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    Top Trump Administration Official Discusses Rescissions Package

    Trump administration Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testified before a Senate panel on Wednesday about defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal government programs totaling $9.4 billion in reduced spending. “A vote for rescissions is a vote to show that the United States Senate is serious about getting our fiscal…
    Jacob Adams
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    Did LA Riots Help Put Trump and Musk on Track Toward Reconciliation?

    The riots against enforcement of federal immigration laws that began in Los Angeles more than a week ago have led to vandalism, destruction of property, and assaults on law enforcement officers. But one of the results of the riots their instigators surely did not intend was the creation of common ground between Elon Musk and…
    Virginia Allen
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    Hegseth Was Right to Ban Race in Admissions At Military Service Academies, but Not for the Reasons You Might Think

    On May 9, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memorandum to the entire Department of Defense prohibiting the military service academies from using race in admissions, which they had been doing for decades. Effective immediately, offers of admissions to the highly selective military service academies must be based “exclusively on merit.”     Hegseth justified…
    Cully Stimson
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    Media Shows Sympathetic Views on Antisemitic Terrorist

    Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colorado, who were remembering the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. At least one of Soliman’s victims was a Holocaust survivor. Soliman and his family had come to the United States on…
    Erick Erickson
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    Marc Elias Moves to Thwart Trump DOJ’s Litigation Over Alleged Voter Inaccuracies

    Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias moved this week to intervene in a Trump Justice Department lawsuit filed last week against North Carolina for the state’s alleged inaccurate voter registration rolls.  The Justice Department’s lawsuit alleges North Carolina’s Board of Elections used a state voter registration form that failed to require voters to provide identifying information…
    Fred Lucas
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    WATCH: DHS to Deport Family of Man Charged in Colorado Terrorist Attack

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement concludes a new operation in South Carolina as protests among leftists break out over arrests of illegal immigrants in New England, California, and Oregon. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announces that the family of the man charged in connection with a Colorado terrorist attack Sunday will be deported. House, Senate,…
    Tony Kinnett
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    WATCH: Legacy Media’s Bizarre Relationship With Terrorism

    Legacy media outlets can’t decide how to cover a horrific Islamic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, and continue repeating debunked stories straight from Hamas. Arrest and deportation efforts by the second Trump administration cause crocodile tears on and off national television. Pride month brings out the weirdest people on Earth, but notably fewer than in…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Slow to Condemn Colorado Attack, Reps. Omar and Tlaib Are Branded ‘Muslim Terrorists’ by Fellow Lawmaker

    The morning after an attack on a group of people in Colorado demonstrating in support of freeing the hostages held in Gaza, Democrat Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, both of whom are Muslims, had yet to issue statements condemning the violence.   Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., who is Jewish, was critical…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘HE’S AMAZING’: Howard Lutnick Opens Up About Trump’s Confrontation With South African President

    Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick praised President Donald Trump’s courage and tenacity in confronting the president of South Africa with a video showing chants of “Kill the Boer, Kill the [white] farmer” in the Oval Office. “Well, the president is willing to call it out, straight out, right to the president of South Africa and say,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Inside Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Visit to Fort Bragg

    FORT BRAGG, North Carolina—On Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first trip to Fort Bragg since restoring the base’s name, he unveiled a plan in step with his core mission of prioritizing lethality and the warrior ethos in the military.  Hegseth began Thursday at the 82nd Airborne Division’s All-American Week review ceremony.  After landing in Fayetteville, Hegseth…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Hegseth Vows to Involve ‘Best’ US Companies in Missile-Defense ‘Golden Dome’ Construction

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed America’s commitment to making all the materials for the “Golden Dome” missile-defense shield domestically. “We’re going to defend America with great American companies,” Hegseth told The Daily Signal on Thursday. “We’re committed patriotically to the defense of the homeland.” The U.S. plans to build a “Golden Dome” to guard against…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Virginia County Votes Not to Report Illegal Alien Terrorists to ICE—in Name of ‘Public Safety’

    The Arlington County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to end its police department’s ability to report illegal aliens arrested for felonies and terrorist activity to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Board members couched their decision as a way to protect immigrant communities from the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, which, funny enough,…
    Erin Poff
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    With Injunction Lifted, Pentagon Set to Remove Trans Service Members From Military

    Days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Pentagon’s ban on transgender-identifying service members, the Department of Defense will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 people diagnosed with gender dysphoria out of the military. Others will have 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Transportation Secretary Unveils Overhaul of ‘Antiquated’ Air Traffic Control Systems

    Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a massive overhaul of the United States’ antiquated air traffic control system to modernize operations and reduce delays and inefficiencies. “This proposal seeks to transform the United States’ air traffic control system from its antiquated system to a modern system capable of meeting the demands of today and the future,”…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pete Hegseth’s Hard Choices: Today’s Decisions and Tomorrow’s Military

    CARLISLE, Pennsylvania—Maj. Gen. David Hill was standing a few feet from where the Black Hawk helicopter en route from the Defense Department would soon be landing, at the lush green fields of the Army War College. Hill is the commandant of the prestigious military institution and had been preparing for days for something rare around…
    Salena Zito
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    WATCH: Trump Declares War on Hollywood Outsourcing

    President Trump announced a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films Sunday evening, claiming that outsourcing production poses a “national security threat.” No final plan has been solidified. Here’s what we know so far about Hollywood’s deals with foreign studios and what the tariffs could do to the industry.
    Elise McCue
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    New House Report Faults FBI for Claiming Congressional Baseball Game Shooter Had ‘No Nexus to Terrorism’

    A new congressional report finds the FBI put out “intentionally misleading” statements regarding the man who shot Republican members of Congress at a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game in 2017. The FBI published multiple statements claiming that the shooting had “no nexus to terrorism” and identifying the motive of the shooter—James Hodgkinson—as “suicide by…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Rubio Designates Haitian Gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

    THE CENTER SQUARE­—U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated two Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, adding to a list of transnational criminal organizations, including Mexican cartels and the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua. Rubio designated the violent Haitian gangs, Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif, as FTOs and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,…
    Bethany Blankley
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    Judges Wage War Against Trump

    During his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump acted with unprecedented speed to make major changes in government policies and root out the pervasive waste, fraud, and diversity, equity, and inclusion poisoning our government and its programs. Still, he was hampered by a handful of biased judges who abused their authority to keep…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    CCP-Linked Stores on Military Bases? This Congressman Is Trying to Close Them Down

    Before freshman Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., came to Washington in January, no one seemed to notice that a Chinese Communist Party-linked company had stores that sold health products to our troops. Though it was once an American-owned company, the vitamin store GNC was purchased by the CCP-linked Harbin Pharmaceuticals in 2020 after GNC filed for…
    Bradley Devlin
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