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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are being instructed to end "most" vehicle stops nationwide in a major policy shift, effective immediately. According to multiple federal sources, ICE agents will cease making traffic stops, which have played a significant role in the agency’s operations until now. A federal source told Fox News that ICE will continue conducting vehicle stops only for those considered to be the most egregious targets with serious or violent criminal histories.
This comes after two people were killed in ICE officer-involved shootings in Maine and Texas in the last week.
A senior ICE source remarked to Fox News that the change is "horrible but needs to happen."
Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett recounted the threats against her life after the leak of the Dobbs decision during a Tuesday hearing.
The Supreme Court asked Congress to provide an additional $14.6 million for security in the fiscal year 2027 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) funding bill. During a House Appropriations FSGG Committee hearing, Barrett described being sent home in a bullet proof vest after the decision in Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization was leaked in May 2022.
“They have required me [and] my children to think about and see things that children should not have to see or think about,” Barrett said. “One example is when
For all the endless talk about “draconian” cuts, federal spending is running $172 billion ahead of last year, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Monday. And that includes a substantial increase in fraud-riddled Medicaid spending.
And spending continues to outpace increases in revenues, which means the deficit this year is now on track to top $2 trillion. The last time that happened was in the middle of the COVID-19 spending splurge.
To be sure, it’s not all bad news.
Consumer prices fell sharply in June thanks to relief at the gas pump and a broad decline in inflation.
The consumer price index fell 0.4 percent last month compared with May, the Department of Labor said Tuesday. This is the largest decline since 2020. Compared with a year ago, prices are 3.5 percent higher.
Economists had forecast a 0.1 percent monthly decline after May’s sharp 0.5 percent increase. The inflation index was expected to climb 3.8 percent from a year earlier, a slowdown in annual inflation from May’s 4.2 percent.
Core prices, a measure that excludes food and energy, were flat compared with the prior month.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have taken over the Democratic Party, and the only fundamental difference between the DSA and other Democrats is the DSA is willing to say out loud the things other Democrats keep to themselves. Yes, there have been some socialists before. Bernie Sanders hasn't exactly hidden his agenda in the 36 years he's been in Congress, but this new generation of socialists is far more vocal, far more radical, and far more dangerous. Just yesterday, self-described Democratic Socialist Rashida Tlaib said the socialists are going to dismantle this country, which was 'built on slavery, and genocide, and rape, and oppression.'
Abdul El-Sayed's father-in-law, a top donor to a super PAC supporting the left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful, is among the top leaders of an Islamic organization identified by the federal government as a public facing group for the Muslim Brotherhood, a Washington Free Beacon review found. As part of his role with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which the federal government linked to the financing of Hamas, Tayeb Jukaku contributes at least $5,000 to the organization annually.
Jukaku has served on the 20-member founding committee of ISNA since at least 2007, according to the organization's magazine, Islamic Horizons, and has been a member of the group for a "long time,
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The New York Post has published an unsparing editorial calling out Rep. Ro Khanna for the patently manufactured incident he conducted in order to defame Israel:
Rep. Ro Khanna’s latest showboating stunt is too much even for other Democratic electeds — not only a transparent ploy to get past his all-in bet on the Graham Platner campaign, but a transparently pathetic bid to play victim of those darn Israelis.
Just days after his scorched-earth defense of the Maine Senate candidate failed to stop the implosion, Khanna (D-Calif.) rushed off to the Middle East to change his storyline.
He headed to the West Bank, intentionally directing his entourage into a restricted zone, then pretended
It’s a move obscene on so many levels: Members of the City Council are looking to vote themselves a fat pay hike.
Just days after they approved a gargantuan $126 billion city budget, they took up a measure to boost their salaries more than 18% retroactive to Jan. 1 — plus automatic 2% hikes every year thereafter.
The hikes would push members’ pay to $175,500, upper middle-class income territory and more than twice the city’s median income ($81,228).
So the move shows complete contempt for city voters, who the pols plainly think won’t notice, as well as for the City Charter, which sets out an entirely different procedure for upping their pay.
A top conservative legislator in the U.S. House of Representatives is pushing a bill to require hospitals to report the immigration status of Social Security recipients after allegations of illegal immigrants and unlawful residents have risen in recent years.
The Illegal Alien Reporting Act, introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, would “amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require hospitals participating in Federal health care programs to report certain information related to immigration status.” “For too long, Washington has ignored the financial impact that illegal immigration has on our nation’s health care system,” Roy told the Daily Signal.
If you look at George W. Bush, people—his reputation has gone up a little bit because he broke with [Donald] Trump, the next Republican. I’m not sure he voted for Trump, and he made his peace with [Barack] Obama.
There were three things that people fault Bush for. I’m not sure he was responsible. No. 1 was the Iraq War. No. 2 was the Afghan War. No. 3 was the 2008 financial meltdown. I think he was the most conservative Republican president that we have had since forever.
He was much more conservative than his father, George H.W. Bush. He tried to do a lot of things.
For all the endless talk about “draconian” cuts, federal spending is running $172 billion ahead of last year, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Monday. And that includes a substantial increase in fraud-riddled Medicaid spending.
And spending continues to outpace increases in revenues, which means the deficit this year is now on track to top $2 trillion. The last time that happened was in the middle of the COVID-19 spending splurge.
To be sure, it’s not all bad news. Income and payroll taxes are running 6% ahead of last year, suggesting that – despite the doomsaying by Democrats and the media – the economy is creating more and better-paying jobs.
Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) picked Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to serve as interim senator, and complete the remainder of her brother’s term. During a press conference on Monday, McMaster expressed that it was his duty and “honor to name someone to serve in the place” of Graham, whose term runs through the end of the 119th Congress on January 3, 2027. McMaster’s selection of Graham Nordone to take her brother’s seat in the Senate comes after Graham’s office announced on Sunday that he had died at the age of 71 after “a brief and sudden illness.”
Inside the pro-Cuba coalition's blueprint
to make war 'politically and materially
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to make war 'politically and materially
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Organizations tied to Cuba have openly built a rapid-response protest apparatus attached to a possible U.S.-Cuba military conflict, at the same moment the U.S. government is formally treating that coalition’s Cuban state partner as a hostile influence operation.
The National Network on Cuba (NNOC) has been distributing a document since at least June 2026 urging organizers across the U.S. to prepare to protest in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices, military bases, recruiting centers and other federal institutions should the U.S. get involved in military action in Cuba.
On Thursday night, President Donald Trump will reveal newly declassified intelligence reports that claim foreign countries interfered in the 2020 presidential election, MS Now first reported. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin will join the president for the address, according to MS Now.
Trump posted on Truth Social that he would be “making a speech to the nation on Thursday evening, at 9 p.m. Eastern.”
The president has long said that he believes the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was rigged.
Tehran’s proved its promises mean nothing: No sooner had the prez threatened serious consequences if Iran failed to declare the Strait of Hormuz open than it defiantly attacked a commercial ship and declared it closed.
“They agreed to a deal yesterday,” Trump reported Sunday. “No nuclear, no this, no that . . . And then within an hour, they launched a drone at a ship.”
But let’s be clear here: The goal is to enforce the right to free navigation of international waters.
That is, safe passage for commercial ships and no tolls by anyone, including the United States.
Tehran is claiming it owns the Strait. Iran’s leaders—
A select group of Republicans on the House Budget Committee were called to Camp David for a “hush-hush” Reconciliation 3.0 meeting with House leadership Friday. After months of planning, Republicans are now acting on legislation that could determine if they keep the majority in the midterms.
Committee members who were invited met at the White House on Sunday afternoon. After their phones were taken, the select Republicans boarded a bus for a two-hour drive to the secret meeting.
Following the meeting, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced that the committee will take its first steps on legislation President Donald Trump calls a “must pass.”
The Bahrain Defense Force (BDF) said on Monday that its air defenses “successfully intercepted and destroyed several treacherous Iranian aerial attacks.”The BDF denounced Iran’s attacks as “treacherous” and stressed that “deliberate use of missiles and drones to target civilians and private property constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.”
Iran launched missiles and drones at Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, and Oman over the weekend as the United States continued to hammer air defenses, radar sites, missile depots, and attack boats controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization.
New York has spent years aggressively taxing its wealthiest residents in the name of fairness, and the results are now in. Suffice it to say, they’re not pretty.
A new study released Monday by the Citizen Budget Commission (CBC) reveals the state’s share of America’s millionaires has dropped sharply since 2010, triggering a nearly $11 billion shortfall in tax revenue in a single year as high earners quietly packed up and left for lower-tax states.
The analysis shows New York’s share of millionaires fell from 12.7% in 2010 to just 8.7% in 2022 — the steepest decline of any state in the country.
As a direct result,
James Cox Chambers Jr., a prominent US billionaire and activist, was detained in Ibiza under an international warrant. (snip) Chambers Jr. is closely linked to Cox Enterprises, a major US conglomerate with interests in media, automotive, and investments. (snip) The party argues that the warrant is politically motivated, allegedly stemming from the Trump administration’s stance on Chambers Jr.’s left-wing activism and his support for the Palestinian cause. (snip) According to sources close to Chambers Jr. and his supporters, the warrant reportedly accuses him of international money laundering to support terrorist organizations, with potential charges carrying up to 30 years in prison.
I have taught torts, including defamation for over 30 years, but I have never seen the like of the Hunter Biden defamation case. The defendant made defamatory statements and then just refused to appear. That led to an equally bizarre $1.7 million award by U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson of the Central District of California to Biden, consisting of just $1 in nominal damages and the rest in punitive damages. Here is the most interesting line of the opinion: “the damage to Plaintiff’s reputation is difficult to calculate.” It may be the single greatest understatement in the history of judicial opinions.
Hegseth creates joint task force with
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DOJ to identify, prosecute leakers of
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that the Pentagon and the Justice Department have created a joint task force to identify and prosecute leakers of sensitive and classified information.
The task force creation comes after the Justice Department subpoenaed four New York Times reporters last week, looking for the source behind its story on security concerns involving President Trump’s Qatari-donated plane.
Hegseth said the Pentagon's Office of General Counsel will be able to have access to all information, support and records in the War Department regarding news media leak investigations that are requested, and all offices are ordered to prioritize those requests.
Anti-ICE agitators in Maine descended on Senator Susan Collins' office in the state after a Colombian migrant was shot by an ICE agent on Monday. Protests erupted after the shooting before details were fully released on the situation, and even got violent, where an agitator struck a press member with a skateboard. On Monday morning, an ICE agent shot at a driver who was reportedly driving a vehicle at the agent, according to authorities. One witness said that the driver was "trying to hit" the ICE agent. The car was seen being surrounded by ICE officers on footage as the car was going slowly in a circular motion.
‘Princess Moss’ Declares National
Education Association ‘Must be the Most
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Education Association ‘Must be the Most
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National test scores are down to the lowest level since testing began and school spending has shot up, passing $1.1 trillion, while urban schools dole out such lavish benefits to teachers’ unions as six figure salaries, free Ozempic and abortions, and public school students suffer.
‘Princess Moss’, the new president of the NEA, announced that the National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union, “can be and must be the most powerful force in America.”
Why make the NEA, which destroyed education for a generation of students during the COVID lockdowns, into the “most powerful force in America”? Is it to help the students? Obviously not.
For any indication of how seriously the federal government is taking the threat posed by one-way attack drones on the homeland, particularly against President Trump, look no further than the US Secret Service's new Chevrolet Suburban.
The Secret Service’s Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Branch operates a specially equipped Chevrolet Suburban Premier, known as “Hindsight,” to detect and mitigate suicide drones and other loitering munitions during National Special Security Events and other high-profile security operations, according to the Instagram account "dmvfireandpolice."
The Suburban is outfitted with an Axis Communications IP camera, radio-frequency antennas, and additional counter-UAS technology, and it appears to have a mobile command station