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Rubio’s good start blunting Chinese influence in Panama
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National, Washington Examiner

Rubio’s good start blunting Chinese influence in Panama

By Washington Examiner The selection of former Sen. Marco Rubio to become the nation’s secretary of state sent the message that shoring up Latin America will be a top priority for the new administration. Early returns suggest the selection is paying off. Rubio’s trip to Panama, his first stop as the nation’s most senior Cabinet member, delivered a significant concession from the Panamanian government. Following his meeting with Rubio, President Jose Raul Mulino, after months of denying President Donald Trump’s claims that China controlled the Panama Canal, announced that his country will not renew a 2017 infrastructure funding agreement with China.  As a result, Panama will cease participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative once th...
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Senate confirms Pam Bondi to lead Justice Department as attorney general
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National, THE HILL

Senate confirms Pam Bondi to lead Justice Department as attorney general

By Rebecca Beitsch  | The Hill The Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Pam Bondi as the next attorney general, giving her control of a Justice Department embroiled in controversy. The vote was 54-46. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joined all Republicans in voting in support of Bondi. Bondi, a two-term attorney general in Florida, has been lauded for her prosecutorial experience and work battling the opioid epidemic in the Sunshine State. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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U.S. will take over Gaza, ‘We will own it,’ Trump says
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Breitbart, National

U.S. will take over Gaza, ‘We will own it,’ Trump says

By Joel B. Pollak | Breitbart President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. would take over Gaza and remove debris, tunnels, and explosives left there by Hamas after the war with Israel, adding that he saw America taking a “long-term ownership position.” Trump said: “The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too. We’ll love it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous bombs and other weapons on the site… and get rid of the destroyed buildings [and] create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing.” The surprise announcement came as the president spoke alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit Trump since his Inauguration last month. READ THE FULL STO...
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Trump to sign executive order banning men from women’s sports — and branding visas with wrong sex as ‘fraud’
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National, New York Post

Trump to sign executive order banning men from women’s sports — and branding visas with wrong sex as ‘fraud’

By Diana Glebova | New York Post President Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday intending to keep biological men out of women’s sports through Title IX — pressuring schools to comply with the mandate by threatening to pull federal funds. The order will also mandate a visa review of athletes who enter the US to compete and mark the wrong sex on their application for potential “fraud.” Allowing trans women to compete against biological women is “dangerous” and “unfair,” White House officials said in a call previewing the signing Wednesday morning. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NEW YORK POST
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Google, arguing it is not a monopoly, asks Ninth Circuit for app store antitrust reversal
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Courthouse News Service, National

Google, arguing it is not a monopoly, asks Ninth Circuit for app store antitrust reversal

By Michael Gennaro  | Courthouse News Google asked a federal appeals court Monday to throw out a federal judge’s ruling stemming from the 2023 antitrust trial where a jury found that Google’s Play Store and billing services on Android platforms constituted an illegal monopoly. The tech giant argues that it competes with Apple — and that the trial judge stopped it from hammering that point home. In October 2024, U.S. District Judge James Donato ordered Google to open up Google Play and carry third-party app stores, and allow those third-party developers to have access to Google Play’s catalog of apps, among other remedies, in order to increase competition on the Android platform. Epic Games sued Google in 2020 after Google removed Epic’s hit game Fortnite from the Google Play Store...
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FBI agents sue Trump DOJ to block any public identification of employees who worked on Jan. 6 investigations
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Fox News, National

FBI agents sue Trump DOJ to block any public identification of employees who worked on Jan. 6 investigations

By Breanne Deppisch | Fox News A group of nine FBI agents filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the public identification of any FBI employees who worked on the Jan. 6 investigations into the U.S. Capitol riots, in an attempt to head off what they described as potentially retaliatory efforts against personnel involved in the probe. The plaintiffs, who filed the lawsuit anonymously in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said that any effort to review or discriminate against FBI employees involved in the Jan. 6 investigations would be "unlawful and retaliatory," and a violation of civil service protections under federal law. The lawsuit cited the questionnaire employees were required to fill out detailing their specific role in the Jan. 6 investigation and Mar-a...
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Press secretary confirms ‘first flights’ carrying illegals to Guantanamo Bay ‘underway’
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National, The Post Millennial

Press secretary confirms ‘first flights’ carrying illegals to Guantanamo Bay ‘underway’

By Roberto Wakerell-Cruz | The Post Millennial White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that the “first flights” carrying illegal immigrants to Guantanamo Bay are underway. Leavitt made the announcement during an interview on Fox Business, where she said that President Donald Trump was not “messing around” with the plan that he announced last week during the signing ceremony of the Laken Riley Act. "He's no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world," she told Fox Business host Stuart Varney. "Venezuela as well has agreed to repatriation flights and Colombia also agreed to cooperate with the repatriation of illegal Colombian nationals that we have found in the interior of our country,...
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House delays key vote on Trump budget bill after conservative fury over spending cuts
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Fox News, National

House delays key vote on Trump budget bill after conservative fury over spending cuts

By Elizabeth Elkind  | Fox News A key vote to advance a massive conservative policy bill has been delayed, putting House Republicans behind in their ambitious schedule to enact President Donald Trump's agenda. The House Budget Committee had initially aimed to go through and approve the legislation this week, but a source familiar with planning told Fox News Digital that is no longer the case. It comes after conservatives on the panel rejected multiple offers by House GOP leaders on where to set a baseline for cutting federal spending, urging senior Republicans to seek deeper cuts ahead of negotiations with the Senate. READ THE FULL STORY ON FOX NEWS
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USAID wasted billions of tax dollars on programs that actively harmed Americans
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National, The Daily Caller

USAID wasted billions of tax dollars on programs that actively harmed Americans

By Wallace White | Daily Caller While Democrats and corporate media outlets rail against President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid, they fail to mention that Washington bureaucrats have poured billions into programs abroad that yield questionable value to American taxpayers. The New York Times, CNN, NPR and other liberal outlets have painted Trump’s day one executive order halting most foreign aid grants for 90 days as an effort to leave the world out to dry, with lawmakers such as Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons joining the chorus of condemnation against the loss of taxpayer funding for multi-billion dollar humanitarian programs. The new Trump administration’s goal of reducing gove...
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Tom Homan to ‘seek prosecution’ against Phil Murphy if he is harboring illegal immigrant
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National, Washington Examiner

Tom Homan to ‘seek prosecution’ against Phil Murphy if he is harboring illegal immigrant

By Jenny Goldsberry | Washington Examiner Border czar Tom Homan will “look into” whether Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) is harboring an illegal immigrant as he claimed. This threat comes after Murphy said at an event that someone in his “broader universe, whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to,” is living “at our house above our garage.” “Good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her,” Murphy said in the clip. READ THE FULL STORY ON THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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