New York rap artist Jimmy Francois, known by his stage name “Bentley Bugz,” has been arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn for allegedly sex trafficking a 16-year-old girl, using force, threats, and coercion to exploit her. The 37-year-old from Elmont, Long Island, faces a six-count indictment for the alleged sex trafficking, which took place over a three-month period in 2024. New York rap artist Jimmy

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) attacks Tucker Carlson while speaking at an antisemitism symposium. Credit: C-SPAN screenshot Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) reignited his feud with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a blistering speech on Tuesday. As TGP readers know, Cruz and Carlson have been embroiled in a months-long feud, which was exacerbated when Cruz appeared on Carlson’s podcast last June. The topic centered around

Reality of “surf-and-turf” in the Military. Molly Jong-Fast, a contributor at Vanity Fair and the New York Times, took to X to boast about uncovering “frivolous” spending in the Department of War (DoW), specifically around food expenditures for our active-duty troops. In the X post, she discloses that “under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship,” in September, the Department of War spent $2 million on Alaskan King

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz/Image: Wikicommons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license/ Author: Gage Skidmore Howard Schultz, the former CEO of far-left Starbucks, and his wife are fleeing woke Washington state for Florida for their “retirement phase” following the state’s advancement of a new “millionaire tax.” The announcement came after Seattle-based Starbucks said it would open a new corporate office in Nashville. Fox News

President Trump on Wednesday stopped to chat with reporters on the South Lawn before departing for Ohio and Kentucky. The president is traveling to Reading, Ohio, to visit pharmaceutical manufacturing company Thermo Fisher to tout lower drug prices. A reporter asked President Trump about a new report that claims the United States is responsible for a deadly missile strike on an Iranian elementary school. Earlier

Credit: White House Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly vacated her Washington, D.C. residence and moved into secure housing on a heavily fortified military base after federal authorities flagged credible threats against the top law enforcement official. According to the New York Times, the relocation occurred within the past month after law enforcement warned of escalating risks tied to two explosive developments. Security concerns reportedly

Voting machine from Smartmatic with ballots being processed at a polling station in Taguig City, Philippines. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Voting machine company Smartmatic is asking a federal judge to dismiss criminal charges brought by the Justice Department, arguing the case represents a “vindictive and selective prosecution.” The Washington Post reports that the company’s London-based parent firm filed the motion Tuesday in federal court in Miami.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH)/Image: Video screenshot During a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Tuesday, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) questioned former Biden advisor Brendan Duke on whether illegal immigration into the United States is a crime. Duke is a former senior policy advisor for the Biden administration and now serves as senior director for federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress. Duke’s answer was

Iranian government entities are known to control about $4 billion worth of cryptocurrencies. Despite an internet blackout, a handful of Iranian accounts are sending millions to Lebanon and Yemen. Image generated by Gemini. Omri Raiter, CEO of Rakia, a company that detects patterns in cryptocurrency movements using legally obtained or open-source signals, began his remote interview with The Gateway Pundit by saying that the area

Failing PM Starmer insisted on nominating Mandelson as US Ambassador – and almost lost his premiership over it. Failing PM Starmer knew the extent of Mandelson’s ties to Epstein before appointing him as US ambassador. Peter Mandelson thought himself immune to the ‘Epstein curse’ – but he was not. As a result, he was fired from his ambassadorship, had to resign from the Labour Party and