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The trucking company involved in a deadly drowsy driving crash on Interstate 20 near Dallas over the summer had its insurance canceled this week. Trucking company Hope Trans had their insurance cancelled on October 8th, rendering them legally unable to operate further. In late August, Hope Trans was given 60 days to take “substantive corrective actions” to fix multiple violations discovered by the FMCSA. In late September, a wrongful death lawsuit was brought against the company, the owner, and a broker. The crash happened on June 28th. Truck driver Alexis Osmani Gonzalez-Companioni is currently in jail on a $2.25 million...

Jackie Norris, the chairwoman of the Des Moines Public School Board who once served as chief of staff to Michelle Obama, has pulled out of the race for Iowa's open U.S. Senate seat as recommended by her Republican opponent, Rep. Ashley Hinson. Hinson stressed earlier this month that Norris, a champion of DEI, had "lost all shreds of credibility" over the role she played in the hiring of the Des Moines district's former superintendent, a criminal illegal alien who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sept 26. Ian Andre Roberts, a native of Guyana, has a lengthy...

President Donald Trump on Friday evening: "The Republican Party is not going to pay a trillion and a half dollars to illegal immigrants coming into our country, coming in for a lot of reasons, coming in from prisons, from jails, from all over the place, from Venezuela, many countries. We're not going to do that. So the shutdown continues. It's a Democrat shutdown. It's a Schumer shutdown because his career has failed and it's over."

The Democrats are pretending this shutdown is about your health care. It’s not—it’s about fraud. They want you to believe the sky is falling—your health care is going to double in cost (or go away completely, depending on the day), and low-income ObamaCare enrollees are going to get left out in the rain. These are scare tactics, designed to cover up for the proposal they’re really pushing: an extension of temporary COVID-era subsidies, riddled with fraud they’d rather not admit exists. As many Americans know, ObamaCare operates by households purchasing health insurance through the exchange. Based on the enrollee’s income,...

The shutdown became one of the three longest in U.S. history on Friday, with lawmakers indicating they believe it will drag on and few signs emerging of progress toward reopening the government. That isn’t stopping questions about what could force lawmakers toward the negotiating table to figure out a resolution, especially with a number of potential pressure points front and center for lawmakers in the coming weeks. Here are some key dates to keep an eye on in the coming weeks that could force action. Oct. 24: Next paycheck for federal employees Government employees — whether they are furloughed or...

A federal shutdown that was once expected to last a few days has now stretched into its third week with no resolution in sight. Millions of Americans are bracing for higher healthcare premiums, federal services are disrupted, markets are watching uneasily, and yet the two parties in Congress are behaving as if gridlock is a strategic advantage. For investors, this is no longer a background headline. It is a policy standoff that could reshape consumer spending, healthcare stocks, bond markets, and GDP projections heading into year-end. What makes this shutdown uniquely stubborn is not just ideological division. It is political...

President Trump has repurposed money to fund military salaries during the government shutdown. He has pledged to find ways to make sure many in law enforcement get paid. He has used the fiscal impasse to halt funding to Democratic jurisdictions, and is trying to lay off thousands of federal workers.Government shutdowns are usually resolved only after the pain they inflict on everyday Americans forces elected officials in Washington to come to an agreement. But as the shutdown nears a fourth week, Mr. Trump’s actions have instead reduced the pressure for an immediate resolution and pushed his political opponents to further...

The Albuquerque International Sunport has joined airports across the country in refusing to show a video of U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown. Mayor Tim Keller said in a statement Tuesday that political rhetoric was not welcome at the Sunport. “Our nation’s airports are not an appropriate venue for political messages, especially statements that will lead to confusion for the traveling public,” Keller said. “Our focus at the Sunport remains where it should be: the safety, security and experience of all travelers.” Federal workers nationwide, including agents at the Transportation Security Administration,...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Nearly 2,300 Kansas City children are the latest at risk in the government shutdown. Head Start, a federally funded program, is on the chopping block in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties. Head Start promotes school readiness via complementary early learning, health, nutrition, and family support services to low-income children from birth to age five. Eligibility is primarily based on income, but children in foster care, who are homeless, or whose families receive public assistance, qualify. Among Kansas City’s Head Start parents, 1,351 are employed, 169 are in training programs, and 168 are enrolled in school....

A group of 30 House Republicans is raising alarms about how the government shutdown is impacting gun owners across the U.S. Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., led his colleagues in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Thursday urging its acting director to reclassify certain employees as essential workers, warning that current parameters are leaving many gun owners’ applications for certain items in limbo. “As a result of this Democrat-led shutdown, ATF, like most federal agencies, is operating at a reduced workforce. And while Democrats continue to fight for benefits for illegal aliens, the constitutional rights...

A House-approved bill that would fund the U.S. military during the ongoing federal government shutdown failed to pass the Senate in a procedural vote on Thursday. The House bill required at least 60 votes in the 100-member Senate to advance because of the chamber’s filibuster rules. The final vote was 50-44, with three Democrats joining most Republicans in voting “aye.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., voted against the bill solely as a tactic to allow him to quickly revive the effort to fund the Pentagon during the shutdown. The vote came hours after a Senate bill to fund the...

Federal judges will continue their necessary work during the shutdown, but staff will only be allowed to perform certain protected activities on duty. The judges and their staff will not receive pay until the shutdown is over. The United States Supreme Court is expected to run out of government funding on Saturday, and other federal courts will be impacted by the government shutdown early next week.The Supreme Court is expected to remain in session during the shutdown but will need to close its doors to the public starting Monday, Supreme Court public information officer Patricia McCabe said in a...

The government shutdown is about to slam into the federal courts, which had been able to keep running but are about to exhaust their extra cash and will have to furlough employees starting early next week. Courts will be allowed to perform only essential work where human life or protection of property is involved, plus activities specifically required by federal law or to carry out Article III of the Constitution. Employees who aren’t involved in those activities will be furloughed, while essential employees will have to work without pay, the administrative office for the U.S. courts said Friday. The shutdown...

FBI Director Kash Patel joins FOX Business Network's "Kudlow" to discuss Operation Summer Heat, the number of arrests under the Trump administration, a federal grand jury indicting alleged Antifa members, and FBI staff being paid during the shutdown.LARRY KUDLOW, FOX BUSINESS: Director Kash Patel, hats off to you, Kash. You've done a great job. The way I read it, you've depoliticized it, you've de-weaponized it, people are going back to work, and these numbers, we're going to put it on the full screen, the FBI, Summer Heat, and all crushing of violent crime, you've just done this in only a...

A matter of projection: When anyone starts bleating about "dictatorship" they have to start with defining "regal" or "kinglike" actions, and look at the activity — and actions — of recent presidents to get a sense of perspective. A series of "No Kings" protests are touted to take place again on Saturday, representing yet another wave of organized objection from left-wing activists using the government shutdown to fill streets across the country. The same people aren't so quick — or capable — of explaining away why they sat silent while President Joe Biden engaged in activities that clearly exceeded his...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCIV) — Crowds of people in Summerville have begun the first of two 'No Kings' demonstrations in the Charleston area Saturday. The "No Kings" movement says "millions" will gather around the US on Saturday. The planned protests come amidst an ongoing government shutdown threatening federal workers and services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Portland, and the Trump administration's flirtations with invoking the Insurrection Act to quash dissent.

Networks are planning coverage of the nationwide No Kings protests on Saturday, the second round of demonstrations against President Donald Trump‘s actions in the White House. Thousands of events are being planned across the country, but there will be a few differences from the last day of demonstration in June. This time, it is taking place amid a government shutdown, with few signs that it will end soon. And there is an official event being planned in Washington, D.C. at Pennsylvania Ave. and Third Street NW near the National Mall and the Capitol. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Chris...

On Thursday, Senate Democrats voted for the 10th time to prolong the federal government shutdown. They also voted against funding the military, thereby necessitating that the Pentagon initiate some innovative accounting in order to ensure service members are paid on time. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) defended his caucus's latest vote, opining, "It's always been unacceptable to Democrats to do the defense bill without other bills that have so many things that are important to the American people in terms of health care, in terms of housing, in terms of safety." But to most Americans, such tendentious bloviating falls...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes White House confirms Democrats have been lying, Illegals are on Medicaid Dr. Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CONFIRMS “We have proven that there's been over a billion dollars — paid by U.S. taxpayers for illegal immigrants in about half a dozen states.” “We're just getting started. So it's going to be significantly more money than that.”

No, Catholics don’t have to be pro-mass migration: Cardinal Müller was right to refute Pope LeoWhen I studied at university in Durham, there was a visiting Dominican friar finishing his PhD. The more traditionally inclined among the Catholics who studied in that ancient cathedral city had a habit of turning to him for counsel on manifold matters. One such piece of mentorship this affable, stolid, clear-thinking and orthodox priest gave me has rung in my ears and remained relevant ever since.His words may be invaluable to Catholics in the wake of Pope Leo XIV’s enthusiastic emphasis on welcoming migrants –...