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Thursday, May 15, 2025

DHS Reportedly Requests 20,000 National Guard Troops For "Interior Immigration Enforcement"

 Democrats had no concern for due process when millions of third-world illegal aliens, including violent criminals and terrorists, invaded the U.S. with help from far-left NGOs. But now, as the Trump administration ramps up mass deportations, suddenly, this same army of left-wing lawmakers is screaming "due process" to delay deportations and clog up the courts. Their legal resistance is seen in federal courts, where remnants of the Biden-Harris regime still cling to power through far-left activist judges hell-bent on obstructing the mandate the American people handed Trump: deport criminal illegal aliens.

A new report from The New York Times, citing officials with direct knowledge of the plans, says the Department of Homeland Security has requested over 20,000 National Guard troops from the Defense Department to support the president's mass deportation plans for criminal illegal aliens. 

If approved, this would mark the first time National Guard members have been used for interior migrant enforcement operations in the U.S.

Here's more from the NYT:

Lawyers at the Pentagon were reviewing the request with "interior immigration enforcement," according to a Defense Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations. It was unclear what role state National Guard members would play and whether they would be involved in rounding up people for deportation, the official said.

The move only suggests that the Trump administration is preparing to ramp up mass deportations and fulfill the mandate the American voter gave him: restore national security through the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. 

Last month, on Truth Social, Trump wrote, "I'm doing what I was elected to do, remove criminals from our Country, but the Courts don't seem to want me to do that," adding, "We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years."

Vice President JD Vance called the battle between the Trump administration and leftist activists federal judges a "fake legal process" that is the "ratification of Biden's illegal migrant invasion."

"The judicial process is for Americans. Immediate deportation is for illegal aliens," Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller recently said.

What we're witnessing in the federal courts from far-left judges amounts to a subversion of the popular mandate—an orchestrated campaign of lawfare that, in effect, could be viewed as a soft coup through the judiciary. When these activist judges repeatedly obstruct or delay lawful executive orders backed by a clear electoral mandate, it's no longer about legal oversight—it's about undermining the will of the people. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dhs-reportedly-requests-20000-national-guard-troops-interior-immigration-enforcement

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UN will not take part in US-backed aid effort in Gaza

 The United Nations said on Thursday it will not take part in a U.S.-backed humanitarian operation in Gaza because it is not impartial, neutral or independent, while Israel pledged to facilitate the effort without being involved in aid deliveries.

"This particular distribution plan does not accord with our basic principles, including those of impartiality, neutrality, independence, and we will not be participating in this," deputy U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters on Thursday.

The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will start work in Gaza by the end of May under a heavily-criticized aid plan that the U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher described as a "fig leaf for further violence and displacement" of Palestinians in Gaza.

The foundation intends to work with private U.S. security and logistics firms to transport aid into Gaza for distribution by aid groups, a source familiar with the plan has told Reuters.

Speaking to reporters in Antalya, Turkey, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday acknowledged the criticisms and said Washington was open to any alternative plan to get aid to civilians "without Hamas being able to steal it."

"We're not immune or in any way insensitive to the suffering of the people of Gaza, and I know that there's opportunities here to provide aid for them," Rubio said after speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier on Thursday.

"There are criticisms of that plan. We're open to an alternative if someone has a better one," he said.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Thursday that the U.N. "has a solid and principled operational plan to deliver humanitarian aid and life-saving services at scale and immediately across the Gaza Strip."

STARVATION LOOMS

Israel has accused Palestinian militant group Hamas of stealing aid, which the group denies, and has blocked the delivery of all humanitarian assistance to Gaza since March 2, demanding Hamas release all remaining hostages.

A global hunger monitor warned on Monday that half a million people face starvation - a quarter of the population in the Palestinian enclave where Israel and Hamas have been at war since October 2023.

In a bid to address some concerns, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has asked Israel to expand an initial limited number of so-called secure aid distribution sites in Gaza's south to the north within 30 days. It has also asked Israel to let the U.N. and others resume aid deliveries now until it is set up.

"I'm not familiar with those requests, maybe when they went into Jerusalem, but I will tell you that we appreciate the effort of the United States," Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon told reporters on Thursday.

"We will not fund those efforts. We will facilitate them. We will enable them," he said. "We will not be the one giving the aid ... It will be run by the fund itself, led by the U.S."

Israel and the U.S. have urged the U.N. and aid groups to cooperate and work with the foundation.

It is unclear how the foundation will be funded. A State Department spokesperson said no US government funding would go to the foundation.

A fact sheet on the foundation, circulating among the aid community last week, listed respected former U.N. World Food Programme chief David Beasley as a potential adviser. However, a source familiar the effort said Beasley was not currently involved.

https://www.aol.com/news/un-not-part-us-backed-165306104.html

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Meta is delaying release of its 'Behemoth' AI model, WSJ reports

 Meta Platforms is delaying the launch of its flagship "Behemoth" AI model due to concerns about its capabilities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/meta-is-delaying-release-of-its-behemoth-ai-model-wsj-reports-4048973

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"Everything You Said Essentially Dishonest" - RFK Jr. Destroys Dems In 1st Big Hearing As HHS Sec

 Via VigilantFox.com

RFK Jr. just walked into Congress and took down his biggest critics in one fell swoop.

This was a masterclass.

A dentist congressman came out swinging on fluoride. By the time Kennedy finished, he realized he picked the wrong fight.

Then, a Democrat tried to accuse Kennedy of politicizing children’s health—but he got emotional, broke through the noise, and completely flipped the script on her.

If you watch one thing today, make it this. Kennedy just took the MAHA agenda to the next level.

Right out of the gate in his first major congressional hearing as HHS Secretary, Kennedy laid out a sweeping plan to reshape HHS from the ground up.

Here’s what’s on deck:

  • Ending “gain-of-function experiments and research based upon radical gender ideology”

  • A full-scale crackdown on fentanyl and drug addiction

  • $94 billion toward better food, fitness, and childcare

  • FDA action to remove toxic chemicals from the food supply

  • Slashing wasteful NIH projects

  • Merging mental health and addiction programs for faster, better care

  • Giving local leaders more power to fix problems in their own communities

  • A major upgrade to Head Start, the early education program for low-income children

“We intend to make the Trump HHS not just the most effective, but also the most compassionate in U.S. history,” Kennedy said.

Then came a tense back-and-forth with Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who tried to pin him down on tobacco prevention funding. Kennedy didn’t just answer—he flipped the entire narrative.

DeLauro asked, “Do you commit to following the law, again, fully obligating those funds so that we can help adults who want to quit using tobacco and prevent teens from becoming addicted?”

Kennedy fired back: “Allow me to answer that by pointing out the absolute cataclysmic disorganization of this agency. Under your oversight, for 40 years, we had nine separate offices of Women’s Health.”

And he didn’t stop there.

“When we consolidate them, the Democrats say we’re eliminating them. We’re not. We’re still appropriating the 3.7 billion, but we’re not keeping all nine. We had eight separate offices for minority health. We eliminated one. We had 27 HIV offices.”

DeLauro tried to interrupt—“Okay, let me just. I’m going to—”

But Kennedy kept rolling: “We had 59 behavioral health programs.”

At that point, DeLauro backed off: “I’m well over time.”

One of the most jaw-dropping moments came when Rep. Mike Simpson, a dentist, tried to challenge Kennedy on fluoride—and instantly regretted it.

“We better put a lot more money into dental education because we’re going to need a whole lot more dentists [if we ban fluoride],” Simpson said.

The rebuttal was too easy for Kennedy.

“We now know that virtually all the benefit [from fluoride] is from topical, and we can get that through mouthwashes. We can get through fluoridated toothpastes.”

Then came the line that hit hard:

“The National Toxicity Program issued a report in August, a meta review of all the science that now exists on fluoride, and showed a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure dose and lower IQ.”

“Which is an issue that we all have to be concerned with. We want high IQ kids right now,” Kennedy added.

Later, Rep. Steny Hoyer demanded answers on HHS budget cuts—but Kennedy was ready with numbers and a blunt dose of reality.

“We’re spending $2 trillion a year that we don’t have!”

He followed up: “When you’re spending $2 trillion more than you have, you have to make cuts.”

Hoyer pressed again. Kennedy stayed firm.

“The cuts that were done were cuts that were to duplication, to redundancy, to streamlining,” he said. “We increased our workforce 70% in four years. So we were going back to the 2019 levels.”

Then came a moment of visible deflation from Rep. Mark Pocan, who tried—repeatedly—to get Kennedy to endorse vaccines.

“If you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles?” Pocan asked.

Kennedy didn’t bite.

“What I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant,” he said. “I think what we’re going to try to do is to lay out the pros and cons, the risks and benefits accurately as we understand them.”

Pocan pressed again: “Can you talk about chickenpox?”

Kennedy exposed a reality Pocan didn’t want to hear:

“Again, I don’t want to give advice. I can tell you in Europe, they don’t use the chickenpox vaccine specifically because the preclinical trial shows that when you inoculate the population for chickenpox, you get shingles in older people, which is more dangerous.”

Desperate for something, Pocan asked, “Polio?”

“Again, I don’t want to be giving advice,” Kennedy replied.

Pocan backed off with a clear look of disappointment: “That’s fair. No, that’s fair. Like I said, I was not doing it as a gotcha…”

One of the most shocking revelations came when Kennedy pointed to corruption inside NIH as the reason we still don’t have a cure for Alzheimer’s.

“For 20 years, because of utter corruption and fraud, we were directing Alzheimer’s research to one hypothesis, and any other hypothesis was shut down,” he said.

“We should have the cure for Alzheimer’s today. We don’t have it PURELY because of corruption at NIH. And we are going to have it quickly.”

Rep. Lois Frankel attacked Kennedy’s use of HHS funds, characterizing it as Elon Musk randomly plugging numbers into a computer to make decisions.

Kennedy fired back, taking offense at that false narrative.

“Everything that you said was essentially dishonest,” he told her.

Later, Kennedy clashed with Rep. DeLauro once more. This time, he let loose.

“Look at our children, they’re the sickest children in the world,” he said passionately.

Kennedy delivered a direct blow to DeLauro, noting he succeeded where she failed.

“Congresswoman DeLauro, you say that you’ve worked for 20 years on getting food dye out. Then give me credit!” he exclaimed. “I got it out in 100 days.”

He then closed with a call to unity:

“So, let’s work together and do something that we all believe in, which is have healthy kids in our country for God’s sake. There’s no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children. There’s just kids, and we should all be concerned with them.”

Watch the full testimony below:


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Coinbase says it strongly believes US SEC investigation should not continue

 Coinbase said on Thursday it strongly believes a regulatory investigation by the U.S. securities regulator into its disclosures of monthly transacting users should not continue.

The statement follows a New York Times report that said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Coinbase's user numbers in past disclosures were accurate.

"This is a hold-over investigation from the prior administration about a metric we stopped reporting two and a half years ago, which was fully disclosed to the public," Paul Grewal, the crypto exchange's chief legal officer, added in an emailed statement to Reuters.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinbase-says-strongly-believes-us-180209255.html

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CVS bids for Rite Aid stores, patient data in Pacific Northwest, Bloomberg News reports

 Healthcare conglomerate CVS Health has bid for a significant number of stores and patient data in the Pacific Northwest from bankrupt pharmacy chain operator Rite Aid, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

CVS put in a bid for stores in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, as well as patient prescription information, Rite Aid Chief Executive Officer Matthew Schroeder told employees, according to a recording of the meeting reviewed by Bloomberg News.

Rite Aid has also received multiple bids on some of its pharmacy assets, such as patient data and inventory, from Walgreens Boots Alliance, Albertsons, Kroger, Giant Eagle and others, Schroeder said, according to the report.

Schroeder said Rite Aid is not going to emerge from bankruptcy and said that the company will no longer exist after its assets are sold, the report added.

Rite Aid and the bidders did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

https://www.aol.com/rite-aid-set-close-over-232112367.html

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STERIS Beats Q4 2025 EPS Forecast

 STERIS plc (Market cap: $23.66B) reported a strong performance for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, surpassing earnings expectations. The company posted an earnings per share (EPS) of $2.74, exceeding the forecasted $2.60. Revenue met expectations at $1.48 billion, maintaining the company’s solid 6.24% year-over-year growth trajectory. Following the earnings announcement, STERIS shares rose by 5.9% in after-hours trading to $240.05, reflecting investor optimism about the company’s financial health and future prospects.

Key Takeaways

  • STERIS posted an EPS of $2.74, surpassing expectations by $0.14.
  • Revenue for Q4 2025 reached $1.48 billion, aligning with forecasts.
  • The company’s stock increased by 5.9% following the earnings release.
  • STERIS reported a record free cash flow of $787 million for fiscal 2025.
  • Full year adjusted EPS was $9.22.

Company Performance

STERIS demonstrated robust financial performance in the fourth quarter of 2025, with a 4% increase in total reported revenue. The company’s focus on constant currency organic growth led to a 6% rise in this metric. STERIS’s commitment to maintaining strong margins was evident, with the gross margin improving by 170 basis points to 44.3% and the EBIT margin rising by 110 basis points to 24.8%. 

Financial Highlights

  • Revenue: $1.48 billion, a 4% increase year-over-year.
  • Earnings per share: $2.74, up from the forecasted $2.60.
  • Gross margin: 44.3%, an increase of 170 basis points.
  • EBIT margin: 24.8%, an increase of 110 basis points.
  • Free cash flow: Record $787 million for fiscal 2025.
  • Total debt: $2 billion, with a gross debt to EBITDA ratio of 1.4x.

Earnings vs. Forecast

STERIS exceeded its EPS forecast by $0.14, delivering $2.74 against an expected $2.60. This 5.4% earnings surprise highlights the company’s operational efficiency and strategic execution. Revenue met expectations at $1.48 billion, indicating stable demand across its product lines.

https://www.investing.com/news/transcripts/earnings-call-transcript-steris-beats-q4-2025-eps-forecast-stock-rises-59-93CH-4048342

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