Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Take Over’ Gaza Strip

Trump and Netanyahu

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that the United States will “take over” the Gaza Strip in order to bring the Israel-Hamas war to an end.

Trump appeared beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an East Room press conference after leaders had met in the Oval Office to discuss the next steps for Palestine and Israel. During the briefing, Trump said the Gaza Strip has been an “unlucky place for a long time,” adding how it’s been a “symbol of death and destruction for so many decades.”

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Pam Bondi Overcomes Democrat Opposition, Wins Confirmation to Lead Trump’s DOJ

Donald Trump and Pam Bondi

The Senate confirmed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in a largely party-line vote Tuesday evening.

Senators voted 54 to 46 with every Senate Republican and Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman supporting Bondi’s nomination. The newly-confirmed attorney general becomes Trump’s 11th cabinet nominee to secure Senate confirmation.

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Teens Who Drove Through Franklin, Tennessee Gun Store in Attempted Robbery Reportedly Illegal Immigrants Set for Deportation

Arms and Ammo security footage

A source familiar with the investigation told The Tennessee Star that the five teenage suspects arrested in connection to a January 20 attempted break-in at a gun and ammunition store in Franklin, Tennessee are Honduran nationals who were in the United States illegally at the time of their arrest, and that they are scheduled to be deported by federal immigration authorities. 

According to WSMV 4, the suspects ranged in age from 13 to 15, and were apprehended after a pursuit that involved multiple law enforcement agencies.

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Sen. Todd Young Will Back Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence

Politico Sen. Todd Young said Tuesday he will support Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, improving her chances of confirmation. Facing a wave of political pressure from Trump allies to back Gabbard, Young “engaged in extensive conversations” with Vice President JD Vance in which he sought written assurances about Gabbard’s perspective on whistleblowers, according to a person familiar with his deliberations who was granted anonymity to describe them. “American intelligence officers around the globe deserve our respect and support. I appreciate Tulsi Gabbard’s engagement with me on a variety of issues to ensure that our intelligence professionals will be supported and policymakers will receive unbiased information under her leadership,” Young said in a statement to POLITICO. READ THE FULL STORY    

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RFK Jr.’s Nomination Is Headed to the Senate Floor

Politico Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite his long history of opposing widely accepted vaccines, is a step closer to leading the nation’s health agencies. The Senate Finance Committee voted on party lines 14-13 to recommend his confirmation on Tuesday. “It is time to put someone in there who’s going to go wild,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said after voting to advance Kennedy’s confirmation, referencing President Donald Trump’s promise to Kennedy after Kennedy dropped his presidential bid last summer and endorsed Trump. READ THE FULL STORY

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Trump to Withdraw U.S. from U.N. Human Rights Council, End Funding for Gaza Aid Agency

United Nations Human Rights Council

President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the United Nations’ Human Rights Council on Tuesday and end all US funding for the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which supplies aid to Gaza.

The executive order, which would reinstates policies from Trump’s first presidential administration, is expected to occur the same day that Trump is scheduled to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington D.C., according to Politico.

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Biden Admin Filled Terrorist Coffers with Over $1,300,000,000 Before Trump Took Wrecking Ball to Foreign Aid

Taliban insurgents turn themselves in to Afghan National Security Forces at a forward operating base in Puza-i-Eshan

More than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds from the Biden administration ended up helping groups that sponsored or committed terrorism.

Federal watchdog reports and other documents show former President Joe Biden’s aid programs funneled the money toward a network of terrorism in the Muslim world — largely by reversing Trump-era policies. National security experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the new Trump administration must take the trend more seriously.

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Immigration Expert Todd Bensman: Trump Tariff Threat ‘Highly Effective,’ ‘Should Have Been Done for Years’

Todd Bensman, Michael Patrick Leahy

Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariff threat on Mexican imports was a “highly effective” strategy that should have been implemented by prior administrations “for years” as a way to push Mexico to cooperate with border security efforts.

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FBI Now Considering Tennessee Star Offer to Release Transgender Covenant Killer’s Manifesto in Exchange for Dropping Lawsuit

Covenant School shooting scene

Attorneys representing Star News Digital Media, Inc. (SNDM) and Michael Patrick Leahy, the editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, on Thursday received confirmation from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that the FBI is considering an offer that would see federal agency release the full manifesto written by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the biological woman who identified as a transgender man before she killed six at the Christian elementary school she once attended in Nashville on March 27, 2023.

A DOJ official confirmed to an attorney representing SNDM the FBI is considering dropping its opposition to the release of Hale’s writings, which reportedly include about 1,000 handwritten pages that the 28-year-old began writing in middle school.

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Louisiana U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy Will Support RFK Jr. for HHS Sec: ‘I Will Vote Yes’

Senator Bill Cassidy / X I’ve had very intense conversations with Bobby and the White House over the weekend and even this morning. I want to thank VP JD specifically for his honest counsel. With the serious commitments I’ve received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes. READ THE POST ON X      

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Secret Service Agent: DEI Contributed to Near-Killing of Trump

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A Secret Service agent is for the first time publicly speaking out against the agency’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which he says contributed to the first assassination attempt against President Trump last summer.

A 13-year veteran of the agency who has served in an elite unit and top protective assignments, Rashid Ellis sat down for an interview with the Independent Women’s Forum, a Virginia-based conservative nonprofit.

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Commentary: Trump Is Right to Disband FEMA and Return Disaster Funding to the States

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During visits to disaster-affected areas in North Carolina and California, President Trump criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s performance and suggested dismantling the agency. “FEMA has turned out to be a disaster,” Trump said while touring a North Carolina neighborhood destroyed by September’s Hurricane Helene. “I think we recommend that FEMA go away.”

Trump’s proposal fits his America First agenda of fiscal responsibility and efficiency. He’s correct that FEMA has been a failure and that states can manage disaster relief funding more effectively.

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ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Convicted of Sexual Assault in Virginia amid Capture of 7,400 in Trump’s First Two Weeks

Nicolas Alberto Hernandez-Lopez

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Monday that the federal agency arrested a previously convicted, twice deported illegal immigrant who sexually assaulted a Virginia woman.

The immigration agency revealed the January arrest of Nicolas Alberto Hernandez-Lopez, a citizen of El Salvador who was previously convicted of the second-degree sexual assault of a Fairfax County, Virginia woman in 2019, when the immigrant was determined to have violated the terms of his admission into the country.

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Trump Declares National Emergency at Northern Border

Illegal Immigrants Northern Border

President Donald Trump on Saturday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Canada border, citing an influx of human and drug smuggling coming from Canada presenting a national security threat to Americans.

He did so after a record number of illegal border crossers were reported entering the U.S. from Canada, the greatest number of known or suspected terrorists were apprehended coming from Canada, and northern border terrorist arrests soared under the Biden and Trudeau administrations, The Center Square first reported.

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