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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote. Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click on Book Cover) World & Nation Homan: ICE Surge in Minnesota to End  Border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ending its "Operation Metro Surge" in Minneapolis, Minnesota. President Donald Trump has agreed to the plan, Homan said. Speaking at a news conference alongside senior ICE, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Border Patrol officials, Homan said the surge operation produced "successful results" and made the Twin Cities "much safer" through arrests of violent criminal aliens and improved coordination with state and local law enforcement. Homan announces Operation Metro Surge to conclude in Minnesota
Trump administration will end immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota: Homan Israel to Join Trump's 'Board of Peace,' Netanyahu Says  Israel will join President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" initiative, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday during his visit to Washington, where he met Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. After meeting Rubio on Wednesday, Netanyahu posted on X that he "signed Israel's accession as a member of the "Board of Peace." Netanyahu was in Washington to discuss Iran with Trump. A U.N. Security Council resolution, adopted in mid-November, authorized the board and countries working with it to establish an international stabilization force in Gaza, where a fragile ceasefire began in October under a Trump plan on which Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas signed off.
Alberta Separatists Step Up Efforts to Leave Canada After Meeting With Trump Officials  Separatists in Alberta are ramping up a petition campaign aimed at triggering an independence vote in the western province that has long complained its economy is being held back by the rest of Canada. Volunteer canvassers are hoping to collect by May 2 approximately 177,000 signatures, or 10% of the province's registered voters, the threshold required to launch a citizen-led referendum on separation from Canada. While unlikely to result in an independent Alberta, the campaign poses a challenge to Prime Minister Mark Carney's efforts to show a united Canadian front in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and threats to annex the country. Investigators put up white tent outside entrance to Nancy Guthrie home  A former FBI profiler says newly released video and forensic evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case could significantly narrow the search for a suspect and that the release of photos and videos may have "ramped up" the suspect’s stress. Jim Clemente, a former FBI supervisory special agent and criminal profiler, told Fox News Digital that investigators are more likely to recover forensic evidence from inside the home than from outside areas exposed to the elements. "Inside the house is much more protected. So I’m sure that’s going to reveal a lot more," Clemente said, noting that outdoor evidence such as a doormat may not yield significant DNA due to weather exposure. "Any time, any place where he spent any time — that’s where you’re going to see it." Clemente also pointed to what appears to be a marking, possibly a tattoo, visible on the suspect’s right wrist in surveillance footage. Biden admin skirted rules to deliver massive contract to nonprofit run by ex-official, IG report reveals A former Biden-Harris official was tapped to lead the nonprofit receiving the contract just months prior  A new inspector general's report released Thursday morning accuses the former Biden administration of bypassing federal rules when issuing a more than half-a-billion dollar "sole source contract" to a nonprofit led by a former Biden official to deal with the unaccompanied minor crisis in 2021. The Administration of Children and Families (ACF), which is under HHS and manages unaccompanied minors, awarded $529 million for a one-year contract in March 2021 to a nonprofit called Family Endeavors Inc. to help establish and manage a new emergency intake site in Texas (EIS) with 2,000 extra beds. However, according to the OIG's new report, Biden's ACF failed to follow federal procurement requirements for full and open competition due to their own "insufficient planning," rather than the COVID-induced emergency the Biden administration cited. Furthermore, the inspector general's report found that the contract price was more than double the agency's own cost estimate of $244 million, and indicated that the agency "subsequently modified" the award 15 times, extending the period until May 2022 and increasing the value to more than three times the original estimate from ACF. ICE accuses Honduran alien of ramming law enforcement vehicle before agent shoots out tires Suspect Jesus Fabian Lopez-Banegas' criminal history includes drug trafficking and DUI charges; he received a removal order in 2021  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said a Honduran criminal illegal alien rammed a law enforcement vehicle during an arrest attempt in New Jersey on Tuesday, forcing an agent to shoot out the suspect’s tires. Dramatic video shows the officer drawing his gun during the tense roadside confrontation. The incident unfolded in Roxbury Township when ICE said suspect Jesus Fabian Lopez-Banegas tried to evade arrest by crashing into a law enforcement vehicle and nearly striking an officer. Roxbury Township is in Morris County, roughly 35 miles northwest of Newark. Video shows an agent drawing his firearm at the crash scene, where a law enforcement vehicle and the suspect’s pickup truck sit nose-to-nose along a snowy roadside. Bondi confirms DOJ has received criminal referral alleging Brennan perjury over Steele dossier  Attorney General Pam Bondi said she received a criminal referral from the House Judiciary Committee alleging former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress, confirming the receipt during a hearing before the panel on Wednesday. Bondi's was responding to committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who directly asked the attorney general if Brennan would be indicted. The DOJ has for months been investigating Brennan and several others over the origins of the 2016 Trump-Russia probe. "What I can confirm is that we have received a referral from you, Chairman Jordan, to investigate John Brennan," Bondi said. "His attorneys have made some public statements, but the department is still bound, of course, by our longstanding policy of not discussing matters," Bondi said. "What I will say today I can't confirm nor deny whether there's a pending investigation, but what I will say [is] that no one is above the law. Weaponization has ended. Kremlin: Next Round of Ukraine Peace Talks to Happen Soon  The Kremlin said on Thursday that it expected the next round of peace talks on Ukraine to happen soon and that there was already an understanding about their timing and location. Three sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters that U.S. officials have proposed a trilateral meeting on Monday and Tuesday in Miami. "We have a certain understanding (of the details), and we will keep you informed," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.  Why Olympics ice dancing upset was so controversial as French duo beats married American couple “Sinister energy” triumphed over the heartwarming story Wednesday. France’s polarizing figure skating duo of Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron narrowly edged America’s Madison Chock and Evan Bates to win gold in the ice dance competition at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. For as exciting as the competition may have been, with the French team’s 225.82 score just beating Team USA’s 224.39 mark, the off-the-ice drama made the result all the more intriguing. The French duo has found themselves in the middle of controversy over the past few years, especially with the release of Netflix’s “Glitter & Gold” documentary, which was released earlier this month. Virginia Democrats retreat on VMI funding threat after Trump administration warns of 'extraordinary measures'  Virginia Democrats backed down from legislation that could have potentially revoked state funding for the Virginia Military Institute amid criticism from the Trump administration, VMI cadets and lawmakers in Congress. Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly introduced House Bill 1377, which originally proposed a task force that could revoke state funding for the school. After scrutiny and controversy, an amended bill passed the Virginia House last Thursday that no longer grants authority to strip the historic military college of funding. The legislation, which is now heading to the Virginia state senate, still mandates an examination of the school’s policies, though state funding is no longer in jeopardy, according to the bill text. Miranda Devine: Trump debunking Al Gore’s climate fears has made the world a better place By Miranda Devine
Twenty years after Al Gore’s apocalyptic movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Trump administration has put the final nail in the coffin of the lie that scared a generation into believing the planet was about to explode in flames if they kept using fossil fuels. In what the White House calls “the largest deregulatory action in American history,” the EPA on Thursday will repeal an Obama-era proclamation that has mandated greenhouse-gas regulations for 17 years, The 2009 “endangerment finding” has been the primary climate handbrake on American industry, forming the legal justification for increasingly punitive greenhouse-gas regulations. Rescinding it would “save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week, with the EPA projecting an average saving of $2,400 per vehicle and further savings on farm machinery, soon to be freed from the complex extra circuitry required to restrict emissions. It will also end Joe Biden’s enforced transition to electric vehicles by 2030. MORNING GLORY: President Donald Trump’s most important decision is coming Serious Trump biographies in the decades ahead will begin with the decision he makes on Iran now By Hugh Hewitt
One door is marked "Truman/Reagan" and the other door is marked "Carter/Obama/Biden." President Donald Trump has to choose one. Again. And this time, the choice will define Trump’s place in history. On three different occasions, the 45th and 47th president of the United States has walked through the first door. Trump ordered the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, on January 3, 2020. |
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