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ICE arrests illegal alien with 21 convictions for crimes in Boulder
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ICE arrests illegal alien with 21 convictions for crimes in Boulder

By John Binder | Breitbart The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested an illegal alien with a lengthy rap sheet, totaling 21 prior criminal convictions. On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials announced the arrest of several illegal aliens, including 52-year-old Federico Fong-Nunez of Mexico. Fong-Nunez has been convicted of 21 different crimes in Boulder, Colorado, including burglary, aggravated assault, and felony menacing. “President Trump and Secretary Noem have unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst. Our brave law enforcement is facing an 830% increase in assaults against them and yet they continue to arrest violent criminals and drug traffickers every single day,” the Department of Homeland Security’s Tricia McLaugh...
New Evidence Confirms Trump-Russia Story Was ‘Manufactured’
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New Evidence Confirms Trump-Russia Story Was ‘Manufactured’

By Paul Sperry | Real Clear Investigations The floodgates holding back long-buried classified documents exposing government efforts to claim Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election might finally be opening. Trump administration officials held an urgent meeting Sunday to discuss “new information on Russiagate,” which they might use to build a criminal conspiracy case against Obama and Biden administration political appointees who allegedly weaponized the government against Trump, two Trump administration officials told RealClearInvestigations. The documents are said to contain long-classified information, including a secret 200-page congressional audit that reveals details about how an intelligence community assessment on Russia ...
Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ cousin speaks: ‘Very strict’ father created an emotionless, isolated home
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Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ cousin speaks: ‘Very strict’ father created an emotionless, isolated home

By Georgia Worrell | New York Post He grew up in a home filled with silence and was raised by a dad who acted like a ghost. Thomas Matthew Crooks — the 20-year-old gunman who nearly assassinated Donald Trump a year ago Sunday — spent his childhood in a strange, emotionless environment dictated by a “very strict” father, according to a relative.  On July 13, 2024, Crooks opened fire on Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., before he was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper. His motives and background have largely remained a mystery, but his first cousin Mark Crooks, 44, this week gave The Post a glimpse into his family’s odd and antisocial behavior. The last time Mark saw Thomas, his sister and their parents was in March 2019 at their grandfather’s funera...
One year after Butler: GAO confirms intel on Trump threat was withheld from security team
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One year after Butler: GAO confirms intel on Trump threat was withheld from security team

By Lindsey McPherson | The Washington Times The Secret Service obtained classified intelligence information about a threat to President Trump 10 days before an attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but failed to share it with its agents and law enforcement partners in charge of securing the event.  Although the threat was unrelated to the gunman who shot at Mr. Trump in Butler last year, had the intelligence been shared with officials in charge of securing the rally, it would have changed the security posture for the event, the Government Accountability Office found.  Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, requested the GAO, a nonpartisan government auditor, conduct a review of the Secret Service’s f...
Colorado Springs vs. Huntsville: what’s next for Space Command HQ?
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Colorado Springs vs. Huntsville: what’s next for Space Command HQ?

By Jamie McIntyre | Washington Examiner One of the longest-running battles in Washington is not over the war in Ukraine or the wisdom of tariffs and tax cuts but rather a war between two states over whether Space Command headquarters should remain in Colorado, where it is and always has been since its predecessor, the Air Force Space Command, was established in 1982, or move to Huntsville, Alabama, where it would be the crown jewel of “Rocket City,” home of the Army’s Redstone Arsenal. When President Donald Trump created the Space Force at the end of 2019 during his first term, Colorado’s newly renamed Peterson Space Force Base was, as logic would dictate, named the temporary headquarters of what was now a full-fledged combatant command, while a formal A...
DOE report warns of blackout risk soaring amid push to shut conventional power
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DOE report warns of blackout risk soaring amid push to shut conventional power

By Paul Gerke, Kevin Clark | Power Engineering The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began the week following Independence Day with a bang, releasing a report that the status quo is unsustainable for the U.S. electric grid. According to DOE, blackout risks in 2030 could be 100 times higher if the U.S. keeps shutting down conventional power plants. According to DOE’s analysis, the grid will not be able to sustain an estimated 104 gigawatts (GW) of baseload generation retirements by 2030 and isn’t prepared to meet the growth in electricity demand driven by data centers and artificial intelligence (AI). The DOE expects an additional 100 GW of new peak-hour supply to be needed by then; half of that growth is directly attributable to data centers. The United States has more tha...
O’Donnell: The Strategic Plan that turned patriots into suspects remains unresolved
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O’Donnell: The Strategic Plan that turned patriots into suspects remains unresolved

By Mike O’Donnell | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice In April of this year, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified a June 2021 plan by the previous Biden administration to counter domestic terrorism. During his four-year term, President Biden repeatedly stated that “Domestic terrorism from white supremacists is the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland.” Variations on this catchphrase were parroted by other senior politicians in the Biden circle—although never with any corroborating evidence. The declassified 15-page document, titled the Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism, was intended to confront this supposedly lethal threat. This came even as the administration simultaneously opened the gates at the southern ...
ROLLINS: Chinese Stake in U.S. Farmland Sparks Federal Crackdown
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ROLLINS: Chinese Stake in U.S. Farmland Sparks Federal Crackdown

By Brook Rollins | Commentary - Fox News In June, the fragility of our food supply was exposed when foreign nationals, including a member of the Chinese Communist Party, were charged with smuggling a noxious fungus into the United States. Experts describe it as a potential agroterrorism weapon and responsible for billions in annual losses around the world. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the two foreign nationals planned on using a University of Michigan laboratory to further their scheme involving the biological pathogen that causes crop disease and is harmful to human health. This is just one example of how our global competitors have been playing the long game – infiltrating American research institutions, taking control over American farmland, launching cyberattacks ...
Hearing lays groundwork for GOP-led reform after 3-year immigration surge, 500K visa overstays
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Hearing lays groundwork for GOP-led reform after 3-year immigration surge, 500K visa overstays

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice The U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing June 25 on visa security and legal immigration pathways, revisiting the Trump administration’s policies and examining how current enforcement gaps could be putting national security at risk. Republican lawmakers and expert witnesses repeatedly pointed to vulnerabilities in the visa system and criticized relaxed vetting protocols. “The purpose of today’s hearing is to determine to what extent our legal immigration system has been exploited, abused, and defrauded,” said Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., “and to recommend measures to assure that legal immigration to the United States is legitimate, honest, fully vetted, and above board.” Jessica Vaughn of the Center for Immigrati...
Wright: My old CIA boss John Brennan used intelligence to sabotage a president, imprison him
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Wright: My old CIA boss John Brennan used intelligence to sabotage a president, imprison him

By Bryan Dean Wright | Commentary, Fox News Five key details emerge about how intelligence was allegedly manipulated to undermine Trump's presidency Former CIA Director John Brennan was once my boss. Given what we just learned in a shocking new report about his role in the Trump Russia hysteria, he should be in prison. Here’s why. The CIA released fresh details yesterday about the creation nearly 10 years ago of the agency’s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of Russia's influence campaign in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It found that Russian President Vladimir Putin "aspired" to help then-candidate Donald Trump win the election. That assessment – ordered by then-President Barack Obama and executed by Brennan – ignited the Trump-Russia hoax...