Newly-unredacted IRS and FBI search warrants tied to the federal investigation into Hunter Biden provide new details on the information that investigators had in their possession about President Joe Biden’s son’s business deals linked to Ukraine, China and elsewhere.
The multiple search warrant applications were released, with only some redactions remaining, late Tuesday following an agreement between Hunter Biden’s legal team and the Justice Department.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, suggests the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security appears to be prioritizing federal interests and Biden-era policies over state enforcement or transparency as it slow walks two Open Records Requests filed by The Star seeking materials related to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador who was stopped by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) in 2022 and deported by the Trump administration last month.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly considering removing the COVID-19 vaccination from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended vaccine schedule for children.
The possible change was reported Tuesday by news outlet Politico, based on sources.
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Election problems are piling up in Wisconsin cities as the actions of Maribeth Witzel-Behl, a former Madison clerk, are being investigated after her handling of the November election.
The two most populous cities in Wisconsin are under scrutiny over problems that occurred in the last two elections. Both the state capital of Madison and Wisconsin’s largest city, Milwaukee, have experienced election issues ranging from uncounted absentee ballots to a shortage of ballots on Election Day, as officials seek to investigate the respective causes.
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As Catholic Church officials prepare for Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday, Vatican watchers are already looking ahead to the Conclave that will determine whether the church will continue in the progressive direction Francis charted or return to a more traditional path.
Francis, who died early Monday at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke and heart failure, had been among the most influential figures on the global left during his 12-year papacy.
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President Donald Trump has ordered air strikes and other operations during his first three months back in office that have killed 74 leaders of terrorist groups plotting to strike Western assets and the U.S. homeland, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz revealed Tuesday to Just the News.
Waltz provided the counter-terrorism casualty statistics during a wide-ranging television interview where he also addressed the outlines of an emerging peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, predicted the president’s upcoming visit to the Middle East would set the stage for the Abraham Accords 2.0 and insisted that China has blinked behind the scenes in its standoff with Trump over tariffs.
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Axios President Trump declared that Volodymyr Zelensky has “no cards to play” in a stinging rebuke after the Ukrainian president rejected his framework for peace. The U.S. presented Ukraine with its “final offer” for peace last week, which includes U.S. recognition of Crimea as Russian territory and no possibility of NATO membership for Ukraine. But Zelensky rejected that proposal on Wednesday. Trump is accusing Zelensky of blocking the peace plan while suggesting an agreement with Russia is “very close.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart As the remedy phase of Google’s search monopoly antitrust trial unfolds, AI giant OpenAI has emerged as a potential buyer for Google’s Chrome browser, with plans to transform it into an AI-centric experience. Ars Technica reports that the ongoing search antitrust trial against Google’s remedy phase has reached a critical juncture, with the DOJ seeking various penalties to realign the company’s business practices after it was ruled a monopoly. Among the most severe proposed remedies is the potential forced sale of Google’s Chrome browser. As discussions surrounding potential buyers ensue, OpenAI has expressed a keen interest in acquiring the browser. Nick Turley, head of product for ChatGPT at OpenAI, testified on the second day of the trial, addressing not only the potential sale of Chrome but also the DOJ’s proposal to compel Google to share its search index with competitors. Turley revealed that OpenAI had previously approached Google to establish a partnership, hoping to access the company’s search API to enhance ChatGPT’s capabilities. However, Google declined the offer, believing it would jeopardize its dominance in the search market. READ THE FULL STORY
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Washington Examiner The Democratic Party‘s favorability has dipped across the board since the 2024 election, and a new survey shows its standing has dramatically slipped with younger voters in recent years. The Harvard Youth Poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, released Wednesday, shows that young people are not impressed with Democrats in Congress. Their support for congressional Democrats falls below that of congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump. In the survey, conducted with 2,096 18-to-29-year-olds last month, just 23% approved of the job congressional Democrats are doing, compared to 29% who approve of congressional Republicans’ job performance and 32% who approve of Trump’s job performance. READ THE FULL STORY
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the Ohio-based We the People Convention, said he is hoping for a deliberative, thoughtful process within the Catholic Church that results in bold leadership moving forward following the death of Pope Francis.
Francis, who was elected pope in March 2013 after Pope Benedict XVI made the decision to step down from the chair of Saint Peter, died on Monday at 88 years old.
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Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced on Wednesday that he would not seek reelection for Senate in 2026.
“I have given more than half of my life to House and Senate Congressional service, and I’ve always tried to stand up to power on behalf of the people of Illinois and our country,” Durbin said on X. “I am proud of what I have achieved and hope my record will speak for itself.”
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Before being stopped in Tennessee for allegedly speeding and failing to maintain his lane while transporting eight people from Texas to Maryland, Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia likely passed through Liberty County, Texas, the location of the controversial housing development, Colony Ridge.
Colony Ridge allegedly caters to illegal immigrants, specifically offering homes to those who would ordinarily be unable to qualify for a mortgage due to their status as non-citizens, and was the scene of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid earlier this year, which led to the arrests of more than 100, including a previously deported member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).
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Representative Haley Stevens (D-MI-11) announced Tuesday that she is running for Senate in 2026.
“It’s official, Michigan. I’m running to be your next United States senator. Michiganders are the hardest working people I know,” Stevens said. “We built this country and the middle class, and I’m running to have their backs in Washington. Let’s get to work.”
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Tennessee state legislators moved to adjourn this year’s legislative session on Tuesday, marking the official end of the 2025 session of the 114th Tennessee General Assembly.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transporting eight passengers from Houston, Texas to Temple Hills, Maryland using a vehicle owned by an illegal immigrant who was convicted of human trafficking and deported from the United States to his country of origin, El Salvador.
Less than one week after The Tennessee Star reported that Abrego Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in late 2022, and released at the instruction of the “Biden-era FBI” despite being suspected of human trafficking, transporting nine passengers, and operating the vehicle without a valid license, Just the News reported that Abrego Garcia was driving a vehicle registered to Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the deported El Salvadoran at the center of the Trump administration’s immigration battle with the courts, was stopped by police in an SUV owned by a man who was himself deported after pleading guilty to smuggling illegal aliens in 2020, according to court and Homeland Security Department intelligence documents reviewed by Just the News.
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Eight petroleum-based synthetic food dyes must be phased out of the American food supply and medications within the next year, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary.
The dyes, commonly used in ultra-processed foods, are Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Citrus Red, and Orange B.
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Universities are growing more competitive as the number of both American and foreign students applying for enrollment increases. Many American students are often unable to attend their preferred universities because of this competitiveness. With an increasing number of fields requiring higher education, our colleges should prioritize Americans first for enrollment.
The Institute of International Education (IIE) announced in November that there are more than 1.1 million foreign students in American colleges on visas. They now account for 6% of student enrollment in higher education. India had the highest number of students in American schools at approximately 332,000 students. China was in second place with 277,000.
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New figures released this month by the Arizona secretary of state reveal that Republicans increased their voter registration lead over Democrats to over 7 percent, 35.90 percent to 28.64 percent, with 1,602,308 voters to Democrats’ 1,278,195. About a year ago, Republicans held a 5.77 percent lead. Independents remain ahead of Democrats but behind Republicans with 30.68.
In Maricopa County, Republicans held their 7 percent lead over Democrats from a year ago, with 35.44 percent, 917,074 voters versus Democrats’ 28.59 percent, with 739,701 voters. The GOP’s edge statewide and in Maricopa County has been increasing steadily since 2021.
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