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Top Prosecutor in Office That Carried Out Trump’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Probe Resigns from DOJ

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Jason Quiñones

by Kevin Killough   Atop prosecutor who worked in the South Florida office where President Donald Trump’s so-called grand conspiracy probe was carried out resigned from the Justice Department. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that Jason Reding Quiñones submitted his resignation. On social media, Quiñones said, “From serving our Nation in uniform to serving at the Department of Justice and on the bench, public service has been the honor of my lifetime. But leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office in my home district has been especially meaningful. I am grateful to President Trump for his trust and to the extraordinary men and women of the great Southern District of Florida for their dedication, friendship, and unwavering commitment to justice and the rule of law.” Quiñones added, “It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve alongside them and our law enforcement officers who work tirelessly to keep our communities safe. I leave with immense pride in what we accomplished together and profound gratitude for the opportunity to serve our great Nation.” Blanche said in a post on X, “We are grateful for Jason’s leadership in combating violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime, including the indictment of Raúl…

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GOP Sen Ron Johnson Seeks Delay in GOP Senate Leadership Elections, After Big Midterms Losses

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Thune Congress

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson obtained the five signatures he needed Friday to request a meeting of the Senate Republican Conference to discuss postponing next week’s leadership election in light of the midterms.

Johnson made the request after Republicans lost at least seven seats in the upper chamber in Tuesday’s midterms and after President Donald Trump’s adviser Alex Bruesewitz questioned whether Senate Majority Leader John Thune should remain the GOP leader next year, according to The Hill.

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Secret Service Arrests Armed Illegal Migrant near White House Who Threatened the President’s Life

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Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos

United States Secret Service officers reportedly arrested an illegal migrant outside the White House on Thursday after he was allegedly found inside a stolen vehicle carrying multiple firearms and threatening to kill President Donald Trump.

The officers approached the suspect Thursday evening after spotting him “acting suspicious in his car while it was parked on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.,” the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.

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Key Lawmaker Suggests GOP Go Big in Lame-Duck Congress to Foil Democrat Defunding, Spending Plans

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Harriet Hageman

One of the few House Republicans to win a U.S. Senate seat in Tuesday’s blue-wave election is urging her GOP colleagues to aggressively use the remaining days of the lame-duck Congress this year to pass multi-year budgets to protect agencies that Democrats want to defund and to codify President Donald Trump cuts to foreign aid that the left wants to restore.

Rep. Harriet Hageman, soon to be sworn in as Wyoming’s next U.S. senator, told Just the News on Thursday night that she is urging fellow Republicans to replicate their last budget reconciliation law that funded Trump’s Homeland Security agenda until the end of his presidency and codify other GOP priorities and foil Democrats’ ambitions in the next Congress.

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Trump Names Stephen Miller as Next Chief of Staff, Starting Monday

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Stephen Miller

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller would replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff.

Calls for Wiles’s ouster abounded in recent days, after Republicans were crushed in the House and Senate midterms. She had long been a focal point for criticism of the administration from conservative hawks, who blamed her for steering Trump away from some of his more hardline policies.

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Ex-Assistant AG Dhillon Returns to Law Firm She Founded to Fight Unlawful DEI Policies

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Harmeet Dhillon

Former Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who resigned her position at the Justice Department Thursday, returned to Dhillon Law Group, a law firm she founded in San Francisco in 2006. 

Dhillon said in a statement she will spearhead two major national litigation initiatives aimed at unlawful discrimination in corporate hiring and contracting, as well as that by financial institutions who discriminate against businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals as a result of their political or religious beliefs. 

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Dems’ Senate Wins Almost Assures Trump Won’t Be Able to Get a New Supreme Court Justice Confirmed

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Justice Sam Alito

Democratic wins in key Senate races have set up an uphill battle for President Donald Trump to replace any potentially retiring Supreme Court justices once the opposition takes power in the chamber.

While the Senate abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations long ago, Democrats are set for an outright majority, meaning Trump would need Democratic support to confirm anyone to the bench. 

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Democrat Acton Defeats GOP’s Ramaswamy in Ohio Governor’s Race, Abbott Loses Reelection in Texas

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Amy Acton

Texas GOP Gov. Gregg Abbot lost his reelection bid Tuesday night in a strong showing for Democrats in statewide and national races. 

The Associated Press called the race for Democrat challenger Gina Hinojosa, who becomes the state’s first Latina governor. Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton lost his bid to keep the GOP-held seat held by retiring Sen. John Cornyn.

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Democrats Win Control of Senate, Poised to Take House in Rout That Reorders Washington Power Balance

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James Talarico

The Democrats decidedly won the Senate on Tuesday evening, sweeping competitive contests and pulling off a string of upsets in formerly solid Republican bastions as they marched toward realigning the power structure in Washington by taking full control of Congress.

As of press time, the Associated Press projects the party to claim at least 51 seats in the upper chamber, but has yet to make race calls in hundreds of House contests.

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Dem Senate Candidate Pushed Church-Backed Private Real Estate Venture That Broke Securities Laws

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Adam Hamilton

In 2000, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, was the most visible advocate for a development company that raised millions from church members but failed to deliver on its promises.

Hamilton was the founding pastor of the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, just outside Kansas City when the church used a for-profit company, COR Development, LLC, to buy 47 acres to develop commercially, with 15 acres to be set aside for the church. 

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15 Sweeping Actions Trump Took to Tighten Election Security Ahead of Midterms

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voter

When President Donald Trump delivered a national address from the White House East Room in July, he promised sweeping actions to address long-standing election vulnerabilities that had been swept under the rug for years.

He revealed that U.S. spy agencies had known for years that American ballot counting machines had vulnerabilities that could be exploited by foreign powers. Similarly, the intelligence community has long been aware that China has vacuumed up 220 million American voter files and put itself in a position to meddle in future elections.

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Van Jones Says Stevens ‘Flushed Herself Down the Toilet’ with Rogers Endorsement

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Mike Rogers and Haley Stevens

CNN’s Van Jones this week opined that Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., had “flushed herself down the toilet” with her unexpected endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers for Senate.

Stevens, who lost to Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, abruptly backed Rogers on Sunday, earning near-universal condemnation from her own party and praise from Republicans. With House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries confirming that his party would discuss Stevens after the midterms, her career on the left appears to be in dire straits.

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Federal Prosecutor in Alaska Confirms Criminal Investigation into Senate Dem Nominee Is Underway

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Mary Peltola

The feds’ top prosecutor in Alaska confirmed Friday that the Justice Department is investigating allegations of a plot to confuse voters in the midterms by recruiting a candidate with the same name as the state’s incumbent senator. 

U.S. Attorney Michael Heyman said the investigation has been going on for a while, but the confirmation comes after The New York Times reported this week that Alaska Senate Democratic nominee Mary Peltola’s campaign helped recruit a retiree named Dan J. Sullivan to run against Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in next week’s elections.

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Constitutional Crisis in Poland as PM Sends Police to Storm Top Court

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Donald Tusk

Poland appears to be in a state of constitutional crisis on Friday after Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent police to install a loyalist to control the nation’s constitutional court, in defiance of President Karol Nawrocki and the judicial body.

Video footage showed police entering the Constitutional Tribunal on Friday evening. President Nawrocki was en route to Senegal, but has turned his plane around to address the situation.

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El-Sayed Courted Muslim Centers Where Clerics Portrayed U.S as Satan, Sought ‘Revenge’ on Zionists

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Abdul El-Sayed

Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed directly solicited support for his campaign inside Islamic centers whose imams and guest speakers called America the “the House of Shaitan [Satan]” and urged Allah to “take the worst revenge upon” Zionists, according to a review of their videotaped services.

Experts said the video evidence, first uncovered by the Middle East Forum and verified by Just the News, could open the door to potential investigations into the nonprofit status of places of worship and provide a stark reminder to voters in the final days of the 2026 election about El-Sayed’s ties to other controversial activists, who include Hasan Piker. 

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Justice Department Tells Federal Judge That It May Seek Further Charges Against Comey

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James Comey

The Justice Department on Friday told a federal judge overseeing a new case against former FBI Director James Comey that it is working on obtaining a grand jury indictment based on new evidence it gathered in the case concerning alleged leads to the media. 

Comey is charged with allegedly conspiring to share sensitive information with a media outlet in 2016 to correct reporting from another news outlet, CNN reported. 

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Illegal immigrant Admits in Federal Court She Made Up ICE Kidnapping Story to Smear Agency

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ICE agents

An illegal immigrant from Mexico pleaded guilty Monday to making up her story about a kidnapping, where she claimed bounty hunters took her captive at gunpoint outside a fast-food restaurant and tried to force her to self-deport. 

Yuriana Julia Palaez Calderón, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to impede, obstruct, impair, and defeat the lawful function of Homeland Security Investigations within federal jurisdiction, according to a Department of Justice press release. 

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House Probes Smithsonian Exhibit Suggesting U.S. Military Engaged in ‘Domicide’

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Lonnie bunch

A House investigative subcommittee is demanding a wide swath of records from the Smithsonian Institution after uncovering a controversial American history museum display that suggested the U.S. military had engaged in “domicide,” the intentional destruction of civilian homes to cause human suffering.

The request came Thursday in a letter from House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee Chairman Tim Burchett, R- Tenn., and Rep. Brian Jack, R-Ga., and is the latest effort by the GOP-led Congress to stamp out what it sees as woke and inaccurate presentations of American history at the nation’s premier network of museums.

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Judge in D.C. Golf Course Case Orders New Hearing After Trump Appears to Ignore Stop-Work Order

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DC Golf course

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a new hearing on President Donald Trump’s plan to convert a beloved public golf course into a world-class venue after he appeared to deny her stop-work order and say the project will start as scheduled.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ordered the new hearing after granting a preliminary injunction Monday requested by a preservationist group and group of local D.C. golfers asking her to stop the Trump administration from cutting down trees at the park as part of the redevelopment project. 

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HHS Study Finds Opioid Deaths Are at Lowest Rate in Nearly a Decade

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Man with pills

A Department of Health and Human Services report released Tuesday found that opioid-related deaths in the United States have plummeted to the lowest rate since President Trump declared a public health emergency in 2017.

The new report from HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation examined the United States’ record-low overall age-adjusted death rate in 2025 and progress in reducing prescription opioid exposure and expanding treatment.

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Top Rubio Adviser on Venezuela and Cuba Leaves State Department

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Jeremy Lewin

One of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s top advisers, who helped advise him on Venezuelan and Cuban policies, announced Tuesday that he is leaving the State Department after a year and a half there.

State Department Director of Policy Planning Jeremy Lewin said he is leaving the administration for the private sector and described working for President Trump as “the privilege of a lifetime.” 

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Scandals and Probes Haunt Democrats in Crucial Week Running Up to Midterms

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Abdul El-Sayed

With just days remaining until the midterms, several Democrat candidates are closing their campaigns under legal clouds or intense scrutiny, ranging from a criminal immigration probe to questions about past associations.

President Donald Trump has particularly focused his political attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

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NYPD Ignored Nearly 10,000 ICE Detainers in Past Year: House Judiciary GOP Sanctuary Report on NYC

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NYPD

House Judiciary Republicans, led by Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio, released an interim staff report on Monday that highlighted the “dangers” of New York City’s sanctuary policies and the significant threat it poses to public safety.

The report claimed that the New York City Police Department received nearly 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers in the past year and honored zero. It also received 20,255 detainers from July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2026, and also reportedly honored none of them. 

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Consumer Confidence Improves in October amid Easing Gas Prices, Survey Shows

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gas prices

American confidence in the economy improved slightly in October, according to The Conference Board, a nonprofit think tank. 

The consumer confidence index increased 7.5 points to 91.7 in October. September’s figure, 84.2, was the lowest in the board’s survey since April 2014. Last month’s figure was also lower than the lowest level the index reached during the pandemic, the Associated Press reported.

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Trump DOJ Charges James Comey with Transmission of National Defense Information in Third Case

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James Comey

The Trump administration charged former FBI Director James Comey for the third time on Monday, with the latest accusing him of transmitting national defense information and conspiring to transmit national defense information.

A grand jury has not indicted Comey on the latest charges, but the case has been playing out under seal since Oct. 5, according to NBC News. Comey’s defense attorneys sought to have the charges dismissed last week.

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Emails Cast Doubt on Jack Smith Testimony He Followed Rules to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege

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Jack Smith

Then-Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigators improperly saw potential attorney-client privileged materials on multiple occasions during its probes of President Donald Trump, calling into question the controversial prosecutor’s recent Senate testimony that his team had always followed so-called filter team protocols to protect such information.

Emails obtained under federal open records laws by The Oversight Project, a nonprofit investigative watchdog, show that Smith’s team internally acknowledged on at least six occasions between December 2022 and August 2023 when it had accidentally or improperly let suspected attorney-client privileged materials or other sensitive communications slide through filter team reviews. The documents were sent to frontline investigators, like FBI agents.

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DOJ Touts Major Drops in Crimes amid Enforcement Surge

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ICE arrest

A report from the Department of Justice released Monday highlighted a significant drop in violent crime and other offenses from 2024 to 2025, which comes in the wake of the Trump administration’s enforcement surge.

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he has sent the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and other major cities, in a bid to crack down on crime and illegal immigration in urban areas.

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Appeals Court Finds Illegal Aliens Have No Right to Bond Hearings

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday issued an opinion finding that illegal aliens are not entitled to a bond hearing under the Constitution, regardless of how long they remain in custody.

The decision is a significant win for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, as it defeats one of the more pervasive challenges to keeping illegal aliens in custody pending deportation.

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White House Docs Latest to Expose Scheme to Obstruct Biden Corruption Probes

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Joe and Hunter Biden

Substantial evidence gathered over the past four years demonstrates that the federal government, along with congressional and private-sector partners, attempted to shield the Biden family from revelations regarding its foreign business endeavors and Hunter Biden’s unlawful actions. 

Memos released Thursday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force revealed a new chapter in the saga. They show that the FBI and State Department moved in September 2020 to keep Ukrainian witness Andrii Telizhenko from meeting with Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who were investigating Biden family business in Ukraine and China, Just the News first reported yesterday. 

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Trump Administration Expands Crackdown on Welfare Fraud to Illegal Immigrants Collecting SNAP

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shoppers

Just weeks ahead of the 2026 midterms, the Trump administration has launched a nationwide operation to crack down on illegal immigrants fraudulently collecting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, known to many by the anachronism “food stamps.”

The operation, run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is part of a broader initiative by the Trump administration to root out waste, fraud, and abuse of federal programs.

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Two Ex-FBI Officials Charged with Making False Statements About Hunter Biden’s Laptop

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DOJ

Two former FBI intelligence officials appeared in federal court Friday on charges of making false statements to Congress about their roles in investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop in the closing weeks of the 2020 presidential election cycle.

The ex-agents are Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, who each specialized in foreign election interference, according to the Associated Press.

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American Express Is Cutting Five Percent of Its Global Workforce to ‘Prepare for AI,’ CFO Says

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American Express

American Express is laying off thousands of employees as the credit card company anticipates artificial intelligence taking  on a larger role in its internal processes. 

Amex CEO Stephen Squeri told analysts Friday on the company’s third-quarter earnings call that it would be eliminating 5% of its global workforce, CNBC reported. 

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Putin Agrees to Resume Talks with U.S., Ukraine

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Putin Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday agreed to participate in talks with the U.S. and Ukraine in a bid to end the war in Eastern Europe.

Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov confirmed that Moscow had agreed “in principle” to negotiations on Nov. 10, according to the Associated Press. His commitment follows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressing openness to a ceasefire on the current front lines of the conflict.

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Blanche Says Feds ID’d $42M in SNAP Fraud Since September

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Todd Blanche

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday announced that the government had identified $42 million in fraud linked to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since September.

“On September 1, we began a surge against SNAP fraud — and in seven weeks, we’ve uncovered $42M in SNAP fraud, or enough to feed 220,000 Americans for an entire month,” he said in a press conference.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar Makes Campaign Statement After Raid on Her Home, Says Opponents Are ‘Running Scared’

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Ilhan Omar

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has been mostly inactive on social media following a raid on her home earlier this month, but she posted a video on her Facebook account on Wednesday asking supporters for campaign donations.

“I just wanted to say thank you so much for the support, to everyone who sent a note of support, for everyone who sent $5, $10, $20,” Omar said in the brief video. 

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Social Security Admin Announces Largest Cleanup of SSNs in Its History

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Frank Bisignano

The Social Security Administration on Tuesday announced that it had launched a cleanup of tens of millions of Social Security numbers (SSNs) in the largest such operation in the agency’s history.

“This is the first time SSA has undertaken an effort of this scale, and I am proud of the work we have done to strengthen the foundation of identity data relied upon throughout government and the economy,” SSA Commissioner and IRS CEO Frank Bisignano said in a statement.

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SPLC Largely Drove Debanking of Conservative Groups, Treasury Report Shows

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A recent report from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) in the Treasury Department shows that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was a driving force behind the debanking of conservative groups prior to its indictment.

The SPLC is a left-wing anti-racism advocacy group that has faced scrutiny from conservatives for years over its alleged bias against them and penchant for labeling mainstream political figures on the right as “extremists.” 

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Trump Announces Plans to Spend $400M on GOP by End of Midterms

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Trump spending

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he would spend up to $400 million in funds on the midterms by the end of the cycle, citing his belief in the strength of the GOP agenda.

“Because of my belief in the Republican Party, and all of our Policies and Principles, and especially after witnessing what is taking place in France, and other locations throughout Europe, I am pleased to announce that, having to do with the Most Important Midterm Elections in our Country’s History, I have spent, or will be spending, over 400 Million Dollars by Election Day,” he posted on Truth Social.

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Same Red-Green Network That Boosted Anti-Israel Protests in U.S. at Center of French Unrest, Riots

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french riot

As the footage of violent French riots circled the globe this weekend, American conservatives are warning that the same destruction could come to American shores.

The threat, as they see it, comes from the burgeoning Red-Green Alliance, a partnership between the far-left and Islamists. A powerful visual of the purported alliance was on display in France this past weekend as crowds waving Palestinian flags protested and rioted alongside French communists and other far-left groups.

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Trump Border Enforcement Cuts Fiscal, Criminal Costs of Illegal Migration That Amnesty Would Restore

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CBP officer

New data appear to show that President Donald Trump’s border policies are producing a dual return that is now measurable in both lower crime and lower projected taxpayer costs, as a Council of Economic Advisers analysis warns that Democratic proposals for mass amnesty would reverse those gains and impose $49 trillion in new burdens over a decade.

The report titled, “The Real Cost of Socialism in America,” examines the policy touted by the Democratic Socialists of America, and details the costs for American taxpayers associated with the far-left platform.

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