SpaceX Shares Surge 18% in Trading Debut as Elon Musk’s Rocket Company Surpasses $2 Trillion Valuation

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SpaceX opened trading Friday at $150 per share under the ticker SPCX following the largest IPO in history, with shares quickly climbing above $160 and pushing the company’s market capitalization beyond $2 trillion.

CNBC reports that SpaceX began public trading on the Nasdaq exchange Friday morning after pricing its initial public offering at $135 per share. The opening price of $150 represented an approximately 11 percent gain over the IPO price, though initial indications to trading desks had suggested a higher opening around $175.

Shortly after the market opened, SpaceX stock climbed above $160 per share, valuing Elon Musk’s aerospace and AI company at more than $two trillion in market capitalization. This milestone came as the company completed the largest IPO in history, raising $75 billion dollars through the sale of 555,555,555 Class A common stock shares. Almost 100 million shares have traded as of this writing.

Elon Musk and SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell participated in the opening bell ceremony, with Musk appearing remotely from the company’s Starbase headquarters in Texas while Shotwell rang the bell at the Nasdaq in New York City. The company also launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on the same morning, sending 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.

Shotwell told CNBC that SpaceX is looking for long-term investors and emphasized that the company’s focus remains on futuristic goals rather than quarterly earnings. “I wasn’t sure we would go public,” Shotwell said. “What folks who invest in SpaceX need to know is that what we’re doing is very futuristic.” (Read more from “SpaceX Shares Surge 18% in Trading Debut as Elon Musk’s Rocket Company Surpasses $2 Trillion Valuation” HERE)

More Democrats Support Mass Deportations, Removal of Criminal Migrants, New Poll Shows

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Americans — including Democrats — have grown more supportive of mass deporting illegal immigrants and booting those who have broken the law out of the country, according to a new poll.

The survey found that some 80% of voters supported “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes” — a five-point jump from April when just 75% of those polled favored giving the “worst of their worst” a one-way ticket out of the US, a new Harvard/Harris a new Harvard University/Harris poll shows.

The uptick since April was seen across party lines, and was most pronounced among Democrats, many of whom have vehemently opposed President Trump’s nationwide illegal immigration crackdown.

According to the poll, 71% of Democrats now support deporting criminal migrants, compared to 63% in April — an 8-point increase in just one month.

Republican support held steady but still inched up from 89% in April to 90% in May, and the proportion of independents in favor jumped from 73% in April to 79% a month later.

As for deporting any immigrant in the country illegally, 56% of polled voters expressed support, a modest 1% increase since the poll was conducted in April. However, the rise in support takes an interesting turn when broken down by party affiliation. (Read more from “More Democrats Support Mass Deportations, Removal of Criminal Migrants, New Poll Shows” HERE)

Police Chief Arrested in Florida after Grand Jury Hands Down 70-Count Child Sex Indictment

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An Ohio police chief is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars after being slapped with a 70-count indictment for alleged sex crimes involving a child.

Bethel Police Chief Chad Essert, 44, was taken into custody without incident Tuesday night in Seminole, Florida, by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.

A Clermont County grand jury indicted the Blanchester, Ohio, resident on 56 counts of sexual battery and 14 counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor — all third-degree felonies. . .

The allegations stem from offenses that authorities claim occurred between 2005 and 2010, while Essert was an instructor at the “Young Marines” and a teacher at Scarlet Oaks Career Campus in Sharonville, Ohio.

Officials said the alleged victim was a student of Essert’s and that the crimes took place across multiple locations in Clermont and Hamilton counties. (Read more from “Police Chief Arrested in Florida after Grand Jury Hands Down 70-Count Child Sex Indictment” HERE)

New Declassified Docs Give Tulsi Gabbard Last Laugh On Ukrainian Biolabs

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified intelligence about a constellation of biological laboratories in Ukraine on Friday, four years after members of Congress and biodefense officials criticized her for expressing concerns about them.

The new documents reveal two dozen biological labs in Ukraine. The map reveals that a lab in Odessa, a city with a population of more than one million people, has a lab with stored biological weapons from the defunct Soviet Union biological weapons program. Viruses in storage include anthrax, tularemia, tuberculosis, Swine Fever, New Castles Disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, the Plague, and Rickettsia, the documents show.

“Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth,” Gabbard said in a statement. “ODNI will continue to work closely with partners across the government to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain to end dangerous Gain-of-Function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world.”

Gabbard is pushing to declassify documents in the public interest in her final days in office, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported last week. Gabbard announced on May 22 that she would step down to care for her husband following his cancer diagnosis. Her last day is slated to be June 19. Trump announced on Thursday he had picked New York attorney and former SEC chairman Jay Clayton to replace her.

The Odessa lab and four others in Ukraine are biosafety level three labs (BSL-3), the second highest level of containment, which is usually reserved for virulent pathogens. (Read more from “New Declassified Docs Give Tulsi Gabbard Last Laugh On Ukrainian Biolabs” HERE)

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Race Hustlers are Trying to Make Karmelo Anthony a Victim, Rather than the Murderer He Is

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By New York Post. A beautiful young life was snuffed out in the most senseless way possible — knifed in the heart in what should have been a completely safe place: a high school track meet.

And a seemingly once promising young man is going to prison for 35 years for fatally stabbing him.

It truly cannot get more depressing than the case of Austin Metcalf, killed by Karmelo Anthony in 2025.

But because Metcalf was white, and Anthony is black, this has been turned into a toxic stew of racial grievances, exacerbating an already heartbreaking story.

Throughout the trial, protesters have demonstrated outside the Collin County courthouse, ranting that a guilty verdict would be racism. On social media, some have ghoulishly celebrated Metcalf’s death, while race hustlers like Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett are trying to turn this avoidable tragedy into a racial reckoning for a broken nation. . .

What we really need is a conversation about education. Some of these fools outside the courthouse and on social media could benefit from opening a book or reading an article about this specific trial. Crockett, however, is an attorney, and being willfully ignorant. (Read more from “Race Hustlers are Trying to Make Karmelo Anthony a Victim, Rather than the Murderer He Is” HERE)

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Austin Metcalf’s twin brother delivers stinging 6-word rebuke to Karmelo Anthony

By New York Post. Austin Metcalf’s twin brother ripped convicted killer Karmelo Anthony in a blistering victim impact statement, telling him that while his slain sibling’s memory will live on, “eventually your name will be forgotten.”

Hunter Metcalf, who was born two minutes after Austin, unleashed the stinging rebuke after Anthony, 19, was slapped with a 35-year sentence Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of his 17-year-old brother.

“You took a son, a brother, a friend, and my best friend, from this world. You took someone from me who was supposed to be an uncle, godfather to my kids. Now I want everything taken from you,” Hunter choked through tears in a Texas courtroom, CBS Texas reported.

“Eventually your name will be forgotten,” he added. “But my brother’s memory will live on.”

The baby-faced teen killer was found guilty of first-degree murder for the death of Metcalf, a high school athlete he knifed during a dispute at a track and field meet in Frisco on April 2, 2025. (Read more from “Austin Metcalf’s twin brother delivers stinging 6-word rebuke to Karmelo Anthony” HERE)

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Dozens of Whistleblowers Sounded the Alarm on Minnesota Fraud — and Tim Walz’s Team Silenced Them

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In the end, the most appalling thing about the ballooning US social-services fraud scandals is the eager collusion of state officials in robbing the public by the billions — with Minnesota the early prime example.

Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday asked the Justice Department to investigate and perhaps prosecute Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and other high officials over the evidence laid out in a devastating House Oversight Committee report on benefit fraud in Minnesota.

The committee documented how more than 30 whistleblowers tried to sound the alarm on fraud, only to be silenced by the Democrats running the state — e.g., with explicit orders to “stop looking into” obvious fraud because the folks in charge feared being labeled “racist or Islamophobic.”

Worse, the state Department of Human Services actually investigated state workers who called out the fraud — tracking their phones, photographed their cars and even collected personal info such as their children’s schools.

A worker who emailed that she knew of noncompliant contracts approved by management that put “DHS funds at risk” found herself labeled “disruptive” and put on investigative leave. (Read more from “Dozens of Whistleblowers Sounded the Alarm on Minnesota Fraud — and Tim Walz’s Team Silenced Them” HERE)

SF’s Woke Schools Boss Cannot Answer ‘White’ Parents Question from Black Congressman

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San Francisco’s public schools chief repeatedly refused to condemn an alleged ethnic studies comparison Wednesday when pressed by Republican lawmakers during a tense congressional hearing.

Superintendent Maria Su was asked whether she agreed with curriculum that allegedly compared parents who opposed COVID-19 school policies to white families in the 1960s who avoided desegregation by moving their children into private schools.

Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah), who is black, asked Su whether she believed opposition to public schools was “a problem only with white parents.”

Rather than answer, Su repeatedly said she would need to review the material first.

“I would need to see the document,” Su said. “I would need to understand the context.” (Read more from “SF’s Woke Schools Boss Cannot Answer ‘White’ Parents Question from Black Congressman” HERE)

Marjorie Taylor Greene: President Donald Trump Is a ‘Traitor’

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Wednesday, on CNN’s “The Source,” former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called President Donald Trump a “traitor.”

Greene said, “I’ll also never forget the text message he sent me when I told him that my son’s life was being threatened because he was calling me a traitor because I fought to release the Epstein files where he told me that I deserved it. And so this doesn’t shock me that his team was paralyzed.”

She added, “These people are absolutely absurd. They don’t deserve the American people’s trust. As a matter of fact, we should consider them as, they should be considered traitors. They’re traitors. The ones that refuse to release Epstein files want to cover up for pedophiles and rapists and all sorts of disgusting things in these files. Those are the traitors to the American people. And they should be ashamed of themselves.”

Host Kaitlan Collins said, “Are you saying that that applies to the president himself?”

Greene said, “I’m saying exactly that. He told me on the phone that his friends would get hurt, and that’s why he’s against releasing the Epstein files.” (Read more from “Marjorie Taylor Greene: President Donald Trump Is a ‘Traitor’” HERE)

U.S. Hits Iran Again After Trump Said Tehran Has Been ‘Tapping Us Along’ in Talks

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The U.S. military launched a fresh wave of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Wednesday evening after President Donald Trump warned Tehran would “pay the price” for dragging out negotiations aimed at ending the conflict.

“U.S. Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” CENTCOM announced in a statement. “The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.”

The operation followed a day of increasingly sharp warnings from Trump, who accused Tehran of stalling negotiations and warned the regime would face consequences for delaying a response to Washington’s latest proposal.

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump declared that Iran had been “completely defeated,” describing the regime as “all talk and no action.”

“The Bully of the Middle East is DEAD!!!” Trump wrote. “They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them. Now they will have to pay the price!”

(Read more from “U.S. Hits Iran Again After Trump Said Tehran Has Been ‘Tapping Us Along’ in Talks” HERE)

Jury Finds Karmelo Anthony Guilty in the Murder of Austin Metcalf; Protesters Attempt To Incite Race Riot Over Verdict

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By Breitbart. A jury in Collin County, Texas, has found 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the 2025 stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the Frisco Memorial tent at a regional track meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony, a former student at Frisco Centennial, took shelter in the tent during a rainy portion of the day. Frisco Memorial athletes, including Metcalf, told him to leave the tent “roughly 15 times,” according to witnesses.

One 17-year-old student-athlete who went to Frisco Memorial with Metcalf told the court that Anthony, 19, did not act in self-defense. He kept his hands in his backpack until Metcalf shoved him, and then he responded by stabbing the teen in the chest.

“That’s lethal force against non-lethal,” the witness explained.

One of the key parts of Anthony’s defense is the claim that Austin and his brother Hunter ganged up on Anthony, forcing him to take the knife out of his bag to defend himself.

(Read more from “Jury Finds Karmelo Anthony Guilty in the Murder of Austin Metcalf” HERE)

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Protesters Attempt To Incite Race Riot Over Karmelo Anthony Verdict

By Daily Caller. Protesters awaiting the verdict in the Karmelo Anthony trial were furious to learn the 19-year-old had been found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a Texas track meet in April 2025.

“We gotta tell our kids the truth, that this is a racist-ass country,” yelled a woman dressed in what appeared to be a Black Panther uniform. Two men dressed in similar uniforms stood stoically to her sides.

She further directed an individual (or the nation, perhaps) to “stop that coon-ass shit.”

“Don’t nobody want to hear about what we do to each other. We talking about what they doing to us,” she continued. “White folks kill white folks. Mexicans kill Mexicans. We ain’t trying to hear no coon shit today. Go over there to them white folks with that. This is a racist-ass country!”

The pantheress claimed Texas is a “racist-ass state” and that the trial was taking place in a “racist-ass court,” as she continued her tirade against white people. (Read more from “Protesters Attempt To Incite Race Riot Over Karmelo Anthony Verdict” HERE)