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Watch: Bystander Appears to Capture New B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Flying Low Over Wichita

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Video taken Tuesday appears to show a rare glimpse of America’s latest Stealth weapon.

A video that appears to match past images of the B-21 Raider was taken near McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, on Tuesday, according to the New York Post.

The image appears similar to photos the Air Force released in 2024.

The plane’s first test flight was in 2023, Military.com reported.

The B-21 bomber was developed to replace the B-1 and B-2 bombers, according to an Air Force news release.

“The B-21 Raider will be a dual-capable penetrating strike stealth bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions,” the Air Force said in a fact sheet about the new plane.

“The B-21 will form the backbone of the future Air Force bomber force consisting of B-21s and B-52s. Designed to operate in tomorrow’s high-end threat environment, the B-21 will play a critical role in ensuring America’s enduring airpower capability,” the fact sheet said.

The Air Force has said that operational status is expected to be achieved “in the mid-2020s.”

“Nuclear modernization is a top priority for the Department of Defense and the Air Force, and B-21 is key to that plan,” Randall Walden, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office director, said in the Air Force release.

“The built-in feature of open systems architecture on the B-21 makes the bomber effective as the threat environment evolves. This aircraft design approach sets the nation on the right path to ensuring America’s enduring airpower capability,” he said.

“The B-21 Raider will be a component of a larger family of systems for conventional Long Range Strike, including Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, electronic attack, communication and other capabilities. It will be nuclear capable and designed to accommodate manned or unmanned operations,” according to the fact sheet.

The B-21 will fly with a bit of history in its name.

“The B-21 Raider is named in honor of the historic Doolittle Raiders, U.S. Army Air Force men who are known for their surprise attack against Japan during World War II on April 18, 1942, which forced the Japanese to recall combat forces for home defense, and boosted morale among Americans and U.S. allies abroad. The designation B-21 recognizes the Raider as the first bomber of the 21st century,” the fact sheet said.

The Air Force has estimated that each plane will cost about $639 million in 2019 dollars.

The Air Force plans to order 100 of the planes.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Trump Imposes 100% Tariffs on Some Chinese Drones Over National Security Concerns

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Danger from above

Some foreign UAVs are a National Security threat.

Yesterday (13), US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation imposing tariffs of up to 100% on imports of certain drones and components.

In a concerted effort to boost domestic production and address national security concerns, Trump follows up on previous statements that the country had become ‘too reliant’ on foreign sources of drones.

While some lesser tariffs are imposed by some key US allies, multiple outlets report that the main target is the Chinese drone tech industry.

Reuters reported:

“A proclamation signed by Trump imposes a 100% ad valorem tariff on drones of a certain size or with certain capabilities that are particularly sensitive for national security purposes, the White House said, adding that a tariff of 25% will be imposed on drones that are smaller in size.

A 15% tariff will be imposed on drones and components from the European Union, Japan, Liechtenstein, South Korea, Switzerland, and Taiwan, and a 10% ad valorem tariff will be imposed on drones from the UK, the White House added.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had probed the effects of imports of unmanned aircraft systems or drones, and found that unmanned aircraft and components from ‘certain foreign entities’ pose ‘security and safety risks.’

He also found that the domestic U.S. industry does not produce enough to meet security needs.

The New York Post reported:

“The proclamation imposes a 100% ​tariff on drones “of a certain size or with certain capabilities that are particularly sensitive for national security purposes,” including those with a maximum takeoff weight of more than 55 pounds and with thermal imaging capabilities, according to the White House.

Docking stations and critical components for these drones are also subject to the 100% levy.”

“Relying on imported drones ‘poses significant risks to US national security through our dependence on unreliable supply chains for an essential technology and the potential of significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities’, the president added, noting Lutnick found drone and drone components ‘from certain foreign entities pose security and safety risks’.

[…] The president noted his administration had ‘concerns’ about whether the US has the ability to produce drones ‘at the required speed and scale to adequately support national security operations and activities, including during a surge for wartime or armed conflict, or in a manner to sustain long-term economic competitiveness’, which the new tariffs aim to address.”

Read the complete White House ‘fact sheet’.

Read more:

British Royal Navy’s Spy Drones Have Cameras Suspected of Sending Back Data to China

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Parents Who Demanded Abortion Now Have Custody of Baby Gabriel After Surrogate Risked Everything to Save Him (VIDEOS)

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The legal battle over Baby Gabriel took a dramatic turn this week when the California couple who repeatedly sought to abort him obtained physical custody of the newborn just hours after his birth in Texas, even as the surrogate who refused their demands continues fighting for parental rights.

Surrogate McKenna West, an Alaska nurse and mother of two, rejected the biological parents’ demands for an abortion after a 20-week diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital defect that requires multiple surgeries but is treatable.

West fled to Texas for legal protection and specialized care, giving birth to the boy, whom she named Gabriel, on Wednesday at a Dallas hospital.

WATCH:

“Every life matters. No woman should be forced to end the life of the baby she is carrying — including me… Baby Gabriel should receive a chance at life,” West told The New York Post.

Biological parents Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, who refer to the child as Rumi, now have custody while he receives medical treatment, according to their attorneys.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured an emergency court order mandating life-sustaining care and barring any attempt to remove the infant from the state ahead of an August 25 hearing.

A separate temporary restraining order prohibits West from claiming to be the child’s parent or making medical decisions on his behalf.

West’s attorney Lincoln Wilson has declared that under Texas law the woman who gives birth is the legal mother and vowed to challenge California court orders as void, saying the fight will go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

“She is seeking parentage of the child because she gave birth in Texas, and in Texas, if you give birth to a child, it’s your child,” Wilson stated.

West has publicly said she could not live with herself if she ended the pregnancy and that Gabriel “deserves to be surrounded by people who are 100% willing to fight alongside him.”

WATCH:

The biological parents’ lawyers have called the situation a family tragedy turned into “political theater,” insisting their sole focus is the baby’s medical care.

“As if the heartbreak of his condition were not enough, they are devastated to see their family tragedy transformed into political theater by the Texas Attorney General’s office and McKenna West,” their lawyer, Lee Budner, told TMZ.

A segment on the situation for NBC News framed the parents as victims, despite their efforts to kill their biological son.

WATCH:

Though the courts appear to be siding with the biological parents, for now, it is abundantly clear who King Solomon would have deemed the true parent in this situation.

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NEW: Woman Identified and Arrested on Two Felony Charges After Vandalizing DC’s Sacred World War II Memorial – Faces Up to TEN YEARS in Prison

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Melissa L. Farris. Credit: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro

The wicked individual who spray-painted and dumped chemicals on DC’s WWII memorial has been identified and arrested.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., was vandalized on Thursday with bubbly soap and graffiti containing a very nasty message to the military.

The memorial fountain bubbled over with suds, and a complete loser painted the words “Clean hands Dirty $” on one of its surfaces.

The area was also splattered with red and green paint.

The Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service, vowed zero tolerance and a commitment to finding the person or people responsible.

Now, justice has arrived.

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has just announced that authorities have arrested Melissa L. Farris and faces the following charges: Depredation Against Property of the United States and Destruction of Veterans’ Memorials.

Should Farris be convicted of both charges, she faces up to 10 years in prison.

Pirro also shared two photos of Farris. One shows her wearing sunglasses and looking into the camera.

The other shows her spray-painting words on the memorial.

“Vandalizing our World War II Memorial is a despicable attack on a sacred monument honoring the Americans who fought and died for our freedom,” Pirro wrote on X. “Those Americans include my father and grandfather.

“This morning, we are filing two felony charges, Depredation Against Property of the United States and Destruction of Veterans’ Memorial in Federal District Court against Melissa L. Farris, offenses that carry penalties of up to ten years in prison,” she added.

She is now in custody.”

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Nigel Farage Wins Clacton election — While a Quarter of Voters Chose a Bin (Trashcan)

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Nigel Farage won the Clacton by-election. 63 per cent of the vote, more than 22,000 ballots. On the face of it, another clear win for ReformUK. Then you look at second place.

Count Binface — the bloke who campaigns with a metal bin on his head — got 27 per cent and 9,455 votes. More than a quarter of the entire turnout. In a seat that prides itself on being anti-establishment, one in four people looked at the ballot paper and decided the man in the rubbish bin was the best option available.

That’s not a funny anecdote. That’s the story.

The main parties didn’t even bother turning up. No Labour, no Conservatives, no Lib Dems, no Greens. The whole thing became Farage versus a joke candidate, with a few independents and tiny parties making up the numbers. Laurence Fox’s Reclaim managed 347 votes and limped home sixth. The Social Democratic Party candidate got 256 and finished seventh. Under 700 votes between them. That’s not a protest vote. That’s people not noticing you exist.

Two things happened at once. The big parties stepped aside and handed Farage a free run. Whether they thought it wasn’t worth the fight or they were just too weak and embarrassed to stand, the result was the same: the by-election turned into a choice between Reform and pure farce. At the same time, the size of the Binface vote shows a fair chunk of the electorate is so browned off that they’d rather vote for a deliberate joke than back anything organised. That’s not healthy scepticism. That’s trust in the normal system properly broken.

Farage himself isn’t in the clear. Winning doesn’t make the election authorities’ investigation disappear. They’re still looking at parts of his campaigning and registration, and that carries on whatever the result. If it goes against him, the pressure for another by-election will be immediate and ugly. There’s no automatic trigger that forces him out, but the politics would be brutal. This is a man who has spent years telling everyone else they have to be accountable. If he ducks the same standard, it looks exactly like the hypocrisy he spends his time attacking. Calling another by-election would be messy and expensive. Refusing would just confirm the suspicion that the rules are for other people.

Then there’s the count. Farage didn’t turn up. He said there was a credible threat against him. The police later said they found no evidence of any such threat. That gap isn’t small. The declaration of results is meant to be a public moment. When the winner stays away on a claim the police don’t back, it looks bad. A politician who sells himself as the voice of ordinary voters chooses not to be in the room when those votes are counted, then offers an explanation the authorities don’t support. The optics are poor and he knows it.

All of this leaves you with a system that looks dominant and hollow at the same time. Farage can win big while a candidate in a bin takes more than a quarter of the vote and the traditional parties refuse to compete. The smaller parties barely register. An investigation still hangs over the winner. A disputed security claim kept him from the count. None of it feels solid.

British democracy has always worked on the idea that elections, however imperfect, still push disagreement into proper institutions. When a big slice of voters choose theatrical rejection instead, and when the main parties simply walk away, that idea starts looking thin.

Clacton doesn’t prove democracy is finished. It does show that a lot of people no longer see the usual parties as useful ways to express how fed up they are. Joke candidates fill the space. Farage benefits. The people investigating him operate in the same space. Until proper opposition turns up again, or until the investigation reaches a conclusion the public actually believes, we’ll keep getting the same uneasy result: a clear winner and a second-place finisher with a bin on his head.

That’s not a healthy system. It’s a system struggling to deal with the discontent it keeps creating.

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Farage Beats ‘Count Binface’ in Farcical UK Special Election

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage regained his seat in Parliament on Friday after decisively defeating comedy candidate Count Binface in a special election. Farage had resigned his seat this July amid a parliamentary investigation into an undeclared £5 million (roughly $7 million) donation from a crypto billionaire. Farage has said he wanted to prove that he retains voters’ support by winning the seat back.

Farage contends that the donation, provided by Reform UK patron Christopher Harborne, was a personal gift intended to fund his ongoing security and not a political donation, rendering it exempt from normal reporting requirements. The matter was being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner until Farage resigned. The investigation will likely be revived and could force Farage into a second special election.

Britain’s other major parties declined to field candidates to oppose Farage in Friday’s election, dismissing the race as a political stunt. Instead, Farage faced a crowded field of 34 candidates that included fringe contenders. Farage won 63.3 percent of the vote, while Count Binface—a character played by the comedian Jonathan Harvey in a silver costume and trash-can helmet—finished second with 26.9 percent.

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JUST IN: Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in Killing of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson

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Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in the assassination of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson on Friday.

Mangione told the court on Friday, “I knew what I was doing.”

Judge Margaret Garnett accepted Mangione’s plea.

Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial begins on September 8.

Attorneys spoke after Luigi Mangione’s federal court appearance and plea.

As previously reported, UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was shot in the chest in December 2024 outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan in a targeted attack.

Thompson, 50, arrived before 7 am for a conference when he was shot at multiple times by Mangione, who police say was waiting for him to arrive.

Thompson was pronounced dead at the Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Chilling surveillance video shows Luigi Mangione methodically getting into position as Brian Thompson walked in front of the Manhattan Hilton Hotel.

Mangione fired several rounds at Brian Thompson, causing him to stumble, before shooting him again.

Luigi Mangione was anti-Capitalist and ranted about the healthcare industry’s massive profits.

A New York judge last year dropped the state terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione.

In December 2024, Mangione was indicted on 11 criminal counts, including first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism, for the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg previously outlined the charges in a statement, revealing that the New York State Supreme Court indictment includes:

  • Murder in the First Degree, a class A-I felony, one count
  • Murder in the Second Degree, a class A-I felony, two counts
  • Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, as a class C felony, two counts
  • Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, a class D felony, four counts
  • Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree, a class E felony, one count
  • Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, a class D felony, one count

The judge dismissed two terrorism charges on Tuesday, citing a lack of sufficient evidence.

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Radical Islamic Leftist Influencer Hasan Piker Demands Democrats Defend Him: ‘I Know You Don’t Want to Do This’ (VIDEO)

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Screencap of Twitter/X video.

The communist, Mao Zedong-loving influencer Hasan Piker is demanding that Democrats defend him, just as many Democrats are beginning to realize that he is a toxic figure who may hurt their party.

Piker threw a tantrum this week after the loss of Francesca Hong in Wisconsin, and lashed out by echoing her calls to abolish Thanksgiving.

Now he is telling Democrats that they have to defend him, even though he knows many of them don’t want to.

FOX News reports:

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker called on Democratic Party leaders during a Wednesday livestream to defend him and accept his place in their coalition as Republican criticism of his rhetoric emerged as an issue in key midterm races, while a former staffer for former President Joe Biden told Fox News Digital on Thursday that candidates should disavow Piker and refocus on local issues.

During the livestream, Piker declared himself part of the Democratic coalition and said Republicans were using criticism of him to distract from what he described as the “cost-of-living crisis.”

“Democrats, listen to me, I know we don’t always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point — I know you don’t want to do this — defend me,” he said.

“Not because you love what I have to say, not because I’m part of this coalition, even though I am, whether you like it or not, but you are going to inevitably have to say, ‘This is a ridiculous conversation that we’re having because the real conversation Republicans don’t want to have is the cost-of-living crisis,’” Piker continued…

“That requires you to basically to take the L a little bit and maybe be a bit more honest about how I’m not this dangerous, toxic radical force,” Piker said.

Here’s the video:

Piker and his DSA pals know absolutely nothing about how to lower the cost of living, they just keep using these talking points because they think the public is stupid.

This guy drives a Porsche and lives in a million dollar home. What does he know about the working class?

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Court of International Trade Upholds President’s Authority to Shut Down the $800 De Minimis Tariff Loophole — Giant Pipeline for Chinese Junk, Fentanyl, and Tariff Cheats Crushed

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Three-judge panel rules that emergency law allows President Trump to suspend duty-free treatment exploited by foreign shippers

President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory Thursday when the United States Court of International Trade upheld his authority to close the duty-free “de minimis” loophole for low-value foreign shipments.

Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Bret Shumate announced on X:

“The Court of International Trade upheld @POTUS authority to close the de minimis exemption for tariffs.”

Trump immediately celebrated the ruling on Truth Social:

“BIG WIN today at the U.S. Court of International Trade on one of the most DESPICABLE loopholes in American Trade Policy — The so-called ‘de minimis’ exemption. For years, Foreign Shippers could send packages worth up to $800 into our Country, DUTY FREE, NO TARIFF, far less scrutiny. It became a giant loophole for TARIFF Cheats — and a Pipeline exploited by Fentanyl Traffickers, Counterfeiters, and other Criminals shipping dangerous and illegal products into America. … With the stroke of my mighty pen — NO AUTOPEN!!! — we ended this ridiculous giveaway… The Importers sued. Today, THEY LOST. The Court ruled that the President had the Legal Authority to rescind this so-called ‘privilege.’”

The de minimis rule, codified at 19 U.S.C. § 1321, originally allowed the Treasury Secretary to admit tiny shipments duty-free because collecting the tax wasn’t worth the cost.

Congress later jacked the threshold all the way up to $800. What started as administrative convenience became a massive abuse: Chinese e-commerce giants like Temu and Shein, counterfeiters, and drug traffickers poured hundreds of millions of packages into the U.S. with minimal scrutiny.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the exemption allowed foreign businesses, particularly sellers in China and Hong Kong, to send low-value merchandise into the United States without paying the duties faced by conventional importers.

An April 2025 Gateway Pundit article explained how the loophole disadvantaged American businesses and allowed foreign companies to bypass customs scrutiny: “From De Minimis to Penguins: Trump’s Tariffs Are Rational.”

The Gateway Pundit later reported that Chinese retail giant Temu stopped offering many China-shipped products to American customers after Trump closed the loophole: “Temu Online Marketplace Halts Shipments from China to US as Trump Closes Loophole.”

In 2024 alone the loophole allegedly cost America an estimated $10.8 billion in foregone tariff revenue while serving as a preferred channel for fentanyl precursors and other contraband.

President Trump began closing it in early 2025 as part of national emergencies declared over the fentanyl crisis and reciprocal trade imbalances.

He first targeted China, then expanded the suspension worldwide effective August 29, 2025 (Executive Order 14324), and reaffirmed it after the Supreme Court struck down broader IEEPA tariffs in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump.

The de minimis rescission itself was never before the Supreme Court. Congress, in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, later voted to permanently repeal the statutory exemption effective July 1, 2027, while explicitly stating that nothing in that law should be read to limit the President’s existing authorities to restrict the privilege before then.

Detroit Axle sued, claiming the President lacked power under IEEPA and that agency implementation was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act.

The company had opened a distribution center in Juarez, Mexico, specifically so it could import Chinese auto parts, repackage them into sub-$800 orders, and ship them duty-free into the United States, treating each individual customer shipment as a separate “one person on one day” entry under the exemption.

The Court of International Trade, in a per curiam opinion by Judges Gary S. Katzmann, Timothy M. Reif, and Jane A. Restani (Slip Op. 26-94), rejected those arguments.

The panel held that IEEPA expressly authorizes the President to “nullify [or] void … exercising any right, power, or privilege” with respect to property in which a foreign country or national has an interest.

The de minimis statute itself twice refers to the duty-free treatment as a “privilege.” Congress has even used the term “de minimis privilege” in recent legislative materials.

Critically, the court distinguished this action from the tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court. Rescinding the exemption imposes no new duties, it simply subjects the low-value goods to the same Congressionally authorized rates that already apply to higher-value shipments of the same merchandise.

It is not an exercise of the power of the purse, nor is it the functional equivalent of the line-item veto struck down in Clinton v. City of New York. The President is executing policy Congress itself embodied in IEEPA by determining the existence of a national emergency and then taking an enumerated action.

The court further held that the agency actions implementing the President’s directive are purely ministerial and therefore not subject to APA review under Franklin v. Massachusetts.

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YouTube Children’s Host ‘Ms. Rachel’ Now Pushing Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow

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Screencap of YouTube video.

The last time we checked in on popular YouTube children’s host ‘Ms. Rachel’ it was because it had been reported that she donated thousands of dollars to the campaign of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

Now she is calling for slavery reparations.

It’s starting to look like this woman is a kind of radical leftist. What other conclusion could one reach?

Breitbart News reports:

Children’s YouTube, Netflix Star Ms. Rachel Pushes Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow Laws

Children’s YouTube and Netflix star Ms. Rachel has added support for reparations over slavery and Jim Crow Laws to her growing catalogue of left-wing causes, taking her latest stance via an Instagram post to her five million-plus followers.

Ms. Rachel, AKA Rachel Accurso, took an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2014 essay The Case for Reparations to illustrate the need to “reckon” with America’s history of slavery.

“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole,” the quote read.

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist whose essay “The Case for Reparations” argued “American prosperity was ill-gotten” and the nation needs to reconcile with its past beyond handing out money.

Neither Coates nor Ms. Rachel seem to care to acknowledge how both slavery and Jim Crow Laws were Democrat Party constructs.

People on Twitter/X have some thoughts about this.

Parents have a lot of options when it comes to entertainment programming for their kids.

They might want to take a pass on the Ms. Rachel show.

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