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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Trump administration can continue its swift deportation efforts of illegal migrants to third countries, overturning a lower court's ruling that the practice was illegal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit did not give a reason for the ruling but allowed the deportations to continue in a 2-1 decision. The panel also expedited the schedule for the case’s next phase, according to The Hill. Judge Lara Montecalvo, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, dissented, while Judge Jeffrey Howard, nominated by former President George W. Bush, and Judge Seth...

Get 'em while you still can! As Twitchy reported earlier this week, Virginia State Senator Saddam Azlin Salim, who immigrated to the United States less than two decades ago from Bangladesh, is doing his best to take away Americans' Second Amendment rights, introducing legislation that would ban the sale of "assault weapons" in Virginia, as well as magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. In response, a group of pro-Second Amendment activists set up shop outside the Virginia State Capitol and handed out free 30-round magazines. SNIP

America should not play global judge, jury, and executioner. This role is bad for us. It harms our economy and rots our national character. Moreover, foreign wars distract from much more important goals here at home. Trump’s decision to pursue the Iran war, for instance, distracts from his much more important domestic policy goals on immigration, inflation, and dismantling leftist-controlled institutions. The political capital required to wage this war of choice is simply too high. The downside risks of being sucked into a months- or even years-long war are too great. The threat to the global economy from a sustained...

Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months behind bars in North Dakota, a state she had never even stepped foot in, after being wrongfully identified by AI facial recognition technology in a bank fraud investigation. The Grand Forks Herald reports that Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old mother of three... from Tennessee, found herself trapped in a nightmare that began last July when U.S. Marshals arrested her at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. Fargo police had used facial recognition software to identify her as the primary suspect in an organized bank fraud case, despite the fact that she had never...

A month into the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — thanks in no small part to separating DHS funding from the rest of the government combined with an unwillingness to address Senate filibuster rules — there have been two Islamist terror attacks on U.S. soil in Austin, Texas and New York City as the war in Iran rages on. Founded in 2002 in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 by al Qaeda, who boarded jets to fly them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security’s purposes...

The Old Dominion University shooter was serving a long jail sentence for providing material support to ISIS, but was released early, thanks to Joe Biden. How did he get a gun to carry out this attack? Not that criminals follow the law, but we know how Mohamed Jalloh obtained a firearm for this terrorist attack that left a decorated war hero, Lt. Col. Robert Shah, who was also the head of the school’s ROTC program, dead (via Associated Press):The man charged by DOJ for selling the gun used by the ODU terrorist was caught straw purchasing three guns in 2021...

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will no longer bar students from a Bible college from participating in its student-teaching program after reaching a settlement Thursday in the college's religious discrimination case. Moody Bible Institute, a private Christian college in Chicago, sued the Chicago Board of Education in November, alleging CPS had unlawfully blocked its students from participating in the district’s student-teaching program because of the school’s religious hiring practices. The lawsuit claims CPS excluded Moody students from its student teacher internship program after the college refused to abandon its policy of hiring employees who affirm the school’s statement of faith and...

Let me begin by putting all my cards face-up on the table. No one wishes the SAVE Act, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and a photo-ID in order to cast a ballot, to become law more than I. Currently, in my home state of California, it's actually illegal here to both ask for ID at polling places and to show ID. Elections are held open for weeks until enough stray mail-in ballots, which for some reason break for Democrats every single time, flow in to swing a total that at one point showed promise of sanity in...

As the joint American-Israeli military campaign in Iran continues, President Trump’s coalition is starting to exhibit some cracks. The war in Iran has emerged as a proxy battle over a broader, long-simmering conflict within the right about Israel. And the fight over Israel is, in some important ways, a proxy battle about Jews in general. Big picture, what we’re seeing now is that the traditional divisions on the right between paleoconservatives and neoconservatives, between hawks and doves, are being reshaped into a battle over Israel specifically. It’s a very difficult subject; this issue has become highly emotional and personal for...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A local Christian-based organization is going after the Tuscaloosa Public Library after it cancelled the organization's meeting due to the political climate. Now, attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Eagle Forum of Alabama. The suit against the Tuscaloosa Public Library board of trustees claims they violated the Eagle Forum’s freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, as well as the Alabama Religious Freedom Amendment.

🚨 BREAKING: The red state of Florida is about to pass its OWN SAVE AMERICA ACT and send it to Gov. Ron DeSantis for signature The bill FORTIFIES citizenship verification for all voters and marks pen and paper as the default method of voting 🔥 FLORIDA does it right again! ☀️ CFO BLAISE INGOGLIA: "The state of Florida is on the verge of passing its own version of the SAVE Act, which is going to look for voter ID and also to verify that the people that are voting in our elections are indeed actual U.S. citizens." "Florida should have...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., warned of what he characterized as an encroaching threat from Sharia law in the United States, which he said is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, during a press briefing Tuesday in Florida. Asked to respond to a controversial X post from Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., who tweeted Monday, "Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie," Johnson suggested to reporters that while he might not necessarily agree with Ogles' tone, he appreciates the concern he expressed.

Senate Republicans know that Trump-backed voter ID legislation is doomed to fail and are trying to find a way to pin the blame on Senate Democrats. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., plans to bring the bill to the floor next week, but Republicans won’t take the route of launching into a talking filibuster despite pressure from President Donald Trump and the GOP base to do so. "We don't have the votes either to proceed, get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it," Thune said. "But that is just a function of math, and...

China remains the world’s top coal consumer, with fossil fuels supplying over 87% of its primary energy. Renewables’ share was 40% in 1971 when China was poor, but plummeted to 7.5% in 2011 — and has risen slowly over the next 13 years, to just over 10% in 2024. On this trajectory, a full transition to green energy would take four centuries. So while the vision of China as a renewable superpower is mostly eco-propaganda, we should heed two lessons from Beijing’s energy policies. First, China has dramatically scaled up energy use — and has grown rich in the process....

When anti-regime protests spread like wildfire throughout Iran in mid-October of 2022, the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was quick to lay the blame on the usual foreign suspects. “I say explicitly that these riots and this insecurity were a design by the U.S. and the occupying, fake Zionist regime and those who are paid by them,” he told a class of cadets at a police college in Tehran. He suggested that the ultimate goal of the U.S. and Israel was regime change in Iran. This elicited a response on Twitter from Iranian rapper Hichkas, who defended foreign support for...

🚨Republicans have FLIPPED TWO council seats in Wellington Florida This makes a total of THREE 🔵->🔴 FLIPS in Palm Beach County Florida last night President Trump’s home county had a Red Wave last night, Florida grows more red every day, @FloridaGOP will win big in November

The U.S. federal civilian workforce shrank by 12% from 2024 to January 2026, data from the Office ​of Personnel Management showed, reflecting the Trump administration's efforts to slash government agencies' headcount. The departments with the biggest workforce cuts during this period were Agriculture (-27.6%), Treasury (-24%), and Health ​and Human Services (-19.5%). On the other hand, the Department of Homeland Security — which handles President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown — saw a small uptick in its workforce (+0.4%). A majority of federal employees who left their jobs did so through voluntary resignations or early retirements. These figures may change as...

The Department of Homeland Security asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to let it end its Temporary Protected Status designation for Haitian migrants, after the high court let it end the designation for Venezuelans last year. The request comes after the department asked the Supreme Court to let it end the designation for Syrian migrants last month, though the justices have not yet issued a ruling in the case. Solicitor General D. John Sauer warned the high court in the latest filing that more cases are “waiting in the wings," and asked them to settle the matter on ending the protected...

President Trump signaled on Wednesday that he plans to tap into the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to bring down rising gas prices. “I filled it up once, and I’ll fill it up again, but right now, we’ll reduce it a little bit, and that brings the prices down,” Trump said during an interview with Local 12 in Kentucky. The president shrugged off rising gas prices as a “matter of war” earlier in the day and expressed confidence the market would settle soon. I figured we’d be hit a little bit. We were hit less than I thought...

A conservative Los Angeles County engineer sued his employer Tuesday for refusing to let him work from home in June, when the LGBT Pride flag will be flown from the building where he works. Eric Batman, an employee of the county's Department of Public Works for 24 years, "cannot participate in a celebration that his religion deems sinful," his lawyers wrote in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court.