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COVENTRY, Vt. —
The FBI is releasing new information in their investgation in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S Border Patrol agent.
A spokesperson with U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed to NBC5 that a Border Patrol agent and another person were killed Monday afternoon during a traffic stop in Coventry, Vermont. During the traffic stop, federal investigators say Agent David “Chris” Maland exchanged gunfire with one of the subjects. Maland was fatally shot. A third person was injured and is now in custody. They are being treated at an area hospital for their injuries.
The FBI said that the deceased person is a German national
MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton called on all Americans to boycott companies eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, claiming they are trying to send Black people to the “back of the bus.”
Sharpton made the announcement at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., during a rally in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday. He said this call to action would be done in the spirit of King’s legacy as a civil rights activist.
“Why do we have DEI? We have DEI because you denied us diversity, you denied us equity, you denied us inclusion.
Lefty Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was dragged on X for “jewsplaining” to the Anti-Defamation League after the group defended Elon Musk’s “awkward gesture” that progressives insisted was a Nazi salute.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused the antisemitism watchdog group of “defending a Heil Hitler salute” before arguing that the ADL “works for” President Trump and his allies.
“Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to the ADL on X.
“People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Joe Biden's shocking response to his demands that the White House do something about the migrant crisis was to 'be a good Democrat, Eric.'
The embattled mayor claimed Biden's reaction to the crisis wreaking havoc on his city was just one of many reasons the Democrat Party 'left me and it left working class people' in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
[SNIP] 'We have Venezuelan gang leaders that were coming to the city creating crimes,' Adams said, which led to his asking Biden for help the condescending answer he received.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday used the “Gulf of America” in an Executive Order following President Donald Trump’s swearing in and subsequent speech, in which he reiterated his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
DeSantis issued the executive order on Monday, EO number 25-13 on the weather system coming into the state. In the first sentence, DeSantis’s executive order uses the name “Gulf of America.”
“WHEREAS, an area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful winter weather to North Florida beginning Tuesday, January 21, 2025…” it begins.
Indian officials are preparing to repatriate roughly 18,000 Indian migrants who have been living in the United States illegally, according to a recent report.
“People familiar with the matter” informed Bloomberg that the Indian government is prepared to work with President Donald Trump and his administration to “identify and take back all its citizens” who have been in the U.S. illegally.
“As part of India-US cooperation on migration and mobility, both sides are engaged in a process to deter illegal migration,” Randhir Jaiswal, a spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, told Bloomberg. “This is being done to create more avenues for legal migration from India to the US.”
Newly inaugurated President Donald Trump told his deputies on Monday to draft rules to deny taxpayer funds to so-called “sanctuary” cities and NGOs — Non-Governmental Organizations — that support illegal migrants.
Among his long list of executive orders (EOs) was one entitled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” aimed squarely at sanctuary jurisdictions.
In section 17 of this EO, for instance, Trump sent a shot over the bow of “sanctuary jurisdictions” to warn them that they had better not interfere with legal federal law enforcement actions or risk losing federal dollars.
“The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the maximum extent possible under law,
As CNN Panel Complains About Trump’s
J6 Pardons, Scott Jennings Reminds Them
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Republican strategist Scott Jennings told a CNN panel Monday that many Black Lives Matter rioters avoided punishment in 2020 after liberal commentators complained about pardons President Donald Trump issued to participants of the riot at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump issued a blanket pardon Monday to more than 1,500 people convicted of crimes surrounding the storming of the Capitol building during the certification of the electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021. Jennings reminded former Obama administration officials David Axelrod and Van Jones, who claimed the Jan. 6 rioters received insufficient punishment, that many of the participants in the Capitol riot had their lives “ruined,” but
The man who was previously photographed with would-be assassin Ryan Routh and later honored by Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom has released a statement following his firing by former President Donald Trump.
As Cullen Linebarger reported earlier, former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Tuesday morning to announce the termination of the first four individuals from his predecessor’s administration upon taking office.
The firings, executed in signature “Apprentice-style” fashion, come as no surprise to conservatives, particularly one certain infamous general.
Democrats Proclaim the Only 'Good Billionaires'
Are the Ones Who Agree With and Give Money
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By any measure, 2024 was not a good year to be a Democrat. You had Joe Biden's dementia that you had tried so hard to cover up exposed during a presidential debate. Then, Nancy Pelosi tried to help you and shivved Joe Biden out the door. Then your replacement candidate, who would have been so many "firsts," turned out to be a word salad aficionado, often making Joe Biden look coherent. Finally, when you tried gaslighting the American people on a scale never before seen and insisted that they go along with your crazy ideas, they rejected you wholeheartedly. Yep, it was not a good year.
Texas teen who ratted out his own father to the FBI is reeling from Donald Trump’s decision to pardon January 6th protesters.
Jackson Reffitt, whose father Guy Reffitt was sentenced to over seven years in prison for his role in the protests against the 2020 presidential election, spoke to CNN after Donald Trump announced that he would be pardoning all of those involved.
“I’ve taken as many precautions as I could recently,” Jackson said.
“I’ve picked up a gun, I’ve moved, and I’ve gotten myself away from what I thought would be a dangerous situation and staying where I thought my dad could find me or other people.”
‘Tis the season to be…..coffee badging? The new year traditionally marks the time a fresh crop of U.S. corporations requires employees to return to the office after many businesses allowed their staffs to work remotely at the start of the COVID-10 pandemic five years ago. And that means it’s also the season for workers to try to beat the system. What does the term coffee badging mean?
Many are “coffee badging,” or swiping their ID badges at the office to record their arrival, staying 30 minutes or so - long enough to greet colleagues and grab a cup of coffee
Trump Revokes John Bolton's Security Clearance
After Memoir Exposes So-Call White House 'Secrets' replies
After Memoir Exposes So-Call White House 'Secrets' replies
In a bold move signaling his commitment to holding the intelligence community accountable, President Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a controversial letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The letter surfaced weeks before the 2020 election and was widely criticized after evidence from the laptop was verified, raising questions about the intelligence officials' credibility. Trump’s decision to strip their security clearances comes amid growing concerns over political bias within the intelligence agencies and his determination to ensure integrity and transparency within national security operations.
President Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci may protect the former National Institutes of Health official from immediate criminal prosecution, but some critics say he is not completely out of legal jeopardy and that public sentiment might still condemn the man who became known during the COVID-19 pandemic as “Mr. Science.”
In the days before Biden offered the pardon to Fauci, along with other critics of Donald Trump, some experts who have followed Fauci’s career and handling of the pandemic, as well as members of the Trump transition team, reiterated their assertion that Fauci perjured himself on several occasions during the pandemic
Users of the leftist social media platform Bluesky went into meltdown after Donald Trump pardoned those involved in the January 6th protests.
On Monday evening, hours after taking office, Trump confirmed that he would pardon and/or commute the sentences of the 1,600 individuals involved in the protests against the fraud that tainted the 2020 presidential election.
Trump acknowledged that while most of those involved were peaceful and did not warrant any form of prosecution, even those convicted of acts of violence were persecuted and punish excessively by the Biden regime as an act of political revenge.
The news did not go down well over on Bluesky,
FEMA Director Deanne Criswell departed the agency on Monday as President Trump’s new administration began.
Criswell has faced strong criticism in response to how the agency has handled recent hurricanes. Criswell oversaw the government’s response to numerous major hurricanes, the Maui fires and the recent Los Angeles County fires.
“It has been an honor serving as [FEMA] Administrator for nearly four years. The FEMA family takes immense pride in our mission of helping people before, during and after disasters. I know the agency will continue to serve the nation as we support this peaceful transition of power,” Criswell wrote on X.
President Donald Trump briefly reacted to the woke Episcopal priestess who delivered remarks at the National Prayer Service, using the opportunity to assert that many LGBTQ people — including children — “fear for their lives.”
Reporters caught up with Trump as he returned to the White House, asking the president what he thought of the service. “What did you think?” Trump asked back. “Did you like it? Did you find it exciting? Not too exciting, was it?” (X Video) The question came after an anti-Trump Episcopal bishop of Washington, DC, — Mariann Budde — used her platform at the National Prayer Service to go on a woke rant,
People have asked why we focus so much sunlight and attention toward the network silos that operate the Intelligence Community (IC) and as an outcome the national security focus of government. The answer is simple, as Mary McCord herself admitted publicly, the IC are the background approver for every weaponized approach of government, including the DOJ.
With that in mind, CTH has painstakingly made the case –with details and receipts– for a process of removing the IC silos from influence over the Office of The President. The Chief Executive must control all elements of national security policy and implementation.Thankfully, the Supreme Court recently affirmed the plenary power
Decorated Marine Chris Kuehne Shares Emotional
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Reaction to President Trump’s J6 Pardons (Video) replies
Chris Kuehne, a January 6 political prisoner, Marine veteran, and American patriot who sacrificed years of his life for his country, was released from prison in November 2024.
Chris called The Gateway Pundit upon his release to share his relief to be free.
You may recall that the FBI raided Chris’s home in the dead of winter and forced his wife to stand outside in the bitter cold while they raided the family’s home. His wife, Annette lost the baby following the trauma of the incident. She suffered a miscarriage the next day following the trauma and abuse by US government agents.
Following the news that Chris, along with other J6 political prisoners,
There’s no proof that Sigmund Freud ever acknowledged that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” but whoever coined the phrase was certainly onto something. Not everything is chockfull of hidden meanings.
Including a hat.
With its ratings in freefall, MSNBC returned to its old-school journalistic roots, publishing today an introspective, hard-hitting, no-holds-barred psychoanalysis of the incoming first lady’s headwear: “The Message Behind Melania Trump’s Hat.”
(Well! If that doesn’t jumpstart its ratings, nothing will.)
Hannah Holland, an MSNBC producer and writer, penned this Pulitzer-worthy article. In her opinion:
Good afternoon. This is the first of my twice-weekly columns under a new format. The “Morning Note” lasted more than a decade, so it was time for a change. For starters, this newsletter will appear on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.
I previously focused on meaningful dates in U.S. history (and got a book out of it), and also used the format for a “quote of the week,” which was also usually a blast from the past. “Cannon Fodder” will be timelier. I will still highlight stories and columns from RealClearPolitics and our sister sites, but the list will be more selective. So here we go
Jake Sullivan, former National Security Advisor under Joe Biden, told NSC staffers to “hold over” to the Trump White House to spy on and sabotage Trump just like they did in early 2017.
According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Jake Sullivan wants NSC underlings like Trump impeachment ‘whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella to sabotage Trump 2.0. with leaks to the media.
Per investigative reporter Paul Sperry: Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has been encouraging NSC staffers to “hold over” to the Trump WH in a redux of Obama holdovers who spied & leaked on and sabotaged Trump in early 2017, inclg CIA detailees Ciaramella & Misko as well as Vindman & Fiona Hill
Topline Oracle stock was the most notable winner from the stock market’s first day of trading during President Donald Trump’s second term as Trump unveiled a $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership between the cloud computing and data storage giant and other AI heavyweights including OpenAI and Nvidia. Key Facts
The AI infrastructure deal, dubbed “Stargate,” involves Oracle, OpenAI (the Microsoft-backed parent of the generative AI ChatGPT program), top AI tech designer Nvidia and Tokyo-headquartered conglomerate SoftBank, matching reports earlier Tuesday.
Trump announced the project at a White House press conference flanked by Oracle’s billionaire chairman Larry Ellison, OpenAI’s billionaire CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank’s billionaire CEO Masayoshi Son.
Here we go.
Senators received an 11th hour affidavit with spousal abuse allegations against Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth ahead of his confirmation vote.
On Monday, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to advance Pete Hegseth’s nomination to a full senate floor vote.
Senators can vote as early as Thursday to confirm Hegseth.
However, an affidavit from Hegseth’s former sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth, alleging “instances of abuse” and “mistreatment of a former spouse” involving Hegseth’s second wife, Samantha Hegseth, was submitted to senators.
Samantha Hegseth responded to the allegations via email, according to NBC News: