Trump to Deploy 300 National Guard Members in Illinois

Tom Ozimek, Reporter, 10/4/2025|Updated: 10/5/2025

President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to protect federal assets amid “violent riots and lawlessness,” according to a White House spokesperson.

Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson confirmed the deployment in a statement to The Epoch Times.

“Amid ongoing violent riots and lawlessness, that local leaders like [Illinois Gov. JB] Pritzker have refused to step in to quell, President [Donald] Trump has authorized 300 national guardsmen to protect federal officers and assets,” she said. “President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities.”

Pakistani Cousin Marriage has no Place in the UK

By Noel Yaxley

The social and medical costs of this imported practice can no longer be ignored. Inbreeding is bad, actually.

You’d think that would go without saying. Not in the United Kingdom, where the Genomics Education Programme of NHS England recently published guidance touting the supposed “social advantages” of cousin marriages.

In Redbridge, East London, one in five child deaths was linked to consanguineous parents.

This is what happens when a subject becomes so controversial that no one dares to speak plainly. For years, journalists avoided discussing rampant cousin marriage for fear of alienating the Pakistani population. Even right-leaning newspapers mostly looked the other way.

Llamas Have a Reputation for Being Ornery and Spitting on People, but They’re also Perfectly Suited to Wyoming’s Remote Mountains

Mark Heinz, 10/03/25

Wyoming’s rugged backcountry is teeming with big game, but the farther into the wild hunters go to shoot deer and elk, the longer and more brutal packing their game out will be.

Some hunters rely on their own strength and use backpacks to haul out meat and antlers. Others get help from pack horses, mules, or pack goats.  

A pair of Wyoming hunters, Anthony Natale and Austin Griffith, think llamas are the perfect wilderness pack animals.   Llamas may not be native to Wyoming, but they’re perfectly suited for Wyoming’s high country terrain and the wilderness.  The pair started out a few years ago with just a couple of the gangly critters, which are native to the perilous mountains of South America.

Montana has Money for a Parenting Program at the Prison, but it’s not Operating Yet

After losing federal funding, the Department of Corrections hasn’t restarted a parenting program that state lawmakers put $120,000 toward earlier this year. The program had served roughly 160 fathers and 400 children during the program’s four-year tenure. By Zeke Lloyd

Frederick Maw VI was 14 months old when his father, Freddie J, received a 20-year sentence to Montana State Prison in 2018. Caterina Maw, Little Freddie’s grandmother, remembers driving alongside a “trembling and scared” child on a bus to a small red cabin in 2022 during her grandson’s first trip to meet his father. 

“He saw the swing set and he saw all the dads standing there with smiles on their faces — then he just got this huge smile and ran to his dad to give him a hug,” Caterina Maw said in a recent interview.

The pair reunited through a Montana Department of Corrections initiative called Connecting Adults and Minors through Positive Parenting, a multi-part program that included a three-month parenting course for incarcerated parents. Parents also were able to see their children in person and have dedicated video calls.

Mexico City Uses Reagan-Era Policy to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Gender-Transition Surgeries

President Donald Trump’s State Department will soon expand the scope of the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars for abortions.

“The department will soon take additional steps to close loopholes that allowed taxpayer funding for promotion of abortion in previous iterations of the Mexico City Policy and expand the scope of the policy to ensure every penny of U.S. foreign assistance prioritizes American values, not the woke agenda,” a senior State Department official told The Daily Signal.

The expanded policy will prohibit U.S. funding for gender ideology, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. For example, the State Department is ending a $2 million grant to fund gender-affirming operations in Guatemala.

Evil Feels Unleashed': Gut-wrenching Reactions to Michigan Church Shooting

Local authorities say a gunman rammed his vehicle into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before opening fire on worshippers on Sunday.

At least one person has died and 9 others were injured in a mass shooting at a a church in Michigan  on Sunday morning, according to local authorities.

The fatal shooting occurred at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, a suburb of Flint, Michigan.

The Grand Blanc Police Department said in a statement, "[There] has been an active shooter at the church of Latter Day Saints on McCandlish Rd. There are multiple victims and the shooter is down."

The police department noted that the church is "actively on fire."

Argentina’s Poverty Rate Drops

Argentina’s poverty rate has dropped sharply to its lowest level in several years, which supporters of cost-cutting President Javier Milei are touting as a win for his economic agenda. 

According to the national statistics agency cited by Semafor, about 32% of Argentinians lived in poverty during the first half of 2025, which represents a sharp decline from roughly 53% when Milei assumed office in late 2023.  

Semafor also noted that double-digit monthly inflation growth has come down to 2% in August as well. 

Milei has appeared in the U.S. at the Conservative Political Action Conference and touted the benefits of reducing the deficit in Argentina.

Trump Considers Moving World Cup Matches out of Seattle Due to Crime, Mayor Responds

Citing concerns about crime, President Donald Trump floated the idea of moving matches for next summer’s 2026 FIFA World Cup away from U.S. cities – including Seattle – that are “a little bit dangerous.” [Seattle Mayor Harrell pictured right]

Speaking from the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump responded to a reporter who mentioned Seattle and San Francisco, which will host six World Cup games each, as cities that have resisted the administration’s more aggressive enforcement of federal immigration laws.

“They’re run by radical left lunatics that don’t know what they’re doing,” Trump said to assembled reporters.

Trump then touted his administration’s crime-fighting efforts in the nation’s capital.

Since August, Trump has implemented a series of federal actions aimed at reducing crime in Washington, D.C., including deploying federal agents and the National Guard.

“We have this city in great shape,” Trump said.

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold roughly $4 Billion in Foreign Funding approved by Congress

The court's three liberal justices dissented.

The Supreme Court on Friday extended President Donald Trump's freeze on roughly $4 billion in foreign aid payments.  

The 6-3 ruling is being considered a significant victory for the White House in its months-long effort to claw back spending approved last year on Capitol Hill because it could effectively give Trump a roadmap toward canceling more congressionally-approved money, according to CNN. 

The money includes funding for global health and HIV programs that Trump deemed wasteful.

The ruling comes after the high court stayed the order earlier this month – following a lower court determining that Trump lacked the authority to withhold funding that Congress allocated. The court's three liberal justices dissented.

Adelita Grijalva Won as Expected, Discharge Petition at Issue

By Amy West (Sept. 26, 2025) 

Samuel asked us “1) First, what happens if a majority of a house of Congress wants to pass a bill, but the relevant committee doesn't bring it to a vote? Is there a way to override the committee, and if so, how does this work?”

The answer is that yes, there is at least one way: the “discharge petition.” (There are other ways, and since the House writes its own rules a majority of representatives can do almost anything by changing the rules, and that happens frequently. But for today we’ll stick to the discharge petition procedure.)

First, on Sept. 23, Arizona held its special election for its 7th district to fill the seat vacated by former Rep. Raul Grijalva when he died earlier this year. His daughter [pictured above], Adelita Grijalva, won as expected. 

The younger Grijalva is expected to be signature 218 on Rep. Massie’s (R-KY4) discharge petition which would bring to the floor a bill that would require the Trump Administration release files on Jeffrey Epstein. (It will put representatives on the record on Epstein files, but because the bill will likely die in the Senate it may not result in the release of the files.)

So what is a discharge petition?  As the Congressional Research Service says, 

Florida Surgeon General says Vaccines Should be a Choice. But What’s his Advice?

Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has said they would remove requirements that schoolkids get vaccinated.  

But Ladapo has refused to say whether kids should be vaccinated at all.

Florida's Ban on Openly Carrying Guns is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules

A three judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court Rulings on Second Amendment Issues, said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nation's "historical tradition of firearm regulation."

“No historical tradition supports Florida’s open carry ban,” Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in a 20-page opinion joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. “To the contrary, history confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly. That is not to say that open carry is absolute or immune from reasonable regulation. But what the state may not do is extinguish the right altogether for ordinary, law-abiding, adult citizens.”

22 States Back The Amish In School Vaccine Fight – But Will Supreme Court Hear Their Case?

[See also "Florida Plans to Eliminate Vaccine Mandates"]

By Erik Wesner September 5, 2025 

We’ve been following the story of the Amish schools who faced fines reaching six figures for failing to adhere to New York’s vaccine requirement for school age children.  

The children in question were Amish, and the schools in question were Amish-run schools. Previously, New York provided a religious exemption, but that ended in 2019.  The Amish in turn rejected the requirement to make sure their students were vaccinated. This led to three schools racking up fines that totaled $118,000.

Loneliest Mail Carrier In The Nation

Tebra Morris drives 300 miles a day to deliver one of the longest and most remote mail routes in the nation, where she often travels longer distances between mailboxes than most postal carriers do for their entire routes.

The unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service proclaims: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” 

RFK Report Expected to Link Tylenol to Autism

Steph Whiteside

Updated: Sep 5, 2025 / 11:13 PM CDT

(NewsNation) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s upcoming report on autism is expected to link the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and folate deficiencies as causes for autism.

The report being prepared is expected to include a review of previous autism research, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

It is also expected to suggest that the use of a medication derived from folate could be used to treat autism.

Autism has been a focus for Kennedy, who has questioned the increase in diagnosis, with 1 in 31 aged 8 affected by the condition. He has vowed to find a cause for the condition that many researchers say is largely genetic.

Heritage Foundation backs Reforms to Encourage Couples to have Children

Anna Kooiman, Taylor Delandro  

(NewsNation) — The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025, has a new rallying cry: “We must save the American family.”

Known for advocating for small government and conservative economic policy, the group is now promoting polices that call for deeper federal government involvement in family life, including encouraging married couples to have more children.

Without Free and Fair Elections, our Constitutional Republic Is Mere Illusion.

Scott McClallen for Townhall: 

President Trump says that he will issue an executive order to require voter ID to vote and minimize mail-in voting, he posted on Truth Social. 

“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! 

Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military.