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World & Nation
Trump: I 'Won't Be Extorted' by Democrats
President Donald Trump says he "won't be extorted" by Democrats to
reopen the government, making clear that he has no plans to negotiate
as the government shutdown will soon enter its sixth week.
In an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired on Sunday, Trump said
that Democrats who are demanding an extension in health care subsidies
"have lost their way" and predicted that they will eventually
capitulate to Republicans who have said they won't negotiate until they
vote to reopen the government.
"I think they have to," Trump said. "And if they don't vote, it's their problem."
Trump's comments signal that the shutdown could continue to drag on for
some time as federal workers, including air traffic controllers, are
set to miss additional paychecks and as there is uncertainty over
whether 42 million Americans who received federal food aid will be able
to access the assistance.
Government Shutdown Could Become Longest Ever
The government
shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse
between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month.
Millions of
people could lose food aid benefits, health care subsidies are set to
expire and there are few real talks between the parties over how to end
it.
President
Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that he “won't be
extorted” by Democrats who are demanding negotiations to extend the
Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year for
millions of Americans.
ZOA Calls on Heritage President to Retract Support for Tucker or Resign
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued a blistering statement
Monday demanding that Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts
either retract his support for former Fox News host Tucker Carlson or
resign, calling Roberts "unfit to lead" the influential conservative
think tank.
In a sharply worded release, ZOA President Morton A. Klein accused
Roberts of "whitewashing and allying" himself and the Heritage
Foundation with "Jew-hating Israel-basher Tucker Carlson."
The statement came in response to a recent video in which Roberts
defended Carlson following backlash over Carlson's fawning interview
with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi
sympathizer.
In the video, Roberts praised Carlson as "a close friend of the
Heritage Foundation" and criticized what he called a "venomous
coalition" of critics attacking Carlson and Fuentes.
Here’s where big Wall Street firms are moving as NYC looks poised to elect a socialist mayor
As Wall Street faces the prospect of left-wing firebrand Zohran Mamdani
becoming the city’s next mayor, a fast-growing business hub down south
is beckoning.
Dallas — whose grab bag of major business moguls has included Ross
Perot, Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones — has more recently become a major
draw for big financial firms that were born and raised in the Big Apple.
Goldman Sachs is building an 800,000-square-foot, $500 million campus
in Dallas. It’s set to open in 2028 and consolidate over 5,000
employees. Last year, the mega bank hired Robert Kaplan, the former
president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as its vice chairman.
Meanwhile, JPMorgan Chase now employs 31,000 in Texas — more than its
24,000 staffers in New York. That’s despite the fact that the bank just
opened a $3 billion Park Avenue headquarters designed by British
superstar architect Norman Foster.
Antisemitism watchdog issues scathing ‘alarm bell’ report on Mamdani as NYC election nears
Mamdani holds a commanding lead in the polls heading into Tuesday's election
Fox News Digital exclusively spoke with the antisemitism research
institute that released an 11th hour comprehensive report that
summarized its concerns about New York City socialist mayoral candidate
Zohran Mamdani. With just hours to go before Election Day, the report
underscores the heightened scrutiny facing the socialist nominee.
"It is incumbent on voters to understand the ideological context that
Zohran Mamdani comes from and espouses," said Charles Asher Small,
founding director of The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism
and Policy (ISGAP), told Fox News Digital.
His organization’s report, titled, "Zohran Mamdani: From SJP to Gracie
Mansion?," dives into Mamdani’s background and rise to prominence. It
explains the controversial views of his father, a professor at Columbia
University, on Israel, as well as how Zohran founded the Students for
Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College, his past statements
and positions, and lists the anti-Israel individuals who endorse him
for mayor.
Obama Refuses to Endorse Mamdani
Former
President Barack Obama declined to endorse New York mayoral
front-runner Zohran Mamdani, the New York Post reported on Sunday.
Obama was in
nearby Newark to campaign for New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie
Sherrill over the weekend, ahead of Tuesday's election, but did not
come to New York City to do the same for Mamdani, though he spoke with
him on the phone.
Mamdani
campaign adviser Patrick Gaspard, who served as director of the White
House Office of Political Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to South Africa
under Obama, downplayed his lack of endorsement, telling the Post that
"President Obama doesn't endorse in local races. That's a longstanding
rule post-presidency. He endorses in general election races for federal
office and governors. His call to Zohran is a huge boost at a critical
moment and a signal to New Yorkers."
California farmers push back on Prop 50 as Democrats eye new House map
California farmers have largely come out against Prop 50 out of fears changing district lines will weaken rural vote
California voters are in the final days of a special election that
could help determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives in
2026. The ballot measure, known as Proposition 50, would allow state
lawmakers to temporarily redraw California’s congressional map — a move
Democrats say could help them pick up additional seats in Congress.
Jenny Holtermann, a fourth-generation farmer in California's Central
Valley, said that under the proposed map, she would remain in a
Republican district, but worries about the changes could affect her
community.
"It really is, it’s sad that they are really carving out those
Republican areas of the district and moving them to really make the
areas more Democrat, and that’s not what the Central Valley is,"
Holtermann told Fox.
Beyond Central Valley farmers, the California Farm Bureau has also come
out against Prop 50. Holtermann said she’s used to larger cities having
more political influence in Sacramento but fears the measure would
further silence rural voices.
Bari Weiss’ security detail costs CBS $10,000 a day as network undergoes layoffs
At the same time that CBS is being slammed with layoffs, an awkward
number is circulating around the halls of the Tiffany Network.
Page Six hears that as staffers watch their colleagues pack up their
desks, they’re also learning that the security detail for new CBSNews
boss Bari Weiss costs the company five figures every day. Insiders tell
us that eight bodyguards surround the Free Press founder at all times,
and she’s shuttled around in a caravan of SUVs, much like the president
and vice president.
And we’re told that the Bari Barrier costs $10,000 daily. The figure
for the unprecedented detail would be eye-catching enough. But the leak
comes as the struggling network lost 100 staffers in a bloodbath, which
has affected those at every level of the storied news organization
right up to Lisa Ling — the onetime “The View” co-host who announced
last week that she’s been let go as a contributor.
Ukraine Gets More Patriot Systems to Counter Russian Attacks
Ukraine has
received more American-made Patriot air defense systems to help it
counter Russia’s daily barrages, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as
Russian drones killed a man and injured five of his family members,
including two children, in the latest nighttime attack.
Russia’s
relentless pounding of urban areas behind the front line following its
full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago has killed
thousands of civilians.
It has also
targeted the energy supply to deny civilians heat and running water in
winter, as well as disrupt industrial production of Ukraine’s newly
developed drones and missiles.
John Brennan’s unhinged blowup over ‘Dirty 51’ letter, Hunter Biden laptop shows he’s worried
By Miranda Devine
It was satisfying to see former CIA Director John Brennan lose his cool
when he was cornered in his comfortable lair among cronies in Virginia
last week about his various plots against Donald Trump.
Brennan was basking in the adulation of friends and assorted gullible
future spooks as he sat on stage as part of an intelligence panel at
the Hayden Center at George Mason University outside Washington, DC,
Thursday night.
But his smug demeanor cracked when he was confronted by whistleblower Thomas Speciale during audience question time.
Speciale asked Brennan why he overrode objections from CIA Moscow
specialists to force the discredited and perverted Steele dossier into
the 2017 intelligence assessment that launched the Russiagate scheme to
frame Trump as a Russian asset.
Their plan was a flood of illegal immigration. Our answer is an immigration moratorium
Kentucky Senate candidate criticizes both parties for decades of failed border policies
President Joe
Biden's decision to allow the free flow of illegal immigration into our
country has resulted in 20 million illegal immigrants living in the
United States. We knew nothing about these people. We didn’t know where
they came from or why they were here.
Now Americans
are forced to compete even more with illegal immigrants for jobs and
housing, to have their children share our classrooms, to wait longer at
the hospital, and to even have their lawfully earned, government-funded
benefits depleted because of them.
Why? All because career politicians either turned a blind eye to it, or, as I suspect, more insidiously cheered it on.
