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  • Tulsi Gabbard secures support from another key senator

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 14:53 pm

    Tulsi Gabbard secures support from another key senator Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced Monday that she will vote to confirm Tulsi Gabbard, who was nominated to serve as director of national intelligence. Murkowski's announcement came just moments after Gabbard cleared another procedural hurdle in the Senate on Monday night, teeing up her confirmation vote this week. 'I am counting on her to ensure the safety and civil liberties of American citizens remain rigorously protected.'"I will vote to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as[…]

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  • Noem accuses 'corrupt' FBI of leaking ICE raid info

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 14:30 pm

    Noem accuses 'corrupt' FBI of leaking ICE raid info Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem minced no words about her frustration with "corrupt" FBI agents who allegedly leaked information about a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid planned for the Los Angeles area.On Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that federal agencies had coordinated a "large-scale" raid in or around L.A. to be conducted sometime in February. As the basis for its report, the Times cited "an internal government document" and a federal law enforcement[…]

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  • China and Iran wage war on faith, culture, and free expression

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 02:30 am

    China and Iran wage war on faith, culture, and free expression Freedom of religion and expression forms the foundation of human dignity, yet authoritarian regimes continue to suppress these fundamental rights. Two of the world’s most oppressive governments, China’s Chinese Communist Party and Iran’s Islamic Republic, follow the same playbook — silencing anyone who challenges their ideological control. The persecution of Shen Yun and the Bahá’í community serves as chilling proof of this shared agenda.Shen Yun, a globally acclaimed performing arts group, is dedicated to reviving[…]

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  • Last night's (not so) Super Bowl: A review

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 02:00 am

    Last night's (not so) Super Bowl: A review It's a uniquely American event, so even old chicks like me sometimes tune in. And for those of us who don't care who wins, our hopes are few and simple: (1) a nice, competitive game, (2) not too many shots of Taylor Swift, (3) no woke preaching, and (4) a few entertaining commercials.On this basis, we lost. Final score: 3-1.We know what the He Gets Us people are really saying, which is that it's not[…]

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  • Texas man fights armed would-be robber, who cops say shoots victim. But wounded man still disarms attacker; arrest made.

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 01:50 am

    Texas man fights armed would-be robber, who cops say shoots victim. But wounded man still disarms attacker; arrest made. A Texas man fought an armed thug trying to rob him early Saturday morning in Corpus Christi — and police said the attacker shot the man. But the wounded victim still managed to disarm the gunman, police said, adding that they made an arrest.Corpus Christi police said officers were dispatched to the 5400 block of South Staples Street over an aggravated robbery. According to KRIS-TV, the incident took place in the parking lot of the[…]

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  • Justice Department moves to dismiss criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 01:35 am

    Justice Department moves to dismiss criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams The U.S. Department of Justice is moving to dismiss a criminal case of bribery against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Adams was indicted on charges of selling influence for the benefit of the Turkish government in exchange for luxury travel perks and illegal campaign donations. His former chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, was indicted in December on charges of bribery, money laundering, and conspiracy. 'I always knew that if I stood my ground for all[…]

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  • Tulsi Gabbard inches closer to confirmation

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 01:00 am

    Tulsi Gabbard inches closer to confirmation National intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard cleared yet another confirmation hurdle in the Senate Monday night. After Gabbard's nomination was approved in a party-line vote by the Intelligence Committee last Tuesday, the Senate voted 52 to 46 to invoke cloture on Gabbard's nomination. The Senate will likely take up Gabbard's final confirmation vote within the next few days. Although Gabbard was thought to be one of President Donald Trump's most contentious nominees, she has made significant[…]

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  • Dems loved IRS audits for you — and now fear accountability for themselves

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 01:00 am

    Dems loved IRS audits for you — and now fear accountability for themselves As promised during the election, Elon Musk was appointed head of the Department of Government Efficiency to combat government waste and fraud. In typical Washington fashion, such an initiative would normally produce a polished report after 18 months, with little real action. But Musk and his team have taken a different approach, actively dismantling the worst areas of taxpayer abuse in a matter of weeks.Predictably, those who oppose real reform — including Musk’s critics, Trump’s[…]

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  • Mark Levin explains why Tim Kaine is TERRIFIED of Trump’s federal buyout offer

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 01:00 am

    Mark Levin explains why Tim Kaine is TERRIFIED of Trump’s federal buyout offer Donald Trump’s buyout offer to two million federal workers as part of his initiative to return to in-person work has Democrats scared. If government employees take the offer, that means their precious bureaucracy will shrink. One Democrat who’s literally begging federal workers to resist the offer is Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.). Like most Democrats, he’s built his argument on the stale premise of “Trump is a liar.” “My message to federal employees who received this[…]

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  • Ana Navarro jokes that Trump will ban black people from halftime over Kendrick Lamar's halftime show at Super Bowl

    Blaze Media Feb 11, 2025 | 00:45 am

    Ana Navarro jokes that Trump will ban black people from halftime over Kendrick Lamar's halftime show at Super Bowl Ana Navarro of "The View" got a lot of applause from the audience after suggesting that the halftime show was somehow meant to oppose the policies of President Donald Trump. Many viewers complained that they did not understand or enjoy Kendrick Lamar's halftime show, but Navarro loved it because she thought that it annoyed Trump, and she said people responded with racism. Trump was in attendance at the Super Bowl game at Caesars Superdome in[…]

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  • RFK Jr.'s nomination gets a boost after Sen. Susan Collins says she will vote to confirm

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 23:45 pm

    RFK Jr.'s nomination gets a boost after Sen. Susan Collins says she will vote to confirm President Donald Trump's nomination for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head up the Health and Human Services Department got a boost after Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she would vote to confirm him. Collins is considered a critical swing vote that Democrats hoped to persuade against the Trump pick. She had also come out against Pete Hegseth, who was confirmed to lead the Defense Department despite her opposition. 'He has promised that as[…]

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  • SCANDAL: ICE has a leak problem

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 23:30 pm

    SCANDAL: ICE has a leak problem On the latest “what happened while we were away” segment of the “Steve Deace Show,” producer Aaron McIntire revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been thwarted not once but three times when internal rats leaked raid information to the media, allowing violent illegal alien criminals to escape deportation. “This weekend we saw at least the third leak to media foil a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation,” says McIntire. Over the weekend, “the[…]

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  • 'We are on the verge of bloodshed': Pastor says violence 'necessary' to prevent Elon Musk stealing Social Security checks

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 22:55 pm

    'We are on the verge of bloodshed': Pastor says violence 'necessary' to prevent Elon Musk stealing Social Security checks A Baptist pastor appeared to advocate for violence in order to stop Elon Musk from his actions at the Department of Government Efficiency. Dr. Steve Caudle made the comments from the pulpit of the Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Sunday. 'Sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no other choice but to get violent and fight.' "In this nation, I am worried that we are on the verge[…]

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  • Unraveling the deep state: Here are the most egregious things USAID was doing with your money

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 22:45 pm

    Unraveling the deep state: Here are the most egregious things USAID was doing with your money Over the past several decades, billions of hard-earned American taxpayer dollars have been funneled into left-wing initiatives around the globe through the United States Agency for International Development. Established in 1961, the agency was intended to administer foreign aid and assistance to developing nations, but it has since apparently become an unscrutinized black hole of waste, fraud, and abuse. 'Advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces.' With a mandate from American voters nationwide, President[…]

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  • Keen observers highlight a hopeful sign of change on CDC website in searches for 'abortion'

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 22:30 pm

    Keen observers highlight a hopeful sign of change on CDC website in searches for 'abortion' President Donald Trump's pro-life pick to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. David Weldon, has yet to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate; however, life-affirming changes are already afoot at the national health agency. Keen observers discovered last week that when users searched the term "abortion" on the CDC website, a prompt appeared atop all the results stating, "Also try: adoption." The hyperlinked term "adoption" takes users to a wide-range of CDC[…]

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  • Treasury Secretary Bessent denies DOGE team is 'tinkering' with the payment system, says DOGE has 'read-only' access

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 22:15 pm

    Treasury Secretary Bessent denies DOGE team is 'tinkering' with the payment system, says DOGE has 'read-only' access Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized "misinformation" about allegedly unauthorized access to the payment system by government accountability workers. Critics excoriated the Trump administration after claims surfaced that workers with the Department of Government Accountability were given access to view and edit payment information for millions of Americans. 'They have no ability to change the system. I have no ability to grant that change.' Bessent made the comments in an interview with Bloomberg Television where he[…]

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  • Will we EVER get a USAID refund?

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 22:00 pm

    Will we EVER get a USAID refund? As Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency work to expose the millions of taxpayer dollars wasted through government agencies like USAID, many Americans have been left wondering when they might see a refund. Some even hope that President Donald Trump might actually abolish income tax. “I’m with you, I just don’t think that one is actually going to happen yet,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” tells Matthew Peterson. “We can go through,[…]

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  • DOGE claims FEMA gave luxury hotels $59 million to house illegal aliens; Musk slams Biden admin's 'huge' FEMA lie

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 22:00 pm

    DOGE claims FEMA gave luxury hotels $59 million to house illegal aliens; Musk slams Biden admin's 'huge' FEMA lie The Department of Government Efficiency allegedly discovered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to "luxury" hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants as recently as last week. Elon Musk — the head of DOGE — reportedly revealed the significant FEMA spending on Monday morning. 'Under Biden, FEMA took money AWAY from Americans in need of disaster relief and spent it on 5-star hotels for illegals.'[…]

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  • Trump surge: Army recruitment at 15-year high as ads promise warfighting, not woke agenda

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 21:45 pm

    Woke Army recruitment advertisements featuring LGBT parades are out. Army recruitment ads featuring gun-toting warriors rejecting the limits suffered by other mortal men are in. The shift in messaging was swift and dramatic — and may prove to be part of a winning combination that will continue to drive up recruitment. When Gen. Lloyd Austin, Biden's secretary of defense, was running the show, the Army released a recruitment ad on May 4, 2021, about a[…]

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  • Dem-appointed judge blocks Trump buyout again after 65,000 deep-staters have already accepted it

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 21:30 pm

    Dem-appointed judge blocks Trump buyout again after 65,000 deep-staters have already accepted it For the second time in less than a week, a federal judge has issued a restraining order against the mass buyout the Trump administration has offered to millions of federal employees.On Monday, a handful of unions made their case that the "deferred resignation" offered by the Office of Personnel Management is a veiled "ultimatum" leveled "to solicit blanket resignations of federal workers." The Trump administration countered that the buyout was necessary to "transform the federal[…]

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  • Ukrainian military selling 'up to half' of US arms it receives, with CIA profiting off it, Tucker Carlson claims

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 21:15 pm

    Ukrainian military selling 'up to half' of US arms it receives, with CIA profiting off it, Tucker Carlson claims Tucker Carlson said he knows for a fact the Ukrainian military is selling upwards of half of the armaments it receives from the United States.Carlson made several big claims during an episode of "The Tucker Carlson Show," including that the CIA is profiting off the sale of arms that are meant to go to Ukraine.Carlson was speaking with Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a retired United States Army officer who was awarded a Bronze Star, his[…]

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  • Trump admin violating order to unfreeze federal funds in lawsuit from 22 states, federal judge says

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 21:00 pm

    Trump admin violating order to unfreeze federal funds in lawsuit from 22 states, federal judge says A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration and said that the president was violating an order to unfreeze federal funds over a lawsuit from nearly two dozen states. U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island said the administration has not followed his previous order on Jan. 31 and ruled that the administration must immediately unfreeze funding. 'The Defendants now plea that they are just trying to root out fraud. But the freezes in[…]

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  • Concealed-carrying garbage truck driver turns the tables on wannabe armed robbers — 1 of whom pays ultimate price

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 20:40 pm

    Concealed-carrying garbage truck driver turns the tables on wannabe armed robbers — 1 of whom pays ultimate price A concealed-carrying garbage truck driver turned the tables late last month on a pair of would-be armed robbers in Chicago, fatally shooting one of them and wounding the other, police said.Chicago police told WLS-TV the shoot-out occurred around 5:15 a.m. Jan. 31, just steps away from a high school in the Homan Square neighborhood on the city's West Side.'Another reason why everyone should carry.'The station, citing police, said a 28-year-old man working as a garbage[…]

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  • How Trump’s 15% tax plan could UNLEASH American prosperity

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 20:30 pm

    How Trump’s 15% tax plan could UNLEASH American prosperity President Trump is working on a plan to lower corporate tax rates to 15% for companies that make their products in the United States — and Trump’s informal economic adviser and Committee to Unleash Prosperity co-founder Stephen Moore believes it’s a great plan. “What Trump is basically talking about, which I think is a really interesting idea, is not necessarily getting rid of the income tax, but lowering all the tax rates to 15%,” Moore[…]

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  • House Freedom Caucus takes the reins on reconciliation

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 20:05 pm

    House Freedom Caucus takes the reins on reconciliation The House Freedom Caucus has taken the initiative and introduced its own budgetary resolution on Monday to kick-start the reconciliation process, while Republican leadership continues negotiations. Dubbed the Emergency Border Control Resolution, the budget contains crucial funding for several border and military provisions, cuts hundreds of billions in spending, and raises the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris said the caucus has taken matters into its own hands because of[…]

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  • Company accused of colluding with Obama admin to steal, offshore US invention panicked over Glenn Beck interview

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 19:50 pm

    Jeff Parker, the CEO of the small Florida-based technology company ParkerVision, spoke to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Jan. 30 to discuss tech giant Qualcomm's alleged theft of one of the most revolutionary patented innovations in U.S. history with the help of elements of the Obama administration — technology that ended up in the hands of Americans' communist Chinese competitors. It turns out Parker's interview with Beck got under the right people's skin. Qualcomm,[…]

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  • Trump reveals if he trusts Musk, explains what it will take to unite the country — but cautions it will be 'hard'

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 19:35 pm

    Trump reveals if he trusts Musk, explains what it will take to unite the country — but cautions it will be 'hard' President Donald Trump sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Super Bowl Sunday. Ahead of Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Trump answered questions about Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency, making Canada the 51st state, and what it will take to unite the country. 'We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions, of dollars[…]

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  • Veterans affairs secretary says department discovered high-priced contract with Politico — and canceled it

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 19:20 pm

    Veterans affairs secretary says department discovered high-priced contract with Politico — and canceled it The secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said his team found and canceled a high-priced contract with a news outlet. Secretary Doug Collins announced the cancellation on social media after controversy exploded over high-priced subscriptions to Politico purchased by numerous government departments. 'That money can be better spent on Veterans health care!' "Ran across a $178,000 contract VA had with Politico and we promptly canceled it. That money can be better spent on[…]

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  • Why did Christianity Today receive over $1 million from USAID?

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 19:00 pm

    Why did Christianity Today receive over $1 million from USAID? The Department of Government Efficiency’s findings have blown the lid off what appears to be some seriously strange goings-on when it comes to why and how our hard-earned tax dollars are spent — and it just keeps getting worse. This is particularly true for USAID, a government agency that most Americans believe simply does charitable work overseas. “In fact, it’s not that,” Megan Basham tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” "It does a little bit[…]

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  • 'You're like the most genuine dude': Comic Bert Kreischer gives hilarious, loving speech to Jameis Winston during Super Bowl

    Blaze Media Feb 10, 2025 | 18:45 pm

    'You're like the most genuine dude': Comic Bert Kreischer gives hilarious, loving speech to Jameis Winston during Super Bowl Comedian Bert Kresicher gave a laugh-out-loud yet emotional speech to NFL quarterback Jameis Winston while watching the Super Bowl in New Orleans, telling the athlete he had cherished the time they spent together.Kreischer and Winston were hooked up with microphones for NFL on Fox while watching Super Bowl LIX, and their banter turned into a friendship throughout the show. The relationship didn't get off to the best start, however, as Winston wasn't exactly sure how[…]

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