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1536 episodes transcribedWe're just one week into February, and a lot has happened already — from the fallout over the Department of Justice's Epstein file dump, to President...
The economy is in pretty much the same weird place it’s been for the past few months. Hiring is down, the cost of living is up, and no one really kno...
If you haven't been following conservative media for a long time, you might not know that there have actually been many eras of Tucker Carlson. He la...
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that all federal officers in Minneapolis will now wear body cameras. She also...
President Trump is still not over the fact that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, which might be why last Wednesday, the FBI execu...
Senate Democrats were ready to shut down the government Friday night in order to get much-needed reforms to ICE and Border Patrol — but they didn’t ne...
Minneapolis is still under ICE’s thumb — and contrary to the Trump Administration and some media reports, ICE has not “de-escalated” in the Twin Citie...
U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio is expected to publicly testify Wednesday about what exactly the U.S. has planned fo...
There’s a massive funding package making its way through Congress this week. It includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security, including Im...
On Saturday, Alex Pretti – a 37-year-old registered nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis – was shot and killed by Border Patrol agent...
Former special counsel Jack Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday about the steps President Donald Trump and his allies too...
After meeting with NATO allies in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce “the framework of a future deal with res...
President Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland isn’t new. Back in 2019, he made an offer to buy the island, but was told by Denmark and Greenland t...
Today marks a year since President Donald Trump took office for a second time, and a lot has happened. Amidst all the threats to take over Greenland,...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't some storied government agency from the 19th century. ICE was invented back in 2003 — but now it has a multi...
President Trump is declining in popularity with voters, but his rhetoric and that of the Trump Administration is only growing more extreme. But to und...
The great city of Minneapolis is under siege by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and we have all seen the videos to prove it… which may be why the...
In Iran, weeks of protests against the ruling regime have resulted in the deaths of thousands of protestors at the hands of the government. The Trump...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck back on Sunday night after the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into his handling of r...
The United States Coast Guard seized another oil tanker, the Olina, on Friday. It is the fifth Venezuela-linked tanker seized by US forces under Presi...
