The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI ‌and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems.

A Greek air force jet crashed at an aerial show north of Athens, starting a fire that sent large plumes of black smoke into the air in front of several thousand spectators on Saturday.

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A Gulf Cartel gunman who was trying to sneak into the U.S. illegally is now facing federal terrorism charges. Prosecutors allege he took part in surveillance, enforcement, and the disposal of bodies for the Gulf Cartel in Mexico. The Gulf Cartel is one of seven Mexican drug cartels that have been labeled as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.

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U.S. House Speaker MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA) recaps this week’s votes in which House Democrats refused to condemn Socialism and refused to codify the Supreme Court justices should remain at a total of 9. House Judiciary Committee chairman JIM JORDAN (R-OH) says much more oversight is needed to prevent activist groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center from harassing conservative & Christian organizations and falsely labeling them as “hate groups.” U. S. Senator BILL CASSIDY (R-LA) warns abortion-pill manufacturers continue to defy FDA regulations on mail-order abortion drugs being issued without doctor supervisions. CHRISTIAN DATOC, White House correspondent for The Washington Examiner, looks at the latest on the U.S./Iran conflict. And TONY PERKINS offers a commentary commentary on how the younger generation of voters in America apparently have no knowledge of the “Iron Curtain” or why Socialism inevitably leads to repression and censoring information. All this—and more—coming up on our latest edition of THIS WEEK ON CAPITOL HILL (TWOCH) with Tony Perkins, sponsored by AARP.

No Republicans faced consequences for voting against rules

In 2022, politicians in Minneapolis and St. Paul voted for rent control.

I said that would lead to bigger problems.

Was I right?

My update video reveals what happened.

St. Paul politicians pushed rent control, saying rent caps would stop “unfair profiteering.”

But what the heck is “profiteering,” and how is it different from “profit”? Who decides what is “unfair”?

The opportunity for profit is what persuades people to invest in things. And build things. If enough people invest in new housing, rents will stop shooting up.

That’s just how markets work.

It’s why studies show that rent control reduces the supply of housing and gradually raises prices.

But activists don’t pay attention to those.

“We don’t need more studies,” says one in my video. “We need action.”

St. Paul’s actions were strict—its rent control law made no allowance for inflation.

“It’s just going to shut down construction,” said Mercatus Center economist Salim Furth. “Why would you enter a market where it seems like the government is actively trying to hurt you?”

At least St. Paul has a “Twin City,” Minneapolis, so frustrated builders could move just a few blocks and build something there. They did just that. Construction increased there.

Minneapolis politicians had also voted for rent control, but they were wary about imposing it. That was smart, since new housing collapsed in St. Paul.

But Minneapolis City Council member Aisha Chughtai was unconvinced. She wants more rent control, telling me, “You don’t have a city” if people “can’t afford to live there.”

I pushed back: “The way you have a city is if people build apartments and houses. That’s what eventually brings the price down … Builders still build in Minneapolis—building permits were up … But in St. Paul, they’re down 60% because of rent control. You’re not going to get more apartments by pushing this.”

Her response was something new for me after 50 years of interviewing people: 17 seconds of silence. Finally, she said: “Guaranteeing housing for people and making sure that they can stay in their homes matters more than anything else.”

Chughtai calls herself a socialist. I ask her, where has that ever worked?

After another long, awkward pause, she says, “I’m doing a fine job of representing my community.”

I wish socialists would just spend a little time reading economics—or history.

Rent control once destroyed much of New York City.

Because they made it hard for landlords to profit, many landlords just stopped doing maintenance.

“They don’t take care of their properties,” says Furth. “They don’t send a plumber promptly when water starts leaking.”

Or worse: The documentaries “The Bronx Is Burning” and “Decade of Fire” document how landlords, unable to profit, set fire to their own buildings.

So what’s happening now in St. Paul, four years after its clueless politicians imposed strict rent control?

There was so little new construction that the politicians rolled most rent control back.

In sister city Minneapolis, socialist Chughtai has been promoted to majority leader. But the Minneapolis council never imposed rent control, and the mayor pledges never to impose it.

I’d think politicians would learn from St. Paul’s failures. But no, not my new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who just froze rent on a million New York City apartments.

Give me a break.

Already, 57,000 New York City apartments sit vacant because existing rent stabilization laws make it unprofitable for landlords to repair them.

The late economist Walter Williams was right to say: “Short of aerial bombardment, the best way to destroy a city is through rent controls.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a 72-hour pause in strikes on Kyiv, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russia's Tass news agency Saturday.

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Dozens of men dressed in black and balaclavas descended upon the Port of Dover on Saturday, blocking traffic in an apparent protest against the migrant crisis in the English Channel.

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Marvel's 'Punisher: War Zone' director Lexi Alexander is taking heat for a post about the stabbing of Bank of America executive Erin Piacenti.

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Ten years ago today, September 5, 2016, Michael Anton’s “The Flight 93 Election” took the internet, and the Right, by storm. Anton’s essay made the case for Trump in the face of furious, well-funded opposition from elite conservative intellectual and political circles.

The electoral choice was easy: Trump was a risk; Hillary was a certainty. On Trump, though, Anton went further. On trade, war, the economy, and especially immigration, Trump promised to disrupt the establishment status quo in the name of the long-aggrieved GOP voting base. He ran on a concrete policy platform, amassed a presidential electoral coalition around it, and then delivered. How novel!

Anton’s arresting polemic in defense of Trump has been vindicated. It also did not come from nowhere. Six years before “Flight 93,” in 2010, the late Angelo Codevilla (a longtime Claremont Senior Fellow) published an equally viral essay in The American Spectator, “America’s Ruling Class—and the Perils of Revolution.” He called out the intellectual, moral, and republican bankruptcy of America’s bipartisan ruling class. Rush Limbaugh read it on air, as he would again with Anton’s essay in 2016.

Anton and Codevilla were ahead of the curve, analyzing the trends and the future of American politics and institutions at a higher level than their peers in the commentariat. Many of their Claremont Institute colleagues had been doing similar work for decades—on the threat of the administrative state, the folly of George W. Bush’s Middle East democracy project, and foundational constitutional questions like birthright citizenship.

“The Flight 93 Election” should be understood in this larger context. The enduring work of the Claremont Institute, what Harry V. Jaffa called “the scholarship of the politics of freedom,” is the necessary precondition for serious analysis of America’s rolling constitutional crisis. This project of constitutional restoration, started during the first Trump Administration and now proceeding in the second, draws on intellectual foundations many decades in the making.

Revisit “The Flight 93 Election” this weekend. And if you haven’t already, pick up the updated edition of Angelo Codevilla’s The Ruling Class (2024), with an introduction by none other than Michael Anton.

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Is the stranglehold tightening?

The AI music generation platform Suno reportedly killed a Mary J. Blige advertisement in which the singer appeared to endorse the company.

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So near a verdict, and yet so far away.

In less than two years, federal prosecutors in the Trump administration charged about four times as many noncitizens with election fraud crimes as the Biden administration’s Justice Department in the entirety of the four-year term.

Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, charges have been brought against 50 noncitizen defendants for alleged offenses such as illegally voting or illegally registering to vote, according to the Justice Department.

Also, during this Trump term, 17 noncitizens were convicted of voting-related offenses. One defendant was found not guilty, while the remaining defendants’ cases are pending, according to Justice Department figures.

During the four years of the Biden administration under Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Justice Department brought charges against 13 noncitizens for illegal voting-related offenses. Of those, nine defendants were found guilty, including two whose voter fraud charges were dismissed as part of plea agreements.

“The contrast with the prior administration could not be clearer — this department is enforcing the law against noncitizen voting in ways the last administration simply refused to,” a Justice Department spokesperson told the Daily Signal. “Protecting the integrity of our elections is a top priority for this Department.”

Trump has advocated for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which requires photo ID to vote and proof of citizenship to register to vote. Though prospects for the bill’s passage look dim before Election Day, its supporters point to the prosecutions as evidence of the need for additional safeguards.

If annualized over four years, Trump’s second-term Justice Department has brought almost 10 times as many charges as the Biden Justice Department. That means, at the current pace, it amounts to about 31 defendants per year under Trump, compared with 3.25 per year under Biden.

“These are illegal votes that are cast and counted, and once they’re counted, they can’t be uncounted,” Cleta Mitchell, the co-founder of the Only Citizens Vote Coalition, told the Daily Signal.

“First the Left says this never happens, noncitizens never vote. Then you say, ‘Look at this,’” Mitchell added. “Then they come back to say, well, it’s not widespread. How many illegal votes are OK with you? We want to make sure there are no illegal votes cast.”

To demonstrate the impact a single vote—or a single illegal vote—could have on an election, the Public Interest Legal Foundation established a database showing 1,376 tied elections and 531 contests decided by a single vote since 1982.

A majority of the Justice Department charges and convictions in this area came since October, or the start of fiscal year 2026, with 29 defendants. In that time, there were 11 convictions.

In most cases, defendants in both administrations were charged with multiple crimes.

For example, in December 2021, during the Biden era, the Eastern District of North Carolina announced an indictment against a Bahamian citizen on 10 counts, including voting in elections from 2018 through 2020; falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to register to vote; passport fraud; and false statements.

In September 2024, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama charged an illegal immigrant from Guatemala with using a U.S. citizen’s identity, registering to vote, and voting in Alabama in the 2016 and 2020 primary and general elections. She pleaded guilty on Jan. 15, 2025, days before Trump’s inauguration.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida garnered guilty pleas from a Cuban national in September 2025, a Haitian national convicted in April of this year, and a Brazilian national in May for illegal voting.

In May 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey announced four separate noncitizen voting prosecutions. In June, the office announced that a French citizen pleaded guilty to voting in the 2022 election.

The Justice Department has received assistance in several cases from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement wing of the Department of Homeland Security.

“Our message to aliens who vote in American elections is clear: We will find you, arrest you, and you will face the consequences—including criminal charges and deportation,” the Department of Homeland Security spokesman told the Daily Signal in an email.

Homeland Security Investigations began focusing this week on California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington state, and Wisconsin, CNN reported.

“Since April 2025, more than 24,000 cases have been identified by SAVE as potential non-U.S. citizens who were on voter rolls, and those cases have been referred to ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations for further investigation,” the Department of Homeland Security spokesman said.

“Over the past year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has overhauled the SAVE program, making it fully operational and providing states with an easy-to-use tool that has resulted in over 60 million voter verification queries processed since April 2025,” the Department of Homeland Security spokesman added.