Associated Press,
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Nadia Lathan
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is gearing up for a potential U.S. Senate run while no longer shadowed by a federal corruption investigation that hung over his rising profile in the Republican Party.
That durability would be tested against Republican Sen. John Cornyn should Paxton embark on what would likely be one of the country’s most contentious 2026 primary battles.
Paxton, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has hinted at challenging Cornyn for more than a year but has not said when he will make a decision.
Washington Examiner,
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Anna Giaritelli
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A prominent sheriff who for years refused to turn over illegal immigrants is waging a pitched fight with federal authorities that has taken on new significance with President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, a second-term Democrat in Charlotte, said he would gladly cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement but would risk lawsuits if he did so.
“Sheriffs are the ones who are going to have to … hold the torch and also carry out this,” McFadden said in a Zoom interview with the Washington Examiner this week. “But the sheriffs are also going to be the ones
Breitbart,
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Simon Kent
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The globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab has begun to “start the process” of stepping down as chair of its board of trustees, the Geneva-based institution confirmed Thursday.
The German academic said the forum, which convenes its annual gathering of world elites at the Swiss resort of Davos, must recover its “sense of mission” after a period of turmoil.
The Financial Times first reported Schwab’s departure, citing a letter to trustee board members and confirmation by two people with knowledge of the situation.
Breitbart,
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Christian K. Caruzo
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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil demanded on Wednesday that the international community “put on their pants” and act to “free” the Venezuelan illegal migrants detained in El Salvador.
Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and other members of his authoritarian regime have repeatedly accused the United States of “kidnapping” 238 Venezuelan illegal migrants suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization who were deported to El Salvador in March.
According to the Maduro regime, the 1798 Alien Enemies Act that President Donald Trump invoked to deport illegal migrants is an “anachronistic law” that violates human rights and its use is comparable to “slavery” and “Nazi concentration camps.”
The Center Square,
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Kenneth Schrupp
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“Rampant copper wire theft” is plunging Los Angeles into darkness, leading city officials to install solar-powered streetlights as a fortification measure.
Critics say undaunted thieves will just steal the valuable solar panels. They also wonder why Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is focusing on making infrastructure harder to steal instead of addressing theft itself.
“This installation is a result of Mayor Bass’ focus on improving city services and infrastructure for Angelenos by finding innovative and new ways to solve longstanding city challenges like rampant copper wire theft,” said Bass’s office in a statement. “Solar lighting disrupts the cycle of vandalism and robbery, providing a resilient and sustainable solution
National Review,
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Haley Strack
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San Quentin’s stone walls no longer turn blood cold: California’s infamous correctional facility is getting a $239 million makeover, courtesy of California taxpayers, as Governor Gavin Newsom attempts to turn the maximum security prison into a “restorative justice facility.”
The prison that once housed famous inmates such a Charles Manson will now be a Nordic-style rehabilitation center complete with “normalizing spaces” such as a farmer’s market, podcast studios, food trucks, and a self-service grocery store. Construction on the project is now under way, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, and will likely be complete in January 2026.
Washington Examiner,
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Zach Halaschak
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President Donald Trump’s tariffs plan is likely to create some price hikes, at least in the short term. Car prices are among the most prominent items likely to become more expensive, so Trump is also proposing that taxpayers be able to deduct interest payments on auto loans for domestic cars.
To be sure, Trump is not making an explicit linkage between looming car price hikes and the car loan idea. But even left unsaid, it could be an economic spoonful of sugar to help the medicine (tariffs) go down.
Trump originally pitched the proposal while campaigning for president in Michigan last year.
Washington Examiner,
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Jeremiah Poff
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Everybody likes cheap stuff. We bargain hunt constantly, eager to find a way to save a dollar here and a dollar there while buying what we want and need. Clever retailers, eager to convince shoppers that they are saving money, will market sales as a means to entice customers through the door.
At the same time, we notice when things increase in price. Over the past four years, as inflation brought on by excessive government spending tore through the economy, Americans everywhere righteously grumbled about the increased cost of groceries, fuel, and other necessities. In the 2024 election, voters’ concerns about inflation helped doom the Democratic Party
Daily Caller,
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Hailey Gomez
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House Republicans last week paved the way to overturn a Biden-era Department of Energy (DOE) rule regulating walk-in coolers and freezers, and on Thursday the Senate also voted to end the regulation.
Republican Oklahoma Rep. Stephanie Bice introduced H.J. Res. 24 in January, advocating to repeal a Biden-era rule titled, “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers.” Senate Republicans approved the resolution with a 53-42 vote along party lines after it passed the House on March 27, pushing it to President Donald Trump’s desk for approval.
DOE officials said they wanted to impose newer energy conservation standards. The Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute said
The Federalist,
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Brianna Lyman
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to secure elections, including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote — mirroring a bill set to be voted on in the House. While noncitizen voting is already illegal, the current law is largely toothless. Trump’s order, along with the House legislation, would simply add some teeth.
But Democrats are terrified that Republicans are finally taking the needed steps to enforce the law and protect our elections from violations that have been long ignored.
“Trump and Congressional Republicans are escalating their assault on American democracy through the noxious SAVE Act,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement.
Populist Times,
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Martin Tribe
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President Trump is reclassifying employees in two federal agencies to pave the way for their eventual termination. The president had promised to reclassify 50,000 federal workers as political appointees and remove their immunity from termination.
He also promised to transfer 100,000 jobs out of Washington, D.C., to encourage bureaucrats to resign. By February, another 60,000 federal workers had accepted Trump’s buyout offer to leave their jobs in exchange for advance salaries.
On January 20, he also signed the executive order “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within The Federal Workforce” to manage the federal workforce and ensure the execution of federal law.
Just the News,
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Greg Piper
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The Food and Drug Administration is "finished." One of its leading boosters for accelerated approval of mediocre drugs left in a huff. Drug stocks are dropping.
The shared interests of regulators and the industry they often join after or between federal service became unmistakable in the past week amid the Trump administration's extreme makeover of the federal public health workforce and leadership.
It suggests the Big Pharma gravy train is derailing, and its passengers in and out of government are panicking, prophesying and pulling out in a flurry of sky-is-falling predictions, ad hominem attacks and investors fleeing companies whose novel therapeutics seem unlikely to keep zipping through emergency and full approvals.