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    Chicago Crime Victim Says Dem Leaders Are Doing ‘Disservice’ by Not Working With Trump to Fight Criminals
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Kathleen Miles, a woman who got assaulted in downtown Chicago, said on Friday that Democrat Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are doing a “disservice” by not working with President Donald Trump to fight crime. A man with a lengthy criminal record randomly punched Miles in the face…
    Nicole Silverio
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    Trump Decree Expected to Restore Department of Defense to Original Name of Department of War
    President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday to restore the use of the historic title of the Department of War by the federal government as an alternative name for the Department of Defense. The executive order will reportedly lead to name changes online and at the Pentagon itself, including the…
    Jacob Adams
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    About 450 Illegal Aliens Arrested at Georgia Hyundai Factory
    Around 450 illegal aliens have been arrested at a Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, according to federal immigration officials on Friday.   The Hyundai facility, located about 35 miles west of Savanah in Ellabell is an electric vehicle battery factory. Federal immigration authorities, in partnership with law enforcement partners, executed a search warrant on the…
    Virginia Allen
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    To Serve a Cause Bigger Than Himself: Story of Robert Pietrangelo, Military Volunteer Killed on a Battlefield in Ukraine
    On Aug. 18, 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walked into the White House alongside seven European leaders to meet with President Donald Trump. For Ukraine and its allies, the message was clear: They needed reassurance that the United States would stand firm in supporting the global fight for freedom and democracy. After the meeting, Zelenskyy…
    Uliana Boichuk
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    Politics Over People: Chicago’s Leaders Are Failing Their City
    There was no Labor Day holiday for Chicago criminals, who murdered nine people and wounded another 51; most (if not all) were black or brown people with names and stories we will never know. Meanwhile, crime is down sharply in Washington, D.C., where three people were shot and wounded, but no one was killed over…
    John R Lott Jr. | Richard Porter
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    China May Have Stolen Your Data—and Even Trump’s, Multiyear Probe Finds
    China may have stolen data from nearly every American, including President Donald Trump, a yearslong joint investigation by multiple intelligence agencies has concluded.   The group “Salt Typhoon,” which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, reportedly hacked phones Trump and Vice President JD Vance used last year during the presidential campaign.   The investigation has uncovered…
    Virginia Allen
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    Russia and China Are Working Together to Expand Nuclear Power
    Russia says it will help China grow its nuclear power capacity and overtake the U.S. as a leading producer of nuclear energy.   The U.S. currently has 94 nuclear reactors, the most in the world, followed by France and China, tied with 57 each, according to the Power Reactor Information System database.   China is…
    Virginia Allen
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    Gabbard Unloads With Both Barrels on Brennan and Clapper
    Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday again decried those working within the government “who believe that they have the right to undermine the duly elected president of the United States because they disagree with his positions or his policies, and that they know better.”  In a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in…
    Jacob Adams
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    Border Czar Homan: This One Part of My Job Remains Very Tough
    Border czar Tom Homan says he wakes up “every day like a kid in a candy shop” because U.S. border and immigrations law are being enforced under the leadership of President Donald Trump.   “We’re finally enforcing laws in this country, and we’re going to do it without apology,” Homan said in a speech Wednesday…
    Virginia Allen
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    House Passes Bill to Hold China Accountable for Its Role in Fentanyl Crisis
    The House passed a bill Tuesday aimed at holding China accountable for its role in the fentanyl crisis.   Fentanyl is the leading cause of death in America for people between the age of 18 and 45.   “The Chinese Communist Party has played a key part in the deadly fentanyl crisis plaguing Kentucky and…
    Virginia Allen
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    WATCH: Speedboat Said to Be Carrying Venezuelan ‘Narcoterrorists’ in Caribbean Destroyed on Trump’s Order
    President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. had carried out a strike against a speedboat said to be carrying narcotics in the southern Caribbean.   “Earlier this morning, on my orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump wrote on…
    Virginia Allen
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    14,000 Migrants Turn Back Amid News of Closed Border, Report Finds
    In a trend known as “reverse flow,” about 14,000 migrants, who had sought to reach the U.S. border, have turned around since the start of the Trump administration, according to an estimate in a recent report.   A large percent of the migrants who have turned back are from Venezuela, according to the report from…
    Virginia Allen
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    WATCH: Aerial View of Southern Border Confirms Reports
    EL PASO, Texas—Two Border Patrol vehicles stopped for a moment as they drove along the southern border, the only activity that could be seen from along the wall dividing Mexico and El Paso, Texas. The border wall stretched far into the desert from the view of the helicopter.   There has been a decline in activity along…
    Virginia Allen
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    Who Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and Why Does He Matter?
    Salvadoran citizen and “Maryland man” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has become the Joan of Arc of the American Left—their poster child for opposing President Donald Trump’s campaign of enforcing immigration laws. Why? At first glance, Abrego Garcia seems a lousy pick. Two immigration judges found it credible that he was a member of MS-13, the vicious Salvadoran gang. Indeed, when he finally…
    Simon Hankinson
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    In Celebration of Labor Day, Trump Cabinet Members Share Their First Jobs
    Just in time for Labor Day weekend, the White House published a video Friday on YouTube featuring Trump Cabinet members sharing their first jobs and lessons learned. “I wanted to be a cheerleader in high school, and I couldn’t afford the uniform,” Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer recalled, opening the video. “So my first job…
    Lorenzo Prieto
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    Attention Media: Stop Publishing the Names of These Mass-Murdering Monsters
    I won’t say his name. I won’t say his name because that’s what the 23-year-old monster who opened fire on innocent children at Annunciation Catholic Church during a Mass in Minneapolis on Wednesday wanted. I won’t say his name because his final gasp—his suicidal wish—was to take the life or do bodily harm to as…
    Lee Habeeb
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    How Trump’s Border Crackdown Has Affected Cartels
    EL PASO, Texas—Since the start of 2025, border security measures have cost the Mexican cartels more than $1 billion, according to estimates by the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol in Texas. “We’re hurting them in the pocketbook,” interim Border Patrol Chief for the El Paso Sector Walter Slosar tells The Daily Signal.  …
    Virginia Allen
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    The Crisis Is Over. What’s Next at the Southern Border?
    EL PASO, Texas—Interim Chief for the El Paso Sector Walter Slosar has served in the Border Patrol under six different presidential administrations. Today, the border is the “most secure border we’ve ever had,” he said.   Illegal border crossings have fallen from almost 1,000 a day in August 2022 to just 35 a day in…
    Virginia Allen
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    US Attorney Pirro Slams Obama for Knocking Trump’s Crackdown on Urban Crime
    U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro pushed back against former President Barack Obama on “Fox News Sunday” for attacking President Donald Trump‘s crackdown on Washington, D.C.’s crime crisis. “President Obama to come out and make a comment on Chicago, a city that is his city that has been one of the most…
    Lorenzo Prieto
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    Evil On the Prowl
    Everything has a political angle now. The Left gets worked up by a jeans ad. The Right gets worked up by Cracker Barrel removing both the cracker and the barrel from their logo. Red and blue, colors on the light spectrum and in nature, are now political. A 23-year-old transgender gunman killing children is political….
    Erick Erickson
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