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Mexico sent 37 people accused of being criminal operatives to the United States on Tuesday, the latest apparent bid to alleviate pressure from President Trump to do more to combat the powerful groups smuggling drugs across the border. It was the first such transfer this year, when Mr. Trump’s threats of military action against Mexico have grown more direct, but the third since he took office. Mexican authorities have now sent nearly 100 people accused of being key criminals to the United States. The transfers are part of a larger effort by Mexican authorities to appease Mr. Trump as he threatens unilateral strikes inside Mexican territory
Air Force One returned to Joint Base Andrews late Tuesday with President Trump on board after experiencing a “minor electrical issue,” a White House official said.
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that Mr. Trump would board a different plane at the base and continue on to Switzerland, where he is expected to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.
It was unclear whether Mr. Trump would arrive in time for his scheduled speech at 2:30 p.m. local time in Davos, or 8:30 a.m. Eastern, on Wednesday. He is expected to meet afterward with several world leaders,
Minnesota Democrats Invite
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Federal Intervention in State By Refusing
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Democratic politicians are inviting more federal intervention in Minnesota by excusing the church invasion that violated federal law and citizens’ rights, says lawyer Jonathan Turley.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison “is a curious form of attorney general who opposes the actual enforcement of laws,” Turley wrote on January 20, adding
Ellison is refusing to enforce his own laws while suing to bar the federal government from enforcing its own laws. He is akin to a doctor who opposes the actual administration of medicine.
In some ways, Ellison has proven the perfect Antifa Attorney General, a law enforcement officer who supports the mob while denouncing the police.
A long-running effort to help disadvantaged students of color in Los Angeles schools is under legal challenge by a group that claims the nation’s second-largest school system is discriminating against white students.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, targets efforts to bring resources to underserved schools going back decades and rooted in battles over forced and voluntary integration.
Filed in the Central District of California by the 1776 Project Foundation, the suit alleges that L.A. Unified discriminates against white students because of a program that provides more resources to schools where 70% or more of the students are nonwhite
Supreme Court appears likely to strike
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down California law banning guns in stores
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Do licensed gun owners have a right to carry a loaded weapon into stores, restaurants and other private places that are open to the public?
California and Hawaii are among five states with new laws that forbid carrying firearms onto private property without the consent of an owner or manager. But the Trump administration joined gun-rights advocates on Tuesday in urging the Supreme Court to strike down these laws as unconstitutional under the 2nd Amendment.
Such a law “effectively nullifies licenses to carry arms in public,” Trump’s lawyers said.
If you “stop at a gasoline station, you are committing a crime,” Deputy Solicitor Gen. Sarah Harris told the court.
The Don Lemon Church Incursion Could Serve
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As a Tipping Point for the Direction of
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There has been extensive excitement, in both directions, over the activist stunt that took place in St. Paul this weekend involving disgraced former CNN journalist Don Lemon. That is to say, social media has been all over his participation, but the conventional media apparatus has been notably muted in addressing what went on Sunday. This event could turn out to be a crucial fulcrum in the way the nation is headed.
As we have reported, an organized group from the Black Lives Matter movement convened on Sunday to bull rush a church service in the city under the guise
President Donald Trump held a nearly two-hour-long White House press briefing on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration.
Trump started the briefing at 1:48 p.m. Eastern and left the podium at 3:33 p.m. at the culmination of the one hour and forty-five-minute engagement with reporters in a jam-packed James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. Near the top of the briefing, Trump touted arrests his administration is making in Minnesota, including “apprehending murderers, drug dealers, and a lot of bad people.” Trump displayed flyers featuring pictures of those who have been taken into custody, along with graphics reading “Minnesota Worst of Worst.”
A three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit struck down Maryland’s private property concealed carry ban on Tuesday.
The case centered on the ban reached the Fourth Circuit on appeal after being heard in May 2025 in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
The three judges hearing the case were: Chief Judge Albert Diaz, Circuit Judges Roger L. Gregory, and G. Steven Agee. The judges weighed Maryland’s private property concealed carry ban via the methodology set forth in Bruen (2022). Then, “Judge Gregory, joined by Chief Judge Diaz, [wrote] for the Court, and Judge Agree joins,” saying, “We hold that Maryland’s prohibition
Wells Fargo is relocating the headquarters of its wealth management business to West Palm Beach, becoming the first major U.S. bank to base its wealth operations in Florida, the company confirmed Monday.
The San Francisco-based bank signed a lease for 50,000 square feet at the One Flagler office building, according to wealth chief Barry Sommers. About 100 employees, mostly senior executives including nearly half of the unit’s operating committee, will relocate to the new office by year-end, Bloomberg reported. The office is scheduled to open in August.
Wells Fargo’s wealth unit generated $16 billion in revenue last year, accounting for roughly 20 percent of the bank’s total revenue.
With Tuesday marking the one-year anniversary of President Trump's return to the Oval Office, there's been a fair amount of focus on the administration's achievements — and rightly so.
President Trump himself joined the day's press briefing and had a little fun with it as he touted the multitude of accomplishments he and his team have secured over the past year. But Trump wasn't alone in touting the administration's successes. As they've done all year, Trump's Cabinet secretaries and key department heads each made a point to highlight their respective agencies'/departments' achievements.
t was crazy that the anti-ICE agitators thought it would be a good idea to storm a church in the middle of its service to push their hateful anti-ICE agenda. They apparently believed that one of the pastors was connected to ICE.
But screaming and disrupting people trying to pray is a pretty disgraceful look; it exposed how crazy and extreme they are to people who might not have understood it before.
In addition to being wrong about ICE, if you're screaming in a church and frightening children, you are not the good guys in this equation.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson never seems to disappoint if you’re a PJ Media writer looking for the next thing to investigate. In the media business, you could say she’s “good copy.” And so today, during oral arguments in a Second Amendment case, Wolford v. Lopez, she did it again.
For background, the case itself centers on a Hawaiian law that does not allow people with public carry licenses to have their handguns on them when they are on private property that is open to the public, unless they have prior permission from the owner.
Shame on those anti-ICE protesters who invaded a St. Paul, Minnesota church. Don't they realize they might have harmed the anti-ICE movement? That was Audie Cornish's not-so-subtle suggestion on Tuesday's edition of the CNN This Morning show she hosts. Using Katie Couric's old "some say" trick, Audie put her concerns in the mouths of others. As she expressed it to fellow lib Chuck Rocha: "As people were talking about this yesterday, I heard over and over again, I feel like [protesting in] the church is too far. I feel like the activists are taking it to a place that I can't follow.
Minnesota citizens and local officials outside Minneapolis say they don’t want the crime and chaos taking place in Minneapolis and that they do support the law enforcement work of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
“We don’t want to be like Minneapolis,” St. Cloud City Council Member Scott Brodeen declared last week in comments supporting ICE, The Minnesota Star-Tribune reported Sunday:
“I don’t want bad stuff to happen here in St. Cloud that could be avoided.”
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“Just let [ICE] do their jobs and we’ll remain safe as a community.”
We first learned this was coming last Friday. At the time, several news outlets were reporting that the DOJ intended to serve subpoenas to Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz in connection with an investigation into possible obstruction of federal agents.
The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents, an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's clash with Democratic leaders there, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
One of the sources, a U.S. official, said the investigation stems from statements
Cuba's communist leadership is talking very tough about its willingness to fight to the last man. Over the weekend the country announced plans for a "state of war."
The Cuban national defence council said it had approved “plans and measures” to declare a “state of war” to be enacted in the country, state media reported on Sunday.
No details were given as to how this would be implemented, but the press release said the measures would be based on the concept of “war of all the people”, a strategy promoted in the 1980s under the country’s former leader Fidel Castro as the allied Soviet Union was collapsing.
Michele Tafoya, a longtime sportscaster,
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prepares a Republican bid for US Senate
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Michele Tafoya, a longtime sportscaster and conservative commentator, filed papers Tuesday to run for US Senate in Minnesota, giving the Republican Party a well-known candidate in a state that’s being roiled by the ongoing federal immigration crackdown. (snip)“In Minnesota, law enforcement has been demonized for years,” Tafoya posted on X recently, responding to a video from Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who is running in the Democratic primary for Senate against Rep. Angie Craig. “We are short on officers. Morale has plummeted. Career criminals are released to offend again. And radical leftists care more about them than they do about honest Minnesotans who simply want to see the chaos end.”
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Investors revived the “Sell America” trade Tuesday and sold off US stocks, bonds and the dollar amid concerns about President Donald Trump’s clash with European leaders over ownership of Greenland.
The Dow closed lower by 871 points, or 1.76%. The broader S&P 500 fell 2.06%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 2.39%. The S&P and Nasdaq wiped out their gains for this year.
The Dow, S&P and Nasdaq each had their worst day since October 10, when Trump had threatened to hike tariffs on imports from China.
The dollar index, which measures the dollar’s strength against six major currencies, fell 0.8% Tuesday — a huge move in currency markets.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed that he had “rejected” a “ridiculous offer” from the Clintons for an unofficial interview regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
In a post on X, Comer stated that the “latest demands” by the Clintons “make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment.” Comer also criticized former President Bill Clinton for having “a documented history of parsing language to evade questions.”
“Facing contempt of Congress, the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only,” Comer said. “No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from
Supreme Court justices were stunned Tuesday when lawyers defending Hawaii's so-called "Vampire Rule" -- which restricts carrying guns on privately owned spaces without consent -- pointed to racist laws in their defense of gun control. During their arguments, the lawyers had cited the Black Codes, post-Civil War segregationist laws that limited the rights of African Americans, as evidence of similarly restrictive gun control in U.S. history. "I want to understand how you think Black Codes should inform this court's decision-making. It's quite astonishing," conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed attorney Neal Kaytal.
An NYPD sergeant was arrested for allegedly groping a domestic-violence victim in Brooklyn after boasting, “I am the police supervisor,” prosecutors and law-enforcement sources said.
Sgt. Talha Ahmad, 28 — who was assigned to the 61st Precinct — allegedly squeezed the buttocks of a woman who called 911 seeking help on Dec. 30, according to a criminal complaint.
Ahmad told the woman, “I am the police supervisor” and claimed he was there to further investigate the allegations of her 911 call, the court doc said.
He then grabbed her behind without her consent, prosecutors charge.
Ahmad’s alleged actions left the woman – who sources said initially called the cops over a domestic-violence incident –
Just how corrupt has the immigration system become? Our sister site Townhall has obtained undercover video taken a couple of months ago, in which advocates for Mauritanian immigrants in Ohio claim that they have corrupt judges willing to keep illegal aliens in place ... for a price. Amy Curtis provides a full breakdown of this exclusive recording, where it also appears that these advocates are profiting off of the enterprise as well: In exclusive footage obtained by Townhall, evidence has emerged suggesting that migrants from the West African nation of Mauritania are exploiting the U.S. immigration and asylum system in Lockland, Ohio,
Obama famously said that 'elections have consequences,' and despite the rather threatening tone with which he said it, he is absolutely right.
Obama's election signaled a dramatic lurch leftward, although his tone and temperament led most liberals to think he was more center-left than left.
Obama's great achievement was not in passing radical left-wing legislation—Obamacare was one of his few legislative accomplishments, and for the most part, his "success" there stalled his ability to pass much else. It was not so much through legislation that Obama put his stamp on America, but through creating a much more leftist and aggressive federal bureaucracy, and by purging
A federal judge has barred Trump loyalist Lindsay Halligan from "masquerading" as the top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, but said he would allow her to avoid attorney disciplinary proceedings for now "in light of her inexperience." (snip) The move came the same day as the chief federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia posted a job opening for (snip) the position previously occupied by Halligan. (snip) "In the exercise of the authority (snip) to appoint an Interim United States Attorney (snip) until the position is filled by a Senate confirmed person, the Court is soliciting expressions of interest" (snip.)