DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A federal appeals court declined Tuesday to allow President Donald Trump to fire a Federal Trade Commission member. In a 2-1 ruling, the panel left in place a decision by U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan, a Biden appointee, reinstating Democrat FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, who Trump fired along with the other Democratic commissioner in March. “The government has no likelihood of success on appeal, given controlling and directly on-point Supreme Court precedent,” Judges Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard, both Obama appointees, held. Ninety years ago, the Supreme Court affirmed protections that prevent removing leaders of “independent” agencies such as the FTC without cause in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. The ruling, which the panel cited, has been challenged by the Trump administration through several decisions to fire federal officials.  “President Trump acted lawfully when he removed Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. “Indeed, the Supreme Court has twice in the last few months confirmed the President’s authority to remove the heads of executive agencies. We look forward to being vindicated for a third time—and, hopefully, after this ruling, the lower courts will cease their defiance of Supreme Court orders.” The Supreme Court let Trump move forward with firing members of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board in May, as well as members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission in July. Trump fired on Aug. 25 Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lisa Cook amid mortgage fraud allegations. Cook sued shortly after. “To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court’s decisions that bind our judgments,” the panel found on Tuesday. “That we will not do.” Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, suggested in a dissent that her colleagues were actually ignoring the Supreme Court’s recent emergency docket rulings, noting the justices stopped lower court orders from taking effect in “two virtually identical cases.” “Following the Supreme Court’s direction, the district court’s far-reaching injunction must be stayed,” Rao wrote. “An injunction ordering reinstatement of an officer removed by the President likely exceeds the Article III judicial power and encroaches on the President’s exercise of the Article II executive power.” In its July decision allowing Trump to fire Consumer Product Safety Commission members, the Supreme Court majority wrote that its emergency docket decisions should inform the lower courts, though they are not “conclusive as to the merits.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a concurring opinion, suggested the Supreme Court should have taken up the case on the merits to consider reversing Humphrey’s Executor and avoid confusion. “When an emergency application turns on whether this Court will narrow or overrule a precedent, and there is at least a fair prospect (not certainty, but at least some reasonable prospect) that we will do so, the better practice often may be to both grant a stay and grant certiorari before judgment,” Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Obama-Appointed Judges Block Trump From Firing FTC Commissioner appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hybrid positions for federal workers have plunged since President Donald Trump’s day-one order to end most remote work arrangements for agency employees, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. Federal employees working fully on site now totals 46%, which is more than double the national average of 21%, according to Gallup. Since Trump’s executive order, hybrid work among federal employees has dropped sharply, from 61% in late 2024 to just 28% by the second quarter of 2025, according to Gallup. “President Trump wants federal government employees to show up to work in person and to work as hard as the American taxpayers who pay their salaries,” White House assistant press secretary Liz Huston told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Though hybrid work arrangements have not changed much across the U.S., the shift in federal employees’ work routines is noteworthy, according to Gallup. “In Washington, the hybrid era is over. After President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, his administration ended remote work for most federal employees,” Gallup wrote. “As a result, the number of federal employees working in a flexible hybrid work model plummeted.” Remote work has cratered among federal employees despite several of them protesting Trump’s order, with many legacy media outlets highlighting that some federal workers considered the commutes to be uncomfortable. One staffer told NPR in January that after her commute she was “just so brain-dead” and she “cannot imagine trying to get in the car and go in a third day.” Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst released a report on Dec. 5 that uncovered some of the problems with government employees working remotely. The report highlighted several problems linked to telework, including challenges with locality pay and the impact of largely vacant office buildings on the working environment. “Bureaucrats have been found in a bubble bath, on the golf course, running their own business, and even getting busted doing crime while on taxpayers’ time,” the report states. Ernst has been calling out the abuses of telework by federal employees for years and told the DCNF that she will continue to fight for more government efficiency. “From relaxing in bubble baths to sitting on the beach or even jail, I exposed that Biden’s bureaucrats were everywhere except the office,” Ernst told the DCNF. “I worked with the Trump administration on day one to end this nonsense and get these out of office federal employees back to serving the American people. The data is clear that the return to office order is working, but my efforts to downsize Washington and create a more efficient government is just beginning. Next, I’m working to consolidate unused office space and selling off the thousands of vacant and underutilized buildings that cost taxpayers billions to maintain.” Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Federal Workers Flock Back to Office in Droves After Trump’s Order Respecting ‘Taxpayers Who Pay Their Salaries’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

House lawmakers backing a petition to advance a vote on releasing additional files on now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein gathered Wednesday at the Capitol—alongside several of his accusers. The petition’s support among Republican lawmakers has appeared to falter in recent days. “I hope my colleagues are watching this press conference. I want them to think, ‘What if this was your sister? What if this was your daughter?’ when these survivors speak,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. Massie, along with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., has spearheaded a petition to force a vote on requiring the federal government to release additional files. Currently, the petition has three Republican signatories other than Massie: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, and Nancy Mace of South Carolina.  In order to get the 218 votes necessary to force the consideration of Massie-Khanna bill, every House Democrat and two additional GOP representatives would have to sign on. The problem? Support for the measure appears to have dropped off over the August recess. Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal on Tuesday that, due to the White House’s work on the issue, he would not sign onto the discharge petition, despite previously having been a co-sponsor. “I have agreed that I will not actually sign the discharge petition, because I believe that there are some satisfactory things moving forward,” he said, adding:  But I have also said that we are going to watch to see the transparency is still there. I have been assured that it will be, but I will be watching very carefully to see the transparency, because that’s what we need in this case, is transparency. We want to expose the criminals. We want to protect the victims and protect the innocent. That’s transparency. On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee released tens of thousands of pages of documents transferred from the executive branch in compliance with a subpoena.  Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., contended that that eliminates the need for a discharge petition, writing on the social media platform X, “I don’t think the vote to release the Epstein files will even come to the floor, being that they will all be made public.” .@GOPoversight and @RepJamesComerwill be releasing the Epstein Files to a publicly available website momentarily. They are all being uploaded right now. I don't think the vote to release the Epstein files will even come to the floor being that they will all be made public.— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) September 2, 2025 Additionally, House leadership has scheduled a vote on a resolution directing the Oversight Committee to continue its investigation into the Epstein case. Nevertheless, the backers of the discharge petition argue that their measure remains necessary. “Now, the Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They’re going to vote on a nonbinding resolution today that does absolutely nothing,” said Massie. He added, “I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues [Rep.] James Comer [of Kentucky] who’s leading the Oversight Committee. They may find some information, but they’re allowing the [Justice Department] to curate all of the information … . If you’ve looked at the pages they’ve released so far, they’re heavily redacted … and 97% of this is already in the public domain.” The Massie-Khanna measure also faces opposition from the White House. On Tuesday, a White House spokesperson said that “[h]elping Thomas Massie and Liberal Democrats with their attention-seeking, while the DOJ is fully supporting a more comprehensive file-release effort from the Oversight Committee, would be viewed as a very hostile act to the administration.” The post Push for House Vote on Epstein Files Release Seen as Losing Momentum appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Border czar Tom Homan says he wakes up “every day like a kid in a candy shop” because U.S. border and immigrations law are being enforced under the leadership of President Donald Trump.   “We’re finally enforcing laws in this country, and we’re going to do it without apology,” Homan said in a speech Wednesday at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. Still, he added, one of the key components of his job remains very difficult.   Out of all the tasks Trump has tasked Homan with, “the toughest job is to find children,” the border czar said.   The Biden administration lost contact with about 300,000 migrant children who crossed the border without a parent or guardian. Those children were then released into the care of sponsors across the U.S. It was revealed later that some sponsors were not thoroughly vetted.   About “1,400 children were released to unvetted sponsors, where no home study was ever done,” Homan said. Investigations into the whereabouts of those children uncovered that some sponsors listed an inaccurate address—such as that of a parking lot, grocery store, or church—as their home address.   The challenge now is finding those children, because minors can’t be tracked in the way law enforcement tracks adults.   “You all own cars, you own a home, you got credit cards, you pay utility bills, we know how to find you,” Homan explained. “Children don’t have that digital footprint, which means we got to count on the digital footprint of the so-called sponsors.”   Still, Homan says, Homeland Security Investigations agents are working every day to find the missing migrant children and “make sure they’re safe.”   Many of the children the Trump administration has located to date are safe and living with family, according to Homan, but others “are in sex trafficking, some of the children we found in forced labor, and we rescued these children.”   Tragically, some of the missing children have passed away, according to the border czar.   “This is sickening, what the last administration did. I don’t want to hear another word about the cruelty of the Trump administration. I’ll say it again: He’s saving thousands of lives, and we’re rescuing children every day because of the incompetence of the Biden administration,” Homan said.   “I get fired up,” he added, as the crowd chuckled.   Homan’s border security career began in the 1980s, when he joined the Border Patrol before going on to serve in Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In 2017, Trump appointed Homan acting director of ICE. During the Biden administration, Homan said, “for four years, I woke up knowing how many women got raped last night, how many children died making that journey, how many women and children were sex-trafficked across the border, how many known or suspected terrorists came across the border every day—I woke up knowing all this was happening because the border was open.”   Since the start of the Trump administration, Customs and Border Protection’s encounters with illegal aliens are down 96% at the southern border, according to Homan.   The number of known gotaways—illegal aliens who manage to evade Border Patrol apprehension—has also fallen sharply, down from an average of 1,800 a day during the Biden administration. On Sept. 2, there were only 16 known gotaways across the nearly 2,000-mile-long U.S. border with Mexico, according to the border czar.   Homan pledged that his work is not done, noting that more border wall needs to be built and more border buoys need to be put in the Rio Grande to prevent illegal crossings. There are still about 600,000 illegal aliens with a criminal history on the streets of the U.S., and 1.4 million illegal aliens who have been issued a final order of removal but remain in the U.S.  “But let me make it clear: We are prioritizing public safety threats and national security threats … but if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table,” Homan said. “When we find you, you’re leaving.”  Despite the opposition the Trump administration has faced to its immigration enforcement efforts, a 1,000% increase of assaults on ICE agents, and even protests outside the border czar’s home, Homan says he is “not going anywhere.”   “Watch what happens in the next year, folks,” Homan told the crowd, pledging further action to secure the border and enforce immigration law.   The post Border Czar Homan: This One Part of My Job Remains Very Tough appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The New York Times has an inglorious tradition of glorifying communists, and the latest installment in this regrettable ritual came on Wednesday from Seoul bureau chief Choe Sang-Hun. Choe penned an uncritical profile of former North Korean soldier-turned South Korean resident Ahn Hak-sop, who has the dual life goal of removing American troops from the country and returning to the North to die and be buried. Choe began by describing Ahn as a “husk of a man…worn down by life in South Korea, an enemy nation that locked him up for more than four decades.” Next came the anti-Americanism: His speech was slow and slurred because of his dentures, but Mr. Ahn was eager to explain why he so hated the United States. From the words he used — 'comrades,' 'struggle,' 'imperialism,' 'colony' and 'independence'— there was no mistaking the former North Korean soldier’s devotion to communism. ‘I am still trying to figure out this thing called capitalism,’ said Mr. Ahn, 95. Along the walls around him were papier-mâché figures mocking Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty as money-loving, machine gun-toting, bloodthirsty warmongers. ‘People in South Korea don’t realize that they are slaves in a colony and their leaders can’t do anything without American approval.’ At this point, you would think Choe would point out it was Ahn’s beloved North Korea that started the Korean War, but you would be wrong. Instead, Choe reported that Ahn “was captured by the South during the conflict and then survived 42 years and four months in prison on espionage charges, mostly in solitary confinement. Released in the mid ’90s, he stayed on in the South to continue to campaign for his life’s mission: the removal of U.S. military from the Korean Peninsula.” Then Ahn’s final wish: These days, Mr. Ahn is waging the last battle of his life: He wants to return to North Korea to die in his political and ideological home. … ‘I don’t want to be buried in the American colony that South Korea is,’ Mr. Ahn said. ‘I want to spend what little is left of my life in the North, the only free and independent Korea there is, and want to be buried there beside my old comrades.’ Before anyone could object to North Korea being called "free," Choe gave an inside look at Ahn’s home: Inside his living room was a riot of anti-American slogans and art works made by his daughter, Jeong Mi-sook, whom he adopted after he was released from prison. His doormat is the likeness of an American flag bearing the words, ‘Yankees, move out!’ Ms. Jeong, a papier-mâché artist, has recreated a scene of U.S. troops massacring Korean women and children during the war — a favorite theme in North Korean propaganda. Framed on the wall are quotes from Jimmy Carter (who once called the United States ‘the most warlike nation in the history of the world’) and Martin Luther King Jr. (who said the U.S. government was ‘the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today’). Choe then allowed Ahn to claim, “‘South Korean people may claim they live well, but how do you define ‘living well’?’ he said, as he spoke about his preference of the North Korean political system and his own eventful life.’” After recalling Japan's defeat, Choe added, “To many nationalists like Mr. Ahn, colonial rule never ended; it just changed hands from the Japanese to the Americans.” Choe then got in his own historical revisionism, suggesting the Korean War just happened, “Korea soon plunged into an internecine war. While Chinese troops streamed across the border to help North Korea, the U.S. military maintained its air superiority with a horrific bombing campaign. Mr. Ahn was about 20 at the time.” Recalling how Ahn was tortured in prison, eventually released, and recognized as a victim of torture when South Korea became a democracy, Choe asserted “but to his dismay, tens of thousands of U.S. troops were still stationed there.” Choe then got in some final anti-American propaganda: Mr. Ahn blames the Korean divide squarely on the Americans. 'The U.S. troops will never leave until you force them out,' he said. 'A feudal lord will set slaves free only when they rise up to make him fear for his life.' The only time Choe got anywhere close to criticizing Ahn was when he portrayed him as simply naïve, "His slogans sound hopelessly out of place in today’s South Korea, where most citizens want the U.S. troops to stay on their soil to help guard against North Korea and China. Korean reunification, the ideal Mr. Ahn has cherished for so long, looks more distant than ever, as even North Korea says it no longer considers South Korea a partner for reconciliation." If you are a 95-year old man who would rather live in North Korea than South Korea in 2025 and thinks North Korea is a more moral country than the U.S., you are not some anti-colonial resistance fighter. You’re a morally upside-down individual. Ever since the advent of democracy, Ahn has lived as a free man, free to talk with Choe and criticize his government and its main ally. A right no one in North Korea has ever had.

Disgraced Olympic boxer Imane Khelif has submitted an appeal to an arbitration court about being banned from women's boxing.Khelif won gold in the women's 66kg competition at the Paris Olympics in 2024 despite complaints that he is, in fact, a man. Following a dominating performance at the games in which he did not lose a single round, three different reports surfaced that claimed Khelif is a man. A fourth report revealed a medical document that showed the Algerian has XY chromosomes, seemingly putting the story to rest.'She doesn't box anymore. After what happened at the Olympics.'Even Khelif's former coach said the boxer had left his gym and the sport and had not been seen training in months following the leak of the medical report.Now, the Court of Arbitration for Sport says Khelif is requesting to compete again.Khelif has filed an appeal against World Boxing regarding a decision that prohibits him from competing in upcoming events without a preliminary genetic test, the CAS said in press release.In June, Khelif was set to defend a women's title at the Eindhoven Box Cup in the Netherlands, which is run by World Boxing. But Khelif did not compete in the event when the WBO announced it would begin implementing mandatory sex testing.Khelif was seeking to overturn that decision, which stated that he is "not allowed to participate ... in any World Boxing event until she had undergone genetic sex testing."At the same time, the appeals organization noted that Khelif made another brazen request.RELATED: Transgender boxer disappears as mandatory gender testing introduced worldwide Photo by Richard Pelham/Getty Images Khelif's submission also reportedly requested that the CAS declare him "eligible to participate in the 2025 World Boxing Championships from 4 to 14 September," without having to submit to a genetic test.Khelif hoped that the submission of the appeal would result in an injunction on the ban, which would allow him to compete against women in the interim before an official decision on the appeal was made. However, CAS shot that down."CAS dismissed a request to suspend the execution of the decision by World Boxing until the case is heard," the organization wrote. Khelif's side and the CAS will move forward with an exchange of written submissions and subsequently schedule a formal hearing.RELATED: Trump wins: US Olympic Committee bans men from women's sports Photo by Pierre Suu/WireImage Khelif had been thought to be retiring from boxing after his former manager, Nasser Yesfah, claimed "she has stopped everything.""She hasn't even started again. She doesn't box anymore. After what happened at the Olympics."He added, "In any case, she will be subjected to the same type of test if she becomes a professional."As reported by 3 Wire Sports, Khelif's alleged medical condition is formally described as 5-alpha reductase type-2 deficiency. He reportedly has XY chromosomes, internal testes, and a "micropenis."U.S. government website Medline Plus explains that those with such a condition are genetically male but can be mistaken to have female genitalia at birth.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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