Washington Times (DC),
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Stephen Dinan
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The federal government’s deportation agency has overturned a Biden-era ban on using words like “illegal” and “alien” when referring to immigrants, The Washington Times has learned.
Caleb Vitello, acting director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced the change in a memo to employees on Tuesday.
“Moving forward, for all communications materials and for internal and external communications, ICE employees are directed to use the lexicon consistent with the Immigration and Nationality Act and the language historically used by the agency,” he wrote. That revokes a 2021 policy imposed on the orders of former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that banned “illegal,” “alien” and “assimilation” as demeaning terms
Associated Press,
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Eric Tucker
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Alanna Durkin Richer
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration, according to a memo to the workforce obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The memo, written by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, also instructs the Justice Department’s civil division to work with a newly formed Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group to identify state and local laws and policies that “threaten to impede” the Trump administration’s immigration efforts and potentially challenge them in court.
Washington Times,
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Mallory Wilson
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President Trump has implemented a One Flag Policy for American outposts, meaning only the Stars and Stripes can be flown at the buildings.
The order was issued by new Secretary of State Marco Rubio and stops American outposts in the states and abroad from flying flags associated with LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
“Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content,” the order says. “The flag of the United States of America united all Americans under the universal principles of justice, liberty and democracy.
Hot Air,
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David Strom
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Donald Trump hit the ground running in 2025 in a way that was impossible in 2017.
There are two reasons he has been able to do that: the obvious one is that he has been preparing for this moment for four years and has an excellent team of his choosing at his side; the less obvious one is why he has that team in place and why his opponents are mostly failing to get traction.
It's easy to say that Trump got a mandate in 2024 in a way that was more ambiguous in 2016 or that Democrats were blindsided by their election loss and need time
The Hill [DC],
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Miranda Nazzaro
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk voiced doubts about President Trump’s newly announced infrastructure plan for artificial intelligence, claiming that the technology companies behind the effort do not yet have the $500 billion promised for the project.
Trump on Tuesday announced a joint project, called Stargate, which will invest up to $500 billion over the next four years to build the infrastructure to support AI development. OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank are the initial equity investors for the project.
National Review,
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James Lynch
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1/22/2025 7:58:17 AM
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The Trump administration took a sledgehammer to progressive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives Tuesday night with executive orders designed to root racialist ideology out of the federal government and American institutions at large.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order overturning President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 executive order creating race-based hiring requirements for federal contractors. Paired with that is a memo from the office of personnel management placing all DEI employees on leave and shutting down DEI programs and offices.
Breitbart,
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John Hayward
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The 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has long been seen as a major globalist event, but this year the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations are skipping the meeting.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to address the forum by video link on Thursday, but Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, Indian President Narendra Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are among the no-shows. The only G7 leader to attend in person is German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
“True, the prime minister of Spain is going to be there,
PJ Media,
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Sarah Anderson
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Over the weekend, as part of the current ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Hamas released three Israeli hostages who had been in captivity since October 7, 2023. Among them was 28-year-old British-Israeli national Emily Damari.
While pictures of Damari and the other two young women who were released flooded social media on Sunday, none of them has spoken out until now. Damari took to her own Instagram account and told her followers that "I came back to life," before thanking God, her family, and her friends, according to the BBC. She added that she saw some of the world's reaction to her release and "that affected my heart."
Hot Air,
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Beege Welborn
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This morning was a good morning, especially for this country. Besides having someone in the White House who's all about this country, his team is rock solid and moving into place.
The first one officially onboard is someone I've known for a long time and always thought was meant to do great things serving this nation. I couldn't be prouder or feel better about a cabinet officer. He'll be one helluva Secretary of State. Rubio didn't waste time shaking hands and introducing himself to staffers at the State Department headquarters while chitchatting about pronouns around the coffee machine in the breakroom, either.
Oh, no.
Hot Air,
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David Strom
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Ten years ago I never expected that I would become a fervent culture warrior.
Sure, I cared about cultural issues, but as a libertarianish conservative, I cared more about taxes, spending, and regulation. I would, with exceptions, accept the idea that culture-war issues were best left to the extremists on both sides because the real ideological war was between socialists and free marketeers.
Sometime over the past decade, I realized that without winning the culture war all else would be lost. The neo-Marxists were on a mission to destroy Western culture, and if we didn't save it the world would enter a new totalitarian age
WPTV (Burlington, VT),
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Yunier Martinez
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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
PJ Media,
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Scott Pinsker
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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: