America’s defenses will not be able to keep up with its peer adversaries if the Pentagon continues to take years to innovate its weapons systems, experts agreed at a security summit last week. The Pentagon’s modernization was given a “D” by the National Security Innovation Base Summit this week, a near-failing letter grade that national…
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is rolling out a new app to replace the controversial CBP One app with the new replacement designed to facilitate the self-deportation of illegal immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the CBP Home app — which will launch with a self-deportation reporting feature for those in the country illegally. …
EXCLUSIVE: Growing up under Soviet rule, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė was not allowed to celebrate Christmas. Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp. The crime? Her teenage brother was caught handing out leaflets that said, “Lithuania is free.” After 50 years of Soviet occupation during the Cold War, many Lithuanians today are…
Just over a decade ago, I was pulling 24-hour shifts with CalFire, driving my beat-up Corolla to work, and dreaming about building something bigger than myself. Today, I am leading a group of American investors who have submitted an offer to purchase TikTok’s U.S. operations. Life comes at you fast, doesn’t it? But here’s the…
Congress will vote this week on a continuing resolution to fund the government. The government runs out of money on Friday. Continuing resolutions are not the ideal way to fund the government. This continuing resolution, however, will allow President Donald Trump to continue carrying out his popular agenda. Ending wasteful Washington spending is a key…
In 10 years, the United States is on course to add $20 trillion to the national debt, setting the total sum owed by American taxpayers at over $56 trillion. Every year we spend in the red, interest on the debt continues to accumulate, until by 2051, when interest alone will be the largest line item…
Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has highlighted a rise in illegal immigrant arrests under President Donald Trump, the agency is now grappling with space limitations for detained criminal migrants. “It’s got these lofty goals, with big numbers, and definitely not a lack of trying and a lack of effort in trying to make that…
Health and Human Services Department (HHS) employees have been offered up to $25,000 to part ways with the agency in order to help it downsize under President Donald Trump’s plans to shrink the federal workforce. In the email sent on Friday, the HHS, which is led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said it has…
A federal judge awarded nearly $2 million in damages after determining that an FBI agent was negligent when he shot and killed a kidnapped Texas man during a botched rescue effort. The mother and son of Ulises Valladares, 47, were awarded the money as part of a civil lawsuit filed in Houston federal court alleging…
A civilian aircraft that violated a temporary flight restriction (TFR) near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was detected and “escorted out” by military officials on Sunday. In a statement released on Sunday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that its F-16 fighter aircraft responded to “a general aviation aircraft” flying above Palm Beach, Florida. NORAD, which is…
