A Golden Retriever is going viral and melting hearts everywhere for spending her Friday mornings greeting her favorite garbage men in east Belfast.

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While planning a camping trip in Quebec, Joël Lapointe found a rare and unusual structure.

The Biden administration recently launched a scheme to give green cards to illegal aliens who are married to U.S. citizens. Originally called “Parole-in-Place,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has now rechristened it the “Keeping Families Together” program.You may be reading this and asking yourself, “So what? What’s in a name?” Apparently, the brass at USCIS has never read any Shakespeare. And it seems to believe simply by giving the program a cute name, it can change it into something that the American public will support and that American courts will ratify.If the United States wants to keep migrants and their families together, it should encourage them to either stay home or migrate to America legally.Whatever you call it, PIP or KFT, the program runs directly contrary to the federal statute governing immigration: the Immigration and Nationality Act. The law requires foreign nationals who wish to obtain a green card to enter the United States lawfully and maintain lawful status before they can apply for a green card.While there are a few minor exceptions to this rule, they are highly limited and explicitly defined in the law. From the start, the KFT program is illegal. Recently, a federal court issued an injunction, temporarily halting the issuance of any green cards through the KFT program.Moreover, KFT is also an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. The president doesn’t have any authority to unilaterally amend the laws passed by Congress, by executive fiat, merely because he dislikes them. Implementing a program like KFT requires Congress to pass a new statute, and that isn’t likely to happen. The anti-borders contingent has been begging for an illegal alien amnesty for decades, but the idea isn’t popular with the public. And despite repeated attempts, no amnesty bill has made it through Congress.But the real kicker is the intention behind the program’s new name. In reality, the PIP to KFT transformation is just illegal immigration activists recycling the bogus “family separation” claims that have worked so well for them in the past.“Parole-in-Place” is dry government jargon that doesn’t convey much of anything. It merely implies that certain migrants are going to be subjected to a bureaucratic process of some sort. “Keeping Families Together,” on the other hand, oozes positivity. Who doesn’t want to keep families together? At the same time, it implies that anyone who does separate families, even for good reasons, has sinister motives.These tropes fall apart under real-world scrutiny. In any society governed by the rule of law, families sometimes face separation. American families experience this when Uncle Jim or Aunt Jane gets convicted of a felony, or when dad is drafted to fight for the United States. Yet, there’s little media commentary suggesting we should abandon criminal law enforcement or national defense simply because they cause families to be separated and unhappy.The reality is, yes, migrant families are often temporarily separated when they are apprehended unlawfully entering the United States. This occurs both for the administrative convenience of the government, as well as for the safety of the aliens. But that separation is the direct result of the migrant’s decision to break the law.It isn’t punitive. Illegal aliens deported from the United States aren’t punished, they’re simply removed to their country of origin, where they have a right to live and work without breaking any laws.So anyone with half a brain should be asking, “Why is it the responsibility of the United States to keep law-breaking foreign families together?” And the straightforward answer is that it isn’t. And any tradeoff that requires most Americans to forego secure borders so that a tiny minority of citizens who are married to illegal aliens can stay with their spouses isn’t just unfair, it’s completely insane.It may be tempting to suggest that illegal aliens who marry U.S. citizens present a special case; or that it would be cruel to the Americans involved if they were separated from deported illegal aliens. But that argument is also based on tortured logic. If U.S. citizens want to stay with an illegal alien spouse, they’re free to depart the United States and do so, in any foreign country where their spouse has a lawful right to reside.Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what anyone calls the KFT program. It’s nothing but an impermissible amnesty sporting a flimsy cloak of pseudo-legality. It will succeed at only one thing: rewarding foreign lawbreakers for entering the country illegally.As the 1986 immigration amnesty has repeatedly proven, KFT and programs like it don’t just grant a reprieve to a select group of allegedly sympathetic migrants who have citizen family members. Rather, they encourage more would-be illegal aliens to jump the border and hang around waiting for the next amnesty.If the U.S. wants to keep migrants and their families together, it should encourage them to either stay home or migrate to America legally.

It’s a big week for American politics. Summer break is over, and after five weeks back home, Congress is filtering back into town. Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are scheduled to have their first (and only) debate Tuesday night, and actual voting is beginning to kick off in the earliest-voting states. That’s a lot, and there is more to come. We could see a shutdown fight, depending on how hard House Republicans stick to their guns in their battle against the 82-year-old Senate Republican leader, who remains obstinate in his opposition to including a law to safeguard elections against noncitizens voting in the next round of short-term government funding. The title fight of the week is, no doubt, Trump vs. Harris. There’s no main-ticket example in modern American history comparable to the Harris-Walz campaign. Since assuming the nomination despite zero debates, primaries, or votes, or even a campaign, Harris has given one single reporter 18 minutes of question time and committed virtually no policies to paper. As the venerable Mark Hemingway writes in the Federalist, “Explaining yourself is the bare minimum of what stewarding democracy, nuclear weapons, and trillions of dollars demands, but Harris’ handlers have decided that even doing that much is too risky.” Former Hillary Clinton adviser Mark Penn agrees, painting the problem in the stark terms it demands: “No three debates. No two years of primaries, coalition building, no detailed policy development, and no daily press briefings. Or tests of leadership.” Harris’ protective cocoon of silence is so absolute that it has enveloped her running mate, who we’re promised is America’s assistant coach but who by every standard and metric is a viciously hard-left politician more at home locking down his citizens than he is with his Trump-supporting extended family. He’s given nearly zero interviews as well, since 1) doing interviews might draw attention to his boss’ silence, and 2) he can’t articulate a policy that doesn’t exist. It’s a tough jam. So Tuesday it is. And we the voters will have to decide whether we’re comfortable electing a president who will not reveal herself based on the promise that she will be a good progressive. There’s reason to worry that the state of American politics says we are. Meanwhile, just off the main stage, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is preparing for what could be the fight of his career. He’s charted a course to attach Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy's and Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s SAVE Act to a short-term spending bill that extends government funding two and a half months into the next administration. Johnson has plenty of time to tell donors and members he really tried hard, then move on to doing what the liberals and spenders used to running DC would rather be doing. The move is a surprise. It puts the speaker in line with his House Republican colleagues, the party’s nominee for president, and, surprisingly, the donor class. It puts him at odds, however, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who despite plans to finally relinquish his historically long, white-knuckle grip on leadership this fall, is a stubborn man used to getting his way. Republican senators, for their part, are largely used to doing what McConnell tells them to do. And if you cross him, he’s not shy about hurting you. Will Johnson successfully pressure the Senate to take up his spending bill? The pressure from Democrats and the corporate media will be relentless, and if House Republicans start the fight this week (as they’ve signaled they will) that leaves him plenty of time to get a “no” from the Senate, tell donors and members he really tried hard, then move on to doing what the liberals and spenders used to running D.C. would rather be doing. As Sen. Mike Lee told Blaze News earlier this week, “If progressives really want so badly to have noncitizens voting, then they’re going to have to say so.” And immigration is not a problem that’s going away, even if Washington wants to put its head in the sand. Shocking statistics reported Friday showed 1.3 million native-born Americans lost jobs in August while 635,000 jobs went to foreign-born workers. As a ZeroHedge analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data points out: “Since July 2018, native-born Americans have lost 350K jobs. That means zero job creation for native-born workers in the past six years. They have been replaced with 4.7 million non-native workers over this period.” "September is the funding fight,” one conservative House staffer told Blaze News, “and that along with the election results are going to determine what November and December hold.” “Only thing I am sure of for the end of the year is that it will be a s**t show." NY Times: Trump and Harris Neck and Neck After Summer Upheaval, Times/Siena Poll Finds Blaze News: Are illegal immigrants really voting in our elections? Blaze News: Millions of Americans lost jobs last month while the 'foreign born' saw massive gains Blaze News: NYT publisher concern-mongers about Trump, priming pump on renewed press victimhood narrative Blaze News investigates: Dems' election shenanigans facing death by 1,000 cuts Blaze News: Judge sets date for Trump sentencing after the election to avoid appearance of tampering Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. The fire rises: The New York Times: Smartphones in schools Smartphones are blocking out nature, dulling our attention spans, stifling literature, and ruling the bedrooms we share with our spouses. And that’s just adults. Our kids have it worse, and what was sold as a great spreader of knowledge is turning out vapid and commercialized children who don’t know a thing and couldn’t care less about that. Parents and schools are finally beginning to wise up. David Leonhardt reports: School officials and policymakers have begun to fight back. It’s probably the most significant development of the 2024-25 school year. At least eight states, including California, Indiana and Louisiana, have restricted phone use or taken steps toward doing so. They are following the lead of Florida, which last year banned phones in K-12 classrooms. Other states, including Arizona and New York, may act soon. (My colleague Natasha Singer, who’s been covering this story, discussed these policies on an episode of “The Daily.”) At the schools that have restricted phones, many people say they already see benefits. In a Florida school district that Natasha visited — and that went even further than the state law requires, banning phones all day — students now have more conversations at lunch and play games like Twister and pickleball. Before, children mostly looked at their phones, one principal said.

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Apple will unveil the new iPhone 16 in a few hours. While I can't wait to upgrade my current iPhone 15 Pro to the latest model, there's actually one Apple launch that I'm beyond happy that it might get a new version: The AirPods Max. A new model has been rumored for a few years. While it was expected to be light on new features and even launch at a later date, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, in a Threads post, reported that he expects Apple to unveil the new AirPods Max today. According to the journalist, there are a few key features to expect from Apple's premium headphones: Better Active Noise Cancellation, AirPods Pro 2's Adaptive Audio, and a new USB-C port, which will finally bring Lossless capabilities for these headphones. While some might think Apple took too long to unveil a new model with only a few features, I'm happy to upgrade my headphones to a USB-C upgrade. As Apple started switching to this new port, I stopped using these headphones because I had to carry an extra cable. Image source: Apple In addition, while I love the AirPods Max in black, I'm dying to get a new model with a different color. Previously, Gurman reported that Apple was planning new colors for the first-generation model. However, they have never been released. Now, it's likely that Apple might revamp some of the old colors, even though it's unclear what could change. Besides that, I hope Apple at least makes these new headphones to pair with AirPods Pro 2 or at least have a few exclusive features. A better Find My technology and improved battery life are among the features I hope this new generation adds. That said, it won't take long until we find out what Apple has in store for its iPhone 16 keynote. BGR will let you know everything Apple announces as soon as we learn more about it. Don't Miss: iPhone 16 event: New iPhones, Apple Watch Series 10, AirPods 4, iOS 18, and more The post There’s one Apple launch coming today that’s even more exciting than the iPhone 16 appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Apple Watch deals for September 2024 Today’s deals: $10 off Starbucks coffee, $199 Apple iPad, $16 portable blender, $99 BISSELL Little Green, more Best Apple deals for September 2024 Labor Day deals: Deep Apple discounts, $35 in Amazon credit, $279 Nintendo Switch OLED, more

Ukraine's air force said Monday it shot down six out of eight Russia-launched drones and two out of three missiles during an overnight attack.

Russia is increasingly turning to American social media stars to covertly influence voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to U.S. officials and recently unveiled criminal charges.

Workers at many of the largest U.S. tech companies overwhelmingly back Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, according to donation data, even as some of the most powerful tech billionaires have thrown their support to Republican rival Donald Trump.