Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed the latest policy with a goal of ensuring that truck drivers understand English well enough to read road signs and communicate with law enforcement officers. Florida has already implemented English-only tests. The new order includes modernizing the commercial driver’s license (CDL) registration system, cracking down on fraud, and improving driver safety.
President Trump is now considering an initial, limited strike on Iran to force it to bow to the maximalist demands of Israel and the United States. The idea is based on two deeply questionable premises: that air strikes alone will compel Iran to give up its defensive ballistic missile capabilities, and halt all nuclear enrichment that Iran won't retaliate for an American "limited strike" in a way that sends the United States, Israel, Iran and perhaps even Russia and China racing up an escalation ladder
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a 6–3 majority that Trump exceeded his authority by invoking emergency powers to impose duties on virtually every country. The tariffs at issue were expected to raise about $1.5 trillion over the next decade—representing roughly 70 percent of Trump’s second-term levies, according to the Tax Foundation. Chief Justice John Roberts was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
President Trump moved hours after the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariffs to invoke a separate trade authority, imposing an import surcharge on most goods that takes effect February 24. He initially set the rate at ten percent, then raised it the next day to fifteen percent—the maximum allowed under the statute—saying in a social media post that the increase followed a “thorough, detailed, and complete review” of the court’s ruling.
When it comes to the potential of achieving a lasting US-Iran deal centered on the country's nuclear program, headlines have been changing rapidly, on a daily basis - as the specter of another US-led regime change war in the Middle East looms.
WSJ added: Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on Van Rootselaar’s posts. Some employees interpreted Van Rootselaar’s writings as an indication of potential real-world violence, and urged leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement about her behavior, the people familiar with the matter said. OpenAI leaders ultimately decided not to contact authorities.
Damascus warns mass returns could make the country unsafe, while German conservatives insist protection claims ended with the fall of Assad
"U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that 15,000 to 20,000 people, including Islamic State affiliates are now at large in Syria, after an exodus from a camp that held jihadists’ families, U.S. officials familiar with the estimate said," The Wall Street Journal reports Friday.
Defense experts say AI is essential in warfare, but it comes with mixed success and unpredictable pitfalls.
The oppressive nature of Mamdani's hate crime against aspiring-yet-disenfranchised New York City snow shovelers did not go unnoticed. Oh, this is beautiful! If you want to volunteer to shovel snow in NYC, you have to 3 forms of ID!!
Per the outlet, accounts that JPMorgan reportedly “debanked” were accounts “for Trump hotels, housing developments and retail shops” in several states, along with “Trump’s personal private banking relationship that handled his inheritance:”
The investigation into anti-ICE student walkouts widened on Monday, with three additional Texas school districts added to a growing probe examining whether officials coordinated or encouraged students to join the January 30 protests.
One such valley is known as Zitong, in Sichuan Province, where engineers have been building new bunkers and ramparts. A new complex bristles with pipes, suggesting the facility handles highly hazardous materials. Another valley is home to a double-fenced facility known as Pingtong, where experts believe China is making plutonium-packed cores of nuclear warheads. The main structure, dominated by a 360-foot-high ventilation stack, has been refurbished in recent years with new vents and heat dispersers. More construction is underway next to it.
“Any Republican, in the House or the Senate, that votes against TARIFFS will seriously suffer the consequences come Election time, and that includes Primaries!” the president wrote in a Truth Social post Wednesday evening, shortly after six House Republicans voted to repeal the president’s tariffs on Canada.
The FDA cited the company’s failure to perform an “adequate and well-controlled” clinical trial and its failure to use the “best-available standard of care” during the trial process.
Carriers must formally certify race- and sex-based hiring has ended or face potential federal investigation under new FAA mandate.
“We cannot let the Democrats get away with NO VOTER I.D. any longer,” Trump wrote. “Even Democrat Voters agree, 85 percent, that there should be Voter I.D.” “This is an issue that must be fought, and must be fought, NOW! If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted,“ he wrote. ”I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”
President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950 to expand domestic production of glyphosate, the controversial weedkiller at the center of more than 60,000 cancer lawsuits against Bayer. The move sparked outrage from MAHA activists and health advocates who said it puts corporate interests ahead of public health.
Jim O'Neill recently left the government, leaving the CDC position vacant.
Shirley, a 23-year-old Utah native, has had to hire round-the-clock security after he exposed extensive welfare fraud among the Somali community in Minnesota. ... Examples of suspected voter fraud included no voter ID and signature-only “verification” in order to vote, 125-year-old voters still active on voter rolls, dozens of voters registered at a single UPS Store/mail drop, and a voter who successfully registered her dog to vote in 2021 and 2022.
This unexpected statement of Trump's was serious enough for Zelensky to issue a response later the same day. The Ukrainian leader said in a just published interview with Axios that the Ukrainian public itself won't let him cede territory.
The White House this month has finally appeared to be ratcheting up the pressure directly on Zelensky to make some kind of serious land concession.
....He also dubiously stated that Iran could potentially retaliate on the UK and other "friendly countries" - making Diego Garcia highly strategic in a Western allied campaign against the Islamic Republic. "Prime Minister Starmer should not lose control, for any reason, of Diego Garcia, by entering a tenuous, at best, 100 Year Lease," Trump wrote.
No full generals appeared at the Beijing gathering, highlighting ongoing purges and strain within the CCP’s military leadership.
The Pentagon stated that it airlifted a next-generation nuclear reactor from California to Utah on Feb. 15 to boost energy security and reduce the military’s reliance on the civilian power grid.
Testing of the river water revealed high levels of E. coli and other infectious bacteria.
Russian air defenses shot down more than 150 Ukrainian drones in the attack which included hundreds of UAVs sent in total, as officials from both sides are imminently expected meet in Switzerland for another round of peace talks. According to the ministry, 79 drones were intercepted over the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, 38 over annexed Crimea, and 18 over the Krasnodar region.
Under the supervision of IRGC Commander-in-Chief Major General Mohammad Pakpour, a state media press release described the exercise further as "A rapid, decisive, and comprehensive response to maritime security threats form the core focus of the intelligence and operational components of the units deployed during the exercise."
And yet, despite historic federal layoffs, government spending went UP last year. The federal government spent $7 trillion in Fiscal Year 2025— roughly $300 billion more than the year before. Bear in mind, 2025 was the year that DOGE was supposed to take a chainsaw to the budget and cut spending. This is not a failure of DOGE. It’s a revelation about the actual problem.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating entities involved in a planned Muslim housing development in Texas because of concerns that the initiative may have engaged in discrimination based on religion and nationality, the department said in a Feb. 13 statement.
Experts laud $2.7 billion outlay to rebuild nation’s capacity to enrich uranium but warn it may take a decade for domestic production to meet burgeoning need.
Gerasimov described Moscow's forces are advancing toward Sloviansk, the industrial city that has been center of fighting between pro-Kiev and pro-Moscow forces going all the way back to 2014. According to Gerasimov, Russian troops are now roughly 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the city.
L ast year, billionaire technologist Eric Schmidt quietly founded a secretive military drone company, White Stork. Now, the stealth startup has begun testing its artificial intelligence-guided aircraft, both at the Menlo Park headquarters of Schmidt’s family office Hillspire and on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, where the former Google CEO has continually touted himself as the country’s preeminent defense tech guru.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins became the latest to support the SAVE Act.
In a dramatic Friday night development in a case that's garnered enormous public interest, three people were detained as a SWAT team executed search warrants connected to the abduction of the mother of NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie -- and a neighbor claims another person shot himself in the head. Action unfolded at two locations -- both of them only about two miles from Nancy Guthrie's Tucson residence. As this is written, police have yet to reveal details.
Bush revealed the ordeal in a recent interview, explaining how she was pressured months after her win to accept new language in the contract. The rules now define eligible “women” as including those who’ve completed “Sex Reassignment Surgery via Vaginoplasty (from male to female).” Bush refused, stating flatly that she couldn’t agree to the idea that “a little boy could mutilate his body and become a woman.”
We've reported before that the turning point came in March, when Washington temporarily halted battlefield intelligence sharing with Ukraine - a move that forced allies to confront the prospect that Washington may no longer serve as a dependable security guarantor, also as ratcheting Trump rhetoric increasingly highlights Europe needing to shoulder its own defense burden.
By early afternoon, every major outlet was doing verbal Pilates to avoid saying the one thing the adults in the room had already figured out: the “female in a dress” was a biological male transvestite. Reporters tiptoed around the truth like it was a sleeping dragon.
Soon on the heels of Netanyahu's meeting with President Trump at the White House this week, the US has quietly ordered its USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, to depart the Caribbean Sea and head to the Middle East, at a moment the White House is weighing possible military action against Iran, NY Times and others are reporting. The redeployment will give Washington two carrier strike groups in the region
‘The reason gold is going up is because of what’s happening in China,’ says Michael Howell, founder of CrossBorder Capital.
So after over a decade-long proxy war, the bearded 'ISIS-lite' jihadists of Jolani/Sharaa's army were just handed an American base overnight. Perhaps that was the plan all along.
Trump threatened legal action over unfavorable polling that he denounced as fake. In January, Trump said he would expand his existing defamation lawsuit against The New York Times after the newspaper, in partnership with Siena College, published a poll finding that just 34 percent of independent voters approved of his job performance about one year into his second term—a result he said did not reflect reality and was fabricated to damage him.
The president is likely to veto the measure if it succeeds in the Senate.
The SAVE America Act passed the House on Feb. 11. Led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), the legislation would require Americans to prove their citizenship when registering to vote. Under the bill, Americans would also have to furnish photo identification when casting ballots, including mail-in ballots.
Former CCP leader Mao Zedong referred to United Front work as the Party’s “magic weapon,” according to the report. Under Deng Xiaoping’s rule, the department also focused on targeting well-to-do Chinese people overseas with the purpose of “attracting trade and luring capital,” the report said. Later, this included “attracting talent and luring knowledge” as the regime sought a foothold as a technological power.
Initial reports by local police and the Canadian media described the shooter as female. However, the authorities reluctance to release the identity of the suspect was an immediate red flag. Their reports only indicated that the shooter was a female in a dress. Independent journalists now say they have the identity of the alleged shooter, corroborated by family members: Jesse Strang, a 17-year-old biological male who started identifying as a "woman" in 2023, is reportedly the culprit behind the school massacre which left 10 dead and 25 wounded.
“They thought they were untouchable. They were wrong. Over 134 acres of land and property, taken from the westside Gulf Cartel, a terrorist organization operating near Rio Grande City, Texas,” according to the video.
community members received alerts on their phones in the afternoon. The alerts seen by The Epoch Times described the suspect as “a female in a dress with brown hair.”
A wave of anti-ICE protests has spread to schools, and some parents are concerned about safety and what they describe as ideological indoctrination.
The EPA, under Lee Zeldin, plans to revoke the 2009 "endangerment finding", an Obama-era determination that six greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations” and that has anchored federal climate regulation under the Clean Air Act, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.
"My wish is to share this with my European partners and to have a well-organized European approach" in diplomacy with Moscow, Macron added. He reasoned that Europe must be engaging Putin directly "so as not to depend on third parties" or rather - so the EU doesn't stay cut out of US-Russia discussions, as has been the case so far under Trump.
During his speech at the naval conference, Mandon stated that France is not prepared for war and the country had “an insufficient number of ships and armaments.” He stated the nation needs “more missiles with greater range and lethality.”
A group of 27 members of Congress, led by Representative Michael Cloud of Texas are sounding the alarm on the expansion of ATF’s illegal registry of guns and gun owners. According to a recently released letter, addressed to ATF Deputy Director Robert Cedaka, ATF has not responded to a previous inquiry regarding the expansion of the registry. These Congressmen are concerned that ATF may now have over a billion records in their registry.
Iran could agree to dilute its most highly enriched uranium in exchange for all financial sanctions being lifted, its atomic chief said on Monday, one of the most direct indications so far of its position at talks with Washington.
The family of Nancy Guthrie has offered to pay the alleged kidnapper or kidnappers to return their 84-year-old mother, who vanished from her home in the Tucson, Arizona area one week ago. “We received your message and we understand,” long-time “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, the daughter of Nancy, announced in an Instagram video on Feb. 7.
Ukraine and Russia have just wrapped up a second round of US-mediated negotiations in Abu Dhabi, but overnight Ukrainian cities were hit with another massive aerial attack on the national power grid. "Russia is carrying out another massive attack on the Ukrainian power grid facilities," grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday. "Due to the damage caused by the enemy, emergency outages have been applied in most regions."
Arrested for gender-critical tweets, now sounding the alarm on trans ideology’s war against dissent
In the end, Democracy may well die in darkness, but WaPo's time of death was 6pm on February 7, 2026.
AI will soon be able to meld weapons systems faster than armies’ commanders can think
Authorities sent more than 1,000 pieces of evidence, unknown substances to get tested.
The CME raised margin requirements on gold and silver four times in six weeks. Four times. Right as prices hit all-time highs, right as physical inventories were getting drained, and right as banks were sitting on short positions that could blow up in their faces. Coincidence? Sure
“Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than diplomacy,” Zelenskyy said. Temperatures in Kyiv fell to minus 4 degrees during the night and stood at minus 3 on Tuesday.
A recent jury verdict marks the first tremor in a building earthquake that may sever the transgender child mutilation pipeline, setting the stage for a host of lawsuits that threaten to end the medical establishment’s promotion of “gender-affirming care.”
Because no one can trust the Post anymore, subscriptions, clicks, and advertising revenues have plummeted to a point where the Post’s shameless purveyors of lies, misinformation, and hoaxes are losing a reported $100 million per year. Over five years, after paying $500 million for the Post, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reportedly poured another $300 million to keep the doors open through 2023.
The Affordable Care Act caused a cracked insurance market and skyrocketing premiums, now at an average of nearly $500 per month for a 40-year-old to be insured.
President Putin in his Wednesday video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping underscored that the last major nuclear treaty with the United States is on the eve of collapse. New START is set to expire on Thursday. Putin notified Xi that Washington has not yet responded. "As you know, on September 22, 2025, we proposed to the Americans to extend the key quantitative limits for one year as voluntary self-restrictions. However, we have not yet received an official response from the Americans," Putin said, as quoted in state media.
"It was Sunday to Sunday, and it opened up and he hit them hard last night," Trump explained at the White House on Tuesday. "He kept his word on that… we’ll take anything, because it’s really, really cold over there."
Calling out the “fascism in our streets,” Nadler suggested that citizens could be justified in shooting masked agents, a chilling claim made earlier by other Democratic leaders.
Three U.S. warships have been sent to Haiti as part of Operation Southern Spear, a military operation in the Caribbean to counter narcotics trafficking.
The mayor doesn’t have direct authority to freeze rents city-wide.
One welcome immediate repercussion to the fresh Epstein dump of millions of files is that things have finally started happening in terms of a real domino effect in elite circles...
China and India have to regularly shift their oil purchases due to US sanctions on major crude exporters
The Ilyushin Il-76, operated by the government-linked airline Aviacon Zitotrans, is reportedly under US sanctions as it has a well-documented history of ferrying military gear to Latin America.
On Friday, January 30, 2026, the world learned (or rediscovered) just how grotesquely rigged the paper gold and silver markets truly are.... But was it really any “magical” coincidence that JP Morgan was able to exit its massive (and fatally stupid) short exposure at the absolute bottom/floor of the silver price on Friday? That is, at the perfect moment? Was it also any coincidence that the London Metals Exchange went completely dark on that very same day? And was it just an equal coincidence that HSBC, the second largest silver short holder on the LBMA, went completely offline as the choreographed Friday massacre in silver took place?
The IDF’s admission came in a Thursday briefing given to reporters by a senior military official. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said approximately 70,000 people have died in Gaza since the Oct 7, 2023 invasion of Israel by Hamas militants. As of Sunday, Gaza health officials say 71,795 have died.
Just because someone declares they are a "journalist" does not mean they're protected from consequences if they commit a crime. Furthermore, the political left seems to believe that the 1st Amendment gives them the right to disrupt the free speech of others as long as they are protesting: This is a dangerous fallacy.
Reports say the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has pulled back about 1,400 km from waters near Iran’s Chabahar Port, repositioning toward the Gulf of Aden amid rising regional tensions — but the U.S. has not officially confirmed the withdrawal.
Menefee, 37, the former Harris County attorney, won a runoff election against fellow Democrat Amanda Edwards, 44, a former Houston city council member. The two were seeking to replace late Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas) in the state’s solidly Democratic 18th congressional district, which includes most of Houston’s inner city and the surrounding areas.
A jury awarded $2 million in damages to a 22-year-old woman who underwent breast removal surgery as a teenager.
As part of the deal, the United States will cut its reciprocal tariff rate from 25 percent to 18 percent, Trump wrote on Feb. 2 in a post on Truth Social. In exchange, he said, India has agreed to “move forward to reduce their Tariffs and Non Tariff Barriers against the United States to ZERO.”
Beijing Weaponized the West’s Own Wiretap Infrastructure to Execute the Greatest Intelligence Coup Since Cambridge Five
In October 2020, Guan traveled to the Xinjiang region alone. He released most of his video footage on YouTube in October 2021, the same month he arrived in Florida by boat after sailing from the Bahamas, to which he had traveled from Ecuador after fleeing China, according to the advocacy group.
The Make Elections Great Again Act would also require states to use auditable paper ballots.
Tehran has unveiled a network of “underwater missile tunnels” and has warned that the Strait of Hormuz will “not be safe” if the Islamic Republic is attacked by the US, Iranian state television reported.
"If Russia does not strike our energy infrastructure — generation facilities or any other energy assets — we will not strike theirs," Zelensky told reporters in Kiev. "We want to end the war and we are ready for de-escalation steps."
‘This most beautiful system ... could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being,‘ wrote Newton.
The video, verified by the BBC, captures what appears to be Pretti screaming at federal agents while they were driving away during a Jan. 13 protest. As their SUV leaves, he kicks the taillight - breaking it, causing agents to exit the vehicle and tackle him to the ground. The agents continue to hold him down until he retreats and joins a crowd shouting at agents, as his gun is visibly tucked into the back of his pants.
The United States has gathered more firepower in the Middle East than we have ever seen before. It exceeds anything that we witnessed during Operation Desert Storm, it exceeds anything that we witnessed during the war in Afghanistan, and it exceeds anything that we witnessed during the war in Iraq. That doesn’t necessarily mean that war is imminent. President Trump could ultimately decide not to pull the trigger. But without a doubt, at this moment we are exceedingly close to a cataclysmic showdown in the Middle East.
A saturation strike involving hundreds of Iranian missiles poses a severe challenge to the finite ammunition of US Aegis shields in the narrow Persian Gulf.
For its third aircraft carrier, Fujian, China built its first flat-deck ship, complete with an advanced electromagnetic catapult. The Pentagon report assessed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy has plans for six more aircraft carriers by 2035, bringing their total to nine within the next decade.
'Because of the cold –– extreme cold –– I personally asked President Putin not fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week. He agreed to do that. I have to tell you, it was very nice,' Trump said. Trump added that Putin has 'agreed to that,' but there was no confirmation of that from Russia.
Nine months after announcing it would “expeditiously review” the science on the risks of fluoride in water, EPA announced its plans for that review. On the same day, the agency filed a brief in its appeal of a landmark court ruling that ordered it to regulate the chemical.
The death of an 8-week-old U.K. boy who was found unresponsive in his crib one day after he received more than one routine vaccine has been attributed to SIDS. The baby’s death certificate and an inquest did not list a cause of death. However, research has linked vaccines to SIDS and infant deaths.
Patel forced out field office leaders and other senior agents connected to the two criminal investigations of Trump, including the special agent in charge in Atlanta, the acting assistant director in charge of the New York field office, and the former special agent in charge in New Orleans who had recently moved on to another job, MS Now reported and two senior administration officials confirmed to Breitbart News. As many as six agents in Miami were forced out over their connection to the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, conducted by over 30 agents accompanied by CNN cameras.
An unnamed “U.S. official” told the news agency Reuters in a report published on Thursday that America’s participation in the Venezuelan oil industry would not prevent communist China from buying such oil, but that they would no longer benefit from “unfair, undercut” prices.
The Trump administration cuts funding, recalls U.S. officials from the WHO.
During a visit to Beijing last week, Carney hailed a "new strategic partnership" with China that resulted in a "preliminary but landmark trade agreement" to reduce tariffs -- but Trump warned of serious consequences should that deal be realized. If Carney "thinks he is going to make Canada a 'Drop Off Port' for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Agents were seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, a new facility that state officials opened in 2023 that was designed to streamline their election processes. It was not immediately clear what the FBI agents were investigating, but Fox News Digital is told the probe is related to the 2020 election.
Things between Tehran and Washington are moving fast according to an eerily familiar pattern hearkening back to the lead-up to the 12-day June war, when there was some wrangling over negotiations - and talk of good faith efforts at dialogue - just before the US greenlighted a surprise Israeli attack which also saw US entry into the conflict by the close of it (whereupon nuclear facilities were hit by American bombers).
Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex, has backed out of a planned oil shipment to Cuba, the country’s president appeared to confirm. The move comes after President Donald Trump insisted that “zero” oil would be sent to the island, and follows reports that Washington plans regime change there by the end of the year.
After a 2023 court ruling in favor of religious pharmacies that opposed the mandate, the Biden administration altered the policy. However, critics said it was still unclear if pharmacies were required to carry abortion-inducing drugs under the revised rule. On Tuesday, HHS said it took action “in light of the stated policy … to end the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.” `
“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” he added, before stating he would like to be able to do so. He also said, “They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.”
On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY) discussed the Bidens. Comer said, “Well, we did criminal referrals on the Bidens over a year ago to the Department of Justice. At that time, it was the Merrick Garland Department of Justice. We did criminal referrals on Hunter Biden and Jim Biden for perjury. … So, Pam Bondi’s had those referrals on her desk for almost a year.”