Draft of Trump order seeks to eliminate Department of Education: Report
Trump is expected to issue an executive order, possibly Thursday, aimed at abolishing the Department of Education. It directs Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department" based on "the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law."

Trump issues final ultimatum to Hamas: 'Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say'
“'Shalom Hamas' means Hello and Goodbye - You can choose," Trump wrote. "Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you," he added.

Cancer survivor DJ Daniel gives Trump a ‘big hug’ in Oval Office after he’s made honorary Secret Service agent
The “newest member of the United States Secret Service” and his family met with Trump in the Oval Office, where the young boy had a surprise of his own for the president. “There’s one more thing I got for you — a big hug,” Daniel told Trump.

DJ Daniel has a warning for Trump critics
The 13-year-old honorary Secret Service agent battling brain cancer has a message for Trump haters. “Please stop being mean to President Trump ‘cause if I see you being mean to him, I’m coming after you. ... If you’re a Democrat being mean to President Trump, I’m on your bumper.”

Trump Rips Democrats After Congressional Address, Says Behavior Will Cost Them Elections
Even top Democrat strategists were appalled by their behavior.

Last Year, Biden Ejected A Gold Star Dad From SOTU. This Year, Trump Announced Capture Of His Son’s Killer
Responding to tragedy is an expected and difficult task of the president. Biden blew it. Trump has mastered it.

Here Are The Transgender Mice Experiments Trump Talked About
The Biden administration spent millions of taxpayer dollars on at least six transgender experiments on mice, National Institutes of Health records show.

Biden Awarded $28 Million to Mysterious 'Vaccine Company' Run by His COVID Adviser and Based out of a Maryland PO Box
A shadowy company called Vaccine Company Inc., with no public footprint and ties to former Biden officials, received a $28 million NIH grant months before Biden left office.

Biden EPA Gave a Social Justice Group $20 Million to Replace Lead Pipes and Restore Wetlands. The Group Has Experience with Neither.
The group, Democracy Green, is run by a mother-daughter duo with ties to Biden’s EPA and operates from a UPS mailbox.

USAID head Peter Marocco tells lawmakers he's eyeing potential criminal charges for foreign aid fraud: Report
An internal review is in its early stages, but members of Marocco's team believe they've uncovered a pattern of illegal activity at the agency, which serves as the main component used by the United States to deliver foreign aid.

DOGE Shuts Down 146,000 Government Credit Cards in 2 Weeks
"Weekly Credit Card Update! Pilot program has been expanded to 16 agencies to audit unused/unneeded credit cards. After 2 weeks, ~146,000 cards have been de-activated. As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do."

DOGE terminates lease at Obama Presidential Library site
It is unlikely to impact operations there since it is due to shutter later this year and move to a new location. The library is separate to the sprawling 19.3-acre Obama Presidential Center on the southside of Chicago,2 which is under construction.

Hunter Biden's financial woes revealed in new motion to drop lawsuit: 'Significant debt'
"Plaintiff has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range," the document states.

Supreme Court Denies Trump Admin Request To Halt $2 Billion In Foreign Aid
Justice Samuel Alito dissented, saying he was "stunned" by the majority's ruling.

Judge’s Failure To Recuse Himself From Trump Spending Freeze Case Shows How Court Is Rigged
A Rhode Island judge, deeply tied to a nonprofit raking in federal funds, refused to recuse himself from a case challenging Trump’s spending freeze.

Missouri AG Bailey Questions Constitutionality Of Biden Orders, Citing Mental Decline
Staffers “may have exploited Biden’s incapacity so they could issue orders without an accountable President of sound mind approving them.”

DC Police Demand $1.57 Million To Release Jan. 6 Bodycam Footage
Judicial Watch revealed that the D.C. police are charging over $1.5 million to release bodycam footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol protests, despite Trump’s pardons and the footage’s public interest.

Department Of Justice Ends Biden-Era Lawfare Targeting Idaho’s Pro-Life Protections
Trump’s Department of Justice is dismissing a lawsuit the Biden administration brought against Idaho in an attempt to force its abortion activism on the pro-life state, court filings reveal.

State Farm exec fired after saying company hires fewer whites, blames wildfire victims
An undercover video from O’Keefe Media Group captured State Farm VP Haden Kirkpatrick admitting the company discriminates against whites while blaming L.A. fire victims for their "egos building in a f**king desert."

Trump 2.0 borrows a ton from Richard Nixon — but 37th president’s playbook also has big risks
Many Europeans are reeling from the events of the past two weeks. They feel the way many U.S. allies felt on Aug. 15, 1971, after Nixon announced a 10% surcharge on all imports, a supposedly temporary suspension of the convertibility of the dollar into gold, and a 90-day wage and price freeze.

John Fetterman Torches His Own Party For Trump Address Antics
"It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained."

As a lifelong Dem, I never thought I’d see my party embarrass itself so much
From obnoxious booing to childish protest signs to a sitting member of Congress having to be physically removed from the chamber, Democrats turned what should have been a solemn, dignified event into a bad reality show. And for what?

Pictures of Andrew Cuomo with former terror PLO leader Yasser Arafat resurface as ex-gov makes bid for NYC mayor
It probably only helps him with today's Democrat Party.

Disney Pulls Plug On FiveThirtyEight Amid Broader ABC News Cuts
Approximately 200 positions, about 6% of the workforce across ABC News and Disney Entertainment Networks, are being laid off.

Tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada delayed by one month
After speaking with Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, Trump said he agreed to a reprieve to ensure America’s big three automakers aren’t harmed financially. But the tariffs are not off — not yet, anyway.

Bloomberg: White House reportedly weighs agricultural exemptions for Mexico, Canada
Amid deep concern from farm state lawmakers over the fallout for the U.S. agriculture sector, officials are discussing waiving the 25% duty on some agriculture products, including Canadian potash, a key ingredient in fertilizer.

Apple to invest $500 billion in US including new AI server factory in Texas
"We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we're proud to build on our long-standing U.S. investments with this $500 billion commitment to our country’s future," CEO Tim Cook said.

US toy factories slammed with orders after Trump tariffs on China, Mexico imports
“We have received many inquiries, and we have the capacity.”

Inside the thriving online market for 'haunted' dolls
EBay’s haunted doll market is booming, with sellers charging up to $8,000 for “possessed” figurines, complete with eerie backstories and dire warnings.

Red Robin considers closing 70 locations amid financial woes
Red Robin's story isn't unique. There has been a growing number of namesake restaurants that have struggled after accumulating too much debt during the pandemic.

Biden admin locked up just 8 out of 100+ migrants with ISIS ties who crossed into US, Tulsi Gabbard says
The Biden administration was previously informed that more than 4,000 migrants utilized the ISIS-tied smugglers to cross into the U.S. and that “hundreds” of them were identified by the feds as “either known terrorists or associated with known terrorists,” said Gabbard.

JD Vance says mass deportations have been stalled because Biden 'gutted' immigration enforcement
Vance was responding to a question from Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas about some disappointment in the number of deportations since Trump took office 44 days ago.

JD Vance says Trump hopes to finish ‘physical’ border wall by end of term
“I think the president’s hope is that by the end of the term we build the entire border wall,” the vice president said during remarks in Eagle Pass, Texas. “And of course that’s the physical structure, the border wall itself,” Vance noted.

How Trump’s Suddenly Secure Border Forever Debunks Dem Immigration Theories
Neither the border nor the “immigration system” were ever “broken.”

Sanctuary city mayors blame Biden’s policies for migrant crisis while dodging ICE cooperation questions
The mayors — all Democrats — admitted Biden’s policies caused the migrant crisis but defended their sanctuary city status at a House Oversight hearing.

NYT Opinion: Recent Virus Research Should Raise the Alarm
Experts are raising alarms over risky virus research after scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology studied a newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, in conditions they say were not secure enough.

Trump Administration Meeting With Hamas Over Hostages: Report
The talks — held by U.S. presidential envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler — are unprecedented. The U.S. has never before engaged directly with Hamas, which it designated a terrorist organization in 1997.

‘He’ll do it’: Rubio tells Hamas to take Trump threats seriously
“People don’t realize the president meets with these people, he hears their stories; he’s outraged and rightfully so. He’s tired of watching these videos every weekend where hostages that are emaciated are released and bodies are turned over, and sometimes it’s the wrong bodies."

'Right man at the right time': Israeli, world leaders react to Trump's warning against Hamas
“This is the only way to bring them all home. Thank you, Mr. President," MK Simcha Rothman shared on X.

‘You were sent by God’: Freed hostages meet Trump in White House
The group met and thanked the Trump administration for its commitment to returning all hostages, shared their experiences from captivity, and emphasized the need to return all hostages immediately.

Rubio vows continued diplomacy, says only Trump can bring Russia-Ukraine war to an end
"There's only one person on the planet that can make that happen and his name is Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States."

Trump administration pauses flow of intelligence to Ukraine that helps on battlefield
Comments from top Trump administration officials suggest the decision is part of the broader negotiations between Trump and Zelenskyy to negotiate a peace deal with Russia and that intelligence could begin flowing to Ukraine again soon.

Trump's aggressive approach may be the best way to end Russia's war in Ukraine
I can't blame Zelenskyy for standing up for his country in a war that Russia started. But Trump isn't wrong about the need to finally end that war.

Hegseth fires back after China flexes war readiness over tariff hike: 'We're prepared'
"Those who long for peace must prepare for war," he continued. "That's why we're rebuilding our military. That's why we're re-establishing deterrence in the warrior ethos."

What CCP Fears if US Can Negotiate an End to Russia-Ukraine War
China, facing political infighting and an ailing economy, risks emerging as America’s top threat if the Ukraine war ends. Can it withstand the pressure?

Comedian Michael Rapaport Blasts Canadian Lawmaker Trying To Get Him Banned From The Country
“The irony is that McPherson, in her post, asserted that ‘hate has no place in Canada’—except, of course, when hate is directed toward Jews, which Canada apparently has no problem with,” Rapaport wrote, linking to a report supporting his statement.

Macron says he'll confer with allies on protecting Europe with French nuclear deterrence
Macron said he will confer with European allies on the idea of using France’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent in the face of Russia’s threat.

Read his lips: Macron calls for military expansion — with no new taxes
"I have asked the government to work on this as quickly as possible. These will be new investments that require mobility, to mobilize private financing, but also public financing, without taxes being increased."

Reuters: US eyes zero tariff on cars in India trade deal as Tesla entry nears, sources say
The U.S. is pressuring India to eliminate steep car import tariffs, a move that would benefit Tesla (note to Reuters — it would benefit every U.S. carmaker).

‘Hamilton’ Producer Cancels Shows At Kennedy Center, Blames Trump
"Given these recent actions, our show simply cannot, in good conscience, participate."

Stranded astronaut seems to confirm that Biden shot down Musk’s offer to bring pair home
“I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual ... I believe him,” he said.

Two Men Charged In Connection With Chiefs Fans' Mysterious Frozen Deaths
Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson face involuntary manslaughter charges after allegedly providing fentanyl-laced cocaine at a Kansas City Chiefs watch party, leading to the deaths of three men found frozen in Willis' backyard.