"CBS News has made great strides under Bari Weiss, but clearly there remains work to be done. On Monday's 'CBS Evening News,' CBS News Homeland Security and Justice Correspondent Nicole Sganga declared that the video released by DHS shows 'the minutes leading up to the murder of Renee Good.' It is an all-too-familiar pattern in which the mainstream media aligns its reporting with the advocacy of groups on the left. As I have written, one can certainly disagree with the necessity of using lethal force in this instance, but it fell well within the established guidelines for the use of such force set by the Supreme Court and lower courts.

"Spanga added, 'Trump administration officials have claimed she intended to ram ICE agents before she was shot.'

"In the end, it does not matter what her intentions were. Her actions, not her intentions, drive the analysis. She refused orders to get out of the car after obstructing the federal agents and then struck the officer."

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"The Iranian regime slaughtered upwards of 500 protesters over the weekend, marking one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the Islamic Republic's history, as President Donald Trump weighs a range of military options that reportedly include precision strikes on regime assets and cyber warfare.

"The Iranian government intensified its response to the popular uprising after cutting internet services on Thursday. The internet blackout has made tracking the number of dead difficult, but accounts from human rights organizations and international media outlets reach anywhere from 500 to 2,000 killed, a violent reaction to a protest movement that has spread to nearly every major city in all 31 Iranian provinces. Bodies are reportedly stacking up in hospitals around the country, with medical staff overwhelmed by the number of killed and injured through Sunday afternoon. ...

"The crackdown comes ahead of a Tuesday briefing for Trump and senior cabinet members, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, on options that range from military intervention to economic measures. The Wall Street Journal reported that "no imminent action" is expected after that briefing, but NBC News reported that Trump has already been presented with "preliminary plans" for an attack on Iran and the president has repeatedly vowed to use force to stop the regime from killing civilians."

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"When U-Haul released its latest 'Growth Index' this week, it made us wonder if blue states will ever get a clue.

"Once again, the index found a strong migration out of blue states and into red states.

"'Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee follow Texas as prime destinations. It's the same top five from 2024 and 2023, although in a different order,' the company said.

"The biggest losers: California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York."

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"The Transportation Security Administration flagged nearly $700 million in cash detected in passengers' luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport the last two years, a massive cash exodus believed to be tied to Somali immigrants and their money couriers, Homeland Security officials told Just the News.

"The officials said the cash movements out of Minnesota's largest airport began about a decade ago -- around the time Democrat Gov. Tim Walz took office -- and has grown substantially in recent years.

"Though all were legally declared according to U.S. Customs rules, the bundles of cash in luggage -- some as much as $1 million in a single trip -- raised regular suspicions among TSA agents."

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"'Are You Not Entertained?' With the country's economy improving and other issues losing traction with the public, Democrats are increasingly turning to the one thing lacking in Washington: impeachments.

As they work to take back the House in the midterms, Democrats are again promising voters the equivalent of the Roman Games by restarting impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. For many liberal voters, impeachments are the thrilling cage matches of lawfare."

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"There are good and bad ways to start an administration, then there's the way Zohran Mamdani did it. Dreadful, awful and horrible don't fully capture his First Day fiasco.

"No political guru in the history of New York elections would advise a new mayor to launch his administration by picking a fight with Israel and adding fresh evidence to the suspicion that the city's first Muslim mayor is an antisemite.

"Yet that's exactly what Mamdani did by announcing that he had rescinded all the executive orders of his predecessor, Eric Adams, going back 15 months.

"Some were inconsequential, but two notably put the city on the side of Israel and were aimed at blocking official acts that smacked of antisemitism.

"With New York home to more than 1 million Jews, and with Israel, a key American ally, fighting for its survival against terrorists, it's an extremely odd way for a mayor to start a four-year term."

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"Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year!"

"Federal prosecutors announced new indictments Thursday in the widening Minnesota fraud scandal, this time involving two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to Minneapolis after a friend told them the taxpayer-funded programs there presented 'a good opportunity to make money.'

Anthony Waddell Jefferson and Lester Brown are accused of siphoning millions from federally funded programs administered by Minnesota officials that were meant to help people with disabilities and those suffering from addiction.

Unlike many of the individuals previously caught up in the state's sprawling fraud scandal, they don't appear to have ties to Minnesota's large Somali-American community. Prosecutors say they don't appear to have ties to Minnesota at all.

'Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry -- people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs,' said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson, who brought the new charges. 'This is a deeply unsettling reality that all Minnesotans should understand.'"

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"Rewiring America, the climate group where Democratic activist Stacey Abrams served as senior counsel, quietly banked more than $5 million in federal climate funding shortly before the Trump administration axed the Biden-era grant earlier this year, according to tax documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. They suggest that Abrams played a larger role in obtaining the grant than she claimed.

"The $5 million marked the initial tranche of a $2 billion grant the Environmental Protection Agency awarded in April 2024 to a different group, Power Forward Communities, that oversees a Rewiring America-led coalition. When a February Free Beacon report revealed Power Forward Communities's ties to Abrams -- prompting EPA administrator Lee Zeldin to cancel the grant -- Abrams argued that she had no affiliation with the group and played a negligible role in obtaining the grant.

"The tax documents contradict Abrams's claims. They show that, of the $9.5 million Power Forward Communities received from the EPA by the end of 2024, more than half went to Abrams's Rewiring America. Power Forward Communities reported the grant funding was its sole source of revenue last year, indicating that it acted as a pass-through established to distribute taxpayer funds to Rewiring America. It disbursed the funding to Rewiring America as Abrams served as its senior counsel and senior adviser, a role she held between March 2023 and early 2025."

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"At some point, there will be no news about the Ford Motor Company's electric vehicle fiasco. But we're not there yet, as the most recent reports show that the automaker is paying dearly for its commitment to a Potemkin market built by a government that promised favors to companies that would follow its agenda.

Ford's EV misfortunes have reached a nearly unimaginable low. The company announced Monday that it's taking a $19.5 billion writedown while eliminating a number of its EV models. Reuters calls it 'the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry's retreat from battery-powered models,' while the Daily Mail says it's 'a major retreat from Ford's most ambitious EV bet.'

Energy author Robert Bryce simply says Ford's EV fixation was 'felony stupid' and wonders how CEO Jim Farley still has a job."

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