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HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The brother of the late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, was sentenced Friday for threatening to carry out a shooting at the University of Connecticut and to kill three people outside of the state, including a judge, in 2023.

It’s only two weeks into the new Trump administration, and we’re seeing an incredible sea change start in the federal government. In his first campaign, Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” and then when he took office he barely got started on the project during a full four year term. Maybe he was too distracted by constant investigations, lawfare, “Russia! Russia! Russia!” and the like. But this time it’s much different. The big news of the past day or two is the beginning of purges at DOJ, the FBI, and USAID. Those thoroughly corrupt institutions are very good places to...

It’s getting hard to keep up with the number of executive orders President Donald Trump has signed within his first two weeks in office — especially those that are marking significant strides in the fight against leftist ideologies. One of these battles includes the increased anti-Semitism seen on college campuses since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting federal funding of K-12 schools that promote Critical Race Theory or radical gender ideology.

BLM and other black mayors go on huge spending sprees using tax payer dollars, including Vegas trips and trips to Africa. One black mayor even went on a nice little burglary adventure and got caught and arrested. Chuckle. Why do black people usually vote for the most corrupt people they can find? Worth watching. Its a huge laugh. Only 15 minutes.

This is a historic moment. For the past five years, I have been fighting to defeat critical race theory, gender cultism, and DEI. Now, President Trump has taken decisive action and instructed his administration to rip out these malicious ideologies root and branch, not just from the federal government but from all institutions that receive federal funding—universities, schools, corporations. All of it. It has been a long road. The Left will try to memory-hole the recent past, but we must not forget a simple historical truth: the Left put America through a reign of terror after 2020. I have long...

They're going to try to memory-hole this, but we can't forget that the Left put America through a reign of terror after 2020. This is some of what they did to me and my family, in an attempt to shut me up: When I was in Seattle, they put up posters around my neighborhood with insane lies about me and my home address, instructing activists to show up at my door. Later, they sent letters to a few hundred of my neighbors, claiming I was a Nazi white supremacist. Death threats, references to my family, the whole deal. A few...

Julia Roberts, one of the most famous and influential donors to the Democratic Party, is suddenly upset about the looting going on in Los Angeles following the horrific wildfires that have swept the city. Here's what she posted on Instagram: Of course, looting is wrong. But isn't it weird that Julia Roberts suddenly reached this conclusion after years of endorsing riots that weren't in her own neighborhood? Remember, this is the same Julia Roberts who supported Black Lives Matter, the movement that was behind waves of riots in 2020 that caused billions in damaged property. For just one example, here's...

A white Democratic governor issues an obviously illegal order. A white Democratic Secretary of State issues a patently inaccurate, and wholly unauthorized, “legal opinion.” And Democratic legislators agree to boycott a legislative session en masse, all in a desperate attempt to prevent the first black Speaker of the House in their state’s history from taking office. We’ve seen this story before. It’s Mississippi in the 1960s, right? No, actually: it’s Minnesota in 2025. Scott and I have written about the Minnesota Democrats’ illegal power grab–really, an attempted coup–in which they hope to take control over the Minnesota House of Representatives,...

The scale of support on college campuses for militant antisemitism and even for Hamas barbarism has alarmed most Americans, but there’s something else here that ought to trouble us, too: a startling ignorance of the most basic facts of Middle Eastern history. These are college students being educated on renowned campuses—yet they know virtually nothing about the matter they are protesting. How can that be? Let’s begin by asking what a serious education about the conflict in the Middle East would look like. At a minimum, we would expect students to have a basic grasp of the case made by...

"They killed themselves. All of them. All at once,” the first words of Cebo Campbell’s debut novel, “Sky Full of Elephants,” are a haunting refrain reminiscent of a fable. The book explores the aftermath of a genocidal event in which every White person in America wakes up, walks into the nearest body of water and drowns... The novel follows Charlie, a wrongfully incarcerated Black man who is reunited with his 19-year-old daughter Sidney. Sidney had been raised by her White mother’s side of the family believing that she was White too. She holed up in her mansion alone for a...

Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

Loudoun County has been the center of DEI clown world for quite a while now, and stories range from the horrible to ones like this that are just plain dumb. Yes, a teacher at Riverside High School is under investigation because he distributed a piece of raw cotton for students to examine, while giving a lesson about the invention of the cotton gin and slavery. I had a history teacher who conducted this exact exercise, and the tactile reinforcement has helped me remember the lesson he taught that day, even all these years later. (But I went to school back...

A United States Postal Service (USPS) supervisor was arrested Thursday after allegedly stealing more than 20 checks, totaling over $281,000. Joivian Tjuana Hayes, a worker at the Costa Mesa Post Office in California, allegedly stole numerous checks, including one for more than $114,000 and allegedly deposited them into her account, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Officials said the checks contained forged signatures and surveillance footage allegedly caught the 36-year-old depositing the checks at ATM machines scattered throughout the cities of Costa Mesa, Compton, and Fountain Valley. Hayes allegedly began depositing the checks in...

A new poll commissioned by Democratic members of Chicago’s City Council shows embattled Mayor Brandon Johnson with an unprecedented 15 percent approval rating – the lowest of any mayor in history as his office faces scrutiny after his former top communications advisor is confronted with multiple complaints of racism, sexual harassment, misogyny and intimidation. The poll also indicated that the mayor’s revised $150 million property tax increase proposal was dead on arrival and that 78 percent of Chicagoans would vote against their alderman if they supported Johnson’s latest tax increase. A few weeks ago – in a stunning and unprecedented...

Dr. Tara Gustilo, a former department chair at Hennepin Healthcare, says she was demoted because of her criticism of Black Lives Matter and critical race theory.. In a significant development, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Dr. Tara Gustilo against Hennepin Healthcare System (HHS). The decision, announced this Monday, sends the case back to the lower courts, marking a victory for Gustilo. Gustilo, a Filipino-American and former chair of the Obstetrics-Gynecology (OBGYN) Department at HHS, filed the lawsuit in 2021. The Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC), representing Gustilo, argues...

On a podcast with Trump hating attorney Preet Bharara (SDNY), atheist philosopher and for "New Atheism" horseman Sam Harris goes scorched earth against identity politics as practiced by the Democrats: Key Points that Harris makes in this interview: 1. Identity politics should be dead now with Trump's election 2. Democrats championed fake racism because there was not enough real racism in society 3. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a corrupt, indoctrinated organization that invents racism everywhere and no one should take it seriously any more 4. All pandering to imagined victim groups has backfired 5. Identity politics is a...

Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the country was in danger of Jim Crow laws returning because voters did not prioritize democracy. Host Dana Bash said, “I want to switch gears to something that former President Obama said. He made I believe his first comments since the election. He said this last night. I want you to take a listen.” Thursday in Chicago, former President Barack Obama said, “Talk of bridging our differences when the country and the world seemed so bitterly divided felt like an academic exercise, it felt farfetched, even naive. Especially since...

On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that conservative activist Christopher Rufo had been invited to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump‘s [team] and present them “with a plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.” On Monday night, Rufo joined Fox News’ Jesse Watters to talk about said plan. “So you were very effective working with DeSantis in Florida in ripping CRT and DEI out of the education ecosystem. You’re saying that there’s an opportunity to do that nationally now?” asked Watters to kick off the conversation. “That’s exactly right....