Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldThe Federal Reserve is not expected to cut interest rates on Wednesday but the US central bank’s policy is already under scrutiny from President Donald Trump.Investors overwhelmingly expect the Fed to hold rates at their current level of 4.25-4.5 per cent, after three consecutive cuts since September.Attention will focus on any shift in outlook from the accompanying statement, and on remarks from chair Jay Powell in the subsequent press conference.In December the Fed signalled a likely pause in rate cuts…
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Since early 2021, The Gateway Pundit was one of the first journalistic organizations to begin telling the stories of the January 6th political prisoners. We promised you that we would never stop telling them until every single J6 prisoner was freed. Thanks to God, President Trump’s pardons, and the hard work of brave patriots, we are almost there. After four years of relentless work reporting on the political prisoners of J6, we at The Gateway Pundit were right there in front of the D.C. Gulag as Biden’s prisoners were released last week. Below is a collection of interviews with the…
The actress and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, requested that a judge issue a gag order against Baldoni’s lawyers for allegedly making false statements about their ongoing legal standoff.Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have now doubled down on the request, claiming Justin Baldoni’s alleged smear campaign is still ongoing.Article continues below advertisementBlake Lively Says Her Ongoing Legal Tussle ‘May Have Profound Consequences’MEGALively and Reynolds made another shocking allegation against Baldoni, alleging that he is still waging a “retaliation campaign” against her and that how the case is being treated “may have profound consequences.”According to Deadline, the couple’s lawyer made the claims…
GAZA STRIP: US President Donald Trump has floated a plan to “just clean out” Gaza, and said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from the territory, as a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas aimed at permanently ending the war enters its second week on Sunday (Jan 26). The truce deal that came into effect on Jan 19 saw four Israeli hostages and around 200 Palestinian prisoners released to joyful scenes on Saturday, in the second such exchange so far. But after 15 months of war, Trump called Gaza a “demolition site” and said he had spoken to Jordan’s…
Another Palestinian died from injuries after being shot by Israeli forces in a separate incident in Balata refugee camp.Israeli forces have shot and killed a two-year-old Palestinian girl as they step up large-scale military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to health officials. In a statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said Laila al-Khatib died of “critical wounds” after being shot in the head on Saturday by Israeli forces in the Martyrs’ Triangle area of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. Media reports said the girl’s pregnant mother was also lightly wounded in the attack. The Israeli military…
Saturday’s meeting between No. 1 Auburn and No. 6 Tennessee was a physical battle from start to finish with the Tigers prevailing, 53-51. Tennessee had the ball with a chance to win or force overtime when senior guard Zakai Zeigler missed this corner three. Both teams battled for the loose ball before Auburn dribbled out the rest of the clock to seal the top 10 victory at home. Both teams struggled to shoot the ball all night, as the final score would indicate. The teams only made seven threes combined.Not surprisingly, Auburn’s leading scorer for the season, Johni Broome, led…
There’s nothing new about the problem of money in politics. We’ve been warned for decades that America is or is becoming an oligarchy. But something has felt different about the early days of President Trump’s second term, and I think it’s this: Attention, not cash, is the form of power that most interests him.Plenty of his billionaire backers didn’t make the cut at his inauguration. The catbird seats were occupied instead by the titans of attention. It was the leaders of Facebook and Instagram and X and TikTok and Amazon and Google that Trump was so eager to see arrayed…
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Cristina Ashbaugh, 28, and Kelly McGee, 29, co-founders of the design-driven ski pole brand Yardsale. The San Francisco-based duo’s business saw $100,000 in sales in its first month and $300,000 at the end of its first year (with a ski season of only four months). Responses have been edited for length and clarity.Image Credit: Courtesy of YardsaleWhat was your day job or primary occupation when you started your side hustle?CA: I was the head of content for a venture capital firm in San Francisco, where I focused on helping my firm’s general partners develop…
Franconian TrumpeterLuisa Maria Stagno The bizarre, beautiful and, at times, almost comical diversity of “fancy pigeons” is captured here by photographer Luisa Maria Stagno. Danish SuabianLuisa Maria Stagno The much maligned pigeons we all know, which are ubiquitous in cities around the world, are actually descended from escaped or released domesticated pigeons, which were in turn bred from the wild rock dove (Columba livia). JacobinLuisa Maria Stagno Today, pigeons have been selectively bred by humans to display a bewildering variety of shapes and colours, numbering as many as 1100 breeds. Even Charles Darwin was known to have bred the birds,…
Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Congo has left at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead, United Nations and army officials said Saturday.M23 has made significant territorial gains in recent weeks, encircling the eastern city of Goma, which has around 2 million people and is a regional hub for security and humanitarian efforts.The U.N. Security Council moved up an emergency meeting on the escalating violence to Sunday morning (10 am EST). Congo requested the meeting, which had originally been scheduled for Monday.On Saturday, Congo’s army said it fended off an M23 offensive towards Goma with the help of its allied forces,…