Important Takeaways:
- Trump shared the figure during Monday’s Cabinet meeting at the White House.
- “First of all, many companies are now moving into the United States. They’re coming back. Some of them left us from many years ago, decades ago, and they’re all – it seems they’re all coming back,” he said.
- “We have probably identified maybe $4 trillion worth of companies moving back or going to move back. Many of them have announced. It’s going to be tremendous jobs, high-paying jobs, too,” he added.
- Trump noted the semiconductor industry in particular and criticized the CHIPS and Sciences Act of 2022, which he said did not incentivize domestic microchip production as it provided large subsidies to companies already worth billions.
- “You gave billions of dollars to companies that already have many billions of dollars that just… said, ‘Thank you very much.’ It was no incentive for them to use it,” Trump said of the CHIPS Act. “But what is good is the tariffs will make it so that they want to come back. That’s why they’re coming back.”
- Trump stressed that domestically produced goods do not face tariffs, which is an incentive for companies to manufacture in the United States.
- The president also touted automobile investment announcements in the United States with his return to office:
- Honda is coming in with a massive plant to Indiana. But there are many plants that are happening, and literally, some have started already. General Motors is already redoing plants that were half abandoned, or they have plants that weren’t being fully utilized… They and others are going to be making parts and other things in those plants so that it’s one-stop shopping, finally.
- Plans for the latest auto investment in the U.S. were revealed on Monday when CNBC reported Hyundai, a South Korea-based company, was set to “announce a $20 billion investment in U.S. on shoring that includes a $5 billion steel plant in Louisiana.”
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- The APD confirmed it had responded to a report of “suspicious devices” at the Tesla dealership on Monday morning, according to KXAN News. The APD reportedly labeled the devices as being “incendiary.”
- Fox News reported that the police issued a statement that the devices “were taken into police custody without incident.”
- “This is an open and ongoing investigation,” the statement added, according to the outlet.
- Breitbart News’s Lucas Nolan previously reported that due to the ongoing attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships throughout the nation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning calling for people to “report any suspicious activity,” they see.
- Last week, two Tesla dealerships in Las Vegas, Nevada and Kansas City, Missouri were attacked, with vehicles being damaged and set ablaze.
- Prior to this, an arsonist in Seattle “doused a Tesla EV with gasoline and set it on fire.”
- President Donald Trump recently purchased a Tesla from Elon Musk as part of “a show of confidence and support” for Musk, as he has continued to face attacks.
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- The Houthi rebels have launched an attack against an American aircraft carrier and an airport, with two missiles targeting the American assets.
- The attacks come in the aftermath of U.S. aggression against Yemen, with attacks over the past few days all over the country.
- The Yemeni Army released a statement confirming their attacks.
- “The first targeted Ben Gurion Airport with two ballistic missiles, and the second targeted several enemy destroyers, as well as the Truman aircraft carrier, in the Red Sea with several missiles and drones, in a clash that lasted several hours,” military leaders said in a statement.
- The attacks lasted several hours and were meant to stop an air attack coming to the Gaza Strip.
- The American-targeted attacks come after U.S. airstrikes hit Yemen’s Houthi rebels pounded sites across the country overnight and into Monday, with the group saying the one attack in the capital killed at least one person and wounded more than a dozen others.
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Important Takeaways:
- The IDF said that they carried out an airstrike after gunmen opened fire toward IDF soldiers in southern Syria. “This morning (Tuesday), IDF troops identified several terrorists who opened fire toward them in southern Syria. The troops returned fire in response and the IAF struck the terrorists. Hits were identified,” the IDF said.
- This is an escalation along the border. The fact that there were several gunmen involved on the Syrian side could mean that threats are emerging near the border. The IDF took over a buffer zone along the border on December 8 when the Syrian regime fell. Israel’s Prime Minister has said that southern Syria must be demilitarized. Israeli politicians and officials have threatened the new government of Syria in the last two months. There have been numerous IDF strikes in Syria as well. The latest strikes targeted the T-4 air base near Palmyra which is not in southern Syria but rather in the Syrian desert.
- This is a sensitive area. It is also an area that is far from Damascus and hard for the new Syrian government to control. With Israel’s warnings to Damascus, it seems unlikely the new Syrian government will be able to control these areas with many forces, leaving a power vacuum.
- It’s not clear if elements linked to the former groups that operated in Yarmouk basin have now re-appeared. Israel’s demand that the area be demilitarized seems to mean that a vacuum in power will emerge. When there is a vacuum then many threats will enter the area. That is the problem in southern Lebanon and also in Gaza and the northern West Bank. In all these areas there are terrorists who have emerged.
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Important Takeaways:
- Talks between the US and Russia on Ukraine focused on creating safe shipping lanes in the Black Sea, but the details will remain private, the Kremlin says
- Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov adds that Russia is in favor of resuming the Black Sea grain initiative – a deal allowing Ukraine to safely export grain, state-owned Tass news agency reports
- Officials met for 12 hours in Saudi Arabia on Monday and were expected to release a joint statement today
- Ukrainian and US delegations have reportedly concluded talks in Riyadh, with details expected later
- Russia and Ukraine continue to trade fire – Moscow accuses Kyiv of attacking energy infrastructure as peace talks were ongoing on Monday. Ukraine has not yet commented
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- Almost 300,000 residents in Alaska’s largest city are bracing for an explosive volcanic eruption.
- Mount Spurr, a 11,000-foot-tall volcano that sits just 81 miles from the largest city in the state, is due to blow this year for the first time in 30 years.
- City officials in Anchorage have raised the emergency planning level to Level 2, meaning that they will ramp up communication with the public about the threat and public safety agencies will prepare to launch into eruption response protocols.
- ‘If it’s during the school day, as soon as we get word that an eruption has occurred, we’re going to be reaching out to the Volcano Observatory,’ said Anchorage School District Office of Emergency Management Director Jared Woody.
- ‘We’re going to be working with the National Weather Service, as well as (the city) to find out what are the anticipated impacts to the city. Is the ash plume coming towards us at this point?’
- Scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) say Mount Spurr is ‘moving closer to an eruption’ that could happen in ‘weeks to months.’
- On March 7, the volcano began releasing elevated levels of gas from its summit and a side vent that last erupted in 1992.
- These emissions are the latest development in a period of unrest this volcano has been experiencing since April 2024, when it started shuddering with small earthquakes — the first clue that new magma was rising toward the volcano’s vents.
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Important Takeaways:
- One of the worst environmental and public health crises in America is happening right now in Southern California
- Over the past five years, more than 100 billion gallons of raw sewage, industrial waste and toxic runoff from Tijuana have flooded across the border into our communities. Let that sink in: 100 billion gallons. In 2023 alone, 44 billion gallons crossed into the U.S. — the most ever recorded.
- This sewage isn’t just disgusting — it’s dangerous. It contains E. coli, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, arsenic and other toxic chemicals. Our water is contaminated. Our air is polluted with aerosolized waste. Residents are reporting everything from skin infections to viral pharyngitis — and even family pets have gotten sick after exposure. And some beaches have now been closed for over 1,000 consecutive days. That’s nearly three years of lost access to one of the greatest natural assets in America.
- Millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent. Just like the homelessness crisis, we’ve seen government throw money at the problem with nothing to show for it. The pollution keeps coming. The promises keep breaking. The leadership keeps failing.
- Let’s be honest: Mexico has failed to fix this, and the United States has failed to hold them accountable. Across multiple administrations, we’ve seen weak oversight, delayed action and zero results. That must end.
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Important Takeaways:
- Genetic testing company 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to help the $50 million company sell itself, the company announced Sunday.
- 23andMe’s saliva-based kits have been helping customers learn about their ancestry since 2006, and the company said it will continue operating while the bankruptcy court facilitates the sale process.
- News of the move raised concerns about how the personal data of millions of 23andMe customers will be handled.
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a “consumer alert” regarding the “trove of sensitive consumer data 23andMe has amassed,” reminding Californians that they have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data, destroy their test samples and revoke permission for genetic data to be used for research.
- “There are no changes to the way the Company stores, manages, or protects customer data,” 23andMe said in a media release.
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- It’s a practice that it dubbed “concerning,” not “not illegal,” unlike another underground industry in the state, where Chinese nationals work with “baby brokers” to bring pregnant Chinese women into the country so their babies are born U.S. citizens, according to the report.
- When wealthy Chinese couples “rent a womb,” and pay an American woman to be the surrogate, the resulting child is automatically a U.S. citizen, even if the family immediately returns to China.
- Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Joseph McNally told the outlet the practice is gravely concerning, and pointed to a case in Irvine where a baby born to a Chinese national and ended up joining to Chinese military but still had a U.S. passport.
- “That provides a real national security asset to China. And a real problem to the United States,” McNally said.
- Clients pay around $200,000 to do the surrogacy process in the U.S., and roughly $70,000 goes to the surrogate, according to the report.
- The Heritage Foundation released a report on this very practice in 2024 called: “The New Face of Birth Tourism: Chinese Nationals, American Surrogates, and Birthright Citizenship.” The report notes that China’s now-ended one-child policy and its resulting societal impacts, combined with the fact that surrogacy is illegal in China, could be contributing to Chinese nationals’ use of the American surrogacy industry to create a family.
- Officials told Entin that illegal Chinese birthing agencies will organize trips to California and charge at least $100,000 and that couples are often housed in luxury apartments and mansions in the suburbs of Los Angeles, which neighbors call “baby farms.” California hotels and motels have also reported seeing many Chinese pregnant women, and say some would come and stay for months before giving birth.
- McNally told Entin this “system” has led to the births of at least 30,000 Chinese babies into U.S. citizenship.
- “These were criminal enterprises that operated here in the United States and also people in China who would recruit,” McNally said. “The organizers here had contacts at hospitals and had contacts there. It was an industry. The organizers of these schemes were responsible for the birth tourism of thousands of babies. They had a system in place.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Most American food contains synthetic chemicals, preservatives, artificial flavors, GMOs, pesticides, hormones, and other toxic additives, which contribute to preventable diseases and disorders.
- A century ago, diseases like cancer, diabetes, and autism were rare, largely due to the absence of processed foods, vaccines, and chemical-laden agriculture. Post-WWII, processed foods and synthetic remedies replaced natural diets and remedies.
- American bread and fast food contain synthetic conditioners and emulsifiers, leading to gluten intolerance, digestive disorders, and long-term health issues like cancer.
- Industrial food dyes and fluoride in tap water are linked to behavioral disorders, cancer, and other health problems, with fluoride being a by-product of phosphate mining exported from China.
- Eating organic or locally-sourced food from trusted farmers can help avoid the harmful effects of the conventional American diet, which is linked to chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and dementia.
- American “food” isn’t really food at all, as most of it is made up of synthetics, chemicals, processed junk-science food stuff, additives, preservatives, dyes, artificial flavors, GMOs, flavor enhancing concentrated salt derivatives, hormones, antibiotics, fluoride, bleach, emulsifiers, insecticide, pesticide and wait for it… coagulating canola oil.
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