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WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — The Washington Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced Thursday that it arrested 17 people in connection with firearms and narcotics trafficking. The investigation spanned over five states, including D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas. 122 firearms and 10,000 fentanyl pills are now off the streets and in the hands of authorities as a result of the operation. The 17 people arrested were allegedly in the U.S. illegally, according to the ATF. "They will be in the process of being deported back to the country where they were originally from...

A McDonald’s restaurant in the progressive Washington, D.C. suburb of Fairfax County, Virginia has banned under 21-year-olds from indoor dining after “repeated incidents of student violence.” Adults must ring a doorbell to be let in by staff. The McDonald’s is located just outside the Beltway in the Franconia neighborhood between Alexandria and Springfield. It has been a popular hangout for students of several nearby schools, including Thomas A. Edison High School. A sign posted at the door says, “RING THE DOORBELL SAFETY NOTICE: Effective immediately. Due to repeated incidents of student violence, this McDonald’s location is temporarily closed for dine-in...

A Redfin analysis shows that the number of homes for sale in Washington, DC, rose at the fastest pace on record last month. Sweeping layoffs of government workers spearheaded by DOGE boosted the figure. DOGE slashed over 200,000 federal jobs in March alone, one analysis found. Widespread layoffs of federal workers are rippling through the housing market of the nation's capital, with Washington, DC, in April seeing the biggest surge in the number of homes for sale ever recorded, data from Redfin shows. Active listings of homes for sale in Washington, DC, soared 25.1% year-over-year in the four weeks leading...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is flipping off Donald Trump, announcing Tuesday he will oppose the president’s nominee for the crucial U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia just hours after Trump called for Senators to support him. Tillis’s decision, first reported by Breitbart News nine hours before Tillis’s confirmation, could sound the death knell for Trump’s nominee, Ed Martin, who has been serving in the office on an interim basis. Breitbart News reported Monday that Tillis withholding his supporting was the critical impediment to Martin’s nomination being advanced before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Without Tillis’s support, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IO)...

A man who was using a small American flag to guide a tour group through the Smithsonian’s American History Museum was told to put away Old Glory because it might offend people.Austin Petersen, a well-known broadcaster, was guiding a group of his fans through the museum when he was approached by a guard.“This flag is forbidden from being displayed at the Smithsonian American History Museum because the guards said this symbol may be offensive to some who are visiting,” he wrote on X. “I was using this flag to coordinate my tour group.”

In a curious twist, a "reformed" criminal hired by the District of Columbia's chief legal officer to help curb violence has been arrested and charged with murder.

Acourt has temporarily blocked a ruling from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan regarding the funding of former President Joe Biden's climate programs. The D.C. Court of Appeals halted the judge's Tuesday ruling that ordered Citibank to release billions of dollars in green bank grants as part of Biden's 2022 climate, tax and health care bill. Why It Matters The court's ruling is the latest development in an ongoing fight as President Donald Trump attempts to throw out Biden's climate and energy measures, and replace it with his cost-cutting and pro-coal agenda. Chutkan oversaw the president's now dismissed federal 2020 election...

DC STABBING: Good Samaritans intervened to save lives. They apprehended the attacker until police arrived. Salvador Saucedo Guzman says the neighborhood is in shock. "He chose the wrong block to come on, we put him down"

Mark Zuckerberg is the latest billionaire to shell out tens of millions of dollars for a pricey outpost in Donald Trump’s gilded capital.For a month, neighbors in Washington’s upscale Woodland Normanstone neighborhood have speculated about the unidentified buyer who paid $23 million in cash for a 15,000-square-foot mansion. The sale was the third-most expensive in city history and was shrouded in secrecy, with real estate agents muzzled by non-disclosure agreements. Soon after the deal went through in early March, images of the house became pixelated on Google Maps.But on Monday, the same day flight-tracking web sites revealed that the Meta...

On Tuesday, in a meeting of the Senate Commerce Committee, the chair of that committee, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), had some sharp words for the U.S. Army regarding the January 29th collision of a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter with an American Airlines passenger jet near Reagan National Airport. The crash killed 67 people. ... Senator Cruz warned the Army: I want to be explicit to the Army. Every one of us here supports a strong national defense, but the Army does not have at its option ignoring the United States Senate. And if there is another accident, it another...

It's a great day for America, everybody. Yes, the FBI just arrested a leader of MS-13 in Northern Virginia, outside of Washington D.C. From Fox: Authorities have yet to release the suspect's name, but they say he is one of the top three leaders of the MS-13 gang in the U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel monitored the arrest as it took place Thursday morning. While the FBI gets credit for the arrest, ICE, ATF, and local police were all involved in the operation to run-in the foreign gangbanger. Trump credited Border Czar Tom Homan for...

Two out of five D.C. restaurants say they could close down by the end of the year, according to a recent survey. By the numbers: The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington surveyed more than 200 restaurants in January and February. The survey shows that two in five, or 40%, of full-service casual places said the year likely to close in the coming year. 62% of restaurants surveyed reported lower profits in 2024. Last year, D.C. saw it's highest number of restaurant closures – but also the highest number of openings.

If you ever needed a good point to highlight the nature of political Lawfare, this is a great example. Julie Kelly essentially notes that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is asking DC Judge James Boasberg to decide what evidence should be given to Florida Judge Aileen Cannon. Julie Kelly – “It appears that records related to the grand jury proceedings in DC on the classified docs case remain under seal and have not been transmitted to Judge Cannon or defense. Recall that almost the entire investigation into the classified docs matter took place in Washington DC–not southern FLA even though it...

[Catholic Caucus] New DC Cardinal McElroy has long record of promoting LGBT ideology, downplaying abortionThe newly-installed archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, has strongly pushed for giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians, repeatedly attacked Catholic doctrine on sexuality, promoted LGBT activists, and encouraged ‘ordination’ of women, among other things.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Robert McElroy was installed on Tuesday as the eighth archbishop of Washington, D.C., making him one of the most prominent figures in the U.S. Catholic Church. But the former San Diego bishop has made a reputation for himself as a particularly heterodox, controversial prelate. McElroy has...

Ask yourself, who is willing to spend over $32,000 in a few days and who is benefiting from these left-wing protests?

Democrats and the D.C. Board of Elections are pushing to allow noncitizens — including potential foreign spies — to vote in local elections. The D.C. Board of Elections will head to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to fight to preserve a district law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections. The lawsuit centers around the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022, which permits noncitizens eighteen or older who have lived in D.C. for at least 30 days prior to an election to vote for local officials and on ballot initiatives. With an estimated 10,000 foreign...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Who Approved Communion for Nancy Pelosi Becomes New DC ArchbishopEarlier this year, Pope Francis selected liberal Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego to succeed the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory as Archbishop of Washington. Gregory is the Catholic leader in the nation’s capital who would never take Biden to task for his aggression abortion promotion.McElroy is a liberal Catholic who has made headlines for supporting the administration of Holy Communion to Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, even though they are ardent abortion activists.He came under fire years ago for approving communion for radical pro-abortion Democrat Nancy Pelosi despite...

Dear Neighbors, Congress is advancing a bill that threatens to override D.C.’s locally funded budget, imposing nearly $1 billion in mid-year cuts to essential services, including public safety, schools, emergency services, and sanitation. This unprecedented federal overreach treats D.C. like a federal agency rather than a self-governing city, undermining our autonomy and jeopardizing the well-being of all who live here. This is more than just a budget cut—it is devastation at the doorstep of the collapse of D.C. as we know it. These proposed cuts will gut the very foundation of our city, erasing progress and setting us back for...

“They’re gonna push back because you’ve got Congressmen on both sides of the aisle. If they follow that paper trail, it's going to come back to them. You've got their wife and or girlfriend that works for some agency, quasi-agency or some business. This towns as crooked as a dogs leg” “I’ll get primaried for saying that but that’s the truth and we all know it” “Somebody’s gonna straight it out, it looks like it’s gonna be Elon Musk”

Elon Musk just dropped a bombshell on the Joe Rogan Experience, confirming what many Americans have long suspected—Washington, D.C. is a cesspool of corruption, and the Democrats are the primary beneficiaries. “I think maybe three-quarters of the graft is Democratic. I think there’s maybe 20–25% that’s Republican,” Musk revealed, exposing how the system is rigged for political elites. “Most of the graft is going to the Democrats, but they throw some bones to the Republicans too, so then they’re in on it.” In a shocking but unsurprising exchange, Musk and Rogan discussed the absurd wealth accumulation of members of Congress,...