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By Susie Moore Friday morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel had a press conference to  announce  the capture and extradition of Zubayr Al-Bakoush, a suspect in the deadly 2012 Benghazi terror attack on the U.S. compound. 🚨 BREAKING: Zubayr Al-Bakoush, suspect in deadly 2012 Benghazi terror attack on US compound, captured and extradited to face charges in US, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announce pic.twitter.com/OB6HhtuuZd — Fox News (@FoxNews) February 6, 2026 Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the arrest on Friday. Bondi said that Al-Bakoush was charged with charges of murder, terror and arson, all related to the 2012 attack. "Zubayr Al-Bakoush will now face American justice on American soil. We will prosecute this alleged terrorist to the fullest extent of the law," Bondi said on Friday. "Let this case serve as a reminder: If you commit a crime against ...

By Susie Moore There's a wild  story  out of Flagstaff, Arizona, involving a gun battle across yards and rooftops that lasted for well over an hour, and, tragically, the crash of an Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) helicopter, resulting in the death of both officers on board.  Two Arizona Department of Public Safety crew members were killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday night while responding to an active shooting incident in Flagstaff. ... When officers got to the scene, they were met by a victim in the front yard of a home. Shortly after, a suspect armed with a semi-automatic long rifle came from the back of the home and began shooting at the officers. Police say during the shootout, the suspect was continuously firing at the officers, hopping from rooftop to rooftop. The suspect was eventually shot and taken into custody. The suspect was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The officers and the victim weren't injured. Law enforcement authorit...

By JOSHUA KLEIN Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that Iran’s ruling elite are “wiring money out of the country like crazy,” declaring that “the rats are leaving the ship” as the Trump administration’s pressure campaign accelerates the regime’s economic collapse. Bessent made the remarks during testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, telling lawmakers that Treasury is seeing unmistakable signs that Iran’s leadership believes the regime is approaching a breaking point. “We have seen the Iranian leadership wiring money out of the country like crazy,” Bessent said. “The rats are leaving the ship. That is a good sign that they know the end may be near.” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: We have seen the Iranian leadership wiring money out of the country like crazy. The rats are leaving the ship. That is a good sign that they know the end may be near. https://t.co/iRd4uIQZWD pic.twitter.com/GTpopHrK95 — Open Source...

By Tom Knighton There are a lot of gun control laws in the country that deal with the purchase of firearms. The idea being, at least as sold to the American public, that these laws will keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Despite that, we've seen a lot of so-called gun violence in my lifetime, especially since the Brady Bill became law and background checks on all gun dealer sales became mandatory. In short, the laws don't work as advertised. Still, there's zero chance of them being repealed, if for no other reason than there's nothing so permanent as a government program. Despite the failure of background checks to stop criminals from getting guns, a lot of people think gun components should get similar treatment. In fact, a bill in Colorado wants to require people to get new gun barrels  from licensed dealers. A new bill introduced in Colorado would require gun barrel purchases to be made in-person at a firearm dealer. Senate Bill 26-043 , which was introduce...

By Robert Wakerell-Cruz  A 26-year-old Maryland man is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly traveling to the Northern Virginia home of Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought with the intent to kill him, according to court records and law enforcement sources. Colin Demarco was arrested Jan. 22 by Arlington County Police and is charged with multiple offenses. He is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 23. Court documents identify the intended victim only as “R.V.,” described as a presidential appointee. Sources familiar with the case confirmed the target was Vought, reports  CBS News. According to the criminal complaint, Demarco appeared at Vought’s home on Aug. 10, wearing gloves, sunglasses, and a surgical mask. He was captured on a Ring doorbell camera and was seen checking a mailbox and speaking with a neighbor, who later told investigators Demarco appeared to have a gun tucked under his shirt. Investigators say Demarco later admitted going to th...

By Rusty Weiss A bombshell new report from ISGAP Action, a nonpartisan organization focused on combating antisemitism, is putting Democrat Rep.  Rashida Tlaib  (MI-12) in a glaring spotlight, accusing the congresswoman of maintaining a disturbing pattern of ties to individuals and organizations linked to U.S.-designated terrorist groups. Groups such as Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Go ahead and color me shocked. RedState readers, of course, will recognize Tlaib as a lawmaker nearly unmatched in her willingness to  side with terrorist  organizations in nearly every scenario. The ISGAP briefing details everything, from her campaign shelling out nearly $600,000 to a consulting firm run by an activist with deep connections to terror-aligned networks, to sharing stages with convicted PFLP operatives who’ve praised violent resistance. "Key areas of concern include her participation in conferences organized by or featuring individua...

By Streiff The Trump administration will publish a notice in the Federal Register on Friday that will demolish the slow-moving process of deporting illegals. The proposed rule aims to streamline the current process and reduce the backlog of cases that has nearly brought the system to a screeching halt. That said, we know it faces an uphill fight as federal judges, acting without jurisdiction, will certainly declare the changes improper at some point. The Federal Register notice titled  RIN 1125-AB37, Appellate Procedures for the Board of Immigration Appeals,  extensively overhauls the current process that could lead an immigration case to the Supreme Court. The first part of the system seems to remain intact. An apprehended illegal is brought before an Article 2 Immigration Judge and given a hearing. The judge either lets them stay or tells them to go home. If ordered deported, a removal order is entered. As we're seeing from the cases popping in the news, it is not uncomm...

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By Catherine Salgado The Trump administration will launch a new website to help Americans find low-cost prescription drugs tonight. The  TrumpRx.gov link  currently brings up a timer counting down to 7 p.m. Eastern time, when the website will officially launch. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the launch of the new site during a press briefing. Helping bring down the cost of prescription drugs has been a priority of Donald Trump ever since he took office again last January. 🚨BREAKING — TONIGHT @POTUS will officially unveil https://t.co/XglQYqK5lr — a state-of-the-art website for American consumers to purchase LOW-cost prescription drugs. pic.twitter.com/SjlTLYOxRa — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 5, 2026 The Trump administration  has arranged  with pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices for Americans to match the lowest prices in other developed countries. This new website launch comes just after the Department of Health an...

By Sister Toldjah Candidates for public office exaggerating or lying about their backstory and accomplishments is a tactic that is as old as time itself. Sometimes it works, and they are able to pull the wool over people's eyes for at least long enough to get elected and reelected. In other instances, however, it backfires spectacularly, as we saw during the first failed presidential candidacy of then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) in 1987, when he was mired in a  plagiarism scandal  of his own making, which was centered in part on Biden essentially stealing a UK political leader's story about family and educational history and trying to make it his own. Though it didn't hurt Biden with Delaware voters, who kept him in the Senate for several more terms, it  destroyed  his presidential campaign, which only lasted three months. As RedState documented, Biden went on to become one of the most prolific liars in American political history to the point that even reliably left-wi...

By Victor Davis Hanson Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races. Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered substantial midterm losses in Congress. Polls show Trump suffering an average 11-point negative unfavourability rating. So, Democrats promise to soon stop all new legislation and end Trump and his counterrevolution itself. But the left will never offer any alternative agenda on the economy, the border, crime, or foreign policy. Instead, the new Democrat-Socialist Party views the Biden disaster of 2021-2024 not as a result of his puppeteers’ toxic policies of open borders, 21 percent aggregate inflation, dead-end green energy subsidies, DEI mandates, trans fixations, and an appeasing foreign policy that led to wars abroad and emboldened China. Instead, they now blame those catastrophic years on Biden’s own enfeebled sta...