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U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared in Los Angeles on Tuesday to announce the Trump administration’s latest push to overhaul the state’s response to the homelessness crisis.
California has long struggled with homelessness, and recent scandals involving taxpayer dollars flowing to troubled nonprofits have intensified scrutiny. The Trump administration announced in June that it would cut off federal funding to Los Angeles.
At a press conference held at the Dream Center, a faith-based nonprofit, Turner told the Daily Signal the administration wants to see actual results—people getting off the streets and receiving treatment.
DOJ Waves White Flag, Ends Nine Decades
Of Red Tape Over Suppressors In Victory
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Of Red Tape Over Suppressors In Victory
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The Department of Justice refused Wednesday to appeal a ruling that found National Firearms Act (NFA) restrictions on suppressors and other items unconstitutional because the removal of associated taxes invalidated the law, marking a significant victory for gun-rights advocates.
Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde posted on X Wednesday that the Trump administration confirmed it would not appeal a ruling by United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, granting a motion for summary judgement from attorneys representing the Silencer Shop Foundation in a 66-page opinion issued August 5. Hendrix ruled that since taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and other items
Kathy Hochul received $55,000 in campaign contributions from social adult daycare centers (SADCs) in fraud-plagued Flushing, Queens, records show.
Almost half of those donations can be linked to two men: local powerbroker Baoli Zhang, and Jiemin Shang — who own two of Flushing’s biggest daycare businesses, both of which were empty of patients when visited by The Post last week.
Nearly Half of Young Americans Still Living
With Parents as Affordability Squeeze
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With Parents as Affordability Squeeze
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Nearly half of young American adults are living with their parents, while a similar share rely on financial assistance from family or others to cover everyday expenses, according to new Federal Reserve data highlighting the mounting economic pressures facing younger generations.
The Federal Reserve’s Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households found that 49% of adults ages 18 to 29 live with their parents. Another 47% received financial assistance from someone outside their household to pay expenses during the previous year.
The share of young adults living at home has climbed 6 percentage points since 2022 and 12 percentage points since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
If gun control works, as anti-gunners repeatedly claim, then the lack of gun control should lead to predictable results. In fact, anti-gunners make this case every time they lose. They do the whole "the streets will run red with blood" bit on social media, screaming to high heavens that this is a disaster and innocent people will die. And they trot out the studies to "prove" this is the case. Pretty much every bit of research out of academia backs up their claims.
The problem is that the real world isn't the same as the one created by biased researchers. How do we know this?
A simple comparison highlights this beautifully.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday arrested five illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes and drug offenses, the agency announced Tuesday.
“Yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, violent assailants, kidnappers, drug traffickers, and other dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities,” Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told the Daily Signal. “Under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump, ICE is making our nation safer by removing illegal aliens from our communities.”
“When you remove criminal illegal aliens like these from our country, crime rates fall, and the American people are safer,” Mullin added. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that nearly 70% —
Texas teacher breaks down in tears during
class after his senior students struggled
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class after his senior students struggled
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A Texas high school teacher was reduced to tears and broke down in front of his class when he realized the seniors he was teaching couldn’t complete a writing exercise.
Darius Williams, a teacher for Houston Independent School District’s Wheatley High School, said he couldn’t get through the first class of the second day of school before his students’ poor literacy skills were too much for him.
“I just finished a three-hour class, and I literally broke down in the middle of class,” Williams said in an Instagram video during his lunch break on Tuesday. Williams, a New Education System (NES) Career and Technical Education (CTE) staffer,
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a two-count indictment charging 11 individuals for orchestrating a massive, decade-long marriage fraud network that arranged over 1,000 sham marriages.
Federal prosecutors described the operation as one of the largest marriage fraud prosecutions in U.S. history, spanning “from 2016 through July 2026 and generating tens of millions of dollars in illegal revenue.”
The criminal scheme primarily aimed to secure fraudulent green cards and lawful permanent residency for foreign nationals, predominantly citizens of the People’s Republic of China, the DOJ noted.
According to the 21-page indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,
What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans?
This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of “Republicans for Talarico” disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime.
“The people that [Talarico] had come out and say that they were on his team have been proven to be basically Democrat,
A former credit union branch manager in Columbus, Indiana, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after admitting to stealing more than $381,000 from customer accounts, including accounts belonging to elderly and vulnerable customers.
Teresa Palmer, 55, of Columbus, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $381,400.05 in restitution. U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker imposed the sentence after Palmer pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud.
There's an old saw in conservative circles that says, "When a liberal calls you a racist, that means you're winning the argument." For the most part, that's true. Leftists shout "Racism!" reflexively, not thoughtfully. Also, their responses to conservatives are based on fictional evil caricatures that, in their minds, justify their unhinged emotional responses to anything we say or do. A classic example from recent times is the noxious diaper-filling lefties experience whenever they see a MAGA hat. "Make America Great Again"="racism" in the Democrats' fever dream.
I am not saying that racism has been eradicated in the United States or the world. However,
What a Former Bush Spokesman Revealed
to Obama Advisor About 2008 Dem Primary
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to Obama Advisor About 2008 Dem Primary
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Former Obama advisor David Axelrod was on a CNN panel talking about the primaries that were going on Tuesday. In the process, the panel spoke about election fraud issues. As our sister site Townhall reported, that's when Pete Seat, a former spokesman for President George W. Bush and the Indiana Republican Party, dropped some news of which many were not aware. Seat explained the problem with how Barack Obama got on the ballot in a county in Indiana. Seat explained that Democrats were accused of submitting false ballot petition signatures, including for Obama, and that people were convicted over that.
Jen Psaki admitted something horrible about the Democrat Party on MSNOW last night, during their coverage of the Wisconsin Democrat primary for governor.
Psaki came right out and admitted that the leaders of the Democrat Party typically choose the party’s nominees, not the voters.
Everyone knows this is true. Obviously, no one voted to make Kamala Harris the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee, but you don’t expect to hear someone like Psaki admit this on the air.
From the Vigilant Fox:
Jen Psaki admits on MSNBC that Democratic Party leadership used to “SELECT” the nominees, and nobody was allowed to say it out loud until now.
Who’s Been Destroying Norms?
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One of the more surreal things about the new Democratic Party is its habit of charging Trump with legal and ethical transgressions that Democrats themselves normalized years ago. The result is a strange sort of projection, in which the Left’s charges often reveal its own prior wrongdoing. And after undermining norms, they now lament the loss of what they destroyed.
Too Cozy an Attorney General? Democratic Senators voted unanimously against Todd Blanche for attorney general, claiming that, as a former Trump attorney, he was too close to the president. Really? Even if true, the model came from the Democrats—
Whoops: Peggy Flanagan's Hilarious Fundraising
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We knew that Penny Flanagan winning the Democrat Senate primary in Minnesota on Tuesday was going to yield some campaign trail hilarity, but we didn't know it would start this soon. Flanagan, as Tim Walz's current lieutenant governor, is a known quantity – and none of it's good. Depending on the day, you might find her wearing a t-shirt condoning violence or donning a hijab to show she's one with the Somali Muslim community.
In short, she's bat-guano crazy.
And although her name makes it sound like she grew up catching leprechauns in Kilkelly, Ireland – and she is part Irish –
Paramount considers moving CBS News out
of NYC in battle with AGs Rob Bonta, Letitia
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of NYC in battle with AGs Rob Bonta, Letitia
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Paramount is considering the option of moving CBS News out of the Big Apple as his legal battle with New York and California’s attorneys general is heating up, The Post has learned.
One point of leverage for Paramount is potentially moving its news operations out of New York City as California AG Rob Bonta leads a coalition of 12 lefty states in an effort to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, people close to Paramount told The Post on Wednesday.
While CEO David Ellison would prefer not to relocate CBS News, there have been broad discussions internally about a potential move to another city.
Over Easter, Matt Ford suggested Donald Trump might one day soon be hunted down by the International Criminal Court and put on trial like a mass-murdering warlord from the Balkans or the Congo.
“There will be no post-presidential peace for Donald Trump,” Ford thundered in the pages of The New Republic, before providing a litany of high crimes and misdemeanors that would justify a meeting with fate at The Hague.
“The shuttering of the Kennedy Center may be the least of Trump’s second-term sins,” Ford opined.
“In the first year since returning to power, Trump and his subordinates have pushed the country toward fascism and oligarchy.
It’s no secret that socialism is advancing in the U.S. The latest development in this ominous trend occurred on August 4, when Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive backed by democratic socialists, defeated the establishment-backed congresswoman Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.
At the same time, our culture is under constant attack by radicals seeking to transform our national ethos. Despite some claims to the contrary, the cultural upheaval known as “Wokism” is very much alive and well. As John Murawski writes in RealClearInvestigations, the movement in recent years,
Fighter jet intercepted civilian plane
over Ohio town while Trump attended teen
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over Ohio town while Trump attended teen
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United States military officials said Tuesday that one of its fighter jets intercepted a civilian plane that was flying through restricted airspace in Ohio above a town that President Donald Trump was visiting for a high school athletic event.
The president attended the finale of the 2026 Patriot Games in Geneva, Ohio, where over 100 high school students ages 14-17 representing states and territories competed against each other in a showcase of determination, resilience and hometown pride.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command said it intercepted the aircraft at approximately 6:15 p.m. Eastern and dispensed flares that may have been visible to the public on the ground.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) allegedly labeled people such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Attorney General Bill Barr as “conduits” of Russian disinformation, according to a recent report.
A report from Just The News revealed that a spreadsheet that was “recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files” and that the White House Government Transparency Task Force “made public,” contained names such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama, along with Pompeo and Barr.
The U.S. military’s limited airstrike campaign did not move the needle. Trump’s threats to wipe Iran off the face of the earth didn’t either. Every time there appears to be a breakthrough in diplomatic talks, a wrench gets thrown in the mix, halting progress.
Now the president is turning his focus on economic warfare, leaning on crippling sanctions and a U.S. naval blockade to force Iranians to the table in hopes of reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Regional experts who spoke with The Hill said the Trump administration might not get what it wants out of the efforts, some panning the strategy,
Recently, the Left in general and Democrats in particular have been criticizing a lot of things that this administration has done. This came up with the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Todd Blanche, and people suggested that, though he may have been qualified, he had too close a relationship as a personal attorney, or he acted in a legal capacity with [President] Donald Trump, and therefore there would be an incestuous relationship between the [Justice Department] and the White House.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated socialist Francesca Hong in the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary on Tuesday. Hong was best known for saying Thanksgiving should be canceled, the Senate should be dismantled, the police should be abolished, and that the sight of white people inside a fast food restaurant nearly gave her an anxiety attack.
According to outlets like Politico, Hong’s defeat proves moderates are still strong, and that an “emerging insurgency” of socialists is merely an overhyped narrative being peddled. Of course accepting Politico’s spiel requires you to also accept its central premise: that Crowley is a moderate.
It should be no surprise that a Canadian bank would be in lockstep with that country’s disdain for lawful firearm ownership. After all, Canada’s bent on confiscating lawfully owned firearms from owners who did nothing to violate the law.
The outlook for personal freedoms in Canada is decidedly murkier after Canada’s ill-advised crackdown on protests against the government that led to arrests of hundreds in 2020. It seems the stereotype of Canadian “nice” isn’t holding up these days.
That’s especially true when it comes to the firearm industry.
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), the largest bank in Canada, holds CA$2.325 trillion (or $1.76 trillion U.S. dollars) in total assets.