"The State Department in roughly the past seven months has revoked more than 6,000 student visas over assault, DUIs, burglary, terrorism support, and overstays, according to a news report Monday.

'Every single student visa revoked under the Trump Administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States,' a senior State Department official told Fox News. 'About 4,000 visas alone have been revoked because these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including records of assault and DUIs.'"

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"Just weeks before President Donald Trump federalized the Washington, D.C., police force over crime woes, the Metropolitan Police Department was hit with accusations of allegedly juking crime stats for more favorable results.

""'When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,' D.C. Police Union chairman Gregg Pemberton told NBC Washington in July of an alleged trend to manipulate crime stats.

"'So, instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.'"

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"Federal employee unions are bracing for battle after courts have lifted a series of injunctions that were stalling the Trump administration's plans to end collective bargaining rights at a number of agencies.

Trump in March signed an executive order laying the groundwork for a sweeping rescission of a number of existing union contracts at government agencies. The administration argues 18 different departments have sufficient national security roles to qualify under a law allowing the suspension of union rights at such agencies.

Since the most recent lifting of an injunction earlier this month, the Trump administration has canceled previously-signed collective bargaining agreements with at least five agencies, and more are expected.

Unions acknowledge they are facing a 'setback' and must rethink aspects of their strategy for survival under Trump."

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"FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered a bombshell memo written in 2017 chronicling the extensive political obstruction that career agents in three cities faced from their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department during the 2016 election as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation.

'Shut it down!' then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is quoted as demanding in the detailed timeline of political impediments that agents in New York City, Little Rock, Ark., and Washington D.C. reported.

The agents tried to get the help of federal prosecutors to determine whether or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, most notably, because at that time, her family foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and U.S. interests with business before her department.

The timeline -- written by a DOJ lawyer assigned to the FBI under former bureau Director James Comey -- was recently secured by top aides to Patel along with several corroborating internal emails and was obtained by Just the News. Together, they make clear that both the DOJ and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe placed significant impediments in front of agents who believed they had evidence to justify a public integrity criminal case."

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"In Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman's character famously bluffs in a hand of poker and later explains, 'Yeah, well sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.' It is a great scene and a great movie. The problem is that sometimes nothing can be ... well ... nothing. Democrats are learning that lesson this week after Texas legislators headed home and opponents are calling the bluffs of figures from California Gov. Gavin Newsom to Texas's Beto O'Rourke.

"There is a key poker tip left unstated in the movie: You cannot bluff when the other players already know your cards.

"After a couple of weeks of posturing in exile in blue states, Texas Democrats returned home as expected, allowing the state to move forward with its redistricting plan. There was never any doubt about what would happen because it has happened before with Democrats -- lacking the votes to defeat legislation, they flee the state to prevent all legislative business."

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"President Trump's initiative to restore law and order to the streets of the nation's capital is a smart political move. All Americans consider Washington 'our city,' and we want it safe. We can see on the nightly news that it is not, and we're not happy about it. If Trump can turn that around, he will get well-deserved credit, not from the legacy media but from the public.

"Trump and his party will reap a second major benefit, as well. If he can lessen the muggings, car jackings and armed robberies, if he can move the homeless off downtown streets, he will highlight the difference between his approach and the painful failures in Chicago, New York, Los Angles and other major cities, all of them governed by Democrats. That's a huge political benefit, if he can secure it.

"The president can take action in Washington because he has unique authority there, despite some laws granting the city 'home rule' powers. Trump is taking full advantage of that unique authority, declaring a 'crime emergency' in the nation's capital."

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"'No one is above the law' was the favorite refrain of Democrats as they pursued Donald Trump up hill and down dale in an effort to destroy his first presidency and ensure he could never serve again.

"They threw everything at him, manufacturing intelligence to frame him as a Russian stooge, weaponizing the FBI and DOJ against him, impeaching him, siccing the most unscrupulous prosecutors on him, contriving spurious civil cases against him and his family, trying to jail him and bankrupt him, all the while lying and assassinating his character.

"If that didn't bring him down, two assassination attempts would have finished off a lesser mortal."

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"President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that will open up 401(k) retirement plans to alternative assets, the White House has confirmed to Newsweek.

Bloomberg and Reuters originally reported the move, citing anonymous sources familiar with the plan. The outlets said the order would revise existing regulations and guidance to allow assets such as real estate, cryptocurrency and private equity in the retirement savings accounts. Details of the plan first emerged in reports last month.

Expanding access to the U.S. pension market -- and the $9 trillion 401(k) market -- signals a major shift in how Americans' savings are managed. The executive order marks a victory for asset managers and the private equity industry, which have long sought access to this largely untapped pool of capital.

Advocates believe the move will yield higher returns than the currently conservatively managed retirement investments. However, critics warn that the increased complexity of alternative assets such as private equity may mean that these higher returns come with increased risk."

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"Democrats are struggling to convince the public that they are outraged that there is gerrymandering afoot in Texas. It is no easy task, particularly after Texas Democrats selected Illinois as their sanctuary state, a state considered the most gerrymandered in the country. Trump received 45 percent of the vote in the state, but Republicans have only 14 percent of the congressional seats. Even the New York Times admitted that gerrymandering has favored Democrats across the nation. However, the winner of the Claude Rains award must be Marc Elias, who has expressed disgust over the notion of gerrymandering despite the fact that his group was denounced by courts for outrageous gerrymandering efforts.

"The origin of the term was based on re-districting associated with Elbridge Gerry, a Founding Father, vice president, and governor of Massachusetts. He signed off on a district designed to guarantee a seat for the precursor of today's Democratic Party. The district resembled a salamander, so the Boston Gazette deemed it the 'Gerry-mander.'"

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"The vast majority of U.S. adults are at least somewhat stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs remain widespread.

"About half of all Americans say the cost of groceries is a 'major' source of stress in their life right now, while 33% say it's a 'minor' source of stress, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only 14% say it's not a source of stress, underscoring the pervasive anxiety most Americans continue to feel about the cost of everyday essentials.

"Other financial stressors -- like the cost of housing or the amount of money in their bank accounts -- are also broadly felt, but they weigh more heavily on younger Americans, who are less likely than older adults to have significant savings or own property."

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