Article Title: Even CNN Has to Acknowledge Power of the Huge Trump Rally in Bronx and Problem for Dems
Snippet of Article: "...It looks like CNN just might have been a bit unhappy on Thursday. They were forced to talk about the huge Trump rally in the South Bronx because everyone else was talking about it. Thousands turned out, exceeding the 3500 anticipated. The campaign estimated it was 25,000. ..."
Article Title: Catholic group sues Biden administration for denying permit for Memorial Day mass: 'Way out of line'
Snippet of Article: "The Knights of Columbus' Memorial Day mass has a longstanding tradition dating back 60 years...A Catholic service organization has sued the Biden administration for religious discrimination after it was stopped from holding its longstanding Memorial Day mass at a national cemetery. ...a blatant violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)," McGuireWoods partner John Moran, who is suing the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (NPS) on behalf of the Knights, said in a press release. "
Article Title: Biden currently not slated to be on Ohio ballot in November, and state lawmakers didn't bother to fix issue
Snippet of Article: "...President Joe Biden is not slated to be on the Ohio ballot this November, and the state legislature did not remedy the situation before adjourning.
Ohio law requires both parties to certify their nominees for president and vice president 90 days before Election Day, which falls on November 5 this election cycle. The problem for the Biden camp is that the scheduling for the Democratic National Convention (scheduled to be held August 19 to 22, 2024) is such that Biden will not be officially nominated by his party until August 22, just 75 days before Election Day. ..."
Article Title: Stefanik Statement on Corrupt NY Judge Overseeing Sham Case Against Trump Receiving "Caution" for Breaking Judicial Conduct Code
Snippet of Article: "...Today, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik released the following statement regarding corrupt Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan receiving a "caution" from the Commission on Judicial Conduct for clearly violating the rules on prohibited political activity by contributing to Joe Biden’s campaign:
“Democrat Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan, who donated to Biden and whose adult daughter is raising millions from Merchan’s unprecedented trial of President Trump, knows he must recuse under New York statute. And the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct just reprimanded Merchan for his inappropriate political donations in 2020. America is starting to understand Merchan is a corrupt judge, presiding over blatant Biden Democrat lawfare and election interference against Trump —- that is lining his family’s pockets. Merchan has disgraced our justice system in New York.”..."
Article Title: Biden speeds up asylum process for migrants headed to these 5 cities
Snippet of Article: "...Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that a new Recent Arrivals (RA) Docket will swiftly place single adults before immigration judges in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City.
Those asylum claims must be resolved within 180 days, though grace periods would be granted in some circumstances for migrants to obtain the necessary legal representation. ..."
Article Title: Biden's big inflation problem: Prices are now up nearly 20% since he took office
Snippet of Article: "...Inflation cooled slightly in April, but even the slower price increases revealed this week still added to a tally that is perhaps the Biden campaign's most intractable economic challenge in the 2024 campaign season.
Prices as measured by the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) are now up over 19.4% in the three-plus years since Biden took office...."
Article Title: First Trump-Biden Debate Could Come as Early as June
Snippet of Article: "In a Truth Social post on Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump quickly agreed to the two dates proposed by the Biden campaign, although it was unclear whether he would agree to Mr. Biden’s other terms. ...It is the first formal offer by the Biden campaign for debates with Mr. Trump, who has declared repeatedly that he will debate his successor “anytime and anywhere,” and has demanded as many debates as possible. Mr. Biden recently indicated he would debate Mr. Trump, but had until now declined to give any firm commitment or specific details. ..."
Article Title: House Democrats call on Biden to ‘restore order’ on the border
Snippet of Article: "...Over a dozen vulnerable House Democrats this election cycle wrote President Biden to take executive action on the southern border with Mexico.
According to Tuesday’s letter, first obtained by CBS News, 15 lawmakers from Minnesota, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Michigan, among other states, asked Mr. Biden to “immediately take further action to restore order at the Southern border and fix our broken immigration system.”..."
Article Title: Musk says illegal immigration crisis is contributing to lack of affordable housing in US
Snippet of Article: "...Billionaire Elon Musk weighed in on the economic impacts of illegal immigration in a series of posts on social media as he criticized the Biden administration's handling of the border crisis. Musk took to X to call out a variety of services and benefits that illegal immigrants have access to in the U.S. and argue they're contributing to the housing affordability crisis. A few other things you probably don't know: illegals in America can get bank loans, mortgages, insurance, driver's licenses, free healthcare (California, New York) and in-state college tuition, Musk wrote. What's the point of being a citizen if an illegal gets all the benefits, but doesn't pay taxes or do jury duty? If you're wondering why housing is so expensive, this is a major contributor..."
Article Title: What You Need to Know Ahead of Wednesday's Much Anticipated CPI Inflation Report
Snippet of Article: "...The cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index likely rose 3.4% over the year in April, down from a 3.5% increase in March according to a survey of forecasters ...Economists found reason for optimism at used car auctions, where wholesale prices fell 2.3% in April, for a 14% year-over-year decline according to data provider Mannheim. ..."
Article Title: Equal COLA Act Needed as Federal Retirees Continue to Get Different COLA Rates
Snippet of Article: "...Under current law, the COLAs for Social Security, CSRS, and FERS are all calculated based on the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). If CPI is 2% or less, the FERS COLA is the same as the CSRS and Social Security COLA. But if the CPI is between 2.01% and 3%, the FERS COLA is 2%. If the CPI is greater than 3%, then the COLA for FERS is 1% less than the CSRS COLA. ..."
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Snippet of Article: "...President Joe Biden's Department of Veterans Affairs is offering race-based training programs and workshops that exclude white veterans—programs that one legal expert says are "of dubious constitutionality and legality."
The programs are taking place in at least four states, a Washington Free Beacon review of online offerings found. ..."
Article Title: VA Executives Received $10.8 Million in Improper Bonuses Under PACT Act, Watchdog Finds
Snippet of Article: "...The Department of Veterans Affairs paid senior executives at its headquarters $10.8 million in incentive bonuses last year -- funding meant to keep employees in critically understaffed positions -- and now it faces issues recouping the money, the department's top watchdog said in a report Thursday.
The amount is $1 million more than the department acknowledged last September when Secretary Denis McDonough said 170 senior executives at the VA's Central Office in Washington, D.C., erroneously received $9.7 million in bonuses under a retention bonus program authorized by the PACT Act...."
Article Title: Biden donors rage over his pledge to pause weapon shipments to Israel: 'Bad, bad, bad decision'
Snippet of Article: "...Biden megadonor Haim Saban wrote senior Biden staffers an email blasting the president for pledging to withhold bomb shipments to Israel..."
Article Title: Consumer Sentiment Drops to 6-Month Low on Inflation, Unemployment Fears
Snippet of Article: "...U.S. consumer sentiment fell sharply in May to the lowest level in six months as Americans cited stubbornly high inflation and interest rates, as well as fears that unemployment could rise.
The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday in a preliminary version, dropped to 67.4 this month..."
Article Title: Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signs bills to combat the reach of policies championed by "global elites."
Article Title: Speaker Johnson says meetings with Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘not a negotiation’ as she threatens to oust him
Snippet of Article: "The Georgia Republican vowed last week to force a vote to remove Mr Johnson from his role as Speaker. If Ms Greene triggers a privileged motion, the House will be forced to vote within 48 hours....Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans will need to choose ‘MAGA’ or ‘MUGA’ over Mike Johnson. ...Democrats say they would save Republican speaker amid possible effort to oust him..."
Article Title: NBC Only Evening Newscast To Cover Blocked U.S. Weapons Transfer To Israel
Snippet of Article: "...a blocked U.S. weapons transfer to Israel, as ceasefire negotiations appeared to be stalled and the invasion of Rafah appeared imminent. A full day later, no evening network newscast reported on this dramatic shift in U.S. policy towards Israel save for NBC Nightly News.
Even then, the report was sparse..."
Article Title: All the data so far is showing inflation isn’t going away, and is making things tough on the Fed
Snippet of Article: "...The last batch of inflation news that Federal Reserve officials will see before their policy meeting next week is in, and none of it is very good. ..."
Article Title: Pro-Hamas Students Reportedly Trained by Left-Wing Groups Nine Months Before College Protests
Snippet of Article: "...many of the pro-Hamas agitators have been consulting with groups such as National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network for up to nine months. The protestors were reportedly trained on how to encourage college students to join in on the demonstrations and planning such turbulent events.
The groups use social media to reach out to potential protestors and give them advice such as informing them to cover their faces.
Columbia University students attended a “teach-in” hosted by former members of the Black Panthers before the pro-Hamas protests who taught them how..."
Article Title: How the Fed weighs 'political risk' behind closed doors
Snippet of Article: "Jay Powell said this past week that pending elections don't get discussed at Federal Reserve meetings, challenging reporters to read the transcripts for themselves.
"I can't say it enough: We just don't go down that road," the Fed chair told reporters Wednesday... But political topics still came up repeatedly as Fed officials wrestled with decisions that affected the US economy.
The transcripts show central bank policymakers weighing both the possible economic impacts of political events — including elections and the coming of a new president — as well as the potential political reaction to their decisions. ...Throughout the seven meetings that Powell went on to chair in 2018, as one example, the term "political" was uttered 40 times, according to a search of the transcripts.
It came up as committee members discussed everything from then-President Trump's trade policy to..."
Article Title: Buffett's warning on AI: 'That genie scares the hell out of me'
Snippet of Article: "He shared a personal experience with AI that had him shook.
"Fairly recently, I saw an image in front of my screen," he said. "It was me, and it was my voice and wearing the kind of clothes I wear. My wife or my daughter wouldn't have been able to detect any difference. And it was delivering a message that in no way it came from me."
He explained: "When you think about the potential for scamming people...disrupted by AI, Buffett noted the technology would affect "anything that’s labor sensitive"..."
Article Title: Israeli Army Warns to Evacuate Rafah Ahead of Expected Assault
Snippet of Article: "...The Israeli army Monday ordered tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza's southern city of Rafah to start evacuating from the area, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent. ..."
Article Title: A Look Inside the Pro-Palestine Protesters’ “Resistance Literature”
Snippet of Article: "...as previously reported, following the money reveals a direct pipeline leading from the groups behind the country’s largest protests all the way back to billionaire globalist financier George Soros and other left-wing dark money entities. Analysis of financial transactions, donations, and incorporations provided by InfluenceWatch reveals a clear path linking the donors and the protesters.
With a net worth estimated at $6.7 billion, Soros funnels contributions into the Open Society Foundations, the political action arm of his global influence empire. The OSF pours money into the Tides Foundation, a nonprofit umbrella group that shelters smaller activist groups. Tides in turn donates to another nonprofit group called the Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC) which provides logistical support for leftist groups. ..."
Article Title: DHS docs reveal where paroled migrants under controversial Biden flight program are landing
Snippet of Article: "...hundreds of thousands of migrants have flown into via a controversial parole program for four nationalities — with the vast majority entering the U.S. via airports in Florida.
During an eight-month period from January through August 2023, roughly 200,000 migrants flew into the U.S. via the program. Of those, 80% of them, (161,562) arrived in the state of Florida in four cities: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa Bay, according to DHS data obtained via a subpoena by the House Homeland Security Committee..."
Article Title: US labor market slowed notably in April | Hiring and wage growth slowed, and the unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped
Snippet of Article: "both hiring and wage growth slowed more than economists had expected in April. ...unemployment rate rose to 3.9% last month, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...Wages also rose less than forecast...Friday's report also showed February's job growth revised down — to a gain of 236,000 nonfarm payroll jobs from the 270,000 previously reported"
Article Title: Pro-Hamas Biden administration considers accepting Gazan refugees from Israel-Hamas war: report
Snippet of Article: "...is to tap into the United States Refugee Admissions Program to grant refugee status to those who escaped the Gaza Strip into Egypt, CBS News reported, citing documents. ...US officials have reportedly been considering various arrangements to that effect and multiple federal agencies are involved with the plans. ...Refugee status provides individuals the ability to gain permanent residence in the US, an avenue towards citizenship, and financial assistance.
Such a policy would mark a dramatic shift for the US refugee program, which has generally not permitted Palestinians into the country en masse. "
Article Title: Iranian Prof. Says US College Protesters Are 'Our People,' Would 'Take to the Streets to Support Iran'
Snippet of Article: "...Tehran University Professor Foad Izadi said that Iranian leaders are enjoying watching the chaotic pro-Hamas protests engulfing so many of our college and university campuses. He added, chillingly, that the demonstrators could be counted on to be on Iran’s side should conflict between the two countries erupt. ..."
Article Title: Antisemitic mob ramps up violence to seize control of Columbia dean's building, fortifying doors with barriers
Snippet of Article: "...students are demanding that Columbia divest its financial support of Israel, become more transparent and provide blanket amnesty to the protesters..."
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