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Trump-Backed Paxton Defeats Cornyn In Texas Senate Clash
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Trump-Backed Paxton Defeats Cornyn In Texas Senate Clash

Texas voters on Tuesday voted to oust Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), handing the longtime incumbent a devastating defeat and delivering a sharp rebuke to the Republican establishment in Washington. Decision Desk HQ called the race for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at 8 p.m. central time with Paxton leading Cornyn by 25 points, with roughly 57% of the vote counted. Paxton’s victory deals a major blow to the Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), who repeatedly urged Trump to back Cornyn, a four-term senator and longtime fixture in GOP leadership. Cornyn previously chaired the National Republican Senatorial Committee and served as Senate Majority Whip.  “Sen. Cornyn is a principled conservative. He is a very effective senator for the state of Texas, but none of us control what the president does,” Thune said of Trump’s 11th-hour endorsement. “That doesn’t change the way I feel.” Q: “How personally disappointed or frustrated are you with the president’s decision to endorse Ken Paxton today?” .@LeaderJohnThune: “Sen. Cornyn is a principled conservative. He is a very effective senator for the state of Texas…None of us control what the president does.” pic.twitter.com/5QglYxRp1V — CSPAN (@cspan) May 19, 2026 Cornyn is the latest incumbent – and second senator to fall – amid Trump’s campaign to purge Republicans he views as disloyal to his agenda. In recent weeks, the Trump endorsement has led to losses by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and a handful of Indiana Republicans who bucked the president’s redistricting effort. Paxton has emerged as a fierce MAGA firebrand on a range of issues, using his office to protect women’s sports, defending Texas A&M’s decision to ban a campus drag show, and prosecuting a woman who performed illegal abortions. With all eyes on Texas, Trump ended months of suspense last Tuesday and threw his political clout behind Paxton.  “Ken is a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate,” Trump said on Truth Social.  “John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough…” he added. On the campaign trail, Paxton seized the moment.  “I am so honored to have President Trump’s endorsement,” Paxton said. “When he endorses, it has a tremendous impact…I think it creates a slight bit of momentum, don’t you?” Texas AG & U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) speaks after receiving President Trump’s endorsement: “When he endorses, it has a tremendous impact…I think it creates a slight bit of momentum, don’t you?” pic.twitter.com/cGFSrteLV4 — CSPAN (@cspan) May 19, 2026 When neither Paxton nor Cornyn surpassed the 50% threshold in the initial vote — triggering a runoff — both campaigns stepped up an intense jockeying for Trump’s support. Paxton raised eyebrows for saying he would consider dropping out of the race if the Senate passed the SAVE America Act. “John Cornyn is a coward who has refused to support abolishing the filibuster to pass this bill,” Paxton said. Cornyn wrote in a op-ed that he had previously backed the “60-vote threshold to protect the country,” but said that “when the reality on the ground changes, leaders must take stock and adapt.” The Senate’s failure to pass the SAVE America Act appeared to sway Trump. “I know Ken well, have seen him tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and he is a WINNER! Ken is a Strong Supporter of TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER and, very importantly, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, something which polls at 87%, including Dumocrats, and yet can’t seem to get approved,” Trump said in his Truth Social endorsement. “Perhaps Ken can help move these important elements of Government forward…” Turning Point Action backed Paxton, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent millions supporting Cornyn. Some party leaders worry Paxton — who was nearly convicted on corruption-related impeachment charges — could put a reliably Republican seat at risk. His wife filed for divorce in 2025, citing adultery on “biblical grounds.” In November, Paxton will face off against Democratic candidate James Talarico, whom Trump recently ripped into as “weird.” “I’ll tell you what I do think — I think the Democrats have a weird, a weird candidate. Six genders, a real hit on Jesus,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “I mean, this guy is bad news with his mask from relatively recently, and he’s a vegan. He’s a vegan. All of a sudden, he’s not a vegan. He was a vegan, now all of a sudden he’s not.” “Texas doesn’t like vegans. I do believe either one of them will easily win the race. I think the candidate the Democrats have in Texas is a very flawed, very weak, very — I think he’s a pathetic candidate, especially for Texas,” the president added. NEW AD: Low T Talarico is too WEAK and WEIRD for Texas. #TXsen pic.twitter.com/B6wL7pto4S — Lone Star Liberty PAC (@LoneStar_PAC) May 21, 2026

Trump DOJ Sues UCLA Over Treatment Of Jewish Students
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Trump DOJ Sues UCLA Over Treatment Of Jewish Students

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, claiming it tolerated a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students. In its complaint, the Justice Department accused UCLA of violating Title VI – a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance – “through its deliberate indifference to this pervasive on-campus antisemitism.” The lawsuit pointed to an encampment that was built on the university’s campus in April 2024. The Justice Department described the move as illegal and said that Jewish students were attacked. “Universities have an obligation to maintain safe and inclusive campuses for all students,” said Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California. “Universities that violate our nation’s civil rights laws by repeatedly failing to shield Jewish students from antisemitism will be held accountable.” UCLA REJECTS ALLEGATIONS UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk rejected the allegations, saying the university had taken concrete steps to combat antisemitism on campus. “Let me be direct: the suggestion that UCLA has been passive in the face of antisemitism is simply wrong,” Frenk said in a statement. “Combating antisemitism is a moral imperative — one rooted, for me, in personal history that makes indifference unthinkable.” Frenk said the university had recruited an associate vice chancellor for campus and community safety, reorganized its civil rights office, appointed a Title VI officer, and strengthened policies to protect free expression and campus safety. Frenk had introduced a campus-wide initiative to combat antisemitism, which issued a report in May outlining a roadmap to address campus antisemitism and bigotry. In February 2025, the university suspended two leftist student groups, Students for Justice in Palestine and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine, over their involvement in a protest at the home of University of California regent Jay Sures. The following month, the university recommended revoking SJP’s status and suspending GSJP for four years. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CRACKDOWN ON ANTISEMITISM The Justice Department announced the lawsuit shortly after a federal appeals court earlier on Tuesday partially upheld an injunction that required it to restore grants awarded to the University of California that the Trump administration had terminated last year because it perceived they supported diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. The lawsuit is the latest legal action taken by the Trump administration to crack down on what it has described as antisemitism at U.S. universities in the wake of Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. The 2023 attack, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 people, launched the Israel-Gaza war. Hundreds of students across the United States and Europe held demonstrations in the wake of the war, calling for a ceasefire to end it. In some cases, students occupied campus buildings. (Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Sonali Paul)

New Cruise Ship Buffet Policy Dubbed A Vacation Buzzkill
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New Cruise Ship Buffet Policy Dubbed A Vacation Buzzkill

Vacationers who choose Costa Cruises for their next adventure could face fines of up to $70 for bringing buffet food back to their cabins under a new onboard policy. Going forward, guests on some of these cruises will not be permitted to bring buffet food back to their rooms and will instead be asked to consume all meals in designated areas, per the cruise-focused blog Crew Center. This does not include meals that are delivered by Costa Cruise employees. A statement regarding the update said, “guest safety and well-being are our top priority.” “On a limited number of specific sailings, onboard communication was shared as a preventive and deterrent measure, in line with our existing policies, to encourage guests to [have] responsible behavior,” the Costa Cruises spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “Costa Cruises remains committed to ensuring a high-quality, safe and enjoyable experience for all guests on board.” The Genoa, Italy-based cruise line, which is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, operates routes throughout the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and South America. The policy change sparked an online debate after being highlighted by the Instagram account unrealcruises. One Instagram user mentioned that another cruise line tried something similar and said, “it did not end well for them,” and that they “had to end it.”  “Let people eat where they want. Collect the dishes. It’s a cost. Bear it and pass it on to the cruiser. But these kinds of policies with policing never end well for the company,” the commenter wrote. Others complained that eating breakfast or drinking coffee on private balconies is part of the cruise experience. “We love to take our food and coffee to enjoy on our quiet balcony,” another person complained. “Zero chance I’d pay that fine. Make breakfast in bed for my wife every morning by [bringing] food back. Who cares where you eat the included food,” echoed a third. Others supported the measure, saying passengers often leave dirty dishes and half-eaten food scattered throughout hallways and decks. “Umm, I say good, nothing worse than plates and cups lining the hallways, its not a good look. Never ever in 47 cruises needed to take food to my cabin…,” one supporter chimed in. “Only the ones that do deck clearance know the struggle. Yall take everything from the buffet and toss the plates full on the hallways. Is it that hard to eat close to other people?” another agreed.

The Pied Piker Is Leading All The Anti-American Vermin
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The Pied Piker Is Leading All The Anti-American Vermin

The Pied Piker has been piping a dangerous tune for years. The question is whether anyone’s finally going to take away his flute. The Leftist, who built a multi-million dollar streaming empire, is telling his followers to “kill those motherf*ckers” and “let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood.” This is a man who said America deserved 9/11, and who recently sat before his camera, voice visibly shaking, delivered the political commentary of his career: “Is this helpful for you if I go to f*cking prison?!?” Me individually? Probably not. But America as a whole? Yes. Hasan Piker, the wildly popular Marxist Twitch streamer, has been subpoenaed by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in connection with his participation in a Cuba aid convoy that, federal investigators believe, may have directly violated U.S. sanctions against the Communist Party of Cuba. On his livestream this week, Hasan Piker says the federal probe is “not great.” You don’t say. In March, Piker traveled to Havana as part of the Nuestra America Convoy, an international activist flotilla organized by a coalition of Marxist, socialist, and communist-aligned groups; including Code Pink and the Democratic Socialists of America. The convoy delivered aid directly to institutions controlled by the Communist Party of Cuba. They reportedly stayed at hotels on the U.S. State Department’s Cuba Restricted List; establishments that exist to directly benefit the Cuban regime and the Cuban regime alone. So while millions of Cuban citizens endure 22-hour daily power blackouts and widespread starvation under the boot of the regime Piker so admires, he and his crew were partying in regime-linked hotels, handing over supplies to the very government that keeps those people in chains, and then posting about it online like it was a music festival. You can imagine, if a Republican did this, it would spark DEFCON 1 over on Bluesky. In the aftermath of the Communist Convoy, OFAC issued information requests to Piker, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and roughly 40 other Americans, investigating whether they materially supported the Cuban government in violation of federal sanctions law. A second, arguably more serious question is also on the table: Was Hasan engaged in illegal foreign influence peddling? This would require federal registration as a foreign agent, but Piker hasn’t registered for anything except Twitch. Follow the money, and you find Neville Roy Singham, a China-based Marxist billionaire who has funneled $285 million since 2017 into U.S. nonprofits pushing pro-Cuba, pro-China, anti-American messaging. Recipients include Code Pink, People’s Forum, PSL, and the ANSWER Coalition. His wife co-founded Code Pink. She was also on the Cuba convoy. We know all of this partly because Piker confirmed it himself on a six-hour livestream he titled, with characteristic subtlety, “Feds Are After Me,” naming Singham as a “funding vehicle for a lot of political movements.” He called him “Roy.” Like a friend. These are registered nonprofits. They are explicitly not supposed to be political operations. Yet here’s their most prominent amplifier, on camera, confirming the whole ecosystem is a coordinated machine bankrolled by a man in Shanghai. Piker isn’t the wallet. He’s the flute. Leading millions astray. Can we deport him? (We cannot. But allow us a moment.) Hasan Piker is an American citizen. Born on U.S. soil while his parents were visiting, which is a compelling argument for revisiting birthright citizenship. His uncle is Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, a progressive, Left-wing populist commentary program. He got a communications degree from Rutgers, moved to Hollywood, bought a $2.74 million home, and has spent the intervening years lambasting the very country that gave him everything. Much as the impulse is understandable, we cannot deport him, but we can prosecute him. If the evidence shows Piker financed, coordinated, or materially aided a sanctions-violating convoy; staying in regime-linked hotels, delivering goods directly to Communist Party entities, and confirming on-camera that he knew exactly whose money was behind it, then he deserves the maximum the law provides. Ruinous fines. Asset forfeiture. If criminal intent can be proven, prosecution. America has, for a long time now, been operating with two sets of rules. On one hand are parents labeled domestic terrorists by the DOJ for showing up to school board meetings, January 6 defendants held for years in pretrial detention, and a Catholic grandmother prosecuted under the FACE Act for praying outside an abortion clinic. On the other hand, the liberals who burned federal courthouses in the summer of 2020, who had their charges dropped, and a Marxist streamer who hand-delivered supplies to a communist regime and bragged about it on camera, spent years being punished… by collecting a blue checkmark and a New York Times profile. The radical Left has been living by a different standard entirely. This is where that road ends. Not with new laws or show trials or political persecution. With the simple, consistent application of the rules that already exist, applied equally to everyone, including and especially the loudest voices who’ve spent years insisting those rules don’t apply to them. The man who once told his followers that America deserved 9/11 is now sitting in his $2.74 million Hollywood home, very sincerely hoping that America’s legal system will extend him a courtesy he never extended to anyone else. For years, millions followed the Pied Piker wherever he led: toward Marxism, toward contempt for their own country, toward the warm ideological embrace of regimes that would jail them for the very speech he profits from. He played the tune. They marched. The music has stopped. The answer now should be simple: equal justice under law, for everyone. Even the Pied Piker.

Feds Turn The Spotlight On A Powerful Piece Of The Immigration Fraud Machine
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Feds Turn The Spotlight On A Powerful Piece Of The Immigration Fraud Machine

Lawyers defending illegal immigrants may be the next target of the Trump administration’s war on fraud. The Trump administration is instructing ICE attorneys to scrutinize immigration attorneys it says “frequently coach” illegal immigrants “to conceal their past and even outright lie in their asylum claims,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday. “For many years, millions of illegal aliens have committed fraud in our immigration system. No place is this more rampant than in immigration court,” Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival said in a statement. Foreigners apply for asylum once they reach United States soil and must prove that they’re victims of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in their home country to receive protection. “Protection claims like asylum are intended to cover unique and narrow circumstances, but it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country,” Percival said. “Historically, ICE has depended on the discipline of immigration judges and the enforcement of criminal fraud laws to deter this conduct, but ICE has its own tools. Now, thanks to this directive, ICE attorneys have greater authority to enforce the law and stop the abuse of our asylum system by illegal aliens and attorneys,” he added. As part of its mass deportation effort, the Trump administration has made sweeping changes to the immigration court system. The Justice Department swore in 82 immigration judges — the largest class in agency history — bringing total fiscal year 2026 hires to 153, the most in any single year. Now, the United States has nearly 700 immigration judges. The hiring blitz followed a mass firing of more than 100 immigration judges who granted asylum in 46% of cases, according to The New York Times. The federal government also recently issued a new rule to force green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply for permanent residency. In many instances, foreigners in the United States on temporary visas may remain and await a decision on their applications. The Trump administration has said that the previous rule resulted in individuals who were ultimately denied a green card staying and increasing the illegal immigrant population. When those illegal immigrants failed to ultimately leave the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had to hunt them down. As of September 2024, roughly 500,000 immigrants had overstayed their visas, according to Homeland Security data. It’s not clear how many of them had previously applied for green cards.