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February 5, 2025
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| 'Thank You for Your Service': Trump Fires Nearly All USAID Workers |
| by Ben Johnson |
| President Donald Trump has cleaned house at one of the most controversial organizations in the federal government, announcing a mass firing of employees at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as the White House revealed its deep funding of LGBTQ propaganda in traditionally Christian societies. |
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| PERKINS: For Trump Admin, Abortion Pill Decision Should Be Easy |
| by Tony Perkins |
| The parade of Trump nominees continued through the Senate last week - with four being confirmed by the full chamber. The president's selection for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee last Wednesday, where he acquitted himself fairly well, especially on the issues of life and abortion. |
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| Venezuela Dictator Frees Americans, Agrees to Repatriate Gang Members |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The Trump administration scored a second diplomatic victory in South America this weekend when Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro freed six American prisoners and agreed to repatriate members of the Tren de Araguas gang arrested in the United States. The victory comes only a week after Trump briefly threatened diplomatic penalties against Colombia, Venezuela's neighbor to the west, forcing the socialist president to accept returned Colombians who had illegally entered the United States. |
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| DOGE Gains Access to Treasury Payment Systems, Top Bureaucrat Resigns |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The White House's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has finally gained access to the U.S. government's payment system after a career bureaucrat had blocked them out. In an executive order creating DOGE, President Donald Trump ordered all agencies to provide the small but energetic team, headed by Elon Musk, with "full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems," for the purpose of identifying and exposing areas of government waste, which can later be cut. |
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| Outstanding - Ep. 173: Unchecked Power? China's Global Influence |
| Podcast with Joseph Backholm and Gordon Chang |
| Gordon Chang, a China expert, joins Joseph Backholm to discuss China's growing global influence, US-China relations, and concerns over its role in the Panama Canal. They discuss potential economic and security threats, including tech risks like TikTok and DeepSeek, and examine China's involvement in global conflicts. They also unpack the question of how the Trump administration will handle Chinese influence both on American soil and abroad. |
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| Pills by Mail: Turning a Blind Eye to Women Injured by Abortion |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| The facts as alleged could hardly be worse for advocates of interstate abortion by mail. On Friday, January 31, pursuant to a grand jury finding, officials in Baton Rouge issued warrants for the arrest of a Louisiana woman and the New York State-based physician who mailed her abortion pills in contravention of Louisiana state law. The indictment alleges that the woman who ordered and received the pills gave them to her teenage daughter who took them under the mother's threat to expel her from the family home if she did not submit to the abortion. The case came to light when the teenage girl experienced complications from the pills and needed emergency transport to the hospital. |
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| Northern Virginia Counties Display Subtle Anti-ICE Flyers, Messaging in Public Libraries |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan has been hard at work tackling illegal immigration and conducting the deportation of criminals promised during Trump's campaign. But as the immigration crackdown goes on, some have taken to protesting - and in some ways, it's managed to stay relatively under the radar. |
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| Cartels Escalate Violence against U.S. amid Border Crackdown |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| As President Donald Trump and his administration work to secure the nation's southern border, Mexican cartels are preparing a violent escalation war. According to a memo obtained by NewsNation, drug cartels in Mexico are ordering drone strikes and the use of explosives against U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and military servicemembers defending the border. The memo reports that cartels intend to equip drones with explosives and send them on kamikaze missions targeting U.S. law enforcement and military along the border. |
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| Panama, Greenland Heed U.S. Security Concerns |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| On his first trip abroad as U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio on Sunday convinced Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino Quintero to reevaluate his country's relationship with China. On both the southern and northeastern tips of North America, the Trump administration is reinforcing initial proclamations of expansionism with coolheaded diplomacy aimed at securing vital American security interests. |
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| 'Waving the Red Flag to a Bull': Dem Governor Draws Heat after Claiming to Hide Illegal Immigrant |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| President Donald Trump's administration has made it clear that governors and mayors standing in the way of deportations will suffer consequences - and one Democrat might put that claim to the test. At a "Blue Wave New Jersey" event on Saturday, Governor Phil Murphy (D) bragged about housing an illegal immigrant and even taunted the Trump administration. "There is someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to, and we said, 'You know what? Let's have her live at our house above our garage,'" the Garden State Democrat said. He added, "And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her." |
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| Perkins, Evangelical Leaders Pray with Israeli PM Netanyahu |
| by Dan Hart |
| Ahead of Tuesday's pivotal meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump as they discuss the future of the Jewish state's conflict with Hamas, a group of evangelical leaders met with the Israeli leader to pray for and encourage him. |
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| In a Country 'Based on Merit,' DEI Looks at Everything but Merit: Experts |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| There have been rumors of President Donald Trump's plans to abolish the Department of Education (DOE) - which is something he said he would do during his campaign in an effort to return education policy back to the states. This comes after years of parents and observers complaining of left-wing ideologies infiltrating the education system in the U.S. And while this proposal has yet to gain serious traction, Trump has taken action to remove as much LGBT and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) related programs as he can from both the DOE and the federal government at large. |
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