The House has advanced a bill to extend the Temporary Protected Status for Haiti by another three years after six Republicans voted with Democrats.

Democrats unanimously voted Wednesday to advance Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s legislation that would give special protections to Haitian migrants. The bill ultimately advanced in a 219-209 vote with the help of six Republicans and one independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, who previously served as a member of the GOP.

‘If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.’

The six Republicans are: Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Carlos Gimenez of Florida, Mike Lawler of New York, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, and Nicole Malliotakis of New York. Notably, Salazar is also leading the charge for the bipartisan bill dubbed the Dignity Act, which critics have said is just another push for mass amnesty.

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas called the vote to extend TPS for Haitians “absurd,” echoing the concerns shared by many Americans.

RELATED: ‘Terrible betrayal’: Republican’s ‘compassionate’ immigration bill sparks intraparty clash

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Earlier in April, President Donald Trump and his administration sounded the alarm after an immigrant from Haiti allegedly murdered an American woman at a gas station by bludgeoning her with a hammer. This migrant came to the United States during former President Joe Biden’s administration and benefited from the same Temporary Protected Status the House is on track to extend.

“This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, ‘Temporary Protective Status,’ a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way,” Trump said in a Truth Social Post.

“As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control,” he added.

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A clip from the newest season of “Euphoria” sent commentator Megyn Kelly into fits after seeing actress Sydney Sweeney pose sexually while wearing an infantile costume.

Sweeney portrays a woman who decides to open an OnlyFans account to fund her wedding but ends up dressing like a baby to satisfy some client’s bizarre desires.

‘Most normal people are going to recoil … in response to what’s essentially the sexualization of a child.’

Kelly said she was shocked by the scene as well as the reaction to it.

“She’s dressed as a baby! She’s in a baby’s outfit. She’s sucking on a binky pacifier, and her legs are completely spread,” she said on her show.

“You can have a laugh, of course, because I was shocked, but the truth is, this is sexualizing infancy. That’s what it is,” Kelly added. “And some of the write-ups on this are like, ‘It’s a pretty common kink.’ What? Getting turned on by a baby, like what?!”

“It seems to be wanting to bring down your defenses on the most disgusting crime imaginable on earth.”

Video of the scene was posted to social media.

“I can’t believe she agreed to this frankly and was in this,” said Kelly of Sweeney.

“I think this is another example of Hollywood not understanding at all where the line is,” the commentator added. “And how most normal people are going to recoil … in response to what’s essentially the sexualization of a child, of a baby.”

Kelly went on to criticize Sam Levinson, the show’s creator, for other needless scenes of nudity.

“He constantly wants women to take their clothes off for scenes that don’t require them to be nude at all,” Kelly said.

RELATED: HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ pushes child exploitation as art — and America’s sickest critics agree

“All these women want to be stars, and few say no, but those that do, somehow it leaks because they’re clearly trying to tell us that this guy is, at a minimum, a jerk, and, more than likely, a problem,” she added.

Sweeney became a favorite for many on the right when her presence in an American Eagle jeans advertisement made leftist woke-scolds on TikTok implode with fury. The company was accused of pushing fascist and racist propaganda, but both the actress and American Eagle have laughed off the claims.

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On April 7, a heroic principal prevented a tragedy at an Oklahoma school by stepping in to disarm a gunman who entered the school near his office.

Blaze News previously reported that Pauls Valley Principal Kirk Moore stopped an armed assailant from shooting up the school, risking his life for his students and taking a bullet to the leg in the process.

Blaze News acquired surveillance video from the school showing the scene unfold.

The video shows the suspect entering the building and pulling out a gun. Moore can be seen jumping into action without hesitation after he enters the hallway and identifies the threat.

Moore was shot in the leg during the struggle.

RELATED: Heroic Oklahoma principal praised for thwarting alleged ‘Columbine’-inspired attack

Video shows Moore managing to restrain the suspect and pinning the hand with the gun, preventing the suspect from using it, before another man intervenes and removes the firearm from the situation.

No students or other faculty were harmed during the incident.

A GoFundMe page was set up to support Principal Moore as a “token of appreciation for a man who gave everything for others.”

The page reads, “Principal Moore has spent his life protecting and guiding students. In a moment of crisis, he proved just how far he’s willing to go for them.”

The fund has raised more than $10,000 at the time of writing.

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Vice President JD Vance, who chairs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, declared that “no amount of fraud is too big or too small” and stated that the task force plans to target bad actors regardless of the amount of money they have stolen from taxpayers.

During a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, Vance highlighted the task force’s early victories.

‘If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too.’

President Donald Trump established the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud by executive order in mid-March. Since then, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has worked with the task force to close hundreds of allegedly fraudulent health care providers.

On Tuesday, Vance discussed the issue of widespread fraud in the Minneapolis area, stating that the task force had turned off a government assistance program for autistic children that was being widely exploited.

“We’ve completely stopped the funding to that program. And we basically told the state of Minnesota, ‘You don’t get any more of our money unless you’ve verified that you’re taking fraud seriously,’” he stated, and the crowd responded with applause.

The federal government announced in February that it was withholding $259.5 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota.

RELATED: Vance’s task force shutters 221 hospices in ‘fraud king’ Gavin Newsom’s California

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During Tuesday’s event, Vance commended CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz for his work on eliminating fraud.

“We had our weekly fraud check-in call two weeks ago, and Dr. Oz called in, but he’s like, ‘Hey, I got to go because I’m about to hop on the bus, and we’re going to go arrest a bunch of fraudsters in Los Angeles.’ And I was like, ‘That’s exactly what I want you to do. By all means, get off the phone.’ So we’re doing a lot of that stuff.”

Vance explained that under the Biden administration, the federal government overlooked fraudsters who stole smaller amounts of money from taxpayers. He stated that this approach has changed under the Trump administration.

“No amount of fraud is too big or too small. If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too,” Vance remarked.

RELATED: How a California crook committed $178 million worth of health care fraud — in just one year

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As of Wednesday, the task force has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies in Los Angeles, with an estimated fraud total exceeding $600 million.

“With @VP’s leadership, we’re crushing fraud faster than ever,” Oz stated.

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Last Sunday, Eric Swalwell suspended his California gubernatorial campaign after reports by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN detailed multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, which he denies. He resigned from Congress the next day amid lost endorsements and staff departures.

Now Glenn Beck reads the open letter he wrote to Swalwell to illustrate the timeless law of reciprocity.

Glenn begins by rehashing Swalwell’s public opposition to Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018. Tweeting #BelieveSurvivors, Swalwell argued that multiple accusers meant the allegations were likely true (or Kavanaugh was the “unluckiest person in the world”) and said victims “deserve to be heard” and their allegations investigated.

“Congressman, do you feel the same way today?” Glenn asks. “Because now you have 50 women — 50 — from your office claiming the same thing. … Should we bring them all in? Should we question them publicly, or is this time different?”

“At the time, you even pushed back on applying strict legal standards in public judgment, noting, ‘The testimony of a single witness can prove any fact,’” he continues.

“So perhaps we just bring in one woman out of the 50 and let her speak publicly and believe her because she, as you pointed out, is a survivor.”

Glenn accuses Swalwell of showing “little to no patience for caution,” putting “little emphasis on presumption of innocence,” and lending “little concern for due process in the court of public opinion” in Kavanaugh’s 2018 hearings.

“And what’s truly sad is, at the time — unlike today — you were not alone. But boy, I bet you feel alone today,” he sneers.

“Isn’t it weird and a bitter symmetry that is happening here?” he asks. “You once argued that accusations carried its own moral force, that patterns of claims pointed towards truth no matter what, and that the accused should open themselves fully to prove their innocence.”

But now, Swalwell asks for “time,” “fairness, and “restraint.”

“The very principles you minimalized are the ones you now invoke,” Glenn says.

Calling him a “destructive, dishonest, selfish, slimy … force” who “never seemed to care about anything other than [his] own personal agenda,” Glenn grants Swalwell what he was unwilling to grant to others: “The allegations against you, however serious, however numerous, remain allegations.”

However, Glenn isn’t the least bit sorry that Swalwell’s career, ambitions, and reputation have been destroyed.

“There’s no one who deserves to feel that pain more than you,” he says.

He then points out the irony of the progressive Marxist apparatus Swalwell has been instrumental in.

“You were destroying the progressive enemies, and so they protected you. And in that, your arrogance grew. … You were untouchable. You were invincible — until you become an inconvenience,” he says. “And then Marxists and progressives do what they always do. Ends justify the means. You are expendable.”

The rise and fall of Swalwell, Glenn says, is a perfect example of God’s eternal law: “As you judge, so shall you be judged.”

To hear more of Glenn’s savage open letter to Eric Swalwell, watch the video above.

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A Florida woman who fraudulently posed as a nurse and treated nearly 4,500 patients without a license escaped going to jail, according to multiple reports.

Autumn Bardisa of Palm Coast was arrested by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in August 2025 for posing as a nurse and treating over 4,400 patients without a license.

‘This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated.’

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the 29-year-old pleaded no contest last week to unlicensed practice of health care and fraudulent use of identification.

A seven-month investigation originally led to 14 charges against Bardisa: seven counts of unlicensed health care practice and seven counts of fraudulent use of personal identification.

However, Bardisa will not face jail time.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that Bardisa was sentenced to 60 months of probation, which can be terminated after 30 months.

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols withheld adjudication, which means Bardisa will not be a convicted felon unless she violates the terms of her probation, according to the News-Journal.

Bardisa also was sentenced to 50 hours of community service.

WTVJ-TV reported that Bardisa is prohibited from practicing medicine during her probation.

Bardisa is required to send an apology letter to the nurse whose license number she stole.

“Incredibly poor judgment. Her actions were wrong,” Judge Nichols said, according to the News-Journal. “She will pay for those actions severely.”

The victim of the identity theft said during the hearing that Bardisa “chose to put countless lives on the line.”

However, the judge interrupted the victim and ordered her to “stop the personal attacks.”

Judge Nichols proclaimed, “There is absolutely zero evidence that countless lives were on the line. Zero evidence. As a matter of fact, the information that has been presented is that she was excellent in her job, and she excelled at her job.”

The News-Journal reported that Josh Davis, Bardisa’s defense attorney, said he was able to convince prosecutors to waive the one-year minimum mandatory sentence for practicing nursing without a license.

Davis argued, “The reason that we are in the courthouse is because she was really good at her job, and she makes people jealous.”

“Some co-workers go back and do the digging, and that’s the reason we are here,” Davis claimed.

According to the News-Journal, Bardisa maintained that there is “a lot more to the story” but did not offer further specifics.

“I’m just glad it ended up the way it did,” Bardisa stated. “And my daughter wasn’t harmed at all or didn’t have to face any of the backlash.”

Bardisa added, “I think a mistake shouldn’t ruin someone’s life.”

RELATED: Florida nurse learns fate after husband caught her having sex with stepson; boy’s mom blasts ‘incestuous pedophile’

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said in an August statement that Bardisa was hired July 3, 2023, as an advanced nurse tech at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway and was working under the supervision of a registered nurse.

Investigators said Bardisa applied for the position as an “education first” registered nurse — a designation for those who have completed their nursing program but have not yet passed the national licensing exam.

Police stated, “During the hiring process, Bardisa then informed the hospital that she had passed the exam and provided a license number matching an individual with her first name, Autumn, but with a different last name.”

Bardisa initially brushed off the discrepancy by claiming a recent name change due to marriage.

However, investigators said Bardisa never provided a marriage license to AdventHealth.

In January 2025, Bardisa was offered a promotion.

During the promotion process, a fellow employee checked the status of Bardisa’s license and discovered that she had an expired certified nursing assistant license, which was then reported to health care administrators, according to police.

Authorities said AdventHealth administrators launched an internal investigation, which revealed Bardisa never verified her identity or her supposed name change.

On January 22, 2025, AdventHealth terminated Bardisa after she failed to confirm her identity, the press release said.

Following her firing, AdventHealth alerted the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

FCSO detectives, as well as investigators with the Florida Department of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “reviewed documents and conducted interviews with AdventHealth employees” and determined that Bardisa stole the identity of another nurse, police said.

“The investigation determined that Bardisa shared a first name with the other nurse, who was employed by AdventHealth, but at a different hospital, and had attended school with her,” the sheriff’s office declared.

Police said Bardisa participated in medical services administered to 4,486 people from June 2024 to January 2025, despite never possessing the required nursing license.

Bardisa was arrested on August 5, 2025.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly proclaimed, “This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated.”

“This woman potentially put thousands of lives at risk by pretending to be someone she was not and violating the trust of patients, their families, AdventHealth, and an entire medical community,” Staly said.

Sheriff Staly added, “Nursing is a noble profession about caring for those in need, but there is a right way and wrong way to go about it, and she chose the wrong way by using a real nurse’s license.”

“Because she chose to circumvent the rules, she ruined her career, and she potentially endangered patients,” Staly said.

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Billionaire Tom Steyer was sitting pretty after one of his main competitors in the California gubernatorial race dropped out — and then Steyer was caught in an embarrassing “mistake.”

Steyer has told Californians that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “should be abolished,” but it turns out that a hedge fund he founded invests in detention centers.

‘It was also a big wake-up call that I was in the wrong place, that I was in a business that was taking me to places I absolutely didn’t want to go.’

“We never had anything to do with running the company,” said Steyer about the revelation. “But it was a mistake to think that that was a place where it was decent to make money.”

Farallon Capital Management was founded by the billionaire in 1986 and went on to invest up to $89.1 million in CoreCivic, a company that runs the largest detention center in California.

Two of the five centers run by CoreCivic house federal immigration detainees in Kern County and San Diego.

Steyer sold off his stake in CoreCivic in 2012.

At a town hall event in March, he said that the incident taught him to get out of the hedge fund business.

“It was also a big wake-up call that I was in the wrong place, that I was in a business that was taking me to places I absolutely didn’t want to go,” he said. “And there’s a reason I walked away from that business and walked away from a ton of money.”

Steyer has surged into the lead in the California governor’s race as the top Democrat, with 21% support in one poll after Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) abandoned his gubernatorial campaign and then resigned from Congress over sexual harassment and assault claims.

Republican candidate Steve Hilton comes in second place with 18% of the vote. The top two vote-earners in the June 2 primary, regardless of party, will advance to the general election in November.

RELATED: USC accused of racism after minority candidates don’t qualify for gubernatorial debate

Steyer’s opponents are trying to damage his campaign by emphasizing the hypocritical business investments.

“Those investments were 20 years ago, and I left my firm over a decade ago and pledged most of my earnings to charity,” the billionaire has fired back.

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An American livestreamer who angered the nation of South Korea for his disrespectful and disruptive actions in the country has finally learned his fate in court.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, better known online as Johnny Somali, was sentenced to six months in prison by a Seoul court on Wednesday.

‘The defendant repeatedly committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate profit via YouTube.’

Johnny Somali sparked widespread outrage after livestreaming a series of provocative stunts, including kissing and dancing on a statue honoring victims of World War II sexual slavery.

The Independent reported that Ismael later apologized for the video of him dancing on the Statue of Peace and subsequently removed the clip.

RELATED: Trump reveals which world leader called Biden ‘mentally retarded’

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“I want to apologize to the Korean people. I was not aware of the significance of the statue,” he said at the time.

He was found guilty on eight charges on Wednesday, including obstruction of business and distributing fabricated sexually explicit content, CBS News reported.

“The defendant repeatedly committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate profit via YouTube and distributed the content in disregard of Korean law,” the court said, according to the Independent.

The Associated Press reported that Ismael was barred from leaving the country while the proceedings were pending.

Ismael faced additional accusations of disturbing the peace during his livestreamed stunts.

He was accused of harassing people at an amusement park, playing loud music and upending noodles onto a table at a convenience store, and causing similar scenes on a bus.

The court said he demonstrated a “severe” disrespect for South Korean law, and prosecutors sought a three-year sentence for his crimes.

However, the judges handed down the lighter sentence due to the “absence of severe harm to victims.”

Ismael was found guilty on all eight charges and handcuffed in court after the verdict came down.

Many commentators like Atozy and even Tim Pool, who have covered the ongoing story as it unfolded, appeared glad to see Johnny Somali finally get the “sweet, juicy justice” he deserved. Tim Pool called him a “smug, nuisance lunatic” in his reaction video.

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BlazeTV host and investigative journalist Sara Gonzales has been extensively reporting on what she describes as the “Islamification of Texas” — the deliberate spread of Islamic influence in the state through mosques, schools distributing Qurans, hijabs, and other Sharia materials, taxpayer-funded Islamic institutions, “Sharia compounds,” halal practices, and cultural accommodations at the expense of traditional Texas and American values.

On this episode of “Come and Take It,” Sara exposes the Council on American-Islamic Relations — which Texas has designated as a foreign terrorist organization — for pushing whitewashed lessons about Islam to be included in Texas curriculum.

“Islamists have come to conquer. They can’t conquer without brainwashing the youth. … When you do that, you can indoctrinate little soldiers one generation at a time,” says Sara.

One way they accomplish this, she explains, is by changing the curriculum so that Islam is presented as “beautiful and flowery and tolerant and diverse,” while “the beatings, the honor killings, the terror, the Islamic slave trade … the third-world mentality” are intentionally omitted.

Last week, the Texas State Board of Education held its key April 2026 meeting for first reading/approval of the new social studies and reading curriculum changes set to take place in 2030.

CAIR representatives made an unexpected appearance and testified, urging the board to reject what they called “biased” revisions to the social studies TEKS that they argued unfairly link Islam to terrorism and downplay Muslim contributions to history.

According to Texas-based news outlet Texas Scorecard, “One of [CAIR’s] arguments was that the standards ‘lack a definition of terrorism and falsely associate it with one religion by using the controversial phrase ‘radical Islam.'”

Sara agrees that “radical Islam” is a controversial phrase but not for the same reason CAIR thinks it is. “It is a little redundant to say radical Islam because the entirety of Islam is inherently radical,” she says.

During the meeting, CAIR-Austin Operations Manager Shaimaa Zayan argued, “When terrorism is not clearly defined and used only in association with Muslims, we ignite hate and prejudice against the Texas Muslim community. Definitions and labels matter, and our students deserve standards that help them objectively and critically evaluate both historical and current events.”

But Sara says it doesn’t ignite hate and prejudice but rather rightful “fear and trepidation” based on Islam’s long history of terrorism.

“Your entire ideology essentially calls for terrorism, and you guys have your [feelings] hurt because we give you credit for that?” she counters. “It’s in your books. It’s in your teachings. If you don’t like it, I don’t know … go consult Allah or whatever.”

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Washington finally did something that actually helps drivers at the pump — but only halfway.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a temporary waiver allowing broader sales of E15 gasoline and suspending summer-blend fuel requirements.

The contradiction is hard to ignore: Rules designed to manage emissions are now being suspended to manage affordability.

The move is meant to offset rising gas prices tied to global instability, including tensions involving Iran — but it also exposes our own role in keeping gas prices high.

Summertime blues

For years, drivers have been paying more at the pump because of a patchwork of seasonal fuel mandates that make gasoline more expensive to produce and harder to distribute. Every spring, refiners switch to “summer blend” gasoline, designed to reduce evaporative emissions in warmer weather.

That switch isn’t free — it tightens supply, raises refining costs, and, like clockwork, pushes prices higher just as summer driving season begins.

Now, with prices climbing again, the same government that created the problem is stepping in with a temporary waiver to ease it. This has been happening for decades.

The 20-day waiver, which begins May 1, allows broader sales of E15 — gasoline with 15% ethanol — bypassing restrictions that normally block it in the summer months. The goal is simple: Increase supply, give consumers more flexibility, and bring prices down.

Even modest estimates suggest savings of a few cents per gallon, with some projections reaching as high as 40 cents in certain markets. That raises an obvious question: If removing these restrictions lowers prices now, why are they in place at all?

Fuelish games

Summer blends are tied to EPA regulations around fuel volatility — specifically Reid Vapor Pressure — intended to reduce smog during hotter months. The goal sounds reasonable, but the real-world trade-offs are harder to ignore.

Today’s engines run cleaner than ever, yet the fuel system has become more fragmented. Different regions require different blends, limiting how gasoline can be transported and sold. When supply tightens, that lack of flexibility drives prices higher.

Instead of a national fuel market that can respond efficiently, we have a regulatory maze that raises costs before fuel even reaches your tank. Then, when global disruptions hit — whether it’s instability in the Middle East or supply shocks — the system becomes strained faster than it should.

So regulators waive the rules again.

This has become routine: temporary fixes replacing long-term solutions, while drivers pay the price in the meantime.

End the blend

Industry groups like the Renewable Fuels Association and the American Petroleum Institute support expanding E15 access, and they’re right to push for consistency — but even that debate misses the larger issue.

The real solution is simpler: Eliminate seasonal blend mandates altogether.

If removing the summer blend lowers prices during a crisis, it will lower prices when there isn’t one. It would streamline production, stabilize supply, and eliminate one of the most predictable annual price spikes — because fewer constraints mean more efficiency, and more efficiency means lower costs.

RELATED: Why gas prices won’t be dropping — and how you can minimize the pain

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Pain at the pump

There’s also another lever Washington could pull: the federal gas tax.

Suspending or reducing it — even temporarily — would provide immediate, visible relief at the pump. It’s direct, measurable, and doesn’t depend on regulatory work-arounds.

States are unlikely to follow. Fuel taxes are a major source of revenue, and few are willing to give that up, which puts the pressure squarely on the federal government.

What makes this moment different is that drivers are seeing the impact in real time. Prices have surged quickly, pushing toward $4 per gallon nationally — a direct hit to household budgets, small businesses, and anyone who depends on transportation to make a living.

And yet instead of fixing the underlying problem, Washington keeps relying on temporary waivers.

The contradiction is hard to ignore: Rules designed to manage emissions are now being suspended to manage affordability. That alone should prompt a serious reassessment of whether the system is working — not just environmentally, but economically.

Right now, it isn’t.

Drivers don’t need another short-term fix that expires in a few weeks. They need a stable fuel market that doesn’t artificially drive up prices every summer.

Permanent relief

Eliminating seasonal fuel blends would be a strong start. Expanding access to E15 year-round would help. Reducing federal gas taxes would provide immediate relief.

None of these ideas are radical.

What’s radical is continuing to defend a system that clearly isn’t working for consumers.

The EPA has already shown that loosening these rules lowers costs. The question is whether Washington is willing to make that relief permanent — or if drivers will once again be stuck waiting for the next “emergency” to get a break.

Because drivers are tired of the same problem getting a temporary fix every time prices spike.

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The suspect in a series of violent attacks that took the life of a woman simply out walking her dog is an immigrant who was naturalized under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Neighbors of Lauren Bullis were shocked to find their quiet neighborhood violated by the sounds of gunfire early on Monday at about 6:50 a.m.

‘This monster was naturalized by the Biden administration.’

Bullis was out walking her dog when a man shot her and stabbed her to death. Police later identified the suspect as 26-year-old Olaolukitan Adon Abel, who was arrested for her murder.

Police then tied the suspect to the shooting death of a woman outside a Checkers restaurant as well as the shooting of a homeless man outside a Kroger grocery store.

On Wednesday, DHS revealed the violent criminal past of Adon Abel, who immigrated to the U.S. from the United Kingdom and became a naturalized citizen under a previous president.

“This monster was naturalized by the Biden administration,” DHS said. “Adon Abel also possesses a prior criminal record that includes convictions for sexual battery, battery against a police officer, obstruction, and assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism. Our prayers are with the families of the victims during this tragic time.”

Bullis was also revealed to have been an exemplary employee at the DHS Office of Inspector General.

“In every role she held, Lauren exemplified dedication to the OIG mission,” DHS said. “Lauren approached her work with integrity, thoughtfulness, and a commitment to excellence that strengthened our organization and the communities we serve. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Lauren was a bright spot for so many of the DHS community. She brought warmth, kindness, and a genuine sense of care to her colleagues each day.”

One witness indicated that she locked eyes with the assailant after he attacked Bullis and that he was in the act of pulling Bullis’ pants off.

RELATED: ‘REVOLTING LIES!’ DHS obliterates framing of gang-affiliated illegal aliens shot in Portland as ‘married couple’

DHS also documented the agency’s efforts to weed out threats from the naturalization process:

In an effort to remove murderers like this from our communities, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the creation of a new vetting center on December 5, 2025, to enhance screening and vetting of immigration applications, with a focus on identifying terrorists, criminal aliens, and other threats to public safety. The center will leverage advanced technologies and work closely with law enforcement and intelligence partners to strengthen national security and uphold the integrity of the U.S. immigration system.

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