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Spending money in the USA. 49 major investments from prominent companies in a wide swath of sectors, including tech, pharmaceuticals, energy, and more.

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Spending money in the USA.
49 major investments from prominent companies in a wide swath of sectors, including tech, pharmaceuticals, energy, and more.

Softbank, OpenAI, and Oracle $500 Billion Technology & AI AI infrastructure (Project Stargate)

NVIDIA $500 Billion Technology & AI AI infrastructure and supercomputers

Apple $500 Billion Technology & AI Manufacturing and training

IBM $150 Billion Technology & AI Growth and manufacturing operations

Johnson & Johnson $55 Billion Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Manufacturing, R&D, and technology

Genentech (Roche) $50 Billion Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Manufacturing and R&D

Eli Lilly and Company $27 Billion Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Manufacturing capacity expansion

ADQ and Energy Capital Partners $25 Billion Energy & Environment Data centers and energy infrastructure

Novartis $23 Billion Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Manufacturing facility expansion

Hyundai $21 Billion Manufacturing & Industry Steel plant and other investments

DAMAC Properties $20 Billion Real Estate Development Data center expansion

CMA CGM $20 Billion Transportation & Logistics Shipping and logistics

VentureGlobal $18 Billion Energy & Environment Expansion of transportation equipment

AbbVie $10 Billion Pharmaceuticals & Biotech U.S. manufacturing expansion

Merck $9 Billion Pharmaceuticals & Biotech U.S. manufacturing

Stellantis $5 Billion Manufacturing & Industry Manufacturing network

Novelis $4.1 Billion Manufacturing & Industry Construction of a plant in southern Alabama

Amazon $4 Billion Ecommerce & Cloud Computing AI expansion in cloud division

Thermo Fisher Scientific $2 Billion Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Manufacturing operations and innovation

Chobani $1.7 Billion Manufacturing & Industry Dairy processing plant in New York

Corning, Inc. $1.5 Billion Manufacturing & Industry Solar component plant in Michigan

GE Aerospace $1 Billion Manufacturing & Industry
Manufacturing across 16 states

Amgen $900 Million Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Manufacturing operations

Schneider Electric $700 Million Energy & Environment Energy infrastructure

GE Vernova $600 Million Technology & AI Manufacturing

AIP Management $500 Million Technology & AI Solar developer investment

Abbott Labs $500 Million Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Manufacturing expansion in Illinois and Texas

Diageo $415 Million Food & Beverage Manufacturing in Alabama

The Bel Group $350 Million Food & Beverage Production facilities in SD, Idaho, & Wisconsin

Eaton Corporation $340 Million Manufacturing & Industry Transformers facility in South Carolina

Siemens $285 Million Technology & AI AI data centers and manufacturing

Clasen Quality Chocolate $230 Million Manufacturing & Industry Production facility in Virginia

Fiserv $175 Million Technology & AI Strategic fintech hub

Paris Baguette $160 Million Food & Beverage Manufacturing plant in Texas

TS Conductor $134 Million Manufacturing & Industry Advanced conductor manufacturing in South Carolina

ABB $120 Million Manufacturing & Industry Low-voltage product expansion in Tennessee and Mississippi

Saica Group $110 Million Manufacturing & Industry Packaging manufacturing in Indiana

Charms, LLC $97.7 Million Manufacturing & Industry Expansion in Tennessee

Toyota Motor Corporation $88 Million Transportation & Logistics Hybrid production in West Virginia

Sygene International $36.5 Million Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Biologics facility in Baltimore

Asahi Group Holdings $35 Million Food & Beverage Production boost in Wisconsin

Cyclic Materials $20 Million Energy & Environment Rare earth elements recycling in Arizona

Guardian Bikes $19 Million Manufacturing & Industry Bike frame manufacturing in Indiana

LGM Pharma $6 Million Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Manufacturing facility expansion in Texas

That doesn’t even include the U.S. investments pledged by foreign countries:

United Arab Emirates announced a $1.4 trillion investment in the U.S. over the next decade.
Saudi Arabia announced it intends to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years.
Japan announced a $1 trillion investment in the U.S.
Taiwan announced a pledge to boost its U.S.-based investment.

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Thousands of Members of the Amish Community Are Helping to Rebuild Western North Carolina.

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Thousands of Members of the Amish Community Are Helping to Rebuild Western North Carolina.

North Carolina is still reeling from the massive damage caused by Hurricane Helene last fall. While the cleanup and rebuilding has been slow and steady, there is still a ton of work to do.

One group that has stepped in to lend their tremendous building skills is the Amish community. There are currently thousands of Amish people, mainly from Pennsylvania, who are helping to rebuild in the western part of the state, where the most damage is.

The national media has completely ignored this amazing contribution from the Amish. These people deserve praise for their help.

Local NBC affiliate WCNC has reported on it:

‘We still see tremendous damage’ | Amish community becomes part of Chimney Rock’s comeback story

It’s been more than six months since Hurricane Helene swept through western North Carolina, leaving behind destruction and hardship. Few places were hit as hard as Chimney Rock Village, but now, signs of progress are everywhere.

The recovery effort has been powered by an outpouring of support, with volunteers and donations helping to restore the beloved mountain town.

“When we look around, we still see tremendous damage and realize it will take a long time to build back,” Mayor Peter O’Leary said. “But at the same time, we have made tremendous progress, and that is very encouraging.”

Chimney Rock Village is not just rebuilding, it is redefining itself. Every business in the village sustained some level of damage. While full recovery will take time, Chimney Rock is finding its footing again through the kindness of others.

“We come out here every morning, working mostly in Chimney Rock and in Bat Cave,” Amos Stoltzfus, a volunteer with an Amish community from Pennsylvania called Great Needs Trust, said.

The Amish are master builders. Just take a look at this:

🚨#BREAKING: A wild report from a firefighter in Tennessee confirms that an Amish community whose sawmill completely burned to the ground on the night of April 8th...

...had been COMPLETELY REBUILT AND WAS ALREADY FUNCTIONING on April 17th, just 8 days later

Read that again. pic.twitter.com/EeaSQCUK15

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 23, 2025

🚨#BREAKING: Chimney Rock NC officials have confirmed that a mind-blowing 2,000 members of the Pennsylvania Amish Community have been quietly rebuilding the town's homes, businesses, and bridges...

...for 6 months straight

GOD BLESS THE AMISH!! pic.twitter.com/DfwOFLyO8Q

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 22, 2025

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The Story of America. 250 years.

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Our country,our President, and First Lady.

The Story of America. 250 years.

Under the President’s leadership, the Salute to America 250 Task Force (“Task Force 250”) has commenced the planning of a full year of festivities to officially launch on Memorial Day, 2025 and continue through July 4th, 2026.

The White House is engaging and encouraging the entire federal government, state and local governments, the private sector, non-profit and educational institutions, and every citizen across this country to join in this historic celebration.

Task Force 250 invites citizens to have a renewed love of American history, experience the beauty of our country, and ignite a spirit of adventure and innovation that will raise our nation to new heights over the next 250 years.

As part of these efforts, Task Force 250 is proud to present an original video series, “The Story of America.” Read more below and check back soon for more details about additional White House initiatives.
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The casualties of America’s loss of glassware manufacturing to China.

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For 132 years, the sound of the factory air whistle signaling the start of the work day at the plant along 8th and McKean Avenue

The casualties of America’s loss of glassware manufacturing to China.

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SALENA ZITO

Nationally syndicated political reporter.

CHARLEROI — For 132 years, the sound of the factory air whistle signaling the start of the work day at the plant along 8th and McKean Avenue in this Washington County borough meant all the things we associate with work: men and women had jobs, families had food on their table, the societal fabric was strong, churches were full, and the tax base kept the schools vibrant and the community prosperous.

It was a good sound. It meant stability and aspiration. No one around here ever seemed to mind it.

Last week, the sound of that whistle was different. It was longer, 132 seconds to be exact, a number meant to mark how many years the Pyrex glass plant had stood at this location. It marked the end of the line for the plant.

The sound was mournful as it echoed throughout the Mon Valley.

Three hundred men and women are now without jobs in a town of 4,200. Last September the company, now known as the Corelle Brands, announced they would close the plant that had been one of the great innovators at its inception when two Pittsburgh glass-making firms, the Thomas Evans & Company and the George Macbeth Company merged to form the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company in 1899.

One year later, the local newspaper boasted about the expansion of manufacturing in Western Pennsylvania as the new town of Donora was being plotted to allow for that growth. The story detailed the 16-mile strip of cities that included Charleroi, Monessen, and Donora, who were now coming into a close second to their bigger Mon Valley cities of Homestead, Duquesne, Braddock, and McKeesport:

“Here are located the Page Steel and Wire Mill, the American Steel Hoop’s mill, the American Tin Plate large mills, the W.H. Hamilton & Company, the Macbeth Evans plant and the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company large glass mills and now the great mills of the Union Steel Company now nearing completion at Donora.”

These groups of factories employed over 8,000 people who made good wages at the turn of the century in what was once sleepy farmland. Hundreds of houses of all kinds were being built almost overnight on rolling hills that overlooked the plants, employing real estate developers and construction workers and causing a boom in mom-and-pop grocery stores, gas stations, barber shops, schools, and churches.

By 1936, Macbeth-Evans was bought out by Corning Glass Works, then the largest maker of technical glassware. The president of Corning Glass at the time, Armory Houghton, said of the acquisition, “It is logical that the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company and the Corning Glass Works should come together at this time. This move brings together two companies whose research and development has been outstanding in different fields of the glass industry.”

At the time of the merger, the plant employed 1800 people.

The news was so big it made the front page of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette above the fold on Nov. 11, 1936.

Today all of those mills are long gone. Pittsburgh Plate Glass, which became known as PPG, a place that employed my father for 50 years, where he designed the furnaces that made glass, no longer makes glass. They sold that division to Nippon in 2017, marking the end of PPG’s long history in glass production, which began in 1883.

When Corning Glass Works first purchased the plant, it was renamed Corning Glass Works Macbeth-Evans Division. By the 1990s, a series of mergers, divestitures, private equity acquisitions, Chapter 11 bankruptcies, and more private equity firm acquisitions had occurred. Centre Lane Partners acquired the company after a competitive bankruptcy auction approved its sale to them in their role as one of Anchor Hocking’s largest stockholders.

Anchor Hocking took over the Charleroi plant in March of 2024 and announced they would close it and move operations to their plant in Lancaster, Ohio — it too was a company founded at the turn of the century by Isaac Jacob in Lancaster, Ohio.

Not long ago, Anchor Hocking had a plant in nearby Monaca in Beaver County that closed over ten years ago. Anchor Hocking has gone through a series of acquisitions, venture capital ownerships and bankruptcies. Today, it is owned by Monomoy Capital Partners, a private equity firm located in midtown Manhattan.

We have talked a lot about tariffs and manufacturing since Donald Trump was reelected in 2024 and the outsized role of China in our industries, and the Corning Glass Works Macbeth-Evans Division is certainly such an example.

In fact, our uneven trade has played a significant role in the glass manufacturing collapse in this country. Up until the 1990s, the United States held its own in glass manufacturing. However, China’s aggressive export strategy, which flooded the U.S. market with thousands of goods, hit the glass industry hard.

In June of last year, the Alliance for American Manufacturing released an analysis detailing the threat Chinese imports posed to U.S. manufacturers. In a briefing by the Economic Policy Institute, the glass industry appeared well aware of the dangers of Chinese imports.

They noted that the U.S. glass industry lost almost 40,000 manufacturing jobs between 2000 to 2008. At the same time, China’s share of the U.S. market rose from 3% to 31%.

As U.S. glass and glassware plants closed, Chinese manufacturers expanded. China now leads glass production globally, exporting 28.7% of the world’s glass and glassware compared to the United States’ 6.6%.

That is a hard pill to swallow if you are from Charleroi, once known as the “Glass City” where PPG once had one of its major glass factories.

The people here are a casualty not just of streamlining production, but also of China’s dominance in the market.

“Everything coming from China flooding our market is a big part of the problem. It is a disease,” said state Sen. Camera Bartolotta, who represents the borough.

The echo of the whistle lingers. The tears of the workers on their last shift remain unchecked. Everything has changed. Those who believe Americans do not want jobs in manufacturing, who do not think there is pride in what they do, should sit a spell with the people who worked here.

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If true, Letitia James’s 40-Year Pattern of Property and Financial Discrepancies.

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Pattern of deception?

If true, Letitia James’s 40-Year Pattern of Property and Financial Discrepancies.

his article is part of our continuing investigation into Letitia James’s real estate, financial, and regulatory disclosures. The findings presented here are based on newly uncovered documents, cross-referenced city filings, and expanded analysis from our previous reporting.

Letitia James has built a political career on accountability and transparency. But when it comes to her own real estate dealings, the paper trail tells a different story.

When Letitia James bought her Brooklyn brownstone in 2001, it seemed like a personal milestone. In hindsight, it was just the latest stop on a much longer trail of contradictions—one that stretches back decades and remains unresolved today.296 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn NY Property Discrepancies Investigation

This article focuses on three core findings: an uncorrected DOB violation that predates her purchase, a hazardous alteration that remained unresolved for seven years, and a significant property tax delinquency that occurred while she held public office. These issues are at the heart of our investigation and point to a larger pattern—one that, over time, has quietly expanded to include questionable mortgage filings, misrepresentations of property structure, and financial certifications under penalty of perjury.

It’s not just about a number. It’s about a repeated pattern of paperwork that benefits the filer but doesn’t match the facts. This pattern stretches across multiple properties, unfolds over more than four decades, and cuts through a wide range of government filings—from building violations to mortgage applications to sworn financial disclosures. It’s a timeline of discrepancies that would trigger serious consequences for any ordinary property owner.

The Violation That Never Went Away
On November 21, 2000, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued Violation #112100C02EM02 against 296 Lafayette Avenue. The charge: “altered building occupied without a valid Certificate of Occupancy.” The temporary C/O for the building had expired in 1991—yet it had remained occupied for nearly a decade in violation of DOB rules. The city assessed a $2,500 fine and directed the owner to legalize the occupancy by filing a Certificate of Correction.

That never happened. And just a few months later, in March 2001, Letitia James purchased the property. Two decades later, the violation is still open—on the city’s books and in public records.

DOB records show the fine was eventually marked “written off,” which means the city stopped attempting to collect it. But a written-off fine does not close the violation itself. The only way to resolve it is through formal correction—and no such documentation was ever filed.

What makes this even more confounding is that just two months after the violation was issued, on January 26, 2001, the DOB issued a new, current Certificate of Occupancy for the building after the property passed inspection—classifying it as a legal five-family dwelling. Yet despite this, the earlier violation remained on the books.

This procedural disconnect raises deeper questions. If the violation was tied to lacking a valid C/O, and a valid C/O was issued after proper inspection, why wasn’t the violation closed? Was the underlying problem not the C/O itself but something else—such as an unfiled alteration, layout discrepancy, or unpermitted occupancy? Or was it simply bureaucratic neglect?

This should have been a major red flag during the title search. Title insurance companies are responsible for identifying open violations before issuing a policy, with a legal obligation to ensure properties are free from unresolved DOB issues. It is standard due diligence to flag such issues, particularly when a property has no clear resolution on DOB records. So how did James obtain title insurance and close the deal without correcting the violation?

One possibility is that the title report flagged the violation but it was ignored. Another is that the violation was intentionally downplayed. Supporting this theory is a 2003 title-related document from Washington Title, which includes a handwritten note that the property was “improved by a 4 family dwelling.” This does not match the Certificate of Occupancy issued in January 2001, which clearly classifies the property as a five-family dwelling.

Even more striking, the 2001 mortgage agreement that James signed includes a 1–4 Family Rider—a legal attachment used only for properties with four or fewer units. And as revealed in recently reviewed loan paperwork, the mortgage itself includes a stamp: “Premises Improved by One or Two Family Dwelling.” These weren’t casual errors or offhand remarks—they were codified in legal and financial instruments with binding implications.

Yet despite all these conflicting representations, the building’s legal status as a five-family dwelling remains unchanged to this day. No Alt-1 application was ever filed to reduce the unit count. No amendment to the Certificate of Occupancy was made. The structure and classification—on paper and in city databases—stand as originally recorded in January 2001.

The 7-Year Alteration Violation
In September 2007, while serving as a City Council member, James was cited for installing scaffolding without notifying the DOB. The violation—classified as hazardous—included improper use of “C” hooks and a failure to display worker ID.

This wasn’t some minor paperwork issue. Scaffolding violations are a major safety concern in New York. Yet the issue wasn’t corrected until 2014, a full seven years later.

When the fine was finally resolved, it had been reduced from $2,000 to $500.

Let that sink in: a scaffolding violation marked hazardous sat unresolved for seven years. And when it was finally settled, the penalty was slashed by 75%. If this were a private landlord in the Bronx or a contractor in Queens, DOB would’ve issued a stop-work order or even vacated the building.

But this wasn’t just any owner. It was a sitting elected official.

The Delinquent Property Taxes
In 2008 and 2009, while still serving in public office, James failed to pay nearly $10,000 in property taxes and water bills. The breakdown:

$9,837 in back taxes
$614 in unpaid water bills
She eventually paid it off, claiming she was waiting for an IRS refund. But the fact remains: a sitting council member was significantly behind on her obligations to the city.

Again, imagine this situation reversed. Would a landlord in arrears on that scale have been treated so leniently by city enforcement or the press?

How the Core Violations Connect to a Larger Pattern
These three issues—an uncorrected C/O violation, a seven-year hazardous condition, and substantial unpaid taxes—form a troubling pattern. But they also set the stage for what came next: years of conflicting representations about the legal occupancy of the building.

In mortgage documents, permit filings, and federal assistance applications, James consistently described the property as a four-family dwelling, despite the official Certificate of Occupancy listing five units. The most striking example appears in her 2011 mortgage modification under the federal HAMP program, where the words “4 fam” are handwritten into the agreement.

That edit likely made her eligible for aid she otherwise wouldn’t have received—since HAMP requires that the property have no more than four units.

Each filing, viewed in isolation, could be dismissed as a mistake. But the pattern—of altering documents, adjusting unit counts, and reclassifying property types—suggests strategic intent.

And the pattern may extend across state lines. In 2023, James signed mortgage documents in Virginia that included a sworn affidavit stating she intended to occupy her newly purchased home as her “principal residence.” At the time, she was actively serving as New York’s Attorney General, residing and registered to vote in Brooklyn. That filing, covered in our April 1, 2025 blog post, raises new questions about her mortgage eligibility and residency certifications.

Additional Property Concerns
While our investigation has uncovered significant issues with James’ Brooklyn property, Gateway Pundit’s Joel Gilbert identified additional concerns with a separate property transaction. Gilbert’s reporting reveals that in 1983, Letitia James and her father Robert James appeared to have secured a $30,300 loan from Kadilac Funding Ltd. by identifying themselves as “husband and wife” on multiple mortgage documents for another property in Queens. However, the deed for the same Queens property executed that same day identified them as “father and daughter.” This designation discrepancy continued through subsequent loan assignments and eventually when the property was sold in 2000.

These filings didn’t just blur familial lines—they helped secure financing that might otherwise have been unavailable. As with our discoveries regarding the Brooklyn property’s unit count discrepancies, these documents raise questions about representations made on official financial filings.

My investigation has independently verified the existence of these documents in New York City Department of Finance records, confirming Gilbert’s factual reporting on the Queens property transaction.

While Gateway Pundit’s Joel Gilbert first raised questions about James’ HAMP loan arrangements in a March 18 article, my investigation has uncovered new evidence that dramatically escalates the seriousness of these allegations. Most notably, I discovered the handwritten modifications on these documents that significantly alter their legal implications.

Financial Disclosure Failures: Another Dimension
The pattern of discrepancies extends beyond property records and into legal financial disclosures. As our earlier investigation revealed, James has a long history of problematic financial reporting dating back to her time as a City Council member.

Perhaps most glaring: her treatment of mortgage liabilities in official filings. Our March 2025 investigation found multiple phantom mortgages that appear in her disclosures but not in property records, alongside documented mortgages that should have been disclosed but weren’t. Some loans appear in her disclosures but not in city or county records. Others—clearly documented in public filings—were omitted entirely. For her Virginia property alone, we uncovered a potential total debt of up to $509,600 against a property she valued at no more than $150,000.

The resulting loan-to-value ratio—potentially as high as 272%—far exceeds industry standards for investment properties and raises serious questions about the nature of these financial arrangements. Similar patterns appear in her Brooklyn property disclosures, with reporting delays, missing mortgages, and unexplained classification changes creating a confusing maze of contradictions.

These disclosure failures form part of the same broader pattern we’ve documented: paperwork that doesn’t match facts, discrepancies that benefit the filer, and a striking difference between how James’ issues are treated compared to ordinary property owners.

The Pattern Has a Timeline
When viewed chronologically, these discrepancies create a remarkable four-decade pattern:

1983: Queens property documents with father list relationship as “husband and wife”
2000: Sale of Queens property documents still listed relationship as “husband and wife”
2000: DOB violation issued; still open
2001: C/O issued for five units after property passed inspection; mortgage filed as if one or two
2003: Title annotation: “4 family dwelling”
2007: Scaffolding violation issued
2008–09: Property taxes unpaid
2011: HAMP agreement with “4 fam” handwritten
2020: Permit application again lists four units
2023: James declares Virginia property her “principal residence”
A Pattern, Not an Error
Individually, each of these incidents might be explained away. But together, they paint a troubling picture: uncorrected violations, unit-count inconsistencies, handwritten edits on federal documents, financial disclosure gaps, and declarations that strain credulity.

If Letitia James were an ordinary landlord in Brooklyn, these filings would raise red flags across agencies. But for over forty years, the system has looked the other way.

This article was written with careful attention to sourcing. Public documents, city filings, and historical disclosures all support the findings. And where another journalist uncovered an early thread—as Joel Gilbert did with the 2011 HAMP filing—we’ve cited his work without repeating it, instead placing it within a longer, more damning narrative.

The record is public. The signatures are real. And yet—no investigation, no consequences, no answers. Just silence where oversight should be.

Who will act on it?

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NBC defamation settlement with Georgia doctor finalized in court following MSNBC’s ‘uterus collector’ coverage.

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MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Chris Hayes were swept up in a defamation lawsuit filed by Georgia gynecologist Dr. Mahendra Amin. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images | Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images | Steve Zak Photography/FilmMagic)

NBC defamation settlement with Georgia doctor finalized in court following MSNBC’s ‘uterus collector’ coverage.

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn , Brian Flood Fox News.

NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News and MSNBC (the latter is currently being spun off as a separate company), settled the $30 million lawsuit filed by Georgia gynecologist Dr. Mahendra Amin. Amin who was the subject of a report claiming he performed unnecessary hysterectomies at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center.

Both parties struck the settlement in February, but the lawsuit was officially dismissed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The terms of the settlement were not publicly disclosed.

“We are pleased that Dr. Amin is able to move on from his years-long litigation against NBCUniversal,” Amin’s attorneys, Stacey Evans and Scott Grubman, told Fox News Digital. “It is unfortunate that he had to sue to get confirmation of what was known all along—that he did not perform mass hysterectomies on women detained at Irwin County Detention Center. We are glad that the judge found those statements false as a matter of law because, in fact, Dr. Amin performed only two hysterectomies, both of which were medically necessary and consented to by the patients.”

“Dr. Amin is a dedicated physician who has dedicated his entire career to serving underserved communities. The recklessness of NBCUniversal to try to paint him as an evil doctor was disgusting and we are glad they finally settled the case,” they added.

Representatives from NBCUniversal and MSNBC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Rachel Maddow and Jacob Soboroff were expected to be called as witnesses in a jury trial previously scheduled for April 22, 2025, in Waycross, Georgia. (MSNBC/Screen grab)

Amin was the subject of an NBC News article in September 2020, which cited a whistleblower’s claim that he was performing unneeded hysterectomies while providing medical care to women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center.

MSNBC quickly followed with a series of on-air reports on “Deadline: White House,” “All In with Chris Hayes” and “The Rachel Maddow Show,” all running with the “uterus collector” label for Amin.
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Amin filed a lawsuit against parent company NBCUniversal, alleging he was falsely portrayed as “an abusive, unethical, and dishonest physician who treated and operated on immigrant women in an abusive fashion, without consent, and motivated by profit instead of quality healthcare.”

Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the Southern District of Georgia previously ruled that a jury could reasonably find actual malice and the trial was set to begin April 22, in Waycross, Georgia. In light of the settlement agreement, the court canceled the scheduled trial.

“NBC investigated the whistleblower letter’s accusations; that investigation did not corroborate the accusations and even undermined some; NBC republished the letter’s accusations anyway,” Judge Wood wrote last year in a 108-page summary.
MSNBC is heading to trial in a $30 million “uterus collector

Amin believed “false and defamatory” statements published with actual malice that caused him significant damage were said six times on “Deadline: White House,” seven times on “All in with Chris Hayes” and 10 times on “The Rachel Maddow Show.”

“We are pleased that Dr. Amin is able to move on from his years-long litigation against NBCUniversal,” Amin’s attorneys, Stacey Evans and Scott Grubman, told Fox News Digital. “It is unfortunate that he had to sue to get confirmation of what was known all along—that he did not perform mass hysterectomies on women detained at Irwin County Detention Center. We are glad that the judge found those statements false as a matter of law because, in fact, Dr. Amin performed only two hysterectomies, both of which were medically necessary and consented to by the patients.”

“Dr. Amin is a dedicated physician who has dedicated his entire career to serving underserved communities. The recklessness of NBCUniversal to try to paint him as an evil doctor was disgusting and we are glad they finally settled the case,” they added.

Representatives from NBCUniversal and MSNBC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Rachel Maddow and Jacob Soboroff were expected to be called as witnesses in a jury trial previously scheduled for April 22, 2025, in Waycross, Georgia. (MSNBC/Screen grab)

Amin was the subject of an NBC News article in September 2020, which cited a whistleblower’s claim that he was performing unneeded hysterectomies while providing medical care to women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center.

MSNBC quickly followed with a series of on-air reports on “Deadline: White House,” “All In with Chris Hayes” and “The Rachel Maddow Show,” all running with the “uterus collector” label for Amin.
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Amin filed a lawsuit against parent company NBCUniversal, alleging he was falsely portrayed as “an abusive, unethical, and dishonest physician who treated and operated on immigrant women in an abusive fashion, without consent, and motivated by profit instead of quality healthcare.”

Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the Southern District of Georgia previously ruled that a jury could reasonably find actual malice and the trial was set to begin April 22, in Waycross, Georgia. In light of the settlement agreement, the court canceled the scheduled trial.

“NBC investigated the whistleblower letter’s accusations; that investigation did not corroborate the accusations and even undermined some; NBC republished the letter’s accusations anyway,” Judge Wood wrote last year in a 108-page summary.

Amin believed “false and defamatory” statements published with actual malice that caused him significant damage were said six times on “Deadline: White House,” seven times on “All in with Chris Hayes” and 10 times on “The Rachel Maddow Show.”

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What I learned about ‘America First’ in a Pennsylvania steel mill.

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What I learned about ‘America First’ in a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Salena Zito is a columnist for the Washington Examiner.

WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania — The steep climb in the truck up from the Monongahela River to the entrance of the Mon Valley Works Irvin Plant is a picturesque reminder of just how much earth had to be moved for the 650 acres of wall-to-wall steel production to be built.

After a series of check-ins and a maze of buildings, plant manager Don German is there at Building B to greet me for a tour, a rare invitation for a journalist. After gearing up in a hard hat, safety glasses, a heavy, bright orange jacket with the blue-and-white U.S. Steel emblem on the back, German begins with the plant’s history. Legend has it, he said, that they needed more cubic yards of dirt to construct it in the 1930s than was used to build the Panama Canal.

The bright orange of the molten steel, the heat, the soot, the constant movement, the smell of hot machinery and a hum so loud you have to yell to communicate — these are all token that you stand in the presence of something being made, something huge. It takes only seconds for the hot steel strip to travel 300 feet when it exits its last stand through the sprays and emerges as a massive coil ready to be transformed into the material undergirding our everyday lives, from SUVs to building frames; 850 people at the Irvin Plant supply this raw material.
Steelworkers wait to band hot rolled steel as it comes off of the hot-strip mill at the Irvin Plant on March 19.
The oldest hot mill in the United States, built in 1938, operates inside the Irvin Plant.

I’m visiting because the plant is at the center of President Donald Trump’s early second-term agenda. It’s a major employer in a state where a red shift among blue-collar workers powered his two election victories. It’s protected by rising tariffs, which now stand at 25 percent on steel under the president’s latest order. And its owner, U.S. Steel, is engaged in intense negotiations over a potential sale to Nippon Steel — a similarly iconic Japanese brand — in which Trump is involved as a broker.
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I wanted to hear from the employees themselves, many of whom have multigenerational ties to the facility, about their hopes and fears and what the often bloodless business headlines mean to communities whose identity is wrapped in steel, who consider their work part of the fabric of the nation itself.

What I found was a nuanced conversation, one that’s divided workers, unions, politicians and investors over the future of American steel. And a debate in which the “America First” position, according to the workers whose gloved hands actually touch the steel, might mean welcoming Japanese cash and leadership rather than shutting the company off from the world.
A surprise offer

Inside a tiny conference room, German and I met with the top local union leaders: USW Local 2227 President Jack Maskil, Vice President Jason Zugai and Safety Chairman Gary Pickett. Their combined tenure at this plant add up close to the 124 years that U.S. Steel has been in existence.

At stake in the proposed sale to Nippon is their livelihoods — and their outlook is not what many people might assume.

The two steel companies stunned local elected officials, union members, and the White House with their joint announcement in December 2023 of an agreement for Nippon to acquire U.S. Steel in an all-cash transaction at $55 per share, or $14.1 billion. None — not management, not labor, not the Biden administration — saw it coming.

“Woke up on a Sunday morning and next thing you know, phone’s blowing up,” Maskil said. “What’s going on? What’s going on? I’m like, wait, what are we talking about here?”

Maskil and Zugai fielded calls for days. The initial reaction among workers was near-uniform opposition. Pennsylvanians still remember Japan’s reputation for “dumping” cheap materials into the United States in the 1970s while steel mills in the area closed. Maskil, though, said he was mostly just processing his shock that the sale had even been a possibility.

While the workers sought information, national leaders made their objections known. United Steelworkers came out against the deal, warning that the union couldn’t trust Nippon to honor labor contracts. President Joe Biden opposed the deal on national security grounds. Vice President Kamala Harris also announced her opposition after becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, saying she would “always have the backs of America’s steelworkers.”

Over time, though, the steelworkers in question began to change their tune. Nippon made a $1 billion pledge to upgrade the plant with a new hot strip mill, replacing its nearly 90-year-old infrastructure — a move that many workers thought was needed to keep up with more advanced foreign competitors.
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“To be honest with you, at first I was skeptical just like everybody else was, but through the process, as time went on, we learned more and more, and as time went on, more and more investment opportunities became available,” Maskil said. “Unfortunately we are — how should I say it? I refer to it as flipping the hourglass. So we are on a strict time frame, if this investment does not go through, if this deal doesn’t see through.”

The room got quiet. It was clear everything was on the line.

Within fairly short order, Maskil, Zugai and Pickett said they had met with their union workers at the three facilities that make up the Mon Valley Works: their plant, the Clairton Coke Works six miles down the river and the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock nine miles upriver. After much deliberation, they decided to support the sale.

“When the deal to sell to Nippon was first announced, 95 percent of the rank and file did not want it to happen,” Zugai explained. “Now, 95 percent of them do.”
Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania, on March 19.

German, the one member of management in the room, interrupted: “I think what he is saying is important; while everyone was reacting to the announcement, these three did a phenomenal job of collecting the facts, communicating with the rank and file and ultimately understanding the benefits of the deal.”

It is a complex situation for all of these men, beginning with the fact that the local union remains at odds with the United Steelworkers International, whose Cleveland-based leader David McCall has denounced the sale, saying he has no faith in Nippon to make good on its guarantees and investments.

Maskil acknowledged that the local and national union leaders are not aligned. “But we were elected to fight for the guys, the men and women out on that floor, and this is what they want. Not only what we want but what they want,” he said.

In December, hundreds of local members rallied outside the plant desperately asking the Biden White House to approve the Nippon purchase; the appeal was also aimed at their own recalcitrant international union leadership.

At the same time, many of these steelworkers supported Trump’s 2024 campaign — so much so they stood behind him at rallies in Latrobe and Pittsburgh in their gear. Trump shared Biden’s initial skepticism toward Nippon Steel; they hoped to bring him toward their side by touting a deal as a win for the workers who embodied his coalition.

Asked how one can be “America First” while supporting a Japanese company owning a historic American company, Maskil did not hold back.

“To be blunt? Yeah. I don’t care what this company’s called,” he said. “We’ve said that from Day 1 it doesn’t matter who buys us. Our concern is whoever buys us honors our current basic labor agreement moving forward as well as [that] they’re prepared to put the investments into the corporation that we not only want but we have to have in order to sustain employment here.”

Their entreaties did not move the Biden administration. Throughout the year, the president railed against the sale, often to the frustration of some on his staff. In the waning days of his presidency, Biden moved to block the sale after federal regulators deadlocked on whether to approve it.

Trump, at the time, was still against it as well. After taking office, though, he looked to revive talks. In February, after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House, Trump said Nippon Steel would instead be heavily investing in the company without a majority stake. Since then, discussions among Trump, Nippon, U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have been going on at a furious pace with a goal to reach a partnership.

All four steelworkers at the Irvin Plant said there are so many reasons this deal needs to happen — but, most important, they’ve all seen what it looks like when the investment dries up.
The ghosts of steel mills past

Pickett, the plant safety chairman on the union side, told me that if this place is gone — if Edgar Thomson and Clairton are gone — it’s not just the product they make here that goes. It’s also the heart of the community — from the churches to the schools to the tax base — that will be torn apart.

“Take a look,” Pickett said. “I grew up in McKeesport. I was born and raised in McKeesport. When I grew up, downtown McKeesport was booming. We had three movie theaters, a beautiful upscale hotel, multilevel department stores. Ride through it now. You got a hot dog shop. I wouldn’t stop there if you paid me, and I was born and raised there. I mean, that’s all from the mill shutting down.”

McKeesport once was so politically significant that John F. Kennedy visited twice: once to debate the Taft-Hartley Act with then fellow Rep. Richard M. Nixon and once to campaign for president against him.

The city has declined dramatically. Deindustrialization has hollowed out the working class. Those who could not get out now struggle to support a family. Crime has increased; several years ago, a study from the National Council for Home Safety and Security named it one of the most dangerous cities in the United States.

McKeesport is not alone.

The Jones and Laughlin Steel plant once stretched for seven miles along the riverfront in Aliquippa, Beaver County, at one time the largest steel mill in the world. It is almost all demolished. Gone, and with it the 10,000 union workers who labored there. Aliquippa’s population has dropped from 22,000 in 1970 to 9,000 today.

Duquesne Steel once hosted a 12-open-hearth furnace that fed a giant four-mill rolling complex heralded as the technology hub of its day. But the city of Duquesne died hard when the industry collapsed — locals tried desperately to stop the tearing down of the iconic “Dorothy Six” furnace. Now fewer people live here than worked at the mill in its prime.

For those with roots here, it’s clear how this movie can end.

“People look at those buildings, and they feel a kinship: Maybe their uncle worked there, maybe their dad or grandfather. It leaves a mark, and it impacts culture and politics, and I think someone that isn’t from around here isn’t going to understand,” Pickett said. “No matter in which direction you drive, you understand the impact bad trade deals and tariffs had on their families and communities’ lives.”
Shoots of hope

That said, steel itself and some former mill towns here do still survive, even after some near-death experiences.

Several counties east, in the Conemaugh Valley, the city of Johnstown cuts a little differently than McKeesport, Aliquippa and Duquesne.

It lost nearly 12,000 jobs when the massive Bethlehem Steel plant suffered through years of layoffs and then finally closed. Its population too has dropped, staggeringly, from around 67,000 in 1920 to under 18,000 today. But the community has new activity in the massive former plant, thanks to Bill Polacek, whose father started a one-man welding shop called “Johnny’s Welding” in his garage as a side hustle to his job at Bethlehem Steel.

That side hustle is now inside 500,000 square feet of what was Bethlehem Steel’s Lower Works. Polacek has revamped the mill, changed the name of the company to JWF Industries and expanded to supplying defense contractors with well-made, sustainable fabrications and subassemblies.

He employs well over 400 people, and the place is humming with workers, most of them young, working on parts for military Humvees and tanks and other defense items I cannot mention. Polacek, who just named his son president of the company, has a trade apprentice program on-site for those willing to learn.

One of his suppliers is U.S. Steel, which Polacek uses in multiple military applications. He said he is deeply concerned about what will happen if the deal with Nippon falls through or if Trump is unable to forge a partnership between the three competing interests.

“If U.S. Steel unravels, a couple things will happen,” he said. “No. 1, steel’s [cost is] going to go up dramatically as a lot of supply and demand kick in; 2, we are going to be forced to buy foreign steel.”

Then, he said, comes the psychological effect. “U.S. Steel, the dominant steel producer, gone? The American company?” he asked, his voice rising.

Polacek said it would make everything more expensive for his customers: “And it also makes us less competitive on an international basis. Now, my costs go up, my customers’ costs go up. And then, when they make something or produce something, it gets sold to a foreign country — we lose that competitive edge.”

The Trump effect

There have been a hundred stories from 30,000 feet looking at how Democrats lost the support of the working class and union voters — if you lived through it and around it, as I have, as these men have, it has been gradual, painful and inevitable.

Trump spoke to them about the things they cared about: the border, the economy and, most important of all, tariffs — which in this part of the country means their jobs are not on the “loser” side when people more powerful than them pick winners and losers.

“Yeah, tariffs are a good thing,” Zugai told me with a big smile. The charismatic union official, who met Trump when he visited Pittsburgh on election eve and who organized scores of fellow workers to attend the rally, said it is one of the reasons he voted for Trump.

“Tariffs level the playing field for us with China,” he said. “They’re the biggest steel producer. They just dump nonquality steel in our country, and we can’t compete with that.”

Zugai said he was in the click line the night before Trump was elected and got a couple of minutes to chat with him before he went onstage: “I spoke as fast as I could trying to get my point across to him, and he kind of chuckled and said, ‘We’ll talk after I get elected.’”

If Zugai had the chance to speak with Trump today, he’d urge him to look past the “optics” of a Japanese buyer and remember his promise to attract foreign investment.

“This is what the men and women on the floor want,” he said. “It is what we need to solidify our jobs. It saves the communities that surround our plants, plus all of the vendors and the contractors and everybody else that calls on U.S. Steel — it saves all of their jobs too.”

German added that Trump voters were watching him closely, hoping to see a payoff on their own investment in his political revival. “These guys worked hard and fought for Trump and won voters over for him,” he said. “The union guys that work here and want this deal to pass got him in Pennsylvania. It’s time to return that and help us out by keeping our jobs.”

Trump isn’t the only politician who courted the labor vote in the state. Biden’s union ties and Scranton upbringing helped put him over the line in 2020. But he proved to be a disappointment to the working class here — his focus on climate action was tone deaf to a segment of the population who were not finding these mythical green jobs in the places they call home. Harris repeated Biden’s policies and never managed to connect on a more personal level.

The steelworkers I talked to faulted overly burdensome environmental regulations for pushing the plant to its point of desperation. U.S. Steel announced in 2019 it would invest $1 billion to transform Mon Valley into the “most innovative steel mill in the United States of America.” Less than two years later, it canceled the project, casting the move as part of the company’s new sustainability commitments but also mentioning its long struggle to get the permitting approved. The county health department was a major source of conflict.

“Their regulations have cost us what would already be a brand-new hot mill rolling still right now,” German said. “Remember: All of us live in this area, so it’s not like we want to pollute. And so, the regulations make it good for our families. So we are all about having clean water, having clean air, and one of the things that proves it is our eagles.”

Before I left, German took me to the very edge of the cliff where Irvin Works overlooks the Monongahela River and Clairton Works. Just below us was an expansive eagle nest — and inside were Stella and Irvin and their three eggs.

“You know, the Game Commission says you need pristine air and pristine water for eagles to habitat; goes to show you we are getting this right,” he said.

When U.S. Steel was formed in 1901, it was the United States’ first billion dollar company and for a time the world’s largest company; it was a shining example of American technology and science as well as grit, the ethos of hard work and American exceptionalism. Working here then and now carried with it a sense of immense pride — you were part of something bigger than yourself; what you did here built the country and protected our troops in times of war. When the steel industry struggled, it felt like the nation was losing a piece of itself.

Bald eagles were once struggling to survive too. Their gradual disappearance was considered just one more depressing, inevitable sign of American decline. But the nation’s leaders got together, formed a plan to rescue them, and now they’re thriving, even on the edge of a steel mill.

I pointed out that their current choice of home seems like more than a coincidence. German smiled.

“It’s a sign,” he said.

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You make the call, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic.

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You make the call, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic.

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Dr. Mary Talley Bowden left Tucker Carlson visibly shaken after dropping a chilling COVID vaccine statistic that’s impacting millions of children right now.

Before her appearance on Carlson’s show, Dr. Bowden, a Texas-based ENT specialist, rose to prominence in the medical freedom movement by speaking out against vaccine mandates and advocating for early treatment options like ivermectin.

She gained national attention after she was suspended by Houston Methodist Hospital for challenging the prevailing COVID narrative.

Despite the backlash, Bowden has remained committed to the Hippocratic Oath, successfully treating an impressive total of over 6,000 COVID patients without a single death.

Before Tucker became visibly disturbed, Dr. Bowden pointed to data from the CDC’s VAERS system, explaining that over 38,000 deaths have been reported following the rollout of the so-called COVID-19 vaccines.

She said that under normal circumstances, such numbers would’ve prompted the FDA to pull the shots.

Instead, they pushed forward, adding the COVID vaccine to the routine childhood schedule, with the expectation that babies receive three doses by just nine months of age.

She added that the shots are still under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for children under 12—not fully FDA approved—and yet they remain on the official vaccine schedule.

Tucker was horrified when Dr. Bowden mentioned a disturbing fact: “According to the CDC, 9 million American children have gotten the latest version of these COVID shots,” she said.

Clearly caught off guard, Carlson asked, “Actually?”

“Yes,” Bowden confirmed.

“Still?” he pressed.

“Yes. Yes. 9 million [kids]—12% [of US children have been injected].”

Tucker, in disbelief, asked, “Wait, this is going on right now?”

“Yes,” Bowden replied.

“I think we voted against this,” Tucker said.

“Yeah,” Bowden confirmed.

“Correct?” Tucker stressed.

“I don’t know,” Dr. Bowden answered.

“You’re very diplomatic, but I’m just stunned to learn that that’s happening right now,” Tucker exclaimed.

“Could this be shut down?” he asked.

“It should have been shut down a long time ago,” Dr. Bowden answered. “And you know, what’s the—”

Tucker interrupted: “9 million babies have had COVID shots?”

“Yeah. Well, children. Minors,” Dr. Bowden clarified.

The conversation took another dark turn when Carlson asked about the potential long-term consequences of these shots, to which Dr. Bowden pointed to a disturbing trend.

“I don’t see a ton of cancer in my practice,” she said, “but I do have friends at MD Anderson, and they said they’ve never seen anything like it. The young people coming in with very advanced tumors, I think that’s what we have to be worried about now.”

She explained that getting updated cancer data is difficult, but the anecdotal reports are piling up. “It’s hard to get up-to-date cancer numbers, but I’m hearing all sorts of things. There are probably people who have access to that data, but publicly, it’s hard [to get access].”

This raises a profound question we must now consider as a society: What have we done?

In our rush to vaccinate every man, woman, and child, have we compromised the long-term health of a population that never needed these shots in the first place?

What data was ignored? If so, who made decisions to ignore that data, and will they ever answer for the consequences? It’s time for a serious conversation about accountability.

You can watch the full, eye-opening conversation below:

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You make the call. Stem Cell Treatment Improves Alzheimer’s Symptoms.

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You make the call. Stem Cell Treatment Improves Alzheimer’s Symptoms.

A small sampling, more study is needed.

A new study found that a novel treatment using stem cells improves symptoms in Alzheimer’s patients.

Unlike traditional treatments that target amyloid plaques, laromestrocel (Lomecel-B) harnesses mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) donated from fresh bone marrow to reduce inflammation and promote brain repair.

The study, published in Nature Medicine, found that the treatment was effective in slowing cognitive decline and reducing brain volume loss in patients with mild to severe Alzheimer’s.

The 36 study participants in the trial who received stem cell infusions demonstrated cognitive improvements, brain structure preservation, and a better quality of life, compared to the 12 patients who received placebo infusions.

The patients receiving laromestrocel experienced a 20-30% reduction in left and right brain ventricular enlargement — an encouraging sign of the drug’s disease-modifying potential, according to the researchers. In addition, the infusions were well tolerated by the study participants.

“This Nature Medicine publication reinforces laromestrocel’s safety and efficacy as a potential treatment for mild Alzheimer’s disease and paves the way for more advances in utilizing cell therapy,” Dr. Joshua Hare, the founder and chief science officer of Longeveron, the maker of laromestrocel, said in a statement.

It’s the first cell therapy to receive Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation for Alzheimer’s, along with Fast Track status for expedited review.

Lynn C. Allison, a Newsmax health reporter, is an award-winning medical journalist and author of more than 30 self-help books.

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You make the call. The Lowdown on Beef Tallow.

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You make the call. The Lowdown on Beef Tallow.

Below is an article from our friends over at Newsmax. Seems like a fair comparison. Very balanced.

By Lynn C. Allison

Beef tallow, a versatile ingredient rendered from beef fat, has been used for centuries in cooking and baking. Known for its rich flavor and high smoke point, beef tallow is ideal for frying and roasting. Beyond culinary uses, it has also been used in skin care products and candle making due to its nourishing properties and long-lasting burn.

But 35 years ago, the cooking fat was phased out of fast food chains when heart attack survivor Phil Sokolof launched a campaign against saturated fat, says NPR. Beef tallow is made up of roughly 50% saturated fat. Studies have shown that eating too much saturated fat increases levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol, which increases risk for heart attack and stroke. The American Heart Association recommends eating a diet that contains less than 6% of calories from saturated fat.

However, now that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recommends beef tallow, fast food chain Steak n’ Shake is switching back to it for cooking its fries.

Kennedy touts beef tallow as being healthier than the seed oils commonly used for frying because it’s more “natural.” According to HuffPost Life, beef tallow is the fat that surrounds a cow’s organs, primarily the kidneys and loins. It’s cooked down and clarified to make a product that resembles coconut oil and shortening.

Beef tallow is making a huge comeback, especially with people focused on whole traditional foods, notes wellness expert Rebecca Kastin.

“It’s a traditional fat that our ancestors used for cooking, skin care, and even medicine,” Kastin says.

When it comes to health benefits, the source matters. Grass-fed beef tallow is significantly richer in fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K2, which are essential for immune function, bone health, and even cardiovascular health. It also contains higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a beneficial fatty acid known for its anti-inflammatory properties and potential benefits for metabolism and body composition. It’s also high in stearic acid, a type of saturated fat that new research suggests may support mitochondrial function, helping with energy production and even insulin sensitivity.

However, cattle raised on grain-heavy diets, antibiotics, and hormones tend to have lower levels of these beneficial nutrients and may contain residues of the chemicals used in industrial farming. Since toxins are often stored in fat, quality is everything when choosing animal fats. “This is why grass-fed and pasture-raised sources are key — they provide more of the nutrients we want while avoiding potential contaminants,” notes Kastin.

Some experts are concerned that Kennedy’s stance may encourage more people to eat fast foods no matter what fat they’re fried in. The real villains, says Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and head of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, are excessive amounts of refined grains, starches and sugar, as well as salt and other preservatives, chemical additives, and contaminants from packaging.

Seed oils, such as sunflower, corn and olive, are typically heart healthy. Olive oil, a key component of the plant-based Mediterranean diet, has been found to lower the risk for cardiovascular disease. “Seed oils are actually the bright spot,” Mozaffarian says. “Seed oils are healthy fats, healthy monounsaturated, polyunsaturated fats that are really good for our bodies.”

Amanda Beaver, a wellness dietitian at Houston Methodist in Texas, disagrees, pointing out that when polyunsaturated fats are heated for cooking purposes, they can produce inflammatory compounds that harm our health. Inflammation can lead to arthritis and heart disease, she says. Beef tallow has fewer inflammatory properties, according to Beaver.

But Amy Reisenberg, a clinical dietitian focused on cardiology, says she’s concerned about the health risks of all saturated fats. She’s especially worried about her clients with a family history of heart disease or elevated cholesterol, as saturated fat increases cholesterol levels and contributes to plaque in the arteries.

The bottom line seems to be that beef tallow can be part of your kitchen tool kit but shouldn’t be something you reach for all the time. Plus, deep-frying isn’t something that should be done regularly anyway, says Kastin.

“At the end of the day, grass-fed beef tallow can be a fantastic, nutrient-dense fat when used in moderation and as part of a well-balanced diet,” Kastin tells Newsmax. “Like anything, it’s all about quality and context — choosing grass-fed over conventional makes all the difference in maximizing benefits while minimizing potential downsides.”

Lynn C. Allison, a Newsmax health reporter, is an award-winning medical journalist and author of more than 30 self-help books.

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