Dec 27, 2024
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Social Media Influencers Arrested for 2016 Election Interference

Douglass Mackey was arrested Wednesday, January 27, 2021, after a Federal Bureau of Investigation complaint found Mackey to be the main contributor behind a disinformation scheme to interfere with the 2016 Presidential Election between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn, opened... Read More »

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Biden's Day One Executive Orders - Ethics Pledge

January 20, 2021, was a busy day for White House ethics. In the morning then-president Trump revoked his 2017 ethics policy and, in the afternoon, as one of the seventeen executive orders he signed on his first day, President Biden introduced his own Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by Executive... Read More »

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DHS Issues Bulletin Over Heightened Domestic Terrorism Risk

For the first time ever, the Department of Homeland Security has issued a national terrorism bulletin about violent domestic extremists. The bulletin comes after the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill which has heightened the threat of violence across the nation, according to DHS. The bulletin, formally titled the National... Read More »

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Janet Yellen: First Female Treasury Secretary Confirmed

Janet Yellen was confirmed as the first female Treasury secretary on Monday, January 25, 2021. She won unanimous backing from both parties on the Senate Finance Committee and was confirmed by the full Senate on an 84-15 vote. Her confirmation comes 232 years after Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury... Read More »

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Texas Judge Blocks Biden's 100-day Deportation Freeze

One week in and President Biden has already been met with the first major setback of his presidency. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked Biden's 100-day deportation freeze. The deportation freeze was implemented via executive order on January 20th. As part of the memorandum, the Department of... Read More »

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Biden’s Mask Mandate Exposes Fed Vs. State Conflicts

President Joe Biden’s Executive Order enacted during his first day in office, ‘Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing,' imposes a powerful mandate on all federal buildings, lands, and staff to wear masks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) emphatically endorses mask-wearing to block the spread of COVID-19,... Read More »