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Fifth Circuit declares age restrictions on adult handgun purchases unconstitutional
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Courthouse News Service, National

Fifth Circuit declares age restrictions on adult handgun purchases unconstitutional

By Christina van Waasbergen  | Courthouse News Service A Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday that a decades-old federal law banning handgun purchases by 18 to 20-year-olds violates the Second Amendment. The ruling is an about-face from a prior ruling where the appeals court initially found the law constitutional in 2012. The three-judge panel attributed the switch up to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which held that gun restrictions must be consistent with the historical tradition of firearm regulation in the U.S. "Ultimately, the text of the Second Amendment includes eighteen-to-twenty-year-old individuals among 'the people' whose right to keep and bear arms is protected. The fed...
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Trump moving forward with tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, targeting trade, border and fentanyl concerns
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Breitbart, National

Trump moving forward with tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, targeting trade, border and fentanyl concerns

By John Carney | Breitbart The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump will impose new tariffs on major U.S. trading partners this weekend, strengthening his administration’s efforts to protect American industry and national security. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that a 25 percent tariff will be placed on goods from Mexico and Canada, while Chinese imports will face a 10 percent duty. The move, she said, is aimed at holding these countries accountable for their role in drug trafficking and securing fairer trade terms for American workers. “These nations have all enabled illegal drugs to pour into America,” Leavitt said. “The amount of fentanyl seized at the southern border in recent years alone has the potential to kill tens of millions o...
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Trump to send thousands of migrants to Gitmo after Biden considered doing exactly the same thing
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National, The Daily Caller

Trump to send thousands of migrants to Gitmo after Biden considered doing exactly the same thing

By Jason Hopkins | Daily Caller President Donald Trump ordered his administration to send tens of thousands of illegal migrants to Guantanamo Bay to help aid in his large-scale detention and deportation operation. For more than two decades, the Cuba-based Guantanamo Bay Naval Base has been used to hold suspected terrorists. While speaking at a ceremony for the signing of the Laken Riley Act, the president revealed that he would also be ordering the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to construct a facility at the base to hold as many as 30,000 illegal migrants in an area distinct from where suspected terrorists are currently detained. This is not the first time the U.S. has utilized Guantanamo Bay for migrant detention. The Clinton administra...
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Staffing at Reagan Washington National Airport air control tower was ‘not normal’ on night of collision
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Fox News, National

Staffing at Reagan Washington National Airport air control tower was ‘not normal’ on night of collision

By Greg Wehner  | Fox News An internal preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly showed that the number of staff members working at the air control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic." On Wednesday night, an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C., and all 67 people onboard both aircraft are presumed to be dead. The Associated Press obtained a report which showed one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash.  READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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Elementary student argues being required to remove ‘Come and Take It’ hat was 1st Amendment violation
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Elementary student argues being required to remove ‘Come and Take It’ hat was 1st Amendment violation

By Kevin Koeninger | Courthouse News Service Students do not abandon their First Amendment rights when they enter the classroom — and a hat depicting an assault rifle is not threatening or inappropriate, a Michigan father argued Thursday at the Sixth Circuit, seeking to overturn a lower court loss in the lawsuit he filed on behalf of his daughter. Adam Stroub's daughter C.S. was in third grade in February 2022 when her school had "hat day" and encouraged students to wear their favorite hats. She decided on a hat she had given to her father: a black baseball cap with a star above an assault rifle and the phrase "come and take it" in block letters. Administrators at Kerr Elementary School in Durand, Michigan, forced her to take it off. READ THE FULL STORY AT COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVI...
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Air traffic control and the DEI debate in wake of mid-air Reagan Airport collision
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National, National Review

Air traffic control and the DEI debate in wake of mid-air Reagan Airport collision

By Dan McLaughlin | National Review As Charlie notes, even after last night's air disaster culminated a series of near-misses over the past four years, American air travel remains astonishingly safe, and the likelihood is that a full investigation will find that last night's crash of an Army Blackhawk helicopter into a commercial airliner was (1) a total freak accident, (2) the result of a mechanical problem with the helicopter, and/or (3) human error by the helicopter pilot, perhaps compounded by poor air-traffic control. Efforts to blame this on Donald Trump, whose transportation secretary Sean Duffy only took office yesterday morning, say more about the people ... READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NATIONAL REVIEW
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Dems worry Kash Patel could weaponize FBI against political enemies like they did
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National, The Federalist

Dems worry Kash Patel could weaponize FBI against political enemies like they did

By Beth Brelje | The Federalist In a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, feckless Democrat senators grilled Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, trying to paint him as a Trump henchman hellbent on seeking revenge for all the crap the FBI put Trump and American citizens through. It’s no wonder they are worried; the nation has seen how the FBI has been turned into a political weapon, and Democrats don’t want it pointed at them. The Federalist has written extensively about corruption within the FBI under Democrats’ watch, including the Russia collusion hoax that Patel helped disprove; the gun-toting dawn raids on the homes of nonviolent citizens; the overreaching invasion of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home; and the tampering in the federal election by conceali...
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Trump birthright citizenship order leaves loophole allowing ‘birth tourism’ method used by Chinese nationals
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National, The Daily Caller

Trump birthright citizenship order leaves loophole allowing ‘birth tourism’ method used by Chinese nationals

By Katelynn Richardson | Daily Caller One loophole in President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship could permit Chinese nationals, along with other non-citizens, to continue obtaining U.S. citizenship for their children. The order’s language leaves room for the growing international surrogacy industry — which allows intended parents from across the word to hire an American woman to carry their child to term — to continue operating as the newest means of “birth tourism.” According to the most recent data from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), foreign nationals went through 4,713 “gestational carrier cycles” — or attempts to implant an embryo — in 2020, up from 2,758 in 2014. Chinese nationals make up the highest percentage of users, a...
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Rep. Cloud, Sen. Lee introduce bill to remove firearm suppressor regulations
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Breitbart, National

Rep. Cloud, Sen. Lee introduce bill to remove firearm suppressor regulations

By AWR Hawkins | Breitbart Rep. Mike Cloud (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) are introducing legislation Friday to eliminate the excessive regulations which make suppressor acquisition so cumbersome. Their legislation seizes on the hearing protection afforded by suppressors and is titled, Silencers Help Us Save Hearing (SHUSH) Act. Suppressors are currently under the purview of the National Firearms Act (NFA) and Cloud and Lee explain that this creates myriad steps for law-abiding citizens to follow/fulfill in order to get an accessory that has no barrel, no trigger, no action, no magazine capacity nor ability to accept a magazine. The steps for acquisition include, but are not limited to, filling out ATF forms, being fingerprinted and provided those prints to an FFL, being photogra...
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Senate confirms Doug Burgum as interior secretary to pursue Trump pro-drilling agenda
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National, Washington Examiner

Senate confirms Doug Burgum as interior secretary to pursue Trump pro-drilling agenda

By Callie Patteson | Washington Examiner The Senate has confirmed former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as the next secretary of the interior in a bipartisan vote, further cementing an energy dominance focus in the president’s Cabinet.  Burgum, 68, was confirmed late Thursday night in a 79-18 vote with the majority of Senate Democrats voting in favor. The vote came one day after Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin was confirmed, making Burgum the eighth member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to be confirmed.  Burgum sailed smoothly through his confirmation hearings in committee earlier this month. Last week, the Senate Committee of Energy and Natural Resources met to discuss advancing Burgum’s nomination to ...
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