NEW: Karoline Leavitt highlights the waste and abuse of USAID, lists the top 4 most insane priorities. "Here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have been taking a look." 1. "$1.5M to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces." 2. "$70k for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland." 3. "$47k for a transgender opera in Colombia." 4. "$32k for a transgender comic book in Peru."
JUST IN: President Trump appears to threaten to forcefully take back the Panama Canal if Panama doesn’t hand it over. “Secretary of State Rubio is in Panama right now, and we're talking about the Panama Canal.” “China's running the Panama Canal… it was not given to China… But they violated the agreement and we're gonna take it back or something very powerful is going to happen.”
NEW: Democrat Senator Chris Murphy accuses Elon Musk of doing a “heil Hitler” salute at Trump’s rally, gets shut down by UN ambassador nominee Elise Stefanik. Murphy: “What do you think of Elon Musk doing two heil Hitler salutes last night?” Stefanik: “Elon Musk did not do those salutes… What concerns me is these are the questions you believe are most important to ask to the UN Ambassador.”
LA's $750,000-a-year water chief who allegedly oversaw the emptying of the Santa Ynez Reservoir, previously said the "number one" thing she cared about in her role was "equity." No wonder why LA is burning. Every leader is a DEI hire. During a recent podcast, Janisse Quiñones, who was hired by Mayor Karen Bass in May, said that everything she does needs to be done with an "equity lens." "It's important to me that everything we do is with an equity lens and social justice and making sure that we right the wrongs that we've done in the past." The Daily Mail now reports that since Quiñones was hired at LADWP, she took the reservoir offline to "repair a tear" and ignored broken fire hydrants. What a disaster.
NEW: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau expected to announce his resignation before Wednesday, according to The Globe and Mail. The announcement is set to be made before the national caucus meeting, the outlet reports. Trudeau’s support among Canadians has completely collapsed, with just 30% of Canadians approving of his job as PM. His approval rating was 63% when he was first elected. More and more leaders have called on Trudeau to resign in recent weeks. Last month, leader of Canada's New Democratic Party Jagmeet Singh called on the PM to resign. (video below)
NEW: Stray dog accidentally becomes the first to cross the Romania-Hungary border after Romania became a full member of the European Union’s Schengen area. The dog perfectly timed the enterance as the checkpoint barrier lifted up. The animal received a warm welcome as border guards started clapping.
NEW: Pilots are reporting mysterious lights in the skies, moving at extreme speeds in Oregon, say they are moving up & down quickly at different altitudes. One pilot says he saw “colorful lights,” all at different altitudes, with one over 50,000 feet. The lights are “zipping towards us and back out towards the ocean, red in color, moving at extreme speeds.”  “I don’t even know how to describe it,” the pilot said. “The biggest thing that stood out was it was changing direction. Usually, things don’t change directions unless it’s an aircraft,” the pilot, Joe Buley, said during an interview.
NEW: NYC mayor Eric Adams defends Daniel Penny for protecting subway passengers, blasts the media for portraying Jordan Neely as an "innocent child." Adams said Penny did what New York City "should have done as a city." "You have someone on that subway who was responding, doing what we should have done as a city in a state of having a mental health facility." "It seemed like it was a young, innocent child who was brutally m*rdered, and it gave that impression." "When you look at the photo that was being used, it wanted to set up in the minds of people that we were dealing with a young, innocent child, just a Michael Jackson imitator that was just brutally assaulted."
JUST IN: Joe Walsh turns on Joe Biden after he pardoned Hunter, says he is “deflated” because he spent years saying Trump was the “threat.” “This pardon is just deflating for those of us who’ve been out there for a few years yelling about what a threat Trump is.” “Nobody's above the law we’ve been screaming. Well, Joe Biden just made clear his son Hunter is above the law.”