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World & Nation
Trump: Tariffs Could Mean $2K Dividend for Americans
As the country awaits a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of Donald
Trump's global tariffs, the president said he's considering paying
Americans a dividend with the revenue.
Trump told One America News on Thursday he's contemplating giving Americans up to $2,000 in rebates derived from the tariffs.
After saying the tariffs have generated enough money to cut the U.S.
deficit in half, Trump was asked how the additional revenue would be
used.
White House Freezes $2.1B in Chicago Projects
The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago
infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget
Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led
city during the U.S. government shutdown.
Vought said $2.1 billion for major Chicago subway projects — the Red
Line Extension and the Red and Purple Modernization Project "have been
put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based
contracting."
On Wednesday, Vought said the Trump administration had frozen $18
billion for major transit projects in New York, including the Hudson
Tunnel and the Second Avenue Subway, citing the same issue.
The outgoing administration of former president Joe Biden finalized a
nearly $2 billion award in its final days to help extend the Red Line
5.5 miles to connect Chicago Far South Side to the L system.
Portland police arrest conservative journalist on another night of chaotic anti-ICE clashes
Conservative journalist Nick Sortor 'was being targeted by Antifa' prior to arrest, another reporter says
Conservative journalist Nick Sortor was captured on video being taken
into custody in Portland, Oregon, during another night of chaotic
protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
facility.
The arrest came after the Portland Police Bureau said it was
"monitoring the protest during the evening and observed some protest
participants engaging in fights."
"The Post Millennial" investigative reporter Katie Daviscourt said on X
that police "announced they were making targeted arrests following
several scuffles," and that, "Sortor was being targeted by Antifa
shortly before."
"At about 8:09 p.m., PPB Dialogue Officers (DLOs) observed two men
fighting near the ICE building driveway. The DLOs called in additional
resources and officers were responding when the fight ended following
one participant being knocked to the ground. He did not lose
consciousness and never requested medical help," the Portland Police
Bureau said in a statement. "Both involved were detained by federal law
enforcement and were later released. Neither party indicated they
wanted to make a police report."
GOP rising star exposes how Biden admin was targeting him through controversial surveillance program
Sen Rand Paul says three GOP members of Congress were surveilled during the Biden years
Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., revealed to Fox News Digital that he is one
of three Republicans in Congress who was surveilled by the Biden
administration’s "Quiet Skies" program, a program that has been shut
down due to overreach concerns.
Earlier this week, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee Chair Rand Paul, R-Ky., convened a hearing examining alleged
Biden administration abuse of the program, which was terminated by DHS
in June, and revealed that three current Republican members of Congress
were surveilled or monitored either as a sitting member or while
seeking elected office.
"It sadly doesn't surprise me," Hamadeh explained. "At the time, if you
remember, I mean banks were shutting down accounts if they promoted
conservative viewpoints, if they were selling ammo or guns and the
banks were being pressured by the Biden administration. You had social
media companies censoring political voices that they didn't agree with.
So it shows you the depths that the federal government, how much sway
they have, not just within the bureaucracy of the government, but also
with private organizations and private actors as well."
Government shutdown sparks GOP plan to penalize lawmakers with new salary tax
Ohio Republican plans daily tax on Congress members as government closure enters 3rd day
A Senate Republican wants to ensure that lawmakers feel the pain in their wallets as the federal government shutdown drags on.
Members of Congress, unlike other federal employees, are guaranteed to
get paid during a government shutdown. But Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio,
wants to impose a tax on lawmakers that would eat away at their
paychecks.
Moreno plans to introduce the Stop Holding Up Taxpayers, Deny Wages On
Washington’s Negligence (SHUTDOWN) Act, which would create a new tax
specifically for lawmakers.
Apple removes ICE tracking apps from App Store over ‘safety risks’ to law enforcement
Apple removed ICEBlock and other Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) tracking apps from its store Thursday, citing law enforcement
concerns about the “safety risks” the apps posed.
The removal of the apps comes a week after a sniper opened fire at an
ICE facility in Dallas, killing two migrants and amid a wave of violent
protests against federal immigration authorities.
“We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps,” Apple said in a statement provided to The Post.
Police Bullet May Have Killed 1 of 2 Victims in Yom Kippur Attack
One of the two men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in
the city of Manchester on Yom Kippur appears to have been killed by a
bullet fired by a police officer as worshippers tried to stop the
attacker getting into the building, law enforcement authorities said
Friday.
Police said local residents Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66,
died in the attack on the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in the
Manchester suburb of Crumpsall on Thursday. Three other people are
hospitalized in serious condition.
Police shot and killed a suspect seven minutes after he rammed a car
into pedestrians outside the synagogue and then attacked them with a
knife. He wore what appeared to be an explosives belt, which was found
to be fake.
Israeli Strikes Kill 16 as Hamas Weighs Trump Peace Plan
Israel pressed its offensive in Gaza on Wednesday, with at least 16
Palestinians reported killed across the strip as the world awaited
Hamas' response to President Donald Trump's peace plan for the
embattled territory.
The dead included people who had sought refuge in a school sheltering
the displaced in Gaza City. Al-Falah school in the city's eastern
Zeitoun neighborhood was hit twice, minutes apart, according to
officials at Al-Ahli Hospital.
Among the casualties were first responders, they said. Five
Palestinians were killed later on Wednesday morning, when a strike hit
people gathered around a drinking water tank on the western side of
Gaza City, the same hospital said.
Dems shut down the government because they think it’s not going bankrupt fast enough
Democrats have shut down the federal government because they think the
federal debt isn’t spiraling out of control fast enough — they demand
the Republican majorities in Congress agree to spend more taxpayer cash
on Dems’ priorities.
Dems forced the shutdown by using the filibuster to prevent a Senate
floor vote that would’ve passed the House “stopgap” bill to fund
federal operations for another six weeks or so.
As their price just to allow a vote, Democrats demand roughly $1.5 trillion in added spending.
Despite their denials, a significant part of that is funding for health
coverage for illegal immigrants: Their own alternative bill spelled
that out, with language repealing recent GOP legislation that restricts
Medicaid coverage of such migrants.
The main category of federal Medicaid spending on “undocumented aliens”
jumped from $3 billion in 2023 to $9 billion in 2024; even more federal
cash flows indirectly to such care via various state accounting
gimmicks that the Biden administration winked at.
Five ways America can stop a new Cold War with China from turning hot
We must act with clarity, strength and unity to prevent a conflict
I just returned from China, where I was the Republican member on the first House delegation to visit since 2019.
Our bipartisan group met with Premier Li Qiang and senior officials to
press for dialogue on military-to-military communication, trade,
nuclear proliferation and fentanyl.
From the moment I landed, the atmosphere carried unmistakable echoes of
the Cold War. The security, the suspicion, the ideological rigidity —
it all felt like a throwback to the Soviet Union of the 1980s.
But, unlike the stagnant Soviet Union of the 1980s, China is still
rising. History teaches that when a growing power collides with an
established one, the risk of conflict grows. My former Harvard
professor, Graham Allison, calls this the "Thucydides Trap" — referring
to the military conflict the Greek historian chronicled between
established Sparta and rising Athens. Sparta won, but at devastating
cost.
