“Thousands” Of Empty Units After LA Wastes $1 Billion On Homeless Housing
Once hailed as a fast-track solution to California’s homelessness crisis, Project Homekey now looks like a billion-dollar boondoggle littered with empty buildings and broken promises.
In Los Angeles County, shuttered motels meant to house the unhoused stand lifeless—fenced-off, vacant, and increasingly resembling abandoned movie sets rather than havens for the vulnerable, according to Westside Current.
Meanwhile, a stone’s throw away, other properties funded by Homekey have become de facto homeless encampments, complete with tents and makeshift fire pits.
Out of 2,157 rooms the county bought with $550 million, a staggering 71% sit empty. The city’s record is only slightly better, with 44% of its 1,237 units still unoccupied despite spending $820 million.
The problem?
Bureaucratic delays, ballooning costs, and questionable deals—like a luxury Mid-City apartment building the city bought for $36.5 million despite contractor liens, or a facility flipped for twice the price just days after a private buyer snagged it…
‘We have a deal,’ Trump says, after trade talks with China’s Xi
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone for nearly 90 minutes Thursday, reaching what Trump called a “very positive conclusion” amid rising tensions over trade disputes.
The conversation came at Trump’s request, Chinese state media first reported. Trump later confirmed the call on social media.
“I just concluded a very good phone call with President Xi, of China, discussing some of the intricacies of our recently made, and agreed to, Trade Deal,” Trump wrote.Trump, Germany’s new leader to talk Ukraine aid and trade
“We have a deal,” Trump reportedly said. “And we’re just going to make sure that everyone understands what the deal is.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and top trade representative Jamieson Greer are expected to meet with Chinese officials “shortly at a location to be determined.”
“During the conversation, President Xi graciously invited the First Lady and me to visit China, and I reciprocated. As Presidents of two Great Nations, this is something that we both look forward to doing,” Trump said on social media.
Israel retrieves two hostages from Gaza captivity; US protects Israel at UNSC TV7 Israel News 05.06
1) In a joint IDF and ISA operation overnight, the bodies of an elderly couple, 70 year-old Judi Lynn Weinstein and 72 year-old Gadi Haggai, were successfully recovered from the Gaza Strip.
2) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts Israel’s resolve to rescue all of the 56 hostages, who’ve endured 608 days in Hamas captivity.
3) The United States vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution aimed at forcing Israel to end its offensive against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
EXCLUSIVE: Alina Habba, US marshals carry out gang raids
Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams has the latest on efforts from law enforcement in New Jersey to arrest suspected gang members on ‘America’s Newsroom.’
Federal money trail leads to Chinese scientists charged in shocking pathogen plot, memos show
Two Chinese scientists charged in a shocking plot to smuggle a toxic pathogen into the United States worked at an American laboratory led by more senior Chinese scientists funded by the U.S. government, according to federal spending records and the researchers’ own disclosures.
The incident is again raising concerns about the tendrils of Chinese Communist Party influence inside U.S. research institutions and broader society, just five years after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed federal funding to a lab in Wuhan, China where the virus is believed to have escaped and where dangerous gain of function research was being conducted.
The Justice Department noted Yunqing Jian’s electronics contained evidence describing “her membership in and loyalty” to the Chinese Communist Party. The Trump administration, especially the FBI, have doubled down on efforts to root out Chinese Communist Party influence, especially in higher education, by revoking visas for Chinese students at American schools.
Records reviewed by Just the News show that both China-born scientists charged this week were affiliated with a University of Michigan research laboratory led by two senior researchers who are also Chinese citizens and are receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health for studying plant immunity.
According to NIH records, Libo Shan and Ping He received more than $7.6 million in total funding between two sponsored projects, awarded one to each scientist. Both NIH projects (R35GM144275 and R35GM149197) were cited in at least two research papers involving both Jian and Liu, the indicted Chinese nationals.
Other research papers on which both Jian and Liu were authors cite awards from the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
The FBI told Just the News Wednesday night that it is aware of the federal funding trail and believes the entire case exposes a serious national security risk with U.S. scientific research relying on foreign scientists, particularly from commust China….
NEW: ICE arrests more than 2k illegal immigrants in major sweep
Fox News’ Brooke Taylor reports the latest on the ICE operation from Dallas, Texas.
Trump praised for travel ban affecting 12 countries: ‘Badly needed and long overdue’
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss why he supports President Donald Trump’s travel ban, his take on the China threat and how he is taking action to protect American agriculture.
Dems are trying to ‘synthesize a candidate’: Adam Carolla
‘The Adam Carolla Show’ host Adam Carolla breaks down how Democrats lack the ability to be authentic on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
The US must get a handle on people in America on expired visas, Laura Ingraham says
Fox News host Laura Ingraham discusses the Boulder, Colo., terror attack on ‘The Story.
Media is the propaganda arm of the left: Sebastian Gorka | Wake Up America
On Thursday’s “Wake Up America,” Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka called out the media’s failure to report attacks against Jews.
Nuclear fusion record smashed as German scientists take ‘a significant step forward’ to near-limitless clean energy
A recently concluded experimental campaign at the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany has smashed previous fusion records and set a new benchmark for reactor performances.
Nuclear fusion offers a tantalizing promise of unlimited clean energy. By smashing together isotopes (or different versions) of hydrogen at incredibly high temperatures, the resulting superheated plasma of electrons and ions fuses into heavier atoms, releasing a phenomenal amount of energy in the process.
However, while this fusion reaction is self-sustaining under the extraordinary temperatures and pressures within stars, recreating these conditions on Earth is a huge technical challenge — and current reactor concepts still consume more energy than they are able to produce.
Stellarators are one of the most promising reactor designs, so named for their mimicry of reactions in the sun. They use powerful external magnets to control the high-energy plasma within a ring-shaped vacuum chamber and maintain a stable, high pressure.
Unlike simpler tokamak reactors — which pass a high current through the plasma to generate the required magnetic field — stellarators’ external magnets are better at stabilizing the plasma through the fusion reactions, a feature that will ultimately be necessary when translating the technology to commercial power plants.
In the recent experiments, the W7-X stellarator outperformed previous benchmarks set by the decommissioned tokamak reactors JT60U in Japan and JET in the UK, especially over how long the plasma can be sustained.
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Trump Media Files Registration Statement for Bitcoin ETF
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT) (“Trump Media” or the “Company”), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, the streaming platform Truth+, and the FinTech brand Truth.Fi, announced today the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the initial registration statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) for the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, B.T. (“the ETF”). The ETF will hold bitcoin directly and offer its shares (the “Shares”) to investors, aiming to reflect Bitcoin’s price performance.
Crypto.com will act as the ETF’s exclusive Bitcoin custodian, prime execution agent and liquidity provider.
The launch of the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF is pending effectiveness of the Registration Statement as well as approval of a Form 19b-4 filing with the SEC. Upon launch, the Shares will be listed on NYSE Arca. Yorkville America Digital acts as the sponsor of the ETF.
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