President Donald Trump has said that any country doing business with Iran will face a 25 percent U.S. tariff. This comes as Trump warns he may carry out strikes against Iran over its violent repression of anti-regime protests. NTD’s Washington correspondent, Mari Otsu, has more from the White House. On our panel tonight: Nearly…
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A far-left agitator threw a water bottle at ICE agents gathered outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Monday. Concrete barriers and fences were installed outside the federal building on Monday ahead of the ICE operation. DHS Chief Kristi Noem said the agency will be surging federal agents to Minneapolis as protestors took to the streets following an ICE-involved shooting. Video captured by NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley showed a bald female agitator sprint away after she threw a water bottle at ICE agents. ICE agents sprinted after the bald protestor and tackled her. “Back up!…
This year we are hosting an Anti-Communist Film Festival. It’s an idea I had last August and there are now major people and foundations involved. I will be posting an update in the next two weeks. Advertisement In the meantime, I’d like to add a name to the list of celebrities I’d like to invite to the festival: Scott Baio. Last year I got to talk to Baio, an actor with decades worth of experience, about a movie he’s in, God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust. The film stars David A.R. White as Davi Hill, a chaplain who enters a…
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12 grappled with energy companies’ bid to move into federal court several lawsuits filed by local Louisiana governments accusing the corporations of harming the state’s coastal wetlands.In the case, Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana localities allege that the state’s environment was damaged, dating back to when oil production activities were carried out to honor federal refinery contracts during World War II.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists,…
Officials in Minnesota are suing the federal government to stop the deployment of thousands of immigration agents to Minnesota, the state’s top prosecutor said Monday. They are literally suing to keep ICE from arresting criminal illegal aliens. Today, the mob outnumbered ICE during a raid, and they were forced to leave after they released tear gas to keep them from attacking. “We allege that the obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy, and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a violation of the Constitution and of federal law,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said…
Protesters demonstrate against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minneapolis on Jan. 10, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesThe state of Minnesota on Jan. 12 sued the federal government over its recent surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the Twin Cities, arguing that the surge is “unconstitutional and unlawful.”Illinois unveiled a lawsuit on similar grounds Monday.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
By Roger Stone I wanted to share a compelling pardon appeal attorney David Schoen recently sent to President Trump. Schoen, who is perhaps most known for representing Trump in his second impeachment trial, exposes the corrupt prosecution of two men, Michael Sessa and Victor Orena, at the hands of Andrew Weissman. Weissmann is known for politically persecuting Roger Stone, “Andrew Weissmann is the single most ethically bankrupt prosecutor I ever have encountered in 40 years of practicing law,” said Schoen. You may remember Weissman from my 2019 trial, where he served as lead prosecutor and fabricated the charges against me.…
Mattel has introduced an autistic Barbie doll to its Fashionistas line, developed in collaboration with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), to reflect common autistic experiences and invite more children to see themselves represented through inclusive play. This January, Mattel officially launched its first Barbie doll designed to represent autistic individuals, marking the latest addition to the company’s Fashionistas collection, which since 2019 has included dolls with various disabilities, body types, skin tones, and hairstyles. The new autistic Barbie was developed in consultation with ASAN, a nonprofit organization run by and for autistic people, and was created over an 18-month…
President Donald Trump vows that any country doing business with Iran will face a 25 percent U.S. tariff. This comes as the president warns he may carry out strikes against Iran over its violent crackdown on anti-regime protests. A human rights group says the death toll from the unrest has now risen to 572. Trump is set to meet…
A left-wing TikTok user urged his followers to “get violent” and to “kill” United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a video that rapidly spread across social media Monday. Resistance to ICE enforcement has grown more and more violent nationwide, with agents fired on and targeted in multiple states amid increasingly heated rhetoric. Tensions have only escalated further in the wake of Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Minnesota resident Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis. The TikTok user, who posts under the username monkeydbeans0 and uses they/them/theirs pronouns, said ICE agents are…
A left-wing TikTok user urged his followers to “get violent” and to “kill” United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a video that rapidly spread across social media Monday. Resistance to ICE enforcement has grown more and more violent nationwide, with agents fired on and targeted in multiple states amid increasingly heated rhetoric. Tensions have only escalated further in the wake of Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Minnesota resident Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis.The TikTok user, who posts under the username monkeydbeans0 and uses they/them/theirs pronouns, said ICE agents are just…
Pittman referred to Beth Israel as the “synagogue of Satan.” … “One particular podcaster has used that term repeatedly in recent months to refer to Jews.” The post FBI: Suspect Targeted Mississippi’s Largest Synagogue Over Its ‘Jewish Ties’ first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
British broadcasting regulator Ofcom announced Monday that it has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X social media platform over its Grok AI being used to create ‘deepfake’ sexualised images. Ofcom, which was empowered by the Conservative government-era Online Safety Act to impose fines up to £18 million or 10 per cent of a social media firm’s global revenue or even potentially ban platforms outright, said that in response to “deeply concerning” reports about Grok image generation, it will formally investigate Musk’s X platform to “determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK…
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed Monday that his state has sent its voter registration rolls to the Justice Department to check for ineligible voters, after a state review found thousands of possible illegal migrants were registered to vote.The state review was conducted last year and identified 2,000 potential noncitizens, who possibly voted illegally in recent state elections. The review was a cross-check between the state’s voter registration list and citizenship data in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ SAVE database. Abbott said the voter list was sent to the Justice Department last month. The department previously sued six Democratic…
President Donald Trump announced Monday that countries doing business with Iran will face a 25% tariff “on any and all business being done with the United States of America.””Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. The new tariff comes after the president said Sunday that the U.S. military is considering “strong options” on Iran and that he is being updated hourly on the protests that have engulfed the…
Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration Monday in hopes of ending widespread federal immigration operations in the state, arguing the operations amount to a “federal invasion of the Twin Cities.” The lawsuit asks for a temporary restraining order to halt the enforcement action or limit the operation, arguing that the federal government is unlawfully commandeering state resources and violating Minnesota law and city ordinances, according to CNN. “This has to stop; it just has to stop,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison at the Monday news conference announcing the lawsuit. The move comes as the Department of Homeland Security sends more…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is in Brownsville and Fort Worth, Texas, on Jan. 12 to visit SpaceX Starbase alongside Elon Musk and Lockheed Martin facilities to deliver major remarks on the defense industrial base and administering the oath of enlistment.
Beth Israel Congregation is located in Jackson, Mississippi and is the oldest and largest synagogue in the state. Over the weekend, an arsonist set fire to the building, doing significant damage. Advertisement We are outraged by the arson attack that severely damaged Beth Israel Congregation, the largest synagogue in Mississippi.While no one was hurt, the synagogue was extensively damaged, several Torah scrolls were destroyed, and the congregation— the only synagogue in Jackson —… pic.twitter.com/CkPqLLFMeR— American Jewish Committee (@AJCGlobal) January 11, 2026Local news outlet Mississippi Today reports:The fire was reported shortly after 3 a.m. at Beth Israel Congregation on Old Canton…
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President Donald Trump has privately criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi as weak and an ineffective enforcer, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Monday. Trump has expressed particular anger, according to the Journal, over the Justice Department’s failure to keep high-profile cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James alive after a judge dismissed the charges, citing an allegedly improper appointment. The president has floated potential remedies, including the appointment of special counsels, as he pushes for swifter legal action against his adversaries. (RELATED: DOJ Admits Less Than 1% of Epstein Records Have Been Made…
Another day, another way that our extremely vulnerable mail-in elections are being stolen is discovered. Apt Mgr WA Ballots stolen We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: if anyone believes there are only one or two ways elections are being stolen, they aren’t paying attention to reports by The Gateway Pundit, which continues to reveal the multitude of ways criminal minds have worked to steal local, state, and federal elections. On January 8, 2026, it was reported that President Trump would sign an Executive Order before the midterm election to ban mail-in absentee ballots (with rare exceptions) and voting…
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President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth look on during a press conference in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 3, 2026. Jonathan Ernst/ReutersPresident Donald Trump announced on Monday that countries trading with Iran will face a 25 percent tariff, coming as the Islamic Republic’s regime grapples with some of the most significant protests since it took over the secular monarchy of the shah in 1979.“Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25 percent on any and all business being done…
Venezuelan Disparity-Image by Douglas Ross Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, Twitter, Youtube Senator Ted Cruz has often invoked a striking historical fact to critique modern socialism in Venezuela: in 1950, the country had the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the world. This claim, frequently used in his speeches and social media posts, paints a picture of a once-thriving nation undone by leftist policies. But is it accurate? What does it reveal about Venezuela’s economic past? As a retired Delta Air Lines captain with firsthand experience navigating the region’s turbulence, I’ve long questioned such narratives, especially given the corruption that deterred my company from deeper involvement back then. Let’s dissect…
Simply learning that Jones-Turpin was a black woman turned Hill into a fan of her work.PublishedJanuary 12, 2026 5:45 PM EST•UpdatedJanuary 12, 2026 5:19 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkFormer journalist Jemele Hill was among the many holier-than-thou media members who initially criticized an exchange between Jaguars head coach Liam Coen and a reporter on Sunday.Or, as Hill put it, a “reporter.””I’m going to tell you, congratulations on your success, young man,” Lynn Jones-Turpin said to Coen after the team’s playoff loss to the Bills. “You hold your head up. You guys have had a most magnificent season. You did a great job…
Pope Leo XIV (L)met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado (R)/Image: Vatican Media. On Monday, Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado in Vatican City, according to a Vatican spokesman. The meeting, although listed in the Pope’s appointments for the day, was not included in an earlier press advisory. The Vatican has not yet released details of the meeting. Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican on Jan. 12, in an unscheduled audience later added to the official…
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump has said that he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of his plans to plunder Venezuela’s vast oil resources after the CEO of the oil company suggested the country was “uninvestible.”Exxon CEO Darren Woods made the comments on Friday, when President Trump hosted a group of oil executives to discuss his plans for Venezuela. Before the meeting, Trump claimed that oil companies were ready to invest more than $100 billion rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, but he received no commitments. “We have a very long history in Venezuela. In fact, we first got into Venezuela…
Law schools in Texas will no longer need the American Bar Association’s (ABA) approval after the state supreme court ruled this month that the organization will no longer have the final say on accreditation. Approval of law schools now rests with the Texas Supreme Court, according to the Jan. 6 ruling. Concerns over ABA’s objectivity have been growing in recent months, and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in February 2025 even accused the organization of subjecting law schools and students “to unlawful race and sex discrimination under the guise of ‘diversity’ mandates” by forcing schools to ensure their student and…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is briefed on an exhibit of Multi-Domain Autonomous systems by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Prototyping and Experimentation Alexander Lovett (L) and Under Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering) Emil Michael (R) at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on July 16, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty ImagesSecretary of War Pete Hegseth on Jan. 12 said President Donald Trump’s call for a $1.5 trillion military budget for fiscal year 2027 is a “message to the world.”Hegseth highlighted ongoing efforts to expand the U.S. military and reform defense production and procurement during a stop in Fort Worth, Texas, on…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California’s legislative analyst said Monday that lawmakers should adopt its own revenue predictions as opposed to the governor’s rosier forecast and tackle the state’s ongoing budget problem.In a report responding to Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget, the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office said that the governor acknowledges the risk to California’s revenue, but the budget takes no real action to address that challenge.Revealing his initial budget last week, Newsom called for $248.3 billion in spending from the general fund for fiscal year 2026-27. The total budget, including all the state’s various funds, totals $348.9 billion.The governor projected a…
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Thora Birch, best known for her role in “Hocus Pocus,” was caught on video in a heated confrontation with a fan who repeatedly demanded an autograph outside a Beverly Hills hotel. The incident unfolded Saturday outside the Four Seasons Hotel, where Birch was with her husband, Michael Benton Adler, who accused the man of harassing his wife throughout the weekend and aggressively approaching them on the street. Adler allegedly grabbed photos the fan was carrying of Birch and tore them up during the confrontation, as tensions escalated. (RELATED: Rob Reiner’s Wife Emailed Former Death Row Inmate Nanon Williams Hours Before…
Five severed human heads were discovered on a tourist beach Sunday in southwestern Ecuador as violence between drug traffickers continues to grip the South American nation, police said. Officers said they discovered the gruesome display at Puerto Lopez, a small fishing port in Manabi province, The Associated Press (AP) reported. The heads were hanging from ropes attached to wooden poles. Authorities attributed the killings to criminal organizations fighting for control of drug trafficking routes.A wooden sign left next to the heads carried a direct threat to those who allegedly extort local fishermen. The message warned those demanding protection payments known as…
DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Jerome Powell Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirmed that the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment ~Bloomberg (ZereoHedge) – Not content with launching a dizzying cascade of international conflicts, Trump just lobbed a nuke at the Fed. While Trump’s vendetta against the Fed’s Lisa Cook set for a January showdown before the Supreme Court, the Trump admin dramatically raised the stakes on Sunday when the NYT first reported, and minutes later Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirmed that the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas…
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ATLANTA (CN) — Local social activists and corporate lobbyists alike swarmed the Georgia Capitol building as lawmakers returned to the gold dome Monday to kick off the 2026 legislative session.Over 600 people signed up to attend the “Pack the Capitol” event hosted by the ACLU of Georgia to show support for a bill that would enact statewide protections against discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations.Hundreds of faces old and new showed up to raise support for issues they believe should be addressed by their elected representatives.Advocates with the Georgia Majority for Gun Safety urged lawmakers to revive bills proposed…
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Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for LifePlanned Parenthood is in a battle for its future and even abortion advocates have to face up to the fact that the nation’s number one abortion seller is neither the political nor fund-raising powerhouse it once was. New York Magazine pro-abortion writer Irin Carmon details the many ways the organization is in decline in a long story in The Cut. The headline alone is cause for celebration: “Planned Parenthood is facing a funding crisis and its political power is waning.”Can I get an Amen! The abortion giant closed more…
Wings and playoff football weren’t the only entertainment at this Texas Pluckers.PublishedJanuary 12, 2026 5:20 PM EST•UpdatedJanuary 12, 2026 4:55 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkWhy sit at home and watch playoff football when you can head out for wings, catch the game, and have a front row seat to people kicking the shit out of each other?At the end of the day, you pay a little extra for the entertainment anyway. That was the scene on Saturday night at a Mesquite, Texas Pluckers Wing Bar. Folks got their money’s worth when it all came together for a night they’ll never forget.A brawl…
Things are getting mighty testy up there where our northern neighbors live and whine.Oh.I meant work.While feckless friends in Europe posture for the camera, the press, and each other over the Bad Orange Man’s bloviating about Greenland and helplessly flail as they try to ‘act decisively’… Advertisement They’re more action based on Trump’s Greenland comments than they did for Russia invading Ukraine. https://t.co/r6PnHKvFab— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) January 12, 2026…Canada’s been having a swell old time spinning their wheels and melting down without anyone else’s help.In this new geopolitical paradigm shift, Canada, Australia and Europe will become irrelevant. They will…
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(Headline USA) The FBI says that a suspect in the arson fire at a Mississippi synagogue admitted to targeting the institution because of its “Jewish ties.”Stephen Spencer Pittman was charged Monday with maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or an explosive. In an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Mississippi on Monday, the FBI said the suspect confessed to lighting a fire inside the building “due to the building’s Jewish ties.” The weekend fire ripped through the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson shortly after 3 a.m. on Saturday. No congregants or firefighters were injured in…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gives a speech at the National Press Club in Washington on Jan. 12, 2026. Jackson Richman/The Epoch TimesWASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) discussed affordability and interest rates in a call on Jan. 12 following the senator’s wide-ranging address that morning about economic stances within the Democratic Party.“After my speech, the president called me, and I delivered this same message on affordability to him directly. I told him that Congress can pass legislation to cap credit card rates if he will actually fight for it,” Warren said in a statement posted on X.We had…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday that President Donald Trump is keeping all options on the table when it comes to Iran, including diplomacy. Leavitt held a press gaggle in front of the West Wing in the afternoon, where one reporter asked if “airstrikes” were “off the table” regarding Iran, amid protests against Iran’s regime, led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Well, I think one thing President Trump is very good at is always keeping all of his options on the table, and airstrikes would be one of the many, many options that are on the table…
Which featured performances from Ned Lamont, Richard Blumenthal, Caroline Simmons, Matt Blumenthal, and Bob Duff Stamford “ICE OUT For Good” Protest (1/11/26) Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, Twitter, YouTube A couple hundred people gathered at Latham Park in Stamford on Sunday for Indivisible’s latest protest, “ICE OUT For Good” — a protest with the stated goal of abolishing ICE. Michelle Abt from Indivisible Stamford kicked off the event as usual. “In fact, we learned on January 7th that if you are a peaceful activist just trying to prevent ICE from storming into your neighborhood, that is punishable by death,” asserted Abt.…
One hundred forty-four sexual abuse victims argued the Boy Scouts of America illegally shielded local scouting groups from litigation. (CN) — The Supreme Court on Monday announced it would not review a $2.4 billion bankruptcy settlement for the Boy Scouts of America, effectively dealing a coup de grâce to a group of child sex abuse victims who argued the deal illegally blocked them from suing local scouting groups.The Boy Scouts of America — known as Scouting America since 2025 — told Courthouse News in a statement that it “can now expedite the payment of compensation to survivors of historical abuse”…
America First Legal filed a formal petition Monday that urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to rescind a rule that forces mortgage applicants to reveal certain demographic information and then pushes lenders to make decisions based on it.The petition targets the bureau’s Regulation C that was enacted in the 1970s to address historic housing discrimination, which requires people to disclose their race, ethnicity, and sex in their mortgage applications. The legal foundation argued that the regulation exposes Americans to race and sex-based discrimination and violates federal civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. “The federal government…
The PBS News Weekend show ended Sunday night due to PBS’s loss of federal funding. Check out the tough but fair journalism viewers will be missing, from Saturday: ANCHOR JOHN YANG: Good evening. I’m John Yang. This week`s series of shootings by federal agents enforcing President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has sparked a weekend of protests. There were rallies and demonstrations across the country. They were organized after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday and a Customs and Border Protection agent wounded two people the next day in Portland, Oregon. In Minneapolis,…