Python hunters recently broke a record catching the longest live captured Reticulated Python in Puerto Rico — measuring over 18 feet long.

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On Monday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle," Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) questioned efforts by Texas Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico to moderate his liberal image in his campaign ads, including using football and his faith to appear more palatable to Texans.  

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Jaime West, a Democrat running for county council in Fayette County, Indiana, has admitted to drinking three beers ahead of her bizarre performance at a recent forum, which featured her slurring her speech and expressing her desire to fire all Republicans because she does not like them.

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As Muslims have become more politically organized, Muslim advocacy organizations have also become increasingly involved in American politics and elections. Among the organizations that have drawn significant scrutiny are the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.

Understanding the history of these organizations, their relationships with foreign terrorist groups, and the controversy surrounding them can provide context for why they have become part of political debates and why more voters need to pay attention to candidates with connections to them.

The Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization that was founded in Egypt in 1928 and views Islam as a complete social, religious, and political system that should govern both public and private life. 

The Muslim Brotherhood’s influence has extended beyond Egypt, with affiliated movements and organizations developing throughout the Middle East and other parts of the world.

The Muslim Brotherhood became prevalent in America in 2004 after the FBI released the Muslim Brotherhood Memorandum of 1991, which outlined how Islam would take over the West through “Civilization Jihad.” 

The memorandum outlined multiple organizations that the Muslim Brotherhood would control in order to spread Islam throughout the entire West, including creating a coalition of Muslim organizations and establishing Islamic centers in every city. The organizations would disseminate Muslim Brotherhood propaganda through various channels, including the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Student Association, and the Islamic Circle of North America. 

Muslim organizations identified in the document have since disputed claims that they are controlled or part of the Muslim Brotherhood.

One organization that has faced particular scrutiny over its alleged connections to the Muslim Brotherhood is CAIR.

What Is CAIR?

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, founded in 1994, is an Islamist organization that focuses on Muslim civil rights and advocacy. CAIR says its work focuses on protecting the civil rights of Muslims, combating discrimination, and promoting understanding of Islam and Muslims.

The organization has also become involved in American politics, including voter registration, candidate forums, voter education and get-out-the-vote efforts.

CAIR’s history has nevertheless made it a subject of controversy.

During the federal prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, prosecutors presented evidence concerning a network known as the Palestine Committee, which was established by individuals associated with the Muslim Brotherhood to support the Palestinian cause and Hamas.

CAIR emerged as an unindicted co-conspirator when evidence presented in the case included a wiretapped 1993 meeting of Palestine Committee leaders in Philadelphia showing that the Hamas support network established CAIR to defend its front groups via both information warfare and lawfare. 

After opening its first office in Washington, D.C., CAIR received a grant from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a charitable organization that was closed and designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States Department of the Treasury for funding jihadist terrorist organizations, according to a House Resolution. 

CAIR has repeatedly said it does not support acts of terrorism, “whether carried out by al-Qa’ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group.” 

The organization also says that it is not connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, saying the “so-called 1991 ‘Muslim Brotherhood memo’ has nothing to do with CAIR. The document never mentions our organization, which wasn’t even founded until 1994.” 

CAIR and Hamas

CAIR has repeatedly been connected to the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas, which has carried out horrific terrorist attacks, including the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that killed more than 1,000 people in Israel. 

One point frequently cited is the history of some of CAIR’s founders and their connections to the Islamic Association of Palestine, an organization that prosecutors found to be linked to the Palestine Committee network.

CAIR has been linked to Hamas through one of its founders, Nihad Awad, who publicly said he supported Hamas. Another connection comes from the fact that CAIR’s founders have documented connections with the Islamic Association of Palestine, an organization involved in the Palestine Committee Network, which was used to support Hamas’ efforts. 

In October 2000, at a large CAIR rally in Washington, D.C., featured speaker Abdurahman Alamoudi, later a convicted terrorist and al-Qaeda financier, publicly expressed support for both Hamas and Hezbollah as the crowd cheered him on. 

Additionally, during a Nov. 24, 2023, speech, Awad, who is the executive director of CAIR, said he was happy to see the people of Gaza “break the siege” during the Oct. 7 terror attacks. 

The debate of CAIR and Hamas connections has also entered the political arena.

In 2025, Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Fine of Florida introduced HR 4097, which would have designated CAIR as a terrorist organization. Fine’s resolution released more information about CAIR and its ties to terrorist organizations. 

CAIR has rejected all of those allegations.

Why It Matters in Elections

CAIR’s political activity has become more relevant as the Muslim population rises and voters have become more organized and engaged in American elections.

Because CAIR has a political arm that endorses candidates and engages in voter mobilization and policy advocacy targeting Muslim voters, it has raised questions over its relationships with Hamas and other terror organizations.

One recent example is Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, whose campaign has faced questions over his connections to Muslim political organizations.

Center for Security Policy counterterrorism analyst Kyle Shideler testified before the Senate that El-Sayed’s candidacy raised national security concerns because of his connections to Emgage, a Muslim political organization focused on voter engagement.

“[Emgage] was created by a former CAIR member who at one time was on a terror watchlist, and was also a consultant to convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian,” Shideler said. 

The allegations surrounding El-Sayed and Emgage illustrate the broader political debate surrounding Muslim advocacy organizations, as to what voters should know about the organizations and the candidate’s histories and relationships.

For voters, understanding those relationships can provide additional context when evaluating the organizations involved in political campaigns, the issues they advocate for, and the candidates who engage with them.

The Daily Signal reached out to CAIR for comment but had not heard back before publication time.

Country trio The Chicks brought out on stage Texas Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate Jame Talarico at their concert in San Antonio on Saturday.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio answers questions from media while visiting India.  The major focus of the questions to Rubio surrounded Ukraine and the conflicting stories from Zelenskyy. Secretary Rubio noted he had just completed a 45-minute phone call with Zelenskyy where Rubio talked to the Ukraine President about his continued promotion of false reports […]

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Aging former comedian Jon Stewart has signed up for two more years of failure with The Daily Show.

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On Nov. 15, 2021, Anthony Fauci wrote a decision about COVID-19 booster shots in his private diary.

Push the booster on every adult in America. Do it, he wrote, “no matter what the ACIP says”—that is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the independent panel of outside experts that votes on who should get which vaccines. The panel had not voted yet.

Do it “despite the fact that there was concern about myocarditis in younger men.” Do it because otherwise, “the message of who should get boosted is ambiguous.”

There is the whole scandal in a single entry. A known risk to young men’s hearts, named by Fauci himself, in the same breath as the decision—and then set aside. Not on the evidence, but because it muddied the message.

Four days later, the government expanded booster eligibility to every adult in America, including young men.

This was not the first time something like this happened. Ten months earlier, Fauci and the two officials about to take over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the surgeon general’s office had discussed, among themselves, whether a second dose might carry a first-trimester miscarriage risk. Fauci raised the issue, and his colleagues agreed it was a good point. Then the government didn’t say anything about red flags to pregnant women considering the shot.

Same man. Same move. Ten months apart. Name the risk in private. Give the public the message.

This is an ethical collapse on a grand scale, and I lay it all out in my new book “Why Fauci MUST Rot in Prison.”

Take the young men.

That the mRNA vaccines can inflame the heart muscle is no fringe allegation—the Food and Drug Administration revised its vaccine fact sheets in 2021 to reflect the data. The CDC’s advisory committee met publicly on June 23, 2021, to review the signal. The only thing that remained contested was the magnitude of the danger. The agencies themselves recognized that those most at risk were adolescent and young-adult males in the days after a dose.

COVID-19 was never an equal-opportunity killer; its danger fell steeply with youth. The myocarditis signal, on the other hand, appeared to rise in young men. When the risk of a disease and the risk of the intervention point in opposite directions across the age curve, a single national answer—one schedule for the 80-year-old woman and the 19-year-old man alike—is hardly a triumph of science.

Weighing the risks of the third dose in September 2021, Fauci recorded, “A lack of a lot of data for safety among young individuals particularly in the context of myocarditis.” In the same passage, he wrote that the White House chief of staff was “very much intense [sic] on getting this approval through.”

Consider what the machine chose not to find out. When the question was whether the virus itself damaged young hearts, American medicine spared nothing. The Big Ten built a cardiac registry and ran MRI scans on 1,597 infected college athletes; the results, published in JAMA Cardiology, found myocarditis in 2.3%—and on symptoms alone, the study notes, only five of the 37 cases would ever have been found.

Was there similar energy at the time to research—in a transparent way—the potential risks of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters?

Then there’s the issue of dangers to pregnant women and their children, where the failures were even starker. In late January 2021, Fauci, newly installed CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and incoming Surgeon General Vivek Murthy discussed vaccination in pregnancy. Pregnant women had been excluded from the pivotal trials, so there was very little direct evidence and next to none by trimester.

Fauci asked around and came back with a concern: The fever and cytokine response after a second dose could, he wrote, “theoretically” be “associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” Fauci said that Walensky recognized that it was “definitely a good point, esp after dose two,” and that Murthy called it “a really good point.”

It didn’t matter. Pregnant women were expected to get the jab—sometimes with the threat of job loss if they didn’t.

Both mothers and young men were entitled to know the risks and the limits of the data. Then each of them, with the help of a doctor, should have been entrusted to decide for themselves. That is medicine. Anything less is Orwellian compliance.

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"The Addams Family" and "Casper" star Christina Ricci defended French rioters by stating that they are merely "protesting the state of the world."

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