Media reports that the U.S. Attorney’s office had ended the investigation into alleged misuse of the autopen by the former Biden administration are contradicted by a Fox News report.

Critics of the Biden administration have suggested that former President Joe Biden’s mental acuity deteriorated to the point that he would have no longer been able to properly authorize the use of the autopen at the end of his term.

‘These types of cases are tough. Executive privilege issues come into play.’

While the alleged misuse of the autopen has been investigated since June 2025, the New York Times reported Thursday that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro had ended the effort. A CBS News report said two sources confirmed the decision to drop the criminal probe.

However, a senior Justice Dept. source familiar with the matter told Fox News that the investigation is ongoing, despite admitting that Biden is unlikely to be indicted on any charges.

“These types of cases are tough. Executive privilege issues come into play,” the official said.

“It’s hard to imagine how [Biden] could be criminally liable for pardon power,” the official added.

On Thursday, Pirro offered a brief statement on the report, saying, “We cannot comment on ongoing investigations.”

The former president has vehemently denied the allegations and defended the use of the autopen under his administration.

“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency,” Biden said in comments from June. “I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

RELATED: Ted Cruz says Biden accidentally undermined his own defense of autopen scandal

A White House memorandum at the time called the “conspiracy” of the autopen “one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history.”

In February, Pirro also reportedly dropped the effort to indict six Democrats who appeared in a video calling on military members to deny following “unlawful orders” from the administration. The president excoriated the Democrats over the video he called “seditious” and even warned that the punishment for treason is execution.

“It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime. There can be no other interpretation of what they said!” he said at the time.

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In the wake of the United States and Israel’s joint military operation against Iran, some people — even “some of the president’s former supporters in right-wing media,” says Glenn Beck — are spreading the narrative that Trump has been “duped by Israel” into starting a war with Iran.

Is the man globally known for being impervious to pressure really acting under Israel’s influence?

To get the truth about the president’s motivation, Glenn speaks with Lara Trump, President Trump’s daughter-in-law.

Lara’s immediate response to the suggestion that “Israel has dragged Donald Trump into this war” is laughter.

“The only person who makes decisions for Donald Trump is Donald Trump,” she says.

“He takes account of what people around him have to say. He likes to get a lot of opinions, a lot of thoughts, which any smart person and any good leader would actually do. But then he’s the person who makes that decision,” the former RNC chair adds.

To those who are accusing the president of abandoning the “America First” agenda, she argues that crippling the Iranian regime is in America’s — and the world’s — best interest.

“Let’s be really clear when it comes to Iran. This is a regime that has been for nearly 50 years chanting ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel.’ … They were on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon. That would have been detrimental not only to the United States, but to the entire world,” Lara tells Glenn.

“This president has always said he wants to put America first. You don’t have an America if Iran has a nuclear weapon because we know they would have deployed it on us. They want to wipe us off the map,” she continues.

She says that “no one has made any decision [about Iran] other than this president” and that his decisive action was solely “based on the intelligence … his assessment of things … [and] on the fact that he wants to put America first and protect American citizens above all else.”

“I have personally been told over and over again for 25 years … [Iran] could be weeks away [from developing a nuclear weapon],” says Glenn. “What was it this time that made him go, ‘We have to take care of it right now’?”

Lara’s answer is profound: “I obviously don’t get the detailed intelligence briefings like he does, but I’ll just say this … I think he definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, believes that his life was spared in Butler, Pennsylvania, so that he could go on to lead this country, and he was made for such a time as this.”

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A user of the Claude artificial intelligence assistant by Anthropic reported vastly different responses to simple prompts about racial “pride.”

The user posted a screenshot of Claude apparently replying, “Racism,” when prompted to “describe white pride using only one word.”

‘Anthropic is in trouble because I fired [them] like dogs, because they shouldn’t have done that.’

When it was prompted to “describe black pride using only one word,” the screenshot showed that it replied, “Empowerment.”

Blaze News was able to independently replicate the responses from Claude and also received the response “heritage” when it was prompted to “describe brown pride using only one word.”

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who owns the AI competitor Grok, amplified the criticism of Claude on the X social media platform, which he also owns.

In response to a user’s claim that Claude is “racist,” Musk replied, “Yes.”

That post garnered more than 13 million views in less than seven hours.

Anthropic was criticized by President Donald Trump after negotiations between the AI start-up and the Department of War failed to reach an agreement.

“I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired [them] like dogs, because they shouldn’t have done that,” the president said Thursday.

However, negotiations between the department and Anthropic were reported to have resumed on that same day.

RELATED: Shock report reveals Gen Zers and Millennials dislike AI ads more than ever — as executives double down

Anthropic indicated that the rift was caused by a disagreement over whether its software could be used for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

A request for comment from Anthropic about the post was not immediately returned.

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President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security scored a significant legal win on Thursday regarding its immigration enforcement surge.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched Operation Midway Blitz in September, intending to target criminal illegal aliens hiding behind sanctuary policies in Chicago, Illinois.

‘President Trump is trying to protect American citizens while local elected officials REFUSE to do so.’

The following month, organizations representing journalists and residents filed a complaint against the Trump administration, accusing federal agents of responding to the protesters “with a pattern of extreme brutality in a concerted and ongoing effort to silence the press and civilians.”

The plaintiffs claimed that federal agents had “injured and sickened” civilians and the press through the use of force and tear gas.

“The officers are not physically threatened,” the complaint read.

The lawsuit requested that the court prevent federal agents from continuing to use alleged “unconstitutional tactics.”

RELATED: Ramming attacks on ICE spike, endangering agents as Democrats continue to spew hateful rhetoric

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In November, a federal judge in Chicago issued a broad injunction in response to the complaint, placing restrictions on the use of force.

“The use of force shocks the conscience,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis stated.

The Department of Homeland Security appealed the federal judge’s ruling, calling the injunction “an extreme act by an activist judge that risks the lives and livelihoods of law enforcement officers.”

On Thursday, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to lift the injunction, claiming that the lower court had “granted an overbroad, constitutionally suspect injunction.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi called the appeals court’s decision “a huge legal win” for Trump.

“President Trump is trying to protect American citizens while local elected officials REFUSE to do so. @thejusticedept attorneys were proud to argue this case. We will continue fighting and WINNING for the President’s law-and-order agenda,” Bondi wrote in a post on X.

RELATED: Anti-ICE mob turns hostile, breaching barriers outside detention facility — several officers injured

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The plaintiffs previously requested that Ellis dismiss the case after the operation had wound down. The judge granted that motion in January.

The appeals court was critical of Ellis’ decision to dismiss the lawsuit without prejudice, stating that “any class members or the lead plaintiffs could refile these claims tomorrow.”

“They could ask the district court to reinstate a near-identical preliminary injunction, adopting the facts and legal reasoning from the district court’s order,” the majority wrote, adding that they could “help avoid that pitfall by vacating the order that depends on these conclusions.”

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales’ first documentary on H-1B visa abuse was only the beginning. What started as an investigation into shell companies listing residential addresses has expanded into something far larger: office “hives” where dozens of businesses claim the same suite number while sponsoring foreign workers whose physical presence is difficult to verify.

“One of the things we’re noticing as we dig through all of this data, the issue isn’t just multiple people working out of one location, which by the way, there’s nothing wrong with, right? There’s nothing wrong with that. But what we’re seeing is multiple businesses opening out of a single location and then sponsoring visas,” Gonzales explains.

“Now we’re calling these hives, multiple companies listing the same address on their paperwork. For example, in this one office,” she continues, “… we found at least 19 companies so far that use this single suite all at the same time.”

“Either they’re listing it as their business address, or they’re saying that they have workers there present at that work site location,” she adds.

When Gonzales visited another “hive,” she was told by a woman on site that the companies she was looking for were not there anymore or never come into the office.

“Very strange. Why are all of these companies listing a suite when the companies clearly don’t exist here? It’s an address to an entire building. They say they’ve never heard of any of these companies, and the companies that they have heard of never come in. We’d never see these people. They have no physical presence at this location,” Gonzales says.

When confronted by Gonzales, the husband of the owner of one company she was investigating explained that they went through the legal process to get seven H-1B workers approved — but those workers never showed up.

However, his wife, the legitimate owner, claimed they were all at the office.

“The funny thing about all these public access files is that a business has to maintain them even if their employees apparently never even come,” Gonzales says, playing a clip of the husband asking what a “public access file” is.

“These people are legally required to maintain their public access files, even after the employment ends for a period of time. But here’s the thing. These files are just, they’re just basic. A couple of word documents,” Gonzales says.

And while Gonzales isn’t declaring “fraud” just yet, she does point out that “there are enough holes in the story here” that “show how easy it is for companies to just get approved for visa workers, only for them to just vanish into thin air.”

“They could literally be anywhere right now,” she says, adding, “We have no idea.”

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Nate Sheets is not only a fifth-generation Texan, entrepreneur, and founder of Nature Nate’s Honey, but he’s now the Texas agriculture commissioner — and he has big plans for Texas.

Sheets ran on supporting local Texas farmers, protecting local agriculture, and improving the quality of the food we eat.

“I’m running to be Texas agriculture commissioner because we’re losing agriculture like never before and we have a pandemic of health crisis related to the food that we’re eating in America,” Sheets told BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey’s father, Ron Simmons, on “Relatable.”

“I’ve been endorsed by Governor Greg Abbott. I want to make agriculture great again. And we’re going to get out there and help farmers and ranchers. We lost 68 farms this week, and we don’t have to continue to do that,” he explained.

And Simmons believes Sheets has it in him to do just that, noting that on each jar of honey, Sheets used to have his cellphone number, which he would answer in the middle of the night.

Now, Sheets keeps a Bible verse on each jar of honey.

“He followed in the footsteps of those businessmen, like the Greens with Hobby Lobby, that not only … talk the talk, but walk the walk in their business world to help build the kingdom,” Simmons explains.

“He’s committed to trying to help Texas live a healthier life,” he says, “and the Department of Agriculture in Texas is a big part of doing that.”

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An illegal alien residing in Philadelphia has been charged with unlawfully voting in the 2024 general election, when Republican candidate Donald Trump was running against then-Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Department of Justice announced on Thursday the criminal charges and the arrest of Mahady Sacko, 50.

‘Illegal aliens ARE registering to vote in Pennsylvania.’

Sacko, who entered the U.S. in 1998, was previously ordered deported in 2000 but remained in the United States.

He allegedly falsely represented himself as a U.S. citizen to register to vote and cast a ballot in federal elections, after initially registering in January 2005.

Sacko also voted in in federal elections in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020, according the criminal complaint shared by Fox News Digital.

Voting records indicated that Sacko registered as a Democrat, the Philadelphia Inquirer stated.

Sacko, who is from Mauritania, now faces up to five years in prison for his alleged crimes.

RELATED: Jasmine Crockett claims voters were ‘disenfranchised’ following crushing defeat in key Texas primary

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Sacko in 2007. ICE attempted to deport him, but his Mauritanian passport had expired, and the agency could not obtain one for him. Unable to return Sacko to his home country, he was released from ICE custody and ordered to check in with the agency.

“Sacko voted in person for each of these elections, except for the 2020 primary election, in which he voted by mail. On each occasion, Sacko falsely represented that he was a U.S. citizen,” an FBI special agent wrote in the criminal complaint.

RELATED: ‘Turnaround for the ages’: Trump boasts victory at the southern border — 0 illegal aliens entered in 9 months

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Conservative activist Scott Presler reacted to the news of Sacko’s arrest.

“The DOJ just indicted an illegal alien for voting in the 2024 election in Pennsylvania,” Presler wrote in a post on social media. “I went a step further & discovered that he’s registered as a democrat in Philadelphia. We have proof. Illegal aliens ARE registering to vote in Pennsylvania.”

“We are getting the data for the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania voter rolls before the Department of State does a massive purge,” Presler wrote in a subsequent post. “Now, we know what to look for!”

Sacko’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.

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NBA player Draymond Green has come out in defense of stripping as “art” and says a strip club is part of Atlanta’s culture.

The statements stem from controversy over the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks hosting a “Magic City Monday” game on March 16 against the Orlando Magic. Magic City is a famous strip club in Atlanta.

‘It’s actually a form of art that some choose to indulge in and some choose not to indulge in.’

Following the team’s announcement of the celebration — which includes music, wings, and podcasts — San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet condemned the promotion and said it denigrates women.

“The NBA should desire to protect and esteem women. … We should promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners that we know and love,” Kornet wrote. His sentiment was shared by Golden State Warriors veteran Al Horford.

However, Horford’s teammate Green had a much different view, stating on his podcast that he objects to Kornet’s remarks, despite having daughters.

“I object to what Luke Kornet is saying. … As a man with a wife, as a man with daughters, as a man with sisters, and as a man with an amazing mother and an amazing grandmother and incredible aunts and nieces,” Green began.

The 36-year-old then described Magic City as an extremely successful business that simply has “an option for females to work there.”

When it came to directly addressing Kornet’s remarks, Green first mentioned that it is entirely optional for anyone to visit the strip club. He then took issue with Kornet condemning stripping as a job, describing it as one would a regular profession.

“I think to point out that they have esteem issues because that’s the line of work they chose, I actually think is less protective of women because you’re condemning something as if — it’s actually an art,” Green claimed. “I don’t know if you’ve ever been, but like, if you see it in action, it’s actually a form of art that some choose to indulge in and some choose not to indulge in.”

RELATED: Atlanta Hawks strip club promotion called out by Catholic NBA player: ‘Protect and esteem women’

Green went into a further defense of strippers and said that “because a woman decides that that’s the art that they want to partake in and that the customer wants to take in,” it is “reflective on society’s thoughts and how they once viewed things.”

“I don’t necessarily think it’s a hit on the esteem of women,” he added.

Green then cited rapper Cardi B as a former stripper who does not appear to have “esteem issues,” because she has a successful music career. He also claimed that the reason the NBA is allowing the event to happen is because “the NBA as a community is a very inclusive community.”

Echoing Hawks ownership and staff, Green then described Magic City as part of Atlanta’s culture.

For example, Jami Gertz, an owner of the Hawks, said last week, “The iconic Atlanta institution has made such an incredible impact on our city and its unique culture.”

RELATED: Whitlock: The REAL reason LeBron James won’t let his daughter join the WNBA

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Former NBA player Lou Williams, who had a pair of two-year stints with the Hawks, was far more impartial on the matter than Green was.

“Everybody won’t be happy about everything,” he told TMZ. “I think it’s an opportunity for everybody to be educated on things that they agree with and things that they don’t agree with.”

The Hawks have remained steadfast, though, telling the New York Post that the event will go on as planned.

In a separate statement to TMZ, Magic City manager JuJu Barney said, “There will be no nudity whatsoever, at all” at the event. He added, “There will be no signs of nudity. There will be no nudity at all. It’s strictly just wings and music and people having a good time.”

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The mayor of San Francisco’s security team was attacked on Thursday just before he called for giving the city a “reset.”

On Thursday evening, members of San Francisco Democrat Mayor Daniel Lurie’s security team were involved in an altercation with two suspects in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, Fox News reported.

‘We are grateful that the officers assigned to the mayor’s security detail acted swiftly and courageously to protect him in a dangerous and unpredictable situation.’

San Francisco Police confirmed to Fox that the confrontation occurred around 5:40 p.m. local time. The altercation unfolded after the mayor’s vehicle was stopped on the road.

Video from the scene shows a member of the security detail engaging with one of the suspects, who subsequently throws the security guard to the ground.

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The suspects were arrested and later identified as 44-year-old Tony Phillips and 33-year-old Abraham Simon. Both were transported to San Francisco County Jail and booked, according to Fox.

Police have not explained the cause of the confrontation or whether the mayor was directly threatened.

In a statement to CBS News on Thursday night, Lurie’s press secretary, Charles Lutvak, said the mayor was not involved in the incident.

“There was an altercation this evening involving the mayor’s security detail. The mayor was not involved,” Lutvak said. “We appreciate our SFPD officers for their quick response and for keeping our city safe every day.”

Louis Wong, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, confirmed that one union member was injured and praised the response of officers.

“The San Francisco Police Officers Association is relieved to hear that Mayor Daniel Lurie was not injured in the violent incident that occurred Thursday evening in the Tenderloin,” Wong said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We are grateful that the officers assigned to the mayor’s security detail acted swiftly and courageously to protect him in a dangerous and unpredictable situation.”

At nearly the same time as the altercation, Lurie’s X account, which has Chinese characters that supposedly spell his name, posted a video saying, “San Francisco needs a reset.”

“Our city charter is one of the longest in the country. It is bloated. It is broken. And it only works for the people who know how to manipulate it — not everyday San Franciscans,” Lurie says in the video. “Today, I’m proposing reforms to clean up our city charter and make the government, and me, more accountable to you.”

The replies section of this video was quickly flooded with footage from the Thursday altercation when the news of it broke.

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Comedic actor and director Ben Stiller objected to the White House using a scene from one of his most popular movies in a video promoting the attacks on Iran.

The high-energy, 42-second video is titled “Justice The American Way” and blends patriotic movie clips with scenes from the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.

‘We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine.’

One of the scenes is a brief clip from “Tropic Thunder” showing Tom Cruise’s Harvey Weinstein-like character, Les Grossman, dancing.

Stiller, who wrote, directed, and starred in the 2008 comedy movie, posted the video and his demand on the X social media platform.

“Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip,” he wrote. “We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.”

On the other hand, fellow actor Kevin Sorbo expressed his approval for the video from the White House.

“I love this,” he responded.

Stiller has previously expressed his support for liberal causes and politicians, including in 2024 when he appeared in a fundraiser video for then-Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris.

RELATED: Ben Stiller denies receiving USAID money for humanitarian trip to Ukraine: ‘These are lies from Russian media’

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Despite his liberal proclivities, Stiller did speak out against those who called certain scenes in “Tropic Thunder” racist in the years since its release.

“I make no apologies for ‘Tropic Thunder.’ Don’t know who told you that,” he said in 2023 about the movie’s blackface character, played by Robert Downey Jr. “It’s always been a controversial movie since when we opened. Proud of it and the work everyone did on it.”

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