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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote. Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Rubio Announces Major State Dept Reorganization  The Trump administration is reorganizing the State Department to eliminate offices it considers redundant and cut some programs it says do not align with U.S. interests, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday. "This approach will empower the Department from the ground up, from the bureaus to the embassies," Rubio said in a statement, describing the moves as part of President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda. "Region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality, redundant offices will be removed, and non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America’s core national interests will cease to exist," Rubio said. Trump’s education boss reveals greedy truth behind Biden’s student loan forgiveness: ‘They have profited massively’  President Trump’s education boss Linda McMahon has defended the administration’s decision to resume student loan debt collections — insisting that greedy colleges have “profited massively” from Biden-era forgiveness measures. The Department of Education announced Monday it would start recouping federal student repayments again from May 5 from the roughly 5.3 million borrowers who are currently in default on their loans. In a fiery Wall Street Journal op-ed addressing the move, the education secretary blamed the Biden administration and universities for making “empty promises to students while pocketing their loan dollars.” Vatican releases images of Pope Francis in open coffin for Confirmation of the Death of the Pontiff ceremony  The Vatican has released images of Pope Francis being laid out in an open coffin ahead of the special historic ceremony officially declaring his death. Francis died Monday after suffering a stroke that led to irreversible heart failure following a weeks-long hospitalization with pneumonia. He was 88. The pontiff’s body was placed in a simple, wooden, zinc-lined coffin late Monday, with Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo — the “chamberlain” who essentially acts as head of the Vatican between the end of a papacy and the start of the next — reading the official Confirmation of the Death of the Pontiff aloud in an intimate ceremony. A red ribbon and wax seal was also placed on the door of the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace, as well as the Chapel of Santa Marta, where he had lived. 7 Ways Pope Francis Radically Changed Catholicism
US Military to Detain Migrants at N.M. Border  U.S. Northern Command announced on Monday that the military had been authorized to "temporarily" detain and search for illegal migrants along a designated area of the southern border, referred to as the New Mexico National Defense Area (NMNDA). Earlier this month, President Donald Trump issued a memo authorizing the military to conduct operations on "federal lands along the southern border."
Elizabeth Warren squirms when pressed about defending Biden's mental fitness in podcast interview Warren previously claimed Biden was mentally sharp and 'knows what he's talking about'  Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren struggled to defend her past praise of President Joe Biden’s "sharp" mind in a new interview, equivocating that she believed it at the time. Warren appeared on the "Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" podcast on Sunday where the left-leaning host asked whether she regretted saying Biden "had a sharpness to him" up until he dropped out of the 2024 presidential election. "I said what I believed to be true," Warren said. "You think he was as sharp as you?" Fragoso pushed back. Warren gave a long pause where she appeared to hold back a laugh at the question. Trump Wins Another Supreme Court Ruling  An appeals court recently ruled that two federal agency board members, Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, will be reinstated after being fired by President Donald Trump. However, the Supreme Court intervened and allowed the Trump administration to remove the two board members. Both women have challenged their dismissals in lawsuits, claiming violations of federal law. The appeals court’s 7-4 decision initially reversed an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel that allowed their firings. Dems fume over 'due process' for Abrego Garcia despite long history of party bucking the legal principle 'I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison,' then-House Speaker Pelosi reportedly said about Trump  Theres no question that Abrego Garcia had due process repeatedly, GOP lawmaker says Democrats are facing pushback as they continue to call for due process for illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia after years of seemingly ignoring due process for their political rivals. During the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election and the first Trump term, many Democrats called for President Donald Trump to be put in jail despite only facing allegations of impropriety at the time. "He needs to be imprisoned & placed in solitary confinement," Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters said in October 2019. "But for now, impeachment is the imperative." "I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison," then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly told fellow Democrats in 2019, according to Politico. New Ceasefire Proposal Presented to Hamas in Cairo Talks  Qatari and Egyptian mediators have presented a new ceasefire framework to Hamas, including a multi-year truce, the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian security prisoners and a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, according to a report on Monday. The plan, reported by the BBC, which cited a senior Palestinian source familiar with the negotiations, is said to include a truce lasting five to seven years and the establishment of a new governing authority in Gaza, potentially replacing Hamas. The terrorist organization, which has controlled the coastal enclave since its violent takeover in 2007, has signaled willingness to transfer authority to another Palestinian body approved on a "national and regional level," according to the BBC. Navy veteran suing Associated Press over Afghanistan story says 'smuggling' language implied criminal conduct  "Smuggling" could be the new "black market" in Bay County, Florida, if U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young’s defamation lawsuit against the Associated Press goes to trial. Young, who successfully sued CNN for defamation earlier this year, alleged that CNN smeared him by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan on the "black market" during the Biden administration's military withdrawal from the country in 2021. Throughout the CNN trial, Young’s legal team pointed out the term "black market" is typically used to describe illegal behavior. Pope Francis’ death puts major choice before his church Catholics, along with much of the rest of the world, are in mourning this week over the death of Pope Francis. He was indeed a deservedly beloved figure — one who cared deeply about the human condition, no matter what anyone might think about the course he prescribed. And now the Roman Catholic Church finds itself on the threshold of a momentous decision about the future direction of the faith. We wish it luck. Trump needs to make a trade deal FAST to calm the markets and prove his tariffs are working President Trump can prove his hefty, across-the-board tariffs are working — and calm the markets — by beginning to secure trade deals with nations soon. He’d best hop to it. Indeed, the clock is ticking: On Monday, the markets headed down steeply again, as fears of recession and inflation continue to loom. Clearly, the tariffs are driving the turmoil — not just on Wall Street but throughout the economy. Meanwhile, China is becoming increasingly aggressive. Its latest threat: It’ll retaliate against countries that work with Trump to limit or scrap tariffs on goods they ship to America. The risk is that Trump’s trade war with China can morph into a full-fledged cold war. |
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