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Border Patrol Logs Under 99,000 Southwest Arrests In FY2026, Lowest In Nearly 60 Years
Border Patrol Logs Under 99,000 Southwest Arrests In FY2026, Lowest In Nearly 60 Years
The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that Border Patrol made 98,708 apprehensions on the southwest border in fiscal 2026, which ended Sept. 30, a 95% drop from the more than 1.8 million a year it counts under the Biden administration. In its release, DHS called the figures preliminary and said nationwide encounters totaled 379,243, the lowest in agency history and 88% below fiscal 2023.
DHS also said the Border Patrol finished its first fiscal year with...
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Sep 15, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Energy Truce In Shambles: Ukraine Strikes Russian Refinery Despite Trump's Warning Amid Global Diesel Crisis
Energy Truce In Shambles: Ukraine Strikes Russian Refinery Despite Trump's Warning Amid Global Diesel Crisis
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that Ukrainian forces struck the Syzran refinery in Russia's Samara region, about 75 miles west of Samara and 466 miles southeast of Moscow. The strike comes days after President Trump urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian refineries, as average US retail diesel prices jumped above $6 a gallon and alarming disruptions to global refining capacity threaten fuel supplies ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
Zelenskyy wrote on X:
Russia continues to attack our energy...
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May 7, 2026 / Andrew P. Napolitano
The Comey Indictment and Free Speech
In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare in the 1950s. Thankfully, in the 1960s, the Warren Court began […]
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Feb 14, 2026 / Eric Margolis
Will Cuba Return to US Colonial Rule?
As the White House threatens war against Cuba, I am reminded of the charming evenings my parents and I spent at Havana’s venerable ‘Floridita Bar, sipping a newly invented cocktail, the Margarita, with the renowned writer, Ernest Hemingway. `Papa’ Hemingway, who then lived in Cuba, loved this island with a great passion and wrote about […]
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