McDonald’s USA announced this week that it’s pouring $200 million into regenerative farm practices — the largest McDonald’s investment in regenerative agriculture to date. The move has been hailed as a win for the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, since these practices enhance soil health and make synthetic chemicals and fertilizers far less necessary. “Thank you, [McDonald’s], for committing a record $200 million investment into regenerative agriculture. This is a big win for regenerative grazing practices, habitat restoration, water and wildlife conservation,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on X. Thank you, @McDonalds, for committing a record $200 million investment into regenerative agriculture. This is a big win for regenerative grazing practices, habitat restoration, water and wildlife conservation. ?? pic.twitter.com/9f6mrFBV3Y — Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) September 17, 2025 McDonald’s, which is the largest fast food chain in the nation, is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and others to invest more than $200 million over the next seven years in regenerative grazing practices, habitat restoration, and water and wildlife conservation on cattle ranches spanning 4 million acres across up to 38 states, a press release from the company outlines. The investment, McDonald’s said, shows the company’s “continued commitment to responsible beef sourcing and stewardship of natural resources.” Calley Means, an advisor to Kennedy, said on X, “McDonald’s invests $200 million to shift supply chain to more regenerative practices. Soil Health and regenerative practices are a true win-win between MAHA advocates and large companies. These moves should be celebrated.” “My takeaway from a lot of engagement with food companies FWIW – this commitment to soil health is real,” Means added. “These companies depend on their soil and have a major economic interest in evolving/improving practices. Soil healthy and regenerative principles are a key theme of the MAHA report. The actions of McDonald’s are significant here and represent a roadmap about how we can drive real change.” My takeaway from a lot of engagement with food companies FWIW – this commitment to soil health is real. These companies depend on their soil and have a major economic interest in evolving/improving practices. Soil healthy and regenerative principles are a key theme of the MAHA… — Calley Means (@calleymeans) September 16, 2025 HHS has already witnessed a number of major food companies voluntarily make MAHA changes, such as dropping synthetic food dyes, or halting the use of high fructose corn syrup. Related: Vax Panel Reviewing Childhood Vaccine Schedule. Here’s What They’ll Vote On.

The Trump administration has located roughly 25,000 migrant children who crossed the border alone and were “lost” under the Biden administration, Border Czar Tom Homan revealed Thursday. During President Joe Biden’s time in office, roughly 320,000 migrant kids went unaccounted for after they were released into the United States to poorly vetted sponsors, according to an inspector general’s report released last year. Dario Lopez-Mills – Pool/Getty Images While some of the children were “fine” and hiding with their parents “because they didn’t want to be deported,” many others “were in sex trafficking” and “found in forced labor” conditions, where they were enslaved to “work ungodly hours, not going to school … not being paid, being abused,” Homan said on Fox News Thursday. “We’ve rescued thousands of children and President Trump is committed, I’m committed that we’re not gonna stop looking for these children ’til we find every single one of them or run down the leads on them,” Homan said. The former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief also revealed that 27 of the children had “unfortunately” died. “So we’re not giving up. This is a major priority for the Trump administration, we’re gonna keep going at it.” Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images There were 291,000 migrant children who came to the United States unaccompanied who were never given future court dates as of May 2024, leaving federal immigration authorities with no way to know their locations, the government watchdog found. An additional 32,000 migrant children who were released into the United States with hearing dates failed to appear in court, according to the report, which tracked cases from October 2018 to September 2023. Several federal whistleblowers came forward under the Biden administration to expose the faulty vetting system that placed migrant kids into the hands of “sponsors” who they believed were trafficking the children. One whistleblower testified to a Senate panel in July 2024 that the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services took her off the job and retaliated against her after she alerted supervisors to the fact that children were being placed with people who clearly were not their relatives and that there was evidence of sadistic abuse. DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The vetting procedure amounted to a single phone call to the children 30 days later, but by that point they couldn’t be reached. Deborah White, another HHS whistleblower, said the agency wasn’t able to investigate red flags, adding that they deliberately kept their heads in the sand. “Children were not going to their parents. Children were being trafficked with billions of taxpayer dollars by a contractor failing to vet sponsors and process children safely, with government officials complicit in it,” she said, adding that it “will haunt me for the rest of my life.” “We never saw sponsors face-to-face and fake documents were rampant. When we questioned documents, ORR [Office of Refugee Resettlement] leadership said, ‘You’re not a fake ID expert, and your job is not to investigate the sponsor. Your job is to reunify the child with the sponsor,’” she added. She said ORR provided its staff with “no training” to identify human trafficking or fraud, and when she tried to provide it, she was blocked. “Contacting the Guatemalan consulate in regard to fake documents resulted in a reprimand … When I checked on a child’s welfare at another facility I was told, ‘Do not do that again. Once these children leave here … they’re gone and they are no longer your responsibility.’”

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld weighed in after Democrats and media personalities reacted to ABC’s decision to oust late night comedy host Jimmy Kimmel, saying that many of them were more concerned about that than they were about the public assassination a week earlier of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. Gutfeld made the observation on Thursday’s broadcast of panel discussion show “The Five,” where he argued that the left was trying — unsuccessfully — to turn Kimmel into the same level of “victim” as Kirk. WATCH: ? Greg Gutfeld just had the PERFECT take on Jimmy Kimmel being suspended “Even in DEATH, Charlie keeps winning debates.” ? “The media is trying to make Jimmy Kimmel into their Charlie Kirk, as if getting fired is the same as getting fired upon. THAT’S what disgusts me.” h/t… pic.twitter.com/nUiGz62mT7 — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 18, 2025 “The media is trying to make Jimmy Kimmel into their Charlie Kirk, as if getting fired is the same as getting fired upon. THAT’S what disgusts me,” Gutfeld said. He went on to argue that unlike Kirk, Kimmel could still go home to see his kids every day: “You can’t turn Kimmel into Kirk.” He concluded by referring to most media personalities — himself included — as “indoor cats” who would never engage in public debates with people they disagreed with in front of thousands of people the way Kirk had. “Even in death, Charlie is still winning debates.” Gutfeld made a similar comment in an X post earlier in the day, saying, “i have friends who will be performing in front of live audiences that number in the thousands. they aren’t worried about being fired; they’re worried now, about being fired upon. CNN hacks cannot grasp that because they’ve never had to worry about such threats, or an audience.” i have friends who will be performing in front of live audiences that number in the thousands. they aren’t worried about being fired; they’re worried now, about being fired upon. CNN hacks cannot grasp that because they’ve never had to worry about such threats, or an audience. — GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) September 18, 2025

As the shock dies down about “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” being suspended until further notice, industry insiders are circulating theories as to why this happened now, when leftists have been left unchecked for years to spread lies about conservatives. While the Left cries about “free speech” and “cancel culture,” and blames the whole thing on Trump, the truth appears to be a lot more of a logical business decision than it is a massive conspiracy. The New York Post noted on Thursday that Nexstar, one of the massive media companies behind Kimmel’s cancellation, is poised to enter into a $6.2 billion merger with its next-biggest rival, Tegna. The move will be closely watched by the FCC, as it could be seen as violating antitrust laws. Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division, said Kimmel’s comments were “offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse.” The outlet noted how FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was furious over Kimmel’s statements, telling conservative podcast host Benny Johnson that Kimmel’s comments represented “some of the sickest conduct possible,” and that there could be “a path forward for suspension over this.” “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” Carr said. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” “Clearly, Nexstar is sucking up to Carr,” a telecom lawyer told Fox News correspondent Charles Gasparino on Wednesday. “Kimmel’s comments are noxious, but from a First Amendment standpoint, they would have been protected in the past. He’s a comedian, so how is he distorting the news unless you have a deal to be approved by the FCC?” Reactions online have been divided on partisan lines, with the Left freaking out over censorship and the Right insisting this is the standard that was set long ago by the same leftists who now oppose it. The comments from Kimmel that prompted the backlash included the host claiming that Kirk’s assassin was a MAGA supporter. Investigators say that the 22-year-old man arrested for Kirk’s killing was deeply steeped in leftist ideology and disliked the conservative commentator for his beliefs. “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said during his show. This prompted Sinclair, another major media group, to suspend “Jimmy Kimmel Live” until further notice. There’s been a big shakeup in the media since the Trump administration took over. George Cheeks, the president and CEO of CBS, discussed the cancellation of “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert in July 2025. His statements came on the same day that Paramount Global and Skydance Media finalized their $8.4 billion merger. “The challenge in late night is that the advertising marketplace is in significant secular decline,” Cheeks said following the deal closing, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “We are huge fans of Colbert, we love the show, unfortunately the economics made it a challenge for us to keep going.” Also in July, Paramount Global agreed to a $16 million settlement in a lawsuit Trump had brought that accused the media outlet of election interference. The lawsuit stemmed from an interview CBS News’ “60 Minutes” conducted with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris one month before the 2024 election. The lawsuit alleged that the interview was edited to make it seem more coherent than it really was.

The Republican-led Senate confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s remaining nominees for below-cabinet-level federal positions, moving ahead with what’s called an “en bloc” nominee package after Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) invoked the nuclear option. The bloc of 48 nominees confirmed on Thursday included a number of lower level War Department positions — and several ambassadorships including those held by Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich — and passed 51-47 along party lines. WATCH: 48 NOMINEES: CONFIRMED TODAY ✅@SenateGOP ended liberal obstruction and CHANGED the Senate rules to get @POTUS’ sub-cabinet noms in place (in groups) and speed up the process. We just confirmed the first “en bloc” nominee package of 48. More to come. ? pic.twitter.com/Dg4oxsrHCl — Markwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) September 18, 2025 Thune promised to move forward with the nuclear option a week earlier, saying that Democrats had stonewalled the process long enough. Quoting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Thune said that it was unacceptable for nominees to be blocked unless there was a legitimate reason or concern that made it necessary. Thune also pointed out the fact that all of the 48 nominees in the first bloc had actually been approved out of committee — with bipartisan support — and were only being blocked in the full Senate. The Senate Democrats, he said at the time, were intentionally stalling the process by refusing to allow the nominees to be confirmed by voice vote or unanimous consent, as is traditionally done with civilian nominees. One major nominee who did not make it through on Thursday was former Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), whose nomination to serve as Ambassador to the United Nations is still pending. Democrats succeeded in recent weeks in having Waltz’s nomination sent back to committee.