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Federal officials announced on Feb. 4 that approximately 700 immigration enforcement personnel would be withdrawn from Minnesota effective immediately, equating to approximately 25% of all agents deployed to the area. (snip) [R]oughly 2,000 immigration enforcement personnel would remain in the area (snip) [--] a sustained enforcement footprint well above historical norms for a single metropolitan area. (snip) Federal officials explicitly linked the reduction to increased cooperation from state and local authorities, including agreements by county jails to transfer individuals subject to immigration holds. (snip) The drawdown functions less as de-escalation than as enforcement consolidation.

Borrowing from novelist James Hilton, who coined the word "Shangri-La" to describe a Tibetan utopia in a 1933 novel, Franklin Roosevelt gave that name to a peaceful retreat we know as Camp David. For California Gov. Gavin Newsom (snip) [i]t stands for a hellish homeless housing nightmare (snip.) [Cody Holmes, President of Shangri-La, was indicted for] embezzling more than $2 million in taxpayer funds slated for homeless housing (snip.) Even after federal prosecutors exposed the massive fraud, Newsom (snip) [hasn't] severed ties with the embattled developer and ha[s] kept political donations from the firm's executives. Newsom also allowed the construction firm to continue to tout his endorsement (snip.)

The Department of Homeland Security fired a senior Customs and Border Protection official on Thursday after it was revealed that the officer had been allegedly leaking sensitive, personal information about CBP personnel, as well as negotiations regarding the border wall to the press, sources within the department told Fox News Digital. The official, who was unnamed, was marched out of his CBP office in Washington, D.C., after DHS discovered the leak, sources said. (snip) The news comes just days after a Fox News Digital investigation uncovered a communications network being used by (snip) [anti-] ICE agitators across the country.

In December, 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported on the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House that killed 20-year old Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, and left National Guardsman, 24-year-old Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, in critical condition. (snip) Wolfe's recovery has continued to move forward, and by mid-December, he was moved from the hospital to an inpatient rehab facility. On Tuesday, Wolfe shared his first public message (snip) [:] "I'm grateful to be alive. Thank you for your prayers and support," he wrote. "It's all been overwhelming and I'm trying still and determined. It's been hard to go through something like this. Thank uou for everything."

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching an investigation into ABC's "The View" amid the agency's crackdown on equal time for political candidates, Fox News Digital has learned. Last month, the FCC announced it will require the broadcast networks to adhere to the "statutory equal opportunities requirement," citing the Communications Act of 1934, "including the airing of late-night and daytime talk shows." A source at the FCC told Fox News Digital that Monday's "View" appearance by Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico triggered the probe.

President Donald Trump announced Monday the creation of a critical mineral reserve that will function a lot like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Project Vault, as it is called, will store minerals in the same way the SPR stores crude oil, with the goal of shielding domestic manufacturers from supply shocks. (snip) These minerals are used in a range of technologies, including military applications and consumer electronics. The project could help address this vulnerability the U.S. has, but as with any government program, it comes with some potential unintended consequences, experts say.

FBI Director Kash Patel says his agency has resumed an aggressive counterintelligence offensive against China and its Communist Party (CCP) that had been sidelined during the Biden presidency but is concerned the prior administration may have "buried" the truth about dangerous biolabs on U.S. soil tied to Beijing. (snip) Jia Bei Zhu was arrested in 2023 on allegations he was running an illegal biological lab in Reedley, Calif.. On Saturday, the FBI and local police raided a similar biolab in Vegas (snip.) Police and lawmakers say the two labs are closely connected. (snip) [A House committee] highlighted Zhu's links to the (snip) CCP in a 2023 report.

Removing adolescents' healthy body parts under the guise of treating gender dysphoria could soon become a "thing of the past" as doctors reckon with the reality of financial penalties. A detransitioner's landmark $2 million victory in her malpractice case and the first major medical association's new opposition to "gender-affirming" surgeries for minors will force medical professionals to seriously weigh the consequences of offering these procedures (snip.) [HHS] announced in December proposed rules that would strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that perform sex change procedures on minors.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta fell all over himself Thursday claiming that the California Department of Justice was working to tackle fraud in the state. (snip) Friday morning, the Small Business Administration upstaged AG Bonta and announced it has uncovered $8.6 billion in suspected fraud tied to Covid-era relief lending in California and has suspended more than 111,000 borrowers in the state. (snip) SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said the borrowers are suspected of improper activity involving federal pandemic programs, including Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) funds.

The Department of Homeland Security reported that there were more than 180 vehicle attacks on officers over the first year of President Trump's second term in office. There have been 182 [such] vehicle attacks (snip) since Jan. 21, 2025 (snip.) "Sanctuary politicians with their rhetoric comparing ICE to the Nazi Gestapo, slave patrols, and the secret police and encouraging illegal aliens to evade arrest have incited violence against law enforcement," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday slammed the New York Times over its reporting on whistleblowers, which he claimed intended to discredit real whistleblowers who were shedding light on misconduct. Grassley said the series of reports, which were done by New York Times reporters Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman date back to 2023 when Goldman wrote a report that was "designed to undermine my exposure of FBI agent [Timothy] Thibault's political conduct." (snip) "To my whistleblowers: I'll defend you. I'll protect you (snip) hw said. "To the New York Times, 'shame' isn't a strong enough word to describe these unprofessional articles."

Over 60 percent of illegal immigrant-led households and 51 percent of legal immigrant-led households received some sort of welfare benefits in 2024, compared with just 37 percent of natural-born citizen households taking taxpayer benefits, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration studies. (snip) The Center for Immigration Studies explained that, even in states that do not explicitly provide benefits to illegal immigrants, their households may receive such benefits if they have U.S.-born children. (snip) Food and Medicaid assistance were the most common forms of welfare across immigration statuses.