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A federal judge on Monday declined to dismiss a final assault charge against New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver that was tied to a visit she made to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement migrant detention facility last year. McIver last month appealed an earlier failed attempt to get two of the charges dismissed, which came after she was involved in a scuffle with a federal agent when she visited Delaney Hall in Newark last May. The New Jersey Democrat has attempted to argue that her actions were protected by the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause, which protects lawmakers from prosecution...

Mamdani Official: “Impoverish the White Middle Class. "Private property is a weapon of white supremacy". January 6, 2026. By Daniel Greenfield. There’s no floor. No such thing as too much. Leftist politics is an endless drop shaft and as a society free falls into it, it passes gulags, generational ones (in North Korea), death camps, mass famine, genetic engineering (China) and every horror imaginable. So the thing you think is absolutely insane turns out to be the gateway to the next house of horrors. View the Mamdani administration in that light. The new wave of DSAers are here to implement...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom claims he was “physically in the midst” of firefighting efforts during 2025’s Los Angeles wildfires — months after claiming his hair “literally burst” during the inferno. snip “And I was there just a few hours after the fire, and was there physically in the midst of the firefighting as I went up into the foothills and experienced firsthand what our first responders were dealing with.” The governor previously told podcaster Shawn Ryan he was so close to the fires after they ignited on Jan. 7, 2025 that his famous slicked-back mane “literally burst” after a smoldering...

Chrystia Freeland just got named the economic adviser for Ukraine by President Zelenskyy. This is the same Chrystia Freeland who wrecked Canada’s finances so badly she quit before delivering her own budget triggering Trudeau’s resignation. You can’t make this up.

The Trump administration moved to end a Biden-era rule on Monday it said created a fraud-friendly environment for daycare providers seeking federal funds. The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new rule that will reverse regulations that required agencies to distribute government funds to daycare providers based on enrollment, not attendance, and before any care was delivered. HHS said the rule opened up the door for widespread fraud, including the kind currently under investigation in Minnesota. “Congress appropriated this funding to support working families and ensure children have safe places to grow and learn,” said HHS Secretary Robert...

Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a fourth generation rice farmer and Republican who for the last 13 years represented much of California’s rural north in Congress, has died. He was 65. His sudden death, confirmed Tuesday morning by House Republican leadership, further shrinks the party’s already razor-thin majority, which now stands at 218 following Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation this week. The GOP can now only afford to lose two members on any given party-line vote. While President Donald Trump and House Republicans could consistently count on LaMalfa’s support for conservative priorities such as last year’s mega domestic policy bill, he...

NEW YORK, NY — A statement from the mayor's office confirmed Zohran Mamdani was following the situation in Venezuela very closely and would have more to report after his classified morning briefing, which he receives from watching The View. The classified briefing, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro, airs every morning on ABC at 11 a.m. sharp. "Yes, Whoopi. Tell me your secrets," Mamdani reportedly said as sunlight filtered through the closed blinds of his office, framing his eyes in mystery. "Tell me everything." According to sources, today's highly sensitive...

🚨 LMAO, rappers are now showing up to the Somali Learing Center in Minneapolis "We got a concert for the kids, we finna turn up!" 😭😭 I'm sure the "KIDS" will appreciate it! All zero of them! Nick Shirley has started a MOVEMENT!

What do you think: is it manifest destiny that the United States acquire or at least exercise control over Greenland? That’s pretty much how we got Texas, California, New Mexico, Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa. Then there was the Louisiana purchase. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States, paying France $15 million or a bit less than three cents per acre for a land mass that is about 26 percent of the contiguous United States. And let’s not forget about Alaska. A few facts about Greenland. It is big: 836,000 square miles....

During the COVID pandemic federal legislation was passed to grant forgivable loans to small businesses so they could survive the shutdowns imposed on them by state and local governments. Almost 400 Illinois state employees fraudulently applied for and received $2.8 million of these loans. Additional fraudulent loans were obtained by county and city employees. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging thousands of individuals and so far has seized over $1.4 billion in stolen relief funds. Gov. JB Pritzker (D) blamed Biden Administration officials "for not adequately vetting the loan applications. Our hard-working government employees saw there was money...

The US military operation to track down, capture and fly Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro back to the United States for prosecution on drug trafficking charges went flawlessly. It was well-coordinated, meticulously planned and executed to a tee. Nearly two days after Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were taken into U.S. custody, details of the snatch-and-grab mission are beginning to percolate into the US media. It involved a cyberattack against Caracas’s electricity system, precision bombing against several Venezuelan airfields and ports, a low-flying helicopter assault on Maduro’s hideout and a CIA deployment that was operating in the country since August....

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will be tightening its licensing requirements for drivers as pressure mounts to boot poorly vetted migrants from the trucking industry. The major federal agency is working with its contracted trucking providers to “phase out” the use of non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) operators who have not been thoroughly screened by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, according to a statement released late Monday. USPS says the move is in line with the Department of Transportation’s efforts to tighten regulations over non-domiciled CDLs. “The safety of our employees, our customers, and the American public is of the...

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss upcoming Ukraine peace talks in Paris, why he believes officials could be 'on the cusp' of a breakthrough and anti-government protests in Iran.

What if, rather than make a Linux distro that can run Windows apps, you built the whole distro around Windows binaries instead?Loss32 is the most gleefully deranged idea for how to put together a Linux OS that we think we have ever read about in three and a half decades… but it's not impossible. Not only could it be done, there could be real advantages to doing it this way.The idea comes from a blogger and developer known as Hikari no Yume ("Dream of Light" in Japanese) who made it public at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Germany at...

Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Baird has been hospitalized following a car accident but is responsive and in stable condition, according to reports. Baird’s wife, Danise, was also reportedly in the car at the time of the accident and was hospitalized along with her husband. The lawmaker, 80, has represented the solidly Republican Indiana’s 4th congressional district since 2019. President Donald Trump said in a Tuesday morning speech to a GOP retreat at the Kennedy Center that he wanted to “send our best wishes to Congressman Jim Baird and his wife, who are recovering from a car accident.” “They’re going to...

@Sec_Noem and our brave DHS law enforcement have taken Tomas Espin Tapia off the streets, an Ecuadorian illegal alien convicted of robbery and WANTED for MURDER and SEXUAL ASSAULT. To the criminals living among us, you are NOT our neighbors. Leave now or we will find you.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, incident at the U.S. Capitol, Democrat lawmakers gathered together once again to solemnly remember the only riot they didn't like. At a somber ceremony of remembrance, congressional Democrats met to observe the fifth anniversary of the only violent protest in history that they weren't happy about and refused to celebrate. "We're normally all about violent riots, but not this one," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "This one was bad. But only this one. All the other times large mobs of people flooded the streets to loudly protest, damage...

Transcript Summary Catherine Herridge, former CBS News senior investigative correspondent, delivers a personal message on her independent show "Straight to the Point."She explains her departure from CBS News in February 2024 during company-wide layoffs, stating it was unexpected and not related to her performance, which included Emmy-winning work and impactful reporting that expanded benefits for veterans. Herridge details internal obstacles she faced while investigating the Hunter Biden laptop story, assigned by top executives including George Cheeks as a high-priority matter. Despite authenticating documents in 2020 and providing confirmed reporting to executives and anchors, the network did not pursue deeper investigation...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is reportedly considering a run for Minnesota governor after Gov. Tim Walz (D) announced the end of his reelection campaign, but her track record is a mess of political scandals. Walz, who was the Democrat party’s vice-presidential candidate just over a year ago, dropped out of the race in shame with a Monday morning statement whining over the growing Somali fraud scandal, Breitbart News’s John Nolte detailed. Shortly after the news broke, the New York Times reported that Klobuchar is weighing a bid for gubernatorial office in Walz’s place. The senator confirmed her interest in succeeding...