Trump Admin Announces Between 10% and 12.5% Tariffs on 60 Countries Over Forced Labor Imports

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The Trump administration is ratcheting up tariffs on 60 countries that have failed to ban imports made from forced labor, as 10% global duties are set to expire Friday.

Senior administration officials said Thursday that countries that have begun implementing a forced labor prohibition will be hit with 10% duties, while those that haven’t will receive an import tax of 12.5% — with the levies taking effect at 12:01 a.m. on July 24.

“The United States has had a forced labor import ban for nearly a century, and rigorously enforces it; it’s well past time for our trading partners to do the same,” said US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

“Today’s action will begin to correct what is both a human rights abuse and distortive trade practice to improve the welfare of workers everywhere,” Greer added.

The 10% rate will apply to Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and the UK, according to the Office of the US Trade Representative. (Read more from “Trump Admin Announces Between 10% and 12.5% Tariffs on 60 Countries Over Forced Labor Imports” HERE)

Russia Tells Rubio America Sending More Weapons to Europe, Attempts to ‘Inflict Strategic Defeat’ are ‘Unacceptable’

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Russia’s Foreign Minister had a brief meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Philippines on Thursday morning, where Moscow said continued American arms sales to its European allies, who use them to arm Ukraine, are “unacceptable”.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is at the East Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila, the Philippines, on Thursday and overnight Eastern Time held a bilateral meeting on the side-lines with his Russian counterpart, the veteran diplomat Sergei Lavrov. One of the only senior Russian political figures whose long career pre-dates and has survived the Putin era, Lavrov has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2004 and a Russian ambassador since the Soviet era.

Rubio said in a statement after the meeting ended that he’d discussed “the U.S.-Russia relationship and the need to end the Russia-Ukraine war”, the typical boilerplate from the Department of State for such meetings. Russia had its own, namechecking the 2025 Trump-Alaska summit — as they always do — but added further detail, including claiming they had delivered a protest to Rubio on U.S. weapons exports.

While the United States has long ago ceased to donate weapons directly to Ukraine, citing the enormous cost to taxpayers, it sells large quantities to its European allies at full price, which are then free to donate them in turn to Ukraine themselves. Foreign Minister Lavrov “emphasized that pumping Ukraine with more weapons is unacceptable”, Russian state media expressed, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself further laboured the point in a statement in which it accused European states of trying to inflict a defeat on the Russian Federation:

When discussing Ukraine-related issues, Lavrov briefed his American counterpart on the real situation along the line of contact and stressed that further flooding the Kiev regime with weapons was unacceptable, along with the overall destructive policy pursued by European countries, which continue seeking to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia.

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WATCH: Male Democrat Ashley Webb Gives Sick Details of Menstrual ‘Cycle’

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Tuesday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about Maine.

Marlow said, “Ashley Webb was out there talking about on Reddit that he has a monthly period through his rectum. This is not a joke. This is something that he had posted and he was talking a lot about his biology during some media that he was able to do in recent days.”

(Read more from “WATCH: Male Democrat Ashley Webb Gives Sick Details of Menstrual ‘Cycle’” HERE)

What A Key Witness Knew About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

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Lance Twiggs, Tyler Robinson’s roommate and alleged transgender lover, testified that Robinson admitted to him that he killed Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk.

Twiggs’ recorded testimony was played in a Provo, Utah, courtroom Thursday. During an audio-only section of the interview, Twiggs is shown an exhibit in which Robinson texted Twiggs that he was the individual who killed the late conservative activist. Twiggs was asked about his first interaction with Robinson after receiving this text. “I asked him if what he said in the text was true, he said it was.”

The roommate and alleged lover added that Robinson stated, at the time, that “He wishes he hadn’t done it.”

Twiggs also testified that the photos from Utah Valley University (UVU) surveillance footage, which were published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), “do look like Tyler Robinson.”

“Especially the last two definitely do look like him,” he stated.

Twiggs’ testimony also appears to have confirmed the timeline of events leading up to Kirk’s death. He testified that Robinson left their Saint George, Utah apartment at approximately 4 a.m. The drive from Saint George to Utah Valley University is about 3 hours and 45 minutes, which aligns with surveillance video showing Robinson arriving at UVU around 8 a.m. (Read more from “What A Key Witness Knew About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination” HERE)

DOJ Has Been Hobbling New Mexico’s Epstein Ranch Investigation For Years, Former AG Says

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New Mexico’s former attorney general is taking the Justice Department to task for slowing down his state’s renewed probe into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, telling the Daily Caller News Foundation that the federal government “burned” his office in its investigation of the property.

Federal investigators made an informal deal with the New Mexico Department of Justice (NMDOJ) to provide evidence for New Mexico’s investigation into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas told the DCNF. The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) failed to follow through on its informal agreement made on July 23, 2019, with the NMDOJ to refer any state-related matters of the Epstein investigation back to the NMDOJ, Balderas told the DCNF in an exclusive interview.

Balderas, who left office as New Mexico attorney general on Jan. 1, 2023, corroborated his statement by citing a newly discovered handwritten note and an email from James Comey’s daughter released with other Epstein files earlier this year.

Balderas sent a letter on Monday to the current New Mexico Attorney General calling out the “SDNY, and by proxy the U.S. DOJ” for their role in what he alleged was a direct impediment to his office’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.

It remains unclear exactly who wrote the July 2019 note, but Balderas believes it came from either a staff member or legal assistant in the New York office.

“Agreed NMDOJ will stop interviews + refer all matters to SDNY. SDNY will refer any state-related matters to NMAG @ [the] conclusion of SDNY case,” the handwritten note says. (Read more from “DOJ Has Been Hobbling New Mexico’s Epstein Ranch Investigation For Years, Former AG Says” HERE)

Supreme Court to Hear from Alaskan Bush Pilot Whose Plane was Confiscated over a Six-Pack of Beer

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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from an Alaskan bush pilot whose plane was seized by authorities after they discovered it was bound for a remote, dry village with beer on board.

The appeal from the 82-year-old pilot, Kenneth Jouppi, could have national implications if the 6-3 conservative court limits the ability of state and local governments to rely on asset forfeiture. Jouppi claims that the taking of his $95,000 Cessna for what amounted to a six-pack of beer violated the 8th Amendment’s bar on excessive fines.

The Supreme Court is likely to hear oral arguments in the case later this year or early next — and hand down a decision by next summer.

“The Excessive Fines Clause of the Constitution was built for cases like this,” said Sam Gedge, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, which is representing the pilot. “As government agencies increasingly exploit fines and forfeitures to pad their budgets, it’s vital that the Supreme Court make clear that the Excessive Fines Clause is a meaningful check on government overreach.” (Read more from “Supreme Court to Hear from Alaskan Bush Pilot Whose Plane was Confiscated over a Six-Pack of Beer” HERE)

Appeals Court Rejects Biden Bid to Block Release of Ghostwriter Recordings Used in Special Counsel Probe

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Former President Joe Biden lost his bid Monday to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with his longtime ghostwriter that were used in special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s unlawful hoarding of classified information.

A divided federal appeals court ruled the 46th president’s privacy claims did not outweigh the “substantial” public interest in the material, though it suspended its decision until Aug. 3 to allow the former chief executive to consider additional action.

Following his vice presidency, Biden met multiple times with author Mark Zwonitzer, who ghostwrote Biden’s 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad.”

The audio recordings of those interviews became part of Hur’s investigation, with the special counsel noting in his February 2024 report that Biden showed “diminished faculties and faulty memory,” and described the conversations as “painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events.”

Ultimately, Hur declined to bring changes against Biden, in part because he believed the president would present himself to a jury as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” (Read more from “Appeals Court Rejects Biden Bid to Block Release of Ghostwriter Recordings Used in Special Counsel Probe” HERE)

Treasury Stopped Nearly $100M in Taxpayer Money from Going to Dead People After New Gov’t Measure Implemented

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The Treasury Department has blocked nearly $100 million in taxpayer money from going to dead people since implementing a government-wide payment verification process last year, The Post has learned.

The department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service discovered the money set to go to ghosts after a review of an eye-popping 885 million payments worth a total of nearly $2.7 trillion.

Since March 2025, the screening has identified more than 4,900 disbursements, worth approximately $99 million, associated with deceased payees, according to the Treasury. . .

The $99 million figure is a tiny fraction (0.0036%) of the $2.7 trillion the department reviewed as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on waste, fraud and abuse — but more than triple what Treasury discovered going to the deceased in the days before President Trump took office last year.

“Treasury has delivered on a key promise of President Trump’s mandate to stop improper payments and fraud before money leaves the Treasury, and strengthen the integrity of the federal payment system,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.

“Together with Vice President Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this new safeguard addresses a longstanding vulnerability and helps ensure every dollar the federal government spends reaches its intended recipient,” Bessent added. “Treasury will continue efforts to modernize the federal payment system, strengthen safeguards against fraud and improper payments, and protect taxpayer dollars.” (Read more from “Treasury Stopped Nearly $100M in Taxpayer Money from Going to Dead People After New Gov’t Measure Implemented” HERE)

Grotesque Buying and Selling of Body Parts Continues: US Firm Touts Latest Anti-Aging Craze, Cadaver Skin, Injected Right into Your Face

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Known as Elravie Re2O — short for “return to your 20s” — the injectable goes through an extensive transformation before it ever reaches a patient’s face.

The process begins with skin recovered from deceased donors in the US, which is sent to a lab and stripped of all cellular material. What remains is a purified framework called the extracellular matrix, or ECM.

The final product contains a preserved network of human collagen, elastin, hyaluronic acid and adhesive glycoproteins that acts as a natural scaffold, giving recipients’ own skin cells a structure to attach to and grow within. 

“It’s just the skin tissue with all the cells stripped out in order to prevent immune rejection and allergic side effects,” Kim Han-saem, chief dermatologist at Seoul’s DoD Dermatology Clinic, who has administered Re2O since it was introduced in late 2024, told Bloomberg.

Once processed, the product can be injected into the face and neck, helping soften fine lines, tighten pores and create a foundation where the body’s own cells can regenerate. (Read more from “Grotesque Buying and Selling of Body Parts Continues: US Firm Touts Latest Anti-Aging Craze, Cadaver Skin, Injected Right into Your Face” HERE)

Possible School Massacre Thwarted after Homosexual Allegedly Threatens Catholic Nuns, Governor

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A potential massacre at a Christian high school in Nebraska was thwarted thanks to the swift action taken by school officials and the Nebraska State Patrol.

Columbus Catholic Schools, a unified educational system that serves over 850 students in Nebraska, received a message on June 26 threatening Scotus Central Catholic, a Christ-centered high school in Columbus.

Jeff Ohnoutka, the executive director of CCS, said in a statement on Friday that after he was made aware of the “disturbing threat,” he immediately brought it to the attention of the NSP and the Columbus Police Department.

According to the NSP, the message “included a threat of violence to the school and Governor Pillen’s family.” . . .

In a post under the name “Bobby McGee” on the Facebook page for Columbus Catholic Schools, 32-year-old homosexual Ean Halstead of Omaha allegedly wrote, “I’m going to shoot up this school and kill Jim Pillen’s children and a few nuns for (expletive) funsies,” reported WOWT-TV. (Read more from “Possible School Massacre Thwarted after Homosexual Allegedly Threatens Catholic Nuns, Governor” HERE)