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Kaminsky: Obama’s ‘censorship’ office goes bankrupt and is closing up shop
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Kaminsky: Obama’s ‘censorship’ office goes bankrupt and is closing up shop

By Gabe Kaminsky | Commentary, The Daily Signal The Global Engagement Center, an office housed within the State Department and aiming to thwart disinformation and misinformation, has been forced by Congress to close up shop. It’s no mystery why; the taxpayer-backed GEC violated its mandate to work only overseas and devolved into a partisan enabler of speech suppression in the United States. Here’s how. Founded in 2016 and technically the product of an Obama-era executive order on counterterrorism, the GEC lapsed in December and lost congressional funding. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of t...
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Mike Johnson expresses confidence ahead of Friday’s U.S. House Speaker vote
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Mike Johnson expresses confidence ahead of Friday’s U.S. House Speaker vote

By Lauren Irwin  | The Hill Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday expressed confidence about his chances ahead of the House’s Friday Speaker vote. “We’re going to get this done,” Johnson said in an interview on “Fox & Friends.” “I’m humbled and honored to have President Trump’s endorsement for the role again.” Johnson pointed to the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans, noting that serious issues are happening across the country. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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Search ongoing for Bourbon Street ‘people of interest’ as state AG vows death penalty
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Search ongoing for Bourbon Street ‘people of interest’ as state AG vows death penalty

By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News Authorities are still searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who drove a truck into a New Orleans crowd before being killed in a shootout with police on Wednesday. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told Fox News that there is evidence that Jabbar worked alongside accomplices to coordinate the attack, although she and other officials have declined to offer specifics. Jabbar's attack killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens of others. "In Louisiana, we have the death penalty, and we will carry it out!" Murrill wrote on X. Jabbar had posted videos to social media prior to his attack expressing allegiance to the Islamic State. The FBI's investigation has now spread across multiple states, though the number of...
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Man who drove Cybertruck into Trump Hotel in Las Vegas may have come from Colorado Springs, ABC News confirms
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Man who drove Cybertruck into Trump Hotel in Las Vegas may have come from Colorado Springs, ABC News confirms

By Sadie Buggle | KRDO COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – As detectives continue investigating the circumstances surrounding the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, ABC News has received word the man behind the wheel may have come from Colorado Springs. The driver was killed in the blast, while seven others sustained minor injuries. Now, detectives are urgently working to determine who was behind the wheel and what their motive could have been. ABC News has confirmed that the person who rented the truck arrived in Vegas this morning after setting out from Colorado Springs on Dec. 30. The cybertruck was rented from the car rental company Turo, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. According to ABC News, the same com...
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The truck used in New Year’s attack crossed the border into the U.S. days ago
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The truck used in New Year’s attack crossed the border into the U.S. days ago

By Chris Pandolfo , Anders Hagstrom  | Fox News At least 10 people are dead and dozens injured after a driver plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans on Wednesday, days after the vehicle was spotted crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas. The driver, a male, reportedly jumped out of the vehicle and opened fire on police after hitting the crowd. The brief shootout ended with the suspect dead at the scene, authorities confirmed. Police say 35 people have been transported to five hospitals across the city after suffering injuries from the attack. Fox News has learned that the truck used in the attack had a Texas license plate, and that it was tracked crossing the southern border into the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, two days prior to the a...
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Tik Tok, ‘ghost guns’, transgender surgery for minors among major cases Supreme Court could decide in 2025
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Tik Tok, ‘ghost guns’, transgender surgery for minors among major cases Supreme Court could decide in 2025

By Casey Harper | The Center Square The U.S. Supreme Court has released a string of landmark rulings recently, from sending the abortion issue back to the states to granting a measure of presidential immunity to the overturning of Chevron deference, significantly weakening federal rulemaking power. Supreme Court terms begin and end in October, and heading into the new year there are major cases awaiting. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE CENTER SQUARE
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10 dead, dozens injured in New Orleans after driver plowed car into New Year’s crowd on Bourbon Street
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10 dead, dozens injured in New Orleans after driver plowed car into New Year’s crowd on Bourbon Street

By Chris Pandolfo | Fox News The suspect who allegedly drove into a joyous crowd at a New Year's celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens, has been identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar by the FBI. Jabbar—who died at the scene of the attack—was a U.S.-born citizen who lived in Texas, FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Alethea Duncan said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference. The FBI also revealed that Jabbar was an Army veteran. "What I can tell you, the person was an Army veteran," Duncan said. "We believe he was [an] honorable discharge. But we're working through this process to figure out all this information." READ THE FULL STORY AND CONTINUING COVERAGE AT FOX NEWS
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The world population is 8.09 billion on New Year’s 2025 — a 71 million increase in 2024, 2.6 million in U.S.
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The world population is 8.09 billion on New Year’s 2025 — a 71 million increase in 2024, 2.6 million in U.S.

By MIKE SCHNEIDER | Associated Press, via Fox 21 News The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday. The 0.9% increase in 2024 was a slight slowdown from 2023, when the world population grew by 75 million people. In January 2025, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths were expected worldwide every second, according to the estimates. The United States grew by 2.6 million people in 2024, and the U.S. population on New Year’s Day will be 341 million people, according to the Census Bureau. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 21 NEWS
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In 2024 election, more voters identified as Republican, flipping a trend dating to FDR
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In 2024 election, more voters identified as Republican, flipping a trend dating to FDR

By Sandy Fitzgerald  | Newsmax The 2024 election featured far more Republicans than Democrats in the electorate, reversing a longtime trend in party identification dating back to the New Deal in the 1930s. Exit polls showed Republicans outnumbering Democrats by 5 points in the AP VoteCast Survey and 4 points in network exit polls, writes Republican Party pollster and political strategist Patrick Ruffini on his Substack webpage, The Intersection, on Tuesday. Until the current election, Republicans only came out even with Democrats during the 1994 "Republican Revolution" and the period just after the 9/11 attacks. READ THE FULL STORY AT NEWSMAX
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Documents reveal how George Soros controls prosecutors
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Daily Wire, National

Documents reveal how George Soros controls prosecutors

By Luke Rosiak | Daily Wire As we prepare to enter the new year, we’re taking you back to some of The Daily Wire’s best reporting from 2024. This article was originally published on August 12.  George Soros and his son, Alex, have spent at least $117 million since 2016 to reshape America’s justice system. They’ve been successful: three in 10 Americans now live under a Soros prosecutor. But the Soroses’ influence doesn’t end on Election Day. After Soros-backed prosecutors take office, the family’s apparatus tells them what to do, documents show. The Media Research Center obtained nearly 8,000 pages of internal documents through public records laws that show how a Soros-funded group called Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) “directed Soros prosecutors to manipulate th...
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