2+ week, 5+ day ago (325+ words) Immigration officials in Boston have taken a convicted child rapist into custody according to the Department of Homeland Security." "Unlike the Democrats" who perpetuated the longest government shutdown in American history"ICElaw enforcement officers are hard at work for the American people," Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, told The Daily Signal." In2018, Manuel Emilio Lora-Troncoso was convicted of twocountsofrape of a child with force. He was also convicted of twocountsof battery and assault on a child under the age of14in Woburn, Mass., 12 miles north of Boston. He was sentenced to eight to 12 years in prison." Emilio is one ofmultiplearrestsImmigration and Customs Enforcement made in recent days amid the ongoing government shutdown. Congress set a record for the longest government shutdown in U.S. historylast week." Senators appear to have reached a deal Sunday night to end the shutdown, which has now lasted for 41 days....

1+ week, 4+ day ago (555+ words) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Houston on Oct. 1. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, designated the largest Muslim advocacy group in the country, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a foreign terrorist organization, authorizing a host of state actions against the group. CAIR condemned his attack as "defamatory" and "lawless," threatening to sue in response. "The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam's "mastership of the world," Abbott said in a press release on the designation. Abbott's proclamation outlines the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood, notes that Hamas began as an offshoot of the Brotherhood, and noted the FBI's previous finding that CAIR was founded as a "front group" for "Hamas and its support network." It notes that CAIR was an "unidentified co-conspirator…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (828+ words) President Donald Trump promised to tackle the issues of crime and law and order in American cities. Early in his second term he deployed the National Guard to alleviate the problem in places like the District of Columbia, Los Angeles, and Memphis. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing on Wednesday examining how "Democrat-run cities and their soft-on-crime policies have enabled violent crime to rise unchecked" and explored "how the Trump-Vance Administration is restoring law and order in some of these cities through the deployment of the U.S. National Guard and federal law enforcement entities." Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., the committee chairman, stated the purpose of holding hearings on the crime issue. " "We need to restore the rule of law in America's high crime cities," Van Drew said. "And let's be honest about something from the very start....

5+ day, 21+ hour ago (242+ words) Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., talks with reporters. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The Department of War released a statement on Monday announcing it will review "serious allegations of misconduct" against Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a retired Navy captain. In the X video, Kelly, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, and Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, implore those serving in the military or intelligence agencies "Don't give up the ship." "Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home," the group of Democrats say. "Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. " You must refuse illegal orders." In its Monday statement, however, the DOW…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago (170+ words) The hack "represents multiple firsts in AI-enabled threat actor capabilities," according to a'report by Anthropic,'and AI safety and research company,'detailing the findings of the attack." Chinese sponsored hackers used the AI technology known as Claude, which is'similar to'ChatGPT and was developed'by Anthropic,'to'conduct the attack this fall." Despite Anthropic'developing safety and security measures to prevent the abuse and misuse of its'AI technologies, hackers successfully'found a way around the safeguards." Acting on its own, the AI found "vulnerabilities in targets selected by human operators and successfully exploited them in live operations, then performed a wide range of post-exploitation activities from analysis, lateral movement, privilege escalation, data access,'to'data exfiltration." By sharing their findings following the investigation into the hack, Anthropic says it hopes to'strengthen defenses against AI abuse." The'cyberattack'has "substantial implications for cybersecurity and underscores the urgent need for…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago (389+ words) REUTERS'President Donald'Trump'has ordered a widespread review of asylum cases approved under former President Joe Biden's administration and green cards issued to citizens of 19 countries, Department of Homeland Security officials said on Thursday. Officials say the Afghan immigrant'suspected of shooting'two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday entered the U.S. in 2021 under a'resettlement program. Hours after the shooting, which left the two Guard members in critical condition, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the immediate and indefinite suspension of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals. On Thursday, DHS said the'Trump'administration was expanding that to include a review of all asylum cases approved under the Biden administration. The alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under'Trump, according to a U.S. government file seen by Reuters. USCIS director Joseph Edlow said in a statement he was also directing a "full-scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (640+ words) Smithfield, a company largely known for its bacon, controls a quarter of U.S. pork processing, distributing products through brands such as Eckrich, famous for its sausages and deli meats, and Nathan's Famous, the iconic hot dog brand, the America First Policy Institute explains in a new report, released Wednesday, detailing China's threat to American agriculture." "The Chinese ownership of Smithfield Foods, a formerly American-owned pork company with a presence innumerousstates, raises significant concerns about food security and national security, and is a key example of the[People's Republic of China's] growing threat to America's agricultural industry," the reportstates." Ambassador Kip Tom, vice chair of rural policy at AFPI,and Royce Hood,a policy analyst onAFPI's China Policy Initiative, authored the25-page report for the conservative Washington-based policy organization." China has found its way not only into the ownership of U.S. foodcompanies, butalso has…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago (460+ words) Demonstrators rally in front of an AT&T retail store in Chicago on Nov. 16, 2025. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images) Bethany Blankley is a contributor to The Center Square. THE CENTER SQUARE'Assaults against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are up 1,153% in 11 months, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security." As ICE officers continue to arrest the most violent criminals nationwide, U.S. citizens have increasingly obstructed their efforts, including physically attacking them and threatening to kill them, according to multiple reports nationwide. The most recent death-threat-related arrests were of a Virginia high school assistant principal and his brother." Earlier this month, DHS and the Virginia Beach Police Department launched an investigation into brothers John Wilson Bennett and Mark Booth Bennett, after an off-duty Norfolk Virginia Police Department officer overheard them discussing plans to "kill police officers and ICE agents," DHS said." The…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (572+ words) Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner (R) meets with members of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force. (Department of Housing and Urban Development) FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL'Murders in Washington, D.C., are down 60% since President Donald Trump's D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force set its sights on tackling the capital's crime problem. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner joined the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force briefing on Monday to discuss his agency's partnership with the task force, a source familiar with the meeting told The Daily Signal. "For too long, our nation's capital has been defined by lawlessness and disorder," Turner said in a statement to The Daily Signal. "Under President Trump's leadership, HUD is restoring safety and accountability in D.C. public housing'ensuring families can live with dignity and security." HUD has been a partner in the crime crackdown effort, particularly as…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (419+ words) National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Win McNamee via Getty Images) Katie Pavlich is a visiting fellow for homeland security and Western civilization at The Heritage Foundation. The Chinese Communist Party's aggression towards America's critical infrastructure systems hit a new and alarming level in recent weeks. The regime has already infiltrated the homes and communities of Americans through Chinese technology with extensive spyware, but that operation was child's play.According to Anthropic, China has now weaponized artificial intelligence to automatically carry out cyber attacks, with the goal of crippling systems essential to everyday function. "In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI's "agentic' capabilities to an unprecedented degree'using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks themselves," Anthropic details. The Department…...