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A former Drug Enforcement Agency agent was indicted on federal charges of conspiring to traffic drugs and launder millions of dollars for a Mexican cartel. Paul Campo, who was a DEA agent for nearly 25 years, his associate Robert Sensi, are accused in a new indictment unsealed Friday of converting cash into cryptocurrency to buy 220 kilograms of cocaine, worth $5 million, and launder $750,000 in proceeds from drug sales for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG. The State Department designated CJNG as a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York allege...

The Small Business Administration on Friday ordered all companies that get preference for government contracts due to their status as “socially disadvantaged” minorities to provide detailed financial information to show they are not defrauding the program, The Daily Wire has learned. The change represents a move to reevaluate a decades-old program that Washington insiders have long recognized as openly corrupt. The 8(a) program is one of the largest and oldest DEI initiatives in the country, affecting contracts at almost all federal agencies. SBA administrator Kelly Loeffler said there is mounting evidence that minority contracts had become “a pass-through vehicle for...

Candace Owens is facing significant scrutiny after she indicated she would not attend an in-person event geared toward addressing the various conspiracy theories she has promoted about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. On Wednesday, The Charlie Kirk Show producer Blake Neff tore into Owens over her amplification of “lies” and “innuendos thrown around with a total, reckless disregard for the truth.” “Ever since Charlie’s murder, Candace Owens has leveled a flood of allegations against people at Turning Point USA, people at Turning Point Action, and people who work for this show. She has made them against some of Charlie’s closest...

“And I think some of the things being done by the Secretary—through some permission with the White House, but most of it’s coming out of the Under Secretary for Policy—a lot of decisions are coming from there. But it’s going to cause damage to our country for years to come, way after they leave. It’s undermining our trust with our allies and a very important alliance. And that troubles me more than anything.”

New records obtained by Spotlight PA show Pennsylvania is planning to spend just shy of $1.1 million in public dollars for security upgrades to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s private family home in the Philadelphia suburbs, including $311,000 for a new security system and nearly $290,000 for landscaping and other groundskeeping. The upgrades, the Shapiro administration has said, were recommended by Pennsylvania State Police after a middle-of-the-night arson attack earlier this year on the state-owned mansion for the governor some 100 miles away in Harrisburg. Shapiro and his family were asleep inside at the time, but no one was injured.

A Winchester man has been sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison for supplying the fentanyl that caused the fatal overdose of 30-year-old Calin Sender, marking one of the few fentanyl-related murder convictions in California, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors said Quinn Aaron McKellips, 38, provided the lethal dose of fentanyl that killed Sender in January 2020. Evidence presented during trial showed McKellips had been selling multiple types of narcotics to Sender for several months before his death. Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said the sentence reflects the seriousness of the crime and...

Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a Minneapolis man in connection with a string of sexual assaults including of a 15-year-old girl. In two of the cases, Abdimahat Bille Mohamed, 28, avoided prison as part of a recent plea deal with the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and allegedly raped his latest victim in September while on probation. In a statement, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi blamed Minnesota’s “left-wing soft-on-crime policies” for putting innocent people at risk from a “Somali national.” In response, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the Justice Department news release is a “clear attempt to politicize a sexual...

Santa Ana police have arrested four adults and a 15-year-old boy in connection with a September shooting that left a 13-year-old dead and three other juveniles wounded, authorities announced Friday.

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After successfully holding strong in the face of a Democrat-led government shutdown over Obamacare, a cabal of House Republicans is now waiving the white flag on the issue.On Thursday, nearly three dozen Democrats and Republicans introduced a proposal to extend taxpayer-funded Obamacare subsidies. As Federalist Senior Contributor Christopher Jacobs has regularly reported in these pages, these Biden-era subsidies — which are set to expire at the end of this year — have been a complete and total disaster. Spearheaded by Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Jen Kiggins, R-Va., the measure “would extend and reduce the tax credits in a two-step...

I’ve watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem.As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as a traveling salesman, then as a law student, and finally as an attorney at a Memphis law firm. As an associate lawyer, I dreamed of escaping the daily grind by writing a great American novel. A fellow named John Grisham beat me to it, writing a book called “The Firm,” which was loosely based on my then-Memphis law firm, Baker Donelson. I guess that is why, many years later, I’m still a practicing attorney and John Grisham has written...

Back in October, New York AG Letitia James was indicted with two charges related to mortgage fraud. But by the end of November that indictment, and one against former FBI Director James Comey, were tossed out after a judge ruled the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as prosecutor was improper. Both cases were dismissed without prejudice.That left the DOJ with two options. They could appeal the ruling dismissing the two cases or they could essentially start over with a new prosecutor. Yesterday, they attempted to start over on the case against Letitia James but the new prosecutor failed to secure an...

The world's leading manufacturer of advanced chips is TSMC in Taiwan. Back in 2020, President Trump helped convince TSMC to make a major investment in building chips here in the US, specifically in Arizona.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has agreed to build an advanced chip factory in the United States, in a response to the Trump administration’s growing concerns about the security of the global electronics supply chain and its competitive tensions with China.The decision by T.S.M.C., which operates enormous plants in Taiwan to produce chips used in most smartphones and many other devices, was confirmed late Thursday after earlier press...

The future is now along a stretch of Texas highway as driverless semi-trucks begin their commutes within an Austin-area corridor. The "Smart Freight Corridor" is a 21-mile stretch of State Highway 130 in the Austin area - the fastest highway in Texas - covering the highway region from Georgetown to Mustang Ridge.

FBI Director Kash Patel shut down numerous accusations that have been made by podcast host Candace Owens involving the murder of the late co-founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk. During his appearance on Friday on the Sirius XM The Megyn Kelly Show podcast, Kelly started out by asking Patel if they believe they have the "proper suspect in custody" — if Tyler Robinson is "in fact, the man who killed Kirk." Patel didn't hesitate in the slightest and answered, "Yes." The host then brought up one of the wild accusations that have been made by Owens, which includes claiming...

It is always amazing that, in a place where liberal Democrats have reigned supreme for decades, and say they want a change, their answer always seems to be, "If we just elect some new Democrats..." Since he came on the scene during the summer, the entire nation has been able to see what's coming once Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani gets sworn into office. He is an unapologetic socialist and will implement ridiculous and useless socialist ideas in the Big Apple. When it comes to the city's homeless population, even Democrat Mayor Eric Adams knew there had to be some restrictions. But...

Vice President JD Vance just dropped a hilarious Oval Office story leaving the entire room cracking up. President Trump glanced over the Resolute Desk at VP Vance and Secretary Marco Rubio and said, “You guys have shitty shoes.” Right then and there, Trump pulled out a shoe catalog and gifted them 4 pairs of shoes. 🤣 Wait until the end of the story… “Today I'm in the Oval Office with the President and Marco Rubio, and we're talking about something really important. The President kind of holds up his hand and says, ‘no, no, no, hold on a second. There's...

When attorney Harmeet Dhillon was announced as Donald Trump’s choice to lead the DOJ Civil Rights Division in December 2024, we knew he’d picked someone who wasn’t coming to D.C. to mess around. And since her confirmation in April, the former California RNC chair and founder of the Dhillon Law Group, as well as the Center for American Liberty, has been very busy indeed.On Friday, the assistant attorney general announced that her team had uncovered some serious anomalies in voter rolls around the nation — hundreds of thousands of them.According to Dhillon, federal investigators have identified 260,000 dead individuals still...

Possible mass deportation of 200,000 Afghans living in America is now being discussed at the White House 🚨 Department of War @DeptofWar Senior Advisor Stuart Scheller @stuartscheller confirmed to me that the 76,000 Afghan refugees admitted during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan under the Biden regime is a massive undercount, revealing that the true number of unvetted individuals is likely significantly higher…closer to 200,000. Scheller acknowledged that the upcoming report will expose the leadership decisions of past administrations that allowed Islamic enemy combatants to enter our country. Surely, these failures are directly linked to the recent murder of National Guard...

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