Today, Thursday, January 29th, at 4pm the House Appropriations committee will hold an executive session on House Bill 2521, removing the cap on how much Washington State Patrol can charge for firearm background checks and expanding the scope of what the collected fees can be used for.  

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot terrorist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, attended an in-person meeting with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss boosting Russia's economic presence in the country.

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After saying illegal drugs entering the U.S. via the sea are down "97%," President Donald Trump on Thursday added that focus has begun on land activity.

An Illinois hunter tragically died this week after falling through a frozen pond while trying to rescue his dog.

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One week before the FBI raid of the Fulton County elections office to gather information on the 2020 election, members of the Georgia State Election Board questioned the county for alleged mismanagement of voter registration rolls. 

State officials have been demanding answers from Fulton County election staff about ongoing matters such as double voter registrants and voters registered at stores or other public locations.

The FBI is reportedly investigating the potential violation of two federal laws, one of which makes it illegal for election officials to either intimidate voters or submit fraudulent ballots or voter registration applications. The other law requires officials to keep federal election records for 22 months.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Catherine Salinas signed the search warrant for the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center. 

“The FBI is conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity. No other information is available at this time,” the FBI National Press Office said in an email. 

Fulton County spokeswoman Regina Waller issued a statement Wednesday confirming the FBI raid. 

“Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center. The warrant sought a number of records related to 2020 elections,” Waller said in an email to The Daily Signal Wednesday. “This operation is still actively underway. We cannot provide further information at this time.”

On Thursday, The Daily Signal contacted Waller as well as Fulton County Elections Director Nadine Williams, county elections board Chairwoman Sherri Allen, and three other members of the elections board. None immediately responded. 

A State Elections Board meeting in December found that 315,000 mail-in votes were improperly certified in Fulton County in 2020 because polling workers did not sign off on the tabulation. 

President Donald Trump, who lost the state of Georgia to former President Joe Biden in 2020 by fewer than 12,000 votes, has claimed the election in Georgia and other closely-contested states was stolen. 

The Georgia State Election Board was already seeking answers from Fulton County Elections personnel. Several members expressed frustration at the Jan. 21 meeting that the county only sent one staffer who did not have answers to most of their questions. 

Among those with questions was the board’s vice chair, Janice Johnston. 

“It’s unclear what the county is doing to address the ineligible voter registrations,” Johnston told The Daily Signal before the FBI raid. “The latest information from the Election Assistance Commission survey last year [said] that the total number of registered voters is higher than the voting eligible population by 115%.”

The State Election Board is reviewing complaints that residents are registered more than once in the county, that more than 1,000 residents have non-residential addresses, and that at least three registered voters have birthdays listed on Jan. 1, 1900. 

“There was a complaint about a possible double voter. As part of that, the board is asking about the voter rolls,” Johnston said. 

The complaints were submitted by Jason Frazier, a Fulton County resident and chairman of the election integrity action group with the Georgia Republican Assembly, a conservative advocacy group. 

“There are people registered at UPS stores or FedEx stores. Some are registered at a MARTA station,” Frazier told The Daily Signal ahead of the FBI raid this week. 

In addition to the birthdays with the year 1900, he found about 500 registered voters that had no birthday. 

“It could be that Fulton County is incompetent rather than nefarious,” Frazier said. “Or the county could be nefarious, which is why it hired incompetent people.”

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Communist lawmakers from Russia's State Duma established a committee seeking to achieve the "liberation" of Venezuela's deposed socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, the Russian embassy in Caracas announced Wednesday.

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for records of its preparation of a congressionally mandated report on the wealth and corrupt activities of the Chinese Communist Party (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (No. 1:26-cv-00199)).

Judicial Watch sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Director of National Intelligence failed to respond to a March 7, 2025, FOIA request for:

• All records relied upon during ODNI’s preparation of its report regarding the wealth and corrupt activities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For purposes of clarification, the report was mandated by Sec. 6501 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (P.L. 117-263).

• All communications between ODNI personnel involved in the preparation of the report and any official or employee of the Department of State regarding the report, or its submission to Congress.

• All communications between ODNI personnel involved in the preparation of the report and the Executive Office of the President regarding the report, or its submission to Congress.

The 2022 legislation mandating the report gave a deadline of December 2023.

In June 2024 China was reported to have lobbied strongly against the report’s release. The report was not delivered until March 2025 – after Donald Trump had become president and a new director of national intelligence was in place.

The seven-page report, titled “Wealth and Corrupt Activities of the Leadership of the Chinese Communist Party,” states: 

Corruption is an endemic feature of and challenge for China, enabled by a political system with power highly centralized in the hands of the CCP, a CCP-centric concept of the rule of law, a lack of independent checks on public officials, and limited transparency.

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Corruption within China is primarily due to structural features that centralize power, eschew independent checks or accountability—especially at the provincial level—and produce perverse incentives for political advancement and financial enrichment.

“There is heavy resistance to transparency when it comes to what the Deep State knows about the Chinese Communist Party,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “The long delay of this intelligence report on China’s corruption and systemic graft reflects poorly on the Biden-era intelligence community.”

Judicial Watch has reported extensively on China’s influence in the United States.

In March 2025, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records regarding Minnesota governor and 2024 Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

In November 2025, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Department of Education for records on the University of Michigan’s connections to China, including related communications with the U.S. Department of Justice.

In July 2025, Judicial Watch received records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about Gov. Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). DHS and the FBI counter-intelligence investigation into Walz’s CCP connections determined that “China [was] happy” with Walz being selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. Walz’s connections to the CCP were extensive and a concern to the intelligence community, according to the documents produced.

In July 2024, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Department of Treasury for records of communication between the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regarding the purchase of U.S. farmland by foreign entities, including China and other foreign powers.

Judicial Watch’s investigations and FOIA lawsuits uncovered much is publicly known about Covid-19’s connections with China, including FBI records released in April 2024 referencing an April 2020 email exchange with several officials in the bureau’s Newark Field Office referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China as including “gain-of-function research” which “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation.”

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Americans face an uphill battle if we hope to wrest control of our elected legislature from the malignant forces now controlling it. Indeed, so much of what happens in public […]

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Fulton County Chairman Rob Pitts on Thursday said election officials have "nothing to hide" after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided an Atlanta-area elections office looking for ballots from the 2020 presidential election.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle," host Laura Ingraham questioned the wisdom behind Democrats' tack toward immigration enforcement.

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The National Archives has opened a new permanent exhibit that uses machine learning to help visitors navigate billions of pages of U.S. historical records, marking the first time a museum on the National Mall has powered an exhibit with artificial intelligence.

The U.S. trade deficit widened to $56.8 billion in November, up from $29.2 billion in October, as imports of computers and semiconductors surged to support the nation's ongoing technology investment boom

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A Russian drone attack killed three people in Ukraine´s southern Zaporizhzhia region overnight, authorities said Thursday.

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