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By Teri Christoph In the wake of Wednesday's deadly collision between a United States Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet over the waters of the Potomac River, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is taking the drastic step of restricting helicopters from operating in the airspace near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The news came via Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who has had an eventful first few days in office. NEW: With the support of @POTUS and in consultation with the @SecDef , effective today, the @FAANews will restrict helicopter traffic around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport airport. Today’s decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring… pic.twitter.com/Oo6B9H8z8S — Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) January 31, 2025 NEW: With the support of  @POTUS   and in consultation with the  @SecDef , effective today, the  @FAANews  will restrict helicopter...

By Nick Arama President Donald Trump and his administration are bringing a lot of welcome change to the government, and it can't come fast enough.  A new report on Friday about conditions at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center truly brings that into sharp focus.  Conservative commentator Buck Sexton posted about a big problem of flooding at the premiere hospital that had crippled operations. This flooding is inside Walter Reed National Military Medical center- source tells me following years of neglect, a critical steam system failure has crippled all non-emergency operations. Critical situation at military medicine’s flagship institution. pic.twitter.com/rnmNDITHc0 — Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) January 31, 2025 This flooding is inside Walter Reed National Military Medical center- source tells me following years of neglect, a critical steam system failure has crippled all non-emergency operations. Critical situation at military medicine’s flagship institution. Wal...

By Logan Washburn A legal group is suing the Oregon secretary of state, claiming the office destroyed records showing voters inaccurately flagged for removal. A conservative legal group is suing Oregon’s secretary of state for allegedly destroying records from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) indicating which voters have been wrongfully removed from the rolls. The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a  complaint  Jan. 28 against Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read, a Democrat, for allegedly failing to keep data from ERIC that would show which voters the database had wrongfully marked as deceased and flagged for removal. ERIC is an elections  database  and network that supposedly helps states clean their voter rolls through membership, but it has  close ties  to the left, as The Federalist previously reported. It has  deemed  dead voters as “eligible but unregistered” in the past. PILF had been requesting “deceased re...

By Sister Toldjah Whenever one thinks of Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the words "being ahead of the game and having the right priorities" don't often come to mind. But in the context of the horrific mid-air collision that took place in Washington, DC Wednesday  night  and the ensuing Trump-led debate over what role if any DEI may have played in what happened, Murray was an early, perhaps unsuspecting participant in bringing the hammer down on its use in FAA hiring practices. As RedState reported, President Donald Trump has triggered the mainstream media and Democrats with his focus on DEI in the aftermath of the crash that happened near Reagan National Airport between an American Airlines commercial plane and a Black Hawk helicopter where, tragically, all 67 people (64 on the plane, three from the helicopter)  are presumed  dead. Though many "news" outlets have said Trump sounding alarms about staffing issues as well as the training and readiness of air traffic...

By Wark Clark Venezuelan strongman/dictator Nicolás Maduro has been insistent that Venezuela won't accept the delivery of his own people, specifically, Tren de Aragua gang members and other criminals who are in the United States illegally. The Biden administration meekly accepted this, just as they meekly accepted millions of who-knows people across the borders. But things have changed; President Trump, on Friday, sent former Ambassador Ric Grenell to Venezuela to give  El Presidente  Maduro what my grandmother would have described as a "right good talking to." Fox News' Bill Melugin  put out the word on X : NEW: Per Senior Trump admin official, in a trip coordinated by the White House & State Department, @RichardGrenell is en route to Venezuela to meet with the Maduro regime in an effort to reach an agreement that would see VZ accept US deportations of Tren de Aragua gang members. — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 31, 2025 Bill Melugin's X post re...

By Jim Hoft Chuck Todd, the notoriously biased former host of “Meet the Press,” has finally been shown the door, marking a significant moment in mainstream media. Todd, who has been a figure of controversy and criticism, particularly from conservative viewers, for his overtly biased reporting, announced his departure from the network to pursue independent projects, including his podcast. Todd’s exit comes after he  was replaced  by another far-left commentator, Kristen Welker, in 2023, which significantly reduced his appearances on the network since then. “There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been a professional home for so long, but I’m pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from ‘pie in the sky’ to ‘near reality.’ So I’m grateful for the chance to get a jump start on my next chapter during this important moment,” Todd said in the  memo  obtained by USA TODAY. “The ‘ChuckToddcast’ is also coming with me (thank you, ...

Panama City's skyline in April 2024 By Secretary Marco A. Rubio When Donald Trump won his sweeping victory in November, he received a mandate to put America first. In the realm of diplomacy, this means paying closer attention to our own neighborhood—the Western Hemisphere. It’s no accident that my first trip abroad as secretary of state, to Central America on Friday, will keep me in the hemisphere. This is rare among secretaries of state over the past century. For many reasons, U.S. foreign policy has long focused on other regions while overlooking our own. As a result, we’ve let problems fester, missed opportunities and neglected partners. That ends now. U.S. foreign policy has long focused on other regions while overlooking our own. That ends now. President Trump’s foreign-policy agenda begins close to home. Among his top priorities is securing our borders and reversing the disastrous invasion abetted by the last administration. Diplomacy’s role in this effort is cent...

By Streiff Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has put the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio on notice that he has ordered an  investigation  into those outlets for violating federal law by airing paid advertisements. In a two-page letter, Chairman Carr informed PBS and NPR, "I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials. In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements." The issue is  underwriting announcements  of NPR and PBS programming by for-profit entities. NPR and PBS have for decades aired sponsorships under rules set forth by the government. While public broadcasters are restricted by law from accepting traditional commercials,  the F.C.C. has become  more permissive over the years about what public stations are allowed to air. The F.C.C.’...

By Bonchie The Democratic National Committee is getting ready to hold elections on Saturday, and a laundry list of opportunists are lining up to snag roles. One of those is David Hogg, who is running for vice chair. Ken Martin, who currently runs the Minnesota DFL, and Ben Wikler, who is chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, are the frontrunners to take the top spot of chairman.  So how are things going over at the DNC? Did they learn any lessons from their embarrassing defeats in 2024? Of course, they didn't. Instead, they are doubling down on all the intersectional, woke insanity that has left the Democratic Party at its lowest approval rating in history.  Sitting in front of a rainbow-adorned background, "diversity" was the central theme, with MSNBC flacks  Jen Psaki  and  Jonathan Capehart  asking questions of the candidates. Take a wild guess at how that went. “There has never been a Native American in leadership at the DNC. If not now. when?...