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Department prosecutor Carmen Mercedes Lineberger has been indicted for allegedly removing confidential Justice Department material and then concealing her efforts. Lineberger is accused of secretly transferring Jack Smith’s final report and hiding the material under files labeled “chocolate cake recipe” and “bundt cake recipe.” There has not been a greater recipe for disaster since aides tried to fit all of Biden’s candles on a cake.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy lit up a Senate hearing Tuesday in a blistering exchange with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, turning what Democrats hoped would be an ethics ambush into a full-blown counterattack over the senator’s own campaign funding. Gillibrand, the radical left New York senator who loves lecturing everyone else about “ethics,” tried to play gotcha over Duffy’s “Great American Road Trip” – a seven-month, family-friendly project promoting America’s 250th . The trip was sponsored by private companies . No taxpayer dollars funded the Duffy family’s costs, and it was pre-cleared by ethics officials. But that didn’t stop the insufferable Democrat from
An estimated 40,000 people in Orange County, California, have been ordered to evacuate the area over fears that a tank containing a toxic chemical may explode, officials said Friday. (snip) The tank contains methyl methacrylate, a toxic chemical used to manufacture resins and plastics.
Disney-owned ABC is now petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to officially declare the screeching harpies on The View as “bona fide news,” giving the daytime talk show a free pass to platform Democrat politicians while blackballing Republicans and dodging equal time rules that apply to every other broadcaster.
This is the same network that spent years pushing nonstop Trump Derangement Syndrome, COVID hysteria, and every woke agenda item under the sun, and now they want the government to rubber-stamp their partisan operation as legitimate “news” journalism? Give us a break.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, one of the few adults left in Washington fighting back against Big Tech and Big Media
New Jersey Officials Say the Mafia Is
Thriving Again as Tech-Savvy Mobsters
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Thriving Again as Tech-Savvy Mobsters
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New Jersey crime families have ditched hits in favor of clicks, the State Commission of Investigation was told at a hearing this week.
Sophisticated financial schemes and a willingness to share before shooting are hallmarks of 21st century organized crime, witnesses at a recent hearing said, according to NJ.com.
“The usual array of illicit money-making activity has been augmented by multi-million dollar financial frauds, global money laundering and other sophisticated criminal enterprises,” State Commission of Investigation Executive Director Bruce Keller said. “Money is still the driver behind much of organized crime activity,” he added.
But gangland is not dead, with officials saying La Cosa Nostra remains a force to be
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Announces Run
For Mainly Black District With Obama Poster
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For Mainly Black District With Obama Poster
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Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced Friday morning that she is now seeking reelection in Florida’s 20th Congressional District.
Currently representing Florida’s 25th Congressional District, Wasserman Schultz announced the move in a video statement posted to X with a poster of former President Barack Obama visible in the background. She stated in the social media post that she intends to “continue to use my seniority in Washington to make Broward a safer, less expensive place to live, raise a family, and retire.”
Washington — The Trump administration was preparing Friday for a fresh round of military strikes against Iran, according to sources with direct knowledge of the planning, even as diplomacy continued.
No final decision on strikes had been reached as of Friday afternoon.
"Circumstances pertaining to Government" are keeping President Trump from attending his son Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding this weekend, he said in a social media post. The president had planned to spend Memorial Day weekend at his golf property in New Jersey but will now return to the White House.
Some members of the U.S. military and intelligence community canceled their plans for the Memorial Day
First Daughter Ivanka Trump was targeted for assassination by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) trained terrorist in a twisted plot to avenge the president taking out his mentor, The Post has learned.
Recently captured Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, made a “pledge” to kill Ivanka and even had a blueprint of her Florida home, sources claimed.
The Iraqi national was allegedly targeting President Donald Trump’s family in response to the killing of Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad six years ago.
“After Qasem was killed, he [Al-Saadi] went around telling people ‘we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump
Illegals Are Killing America
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On April 3, a 51-year-old woman was murdered by a man wielding a hammer as she exited a Chevron gas station in Ft. Myers, Florida. The attack was captured on video, and from the video, it appears that the woman didn’t realize until the last second what was happening. It was too unexpected. The victim had undoubtedly exited that gas station, where she reportedly worked as a clerk, dozens if not hundreds of times before and felt secure. In the video, she shows no sign of apprehension, but as long as anyone like her killer is at large in America, none of us is completely safe
In the course of committing an armed robbery in Minneapolis in 2004, Marvin Haynes shot and killed the owner of a flower shop. He was prosecuted, identified by witnesses (“Oh my God, that’s him”), and heard to talk about “shooting an old white man” at the time of the murder. Haynes was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. His conviction was upheld by the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Now, 20 years later, Haynes has not only been released from prison, but is being paid $4.5 million by the State of Minnesota. His conviction was obviously not wrongful, but Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty,
Thursday evening finally saw the arrival of Stephen Colbert’s departure, an event that began to feel like the ever-distant horizon never being reached. Since the announcement last summer of the cancellation of “The Late Show” by CBS executives, it has been a long slog of guests paying tribute and of media commemorations. One would think this was Patrick Mahomes being drafted and sent off to war in Iran.
Brian Stelter, all this week, was especially moved by the demise of this show, as his frequent appearances across the shows on CNN and his social media timeline becoming a thread of Colbert obsession attest.
President Donald Trump’s deputies are closing the hidden process used by former presidents to covertly legalize or amnesty millions of economic migrants during the last few decades.
“This could be a HUGE move,” said a tweet from the Immigration Accountability Project Action group,
On Friday, officials announced that migrants in the United States who want to use the little-recognized and fast-track “Adjustment of Status” (AOS) pathway to green cards — and then citizenship — must instead follow the normal legalization pathway that goes through the U.S. embassies in their home countries.
This change will impact millions of economic migrants in the United States — including long-resident illegal migrants, temporary foreign workers, tourists, students,
It's not a big secret that California's gas is so expensive compared to most of the rest of the country because of its taxes and regulations.
But Chevron drove that point home when they explained to drivers why the gas is always more in California with signs they put up at their stations. (X) The signs carry messages like: “Sacramento policies did this. Now, you pay more."
Others saying, “California has the highest gas taxes and fees in America.”
Chevron spokesperson Ross Allen explained more.
“They have a 61-cent excise tax on every gallon of gasoline. That’s the highest in the nation,” Allen said.
Allen also pointed to environmental programs like California’s cap-and-trade
Teen suspect tied to 12 attacks in chaotic
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The 17-year-old suspect accused of launching a random shooting spree across Austin has been identified as an illegal immigrant, prosecutors revealed Tuesday.
Cristian Mondragon-Fajardo is one of three suspects who allegedly carried out 12 separate shootings across the city over the weekend, leaving three people injured and another victim in critical condition. The two other suspects, ages 15 and 16, have not been publicly identified due to their age.
During Mondragon-Fajardo’s court appearance Tuesday, prosecutors disclosed that an ICE detainer had been issued following his arrest Sunday, according to Fox 7 Austin.
"The ICE detainer does add an extra component to his process," Criminal Defense & Immigration Attorney Robert Jimenez said.
In a discovery by CriticalRace.org, the University of Minnesota Medical School was found to offer “Child & Adolescent Gender Services” through its Sexual and Gender Health Clinic. These services include “gender affirming medication” for children.
“We provide services across the lifespan, with specific services for children, adolescents, and adults,” states the clinic’s website.
“All children and adolescents develop differently, and it’s common for some children, adolescents, and their families to need professional help understanding various gender issues.”
The website then dives into interventions conducted by the clinic on children who may be struggling with their gender.
Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her post as Director of National Intelligence to support her husband through his battle with "an extremely rare form of bone cancer," Fox News Digital learned.
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"Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026," she wrote. "My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer."Gabbard said her husband "faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months."
"At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle," she said.
The FBI released preliminary crime data for 2025, and the numbers are stunning. Violent crime fell at a rate not seen in nearly a century, and the man overseeing the bureau is the same one the left has been trying to torch for months.
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter dropped more than 18% nationwide last year. Aggravated assault fell more than 7%. Rape declined nearly 8%. Robbery cratered by about 18.5%. All told, violent crime dropped about 9.3% overall; there were roughly 1.1 million fewer violent crimes than in 2024.
"The 2025 crime data in this report shows the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937 —
A coalition of progressive activists has spent the past year building an enemies list of American companies that work with ICE and the U.S. military. At the top of that list is Palantir Technologies, a publicly traded company whose software runs Pentagon targeting, NATO operations, and ICE enforcement.
The “Purge Palantir” campaign is led by a coalition of leftist organizations, including the American Friends Service Committee, MediaJustice, Mijente, and the Palestinian-led BDS movement.
Their organizers openly say that ICE and the U.S. military are interchangeable targets. They want Palantir stripped of all its government contracts, want pension funds to divest, and want to publish a database called the “Palantir Payroll”
Exclusive: Retired Border Patrol Chief
Bovino Receives Cold Welcome from North
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Bovino Receives Cold Welcome from North
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Retired Border Patrol Chief and former CBP Commander Gregory Bovino received the cold shoulder from liberal members of the Boone, North Carolina, community. Bovino says most in the Appalachian community have welcomed him, but he is not being received too kindly by those on the left in the town where he lived before joining the Border Patrol.
The seasoned Border Patrol veteran provided Breitbart Texas with a video he took at a county government-run recreational facility where he was approached by a woman who he says was not very happy about seeing him in town, which he once called home. In the video, the woman approaches Bovino and tells him,
President Donald Trump has stated he might not be able to attend the wedding of his son, Don Jr., to Bettina Anderson. [Tweet, video]
Trump said Don. Jr. would like him to go, and he was going to try, but the timing was difficult with the military action going on in Iran. He said that whether he went or not, either way, he was going to "get killed" — the media would go after him whether he went or didn't. Trump also said (of Don Jr.), "He's got a person I've known for a long time," in reference to Bettina Anderson, Don's intended,
Another Line Crossed As Virginia Democrat
Makes an Astonishing Threat Against a
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Makes an Astonishing Threat Against a
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RedState reported on the absolute panic that set in among Democrats in Virginia and in Congress after the state's Supreme Court (SCOVA) ruled earlier this month that the process Democrats in the General Assembly used to put their gerrymander referendum on the ballot violated Virginia's Constitution.
The ruling dashed the Dems' hopes and dreams of being able to implement a 10-1 D/R congressional map they wanted to use for the 2026 midterms. As we also reported, it prompted an emergency meeting at the time that included House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), where one idea that was floated was to have "Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a group of current and former congressional lawmakers are not barred from recovering damages in a case over whether members of Congress are owed back pay for years of suppressed cost-of-living increases.
The lawmakers’ legal team has argued that Congress and the president have violated the 27th Amendment with laws that repeatedly blocked the annual cost-of-living adjustments to lawmaker salaries set out in a 1989 law. Members of Congress last received a pay adjustment in 2009, when their salary was increased 2.8 percent to $174,000.
The 27th Amendment states that no law “varying” lawmaker compensation “shall take effect, until an election
It’s Time to Save Standard Time
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Every March and November, Americans dread the notification in their inbox or on the news to “Remember to change your clocks!” Most of us rely on the adage “Fall back in fall—spring forward in spring” to sort out the confusion of which way the clock is moving. But you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who gets excited about the biannual shift.
However, many Americans do love the later hours of sunlight daylight saving time affords. With equal fervor, others, particularly older people, dislike the thought of getting up in the dark that accompanies it.
It is this lack of consensus, as well as significant pushback from health experts, that has stalled
Exclusive: Trump Admin Closes Loophole
Letting Migrants Stay In US While Awaiting
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Letting Migrants Stay In US While Awaiting
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The Trump administration is moving to close what it describes as a loophole that allows migrants to remain in the United States while awaiting permanent residency.
On Friday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced new guidance directing immigration officers to treat the transition from temporary nonimmigrant status to permanent immigrant status under Section 245(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act as a process that should generally take place outside the United States, according to a document obtained by the Daily Caller. Under the guidance, individuals seeking lawful permanent residency would typically be required to return to their home country, complete screening procedures and obtain an immigrant visa through