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    Lachlan Murdoch Assumes Control Of Fox News

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    The Murdoch media empire — long a pillar of conservative news and opinion — is set for a new era of stability and clarity of vision. The New York Times reported that Rupert Murdoch’s three eldest children, Prue, Liz, and James, will each receive $1.1 billion in exchange for their stakes. With that, the family trust created in 1999 will be dissolved, allowing Lachlan Murdoch to consolidate leadership.

    For Republicans and conservatives across the country, this is more than just a business deal. It’s a decisive move that ensures the future of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the rest of the Murdoch portfolio remains firmly aligned with the values that have made these outlets the backbone of conservative media for decades.

    A Conservative Legacy in Safe Hands

    At 94, Rupert Murdoch has built something few could ever match: a media network that challenges the progressive narratives dominating most mainstream outlets. This agreement means that Rupert’s vision won’t be diluted by competing factions within his own family. Instead, his chosen successor — Lachlan — will steer the ship with a steady, unapologetically conservative hand.

    The press release from News Corp underscored that point directly:

    “Voting control with respect to the News Corp and Fox Corporation shares owned by LGC Holdco will rest solely with Lachlan Murdoch through his appointed managing director. Rupert Murdoch will continue in his role as Chairman Emeritus of the Company.”

    In short, Lachlan Murdoch is not only inheriting the empire — he is inheriting the mission.

    No More Family Divisions

    This move also closes a chapter of internal dispute. For years, some family members — particularly James Murdoch — have signaled discomfort with the conservative direction of the empire. Their exits, now formalized through this $1.1 billion deal, remove any lingering doubts about the editorial future of Fox and News Corp.

    Last year, Rupert and Lachlan attempted to restructure the family trust to consolidate power, but a Nevada judge blocked that effort in December. This new arrangement effectively achieves the same outcome, only cleaner and more decisive.

    Why It Matters for Conservatives

    For conservative audiences, this agreement should be seen as reassurance. In an era when progressive tech companies and liberal-leaning media conglomerates dominate the public square, the Murdoch media empire has stood as one of the few powerful counterweights. By securing Lachlan Murdoch’s sole authority, Rupert Murdoch has guaranteed that these outlets will continue to amplify conservative voices, defend free markets, and challenge political correctness.

    The left may scoff, but for millions of Americans, Fox News and the broader Murdoch network have provided the only alternative to the coastal liberal consensus. The deal ensures that won’t change.

    Looking Ahead

    Rupert Murdoch remains involved as Chairman Emeritus, offering continuity and wisdom, but the future clearly belongs to Lachlan. His leadership will reassure Republicans who rely on Fox, the Journal, and other Murdoch outlets as trusted platforms for conservative news and commentary.

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    New York Gubernatorial Candidate Under Investigation

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin has been targeted in a new investigation less than two weeks before the midterm elections.

    Zeldin is under investigation by the State Board of Elections over allegations that he coordinated with two super PACs supporting his campaign, according to The Hill.

    Michael Johnson, the chief enforcement counsel of the New York State Board of Elections, opened a preliminary investigation into Zeldin’s campaign after the allegations emerged.

    Johnson is now seeking subpoena authority from the State Board of Elections to compel cooperation with his investigation, according to the Times. 

    However, he was stymied when two Republican members of the board unexpectedly missed a business meeting on Tuesday, preventing the board from reaching a quorum to vote on the subpoena issue and likely delaying the issue until after the election, per the Times.

    The Albany Times-Union first reported in mid-October that there were several overlaps between Zeldin’s campaign and two super PACs supporting him — Safe Together New York and Save Our State New York.

    Days later, the New York State Democratic Party filed a complaint against Zeldin’s campaign over the alleged super PAC. Super PACs are legally allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for or against candidates but are barred from coordinating with the candidates they benefit.

    Zeldin has been rapidly closing the gap against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in recent weeks.

    Hispanic Democrats Introduce Bill to Ban ‘Latinx’ Term

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    Hispanic Democrats in Connecticut have introduced a bill to ban the woke term “Latinx” from state documents.

    The bill, written and endorsed by five Democrats of Hispanic descent, comes amid increased scrutiny over the work term and its place in government documents.

    The text of the bill reads:

    [T]he general statutes [shall] be amended to prohibit any state agency, or state employee on behalf of a state agency, from using the term “Latinx” on any official communications or forms of the state agency.

    A search on the state website reveals that at least 920 state documents contain the word “Latinx.”

    It was introduced by five members of the state House: state Reps. Geraldo C. Reyes, Christopher Rosario, Juan R. Candelaria, Robert Sanchez, and Minnie Gonzalez.

    “This has been offensive and derogatory to all Puerto Ricans, and it’s something that hasn’t sat well with a lot of people here for a while.” Reyes added to CT Insider. “When I found out that Arkansas Gov. [Sanders] banned it on her first day in the office, I saw that as an opportunity for me to do the same thing.” Reyes, however, criticized Sanders’ move, saying she had “other motivations” for banning the word in Arkansas government documents.

    According to The Daily Wire, a national poll conducted in October found that only 1% of Hispanics identify as “Latinx,” a gender-neutral term imposed on Hispanics by left-wing culture. WPA Intelligence, a conservative polling firm that collaborated with Visto Media on behalf of the Latino advocacy group Bienvenido, conducted a poll of 1,288 Hispanic registered Democrat, Republican, and Independent voters.

    The poll found that the community prefers to be identified as Hispanic, while others said American or Latino.

    Last month, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders banned the use of “latinx” in state documents as one of her first acts as governor. (RELATED: Arkansas Governor Bans Woke Term During First Day on the Job)

    “ETHNICALLY INSENSITIVE AND PEJORATIVE LANGUAGE HAS NO PLACE IN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS OR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE TITLES,” SANDERS’ EXECUTIVE ORDER STATED. “THE GOVERNMENT HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO RESPECT ITS CITIZENS AND USE ETHNICALLY APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE, PARTICULARLY WHEN REFERRING TO ETHNIC MINORITIES.”

    Trump Responds To Bogus Report Musk Will Receive China Briefing

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    President Donald Trump firmly denied a New York Times report that claimed Elon Musk would be briefed on a potential war with China.

    After two unnamed U.S. officials told the New York Times that Musk was scheduled to be briefed by the Pentagon on “the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might break out with China,” Trump responded to the claim in an evening Truth Social post.

    “The Fake News is at it again, this time the Failing New York Times,” wrote Trump. “They said, incorrectly, that Elon Musk is going to the Pentagon tomorrow to be briefed on any potential ‘war with China.’ How ridiculous?”

    He continued, “China will not even be mentioned or discussed. How disgraceful it is that the discredited media can make up such lies. Anyway, the story is completely untrue!!!”

    According to the Times, “The top-secret briefing for the China war plan has about 20 to 30 slides that lay out how the United States would fight such a conflict. It covers the plan beginning with the indications and warning of a threat from China to various options on what Chinese targets to hit, over what time period, that would be presented to Mr. Trump for decisions, according to officials with knowledge of the plan.”

    Several Trump administration officials also took to social media to deny the report.

    Kennedy Issues Apology After Private Trump Call Leaked

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    On Tuesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized to former President Donald Trump after footage of a private call between the two was leaked online by his son Bobby Kennedy III.

    In the now-deleted video, recorded on Sunday, the day after the assassination attempt against Trump at his Pennsylvania rally, Bobby Kennedy III wrote that the former president can be heard “giving his real opinion to my dad about vaccinating kids.”

    In his initial post, Bobby Kennedy III added that he believed “these sorts of conversations should be had in public.” He also lambasted Senator JD Vance (R-OH) who Trump announced Monday as his running mate, saying that the former president had chosen “JD ‘fire all the unvaccinated nurses’ Vance” over “unity” – in a suggestion that his father was being considered as a potential choice.

    In the clip posted Tuesday, Trump can be heard criticizing vaccines and the dosage amounts.

    Something’s wrong with that whole system. And it’s the doctors, you find. Remember I said I want to do small doses? Small doses. When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a… you know 10 pound or 20 pound baby. It looks like you’re giving you should be giving a horse this. And do you ever see the size of it, right? You know, it’s just massive. And then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically. I’ve seen it too many times. And then you hear that it doesn’t have an impact, right? But you and I talked about that a long time ago.

    Trump appears to then discuss working with Kennedy Jr. in the future, should he win the election, and his call with Biden following the shooting.

    Anyway, I would love you to do stuff. And I think it would be so good for you and so big for you. And we’re going to win. We’re going to win. We’re way ahead of the guy. He called me. And he said: ‘How did you choose to move to the right?’

    In response to the leak, Kennedy Jr. wrote that “when President Trump called” he was “taping with an in-house videographer.”

    He added: “I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologize to the president.”

    Trump Issues Response To Biden Admin.

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    On Wednesday, Biden made a stark reversal from his campaign policy and announced the need for a border wall in Texas citing security, drug and arms trafficking, and steepening migration.

    “There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the statement.

    The U.S. Border Patrol saw more than 245,000 people in the last fiscal year trying to enter the United States in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, the DHS said, citing data from August.

    Trump wasted no time before chiding Biden over the border barrier.

    “Biden sees our country is being invaded,” Trump said. “What is he going to do about the 15 million people from prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums, and terrorists that have already come into our country?”

    “What has happened to our country?” Trump said, adding that the Biden administration needs to “go back to Trump policies.”

    “He has to reinstate Remain in Mexico and Title 42,” Trump said. “He has to do all of the other things that we were doing.”

    A Trump campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital Wednesday night that “President Trump is always right.” 

    “That’s why he built close to 500 miles of powerful new wall on the border and it would have been finished by now,” the spokesperson said. “Instead, Crooked Joe Biden turned our country into one giant sanctuary for dangerous criminal aliens.”

    Blacklist: Trump Lays Out Criteria For Admin. Roles

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    Trump is going into the White House with some clear goals and will not let anyone get in his way…

    President-elect Donald Trump declared in a Truth Social post that the incoming administration had already hired more than 1,000 people to work for the U.S. government.

    He also indicated that individuals who have worked with or been backed by “people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” are not desirable job candidates.

    Trump named former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and others, noting that those who have worked with or been endorsed by those individuals should not be floated as job candidates.

    “As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for The United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly!” the incoming commander-in-chief said in the post.

    “In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), “Dumb as a Rock” John Bolton, ‘Birdbrain’ Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” he added.

    Haley and Pence each mounted bids for the GOP presidential nomination during the recent election cycle, but both ultimately dropped out. While Haley endorsed Trump, Pence did not.

    During President Jimmy Carter’s funeral Pence briefly spoke with Trump as they took their seats.

    Federal Judge Issues Arrest Warrant For Former GOP Governor’s Ex-Chief Of Staff

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    A federal judge has issued an arrest warrant for Roy McGrath, the former chief of staff to two-term Maryland GOP Gov. Larry Hogan.

    McGrath is facing an eight-count federal indictment stemming from a criminal corruption investigation. Charges include wire fraud, including securing a $233,648 severance payment equal to one year of salary as the head of Maryland Environmental Service. He also faces fraud and embezzlement charges connected to roughly $170,000 in expenses. McGrath has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    McGrath resigned from Hogan’s office a few months after the six-figure payment was reported.

    One charge relates to allegations that McGrath falsified a memo that purports to show the Governor was informed of his then-chief of staff’s severance arrangement and signed off on the deal.

    The former Governor, who until recently was mulling a White House bid has vehemently denied knowing or approving of a severance payment negotiated by McGrath.

    U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Boardman issued the arrest warrant after McGrath failed to appear in Baltimore for the start of his criminal trial on Monday.

    “Let’s hope he’s safe and there’s some mix-up,” Boardman told local outlet Maryland Matters on Monday.

    Joseph Murtha, McGrath’s attorney, said he had attempted throughout the morning on Monday to reach his client and his wife.

    “Most importantly, I’m concerned. I’m hoping he’s safe,” Murtha said. “These situations are very stressful, the uncertainty of going to trial can cause people to do things many people don’t think are appropriate. We hope that he’s safe.”

    McGrath’s attorney noted t

    McGrath also faces pending state criminal charges relating to alleged illegally recorded private conversations involving senior state officials without their permission during his employment at the Maryland Environmental Service and as chief of staff.

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    Trump Indicates Plan To Lower or Eliminate Income Taxes Thanks To Tariffs

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    This could be huge…

    President Donald Trump said that some people’s income taxes will be lowered or perhaps even completely eliminated due to tariffs.

    “When Tariffs cut in, many people’s Income Taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated. Focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year,” he declared in a post on Truth Social.

    “Also, massive numbers of jobs are already being created, with new plants and factories currently being built or planned. It will be a BONANZA FOR AMERICA!!! THE EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE IS HAPPENING!!!” the president added.

    The president touched on the subjects of income taxes and tariffs while addressing reporters on Sunday.

    “And eventually we’ll be reducing taxes very substantially for the people of our country, because the money is so great coming in from tariffs that I’ll be able to reduce taxes … to a very large extent, and maybe almost completely,” he said.

    “And it’s possible we’ll do a complete tax cut, because I think the tariffs will be enough to cut all of the income tax,” he noted. 

    The president indicated Americans will be given “a tremendous tax cut,” starting “with people making less than $200,000 dollars a year.”

    Trump, who has been in the Oval Office for nearly 100 days, has moved at breakneck speed to revitalize America.

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told Fox News exclusively that President Donald Trump has accomplished more in the first 100 days of his tenure than “most politicians or presidents accomplish in their entire lifetimes.”

    “So much of what we’ve done is leading up to the big reconciliation bill, and that is the legislative vehicle, as I’ve explained to people, it will help us, through which we will deliver the president’s America First agenda,” Johnson told Fox News Digital.

    “We’ve done it with arguably the smallest margin in the history of the Congress, so challenges every day, but it’s been very rewarding to lead us through that.”

     The speaker also acknowledged that Trump has acted quite a bit on his own, as well.

    “He’s issued, I think, 110 executive orders and many other executive actions. And we’ve been working to codify so much of that. It’s been kind of a partnership,” Johnson said.

    “I don’t think we’ve ceded any authority. I think that he’s doing what is within his scope to do. There’s an assumption made by Congress that the administration, whoever is in the administration, will use the money that is appropriated to the executive branch as a good steward, that they will take every measure possible to prevent fraud, waste and abuse,” Johnson said. 

    “And tariffs as well – the president, whomever is president, has a responsibility and I think an expectation from Congress that they will deal with unfair trade partners around the globe.”

    However, while many conservatives have praised Trump’s recent accomplishments, many Democrats have openly decried the moves and spurred concerns they will seek to impeach Trump if they regain control of Congress.

    CNN host Dana Bash recently asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer if he agreed with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) who signaled recently that he would support an impeachment effort against Trump.

    “Would that be a priority if Democrats were to take back Congress?” Bash asked. 

    “President Trump is violating rule of law in every way. And we’re fighting him every single day in every way. And our goal is to show the American people over and over again, whether it’s the economy, whether it’s tariffs, whether it’s Russia and overseas and whether it’s rule of law, how bad he is. And you know, two years is too far away to predict. Our job is day to day to day, to show who Trump is, what he is doing, and it’s having an effect,” Schumer said.

    Bash pressed him further and said, “You’re not saying ‘no.’”

    “Look, it’s too far away to even judge,” Schumer responded.

    Ossoff signaled support for impeaching Trump during a town hall event in Georgia.

    “I saw just 48 hours ago, [Trump] is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin,” Ossoff said. “There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense. And the reality is that that’s just one of many [examples] — defying a federal court order, for example.”

    Trump Suggests He Will Testify In 2020 Election Trial

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    Former President Donald Trump strongly suggested he plans to take the stand in his own defense in the event that he’s indicted over his false claims about the 2020 election.

    The former president took to Truth Social on Wednesday to complain about the legal scrutiny he has faced throughout his political existence. During a series of posts he signaled he’ll testify when and if his election lies get put on trial in connection with January 6.

    “We’ll have fun on the stand with all of these people that say the Presidential Election wasn’t Rigged and Stollen [sic],” Trump posted, adding an all-caps claim it’ll be “THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY!!!”

    Trump’s remarks come about a week after he announced Special Counsel Jack Smith sent him a letter informing the ex-president that he is a “target” of the investigation into the January 6th Capitol riot. The letter indicates Smith will indict Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and Smith has indicted Trump already on the seperate matter of his mishandling of classified documents.

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