Trump-Appointed Judge Allows Several States to Continue Abortion Pill Challenge

Mifepristone boxes

A Texas federal judge Thursday ruled Idaho, Kansas and Missouri can join a case challenging access to the abortion pill.

Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk allowed the states to pursue legal action in Texas that seeks to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from allowing online prescriptions for Mifepristone over concerns that it could “undermine state abortion laws and frustrate state law enforcement,” according to court documents. A coalition of doctors previously challenged the FDA’s regulations of the pill due to concerns that several safety standards were ignored in order to rush its approval, but the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the FDA in 2024.

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Supreme Court Takes Up Religious Parents’ Challenge to Schools That Mandate Books Celebrating Gender Transitions

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The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear parents’ challenge to a school district requirement forcing kids to participate in story times featuring books on gender and sexuality.

In their petition, parents asked the Supreme Court to consider whether Montgomery County Board of Education’s decision to ignore their religious objections violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

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China’s Population Declines for Third Straight Year amid Rising Economic Struggles

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China’s population declined for a third straight year in 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics of China reported on Friday.

The total population of China stood at 1.408 billion at the end of 2024, a decline of 1.39 million from 2023, according to the press release. The country’s continuous population decline is largely due to low fertility rates, which have been steadily declining for half a century.

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Biden’s Green Loan Office Offers Up a Staggering $22 Billion in Admin’s Final Hours

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm

The Biden administration’s green loan office is shelling out nearly $23 billion to utility companies for green energy development and other projects in its final days.

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced its conditional commitment to provide a combined $22.9 billion in financing to numerous utility companies across the country to “modernize” their grid systems by adding new green energy generation, building transmission lines needed to harness renewable generation and more. The LPO is continuing its lame duck lending spree through the very end of the Biden administration, even though Republicans and the DOE’s internal watchdog have called for a freeze on LPO activity due to concerns about the office’s safeguards pertaining to conflicts of interest.

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Lee Zeldin Tells Senator He ‘Doesn’t Believe’ in ‘Armed Bureaucracy’ When Asked About ‘Outrageous’ EPA Raid

Lee Zeldin

Former Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York said Thursday he believed the Environmental Protection Agency should not be an “armed bureaucracy.”

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carried out a raid with dozens of armed agents on a mine near Chicken, Alaska, in August 2013, according to Fox News. Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska asked Zeldin, who President-elect Donald Trump nominated to serve as EPA administrator, about the use of armed agents to conduct raids during a Thursday hearing, saying that the Biden administration was conducting armed raids similar to the 2013 raid on “small mechanic shops” in his state.

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Trump Treasury Pick Scott Bessent Turns Tables on Sen. Bernie Sanders After He Attempts to Corner Him

Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent turned the tables on independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at his Thursday confirmation hearing by pointing out that President Joe Biden awarded “oligarchs” with the highest honor.

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FDA Bans Cancer-Linked Food Dye Ahead of RFK Jr’s Confirmation Hearing

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday it will ban Red No. 3, a common artificial food dye linked to cancer.

The dye, which the FDA banned for cosmetics and topical drugs in 1990 after it was found to promote tumor growth in rats, is widely used in hundreds of products ranging from candies to ADHD medications. The move precedes the Senate’s decision on confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an opponent of food dyes, as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Deaths Will Outpace Births in Eight Years, According to Dire Government Prediction

Annual deaths are expected to exceed annual births in the United States by 2033, a new report estimates.

Population growth in the U.S. is expected to stagnate between 2025 and 2055 as fertility rates continue to decline, a report released Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found. A predicted significant decline in illegal immigration as well as many women choosing to delay motherhood are two contributing factors.

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Bitter Kamala Refuses to Invite Vances to Veep’s Residence

JD Vance, Naval observatory (V.P. residence)

Vice President Kamala Harris has not extended a formal invitation to JD Vance and his family for a tour or sit-down at the Naval Observatory, where they are scheduled to move on Jan. 20, multiple sources from both parties disclosed to CBS News.

As Vance, his wife Usha, and their three young children prepare to move into the Naval Observatory residence on Jan. 20, they will set foot in the mansion for the first time—a residence that has hosted vice presidents since the 1970s. In a bid to prepare the home for their children—all under the age of eight—the Vances, through intermediaries, reached out to the current occupants, Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, last November.

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House Speaker Announces Flags at U.S. Capitol to Fly at Full-Staff During Trump Inauguration

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday announced that U.S. flags on Capitol Hill will fly at full-staff next week, during President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, but will be returned to half-staff the next day.

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CNN’ Jennings: Dems’ Strategy for Hegseth Hearing Totally Blew Up in Their Faces

CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings said Democratic senators’ “mudslinging” strategy backfired at President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s Tuesday confirmation hearing.

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Biden-Harris Admin Imposes New Export Controls on AI Chips

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The Biden-Harris administration announced on Monday that it would restrict exports of chips used for artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, according to a White House press release.

The new regulations, which were unveiled just a week before President Joe Biden is set to leave office, will cap the number of AI chips that can be exported to most countries, according to the press release. The export controls are intended to continue “to ensure that advanced semiconductors sold abroad are not used by countries of concern to train advanced AI systems,” the announcement states.

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As Violent Venezuelan Gang Plagues US, Biden DHS Issues Deportation Protections for Migrants from Venezuela

ICE arresting suspect

The Biden administration rolled out deportation protections to nearly a million foreign nationals living in the United States, including hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

More than 900,000 beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will be allowed to register for an 18-month extension, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday. The massive roll out — just days before President Joe Biden leaves office and President-elect Donald Trump returns to power — includes TPS extensions for roughly 600,000 Venezuelans living in the country.

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Commentary: America Is Already Seeing Signs of a Trump Economic Revival

Blue Collar Work

Job creation smashed expectations in December, as employers finished the hiring season strong, optimistic about the end of Bidenomics and the return of the Trump bump. Employers added 256,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. So much for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s weakening labor market.

It’s New Year in America again.

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Biden Gives Ukraine One More Handout Before Leaving Office

Biden and Ukraine

The Biden administration sent approximately $500 million worth of aid to Ukraine on Thursday as the conflict continues to drag on without any clear end in sight.

The equipment covered by Thursday’s funding will include air defense missiles, gear to help Ukraine use F-16 jets, air-to-ground armaments and more. President-elect Donald Trump has clearly stated that he wants to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, and Biden administration officials are arguing that the aid will give Ukraine as much leverage as possible before the two sides potentially head to the negotiating table to end the conflict.

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Biden Admin’s Effort to Drive Men into Women’s Sports Runs Out of Gas

President Joe Biden’s attempt to rewrite Title IX to include gender identity was officially blocked by a federal court Thursday.

The rule rewrite would have allowed biological males to compete in women’s sports and use women’s spaces. Challengers to the rule hailed the court’s decision, with Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti declaring the ruling to be a “massive win.”

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Biden Admin to Dole Out Millions in Refunds to Illegal Migrants Who Applied for Failed Amnesty Program

Illegal Immigrants

The Biden-Harris administration will issue millions of dollars in refunds to illegal migrants who applied for an amnesty program that was struck down in court.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) intends to refund the $580 application fee to the roughly 94,000 individuals who paid in hopes of benefiting from the administration’s Keeping Families Together program, according to CBS News. The program, had it not been deemed unlawful, offered a pathway to citizenship for potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants living in the U.S. who are married to American citizens.

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Trump Announces New ‘Beautiful’ Patriotic Name for Gulf of Mexico

Donald Trump and Gulf of Mexico

President-elect Donald Trump announced his plan to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to the “Gulf of America” during a Tuesday press conference.

Trump said during the press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, that the potential new name for the gulf is “beautiful” and “appropriate” as Mexico continues to allow “millions” of illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. through the southern border. The president-elect called Mexico a “very dangerous place” that is ultimately “run by the cartels,” and has threatened the nation with economic consequences over the border crisis.

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Consumers Are Right to Think Biden’s Economy Is in Bad Shape, Experts Say

Workers

Consumers are right to be dissatisfied with the current state of the economy despite claims of a booming economy from U.S. officials and the media, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Consumer sentiment, meaning Americans perception of the economy, is expected to improve in December following a mid-month reading of 69.7 index points, which is far from the high under Biden of 88.3 in April 2021 and even further from the 90 to 100 range that was common during the Trump presidency, according to the University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers. Politicians and the media have insisted that consumers are wrong to be unenthusiastic about the state of the economy, but experts told the DCNF that consumer perceptions are more in line with the true state of the country.

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Massive Dockworker Strike Could Land in Trump Admin’s Lap on Day One

Donald Trump and Longshoreman Union

A costly dockworkers’ strike could ignite just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, presenting the Republican’s administration with a major domestic challenge on day one.

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), which represents 47,000 workers, is planning to strike on Jan. 15 after a short three-day strike in October, where the union secured a 62% pay raise over six years from United States Maritime Alliance (USMX). However, negotiations concerning port automation with shipping companies continue to stall, and industry giant Maersk said there have been no new developments, according to Bloomberg Tuesday.

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Biden DOJ Poured over $100 Million into ‘Restorative Justice,’ DEI Efforts for K-12 Students, New Report Finds

The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Joe Biden awarded K-12 schools $100,113,942 in grants aimed at increasing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts since 2021, a new report says.

The DOJ divvied up at least 30 grants that explicitly mentioned DEI or stated an intention to improve outcomes for a specific demographic group. Many more included topics of restorative justice and social emotional learning, according to Parents Defending Education (PDE). A total of 102 grants involving such topics were sent to 946 school districts in 36 states, representing about 3,235,414 students.

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Mortgage Rates Near Six-Month Peak as Bidenomics Burns Through American Buying Power

U.S. mortgage rates rose to an almost six-month high toward the end of 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

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Violent Venezuelan Gang Reportedly Attacked Border Crossings as Concerns Mount About More Possible Violence

Tren de Aragua gang members armed with weapons attacked crossings along the Texas-Mexico border, according to an internal memo obtained by the New York Post.

Earlier in December, 20 members of the notorious Venezuelan prison gang attempted to force their way into the country at a border checkpoint near El Paso, Texas, while armed with blades, broken liquor bottles and tire irons, according to a leaked Texas Department of Public Safety memo obtained by the Post. Another attempt to bust into the U.S. is expected on New Year’s Day.

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Tech Giants Secure Work Visas for Tens of Thousands of Foreigners While Kicking Existing Employees to the Curb

Worker at Desk

U.S. tech giants have been sacking employees in droves while simultaneously importing tens of thousands of foreign workers.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft have laid off at least 27,000, 12,000 and 16,000 employees, respectively, since 2022. However, in that same roughly three-year period, the companies have secured at least 61,000 H-1B visas combined for foreign workers, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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Commentary: Trump Driving Foreign Policy Blob Crazy by Daring to Put America First

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For the past 40 years, American politicians have argued how wars in far-flung third-world countries are in the United States’ vital strategic interests. From Iraq to Kosovo, American leaders of both parties squandered trillions of dollars and thousands of lives chasing phantom threats around the world.

The rationale behind these interventions has often been based on outright fabrications cloaked by high-falutin’ language to the American public. Take President Bill Clinton’s 78-day bombing of a European capital — the first since World War II. Clinton sold the intervention as a way to prevent World War III: “We act to prevent a wider war, to defuse a powder keg at the heart of Europe, that has exploded twice before in this century with catastrophic results.”

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Biden Greenlights Billions More for Ukraine in Waning Days of Presidency

Biden and Ukraine

President Joe Biden announced Monday that the federal government is sending $2.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine in the final days of his presidency.

The funding will help the Ukrainians secure equipment for artillery and air defense systems, among other things, according to the White House. In his official statement, Biden said that he is “surging as much assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible” in the final weeks of his presidency, even as President-elect Donald Trump has clearly stated he wants to end the bloody Russia-Ukraine war after years of fighting.

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Commentary: America Gaining Control of Greenland and Panama Canal Will Deter China’s Influence in Western Hemisphere

Donald Trump

President-elect Donald J. Trump promised that if elected he would govern in bold colors, not pale pastels. Our next president believes deeply in American Exceptionalism and is making it perfectly clear that the days of America taking a back seat to anyone are over.

Trump’s optimistic vision is for our great nation to lead once again as a beacon of freedom for centuries to come, and that we must be victorious in the great battle of ideals that is currently underway. There is simply no escaping it; the United States will continue to lead the world for good or Communist China will gladly take up the mantle and lead it for evil.

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Guatemala Open to Accepting Central American Deportees Kicked Out Under Trump: Report

Guatemala is reportedly open to helping President-elect Donald Trump with a key part of his mission to deport massive numbers of illegal migrants out of the United States.

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Radio Silence from Kia Continues After DCNF Exposed Automaker’s Ties to Nonprofit Pushing Trans Books on Kids

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Car manufacturer Kia has continued to stonewall following a Daily Caller News Foundation report on the company’s ties to a nonprofit that distributes LGBTQ-themed books to children.

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN) Rainbow Library — a program that provides teachers with free children’s books which propagate transgender ideology — prominently listed Kia as a co-sponsor on its website as recently as Tuesday. However, Kia has since been removed from the Rainbow Library’s sponsors page after a spokesperson for the carmaker denied in a statement Tuesday that it sponsored the nonprofit in 2023 or 2024 and subsequently failed to respond to eight follow-up inquiries from the DCNF sent between Tuesday, Dec. 17, and Monday, Dec. 23.

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Corporate Media’s over the Top Reactions to Those Who Dared Question Biden’s Health

The corporate media attempted to discredit any concerns about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity following the release of a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report from June detailing the president’s decline.

The WSJ detailed in a Thursday article that White House aides and advisers handled Biden’s responsibilities as his mental health waned, with some cabinet advisers revealing that they met with advisers rather than the president himself. Six months earlier, the paper published a damning June 5 piece titled, “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs Of Slipping,” outlining several accounts of many who shared their concerns about the president’s age and mental acuity from a wide range of sources.

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Big Tech Falls in Line with Trump After Years of Censorship

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In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory, Big Tech companies became central hubs of the so-called “resistance” against him, firing up censorship and deplatforming campaigns, culminating in the then-former president’s banishment from Facebook and Twitter after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google founder Sergei Brin famously led thousands of employees in protest against Trump’s immigration policies. During the 2020 campaign, Big Tech platforms even censored discussions of the Hunter Biden laptop story in order to curry favor with his father and Trump’s opponent — former Vice President Joe Biden.

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Commentary: Trump Made TikTok Great Again

In today’s digital era, where social media platforms serve as the battlegrounds for ideas, information and cultural exchange, the conversation around banning TikTok must be approached with caution and a deep understanding of its implications.

With over 170 million American users, TikTok has transcended mere entertainment to become a vital tool for communication, creativity and, notably in the 2024 presidential election, political engagement. President-elect Donald Trump’s strategic embrace of this platform, known for its cultural influence among the younger demographic, was instrumental in clinching his win.

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Trump’s Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan Sees a Huge Problem with Biden’s New Deportation Numbers

Tom Homan

President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar said that while the Biden administration’s latest deportation numbers appear high, they aren’t actually indicative of increased enforcement actions across the country.

More than 271,000 illegal migrants were deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in fiscal year 2024, marking the largest number of foreign nationals removed from the United States in a decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Biden administration. However, Tom Homan — a former acting director for the agency and the incoming border czar for the Trump administration — said these removals were largely a result of Border Patrol apprehensions and not indicative of immigration enforcement in the interior of the country.

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Navy Admits DOD Will Shell Out Funds for Obscure Environmental Initiative with No Impact on Military Readiness

Navy Cadets

A little-known environmental provision in the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has no impact on military operations, but will instead serve to “protect the native vegetation,” a Navy spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement Tuesday.

The nearly $884 billion defense bill passed by the U.S. Senate Wednesday includes an initiative to “manage, control and interdict the coconut rhinoceros beetle” — an invasive species of insect that bore holes into the canopies of palm trees — “on military installations in Hawaii.” By the Navy’s own admission, the initiative’s purpose is to preserve vegetation, and thus is effectively unrelated to the Department of Defense’s (DOD) stated mission “to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security.”

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‘Brought This On Ourselves’: Dem Predicts Massive Backlash After Party Leaders Exposed for ‘Lying’ About Biden Health

Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris

Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky said Thursday night that the Democratic Party could face a “tea party” movement after the Biden administration concealed the truth about President Joe Biden’s health.

A Wall Street Journal article published Thursday revealed White House aides “insulated” Biden, even from Cabinet members, from the first year of his presidency. Roginsky said that the “lying” about Biden’s health would have consequences for Democrats.

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U.S. Government Awarded Sensitive Research Grants to Scientists in Chinese Communist Party Talent Programs

China President Xi Jinping

U.S. government agencies have awarded sensitive scientific, military and energy grants to dozens of researchers participating in Chinese government programs linked to economic espionage, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

The DCNF identified 50 federally-funded researchers currently working in U.S. universities and/or national laboratories who are listed as experts of Chinese government talent recruitment schemes, like the Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) and Chang Jiang Scholars program, following a months-long review of the talent plans’ websites, Chinese government documents, university profiles and state-run media reports.

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Kia, TJ Maxx Listed as Corporate Sponsors of ‘Rainbow Library’ Pushing Trans Books to Preschool Kids

School Library

Retailer T.J. Maxx and automaker Kia are listed as co-sponsors of a program that distributes LGBTQ-themed books to K-12 schools across the U.S., according to a Wednesday report from conservative nonprofit Consumers’ Research obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The initiative, titled the Rainbow Library, is run by national LGBTQ+ activist organization the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and sends participating teachers books that push transgenderism and homosexuality onto kids as young as five, Consumers’ Research found. Over 8,100 schools in 33 states nationwide participate in the program.

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Businesses Report Inflation Is Taking Wrench to Their Cash-Strapped Customers

Grocery Shopper

Dollar stores are reporting softened demand and increased financial stress among their lower-income consumers, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Some businesses say their customers are spending less money toward the end of the month and more focused on purchasing from cheap store brands, according to the WSJ. Dollar General said in a December earnings call that its best-performing category in its last quarter was its “value valley” aisle, which offers $1 products, the WSJ reported.

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Stripper Who Falsely Accused Duke Lacrosse Team of Vicious Gang Rape Finally Admits She Lied

Crystal Mangum

The stripper who falsely claimed that members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team savagely raped her in 2006 finally admitted Thursday that she made up the allegations.

Crystal Mangum, the exotic dancer behind the allegations, admitted that she “testified falsely” that she was raped by David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann in a Thursday interview with an independent podcast called “Let’s Talk with Kat.” The Duke lacrosse rape hoax gripped the country as news outlets and prominent figures effectively treated the allegations as credible, with the three falsely accused men ultimately going to trial before being declared innocent by the state of North Carolina when the prosecution’s case against them fell apart.

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House Panel Subpoenas Biden-Harris Official Accused of ‘Stonewalling’ Probe into Tim Walz’s China Ties

Tim Walz

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official on Wednesday for allegedly failing to comply with an investigation into Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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FBI Had Over a Dozen Confidential Informants at Capitol on Jan. 6, I.G. Report Confirms

More than a dozen FBI informants entered restricted areas in and around the Capitol on Jan. 6 ,2021, according to a Department of Justice investigator general (IG) report published on Thursday.

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Biden Oversaw Largest Immigration Surge in U.S. History, Data Shows

Illegal Immigrants

President Joe Biden oversaw the highest level of net migration in United States history, underlining how severe the border crisis became during his tenure in the White House.

The migrant surge experienced in the past few years surpassed even the great immigration booms of the 1800s and early 1900s, according to The New York Times analysis of border data. Annual net migration, which is the sum of individuals who enter the U.S. subtracted by the number of people who leave, averaged about 2.4 million from 2021 to 2023 — resulting in net migration that is likely to surpass eight million people during the Biden administration.

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‘Unacceptable Safety Risk’: Major European Country Bans Puberty Blockers for Minors

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The United Kingdom (UK) indefinitely banned the use of puberty-blocking drugs for minors Wednesday after recommendations from experts that warned of an “unacceptable safety risk.”

The ban affects the sale and supply of the drugs to all citizens under 18 following an independent review by the Commission on Human Medicines, according to a press release from the British government. The ban will be reviewed in 2027.

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California County Dems Move to Shield Migrants Charged with ‘Heinous Crimes’ from ICE

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San Diego County doubled down on its existing sanctuary policy by voting to further restrict local cooperation with federal immigration authorities, even in cases where migrants have been charged with “heinous crimes.”

In a 3-1 vote on Tuesday, members of the Democrat-controlled San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to further restrict local law enforcement’s ability to assist or communicate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in the jurisdiction, which could include instances where a migrant has been charged with rape, assault, child abuse or other serious crimes.

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Disgraced Former Clinton Ally Anthony Weiner May Be Launching His Political Comeback

Anthony Weiner

Disgraced former Democratic New York Rep. Anthony Weiner may be gearing up for an attempted political comeback, according to New York City campaign records.

Weiner, formerly married to top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, saw his political career and marriage implode in the wake of lurid sexting scandals, including one in which he sent explicit photographs to an underage woman that resulted in a jail sentence. Now, the registered sex offender appears to be laying the groundwork for a career resurgence, as the New York City Campaign Finance Board (NYCCFB) indicates that Weiner will run to represent New York City’s second district on the city council next year.

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