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As the Trump administration steps up immigration enforcement actions, some Democrat-run localities are now simply giving cash payments to illegal aliens and their families – all funded by American taxpayers. This shocking new development has become just the latest example of liberal politicians putting illegal aliens who have no right to be in the country ahead of American citizens. In the most recent example, during a special September 2 meeting, the Arlington County Board in Arlington, Virginia, voted 4-0 to set aside $50,000 in taxpayer funds for families in which the primary wage earner has been detained by Immigration and...

A veteran Chicago police dispatcher was pinned inside her wrecked car, with nine broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae, when a man climbed into the back seat and stole her driver’s license and credit cards, prosecutors say. The man’s girlfriend then got into the front seat and began patting the injured victim’s waistline, apparently looking for more valuables. Victoria Mesarina, a dispatcher with the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications for 26 years, was driving home in uniform when another vehicle slammed into the driver’s side of her car in the 3300 block of West Douglas Boulevard around 2:30...

The writer behind the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project deliberately sent her daughter to poor Big Apple schools as a “sacrifice” to try to boost the education system — and no one is angrier than the kid. The teen is now “boiling” mad — badly behind her peers after finally being allowed to enroll in a more rigorous high school, her mother revealed in a bombshell bizarre essay. Nikole Hannah-Jones, 50, enrolled her only child in two struggling Brooklyn public schools beginning in 2015 — as part of a battle to change what she characterized as systemic racism, despite...

Former Trump staffer Michael Caputo endured a decade of lawfare that he says forced him out of his home and gave him cancer from all the stress. But just when he thought the Russiagate nightmare was over, he was slapped in the face this month with a lawsuit cooked up by a former DOJ lawyer from the “national security” unit that hounded him and other Trump associates over alleged foreign agent violations without laying a single charge. It’s a simple $100,000 contract dispute case, but Jack Korba, formerly a prosecutor in the small national security section of the District of...

A conservative comedian perfectly exposed the shallowness of the support for admitted child killer Lindsay Clancy earlier this month with a simple, yet provocative question. As TGP readers know, a mistrial was declared in the Clancy murder trial after one male juror held the line. Clancy killed her three children and admitted to the crime, but the defense argues she is not guilty by reason of insanity. This set off Clancy’s legion of crazed fans, who have become infamous for their public behavior and wild conspiracy theories. They and the liberal media immediately sought to destroy the brave juror who...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) announced a sweeping crackdown on fraudulent SNAP retailers—bodegas, convenience stores, and grocery stores—across New York’s five boroughs. This investigation, dubbed Operation SNAP Back, included hundreds of undercover investigations leading to action against 170 retailers. “This is just the latest action in the Trump Administration's fight against fraud. The message is clear, if you accept any portion of an annual $100 billion taxpayer program, you must follow the rules or face the consequences,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins. “We owe it to every American...

A grotesque homeless encampment continues to expand on Manhattan’s West Side and now covers 12 city blocks with theft, drugs and prostitution flourishing in broad daylight Under new rules in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, the NYPD is no longer authorized to clear the encampments. The city Department of Homeless Services is in charge of conducting the sweeps, but it hasn’t done so. One vagrant went so far as to call the mayor “awesome” for allowing the unsanitary encampment to thrive and halting police raids that once cleared out the unsightly settlements. “Most people would agree that leaving people on the...

Repeal the 19th Amendment? Even if you think it is a good idea, that ship sailed long ago. Women make up more than half the voting population, and by a large margin at that. In the 2024 election, for instance, over nine million more women voted than men. And just as in college education, women dominate the political culture. It may be possible to get more men off their behinds to vote, but female dominance in politics is not going away any time soon, and whatever fantasies some people have about repealing the 19th Amendment, it ain't going to happen....

No good deed goes unpunished. Especially in the socialist state of New York, where the Attorney General has transformed herself into a one-woman Board of Real Estate Values and Applications. A few years ago, Letitia James aimed her peculiar interests in private property at Donald Trump. Now James refuses to release the proceeds of a Manhattan property sale to aging nuns who can no longer support the ministry they ran in New York City for more than a century. And it's no small amount, either. The Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence, based in Kentucky, ran the Jeanne D'Arc...

US officials embraced an algorithm for detecting signals of harm from mRNA covid-19 vaccines that they knew was broken and suppressed efforts to fix it.

The New York Times came under fire Wednesday over a baffling passage that appeared in an article about an Israeli documentary — which said the Jewish state “still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.” .....

California is recalling more cannabis products after a worker died at a massive marijuana farm that has since been shut down by state regulators.

Coordination emerges not primarily from explicit instruction but from shared ideological programming, financial incentives, and institutional culture. Joe Sobran (1946–2010), a longtime National Review columnist, essayist, and conservative thinker, portrayed the Left, as manifested by the Democrat Party, from the 1980s onward as a “Hive.” He believed that this metaphor was nearly perfect in characterizing a decentralized but instinctively coordinated politically driven collective that swarms in the same direction, enforces conformity, and advances the Left’s collectivist goals without needing a formal conspiracy or central command. Sobran’s hive analogy (echoed by many others) is apt precisely because it captures something that...

A Kosovo war crimes tribunal on Wednesday found former President Hashim Thaci guilty of war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 war for independence from Serbia. Thaci, a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes including murder, torture and illegal detention. He was tried along with three other former KLA guerrilla leaders in The Hague.

A colonoscopy in February 2025 was meant to lead to a routine follow-up. Eighteen months on, a patient in Cádiz says that appointment still doesn’t exist, and neither does any record of the procedure that was supposed to trigger it. A colonoscopy, then months of silence In November 2024, a patient at Hospital Universitario de Puerto Real in Cádiz was referred to the Digestivo (digestive medicine) department, and a colonoscopy was prescribed. It was carried out on February 5, 2025, according to consumer group FACUA Cádiz. The patient then asked for the follow-up review about a week later, but more...

California high school students are scoring more straight A’s than ever – but it’s not necessarily because they’re getting smarter, according to data and education experts. The number of college applicants reporting flawless GPAs of 4.0 or higher has doubled over the past decade even as state testing shows a post-pandemic plunge in reading and math comprehension — revealing a grade-inflation crisis that’s sending students who can’t even do fractions into top universities. Over the past decade, the number of students applying to the University of California system with straight A’s skyrocketed from 52,989 in 2015 to 103,138 for the...

This is Shelly Headen, Democrat running for NC House District 62. She toured Dachau, a Nazi death camp, smiled in front of the ovens, and posted: “This is where Trump supporters belong.” 41,500 people were murdered there. Jews. Priests. POWs. Political prisoners. This CPA running to “restore human decency” used that ground to fantasize about putting half the country in a crematorium. Same woman who wrote America’s “only hope” was an attack on U.S. soil”, preferably Alabama, Louisiana… where the stupid people live.” This is the mask off.

There are those watershed moments in internet history when it makes journalisming all worth it. Such is the case when a Lindsay Clancy fan found out the mind-bending news that the lone holdout juror in the Clancy case who forced a mistrial was... *gasp"... black. The TikTok crime pseudo-expert, who goes by the handle @paigearony, really sums up the absurdity of identity politics being involved in criminal cases.Lindsay Clancy fan discovering that the lone juror is black might be the greatest video in history pic.twitter.com/jIAjIvMcU5— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 11, 2026“I’m a non-practicing white… it changes the landscape of the...

Landlords who have sued to reverse the Rent Guidelines Board’s June decision to freeze the rent on nearly 1 million stabilized apartments will probably lose their case against the city seeking to do so, legal experts say, regardless of whether or not they personally agree with or think the landlords’ case is strong. Should that happen, the rent freeze set to start on Oct. 1 is here to stay. But should those landlords win their case and the rent freeze is overturned, those same legal experts say they have no idea what will happen to the leases people have signed...

An unimaginably horrific crime occurred on Monday in Austin, Texas, area and not enough people are talking about it. And it's a crime Texas voters might want to be thinking about when they make their way to the ballot box this November to choose a new senator.A 62-year-old man had just visited his mother in a nursing home in Round Rock and taken her for a walk in a local park. After he got her settled back in at the home, he returned to the park on his own and sat down on a bench, minding his own business.***according to...