The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is slated to review "ALL" its programs to ensure only legal citizens are receiving benefits, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins emphasized on Monday.

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—“Iryna’s Law” took effect in North Carolina on Monday after lawmakers passed the tough-on-crime legislation in response to a Ukrainian refugee’s highly publicized murder on a Charlotte train.

The wide-ranging law broadly discourages pretrial release for defendants with prior criminal histories, requires mental health examinations in some serious cases and increases punishment for crimes committed on public transportation systems — provisions that relate to the August murder of Iryna Zarutska, the law’s namesake. It also adds ten assistant prosecutors to Mecklenburg County, gives the state’s chief justice authority to suspend magistrate judges, expands methods for executions and allows courts to extend probation sentences for juveniles they deem to be dangerous.

Zarutska was fatally stabbed on a light rail train by a man whom authorities identified as Decarlos Brown Jr., a mentally ill homeless resident with more than a dozen prior arrests.

The law requires jail or house arrest for anyone convicted of three Class 1 misdemeanors or higher offenses in the past 10 years. It also directs judges to order mental health evaluations for defendants who were involuntarily committed in the past three years or are a danger to the community in order to determine whether to institutionalize them again. Additionally, it bans judges from releasing defendants on a “written promise to appear”—the same declaration Brown made in January before police say he murdered Zarutska in Charlotte.

The law mandates that police inform judges about any arrestee behavior that shows they are dangerous to the community before detainment decisions are made. Judges must also order officials to provide a “criminal history report” on all defendants before deciding conditions of pretrial release, the text says.

Judges who grant pretrial release to criminals convicted of Class 1 misdemeanor or higher offenses three times, or those facing violent charges, must provide “written findings of fact” explaining the decision, the law says.

Democrat North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed Iryna’s Law in October. Stein praised the requirements for judges to weigh defendants’ criminal records in pretrial release rulings. He went on to call the death penalty provisions “barbaric” and complained about the bill’s emphasis on cash bail, NC Newsroom reported. The legislation states that lethal injection is North Carolina’s preferred execution method, but that if it is unavailable, others may be used.

The Trump administration criticized liberal cities’ criminal justice policies after Zarutka’s murder and charged Brown in September with committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system. The Department of Justice is pursuing the death penalty for Brown, and he also faces state-level murder charges over Zarutska’s death.

Originally published by Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder reinvented himself as a creepy advocate for climate alarmism and other leftist causes, recently stated that he would support the deployment of artificial "geoengineering" technologies to reduce global temperatures by reflecting the Sun's radiation if the climate reached a "tipping point." Just over a month ago, Gates backtracked on climate alarmism by pushing back on what he calls the "doomsday outlook."

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Monday on CNN's "News Central," Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said if the reports about the Trump administration's first military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean were accurate, it would be a "stone-cold war crime."

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ST. PAUL, MN — Desperate to clear his good name, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz offered to give several journalists free tampons if they would stop talking about his fraud scandal.

NBC Sunday Night Football analyst Rodney Harrison appeared to freeze on camera when asked about the Washington Commanders' defense, prompting viewers to worry about his health.

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The air quality index in Tehran has deteriorated to “unhealthy” and “alarming” levels, according to both outside experts and the Iranian government, which advised city residents to remain indoors last week.

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