Arizona AG Suggests Residents Can Shoot Masked ICE Agents Under State’s Self-Defense Laws: ‘Recipe for Disaster’

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state’s self-defense laws.

The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers.

“It’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks,” Mayes said in the Monday interview, calling ICE “very poorly trained.”

“And we have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.”

A flabbergasted Resnik repeatedly challenged Mayes, cautioning that her remarks could be interpreted as a “license” to residents to shoot a federal agent.

She shot back that she was merely stating a “fact,” not encouraging violence. (Read more from “Arizona AG Suggests Residents Can Shoot Masked ICE Agents Under State’s Self-Defense Laws: ‘Recipe for Disaster’” HERE)

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Study: Murders in U.S. Plummeted During First Year of Trump’s Second Term

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A study conducted by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) shows that murders in the U.S. plummeted during 2025, the first year of President Trump’s second term.

According to the study, “The rate of reported homicides was 21% lower in 2025 than in 2024 in the 35 study cities providing data for that crime.” In raw numbers, this means approximately 922 fewer homicides in 2025 versus 2024.

The CCJ believe that FBI data, which will be released later this year, may show 2025 had “the lowest…[homicide] rate ever recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900.”

The researchers behind the study also looked at violent crime and found “violent crime overall in 2025 was at or below levels in 2019.”

The CCJ suggests the lower numbers are “likely the result of a complex tangle of broad social and technological changes and direct policy interventions.” (Read more from “Study: Murders in U.S. Plummeted During First Year of Trump’s Second Term” HERE)

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Trump Administration Reviews $88M in Pandemic Loans to Abortion Giant Planned Parenthood

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The Small Business Administration (SBA) is probing whether affiliates of abortion giant Planned Parenthood illegally received $88 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“At the height of the pandemic, affiliates of Planned Parenthood took $88 million in taxpayer dollars to fund their abortion-on-demand agenda—and the Biden administration made sure they got nearly every cent forgiven, even after the first Trump administration protested,” SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler told The Daily Signal.

“Six years later, the Trump SBA holds the same conviction: Planned Parenthood Federation of America was never eligible to receive a dime in pandemic-era relief from taxpayers,” she added.

The SBA’s review comes the week of the March for Life, where thousands of pro-life advocates travel to Washington, DC, to advocate for the unborn.

According to The Daily Signal’s Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, the SBA sent letters to 38 affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation of America asking them to prove they were eligible for the millions they obtained in COVID-era relief. The report notes that the Biden administration also forgave 34 loans to Planned Parenthood affiliates under the PPP program. (Read more from “Trump Administration Reviews $88M in Pandemic Loans to Abortion Giant Planned Parenthood” HERE)

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Judge Rejects Bid for Independent Oversight of DOJ’s Epstein Files Release

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A federal judge has rejected an effort by two lawmakers to place independent oversight on the Justice Department’s release of records related to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, even as he acknowledged ongoing concerns about whether the department is complying with federal law.

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that he lacks the authority to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the release of the Epstein files, as requested by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). In a seven-page opinion, Engelmayer said his judicial role is limited to supervising the criminal case involving Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell and does not extend to monitoring the Justice Department’s compliance with disclosure requirements under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

“I do not have any charter to supervise whether DOJ is meeting its legal obligations” under the law, Engelmayer wrote.

However, the judge made clear that his decision does not close the door on further legal action. He noted that Khanna, Massie, and Epstein’s victims “raise legitimate concerns about whether DOJ is faithfully complying with federal law” and said the lawmakers are free to pursue a separate lawsuit over the matter.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act, authored by Khanna and Massie, became law late last year and required the Justice Department to release its unclassified Epstein-related files by Dec. 19. The DOJ has since acknowledged that it is reviewing millions of documents connected to Epstein and his associates, but only a small portion of material has been released so far.

The lawmakers have accused the department of slow-walking the process and excessively redacting information. They have also alleged that DOJ has withdrawn documents it previously made public and has improperly blamed the courts for delays and redactions.

According to their court filings, Khanna and Massie argue that the Justice Department has cited judicial requirements as the reason for withholding information, when courts have merely instructed DOJ to ensure that released materials do not improperly identify victims. They contend the department has repeatedly failed to meet the law’s disclosure requirements.

Gabbard Blasts Her Former Party After Mob Attack On Baptist Church

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When Tulsi Gabbard announced in 2022 that she was leaving the Democratic Party, she made her departure, in part, a matter of faith.

“The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality,” the former Hawaii congresswoman said in a video statement at the time.

More than three years later, Gabbard, who now serves as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Security and as a thorn in the side of the deep state, suggests things haven’t improved any on the leftist front.

Gabbard blasted her old party on X Tuesday, doing what so many of its members have refused to do: condemn the radical, anti-ICE agitators who on Sunday stormed into a St. Paul Baptist church to fix their rabid rage for Trump on the congregation.

“One of the main reasons I left the Democratic Party is its leaders’ attempts to undermine religious freedom, erase God’s presence from every aspect of public life, and their open hostility toward people of faith and spirituality.” Gabbard wrote. “The anti‑ICE mob staging a so‑called ‘protest’ inside this Minneapolis church during a service is the latest example of their disrespect for religious freedom and rejection of our right to worship as we choose.” (Read more from “Gabbard Blasts Her Former Party After Mob Attack On Baptist Church” HERE)

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Frantic Grocery Shoppers Empty Shelves Before Arctic Blast, Snow Barrels Across US

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. . .Grocery stores are quickly running out of supplies as frantic customers stock up ahead of the Arctic blast and subsequent snowstorm expected to barrel across the country.

Forecasters warned that the weather system, dubbed Winter Storm Fern, will send many cities’ temperatures plummeting well below zero — and could dump anywhere from one to two feet of snow in some parts of the eastern US.

Megan Monroe-Evans, an Alabama resident, shared a startling video on TikTok showing her local grocery store’s barren refrigerators.

“The weather man mentioned a possibility of ice and snow and this is what we here in the south do… buy all the milk, bread and eggs. Like WTF,” she wrote in the caption.

She hoped that the “panic buying” was “just a south thing” — which, so far, seems to be ringing true.

@kym.adams Do you panic buy? #groceryshopping #grocerystore #momlife #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive ♬ As It Was (Instrumental) – KPH

Similar videos were posted by fretful customers at stores in Texas, Oklahoma, and Virginia, but very few from states in the Northeast that could be buried under up to a foot of snow over the weekend. (Read more from “Frantic Grocery Shoppers Empty Shelves Before Arctic Blast, Snow Barrels Across US” HERE)

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TOP SECRET: Thousands of Chinese Pilots Are Trained Every Year in California and Arizona, Strengthening the CCP’s Military Power

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New York Times bestselling author and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer details in his new book how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “using our openness and generosity against us” by sending thousands of future military pilots posing as civilians to the United States to learn how to fly.

Schweizer’s latest exposé, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, delves into the little-known concern of Chinese pilots being sent to the U.S. for training with “virtually no oversight” before returning and serving in their own country’s military.

“The People’s Republic of China has a pilot problem,” the investigative journalist writes in The Invisible Coup. “Beijing needs five thousand pilot cadets every year to meet the demand for both military and civilian pilots. Because the Chinese military tightly controls the country’s airspace, it can domestically produce only about 1,200 pilots a year. So, Beijing quietly erected a system to train three thousand of them a year in the United States.”

“Across the US, at least sixteen flight schools, operating out of taxpayer-funded airports, are training Chinese cadets—sometimes without disclosing their foreign military ties,” he continues. “They do so by sending future military pilots to the United States posing as civilians to learn how to fly.”

This also applies to Chinese helicopter pilots, who receive American training by the thousands after entering the country on student visas with “minimal scrutiny,” Schweizer writes. (Read more from “TOP SECRET: Thousands of Chinese Pilots Are Trained Every Year in California and Arizona, Strengthening the CCP’s Military Power” HERE)

Ghislaine Maxwell To Appear Before Congress In Epstein Investigation

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Ghislaine Maxwell has agreed to appear before the House Oversight Committee in February.

Maxwell is set to testify on Feb. 9 as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s activities, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed during a markup of contempt resolutions against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The former Epstein confidant, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking alongside Epstein — who died in 2019 before facing trial on federal sex-trafficking charges — will provide her testimony virtually, a Oversight Committee spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller.

“Her lawyers have made it clear that she’s going to plead the Fifth,” Comer told Fox News Digital. “I hope she changes her mind, because I want to hear from her.”

The spokesperson told the Caller that Maxwell is expected to “take the fifth” during the deposition before the committee.

(Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell To Appear Before Congress In Epstein Investigation” HERE)

What’s Going on With the Epstein Files? A Month After Deadline, the Vast Majority of Materials Remain Unreleased

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More than a month has passed since the deadline for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all its files related to the investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And while the department has publicly shared thousands of documents since that date, those releases account for only a fraction of the materials it has in its possession—leaving the vast majority of the so-called “Epstein files” still unreleased.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in November, the DOJ was required to release all the Epstein files by Dec. 19. The department began releasing materials that day, but the Trump Administration admitted that it wouldn’t share all the documents by the deadline, claiming that the scale of redactions needed to protect victims’ identities would delay the full release. Since then, the department has released a few batches of documents related to the Epstein case. But it has been weeks since the most recent of those batches was made public, and earlier this month, top DOJ officials revealed that more than two million documents have yet to be shared, meaning that less than 1% of the Epstein files have been released.

The partial releases—and the heavy redactions made to many of the documents that have been made public—have sparked outcry from politicians, survivors of Epstein’s abuse, and the public. Days after the December deadline, lawmakers threatened to take action against the Trump Administration for not releasing all the documents in the case, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slamming the DOJ for what he called a “blatant disregard of the law.”

Here’s what to know about the latest developments in the situation.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California—the two lawmakers who co-wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act—requested an independent expert to ensure that the DOJ complied with the federal law and released all its Epstein materials. But on Wednesday, a federal judge denied the request, saying that he didn’t have the jurisdiction to oversee the DOJ in this matter. (Read more from “What’s Going on With the Epstein Files? A Month After Deadline, the Vast Majority of Materials Remain Unreleased” HERE)

House Committee Finds Bill and Hillary Clinton in Contempt of Congress After Skipping Epstein Depositions

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A House committee voted on a bipartisan basis Wednesday to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress, teeing up a full vote in two weeks’ time in the lower chamber that could result in criminal charges.

The House Oversight Committee voted 34-8 to hold the 42nd president in contempt for refusing to comply with their subpoena to testify about his relationship with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The resolution stated that Bill Clinton “impeded an Oversight Committee investigation” into the government’s handling of probes into Epstein and his imprisoned madam Ghislaine Maxwell.

It also claimed he had obstructed their inquiries into “the circumstances and subsequent investigations of Mr. Epstein’s death,” “the operation of sex-trafficking rings and ways for the federal government to effectively combat them,” “ways in which Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell sought to curry favor and exercise influence to protect their illegal activities” and “potential violations of ethics rules.”

“President Clinton’s willful refusal to comply with the Oversight Committee’s subpoena constitutes contempt of Congress and warrants referral to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for prosecution as prescribed by law,” a 20-page report accompanying the resolution noted. (Read more from “House Committee Finds Bill and Hillary Clinton in Contempt of Congress After Skipping Epstein Depositions” HERE)

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