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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 'Sending Tom Homan to Minnesota Tonight'  President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota as a "tough but fair" potential peacemaker as tensions grow after the killing of a second anti-ICE protester there. "I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight," Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social. "He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. "Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me." Homan, who has called for toning down the rhetoric in Minnesota, is viewed by many protesters and ICE critics as part of the problem.
Trump sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota amid unrest, sidelining DHS chief Kristi Noem  President Trump announced Monday that he is dispatching “border czar” Tom Homan to Minnesota following a second deadly immigration enforcement-involved shooting this month, sidelining Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “[Homan] has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me.” Trump’s tapping of Homan comes amid reports of tensions between the border czar and Noem, the former South Dakota governor. Trump to WSJ: 'Reviewing Everything' About Shooting  President Donald Trump declined to say whether the federal officer who fatally shot a man in Minnesota on Saturday acted appropriately and said the administration was reviewing the incident, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. In a telephone interview with the newspaper, Trump did not directly answer when asked twice whether the officer who shot Alex Pretti acted correctly. When pressed further, Trump said, "We're reviewing everything and will come out with a determination."
The far-left network that helped put Alex Pretti in harm's way, then made him a martyr Encrypted Signal messages show 'rapid responders' mobilized demonstrators to harass federal agents, then socialist groups capitalized on killing to foment protests  The skirmish that led to Saturday's fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found. A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE "Abductors" in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired. ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations. Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation. While grief and outrage over Pretti's death is genuine, the network's real-time rapid response, using short sensational video clips and emojis as weapons of propaganda, offers a window into the disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination of far-left warriors fomenting insurgency-like confrontation with authorities. Final Israeli hostage in Gaza finally returned home after IDF dug up 250 bodies and found his remains in cemetary  The remains of the final Israeli hostage being held in Gaza have finally been recovered following a dramatic investigation, Israel said Monday — clearing the way for the next phase of the ceasefire that brought an end to the Israel-Hamas war. Police officer Ran Gvili’s body was located and identified following a “large-scale operation” in a cemetery in northern Gaza over the weekend, according to Israel’s Defense Force. The operation involved exhuming and testing some 250 bodies from a cemetery in Gaza after Hamas revealed that he may have been buried there. “Ran is a hero of Israel. He went in first, he came out last. He came back,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, adding it was an “extraordinary achievement for Israel.” “I promised we would bring everyone home and we have brought everyone home,” he added. Northeast Gets Last Brunt of Widespread Winter Storm  The U.S. work week opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States. Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered wide school cancellations Monday. Up to two feet (60 centimeters) were forecast in some of the harder-hit places. Arctic air blasts the South after catastrophic ice storm cuts power to thousands  New York City investigating at least seven deaths that may be weather-related "We haven't seen this kind of cold in eight years, and it is debilitating". said, - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani New York City is investigating seven deaths that are potentially weather-related. "At this time, what we know is a number of those seven New Yorkers who lost their lives had interactions with our shelter system in the past," Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a Monday morning news conference. Battleground GOP lawmaker moves to block what he calls Democratic redistricting 'power grab' Rep Mike Lawler's home state of New York could soon see new lines drawn  A battleground district House Republican is wading into the redistricting war that has seized the U.S. with his own new proposal to crack down on "partisan gamesmanship." Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., has introduced a bill called the Fair Apportionment and Independent Redistricting for Maps that Avoid Partisanship (FAIR MAP) Act, which would impose new guardrails on the process of changing congressional districts across all 50 states. The bill would bar states from drawing districts for or against a specific political party or candidate and ban the creation of new congressional maps more than once a decade following the U.S. census. 'Nobody Is Safe': China's Xi Targets Close Ally in Purge  China's investigation into its top general is taking President Xi Jinping's yearslong corruption purge into his innermost circle, underlining that even close personal ties do not offer protection when it comes to loyalty to the party leadership. China experts said Xi's move against his long-term ally and Politburo member Gen. Zhang Youxia also concentrates even more power in the president's hands, makes the already secretive command of China's military more opaque, and suggests that a near-term attack on Taiwan is less likely. "Zhang's removal means that truly nobody in the leadership is safe now," said Jonathan Czin of the Washington-based Brookings Institution, who called the investigation "astonishing." Czin, who spent years as a top China analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and, in 2021-2023, served as the director for China at the United States National Security Council, added that the probe marked a "profound shift" in Chinese politics. Kremlin Sticks to Demand That Ukraine Cede All of Donbas  The Kremlin said on Monday that the issue of territory remained fundamental to Russia when it came to getting a deal to end the fighting in Ukraine, the state-owned TASS news agency reported after trilateral weekend talks in Abu Dhabi. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that Russia will take all of Ukraine's Donbas region — of which Moscow's forces currently control 90% — by force unless Kyiv gives it up in a peace deal. "It's no secret that this is our consistent position, the position of our president, that the territorial issue, which is part of the Anchorage formula, is of fundamental importance to the Russian side," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by the TASS state news agency. The California Post heralds a new era for the Golden State — we will fearlessly tell you the stories that really matter By Nick Papps
 Today we start a new era for this great state and we could not be more excited to be here. Over the days, months and years to come, we are looking forward to being part of your daily life — and to inform you and entertain you. The California Post aims to fearlessly tell the stories that matter to the people of the Golden State. From the outset, let’s be clear, we love LA and we love California — from Sacramento to San Diego, from the San Gabriel Mountains all the way down to our magnificent beaches. Our mission is pretty simple: We will fearlessly tell the stories that matter to you, the hard-working, creative, brilliant people who proudly call the Golden State home. We will inform you, entertain you, certainly surprise you — and we promise to fight for you as this new chapter of our state is written. Miranda Devine: More martyrs for cynical Dems after fatal Alex Pretti shooting By Miranda Devine
The Democrats have two more martyrs in Minneapolis to serve their cause now. Anti-ICE activists Alex Pretti and Renee Good were deluded, if well-meaning, patsies for the Democrats’ lust for power by any means, preferably foul. Both were armed and resisting arrest when they were shot by ICE agents: Pretti, 37, with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun tucked in his pants, and Good, also 37, with a large SUV that she accelerated at an ICE agent. They died for the cause they had been assured by Minnesota leaders was righteous: obstructing federal agents from carrying out President Trump’s mandate to deport murderers, rapists, child predators, drug traffickers, terrorists, and other criminal illegal aliens who have invaded this country. Team Trump moves to ban traffic cameras in DC — as NYC’s set to quadruple the dangerous devices By James Bovard
The Trump administration may soon reduce highway robbery by 95% in Washington, DC. The Big Apple needs the same silver bullet because the city’s drivers could speedily be victimized by the biggest bureaucratic looting spree of the century. Trump’s Transportation Department proposes to “prohibit the operation of automated traffic camera enforcement in the District of Columbia,” which would ban red-light, speed and stop-sign cameras. The dispute over red-light and speed cameras goes to the heart of the question of how much harm politicians are entitled to inflict while they shake money out of citizens’ pockets. |
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