Federal immigration agents on Thursday arrested illegal aliens convicted of a third-degree sex offense, manslaughter, and arson, as the Department of Homeland Security continues to deal with backlash over enforcement operations in Minnesota.

“These thugs have no place in our communities,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, adding, “70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. This statistic doesn’t even include foreign fugitives, terrorists, and gang members who lack a rap sheet in the U.S.”

Authorities on Thursday arrested two Mexican nationals, Darwin Vazquez-Ramos, who has been convicted of a third-degree sex offense, and Israel Sanchez-Jimenez, who has been convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in Los Angeles, according to DHS.

Darwin Vazquez-Ramos (DHS) Israel Sanchez-Jimenez (DHS)

Authorities also arrested Colombian Yonatan Galvez-Marin, who has been convicted of manslaughter in New York City; Phong Nguyen, who is from Vietnam and has been convicted of arson in Texas; and Mohammed Amin Zakariah, a Ghana native who has been convicted of identity theft in North Carolina.

Phong Nguyen (DHS) Mohammed Amin Zakariah (DHS) Yonatan Galvez-Marin (DHS)

“With every arrest, we are making America safe again,” McLaughlin said.

The arrests come as the department faces backlash after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, 37, on Jan. 24, and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good, also 37, on Jan. 7 amid anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis.

ICE is “doing its work around the country, and we’re not getting news around the country,” Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal.

“We have to get the cause and effect right here,” Ries continued. “ICE is not the cause; the Radical Left, these rioters, and their funders and organizers are the cause of what’s coming out of Minnesota.”

Investigations have uncovered multiple agitator organizations operating in Minneapolis.

Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina, for example, is a “major player” in organizing anti-ICE protests, according to The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil. The New York Times reports that the group is “on the front lines of anti-ICE operations.”

Despite opposition and protests, ICE operations are continuing in Minneapolis under the leadership of border czar Tom Homan.

Homan, at President Donald Trump’s request, is taking over for Customs and Border Protection commander Greg Bovino, following the two fatal shootings by immigration enforcement agents. Homan is reporting directly to Trump, according to the president.

“I didn’t come to Minnesota for photo ops or headlines,” Homan said. “I came here to seek solutions, and that’s what we’re going to do.”

Homan has met with multiple state and local leaders, including Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, since arriving in Minneapolis and says there will be a reduction of federal immigration officers in the Twin Cities if local authors agree to “commonsense cooperation” with ICE.

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In a letter to Netflix and Warner Discovery leaders, the Chairman of the Senate Antitrust committee, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), has warned that a proposed acquisition of Warner Bros by the tech giant Netflix raises major red flags around competition.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and GOP leaders have reached an agreement that will see the upper chamber vote on funding the government hours before a potential shutdown was set to begin.

Approximately 10-15% of U.S. couples of reproductive age experience infertility. One response is to pursue in-vitro fertilization (IVF), which is fraught with many negative ethical and practical implications. Another way is to get to the root cause of infertility. Shouldn’t that be the MAHA way?

President Trump expanded access to IVF with his February 2025 Executive Order. In October, he lowered costs for IVF and other fertility treatments.

While IVF does indeed “create” more babies, it comes at a steep physical, emotional, and ethical cost for couples (for an in-depth discussion of these and other issues relating to IVF, please see my podcast episode with Emma Waters on Bioethics Babe). At its heart, IVF circumvents infertility by moving procreation outside the body. Instead of healing the underlying causes that prevent conception, IVF bypasses them entirely. Eggs are harvested from the woman, sperm is collected from a man and introduced in a petri dish, and multiple embryos are created. A few are transferred to the womb; others are frozen indefinitely, discarded, or used for research.

The first concern is the loss of human life inherent to the IVF process. Each embryo created is a unique human being with her or her own genetic code. Yet only a fraction will ever be implanted or born. Some will not survive the freezing and thawing process; others will be implanted and die; still others will be discarded, used for research, left indefinitely in a frozen state, or made (horrifically) into jewelry. When we reduce human beginnings to surplus inventory, we risk dulling our sense of the intrinsic value of every human life. Those who do make it to live birth may at some point in their lives have to deal with survivor guilt or agonize over what to do with their frozen siblings.

The second concern is the toll on women’s bodies. To stimulate the ovaries into producing multiple eggs, women undergo daily hormone injections and procedures that can cause severe bloating, pain, and in rare cases, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome—a potentially life-threatening condition. The physical and emotional strain of repeated cycles, coupled with success rates that often hover below 30% per attempt, can lead to debt, disappointment, and heartbreak.

Beyond individual risks lie broader cultural questions. IVF and related technologies have opened the door to practices once confined to science fiction: embryo selection based on sex, perceived health, or other eugenic considerations, and genetic screening for preferred traits. When reproductive technology becomes a market, our understanding of the child shifts from gift to product—a result purchased through technical control rather than conceived in the intimate act of marital love. This is not a step forward for human dignity.

The U.S. fertility industry, now worth billions, remains highly unregulated. There are no federal limits on how many embryos may be created or how long they can be frozen. Success is measured in live-birth statistics, not in ethical terms. An honest public conversation about IVF must include oversight and transparency.

There is another way, and it will truly make America healthy again. It’s called Restorative Reproductive Medicine. As its name indicates, it is an approach that diagnoses and treats the underlying causes of infertility to restore fertility wherever possible. Why put a bandaid on infertility if we can help couples heal the root causes? Restorative Reproductive Medicine has shown success rates comparable to or better than IVF, without destroying embryos or putting extra risks on the mother’s health. Rather than bypassing the body, restorative care works with it, actually improving overall health and fertility.

Infertility is caused by a number of issues, so the restorative approach involves first identifying the origin of the infertility—whether it rests with the woman, the man, or a combination of them both. If (for example) it turns out the cause is hormone levels that are out of optimal range, the approach is supplementation.  If a woman has endometriosis, she may require an excision surgery that completely removes endometrial growths and scar tissue. More often than not, when the underlying health conditions are addressed, the couple can go on to have children naturally.

 It’s a model that honors a couple’s beautiful desire for children, restores their body to health, and respects the dignity of human life in how they are created.

The longing for a child is deeply human and good. Those who walk the path of infertility deserve empathy and support on their journey. We are also in a time of rapidly declining birth rates worldwide, so as a society we would do well to have more children—but not at any cost.

Children are not owed to any of us; they are blessings. A good desired end (a child) doesn’t justify morally fraught means such as IVF. And the good news is that restorative care helps many couples become parents through each other as God and nature intended, and not in a petri dish that takes the unitive and procreative act out of the equation. We should not rush to normalize conception by laboratory.

We can achieve President Trump’s dream of “many more beautiful American children” in a way that both respects human life and actually gets to the root cause of disease in infertile couples. The way forward is to invest in treating the root cause of infertility and thus also making Americans healthy again, which will benefit them all around, even outside of the fertility context.

Despite these concerns about the expansion of IVF, the silver lining from President Trump’s order is that employers can choose to offer Restorative Reproductive Medicine as a healthcare benefit for their employees instead. We should look to this as the way forward.

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Federal authorities charged former CNN host Don Lemon with federal civil rights crimes Friday in connection with the Jan. 18 disruption of a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. The […]

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Gold and silver prices fell sharply Friday after President Donald Trump said he is nominating former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank, a move traders read as supportive of a firmer dollar and a more inflation-focused Fed.

President Donald J Trump has announced his selection to take over as Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Kevin Warsh.  To give perspective toward the overall viewpoint of Warsh, THIS INTERVIEW from April 2024 gives some insight. Warsh has been highly critical of the FED monetary policy overall and directly links inflation and depressed wages to the […]

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Today, the National Rifle Association, along with the Independence Institute and FPC Action Foundation, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the federal prohibition on firearm possession by marijuana users.

Lemon has been charged with violating the FACE Act

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is hopeful a judge will reject the Trump administration’s request to pause her lawsuit seeking to reinstate regulations of the abortion pill.

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice asked a federal court to pause Louisiana’s case against the Food and Drug Administration while the agency conducts a safety review into the abortion drug mifepristone.

“I am certainly hopeful that he will not accept the Department of Justice’s position, because they haven’t given any concrete reason to believe they are actually moving forward,” Murrill told The Daily Signal.

The state of Louisiana and resident Rosalie Markezich filed a lawsuit in 2025 challenging a Biden-era rule allowing abortion drugs to be dispensed to women through the mail without seeing a doctor first.

Markezich says her boyfriend coerced her into taking abortion pills which he ordered from a doctor in California. While Louisiana law prohibits abortions in almost all cases, the lack of an in-person dispensing requirement on the drugs allowed him to obtain the drugs out-of-state through the mail.

The administration’s request for a pause says that studies like the abortion pill safety review “often take approximately a year or more to conduct,” though the FDA’s current plan is to complete the study “sooner than that timeframe.”

A spokesperson for the Justice Department told The Daily Signal in a statement that the agency “remains committed to advancing President Trump’s pro-life agenda, including through dismissing criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits against peaceful pro-life advocates targeted by the previous administration, and using the FACE Act to protect pro-life pregnancy centers.”

“In this filing, the Department of Justice simply requested more time from the court for the FDA to complete its review of mifepristone REMS,” the spokesperson added. A Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, or REMS, is a protocol for the FDA to ensure safe usage of higher-risk drugs.

“As the Supreme Court recognized in a unanimous ruling less than two years ago, it is the role of the FDA – not the federal courts – to evaluate drug safety data and impose appropriate precautions.”

However, because the Trump FDA has not taken steps to initate the rulemaking process to change the Biden-era rule, there’s no reason to pause the case, Murrill said.

“If they had taken action toward withdrawing the Biden-era rules, which they can and should do, and have even indicated they’re willing to do, since they’ve conceded these rules need to be withdrawn, then I think we might all agree it would make sense to pause the litigation while they carried out that rulemaking process,” she said.

“But there’s been no movement to initiate that process, so there’s no reason to pause the case,” she continued.

Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious liberty law firm, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the state of Lousiana.

“I remain confident that we will succeed in moving forward with this litigation because courts have an unflagging obligation to hear the cases presented before them,” ADF senior counsel Erik Baptist said.

“The Trump administration is trying to pause this case, but I think it will be to no avail, given that countless women and unborn babies would be unlawfully harmed while waiting years for the FDA to do something.”

The entry of abortion pills into Lousiana from across state lines is “dangerous,” “illegal,” and “unethical,” Murrill said. A study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that 11% of women who take the abortion drug experience “sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event” within 45 days.

“We’ve seen the harms that have come to women from the kind of unrestricted flooding of these pills into our states, and we’ve had numerous cases show up in emergency rooms,” she said. “I have more than one case where women took them at 20 weeks, which is very dangerous. We’ve got proof that they do not identify the recipient of the pills, nor do they identify the prescriber or the pharmacy.”

“You get online, and you fill out that form, and it doesn’t matter who you are, you can get these pills, and then you can do whatever you want with them,” she continued. “It’s just an very unusual situation for any kind of medication that has a black box warning on it, like this does.”

While the DOJ is saying it requested a pause because the legal case could “affect the review process,” Tom McCluskey, government affairs director at CatholicVote, thinks there’s more to the story.

“It does seem to coincide with other decisions coming from the White House that they want to wait till the midterms, or not deal with it at all,” he told The Daily Signal.

“While I am appreciative of the groundbreaking pro-life moves this administration continues to do, the dangers and outreach of the abortion drug can erase all movements forward,” he continued.

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The United States has been suffering from a crisis of the imagination for a long time. When Donald Trump first came on the political scene with the “Make America Great Again” slogan, it looked like he was part of the problem. MAGA was nostalgia bait, but Trump continues to govern with more optimism about the future than most Americans are even comfortable with. 

According to Pew data released in December, the American psyche is engrossed in “futurephobia.” When asked which time period they would choose to live in if given the chance, 45% of U.S. adults said they would leap into the past, with 1 in 5 yearning to go back 50 years or more. Meanwhile, 40% would cling to the present and the status quo. 

If life were a poker table, almost everyone would check or fold.

Only 14% of Americans would take a shot on the future. The skeptics who want to pause or retreat are responding to genuine fear and a sense of loss, whether it’s the decline of community, pessimistic economic prospects, or feelings of obsolescence in the face of AI.

Trump’s “MAGA” motto intentionally spoke to this malaise while still offering an unapologetic, high-octane kind of optimism embedded in his policy agenda. A key ingredient of Trump’s politics is not apologizing for the past, cause most people look back on it fondly, one way or another. 

MAGA’s starting point was to appreciate the past and recapture parts of it in the future. That’s the best kind of nostalgia. 

In his book Past Forward, Dr. Clay Routledge argues about nostalgia that nostalgia is, “The past isn’t the true destination; it’s just where we go to grab supplies for the trip.” The president’s critics have focused for ten years now on his ability to signal nostalgia, and neglected the part of Trump’s character that is fond of building skyscrapers. 

Overly nostalgic people don’t knock down the White House’s East Wing. His administration recognizes that to save the American Dream, we have to build new things. 

In energy, the administration is embracing the ambitious goal of making America an energy powerhouse. Back in May, the president signed an executive order aiming to quadruple U.S. nuclear capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050. Meta recently announced a new infrastructure project that would yield 6.6 gigawatts of nuclear energy. Energy Sec. Chris Wright was correct in his response, “It takes a massive amount of electricity to generate intelligence.” 

They’ve allowed for the powering of next-generation technology while simultaneously trying to keep a lid on energy prices for consumers. For the Trump administration, it’s about reinstituting a culture where companies are encouraged to think big again. They’ve done this by dismantling a litany of regulatory hurdles that have stalled energy infrastructure projects. 

They’ve gone all-in on a high-energy future. 

On tech, the precautionary principle, which crept out of Brussels and into the Biden administration, has largely been cast out. There’s less carnal fear over technology. Look at Trump’s announcement of the Genesis Mission for November, which would leverage the power of AI to double research and development productivity over the next decade. That means faster production and lower prices of goods and services for consumers. 

If you ever wondered why “flying cars” haven’t happened, look no further than the inflexibility of federal aviation rules. Even here, things are being loosened up. A longstanding federal ban on civilian aircraft exceeding the speed of sound over land was lifted in June, allowing for more supersonic flight.

The FAA has been directed to establish noise-based standards rather than blanket speed limits, which clears the way for potential 90-minute flights between New York to Los Angeles. Still, no Jetsons cars, but this is what it looks like when the government isn’t scared stiff by progress. Unimaginable things can happen in transportation if the government signals an openness to allowing change. 

Of course, there’s still the final frontier and the Artemis II mission. The Trump administration is setting hard deadlines for astronauts to return to the moon in 2028. They aim to establish a permanent lunar outpost by the end of the decade, which must be a delight to former presidential candidate and moon base enthusiast, Newt Gingrich.

Artemis II is in final testing with Feb. 2 as a dress rehearsal for launch, an adventure that offers Americans an opportunity to grow beyond fondness for the past and to get excited about tomorrow. 

Fear of the future is natural, but it does not have to be our destiny. MAGA may have started as a nostalgia movement dedicated to remembering why we should be proud of being Americans, but Trump is more focused on the future than any administration in recent history.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. 

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Prosecutors will not be able to seek the death penalty for accused killer Luigi Mangione, a federal judge ruled Friday. Mangione is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in […]

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The city of Costa Mesa, California, is preparing updated store self-checkout rules that could result in hefty fines for businesses.

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Pro-American activists and groups are slamming the establishment's bipartisan push for a stealth nationwide amnesty that would help progressives and CEOs freely use the huge population of million illegal migrants to sideline American citizens.

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After the House Ethics Committee announced it found over two dozen instances of “serious financial crimes” against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., announced on Thursday night he will be filing a resolution to expel the congresswoman.

“In November, I filed a resolution to expel [Cherfilus-McCormick] following her indictment by the DOJ,” Steube posted on X. “Today’s House Ethics findings detail more than two dozen counts of serious financial crimes. When we return to Washington, I’ll call up a resolution to expel her from Congress.”

The Department of Justice previously charged Cherfilus-McCormick for allegedly stealing over $5 million in COVID-19 disaster relief funds and making illegal campaign contributions. If convicted, she could face upwards of 53 years in prison.  

The Ethics Committee dug through over 33,000 documents, conducted 28 witness interviews, and released a 59-page statement of alleged violations totaling over two dozen crimes and over $5 million in stolen funds.  

The committee will hold a hearing on March 5. It is still unclear if Cherfilus-McCormick will be forced to appear and testify.  

The committee found that the congresswoman received overpayments originally from FEMA but paid out through the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Instead of returning the overpaid money, Cherfilus-McCormick allegedly laundered it through her own consulting firm and family members’ LLC’s. 

Cherfilus-McCormick allegedly used some of the funds to make illegal contributions to her 2021 congressional campaign, purchase designer merchandise at Tiffany & Co., Tesla, and on luxury travel as well.  

The congresswoman will also appear in court in Miami for the same crimes. A federal judge has rescheduled the arraignment twice. As of now she is set to appear on Feb. 3.  

“I reject these allegations and remain confident the full facts will make clear I did nothing wrong,” said the congresswoman in a statement claiming she is not guilty.  

Expelling the congresswoman would require a 2/3 vote. Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies, D-N.Y., says, “it’s going to fail.” 

Cherfilus-McCormick could not be reached for a comment.  

In December 2023, the House in a bipartisan vote expelled George Santos, R-N.Y., following his indictment on multiple federal charges, including wire fraud, money laundering, and identity theft. Santos was the first member of Congress expelled in over 20 years.

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New York's first Jewish city council speaker and its first Muslim mayor may not be seeing eye to eye when it comes to ways to combat antisemitism in the Big Apple.

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