Day: January 23, 2026
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MAKING AMERICA SAFE AGAIN: Murders Plummeted More than 20% in 2025, Largest Drop on Record
The Trump Administration is cleaning up the streets — nationwide.
SMITH ON THE HILL: Jack Smith Faces Grilling in Heated House Hearing [WATCH]
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Former special counsel Jack Smith testified on Capitol Hill on Thursday, delivering his first public testimony about his investigations into President Donald Trump.
Iranian Regime Claims It Tested a Long-Range Missile That Can Hit US Eastern Seaboard
Iran claimed this week to have successfully tested its first long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a capability that would enable Tehran to strike the eastern seaboard of the United States, according to regime-controlled outlets.
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European Union Doubles Down on ‘Hate Speech’ Censorship in New ‘Anti-Racism’ Strategy
The European Union on Monday unveiled an “anti-racism” plan that presses member states to censor online “hate speech” and adopt an “intersectional approach” to “structural racism.”
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Wife of judge who shut down charges against Don Lemon is an assistant AG to Keith Ellison: Report
The wife of the judge who refused to accept charges against Don Lemon for disrupting a church service is herself an assistant attorney general working for AG Keith Ellison.
Three alleged participants in the anti-ICE protest at a Saint Paul church were charged on Thursday, according to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
‘We will protect our pastors. We will protect our churches. We will protect Americans of faith.’
While many believed the former CNN anchor would also face charges over his participation in the protest, sources told various news outlets that a magistrate refused to sign off on the charges.
The magistrate was later identified as Judge Douglas Micko, whose wife, Caitlin Micko, works in Ellison’s office, according to some reports.
Lemon has claimed to have acted as a journalist when he joined the protesters against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They targeted the Cities Church because a senior pastor at the church has been reportedly identified as the leader of an ICE office.
Activist attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong said the pastor’s ICE role posed a “fundamental moral conflict” with his church role.
“You cannot lead a congregation while directing an agency whose actions have cost lives and inflicted fear in our communities,” Armstrong said. “When officials protect armed agents, repeatedly refuse meaningful investigation into killings like Renee Good’s, and signal they may pursue peaceful protesters and journalists, that is not justice — it is intimidation.”
The administration may pursue other alternatives to seek Lemon’s prosecution.
One source said that Attorney General Pam Bondi was “enraged at the magistrate judge’s decision.”
Lemon’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, released a statement defending his actions.
“The magistrate’s reported actions confirm the nature of Don’s First Amendment protected work this weekend in Minnesota as a reporter,” he said, according to Politico. “It was no different than what he has done for more than 30 years, reporting and covering newsworthy events on the ground and engaging in constitutionally protected activity as a journalist.”
A Blaze News request for comment from Ellison’s office was not immediately answered.
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Bondi excoriated the protest at the church in a post on social media.
“Religious freedom is the bedrock of this country,” she wrote. “We will protect our pastors. We will protect our churches. We will protect Americans of faith.”
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‘Enough is enough’: Fed-up Florida sheriff has tough words for anti-ICE leftists who stormed Minnesota church
Grady Judd, the outspoken sheriff of Florida’s Polk County, most definitely is not shy about making his opinions known, whether they’re about crime in his own back yard or even crime of concern around the country.
Indeed, after leftists protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement stormed a church Sunday in St. Paul, Minnesota, Judd — like many Americans — was outraged and made sure to let residents of his Florida county know exactly where he stands.
‘Freedom of religion. It is our right in this United States of America.’
The following is what Judd had to say:
I’m standing in a house of worship. And I think about last weekend in St. Paul, Minnesota, where people who came to worship were attacked — they were attacked by rioters. The service was disrupted. They cut at the very fabric of this great United States of America. We settled this country so many years ago so we could worship free, the way we wanted to, in whatever house of worship we chose. That attack is unacceptable.
Then he added what many in Polk County wanted to hear: “I can assure you that had that attack been in this community, every one of those rioters would be in jail today. That’s where the federal government could have found them — on state charges, locked up.”
Judd concluded: “And I pray it’s that same way all across the United States of America. Enough is enough. Let’s join together for the good of the United States of America, let’s worship the way we want to, and let’s everyone renounce the horribleness of last Sunday in St. Paul, Minnesota.”
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The video showing Judd’s words received over 3 million views and elicited more than 20,000 comments since it was posted Tuesday; the following are some of the more popular reactions:
- “Grady Judd for sheriff of the world!” one commenter wrote.
- “I love Sheriff Grady Judd,” another user said. “We need more people like him in law enforcement all over this great country.”
- “Freedom of religion,” another commenter noted. “It is our right in this United States of America.”
- “Great commentary,” another user offered. “What’s troubling is that a segment of the American public is attempting to argue that the individuals who disrupted the church were merely ‘exercising their First Amendment rights.’ That claim collapses under even minimal scrutiny. Once they trespassed onto church property, any First Amendment protection ceased to apply. More importantly, their actions directly violated the First Amendment religious rights of the church and its members. If there were ever a clear-cut case for the DOJ to set a strong precedent by pursuing felony charges, this would be it. Serious consequences are warranted for conduct this egregious.”
As it happens, Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen were arrested Thursday in connection with the church-storming incident. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced later Thursday that William Kelly also was arrested.
However, former CNN talking head Don Lemon reportedly is escaping charges. Lemon claimed to have been acting as a journalist when he joined the group that stormed the church whose pastor reportedly leads an ICE office.
But CBS News sources said a Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint against Lemon. “The attorney general is enraged at the magistrate’s decision,” according to a CBS News source said to be familiar with the matter.
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Judicial Watch Sues Chicago Treasurer Over Plan to Halt U.S. Treasury Purchases
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed an Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against Melissa Conyears-Ervin, treasurer of the City of Chicago, for details of her declared plan to stop buying new U.S. Treasury securities and divest the city of indirect holdings (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Chicago Treasurer’s Office (No. 2026CH00302)). […]
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