War Secretary Pete Hegseth urged Congress Thursday to approve at least $350 billion in defense funding while pushing back against Democratic efforts to impeach him.In a video posted to X, Hegseth defended his Pentagon overhaul, including eliminating DEI initiatives, removing military leaders and rebuilding recruitment.Hegseth called the impeachment effort political theater and vowed to continue advancing President Donald Trump’s military agenda despite Democratic opposition.This is a developing story; check back later for updates.
Democrats Cheer the Incoming “Gayest Congress in History” – It’s Also the Most Non-White Congress
Congressional Equality Caucus celebrates the “Gayest Congress in American History”
Democrats are celebrating an unusual new feat this midterm cycle after the blue wave secured the “gayest Congress in American history,” according to the Congressional Equality Caucus, a pro-LGBTQ group of lawmakers.
The leftwing group currently has 192 Democratic members and zero Republicans.
17 openly gay lawmakers will be in the next Congress after six new LGBTQ candidates won their races.
Last election cycle, Democrats also elected the first transgender lawmaker in history, Rep. Tim “Sarah” McBride (D-DE)
the Congressional Equality Caucus wrote on X:
The American people have made their voices heard.
The 120th Congress will officially be the GAYEST Congress in history! (that we know of)
Let’s get to work
The American people have made their voices heard.
The 120th Congress will officially be the GAYEST Congress in history! (that we know of)
Let’s get to work https://t.co/gxgh5eHGmB
— Congressional Equality Caucus (@EqualityCaucus) November 5, 2026
Another record the incoming 119th Congress has is “the most diverse Congress in U.S. history and the eighth in a row to increase its share of non-White members,” according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
The Democrats are sure to put they/them ahead of you once again and do everything possible to cement DEI policies into federal law.
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Inflation Matters, It Turns Out
Controlling the source of inflation, loose monetary policy, must be the priority of any affordability agenda.
Intel’s China Problem Just Got A Lot Worse
Intel’s China Problem Just Got A Lot Worse
Huawei unveiled its first desktop computer running its own HarmonyOS operating system on Thursday, a machine with no Intel or Qualcomm chip and no Windows, which the South China Morning Post reported is 100% domestically made.The Qingyun HM650 made its debut at the HarmonyOS Office Industry Summit in Wuhan, where Zhu Dongdong, president of Huawei’s tablet and PC product line, laid out the specs. It runs on Huawei’s Kirin X90, a 10-core, 20-thread processor rated at 40 watts, well under the 65 to 125 watts typical of desktop processors, with Huawei’s Maleoon 910 graphics, and carries what the company calls a “100% localization certification.” Huawei said tighter integration of its hardware and software lifts overall system performance by 15%.The machine ships with an enterprise edition of HarmonyOS and a dedicated key for Huawei’s Celia AI assistant. Huawei is pitching it to finance, enterprise and energy customers, and gave no price or sale date.No Intel, no Qualcomm: Huawei unveils desktop built entirely with China-made components: SCMP.Goodbye China market— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 5, 2026Huawei said at the summit that cumulative shipments of HarmonyOS computers have passed one million units. The company shipped 141,000 HarmonyOS PCs in all of 2025, according to figures cited by TechRadar in March.Forced Out Of WintelIn May 2024, Washington revoked the export licenses that let Intel and Qualcomm sell chips to Huawei, which had used Intel’s Core processors in most of its consumer laptops. Huawei’s license to put Microsoft Windows on its PCs expired in March 2025.Huawei launched its first HarmonyOS laptops two months later. At a July briefing in Beijing, Zhu said the lineup now runs from the MateBook 14 to the 18-inch MateBook Fold, with the Qingyun line for government and business, and that native HarmonyOS PC apps had grown from about 1,000 at launch to more than 19,000.Huawei had sold desktops without Intel inside before. Its earlier Qingyun machines ran Kirin chips on Chinese Linux distributions, as Tom’s Hardware reported. The HM650 is the first to run Huawei’s own operating system, which passed a Level II “secure and reliable” certification from China’s national information security evaluation center when Huawei showed the desktop in September, IT Home reported.When TechInsights tore down the Kirin X90 in last year’s MateBook Fold, it found the chip was built on SMIC’s 7nm (N+2) process, the same node that first appeared in the Mate 60 Pro in August 2023, rather than the rumored 5nm. The firm said SMIC’s 5nm process remained elusive and that a Huawei stuck at 7nm is “multiple generations behind” the leading chipmakers.As we noted in May, Huawei’s answer is what it calls a Tau scaling law: its semiconductor chief, He Tingbo, laid out a “LogicFolding” architecture meant to cut signal delay and raise transistor density, with 1.4nm chips targeted by 2031. SMIC shares jumped more than 18% to a record on the news.’Safe and Reliable’Beijing has ordered government agencies and party organs above the township level to buy “safe and reliable” processors and operating systems, as we reported seemingly eons and epochs ago in March 2024, steering them away from Intel, AMD and Windows. The approved list, all Chinese, is kept by the China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, which certified the Kirin X90 in March 2025. State-owned enterprises were reportedly told to finish switching to domestic suppliers by 2027.China was Intel’s largest market in 2023, accounting for 27% of its $54 billion in sales. Qualcomm says in its fiscal 2025 annual report that it derives “a significant portion” of its revenue from Chinese device makers, that it expects no further product revenue from Huawei, and that some of its Chinese customers have developed their own chips.Huawei is working on the machines that make the chips, too. As we reported in September, it has taken the coordinating role in China’s push to build its own DUV lithography tools, funding lens and light-source suppliers through its venture arms, while China’s two biggest memory makers, CXMT and YMTC, stockpiled enough ASML equipment to cover about three years of expansion.
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Popular weight-loss drugs may prevent prediabetes from turning into diabetes
Adults with prediabetes and obesity who took GLP-1-based medications had a 31% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes and a 41% lower risk of death compared with those taking metformin.Metformin is an oral medication used primarily to treat type 2 diabetes, widely considered the first-line treatment, combined with lifestyle modifications. It is also sometimes prescribed to people with prediabetes to help prevent or delay progression.The findings, which come from a large observational study, are set to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2026 this weekend in Chicago. They have not yet undergone the full peer review process.DR OZ LINKS OBESITY TO CHRONIC DISEASE SURGE, SAYS GLP-1S CAN ‘JUMPSTART’ BETTER HEALTHThe study involved health records for 256,492 adults with prediabetes and obesity, averaging 52 years of age. Approximately half of the group received GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists) medications – including semaglutide, tirzepatide, liraglutide and dulaglutide – and half received metformin.Based on a three-year follow-up, in addition to the lower risk of diabetes and all-cause mortality, GLP-1–based medications were associated with 20% fewer strokes, 15% fewer heart attacks and 25% fewer cases of heart failure.”The 41% lower risk of death from any cause surprised me most,” study author Vinicius de Sousa Barzon Serra, M.D., a research fellow in the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, told Fox News Digital.”I expected GLP-1 medications to do better than metformin on blood sugar and diabetes risk, because they lead to much more weight loss. I was also struck that the benefit appeared across many outcomes, including heart attack, stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation.”POPULAR DIET SLASHES LIVER FAT BY 67% WHILE REVERSING PREDIABETES IN SOME PEOPLENearly 40% of U.S. adults have prediabetes, according to statistics from the AHA. That condition is marked by blood sugar levels that are above normal but not yet elevated enough for a diabetes diagnosis.As many as 10% of those with prediabetes will go on to develop type 2 diabetes each year.CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES”Most earlier research on these medications focused on people who already had diabetes,” Serra noted. “Our study suggests the prediabetes stage may be an important time to consider them, rather than waiting until they develop type 2 diabetes.”The study did have some limitations. While it found a link between GLP-1 medications and better health outcomes, it does not prove that the drugs were responsible.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTERThe findings are preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal, Serra noted.”We matched patients by age, health conditions and other characteristics to make the groups comparable … even so, other differences between the groups may remain,” he said. “We also grouped the GLP-1 medications together, so we could not tell whether individual drugs differ.”The study relied on patients’ electronic health records, which may have contained missing or incorrect information. It is also possible that factors not measured in the study, such as medication dosage and compliance, could have influenced the results, the researchers noted.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZPeople with prediabetes and obesity should talk with their doctor about all their options and should not stop or change any medication on their own, Serra advised.”Metformin is a safe, inexpensive option with a long track record, and lifestyle changes such as healthy eating, regular physical activity and weight management remain the foundation of treatment,” he emphasized to Fox News Digital.”For some patients, a GLP-1 medication may be worth discussing, depending on their overall health, other medical conditions, cost and access. The decision should be made together with their doctor.”
BREAKING: Newsom Commutes Death Sentences of All 548 People on Death Row
California’s outgoing governor Gavin Newsom (D) commuted the death sentences of all 548 on death row in one of his final acts before leaving office.
Recall that Gavin Newsom imposed an executive moratorium on death penalty executions in 2019.
On Thursday, Newsom issued a sweeping clemency action and commuted all 548 people currently on California’s death row.
“I have decided to exercise my constitutional clemency authority to commute all California death sentences to life without the possibility of parole,” Newsom wrote in a letter to “all Californians.”
Newsom can only grant clemency for single-felony convictions, which is about 40% of the death sentences, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The remaining cases require approval from four justices of the California Supreme Court.
“California voters have voted to keep the death penalty on the books and I respect that,” Newsom wrote. “But the constitution also gave every governor clemency authority, and that power exists for moments when law as applied cannot be squared with justice. For me, this is that moment.”
“I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values, undermines the foundation of our legal system, and diminishes each of us,” Newsom wrote.
“I know we cannot execute people in our imperfect legal system and remain true to our core values, first among them justice and human decency,” Newsom said.
Thirteen California death row inmates have been executed since 1978.
Radical Democrat Xavier Becerra won the California governor race on Tuesday.
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Here Are the New Federal Income Tax Brackets for 2027
The IRS announced the 2027 federal income tax brackets on Thursday. It’s good news for over 160 million individual taxpayers: The brackets are indexed to inflation, and because of rising prices, most people will be able to shield more of their income from higher tax rates next year.
On Jan. 1, the income thresholds for the brackets will increase by an average of 3.2%. The adjustments apply to income earned in 2027. (Most Americans will file those tax returns in early 2028.)
Federal income taxes are calculated using seven tax brackets, with rates ranging from 10% to 37%. The tax rates themselves are set by Congress and generally stay the same from year to year. It’s the underlying brackets, meaning the income ranges that determine how much you owe at each rate, that change annually.
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The inflation rate climbed to 3.7% as of September as gas prices continue to drive up household costs. A sizable adjustment to the tax brackets was expected, and the announced increases were in line with forecasts.
Here’s what you need to know about the tax bracket changes and the just-announced standard deduction amounts for 2027.
Federal income tax brackets for 2027
When the IRS adjusts brackets for inflation, the resulting tax savings can feel like a raise.
For example, a single filer who earns $100,000 and claims the standard deduction would typically owe about $12,890 in 2027, a $281 drop from 2026, assuming other circumstances are unchanged.
That’s because the bracket adjustments cause less of a person’s income to be taxed at higher rates. Some taxpayers will even move into lower tax brackets.
The U.S. uses what’s called a graduated-rate tax system in which a person’s tax bracket is the highest income range (and tax rate) that their taxable income falls in. The taxpayer does not pay that rate on all of their income. For each portion of your income, it is taxed at the rate for that bracket.
Inflation adjustments to the tax brackets are designed to prevent “bracket creep,” meaning a larger share of income falling in a higher-rate bracket simply due to cost-of-living pay adjustments.
The tax brackets are indexed for inflation with the chained consumer price index, or the chained CPI, which has been used for the calculation since 2018.
Standard deduction for 2027
The IRS announced that the standard deduction will be $16,600 for single filers, $24,925 for heads of household and $33,200 for married couples filing jointly in 2027.
That is a $500 increase from the 2026 standard deduction of $16,100 for single filers. Married couples filing jointly can deduct double that: an increase of $1,000 from this year’s $32,200 standard deduction.
The standard deduction is a set amount of income that taxpayers can deduct without itemizing their taxes. It simplifies tax preparation for millions of Americans by removing the need to log expenses for the IRS.
Since the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act became law, most taxpayers — nearly 86% in 2026 — take the standard deduction. Itemizing can still make sense for people who qualify for significant deductions, such as taxpayers eligible for large state and local tax (SALT) deductions or mortgage interest deductions, according to the IRS.
Other IRS inflation adjustments for 2027
The IRS said in the announcement that almost 70 tax provisions are impacted by the inflation adjustments.
Notably, the child tax credit will increase from $2,200 to $2,300 per qualifying child, and the maximum refundable portion — the additional child tax credit — will rise from $1,700 to $1,800.
The maximum earned income tax credit, or EITC, will increase from $8,231 to $8,496 for taxpayers with three or more qualifying children.
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CBS Continues Glee After Dem Midterm Wins, Hopes For ‘Bipartisanship’ to ‘Reign’
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After five hours of celebratory programming on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings, featuring softball interviews with Democrats after midterm wins, the CBS morning show continued to showcase more glee on Thursday. Host Norah O’Donnell claimed the victories could lead to more “bipartisanship,” while continuing to push Kansas Democrat Senator-elect Adam Hamilton as a “moderate” who would push back against retribution against the Trump Administration.CBS’s chief White House correspondent led the show with a long report on the aftermath in the Republican party after the losses, with messages from Vice President JD Vance, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.But, she then turned to possible investigations against Trump, a favorite of the liberal base. Cordes stated, “Democrats have their own decision to make about how they have to use their new majorities.” CBS’s continued midterm coverage on Thursday also hyped up Democrat investigation plans, but continued to play the moderate card for Kansas Senator-elect Adam Hamilton, and said he was worried “too many investigations could be a distraction.” pic.twitter.com/qbNQDBLGqj— Nick (@nspin310) November 5, 2026 A clip then played of Democrat Senate Chuck Schumer (D-NY), where he said, “There has to be some investigations. But we are not going to take our eye off the ball. Number one, reducing costs, ending corruption.”Cordes then detailed possible investigations by congressional Democrats, with an emphasized closing point on probes into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: Some Democrats are pushing for high-profile probes into deadly ICE operations, the Trump family’s financial dealings, and defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s handling of the war.But then, immediately after playing Democratic representative Jason Crow (D-CO) imploring for a Hegseth investigation, Cordes painted Democrat Senator-elect Hamilton as a heroic moderate force:CORDES: But some Democrats, including Kansas senator-elect Adam Hamilton, worry that too many investigations could be a distraction.HAMILTON (D-KS): I do not want to spend the next two years in trials. I want to spend the next two years doing everything we can to help the people in Kansas.A real test for Hamilton’s moderate status will come when given the opportunity of a Supreme Court vacancy in the next two years of Turmp’s final term. ‘MAGA-coded’ CBS still could not hide its excitement over Democrat wins on Thursday, as Norah O’Donnell and Ed O’Keefe claimed the victory would finally bring back “bipartisanship.”O’DONNELL: Maybe bipartisanship will start to reign in Washington.O’KEEFE: God forbid. pic.twitter.com/4wMO7YH2qV— Nick (@nspin310) November 5, 2026 In more evidence of the network not being ‘MAGA-coded,’ just after Cordes’s lead mid-term roundup story, O’Donnell marveled over Democrat win, as Ed O’Keefe wondered what their power in the Senate might mean for voters against Trump policies: (Click “expand”):Look, when I interviewed the winners in South Carolina — eventual winners in South Carolina, Michigan, Iowa, Texas, they all said I will go to Washington. I expect to vote on ending the tariffs and ending the war. Even if Democrats were to hold those votes, we know the president is saying, at least so far, he would use the power to veto to probably stop those things. So, they will be on the record early on on campaign promises. We will see if they can ultimately pull it off.He then turned to start to claim the Democrat leads could lead to more bipartisan work:The other basic things that start to change, you’re going to have Democratic and Republican senators in places like Texas, Ohio, South Carolina, Iowa, who have to work together on some basic home-state issues. A lot of Republican senators have never had to do that, and they’ll have to learn to get along.O’Donnell responded, “Maybe bipartisanship will start to reign in Washington,” to which O’Keefe joked, “God forbid.”Did CBS or O’Donnell celebrate possible bipartisanship when Republicans had the majority, and Democrats had to work with Republicans, which they, largely, have not? Bipartisanship only seems like a viable option to the media when Democrats are in power.The transcript is below. Click “expand”:CBS MorningsNovember 5, 20267:04:50 AM EasternNANCY CORDES: Democrats have their own decision to make about how have to use their new majoritiesSEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): There has to be some investigations. But we are not going to take our eye off the ball. Number one, reducing costs, ending corruption.CORDES: Some Democrats are pushing for high-profile probes into deadly ICE operations, the Trump family’s financial dealings, and defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s handling of the war.REP. JASON CROW (D-CO) He is incompetent. The corruption that he has brought at the highest levels of the Pentagon –CORDES, But some Democrats, including Kansas senator-elect Adam Hamilton, worry that too many investigations could be a distraction.SEN-ELECT ADAM HAMILTON (D-KS) I do not want to spend the next two years in trials. I want to spend the next two years doing everything we can to help the people in Kansas.(…)7:07:26 AM EasternNORAH O’DONNELL: Okay. 10, 12 seats, whatever it may be for the Democrats, how does that affect how they govern in Washington?ED O’KEEFE: Look, when I interviewed the winners in South Carolina — eventual winners in South Carolina, Michigan, Iowa, Texas, they all said I will go to Washington. I expect to vote on ending the tariffs and ending the war. Even if Democrats were to hold those votes, we know the president is saying, at least so far, he would use the power to veto to probably stop those things. So, they will be on the record early on campaign promises. We will see if they can ultimately pull it off. The other basic things that start to change: You’re going to have Democratic and Republican senators in places like Texas, Ohio, South Carolina, Iowa, who have to work together on some basic home-state issues. A lot of Republican senators have never had to do that, and they’ll have to learn to get along.O’DONNELL: Maybe bipartisanship will start to reign in Washington.O’KEEFE: God forbid.O’DONNELL: Let’s see. Alright, Ed. Thank you.(…)
MS NOW Hails Talarico, Hamilton Wins, Claims Evangelicals Worked To ‘Slander’ Jesus
The Atlantic writer and ex-Republican Peter Wehner stopped by MS NOW’s The Moment with Katy Tur on Thursday to discuss his latest article that tries to argue that James Talarico and Adam Hamilton’s Senate wins in Texas and Kansas were “an important moment for the Evangelical movement, which I think has done so much to slander the name of Jesus.”Tur began by wondering, “Peter Wehner, you talked today in The Atlantic about Christianity coming back into Democratic politics, and you’re hoping that this is going to usher in a new era of goodness, of, you know, protecting each other and being decent, ushering out the Trump era. Is this a part of it, going after corruption, cleaning up government?” The Atlantic’s Peter Wehner claims James Talarico and Adam Hamilton winning “was an important moment for the Evangelical movement, which I think has done so much to slander the name of Jesus by those who most loudly proclaim it.” pic.twitter.com/odDDQpjnZA— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) November 5, 2026 Wehner replied that “I do think it’s part of it. I think part of it, too, is just sensibility and disposition, kind of the orientation of the heart, and the two Democrats that were so important that I focused on in the essay, James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas, ran a campaign of real decency.”He also claimed, “They were in many ways, I’d say, the antithetical approach to Donald Trump. And they’re both men of deep faith. I mean, it’s pretty clear that it’s central to their life. And I think it’s good for the Democratic Party to have people of the Christian faith there at the table and in the caucus, and I’m glad that they’re in red states. So, I think that can temper some of the more extreme places that some candidates and politicians can go.”Wehner also insisted that “I actually think as a person of the Christian faith, more important is I think it was an important moment for the Evangelical movement, which I think has done so much to slander the name of Jesus by those who most loudly proclaim it.”Finally, he asserted that “I think what this showed is it moved the Evangelical movement away, including, I hope, from its allegiance to one party. It’s just tremendous harm has been done, by the way, that people of faith have tried to carry out their faith in public life. Talarico and Hamilton have shown a different way, and I think it’s a better way.”The reason MS NOW supports Hamilton and Talarico is not because of Christian decency or a contrast with Trump because we know the left’s rocky relationship with Evangelicals did not begin when Donald Trump first decided to run for president. Liberals like Talarico and Hamilton because they share the same beliefs on abortion, same-sex marriage, and transgender issues. The question for the whole MS NOW cast is if they believe it is even possible to be a “decent” conservative Evangelical or are they automatically anti-woman, transphobic, and homophobic bigots for believing what all Christians have believed for over 2,000 years.Here is a transcript for the November 5 show:MS NOW The Moment with Katy Tur11/5/20262:07 PM ETKATY TUR: Peter Wehner, you talked today in The Atlantic about Christianity coming back into Democratic politics, and you’re hoping that this is going to usher in a new era of goodness, of, you know, protecting each other and being decent, ushering out the Trump era. Is this a part of it, going after corruption, cleaning up government?PETER WEHNER: I do think it’s part of it. I think part of it, too, is just sensibility and disposition, kind of the orientation of the heart, and the two Democrats that were so important that I focused on in the essay, James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas, ran a campaign of real decency.I mean, they were in many ways, I’d say, the antithetical approach to Donald Trump. And they’re both men of deep faith. I mean, it’s pretty clear that it’s central to their life. And I think it’s good for the Democratic Party to have people of the Christian faith there at the table and in the caucus, and I’m glad that they’re in red states. So, I think that can temper some of the more extreme places that some candidates and politicians can go.But the other thing, and I actually think as a person of the Christian faith, more important is I think it was an important moment for the Evangelical movement, which I think has done so much to slander the name of Jesus by those who most loudly proclaim it.And I think what this showed is it moved the Evangelical movement away, including, I hope, from its allegiance to one party. It’s just tremendous harm has been done, by the way, that people of faith have tried to carry out their faith in public life. Talarico and Hamilton have shown a different way, and I think it’s a better way.
Elon Musk’s Fortune Drops $80 Billion Amid Tech Stock Rout
Musk suffered the worst losses of any billionaire Thursday as SpaceX and Tesla shares fell.