Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Gets ‘No Tax’ On Tips And Overtime

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Two of President Donald Trump’s major tax-related campaign promises that will impact millions of American workers have made it into legislation proposed for the so-called “one big, beautiful bill,” albeit only for a period that would not last beyond his second term.

“No Tax On Tips” and “No Tax On Overtime” appear in a 389-page measure released by the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday, with provisions saying the deductions would expire at the end of 2028.

Another of Trump’s priorities, no tax on auto loan interest, made it into the legislation.

Trump had also been pushing for an end to taxes on Social Security for seniors, however Bloomberg reported that it could not be included due to the “special budget process that Congress is using to advance the tax package.”

Instead, the measure has a section that would allow middle-and low-income seniors to deduct an extra $4,000 for each taxable year. (Read more from “Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Gets ‘No Tax’ On Tips And Overtime” HERE)

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Criminal Docs Blow Apart Media Narrative About Migrant in El Salvador Prison

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A deported illegal migrant whose family claimed he had no criminal history has previously been accused of several crimes, including carrying a loaded firearm near a school in February, records show.

New York police arrested 19-year-old Merwil Gutierrez Flores on Feb. 25 on three felonies and a misdemeanor a day before immigration authorities arrested him, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. After being sent to prison in El Salvador, Gutierrez-Flores has been at the center of sympathetic media coverage publicizing his family’s claims that “he’s never been accused of a crime.”

The document reveals Gutierrez Flores, a Venezuelan, was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, carrying a loaded firearm on school grounds, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and unlawful possession of ammunition feeding devices. President Donald Trump’s FBI contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about Gutierrez Flores a day later.

The DHS report alleged Gutierrez Flores “has been identified as [an] Associate/Active of” the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Officials deported Gutierrez Flores to the “Terrorism Confinement Center,” or CECOT, in El Salvador on March 15, the DHS said in a statement to the DCNF.

“Merwil Alberto Gutierrez Flores was deported to CECOT because he is an associate of Tren de Aragua — a foreign terrorist organization — whose criminal record included an arrest for having a loaded firearm and ammunition feeding devices at a school,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said. “The Biden Administration released this dangerous criminal into our communities in 2023. President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem are getting these criminals off our streets and out of country.” (Read more from “Criminal Docs Blow Apart Media Narrative About Migrant in El Salvador Prison” HERE)

Pornhub Staff Worried About Going To Jail For Child Porn Downloaded From Their Company’s Own Website, Docs Show

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PornHub let child pornography sit untouched on its website for years, including content one employee admitted would put him behind bars “for a long time” if it was found on his computer, discovery documents released in error reveal.

Internal messages, emails and memos from around 2020 reveal the company struggling to clear child pornography from its website while executives debated measures to crack down and staff tasked with removing it made light of the situation.

The documents, first reported by the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof, are part of discovery in an Alabama class action lawsuit brought by child sex trafficking victims who allege PornHub’s parent company MindGeek financially profited from distributing videos depicting their abuse.

“You guys want to laugh,” one staff member wrote in an April 7, 2020 message. “[I]t caught a cp [child pornography] video from 2009…a full on cp video on the site for 11 years.”

At one point, one staff member was told not to include a superior on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) report emails. (Read more from “Pornhub Staff Worried About Going To Jail For Child Porn Downloaded From Their Company’s Own Website, Docs Show” HERE)

Doctors Discover Drug Already on the Market ‘Could Prevent 1 Million New Cases of Alzheimer’s’ a Year

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Alzheimer’s affects nearly 7 million Americans, a number that’s expected to spike to 13.9 million by 2060.

Given the devastating effects of this incurable disease, the hunt is on for a drug that could help prevent or slow its progression.

Now, a new study has found that nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) — a common class of medications for HIV — could dramatically decrease the risk of developing this neurodegenerative disorder.

Analyzing data from over 270,000 patients aged 50 and older, researchers observed that the risk of Alzheimer’s decreased by 6% to 13% for each year the patients were on NRTIs.

These results are — to say the least — incredibly promising.

“It’s estimated that over 10 million people around the world develop Alzheimer’s disease annually,” said Jayakrishna Ambati, founding director of the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Vision Science. (Read more from “Doctors Discover Drug Already on the Market ‘Could Prevent 1 Million New Cases of Alzheimer’s’ a Year” HERE)

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Trump to Sign ‘One of the Most Consequential Executive Orders’ in History

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After teasing that his next message on Truth Social would be “one of the most important and impactful I have ever issued,” President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he would sign an executive order Monday morning designed to cut prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices “almost immediately, by 30% to 80%.”

“For many years the World has wondered why Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in the United States States of America were SO MUCH HIGHER IN PRICE THAN THEY WERE IN ANY OTHER NATION, SOMETIMES BEING FIVE TO TEN TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE SAME DRUG, MANUFACTURED IN THE EXACT SAME LABORATORY OR PLANT, BY THE SAME COMPANY???” Trump began, having made people wait nearly four hours for his post.

“It was always difficult to explain and very embarrassing because, in fact, there was no correct or rightful answer. The Pharmaceutical/Drug Companies would say, for years, that it was Research and Development Costs, and that all of these costs were, and would be, for no reason whatsoever, borne by the ‘suckers’ of America, ALONE.

“Campaign Contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not with the Republican Party. We are going to do the right thing, something that the Democrats have fought for many years.

“Therefore, I am pleased to announce that Tomorrow morning, in the White House, at 9:00 A.M., I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%. (Read more from “Trump to Sign ‘One of the Most Consequential Executive Orders’ in History” HERE)

Police: Councilwoman Incites Mob, Assaults Officers to Stop Arrest of Violent Illegal Alien

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Police are calling for an official investigation and charges against a city councilwoman for allegedly assaulting officers and inciting a violent mob trying to stop the arrest of an illegal alien criminal suspect in Worcester, Massachusetts.

It is another in a slew of incidents where government officials have stepped in to try to block immigration enforcement as the Trump administration cracks down on aliens with criminal records in the U.S.

A local police union argued over the weekend that Etel Haxhiaj, who represents Worcester’s District 5, helped incite the mob into assaulting ICE officers and cops during the Department of Homeland Security operation that escalated out of control Friday. The Worcester Police Patrolman’s Union made the allegations in a statement released Saturday.

The protest by more than two dozen bystanders chanting “no warrant!” and “not the mother!” resulted after authorities came to arrest Ferreira de Oliveira. She is an illegal alien whom local police recently arrested for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a pregnant victim, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

It was unclear how many of the bystanders were just a spontaneous outpouring of “neighbors,” as some news outlets reported, or if the gathering was engineered by anti-deportation activists who got a heads up on the apprehension operation. (Read more from “Police: Councilwoman Incites Mob, Assaults Officers to Stop Arrest of Violent Illegal Alien” HERE)

Soviet-Era Spacecraft Plunges to Earth After 53 Years Stuck in Orbit

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A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.

Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking. The Russians indicated it came down over the Indian Ocean, but some experts were not so sure of the precise location. The European Space Agency’s space debris office also tracked the spacecraft’s doom after it failed to appear over a German radar station.

It was not immediately known how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit. Experts said ahead of time that some if not all of it might come crashing down, given it was built to withstand a landing on Venus, the solar system’s hottest planet.

The chances of anyone getting clobbered by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said.

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction. (Read more from “Soviet-Era Spacecraft Plunges to Earth After 53 Years Stuck in Orbit” HERE)

Archaeologists Stunned by Royal Discovery Behind ‘Massive’ Granite False Door

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Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a recent Facebook post in April.

The tomb was found at the Saqqara archaeological site in the Giza Governorate of Egypt.

The tomb belonged to a prince named “Userefre” or “Waser Ef Ra,” the son of King Userkaf.

Userkaf was the founder of the Fifth Dynasty, which lasted from the early 25th century B.C. until the mid-24th century B.C.

The tomb was concealed by a “massive false door,” according to Egyptian officials, and was made of pink granite. (Read more from “Archaeologists Stunned by Royal Discovery Behind ‘Massive’ Granite False Door” HERE)

Complaint Argues Racial Discrimination Inside Law Firms Trump Sanctioned

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Americans for Equal Opportunity has filed a charge of race discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of three white members, alleging some of the nation’s largest law firms and the nonprofit that selected and placed summer interns with those legal giants unlawfully discriminated against white Americans in the name of diversity. The EEOC charge filed this morning accuses the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) and its 44 partners — some of the country’s most well-heeled law firms — with operating a summer law fellowship program in violation of Title VII.

Title VII is the federal statute which prohibits employers, as well as employment agencies, from discriminating in employment on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, or religion. And the EEOC charge filed by Americans for Equal Opportunity, a recently formed membership organization dedicated to “promot[ing] and protect[ing] the right of the public to be free from discrimination on the basis of race,” details how SEO allegedly violated Title VII through its discriminatory law fellowship program.

To support its EEOC charge, Americans for Equal Opportunity, or AEO, points to SEO’s own words. “SEO is the nation’s premier summer internship and training program targeting talented African American, Hispanic and Native college students,” the nonprofit’s Form 990 from 2019 boasted, adding: “Each year, SEO Career recruits, interviews, selects and trains several hundred interns and fellows for partners in banking, law, alternative investment and corporate leadership … To date SEO has recruited over 8,900 interns for its U.S. Partners.” A few years earlier, “SEO held itself out to prospective Sponsor Firms as ‘the nation’s only summer internship program for pre-law students of color.’”

Those sponsor firms included a veritable “who’s who,” of the nation’s top law firms, with the EEOC charge identifying the 44 entities who partnered in the SEO Fellowship program. Under the fellowship program, the law firms allegedly paid “SEO to recruit and place SEO Fellows in summer internship programs” for law-school bound college graduates, branded “0L,” in contrast to law students called 1L, 2L, or 3L, based on their year in law school. As the charge notes, large law firms rarely offer “0L” programs outside the SEO Fellowship, and, in fact, only a few top law students even obtain internships as 1Ls. (Read more from “Complaint Argues Racial Discrimination Inside Law Firms Trump Sanctioned” HERE)

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Dow Jumps Nearly 1,000 and S&P 500 Climbs 2.6% Following a 90-Day Truce in the US-China Trade War

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U.S. stocks are leaping Monday after China and the United States announced a 90-day truce in their trade war. They agreed to take down most of their tariffs that economists warned could start a recession and create shortages on U.S. store shelves.

The S&P 500 was 2.6% higher in early trading and back within 5.5% of its all-time high set in February. Since falling nearly 20% below that mark last month, the index has been roaring higher on hopes that President Donald Trump will lower his tariffs after reaching trade deals with other countries. The index, which sits at the heart of many 401(k) accounts, is back above where it was on April 2, Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he announced stiff worldwide tariffs that caused worries to spike about a potentially self-inflicted recession. . .

It wasn’t just stocks surging following what one analyst called a “best case scenario” for US-China tariff talks. Crude oil prices jumped more than 3% because a global economy less weakened by tariffs would be hungrier for fuel. The value of the dollar climbed against everything from the euro to the Japanese yen to the Swiss franc. And Treasury yields jumped on expectations that the Federal Reserve won’t have to cut interest rates so deeply this year in order to protect the economy from the damage of tariffs. (Read more from “Dow Jumps Nearly 1,000 and S&P 500 Climbs 2.6% Following a 90-Day Truce in the US-China Trade War” HERE)