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Trump Places 25% Tariff on Advanced Computer Chips

16 hours 46 minutes ago
President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed a 25% tariff on certain advanced computing chips, such as the Nvidia H200 AI processor and a similar semiconductor from AMD called the MI325X, according to ⁠a fact sheet released by the White House.

Venezuelan Socialists to Send Envoy to the U.S. on Same Day Trump Will Meet Maria Corina Machado

17 hours 3 minutes ago

Venezuela's socialist regime will send an envoy to Washington, DC on Thursday — the same day President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday

The post Venezuelan Socialists to Send Envoy to the U.S. on Same Day Trump Will Meet María Corina Machado appeared first on Breitbart.

Christian K. Caruzo

Trump administration halts visas for 75 nations whose people gobble up American welfare

17 hours 5 minutes ago


The Trump administration delivered some bad news on Wednesday to would-be migrants from the third world hoping to exploit American beneficence.

The U.S. State Department announced that it is pausing immigrant visa processing from 75 countries "whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates." The pause will apparently remain in effect until "the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people."

'Pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover.'

"The pause impacts dozens of countries — including Somalia, Haiti, Iran, and Eritrea — whose immigrants often become public charges on the United States upon arrival," said the department.

The Center for Immigration Studies indicated in a report last month than in Minnesota, approximately 54% of Somali-headed households received food stamps and 73% of Somali households had at least one member on Medicaid. By way of comparison, the figures for native households were 7% and 18%, respectively.

The report noted further that 89% of Somali households with children received some form of welfare in the Gopher State.

President Donald Trump recently referred to these statistics on Truth Social and highlighted statistics regarding the high welfare participation rates of other immigrant communities.

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On Jan. 4, Trump shared a graph titled "Immigrant Welfare Recipient Rates by Country of Origin," which provided damning insights into the apparent overreliance of various immigrant communities on the generosity of the American taxpayer.

The chart indicated, for example, that the the percentage of immigrant households from Bhutan that received assistance was 81.4%; Yemen was 75.2%; Somalia was 71.9%; the Marshall Islands was 71.4%; the Dominican Republic was 68.1%; Afghanistan was 68.1%; Congo was 66%; and Iraq was 60.7%.

Trump vowed on Nov. 27 to "end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country" and to "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover."

The visa processing pause will go into effect on Jan. 21.

It will reportedly also impact the following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.

"We are working to ensure the generosity of the American people will no longer be abused," said the State Department.

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Joseph MacKinnon

Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Tesla Autopilot Crash

17 hours 11 minutes ago
The family of a Washington state motorcyclist killed in a 2024 crash involving a Tesla with Autopilot engaged filed a wrongful-death lawsuit this month against Tesla Inc., accusing the electric vehicle maker of knowingly selling dangerous technology.

US Healthcare Spending Soared to $5 Trillion in 2024

17 hours 18 minutes ago
U.S. healthcare spending rose by 7.2% ⁠to $5.3 trillion in 2024 from $4.9 trillion in 2023, driven by increased health insurance enrollment and a jump in use of medical services, particularly in private health insurance plans, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

CBO: War Department Name Change Could Cost Up to $125M

17 hours 19 minutes ago
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that implementing President Donald Trump's executive order to change Defense Department to War Department could cost between a few million dollars and as much as $125 million.

Pro-abortion doctor gets dismantled by Hawley on men and pregnancy: 'I don't know how we can take you seriously'

17 hours 24 minutes ago


A Georgia doctor testifying before Congress in support of abortion drugs was crushed by a Republican's questioning after he asked her if men can get pregnant.

Dr. Nisha Verma argued that the mifepristone abortion pill was safe for women before Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri stopped her dead in her tracks with one question.

'You won't even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don't get pregnant.'

"Do you think that men can get pregnant?" Hawley asked, echoing a previous question from Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.).

"I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was," Verma responded. "I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities. And so, that's where I paused. I think, yeah, I wasn't sure where you were going with that."

"Well, the goal is just the truth. So, can men get pregnant?" he replied.

"Again, the reason I paused there is, I'm not really sure what the goal of the question —" she responded.

"The goal is just to establish a biological reality," Hawley said. "You just said a moment ago that 'science and evidence should control, not politics.' So, let's just test that proposition: Can men get pregnant?"

"I take care of people with many identities, but um —" she stammered.

"Can men get pregnant?" he repeated.

"I do take care of people that don't identify as women that —" Verma said.

"Can men get pregnant?" he interrupted.

"As I'm saying —" she replied.

"Let me just remind you of what you testified just a moment ago. 'Science and evidence should control, not politics.' So, can men get pregnant?" he asked again. "You're a doctor, I think."

"Science and evidence should guide medicine. I —" she added.

"Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant? Biological men, can they get pregnant?" he pressed.

"I also think yes-no questions like this are a political tool," she evaded.

"No, yes-no questions are about the truth, doctor. Let's not make a mockery of this proceeding," Hawley said. "This is about science and evidence."

The debate went on for another three minutes, with Hawley beating down Verma on the issue before he brought it back to the issue of the abortion pill.

"We are here about the safety of women and science that shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases. That's 22 times greater than the FDA label, another fact you haven't acknowledged, and yet you won't even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don't get pregnant," Hawley said.

"I don't know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won't level with us on this basic issue!" he concluded.

Verma then claimed that polarized language was not serving the interests of patients.

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Video of the exchange was widely circulated on social media, where the doctor was mocked and ridiculed.

The Family Research Council released a statement about the congressional hearing.

"The Trump administration should not only restore but also strengthen FDA safety standards for mifepristone and direct the Department of Justice to enforce federal law," the organization said.

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Carlos Garcia

Trump: Iran Executions of Protesters Are 'Stopping'

17 hours 24 minutes ago
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that executions of protesters in Iran are coming to a halt. "We've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping and that there's no plan for executions," he said from the Oval Office."I've been told that on good authority."