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Illegal Immigration Is Down Under Trump -- Can It Last?
WASHINGTON -- The number of border apprehensions was down in January -- 29,116 illegal aliens were apprehended along the border, the lowest number since May 2020.
In January 2022, the number of southwest border encounters exceeded 150,000.
The White House calls it "the Trump effect."
With the whole world listening, President Donald Trump's ...Read more
Live From New York -- It's Liberal Media
WASHINGTON -- Sunday night's "SNL50: The Anniversary Special" celebrated the long-running NBC show as you knew it would -- with the soothing reassurance to its ostensibly liberal viewers that they own comedy and that, in their world, the right's only place in their orbit is as the butt of their self-satisfied jokes.
Even though President ...Read more
In Trump's Service, Musk Goes After USAID. Is That Weird?
WASHINGTON -- "My uncle started USAID in 1961, for humanitarian purposes, to put our country on the side of the poor," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pronounced Thursday at the White House as he was sworn in as Health secretary.
"It has been captured by the military industrial complex. It has become a sinister propagator of totalitarianism" across the...Read more
Israel Gets 3 Hostages, Hamas 183. Don't Do the Math
WASHINGTON -- Years ago, when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern coast of California, prison staff explained the rules. They gave me a stab vest and a handy piece of information: If I were taken hostage, prison officials would not negotiate for my release. I should know that before I entered the institution, they said.
Guess ...Read more
FCC Pulls a '60 Minutes' on '60 Minutes'
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission pulled a "60 Minutes" on "60 Minutes."
In a complaint filed against CBS, the FCC charged that "60 Minutes" and "Face the Nation" last year engaged in "news distortion" that involves "significant and substantial news alteration made in the middle of a heated presidential campaign." The FCC ...Read more