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At least for the moment, it's called The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts again. On Saturday, officials confirmed in new court filings that President Donald Trump's name has been removed from the Washington, D.C., arts venue named for Pres. Kennedy after his assassination in 1963. In one filing with the judge who ordered Trump's name be taken down, the Center's chief operating officer and executive director, Matt Floca, certified that "all physical signage" has been removed: As we previously wrote, the order made on May 29 by U.S. District Court Judge Christoper R. Cooper stated —

The U.S. State Department has uncovered sophisticated and dangerous “birth tourism” networks from West Africa, Europe, and North Africa exploiting our current unconstitutional “birthright citizenship” system. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is one of the biggest abusers of our idiotic “birthright citizenship” system, but plenty of other bad actors around the world cash in as well. Contrary to the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment, America now says any child born on our soil is automatically a citizen, even if his parents just flew into or walked into the country. Unsurprisingly, this has for years encouraged abuses. Besides the practice of “anchor babies,”

President Trump on Saturday announced his intent to appoint a new US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to replace Jay Clayton. Earlier this week, President Trump announced the nomination of Jay Clayton, the current US Attorney for the SDNY, to serve as Director of National Intelligence. Clayton, the former SEC Chairman and current US Attorney for the SDNY will replace Tulsi Gabbard. On Saturday, President Trump said is will appoint James M. McDonald as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

It's Game On at the White House for the UFC event set to take place there this weekend. D.C. District Judge Amit Mehta (an Obama appointee, FWIW) just body-slammed an eleventh-hour effort to stop President Trump’s White House UFC extravaganza, denying plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) or preliminary injunction request outright. Because everything requires litigation these days (maybe I shouldn't have pivoted from law to media?), plaintiffs in this case filed suit last week in a bid to put a halt to the event.

It's Game On at the White House for the UFC event set to take place there this weekend. D.C. District Judge Amit Mehta (an Obama appointee, FWIW) just body-slammed an eleventh-hour effort to stop President Trump’s White House UFC extravaganza, denying plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) or preliminary injunction request outright. Because everything requires litigation these days (maybe I shouldn't have pivoted from law to media?), plaintiffs in this case filed suit last week in a bid to put a halt to the event.

President Trump on Friday evening announced that the US military delivered a lethal kinetic strike that successfully executed infamous Tren de Aragua leader Niño Guerrero. Trump blasted Joe Biden for allowing Tren de Aragua terrorists to flood in the US and rape, maim and murder American citizens. The president said the US military brought justice to the families of those the terrorists slaughtered, including Jocelyn Nungaray and Laken Riley. Trump said he delivered on a promise to designate Tren de Aragua, a notorious transnational organized crime syndicate from Venezuela, a terrorist organization.

A Georgia man is behind bars and facing charges of aggravated assault after allegedly opening fire on a family gathering last weekend. According to authorities in Lee County, deputies responded to reports of a shooting around 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 7th. When deputies arrived at the scene, they found a "large gathering" as well as one individual suffering from a gunshot wound who was transported to a local hospital. From the Lee County Sheriff's Office Facebook page: The "large gathering" was a family reunion, and one of the family members says the "verbal confrontation" was Kinzer shouting—

Americans spend their lives working to support their loved ones, strengthen their communities, and build our country. Along the way, they entrust their future retirement incomes to 401(k)s, pension funds, or retirement accounts. This places a fiduciary duty on those individuals and organizations whose stewardship over those monies is to maximize the proceeds for retirees and all shareholders. This duty does not include advancing a leftist political agenda by weaponizing retirees’ lifetimes of hard-earned income against everything they oppose and, moreover, grifting a handsome profit for relinquishing their fiduciary duty in doing so. When such political shenanigans occur, they are rarely done in full view of retirees,

There is no point grumbling about police racist anti-racist policies until a number of foundational myths upon which these policies are contingent are dismantled. The most beguiling is: the police must be reflective of the community they serve. We have Robert Peel to thank/blame: “The police are the public and the public are the police.” It sounds sweet and sensible. To win the trust of the community, the police should look like the community. Emotionally it makes sense, yet the pale cast of thought reveals it to be a dud.

The United States military said Wednesday evening that it has begun its next wave of self-defense strikes on Iran amid tensions over the downing of an American helicopter earlier this week. The move is the second wave of strikes on the Middle Eastern country after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter. "U.S. Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction," CENTCOM said on X. "The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression."

It has been an occasional point of contention for some (namely me) in the news business when running up against the gold standard of professional language – The Associated Press Stylebook. For generations, this ever-expanding tome has been the guiding force in journalistic language, but recently it has been morphed into another tool for media narrative-building. For instance, linguistic rectitude has frequently been pushed aside in favor of sensitive or woke terminology. Gender issues are to be treated with deference over accuracy.

Consumer prices rose 4.2 percent from a year earlier in May, the highest annual reading since April 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent during the month, matching what economists had forecast. One number explains most of it: Energy accounted for more than 60 percent of the overall increase. The Iran war's disruption of Middle Eastern oil supplies is driving that. The energy index rose 3.9 percent in May and was up 23.5 percent from a year ago. Gasoline alone rose 7 percent during the month and was up 40.5 percent from a year earlier.