The Department of Homeland Security rejected a nearly $58 million contract for advertising and marketing support services for the U.S. Coast Guard Recruiting Command after determining that the outside vendor promotes LGBTQ and other “inclusive” ideology as part of its core offerings, the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.

Victims of the Palisades Fire are slamming the City of Los Angeles after they say they received bills alleging noncompliance with brush clearance rules despite having lost their homes.

Residents allege they have received $31 noncompliance bills in the mail over a year after the Palisades Fire occurred, according to FOX 11. Christine Martinez, one of the residents who lost her home in the fire, told FOX 11 receiving a noncompliance bill was “one final blow.”

The United States allegedly provided the Mexican government with intelligence that helped locate cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Rubén Oseguera Cervantes according to Reuters.

The Mexican army conducted an operation Sunday to capture El Mencho which led to the infamous cartel leader’s death. The U.S. provided the Mexican government with a detailed target package about El Mencho to aid in his capture according to an anonymous former U.S. official who spoke to Reuters. (RELATED: IMG Academy Paying $1.7 Million Fine After Accepting Tuition, Students Allegedly Connected To Mexican Drug Cartel)

A lover of the now-deceased cartel leader El Mencho accidentally betrayed him to Mexican authorities before he was shot dead during a sweeping operation Sunday, officials said.

Mexican forces killed El Mencho, whose given name was Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, during a drug raid that took place in the state of Jalisco in western Mexico, Metro.co.uk reported. El Mencho helmed the deadly Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of both his parents, famous director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner.

His lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene, submitted the plea in his name while he remained behind glass in an enclosed custody section inside a Los Angeles, California, courtroom, according to The Associated Press (AP). Nick appeared without the suicide prevention smock he wore during his December appearance in court. He spoke only to say yes to a question from the judge, and was otherwise communicating through his attorney.

Members of drug cartel Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) killed 25 Mexican National Guard members across six attacks after the country’s special forces killed the cartel’s leader, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday.

The Mexican military killed CJNG leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” during an operation Sunday after a shootout at his Jalisco home in which eight cartel members were killed, according to the AP. El Mencho and two bodyguards were reportedly critically wounded during the operation and died during evacuation, Mexican National Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said in Spanish at a Monday press conference. (RELATED: El Mencho, Head Of Cartel Trump Designated As Terrorists, Reportedly Killed In Mexico)

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and other White House staffers slammed CNN and MSNOW on Monday for not airing an event honoring families who lost loved ones in crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

Sickening and horrific that CNN and MSNOW are outright refusing to broadcast this powerful and moving event. It's like they don't care about victims and their families. https://t.co/Av5y70XSFu

— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) February 23, 2026

Washington, D.C., is taking a closer look at a longtime trucking industry gimmick as illegal migrant-related highway crashes continue killing Americans.

Indiana GOP Sen. Jim Banks is demanding the Department of Transportation (DOT) investigate the prevalence of chameleon carrier networks, trucking companies that repeatedly reopen under new identities after being shut down across his state, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Calls for an investigation follow another deadly big rig accident, again involving an illegal migrant driver. (RELATED: What Democrats Aren’t Saying About Their Judicial Warrant Demands For ICE)

The Metropolitan Police said officers arrested Britain’s former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, on suspicion of misconduct in public office in relation to the Epstein case.

London officers arrested Lord Mandelson, 72, Monday, on the same grounds as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, according to CNBC. Prior to his arrest, the police were investigating Mandelson’s alleged ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The news outlet reported that Mandelson’s name was not officially mentioned in police reports, a standard in Britain, but images of police escorting Mandelson from his home surfaced Monday.

Police found a stack of notes at a California residence that appeared to threaten a “violent incident” after a 20-year-old man allegedly attempted to enter a Catholic Church during Ash Wednesday mass while armed with a loaded gun.

Brian Richard Girardot Jr. was charged with possessing a firearm within a school zone, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California Eric Grant said in a press release. On Feb. 18, Girardot Jr. dropped his younger relative off at St. Mary Parish School, where he was previously a student, according to court documents. Girardot Jr. returned at around 9:30 a.m. and walked onto the premises of St. Mary Catholic Church/St. Mary Parish School.

Olympic alpine ski legend Lindsey Vonn said she nearly lost her leg and was forced to undergo a blood transfusion after suffering a horrifying injury.

Vonn shared an Instagram video Monday saying she experienced the “most extreme and painful and challenging injury I’ve ever faced in my entire life times a hundred” following her crash at the games. The athlete said the two-week nightmare nearly culminated in a leg amputation. She explained the gruesome injury that resulted in a shattered tibia, fractured fibular head and tibial plateau.

Former special counsel Jack Smith may have violated a court order in his last-ditch effort to publicize a report about his failed prosecution of President Donald Trump, a judge suggested Monday.

Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, blocked the release of the second part of Smith’s final report focusing on his classified documents case, slamming his decision to even compile one after she dismissed the indictment.