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    Heritage Foundation Issues Position on TikTok Deal Ahead of Trump’s Call With China’s Xi 
    President Donald Trump should not accept a “halfway deal” with China over the social media app TikTok, according to The Heritage Foundation.   Heritage, often referred to as the world’s leading conservative think tank, has long held the position that TikTok must completely break from its China-based parent company or be banned in the U.S….
    Virginia Allen
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    China’s Military Parade: A Display of CCP Intentions
    Earlier this month, China hosted its first military parade since 2019—an exhibition Chinese leader Xi Jinping claimed was intended to celebrate the nation’s role in “Victory Day” and the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of World War II. But the Chinese Communist Party’s intentions for the display seemed to run deeper. Last week’s parade—the largest…
    Anna Gustafson | Madolyn Moore
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    What Happens When Trump Designates Antifa a Terrorist Organization?
    President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will designate Antifa, a loose coalition of activist groups that has engaged in violent riots across the country in recent years, a terrorist organization. “I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Cornyn Grills Ex-HHS Official on Missing Migrant Children
    Sen. John Cornyn pressed a former Department of Health and Human Services official on why the department failed to vet all members of a household before placing an unaccompanied alien child in that home.   “Senator, first of all, many of the allegations about improper vetting … actually occurred before I got to HHS,” Mary…
    Virginia Allen
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    Kirk’s Killing Spurs Call for Probe of Violent Left-Wing Groups Amid Caveats for Free Speech
    In the wake of last week’s assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Republican congressmen are proposing an investigation into left-wing organizations that they say have contributed to the efforts of violent radicals. But amid the outrage, a general consensus has emerged that Congress must be careful not to abridge freedom of speech. Rep….
    George Caldwell
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    Trump’s DC Crime Success Puts Spotlight on Chicago’s Deadly ‘War Zone’
    President Donald Trump’s focus on crime across America is timely and necessary. It’s epidemic in many blue cities in our country, and something must, and can, be done about it. His crackdown in Washington, D.C., proves that dramatic reductions in crime in cities acclimatized to perpetual lawlessness and violence are possible, but only if you have the political courage to do so. Next up is Chicago, another city plagued by non-stop violent crime….
    Cully Stimson
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    Quarter of Young Voters Think America ‘Better Off’ After Kirk Assassination: Poll
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Over a quarter of young voters believe America is “better off” following the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, according to a new survey. The Napolitan News Service poll found that a staggering 26% of those aged 18 to 34 answered “yes” to the question: “While it is always difficult to wish…
    Melissa O’Rourke
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    House Republicans Back President Trump’s Crackdown on DC Crime
    It’s no secret that violent crime is spiraling out of control in our cities.  Some would have you believe that rampant crime is just a fact of life when you live in a big city, but that’s not true. Rampant crime is a consequence of failed policy and moral leadership. For the last 20 years,…
    Rep. Kevin Hern | Brandon Gill
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    EXCLUSIVE: 10 Mugshots of Criminal Illegal Aliens Now in ICE Custody  
    Alvaro Yax-Gutierrez’s record includes conviction on charges of lascivious acts with a child and is one of 10 “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens recently apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.   Alvaro Yax-Gutierrez According to border czar Tom Homan, 70% of the illegal aliens the Trump administration has arrested to date are criminals…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘We Know Where You Live’: Political Violence on Trial This Week Over Threats to Trump Voters
    Last October, ahead of the 2024 presidential race, several Pennsylvania residents with pro-Donald Trump yard signs found threats in their mailboxes.  “Should your candidate win, the consequences will be staggering. … But more importantly, we know where you live, you are in the database. In the dead of a cold winters [sic] night, this year,…
    Fred Lucas
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    8 People Fired or Put on Leave Over Responses to Charlie Kirk Assassination
    Most Americans are expressing horror at the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, but some on the Left have not only refused to lament his death but suggested he deserved it—and many of them have already lost their jobs or have been placed on leave after saying so in person or on social…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Charlie Kirk’s Final Message to Noem Before Assassination Called for Accountability Over Urban Crime
    The last thing Charlie Kirk texted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a few days before his assassination was about how he wanted the mayors and governors of cities with high crime to be held accountable for how dangerous they were making it for people to live in those cities. During her appearance on “Sunday Morning…
    Olivia Pero
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    Speaker Calls Out Rep. Ilhan Omar for ‘Playing Into This Characterization of Charlie Kirk That the Left Has Been Advancing’
    Rep. Ilhan Omar‘s rhetoric on Charlie Kirk reflects the current mindset of the Left, with many of its members celebrating the assassination of the conservative icon, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “She clearly has no idea what she’s talking about. She has not followed Charlie,” Johnson stated. Omar, D-Minn., has doubled…
    Lorenzo Prieto
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    A Turning Point
    “You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children … I’m trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry,” Charlie Kirk said last week. Now he is dead, assassinated on a college…
    Erick Erickson
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    From Desk to Field: Reassigned Agents Are Catching More Illegal Aliens at Northern Border 
    The U.S. northern border spans more than 5,500 miles, including Canada’s border with Alaska, making it the longest land border in the world—and historically challenging to patrol.   But now, for the “first time in years, we’ve been able to redeploy agents from processing centers back to the field, patrolling the land, and catching illegal…
    Virginia Allen
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    Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Has Long Been Target of Leftist Intolerance, Violence
    “We got him.” With those words, Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox announced Friday morning’s arrest of Tyler Robinson, 22, in connection with Wednesday’s assassination of Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk. Local, state, and federal sleuths located the killer just 33 hours after Kirk’s heinous killing at a speech to Utah Valley University in Orem. Kirk’s gruesome death…
    Deroy Murdock
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    The Awful Grace of God
    From Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy, and from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr., America’s story has too often been marred by the silencing of visionary voices through violence. Each loss forces us to confront the question of what kind of nation we want to be. Soon after the assassination of MLK in…
    Armstrong Williams
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    One Thing the Left Can Do If It Wants to Prove It Actually Opposes Political Violence
    The Southern Poverty Law Center rightly condemned the horrific assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Wednesday, but if the SPLC is serious in opposing political violence, it should do one better: It should remove Turning Point USA from its “hate map,” which plots Kirk’s organization alongside Ku Klux Klan chapters. The FBI is…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    FBI Releases Photo of ‘Person of Interest’ in Charlie Kirk Assassination, Asks for Help Identifying
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a photo of a new person of interest in the Charlie Kirk assassination, asking the public for help identifying him. FBI Salt Lake City posted on X Thursday, “We are asking for the public’s help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk…
    Mary Mobley
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    After Kirk Slaying, Lawmakers Call for More Security
    In the wake of the assassination Wednesday of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, some in Congress are again calling for increased security protection for lawmakers. “There’s been a deluge of that,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., told CNN of calls for heightened security. “I mean, from the moment…
    George Caldwell
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