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    What Karoline Leavitt Says the Press Is Missing About ICE Shooting

    Multiple Trump administration agencies are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minnesota, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “I would just remind all of you in the media, because I’ve seen the lack of reporting on this fact,” Leavitt said at a White House press briefing…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    What Did Trump and Walz Talk About on Monday?

    President Donald Trump said he had a “good call” with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Monday, just two days after a second fatal shooting in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer.   “Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be…
    Virginia Allen
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    All Eyes on Trump, Congress as Americans March for Life

    On Friday, tens of thousands of Americans once again gathered for the 53rd annual March for Life in the District of Columbia. This year’s theme, “Life is a Gift,” points to the heart of why people young and old, from all walks of life and across the political spectrum, brave the cold every year. Until…
    Melanie Israel
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    Trump Deploys Border Czar to Minnesota Following Deadly Shooting

    President Donald Trump is sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota two days after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed an anti-immigration enforcement protester.  Homan “has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday, referring to Minnesota.    “Tom is tough but fair, and will report…
    Virginia Allen
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    • Opinion

    ‘Rugged Individualism’ Leads to Community

    The most fertile soil for collectivism is isolation. During his inaugural address, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Many people have skewered the second part of that statement—and rightfully so. For those who’ve endured it, the warmth of collectivism feels like…
    Victor Joecks
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    • Opinion

    Thank You, Michael Reagan

    Recently, Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, passed away at age 80. His passing was duly eulogized by the Reagan Foundation and the Young America’s Foundation at the Reagan Ranch. Both noted that Michael, whom I had the privilege to know, devoted his life to writing and speaking about the American principles…
    Star Parker
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    Yearning for Truth: Why Young Americans March for Life

    Tens of thousands rallied in Washington, D.C. at the 53rd annual March for Life on Friday. This year’s theme: Life is a Gift. While some suggest that unborn life is a cause for parents and grandparents, thousands of young Americans joined the March for Life in a public display that defied the caricature of the pro-life movement. Some shared…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Diplomats Ponder if Trump Is Reviving Founding-Era Foreign Policy

    Is President Donald Trump’s foreign policy doctrine a return to how America’s Founding Fathers thought about foreign policy? Last week, 300 diplomats gathered at a dinner in Washington, D.C. to ponder the question. The Ben Franklin Fellowship’s Honoring America’s First Diplomat dinner brought together foreign policy experts to compare the Trump doctrine to foreign policy…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    • Opinion

    Ivy League Prof: ‘Black Lives Matter Was Created From a Fabrication’

    “Black Lives Matter was created from a fabrication,” Bill Jacobson, founder of Legal Insurrection and professor of law at Cornell University, tells substitute host Jack Fowler on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” The two also unravel the shocking hostility Jewish students have faced since the Oct. 7 massacre. Subscribe to…
    Jack Fowler
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    Trump’s Outrageous Threats Get Real Results

    Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the international press would have no difficulty finding…
    Michael Barone
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    In Real Life, There’s No New ‘CBS Newsmax’ Under Bari Weiss

    The leftists on social media have hilariously caricatured CBS News under new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as “CBS Newsmax,” like it’s lurched dramatically to the right. But if you’re monitoring CBS in real life, there’s plenty of evidence that “classic CBS” is still operating. In recent days, CBS has proven to be worse than ABC and…
    Tim Graham
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    • Opinion

    Who’s Afraid of the Ten Commandments?

    On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a crucial case that is all but guaranteed to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The predictable controversy surrounding the litigation, which involves similar but distinct mandatory Ten Commandments display laws arising out of Texas and…
    Josh Hammer
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    The Left’s Search for a New Cause

    Monday marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans to judge one another by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. It is a legacy rooted in a specific historical struggle—one that culminated in the Civil Rights Act after years of…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Why ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ Is the Greatest Book of the 20th Century

    On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” David J. Mahoney explains to co-host Jack Fowler why he believes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” is the greatest book of the 20th century. Mahoney, professor emeritus at Assumption University and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, also unpacks Thomas Sowell’s theory that…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    • News

    Top 25 Signs at the March for Life 2026

    Tens of thousands of pro-life demonstrators filled Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 53rd annual March for Life, an event that once again drew national attention as participants rallied around the 2026 theme, “Life Is a Gift.” The march proceeded from the National Mall toward the U.S. Supreme Court, with crowds composed of families, school…
    Katherine Matt
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    • Opinion

    Murder Rates Plummeted Last Year, Yet Media Refuse to Give Trump Credit

    Violent crime plummeted around the country this year, but the legacy media refuse to acknowledge that it has anything to do with the return of President Donald Trump. According to a report by the Council on Criminal Justice, over the past year, the murder rate dropped to its lowest level since 1900. Other crimes dropped…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    • Opinion

    Why America’s Founding Principles Still Matter 250 Years Later

    The following remarks were delivered by Matthew Spalding at the Freedom 250 Mobile Museum kickoff event in Summerfield, North Carolina, on Jan. 21. It is great to be with you on this wonderful occasion.  But I must point out that we wouldn’t be here today, were it not for those remarkable Americans who gave us a…
    Matthew Spalding
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    Freedom 250 Mobile Museum Launches National Tour for America’s Semiquincentennial 

    The Freedom 250 Mobile Museum kickoff event this week launched a nationwide tour of interactive museum trucks designed to bring American history to communities across the country.  This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the Mobile Museum truck revealed Wednesday is one of six that will tour the United States in celebration of the semiquincentennial.  Matthew Spalding, vice president for…
    Reagan Campbell
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    Biological Male Under Pressure From Colleagues After Stunt at Women-Only Event

    Conservative members of Congress pushed back on biological male Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., at a women-only press conference on legislation that would allow victims to sue the creators of nonconsensual sexually explicit artificial intelligence content on Thursday. McBride, who now goes by the name Sarah, began identifying as a woman 10 years before being elected…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Moves to Claw Back Taxpayer Funds for Immigrant Children’s Abortions

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Health and Human Services is officially moving to roll back a Biden-era policy of taxpayer-funded abortion travel for unaccompanied illegal alien children in the U.S., The Daily Signal can first report. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, within the HHS Administration for Children and Families division, is making regulatory…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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