Judge Blocks Trump From Punishing Prominent Democratic Law Firm

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A federal judge spanked President Trump on Wednesday over his attempt to block the government from doing business with the law firm that helped Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign by promoting the now-discredited “Steele Dossier.”

Perkins Coie had sued, saying the executive order was unconstitutional retaliation that would upend the way law firms operate.

Judge Beryl Howell sided with them, saying Mr. Trump’s move “sends little chills down my spine.”

She issued a temporary restraining order blocking the government from following through on parts of Mr. Trump’s executive order that ordered Perkins Coie’s contracts with the government to be scrutinized, its lawyers restricted from entering government buildings, and federal employees limited in their ability to engage with the firm.

Mr. Trump, in his March 6 order, had said the firm had engaged in “dishonest and dangerous activity.” (Read more from “Judge Blocks Trump From Punishing Prominent Democratic Law Firm” HERE)

USAID, State Failed To Monitor NGOs To Ensure They Weren’t Funding Taliban, IG Says

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A government inspector general on Wednesday sounded the alarm about problems with the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and underscored how “non-government organizations” receive billions of dollars from the United States in corruption-prone regions with limited accountability.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said in a new report that “since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the U.S. government has spent billions of U.S. taxpayer funds on projects intended to provide for Afghans’ basic needs.”

The report said the State Department and USAID have turned to Public International Organizations, its term for NGOs, “as the primary means of delivering this aid,” but “have been inconsistent in their efforts to formally require PIOs to agree to U.S. government oversight on how funding is spent and whether projects are delivering intended results” rather than being “diverted to the Taliban.”

For example, the USAID Mission to Afghanistan’s standard contract with NGOs did not require them to permit American officials to visit to see what they were actually doing. (Read more from “USAID, State Failed To Monitor NGOs To Ensure They Weren’t Funding Taliban, IG Says” HERE)

Three Glasses of This Drink a Day Can Prevent Dementia — It Also Fights Heart Disease and Cancer

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An estimated 6.7 million people in the US are living with Alzheimer’s dementia today, and this number could increase to 13.8 million by 2060, according to the NIH.

While there are many lifestyle choices that could lower your risk of dementia — including maintaining a good diet, exercising regularly, socializing and keeping your mind stimulated — recent research suggests there’s one humble beverage that can slash your risk with just a few sips.

A study out of Japan has found that older adults who regularly consume green tea have fewer cerebral white matter lesions, a key indicator of cognitive decline and dementia.

Researchers asked almost 9,000 adults to fill out a questionnaire about their coffee and tea-drinking habits and used brain scans to analyze their data.

While they did not find any evidence that coffee intake might prevent cognitive decline, their results did lead them to conclude that drinking green tea — especially three or more glasses a day — may help prevent dementia.

The findings align with previous studies that have shown green tea consumption can protect you from cognitive decline.

A 2022 meta-analysis indicates your risk of dementia decreases by 6% for every cup of green tea you consume. (Read more from “Three Glasses of This Drink a Day Can Prevent Dementia — It Also Fights Heart Disease and Cancer” HERE)

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Government Shutdown Likely After Schumer Says Senate Dems Will Block GOP Funding Bill

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that most Democrats in the upper chamber will not support a House Republican-passed bill to fund the federal government through the end of September, all but ensuring a partial shutdown beginning at 11:59 p.m. Friday.

“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their [continuing resolution] without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats,” Schumer (D-NY) said on the Senate floor Wednesday.

“Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean [CR through April 11] that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass.”

With Republicans holding a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, and legislation needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, at least seven Democrats would need to support the spending bill, which passed the House 217-213 Tuesday night.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has also opposed the measure, so the GOP will need eight Democratic defections if there is full attendance in the chamber. (Read more from “Government Shutdown Likely After Schumer Says Senate Dems Will Block GOP Funding Bill” HERE)

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COVID Taught Americans To Stop Trusting A Government That Puts Them Last

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When Donald Trump first sailed into the Oval Office, his detractors shrieked that his blunt rhetoric was dividing the country. His supporters pointed out that Trump wasn’t so much creating division as he was revealing divisions that had been growing in America for a long time.

The reaction to the novel Wuhan coronavirus did the country a similar service, by revealing a new fault line: two sets of rules, which were applied differently to Americans depending on their membership in certain political cliques. For the average American who assumed his political leaders still shared the belief that all men are created equal, it was a cruel betrayal.

Coronavirus lockdowns alerted Americans to an uncomfortable reality: the institutions to which they’d entrusted their liberties were no longer trustworthy. If the 2024 election is any indication, they got the message.

In the Covid times, hardworking people were deemed “nonessential” and lost their jobs while watching Tony Fauci’s net worth climb. They were banished from church while thousands gathered in the street to worship George Floyd. They watched their kids fall behind in school while Nancy Pelosi and Lori Lightfoot broke the rules to get their split ends trimmed. Their dying loved ones left this world alone, while Obama danced with Hollywood stars at his 60th birthday bash. To add further insult, those loved ones were denied proper funerals, while 10,000 people gathered to eulogize a drug-addicted criminal in a gold casket on television. Only some Americans were authorized to print their opinions online, while others were punished and censored.

The delusion that we were “all in this together” didn’t survive for long. A certain set of rules applied to the BLM protesters, the Democrat politicians, and the Hollywood elites, and another set of rules applied to everyone else. Americans started to realize they were being had. (Read more from “COVID Taught Americans To Stop Trusting A Government That Puts Them Last” HERE)

DOGE Cancels NIH Grants to Prevent Pregnancy in ‘Transgender Boys’

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cancelled several grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Tuesday, including over half a million dollars going to a “pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys.”

DOGE, led by tech mogul Elon Musk, revealed in a late night X post that NIH had just ended the following grants:

Among the most outlandish was a $620,000 grant for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys,” referring to biological girls who claim to be boys.

The health institute, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was also spending about $700,000 to study cannabis use in “sexual minority gender diverse individuals,” $740,000 on examining “social networks” among “black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey,” $50,000 on assessing “sexual health” among “LGTBQ+ Latinx youth in an agricultural community,” and $75,000 on researching “structural racism,” DOGE stated.

The latest NIH grant cancellations come just a week after DOGE announced the cancellation of grants from the agency that were geared toward transgender experiments on animals, Breitbart News reported. (Read more from “DOGE Cancels NIH Grants to Prevent Pregnancy in ‘Transgender Boys’” HERE)

Big Soda Floods State Capitol In Unprecedented Fashion To Lobby Against MAHA

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Lobbyists from the American Beverage Association (ABA) descended on West Virginia’s state Capitol building Tuesday in an attempt to thwart a bill that would ban synthetic food dyes, lawmakers told the Daily Caller.

National lobbyists, who rarely, if ever, show up to Charleston, came out in full force to oppose HB 2354, which would ban the in-state sale of any food products containing Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3.

Newly minted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lambasted the synthetic dyes and touted studies which show the dyes are linked to negative neurobehavioral outcomes in children.

Kennedy Jr. held a meeting with top executives from the food and beverage industries Monday, making clear his desire to eliminate synthetic dies from American food products before he leaves office. (Read more from “Big Soda Floods State Capitol In Unprecedented Fashion To Lobby Against MAHA” HERE)

Politician In Canada Bends Knee To US, Apologizes To Americans

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford apologized to Americans Tuesday after he suspended a 25% electricity surcharge that he initially said he would be “relentless” in pursuing.

Ford implemented a 25% surcharge on electricity to New York, Michigan and Minnesota on Monday, but quickly rescinded the policy and apologized to Americans on WABC’s “Cats & Cosby” radio show the following day. The tariffs were initially a retaliatory measure against President Donald Trump’s flurry of tariffs against Canada since he assumed office.

Canada is highly dependent on U.S. exports, economists told CNN, and the planned electricity surcharge would likely hurt Canada’s energy industry much more than it would the U.S., although an estimated 1.5 million homes and businesses would have been affected.

“I want to apologize to the American people. I spent 20 years of my life in the US, in New Jersey, in Chicago. I love the American people,” Ford said. “I absolutely love them … Secretary Lutnick and President Trump are brilliant businesspeople. They are hard negotiators. We need to put this behind us and move forward and build the two strongest countries in the world.” (Read more from “Politician In Canada Bends Knee To US, Apologizes To Americans” HERE)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Force-Wide Review of Existing Fitness and Grooming Standards

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a department-wide review of existing standards for each military branch on physical fitness, body composition, and grooming — including on beards, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

“We must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that enable the men and women of our military to protect the American people and our homeland as the world’s most lethal and effective fighting force,” Hegseth said in a March 12, 2025, memorandum ordering the review.

“Our adversaries are not growing weaker, and our tasks are not growing less challenging. This review will illuminate how the Department has maintained the level of standards required over the recent past and the trajectory of any change in those standards,” he added.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot added in a statement to Breitbart News:

Unfortunately, the U.S. military’s high standards on body composition and other metrics eroded in recent years, particularly during the tenure of former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, who set a bad example from the top through his own personal corpulence. Secretary Hegseth is committed to restoring high standards, and this review is the first step in doing so.

(Read more from “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Force-Wide Review of Existing Fitness and Grooming Standards” HERE)

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New Evidence Supports Noah’s Ark as Boat-Shaped Formation, Dates Back to Biblical Floods

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By New York Post. . . .Researchers have found that a boat-shaped mound — long believed by the faithful to be Noah’s Ark — was most likely submerged under water during a devastating flood some 5,000 years ago, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The international team of experts has been working together since 2021 to study the Durupinar Formation, which they believe could be the site of a massive preserved vessel.

The 538-foot geological structure, composed of limonite — an ore of iron — is located approximately 20 miles south of Mount Ararat’s summit, in Turkey near the Iranian border in the Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı.


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This formation has interested experts for decades due to its ship-like shape and dimensions, similar to the biblical description of Noah’s Ark and Mount Ararat’s mention in religious texts.

According to the Bible, the dimensions of the vessel were “a length of three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits,” mirroring those of the Durupinar formation, “and the ark rested … upon the mountains of Ararat.” (Read more from “New Evidence Supports Noah’s Ark as Boat-Shaped Formation Dates Back to Biblical Floods” HERE)

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Astonishing New Marine Evidence Found at “Noah’s Ark” Site, Dates to Bible’s Biblical Floods

By Arezki Amiri. [A] team analyzing soil and rock samples from the Durupinar formation, a 538-foot geological structure near the Turkey-Iran border, has found traces of marine deposits, clay-like materials, and even remnants of seafood, sparking renewed debate about the biblical flood.

For decades, speculation has surrounded the Durupinar site, with some researchers arguing that its shape and dimensions match those described in biblical texts. But it wasn’t until recently that new scientific findings emerged. The samples collected from the site were sent to a laboratory in Istanbul, where tests revealed the presence of organic materials consistent with an ancient water-covered environment.

Among the most astonishing discoveries? Mollusc remains, indicating that this region—now a mountainous landscape—may have once been submerged. If Noah’s Ark truly existed, even the smallest creatures would have had a spot aboard, making the discovery of molluscs a particularly intriguing detail.

One of the biggest challenges in proving Noah’s Ark’s existence is finding scientific evidence that aligns with historical records. According to Genesis, the Great Flood occurred around 3300 BC.

The latest analysis of the materials found at the Durupinar formation suggests they date back between 3500 and 5000 years, placing them within the Chalcolithic period, an era in which ancient civilizations were beginning to develop advanced tools and settlements. (Read more about the new evidence for the biblical floods HERE)