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The Southern United States is growing population-wise at break-neck speed, while other areas have not experienced such a boom.
Every age group in the southern portion of the country grew faster than any other region over the course of several years, Vintage 2025 estimates showed, per the U.S. Census Bureau’s announcement Thursday:
New data released today for all counties in the United States and Puerto Rico provide a closer look at what age groups were driving the growth of U.S. counties across different stages of life: childhood (0-17), young adulthood and higher education (18-24), early work and family-building years (25-44), midlife (45-64), and retirement (65 and older).
Hundreds of commenters are taking part in the debate over whether DACA recipients should be allowed to receive a CDL directly to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Earlier this month, FMCSA published an exemption request related to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients. Jenifer Sanchez Vilchis, a DACA recipient from California, seeks an immediate, temporary exemption allowing states to issue Class B CDLs to DACA holders. FMCSA gave the public 30 days to comment on the exemption request. Under the rule, an Employment Authorization Document would no longer be enough to obtain a non-domiciled CDL. Additionally, asylum seekers, asylees, refugees and DACA recipients would be ineligible.
On June 23, DHS announced it was seeking to impose fines of $255,232 against Vinod Doddamani, an immigration lawyer operating “a nationwide practice in which he mostly represents Indian nationals”, for allegedly filing “false asylum claims on behalf of his clients”. The basis of that action isn’t mentioned, but it appears the department is dusting off section 274C of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a little-used civil (not criminal) provision that can result in not-insignificant money penalties for certain immigration-related fraud offenses. Practitioners should take notice — as should applicants.
Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger announced the launch of a new political action committee aimed at supporting Democrats willing to challenge Republicans he accuses of putting “loyalty to President Donald Trump ahead of loyalty to America.”
Kinzinger, who served as one of two Republicans on the now-defunct January 6 Select Committee, endorsed former President Joe Biden and later former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election. In an ad announcing the launch of Back the Bold PAC, he said, “Washington has failed to hold itself accountable to the American people.”
“Trust me, I lived it,” Kinzinger says in the ad. “Too many politicians are afraid to tell the truth,
Pennsylvania joined several other states in declining to participate in the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, DC, claiming that it was because of “the high cost to taxpayers” and being unable to find businesses willing to “sponsor the booth.”
In a statement to the Hill, a spokesperson from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development cited those reasons, adding that the state “will not be a participant in the Great American State Fair.”
Pennsylvania opting out of participating in the Great American State Fair, which began on June 25 and goes until July 10, comes as other Democrat-governed states such as Maine, Massachusetts, Washington, Illinois, Oregon,
Even in deep blue Maryland, the five county sheriffs who backed ICE, then sued the state to allow them to cooperate with federal officials, and ultimately ran for reelection on strict enforcement of immigration won their GOP primaries this week, according to poll results.
Each of these sheriffs faced challengers who ran as soft on crime and immigration but won despite political opposition to their immigration policy stances, according to the Baltimore Sun.
The Sheriffs who won their primaries include Harford County’s Jeff Gahler, Carroll County’s James T. “Jim” DeWees, Worcester County’s Matthew Crisafulli, Wicomico County’s Mike Lewis and Frederick County’s Chuck Jenkins.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false and that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins.
Buttigieg wrote in a Substack post that a Michigan State Police officer told him they found nothing to substantiate the anonymous allegation and believed it was politically motivated. He described the 24-hour ordeal as “among the darkest hours of my life.”
In a statement, Michigan State Police said they received an “anonymous report” and that they and child protective services “responded and determined the report was false.”
Outgoing UK PM Keir Starmer to Free Up
to 6,000 Prisoners, Including Killers
and Rapists, Early replies
to 6,000 Prisoners, Including Killers
and Rapists, Early replies
The UK's unpopular and outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer is leaving a parting gift for the British people by releasing thousands of violent convicts, including foreign-born criminals who are unlikely to be deported. Labour’s prison reform plan has triggered a political storm after the government introduced changes that could send thousands of offenders back into communities earlier than expected. Justice Secretary David Lammy will implement legal changes that will see criminals convicted of murder and sex crimes released later this year.
The reforms will allow eligible prisoners to leave custody sooner under revised release rules as part of the Labour government's efforts to reduce prison overcrowding.
A proposed change to Texas‘s high school social studies standards is sparking outrage by requiring teaching about “the Prophet Mohammed’s brutal military campaigns.”
Texas’s Republican-controlled Board of Education passed an amendment that included the Islam-related history guidance on Thursday while postponing a further vote on high school standards until September, according to multiple reports. Activists encouraged Texans to contact board members to advocate against the standards before a Friday meeting scheduled to address other social studies proposals, such as the inclusion of biblical stories for study.
LONG BEACH, Calif.—Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday put China on notice, naming it the No. 1 source of illegal pesticide smuggling attempts into California’s ports.
Appearing at an undisclosed location near the Port of Long Beach and standing in front of a table full of the illegal pesticide DDVP, Zeldin said the top two foreign countries of concern for the EPA are China and Mexico.
“No. 1 is China, first and foremost. We also are concerned about what we see coming in from Mexico,” Zeldin told the Daily Signal. “At other ports, not specifically here, especially on the East Coast, we’ve been concerned
Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shelling out $15 million in an effort to broaden transgender services for city residents, Them first reported Friday.
The Mamdani administration’s new effort will include three initiatives designed to bolster access to “gender-affirming” care in New York City: a “direct” transgender service access fund, a call and text line to aid transitioners and additional funds for LGBTQ “medical care,” according to online LGBTQ magazine Them. Mamdani’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
“Every New Yorker should have the freedom to live as themselves and access the healthcare they need,”
truism of leftist revolutions is that the Old Guard is never sufficiently pure for the younger generation that it trained. More scarily, the younger generation is usually willing to engage in mass slaughter to carry on the pure form of the revolution, whether with or without the help of select Old Guard members willing to save their own skin by embracing the slaughter.
Right now, we’re witnessing a few in the Democrat Old Guard who suddenly feel the revolution’s claws scraping at their jugulars. We can only hope that normal Americans stop the madness before the blood really flows.
Dallas lawmakers signed off Wednesday on a $18.5 million incentive package to lure a $1.3 billion Morgan Stanley office tower to the city, The Post has learned — and this week’s stunning victories by far-left New York pols could expedite the exodus of businesses.
Officials at the Dallas City Council unanimously rubber-stamped the deal 15-0 that would give the New York-based bank a special economic grant and up to a decade of property tax abatements, according to a municipal filing reviewed by The Post.
In exchange, the Wall Street giant would build a major regional office downtown and shift nearly 5,000 jobs to the city — the latest coup for
GOP activist Scott Pressler found himself barred from entry Thursday to a dinner at the South Dakota Republican State Convention, where Senate Majority Leader John Thune was the featured speaker.
Pressler garnered national attention and praise for his work during the 2024 election. His efforts in Pennsylvania were widely acknowledged to have won that state for President Donald Trump, allowing him to secure victory.
In recent months, Pressler has been increasingly critical of Thune for his failure to get the Senate to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require voter ID and other common-sense requirements for elections, promoting a greater degree of integrity and legitimacy.
Zohran Mamdani has a plan to seize private property and take over the apartment-housing business in New York City, and it's not exactly rocket science. He even ran for office on a platform of doing so, although he didn't describe it in exactly those terms.
It's pretty simple, really, and doesn't require men with guns knocking on doors and putting landlords up against the wall, as his good friend Hasan Piker likes to fantasize about. While Piker screams on Twitch about capitalist blood and guts running in the streets, Mamdani and his housing czar, Cea Weaver, are following the tried and now true DSA method of using the existing
Yikes! Newsom Just Endorsed a New National
Wealth Tax, Signaling Huge Shift Toward Socialism replies
Wealth Tax, Signaling Huge Shift Toward Socialism replies
Gavin Newsom has, until now, opposed wealth taxes, or so-called "Billionaire" taxes.
No longer. Joining Ro Khanna, Elizabeth Warren, and the more radical left-wing in his party, he is jumping on board the crazy train, calling for an "economic reset" by seizing a fraction of the wealth—almost all of which is unrealized capital gains, and hence the ownership of companies and not actual cash money—and transferring to the government to spend on...whatever. Making the world poorer but "fairer."
While I know you think of Newsom as a Lefty-Democrat, he is the archetypal Organized Crime Democrat, who mouths
Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates have signed onto a new centrist initiative called “Promise to America,” explicitly declaring “We are capitalist, not socialist” and calling for secure borders, fiscal responsibility, and national pride.
The announcement comes days after Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates won several primaries in New York, bringing to light the ongoing tensions inside the Democratic Party as it prepares for the 2026 midterms under President Donald Trump. The full text of the pledge outlines six core principles.
Under “Growth, Competition, and Broad Prosperity,” it states: “We are capitalist, not socialist.” It calls for an economy that rewards hard work, lowers costs, and expands opportunity rather than
Yes, I DO know that "moderate" and "Democrat" really don't belong in the same sentence (although I continue to insist that there is a cohort of moderate Democrat voters, although very few moderate Democrat politicians of any note).
That's why I have taken to distinguishing the two factions at war in the Democratic Party as being the "Organized Crime Democrats," who use the party as a tool to grab money and power to further their own interests, and the "Bolshevik" Democrats, who want to seize everything in what amounts to a Communist, mostly bloodless coup.
The OCDs helped build up the Bolsheviks, seeing them as committed
Do you realize how crushing these 2 Supreme
Court rulings are for the Left’s sabotage machine? replies
Court rulings are for the Left’s sabotage machine? replies
The left wing has worked hard to find very clever ways to stop President Trump’s agenda without ever winning an election. The formula was sinister and simple. Trump announces a new immigration policy. That cues progressive activist groups to race to court and file a lawsuit. A friendly federal activist judge somewhere in California, Hawaii, or D.C. slaps an injunction on the policy, and just like that, everything grinds to a screeching halt. The left is hoping that months drag on and turn into years, letting the lawsuits pile up, and hopefully the policy dies a slow, lonely death before the American people ever get to see if it works.
Beijing — A small aircraft appeared to have struck the tallest building in China’s capital on Friday afternoon, in a shocking incident in one of the world’s most fortified cities.
Dramatic footage from Beijing posted on social media showed debris falling from the 109-story CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun, as well as a tail section of the plane and a broken window of a taxicab on the ground.
A CNN journalist witnessed people evacuated from the skyscraper gathering on the streets near the entrance, along with firetrucks, police cars and an ambulance.
Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is running for U.S. Senate in 2026 against Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH), has spent decades casting himself as a blue-collar populist, but donor data reviewed by Breitbart News shows he has taken at least $4,887,980 from donors affiliated with Wall Street, big banking institutions, investment firms, and billionaires throughout his political career.Brown has accused his opponent of taking money from “Wall Street” and “billionaires,” declared “Workers > Wall Street,” said “Wall Street does not believe in the dignity of work,” and claimed, “We continue to see the power Wall Street has over the political system.”
The shot heard around the world may soon go silent in Texas classrooms.
On Wednesday, the Texas State Board of Education voted to remove the American Revolution from 11th-grade U.S. History. The Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening shots of the war that created this country, gone. In their place? Oprah Winfrey.
Let that sink in.
The Social Studies TEKS, short for Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, are the backbone of what every Texas student learns from kindergarten through graduation. They are not a suggestion. They are a carefully sequenced architecture of knowledge, where a fact introduced in first grade is built upon in second,
Another day of big Supreme Court decisions means another solo dissent from junior Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, this time in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, as to the “straightforward question: whether an alien who seeks to enter the United States from Mexico ‘arrives in the United States’” (Alito).As she once told a crowd at a book tour event: “I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues.”
With all due respect, we need more than just vibes and feelings from our justices when they opine on hot topics. Justice Jackson’s lack of—
LOS ANGELES -- A mistrial was declared Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of setting what eventually became the Palisades Fire. Prosecutors said they will try again.
The judge declared the mistrial after a jury on Thursday said that they could not reach a verdict in 29-year-old Rinderknecht's trial on three federal charges: arson, malicious destruction by means of fire and timber set aflame.
The deadlock was 10 jurors set on a not guilty verdict and 2 jurors determined to convict.