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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 Trump Vows '1 Rule' AI Order to Stay Ahead of World  President Donald Trump is striking back after what he calls overzealous "bad actor" states that have been crippling the artificial intelligence boom in the U.S. with restrictions, obstruction, and oppressive regulations, vowing to impose a federal order of "One Rule" on AI. "There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI," Trump wrote Monday morning on Truth Social. "We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won't last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS. Democrats, who once lambasted Trump on immigration, now grow quiet  When President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban from several Muslim-majority countries in 2017, Democratic advocates and lawmakers raced to airports across the country to protest. They held news conferences and visited detention centers the following year when Trump began separating migrant children from their parents. Trump has unleashed even more draconian immigration policies in his second term that have amounted to the harshest crackdown on immigrants since World War II. But Democrats have not mounted the same unified and visible pushback, even as Trump has halted immigration applications from 19 countries, deployed federal agents into minority communities and called Somali immigrants “garbage.” “The targeting of immigrants, the targeting of Muslim communities — we’ve seen this rhetoric climb over the past several months and I anticipate it getting worse,” said Abdullah Hammoud, the Democratic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, an Arab-majority city where Trump has deployed federal agents in recent weeks. US Envoy Howery Meets Greenland Officials Amid Trump's Interest in Island  The new U.S. ambassador to Denmark, PayPal co-founder Kenneth Howery, will meet officials from Greenland and Denmark in Nuuk this week on his first visit to the Arctic island, amid tensions over President Donald Trump's interest in acquiring the semi-autonomous territory. Relations between Denmark and its longtime ally, the United States, have been strained since Trump revived talk of wresting Greenland away from Denmark. "Excited to be in Greenland for the annual Joint Committee meeting between the U.S. and Greenland with Denmark," the U.S. embassy said Monday on Instagram, posting a photo of Howery with Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt.
‘Disappointed’ Trump declared Zelensky ‘hasn’t yet read’ peace proposal — as prez’s son suggests he may walk away from Ukraine  President Trump cast doubt on whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to back the latest peace proposal — as his son warned that the commander-in-chief may grow impatient and walk away from Ukraine. “I have to say that I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago,” Trump told reporters before becoming the first president ever to host the ritzy Kennedy Center Honors. “His people love it, but he hasn’t. Russia’s fine with it.” Last month, US and Ukrainian negotiators hashed out a 19-point peace plan that included several provisions that Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin promptly rejected. DC police chief resigns amid Trump pressure and crime data manipulation probe Dozens of officers claimed higher-ups instructed them to downgrade DC crimes  Washington, D.C., police chief Pamela Smith is resigning her position after just two and a half years on the job, she announced Monday. Smith has faced intense pressure from President Donald Trump's administration, which took over the Metropolitan Police Department earlier this year and deployed federal law enforcement throughout the city. "There comes a time when you just know it's time," Smith told Axios, which first reported her resignation. Trump critic Jasmine Crockett poised for Senate run in deep-red Texas Progressive Democrat expected to launch Senate campaign just hours before filing deadline in Texas  Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, the progressive firebrand and frequent foil of President Donald Trump, is expected to launch a U.S. Senate campaign on Monday, which is the deadline for candidates to file for the state's March 3 primary. Hours before Crockett — a rising star Democrat with a large social media imprint who represents a Dallas area district — was to hold an event announcing her decision, one of the two Democrats already running for the Senate abandoned his bid. Former Rep. Colin Allred, who was making his second straight bid for the Senate in right-leaning Texas, announced he was ending his campaign and instead would launch a congressional campaign as he seeks to return to the House. But Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, a former middle school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, remains in the Senate primary, setting up a likely face-off between two surging contenders with formidable fundraising. Trump warns Netflix-Warner deal may pose antitrust 'problem'  US President Donald Trump raised potential antitrust concerns around Netflix Inc.’s planned $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., noting that the market share of the combined entity may pose problems. Trump’s comments, made as he arrived at the Kennedy Center for an event on Sunday, may spur concerns regulators will oppose the coupling of the world’s dominant streaming service with a Hollywood icon. The company faces a lengthy Justice Department review of a deal that would reshape the entertainment industry. “Well, that’s got to go through a process, and we’ll see what happens,” Trump said when asked about the deal, confirming he met Netflix co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos recently. “But it is a big market share. It could be a problem.” Bets on prediction marketplace Polymarket showed a 23% chance of Netflix closing the acquisition by the end of 2026, down from around 60% just before Trump’s comments. Warner Bros. shares were down less than 1% to $25.86 on Monday morning in premarket trading in New York. That’s less than Netflix’s offer of $27.75 a share. Warner Bros. will spin off its cable networks division into a separate company before concluding the sale of its Hollywood studios business and HBO to Netflix. Biden was warned his soft-on-immigration proposals would cause ‘chaos’ — but he ignored it, damning memo reveals  President Joe Biden was warned by advisers that his immigration plans could lead to “chaos” at the US border — but he ignored them, a newly uncovered memo reveals. His team doled out the advice to Biden when he was still campaigning against President Trump back in 2020, the New York Times reported. “A potential surge could create chaos and a humanitarian crisis, overwhelm processing capacities and imperil the agenda of the new administration,” Biden’s advisers wrote. The memo warned that a huge influx was possible given Biden’s approach. Biden’s supercharged federal contracting pipeline targeted for freeze after bribery bust, undercover sting Small Business Committee chair points to Justice Department bust involving $550M in taxpayer contracts  Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who chairs the Senate Small Business Committee, is urging 24 federal agencies to halt funding for a Biden-expanded program for "socially and economically disadvantaged" business owners now under fire for alleged fraud and corruption, Fox News Digital has learned. "Despite concerns with the 8(a) program, Joe Biden opened the floodgates to fraud," Ernst told Fox News Digital about the program. "I have found evidence of alarming, potentially fraudulent 8(a) awards made across government that need to be investigated. The program must be halted at every agency while a thorough review is conducted to ensure taxpayers are not being ripped off by con artists. Tax dollars designed to help small businesses must actually benefit all small businesses." CAIR Action Runs 'Unlicensed' Political Operation  The political advocacy arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is "operating entirely outside the regulatory framework Congress requires," and its foreign-linked ties "warrant immediate federal scrutiny," according to a nonpartisan watchdog. A new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute, produced with the Intelligent Advocacy Network, alleges CAIR Action, a 501(c)(4), has built a nationwide political fundraising and voter-mobilization operation while failing to meet state and local registration requirements in the jurisdictions where it operates. In its "bottom line up front," the NCRI report claims CAIR Action raises money or conducts political activity in 22 states without the "licenses, registrations, or legal authority" required under state solicitation and reporting laws. Notre Dame opts out of bowl game after getting 'punched in the stomach' by CFP  Snubbed by the College Football Playoff, Notre Dame snubbed its nose at a second-tier bowl game. The ninth-ranked Fighting Irish responded to getting dropped in the CFP rankings for the second consecutive week by turning down an invitation to play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando, Florida. “Overwhelming shock and sadness," Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua told Yahoo Sports. “Like a collective feeling that we were all just punched in the stomach.” Although boycotting a bowl might be the exact reaction that many Notre Dame fans wanted, it can't help the long-term viability of non-playoff bowl games. Team Trump rightly calls out Europe’s civilizational suicide — let’s hope it’s not too late If nothing else, President Trump’s new national security strategy tells some hard truths about our European friends: They are indeed facing “civilizational erasure.” It’s not just that Western Europe’s economies have barely grown these last 20 years, nor that birth rates are far below replacement while immigration is transforming politics and culture; it’s also that the continent’s elites are focused not on fixing any of this, but on suppressing dissent about the policies that are destroying these nations. “We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation,” the document implores. That regulation has kept the European Union from enjoying any high-tech-centered economic growth, while also crippling traditional manufacturing and so on with lunatic “net zero” policies that have sent energy costs soaring even as they leave Europe dependent on Russian fuel exports that fund the Moscow war machine that EU leaders rightly fear. America has to respond with a united front to China’s massive economic warfare Since Xi Jinping took power, China has increased its campaign of intellectual property theft China’s systematic and orchestrated campaign of intellectual property theft and technological advancement poses an unprecedented threat to America’s national security, demanding a comprehensive and urgent response. The United States, once undisputed in its technological prowess, now grapples with threats emerging from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agenda that are both insidious and far-reaching in terms of the threats to our national security. As the world enters an era defined by new forms of power, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and hypersonic weapons are at the forefront of U.S.-China competition. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence warned as far back as 2021 that, "China possesses the might, talent, and ambition to surpass the United States as the world’s leader in AI in the next decade," underscoring the urgency of this technological race. This danger stems not only from China’s relentless pursuit of American know-how and data — evidenced by high-profile cases such as the indictment of Chinese nationals for cyber-espionage against U.S. companies — but also from the uncomfortable reality that America has, to a significant extent, enabled this IP larceny through investments and insufficient controls. The consequences of such actions cannot be overstated; they reverberate through every facet of national security and economic competitiveness. |
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