02 U.S. Politics

No, Immigration Courts Should Not Be ‘Independent’– thefederalist.com

pgnewser June 24, 2026 0

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If President Trump is still trying to weed out government workers who are threatening to undermine his agenda from within, he might want to take a look at one of his immigration judges named Holly D’Andrea.

In an interview with The New York Times (repackaged this week for The Daily podcast), D’Andrea said something that’s a dead giveaway when someone wants to thwart elections and impose their own agendas— that certain government institutions and agencies need independence from the president, or separation from the political process.

“We’re getting to a point now where it’s just getting more and more necessary to have that full separation of power and have the immigration courts separate from the Department of Justice,” D’Andrea said. “Take the policy influence away from the courts, so the courts can just enforce the law. That’s all any of the immigration judges want. We want to be able to enforce the law and not be subject to just the policies.”

What has Andy Burnham, Britain’s likely next prime minister, said about President Trump?– www.cbsnews.com

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London — Labour Party lawmaker Andy Burnham, who looks increasingly likely to be Britain’s next prime minister, has previously criticized President Trump, accusing the American leader of bringing “instability” to the world.

Current Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he would resign in the wake of disastrous local elections in May, and 20 resignations from his government.

As his Labour Party still has a large majority of seats in the U.K. parliament — won in the last national elections in 2024 — it gets to pick Starmer’s replacement, and Burnham is widely expected to get the job.

Karmelo Anthony fights conviction with new legal team after trial– www.foxnews.com

pgnewser June 24, 2026 0

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Jeff Metcalf, father of murdered 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, shares his perspective on the newly released evidence and the trial’s outcome. Metcalf criticizes the media for politicizing his son’s murder and turning it into a racial narrative, emphasizing the importance of character over race. He also discusses his family’s ongoing healing process and the profound impact on Austin’s twin brother.

“I had never seen those pictures, and I never want to see those pictures. I saw one, and it was, that was enough,” said Jeff Metcalf.

His son, Austin Metcalf, was 17 years old when he was murdered by Karmelo Anthony, who was convicted earlier this month of killing Metcalf.

Radical Anti-American Socialist Wins Primary in NYC to Unseat 5-Term Democrat Congressman– slaynews.com

pgnewser June 24, 2026 0

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A self-described socialist who previously called for abolishing police, seizing private property, eliminating borders, ending deportations, and nationalizing industries has defeated a five-term Democrat incumbent in New York City, marking another major victory for the growing far-left movement aligned with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old anti-American community organizer, doctoral student, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won Tuesday’s Democratic Party primary in New York’s 13th Congressional District.

According to election results, Chevalier secured roughly 49.4 percent of the vote, defeating Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), who received approximately 45.9 percent.

Tyler Metcalf’s Dad Absolutely Torches The View’s Sunny Hostin Over Her Remarks About His Son’s Death– townhall.com

pgnewser June 24, 2026 0

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Jeff Metcalf can’t hold his tongue anymore about how Karmelo Anthony’s family behaved during sentencing, and The View’s Sunny Hostin using his son’s death as a prop to make a shoddy point about race in America. He was on Will Cain’s show this week and did not hold back on Hostin, while also noting that Anthony’s family did not show any remorse. They weren’t even there when their son was sentenced to 35 years in prison for murder. Anthony fatally stabbed Jeff’s son, Austin, in Frisco, Texas, at a track meet in 2025.

Iran’s ‘Deconfliction’ Means a More Vulnerable Israel – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Reportedly, one of the results of Monday’s U.S.-Iran talks in Geneva will be a “deconfliction cell” for Lebanon. Its members are supposed to be the U.S., Iran, the Lebanese government, Qatar, and Pakistan. Notably missing from the roster is Israel.

Now — even though Israeli forces in Lebanon have been fending off an ongoing, Iran-directed Hezbollah assault on Israel since March 2 — it’s not even included in “deconfliction.”

Israel Hayom, one of Israel’s two leading dailies, reports that “the State Department strongly opposed the creation of the ‘cell…’ The State Department’s position, as expressed in position papers and closed-door discussions, was that Iran’s goal was to sabotage direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon by creating a bypass route.”

Inflation, AI Job Losses Weigh Down Economy – dc.report

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

Bank of America is predicting the Federal Reserve will issue rate hikes by the end of this year in response to rising inflation. They are predicting a three-quarter-point increase in the benchmark rate. General Motors replaced 1,000 workers with “collaborative robots” in one plant alone. Oracle revealed it replaced 21,000 workers with AI solutions so far this year. The loss of jobs through technology, rising inflation, and potential rate hikes portend a poor-performing economy leading up to the November 2026 Midterm elections.

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Biden Tapes Cleared for Release – americanistpress.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

The tapes and transcripts of former President Joe Biden’s testimony related to his handling of classified documents can be released according to a U.S. district judge’s ruling. The files reveal Joe Biden’s level of cognizance while still President. The Heritage Foundation is the one requesting the files. They filed a FOIA request in 2024.

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Oracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months Amid AI Adoption– www.ndtv.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

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Oracle Corp. reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months, a wider scale than previously known, including those whose jobs were eliminated by the use of artificial intelligence.

“The adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce,” Oracle said Monday in an annual financial regulatory filing.

The company’s global headcount shrank to 141,000 full-time employees as of the May 31 end of the fiscal year, compared with 162,000 a year earlier, Oracle said. The reductions led to about $1.8 billion in restructuring costs.

Oracle is under financial pressure because of an expensive build-out of AI data centers for customers like OpenAI. Earlier this year, it began cutting thousands of jobs as part of efforts to save cash, Bloomberg has reported. The exact scope of the cuts was never formally disclosed.

As of the end of May, the company had about 49,000 US workers while about 92,000 were employed internationally.

General Motors Replaces 1,000 Human Workers with ‘Collaborative Robots’ at Detroit Plant– slaynews.com

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General Motors Replaces 1,000 Human Workers with ‘Collaborative Robots’ at Detroit Plant– slaynews.com
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General Motors has replaced roughly 1,000 workers with just 50 robots at its flagship Detroit-area manufacturing facility, sparking backlash from labor unions and reigniting concerns about automation’s growing impact on American jobs.

The move comes as the auto giant looks to cut costs and improve efficiency amid slowing demand for electric vehicles and increasing pressure to remain competitive in a rapidly changing industry.

According to reports, the new “collaborative robots,” commonly known as cobots, have been installed on the assembly line at GM’s Factory ZERO plant in Michigan, where they now assist with attaching body panels to vehicles as they move through production.

HHS to Axe Grants for ‘Sexually Explicit’ Materials for Minors– www.dailysignal.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services on Friday will terminate $67 million of teenage pregnancy prevention grants to defund “sexually explicit” curricula, according to documents obtained exclusively by the Daily Signal.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health’s Office of Population Affairs provides grants to organizations that promote teen pregnancy prevention, as well as organizations that write teen pregnancy prevention curricula. HHS terminated 53 of 67 of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grants after a department review.

The Biden-era HHS awarded organizations that push curricula the Trump administration calls “medically inaccurate,” “age inappropriate,” and “sexually explicit,” violating the statute that set up the program.

HHS will announce two new award opportunities for potential partners that promote body literacy in place of radical gender ideology, abortion, and contraception. The opportunities will “focus on programs that do not promote material that depicts, describes, exposes, or presents obscene, indecent, or sexually explicit content, including content that normalizes or promotes sexual activity for minors.”

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak– www.wired.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

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Meta is pausing a divisive employee tracking program after an internal security issue exposed potentially sensitive data collected through the initiative to other workers.

“We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we’re pausing it while we investigate,” says company spokesperson Tracy Clayton.

Meta rolled out the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) tool in April to US employees. The tool “collects computer inputs such as mouse movements, click locations and keystrokes, as well as screen content,” according to workers who have been petitioning against it over privacy, security, and personal liberty concerns. When MCI first launched, employees couldn’t opt out, but that changed to a limited degree after workers protested.

Meta executives have repeatedly defended the data-gathering project, saying it was necessary to train AI systems to operate computer software the way humans do and that employees were the best examples for the artificial intelligence to learn from.

China’s newest aircraft carrier sails through the Taiwan Strait– abcnews.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

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China’s newest and most powerful aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has sailed through the Taiwan Strait, according to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China’s newest and most powerful of its three aircraft carriers sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the Taiwanese defense ministry said, a day after Taiwan began a five-day military exercise on responding to a Chinese attack.

The Fujian carrier first sailed through the narrow body of water separating China and Taiwan in a trial run last September. It later transited the strait for the first time as a fully commissioned military vessel in December.

Evil Trump Admin Embraces ‘Fetal Personhood Ideology’– thefederalist.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

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Humans have used language to belittle their enemies and strip them of their humanity for centuries. Yet in America today, many on the left believe that liberal culture has summited the mountain of progress and demonized all words that tear down.

But if the left really wants to be the rhetorical protector of the innocent, then it should stop whitewashing IVF as a scientific procedure that only affects mindless cells, and start calling IVF embryos what they really are: human children.

However, that is exactly what the Huff Post did not do.

The radically liberal news site smeared the Trump Administration last week for changing the language in the federal Embryo Adoption Awareness and Services (EAA) program to refer to frozen embryos as children in need of homes.

“The grant has seemingly transformed into a vehicle for anti-abortion rhetoric and fetal personhood ideology,” the Huff Post claimed, and quoted the leftist, pro-abortion director of the National Women’s Law Center calling the grant “a Trojan horse” that the Trump Administration used to “insert something that is incredibly harmful,” namely, recognizing embryos as humans.

The EAA grant program operates the federal “frozen embryo adoption public awareness campaign,” and promotes adopting already created, frozen embryonic children instead of creating more. Grant recipients must refuse to engage in “embryo-destructive research … discarding or destroying human embryos,” or “create new human embryos.” The Huff Post claims that the program previously focused on helping “LGBTQIA+ couples looking to adopt embryos.” Now, it emphasizes faith-based organizations that recognize embryos as humans as the primary recipients of the grant.

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African and Caribbean Leaders Target U.S. and Europe’s Taxpayers– legalinsurrection.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

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African and Caribbean governments have recently adopted a coordinated strategy to seek slavery reparations that also include formal apologies, financial compensation, debt relief, and “cultural restitution” from former slave‑trading states in Europe as well as the U.S.

The demands were part ‌of a 19-point reparations plan endorsed at the end of a three-day conference in Ghana, whose U.N. resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity” was approved in March despite resistance from Europe and the United States, countries which have a legacy in the sprawling human trafficking system that saw ​millions forcibly taken from their homelands.

Democrats Just Got Brutal News About Their Texas Senate Dream – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Texas is the Democrat Party’s white whale. Every election cycle, the party convinces itself this is finally the year the state turns blue, and every election cycle, Texas tells it to pound sand. It got fooled again in 2024, when polling suggested that the state was within reach. It wasn’t. Donald Trump won Texas by 14 points, and no amount of wishful thinking from Democrat strategists changes the fact that a state like Texas isn’t about to send a Trump-endorsed candidate’s creepy opponent to the Senate.

U.S.-Iran working to finalize deal as Iranian president arrives in Pakistan – National– globalnews.ca

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Iran’s president arrived in Pakistan for talks Tuesday with officials mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war in the Middle East, even as discrepancies emerged on what had been agreed so far and violence broke out again in Lebanon.

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Islamabad comes as technical teams were working on details of the deal following high-level negotiations in Switzerland Monday led by U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.

In Tehran, Iran’s capital, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters that no visits were scheduled for the U.N. watchdog — the International Atomic Energy Agency — to examine Iranian nuclear sites bombed by the United States last year. Vance previously said the negotiations in Switzerland won an agreement for the inspectors to visit the sites.

Trump Admin Makes New Move to Beef Up American Manufacturing– www.dailysignal.com

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—In an effort to beef up America’s manufacturing and reduce reliance on foreign companies, the Export-Import Bank, a federal credit agency, is unveiling a new loan opportunity for manufacturers.

Specifically, the bank is now “offering lender guarantees of up to 90% on equipment loans and operating leases” to American small and medium-sized manufacturers, a move it says will accelerate “the reindustrialization of America.“

The bank, which was established in 1934, seeks to provide financing for American exporters to give them a competitive advantage.

The announcement of the initiative comes after the National Security Council—which advises the president on military and foreign policy—held a round table discussion Monday with the heads of EXIM, the Department of Commerce, and the Small Business Administration on the topic of reindustrialization.

“For too long, the United States has relied on foreign production of machine tools and manufacturing machines,” reads an EXIM document explaining the project.

The Social Security Crisis Is Even Worse Than We Thought– thefederalist.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

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The Social Security Administration recently announced that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund will run out of money in late 2032. The government will no longer be able to pay retirees their full promised benefits at that time.

The new date is earlier than previously expected: The deadline has been moving steadily closer to the present as revenues fall short of the government’s projections. The Medicare trust fund will run out of money in 2033, as well.

This is a rapidly approaching crisis for retirees, prospective retirees, taxpayers, the government, the U.S. economy, and recipients of government welfare benefits. When the Social Security trust fund runs out of money six years from now (or earlier), the projected income from payroll taxes will cover only 78 percent of promised benefits. The government will have to borrow more money, reduce benefits, raise taxes, extend the retirement age, and/or cut other spending. Most of those options would be inflationary, recessionary, or both.

The draining of the Social Security trust fund is a short-term crisis that has arisen from a long-term problem, as is the case with so many of our nation’s current troubles.

Oil prices fall as investors mull Middle East developments– www.cnbc.com

pgnewser June 23, 2026 0

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Commercial vessels and oil tankers preparing to transit through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most critical strategic waterways for global trade flows, maintain their wait in the Gulf of Oman, on June 17, 2026.

Oil fell Tuesday, reversing slight gains at the start of the session, as investors showed cautious optimism about an end to the conflict in the Middle East.

International benchmark Brent crude futures for August fell 1.57% to $76.68 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for August declined 1.53% to $72.73 per barrel.

EU bets on digital euro to cut US tech addiction– www.channelnewsasia.com

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BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) believes a digital euro is the answer to cutting its addiction to United States payment systems like Visa and Mastercard, as well as Apple Pay and Google Pay, as the bloc seeks to favour European firms over others.

Brussels hopes it could provide an alternative local option for any payments in shops or online since people could easily pay, just like other systems, using a card, an app or via their banking app.

The EU will move one step closer on Tuesday (Jun 23) to creating a digital euro when EU lawmakers hold a long-awaited vote on the virtual currency.

The MRC Leads Charge to Strip ‘The View’ of ‘Bona Fide’ News Status– www.newsbusters.org

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Since 2014, when Disney and ABC brought The View into the news division, the liberal ladies have been using and abusing their “bona fide” news program status to push Democratic Party propaganda, openly support Democratic candidates, and push unfounded conspiracy theories against conservatives and Republicans. On Monday, the Media Research Center (MRC) submitted a massive filing with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) making the case that The View didn’t deserve that special status and was actively breaching ABC’s broadcasting license.

The MRC’s filing caught ABC and Disney completely off guard as the corporations scrambled to rally their supporters the day the filing was due. Of course, the appeal to fans give wrong information and lies.

California drivers sue gas stations for allegedly using AI to inflate prices | California– www.theguardian.com

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Gas ⁠station ​operators including BP, Circle K, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart and Albertsons were sued on Monday by California drivers ⁠who accused them of using artificial intelligence to boost prices at the pump.

According to a proposed class action, the defendants ⁠violated California’s main antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, by using an AI-based tool that ​uses data from competing gas ‌stations to “coordinate high prices ‌and wring more money from the pockets of consumers”.

The lawsuit in the ‌Sacramento federal court said the scheme violated assembly bill 325, a California law that took effect on 1 January and was intended to crack down on algorithmic price fixing.