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Senators want watchdog to investigate TSA’s facial recognition technology

Senators want watchdog to investigate TSA’s facial recognition technology

Twelve senators are urging the Department of Homeland Security’s top watchdog to probe the Transportation Security Administration’s facial recognition technology, as many Americans prepare to travel for the busy holiday season. The bipartisan Senate coalition includes unlikely allies worried about the TSA’s conduct, including strange bedfellows such as Sens. Ted Cruz…Read more

Biden spent big to fight contrary narratives; ‘misinformation’ on virus, climate

Biden spent big to fight contrary narratives; ‘misinformation’ on virus, climate

The Biden administration has spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to study and police “misinformation,” according to a report released Friday. OpenTheBooks, a spending watchdog, said the federal government has spent $267 million since 2021 on contracts and research grants that include the term “misinformation” in the proposals…Read more

Trump is warning Republicans to stop Democrats from confirming more Biden judges

Trump is warning Republicans to stop Democrats from confirming more Biden judges

President-elect Donald Trump called on Republican senators again Wednesday to halt Democrats from confirming more of President Biden’s judicial nominees before he takes office on Jan. 20. Senate Democrats have been moving swiftly to confirm pending vacancies before they lose control of the upper chamber on Jan. 3, following the new GOP majority’s…Read more

Welfare recipients, criminals allowed to sponsor illegal immigrants under Biden ‘parole’ program

Welfare recipients, criminals allowed to sponsor illegal immigrants under Biden ‘parole’ program

Sex traffickers may be using a Biden administration “parole” program to sneak illegal immigrant women into the U.S., the House Judiciary Committee is revealing Wednesday in an explosive new report exposing fraud in one of Homeland Security’s marquee border operations. Welfare recipients, people involved with criminal activity and even other illegal…Read more

In about-face, Biden to give Ukraine long-sought long-range missiles for war

In about-face, Biden to give Ukraine long-sought long-range missiles for war

President Biden will permit Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, according to multiple media reports, lifting a long-standing ban put into place for fear it could provoke the Kremlin to respond. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long lobbied for greater freedom to use U.S. weaponry. He said his forces are…Read more

Trump expected to trash Biden’s AI agenda

Trump expected to trash Biden’s AI agenda

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to undo President Biden’s artificial intelligence agenda, replacing an emphasis on safety with a new emphasis on freedom for the booming new technology. Mr. Biden signed an AI executive…Read more

Trump picks Ratcliffe for CIA, Hegseth for Defense and Musk for new agency to cut waste

Trump picks Ratcliffe for CIA, Hegseth for Defense and Musk for new agency to cut waste

President-elect Donald Trump showed his intention to shake up the federal government Tuesday by naming former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, Elon Musk to head a new department to cut waste and regulations, and the unexpected choice of military reservist and Fox News figure Pete Hegseth to serve as Defense Secretary…Read more

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Senators want watchdog to investigate TSA’s facial recognition technology

Senators want watchdog to investigate TSA’s facial recognition technology

Twelve senators are urging the Department of Homeland Security’s top watchdog to probe the Transportation Security Administration’s facial recognition technology, as many Americans prepare to travel for the busy holiday season. The bipartisan Senate coalition includes unlikely allies worried about the TSA’s conduct, including strange bedfellows such as Sens. Ted Cruz…Continue Reading

Biden spent big to fight contrary narratives; ‘misinformation’ on virus, climate

Biden spent big to fight contrary narratives; ‘misinformation’ on virus, climate

The Biden administration has spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to study and police “misinformation,” according to a report released Friday. OpenTheBooks, a spending watchdog, said the federal government has spent $267 million since 2021 on contracts and research grants that include the term “misinformation” in the proposals…Continue Reading

Trump is warning Republicans to stop Democrats from confirming more Biden judges

Trump is warning Republicans to stop Democrats from confirming more Biden judges

President-elect Donald Trump called on Republican senators again Wednesday to halt Democrats from confirming more of President Biden’s judicial nominees before he takes office on Jan. 20. Senate Democrats have been moving swiftly to confirm pending vacancies before they lose control of the upper chamber on Jan. 3, following the new GOP majority’s…Continue Reading

Welfare recipients, criminals allowed to sponsor illegal immigrants under Biden ‘parole’ program

Welfare recipients, criminals allowed to sponsor illegal immigrants under Biden ‘parole’ program

Sex traffickers may be using a Biden administration “parole” program to sneak illegal immigrant women into the U.S., the House Judiciary Committee is revealing Wednesday in an explosive new report exposing fraud in one of Homeland Security’s marquee border operations. Welfare recipients, people involved with criminal activity and even other illegal…Continue Reading

Georgia prosecution could follow Trump into White House even as other legal battles wind down

Georgia prosecution could follow Trump into White House even as other legal battles wind down

Special counsel Jack Smith is winding down his federal prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump, and a New York judge is set to decide this week whether Mr. Trump’s conviction in his hush money trial should be dismissed before sentencing. Legal scholars doubt the judge would send the president-elect…Continue Reading

Opinion: RFK To The Rescue — It’s Time To Make America Healthy Again

Opinion: RFK To The Rescue — It’s Time To Make America Healthy Again

Americans have been grappling with a health crisis of increasing severity over the past decade. We had a crisis of people being sick for the past 30 years, which doesn’t even compare to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that we know who will be responsible for America’s health…Continue Reading

In about-face, Biden to give Ukraine long-sought long-range missiles for war

In about-face, Biden to give Ukraine long-sought long-range missiles for war

President Biden will permit Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, according to multiple media reports, lifting a long-standing ban put into place for fear it could provoke the Kremlin to respond. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long lobbied for greater freedom to use U.S. weaponry. He said his forces are…Continue Reading

Migrant crime, violence in cities expected to be the focus for Trump’s new prosecutors

Migrant crime, violence in cities expected to be the focus for Trump’s new prosecutors

Look for the Trump administration’s slate of new federal prosecutors to lead a nationwide crackdown on migrant criminals and to push for greater involvement in reining in big-city crime, especially in the District of Columbia, former federal prosecutors said…Continue Reading

Trump picks Ratcliffe for CIA, Hegseth for Defense and Musk for new agency to cut waste

Trump picks Ratcliffe for CIA, Hegseth for Defense and Musk for new agency to cut waste

President-elect Donald Trump showed his intention to shake up the federal government Tuesday by naming former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, Elon Musk to head a new department to cut waste and regulations, and the unexpected choice of military reservist and Fox News figure Pete Hegseth to serve as Defense Secretary…Continue Reading

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