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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote.
Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Kristi Noem announces more than 10K arrests of illegal migrants in Minnesota, rips Walz, Frey for ‘protecting criminals’  More than 10,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minneapolis since the start of the second Trump administration, with 3,000 cuffed in the last six weeks alone, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. “PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS!” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed in a post on X. Those arrested, Noem said, “were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals.” Frey raised eyebrows on Sunday when he compared ICE’s immigration crackdown in his city to an “invasion” by the federal government on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Trump asserts Ilhan Omar should be jailed or booted to Somalia  President Donald Trump asserted in a Sunday night Truth Social post that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota should either be locked up in jail or sent to Somalia. "There is 19 Billion Dollars in Minnesota Somalia Fraud. Fake ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, a constant complainer who hates the USA, knows everything there is to know. She should be in jail, or even a worse punishment, sent back to Somalia, considered one of the absolutely worst countries in the World. She could help to MAKE SOMALIA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump declared in the post. Omar, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since early 2019, was born in Somalia and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. "ICE is removing some of the most violent criminals in the World from our Country, and bring them back home, where they belong. Why is Minnesota fighting this? Do they really want murderers and drug dealers to be ensconced in their community? The thugs that are protesting include many highly paid professional agitators and anarchists. Is this really what Minnesota wants?" the president asked in a Sunday Truth Social post. Alina Habba says DOJ will 'come down hard' after anti-ICE mob disrupts Minnesota church service Habba says federal authorities will pursue anyone who interferes with worship under FACE Act  Department of Justice (DOJ) senior advisor Alina Habba has pledged to investigate "everybody" tied to anti-ICE protests in Minnesota after a mob targeted a church in St. Paul on Sunday. The department launched an investigation after dozens of agitators burst into the Cities Church sanctuary during a service, attendees of the church told Fox News Digital. The mob stormed the building believing that one of the pastors was the acting director of ICE's St. Paul field office. "The FACE Act is a long-standing federal statute that prohibits force, threats, obstruction, any kind of interference with a religious place of worship. And it carries criminal penalties and violations," Habba said Monday on "Fox & Friends." Trump: No Longer Obligated to Think Only of Peace  President Donald Trump, in a written message to Norway's prime minister, said he no longer feels obligated "to think purely of Peace" because he had not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He also repeated his demand for control of Greenland. The note was shared widely with other nations by the U.S. administration. The message was in response to one sent to Trump from Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Finnish President Alexander Stubb opposing his decision to impose tariffs on European allies over their refusal to let the U.S. take control of Greenland, Store said in a statement. Bessent: Tariffs, Trump's 'Signature Economic Policy,' Won't Be Overruled  The Supreme Court is weighing a landmark decision on President Donald Trump's authority to impose tariffs to rebalance global trade and serve U.S. national security interests, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he believes the ruling will favor presidential authority, citing Obamacare as precedent. "I believe that it is very unlikely that the Supreme Court will overrule a president's signature economic policy," Bessent told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "They did not overrule Obamacare. "I believe that the Supreme Court does not want to create chaos." Trump has appointed three conservatives to the court since former President Barack Obama got his signature healthcare law pushed across the finish line amid legal challenges, and this Supreme Court should side again with the authority of the president, according to Bessent. Trump’s DOJ puts Don Lemon ‘on notice’ over allegations he joined anti-ICE mob that stormed church  Frequently fired independent news commentator Don Lemon has been warned by the Justice Department over allegations he joined a mob of anti-ICE protesters who stormed a Sunday church service in St. Paul. “A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service,” Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, chided Lemon on X. “You are on notice!” she wrote, noting in a follow-up post that the FBI has been “activated” and accusing the protesters of “desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers.” Lemon, who has been documenting the increasingly violent protests following the shooting of Renee Good, entered the church with the agitators as the protest broke out and began filming the uproar. Iran strikes could signal limits of Beijing, Moscow’s power as US flexes strength Trump has said he's held off on strikes against Iran so far because it has reportedly canceled executions for hundreds of people  President Donald Trump is weighing whether to pull the trigger and launch strikes against Iran — a move that could potentially expose the weaknesses of both Russia and China, according to experts. While Russia and China have sought to make inroads in areas of Africa and Latin America — presenting themselves as partners for infrastructure and military equipment — neither Russia nor China intervened to defend their ally Venezuela when the U.S. took action Jan. 3 to topple dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime. Potential strikes in Iran, coupled with the strikes in Venezuela to overthrow Maduro, would drive home just how formidable the U.S. is and even near-peer adversaries like Beijing can’t compete, according to experts. Iran Weighs Lifting Internet Ban; State TV Hacked  Iran may lift its internet blackout in a few days, a senior parliament member said on Monday, after authorities shut communications while they used massive force to crush protests in the worst domestic unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In the latest sign of weakness in the authorities' control, state television appeared to be hacked late on Sunday, briefly showing speeches by U.S. President Donald Trump and the exiled son of Iran's last shah calling on the public to revolt. Iran's streets have largely been quiet for a week, authorities and social media posts indicated, since anti-government protests that began in late December were put down in three days of mass violence. Ukraine's Election Chief Warns Against a Rushed Post-War Vote  Ukraine will face enormous challenges to organize its first elections since Russia's 2022 invasion, with its infrastructure shattered and millions of people displaced by war, the country's election chief said. Bringing Ukraine's voter registry up to date and making the proper preparations for a vote will take significant time, Oleh Didenko, the head of Ukraine's Central Election Commission, told Reuters in a rare interview with international media. Amid diplomatic efforts to end the war, President Donald Trump has demanded Ukraine hold elections, even though they are banned under martial law — in force since the invasion — and a majority of Ukrainians oppose a wartime ballot. Russia Hits Energy System in Several Regions of Ukraine
Shapiro: Harris Team Asked If I Was Israeli 'Double Agent'  Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said staff members vetting him as a potential 2024 running mate for then-Vice President Kamala Harris pressed him on Israel in a way he believed to be offensive, given his Jewish faith. In his new memoir, "Where We Keep the Light," Shapiro wrote that Harris' vetting team scrutinized his views on Israel and, at the last minute, asked a question that left him stunned. "Had I been a double agent for Israel?" Shapiro wrote, according to The New York Times. Shapiro said he called out the question for its "obvious antisemitic overtones" and claimed the vetting team responded, "Well, we have to ask." In his book, the Keystone State Democrat alleged that former White House counsel Dana Remus asked, "Have you ever communicated with an undercover agent of Israel?" His response was blunt, Shapiro wrote: "If they were undercover, I responded, how the hell would I know?" What MLK might have to say about America today What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have to say about his country's contentious racial landscape on this, his 97th birthday? America is a far different place from the nation that saw King felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968 at the young age of 39; different even from the country that made this a federal holiday in 1983. Black Americans still face real inequities. Look at the huge numbers of crime victims, disproportionately black, generated by terrible progressive policies on public safety. Or the decay of America’s public schools, once an engine of black social mobility: the erasure of all standards in order to conceal the failure of unionized teachers to actually teach. Reforming the UN seemed impossible — until President Trump came along By Mike Waltz and Jeff Bartos
“In America, the impossible is what we do best.” Those were President Donald Trump’s inspiring words in his second inaugural address — and when we took up our posts at the US Mission to the United Nations a few months later, we put the president’s words into action. For decades, reforming the UN was considered near impossible. Yet on Dec. 30, the United States led the United Nations General Assembly to do something it had never done in its 80-year history: Adopt a budget that actually cut its outlays, by $570 million, and eliminated thousands of posts from its bloated bureaucracy. The president’s vision and leadership made this unprecedented reform possible. |
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