Ex-Biden officials Jason Houser (former ICE Chief of Staff) and Troy Miller (former acting CBP Commissioner) are part of a group tasked with suggesting enhancements to the Trump administration’s National Targeting Center (NTC) at CBP. A high-level source inside the agency is mystified by how overseers of Biden-era policies that led to record-breaking border failures are now working with the current CBP Commissioner on this key national security effort.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had “wrecked this economy.”
On tariffs, Newsom said, “He needs to refund that money with interest. He can do that in a nanosecond. They could do that electronically. They can do electronically. They have the tariff codes. They have the ability. They do refunds all the time. They have the ability to do that promise for families. It’s been about $1,710 a year. That’s a different requirement that I think he has to pay the American people back. I saw Bassett out there almost gleeful. He was gleeful that, no, we won’t be doing it. This is Dumb and Dumber. Trump and Bessent, they’ve wrecked this economy 1.4% GDP growth in the last quarter. Inflation back up to 3%. The worst jobs market we’ve seen since 2013, 2.2% GDP for the entire year. He inherited 2.8. It’s a wrecking ball presidency, wrecking this economy. His entire economic paradigm is mass deportations, tax cuts for billionaires and tariffs. And he’s been exposed.”
A teacher at Charles W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville, New York, was ousted after helping students start a Club America chapter — the high school division of Turning Point USA, founded by slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk.
Jennifer Fasulo, a Spanish teacher at the high school in a suburb outside of Syracuse was placed on a paid leave of absence in late January, just weeks after she agreed to help students establish a Club America chapter, her supporters say, according to a report by the New York Post.
Democrat leaders in New York City oppose voter ID laws but are not above requiring such papers for recruiting people for manual labor.
The New York City Department on Sanitation’s website features a page where residents can apply to become paid “Emergency Snow Shovelers” as a winter storm bears down on the area.
Eileen Gu, the California-born Olympian who chose to ski for Communist China instead of the United States, claimed the gold medal that had eluded her at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, with a win in the halfpipe event.
AFP reports the Stanford University student had been forced to wait when the contest was postponed on Saturday due to heavy snow smothering Livigno, high in the Italian Alps.
President Donald Trump called for Netflix to fire former White House adviser Susan Rice, labeling her as “racist” and “Trump Deranged,” and questioning how much she was being paid.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump shared a post from investigative journalist and activist Laura Loomer in which Loomer wrote that Rice, a Netflix board member “says corporations who took a ‘knee to Trump’ will face an ‘accountability agenda'” from Democrat lawmakers if they win the upcoming 2026 midterms and the 2028 Presidential election.
An armed man was shot and killed around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after entering Mar-a-Lago’s secure perimeter, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The Associated Press quoted the Secret Service saying the man, believed to be in his 20s, was “observed by the north gate of the Mar-a-Lago property carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.”
Nine people were shot after at least two people opened fire Saturday following an argument in Richmond, Virginia’s Shockee Bottom neighborhood.
WRIC reported that the shooting occurred around 2:45 a.m., leaving two dead and seven others injured. The deceased were identified as 23-year-old Genesis Tamar Jones and 42-year-old Dominic Antoine.
France has summoned U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner over comments from the Trump administration over the alleged Antifa mob killing of a conservative student in Lyon earlier this month.
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot on Sunday condemned comments from the U.S. Embassy and top diplomats concerning the death of 23-year-old Quentin Deranque, who was suffered catastrophic brain injury after allegedly being attacked by members of a banned Antifa cell in Lyon.
ASSISI, Italy (AP) – The bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and generations of Christians before him, are going on public display for the first time, giving his hilltop Umbrian hometown yet another reason to welcome pilgrims.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia attacked Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones, killing one person in the Kyiv region, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said on Sunday.
Another eight people, including a child, were rescued from under the rubble of destroyed buildings, the service said.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused the left-wing UK government of blocking him from travelling to the Chagos Islands amid ongoing controversy surrounding the sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Earlier this week a small cohort of Chagossians embarked on an attempt to resettle on the archipelago’s atolls in a bid to scupper the 2025 deal in which London agreed to hand over control of the territory to the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius.
