Texas law enforcement agencies rescued 109 children and arrested 244 suspected offenders in a large-scale operation targeting online child exploitation, said the FBI. The monthlong initiative, called Operation Soteria Shield, was conducted in April by more than 70 Texas law enforcement agencies and federal partners, across the north of the state.

Authorities call it a successful round up of child sex offenders, but it also shows how widespread the crime is in North Texas.  The Dallas FBI office and some of the 70 law enforcement agencies that participated announced the results of Operation Soteria Shield on Tuesday.  These are the faces of the 244 men and women charged with exploiting children for the purpose of sex trafficking or pornography. 

The latest inflation data show consumer prices rose an average of less than 0.1 percent in May, a total rebuttal to mainstream media forecasts that President Trump’s economic policies wound cause catastrophic inflation. Instead, the monthly rate of prices increases has fallen by four-fifths in just four months. And there’s more good news ahead for Americans. No one should be surprised that most “experts” got their predictions so wrong about Trump causing inflation. After all, these are the...

Minnesota law enforcement authorities late Sunday apprehended Vance Boelter, 57, suspected in the weekend murders of state lawmakers, which led to the largest manhunt in the state’s history. Boelter is accused of murdering state House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman and injuring State Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat, and his wife Yvette.  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who announced Boelter’s arrest shortly...

The next flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s battle to reshape the federal judiciary is coming — and it’s dividing the right. Trump recently appeared to declare war on the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative legal advocacy organization that played an essential role in his election both in 2016 and 2024. After one of his first-term appointees ruled against him in a major challenge to his tariffs, Trump launched a public tirade against the former chair of...

People just want things to work Before I lodge the complaint that is currently burning a hole in my pocket, I wish to make one thing clear to those who might add a ghostly ergo to its gist: that, for all my sins and foibles, and despite the squishy mood of the case I’m about to offer up, I am not — and never will be — one of them. You know the type to which I refer: that guy at the bar or cookout or watercooler who believes that the current configuration of our...

President Donald Trump federalized the California National Guard on June 7 and sent troops to Los Angeles to address what he has described as a city “under siege” by protesters opposed to his immigration policy. The state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has maintained that local authorities had the situation under control and Trump’s move was “purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.” The disagreement is being debated in court. We’ll explain how the...

The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one legislator and her husband, was set to appear in court on Monday afternoon charged with two counts of murder and two of attempted murder, the state’s governor, Tim Walz, said at a news conference. Vance Boelter, 57, is suspected of fatally shooting the Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, at their residence early on Saturday. Boelter is also...

Ten years ago, then-businessman Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, slowly descended a golden escalator at his Trump Tower in New York City, waving at the crowd that had gathered to hear his remarks.  Nearby, Ivanka Trump, his first daughter, stood awaiting her father’s announcement that he was running for president during the 2016 election cycle with a slogan: Make America Great Again. Nearly all the political chattering class laughed off the...

There's a viral tweet from October 2016 that has since been immortalized as a meme — meant as a kind of shorthand for when someone has a particular knack for avoiding the consequences of their actions. The post, from the now dormant account X account @BronzeHammer, was in response to some now-forgotten mini-scandal that surrounded something Trump, then the GOP nominee for president, had just done or said. The original tweet, now its own entry on KnowYourMeme.com @BRONZEHAMMER / X VIA...