference of the United States have proposed random judge assignments for cases that could result in nationwide injunctions.

Such reforms might reduce forum-shopping, but they do not fix the underlying constitutional defects.

If the court agrees with the Department of Justice and narrows the injunctions to the actual parties in the case, it must still define who counts as a party. Will that include only the named plaintiffs? Or will it extend to entire state populations listed as plaintiffs — or worse, activist groups claiming to represent all their members?

If the court accepts either of the latter definitions, it effectively reauthorizes nationwide injunctions under a different name. That outcome seems unlikely. The court will likely stop short of endorsing such a sweeping expansion of lower-court power and instead point to the existing class-action mechanism already embedded in federal rules.

Whatever the court decides, the consequences will ripple through the hundreds of lawsuits filed against the president’s executive actions. At stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the last election — and whether unelected district judges can override the policies chosen by the American people. The question before the court is fundamental: Do elections matter, or do lower-court judges run the country?

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The Trump administration has insisted on remaining on the wrong side of the abortion debate time and time again — this time with its defense of allowing the abortion pill to be accessible online and via mail.

The administration argues that Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri, who are suing over expanded access rules, lack legal standing, and, therefore, the case should be dismissed by the federal court in Texas.

These three states are challenging the FDA’s 2016 action that allows abortion pills to be used for up to 10 weeks of pregnancy rather than the previous seven, while the Department of Justice argues that this is outside the statute of limitations.

“What a battle for the Trump administration to fight,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” says, shocked. “It sure seems like the Trump administration wants to, no matter what, make sure that the abortion pill is accessed.”

However, as Stuckey has explained many times in the past, the abortion pill is an incredibly dangerous pill — and not just for the babies it kills.

“There is no requirement that you see a doctor that can verify actually how far along you are. What if you think you’re eight weeks, but you’re really 18 weeks? Well, you are, as a woman taking this pill, not only going to kill your child, but you yourself will likely die,” she says.

And a new study from the Foundation for the Restoration of America, released at the end of April, shows that the abortion pill is much more dangerous than the FDA claims. According to the study, roughly 11.2% of over 150,000 women experience a “serious adverse event” after taking the chemical abortion pill mifepristone.

Those “serious adverse events” include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis.

“Remember, they are not taking these pills in an abortion clinic, they’re not taking them in the hospital, they’re taking them in their bathroom,” Stuckey says. “No medical supervision whatsoever.”

The rate of these serious side effects shown in this research is about 22 times higher than what the FDA put on the label for the brand name drug Mifeprex in 2023 — as they previously cited clinical studies that showed that less than .5% of women suffered serious complications.

“If you had any other drug that was kind of similar in terms of the magnitude of what this thing does, anywhere north of 2%, and they’d shut it down,” Doug Truax, founder of the Foundation for the Restoration of America, said.

“He’s absolutely right about that,” Stuckey comments, adding, “People say it’s safe and effective. Yeah, it’s effective at killing a person.”

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The Shanghai Auto Show is a big deal.

Which makes sense, considering that China currently has a 30% share of the global car manufacturing market.

Xiaomi’s SU7 Ultra hyper sedan is the most exciting car to come out of Auto Shanghai 2025. This 1,548hp (1,138kW) electric vehicle can accelerate from 0 to 60 in 1.98s.

This year’s edition — which wrapped up last week — brought together 70 car makers from 26 countries showing off some 1,300 vehicles.

What you see there can tell you a lot about the future of the automobile industry. Such as the fact that 70% of this year’s offerings were alternative energy vehicles.

Again, not surprising: Despite reeling from tariffs as well as a brutal price war, China remains the world’s largest market for EVs.

You can also learn a lot from what — or who — you don’t see in Shanghai. In this case, at least 15 of the biggest players in the industry.

Here’s a rundown of this year’s no-shows — and what their absence could mean:

Tesla

Despite having a major factory in Shanghai, Tesla stayed home for the third year in a row. Why? The primary reason appears to be a lack of significant new vehicle releases to showcase.

Additionally, Tesla’s decision may reflect a strategic shift, as it faces intense competition from Chinese EV makers like BYD, NIO, and Xiaomi, who are rapidly advancing in technology and market share. Tesla’s absence from China’s largest auto show suggests it may be focusing on other markets or methods to maintain its brand presence, especially as its dominance in China is challenged by local rivals offering advanced features.

Negative publicity from a 2021 incident, where a customer protested at Tesla’s booth over brake issues, may also contribute to its reluctance to participate in high-profile Chinese auto shows.

Hyundai

This is the first show Hyundai (along with its affiliate Kia and luxury division Genesis) has skipped since entering the Chinese market in 2002. Struggling sales — the company’s market share dropped to just 1.6% by late 2024 — and a financial squeeze in the competitive Chinese market, dominated by domestic EV and hybrid brands, likely prompted Hyundai to forego the costly event.

Instead, Beijing Hyundai held a strategic communication meeting in Shanghai days before the show, possibly to outline future plans without the expense of a full exhibition. The focus on new model unveilings elsewhere, such as the IONIQ 9 at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2024, suggests Hyundai has prioritized other markets for its latest offerings.

Lamborghini and other luxury brands

Lamborghini was among several ultra-luxury brands that opted out of the 2025 Shanghai Auto Show, alongside Maserati, Jaguar, and Land Rover. The main reason appears to be a significant sales decline in China’s ultra-luxury vehicle segment, which saw a 53% year-on-year drop in Q1 2025 for vehicles priced above 1 million yuan (approximately $137,000 USD).

This market contraction likely made participation in the costly auto show less viable for Lamborghini, especially as domestic Chinese brands are increasingly encroaching on the luxury segment with competitive offerings. The absence of these brands reflects broader challenges for foreign luxury automakers in adapting to China’s rapidly evolving market, where new energy vehicles (EVs and hybrids) are prioritized over traditional high-end combustion models.

The guest list may have been smaller this year, but those who did make it were determined to keep the party going.

Some of the eveals at the show included:

Xiaomi SU7 Ultra

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Xiaomi’s SU7 Ultra hyper sedan is the most exciting car to come out of Auto Shanghai 2025. This 1,548hp (1,138kW) electric vehicle can accelerate from 0 to 60 in 1.98s.

That is super fast! If you want to find a quicker car than this, maybe investigate a top-fuel dragster.

What impresses us the most about this reveal is not the straight line speed but the price tag price — $114,000. Then, when it comes time to charge the SU7 Ultra, you can plug it in and charge from 10% to 80% in 11 minutes.

You also get dual-chamber air springs with adaptive dampers, a torque-vectoring system with a 500Hz refresh rate, carbon ceramic brakes, carbon fiber roof, the list goes on and on about what makes the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra the fastest thing coming out of China right now.

The U.S. will most likely never see it on our shores.

GWM Tank 300 Hooke

The GWM Tank 300 Hooke sports a 2.0-litre turbo-gas four-cylinder under the hood. Also apparently in the works: a 4.0 liter twin-turbo V8-powered Tank. I guess China didn’t get the memo that gas-powered cars are on the way out.

Huawei Maextro S800

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While every brand in China wants a piece of Rolls-Royce, some get closer than others, and the best of the bunch might be this Maextro S800.

Built by phone manufacturer Huawei in partnership with JAC, this plus-size luxury vehicle claims to be bigger than 99.99% of sedans in China.

The cabin sports multiplex-size screens, with the obligatory champagne flutes within reach of the reclining rear massage seats.

Rear seat entertainment is the aim of the game, and the flutes are joined by an aluminium folding table, hot and cold cup holders, a wireless charging area, a refrigerator, and a fingerprint-secured password box for valuable items.

Power-wise, there’s a pure EV version with a 94.364 kWh battery pack and up to 436 miles of range, or there’s an extended-range version with a 63.262 kWh battery pack offering up to 193 miles of electric range.

It’s very likely we’ll never see this car in North America, but prices start at $131,600.

Nissan Frontier Pro

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The release of the Nissan Frontier Pro PHEV is not as “crazy” as the Rolls-Royce copycats littered throughout the show. If China figures are to be adopted, expect 300kW of power, 800Nm of torque, and around 135km of EV-only range.

The Nissan Frontier Pro uses a solid axle 5-link rear suspension like a traditional dual-cab ute, and this should help it off-road. The interior tech includes massive dual screens, massage seats, and there’s Vehicle to Land (V2L) charging as well.

Zeekr 9X

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Zeekr’s Rolls-Royce Cullinan “inspired” 9X was also revealed at the 2025 Shanghai Auto Show. It’s a flagship model for the brand’s SUV lineup. It will be a hybrid SUV, is powered by a 2.0-litre internal combustion engine and backed by CATL’s Xiaoyao battery, which is said to deliver an all-electric range exceeding 236 miles.

This massive SUV, which will surely weigh nearly three tons, can complete the 0 to 60 mph sprint in three seconds. It also features an “industry-first” dual-chamber air suspension and active stabilizer bars to balance comfort and performance.

What we do know is that it will be opulent. The headlights feature 42,242 laser-engraved, diamond-cut lamp facets to create a “starry sky” effect, and they’re matched by 22-inch mirror-finish forged wheels.

AUDI E5 Sportback

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The new China-only brand AUDI (spelled in capital letters, without the four rings) was announced in China last year.

The four-door E5 Sportback is the first model unveiled by the new brand at the Shanghai Auto Show and partners with SAIC Cooperation Project, with its partial Chinese ownership. The new 800-volt AUDI E5 delivers up to 776 hp of power and a maximum range of 478 miles, which is impressive to say the least.

It will be offered in China with rear-wheel or quattro all-wheel drive, and in the sportiest setup, it can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds. Why the company has decided to keep this a China-only vehicle remains to be seen.

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A top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the country is open to a nuclear deal with President Donald Trump if he agrees to drop certain economic sanctions.

Ali Shamkhani told NBC News Wednesday that if the demands of the Iranian regime were met, Iran would be willing to end all nuclear weapons programs and dispose of its stockpiles of highly-enriched uranium.

‘It’s still possible. If the Americans act as they say, for sure we can have better relations.’

Trump made his own demands of the regime known while speaking to leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

“I want to make a deal with Iran. I want to do something if possible. But for that to happen, they must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars, and permanently and verifiably cease pursuit of nuclear weapons,” he said.

“They cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Trump added.

Shamkhani, a top political, military, and nuclear adviser in Iran, said they would also be willing to agree to limit enriching uranium to the lower levels for civilian use and allow international inspectors to supervise.

“It’s still possible. If the Americans act as they say, for sure we can have better relations,” Shamkhani added. “It can lead to a better situation in the near future.”

He went on to say the deal was possible, unless Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses his influence to derail the deal through lobbying in Washington, D.C.

RELATED: Mark Levin sounds alarm: Stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions before it’s too late

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“We’re going to make your region and the world a safer place,” said Trump. “But if Iran’s leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive, maximum pressure.”

Nevertheless, Shamkhani complained that Trump had been too harsh in his acts against Iran.

“He talks about the olive branch, which we have not seen. It’s all barbed wire,” he said.

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Democrats in this day and age aren’t known for their intellectual prowess or masterful grip on logic, which makes it less surprising — and perhaps a little easier to stomach — that a new poll has found 71% of them want to put Elon Musk in jail for what he’s done with President Trump.

“The guy that saved the climate,” Stu Burguiere jokes to Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.” “I will say, if you’re looking at this honestly, with the left-wing calculus, it is impossible to disagree with that.”

“He basically took electric cars from nothing, when no one wanted them, no one had them, and built the world’s largest car company out of it. Not to mention what he’s done with SpaceX, which also has a massive climate motivation. Not to mention what he did with — what is it — SolarCity, the solar company,” Stu continues.

“When I say they want to put him in prison, you might say, ‘What’s the logical question there?’ Seventy-one percent of Democrats want to put him in prison. The logical question is ‘Why?’” Glenn chimes in, adding, “What did he do? What’s the crime?”

Even more insane is that it’s not just that Democrats want to put him in prison.

“It’s actually 71% of Democrats now want to pass a law that puts him into prison. So, just when you thought it was bad, no, no, it’s much, much worse,” Glenn says.

“They want to retroactively put him in prison, not for a crime he committed, but for one they can make him commit,” Stu says, shocked.

“They are for an unidentified, nondescript law that would put him in prison. How far are you going to fall, Democrats, before you realize, ‘I might be on the wrong side’? You now are for coming up with a law where the objective is ‘Put that guy in jail,’” Glenn says, adding, “I think there’s no way to defend that.”

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Over the weekend, the Cleveland Browns hosted their three-day rookie minicamp, where the team’s 2025 NFL draft picks, undrafted free agents, and tryout players got their first taste of NFL practices.

One of those players was Shedeur Sanders, who, despite being a fifth-round draft pick, continues to be the talk of the league.

Jason Whitlock speculates that the undeserved hype surrounding Sanders could be the very reason so many teams passed on him.

“The amount of attention, the over-the-top adulation that is being given to a fifth-round draft choice right now, I think a lot of teams are looking at that and going, ‘That’s exactly why he was off our board,”’ says “Fearless” contributor Steve Kim.

Jason agrees, displaying an X post from a Shedeur fan praising him as a “good teammate” and “solid person” just because he took a picture with the tryout players. Other posts have sensationalized his minicamp performance and highlighted volunteer work he’s done, such as visiting a high school.

“Some of this stuff on Twitter makes me think, like, this is bought-and-paid-for PR,” says Jason, speculating that these types of social media posts are “not organic” but rather a Deion-orchestrated PR campaign to rehab Shedeur’s reputation after his draft slide due to concerns about his attitude.

While this facilitated hype around Shedeur might have fueled some of the distaste certain NFL teams felt toward him, the PR strategies might end up working to his advantage in the end.

If Shedeuer ends up being a backup quarterback behind Dillon Gabriel, this hype could increase his trade value and make him desirable to other teams if their starting quarterback sustains an injury.

Jason thinks that’s exactly what Deion and Shedeur are hoping for if he doesn’t land the starting position.

“Deion and Shedeur and their marketing team realized that Shedeur’s reputation and the way he carried himself cost him 30, 40, 50 million dollars, and they’re trying to rehabilitate this guy’s image as a good teammate and a can’t-miss talent,” says Jason. “I think they’re hoping that someone has an injury during pre-season or early in the season and Shedeur has some trade value.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said that the investigation into the coronavirus pandemic isn’t done with Anthony Fauci, after new revelations about laboratory funding.

Paul made the comments in an interview with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on his radio show Wednesday. The senator said that the change of guard at the Department of Health and Human Services meant new evidence was being produced from the pandemic era.

‘It is our belief that Anthony Fauci had to sign the document. We haven’t found the document yet because they’ve either been hidden or destroyed.’

“Is anyone going to pay for the COVID thing?” asked Beck.

“We’re not done, and I will bring Anthony Fauci back in. We’ve finally discovered the records as to who determined that the money went to Wuhan,” Paul responded.

“They have resisted me for three years. Robert Kennedy has helped me get the records. So has Jay Bhattacharya. This week or next week I’m gonna begin interviewing the people that are on that committee. We’re gonna find out what was the debate, what was the discussion, what were the arguments for sending it to Wuhan, what were the arguments against it,” he added.

“Who made the arguments? And then who ultimately had to sign off on this? It is our belief that Anthony Fauci had to sign the document. We haven’t found the document yet because they’ve either been hidden or destroyed,” Paul said.

“There will be hell to pay,” he concluded ominously.

Paul’s feud with Fauci has manifested in numerous rhetorical skirmishes that erupted during congressional hearings. Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 until 2022. He was responsible for the U.S. health response to the AIDS epidemic, as well as the coronavirus pandemic.

RELATED: Fauci says his critics ‘deny reality,’ embrace ‘conspiracy theories’ — but his supporters are ‘guided by the truth’

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In 2021, Fauci and Paul traded blows over whether the nation’s top epidemiologist had lied to Congress when testifying that he had not signed off on funding for controversial gain-of-function research. Many believe the risky studies might have been responsible for a laboratory leak theorized to be the source of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Dr. Fauci, as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress,” Paul said at the time. “On your last trip to our committee on May 11, you stated that the NIH ‘has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’ And yet, gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi and was funded by the NIH.”

Fauci and Paul went back and forth in debate over the evidence.

“Sen. Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you’re referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function,” Fauci replied.

“Sen. Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially,” Fauci angrily declared. “You do not know what you are talking about.”

Fauci retired from his office and was pardoned by former President Joe Biden pre-emptively against any politically motivated charges that might be filed by the Trump administration. Some have since cast doubt on whether Biden had the mental capacity to sign the pardon and wondered if others falsified the signing.

Here’s the video of Paul’s comments:

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Five former associates of Florida Rep. Cory Mills (R) have now confirmed to Blaze News that Mills converted to Islam around the time he was married in 2014. Meanwhile, Mills’ girlfriend, in an apparent attempt to reassert control over the narrative, has attacked Blaze News’ previous reporting on the matter.

Her rebuttal doesn’t square with the testimony of Cory Mills’ former associates.

Mills has recently come under intense scrutiny. A Feb. 19 domestic disturbance at Mills’ luxury penthouse not only prompted a police response but brought to light the Republican congressman’s apparent misrepresentations about his new romantic relationship and unfinished divorce.

This in turn prompted Blaze News to dig deeper into Mills’ situation — an exploration that has yielded a number of strange insights into the Republican who rose to power on a pro-Christian, America First platform. Among them: Mills was married by Mohammed Al-Hanooti, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a Hamas fundraiser; the marriage was reportedly conducted in a mosque that likely would have required the groom to be Muslim; and at least one associate of Mills indicated that the congressman became a practicing Muslim after marrying Iraq native Rana Al Saadi — a conversion he emphatically denied in a conversation.

Here is an Instagram post with Raviani and Mills.

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suggested to the Daily Mail “that the claims made in the Blaze article are entirely untrue.” This was the first time since her domestic disturbance call that Mills’ 27-year-old girlfriend has publicly announced their relationship.

According to the Daily Mail, the police report on the incident claims officers heard Mills “instruct her to lie about the origin of her bruises.” In addition to confirming she was in a relationship with Mills — who is married to Al Saadi — and asserting that “no assault took place” in February, Raviani told the Daily Mail that Mills’ faith should not be up for debate, claiming that they attend Christian services together and pray in private.

‘He said, “We need to go over there and take care of it.”‘

“He has not only attended church with my family and me, but we also pray together privately — just the two of us — where there would be no reason to pretend or perform for others,” said Raviani. “Additionally, we pray together publicly before meals. Any assertion that he is a Muslim is false, and I can personally attest to his Christian faith.”

The Daily Mail appeared to insinuate that the couple’s Easter travels together served as evidence of her claims. As Blaze News has already reported, Mills, who owns an international weapons company, traveled to Turkey and Syria over Easter, where Mills also met with foreign government officials from both countries,

RELATED: GOP Rep. Cory Mills explains why he was married by a radical Islamic cleric

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Since the first Blaze News report was written, more former associates of Mills have confirmed to Blaze News that Mills converted to Islam around the time he was married. Four of them spoke to Blaze News on background for fear of reprisal, but one was willing to go on the record. Max Woodside, CEO at Paladin LLC, is among those not buying what Mills and his proxies are selling.

Woodside, who at one point served as Mills’ team leader while with the American private military contractor DynCorp and had multiple run-ins with the future congressman in the Middle East, recently went on the record with Blaze News, noting, “I’m not afraid of him. He knows we’re done.”

Woodside indicated that “sometime around 2013,” after he returned from Afghanistan, he received a call “out of the blue” from Mills.

“He mentioned that he had a friend — I guess it’s his current wife that he’s divorcing, whatever the hell she is,” said Woodside. “I guess she was having problems with somebody over there. He said, ‘We need to go over there and take care of it.’ I said, ‘Brother, whatever we do is going to come back to you.’ … I said, ‘You’re always going to have problems because she’s a Muslim and you’re a Christian.'”

According to Woodside, Mills said, “No, I converted. I’m a Muslim.”

This alleged admission stood out to Woodside, who told Blaze News, “They’re my sworn enemy.”

Woodside noted, however, “As far as the Muslim stuff [goes], I only heard him say it one time. I never saw him convert. I never saw him put any head rags on. He just told me he converted to Islam. I said, ‘All right, whatever, dude. We’re done.'”

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Robert Spencer, the founder and editor of
Jihad Watch, cast doubt on whether Mills could have been married at the notoriously extreme Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Virginia without converting.

“It doesn’t sound plausible. Al-Hanooti had multiple ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. … Any imam who had their approval, and who approved of the Brotherhood, had to be well versed in Sharia and loyal to its provisions,” Spencer previously told Blaze News. “Sharia stipulates that a Muslim woman may not marry a Christian or any other non-Muslim man. This is based on the Qur’an. … A Muslim man may marry a Christian woman … but a Muslim woman cannot marry a Christian man.”

Spencer speculated that maybe “the whole thing was quick and involved Mills
… at the mosque with little understanding of what he was saying … so he can dismiss it now and may not have even realized what he was doing, but he wouldn’t have been able to marry Al Saadi otherwise.”

Mills’ former team leader’s interpretation of the conversion is that Mills “said that to get the freaking girl.” Woodside told Blaze News that “he’s not a Muslim or a Christian as far as I’m concerned. He just said what he wanted to get what he wanted, which is what he always does.” Others who knew Mills at the time, however, told Blaze News that Mills seemed to have truly converted and remained Muslim after his wedding.

When pressed about the unlikelihood that a radical mufti like Al-Hanooti would officiate the marriage of a non-Muslim, Mills told Blaze News that the situation was complicated.

His then-fiancée needed to visit a dying relative in Iraq, Mills said, but “would’ve been arrested” if she entered Iraq without a marriage certificate because her first husband in Iraq “wasn’t a good man” and “all he had to do was say she wasn’t divorced within Iraq, therefore the marriage is still valid.”

According to Mills, Al-Hanooti was “the only Iraqi imam that her mom [could] get in contact with who would do this for us.

“I will do anything to protect my family. So if having her mother find someone who is willing to just sign something so she doesn’t get arrested when she goes to visit her dying uncle, who’s her last remaining male Al Saadi,” said Mills. “Yeah, you’re damn right, I have no problem whatsoever, because it didn’t change my faith, it didn’t change who I am, it didn’t change the church that I went to. So yeah, enjoy your hit piece.”

Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson noted that “we merely asked Mills what religion he was and who married him. If Mills had simply admitted that, yes, he converted to Islam to marry a Muslim woman or help her visit her family or whatever, that would be one thing. Instead, he threatened Blaze Media with libel, defamation, malice, and slander before we published a word. I find that odd.”

Woodside, along with many other former associates of Mills who spoke to Blaze News, had some harsh words for the congressman: “He’s always going to say [whatever he needs] to get him whatever he wants, which makes him a good politician because that’s what they do.”

“He’s a die-hard conservative on the face of it,” Woodside told Blaze News, but “Cory’s out for himself. That’s all he’s ever been.”

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The life of an unheeded prophet rarely ends in comfort and often courts danger. Pat Buchanan endured both with the resolve of a warrior. As the most prominent paleoconservative in American politics, Buchanan stood so far ahead of his time that today’s MAGA agenda looks like a photocopy of his 1992 presidential campaign platform. From the culture war to working-class economics and immigration, Buchanan served as the American Cassandra — right about nearly every major question yet scorned by Republican elites.

Republican pundits and politicians dismissed him as a bigot, a racist, an anti-Semite — even likening him to a Nazi. Many of the loudest voices came from within his own party. But Buchanan never bent. He held the line. Decades later, nearly all his predictions have come true. He kept the torch of paleoconservatism burning when no one else would — and that torch lit the fire of the MAGA movement.

Buchanan took on the thankless task of warning his party and his country about the real dangers ahead, long before anyone in power was ready to listen.

Born in 1938 in Washington, D.C., Buchanan rose to prominence as a newspaper columnist and editor before joining President Richard Nixon’s White House as a speechwriter and political strategist. He later became a fixture on TV with shows like “Crossfire” and “The McLaughlin Group” and did a second tour at the White House as Ronald Reagan’s communications director from 1985 to 1987.

Buchanan could have coasted on that résumé. He didn’t. Instead, he broke with the GOP’s managerial, globalist consensus and challenged it head-on. In 1992, he ran against George H.W. Bush in the Republican primary, furious over the president’s betrayal of his “no new taxes” pledge. But Buchanan’s campaign wasn’t just about tax policy. He warned against endless foreign wars, the abandonment of Christianity, the hollowing out of American industry, and the long-term consequences of mass migration.

In his famous “culture war” speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, Buchanan didn’t just warn Republicans. He challenged the entire direction of the American ruling class.

“My friends, this election is about more than who gets what. It is about who we are,” he said. “It is about what we believe and what we stand for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as was the Cold War itself, for this war is for the soul of America.”

After two more failed presidential bids, Buchanan returned to writing and commentary. He published several influential books, including “The Death of the West” and “Suicide of a Superpower,” launched the American Conservative, and penned columns for VDARE. At every turn, he tackled controversial topics — foreign intervention, demographic transformation, and the destruction of the American middle class. While neoconservatives dominated Republican politics, Buchanan stood firm, laying the groundwork for the civil war now raging inside the GOP.

Most voters aren’t driven by ideology. They want a politics that serves their families, communities, and country. Conservatism shouldn’t revolve around abstractions but should exist to preserve a way of life. Despite the “conservative” label, Republican leadership made clear it cared only about cutting taxes and waging endless wars.

Then came Donald Trump, who bulldozed the GOP establishment by campaigning to secure the border, protect American workers, and end the forever wars. Trump won on Buchanan’s platform.

As Millennial and Gen Z conservatives came of age under Trump, many sought intellectual roots for the movement. They found them in the paleoconservatives: Paul Gottfried, Samuel Francis, and, most of all, Pat Buchanan. Clips of Buchanan’s speeches and passages from his books now go viral across social media, revealing a man who diagnosed America’s decline with uncanny foresight. He has become, retroactively, the elder statesman of the New Right — an inspiration to a generation of conservatives eager to challenge the party line and reclaim their country.

Buchanan’s return to prominence hasn’t gone unnoticed by establishment conservatives or the legacy press. Neoconservatives have taken to calling Trump supporters the “Buchanan right” — a clumsy insult aimed at discrediting the movement by association. The Atlantic recently ran a hit piece titled “The Godfather of the Woke Right,” recycling the slur peddled by James Lindsay. The article begrudgingly acknowledged “Suicide of a Superpower” as a formative text for the MAGA right but framed this influence as toxic — an engine of xenophobia and racism.

In a time when the GOP sold out to neoconservative globalism, Buchanan held the line. He took on the thankless task of warning his party and his country about the real dangers ahead — mass migration, national decline, foreign entanglements — long before anyone in power was ready to listen. For his efforts, he was ridiculed, condemned, and cast aside.

That must never happen again. We won’t let it happen again. The term “Buchanan right” shouldn’t be a smear — it should be a badge of honor.

While the left tears down statues of America’s founders, the right should start building. We must erect monuments to the men who stood firm when it mattered most. The first should be Pat Buchanan. We can no longer elect him president — but we can honor him now, while he’s still here to see it. Let’s build the monument he deserves — one that pays tribute to the man who carried the torch through the wilderness and lit the way for the movement that would Make America Great Again.

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President Donald Trump’s border czar told Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas that the Democrat who allegedly assaulted a federal agent at a New Jersey detention center should be arrested.

Homan went on to say that he supports the right of Americans to protest but that anyone, including members of Congress, who step over the line into criminal activity should be arrested.

‘No one is above the law. These men and women put their lives on the line every day. We should be supporting them, not assaulting them.’

“Do you want the congresswoman who was caught on camera assaulting ICE agents to be arrested for that?” Rojas asked Homan Wednesday.

“If you assault an officer? Absolutely,” Homan responded. “No one is above the law. These men and women put their lives on the line every day. We should be supporting them, not assaulting them.”

The mayor of Newark was detained when he and Democrat members of Congress tried to gain access to the detention center and were refused. Many on the right have demanded that the Democrats face criminal prosecution over the incident.

“Especially at a facility carrying some of the worst of the worst,” Homan continued. “You can’t lose control of the facility. When you cause something there, it causes the safety and security of the facility to fail, and that’s not what we want.”

RELATED: VIDEO: NJ Democrat refuses to take responsibility for alleged ICE assault when confronted by Blaze Media

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“I support anybody who wants to support their First Amendment right, but don’t cross the line,” Homan added.

“Don’t cross it to criminal activity. I mean, I love protesters. But don’t cross the line. I said from day one, you can not support ICE. You can support sanctuary cities. Shame on you, but you have that right,” he continued.

“But don’t cross that line, or we will ask for criminal prosecution,” Homan concluded.

Earlier on Wednesday, Rosas also confronted New Jersey Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver, who was caught on video apparently assaulting an ICE agent, in the halls of Congress. She refused to answer his questions and hid behind her aides.

Democrats have argued that members of Congress are legally allowed unannounced access to federal facilities as a part of the oversight power of the legislative branch.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) forcefully rejected any suggestion that the Democrats involved in the detention center protest should be arrested.

“We’re not going to be intimidated by their tactics to try to force principled opposition from not standing up to their extremism,” said Jeffries to reporters on Tuesday.

“No one’s intimidated by this dude — no one,” Jeffries said about the president. “It’s a red line. They know better than to go down that road.”

Here’s the exclusive video from Julio Rosas:

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Children as young as 6 months old can be diagnosed with autism, which is solely based on observational analysis, as there’s no medical test.

That’s one of the many reasons why the way we’ve been taught to deal with autism as a society may need to be re-examined, and the former running mate of RFK Jr., Nicole Shanahan, is well aware of this.

“Here’s the thing: Most children diagnosed with autism — in fact, over 70% — also have what the American Academy of Pediatrics refers to as co-occurring medical conditions,” Shanahan explains.

These co-occurring medical conditions can include “gastrointestinal issues, sleep disorders, seizures or epilepsy, sensory sensitivities, developmental coordination challenges such as dyspraxia (which is commonly seen in stroke victims), and intellectual disabilities.”

While the American Academy of Pediatrics emphasizes that it’s important to identify and manage these co-occurring conditions, most children diagnosed as autistic don’t receive the care they need — because many of them are unable to communicate.

“Today, the autism community is dominated by behavioralists who are frequently not equipped at all to address the underlying medical needs of these children, and rather than looking deeper, the most common response is to prescribe powerful antipsychotic medications like Risperdal and Abilify,” Shanahan says.

“What if many of the behaviors we see in children with autism are actually the result of untreated medical issues like dysbiosis or metabolic dysfunction?” she asks, adding, “More and more physicians and families are stepping forward to say that autism is predominantly physiological, not psychological, and if that’s true, then we need to start by addressing the body, by treating the underlying medical conditions before we attempt to modify a child’s behavior.”

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Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey was confronted by Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas about video appearing to show her assaulting federal agents.

McIver was among the Democrats who demanded access to the ICE detention facility in Newark on Friday, but she was caught on bodycam video apparently assaulting the federal officers there.

‘Congresswoman, you had a lot to say outside of the ICE facility. Why don’t you say anything right now?’

Rosas tried to make McIver answer questions about the video as she walked down the halls of Congress with her aides on Wednesday.

“Congresswoman, I just wanted to ask you what your response is to being on camera assaulting ICE agents?” asked Rosas. “Do you have a response, Congresswoman?”

McIver marched on without responding with her aides alongside her.

“Congresswoman, what’s your response to DHS saying that the illegal immigrants held in Delaney Hall are hardened criminals?” Rosas continued.

“Congresswoman, you had a lot to say outside the ICE facility. Why don’t you say anything right now?” he prodded.

Earlier in the day, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia called for McIver to be expelled from Congress.

“LaMonica McIver, a member of @HomelandGOP, couldn’t even look up as video played of her assaulting ICE officers during today’s hearing,” wrote Greene.

RELATED: ‘No one’s intimidated by this dude’: Dem Leader Jeffries warns Trump against arresting Democrats over ICE trespassing

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“She has zero respect for law enforcement or the rule of law, which is especially disgraceful as we honor law enforcement during Police Week,” she added. “This isn’t just grounds for censure or removal from committees. LaMonica McIver should be EXPELLED from Congress.”

McIver fired back at Greene in a mocking tweet.

“Living rent-free in Marjorie’s brain! Mind you, she left committee and I’m still here….,” she wrote.

Here’s the video of Rosas confronting McIver:

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Ed Martin, the
incoming Department of Justice pardon attorney and director of the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group, announced Tuesday that he will review the rash of questionable “autopen” pardons issued in the final days of the Biden White House, noting that they “need some scrutiny.”

“They need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter, and to be accepted, and to be something that’s used correctly. So I do think we’re going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did,” Martin told reporters.

The Justice Department’s probe could spell trouble for controversial Biden pardonees such as Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, members of the Biden clan, and former members of the House Jan. 6 select committee — including Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), whom President Donald Trump and other Republicans have faulted for various alleged crimes and improprieties.

For instance, Trump has suggested that Milley may have committed “treason.” While previously serving as Trump’s most senior uniformed adviser, Milley called his communist Chinese counterpart, communist Gen. Li Zuocheng, on two occasions — four days before the 2020 election and on Jan. 8, 2021 — to reassure Zuocheng that he would provide him with actionable warnings should Trump decide to attack. Milley received a pardon just hours before former President Joe Biden left office.

Fauci, the fifth director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, received a “full and unconditional” pass for possible federal crimes going back to Jan. 1, 2014 — around the time the Obama administration supposedly halted funding for dangerous gain-of-function research.

In February, over 16 state attorneys general launched an investigation into Fauci’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic response, “demanding accountability for alleged mismanagement, misleading statements, and suppression of scientific debate.” Without his autopen pardon, Fauci would be legally exposed at both the state and federal levels.

“The American people were promised accountability, and I think Ed Martin is our best shot at it,” Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News. “These pardons are fake and invalid, and the president has already said that is his view.”

‘There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people.’

“When these people, like the January 6 Committee and particularly Adam Schiff, are charged and try defending their bogus pardon, then we will start to learn who was really running the White House,” continued Howell. “We need to answer the question everyone is asking: Who was running the government the last four years?”

Blaze News reached out to the DOJ for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Schiff also did not respond to a question about whether he would mind losing his pardon, given that he indicated in December he didn’t want it in the first place.

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In early March, the Oversight Project revealed that Biden’s signature on numerous pardons, executive orders, and other documents of national consequence was likely machine-generated.

The watchdog group later confirmed “the same exact Biden autopen signature” was used on the pardons for Fauci, Milley, and members of the Jan. 6 committee, as well as on the pardons for several members of Biden’s family who were apparently involved in dodgy foreign deals with the former president and his felonious son Hunter Biden.

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Biden’s cognitive decline was already enough for Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) and others to question the legal legitimacy of pardons bearing his machine-printed signature; however, suspicions about the validity of the documents was compounded by reports of staffers and family members making decisions on Biden’s behalf; evidence that his signature appeared on documents while he was on vacation; Biden’s alleged admission to having no recollection of a consequential January 2024 order to pause decisions on exports of liquefied natural gas; and a former Biden aide’s claim to the New York Post that a key staffer, who was not named, was suspected of unilaterally making decisions to sign documents as the former president’s mental faculties declined.

“The prolific use of autopen by the Biden White House was an instrument to hide the truth from the American people as to who was running the government,” Howell
told Blaze News at the time.

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President Donald Trump soon weighed in on the autopen controversy, declaring in a March 17 post on Truth Social that the “‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!”

“The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden,” continue Trump. “He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level.”

Martin suggested Tuesday that while the mere use of autopen is itself not necessarily an issue, “No one, I think, with the standard of … reasonableness thinks that what Joe Biden did at the end of his term was particularly reasonable.”

“There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people,” continued Martin. “And if they can be charged, we’ll charge them. But if they can’t be charged, we will name them. … And in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are shamed. And that’s a fact. That’s the way things work, and so that’s how I believe the job operates.”

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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will be lifting sanctions on Syria as he kicks off his tour in the Middle East.

After the fall of the Assad regime in December, Syria’s new leaders, like President Ahmed al-Sharaa, hoped America would loosen its grip and lift the sanctions. After Trump announced the sanctions would be lifted, he met with al-Sharaa and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, with President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey joining them over the phone.

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‘When Syria is contemplating its future under new leadership, we should want a seat at the table.’

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During the meeting, Trump urged the leaders to sign onto the Abraham Accords with Israel in an attempt to inch toward peace in the Middle East. Trump also insisted they tell foreign terrorists to leave Syria, to deport Palestinian terrorists, to assist the United States and prevent the resurgence of ISIS, and to take responsibility for the ISIS detention centers in northeastern Syria.

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“Syria, they’ve had their share of travesty, war, killing in many years,” Trump said. “That’s why my administration has taken the first steps toward restoring normal relations between the United States and Syria for the first time in more than a decade.”

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“The sanctions were brutal and crippling and served as an important, really an important function, nevertheless, at the time,” Trump added. “But now it’s their time to shine. So I say, ‘Good luck, Syria.’ Show us something very special.”

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The United States has designated Syria as a terrorist state for decades. But under the new leadership, some lawmakers like Republican Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana said Syria is potentially shaping up to become a key ally.

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“When Syria is contemplating its future under new leadership, we should want a seat at the table,” Stutzman, who met with al-Sharaa in April, told Blaze News. “President al-Sharaa has welcomed the West, allowed women into his Cabinet, and even recognized Israel as a sovereign nation.”

“President Trump should be meeting with him not only to help Syria be prosperous, but also to weaken the influence of Russia and China and create another ally and trade partner in the region,” Stutzman added.

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Karmelo Anthony — the Texas high school senior charged with murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet last month — will graduate from Centennial High School and receive his diploma but won’t participate in commencement activities, WFAA-TV reported, citing the Next Generation Action Network, an organization advocating for Anthony.

Police arrested Anthony and charged him with first-degree murder after Metcalf was fatally stabbed April 2 at Kuykendall Stadium. Anthony has been on house arrest since his April 14 release from jail, when a judge lowered his bond from $1 million to $250,000. Days later, Anthony reportedly was moved to an undisclosed location after court approval over an “alarming increase in death threats.”

‘I want to be clear. No student who commits a serious criminal offense (Title V felony) is permitted to participate in the graduation ceremony.’

The NGAN in a news release said Anthony’s family reached an agreement with the Frisco Independent School District in which Anthony can graduate without having to attend the final six weeks of classes, after having completed the necessary credits, WFAA reported. However, Anthony won’t “participate in any senior graduation activities,” the station said, citing the release.

Dominique Alexander, the president of NGAN, called Anthony’s graduation “a moment of dignity for Karmelo and a reminder of the power of advocacy done right,” WFAA said.

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Alexander made headlines when he called Jeff Metcalf — the father of murder victim Austin Metcalf — “disrespectful” for showing up at an April 17 news conference for the Anthony family. After Dallas police were called to the news conference, Jeff Metcalf was seen departing the venue.

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Alexander told those gathered at the news conference that Metcalf “was not invited,” that “he knows that it’s inappropriate to be near [the Anthony] family,” and that his presence at the news conference not only “shows you all” his “character” but was also “a disrespect to the dignity of his son.”

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Alexander also ripped the Frisco ISD at the news conference, claiming district officials were intending to expel Anthony prior to graduation.

The Frisco ISD at the time provided Blaze News with the following statement when asked to comment on Alexander’s claim that the district intended to expel Anthony:

While Frisco ISD cannot comment on an individual student’s disciplinary record due to student privacy law, we can provide general information about District protocol and relevant law.

If a student in Frisco ISD is charged with a serious crime, called a Title V felony, the District looks at the case and decides if the student should be disciplined. The student and their parents will get a letter explaining what the school recommends.

If the school recommends expulsion, which means the student is removed from school, the student is not allowed to go on any Frisco ISD property while the decision is being made. A meeting will be held where the student can share their side of the story and show any evidence. After the meeting, the District will decide whether to go through with the expulsion and will let the student and parents know.

If the student is expelled, they might still get schoolwork and education through a special program called JJAEP. If the student has already finished everything needed to graduate, the district may let them graduate early instead of going to JJAEP. Whether the student is expelled or chooses to graduate early, they still can’t go on any Frisco ISD property.

WFAA said the school district gave much the same response — citing privacy laws — in regard to the NGAN’s insistence that Anthony will graduate and receive his diploma.

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However, Frisco ISD Superintendent Mike Waldrip wrote an email to Centennial High School staff, students, and families that some news outlets falsely reported that Anthony would walk the stage on graduation day, WFAA said.

“Frisco ISD has learned that misinformation is being shared regarding Centennial High School’s graduation via several media outlets and perpetuated through social media. It is disheartening that the incredible accomplishments and achievements of our Centennial seniors may be dampened by needless fear-mongering, attention-seeking, and media vitriol. Our students, staff, and community deserve better,” the letter stated, according to the station.

More from the letter, according to WFAA:

I want to be clear. No student who commits a serious criminal offense (Title V felony) is permitted to participate in the graduation ceremony. Additionally, anyone who trespasses on Frisco ISD property or at a District event will be subject to immediate removal and possible arrest by law enforcement.

Frisco ISD does not condone violence or crime in our schools or at our events and will not reward or celebrate those who hurt others. We work to ensure every student is safe to learn and feels part of our culture of respect, honor, and integrity.

Let’s come together as a community to honor and support our students and staff. This moment is about their success, and they deserve our full attention and encouragement. Congratulations to the Centennial Class of 2025!

Soon after the April 2 stabbing, the arresting officer said Anthony reportedly told him, “I was protecting myself,” before the officer questioned him about the incident, WFAA reported, citing the arrest affidavit.

Anthony also reportedly told the officer that Metcalf “put his hands on [him],” the station said, citing the affidavit, after which Anthony was handcuffed.

The arresting officer soon told a fellow officer arriving on the scene that he had the alleged suspect — and Anthony reportedly interjected, “I’m not alleged; I did it,” WFAA reported.

A witness reportedly noted to police that Metcalf — an athlete for Memorial High School — told Anthony he had to move from under his team’s tent, the station said, citing the affidavit. With that, Anthony opened his bag and reached inside, the witness told police, WFAA said.

“Touch me and see what happens,” Anthony told Metcalf, the station added, citing a witness.

Metcalf reportedly touched Anthony, the witness told an officer, and Anthony told Metcalf to punch him and see what would happen, WFAA reported.

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The witness said Metcalf then reportedly grabbed Anthony, after which Anthony reportedly pulled out what the witness recalled as a black knife and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest before running away, according to the station, citing the affidavit.

Metcalf reportedly grabbed his chest and told others to get help, the witness told police, according to WFAA.

While Anthony was in the back seat of a police vehicle, an officer saw fresh blood on his left middle finger, the station said, citing the affidavit.

WFAA, citing the document, said that while Anthony was in the back seat of the vehicle, he also reportedly asked the officer if Metcalf was going to be OK. While being escorted to the squad car, Anthony asked an officer if his actions could be considered self-defense.

A GiveSendGo fund for Anthony sits at nearly $529,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.

Anthony’s father contended in an interview with the New York Post that “everyone has already made their assumptions about my son, but he’s not what they’re making him out to be.” Anthony’s father added to the paper that his son “was not the aggressor” and is “a good kid. He works two jobs. He’s an A student, has a 3.7 GPA.”

You can view a video report here on the case’s latest developments.

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