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The last few years have been interesting, with regard to things like crime. Despite the doomsaying from the anti-gunners, the post-Bruen homicide bump never actually happened. Quite the opposite, really. The violent crime rate has dropped, and there's evidence that it's dropping for 2026 as well.

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The Trump administration has made combating welfare fraud a major part of its agenda. Vice President J.D. Vance heads the White House Fraud Task Force, and on September 22, it announced plans to remove more than 750,000 fraudulent enrollees from Obamacare. That would come to $2.2 billion in savings once the ineligible or non-existent enrollees are purged.

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A Riverside County man pleaded guilty earlier this week – the third defendant to plead guilty this week – to fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 business-relief loans and then helping others fraudulently obtain COVID business loans in exchange for a cut of the illicit proceeds, causing a total loss to taxpayers of approximately $3.5 million.

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There has to be a term for something worse than hypocrisy when it comes to Hillary Clinton. 

How about, "Hillarocrisy"?

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WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court revived on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump's administration said aims to combat voting by noncitizens but critics contend could disenfranchise eligible voters.

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President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed artificial intelligence and Iran, among other topics, during the state visit that is wrapping up on Friday, according to circulating reports.

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Karen Bass Admits Republicans Can't Win in California

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The U.S.-backed Board of Peace is proposing a six-month, $2.45 billion plan to begin rebuilding and governing Gaza.

The 66-project blueprint includes temporary housing, infrastructure repairs, hospital rehabilitation, economic recovery and a multinational security force.

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In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million. The deal was widely ridiculed. Critics called it "Seward's Folly," after the secretary of state and lead negotiator, William Seward.

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In 2017, at the start of the first Trump administration, election infrastructure and all it entails was placed into the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as a subsector within the Government Services and Facilities Sector.

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The State Department is directing diplomats in its Bureau of International Organization Affairs to use the term “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence,” following President Donald Trump’s call to rebrand the rapidly developing technology.

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The judge didn’t rule immediately on the ban yesterday, which sent CNN into a fury, but it was coming soon. Within 36 hours, at around 1:30 AM this morning, Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that CNN, Politico, and MSNBC must be restored to White House access. It’s a 14-day restraining order, but hard passes and access to campus must be granted (via NYT): 

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Few people in the Trump administration wear as many hats as Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In addition to serving as a cabinet member, Rubio also served as acting administrator of USAID, acting archivist of the U.S., and acting National Security Advisor.

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President Donald Trump greeted Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews for a rare state visit by the world leader in a lively arrival ceremony that featured a B-1 bomber flyover.

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, ordering officials to restore access for journalists from the three news organizations.

The ruling came after the outlets challenged the administration’s decision to revoke their access to White House grounds. They argued they were singled out because of the content of their reporting and said the restrictions violated their First Amendment rights.

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BELLEVILLE, Ontario (AP) — A 29-year-old man opened fire on a police officer stationed outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur, triggering a shootout involving as many as 30 shots, the province's police watchdog said Monday. The gunfire left the man with life-threatening injuries and seriously wounded a veteran of nearly 13 years with the Belleville Police Service who was recovering in intensive care. The Special Investigations Unit said preliminary evidence showed the man arrived in a truck around 7 p.m. on Sunday and fired at an officer outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, about 110 miles east of Toronto. The officer returned fire before a second officer arrived and also fired. SIU spokesperson Kristy Denette estimated that 20 to 30 shots were fired and said investigators found dozens of bullet holes along the street, with homes and vehicles struck and some vehicle windows shot out. “It would have been quite, quite the scene indeed,” said Denette. She said the scene appeared to stretch about half a block from the synagogue. Police have not established a motive or said whether the Sons of Jacob Synagogue or the Jewish community was targeted. The SIU is investigating the actions of the officers, while Belleville police are conducting a parallel criminal investigation that will examine the man’s actions and possible motive. Authorities said investigators were still trying to establish the exact sequence of events and were collecting body-camera and police vehicle footage, surveillance video and witness accounts. Deputy Police Chief Sheri Meeks said the wounded officer’s condition had stabilized but that he faced a significant road to recovery. The officer joined the Belleville Police Service in December 2013 and is a longtime member of its Emergency Response Unit, Meeks said. “We remain hopeful and encouraged by this progress,” she said. Meeks acknowledged the shooting’s impact on Belleville’s Jewish community, particularly because it happened outside the synagogue during Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. “Antisemitism, hate and violence have no place in our community,” Meeks said. “Every person deserves to feel safe when attending a place of worship.” Police increased patrols and their presence around places of worship but said there was no ongoing threat to public safety. Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis said it was too soon to say whether the shooting was a hate crime but said “the circumstances are where it happened, when it happened” and that it “points towards that.” “We have a tight-knit Jewish community. We don’t tolerate this in our city or across the country,” Ellis said. “Everyone has the right to feel safe.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney condemned the shooting in a social media post, saying, “Jewish people must be able to worship safely” and “live free, open, proud Jewish lives.” He said the federal government would support law enforcement in ensuring the perpetrator is held accountable. Ontario Premier Doug Ford also condemned the shooting, saying Jewish people “have every right to gather and worship safely and without fear.” The shooting comes months after Carney warned that Canada was failing its Jewish community amid a surge in antisemitism. Carney cited shootings at Jewish schools, firebombings of synagogues and attacks on community centers and Jewish-owned businesses. Synagogues in the Toronto area have previously been targeted by gunfire. In March, shots damaged the entrances of synagogues in Vaughan and Toronto. No one was injured, and police later arrested three suspects.

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Two helicopter pilots were killed when their aircraft crashed Sunday afternoon while conducting water drops on a wildfire at Yosemite National Park, officials say. The pilots were the only people on board, and were employed by the contract aircraft company Precision. They were working with a wildland firefighting crew that specializes in using ropes to descend from helicopters to reach otherwise inaccessible terrain, known as helitack rappelling. The Super Puma helicopter was using a water bucket to help suppress the fire when it went down southeast of Ostrander Lake, said Benjamin Cossel, a spokesperson with the Federal Complex Incident Management Team overseeing the firefighting response. Details about the circumstances surrounding the crash were not immediately released. The crash will be investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. “It is with unimaginable sadness and broken hearts that we share the loss of two beloved members of our team,” Precision wrote in a social media post. “We are devastated by this loss and are struggling to find the words. We ask for privacy and compassion for their families and our team as we grieve this tremendous loss.” The names of the pilots were not immediately released. Roughly 580 people are fighting the Dome Fire, which started Sept. 15 near Wawona, California, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. It's burning on about 4.7 square miles (12.3 square kilometers) and is about 15% contained. The lake near the crash site was roughly 9 miles (14 kilometers) south of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan, and about 7 miles (11 kilometers) northeast of Wawona. At least 14 people have died while helping with wildfires in the U.S. this year, the most since 2022 when 25 deaths were recorded, according to government reports. In August, two helicopter pilots died while helping fight a fire in Utah, and a helicopter pilot in Colorado crashed into a reservoir. Earlier this month, a firefighter suffered a medical emergency while fighting a wildfire in Oklahoma. Another firefighter in Oregon was hit by a tree that broke while he was cutting it in Mt. Hood National Forest. Also in August, a wildfire officer was killed after getting trapped while evacuating a burning building in a wildland fire in Oklahoma; a firefighter died following a medical emergency during a wildfire in Minnesota; and a bulldozer operator got overrun by flames in Oregon. In June, four firefighters got trapped in a fire in western Colorado. ___ Associated Press correspondent Matthew Brown contributed from Billings, Montana.

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Hundreds of flights are delayed after the FAA issued ground stops at several Northeast airports due to equipment outages. The ground stops are in place at LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy, Newark, Teterboro and Philadelphia airports. There have been more than 220 flights delayed at Newark so far. The FAA issued an advisory, but did not specifically say what equipment has been impacted. Travelers are being encouraged to contact their airline regarding flight status.

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