NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley has donated $1 million to an academy in New Orleans that just produced two groundbreaking young mathematicians. The story begins last year when GNN reported on the success of two high school teens 2,000 years in the making. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson from St. Mary’s Academy in New […] The post Charles Barkley Keeps $1M Promise After 2 New Orleans Students Solve Pythagorean Theorem appeared first on Good News Network.

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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.

The Acer Nitro Blaze 7 is the latest addition to the world of gaming handhelds, with Acer being surprisingly slow off the blocks in this new sector. The Blaze 7 isn't exactly packed full of unique features, which makes it a tough sell when it's arriving so late, but with the right price it could be a solid option for those that still haven't yet taken the plunge. With its eyes clearly set on gaining a spot on the best handheld gaming PC guides of the world, this new Acer handheld is based on a 7-inch screen and houses a slightly different CPU to most other Steam Deck rivals. Instead of the Z1 Extreme of the Asus ROG Ally X and Legion Go, it uses the Ryzen 7 8804HS. It has the same level of GPU power, but some differences elsewhere. We got our hands on the new Steam Deck rival at the IFA trade show where it was launched, to see how it's shaping up. Continue reading Acer Nitro Blaze 7 hands on: this Steam Deck rival dials up the ante MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best gaming monitor

If you hadn't caught wind of the Akko Dragon Ball Super Goku gaming keyboard yet, then you can count us among your counterparts. However, having got our hands on the unit at the IFA Berlin trade show, we're now converts to this full-power gaming keyboard transformation. With Akko being the developer of some of the best gaming keyboard designs around, including its excellent MOD007B Tokyo, we would always have expected the Akko Dragon Ball Super Goku to be a quality unit, but the sheer impact of this board can't be overstated. Continue reading This Dragon Ball Z gaming keyboard is truly Super Saiyan MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming

If you require some extra storage space to download more games on your Steam Deck, this microSD card deal on Amazon is too good to turn down. The Lexar 1TB Play is available for just $66.49 which is a massive 49% discount down from its $129.99 MSRP. We have the Lexar Play earmarked as one of the best microSD cards for Steam Deck, specifically as a budget option. While the Steam Deck is still the best handheld gaming PC, its microSD speed limitations result in most cards being compatible but deals like this cannot be passed up. Continue reading Download more Steam Deck games thanks to this microSD card deal MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming

Sometimes, you want a shooter that's frenetic, fantastical, and outright fun, like Doom Eternal or maybe, back in the day, Half-Life. But there's another type of FPS, the more austere and self-serious simulation-style shooter like Ready or Not or the earlier Rainbow Six games. Zero Hour is definitely one of these. Boasting scarily realistic movement and gunplay, it feels like the descendant of the superlative SWAT series, and now, finally, after four years of early access, it's officially launched in full. Continue reading After years in early access, realistic SWAT FPS Zero Hour hits 1.0