Kristi Noem: ‘Two Leakers’ of DHS Operations Information Identified

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced that two people who had leaked information regarding the operations of DHS had been identified.

“We have identified two leakers of information here at the Department of Homeland Security, who have been telling individuals about our operations and putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy,” Noem shared. “We plan to prosecute these two individuals and hold them accountable for what they’ve done.”

“We’re going to continue to do all that we can to keep America safe,” Noem added.

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for DHS explained to Fox News that the DHS was “preparing to refer” the two unnamed individuals to the Department of Justice (DOJ) “for felony prosecutions.” (Read more from “Kristi Noem: ‘Two Leakers’ of DHS Operations Information Identified” HERE)

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Court: Democrat Secretary Fontes Sidestepped Arizona Law When Drafting Election Rulebook

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Arizona’s Democrat secretary of state failed to comply with existing law when creating the state’s election rulebook, an Arizona court ruled on Thursday.

Writing on behalf of a three-judge panel on the Arizona Court of Appeals, Judge Lacey Gard ruled that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes “did not substantially comply” with the Arizona Administrative Procedure Act’s (APA) rulemaking procedures when finalizing the 2023 Election Procedures Manual (EPM). In Arizona, the EPM provides rules to election officials relating to mail ballots, voter registration, and other election-related matters.

According to Gard, Fontes’ illegal act pertains to the EPM’s public comment period.

In late July 2023, the Democrat secretary “published a 259-page draft EPM, allowing public comment for a period of fifteen days.” As unanimously determined by the three-judge panel, however, that is “only half the time the APA requires.”

“We conclude that the 2023 EPM was subject to the rulemaking procedure under the APA and that the Secretary did not substantially comply with the APA’s rulemaking process in promulgating the EPM,” Gard wrote. (Read more from “Court: Democrat Secretary Fontes Sidestepped Arizona Law When Drafting Election Rulebook” HERE)

Lawmakers Override Veto on Law Requiring Ultrasound for Pill Abortions

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Women trying to get the abortion pill in Wyoming now need to undergo an ultrasound after state lawmakers overrode the governor’s earlier veto of a bill requiring the procedure.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) vetoed the “Chemical abortions-ultrasound requirement” bill earlier this week citing concerns over its invasive nature and the bill’s lack of exceptions for victims of rape or incest.

“It creates the prospect of an unnecessary, intimate, and invasive procedure (transvaginal ultrasound) which subjects women to an uncomfortable and potentially traumatic experience in what may already be a very overwhelming situation,” Gordon wrote in a letter to Wyoming House Speaker Chip Neiman (R), the bill’s main sponsor.

Under the bill, women seeking to end a pregnancy using abortion medication need to receive a transvaginal ultrasound at least 48 hours before receiving the necessary pills.

During the procedure, a health care provider inserts a device called a transducer into the vagina to record images of the cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries. (Read more from “Lawmakers Override Veto on Law Requiring Ultrasound for Pill Abortions” HERE)

ABC Shuts Down Pro-Leftist Polling Site That Claimed Harris Had Better Chance Than Trump

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When ABC News announced it was shutting down the pollster FiveThirtyEight, it called to mind the site’s claim that former Vice President Kamala Harris stood a better chance than now-President Donald Trump in November’s election. The shutdown shows legacy media, which have long inaccurately boosted perceived support for Democrats, are finally losing control.

Just before the election, FiveThirtyEight claimed Harris stood a 50 percent chance of winning to Trump’s 49 percent. It said, “Polls from more frequently polled, but less well-regarded, firms had shown a more Trump-leaning race” but shifted toward Harris before the election.

FiveThirtyEight claimed Trump stood just a 29 percent chance of winning the national popular vote against Harris’ 71 percent. It also claimed Trump had a meager 1 percent chance of winning in a “landslide” of more than 350 electoral votes.

These predictions could hardly be further from the truth. While Trump didn’t technically win a “landslide” by the polling site’s standards, he won the electoral college 312-226 — winning all seven swing states, flipping six that went for former President Joe Biden in 2020. He also won the national popular vote with 49.9 percent to Harris’ 48.4 percent, becoming the first Republican president to win the popular vote in 20 years.

Nate Silver, the founder and former lead editor of FiveThirtyEight, even suggested Harris could turn Florida blue — giving her a 21 percent chance of winning the state. “A one-in-five chance isn’t bad, but it isn’t great either.” When another X user said a Trump would win Florida by a “minimum” of eight points, Silver said to “stop huffing the Twitter vibes.”

(Read more from “ABC Shuts Down Pro-Leftist Polling Site That Claimed Harris Had Better Chance Than Trump” HERE)

Stranded Astronaut Confirms Biden Shot Down Musk’s Offer to Bring Pair Home: ‘Absolutely Factual’

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One of the NASA astronauts trapped on the International Space Station said he believes Elon Musk’s claim that the Biden administration rejected the SpaceX CEO’s offer to help bring the team home.

Barry “Butch” Wilmore made the comment Tuesday during an in-orbit press conference with fellow castaway Sunita Williams nine months after their Boeing Starliner capsule malfunctioned and left the pair stuck on the ISS.

One questioner asked about Musk’s recent claim that former President Joe Biden had intentionally stalled their rescue for “political reasons.”

In an earlier question, Wilmore denied that politics had anything to do with the team’s delayed departure, but he seemed to shift his stance when answering the later question.

“I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual … I believe him,” he said. (Read more from “Stranded Astronaut Confirms Biden Shot Down Musk’s Offer to Bring Pair Home: ‘Absolutely Factual’” HERE)

Woman Permanently Injured by Male in Volleyball Game Now Accused of ‘Bullying’

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Payton McNabb, the former high school volleyball player whose sports career was ruined after a male spiked the ball in her face, also faced punishment from her sorority for the crime of confronting a man who was using the women’s restroom.

McNabb’s story has gained more attention after President Donald Trump invited her to his speech to Congress Tuesday and after Senate Democrats voted against a bill to exclude men from women’s sports Monday. While the president noted McNabb’s tragic backstory, her sorority’s move against her has yet to be reported.

The sorority Delta Zeta expelled McNabb on May 20, 2024, finding her guilty of violating the sorority’s “Anti-Bullying Policy” and of engaging in “Moral-Prejudicial Conduct.” The bullying violation involves any activity “reasonably perceived as being dehumanizing, intimidating, hostile, threatening, or otherwise likely to evoke fear of physical harm or emotional distress.” The prejudicial conduct violation involves conduct that may bring the sorority “into disrepute.”

Her offense? Calmly confronting a man in a dress in a women’s restroom, recording him out of fear for her safety, and posting the video on X to warn other young women.

(Read more from “Woman Permanently Injured by Male in Volleyball Game Now Accused of ‘Bullying’” HERE)

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Trump Proves The Border Bill Pushed By GOP Leaders Under Biden Was Never Necessary

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In his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, President Trump said something about illegal immigration that has become obvious since he took office in January: The border crisis under President Biden was a policy the Democrats chose on purpose, and they could have ended it at any time. The argument that Congress needed to pass new legislation to secure the border was always a canard, an excuse to do nothing and let the border crisis fester.

“The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border,” said Trump. “But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.”

Trump is right of course, as events over the past six weeks have demonstrated. But it wasn’t just Democrats who pushed this line during the Biden administration. Last year, Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma introduced a $118-billion “bipartisan” Ukraine and border bill that was touted by the corporate press, Democrats, and the GOP establishment as the only solution to the illegal immigration crisis on the southern border.

We were told by then-Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer that this bill was the only thing that could stem the tide of illegal immigration, which by February 2024 had reached record levels. In December 2023, a jaw-dropping 300,000 illegal immigrants were arrested in a single month, a new record. By this point in Biden’s tenure, millions of illegal aliens had snuck into the country, most of them released into the interior on their own recognizance. It was a crisis that began the day Biden took office and rescinded nearly every border measure Trump had put into place during his first term.

The Lankford bill, which was really a McConnell bill, was touted as a great deal for Republican border hawks that would put an end to mass illegal immigration and solve the Biden border crisis. It would have provided significant new funding for more Border Patrol agents, completion of certain sections of the border wall, and overhauled our outdated asylum system. (Read more from “Trump Proves The Border Bill Pushed By GOP Leaders Under Biden Was Never Necessary” HERE)

Florida AG Launches Criminal Investigation Into Andrew Tate; Influencer Lashes Out at Ron Desantis With Conspiracy Theory

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The Florida attorney general announced that a criminal investigation would be launched against controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate. The 38-year-old former MMA fighter lashed out at the investigation and called the move “absolute communism.”

The Tate brothers landed at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida on Feb. 27 after Romania lifted a travel restriction on them.

According to NBC News, the brothers left Romania while still under a criminal investigation regarding accusations of having formed an organized criminal group, in addition to human trafficking, the trafficking of minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering. The Tate brothers were arrested near the Romanian capital of Bucharest in 2022 along with two Romanian women. . .

In mid-February, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, raised the issue of the Tate brothers with Romania’s Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu at the Munich Security Conference. Hurezeanu said he did not consider the discussion as a “form of pressure.”

Last week, Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism said in a statement that the Tate brothers would be expected to appear before judicial authorities if summoned and were warned that deliberately dodging “obligations may result in judicial control being replaced with a stricter deprivation of liberty measure.” (Read more from “Florida AG Launches Criminal Investigation Into Andrew Tate; Influencer Lashes Out at Ron Desantis With Conspiracy Theory” HERE)

Hunter Biden Forced to Drop Lawsuit After His Paintings Stop Selling — And He’s Getting Roasted on Social Media

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Hunter Biden was forced to drop a lawsuit because of his financial woes, and critics on social media pounced to connect it to his father leaving the Oval Office.

Biden’s paintings had been selling for up to $75,000 each when his father was in office, but he admitted in a legal filing that he had run out of money for a defamation lawsuit because he could no longer sell the paintings.

“Since late 2023 and through today, my income has decreased significantly,” said Biden in the court filing about a lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler, a former White House aide in the Trump administration.

He admitted that he had sold 27 art pieces for up to $55,000 prior to Dec. 2023, but had sold only one painting since then for $36,000. He added that sales of his memoir had dropped to 200 sales a month from 500 previously.

“Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened,” Biden said in the filing. (Read more from “Hunter Biden Forced to Drop Lawsuit After His Paintings Stop Selling — And He’s Getting Roasted on Social Media” HERE)

51st State? Canadian Province ‘Fed Up’ With Trudeau, Some Seek to Join U.S.

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A Canadian lawyer is leading efforts to explore the possibility of Alberta joining the United States, as President Donald Trump continues to push for closer ties with Canada’s energy-rich province.

“There’s literally hundreds of Albertans that are reaching out and volunteering to join our delegation,” Jeffrey Rath said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday.

Rath and a small group of Albertans are planning to travel to Washington, D.C., to discuss potential pathways for Alberta, including independence with economic ties to the U.S., territorial status, or full statehood.

He believes the movement will gain traction as dissatisfaction with Canada’s federal leadership grows.

Rath argues that Alberta, home to 4.9 million people and a major hub for oil, manufacturing, and construction, has little in common with Canada’s political elite. (Read more from “51st State? Canadian Province ‘Fed Up’ With Trudeau, Some Seek to Join U.S.” HERE)