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January 4, 2025

Report: 400,000 Anchor Babies Born in the U.S. in 2024

A report by an immigration-centric think tank reveals that nearly 400,000 illegal births of so-called “anchor babies” occurred in the United States in the year 2024. As reported by Breitbart, the data from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the total...

January 4, 2025

Commentary: Biden Rewards Liz Cheney for Betraying the Constitution

And there they go again. News arrives as follows, this headline from The Hill but one on the subject: Biden to award Liz Cheney and others with Presidential Citizens Medal

January 4, 2025

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

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...

January 3, 2025

Pro-Life Christian Detained for Preaching Gospel, Offering to Adopt Babies at Abortion Clinic

Police detained a pro-life father and husband outside an Ohio abortion clinic for sharing the Gospel and offering to adopt abortion-minded women’s babies. Still, he plans to return to the clinic this weekend. Zack and Lindsay Knotts have spent the past three...

January 3, 2025

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...

January 3, 2025

Judge Rejects Trump Bid to Toss Hush Money Conviction, Sets Sentencing for January 10

Justice Juan Merchan on Friday rejected President-elect Donald Trump's bid to toss out his conviction in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money case.

January 3, 2025

Johnson Wins Speakership After Two Holdouts Flip

Mike Johnson has won the first round of voting for Speaker after two holdouts flipped to back him.

January 3, 2025

Johnson Appears to Come Up Short in First Round, but Voting Stalls

Mike Johnson appears to have come up short in his bid to remain Speaker of the House, with several Republicans voting for other candidates and no one securing a majority.

January 3, 2025

H-1B Visas Have an Undeniable Fraud Problem

Shortly before Americans celebrated Christmas, two federal criminal cases affirmed long-standing warnings that the government's H-1B visa program was ripe for fraud, and slow to bring accountability. The cases in California and Illinois brought some long-awaited justice to schemes that have tried...

January 3, 2025

Commentary: Obama’s ‘Censorship’ Office Goes Bankrupt

The Global Engagement Center, an office housed within the State Department and aiming to thwart disinformation and misinformation, has been forced by Congress to close up shop. It’s no mystery why; the taxpayer-backed GEC violated its mandate to work only overseas and...

January 3, 2025

Three Major Financial Firms Join Exodus from Climate Group, Bringing Total to Five in Past Month

Citigroup and Bank of America announced Tuesday that they were leaving the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, Reuters reported. Then on Thursday, Morgan Stanley announced, it, too was terminating its membership with the group, according to Bloomberg.

January 2, 2025

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).

January 2, 2025

Mexico’s Tariff Move on Apparel Imports Disrupts Supply Chains, Pushes Firms Toward Reshoring in the US

Just before Christmas, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a significant increase in tariffs on textiles and apparel imports, along with the end of a "border-skipping" practice, which allowed U.S. e-commerce sellers to bypass tariffs on Chinese goods. The move -...

January 2, 2025

The United Football League Announces Its 2025 Season

The United Football League (UFL) announced its full 2025 game schedule on Thursday, adding that the league's media partners – FOX, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, FS1, FOX Deportes, and ESPN Deportes – will broadcast all 43 games.

January 2, 2025

Two Indian Nationals Indicted for Elder Fraud Scheme Targeting Victims Nationwide

A federal grand jury in Tucson returned an indictment against two Indian nationals - Ahmed Maqbul Syed, 57, and Rupesh Chandra Chintakindi, 27 - over their alleged involvement in a conspiracy to commit money laundering. Syed, in addition to the...

January 2, 2025

Homelessness Spiked 18 Percent in 2024; Migrants Caused Record Rise

The number of homeless people in the U.S. reached the highest level recorded in 2024, as more than 770,000 people lived without housing on a single night in January, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual...

January 2, 2025

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...

January 2, 2025

Commentary: Betting on Homeschooling and Microschooling

I have spent the past thirty-five years creating small, highly-personalized schools where students flourish. I have, if you will, bet my life on the value of these schools—microschools before they became a thing. Over the course of that time, I’ve...

January 2, 2025

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

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...

January 1, 2025

Voters Balked on Natural Gas Bans, but Climate Advocates Are Hoping to Withstand Court Challenges

When a Consumer Project Safety commissioner suggested in 2023 that the federal government would consider banning gas stoves over safety concerns, it set off fierce nationwide backlash. While the Energy Department finalized stove efficiency standards, they were watered down from the original...

January 1, 2025

Venezuelan Prison Gang Crime, Arrests Confirmed in 22 U.S. States

Of the more than 14 million illegal border crossers reported under the Biden administration, an unknown number of violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members illegally entered the country. Now, police records and official law enforcement statements confirm TdA-linked crime and...

January 1, 2025

Commentary: A MAGA Wishlist

We did it. The greatest comeback in political history, President Donald Trump taking back the office he held four years ago, is historic and nothing short of remarkable. The message it sends is that “Make America Great Again,” the MAGA...

January 1, 2025

Commentary: Devin Nunes Reemerges

2024 proved to be the year of the reemergence of many once and unfairly pilloried public figures. Elon Musk weathered nonstop attacks on his X social media platform. Furor escalated over his newfound 2024 Trump advocacy—even as he ended 2024...

January 1, 2025

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

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...

December 31, 2024

Jack Smith Drops Appeal of Classified Docs Case Against Trump’s Co-Defendants

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday withdrew his appeals request for his Florida classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump's co-defendants. The attorney dropped his appeal against Trump last month after Trump won reelection to the White House, citing a Justice Department...

December 31, 2024

Fake News-a-Palooza: 50 Examples of Media Misdirection and Manipulation

Reflecting back on 2024 and looking forward to a future with less misinformation and more facts, Just Facts has summarized 50 false or misleading claims spread by journalists, commentators, and so-called fact checkers during the past year.

December 31, 2024

Commentary: H1B Blues

Just in time for Christmas, some infighting has broken out among Trump supporters. Muckraking online personality Laura Loomer began the fracas with criticism of Sriram Krishnan, who Trump has chosen to be an AI policy advisor. Loomer pointed out that Krishnan has...

December 31, 2024

Report: 118th Congress Passed Fewest Laws in 36 Years

When measured by the number of bills passed and signed into law, the current 118th session of Congress was the least productive in modern history, passing fewer laws than any other session since the 1980s. As Axios reports, the data on the...

December 31, 2024

Biden Greenlights Billions More for Ukraine in Waning Days of Presidency

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...

December 31, 2024

COVID Catechists Come for Incoming NIH Chief Bhattacharya as SCOTUS Reconsiders Doctor Censorship

Proponents of once-dominant COVID-19 views and policy, from the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 to mandatory lockdowns, remote learning, masking and vaccines, often chose between two strategies to marginalize dissenters. They flooded medical licensing boards with complaints against doctors such as Minnesota's Scott Jensen,...