Bill Gates’s philanthropy holds tens of millions of dollars’ worth of stock in corporations the Department of Defense designated as “Chinese military companies,” according to a Washington Examiner analysis of tax records. The Gates Foundation Trust, the nonprofit organization responsible for managing the endowment of the Microsoft co-founder’s foundation, held nearly $60 million in equity […]
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has no intention of reducing the effective tariff rate on China, as Beijing requested, to advance trade negotiations. China is facing the steepest tariff rate from Trump’s administration. While other countries were granted a 90-day reprieve from so-called reciprocal tariffs last month, excluding a baseline 10% flat rate, […]
A new poll found that the majority of California residents believe Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s (D-CA) presidential ambitions are distracting from his gubernatorial duties. In a survey conducted by the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, 54% of registered state voters said Newsom is doing things that might benefit him as a presidential candidate. […]
Republican Jefferson Griffin has ended his legal battle over ballots in the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election, paving the way for his loss to incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs to be certified. Griffin announced Wednesday he would not appeal a federal district court’s Monday decision, which called for ballots he challenged to be counted and […]
Volvo Cars has announced that it will slash 5% of its workforce at its South Carolina plant on Wednesday in response to shifting trade policies, such as the recent tariffs implemented by the United States. The Charleston, South Carolina, factory will see around 125 of its 2,500 employees let go. The decision is because Volvo […]
A new bipartisan caucus focused on preserving public lands was announced on Capitol Hill Wednesday with a goal of fencing off millions of acres from a GOP-backed sell-off or overdevelopment. The “Public Lands Caucus” was created with the worthy hope of letting the public continue to hunt, fish, and romp freely on government lands. But […]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lambasted Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) for how she said he had “invited” criminal illegal immigrants to the state through sanctuary policies. Standing down the block from where 24-year-old Emma Shafer was allegedly killed in July 2023 by illegal immigrant Gabriel Calixto Pichardo, Noem and more than a dozen elected officials […]
The escalating conflict between India and Pakistan is a rare flashpoint of disagreement between the burgeoning alliance of China and Russia. With the two South Asian nuclear powers on the brink of war following India’s missile strikes against Pakistan, which it blamed for an Islamic terrorist attack in April, and Pakistan’s vow to retaliate, the […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci needs to come before Congress and answer to the public about the alleged decision to fund gain-of-function research and the truth behind the COVID-19 pandemic. “Ultimately, Dr. Fauci is gonna need to come back in and explain why he […]
The U.S.-Houthi ceasefire that President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday does not include the intensifying conflict between the Iranian-backed proxy and Israel. The U.S. military has hit more than a thousand targets across Yemen and lost two F-18 fighter aircraft at sea since it commenced its aerial campaign against the Houthis on March 15. Despite […]
