Team USA hockey player Brady Tkachuk expressed that he was “truly grateful” to be competing in the Winter Olympics and to represent the United States. While speaking to reporters after practice before the men’s hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics,

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The first-place Detroit Pistons currently control the NBA’s Eastern Conference. On Monday, however, neither the Pistons nor their opponents, the streaking Charlotte Hornets, had full control of their emotions. With […]

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U.S. — In an effort to expand the global market for American football, the National Football League announced on Tuesday that next year's Super Bowl halftime show would be performed entirely in Sindarin Elvish.

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Los Angeles Mayoral candidate and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt says that if he is elected as mayor, his administration would work with the federal government on immigration enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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RICHMOND, VA — In a blatant and callous display of colonialism, local wife Jennifer Carlin refused to return the land she stole from her husband John's side of the bed last night.

Democrats aired their grievances against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown at a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, even questioning the salvation of agency leaders.

Questioning grew so contentious that Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., slammed his gavel to remind his colleagues of House “decorum” standards.

Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was questioning Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on his salvation.

“Mr. Lyons, do you consider yourself a religious man?” McIver asked.

“Yes, ma’am,” Lyons responded.

“Oh yes, well, how do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?”

“I’m not going to entertain that question,” Lyons answered.

“Of course not,” McIver shot back. “Do you think you’re going to hell, Mr. Lyons?”

Garbarino quickly interjected, reminding McIver and all members of “standards of decorum and debate.”

The exchange took place during the over three-hour-long hearing titled, “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS.” It was one of multiple contentious moments between lawmakers and President Donald Trump’s immigration officials.

The hearing comes on the heels of the administration deploying about 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota to carry out a large immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities. Anti-ICE protests have expanded in the state after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, 37, on Jan. 24, and an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, also 37, on Jan. 7.

After Pretti’s death, Trump deployed border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota to take over the enforcement operation. Since his arrival, Homan says cooperation between state, local, and federal law enforcement has improved, leading him to decrease the number of federal agents in the Twin Cities by 700.

In addition to Lyons, Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Rodney Scott, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told members of Congress on Tuesday that under Trump’s leadership, the public is safer, the border is secure, and order has been restored to the immigration system.

“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is restoring integrity, accountability, and security to America’s legal immigration system,” Edlow said.

Multiple lawmakers adamantly disagreed with Edlow’s claim during the hearing, even accusing ICE agents of acting like “secret police.”

“I have a simple suggestion: if you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one,” Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., told Lyons.

Goldman and other lawmakers have accused ICE of being similar to “secret police” because ICE agents wear masks.

The Department of Homeland Security claims the masks are necessary to protect the identities of ICE agents, who they say are facing a 1,400% increase in assaults over the past year.

Lyons directly rejected Democrats’ calls to unmask immigration agents, an issue that has become the central sticking point for Congress to pass a bill funding the agency.

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., went a step further than some of her Democrat colleagues and called for DHS to be “dismantled.”

“DHS cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled, and something new must take its place. Because if we let DHS persist, it will continue to be a weapon that can be pointed at anyone the government considers the public enemy,” Ramirez said.

The Illinois Democrat then addressed Lyons, Scott, and Edlow directly, accusing them of having “weaponized the government.”

“You have supported a fascist enterprise at the expense of our constitutional rights. You have violated the law, but let me remind you: you will not always be in power. One day, you will be held accountable for your role in this dark moment in America, in our nation’s history. I guarantee it,” Ramirez warned the three officials.

Rep. Tim Kennedy, D-N.Y., accused the Trump administration of murdering American citizens, referring to the shootings of Good and Pretti by federal agents which are still under investigation.

“We’re a nation of laws,” Kennedy said to Lyons, adding that neither he, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, nor Trump are “above the law.”

“The American people are angry, and they’re demanding accountability and justice from those giving the orders,” Kennedy said before asking Lyons, “Do you believe that Secretary Noem should resign?”

“I’m not going to comment on that, sir,” Lyons answered.

Multiple Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have called on Noem to either resign, be fired, or be impeached following the incidents in Minneapolis.

Noem has given no indication she plans to resign, and Trump has continued to express his public support for the secretary.

The agency has stated that the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota will continue despite the opposition.

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BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding lawmakers in the New Hampshire House for approving legislation allowing carry on college campuses by prohibiting colleges and universities from banning guns.

CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb took issue with opponents of the measure who have cited tragic campus shootings, such as the one at Brown University, as a good reason to prevent students or visitors from carrying defensive sidearms for their personal safety.

“Their logic is all wrong,” said Gottlieb. “Those incidents occurred on campuses where gun-free policies exist, leaving students and faculty unable to defend themselves. In an environment where people have not only a right but the means to fight back, it levels the field against evil doers, whether they are criminals or crazy people. We encourage people to support House Bill 1793 and tell their lawmakers to pass the measure.

“Colleges and universities can no longer masquerade as Ivory Tower institutions that are immune from attacks by evil people who belong either behind bars or in an institution,” he observed. “What once may have been considered a manifestation of cultural elitism has—because of Brown University—been shown to be a deadly case of self-delusion.

“We see one opponent of House Bill 1793 offer the argument that half of school mass shootings are done by students and the other half by campus visitors,” Gottlieb added. “What difference does it make who launches an attack? What can make a difference is whether one or more intended victims can immediately fight back and stop some madman in his tracks, thus saving innocent lives in the process.

“We’ve seen the results of an institutional ‘cower-in-fear’ philosophy,” Gottlieb concluded, “and it has been devastating. The time has come for common sense to prevail, and that includes putting an end to policies which essentially create risk-free environments for dangerous individuals to victimize young adults and their teachers solely to perpetuate an indefensible notion that people should leave their right of self-defense at a school’s property line.”

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On Tuesday on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," political commentator Donny Deutsch said anyone who does not think Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance represented America needs their "head examined."

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Monday on FNC's "The Ingraham Angle," Kid Rock discussed the Super Bowl halftime show a night earlier that featured Bad Bunny.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it still hopes to create a “cross-border payment infrastructure” for the BRICS economic bloc — in other words, an alternative currency that would dethrone the American dollar as the favored medium of international trade.

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