Trump Admin Vows Birth Tourism Crackdown After Birthright Citizenship Ruling

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The Trump administration met the Supreme Court’s constitutional enshrinement of birthright citizenship with a vow to crack down on foreign birth tourism schemes.

A statement shared by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday, hours after the court’s decision, said the department will make the prosecution of these schemes a priority across the country.

The scheme involves expecting women of foreign origin visiting the U.S., where they give birth to what is sometimes referred to as an “anchor baby” due to the child’s automatic citizenship status, which can then be exploited by the child’s family to obtain citizenship or visas.

“Birth tourism schemes exploit our immigration laws and often violate our criminal laws,” the DOJ statement said. “Actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children pose a national security threat and will be brought to justice.”

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Ex-Banker Dealt Another Humiliating Legal Blow in JPMorgan ‘Sex Slave’ Lawsuit after Judge’s Demand

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Chirayu Rana has finally outed himself in his salacious “sex slave” lawsuit against a JPMorgan bank boss, replacing his “John Doe” moniker for his own legal name after repeated judicial orders, court records show.

Rana was staring down a deadline to correct the lawsuit by the end of last week and use his own name after his motion to proceed anonymously was struck down in a brutal courtroom hearing by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Dakota Ramseur.

But at the last minute, his attorney Jon Norinsberg tried to wiggle out of the order on a technicality — limiting where Rana’s name would be listed and making it harder to find the case on the antiquated but reliable New York State Courts Electronic Filing website.

Ramseur quickly filed an order the next day slapping down Norinsberg’s request.

Rana, 35, first filed his April lawsuit, which alleged that he was sexually abused by his JP Morgan manager, 37-year-old Lorna Hajdini, anonymously. (Read more from “Ex-Banker Dealt Another Humiliating Legal Blow in JPMorgan ‘Sex Slave’ Lawsuit after Judge’s Demand” HERE)

SCOTUS Affirms Birthright Citizenship, Rejects Trump’s Executive Order

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The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Tuesday to reject President Donald Trump’s reform of the nation’s birthright citizenship policy, which now grants the huge prize of citizenship to nearly all infants born in the United States, even if the parents are illegal migrants or temporary visitors.

The long 194-page Trump v. Barbara decision says Trump’s order violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

The decision was 6 to 3 against Trump, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that Trump and other politicians can change the rule via legislation.

“Citizenship, then and now,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority, “was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”

The right applies even to foreign parents who sneak across the United States borders with Canada and Mexico, or who enter as temporary workers or tourists, Roberts insisted. (Read more from “SCOTUS Affirms Birthright Citizenship, Rejects Trump’s Executive Order” HERE)

Trump, Lutnick’s Sons Stand to Gain Big Profits from Billion-Dollar Mining Deal: Report

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By New York Post. The sons of President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stand to see a big windfall after businesses tied to the families helped secure a $1.6 billion mining deal in Kazakhstan, according to a new report.

After Trump and Lutnick closed a deal for an American company called Kaz Resources to mine one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten last November, records indicate that firms tied to their sons saw financial gain from the contract, the New York Times reported.

Dominari Securities — which is housed at Trump Tower in New York and partly owned by the president’s two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — had joined other investors to take a 20% stake in a company related to the project.

At the same time, Cantor Fitzgerald — an investment company controlled by Lutnick’s family and overseen by his sons Brandon and Kyle Lutnick — helped one of the investors working with Dominari raise $210 million in new capital.

The dealings have raised questions about the Trump and Lutnick families’ financial gains under deals struck during the president’s second term. . .

During the negotiations, Lutnick pushed Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to give the mining contract to Kaz Resources executive chairman Pini Althaus and his backers, writing in a letter that the Trump administration “fully supports” the company. (Read more from “Trump, Lutnick’s Sons Stand to Gain Big Profits from Billion-Dollar Mining Deal: Report” HERE)

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Trump Admin Inner Circle Secretly Trash His Sons’ Latest Grift

By The Daily Beast. Donald Trump’s sons’ financial ties to a major mining project backed by their father’s administration have apparently rankled even some within the president’s inner circle. . .

Trump administration officials involved in the deal told The Times, speaking anonymously, that they were disappointed by the involvement of the Trump family—as well as the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick—in projects the government itself is helping to finance.

In September, Lutnick, 64, and Trump, 80, negotiated an agreement with Kazakhstan’s president granting a small U.S. mining company, Kaz Resources, access to Kazakhstan’s tungsten reserves, alongside approval for more than $1 billion in preliminary federal financing applications. . .

Within weeks of the September negotiations, Dominari Securities—a firm based in Trump Tower and partly owned by Don Jr. and Eric—joined with other partners to take a 20 percent stake in the mining project, The Times reports.

Around the same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment firm overseen by the commerce secretary’s sons, Kyle and Brandon Lutnick, helped raise $210 million for one of the lead investors working with Dominari Securities on the deal, a type of transaction that typically generates millions of dollars in fees for the firm. (Read more from “Trump Admin Inner Circle Secretly Trash His Sons’ Latest Grift” HERE)

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Trump Must Pony up $5M to E. Jean Carroll after SCOTUS Refuses Prez’s Appeal of Sex Abuse, Defamation Verdict

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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up President Trump’s appeal of the initial $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict that followed a lawsuit by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

Now Trump will have no choice but to pony up the $5 million to the 82-year-old, who has repeatedly claimed that the president sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room during the mid-1990s.

Trump slammed the ruling and vowed to continue the fight against Carroll. A separate case between the two is working its way through the legal system.

“Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to ‘review’ a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!),” he wrote on Truth Social.

“I will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength. This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for, and should never be allowed to happen to another President,” he added.

Trump’s lawyers had argued that, as president, he should not be distracted from his executive duties in order to deal with “decades-old, false allegations.” (Read more from “Trump Must Pony up $5M to E. Jean Carroll after SCOTUS Refuses Prez’s Appeal of Sex Abuse, Defamation Verdict” HERE)

Too Much Screentime for Young Kids will Harm their Ability to Properly Learn Later, Study Reveals

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Excessive staring at screens can cause eye strain, dry eyes, headaches, and poor sleep quality, not to mention increased stress and anxiety, according to Michigan State University.

And the less-than-ideal effects are even more pronounced for children — and require the utmost care to be adequately corrected.

A new study reported by News-Medical and conducted by a team of researchers from Inserm and the National University of Singapore, backed up by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics, discovered that high screen time during specific developmental periods for children is connected with lessened academic performance later on, as well as weaker working memory.

The study, which was published in the “World of Pediatrics” health journal this past April, found that the diminished effects were most apparent on children who had been exposed to excessive amounts of screen time during infancy and school-entry age.

Worsened general academic performance appeared to be an additional result of the study, which followed a group of 502 children from infancy to middle childhood, with the effects researchers saw in participants at the tender age of one being among the most pronounced. (Read more from “Too Much Screentime for Young Kids will Harm their Ability to Properly Learn Later, Study Reveals” HERE)

SCOTUS Rules 5-4 to Permit Counting of Mail-In Ballots that Arrive After Election Day

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The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that state laws allowing for the counting of mail-in ballots after election day are not in violation of federal law, a blow to the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump’s administration.

On Monday, SCOTUS issued a 5-4 ruling that permits states to count mail-in ballots — sent on or before election day — that are received by state election officials after election day.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority’s opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“Two principles are important here. First, post-election-day receipt, considered on its own, does not conflict with the election-day statutes,” the Court writes:

Second, state law is preempted by the federal election-day statutes only “‘so far as the conflict extends.’” So even if plaintiffs are right about Mississippi law, they would still lose the challenge they have pressed in this litigation: that post-election-day ballot receipt is itself unlawful. [Emphasis added]

The Framers recognized the difficulty of crafting election laws “applicable to every probable change in the situation of the country.” So instead of constitutionalizing election law, they decided that “a discretionary power over elections” needed to be lodged “somewhere.” Suffice it to say, that power was not lodged in this Court. The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose.

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Tucker Carlson Breaks from GOP: ‘No Chance I Would Support the Republican Party’

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson broke from the Republican Party, stating that he was no longer able to support a party that “puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens.

While speaking on an episode of the Can’t Be Censored podcast, Carlson criticized the Trump administration for not being serious when it comes to strengthening the U.S. relationship with Canada and for being “completely focused on the Middle East.” Carlson also stated that the United States had gone to war with Iran “because of pressure from the prime minister of Israel.”

Carlson also pointed out that Canada is the United States’ “closest ally in the world” and “most important,” adding that “what happens in Canada matters a lot more than what happens in Israel or Lebanon or Iraq or Iran.”

When asked by host Karman Wong if he thought that the upcoming midterm elections would be “the first chance” to get a “temperature read” on how Americans feel about the Trump administration, Carlson pointed out that the polls “tell a pretty clear story about it.”

“Well, the poll numbers now are … tell a pretty clear story about it. I would not support the Republican Party, there’s no chance I would support the Republican Party,” Carlson said. “No going to support the Democratic Party, I don’t know what I’m going to do. But, at this point, how could you support, how could I or any American voters support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States? That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens?” (Read more from “Tucker Carlson Breaks from GOP: ‘No Chance I Would Support the Republican Party’” HERE)

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Treasure Cache at Biblical City Connected to Genesis

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Archaeologists have uncovered a cache of ancient treasure at the site of Heliopolis, the storied Egyptian city mentioned in the biblical story of Joseph. . . 

Heliopolis, known in the Bible as “On,” makes multiple appearances in Genesis, the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Ezekiel. 

Genesis 41:45 notes that Joseph’s wife, Asenath, was the daughter of Potipherah, a priest of the city.  

The cache, found beneath a burial structure containing human remains, included five pairs of yellow-colored metal earrings that archaeologists believe may be made of gold.

Pictures released by officials show the earrings along with carved scarabs and other small artifacts, as well as cosmetic containers and a copper mirror. (Read more from “Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Treasure Cache at Biblical City Connected to Genesis” HERE)

Poll Shows Wide Support for Less Legalized Migration

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Thirty-three percent of Americans — and 54 percent of Trump voters — say legalized immigration should be reduced or zeroed out, according to a poll for a globalist magazine.

Twenty-three percent of respondents and 46 percent of liberals, but only 8 percent of Republicans, said immigration should be increased, according to the June poll of 1,549 citizens.

Swing-voting moderates split 28 percent for less or zero migration, and 20 percent want migration to be increased, said the poll, which was conducted for The Economist magazine.

A large 30 percent slice of respondents said legal migration levels should be kept at current levels. But there is no evidence that the YouGov pollster provided any information to those respondents that the current inflow of permanent and temporary legalized migration delivers roughly two new migrants for every four U.S. births each year.

The “not sure” option was picked by 15 percent of all respondents and 1 percent of independents. (Read more from “Poll Shows Wide Support for Less Legalized Migration” HERE)