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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) barred the use of human fetal tissue derived from elective abortions from being used in taxpayer-funded research. “HHS is ending the use of human fetal tissue from elective abortions in agency-funded research and replacing it with gold-standard science,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement. “The science supports this shift, the ethics demand it, and we will apply this standard consistently across the Department.” HHS said in its announcement, which was released the same day as the 53rd annual March for Life, that its new policy aligns with...

Within weeks of Zohran Mamdani being sworn into office in New York City, homeless encampments have popped back up in Manhattan after he vowed on the campaign trail to stop clearing them away. The democratic socialist, who took office on the first of the year, said in December he would stop the destruction of homeless encampments in the city - a hallmark of the previous administration led by Eric Adams. 'They are simply pushing New Yorkers who are living in the cold to another place where they will live in the cold,' Mamdani said at the time. In the 23...

A transgender Oregon lawmaker died after suffering internal bleeding from stomach ulcers that her doctor said were brought on by stress linked to her job and a bitter recall election, according to family members and friends. Claire Hall, a longtime Lincoln County commissioner, collapsed at her home in Newport late on January 2 and was rushed to a hospital in Portland where she died two days later at the age of 66 after doctors were unable to stop the hemorrhaging. Her death came just days before voters were set to decide whether to remove her from office in a highly...

Only the most deranged and malevolent radicals would oppose ICE agents, much less call for violence against them. When the agents apprehend worst-of-the-worst criminals who are in the country illegally, they are defending the nation, keeping the public safe, and enforcing laws created by democratically elected leaders. Yet preventing ICE from performing its crucial duties while whipping up violent sentiment against it is common among Democrat politicians — and not only in the mental institution moonbats have made of Minnesota. Kris Mayes is Attorney General of Arizona. The New York Post reports: Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire...

All three Minnesota church protestors have now been released from federal custody. A federal magistrate judge on Friday ordered the release of William Kelly, the far-left agitator who stormed a St. Paul church and harassed parishioners on Sunday. William Kelly was arrested and charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, a federal crime, and violating the FACE Act 18 USC 248 for his involvement in the St. Paul church riots. Kelly was wearing his signature “**** Trump” beanie when he was taken into custody. On Friday, Magistrate Shannon Elkins said there was no basis for pretrial detention. Kelly, a well-known leftist...

Vice President JD Vance condemned abortion and celebrated the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision as he addressed tens of thousands at the 53rd annual March for Life rally on the National Mall. Vance, speaking at the event themed “Life is a Gift,” described the 2022 Dobbs ruling — which overturned Roe v. Wade — as the most significant Supreme Court decision of his lifetime, ending decades of judicial overreach on abortion. He highlighted progress since Dobbs, including the end of taxpayer funding for abortion under the previous administration and the expansion of the Mexico City Policy, which blocks U.S. funding to...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday marked National Sanctity of Human Life Day with a statement condemning abortion because every unborn child also has a right to life. Trump is renewing his administration’s “steadfast commitment to fostering a culture that respects, upholds, and cherishes the inherent dignity and infinite worth of every precious human soul,” calling the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision a “moral and constitutional atrocity” and praising the Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal that returned abortion policy to the states. In a presidential message released by the White House on the 53rd anniversary of the infamous ruling — Trump invoked...

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened” (Eph. 1:18). Spiritual enlightenment doesn’t come through self-effort or introspective meditation but through God’s Holy Spirit. Our society has been enamored with the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment, especially since the influx of Eastern thought into the West during the 1960s. Now we are drowning in a sea of false religions and New Age philosophies. True enlightenment continues to elude many because they have denied its source and have turned to gurus and teachers who have no light to give. They propagate self-effort and introspective meditation, but spiritual enlightenment doesn’t...

Key points covered: Arrest of Alexander Soofer (former executive director of Abundant Blessings charity in California), charged with wire fraud for allegedly misusing ~$23 million in government funds meant for homeless housing and food to finance a lavish lifestyle (mansion, luxury vehicles, vacations, private school tuition). The arrest was announced by First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California. Broader commentary links this to other alleged Democrat-connected frauds, including the Minnesota "Feeding Our Future" scandal (involving $250 million in child nutrition funds), where a convicted fraudster reportedly claims leaders like Gov. Tim Walz and AG Keith...

🚨 WOW. It was just exposed that Mexico has 53 consulates in the United States and are setting up ANTI-ICE PROTESTS and RIOTS with the Democrat Party, per Peter Schweizer This should be BANNED! They are foreigners on OUR soil, undermining us! x.com/i/status/20148… "They've got a consulate up in the Twin Cities right now that's neck deep in what's going on in Minneapolis!" "They were meeting with Democratic Party activists in 2024 saying, 'how are we going to stop Trump? We got to stop Trump. We turned California from red to blue. We turned Arizona from red to blue.'"

Fake asylum claims for illegals is a multibillion industry funded by taxpayers (via NGOs). Virtually 100% of illegals arrested in the interior will file fake asylum claims. This in turn creates permanent employment and income for the left’s most extreme and radicalized attorneys.

While speaking at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, Obama roasted Trump about his political qualifications, the Celebrity Apprentice, and the "changes" he would make to the White House if Trump were to become president. The event took place 5 years before Trump's first term began.

GM shifts Buick SUV production from China to the U.S., planning to build the model at its Kansas plant starting in 2028. The move comes as President Trump pushes automakers to bring manufacturing back home Watch OAN Live Here: live.oann.com/home.ktv?utm_s…

Message and a story, shared with me this morning from an anonymous DHS patriot on the ground in MPLS right now: “It is about negative 20 in Minneapolis right now. Negative 31 with windchill. I was leaving the building we are all holed up in. I think we’ve stacked close to 2,000 people in a building designed for 500. I ran into a grunt officer who’s been sent here from Miami. He clearly had just got back from an operation. Dude looked absolutely exhausted. We talk a little shit about how bad the weather sucks, how tired everyone is from...

Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn) assailed ICE for detaining a 5-year-old child, saying "Minnesotans want safety. They want freedom. They want what's best for our kids. Masked agents snatching preschoolers off the street and sending them to Texas detention centers serves none of those purposes." Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) echoed Walz, claiming "the detention of a child proves that ICE's assertion they are seeking the worst of the worst immigrants is a lie." Former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, fresh from being held in contempt by a bipartisan vote in the US House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee for...

An F.B.I. agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis this month has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross, according to one of the people. Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings.

The account 'Blue Lives Matter' has been working very hard to fight back against the Left, specifically the Leftists following ICE agents around and making their jobs very difficult. They started by having retired law enforcement and military drive around and appear to be ICE. Then, the Leftists follow the decoys and leave the real agents alone to do their job. Recently, they came up with this new plan. -snip Leftists started publishing phone numbers people could call and report 'ICE activity'. When activity was reported, a whole bunch of protestors would descend and harass the ICE officers. 'Blue Lives...

General Motors has announced that production of the newly updated 2027 Chevrolet Bolt EV will end after approximately 18 months to make way for a gas-powered Buick crossover at its Kansas manufacturing facility. Inside EVs reports that General Motors has confirmed plans to discontinue production of the heavily updated 2027 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle after a limited production run of about one and a half years. The decision will allow the automaker to repurpose its Fairfax, Kansas, factory for manufacturing the Buick Envision, a gas-powered crossover currently built in China that will be reshored to the United States. A Chevrolet...

Donald Trump’s strangely artificial Board of Peace event in Davos on Thursday looked like a Hollywood rendering of an international summit. Everything was too slick, faintly uncanny. Like an AI-generated image, it was photo-real yet failed the most basic human glance test. Too perfect. No wabi-sabi. The first tell was visual: the set, complete with a crisp new institutional logo: a globe on a shield, flanked by olive branches. It carried the unmistakable whiff of Grok or ChatGPT, but the strangeness went deeper than design. The speeches themselves were weirdly messianic and utopian. The most peculiar part was the show-within-a-show:...

The ‘nothing ever happens’ people seem to be, sadly, correct about Iran thus far, although one hopes that the brutal Islamic Republic might still be overthrown. It’s hard to know what to think, and at times like this we all turn to the experts to give their analysis of what might happen and what might follow. Foreign policy expertise is hard work, because it requires both a specific knowledge of the national culture and the relative strength of personalities. Because there are so many factors involved, analysts frequently get things completely wrong, the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles being the notorious...