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Democrats Are Back to ‘Defund the Police,’ GOP Leadership Claims
House Republican leadership says Democrat politics bears some of the blame for the murder of an 18-year-old university student in Chicago. Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University, was murdered by Jose Medina, an illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the country in 2023 and was released by law enforcement shortly after. Medina was then… -
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Vance Anti-Fraud Effort Adds Major Enforcer
The Senate confirmed an experienced federal prosecutor, Colin McDonald, Tuesday afternoon to act as the Justice Department’s anti-fraud division lead. In a party-line vote, McDonald was confirmed 52-47 to be the first assistant attorney general for national fraud enforcement at the DOJ. McDonald will work with Vice President JD Vance, whom President Donald Trump named the White House “fraud czar” to lead a new task force… -
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Supreme Court Backs Police Immunity in Protest Case
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a Vermont police officer is entitled to qualified immunity after a protester at the state Capitol sued him for an injury in a case that stretches back more than a decade. Qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers from litigation if they are acting in the line of duty,… -
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Fulton County Numbers Don’t Match After FBI Seizure
Officials from Fulton County, Georgia, wanted to quash a subpoena from the Georgia State Board of Elections because providing “approximately 750 boxes” of material would be too burdensome. Yet, when the FBI came knocking in a Jan. 28 raid, federal agents left with 656 boxes (653 by one count), prompting a top Georgia election official… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Noem Hails ‘Promise We Delivered’ Following 10 Months of No Illegal Alien Border Releases
For the 10th month in a row, no illegal aliens were released into the United States from the border, according to the Department of Homeland Security. “Ten straight months of ZERO illegal aliens released at the border. President Donald Trump promised to secure the Border, and that is a promise we delivered,” outgoing DHS Secretary… -
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Tulsi Gabbard Addresses Fulton County FBI Probe
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard explained why she traveled to Fulton County, Georgia, in January for a federal election records probe. Gabbard testified at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats Wednesday, alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Intelligence Agency Director James Adams, acting U.S. Cyber Command chief William Hartman, and CIA Director… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Draft Legislation Would Eliminate Sources of Day Care Fraud
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two Republican senators introduced draft legislation to reform child care for low-income families after fraud was uncovered in Minnesota and other blue states. Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., are asking stakeholders for feedback on the draft of a bill to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant… -
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House Panel Subpoenas Attorney General Bondi in Epstein Probe
REUTERS—A congressional committee said on Tuesday it has issued a subpoena to Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify behind closed doors in its probe of the late convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi faces accusations that the Justice Department has concealed the names of powerful associates of Epstein in its release of millions of documents related to the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DHS Reacts to Illegal Alien Allegedly Groping Female Students
Multiple parents in Fairfax County, Virginia, say a man groped their daughters in crowded school hallways. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is asking “Virginia sanctuary politicians” to not allow the alleged perpetrator, who is an illegal alien, back into the community. Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz is from El Salvador. He illegally entered the United States… -
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State AGs Are Right: DOJ Must Fix Its Ticketmaster Settlement
Voters reward politicians who make their lives better, even in small ways. Keeping your shoes on in the TSA line, a few hundred extra dollars in your federal tax refund, unnatural dyes removed from your kids’ cereal—Americans will remember these little improvements when they head to the polls in November. With the war in Iran… -
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Illegal Alien’s NYC Subway Attack on Vet Highlights Left’s Defense of Savagery Over Civilization
A recent attack by an illegal alien that took place on the New York City subway perfectly represents where concentric circles of awful leftist policies meet to damage free societies. On Sunday afternoon, 34-year-old Bairon Hernandez allegedly shoved an 83-year-old Air Force veteran, Richard Williams, and another young man onto the subway track in the… -
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DOJ Review of Voter Rolls Uncovers Alarming Names—and It’s Only the Beginning
The Justice Department is finding thousands of noncitizens and dead people on voter rolls as it pursues more state election records, said Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, in an interview. “We’re finding tens of thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls, hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls,… -
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Alleged Man-Burner With Over 100 Arrests Represents Repeat Crime Problem in America
America doesn’t have a crime problem; it has a repeat offender problem. High crime in this country has mostly been a matter of choice by reckless politicians beholden to prison “reform” ideologues. A recent story highlights that reality. On Tuesday, NYPD arrested 47-year-old Damon Johnson, a resident of Brooklyn, and charged him with murder, assault, and… -
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When Does Protest Become Crime—or Terrorism?
Last August, two women stalked an Immigration Customs Enforcement agent near Los Angeles and then streamed themselves at his house, yelling to locals that their neighbor was an agent. Last month, they were convicted and face time in federal prison. Ironically, they wore masks and glasses to hide their identity while invading the privacy of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: New GOP Bill Looks to ‘Deliver Justice’ for 5-Year-Old Struck by Illegal Alien Truck Driver
A House Republican lawmaker introduced a bill on Wednesday to crack down on states that give illegal immigrants commercial driver’s licenses, or CDLs. The House legislation, spearheaded by Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is named “Dalilah’s Law” in honor of Dalilah Coleman, the 5-year-old who was nearly killed by an illegal immigrant driving an 18-wheeler who… -
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It’s Official: Illegal Alien-Loving Dems Cannot Stand American Citizens
President Donald Trump could not have made it easier for congressional Democrats. During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Trump’s simple offer to them, and their Republican counterparts, was like a college professor telling his students: “Anyone who wants 10 points of extra credit, please stand up if you believe the Earth is round.”… -
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What Clinton Told House Panel About Trump in Epstein Testimony
Former President Bill Clinton denied knowing about the crimes of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in his statement for a deposition before a House investigative committee. “As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he… -
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Alvin Bragg Drops Assault Charge in Snowball Skirmish With Police
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg won’t pursue assault charges against a 27-year-old man arrested for allegedly throwing snowballs at New York City police officers this week, the New York Post reported. Bragg has had a controversial tenure, running for office as a progressive prosecutor and winning a conviction against Donald Trump in 2024 in the… -
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‘No Idea’: Hillary Clinton’s Opening Statement to House Panel on Epstein’s Crimes
Democrats have as many questions about the Clintons’ alleged ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as Republicans, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said Thursday morning. Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, commented from Chappaqua, New York, where committee members traveled to conduct a closed-door deposition of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday…. -
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FBI Recorded Susie Wiles Phone Call With Lawyer Without Her Knowledge, Per Reports
FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that the Biden administration subpoenaed records of phone calls that both he and now-White House chief of staff Susie Wiles made in 2022 and 2023. The subpoenas were part of the FBI’s probe of President Donald Trump. “It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed…