The Trump administration on Friday fired roughly half the National Security Council as part of a radical restructuring of that body’s structures and functions. “The right-sizing of the NSC is in line with its original purpose and the president’s vision,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is acting national security advisor, told Axios, which reported the purge. “The NSC will now be better positioned to collaborate with agencies.” Officials speaking to Axios cited excessive bureaucracy and the improved coordination of disparate departments and agencies as reasons to reduce the size and role of the NSC, which traditionally coordinates national security policies on the direct behalf of the president. “The NSC is the ultimate Deep State. It’s Marco vs. the Deep State. We’re gutting the Deep State,” an anonymous official said. Andy Baker, currently Vice President J.D. Vance’s national security advisor, and Robert Gabriel, an assistant to the president for policy, will be serving as deputy national security advisors under Rubio. The post National Security Council Cut by Half appeared first on The American Conservative.

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California is fighting back a day after the U.S. Senate voted to put the brakes on the state's clean vehicle policies. Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a statement Thursday saying the state will file a lawsuit after senators voted to revoke California's emission waivers that set stricter standards than federal regulations. One of the rules, the so-called "EV mandate," would phase out gasoline-powered cars and require new vehicle sales to be zero...

The GOP-led Senate voted Thursday to take away California’s ability to set its own tailpipe emissions standards, effectively killing the country’s biggest driver of EV investment. The vote was 51-44. The move nullifies a measure, enacted by the state in 2022 and later adopted by 11 other states, banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035. The House already passed the same resolution. Now it heads to President Trump for his signature...

In 2022, Eighty-one-year-old Harry Smith, who uses an electric wheelchair, was walking his beloved nine-year-old beagle mix, Sarah Jane, near a lake in Port St. Lucie, Florida, when the pleasant jaunt took a turn for the worse. Smith says that the left wheel of the chair “grabbed and spun me” and he wound up rolling down a grass embankment into the water. Smith can’t swim, could barely keep his head above the water, and without immediate help would have drowned. Sarah Jane began to bark loudly, capturing the attention of Edward Suhling, 58, who was working on a trailer with Aby “Jacob” Chacko, 49. "Sensing his owner was in trouble, his dog began to bark loudly, which alerted two bystanders across the street," the Port St. Lucie police department wrote in a Facebook post.At first, Suhling thought the dog was being attacked by an alligator. Then he saw Smith’s head poking out of the water. Suhling and Chacko ran over to the pond, flagging down a police officer along the way.Harry was out walking his dog, Sarah Jane, when his wheel got caught in the mulch, turning him around and down into the pond. Neighbors heard Sarah Jane barking and Harry yelling “HELP!” @PSLPolice were flagged down. They all helped him out, saving his life. @CBS12 pic.twitter.com/0s8fygh5zx— Andrew Lofholm (@AndrewLofholm) February 4, 2022 “As soon as I got here I saw the wheelchair and the dog and I recognized that's Harry and I know he can't walk,” Chacko said. Smith was in terror fighting for his life in the pond. “My legs don't work,” he said. “I can't push.”“The dog was splashing in the water,” Suhling said. “So we both ran over here and I jumped in the water, and my buddy grabbed his arms and I grabbed his legs and we got him up on shore.”After Smith was safely out of the water, the police officer administered medical attention and he was cleared to go home. Unfortunately, his wheelchair didn’t work, so the officer pushed him back to his home.The Port St. Lucie Police Department later called Suhling, Chacko, and Sarah Jane heroes on its Facebook page. "We are thankful for Mr. Smith’s dog and the two bystanders that helped save his life!" the police department wrote on Facebook. "And as the saying remains true…A man’s best friend is his dog.""She's such a good dog,” Smith later said about Sarah Jane. “Everybody in this neighborhood loves her, they all look out for her." After the pair made it home safely, Smith was sure to give his dog a treat. "I love her, always have, always will,” he said. A beautiful beagle.via Canva/Photos While the dog’s heroics are pretty amazing, Sarah Jane knew that Smith was in danger and sprang into action for a couple of reasons. A lot of dogs have a strong fear of water. Not all of them love it like Labradors. If Sarah Jane was afraid of the water, she would have sensed her guardian was in serious danger.Secondly, a 2020 study from Arizona State University tested whether dogs will help if they think their owner is in trouble. For the study, owners called out to the dog while appearing to be trapped inside a box. The dogs often attempted to free their owners after hearing them cry for help.Are beagles good swimmers?Beagles are known for being active and adventurous, but are they good swimmers? According to a vet-reviewed article at Dogster, Beagles aren't known for their love of water, and if they can swim, it doesn't mean that they enjoy it. They can learn how to swim, but they aren't natural swimmers.The story of Sarah Jane and her guardian Harry Smith proves, once again, that we just don’t deserve dogs.This article originally appeared three years ago.