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Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appeared stunned when protesters interrupted his speech for a far-left candidate for one of the state’s seats in the U.S. Senate.

Ellison was trying to encourage Democrats to show up for Peggy Flanagan when protesters interrupted him and demanded that he answer for shutting down a program looking into wrongful convictions.

The contest will likely be seen as another battle between far-left elements of the Democratic Party trying to seize control.

Flanagan is trying to win the primary for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from Rep. Angie Craig, a Democrat who has represented Minnesota since 2019.

Ellison seemed angered and rattled by the protesters, and he quickly finished his comments before rushing offstage.

The protesters were angry about Ellison shutting down the Conviction Review Unit, which he blamed on lack of funding from the Trump administration. In five years, the unit overturned three wrongful convictions.

Prior to getting heckled off the stage, Ellison described the contest between Flanagan and Craig as “truly a fight of the money versus the many.”

He might have been referring to the significant cash advantage Craig has over Flanagan, as divulged in financial reports. Flanagan has only $1.56 million in cash on hand, while Craig has more than three times as much — $5 million, for the period ending June 30.

“We are the many, and we will beat the money, and we will prevail against them,” Ellison said at the rally.

Videos of the interruption were widely circulated on YouTube and the X platform.

Craig was the first openly LGBTQ+ member in Congress from Minnesota and is also the first lesbian mother to serve in Congress.

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She has been endorsed by establishment Democrats, including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The contest will likely be seen as another battle between far-left elements of the Democratic Party trying to seize control.

The primaries for both parties will be conducted Aug. 11.

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Cory Mills, the scandal-plagued Republican congressman from Florida, is back on the radar of law enforcement, this time, at the Department of Justice.

A source familiar with the matter confirmed to Blaze News on Tuesday evening that Mills is under DOJ investigation. However, the nature and scope of the investigation remain unclear.

‘Strap up cowboy.’

MS NOW, citing three sources, reported that it is a criminal investigation, and ABC News, citing sources, reported that at least part of the investigation relates to Mills’ finances.

Mills’ office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

RELATED: Are scandal-plagued Cory Mills’ days in Congress finally numbered?

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For nearly a year and a half, Mills has been plagued by allegations ranging from stolen valor, to a conversion to Islam, to meeting with a Syrian leader once labeled a terrorist, and even to sextortion against a beauty queen.

As Blaze News reported in August, Mills allegedly bombarded Lindsey Langston, then the reigning Miss United States, with threatening messages after she ended their three-year relationship in February 2025.

Screenshots of messages allegedly from Mills and reviewed by Blaze News included:

“You want to date or be with someone else. Be my guest. But they need to know well in advance that if we cross paths, I don’t care this week, this month, or this decade. They better damn well know it’s coming every time.””May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy.””I can send him a few videos of you as well.”

At the time, Langston told Blaze News, “Am I gonna wake up one day to videos of us having sex on social media? Because I know he has them, and he’s put it in writing.”

Langston was granted a restraining order against Mills in October.

This is a developing story.

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It seems a lot of people are pretending to do more work than they actually do.

While performance art at work comes in many different forms and happens for different reasons, one generation is actually outperforming the others in its efforts to not work: Gen Z.

‘The average worker fakes about five hours per week.’

Con job

In a survey of full-time American professionals, employees have found remarkable ways to fake productivity.

Shockingly, 66% of employees admitted to faking productivity at work, and 73% of managers said they do it as well.

Gen Z has a particular affinity for it, however, outperforming older generations by 12 points when it comes to slacking off. A whopping 80% of them said they are faking productivity, while Millennials came in at 68% and Gen X at 58%.

The study from Software Finder also revealed some wild tactics employees are taking to make it seem as though they are actually working when they are not.

RELATED: Gen Z should not pay for Social Security

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Cat and mouse

The top two methods employees are using to fake work are “moving the mouse periodically” and “keeping a doc or browser tab open”; 56% of respondents said they use those tactics.

Another method used by 43% of full-time workers was purposely responding to non-urgent messages at a slower rate, or “slow-responding.”

More than a third of employees said they would log in to a tool they aren’t using, while about a quarter of respondents said they would send a strategic message on work apps like Slack or Teams to make it seem as if they were working.

Another 22% said they scheduled emails for later in the day.

All this fake work adds up to a massive amount of time burned over the course of the year. Specifically, the survey stated that the average worker fakes about five hours per week making it seem as though they are working. Multiplied over a year, that’s 260 hours, and when divided by an eight-hour work day, that’s more than 32 full days of work lost.

However, it may not be the employees’ fault.

RELATED: The GOP is blowing it with young men

Showing up

More than half of respondents said they finished their work at least an hour before the day actually ends, so the rest is lip service.

Who are they faking it for? More than a third said their direct manager, while another 31% said “no one in particular.”

The latter is indicative of a trend of not working for the sake of it, as 27% of workers said they were faking productivity because of “general workplace culture.”

The next leading reason was due to their managers, who “measure presence over output.”

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The San Antonio Police Department over the weekend released video of an officer-involved shooting that occurred last month.

Police said just after 5 p.m. June 16, four SWAT officers responded to execute an arrest warrant.

‘Strong work; I pray for a speedy recovery of the officer and a speedy trial and conviction of the perp.’

Officers arrived in an unmarked vehicle and located the suspect inside his parked vehicle, police said, adding that officers pulled up in front of the suspect’s vehicle and saw he was holding a gun.

Police said the suspect then began shooting at the officers.

With that, all four officers discharged their firearms numerous times, police said.

The police video of the shootout is below:

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During the shootout, the suspect as well as one officer were struck by gunfire, police said, adding that both the officer and the suspect were taken to a hospital for treatment.

No bystanders were injured, police said.

The 35-year-old suspect — Roman Pena — was charged with four counts of aggravated assault against a peace officer, police said.

The officers involved have eight to nine years of service with the San Antonio Police Department, officials said, adding that the department’s Shooting Team and Internal Affairs Unit are conducting separate, concurrent inquiries.

In addition, police said that as with all officer-involved shootings, the District Attorney’s Office is reviewing this incident.

As you might imagine, a number of observers who viewed the police video had things to say about what went down. The following are a few highlights:

“Strong work; I pray for a speedy recovery of the officer and a speedy trial and conviction of the perp,” one commenter wrote.”Agg[ravated] assault?” another commenter asked. “How about attempted murder. Ridiculous.””We have THE best SWAT team,” another commenter declared. “Great job, men.””GOT ‘EM!!!!” another commenter exclaimed. “F**K HOMICIDAL CRIMINALS!!!”

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Two of the internet’s most notorious manosphere influencers got arrested again this weekend.

On Saturday, U.S. Marshals cuffed Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami, reportedly en route to a bare-knuckle boxing event. Footage of the handcuffing went viral almost instantly, with the internet immediately fixating on the brothers’ rumpled outfits — particularly Andrew’s choice of a tight and revealing purple blouse.

Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a ‘political kidnapping.’

By Monday, the fashion critique gave way to a Miami courtroom, tan jail uniforms, and total silence while their lawyer vowed to fight the latest extradition attempt to the United Kingdom.

Between the two brothers, this round alone adds up to 38 new charges — rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and, for Andrew, 19 counts tied to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, plus an alleged pattern of choking victims, sometimes to unconsciousness, before assaulting them.

These charges add to the 21 original charges by the Crown Prosecution Service from May 2025 — bringing the total to 59 charges, all of a similar nature.

A separate, ongoing Romanian case accuses them of running a coercion scheme — faking relationships with women to trap them into producing pornography that authorities say generated over $2.8 million and nearly $1 million in crypto tokens.

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Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a “political kidnapping.” He’s dangled the idea that Trump might personally intervene to block it — McBride has said the president hates “political persecution and communism,” referring to actions by the U.K. government.

The Justice Department has pushed back on the political persecution framing, directly confirming to the Associated Press that leadership of its Criminal Division approved the arrests — contradicting McBride’s earlier claim that it was greenlit by a “low-level functionary” without leadership’s knowledge.

Because the Tate brothers are dual United States-British citizens, the final call on whether they get shipped overseas ultimately falls to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has the discretion to approve, block, or sit on the extradition order regardless of what the court decides.

McBride’s case that the arrests are a political witch hunt leans hard on the brothers’ Capitol Hill victory lap the week before the arrest. A photo circulated online appeared to show Andrew and Tristan posing with a member of Congress, part of a swing through D.C. that also included a stop at the Ned, an exclusive private club near the White House.

Three days after that trip, they were in handcuffs — a coincidence McBride has seemingly leveraged to argue that the case is politically motivated. He has maintained that the brothers are innocent.

A Miami judge ordered both brothers to be held in federal custody until the next hearing on Monday, and McBride estimates a final decision is around 60 days out.

Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that concerns over fraud schemes have led him to shut off $1 billion of federal Medicaid spending for California and Minnesota.

Kennedy made the announcement Tuesday after noting the many schemes that had been identified and prosecuted in the two states, both run by Democrats.

‘States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements.’

“Medicaid exists to serve vulnerable Americans — not to bankroll unsupported claims,” Kennedy said in a press release. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are restoring accountability across our public programs and protecting taxpayer dollars.”

Kennedy appeared at a media briefing alongside Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz to explain why they halted $867.5 million in spending for California and another $199 million for Minnesota.

“States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements. When they cannot, we will not release federal funds until they do,” Kennedy added.

HHS is awaiting documentation from both states to justify high-risk Medicaid claims. An analysis from CBS News found that 700 of the approximately 1,800 hospices in Los Angeles County triggered red flags for fraud, using California’s definitions.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a defiant statement about the decision.

“Today’s announcement from Dr. Oz is the same recycled political stunt we’ve seen before. California isn’t being targeted because Trump has evidence of fraud,” he wrote on social media.

‘We are being targeted for political reasons — and because Dr. Oz doesn’t understand that we are *SAVING* taxpayers money by keeping seniors and people with disabilities out of far more expensive nursing homes! We hate fraud. That’s not what this is. And we stand ready to collaborate with CMS in good faith efforts to combat fraud.”

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) also responded in a brief statement to the New York Post accusing the administration of “cutting more money in health care than they’ve prosecuted for fraud.”

HHS said the rate of growth in claims from California’s in-home care programs far outgrew the national average, suggesting some fraud was involved.

The funding paused in Minnesota involved Medicaid claims from “14 high-risk service areas.”

“The Trump administration is committed to rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse across the federal government,” HHS said in its statement. “HHS will continue to aggressively protect taxpayer dollars and hold states accountable for every federal Medicaid dollar they spend.”

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Billionaire Elon Musk may have gotten a death threat from a transgender-identifying liberal after the tech billionaire commented about transgender homicide rates.

Musk was responding to a post about the Zizian transgender cult investigated by independent journalist Andy Ngo. Members of the group are suspected of being involved in numerous slayings, and their alleged leader was arrested in Feb. 2025 in Maryland.

‘He’s putting up Hitler numbers. So maybe he should shut up before spouting lies like this.’

“The obvious reality is that giving rage-inducing hormones to mentally unstable people will cause a major increase in murder,” Musk wrote Sunday on the X social media platform, which he owns. “Statistically, trans and trans-driven (eg Charlie Kirk’s killer) homicide rates are more than triple that of the general population.”

His post grabbed a lot of attention from transgender activists, including trans-identifying activist Alejandra Caraballo.

“This MF is responsible for more deaths than there are trans people in the United States. He’s putting up Hitler numbers. So maybe he should shut up before spouting lies like this,” wrote Caraballo on the BlueSky social media app.

Caraballo’s post was reposted by Aubrey — a user who identifies as a “reclusive trans woman,” according to the bio — along with the suggestion that Musk should be “culled,” a word that can refer to euthanizing.

“Elon Musk should be culled from the human race. If humanity wants to preserve the light of consciousness and such,” read Aubrey’s post.

RELATED: ‘Did not act alone’: Suspect tied to Zizian ‘trans’ cult charged with murdering own parents

Musk’s claim about transgender homicide rates was contradicted by Grok, the artificial intelligence service for Musk’s X platform.

“Mass shooting databases (e.g. Gun Violence Archive) show trans-identified perpetrators as a tiny share overall, though some narrower analyses of public/ideological shootings note higher recent visibility,” the service responded to a user about the claim.

Ngo was publicizing his book “The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.”

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Patrick Preacher is the “pastor for queer ministry” at Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) — and what he preaches is as bad as his title sounds.

“This particular pastor says that hell doesn’t really exist as a physical place except for the manifestation of anti-LGBTQ discrimination here in America. That that is actually what makes hell,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says, before playing a clip of the pastor.

“Who had the nerve to tell you, or any of us, or this world for that matter, that being queer makes for an awful person?” Preacher asked during a sermon.

“[What] was he thinking when he told you this?” he asked again. “And I assume that it was a man because in most cases it always is. Why has Christianity — the religion of a humble, brown-skinned immigrant from Nazareth — become the religion of bigotry? Who had the nerve to tell any of us that we would be going to hell for the way God created us to be?”

“Here’s the answer,” Stuckey comments.

“Jesus did.”

“And it’s not just people who are gay. As Romans 3:23 tells us, ‘All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,’” she says, before honing in on his claim that Christianity is “the religion of bigotry.”

“He says, ‘Why has Christianity — the religion of a humble, brown-skinned immigrant from Nazareth — become the religion of bigotry?’ So here we see the intersectionality. If someone is brown-skinned, if someone is an immigrant, that they must also be accepting of homosexuality and transgenderism and all of these things,” Stuckey says.

“This is critical theory, queer theory being projected onto the Bible. This is not Christianity. This is not someone who loves God and His authority and wants to read the Bible asking, ‘How can I glorify God?’ This is someone who wants to use a religious text to justify sin, to justify and to downplay what God calls an abomination,” she continues, adding, “That is blasphemy.”

The pastor also claimed that “queer is God’s design.”

He said, “Who had the nerve to tell any of you that you’re too queer, that you’re too masculine, too gay, too feminine, or simply too much? Don’t they know? Look at your bulletin cover. Queer is God’s design.”

“God’s design from the beginning was marriage as a union between a man and a woman,” Stuckey comments.

“Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh,’” she reads from Matthew 19:4-6.

Stuckey explains that like this preacher, “Satan tries to twist God’s word the way that this pastor does.”

But that doesn’t change the true word of God.

“Homosexuality is by definition against God’s design. Scripture describes it as an abomination, unnatural, explains the penalty for persisting in this sin just as persisting in other sins in rebellion to God is hell,” she says, adding, “That is the result.”

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A Democratic congresswoman turned to soccer on Tuesday to support her claim that white supremacy is alive and well in modern culture.

Toward the end of a congressional hearing on the Smithsonian exhibit, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) was in full defense of changes that have been made at the historic museum.

‘Welcome to the Republicans’ white-pride rally.’

The hearing, titled Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past, was a back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats about whether the museum has become woke and even anti-white.

When it was her turn, Crockett used her limited time to ask David Blight, a history professor from Yale University, a bizarre question about the recent World Cup.

“The World Cup that captured the imaginations of the entire world when they saw all of these people of color that was [sic] playing for all these teams, and ultimately, if you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain,” Crockett began.

The congresswoman then asked the professor, “It seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting … against Argentina, right? And why was that? Just give me an explanation. If you could guess.”

The professor was not in the same mindset as Crockett with his response, though, saying, “Spain had the best team. Maybe that’s why they were rooting for them?”

Crockett took a moment for a hard chuckle before suggesting what the real reason might be.

“There’s also a racist history that exists as it relates to Argentina,” she said.

RELATED: Whitlock: MLB can’t spend ‘Pride Month’ mocking America and then wave a flag

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Crockett first introduced herself in the hearing by announcing, “Welcome to the Republicans’ white-pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing.”

This was followed by a series of rhetorical questions and comments surrounding the alleged threat of white supremacy in the United States. Crockett claimed that it must be hard for Republicans at the hearing to listen to the true history of America, while making other claims like black people are currently being denied their right to vote.

Republicans are trying to “ban books” and “attack museums,” Crockett went on, before citing the Biden administration’s 2021 claim that the biggest domestic threat to the United States is violent white supremacists.

Crockett also alleged that there were a lot of “white guys” with a “fetish” and “fragile egos” who are trying to feel “oppressed” over the alleged inner workings at the Smithsonian.

RELATED: Europe bans ‘sexualization’ of female athletes on camera, but viewers are stating the obvious

In another viral clip, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) questioned museum officials about training materials and tool kits that listed certain traits as products of white supremacy.

A White House document on the issue said that the National Museum of American History was using a framework that “explicitly treats museums as engines for anti-oppression activism.”

For example, the document said the museum frames ideas like “objectivity, individualism, [and] a sense of urgency” as oppressive character traits of “whiteness” and “white supremacy culture.”

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Joe Biden’s presidency began and ended with the shielding of individuals linked to decades’ worth of dangerous gain-of-function experiments.

Biden concluded his presidency by issuing former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci a blanket pardon, going back all the way to Jan. 1, 2014 — around the time the Obama administration supposedly halted funding for gain-of-function research that makes pathogens more deadly and/or more transmissible.

‘It is hard to say if Daszak will be forthcoming with information.’

Years earlier — days after the geriatric Democrat was sworn in as president and at the height of the COVID pandemic — the Biden FBI requested special treatment for Peter Daszak, the disgraced British zoologist who funneled American funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

According to documents released on Monday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the National Targeting Center — a division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection responsible for catching travelers and detecting cargo that threaten American security — alerted other groups within the Department of Homeland Security to Daszak’s planned trip from Qatar to New York on Feb. 5, 2021.

The NTC was aware not only of the British native’s recent travels around China and his role on the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2 but his work with coronavirus researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; his predominant use of American grant money for gain-of-function research, including research conducted by one of SARS-CoV-2’s likely patients zero; his contracts “with the DHS Chemical and Biological Threat Division”; his co-authorship of a 2013 study detailing the successful infection of human cells with a SARS-like coronavirus; and the National Institutes of Health’s request that he retrieve “the original type-specimen used by WIV for genetic analysis.”

The NTC recommended that Daszak undergo a Tactical Terrorism Response Team exam.

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In the NTC’s Feb. 2, 2021, email setting the stage for a thorough inspection and interview upon Daszak’s arrival was a list of questions the division evidently figured worth raising with the foreign zoologist, including:

Why was he chosen to be on the WHO investigative team?Where in China did he go?Where did he stay while in China?Did his WHO team visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and if so, what areas did the team inspect?Did the WHO team meet with any Chinese officials?Did Daszak collect, travel with, or mail any biological samples during the trip?

One of the documents published by Paul stated, “During the inspection, it is hard to say if Daszak will be forthcoming with information.”

Daszak — who was formally debarred along with his scandal-plagued and now-defunct organization, EcoHealth Alliance, last year by the Department of Health and Human Services — was apparently spared from having to undergo the exam and answer such questions in detail upon his arrival due to an intervention by the Biden FBI.

A senior CBP officer serving as the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force liaison wrote, “Please be advised FBI New York requested we do not stop the subject below.”

Customs and Border Protection played ball, sending out a message stating, “Please disregard request for inspection.”

Sen. Paul said that “the inspection never took place.”

Daszak and the FBI did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

When asked by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) during a 2024 congressional hearing whether he had a “standing relationship, either officially or unofficially, with any agency in the intelligence community,” Daszak answered no, then claimed he also wasn’t a witting informant for any U.S. intelligence agency.

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The Christian conservative keyboardist of the band Journey has lashed out at Bruce Springsteen for constantly using his platform to push his liberal politics.

Springsteen has been annoying his fans by criticizing President Donald Trump and his supporters during his concerts, and keyboardist Jonathan Cain says he’s fed up with it.

‘I mean, who cares, guys? Do your art. I try to keep politics out of my music.’

“I’m a diehard conservative. … And guys like Bruce Springsteen should shut up. You know, really, honestly, shut up, Bruce, you know?” said Cain in an interview on the “Complete Disaster Network” podcast from May that has gone viral on X this week, thanks to Variety.

He said he used to be a Democrat in his youth but has since turned to the right. He also tries to avoid injecting his politics into his music.

“Now, people say, ‘Well, you’re a Christian, and you’re conservative,’ and I’m like, ‘So what?’ I don’t preach it on stage. I don’t spend 10 minutes talking about it,” he continued.

“And Bruce, I mean, what the heck? I used to like him, and now he’s just annoying,” Cain said. “He’s an annoying, bitter old man. I mean, stop it. Really. You were born in the U.S.A., weren’t you, dude? So act like it. But even that song, if you look at the lyrics, I mean, it’s a kind of a diss to our country.”

He also turned his ire against a liberal actor known for criticizing Trump.

“Him and … who’s the other one? Robert De Niro,” Cain added. “I mean, who cares, guys? Do your art. I try to keep politics out of my music.”

RELATED: Country singer Zach Bryan gets nailed with backlash over anti-ICE song

Cain is married to Paula White, the controversial prosperity gospel evangelist who was appointed by Trump to his White House Faith Office.

Cain went on to recount how Journey is ridiculed by many in the mainstream but remains a fan favorite. Cain also recounted how Journey was one of the first bands to start touring after the coronavirus pandemic.

“Everybody told us we were going to fail, and we were crazy — we’re all going to die, you know?” Cain recalled. “And we said, ‘Nonsense, it’s time to go back out and celebrate rock ‘n’ roll again,’ and we were right, and we filled every arena we played.”

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now walking back its claim that Taco Bell lettuce supplier Taylor Farms was a source of the epidemic of explosive diarrhea that plagued customers, even apologizing to the company for making a “false positive.”

A statement from Taylor Farms reads, “Yesterday, FDA informed Taylor Fresh Foods that one of its iceberg lettuce products from central Mexico had a ‘confirmed positive’ test for cyclospora. Today, we were informed that [the] FDA made a mistake, and this was a false positive. To be clear, at this moment, FDA has not identified a single positive product test result for cyclospora.”

“Acting on initial information provided by health officials, in an abundance of caution, we completed a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce from central Mexico. Recalled product was limited to iceberg lettuce grown and processed in central Mexico,” the statement continued.

The company reminded consumers that none of its other products had been involved in the recall, before issuing a message to those who are sick.

“Our thoughts remain with everyone who has fallen ill in this outbreak. We are committed to working with public health authorities as the ongoing outbreak investigation continues,” the statement concluded.

“It’s just such a warm statement from a corporation,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments on “Stu and Dave Do America.”

“Basically, they [the FDA] didn’t even have this information, they sunk, probably, the stock of Taylor Farms if they even have one,” he continues. “And Taco Bell and probably 10 other places, right?“

“Right,” co-host Dave Landau jokes, “which is why I bought it.”

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Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate has been arrested in the U.S. after British authorities issued new charges — which include seven counts of rape and charges related to sex trafficking and indecent images of a child.

His brother Tristan was arrested as well, with a whopping 59 charges against the pair in total.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is not surprised, pointing out that the entire belief system the Tates capitalized on was a lie.

“The manosphere sold you a lie. A big one,” he begins. “They told you that the alternative to weak, feminized, go-along-to-get-along men was Andrew Tate. That he was the antidote, the cure, real masculinity.”

“No, Andrew Tate was never the opposite of the culture’s sickness. He was the culture’s sickness wearing a nicer watch,” he adds.

And while Tate railed against feminism, he wasn’t that different from the feminists.

“Think about it. The feminists tell women, ‘Your body is your product. Sell it. Own it. Sex work is work.’ And what did Andrew Tate tell men? ‘Turn women into product. Run the webcam. Take the money.’ It’s the same immorality, same worship of flesh, same contempt for God’s design, just pointed in a different direction,” Whitlock explains.

Tate also claimed that he had broken free of “the matrix,” which drew a loyal following from many young men who feel the system has been working against them.

Instead, Whitlock says that Tate is “one of the biggest benefactors of the matrix.”

“He’s their shining example of what the matrix can do with anybody willing to be dishonest. Andrew Tate wasn’t neo. He wasn’t fighting the system. He was the system’s greatest advertisement. And the fruit of it is what you saw this weekend in Miami,” he explains.

“Real masculinity is not how many women you can control. It’s not a rented Bugatti. It’s not a compound full of security cameras and neon lights. Real masculinity is responsibility. It’s a covenant. It’s a man who provides, who protects, who leads his home under God, not a man who preys on the vulnerable and calls it strength,” he says.

“I said it back in January, and I’ll say it again right now. Andrew Tate is trying to lead you away from your actual ally,” he continues. “Any Christian man that’s trying to pursue holiness, trying to pursue righteousness, that is your ally.”

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A “serious software error” in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to 6,600 people who indicated they were not citizens to be wrongly registered to vote, according to the state’s governor.

Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill said in a statement Tuesday that the error was discovered last week and that she has replaced the vendor responsible and taken those voters off the rolls.

‘They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.’

“These individuals answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for driver’s licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway,” Sherrill said.

Sherrill said the registrations occurred between June 2023 and June 2024, years before she got into office.

“This happened under the previous administration and, upon learning this information, I immediately ordered my chief counsel to launch an investigation to get to the bottom of what occurred,” she said. “I also ordered the removal of any residents from our voter rolls who were erroneously added between June 2023 and June 2024.”

She went on to say she was “appalled” by the “reckless failures” that led to the false registrations.

“Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted,” she added. “They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.”

Sherrill blamed the previous administration under Gov. Phil Murphy, another Democrat.

RELATED: ‘Dead on arrival’: Chuck Schumer says Dems will ‘go all out’ to defeat voter ID bill

Merrill went on to try to preempt criticism from Republicans about voter integrity.

“As the Trump administration tries to weaponize elections for political gain, I am ensuring we protect our elections,” she added. “Let me be clear: Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity. For more than 10 years, he has worked to undermine Americans’ faith in our elections by spreading lies about legitimate election results, attempting to overturn a free and fair election, encouraging an attack on our Capitol when he couldn’t accept the will of the voters, and defunding election security at the federal level.”

Trump has been pressing for the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to show photo ID before registering to vote.

“Yet another reason to PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!” responded a White House social media account. “It would require states to submit voter rolls to the USCIS/DHS SAVE system for citizenship verification (which New Jersey currently does not do) — preventing this exact scenario from happening in the first place.”

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Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said officers responded to a shooting in the 3000 block of Travis Road around 1:50 a.m. Thursday.

Officers at the scene saw a male suffering from a gunshot wound, and police said the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

‘Get out of my house, b***h.’

Kendra Scott, 36, was arrested at the scene and later charged with first-degree murder and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, police said.

But the New York Post said Scott found the 20-year-old male in question hiding under her 13-year-old daughter’s bed.

The Post added that an arrest affidavit it obtained indicates Scott told police she came home and “saw a dude under” the bed — “and I did what I had to do.”

The affidavit also said the gunshot wound was in the back of the male’s head, the Post added, and that he was found outside the home.

More from the paper:

The deadly incident unfolded after Scott’s teen daughter told cops she invited the man, Rodderius Morton, to the family’s home at around 1 a.m., according to the court document and Scott’s lawyer.

An enraged Scott started pounding on the front door and bellowing, “Who’s at my house?!” when she arrived home around 30 minutes later, the affidavit states.

Her unidentified daughter grew terrified when she noticed her mom was allegedly holding a gun.

Scott had said that if she “sees a boy in my house I will put a hole in his ass,” the daughter later told cops, according to the affidavit.

The Post, citing the court document, reported that the teen soon let her mother inside, where Scott allegedly found Morton hiding under the bed. It isn’t clear why Scott had to be let inside her own house.

“Get out of my house, bitch,” Scott allegedly screamed, the paper said, adding that Scott followed Morton out the front door.

Then Scott’s daughter and a neighbor allegedly heard a gunshot, the Post said.

The paper, citing the affidavit, reported that the neighbor later told police he came outside and saw Scott still holding the gun and standing by the man’s body while admitting, “I shot him, I shot him.”

Officers recovered one spent shell casing on the front porch as well as a Smith & Wesson black handgun, the Post reported, citing the document.

“This incident started with the worst nightmare of any parent of a 13-year-old girl,” Scott’s lawyer, Blake Ballin, told the paper, adding that “predictably, it ended in tragedy. One of the key questions in this case will be whether anyone could act rationally in this circumstance.”

RELATED: 19-year-old thug who shot a dad defending his daughter from bullies is sentenced

Retired law enforcement officer and firearm self-defense trainer Buddy Smith told WMC-TV that what’s known so far about the shooting would not qualify under Tennessee’s Castle Doctrine.

“Which means you’re allowed to protect the people in your residence when someone breaks in to commit a violent felony against you or someone in your house,” Smith told the station, adding that “the affidavit does not allege that he threatened the mother or anyone else at that time, and those alleged facts will likely be important issues for the court, and ultimately a jury.”

Gloria Milon, an area resident, told WMC she sympathizes with Scott: “She seemed like a real nice lady. All I can say is, that hurts that someone was in there with one of her little girls.”

Another neighbor who asked not to be identified told the station that Scott should have called police instead: “If it would’ve been me in that situation, and I had seen her on that doorbell camera, I would’ve called the police and had them sitting at my house when I got there. Therefore, you take him out, take him on to jail.”

A judge on Monday set Scott’s bond at $100,000; her next court date is scheduled for Aug. 3, WMC reported in a separate story. Jail records indicate Scott remained behind bars Tuesday.

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A Pennsylvania man repeatedly found his possessions being strangely moved around his home for weeks, according to multiple reports. Then, he allegedly caught a woman, whom he had previously met on a dating site, stalking him at his house.

A Bucks County man met 30-year-old Lindsay Carole Harris through the Match dating website in January, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Levittown Patch.

‘We responded, and sure enough, officers see a 30-year-old female crawling through a window, and they take her into custody, and then we find out the whole story.’

Police stated that the pair dated briefly before the man ended the relationship, but authorities allege that Harris refused to let go of the alleged romance, according to WCAU-TV.

According to Patch, Falls Township police said Harris continued to contact the man despite being asked to stop communicating with him.

Police said they responded to the man’s home on June 28.

“It’s nighttime. We get a call for a woman breaking into one of our residents’ homes in Fairless Hills,” Falls Township Police Chief Nelson Whitney said, according to WCAU. “We responded, and sure enough, officers see a 30-year-old female crawling through a window, and they take her into custody, and then we find out the whole story.”

Police identified the suspect as Harris.

“They had initially contacted each other about six months prior on a dating website,” Whitney explained.

Harris arrived at the house with a bottle of wine and Italian ice despite the victim not wanting a relationship with her, police said.

Whitney added, “The male decided not to continue the relationship, but I guess the female wanted to continue it and came to his home and not only broke into the home but had a bottle of wine and some water ice ready to enjoy an evening with this guy who was completely shocked to come home and find her standing outside of his house looking at him through the sliding glass door and immediately called 911.”

RELATED: $167 million Powerball winner arrested for 4th time since winning lottery after allegedly stealing cash during burglary

Patch reported that police arrested Harris and charged her with burglary, criminal trespass, and stalking.

Harris was released from jail after posting 10% of a $50,000 bail, according to Patch. Harris is set to appear for a preliminary hearing on July 21.

The alleged victim told WCAU he was confused when he noticed that his belongings inside his home had been moved around.

PennLive reported, “The bizarre stalking incident led to a discovery that Harris had allegedly broken into his house multiple times, moving things around for weeks.”

The alleged victim also said he never gave Harris his home address.

Whitney warned, “People are pretty good at finding other people on the internet.”

The Falls Township Police Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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For the better part of two decades, confused children across the Anglosphere deceived into believing that they might be in the wrong bodies have been widely subjected to medications that adversely affect bone density, cognitive performance, emotional stability, and/or future fertility. This horrific experiment, briefly provided a patina of legitimacy by so-called experts and politicians, has not only been ruinous but is based on junk science.

To the chagrin of the profitable and predatory child sex-rejection industry, the Trump administration, like the British government, has taken action nationwide against the “chemical and surgical mutilation of children.” However, some blue states appear keen to continue waging war on America’s youth.

‘1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones.’

A new study in the Oxford University Press journal Research Connections provides some idea of the scale of this campaign and just how many victims it has already created in Oregon — a state whose health plan will cover virtually any sex-rejection drug or procedure, no matter how cosmetic, if deemed “medically necessary” by a doctor.

Researchers from Comagine Health, a nonprofit health care consulting firm, used the multi-payer claims database operated by their organization to identify so-called “transgender and gender-diverse” adolescents in the Beaver State, ages 8-17. The data researchers relied on was from 2016 to 2023.

After identifying 8,480 gender-confused adolescents among the 868,740 insured adolescents in the system, the researchers “assessed receipt of puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormone therapies using procedural codes.”

RELATED: ‘Kill your local Republican’: Trans former volunteer for trans Democrat appears to call for ‘trans jihad’

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They found in Oregon that:

the median age of first gender-dysphoria diagnosis was 14;1.51% of all covered female patients and 0.46% of all covered male patients ages 8-17 in the seven-year period received gender dysphoria diagnoses;75.8% of the patients with gender dysphoria diagnoses were female;the median time span from diagnosis to medical interference was 294 days;the median age for initial sex-rejection medical interventions was 15;23.35% of victims received medical “gender-affirming care”;19.72% of victims received cross-sex hormones;8.21% used puberty blockers, drugs that have long been used to chemically castrate sex offenders; andthe use of puberty blockers and hormone replacement procedures skyrocketed during the timeframe, especially between 2020 and 2023.

The researchers claimed that “despite growing attention, medical [gender-affirming care] is accessed by only a small proportion of adolescents in the United States.”

Leor Sapir, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted in a recent article for the Wall Street Journal that this supposedly “small proportion” is actually tragically high.

Citing the study, Sapir highlighted that “at age 17, roughly 1 in every 240 girls and 1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones for ‘gender dysphoria’ between 2016 and 2023. These figures are triple and double the national average for girls and boys, respectively.”

Sapir noted further that cross-sex hormone use among 14- and 15-year-olds in Oregon — the only American state to formally adopt the so-called standards of care issued by the scandal-plagued World Professional Association for Transgender Health — was four to five times the national rate.

In November, the Department of Health and Human Services published an exhaustive peer-reviewed report that stressed that “the harms from sex-rejecting procedures — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations — are significant, long term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked.”

The previous year, just months prior to National Health Service England banning puberty blockers at so-called gender-identity clinics, the United Kingdom’s landmark Cass Review revealed that:

the “systematic review showed no clear evidence that social transition in childhood has any positive or negative mental health outcomes, and relatively weak evidence for any effect in adolescence”;puberty blockers “exert their intended effect in suppressing puberty,” but compromise bone density and have no apparent impact on “gender dysphoria or body satisfaction”;there is a dearth of consistent evidence about the “effect of puberty suppression on psychological or psychosocial well-being, cognitive development, cardio-metabolic risk or fertility”;there is a lack of high-quality research assessing the outcomes of hormone interventions in adolescents confused about their sex; andthe so-called science regarding “gender-affirming care” is “an area of remarkably weak evidence” built on “shaky foundations.”

Despite the mountain of evidence showing that so-called “gender-affirming care” is not only destructive but ineffective in terms of achieving the promoters’ own aims, the Democrats running Oregon show no signs of abandoning their war on young bodies.

For instance, Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek, a self-identified lesbian, ratified new legislation in May aimed at shielding providers of sex-rejection drugs and mutilations from civil lawsuits, professional discipline, and loss of malpractice insurance, as well as at ensuring uninterrupted coverage for Oregon Health Plan patients utilizing Planned Parenthood for “essential health services.”

Kotek did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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President Trump nominated acting Attorney General Todd Blanche last month to lead the Justice Department permanently. After more than a year as deputy attorney general, Blanche has shown that he is not merely capable of doing the job. He is the man the department needs now.

I had the privilege of serving alongside Blanche. He is smart, principled, and fearless. His record proves it.

Blanche left a lucrative private practice to serve the country. He does not need this job. The country needs him in it.

The Trump administration’s approach to law enforcement and immigration has already delivered historic results. Violent crime has reached record lows, cartel activity has declined, and property crime has fallen dramatically.

Blanche has also led the effort to reverse the Justice Department’s politicization under President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Their tenure included imprisoning grandmothers who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, arresting pro-life protesters, spying on eight Republican senators, surveilling Catholics who attended the traditional Latin Mass, and deploying the National Security Division against concerned parents at school board meetings.

That two-tiered justice system helped drive Americans to the polls for Trump. Ending the abuses is not enough. The department must also repair the damage by dismissing corrupt prosecutors, enforcing the law equally against powerful left-wing actors, and restoring people wronged by the government. Blanche has shown the courage to do exactly that.

Some Senate Republicans objected to the Justice Department’s now-abandoned plan to compensate victims of Biden-era abuses. Yet as the late Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) noted, the United States has a long tradition of compensating victims of government injustice.

Justice requires more than ending misconduct. Government must also make victims whole when it can. That is what giving them their due means.

National Review summarized its objection this way: “No matter whose name is on the DOJ letterhead, the president is running the Justice Department.”

That criticism ignores Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Morrison v. Olson, which he described as one of his favorites. Scalia argued that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president — “this does not mean some of the executive power, but all of the executive power” — and trusts voters to choose a president who will exercise it for the common good. A Justice Department fully independent of the president would answer neither to the nation’s elected chief executive nor to the voters who chose him.

RELATED: Trump fires US attorney minutes after activist judges installed him, leaving Patty Murray in tatters

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National Review also argues that Blanche cannot stand up to Trump because he once served as Trump’s personal lawyer. The opposite is more plausible. Who is better positioned to deliver hard news: someone who put his career on the line to defend the president, or someone the president barely knows?

Presidents have often chosen attorneys general with whom they shared close professional ties. Ronald Reagan selected his personal attorney, William French Smith, and later Ed Meese, his former California chief of staff and legal affairs secretary. George W. Bush chose Alberto Gonzales, who had served as his general counsel in Texas.

National Review’s deeper objection seems to have less to do with Blanche and everything to do with Trump. But refusing to confront weaponized government allows wrongdoers to escape accountability and invites the next administration to repeat the abuse.

The left has no hesitation about using power to advance its goals. Some conservatives still treat passivity as principle even after voters put them in office to govern. Trump’s rise was a rejection of that bloodless approach to politics.

Blanche built an impressive prosecutorial record in one of the nation’s most prestigious U.S. attorney’s offices. He left a lucrative private practice to serve the country. He does not need this job. The country needs him in it.

Todd Blanche has met the moment and exceeded conservative expectations. The case against him reflects the old conservative preference for “yelling stop” rather than exercising legitimate power. Senate Republicans should reject that reflex and confirm him as attorney general.

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British politician and pro-life advocate Ann Widdecombe was assassinated in her home in Devon, England, earlier this month.

Joshua Kerry, the apparent leftist accused of slaying the 78-year-old Reform U.K. immigration spokeswoman, was formally charged with murder on Monday.

‘I have it on good authority that the murder suspect was a hard-left activist.’

“We have decided to prosecute Joshua Kerry for murder following a police investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe in Haytor, Dartmoor,” Frank Ferguson, chief prosecutor of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said in a statement. “Police enquiries into the defendant’s motives are ongoing, including a potential political or terrorist connection.”

Ferguson noted further that prosecutors had “worked closely with the police to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring this case to court.”

The evidence presented in court on Tuesday — where Kerry was in attendance and told not to enter a plea — provided some horrific insights into the assassination.

Prosecutor Kashif Malik told the court that the savage attack was captured by a camera inside the kitchen where Widdecombe’s lifeless body was discovered by her gardener the next day, reported Reuters.

RELATED: What is anarcho-tyranny? Modern Britain gives a disturbing glimpse of our future

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Kerry is allegedly seen in the video entering Widdecombe’s home wearing black gloves and armed with a hammer while the Reform U.K. politician was eating lunch. He then allegedly asked her, “Don’t suppose you have bank cards and ID?”

According to Malik, the suspect proceeded to strike Widdecombe atop the head 21 times. After caving in the Christian politician’s skull, the assassin pushed his victim out of her chair and onto the floor, stole her wallet, then fled the scene, Malik alleged.

Kerry was arrested on July 10 on suspicion of murder in what was initially figured for a burglary gone wrong. He was cut loose the next day only to be rearrested hours later at his home in Rotherham, this time by Counter Terrorism Policing North East and South Yorkshire Police on suspicion of murder and the “commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism.”

Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, subsequently acknowledged that the investigation had turned up “new information and evidence” pointing to the murder having been a “targeted attack.”

A source told the Sun (U.K.) that in their search of Kerry’s house, they found clippings of news articles about Reform U.K., its leader Nigel Farage, and the party’s immigration policies.

“It would appear he had a profound dislike of the party, its leader, and its policies,” said the source.

In addition to seizing Kerry’s electronic devices, police also seized a red Vauxhall Corsa linked to him. The court heard on Tuesday that the man who arrived at Widdecombe’s property on July 8 drove up in a red Vauxhall Corsa.

Kerry was reportedly caught on CCTV leaving his Rotherham residence, approximately 270 miles away from Widdecombe’s house, early on the day of the murder in the red car.

Nigel Farage noted in an article for the Sun on Saturday, “Surprise, surprise, he wasn’t some local opportunistic thief.”

“I have it on good authority that the murder suspect was a hard-left activist,” wrote Farage. “He attended various marches and hated anyone with an opposing view. He had expressed his hatred of me on more than one occasion. He was an intolerant individual obsessed with Soviet communism. He may also have been known to the authorities.”

Reform U.K. spokesman Zia Yusuf joined Farage on Tuesday in blasting the British media for its apparent disinterest in Kerry’s background and politics.

“Our beloved Ann was hit on the head 21 times with a hammer by her alleged killer. Why do we still know so little about him? Why do we still know so little about his politics?” wrote Yusuf. “We all know why.”

“The details of Ann Widdecombe’s murder revealed in court are horrific. Why will no one report on Joshua Kerry’s political views?” tweeted Farage.

Kerry’s alleged crimes were deemed “too serious” for the Westminster Magistrate’s Court, where he appeared Tuesday morning, so the matter has been sent to the Old Bailey, where he is due to appear later in the day.

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The House Freedom Caucus has successfully forced a border security bill forward after accusing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of breaking his promise to bring border legislation to the floor by July 4.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has advanced his Permanent Trump Secure Border Act to the House Judiciary Committee for markup. It is the first time this Congress that House Republicans are considering legislation codifying President Donald Trump’s executive border actions.

‘It’s time for Republicans to deliver the America First change we promised.’

“Securing a markup for my Permanent Trump Secure Border Act is a critical first step toward permanently enshrining President Trump’s successful border policies into law,” Roy told Blaze News. “If Congress fails to act, nothing will prevent a future radical administration from undoing these policies and returning our nation to the border chaos of the past.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has scheduled the bill’s markup for 10:00 a.m. ET Tuesday. Markup is the congressional committee process where lawmakers debate and offer amendments to legislation.

“I commend Chairman Jordan for advancing this important legislation and helping move it one step closer to becoming law, and I hope we will soon also move two more priorities, including ending both sanctuary cities and falsely defined birthright citizenship,” Roy said.

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara on June 30.

The PTSBA limits release for illegal aliens into the U.S. interior pending final removal orders. It also allows the secretary of Homeland Security to “return to a foreign territory contiguous to the United States any alien arriving on land from that territory,” pending further proceedings.

RELATED: The bipartisan farm bill that also grows amnesty

President Donald Trump inspects the border wall prototypes during his first term. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

“Congress must do everything in its power to protect our nation for future generations, including codifying President Trump’s border security policies. Failure to do so simply greenlights a future Democrat administration to reopen the floodgates for another invasion of illegal aliens — putting American lives and livelihoods at risk,” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) said about the bill. “It’s time for Republicans to deliver the America First change we promised, starting with permanently securing our borders in law and ending the revolving door of illegal immigration.”

The bill text restricts the large-scale release authority used by previous administrations by sharply limiting the Homeland Security secretary’s discretion regarding parole. The legislation states that parole may be granted only “on a case-by-case basis, and not according to eligibility criteria describing an entire class of potential parole recipients, for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”

It also generally bars paroled aliens from accepting employment while in the United States.

“Thanks to President Trump, our nation’s borders are secure, but our work is far from finished. Congressional Republicans must continue to pass commonsense legislation that reverses the damage created by Democrats and makes the administration’s actions permanent,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) told Blaze News. “This comprehensive immigration bill is the next step to keeping dangerous criminals out of our country and Americans safe for generations to come.”

Criminals are prohibited from claiming asylum according to the bill. This includes any alien convicted of a felony, driving under the influence, stalking, child abuse, domestic assault, or gang activity.

If the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act passes markup, its next stop is Speaker Johnson and the House Rules Committee.

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