By Jack Phillips NATO announced it scrambled fighter jets over both the Black and Baltic seas due to Russian aircraft flying near the military alliance’s airspace. Over the past four days, NATO jets were scrambled several times in the two regions, the military alliance confirmed in a statement on Friday, to track and intercept the planes. The alliance said those […]
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Number of Illegal Immigrants Living in US Rose by 1 Million in Biden’s First Year: Report
By Zachary Stieber The illegal immigrant population in the United States increased by one million in President Joe Biden’s first year in office, according to a new report. At the end of 2021, 15.5 million illegal aliens were residing in the country, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated. After rolling back key Trump-era policies, Biden […]
Another High-tech Titan Falters
By Steven Moore Commentary You’ve probably heard of the high-flying Big Tech FAANG stocks—Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. Among the five of them, their market cap reached $6 trillion last year, which is more than the GDP of all but a small handful of entire countries. Moreover, their net worth is larger than the entire annual output […]
White House Visitor Logs Reveal Meetings Between Hunter Biden Business Partner and Joe Biden
By Nick Ciolino The White House is so far not commenting on reports that a close business associate of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, made several visits to the White House while the elder Biden was serving as vice president during the Obama administration. Eric Schwerin, the former president of Hunter Biden’s now-dissolved investment firm Rosemont […]
Filmmaker: Documentary Proves Rampant Illegal Vote Trafficking in 2020
By Steven Kovac Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza believes that evidence presented in his new documentary, “2000 Mules,” proves that large-scale, illegal vote trafficking occurred in the 2020 election. “2000 Mules will settle the issue beyond a shadow of a doubt by using two powerful, independent modes of investigation,” D’Souza said in an interview with The Epoch […]
Beijing’s Influence Group Seeks Partnership With US Agricultural Officials, After Teaming up With Bill Gates for Years
By Frank Fang A number of U.S. government officials recently took part in an virtual agriculture event co-hosted by a Beijing-backed influence association that has ties to Bill Gates. The United States Heartland China Association (USHCA), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2003, held the online 2022 U.S.-China Agriculture Roundtable earlier this month. The online event […]
Georgia Among States Advancing Investigations Into Alleged Drop Box Ballot Trafficking: True the Vote Founder
By Masooma Haq and Roman Balmakov Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True The Vote, said the goal of the organization is to present their findings to authorities and advance state-specific investigations into the alleged widespread ballot harvesting that they uncovered during their two-year-long inquiry. Most recently, Georgia has advanced an investigation into this issue. “There’s also […]
House Republicans Tell Twitter’s Board to Preserve All Records About Musk’s Bid to Buy Company
By Zachary Stieber All Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on April 22 ordered Twitter board members to preserve all records regarding Elon Musk’s effort to buy the technology company. “As Congress continues to examine Big Tech and how to best protect Americans’ free speech rights, this letter serves as a formal request that you preserve all records […]
Border Patrol Union: Abbott Should ‘Absolutely’ Use Constitutional ‘Invasion’ Powers on Border
By Charlotte Cuthbertson DEL RIO, Texas—The national Border Patrol union, which represents about 18,000 agents, said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott should “absolutely” invoke his powers under the Constitution to call the border crisis an “invasion” and respond accordingly. “We’re at a breaking point. We’ve got miles upon miles of border that just aren’t patrolled because […]
Federal Judge Strikes Down CDC Mask Mandate for Planes, Travel
By Jack Phillips and Zachary Stieber The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) mask mandate for airplanes and other forms of public transportation was struck down on April 18 by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the CDC rule exceeded the agency’s statutory authority because its implementation violated administrative law. Mizelle, […]
The State and Local Leaders Who Aren’t Ready to Give Up Pandemic Power
By Real Clear Investigations While many government leaders sound the all clear message on COVID-19, dropping vaccine restrictions and mask mandates, some states and municipalities are clinging to the emergency powers that allowed them to govern people’s behavior in unprecedented ways. Citing the need to direct emergency funding and oversee hospitals, they have held on to their emergency […]
US Pension Funds Invest Billions in Chinese Firms, Stoking National Security Concerns
By Michael Washburn Recent actions by Republican lawmakers have called attention to the willingness of top U.S .pension funds to invest in Chinese companies that may have ties to the regime in Beijing and may play a role in enhancing the regime’s military and surveillance capabilities. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and two GOP colleagues, Sens. […]