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    Fewer People, More Cocaine: Smuggling Operations Through Puerto Rico
    Illegal border crossings are down across the U.S. border with Mexico, and Customs and Border Protection has also seen a significant decline in drug seizures at the border. But the same cannot be said of drug seizures in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as cartels look for ways to get…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Is Right to Keep Ukraine Out of NATO
    After he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and before he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House, President Donald Trump issued a pointed statement on Truth Social. “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,”…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    FBI Raids Home of Trump’s Former National Security Adviser
    The FBI raided John Bolton’s home Friday morning, reportedly in search of classified documents. Bolton served as national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term in office.   Agents arrived at Bolton’s Maryland home around 7 a.m. Bolton is not currently under arrest or in custody.  About the same time the agents began searching…
    Virginia Allen
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    Why Would We Want Bad People Here?
    This week, news emerged that the Trump administration has been setting new standards with regard to incoming immigrants. According to Axios, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will not take into account the “positive attributes” of migrants entering the country; such attributes can include community involvement and educational level. Instead of simply seeking to rule…
    Ben Shapiro
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    272 Jihadis Killed: The Trump Admin’s Counterterrorism Strategy
    Since Jan. 20, the Trump administration has killed 272 “jihadis” around the world, according to Sebastian Gorka, senior director for counterterrorism on the president’s National Security Council. Among the first terrorist threats eliminated under President Donald Trump was a leading member and recruiter for ISIS.  “This [was] a man planning to kill Americans,” Gorka explained…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump’s Aim to ‘Make DC Safe Again’ Sends Message to Democrat-Run Cities
    President Donald Trump has pledged to “make D.C. safe again,” with a federal intervention to stop crime in the nation’s capital. To emphasize the point, Trump is doing a ride-along with law enforcement around Washington Thursday night. “I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    UK Backs Down on Demand for Access to Apple Users’ Data Amid US Pushback
    The United States is hailing an agreement with the United Kingdom over the U.K.’s retreat from what the Financial Times called “a controversial demand for Apple,” which Vice President JD Vance was involved in pushing back against. The news outlet cited Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard regarding that the U.K. has “agreed to drop”…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Migrants Who ‘Despise’ US to Be Denied Benefits Under New Trump Admin Policy
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for foreign nationals who display anti-American behavior to live and work in the U.S. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening foreign national applicants for anti-American behavior when they apply for certain immigration benefits, according to a policy update from the agency. Posting anti-American…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Gabbard Pulls Security Clearance of 37 Intelligence Professionals
    Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has stripped the security clearance of 37 former or current intelligence professionals.   “Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right,” Gabbard wrote in the announcement Tuesday on X.   The 37 men and women whose clearance is being revoked “have abused the public trust…
    Virginia Allen
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    CHINA THREAT FROM WITHIN? Interior Bureaucrat Overseeing Pacific Island Took Money From Chinese Companies
    Chinese nationals have entered the U.S. through a strategically vulnerable Pacific Islands territory, and a former politician who took campaign contributions from China-based companies now helps oversee that territory in the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned about the threat from China, yet a security expert is raising questions about a bureaucrat in…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    3 Blue States Could Be at Fault in Fatal Florida Car Crash, Transportation Secretary Says
    The U.S. Department of Transportation is investigating three blue states’ possible involvement in an Aug. 12 fatal car crash in Florida that killed three. Illegal immigrant truck driver Harjinder Singh stands accused of causing the crash by making an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike 19 miles north of Fort Pierce in St. Lucie County. He…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    What Security Guarantees for Ukraine Could Include
    President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and other European leaders agree: Ukraine must have security protections in any Ukraine-Russia peace deal.   During the White House meeting Monday between Trump, Zelenskyy, and seven European leaders, discussion of security guarantees for Ukraine took center stage.   Russian President Vladimir Putin “agreed that Russia would accept…
    Virginia Allen
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    11,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children Placed With Unvetted Sponsors Under Biden, Senator Finds
    The Biden administration placed thousands of illegal alien children in the care of unvetted sponsors, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.   The Iowa Republican has released Department of Health and Human Services data showing that during President Joe Biden’s administration, over 11,000 unaccompanied alien children were placed with unvetted sponsors who were not…
    Virginia Allen
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    Ohio Governor Sending National Guard to Assist in Fighting Crime in DC
    President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi are on a mission to curb crime in the nation’s capital, and it turns out they’re getting an assist from Republican governors. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is among those announcing over the weekend that he would be sending the National Guard to help. DeWine’s announcement that Ohio…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Pirro Vows to End ‘Coddling’ of Teen Criminals in DC Crackdown
    U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro stated clearly on “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturday that federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department is part of President Donald Trump‘s mission to make Washington, D.C., safe again. “This is a city where there is a lot of crime. Whether you want to say it’s…
    Lorenzo Prieto
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    It’s Past Time to Designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization
    On Tuesday, New York City radio host Sid Rosenberg asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio about whether the State Department intends to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as terrorist organizations. Rubio responded that “all of that is in the works,” although “obviously there are different branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so…
    Josh Hammer
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    Trump Sees Himself as DC’s Top Lawman
    WASHINGTON—In 2024, candidate Donald Trump pledged to “take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city so that it’s no longer a nightmare of murder and crime.” On Aug. 11, President Trump announced he would federalize the district’s Metropolitan Police Department…
    Debra Saunders
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  • opinion

    The Silent Majority Is Applauding
    The silent majority in Washington, D.C., and across our nation is applauding. Even one crime is one crime too many. On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump, invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act passed by the United States Congress, declared a “crime emergency in the District of Columbia” and ordered the…
    Armstrong Williams
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  • opinion

    Media Won’t Admit True Cause of DC Crime
    When President Donald Trump called a press conference on Aug. 11 to discuss how he would use emergency powers to federalize the Washington, D.C., police and deploy the National Guard, the knee-jerk anti-Trump media launched into complaining Trump was doing something dramatic about the crime-riddled District of Columbia. But the most obnoxious spin was dragging…
    Tim Graham
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    Trump’s Efforts Could Sharply Reduce DC Crime
    When 10 juveniles brutally attacked former Department of Government Efficiency whiz kid Edward Coristine—nicknamed “Big Balls”—in an attempted carjacking that left him bloodied, Washington, D.C.’s violent crime rate exploded into a political flashpoint. President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize the Washington police and bring in FBI agents and the National Guard to fight crime has upset…
    John R Lott Jr.
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