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By Ward Clark President Trump and his administration have been doing a lot since the president resumed office in January 2025. They've been restoring our military and making trade deals, not to mention dragging Venezuela's dictator into an American courtroom and kicking Iran's teeth in. But that's not all the president has been focused on. Early on, he sent a surge of law enforcement into the nation's capital to clean up the city's prime problem, and he has also set people to work making the District of Columbia beautiful again. Part of that is cleaning up the mess in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which had begun to look like a backwater of the Okefenokee. Democrats and the far left (but I repeat myself), who are all in the throes of Stage IV Trump Derangement Syndrome, are opposing even these efforts. This latest incident, though, in which a certain news image service describes something being applied to the pool as ...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell Los Angeles District 4 City Councilwoman and socialist candidate for L.A. mayor, Nithya Raman, has gotten a small taste of what Angelenos have to deal with on a day-to-day basis, and she does not like it one bit.  An advocacy group called Safe Cities USA decided to stage a full-on homeless encampment at Raman's doorstep over Memorial Day weekend, and she was shocked that the campaign for mayor has come to this. She thought she'd be spouting World Economic Forum (WEF) garbage about bike lanes, transportation, and 15-minute cities. Instead, she's being confronted with what the majority of Los Angeles residents suffer under 24-7. One almost feels sorry for her.... Naw, not really. Raman resides in a two-million-dollar home in Silverlake, one of the toniest L.A. districts where the homeless dare not to go. So, Raman rarely (if ever) has to suffer the fear of being attacked by a crazed drug addict screamin...

By Rusty Weiss "Whatever You Say," Martina. Country star Martina McBride is catching hell from furious fans after seemingly caving to the woke mob and bailing on the Great American State Fair—a major Freedom 250 event celebrating America’s 250th anniversary on the National Mall. Why? Because it's too political. An event celebrating the anniversary of the greatest nation on the planet is too political. She's ... Wrong again. In a lengthy Instagram statement, McBride claimed she was “misled” into believing the June 25th concert would be a wholesome, nonpartisan celebration of all 50 states, only to pull out once the details became clear.  "I would like to talk to you and clear the air," she announced. "I will not be performing at the Great American State Fair on June 25th. I was presented with an opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event, but that turned out to be misleading." McBride went on to ...

By Stephen Kruiser Every national election cycle features some candidates whose greatest opponents are themselves. Republicans of a certain age (mine) know all too well that we have endured our share of them. I've written on several occasions this year that the Democrats are so clinically insane that almost everything they do can be used against them in campaign material.  Getting into this year's midterm candidates, I think it's Texas Democrat James Talarico who is the biggest electoral threat to himself. I wrote in Wednesday's Morning Briefing that, "Talarico doesn't really do himself any favors on the campaign trail," and darned if the kid hasn't gone out of his way to prove me right. Let's check out a couple of examples before we get into the rest of it. The first is from my Twitchy colleague justmindy : TEXAS BETTER WAKE The HELL UP ⬆️💯💯💯😈😈😈👺👺👺🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter...

By Efrat Lachter Just before celebrations for Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim holiday, began in Gaza, an Israeli airstrike hit a building in Gaza City, killing Mohammed Odeh, the newly appointed head of Hamas’ military wing, according to Israeli officials and later confirmed by Hamas. Reports from regional media said members of Odeh’s family were also killed in the strike. Two hours later, Gaza’s markets were full. Fox News Digital reviewed video filmed in Gaza showing crowded Eid streets, children shopping and families gathering, with little visible reaction to the killing of the Hamas commander Israel described as one of the architects of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.  The contrast underscored what many Gazans and analysts describe as a growing disconnect between Hamas leaders and civilians exhausted by nearly three years of war, which has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry — figures that do ...

By Ashley J. DiMella The White House has a new message on aliens: They are not coming from outer space — they are already here and ICE is tracking them. The Trump administration launched Aliens.gov on Thursday, a space-themed immigration enforcement website that turns UFO-style "disclosure" language into a live dashboard on illegal immigrant arrests, migrant encounters and immigration operations nationwide, Fox News Digital learned. "They walk among us," the website reads. "For 60 years, the U.S. government has kept a closely guarded secret. Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives. They've shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences." "With one exception — they do not belong here." The White House launched aliens.gov, a space-themed site with live illegal immigrant arrest data, ICE heat maps and a tip ...

By Brad Essex The Left's latest target is a fallen hero, but Taya Kyle isn't letting them get away with it. Kyle's recent rebuke of Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, cuts to the heart of the matter. Attacking the legacy of her late husband, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, isn't bold political commentary. It reveals a troubling instinct to tear down proven valor for attention. Platner, an Iraq War veteran himself, resurfaced in a 2024 podcast suggesting Kyle's high confirmed kill count reflected indiscriminate shooting rather than disciplined combat effectiveness. He implied that such numbers came too easily if operators were "a little less discriminating" than a more professional standard. This isn't a nuanced critique of wartime fog. It's a direct challenge to the integrity of one of the most decorated snipers in American military history, delivered long after Kyle could defend himself. ...

By Angela Fortuna CAPE CANAVERAL, Flo.  - A Blue Origin rocket exploded during a static fire test at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station late Thursday night. Video captures Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploding into a huge plume of flames at Launch Complex 36 around 9 p.m. With sound: pic.twitter.com/LwfZpcsxWe — Edd Gorenstein 🧩✡️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏰🆒🥛 (@EddGorenstein) May 29, 2026 "I was standing outside, and the night sky completely lit up, and we all heard the boom," Cape Canaveral Mayor Wes Morrison said on  Facebook . NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said NASA is aware of the incident, and no injuries have been reported. All personnel are accounted for and safe, officials said. "It’s too early to know the root cause, but we’re already working to find it," Jeff Bezos, who founded  Blue Origin , said on social media. Officials called the incident an "anomaly" and said Blue Origin will "rebuild whatever needs rebuilding...