Illegal border crossings at the southwest border reached their lowest level in U.S. history over the past fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection preliminary fiscal 2026 data.
Southwest border apprehensions dropped by 95% from Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2026, CBP said.
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by Peter Navarro America is in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance. Unprecedented in its speed, it is driven by Trump’s tariffs and factory-targeted tax cuts. Companies can now expense 100 percent of the cost of building a factory on American soil instead of depreciating those costs over 39 years. The year you pour the concrete is the year you write it off. For a chief financial officer deciding where to build the next plant, that one provision changes the location decision. The Trump tariffs are a protective wall. President Trump has said, If you are a foreign company and you want to avoid our tariffs, build here. Invest here. Hire here. You can see the Trump manufacturing renaissance in the macro data, in the micro data, and along highways across flyover country. Start with the macro. In the Biden administration’s last two years, America lost 230,000 manufacturing jobs. Since December 2025, American manufacturers have added 72,000 jobs, with factory payrolls rising in each of the last four months through September. Through most of 2023 and 2024, the ISM Manufacturing Index languished below 50, the line between contraction and expansion. In January it climbed back above 50, where it…
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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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The Biden administration’s “Censorship-Industrial Complex” had grander ambitions than controlling just what Americans said about COVID-19, new documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy — who served as the “nation’s doctor” shoulder-to-shoulder with Anthony Fauci during the COVID pandemic — sought to apply “maximum pressure” on social media companies like Meta and to broadly manage “health and medical misinformation” across American society.
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More than one in five Americans financing new cars are now committing to monthly payments of at least $1,000, a record as buyers take on larger loans to afford increasingly expensive vehicles, according to an October report from automotive research firm Edmunds.
The growing financial burden comes as Americans owe more than $1.7 trillion on their vehicles, exceeding the nation’s outstanding credit card debt. Meanwhile, longer repayment periods and mounting delinquencies among higher-risk borrowers are raising concerns about whether consumers can continue managing their auto debt.
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First lady Melania Trump on Monday appeared with President Donald Trump to unveil the White House’s women’s health initiatives, which creates health division for them within the National Institutes of Health.
“This is a transformative moment for women in America,” she said at the Rose Garden signing. “The ‘Advancing Women’s Health to Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life’ Executive Order establishes a new standard for women’s health in America.”
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will again face the potential for the death penalty after the Supreme Court denied his appeal Monday.
Justices rejected Mohammed’s bid to reinstate a plea agreement that allowed him and two co-defendants who helped plot the attack to avoid the death penalty. Mohammed and the co-defendants are scheduled to stand trial before a military court beginning June 5, 2028.
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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said on Monday he’ll give every child a share in the company in 2027.
“This will be the first of many,” Musk said in the post on X.
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The NFL still plans to hold a football game in France despite civil unrest.
This upcoming Sunday, the New Orleans Saints and Pittsburgh Steelers are scheduled to play in Paris at the Stade de France, which seats an estimated 80,000. The game will mark the NFL’s first game in France.
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The Department of Justice on Monday announced a string of arrests related to alleged voter fraud in California.
“This causes real damage to real elections and real damage to American citizens,” a DOJ official said in a press conference. The DOJ also announced that it was bringing charges against 28 noncitizens illegally registered to vote, including some who did cast votes.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, one of the Democrats’ star witnesses in their first impeachment of Donald Trump, received repeated briefings, emails and memos related to the Ukrainian energy company that employed Hunter Biden, according to declassified documents that directly conflict with her and other witnesses’ testimony in the failed bid seven years ago to remove the president from office.
The documents released Friday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force show Yovanovitch and her aides were apprised of corruption concerns about Burisma Holdings, efforts by the company to repair its image or curry U.S. favor that would not “pass The Washington Post sniff test” and even a bid to get the Trump administration to approve a U.S. visa for Burisma’s controversial owner Mykola Zlochevsky, who was banned from American travel.
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The coalition that once convinced Silicon Valley to police your speech now wants to use the midterm elections as a launchpad to reimpose a Trust and Safety regime on Americans.
This time, however, leftist organizers are not pressuring social media companies like Meta and X. They’ve pivoted to “AI-safety.”
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John J. Griffin, 16, has been identified as the gunman in Thursday’s deadly school shooting at a Bend, Oregon, elementary school.
Three senior law enforcement officials identified the shooter who killed four people at Silver Rail Elementary, NBC News reported.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has moved $1 million to the campaign of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, the New York Times reported Friday.
“I’m not waking up on November 4th wishing I did more to combat the smears aimed at Abdul. I’m leaving everything I can on the field,” she told the outlet.
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The NCAA sued Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Friday over an executive order he signed that ignored newly established eligibility rules.
NCAA President Charlie Baker said DeWine lacks the authority to “permit Ohio colleges and universities to disregard the rules they have agreed to follow by rostering ineligible student-athletes.
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is no longer holding the position of Special Envoy to the Shield of Americas coalition.
Though the specific reasoning appears to be unclear, Noem will no longer fill the role of Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas. However, she will still conduct regional diplomatic business without the Special Envoy title, CBS reports.
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A federal judge on Thursday threw out former CIA Director John Brennan’s lawsuit, which sought to compel the Trump administration to preserve records for his defense against potential criminal charges, ruling that he lacked standing.
The Department of Justice is investigating claims that Brennan and other national security officials conspired to undermine President Donald Trump.
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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was fired after one tumultuous week on the job, the New York Times reported, citing “three people familiar with the matter.”
Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump defended her, saying that the media had treated her unfairly, but said he would leave the decision about her professional future to her.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s past scandals are returning to haunt the Minnesota Democrat with a vengeance as Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) expands its probe, zeroing in on whether the lawmaker misrepresented her date of birth, possibly calling into question her naturalization as a citizen.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Wednesday revealed the Biden Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained detailed donor data and voter information on over 639,000 individuals during the Arctic Frost investigation.
The types of information contained in the spreadsheet include: names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, party affiliation, places of employment, donation amounts, credit card information, and donor habits.
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Americans are well aware of the issues that stem from allowing large numbers of illegal aliens into the United States, from cheap foreign labor to abuse of welfare systems and legitimate concerns about illegal voting. But there is another glaring issue that illegal immigration causes, and President Donald Trump and his administration are proposing a way to fix it before 2030.
Illegal aliens are currently counted in the United States Census — the census count that is used to form a population baseline for each state and allocate U.S. House seats and Electoral College power among the 50 states every ten years.
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Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s staff reportedly got her birthdate changed in public records shortly after she was elected to the House in 2018, which would make her a year younger than previously documented, according to records.
The revelation comes amid concerns that the congresswoman misrepresented her age to secure American citizenship. Omar has claimed that she was 17-years-old when she became a citizen in 2000, but previous records noted that she was born in 1981, meaning she was either 18 or 19 when she became a U.S. citizen.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday unveiled a series of proposals to tighten eligibility for a tax credit aimed at helping Americans pay for health care.
The proposal would raise verification requirements for the Premium Tax Credit (PTC), with the aim of ensuring that the credit only goes to Americans.
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Authorities arrested a Chinese national studying at a U.S. university after she allegedly poisoned a rival classmate’s cup of tea and then attempted to flee the country.
Prosecutors allege that University of Wyoming microbiology graduate student Aili Wang, 32, was traveling back to China when she was arrested on Oct. 6 at the Los Angeles International Airport, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. At the time of her arrest Wang was in possession of laptops, electronic storage devices and unknown documents.
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday announced the purge of 189,000 subsidized Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP enrollments for deceased persons or duplicate enrollees, saying the move would stop more than $1 billion in erroneous payments to insurance companies annually.
“In 2026, CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] identified 189,000 subsidized enrollments involving duplicate Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP coverage on record showing the enrollee has died,” he said in a press conference. “CMS acted to remove improper subsidies in all these cases.”
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SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey expressed an “openness” to College Football Playoff (CFP) expansion.
At SEC Tipoff, a media event for the upcoming conference’s college basketball season, Sankey said the conference has “never said” the expansion “won’t happen” or that it “won’t be a point of support.”
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The Justice Department on Monday announced the arrest of 16 individuals across nine states for alleged election crimes, including voting by illegal immigrants and fraudulent voter registration.
Pennsylvania had the most arrests in this nationwide sweep, with four people arrested: Hacina Saadi, a 48-year-old illegal immigrant from France; Jamil Ahmad, a 50-year-old lawful permanent resident from Pakistan; Nighat Jamil, a 47-year-old lawful permanent resident from Pakistan; and Paulo Silva, a 54-year-old lawful permanent resident from Portugal. All were charged with illegally voting in the 2024 general election.
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Federal regulators rejected a plan to force data centers and other major electricity users to cut power during grid emergencies, complicating efforts to manage the centers’ surging artificial intelligence-driven demand.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected portions of PJM Interconnection‘s proposal on Oct. 9 that would have allowed the grid operator to require certain large electricity customers to reduce consumption during emergencies if they failed to secure additional power generation. Regulators approved a separate measure allowing PJM to track major electricity users as demand threatens to outpace available supply.
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America’s power grid may not be able to keep pace with Big Tech’s race to build artificial intelligence data centers.
Private spending on data center construction jumped about 64.5 percent after inflation from Aug. 2025 to Aug. 2026, to an annual rate of roughly $85 billion, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by economist Jason Furman shared in an Oct. 7 post on X. Industry leaders say the power needed to run data centers may be slower to arrive.
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The American work ethic was never simply about making money. It was a moral code: work hard, keep your word, master a skill, provide for your family, and leave the next generation better off. Alexis de Tocqueville observed it firsthand in the 1830s, noting that in democratic America “everybody works, and work opens a way to everything,” a sharp contrast to European aristocracies where idleness carried prestige. America became the land of opportunity by fusing that culture with liberty, property rights, open markets, and an unusual respect for ordinary labor. The man who built things, drove routes, and came home dirty was not a lesser citizen. He was the point.
I started working when I was twelve. In New England, that means you follow the seasons: mowing lawns in summer, raking leaves in fall, shoveling driveways in winter. All cash. All informal. Nobody asked for a resume. You showed up, you worked, and you got paid. Before I set foot in a college classroom, I’d been a busboy, a barback, a gas station attendant, a mailroom clerk, and a locker room attendant. None of those jobs was glamorous. All of them taught me something money can’t buy: what it means to earn your own way. That ethic now feels like a relic.
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U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle on Tuesday confirmed her departure from the position in a social media post in which she said that her time in the role was “coming to an end.”
The White House announced that it had asked her to leave on Tuesday morning, amid a scandal involving her allegedly seeking $100,000 to pay off a credit card bill.
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House Republicans are pushing ahead with sweeping legislation to obliterate sanctuary cities, setting up a post-election vote that would empower victims of illegal immigrants’ crimes to sue the local officials who released them from custody.
The Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act passed through the House Judiciary Committee with little fanfare last month, creating a path for GOP lawmakers to impose the toughest crackdown yet on states and cities that refuse to turn over illegal immigrants under federal detainers or outright release migrants in their custody.
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A plurality of Americans now back a “Medicare for All” program, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll released Tuesday.
The newly released survey found that 43% of respondents back a proposal to enact a “Medicare for All” program that would supply government-run health insurance to all Americans. Meanwhile, 24% of Americans said they would oppose such a proposal, while 32% said they were unsure.
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The search Monday of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home by federal agents was focused on the Minnesota Democrat’s immigration history, raising the prospects of legal and denaturalization risks for the Somalian-born lawmaker.
Federal agents with the Homeland Security Investigations division of the Department of Homeland Security were seen outside Omar’s home in the early hours of Monday.
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The SEC implemented standardized contracts for name, image, and likeness (NIL) and revenue-sharing contracts, according to CBS Sports.
The outlet reported that SEC school presidents voted Monday to make this change. These contracts, which will include customizable portions, went into effect immediately
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China is studying Russia’s bloody war in Ukraine, and experts say the lessons learned could make Beijing think twice about invading Taiwan.
The Chinese military is drawing lessons from Russian battlefield tactics and Ukraine’s successful attacks against Russian warships, airfields and military installations, according to a new Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report. The findings raise questions about whether Beijing could use the conflict to improve its chances in a future war over Taiwan, potentially challenging American military superiority in the Indo-Pacific, according to the CSIS analysis published Wednesday.
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Cornell University is suspending parties and other social events at fraternity houses for the remainder of the academic year, the school’s president said Tuesday, amid the resurfacing of allegations a female student was sexually assaulted at a frat house in 2024.
Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff said in announcing the ban on such parties that New York State Police will have a role in investigating sex crimes on campus.
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The Supreme Court will hear a case on whether the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has to release extensive records of deliberations on cutting government spending.
The Trump administration is challenging a lower court’s sweeping discovery order against DOGE despite a previous Supreme Court ruling to narrow the order. The administration argues that the department is exempt from public records law as a White House advisory board.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says it is not planning Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations targeting polling locations.
Popular Democracy Executive Director DaMareo Cooper laid out a list of grievances he said people should watch out for this election.
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The other day, I found myself facing two decisions. The first of these was whether I could take the time off work to drive four hours—two hours up and two hours back—for an event lasting less than twenty minutes. Given that the event in question was my son’s cross-country meet, it wasn’t a hard decision. He’s my youngest, after all, and in another blink of an eye, he’ll be done running high school meets and off doing something else, something I can’t take the afternoon off work to go watch, whether I want to or not. I’d have been a fool not to go.
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The Iran war — among the most unpopular conflicts in modern U.S. history — has reportedly cost the average American household approximately $2,000, according to a new analysis.
Mark Zandi, the chief economist of financial intelligence firm Moody’s Analytics calculated the past eight months of war cost the American household this amount by analyzing fuel costs, interest rates, and tax dollars allotted towards the military, according to his Tuesday post to X.
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A child soldier lies dead in a marsh from starvation.
The Red Army pauses to mourn the little martyr for a moment before the Long March moves on — and the kindergarten play ends.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing a bar ethics complaint over comments she made about the alleged sexual assault at Cornell University involving seven fraternity members, raising questions about her impartiality as special prosecutor.
According to the New York Post, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a nine-page complaint arguing that James’ public expression of support for the alleged victim, posted shortly before her appointment to the case, could undermine confidence in a fair investigation.
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Ex-prosecutor Jack Smith’s team got permission to monitor the phone of Donald Trump’s top aide from two federal judges openly critical of the president and did not reveal in their written request to those judges it would be secretly tracking contacts with criminal defense lawyers, according to freshly unsealed court records.
The documents made public Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force include two applications by the former special counsel to use a pen register and a tap and trace device to monitor the incoming and outgoing calls of current White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’s phone while she led Trump’s fundraising operation at the SAVE America PAC.
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A group of four Republican and two Democratic senators are saying that President Donald Trump’s plan to import Russian diesel breaks a 2022 law that bans Russian energy imports.
The Treasury Department issued a license Friday allowing Russian diesel into the U.S. through April 7, 2027, after Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to ship millions of tons of the fuel to bring down near-record prices. Two days later, a half dozen senators across both parties said the deal violated a Biden-era law signed months after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said on Monday that she “will not be silenced” by the federal raid on her Washington, D.C., home, arguing that the Trump administration has weaponized federal law enforcement against its political enemies.
“I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” Omar said in a post to X.
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Nearly a year after TikTok’s American operations were separated from Chinese parent company ByteDance, the social media giant continues relying on Chinese-developed technology and maintaining close operational ties with its former owner, raising questions about whether the deal adequately addresses national security concerns.
According to a Politico investigation, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, established in January 2026, still uses ByteDance’s internal messaging platform, Lark, and an artificial intelligence assistant called Aime, also developed by the Chinese company.
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The College Football Playoff (CFP) Management Committee announced Saturday it will continue talks with ESPN about expanding the playoff system.
ESPN held an exclusive 30-day negotiating period with the CFP Management Committee to discuss expanding the playoff from 12 to 24 teams, which ended Friday.
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Tech mogul Elon Musk has emerged as the Republican Party’s most important midterm donor, funneling more than $276 million into Republican campaigns and political action committees since July.
The enormous sum makes Musk the largest known midterm donor, according to campaign finance records Musk’s team shared with The New York Times on Monday.
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Today we remember the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who in October 1492 landed in the Bahamas and became the first Western European to discover what the Europeans would call the New World.
When Columbus and his crew of approximately 200 sailors left Spain in three crowded ships – the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria – they set their sails toward an unknown horizon. They expected to discover a trade route to India. (Most Europeans at the time knew the earth was round – but they were unaware of the North and South American continents.) Instead of finding a route to Southeast Asia, Columbus and his crew landed on a continent of new opportunities. Columbus’s accidental discovery opened a permanent passage across the Atlantic and redrew the known map of the world.
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