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Most parents who purchase baby formula trust that if the product is on the supermarket shelf, it must be safe for their child, but according to findings from the Healthy Florida First initiative, many of the top formula brands tested positive for heavy metals.

The state-led program, spearheaded by Governor Ron DeSantis (R), first lady Casey DeSantis, and Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo through the Florida Department of Health, aims to build a healthier Florida through independent testing and publication of contaminants in everyday foods.

On a recent episode of “Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz,” Horowitz interviewed Casey DeSantis about what Florida’s health initiative uncovered about 24 top-selling baby formulas and what parents can do to ensure that their children are receiving the best nutrition.

A Consumer Reports investigation released in March 2025 found potentially harmful levels of heavy metals, including arsenic and lead, in some of the 41 baby formulas tested. Around the same time, HHS and the FDA announced Operation Stork Speed, which increased testing for heavy metals and contaminants, reviewed nutrient standards, and strengthened oversight of infant formula safety.

Despite this initiative, DeSantis says that according to infant formula testing conducted by Florida’s Department of Health, “there hasn’t been much change at all.”

“And honestly, since we had our results coming out, I haven’t heard anything from some of these baby formula manufacturers. And so it’s like at what point in time is enough enough?” she says, calling metal toxicity in baby formula “unconscionable and unacceptable.”

Out of the 24 baby formulas tested, Florida’s Department of Health found that 16 contained one or more heavy metals exceeding current safety standards.

“Could you give us a summary of those shocking findings?” asks Horowitz.

“Sixteen out of the 24 had high levels of mercury. Two had lead. These are problematic heavy metals, right? They don’t just leave the body. They’re there for a while,” says DeSantis, “and our surgeon general said, you know, when you’re exposed to this early in life in these quantities over the course of a year or two, your risk of getting cancer goes up exponentially.”

“I would encourage moms and dads and grandparents to go to exposingfoodtoxins.com because there you can see specifically which ones are better than others,” she adds.

“Don’t tell me it’s the manufacturing process and there’s nothing that we can do, because certainly there are some manufacturers that are doing it better. So we should, as consumers, push to drive change because that’s the right thing to do on behalf of families.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the full interview above.

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The EPA just delivered news that millions of fed-up American drivers have been waiting for: Automatic start-stop technology is no longer being propped up by federal regulation.

On February 12, 2026, President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced what the administration is calling the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. The move scraps the Obama-era 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding and wipes out federal greenhouse-gas standards for vehicles dating back to model year 2012.

‘Mechanically, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Constant restarts accelerate wear on starter motors — even reinforced ones.’

For everyday drivers, the practical consequence is simple and satisfying: The regulatory credits that encouraged automakers to jam start-stop systems into vehicles are gone.

‘Universally hated’

Zeldin didn’t mince words, calling start-stop an “almost universally hated” feature — an “Obama switch” that makes your engine shut off at every red light. Trump echoed the sentiment, blasting the policy as a regulatory disaster that drove up prices and forced unwanted technology on consumers. Even the EPA’s own announcement acknowledged what drivers have been saying for years: A feature that kills your engine at stops and jolts it awake again was never embraced voluntarily — it was incentivized.

For years, automakers chased roughly a 1-mile-per-gallon compliance credit tied to start-stop systems. On paper, it helped meet greenhouse-gas targets. In the real world, the fuel savings were often negligible outside of ideal lab conditions. Still, the feature spread everywhere — from sedans to SUVs to trucks — not because buyers demanded it, but because it was the cheapest way to check a regulatory box.

Consumers got the irritation. Automakers got the credit.

‘Disaster waiting to happen’

I asked ASE Master Technician Greg Damon what start-stop really does under the hood. His answer was blunt:

Mechanically, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Constant restarts accelerate wear on starter motors — even reinforced ones. Batteries cycle harder and require more expensive replacements. Engine components face repeated stress, especially during warm restarts when lubrication isn’t instantaneous. In shops, mechanics see higher failure rates, specialized repairs, and higher bills. All of that complexity and cost to chase a single MPG on a spreadsheet.

Is 1 MPG worth higher sticker prices, increased maintenance costs, and shorter component life?

Drivers have already answered that question. Many disable the system every time they start the car — if the manufacturer even allows it. Some vehicles require a ritual button press; others hide any permanent shutoff entirely. Subaru owners, in particular, have flooded forums with complaints about hesitation and drivability issues. Reviews and social media tell the same story: This isn’t progress. It’s punishment.

RELATED: Sick of your ‘eco-friendly’ car turning off at every red light? So is Trump’s EPA head

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No incentive

After the ruling, I contacted major automakers. Their responses were identical — carefully scripted statements saying they would “review their strategy” if regulations changed. Well, the regulations have changed. Loudly. Publicly. And without ambiguity. With compliance credits vaporized, the financial incentive disappears. Expect manufacturers to quietly phase out start-stop or finally offer true, set-it-and-forget-it disable options.

The broader implications are enormous. The Trump administration projects more than $1.3 trillion in total regulatory relief, with per-vehicle compliance costs dropping by an estimated $2,400. Lower vehicle prices ripple through the entire economy. As Zeldin put it, the move restores consumer choice and eases cost-of-living pressure by removing mandates that distorted the market.

Other Clean Air Act rules governing traditional tailpipe pollutants remain in place. Emissions are not unregulated. What died here is the prescriptive, heavy-handed system that rewarded gimmicks like start-stop instead of genuine engineering improvements. Automakers now have room to pursue real efficiency — better engines, smarter hybrids, lighter materials, and improved aerodynamics — without sacrificing reliability or driver satisfaction.

Win for aftermarket

The automotive aftermarket wins too. An industry supporting more than 330,000 American jobs can breathe easier without constant compliance pressure steering vehicles away from serviceable, long-term ownership.

This is a win for common sense. Start-stop survived because Washington subsidized it, not because Americans wanted it. Without regulatory crutches, the feature faces the only test that matters: voluntary consumer demand. And the answer has always been clear.

If you’ve ever muttered under your breath at a red light while your engine shut off — then lurched back to life — this one’s for you. The era of government-mandated automotive irritation just took a fatal hit.

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An LGBTQ activist tried to tear down the U.S. flag at the Stonewall National Monument during an event Thursday where officials returned a Pride flag removed by the Trump administration.

The Pride flag was removed on Tuesday from the monument in New York City that commemorated a riot against police by gay men in the ’60s.

‘The way the whole thing went down was pretty dramatic. … Gays have a sense of flair and drama.’

The crowd chanted, “Take it down!” and “Burn the American flag!” according to a USA Today report. Others chanted, “We will not be erased!”

Local officials did not give speeches and left immediately after returning the Pride flag.

The report said activists were upset that the flag had been put on a flagpole that was lower than the U.S. flag, so they took both down and used zip-ties to raise the Pride flag above the U.S. flag.

“We are reclaiming our space. It’s reclaiming our people; it’s reclaiming our culture,” one supporter said to WCBS-TV. “The flag has so much meaning behind it. The colors represent the diversity of our community. These are things you can’t take away from the community, which is why it’s so important for us to raise it again.”

“The way the whole thing went down was pretty dramatic,” said another attendee named Shep Wahnon. “Gays have a sense of flair and drama.”

Chloe Elentari, a transgender woman, told USA Today that the Trump administration was scapegoating transgender people in order to divert attention away from the Jeffrey Epstein files.

President Donald Trump had ordered all flags aside from the U.S. flag to be removed from federal buildings unless they were specifically authorized.

RELATED: Officials at ‘Latinx’ LGBTQ+ center are outraged that months-long fecal attacks are not an arrestable offense

The Stonewall National Monument was established in 2016 by President Barack Obama to recognize the riot as a milestone in the LGBTQ movement.

Activists were similarly angered in Feb. 2025 when the Trump administration removed transgender and lesbian references in the sign of the monument.

“This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals,” organizers said at the time, “especially transgender women of color — who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.”

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A U.S. law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told Reuters that an Arizona sheriff is blocking FBI access to key evidence surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s abduction and that it’s hampering the federal agency’s ability to assist in the probe.

The FBI asked Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos for physical evidence in the case — including a glove and DNA from the home of the 84-year-old victim — to be processed at the FBI’s national crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, but Nanos insisted on using a private lab in Florida instead, the official told Reuters.

‘It risks further slowing a case that grows more urgent by the minute.’

While Reuters said Nanos didn’t respond to its requests for comment, the outlet noted that Nanos said in a late Thursday interview with Tucson television station KVOA-TV that the FBI agreed with his decision to send newly discovered evidence to the lab, which has worked with his office for years.

However, the U.S. law enforcement official noted to Reuters that move is delaying the FBI’s ability to assist in the case.

Still, Nanos denied the allegations, Reuters said, and called them “not even close to the truth” in the KVOA interview.

“Actually the FBI just wanted to send the one or two they found by the crime scene. … I said, ‘No, why do that? Let’s just send them all to where all the DNA exist, all the profiles and the markers exist.’ They agreed, makes sense,” Nanos told KVOA, according to Reuters.

More from Reuters:

In a daily press update released earlier in the day, the sheriff’s department said investigators had “recovered several items of evidence, including gloves,” adding that all viable evidence is submitted for analysis.” The agency did not elaborate.

The Pima County sheriff has primary jurisdiction over the case, and FBI assistance must be officially requested by the county, otherwise the FBI is legally precluded from taking part in the investigation. The official said the county has spent some $200,000 so far to send evidence in the Guthrie case to the Florida lab.

“It risks further slowing a case that grows more urgent by the minute,” the official told Reuters earlier Thursday, citing unspecified “earlier setbacks” in the investigation.

RELATED: How the FBI actually got the Google Nest footage of Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnapper

The official added to Reuters that “it’s clear the fastest path to answers is leveraging federal resources and technology. Anything less only prolongs the Guthrie family’s grief and the community’s wait for justice.”

More from Reuters:

Signs of friction between the FBI and sheriff’s department emerged as the search for Nancy Guthrie stretched into its 12th day, as investigators intensified their search for clues in the presumed kidnapping for ransom.

Nancy Guthrie was last seen on January 31 when family dropped her off at her home following an evening dinner with them, and relatives reported her missing the following day, authorities said.

The sheriff has said the elder Guthrie had extremely limited mobility and could not have wandered off far from home unassisted, leading investigators to conclude early on that she had been abducted by force.

In addition, officials said last week that DNA tests confirmed traces of blood found on Guthrie’s front porch were Guthrie’s blood, Reuters reported, adding that law enforcement and family members have described Guthrie as frail health-wise and requiring daily medication to survive.

What’s more, Reuters also noted that at least two purported ransom notes have surfaced since Guthrie vanished — and both of them initially were delivered to news outlets and set two deadlines that have since lapsed.

However, Reuters noted that no proof of life is known to have surfaced following Guthrie’s abduction.

Savannah Guthrie, 54 — co-anchor of the popular NBC News morning show “Today” — has posted several video messages with her brother and sister that appeal to their mother’s captors for her return, Reuters said.

The siblings even state a willingness to meet ransom demands in the clips, Reuters added.

In addition, authorities released doorbell camera video at Guthrie’s home near Tucson showing an armed prowler in a ski mask and gloves trying to disable the camera, Reuters said, adding that the clip was recorded around the time that Guthrie was believed to have been taken from her residence by force.

More from Reuters:

Investigators were likely seeking to bring facial recognition analysis to bear on the video to produce a composite image of a suspect that they can run against a national database that includes all U.S. drivers with Real ID licenses, according to a former FBI agent.

Law enforcement officials on Thursday said a black latex glove found discarded on a roadside was recovered and undergoing forensic examination.

The FBI on Thursday doubled the reward offered for information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie, or arrest and conviction of a suspect in her abduction, to $100,000.

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A viral video purporting to show an arson attack on a facility rumored to be bought for federal detentions led to an outraged statement from the Kansas City mayor against ICE.

The video shows a woman trying to light a facility on fire Thursday after the building was rumored to have been sold to the Department of Homeland Security for a future detention center in Kansas City.

‘I am outraged by federal efforts to place 10,000 human beings in cages inside distribution warehouses in Kansas City.’

The woman has not been caught, and the motivation for the attack is unclear.

Ironically, the firm that owns the building said it was not going through with the sale to the federal government on Thursday.

“As negotiations concluded, we learned the purchasing party was the U.S. Government,” the company said. “Over the course of the building sale process, we determined that the terms no longer met our fiduciary requirements for a timely closing. Therefore, we chose not to move forward.”

As a KMBC-TV reporter was trying to report about the decision, his camera crew recorded the woman trying to light the building on fire.

When the mayor was asked about the attack, he expressed outrage at ICE and offered a half-hearted statement against the woman.

“I am outraged by federal efforts to place 10,000 human beings in cages inside distribution warehouses in Kansas City or anywhere in our country,” Mayor Quinton Lucas wrote in a statement on social media. “I’ll trust the courts, our local prosecutors, and law enforcement in Kansas City to handle the offender.”

Some critics of the mayor pointed out that he had promoted the outrage against the facility in a statement on the same day as the attack.

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“I am aware of a recent release from a Kansas City firm regarding a distribution facility in South Kansas City that has been rumored as a target for a mass ICE detention encampment of up to 10,000 persons,” he said in a post Thursday.

“While Kansas City welcomes any news suggesting the halting of a planned conversion of a warehouse for goods and products into a human encampment,” he added, “I will continue with our legislative, legal efforts, and community engagement to ensure no warehouse or similar facility in Kansas City or nearby is converted to a mass encampment warehouse of persons that is offensive to the dignity and human rights of those who would be detained within it.”

KMBC has since posted the entire raw footage of the woman trying to burn down the building.

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On Tuesday, February 10, during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar (Mich.) told U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, “You better hope you get pardoned.”

“That’s a threat,” says Glenn Beck, who was deeply disturbed by Thanedar’s words.

“He didn’t say, ‘You violated the law, and you should be investigated.’ What he said was, ‘When power changes hands, we’re going to punish you for enforcing the law.’ That distinction is everything,” he warns.

“The moment the enforcement itself becomes criminalized retroactively,” Glenn says, “the rule of law does not merely weaken; it completely flips.”

“The message is no longer, ‘Follow the law.’ The message becomes, ‘Guess who’s going to be in charge later? You better act accordingly,’” he explains. “That is not a democracy. That’s a legitimacy war.”

Thanedar’s threat, he says, is evidence that accelerationism — “the belief that everything needs to be burned down” — is migrating from fringe street movements into the halls of government itself.

In the streets, accelerationism sounds like, “Burn it down,” but in the government, it sounds like, “We’ll deal with you later,” Glenn explains.

“[Thanedar’s threat] is nothing I have ever heard ever in my lifetime in America, and it should chill all of us to the bone,” he says. “When lawmakers openly promise prosecutions after elections, they’re not talking about justice; they’re signaling veto power — the rule by anticipation of punishment.”

Glenn warns that some people are engaging in “casual talk” about “Nuremberg-style trials” that would treat “domestic opponents” as Nazi war criminals deserving execution or lifelong imprisonment after a power shift.

This should terrify everyone, he says.

“Applause for the idea of prosecuting the former regime at every level and anyone who was participating — that means you, that means me, anybody who was on the side of the right — you better look out,” he cautions.

“This is not about one person. This is not about left versus right. This is about something far more corrosive,” Glenn warns.

“The normalization of the idea that power exists to punish the previous holder of power — you’re a banana republic.”

To hear more Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference in Arizona on Friday to urge the passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.

Noem addressed reporters after attending a roundtable discussion with local officials, including Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright, and state Rep. John Gillette (R).

‘There’s only one reason that anyone would oppose this bill, and that’s because they would want to cheat.’

The secretary emphasized that President Donald Trump has made election integrity one of the administration’s top priorities of its Make America Great Again agenda.

Noem stated that the nation’s election system “needs a lot of work,” adding that America currently has a “golden opportunity” to demonstrate that it is “serious about securing our elections and that we care about making sure that we preserve our sacred republic.”

She noted that the House of Representatives passed the SAVE America Act earlier this week, contending that its passage would implement “common-sense, straightforward” measures, including requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and states’ removal of noncitizens from voter rolls.

“These measures are extremely popular with American citizens,” Noem continued. “American people have common sense, and they want to see reforms like this put into their elections.”

Noem highlighted a recent poll that found 84% of Americans support requiring a photo ID to vote and 83% support requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

RELATED: 4 Senate Republicans evading MAGA’s pressure campaign to prevent noncitizens from voting

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“It’s common sense that our elections should belong to the American people, that they should be the ones who get to vote, whose votes are counted, that they get one vote, not more, not less,” Noem said. “It’s common sense to make sure that foreign nationals don’t vote in our elections, don’t elect our leaders and have a say in how our country runs.”

“It’s a fact that noncitizens have been voting in our elections. They’ve been registered, and they have voted from state to state,” she added.

The secretary provided examples of noncitizens who had voted in prior elections, including an illegal alien registered to vote in Maryland and another illegal alien registered in Kansas.

“As it stands, current guidelines for the National Voter Registration Act effectively stop states from going forward and checking citizenship during registration. The SAVE America Act would fix this,” she declared.

Noem addressed left-wing criticism that the SAVE Act would prevent American citizens from voting, including claims that newly married women would be disenfranchised when they have a name change and that the measure would make it impossible for U.S. service members to vote when deployed overseas.

She called these claims “just absurd” and “completely false.”

“Each of the arguments that have been laid out to criticize this bill are baseless speculation from the radical left because they want illegal aliens to vote in our elections,” Noem stated.

“There’s only one reason that anyone would oppose this bill, and that’s because they would want to cheat.”

RELATED: Lone Republican defies Trump, votes to tank the SAVE Act

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Reporters pressed Noem for specifics about Arizona’s election system, including whether “emphasizing election security threats without evidence” would “undermine public confidence” or further “misinformation.”

“We have a SAVE program that is available to the state of Arizona,” Noem replied, explaining that the state’s election officials could use the program to ensure that those on its voter rolls are verified.

Noem expressed concern that there are likely “many” individuals on Arizona’s voter rolls who should not be casting a ballot, including individuals who may be living in another state.

“I understand that you have mobile homes and boats on lakes that individuals may have as their voter registration address, but not necessarily that is where they live,” she said. “They live in another state, such as California or on the East Coast.”

Noem stated that Arizona has a history of being “an absolute disaster on elections.”

“Your leaders have failed you dramatically by not having systems that work, by disenfranchising the Americans who wanted to vote, that had to stand in lines for hours because machines failed or software failed. There’s no state that could use more improvement than Arizona,” Noem stated.

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A 58-year-old man with a long rap sheet has been accused of robbing a beloved skating coach at a St. Louis Starbucks before shooting the defenseless woman to death, according to court documents.

Twenty-eight-year-old Gabrielle “Sam” Linehan was in the drive-thru in the Tower Grove East neighborhood when, prosecutors allege, Keith Lamon Brown killed the beloved coach and mentor.

‘This loss is both sudden and heartbreaking for our athletes, staff, and broader community.’

Brown was also wanted for allegedly holding a cashier at gunpoint at a Dollar General and robbing another woman at gunpoint at a Jack-in-the-Box in the days prior to the incident.

Surveillance video reportedly shows Brown wearing a high-visibility vest and helmet as he walked up to Linehan’s vehicle. He fled on foot after allegedly shooting Linehan.

Days later when Brown was arrested, investigators said they found Linehan’s license in his possession as well as other items stolen from the woman at the Jack-in-the-Box.

The Metro Edge Figure Skating Club confirmed that Linehan had been their coach. A friend of Linehan said she had stopped at the Starbucks on her way to watch the Olympics at a friend’s house.

“This loss is both sudden and heartbreaking for our athletes, staff, and broader community. We are focused on supporting Coach Sam’s family and providing care and resources for our skaters during this difficult time,” the club said in a statement to KTVI-TV.

Brown was charged with first-degree murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, and three counts of armed criminal action. A judge denied bond for the suspect.

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Court records indicated that Brown has a criminal history as far back as 1986 that includes burglary, robbery, and armed criminal action.

“Coach Sam will be deeply missed and forever remembered,” said the skate club, which also asked for privacy on behalf of her family and friends.

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The Department of Homeland Security is not impressed with the latest effort by Los Angeles activists to warn illegal aliens about the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Anti-ICE activists regularly employ whistles to help illegal aliens evade federal officers, but Amanda Alcalde is planning to install ICE warning sirens in the Highland Park neighborhood.

‘Seems like a public nuisance!’

Alcalde said the sirens would be installed on private property and at businesses since the plan is not sanctioned by the city.

In an email statement to Blaze News, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin ridiculed the siren plan.

“This is quite literally insane. The residents of Highland Park want to buy an air raid siren — the same device that was used in London when German planes flew over — to alert the community about ICE. Seems like a public nuisance!” McLaughlin replied.

She went on to document “some of the criminals the residents of Highland Park are trying to protect and help evade arrest.”

Among those were Carlos Danilo Barrera, a criminal illegal alien and member of the Florencia 13 gang who is from El Salvador and was convicted of second-degree murder in Los Angeles, DHS said.

Some others listed by DHS include:

Diego Cardona, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala and 18th Street gang member convicted for voluntary manslaughter in Los Angeles;Sergio Salvador Salazar Sorto, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador convicted for false imprisonment and battery in Los Angeles; andEhsan Jalal, a 52-year-old citizen of Afghanistan convicted for robbery in Los Angeles.

Alcalde went on to say in a statement to KTLA-TV that the ICE operations had reduced the “ethnic” representation she saw on the streets of Los Angeles.

RELATED: ICE accuses LA officials of giving ‘a middle finger to the law’ after county paves way for illegal aliens to receive funding

“I’ve seen a lot of fear in people’s eyes. I don’t see a lot of our ethnic minorities out in the day-to-day. It’s big change. It feels dystopian in a way,” she said.

The Trump administration has been recently ramping up detentions and arrests against activists who interfere with federal enforcement operations, according to a Reuters report.

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After former CNN anchor Don Lemon allegedly joined a group of protesters who stormed a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during a service last month, he finally appeared for his arraignment on Friday.

The incident allegedly involving Lemon and several other protesters occurred on January 18. Lemon was arrested on January 29 and released the following day, according to a CNN report.

Lemon is charged with conspiring to violate someone’s constitutional rights and violating the FACE Act.

Lemon, as expected, pleaded not guilty to the two charges brought against him. Lemon is charged with conspiring to violate someone’s constitutional rights and violating the FACE Act.

Lemon has reportedly hired former Minnesota federal prosecutor Joseph H. Thompson to represent him.

RELATED: Don Lemon ARRESTED over apparent involvement in church invasion; Jim Acosta whines

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Upon his release from custody late last month, Lemon said, “I have spent my entire career covering the news — I will not stop now. In fact, there is no more important time than right now, this very moment, for a free and independent media that shines a light on the truth and holds those in power accountable.”

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New episodes of HGTV’s hit home restoration show “Rehab Addict” were scheduled to air this week after host Nicole Curtis’ brief hiatus. On the same day of the show’s scheduled return, however, years-old leaked footage was published by RadarOnline showing Curtis mindlessly uttering a slur during a renovation.

Warner Bros. Discovery-owned HGTV promptly removed every episode of the show. Future episodes have been canceled.

‘I make no excuse for this.’

“HGTV was recently made aware of an offensive racial comment made during the filming of ‘Rehab Addict,'” the network said in a statement to Variety. “Not only is language like this hurtful and disappointing to our viewers, partners, and employees — it does not align with the values of HGTV. Accordingly, we have removed the series from all HGTV platforms.”

The show-killing viral video appears to show Curtis growing increasingly frustrated during a restoration job and muttering, “Oh fart n*****.”

Realizing immediately what she had just said on camera, Curtis turns to her crew with a look of panic, stating, “What the f**k is that that I just said?”

Curtis appears to ask someone off-screen to “kill that,” in reference to the video evidence — which clearly didn’t take place.

It’s clear that someone behind the scenes had it out for the historic-house-saving mother.

RadarOnline’s source, who indicated the footage was years-old, said, “You [Nicole] deserve everything you get. Treat us with dignity and respect, and quit making money off of our backs. … You are a trash human.”

The host of the now-erased nine-season series said in a lengthy Instagram post on Thursday, “I am sorry. I am filled with remorse and regret, just as much as I was one second after that word was said 4 years ago in 2022.”

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“I show this, I say this and I realize you are getting a limited view as what has been circulating is a clip of MY footage that was stolen then manipulated, edited and sold to [a] tabloid to coincide with my return to television only to create this chaos of hate, anger, disappointment,” Curtis continued. “I make no excuse for this. I am not [a] victim. Nothing I say or do will take that moment 4 years ago away. I know it was wrong. This will never happen again.”

The ex-host proceeded to suggest that she has been “submerged in the African American community” her entire life and that she has chosen “to live and work in the inner cities of many major cities,” where she apparently hears that word used routinely.

While there were plenty of people apparently happy to see Curtis’ life ruined over a poor choice of words several years ago, she also had many defenders — and at least one job offer — in the wake of her cancellation.

Curtis is hardly the first reality television star canceled over racially charged language.

For instance, the late Hulk Hogan was fired from World Wrestling Entertainment in 2015 over his liberal use of the word “n*****” on tapes recorded nearly a decade earlier. American chef and prolific cookbook author Paula Deen was systematically canceled and stigmatized in the wake of allegations of racial discrimination and the repeated use of a certain slur.

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Yesterday, all but one Democrat in the U.S. House voted against the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act), which would require people to show official proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections and provide a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot.

Given that the overwhelming majority of American citizens support the core provisions of the SAVE Act, the near-unanimous Democratic opposition is evidence, says BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales, that Democrats are “actively trying to undermine what the American people want and what they voted for.”

“If you are in Congress, you are supposed to represent your constituency, and so … that would lead you to think that [the SAVE Act] is wildly unpopular with the left — like the Democrat constituency doesn’t want voter ID,” she says.

“But here’s the strange thing. That’s not correct. The vast majority of all Americans on both sides agree that we should have safe and secure elections,” she adds, citing the most recent Pew Research data showing 95% support for voter IDs among Republicans and 71% support among Democrats.

“If the vast majority of people agree, why are congressional Democrats attempting to stand in the way of the will of their own people?” she asks.

There are two answers to that, Sara says: “orange man bad” and “the Great Replacement [Theory],” which she says is “not a theory.”

On the latter, she declares, “Even if you were to argue that illegals are not voting and changing elections, well illegals are being counted in the census that is then used to create these districts and decide how many each state has to represent them in Congress.”

But regardless of the widespread bipartisan support for the commonsense SAVE Act, Democrats are attempting to force their will using one of their favorite tried and tested tactics: racialize the issue.

Sara plays a clip of Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (Ill.) calling the SAVE Act and Republicans’ defense of it “racist, misogynistic trash.”

“Republicans are invoking historical policies intended, let’s be clear, to disenfranchise Americans, especially working people, women, students, indigenous people, and anyone who can’t afford the burdens of a new bill. The Save America Act is yet another Republican attempt to intimidate and suppress the votes of anyone — anyone — who threatens their extremist white supremacist agenda,” she railed.

“The soft bigotry of low expectations. How can you expect a black person or a Hispanic person to know how to get an ID?” sighs Sara.

She points out the absurdity of Democrats’ argument against requiring would-be voters to get a photo ID on the grounds of race.

“You want to open a bank account? You need a photo ID. You want to fly on an airplane? You need a photo ID. You want to drive in a car? You need a photo ID. You want a credit card? You need a photo ID,” she lists. “Almost every instance where you do something very important, you need a photo ID.”

But none of the aforementioned examples seem to be race issues for Democrats, says Sara.

“I see a lot of minorities flying. … How did that possibly happen if it’s racist to expect those dumb black people to know how to go get a photo ID?” she sarcastically remarks, calling Democrats’ insinuation that racial minorities aren’t capable of obtaining a voter ID an “insanely inherently racist thing to suggest.”

To hear more of Sara’s analysis and commentary, watch the video above.

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Cardi B must have some weird fans.

The singer responsible for the hit we can’t even begin to name here took her turn blasting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a recent concert performance. Yawn.

You will pick a side … and it better be the one we want.

To her credit, Ms. B took her progressive rhetoric up a notch or three. Even AOC might be proud!

“B***h! If ICE comes in here, we gon’ jump they asses … I’ve got some bear mace in the back! They ain’t taking my fans, b***h!”

And when Homeland Security mocked her outburst, she broke out the left’s weakest talking point.

“Why y’all don’t wanna talk about the Epstein files?”

Let’s hope she never faces any of the violent criminals caught up in ICE’s net. We’re guessing mace might not be enough to stop them from thanking her for her support …

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AI A-listers

It’s Brad Pitt versus Tom Cruise in the battle of the 60-something superstars. And it’s all thanks to Seedance 2’s new AI technology.

A viral video of the stars’ digital doppelgangers caused a stir on social media this week. The Chinese AI company’s visuals are impressive, far less awkward than some digital clips we’ve seen.

There’s no blood spilled as the Hollywood heavyweights duke it out. But not everyone was tickled to watch the faux fight. The Motion Picture Association quickly cried foul, calling the China-based company’s video a massive copyright infringement.

The creator of the video, an Irish filmmaker named Ruairi Robinson, said it took all of two lines of text to prompt the video into life. He added a darkly humorous response after the understandable backlash commenced.

“Today’s question is: should i be killed for typing 2 lines and pressing a button.”

Here’s betting some Hollywood suits didn’t find it remotely funny …

Monkee business

He’s the last Monkee standing.

Micky Dolenz is back on tour this year to honor his band’s 60th anniversary. Yes, the ad seeking “4 insane boys, ages 17 to 21” to star in a Beatles-esque sitcom launched a quartet that has yet to wear out its welcome.

“The Monkees” only lasted two seasons, but the “pre-Fab Four’s” pop gems endure. And Dolenz isn’t ready to pull an ego trip at this stage in his career. If you want the hits, you’ll get ‘em.

“I’d been to some very disappointing shows where the headliner doesn’t do anything except maybe one big hit.”

“If I ever do go back and am asked to sing [the Monkees’] songs, I’m going to make sure I sing every one in their entirety, no medleys and no screwing around.”

He should have said, “no Monkeeing around,” but he might be tired of that pun after six decades …

Wim and vigor

You will pick a side … and it better be the one we want. Remember how the press bullied both Taylor Swift and Jimmy Fallon into getting political after years of nonpartisan stances?

That mantra is part and parcel of the Hollywood ecosystem in 2026. ICE? Nazis! Trump? Hitler 2.0! Voter ID laws? Jim Crow 2.0!

And the granddaddy of them all — the endless Israeli/Palestinian conflict? It’s a genocide!

Except Wim Wenders didn’t read the approved talking points. The veteran director got pressed by a journalist at the Berlin Film Festival on that intractable conflict and the festival’s lack of an official position or statement on the subject.

The celebrated director said, and we paraphrase, no dice.

“We are the counterweight of politics. We are the opposite of politics. We have to do the work of people, not the work of politicians. If we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics. No movie has really changed any politician’s idea, but you can change people’s idea of how they should live.”

How long before Wenders is dubbed Hitler 3.0 by the left or the media (but we repeat ourselves)?

Be like Kevin

Kevin James didn’t bring his new rom-com, “Solo Mio,” to the Berlin Film Festival. He still took a page from the Wenders playbook.

If you want to know who he voted for in the last election, good luck.

“Politically, for me to speak on it, there are experts who know much more than I do,” James says. “I’m just focusing on what I can do, delivering a fun, heartfelt break from the craziness of the world. Everybody carries themselves around all day long with a lot of stress. It’s necessary in some ways, but you also need a break.”

Call him the anti-Mark Ruffalo. Or to be blunt, downright refreshing.

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The Mamdani administration is under fire for cold-related deaths reported in New York City after restricting the conditions under which homeless people can be removed from the streets.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) allowed more homeless people to stay outside during life-threatening cold temperatures rather than force them into warming centers. Critics said the policy was dangerous and irresponsible.

‘People die in their homes all the time.’

Since then, seven cold-related deaths have been documented, with others that have yet to be classified, though officials claimed these deaths occurred in “private homes.” A total of 19 people have died outdoors since freezing temperatures struck in late January.

When the administration was questioned about the lack of details being released about the deaths, the administration callously responded that the deaths were normal.

“They did not die on city property, so we are not releasing,” said a Mamdani spokesperson to the New York Post. “People die in their homes all the time.”

The controversy is compounded by a Gothamist report saying City Hall has taken over communications about the cold-related deaths from the New York City Police Dept. The confusion led to the public lacking information about the deaths.

“It is now clear that there was a miscommunication between NYPD and City Hall,” wrote Mamdani spokesperson Joe Calvello.

The NYPD issued a similar statement with identical wording.

“It is now clear there was a miscommunication between City Hall and the NYPD. Moving forward, information regarding deaths will be released by the most relevant agency,” said NYPD deputy commissioner for public information Delaney Kempner.

The report said both declined to comment further on the deaths.

Gothamist said that NYPD officials had expressed “confusion and frustration” at the decision from City Hall to take over the communications.

Critics are accusing Mamdani of trying to cover up the deaths related to his policies.

“It’s called the mayor’s CYA protocol,” said former First Deputy NYPD Commissioner George Grasso. The abbreviation CYA means “cover your a**.”

Contrary to the report, when pressed about the communications change, Mamdani said that the policy had not changed.

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“To my understanding, we’ve continued the policy as it has been,” Mamdani said at a press conference. “We’ve sought to be transparent with New Yorkers about this information.”

Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec issued a vague statement about the deaths.

“Each life of a New Yorker lost is a tragedy, whether at a private residence or on the streets of our city,” she said. “[The Office of Chief Medical Officer] has made the final determination that seven individuals died at private residences.”

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On Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, a transgender-identifying biological male, allegedly killed eight people — his mother, stepbrother, as well as a teacher and five students — at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and wounded dozens more before dying by suicide.

Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” calls the incident “infuriating.”

“Tragedy keeps happening. Again, a deranged trans person was, instead of being given actual medical mental help for their condition, they were instead glorified and enabled and told that you actually could change your gender and potentially pumped full of mind-altering drugs and then [allegedly] goes on to carry out another mass shooting,” she says.

Sara expresses frustration that many reports and officials avoided specifying the alleged shooter’s biological sex.

“You can’t nail down the identity of the suspect. You can’t even nail down what gender this person was. … You have members of the police force, law enforcement, government officials who are very careful that they don’t use any pronouns,” she criticizes.

It’s “because you don’t want to admit that the thing that we keep saying is happening is happening. … You don’t want everyone to know — uh-oh, a trans person [allegedly] committed another mass shooting.”

Sara plays a clip of RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald addressing the death toll during a press conference.

“That includes the deceased gun person,” he says.

“The deceased gun person. I mean, you know, you wouldn’t want to offend a[n alleged] dead murderer by deadnaming him,” Sara mocks. “That’s what these people are concerned about in the aftermath of this type of massacre. They don’t want to offend the [suspected] dead murderer.”

The majority of mainstream outlets went a step further in their reporting, referring to the alleged shooter as a female.

Sara displays a multitude of headlines — from People, the New York Post, FOX 8, and the Irish Independent — that initially framed the alleged shooter as a “female.”

Referring to people by their preferred pronouns instead of those that match their biological gender is a significant part of the problem in Sara’s eyes.

“Enabling someone’s delusion in the trans world is going to continue to lead to mass shooters,” she warns.

“This is such an easy thing to fix. How many more children have to die before we finally decide that this experimentation that you’re doing with an entire generation is a bad idea?”

To hear more of Sara’s commentary, watch the video above.

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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was arrested and charged this week with allegedly harboring and transporting an illegal alien who prosecutors claim is his niece.

If convicted, Andres Wilkinson III — a CBP supervisory officer who has worked for the agency since May 2001 — faces up to a decade in prison and a potential $250,000 fine.

The CBP Office of Professional Responsibility received information from Homeland Security Investigations in April 2025 that Elva Edith Garcia-Vallejo, the daughter of a man whom Wilkinson listed as a brother in his 2023 background investigation, was allegedly living with the CBP officer at his residence in Laredo, Texas.

‘Financially supported her by providing his credit cards, housing, and assistance with her financial obligations.’

Garcia-Vallejo’s residency was problematic because she is a foreign national who lacks legal authorization to be in the homeland, which Wilkinson knew, federal prosecutors claimed.

According to the criminal complaint, Garcia-Vallejo entered the U.S. in August 2023 using her nonimmigrant visa number and secured a I-94 travel permit as a temporary visitor for pleasure/tourism to San Antonio — a permit that expired on Feb. 4, 2024.

North of the border, Garcia-Vallejo temporarily resided with her Laredo-based husband, Juan Rodriguez, who filed and then withdrew an immigration petition for her to become a legal resident.

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In May 2025 — eight months after Garcia-Vallejo’s last known entry into the U.S. using her B1/B2 nonimmigrant visa number and two months after her travel permit expired — the CBP OPR allegedly spotted Garcia-Vallejo and her daughter meet with Wilkinson outside the Harmony School of Science in Laredo.

Investigators followed the mother — who had no pending immigration applications — and daughter back to their dwelling place. At the time, Garcia-Vallejo was driving a Toyota Rav4 registered to Wilkinson, the criminal complaint said.

Over the next several months, CBP OPR conducted surveillance at the residence and allegedly observed Garcia-Vallejo come and go. They also claimed to have spotted her driving another vehicle registered to Wilkinson.

Finally, on Feb. 5, CBP OPR detained Garcia-Vallejo, who allegedly admitted that she had been living with her “uncle” since at least August 2024; that he had “financially supported her by providing his credit cards, housing, and assistance with her financial obligations, including medical debt, and by adding her to his vehicle insurance,” said the complaint.

The supposed niece also admitted to allegedly crossing U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints in a vehicle driven by Wilkinson on multiple occasions.

The criminal complaint refers to Wilkinson in one instance as his supposed niece’s “boyfriend” and the DOJ noted in its corresponding release that the two were “romantically involved,” but neither document offered supporting details for that characterization of their relationship. While the complaint indicates Garcia-Vallejo is the daughter of the officer’s brother, it did not specify whether they are indeed blood relatives.

CBP did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News. Attorneys for Garcia-Vallejo and Wilkinson did not respond to a request for comment from the Guardian.

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I know you thought the Super Bowl halftime show brought to you by a double-digit-IQ reprobate was bad, but Pam Bondi appeared before Congress this week and said “hold my beer.”

She’s playing the Republican base for suckers with her constant night-at-the-improv act. That future gig as a Fox News contributor ain’t gonna happen all by itself.

The memes cataloguing her jackassery simply won’t stop despite Trump’s mightiest efforts to bail her out. I mean, how do you explain away “don’t worry about the Epstein rape island because have you considered where the Dow is?”

Yikes.

The midterms called and said the blue wave is a-coming! We’ve clearly come a long way from “lock her up,” but in exactly the wrong direction. The message is highly radicalized, but the perception increasingly seems to be that we are not delivering on it and perhaps we never intended to.

A lot of politics is perception. That’s just the plain reality of it. It’s why one of my Ten Commandments of political warfare is “never attack what you aren’t prepared to kill.” So if, for example, we pull out of Minneapolis right now and declare victory but Tim Walz, Don Lemon, and Ilhan Omar pay no discernable cost, what has actually been gained?

In fact, the right will have managed to disappoint both sides of its political coalition. First the establishment thought the optics were too violent, and now the base thinks the optics are too cowardly. Then add to that mix elitist talk about the Dow papering over the need to expose the perpetrators of global sex crimes, and prepare for a dire electoral judgment day.

You can personally admire the president and everything he has done for this country (and I do) but still remember that Trump lost about 40 House seats in the 2018 midterms. What about this time? You have to live in the world of actual realities and outcomes. So when the pollster calls you about the current direction of the country and your personal situation includes homes that you still can’t sell and schools that are still trying to trans your kids, you are going to need your affinity for Trump to be doing a lot more heavy lifting than whatever Pam Bondi is bringing to the table on his behalf.

When the base starts to ask why protecting Howard Lutnick is more important than protecting base voters, Houston, we have a problem. But perhaps I’m wrong. Let he who has not brought his family to Epstein Island cast the first stone!

Given that the attorney general is arguably the most important position in the executive branch other than president, I wish I had more to analyze for you than the level of stupid now before us. What would we have said if Hillary Clinton tried something like what Bondi just did before Congress? I don’t know that I have ever seen a figure on the right being more justifiably and savagely ridiculed by her own side.

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Does everyone understand what a self-own it was for Bondi to try to own the libs by accusing Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) of being a crooked inside trader? Because what position in the federal government is uniquely equipped and empowered to find out if Raskin should be punished for abusing his position within the United States Congress? Could it be Attorney General Bedazzler Bondi herself? Good grief.

She’s playing the Republican base for suckers with her constant night-at-the-improv act. That future gig as a Fox News contributor ain’t gonna happen all by itself, is it, Pam?

Meanwhile, and maybe I’m weird this way, I just want to win. And by that I don’t mean something as trite as the final score of a football game. No, winning means saving America for our children to live safe and free. The existential stakes of our current political moment fall nothing short of that.

The cold truth is that Pam Bondi at this point is clearly an embarrassing impediment to that goal. She’s not only not helping us win, but I’ve got a set of binders right here and they all say it’s more likely that she’ll be the reason we lose.

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With the Trump administration celebrating a surprisingly strong jobs report release earlier this week, more good news has come to close the week.

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its January Consumer Price Index report, revealing some good news for the consumer.

According to the report, consumer prices rose 2.4% in January, marking a sharp decline from December’s 2.7% rate.

CNN reported that this report was scheduled to publish on Wednesday but was two days late due to the partial federal government shutdown that ended last week.

According to the report, consumer prices rose 2.4% in January, marking a sharp decline from December’s 2.7% rate.

RELATED: ‘Golden Age of America is upon us!’ Delayed January jobs report exceeds expectations

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Economists were surprised by the report, predicting a significant increase to the inflation rate, according to CNN.

Business Insider wrote that this was the lowest inflation rate since May 2025.

Not only was the January rate less than the November and December 2025 rate, it also shows a marked decline from four years ago.

In January 2022, one of the worst years for inflation during the Biden era, inflation was sitting at 7.48%, which was also among the slowest months of 2022, according to one source.

This unexpected turnaround in the inflation rate at the beginning of the new year will likely be taken into consideration by the Federal Reserve, which has maintained its higher interest rates in its effort to offset inflation.

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Judicial Watch obtained heavily redacted documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation showing that law enforcement broadcast radio warnings about an “unknown male acting suspiciously” prior to the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The FBI was forced to release the first records after President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on July 13, 2024, following Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against the bureau. A year and a half after the shooting, very little is known about the assassination attempt, the failures leading up to it, and the shooter himself.

‘It shouldn’t have taken years and a federal lawsuit to get this basic FBI material.’

In the lawsuit, Judicial Watch asked for all records and communications related to Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, after the FBI failed to comply with a July 2024 FOIA request.

As a result, the FBI was forced to release 37 heavily redacted pages revealing the extent to which law enforcement was aware of “suspicious” activity leading up to the deadly shooting.

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One investigative report found that law enforcement flagged a suspicious male wearing a gray T-shirt with “Demolition Ranch” written on the front like the one Crooks was wearing. The same report found an unknown male scouting out a law enforcement sniper position, leading several officials to communicate about his activity.

Another report released portions of an interview done on July 16 where a member of the Saxonburg Police Department noted that sniper teams called out and sent photos of a “suspicious person” with a range finder. The same officer later said that a call came out over the radio of a “long gun on the roof” moments before shots rang out.

Several similar interviews the FBI was forced to release corroborated these details, including the apparent sightings of Crooks and his suspicious activity prior to the assassination attempt.

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“These documents raise troubling new questions about Secret Service failures to protect President Trump,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement obtained by Blaze News. “And it shouldn’t have taken years and a federal lawsuit to get this basic FBI material about the near assassination of President Trump.”

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President Donald Trump has granted pardons to former NFL players whose crimes will certainly raise some eyebrows.

The announcement was made by White House pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson, who was pardoned herself by Trump in 2020 after serving 22 years in prison.

‘Mercy changes lives.’

“Today, the President granted pardons to five former NFL players. … As football reminds us, excellence is built on grit, grace, and the courage to rise again. So is our nation,” Johnson wrote on X.

The five ex-NFL players are Billy Cannon, Travis Henry, Joe Klecko, Jamal Lewis, and Nate Newton. Cannon is the only deceased member of the group.

Henry, a former Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans running back, made it to the Pro Bowl in 2002. However, in 2008 as a member of the Denver Broncos, Henry was arrested after authorities in Montana caught him with 6 pounds of marijuana and more than 6 pounds of cocaine. He trafficked cocaine between Colorado and Montana, the DOJ claimed. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison but was released after two.

Lewis, a former Baltimore Raven, won a Super Bowl with the team in 2001, along with a bevy of awards throughout his career. He also has the second-most rushing yards in a single game in NFL history.

In 2004, Lewis reached a plea agreement with prosecutors after being charged with conspiring to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute and using a cell phone in the commission of the first count. He served four months in prison and went on to play in the NFL until 2009.

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A federal grand jury indicted 67 people in 1992, including former New York Jets defensive tackle Klecko. Klecko was allegedly connected to an insurance fraud scheme; UPI reported that an insurance company in New Jersey conspired with body shops and claimants to submit phony claims for paint damage caused by emissions from an oil refinery.

Klecko pleaded guilty to perjury in 1993 and served three months in prison.

Newton, a former Dallas Cowboys player between 1986 and 1998, is a three-time Super Bowl champion and six-time Pro Bowl player. The offensive guard was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2002 after police found 175 pounds of marijuana in his car. He admitted he planned to drive the load to Houston, Texas, from a nearby county.

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Cannon played for the Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders in the 1960s, was a Heisman Trophy winner, and was a three-time AFL champion. He pleaded guilty to counterfeiting money in the 1980s, according to the New York Post. He spent more than two years in prison. He died in 2018 at the age of 80.

Johnson called it a “blessed day” when the pardons were granted, adding that she was grateful to the president for his “continued commitment to second chances.”

“Mercy changes lives,” she added.

In November, Trump pardoned former MLB player Darryl Strawberry for 30-year-old tax fraud charges. In 1995, Strawberry pleaded guilty to a single count of tax evasion over a failure to report nearly $500,000 in income he made off of baseball cards and autograph signings between 1986 and 1990.

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