President Donald Trump has issued 266 executive orders in his second term but only 70 have been codified into law, according to Mark Meadows, a White House chief of staff in the first Trump administration and a former North Carolina GOP congressman.
“That’s a start, but Congress needs to double the effort!!!” Meadows wrote in a post on X this week, noting that 196 of Trump’s Executive Orders were not yet codified into law.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified intelligence about a constellation of biological laboratories in Ukraine on Friday, four years after members of Congress and biodefense officials criticized her for expressing concerns about them.
The new documents reveal two dozen biological labs in Ukraine. The map reveals that a lab in Odessa, a city with a population of more than one million people, has a lab with stored biological weapons from the defunct Soviet Union biological weapons program. Viruses in storage include anthrax, tularemia, tuberculosis, Swine Fever, New Castles Disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, the Plague, and Rickettsia, the documents show.
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Meta announced Monday that it is launching a new free program to train U.S. workers for data center construction jobs.
The technology giant has pledged to invest $115 million in the first year of the initiative, dubbed “America’s Workforce Academy,” which will include a four-week training program and guaranteed job offers for graduates of the program. The program will begin in Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas in 2026.
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters that the Trump administration has located at least 146,000 unaccompanied minors who were lost during the Biden administration.
Major cities, such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, have refused to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement as a result of their sanctuary cities policies, the New York Post reported.
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The Senate moved unusually fast to schedule the confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s new nominee for the director of national intelligence.
Trump nominated Jay Clayton to permanently serve in the role after Democrats rebuked the temporary nomination of Director of U.S. Federal Housing Bill Pulte. The Senate scheduled Clayton’s confirmation hearing for Wednesday, reflecting the political pressure on the chamber as they are fighting to pass the extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which expires Friday at midnight.
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The family of slain high school athlete Austin Metcalf have been receiving dozens of hateful messages and death threats after Karmelo Anthony was convicted earlier this week of murdering him.
The messages include statements that Anthony should have also murdered Metcalf’s brother, Hunter, according to TMZ, citing unnamed sources.
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The Second Amendment Section of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced Tuesday it was investigating Philadelphia over its handling of concealed carry permits.
Pennsylvania is officially a “shall issue” state with regards to concealed carry permits, with its laws requiring authorities to issue the permits if people meet certain qualifications. In a Tuesday letter to Philadelphia Democratic Mayor Cherelle Parker, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said that the DOJ was looking into allegations regarding the Philadelphia Police Department’s administration and revocation of the permits under the provisions of the Police Pattern or Practice Act (34 USC 12601).
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The Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to force Second Amendment cases to the Supreme Court, a top official told the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday.
Under Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, the Second Amendment Section of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division was established on Dec. 4, 2025. While lawsuits against Denver, the District of Columbia and Colorado over gun and magazine bans have generated headlines, Dhillon told the DCNF there was a strategy behind the cases the Civil Rights Division brought.
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High-ranking Biden administration officials conspired to violate a 2022 court order against their interpretation of Title IX as covering “gender identity” within the definition of “sex,” and may have also tried to conceal those efforts through coercion and intimidation, according to a Department of Education report made public Wednesday after lengthy outside review.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Thursday released documents showing that former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci had deep, decades-long ties with the U.S. intelligence community that predate the COVID-19 pandemic by nearly 20 years.
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In the #MeToo years, the Left’s signature slogan was “Believe All Women!”
That directive was used to bolster Christine Blasey Ford’s preposterous and easily refuted 2018 allegations that some 35 years earlier she had been sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, when both were teenagers.
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Carrie Brockwell’s latest album, That’s Real, is a breezy country-infused Yacht Rock-inspired record that encourages listeners to embrace authenticity, let go of expectations, and simply groove.
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One week ago Thursday, Congress was sailing toward relatively easy passage of a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes intelligence agencies to spy on non-U.S. electronic communications without a warrant.
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The second largest teachers union in the U.S. may be using pensions to advance their political agenda, an education watchdog suggests.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has advocated for fossil fuel divestments, pro-DEI boycotts and other pressure campaigns, Consumers’ Research told acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling in a letter Thursday. The letter requests an investigation into whether AFT is influencing public pension trustees to go beyond their fiduciary duties and use their position to invest in the union’s political priorities.
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One day after federal trustees warned Congress that Social Security’s retirement trust fund will go insolvent by 2032, a U.S. House subcommittee met to question Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano about the program’s future.
The program’s insolvency will automatically trigger a benefit cut of 22% or more, impacting more than 60 million American retirees, 43% of whom rely on Social Security for the majority of their income.
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Bill Gates has long been one of the most admired people in the world, especially since he stepped down from his role running Microsoft to devote himself and much of his fortune to philanthropy. That reputation has been tarnished recently, however, by revelations of the billionaire’s close relation with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and exposés on his own fraught relationships with women.
On the eve of Gates’ private testimony with Congress scheduled for tomorrow, a trove of federal whistleblower documents provided to RealClearInvestigations is renewing questions about how Gates money has bought what critics complain is an untoward influence on government health policy. For almost a quarter of a century, his main vehicle of power, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), allowing Gates to shape the direction of the country’s health strategy in ways that have benefitted his own priorities and pet causes while polishing his image as a benevolent global do-gooder.
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The United States military said Wednesday evening that it has begun its next wave of self-defense strikes on Iran amid tensions over the downing of an American helicopter earlier this week.
The move is the second wave of strikes on the Middle Eastern country after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter.
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The Florida Supreme Court declined Wednesday to halt the use of a new congressional map that state Republicans passed earlier this year amid a mid-decade redistricting push.
Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed the map into law in May, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Louisiana redistricting case that the state’s existing congressional map that includes an additional majority-black district violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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Whistleblowers and declassified documents have revealed a pattern of the CIA and FBI soft-pedaling findings that could rattle China, raising questions about whether President Donald Trump has the best information about America’s chief geopolitical rival at a high-stakes moment for U.S.-China relations.
A soft-on-China bias during the Biden administration shaped analyses of COVID-19 and election interference at CIA, FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the evidence suggests. Many officials in the sprawling $115.5 billion intelligence apparatus ascribe to a neoliberal worldview that prefers free trade and unfettered scientific cooperation with China, whistleblowers say.
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Noncitizens who illegally vote in U.S. elections will face deportation, among other stricter penalties, according to new guidance from the Department of Homeland Security.
The general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, James Percival, directed the leadership of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce the stricter penalties against noncitizens who vote.
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Many American women feel uninformed about the abortion pills’ potential complications, according to a new Charlotte Lozier Institute study.
The study — first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation — found that 52.5% of participants cited bleeding as the abortion-related complication they desired more information on than was provided during the informed consent process. Forty-eight percent said pain was the complication they desired more information about, compared to 33.7% who mentioned mental and emotional health.
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is calling for transparency and accountability on COVID-19 vaccine injuries and says he’s asking the Trump administration to implement an International Classification of Diseases code for COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
“Trump’s [Department of Health and Human Services] has to acknowledge that these injection injuries are real. They’ve got to create an ICD code so the doctors can get reimbursed,” Johnson said Monday in an exclusive John Solomon Reports podcast interview. He also said he has met with patients who were at a critical “low point” after fighting the medical establishment for years to be seen and treated.
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A Florida hospital has cut sepsis-related deaths by half by utilizing advanced technology that continuously monitors patients to detect potential early warning signs, The Times reported on Tuesday.
Tampa General Hospital has saved almost 900 lives over four years after implementing the Palantir-developed Sepsis Hub system, The Times reported. The software tracks every patient’s vital signs of every patient around the clock and can notify a “rapid response team” of hospital employees to any slight changes that could indicate sepsis, according to the outlet.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation to fund key immigration enforcement agencies through the end of his term after Congress approved the package via the reconciliation process.
“This morning, I’m thrilled to sign the Secure America Act to immediately and fully fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of my term,” he said at the signing ceremony in the Oval Office.
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National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Richard Hudson, R-NC, predicted Tuesday that his party will gain seats in the House in the 2026 midterms this November, highlighting how the congressional map favors the GOP.
The comment comes after multiple states launched redistricting efforts in the past year that have resulted in redrawn congressional districts ahead of November. The new maps swing 16 districts more toward Republicans, while just six swing more toward Democrats, according to The Hill.
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After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K–12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent, or 1.18 million students, and schools show no signs of rebounding. Lower birth rates are the primary driver of the downturn. The number of births in the U.S. has decreased steadily in recent years, with 690,000 fewer children born in 2024 than in 2007.
California lost nearly 75,000 TK–12 students as of the 2025–26 school year, a slide more than twice as steep as the previous year’s. Since 2017–18, the Golden State has seen a 10 percent decline.
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The U.S. military launched “self defense” attacks against Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of an American helicopter, officials said.
“U.S. Central Command forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter,” CENTCOM posted on X. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”
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Democratic attorneys general deputized private lawyers from a nonprofit run by former Obama ambassador and anti-Trump activist Norm Eisen to help prosecute supporters of President Donald Trump for organizing alternate electors to challenge the 2020 election results, according to tax records and internal memos released under open record laws.
The relationship between state and local prosecutors and Eisen’s States United Democracy Center (SUDC) raises troubling questions about the independence of judicial decisions and the influence of a donor-funded group on matters of law and order, experts said.
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A Texas jury on Tuesday found teenager Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the stabbing of his competitor, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, during a high school track meet last year.
The murder trial began last week and witnesses alleged that Anthony and Metcalf had an altercation after the victim told Anthony he was sitting in the wrong area.
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Hunter Biden recently joined X and has gained hundreds of thousands of followers, using his new perch to defend the infamous October 2020 letter which was written by dozens of former intelligence officials and which baselessly claimed Russian involvement in the emergence of incriminating evidence on his laptop’s hard drive.
The laptop letter — which was released just ahead of the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Hunter Biden’s father and former Vice President Joe Biden — contributed to the baseless narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were nothing but a product of Russian disinformation — a narrative happily seized upon by Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and spread by some of the laptop letter signers.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday the Iranians shot down the U.S. Apache helicopter that fell overnight near the Strait of Hormuz and is calling for a response.
“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
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Americans’ confidence in federal health agencies has plummeted since 2025, according to a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont Foundation’s Public Health Listening Lab poll out Tuesday.
The new national poll suggests that U.S. adults’ trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other federal health institutions has plunged significantly. Just 50% of the public says they now trust health recommendations from the CDC, down from 77% in spring 2025, the survey shows.
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Americans’ moral acceptance of sex changes is at an all-time low in part due to plummeting support among Democrats, a new poll shows.
Democrats’ support for sex changes is down by 11% from the previous year, according to the recent polling by Gallup released Tuesday.
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Border czar Tom Homan said Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to send a massive deployment of officers to New York City in light of Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent legislative package that boosts protections for residents from federal authorities.
The legislative package, which was passed last month, bans state and local law enforcement from using their authority to act as civil immigration agents and prohibits law enforcement officers from wearing masks. It also blocks ICE from entering schools or hospitals without a judicial warrant.
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Why does California have the highest gasoline taxes in the U.S.? Don’t look to the Strait of Hormuz. Look at Beijing.
Of course, energy has been expensive in California for a long time. Some of this can be attributed to spacey Californians who have spent half a century dreaming up green disasters. The 1979 movie The China Syndrome depicted the evil power company that built its nuclear plant on a fault line. It had nothing to do with China, except that in a meltdown, the reactor’s core would, so to speak, drop all the way there.
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Dozens of driverless trucks are hitting the road as industries rush toward automation.
PepsiCo is partnering with autonomous vehicle startup Gatik to rollout a fleet of 35 driverless trucks, Wall Street Journal reported Monday. It’s reportedly the first time a U.S. company disclosed using autonomous trucks on public highways.
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A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s policy seeking to implement a $100,000 fee on visas for highly skilled foreign workers.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin said Trump’s order imposing a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa recipients is “unlawful.”
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The Trump administration’s Department of War is expressing concern that Israel is spying on the U.S. — including on its negotiations to end the Iran war, according to multiple reports.
The Pentagon is ramping up in its responses to alleged Israeli espionage, including recently raising the country’s counterintelligence threat level to “critical,” NBC News reported Friday, citing three anonymous current and former U.S. officials. U.S. intelligence reports also indicate Israel had made efforts to listen in on conversations involving senior U.S. officials such as Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, one of the lead negotiators in the peace talks with Iran, The New York Times reported Saturday afternoon.
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Five people were stabbed Sunday night inside New York City’s Penn Station, which is adjacent to the Madison Square Garden arena where President Donald Trump is slated to attend the NBA championship game on Monday, police said.
Police said one person was taken into custody, and it was believed to be a random attack.
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The Trump administration on Monday announced plans to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens who are accused of immigration fraud.
The Justice Department said the revocations will be the largest denaturalization effort by the federal government, which previous administrations have rarely invoked, CBS News reported.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison knew about widespread taxpayer fraud in the state’s welfare programs as early as spring 2019, but took no action and instead the state retaliated against workers who tried to expose the abuses, a bombshell congressional report released Monday concluded.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee referred its findings from a months-long probe into $9 billion-plus in fraud schemes in Minnesota to Vice President JD Vance, raising serious concerns Democrats in the state turned a blind eye to the taxpayer losses because they feared “political retribution from the politically active Somali community.”
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President Donald Trump early Monday demanded that Iran and Israel stop firing missiles at each other after a weekend of violence between the two threatened a fragile Mideast ceasefire.
“Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting,'” the president wrote on his Truth Social account.
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The University of Notre Dame says it cannot find any American to teach English and so it must fill the job with a foreign worker visa.
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With President Donald Trump’s approval rating underwater by over seventeen points and the GOP facing criticism over inflation and the Iran war in a critical midterm election, we would expect swing voters to be flocking to Democrats. Despite inflation and the Iran war creating strong headwinds for Republicans leading into November, Latino voters are fleeing from the Democratic Party, showing a twenty-point collapse since 2022 and a thirty-point collapse since 2018.
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Since the FBI’s founding at the turn of the century, the intelligence community has grown from a domestic law enforcement operation to a sprawling $115 billion surveillance apparatus spanning 18 separate agencies.
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As Democrat operatives have been rooted out in the Justice Department and FBI since January 2025, some very inconvenient facts have been discovered, leading to grand jury and congressional investigations into long-buried corrupt criminal activities of prominent Democrats.
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Eighty-two years ago on June 6, 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Free French forces, Canada, and other Allies launched one of the most audacious military operations in history: the seaborne invasion of Normandy, France. Code-named Operation Overlord, the assault thrust 160,000 troops onto five beaches in a last-ditch bid to open a Western Front and crush Hitler’s Nazi empire.
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Most teachers are concerned about their students’ education amid the looming artificial intelligence revolution, a recent survey shows.
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Bill Essayli, U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said Friday that his office has “multiple fraud investigations underway” in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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More than two decades ago, the leader of the National Socialist Party of America decided he wanted out of the white nationalist movement. The leader approached the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has positioned itself as the nation’s preeminent watchdog of “hate,” and for helping people get out of such groups.
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