Day: August 5, 2025

Rwanda Offers Help for Trump’s Deportation Agenda

Daily Caller News Foundation
Illegal Immigrants

The Rwandan government agreed to take in hundreds of migrants from the U.S. in a major win for President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda.

The small, landlocked country in Central Africa will accept up to 250 deportees from the U.S., a spokesperson for their government confirmed to multiple media outlets. The key agreement was reached as the Trump administration works to expand its third-country deportation program, creating more destinations for illegal migrants booted by U.S. immigration officials.

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DHS Added Israel Provision for Funding Grants in April

Just the News
Trump Israel

The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed to Just the News that the agency added a contentious provision to its terms and conditions requiring that funding recipients not support boycotts of Israeli companies in April 2025.

A Reuters report on Monday stated that the Trump administration had linked $1.9 billion in disaster aid to the Israel requirement, leading to widespread outcry. 

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Biden Lost 500K Migrant Children — Trump Administration Is Returning Them Home

The Daily Signal

The Trump administration is working to safely return the unaccompanied illegal migrant children lost under the Biden administration to their home countries, The Daily Signal has learned.

Hundreds of thousands of minors arrived at the southern border without a parent or a legal guardian under the Biden administration. The Trump administration has located 13,000 of those children, and now, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a subagency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is working to reunite those children with their families in their home countries and find the rest of the missing minors.

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Paxton to Seek Judicial Orders Declaring That Absent Texas Dems Have Vacated Offices

Just the News
Ken Paxton

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday announced that he would seek judicial orders declaring that state Democrats who do not return to the legislature by the state House speaker’s deadline have vacated their offices.

“The people of Texas elected lawmakers, not jet-setting runaways looking for headlines. If you don’t show up to work, you get fired,” he said.

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Brazil Arrests Jair Bolsonaro

Daily Caller News Foundation
Bolsanaro

Brazil placed former president Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest Monday pending his trial for allegedly orchestrating a coup attempt following his election loss in 2022, The Associated Press reported Monday.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes — recently sanctioned by the U.S. due to anti-free speech rulings and other alleged abuses — ordered Bolsonaro to remain in his residence in Brasilia, Brazil, and prosecutors also seized the former president’s cell phones, according to the AP. Moraes alleged that Bolsonaro had violated “precautionary measures” put in place by the court by spreading messages to his supporters using his three sons, who are lawmakers in the Brazilian government.

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Trade Deficit Narrows as Imports Fall in June

The Center Square
Cargo Ship

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in June as President Donald Trump’s tariffs deterred businesses from importing goods, the Department of Commerce said Tuesday.

Imports dropped around 4% from May after businesses hurried to front-load imports earlier this year before sweeping tariffs took effect. Exports also fell, but at a more modest rate of 0.5%, as the U.S. sold fewer industrial goods.

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Young Conservatives Day on the Hill Set for Friday at the Tennessee State Capitol

Kaitlin Housler
TN Capitol

An event geared towards young adults and college-aged students who are seeking to learn more about how they can get involved in local and state governments will take place at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville later this week.

Young Conservatives Day on the Hill is set for this Friday from 1:00-4:00 p.m. inside the House chambers at the State Capitol for individuals aged 17-27.

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Tennessee, Others Back Trump Rule Halting Funds for Youth Trans Procedures

Zachery Schmidt

Tennessee, along with 24 other states, filed amicus briefs in two separate cases defending President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) stopping federal agencies from funding gender transition treatments for minors.

In January, Trump issued the “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” EO, which is an attempt to shield minors from making irreversible medical decisions.

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New Club for Growth Ad Highlights Vote by State Rep. Jody Barrett Against School Choice, Past Anti-Trump Comments

Tom Pappert
Jody Barrett ad

The School Freedom Fund by the Club for Growth on Tuesday released a digital advertisement targeting State Representative Jody Barrett (R-Dickson) in the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional district, highlighting Barrett’s past negative comments about President Donald Trump, as well as his vote against school choice earlier this year. 

Describing Barrett as “slippery as a snake in the swamp,” the ad’s narrator declares, “Barrett opposed Trump for president, slandering him with nasty, venomous insults – calling him a ‘liberal douchebag.'”

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TN-7 Candidate Lee Reeves Says Congress Needs to Codify Trump’s Birthright Citizenship EO ‘As Soon as Possible’

Kaitlin Housler

Tennessee State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin), who is seeking the Republican nomination in the race for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, said the time is now for Republicans to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order changing the birthright citizenship system.

On January 20, Trump issued an executive order titled, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” which directed government agencies to only issue citizenship documents, including passports and Social Security numbers, to children born in the U.S. with at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or one parent who is a lawful permanent resident.

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Far-Left Democrat Aftyn Behn Represents ‘Woke D.C. Values,’ TN-7 GOP Candidate Lee Reeves Warns

Kaitlin Housler
Lee Reeves

Tennessee State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin), who is seeking the Republican nomination in the race for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, said the contrast “could not be clearer” between him and State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville), who is seeking the Democratic nomination in the congressional race.

Behn, who was elected to the Tennessee General Assembly in 2023 and quickly aligned herself with the radical left wing of her party, has emerged as the leading candidate among the pool of Democrats seeking their party’s nomination in the special election for the 7th District.

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Bondi Orders Evidence Sent to Grand Jury for Russia Collusion Hoax: Report

Just the News
Pam Bondi

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday signed an order for a federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury to mull charges related to the Russia collusion hoax, Fox News reported.

The move follows Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sending criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. The convening of a grand jury does not guarantee the filing of charges. Rather, it is the job of the grand jury to recommend charges if they believe sufficient evidence exists to justify a prosecution.

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Commentary: Trump’s Unknown Frontiers

American Greatness
Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s far-ranging counter-revolution, to quote the old Star Trek mission statement, seeks “To boldly go where no one has gone before.”

Because no conservative president has dared to question the last 70 years of progressive cultural, social, economic, and political dominance, all traditional wisdom, all our renowned “experts,” and all the self-described “authorities” have no real credibility in their mostly flawed analyses and wrong prognoses.

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Soros Network Donated over $1 Million to Republican Organization

The Daily Signal
George Soros

A conservative watchdog is calling for a Republican organization that took more than $1 million from the Soros network’s Open Society Action Fund to “sever its relationship.”

The Open Society Action Fund, typically known for donating for leftwing causes in both the United States and abroad, contributed $1.67 million to the International Republican Institute for a 19-month grant that began in 2023. The fund described the grant as “to support the grantee’s work on capacity building for East Asia diaspora communities.”

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