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This week, the Trump administration instructed all federal agencies to remove information from their websites pertaining to "gender ideology." On Friday, a flurry of reports indicated that exact thing was happening.In a Wednesday memo, Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Charles Ezell instructed agencies to comply by Friday at 5 p.m. ET with an executive order that says its aim is "defending women from gender ideology extremism."That memo laid out "steps to end federal funding of gender ideology." Among those was the instruction to "Take down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that inculcate or promote gender...

The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as well as some supervisors being evaluated for possible removal as soon as the end of Friday, according to people briefed on the matter. The changes highlight how the new administration has moved quickly to deliver on President Donald Trump’s vow to strike back at the Justice Department and FBI that he claims have been weaponized against him. Trump has falsely accused agents of abuse in their court-ordered search...

The Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Attorney General have until Feb. 7 to present a full disclosure plan for the records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 23.President John F. Kennedy presents the Congressional Gold Medal to Robert Frost. (Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.) Public Domain“I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest,...

Seven hunting buddies were on American Airlines flight 5342 traveling from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington D.C. when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River on Wednesday. Sixty-seven people died in the collision, including all plane passengers and crew from both aircraft. The seven hunters who were aboard flight 5342 were returning from a waterfowl hunt with Fowl Plains outfitters, which is based in Great Bend, Kansas. The men lived in the D.C. area and had been hunting in a group of 10 buddies. Three of the crew had chosen to drive the 1,300-plus miles home with...

There was a time, before 1913, when you could keep every penny you earned. You did not have to file with the federal government, telling them what you earned and giving the feds their cut. Your finances were your business and no one else’s. You had the right to earn, own, and keep property, and it was sacrosanct, guaranteed by U.S. law and tradition.Andrii Yalanskyi/ShutterstockThere were no audits, investigations, account freezes, withholdings, or any other forms of payment. There was your productivity and you and that’s all.How was the government funded? It earned revenue through tariffs. These are paid directly...

If the Mexican cartels are concerned about President Donald Trump's plans for them, it sure didn't seem like it this night. If only because someone who was worried probably wouldn't show a reporter the guns he'd just smuggled from the U.S. nor the fentanyl he was about to ship back north. Not to mention a safe house filled with migrants about to be crossed illegally at the border wall. And yet that's what we saw, spending two nights with members of one the largest cartels in Mexico the week of Trump's inauguration. They asked us not to share which cartel,...

Well...huh?I wonder why?Mandates and Green dreams still can't change what people want and are willing to pay for, it seems.European automotive suppliers are experiencing unprecedented turbulence as electric vehicle market uncertainties trigger a wave of dramatic workforce reductions. Major manufacturers are confronting a perfect storm of economic challenges that threaten the industry’s traditional foundations.In a stark illustration of the sector’s volatility Robert Bosch, ZF Friedrichshafen, Continental and Schaeffler have collectively announced 54,000 job cuts in 2024. This figure represents a record number of redundancies surpassing those announced during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 combined according to the European...

So. Much. Winning. Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has called on his fellow countrymen who are skulking in the United States to come home and help build their own country. What a novel idea. Why didn't anybody think of that before? Petro has been feuding with Trump for what seems like years, but in reality has been only two weeks, and he appears to be giving up the fight. Not that he puts it that way. He thought he was the unstoppable force, but he discovered that Donald Trump is the immovable object which was as harmed by Petro's petulance as...

Starting last last year, North Korea sent a total of about 11,000 highly trained troops to fight in Ukraine on behalf of Russia. But after months of being used as cannon fodder for Putin's war machine, Ukrainian sources say the North Koreans have been pulled off the front lines in recent weeks.The North Korean troops, sent to bolster Russian forces trying to push back a Ukrainian offensive inside Russia’s borders, have not been seen at the front for about two weeks, the officials said after requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive military and intelligence matters.The arrival of around 11,000 North Korean...

The reasons for this are unclear, but it appears that on Friday, aides to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) point man Elon Musk apparently locked a significant number of federal government employees at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) out of their work computer networks, according to anonymous sources in an exclusive story from Reuters:Musk, the billionaire Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO and X owner tasked by Trump to slash the size of the 2.2 million-strong civilian government workforce, has moved swiftly to install allies at the agency known as the Office of Personnel Management.The two officials, who spoke to Reuters...

Several climate change protests erupted Thursday during the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) final chair candidate forum before the party selects a new leader, prompting the MSNBC moderators to plead with the activists in the crowd to stop the disruptions. Multiple protesters had to be physically dragged out of the forum, hosted at Washington, DC’s, Georgetown University by MSNBC personalities Jen Psaki, Jonathan Capehart, and Symone Sanders-Townsend:

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are rolling out a new package of election security legislation this week, with GOP lawmakers already setting eyes on 2026. Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced the bills this week, with four lawmakers co-sponsoring the entire package and various other members supporting specific pieces. The three pieces of legislation are a bill to prohibit noncitizen residents of Washington, D.C., from voting in local elections, a bill to block noncitizens from helping administer elections and a constitutional amendment to prevent noncitizens from voting. It is currently illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections....

President Donald Trump isn’t wasting any time in his second term. On Friday, Trump banned former CIA Director John Brennan, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper from all U.S. secure federal buildings. These are the same men who pushed the infamous Hunter Biden “Russian disinformation” hoax in 2020, misleading the American public just weeks before the presidential election. The January 29 cabinet memorandum broadened Trump’s initial executive order from his first day in office, which withdrew security clearances for 50 individuals.

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials. Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists. Musk, the billionaire Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab CEO and X owner tasked by Trump to slash the size of the 2.2 million-strong civilian government workforce, has moved...

CHICAGO — It was still dark and cold at 5:30 am Thursday when teams of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers hit the streets on “targeted enforcement” missions to arrest criminal illegal migrants. They call them “the worst of the worst.” The Post embedded with one team of federal ICE agents who admitted the task of identifying criminal migrants in the sanctuary city – which orders its local law enforcement not to help them – and actually making arrests can be like finding needles in haystacks. Further complicating matters, local activists, legislators and school administrators in Illinois have been...

As the new Trump administration is now governing full steam ahead, sovereignty is back with a vengeance. With inaugural balls still lingering in Washington’s atmosphere, Donald Trump wasted no time in reimplementing aspects of American sovereignty that were dismantled or neglected during Joe Biden’s time in office. In a flurry of executive orders, Trump canceled asylum appointments at the United States-Mexico border, laid the groundwork for ICE deportations, and withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accords. On the economic front, Trump is planning tariffs on China to curtail the flow of fentanyl. At universities,...

A plane has apparently crashed into Roosevelt Mall in North Philadelphia. Fires burning, houses on fire… Breaking live on Fox News.

QUESTION: Ukraine’s another issue that’s got the party divided. SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah. QUESTION: You’ve got a lot – I’m just sticking with the Republicans now, because there’s a whole other debate with the other side of the aisle – but who say no, Putin’s a bad actor; Russia’s a growing threat, and we’re doing the right thing by backing Ukraine. And I would say the majority of Republicans now are against that viewpoint and think we’ve lost – we’ve spent too much. It’s anyplace from 105 billion to 187 billion. And they’ve lost. We just have to be realistic about...

Radical Dem Governor Who Defends Illegal Aliens Signs Order Refusing J6 Prisoners From State EmploymentThe radical Democrat Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, appears to be setting himself up for a discrimination suit. Gov. Pritzker has been infuriating residents of Illinois over his proud defense of illegal alien criminals in his state.Earlier this week, law enforcement officers in the state openly condemned the Democrat governor’s protection of illegal aliens. They called him out for telling sheriffs to “stop coordinating with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement when undocumented criminals are released from prison. “This is unconscionable, dangerous and puts our most vulnerable...