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President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior is pausing offshore wind project construction due to “national security risks.” “Due to national security concerns identified by the Department of War, Interior is PAUSING leases for 5 expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized offshore wind farms!” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on X. “ONE natural gas pipeline supplies as much energy as these 5 projects COMBINED,” Burgum added. “POTUS is bringing common sense back to energy policy & putting security FIRST!” In a press release obtained by Fox Digital, Interior said the pause will “give the Department, along with the Department of War and other relevant government agencies, time to work with leaseholders and state partners to assess the possibility of mitigating the national security risks posed by these projects.” Burgum aims to address risks like “the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers.” Leases with Vineyard Wind1, Revolution Wind, CVOW, Sunrise Wind, and Empire Wind will be paused. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, he issued a memorandum temporarily stopping offshore wind energy leasing on federal waters and halting approvals, permits, and loans for all wind projects pending a comprehensive review. During his campaign, Trump promised to end offshore wind energy projects “on day one.” “We are going to make sure that that ends on day one,” he said. “I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on day one.” The post Trump Administration Announces Change to Offshore Wind Construction appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Illegal aliens who choose to self-deport “home for the holidays” will be given $3,000.   “During the Christmas Season, the U.S. taxpayer is so generously TRIPLING the incentive to leave voluntarily for those in this country illegally, offering a $3,000 exit bonus, but just until the end of the year,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement Monday morning.  DHS has been offering illegal aliens $1,000 to self-deport through a Customs and Border Protection app, an offer many illegal aliens have accepted, according to Noem.   “Since January 2025, 1.9 million illegal aliens have voluntarily self-deported and tens of thousands have used the CBP Home program,” the secretary said.   In addition to the $3,000 stipend, illegal aliens who use the CBP Home app will also receive a free flight “home in time for Christmas.”   This Christmas season, the U.S. taxpayer is generously TRIPLING the incentive for illegal aliens to leave voluntarily. Through the end of the year, illegal aliens who self-deport using the CBP Home App can receive a $3,000 exit bonus.Illegal aliens should take advantage of this… pic.twitter.com/AKQZChPYfZ— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) December 22, 2025 “Illegal aliens should take advantage of this gift and self-deport because if they don’t, we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will never return,” Noem said.  $3,000 TO LEAVE NOW.In addition to a free flight home, illegal aliens can sign up to self-deport through the CBP Home app by the end of the year to receive a $3,000 stipend once they return.If you do not self-deport, we will find you, we will arrest you, and you will never be… pic.twitter.com/aPouoh0Ouu— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 22, 2025 DHS is calling Christmastime self-deportation “the best gift that an illegal alien can give themselves and their families this holiday season. It’s a fast, free, and easy process: Just download the app, fill out your information, and DHS will take care of the rest—including arranging and paying for your travel back home.”   Illegal aliens who do not self-deport will be “arrested, deported, and they will never be able to return to the United States,” according to DHS.   The administration has deported over 600,000 illegal aliens since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January and plans to increase deportations efforts in 2026.   Immigration and Customs Enforcement is currently in the process of hiring 10,000 new agents to conduct arrests and help with deportations.   The post DHS Announces Christmas Bonus for Illegal Aliens Who Self-Deport   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has a new definition of “reasonable expectation.” According to the justices, it’s no longer reasonable to assume that what you type into Google is yours to keep. In a decision that reads like a love letter to the surveillance economy, the court ruled that police were within their rights to access a convicted rapist’s search history without a warrant. The reasoning is that everyone knows they’re being watched anyway. The opinion, issued Tuesday, leaned on the idea that the public has already surrendered its privacy to Silicon Valley. We obtained a copy of the ruling for you here. “It is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data,” the court said, as if mass exploitation of personal information had become a civic tradition. Because that practice is so widely known, the court concluded, users cannot reasonably expect privacy. In other words, if corporations do it first, the government gets a free pass. The case traces back to a rape and home invasion investigation that had gone cold. In a final effort, police asked Google to identify anyone who searched for the victim’s address the week before the crime. Google obliged. The search came from an IP address linked to John Edward Kurtz, later convicted in the case. It’s hard to argue with the result; no one’s defending a rapist, but the method drew a line through an already fading concept: digital privacy. Investigators didn’t start with a suspect; they started with everyone. That’s the quiet power of a “reverse keyword search,” a dragnet that scoops up the thoughts of every user who happens to type a particular phrase. The justices pointed to Google’s own privacy policy as a kind of consent form. “In the case before us, Google went beyond subtle indicators,” they wrote. “Google expressly informed its users that one should not expect any privacy when using its services.” The court took that disclosure, buried in the fine print of a sprawling legal document, as proof that users had signed away their Fourth Amendment rights. In another leap of reasoning, the opinion claimed that people could avoid creating data trails by choosing not to use the internet at all. “The data trail created by using the internet is not involuntary in the same way that the trail created by carrying a cell phone is,” the justices wrote. It’s an argument that only works if you believe modern life offers meaningful alternatives to being online. The court’s logic suggests that using Google is a choice, like deciding whether to join a bowling league. Viewed from a privacy perspective, the ruling reveals something deeper. By treating search history as a voluntary disclosure, the court framed internet use as a kind of public act. That logic ignores how fully online search has replaced libraries, maps, and even conversation. Suggesting that users can “opt out” of surveillance is like telling citizens to avoid speech if they don’t want it overheard. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Pennsylvania High Court Rules Police Can Access Google Searches Without Warrant appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

We finally know what took down the giant.

Multiple human ancestors may have been mingling.

A father fell asleep after bringing his toddler daughter into a hot tub with him in the middle of the night, and she drowned, police in Florida said.Deputies and rescue personnel responded to a home on Nice Court in Kissimmee just after 3:30 a.m. Dec. 13 regarding an unresponsive child who appeared to have drowned in a hot tub, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said.'It's very hard losing a niece this way, and then we have so much hurt for my brother because he's just so distraught and tore up.'A family from Washington, D.C., was staying at the residence, which was listed as an Airbnb, officials said.The 20-month-old girl was transported to AdventHealth Celebration where she was pronounced dead shortly after 4:30 a.m., officials said.Sheriff's office detectives responded to the home to investigate the incident, officials said, and the father said he brought his daughter into the hot tub and fell asleep while holding her. The father reported waking up to find the child unresponsive in his arms while still in the hot tub, officials said. According to WUSA-TV, he said the child was face down when he awakened.Following the investigation, detectives determined that the father — 33-year-old Reynard Tyrone Hough — was neglectful in the death of his daughter and arrested him on a charge of child neglect causing great bodily harm.On Dec. 14, detectives added an additional charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child, officials said, adding that Hough was in custody at the Osceola County Jail.Hough told detectives he was drinking that night, and police say alcohol likely contributed to him falling asleep, WESH-TV reported. Investigators told WUSA they saw various alcoholic drinks at the scene.Hough also told detectives he ingested two different narcotics before getting into the hot tub with his daughter, WESH added.RELATED: Dad visits 'the Adult Shoppe' while his kids sit in 125-degree car for almost an hour, cops say "It's very hard losing a niece this way, and then we have so much hurt for my brother because he's just so distraught and tore up," Angel Hough, the sister of Reynard Tyrone Hough, told WESH.Capt. Kim Montes with the sheriff's office added to WESH: "I feel bad for this mom and dad; they were devastated, and they had another 6-month-old child at the home. We do know that watching two small kids can be challenging."Hough appeared in court last Monday and was issued no bond, WESH noted.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Utah man pretending to be a woman has learned his fate after pleading guilty last month to murdering his parents and assaulting his brother in June 2024.On Friday, 30-year-old Mia Bailey, born Collin Troy Bailey, received two consecutive sentences of 25 years to life plus an additional consecutive sentence of up to five years after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated assault in connection with the gruesome shooting.'I would do it again. I hate them.'"If only I had gotten help, this would have been preventable," Bailey said in a statement read by his attorney, Ryan Stout, according to the New York Post. The statement added that Bailey was "sincerely, deeply sorry" and that his newfound "religious beliefs as a Muslim" would make the death penalty an "appropriate ... atonement" for the crime."It makes me want to die because I can’t live with myself."Bailey had previously asked permission to skip the sentencing hearing, claiming that the stress of it might lead to a nervous breakdown, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Judge Keith Barnes of the Fifth District Court of Utah denied that request.On June 18, 2024, Bailey shot and killed his parents, 70-year-old Joseph Bailey and 69-year-old Gail Bailey, in their home in Washington City, Utah. Joseph Bailey was struck twice, and his wife was struck four times.One of Mia Bailey's brothers was also in the home at the time, barricaded inside a bedroom with his wife. Mia Bailey shot through the bedroom door but did not injure anyone inside, according to reports. The husband and wife then fled to a neighbor's house to call police.Following his arrest on June 19, Bailey allegedly told investigators: "I would do it again. I hate them."RELATED: Groomed for violence? The dark world of furries and transgenderism in America's classrooms Bill Oxford/Getty ImagesTwo of Bailey's siblings spoke at the sentencing hearing, though whether either of them was the third victim in the attack is unclear."What’s best for us and what’s best for Mia is probably staying in prison for as long as possible," Cory Bailey said.Dustin Bailey went farther, noting that the family fully supports "LGBTQ rights," but that the "powerful hormones" Mia Bailey had taken exacerbated his "psychiatric crisis.""Providing powerful hormones to a person in a psychiatric crisis without proper psychiatric safeguards is not affirming care. It is reckless. ... It acted as an accelerant, intensifying instability, impairing judgment, and compounding risk. That failure harmed Mia, and it endangered our parents," Dustin Bailey said.In arguing for concurrent rather than consecutive sentences, attorney Ryan Stout noted that Mia Bailey had been diagnosed with several mental illnesses: autism, psychosis, schizophrenia, ADHD, OCD.While Judge Barnes issued consecutive sentences, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole will ultimately determine how much time Bailey serves.Washington City is also the home of Tyler Robinson, the suspect accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk in September. Robinson's alleged romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, reportedly identifies as transgender.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Vance will pretend as though he is disinterestedly arbitrating a political dispute on the right, but he’s not.