‘Federal Dollars Should Not Pay for Abortion, Period’: Sen. Cassidy Doubles Down on Hyde, Abortion Pill Restrictions

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is pushing back against what he sees as growing uncertainty in Washington over abortion policy, rejecting any flexibility on federal abortion funding and warning against loosening long-standing pro-life protections.

“Federal dollars should not pay for abortion, period,” Cassidy told Blaze News.

Cassidy made the remarks in response to questions from Rebeka Zeljko of Blaze News following a Senate hearing that examined chemical abortion and federal health policy.

President Donald Trump said pro-life advocates may need to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, a decades-old provision that prevents taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for most abortions.

For many conservatives, Hyde has long been viewed as one of the final federal safeguards limiting government involvement in abortion.

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Olympic Committee Reveals Decision on Whether to Ban US Over Venezuela Strike

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has responded to calls to exclude the U.S. and its athletes from the upcoming Winter Olympics over the country’s recent military intervention in Venezuela.

The committee ruled out any penalty on the U.S. in the aftermath of the intervention.

“As a global organization, the IOC has to manage a complex reality. The IOC has to deal with the current political context and the latest developments in the world,” the IOC said in a statement to the BBC. . .

“For this reason, the IOC cannot involve itself directly in political matters or conflicts between countries, as these fall outside our remit. This is the realm of politics.”

Russian athletes are banned from competing in the Olympics since the country invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russian invaded Ukraine just four days after the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics in February of that year, which is a violation of the Olympic Truce clause in the IOC charter. Russia also put Ukrainian athletes there under the control of the Russian Olympic Committee. (Read more from “Olympic Committee Reveals Decision on Whether to Ban US Over Venezuela Strike” HERE)

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Nurse Caught on Camera Beating Disabled 5-Year-Old — But Is Only Arrested After News Aired the Video

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A Long Island nurse violently slapped his disabled 5-year-old patient multiple times in a vicious caught-on-camera attack — but the abusive caretaker wasn’t arrested until after a local news report aired.

Bruno Valenzuela, 31, was arrested at his home in Brentwood just after 9 p.m. on Thursday — only hours after News 12 Long Island broadcast the disturbing footage and questioned why an arrest hadn’t been made since Dec. 22, when the beating took place in the family’s Port Jefferson home.

The sick nurse can be first seen with his headphones on, ignoring the child’s cries before eventually checking on the kid — then getting visibly frustrated and unleashing a barrage of violent strikes onto the boy’s chest while yelling at him, according to the video obtained by The Post.

“It took news reports for the Suffolk police to go and make an arrest for my son,” Christopher Brower, the boy’s father, told The Post late Thursday.

Brower, an NYPD detective familiar with the processes of law enforcement, said he wanted to go public since an arrest hadn’t been made at the time, he said. (Read more from “Nurse Caught on Camera Beating Disabled 5-Year-Old — But Is Only Arrested After News Aired the Video” HERE)

Dem Governor Becomes Stuttering Mess As He’s Asked If Boys Can Become Girls

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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom repeatedly stuttered as The Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro pressed him on whether boys can become girls during a Thursday episode of “This Is Gavin Newsom.”

Newsom has enabled California schools to discreetly transition children without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Shapiro called out Newsom on his podcast for being unwilling to say “whether boys can become girls,” prompting a non-answer from the governor.

“Yeah. I just don’t, well, I think, uh, I’m for the grace of God,” Newsom said. “Yeah.”

“I appreciate the sympathy … anybody who’s suffering with any sort of mental or physical condition, that’s terrible,” Shapiro responded.

Newsom responded with a platitude and more stammering.

“I mean, I think it’s been, it’s been the case for generations, for, in time immemorial. I, you know, God bless. I just, I don’t know how,” the governor said before Shapiro cut him off. (Read more from “Dem Governor Becomes Stuttering Mess As He’s Asked If Boys Can Become Girls” HERE)

Cancer-Stricken Kids Beg Bernie Sanders to Pass Life-Saving Bill — After the Senator Was Branded ‘Evil’ for Blocking It

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Jacob Knudsen would give anything to be an ordinary college freshman. . .

“There is something currently in my lung, and there’s a 50-50 chance that it’s cancer,” the “panicked” 18-year-old California native told The Post ahead of diagnostic scans. “I’m willing to bleed, I’m willing to lose limbs, I’m willing to lose organs, I’m willing to do anything just to survive.”

Knudsen was diagnosed with osteosarcoma when he was 12, and has since endured 21 surgeries and countless, grueling rounds of chemotherapy and radiation after tumors were subsequently discovered in his lungs, on a kidney and a lymph node. . .

Amid the anxiety over whether illness remains lurking in his body, Knudsen is pushing for the passage of the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act — a bipartisan bill named after his friend, a fellow osteosarcoma patient and advocate who died late last year at 16. . .

Last month, the bill — designed to allow pediatric cancer patients to participate in clinical trials and to ensure them access to key treatments — passed unanimously in the House.

Shockingly, when the bill moved to the Senate, it was opposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who demanded a quid pro quo be attached for the funding of other efforts, such as community health centers. (Read more from “Cancer-Stricken Kids Beg Bernie Sanders to Pass Life-Saving Bill — After the Senator Was Branded ‘Evil’ for Blocking It” HERE)

GOP Stumbles On Core Republican Principles In Key Votes

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House Republicans failed two key votes this week on conservative spending cuts and judicial oversight.

On Wednesday, 46 Republicans joined Democrats to defeat an amendment by Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy that would have slashed funding for the D.C. District and Appeals Courts by 20%. The amendment also targeted salary and expense funding for the staff of Judges James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman — both subjects of Republican impeachment articles over alleged judicial overreach.

The vote came on H.R. 7006, an appropriations bill funding the Executive Office of the President, Treasury Department, federal judiciary, and other agencies for fiscal year 2026.

Boasberg has drawn particular Republican scrutiny for his role in Arctic Frost, the codename for special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the 2020 election. The judge ordered the FBI to seize cellphone data from eight Republican senators and congressmen. Documents revealed in October showed the probe extended to figures including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and President Donald Trump, plus organizations like Turning Point USA and the America First Policy Institute.

Boasberg, an Obama appointee who has issued orders blocking Trump’s deportation efforts, also gagged telecom companies from notifying the monitored individuals that their data had been seized. (Read more from “GOP Stumbles On Core Republican Principles In Key Votes” HERE)

Trump and Netanyahu Discussed Iran in Second Phone Call

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President Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone Thursday evening to discuss the situation in Iran, according to two sources with knowledge of the call.

Why it matters: It’s their second call in two days as Trump reviews his options for a possible military strike or diplomatic negotiations with an Iranian regime rocked by widespread protest and upheaval.

The White House and the prime minister’s office declined to comment.

Driving the news: During their first call on Wednesday, Netanyahu asked Trump to hold off on military action against Iran to give Israel more time to prepare for potential Iranian retaliation.

It was one of the reasons Trump decided to delay orders for the U.S. military to move forward with a strike against Iran. (Read more from “Trump and Netanyahu Discussed Iran in Second Phone Call” HERE)

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act if Minnesota Won’t Stop Violent ICE Rioters

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President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against Minnesota if the state declines to stop rioters from attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Under the Insurrection Act, the president can deploy the military and federalize the National Guard in response to civil disorder or an armed rebellion against the US government.

“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me,” Trump warned on Truth Social.

Trump’s threat comes in the aftermath of an ICE agent shooting a suspected illegal immigrant during a scuffle at a traffic stop on Wednesday evening in Minneapolis. Officials allege that two individuals attacked the officer on behalf of the suspected illegal immigrant with a shovel and a broom handle.

The subject of the stop then got loose and attacked the officer with either a broomstick or a shovel before getting shot in the leg, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The individual, a Venezuelan man, is now in federal custody. (Read more from “Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act if Minnesota Won’t Stop Violent ICE Rioters” HERE)

Trump Says Tariffs Possible for Countries That Oppose U.S. Control of Greenland

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President Donald Trump said Friday that he may use tariffs to pressure other nations into supporting U.S. control of Greenland, escalating his push to bring the Arctic territory under American authority.

Speaking to reporters, Trump warned that countries resisting his plan could face economic consequences. “I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland,” he said, adding that control of the island is critical to U.S. interests. “We need Greenland for national security.”

The comments marked the first time Trump has publicly suggested using tariffs as a tool to force the issue. For months, he has argued that the United States must take control of Greenland because of its strategic location and growing global competition in the Arctic.

Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, a longtime NATO ally. Danish and Greenlandic leaders have repeatedly rejected the idea of transferring control to Washington, insisting that the island is not for sale.

Trump’s latest remarks came as a congressional delegation met with Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers in Copenhagen in an effort to ease tensions between the countries. U.S. officials have been attempting to lower the temperature around the issue after Trump declared earlier this week that anything short of U.S. control of Greenland would be “unacceptable.”

Earlier in the week, the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland traveled to Washington for talks with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. While those discussions did not resolve the dispute, the two sides agreed to establish a working group to continue negotiations.

However, Denmark and the White House later offered conflicting descriptions of what that working group would focus on, underscoring how far apart the parties remain.
Trump has repeatedly framed Greenland as essential to American defense strategy, citing its location between North America and Europe and the increasing military presence of Russia and China in the Arctic region.

Danish officials have acknowledged the importance of cooperation with the United States on Arctic security but have made clear that sovereignty over Greenland is not up for negotiation.

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Florida Joins Texas In Ending American Bar Association’s ‘Gatekeeper’ Grip On Law Schools

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In a major step toward greater ideological freedom in the legal profession, the state of Florida ended the left-wing American Bar Association’s (ABA) dominance over its law schools on Thursday.

In its nine-page order, the Florida Supreme Court revealed that it has amended the state’s bar admissions rule “to end the rule’s reliance on the American Bar Association (ABA) as the sole accrediting agency for law schools whose graduates are eligible to sit for this state’s General Bar Examination.” (Lawyers are required to pass the bar exam to practice law in each state.)

As noted in its order, the Florida Supreme Court appointed a “workgroup to study this issue” in March 2025, with the group submitting a final report later that year in October. The Sunshine State’s high court approved the rule changes last month, culminating in the release of Thursday’s directive.

“Based on its independent study and its consideration of the workgroup’s report, the Court is persuaded that it is not in Floridians’ best interest for the ABA to be the sole gatekeeper deciding which law schools’ graduates are eligible to sit for the state’s General Bar Examination and become licensed attorneys in Florida,” the court wrote.

The Florida justices contended that the new rules “create the opportunity for additional entities to carry out an accrediting and gatekeeping function on behalf of the Court.” They further argued that in adopting such changes, the court is seeking to “promote access to high-quality, affordable legal education in law schools that are committed to the free exchange of ideas and to the principle of nondiscrimination.” (Read more from “Florida Joins Texas In Ending American Bar Association’s ‘Gatekeeper’ Grip On Law Schools” HERE)