(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors are investigating potential violations of federal law after a group of anti-ICE rioters disrupted a church service in Minnesota on Sunday. The incident marked a sharp escalation in protests targeting the presence of federal immigration officers in the state. This morning, protesters disrupted a worship service…
Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security Micah Bock defended a federal law enforcement operation in Minneapolis and sharply criticized Minnesota’s sanctuary policies, accusing state and local leaders of endangering both residents and federal agents by releasing violent criminal illegal aliens back onto the streets. Bock addressed why…
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sharply criticized Joe Biden’s border policies, saying they allowed millions of unvetted individuals into the United States and created ongoing public safety risks, while vowing that federal authorities will continue pursuing and deporting dangerous criminals. Noem’s remarks focused on the consequences she said stem from…
Minnesota State Senator Steve Drazkowski accused Gov. Tim Walz of advancing a biased political agenda, losing credibility with voters, and manipulating state investigations to protect what he described as a far-left narrative, while also criticizing Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and local media outlets. Drazkowski made the remarks while discussing the…
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche accused a governor and a mayor of actively encouraging actions that obstruct Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, calling such conduct illegal under federal law and saying elected officials should be supporting, not undermining, federal officers. Blanche made the remarks while addressing what he described as…
A discussion between Batya Ungar-Sargon and Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin focused on immigration enforcement narratives, with McLaughlin disputing claims that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are poorly trained and defending the agency’s recruitment, morale, and enforcement priorities. Ungar-Sargon raised concerns that have circulated widely among Democrats…
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and CBS host Margaret Brennan engaged in a tense exchange during a televised interview over the percentage of illegal immigrants in federal custody who have criminal records, with both sides disputing the accuracy of the figures being cited. The disagreement centered on statistics related to…
A viral video circulating on social media Sunday appeared to show agitators interfering with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation targeting an alleged child sex offender in Minnesota, prompting responses from federal officials and senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration. The video, which was posted to X and viewed…
A Minneapolis protester was accused of stealing a camera from conservative activist and social media personality Nick Sortor during a confrontation that escalated into a dangerous street encounter, according to video footage and statements Sortor posted on X. The incident unfolded as Sortor and his crew were traveling through Minneapolis…
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, a candidate for governor of California, escalated his rhetoric against federal immigration officers during a campaign stop in Los Angeles on Saturday, repeatedly threatening Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with arrests, prosecution, and the loss of their driver’s licenses. Swalwell made the remarks during a summit…
Getty Images / halbergman Social media algorithms keep us all hopelessly engaged. The data these platforms gather on us enable feeds to become fine-tuned to our exact interests, on top of turning our smartphones into glorified ad delivery devices. All this seems to be reaching its zenith with AI chatbots,…
The Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán has granted asylum to the former conservative Justice Minister of Poland, who has accused the globalist government in Warsaw of political persecution. While the 2023 election of Prime Minister Donald Tusk was portrayed by pro-EU establishment voices as a return to normalcy after nearly…
Progressives are using migrants’ voting power — and threats of a populist revolution — to grab a huge share of Silicon Valley’s stock-market wealth via a tax plan on California’s November ballot. “You made all your money in California, you ungrateful piece of shit,” Kara Swisher, a progressive journalist in…
A view over the northern Gaza Strip as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border in southern Israel on Jan. 16, 2026. Amir Levy/Getty ImagesAt least seven countries have publicly confirmed they have received invitations from President Donald Trump to be part of the U.S.-led Board…
https://unherd.com/2026/01/the-end-of-green-energy/ By Joel Kotkin –Kotkin is a Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute, the University of Texas at Austin. Excerpt: Not long ago, all right-thinking liberals were sure that fossil fuels would soon become “stranded assets” as The Guardian once put it. Hydrocarbon-based…
I am heading to Switzerland to speak at anti-WEF conference this week opposing the Great Reset.I will be in Zurich and Davos. My talk: The Great Reject: How the WEF’s Great Reset agenda is faring 6 years after COVID By Marc Morano – 4:00 – 4:30 CET (10:00 – 10:30…
Devastating raging wildfires in southern Chile have left at least 19 dead and affected more than 1,500 local residents. The ongoing situation prompted outgoing Chilean leftist President Gabriel Boric to declare a state of emergency for the affected regions of Ñuble and Biobío. “There are more than 630 people sheltered, there…
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users near crime scenes are constitutional.The high court granted the petition in Chatrie v. United States in an unsigned…
It looks like large, woke businesses have learned nothing from past attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, as a hotel chain is now facing major scrutiny and big boycott threats after it moved to boot out ICE agents onto the freezing streets of Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sunday, January…
[embedded content] WEF summit ‘pivotal’ as climate activists on back foot: Marc Morano – Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com tells Ezra Levant why this year’s World Economic Forum summit could be particularly consequential as climate alarmists appear to be losing momentum and President Trump withdraws from the 1992 UN climate treaty.…
In another horrid and infuriating story out of far-left Minnesota, a collection of leftist agitators, including fired former CNN hack Don Lemon, stormed a church in Minneapolis to harass ICE and the pastor, who was falsely accused of working with ICE. What the mob did was a major felony, and…
During a January 17, 2026, Democratic field hearing in St. Paul, Minnesota, dramatically titled “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Deadly Assault on Minnesota”, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) criticized ICE enforcement and referred to the nation as the “godd**n states The clip sparked widespread conservative outrage on X, with users calling her…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison charged a Minnesota man on January 14, 2026 with participating in a Medicaid fraud scheme connected to a state-licensed home health agency accused of bilking $3 million in taxpayer dollars. Mohamed Abdirashid Omarxeyd was slapped with eight counts of felony theft by false representation after…
In a clear demonstration of clever policing, ICE agents on January 15, 2026, arrested three workers from the family-owned El Tapatio Mexican restaurant in Willmar, Minnesota, a town that overwhelmingly supported Trump with nearly 65% of the vote in 2024. Earlier in the day, agents dined at the restaurant around…
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-Newark) and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem locked horns during an oversight hearing before the Homeland Security Committee, marking the first time the two have faced off against each other since McIver was formally charged with assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Spring…
Shoppers at a grocery store in Centreville, Va. on Nov. 2, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. economy is either chugging along nicely or seriously struggling, depending on who is asked. The mismatch stems from perception and perspective. While many of the macroeconomic data look benign, they don’t capture the…
Open AI’s newly released text-to-video “Sora” tool is advertised on their website on a monitor in Washington, DC, on Feb. 16, 2024. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty ImagesElephants drop-kicking crocodiles while breaking the laws of physics, bewildering deepfakes of politicians and deceased public figures, and seemingly animated children’s videos of Jesus…
In an awesome statement released on Tuesday, January 13, the office of North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that it had caught and convicted a Nigerian immigrant of a massive welfare fraud scheme in which he pilfered tens of thousands of dollars from Medicaid by faking dozens of claims.…
In the wake of Virginia, which is now ruled by the far-left Democrats, moving to redraw its congressional map and destroy numerous Republican seats in the United States House of Representatives, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance excoriated Rod Bray, the Indiana Senate leader responsible for his state…
After weeks of stalling, the Senate finally confirmed Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense in a narrow 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote after three Republicans, including Sens. Mitch McConnell (KY), Lisa Murkowski (AK), and Susan Collins (ME), crossed the aisle and joined Democrats in…
In a viral post to social media, prominent conservative commentator Danielle D’Souza Gill shared on X that reality TV star Faye Chrisley, famous for playing Nanny Faye from Chrisley Knows Best, declared that First Lady Melania Trump the “prettiest First Lady” the U.S. has “ever had,” adding, “I thought Jackie…
For years, Washington has warned about the Chinese Communist Party’s long-term strategy to dominate global technology, data, and information flows. What has not received nearly enough scrutiny is how willingly major American technology companies have accommodated that strategy, often at the expense of our values, our laws, and U.S. national…
Good Monday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 7:50pm The President attends the College Football National Championship Game News roundup: Lawyers allege DHS is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees More than 200,000 homes without power in Russian-occupied Ukraine, official says Dems’ divide over Harris surfaces as…
Christians in Syria are choosing to “hide Christian symbols and avoid public displays of faith” following the collapse of the Assad regime and ascent of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to power, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian human rights organization Open Doors, told Breitbart News in…
A deadly Sunday night collision between a derailing high-speed train and a second oncoming train in southern Spain left at last 39 dead and over 152 injured. Spanish public broadcaster RTVE reports that the accident occurred occurred at 07:45 p.m., (local time) when a train from railway operator Iryo bound…
This Tuesday marks one full year since Donald Trump has been back in office, and the elitist media have spent the last 12 months screaming at their audiences that the “authoritarian” and “racist” President is a “fascist” dictator who is using his power to trample rights and cancel the next…
The season finale aired Sunday on Paramount+.PublishedJanuary 19, 2026 4:00 AM EST•UpdatedJanuary 18, 2026 10:49 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link”Landman” season two is officially in the books.As OutKick readers know, there have been a lot of debates, controversy, outrage and differing opinions on the latest season of Taylor Sheridan’s hit series about…
Recent figures released by the Illinois Gaming Board reveal a sharp decline in sports betting activity across the state. In Sept. 2024, Illinois introduced a new tax structure: $0.25 per wager on the first 20 million bets handled by each sportsbook, with the rate rising to $0.50 per wager beyond…
Pennsylvania is hemorrhaging residents and resources. And it’s been happening for years. The recent U-Haul Growth Index shows that people are voting with their feet against Pennsylvania and other purple and blue states that have become inhospitable as places to live, work, and raise a family. And these out-migrators are heading to…
By the time this piece publishes, the United States military might already have launched air strikes on Iran. Indeed, planes could be launching while I write this. Nevertheless, here is a list of seven reasons why our government should not intervene in the Middle East. 1) It has never gone…
Following a recently taped interview between President Donald Trump and CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News personnel that Trump expected the full conversation to be broadcast without cuts, and if it wasn’t, the network would be sued.According to an audio recording…
President Trump called for “new leadership” in Iran as the regime’s crackdown on protesters turns deadlier by the day. That may sound like tough talk, but it is far different when your phone and social media feeds are full of verified footage: body bags, morgues, and families searching rows of the dead.America…
A Minneapolis protester allegedly stole a pricey camera from conservative provocateur Nick Sortor — who chased down the suspected thief and was dragged by her car as it swerved onto the sidewalk, according to shocking video.In a post shared on X, Sortor said the woman was part of a group…
Ramping up the pressure in the diplomatic feud over the future control of Greenland, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will impose a 10 per cent tariff on eight European nations for their opposition to America acquiring the territory.Casting Greenland as essential to American national security and international…
Tom Brady might be set to make the ultimate Sin City gamble. The Baltimore Ravens sent an unmistakable signal by parting ways with head coach John Harbaugh: the organization is ready for a significant reset.Entering the season with high expectations as one of the AFC’s premier contenders, Baltimore ultimately fell…
Protestors face off with federal officers in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 9, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesThe Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking into possible violations stemming from a protest by anti-ICE demonstrators at a church in…
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation,…
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Monday, January 19, 2026The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington DC. | The Christian Post/ Nicole Alcindor The United States will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, a federal holiday that honors the life and legacy of the prominent slain civil rights movement…