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Pete Hegseth confirmed to lead Pentagon after VP Vance casts tie-breaking vote
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Fox News, National

Pete Hegseth confirmed to lead Pentagon after VP Vance casts tie-breaking vote

By Morgan Phillips , Julia Johnson  | Fox News The Senate voted to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee, Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary on Friday night after a high-tempered battle to sway lawmakers in his favor that was almost derailed by accusations about his behavior.  The final vote came down to the wire: three Republicans opposed, making for a 50 to 50 vote. Vice President JD Vance was needed to break the tie in the upper chamber, putting the final tally at 51-50. "Congratulations to Pete Hegseth. He will make a great Secretary of Defense!" Trump wrote on Truth Social after Hegseth's confirmation. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, MLK assassinations
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Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, MLK assassinations

By Louis Casiano  | Fox News President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.  Trump had promised to declassify the previously-classified documents during his 2024 campaign. "Everything will be revealed," Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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White House announces: ‘Deportation flights have begun’
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National, Newsmax

White House announces: ‘Deportation flights have begun’

By Sandy Fitzgerald  | Newsmax The White House early Friday announced that "deportation flights have begun," while releasing photographs of lines of people led onto military planes to be taken out of the country.  "President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: If you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday on X  while showing two photographs of people boarding the planes.  It was not specified when the photographs were taken, where the deportations were being carried out, or where the flights were destined. READ THE FULL STORY AT NEWSMAX
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DOJ pledges to end ‘weaponization’ of FACE act, drop three ongoing cases
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National, The Daily Caller

DOJ pledges to end ‘weaponization’ of FACE act, drop three ongoing cases

By Robert McGreevy | Daily Caller The Department of Justice (DOJ) pledged to end the federal government’s weaponization of the law, instructing the Civil Rights Division to dismiss with prejudice three FACE Act cases that targeted pro-life protesters, according to a memorandum obtained by the Daily Caller. The DOJ under former President Joe Biden used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to prosecute a relatively large number of pro-life protesters. The 1994 law prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services.” The majority of the pro-life protesters Biden’s DOJ prosecuted under the FACE Act were nonviolent. “Even though more than 1...
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Trump revokes security detail for Fauci
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Trump revokes security detail for Fauci

By Chris Pandolfo  | Fox News President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that he has terminated the security detail provided to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the taxpayer's expense. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requested security for Fauci in 2020 to protect him from threats he received as the top health official and public spokesperson during the COVID-19 pandemic. But that detail was pulled on Thursday night, CNN first reported. Trump was asked about the decision Friday while visiting Asheville, North Carolina, to tour areas impacted by Hurricane Helene. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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Trump demands voter ID as condition for California wildfire aid
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National, Washington Examiner

Trump demands voter ID as condition for California wildfire aid

By Naomi Lim | Washington Examiner President Donald Trump named voter ID and water reforms as the two concessions he is seeking from California as Washington considers sending relief to the state as it battles wildfires around Los Angeles. “I want to see two things in Los Angeles. Voter ID, so that the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. After that, I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen,” Trump told reporters Friday after Air Force One touched down in Asheville, North Carolina. Trump has repeatedly made unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud in California, both before and after his 2020 election loss. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WA...
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CIA Director Ratcliffe: ‘Day-one thing’ to get to bottom of Chinese ‘origins of COVID,’ Wuhan lab leak
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Breitbart, National

CIA Director Ratcliffe: ‘Day-one thing’ to get to bottom of Chinese ‘origins of COVID,’ Wuhan lab leak

By Matthew Boyle | Breitbart Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe told Breitbart News in his first interview after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday that he intends to immediately get to the bottom of what the Agency knows about COVID leaking from a Wuhan lab in China. Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate Thursday and then sworn in by Vice President JD Vance as the newest director of the CIA. He spoke with Breitbart News on Thursday for his first exclusive interview, in which he laid out how he intends to reform the Agency to return the world’s preeminent intelligence service to its core mission and depoliticize it. He also ripped previous CIA director John Brennan, who led the Agency during former President Barack Obama’s administration, as being s...
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ICE arrests irate Haitian gang member, murder and rape suspects in Boston
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National, New York Post

ICE arrests irate Haitian gang member, murder and rape suspects in Boston

By Isabel Keane | New York Post Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hit the ground running this week, arresting multiple violent offenders in sanctuary cities, including a hostile Haitian gang member with a lengthy rap sheet who said he “ain’t going back to Haiti” and raged “F*** Trump, Biden forever!” ICE officers in Boston made eight noteworthy arrests, including multiple MS-13 gang members, murder and rape suspects and the Haitian gang member, with 18 recent convictions, according to Fox News, who rode along with ICE for the arrests. There was also at least one “collateral” arrest where ICE took an illegal immigrant who wasn’t their initial target into custody, with the arrest in Boston being of an MS-13 gang member who had been released by the sanctuary city on Tuesda...
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RFK Jr. faces mounting criticism leading up to confirmation hearing
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National, THE HILL

RFK Jr. faces mounting criticism leading up to confirmation hearing

By Nathaniel Weixel | The Hill Pressure is mounting on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as critics squeeze senators from both sides of the aisle to oppose President Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top health official.  Kennedy’s bipartisan opponents, including liberal advocates and an organization founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, argue the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services isn’t fit to serve as secretary.   Liberals point to Kennedy’s longtime advocacy against vaccines and his role as the founder of the prominent anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense.   READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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Barkoukis: NYT blasted for ‘insane’ take on terrorist designation of cartels
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Barkoukis: NYT blasted for ‘insane’ take on terrorist designation of cartels

By Leah Barkoukis | Commentary, Townhall.com Social media users did a double take this week on a New York Times headline reacting to President Trump’s recent executive order designating certain cartels as global terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations. “The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs,” the EO notes.  “The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States,” the order continues. “In certain portions of M...
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