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Colorado wildlife authorities have introduced a plan to reintroduce the wolverine, one of the largest members of the weasel family, back into the state where it’s been absent for a century. Hunted to extinction, small populations of this solitary scavenger survived in Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Canada, from where they’ve gradually moved south to Utah […] The post Colorado Begins Planning Return of Wolverine Across its Parks, Absent for More Than 100 Years appeared first on Good News Network.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., joined pro-life members of Congress on stage at the 2026 March for Life in Washington, D.C., as tens of thousands of marchers showed their commitment to the cause of life.   “For the first time, our greatest metric of success is not just the size of the gross domestic product or highs in the stock market,” said Johnson. “It is the strength of the American family.”  Johnson and his GOP colleagues measure success by “the number of lives we save and the lives we improve and uplift with common sense, life affirming policies,” the speaker continued.   .@SpeakerJohnson: "Our rights do not derive from the government, they derive from God himself." pic.twitter.com/nLulJkfgLA— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) January 23, 2026 Johnson has urged Congress to enact pro-family policies like the child-tax credits, enhanced adoption credits, and working to defund abortion and planned parenthood. As the midterm election cycle approaches, Speaker Johnson says he is working to get more “pro-life champions” to Congress.  "All of these victories we're having as a pro-life group can be lost if the elections don't go our way."Assistant Secretary for Health @ADM_Christine says if pro-lifers don't vote in November, the admin's pro-life wins can be lost. "All the wins that we've had in this… pic.twitter.com/ajaPIBQw0B— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) January 23, 2026 “For the first time since Roe v Wade was reversed, we have the White House, the Senate and the House all working together to deliver meaningful and historic pro-life victories,” Johnson praised.  “We all have a reason that we march. We all have a reason that we believe so strongly in this principle,” Johnson reminded the crowd. “I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy exactly one year before Roe in January of 1972, and a lot of people tried to convince my very young parents that they should just ‘take care of that problem.’ But I am eternally grateful that they allowed me the chance in life,” Johnson concluded. The post Johnson Says He’s Measuring GOP’s Success by The Strength of the American Family  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Republican Reps. Chip Roy and Keith Self of Texas voiced their support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s efforts to crack down on Islamic groups accused of having ties to terrorist organizations. On Wednesday, Abbott urged an independent school district to sever ties with the Council on Arab Islamic Relations after administrators planned to hold the “Islamic Games” sporting event. In 2025, he signed legislation to designate CAIR as a terrorist organization over their ties to Hamas and blocked Islamic Sharia Law only developments in Texas. CAIR announced that they aspire to take Abbott “to a court of law” for “crossing every line of basic decency” through his “campaign of hate.” But Roy and Self believe Abbott was right to act. “Governor Abbott was right to demand Cy-Fair ISD sever ties with the group and designate CAIR as a terrorist organization,” Roy told The Daily Signal. Roy then told The Daily Signal that the sporting event ties into “a broader effort to advance Sharia law and ideologies linked to radical Islamism,” which “seek to gain a foothold in our communities and undermine the Constitution and the Western values on which our nation was founded.” Self also applauded Abbott’s intervention, stating that “Islamic extremism has no place in our state.” The congressmen’s remarks come after CAIR accused Abbott of falsely linking CAIR-New Jersey to sponsoring a Houston high school’s “Islamic games” sporting event. However, the organization added that even if they did sponsor the sporting event, it was done by one of their individual chapters, which they allege is not banned from hosting events in Texas. “Abbott’s demand that a county cancel a Muslim youth sporting event because of a false claim that it was sponsored by CAIR-New Jersey makes no sense,” CAIR told The Daily Signal. “Even if Abbott’s lawless proclamation was enforceable, and it’s not, Attorney General Paxton has already sworn in court that the proclamation only applies to CAIR’s national office, not our chapters.” The organization continued its statement, adding that they will attempt to press legal charges against the governor over his “campaign of hate.” “By placing Muslim children at the center of his campaign of hate, Governor Abbott is crossing every line of basic decency and digging himself a deeper legal hole,” CAIR added. “He is the governor of Texas, not the emperor of Texas, and we look forward to reminding him of that in a court of law. God willing.” Despite their strongly worded statement, Self told The Daily Signal that CAIR’s aggression as a terrorist organization is taken lightly by the American justice system. “The opinions of a designated terrorist group carry no weight here, especially when they attack efforts to protect our children from extremist influence.” The post ‘Islamic Extremism Has No Place in Our State’: Texas Reps. Back Abbott as CAIR Plans to Sue appeared first on The Daily Signal.

With the House having passed its final batch of appropriations bills, it is now up to the Senate to pass the spending package or risk sending the federal government into a partial shutdown. Despite the pressure to keep the government open, however, a significant number of Senate Democrats and Republicans have complaints about the spending bills. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., one of the eight Democrats who voted to reopen the government after the longest-ever shutdown in November, signaled his opposition to the spending package as a whole. “If the Senate were to vote on these appropriations bills individually, I would support some of them,” Kaine wrote. “But the House is bundling six bills into a single package a week before a budget deadline and skipping town to try and jam senators into a single up or down vote.” Tim Kaine will oppose the funding package next week due in part to the DHS funding bill & concerns about ICE.Notable because Kaine was one of the eight Senate Dems who voted with R’s to reopen the gov’t back in November pic.twitter.com/tkon3fUshT— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) January 23, 2026 Kaine refers to the House Republicans’ use of procedural mechanisms to send the Senate four funding bills passed on Thursday combined with two passed the week before. On Thursday, the House passed its last remaining appropriations bills to fund the government. The bills came out of conference, meaning they were the product of bipartisan negotiation between appropriators in the House and Senate. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., had applauded what he saw as a return to a “committee-led, member-driven approach” to funding where spending bills were approved by various House committees before coming the floor for a vote. This arrangement, however, will force Senate Democrats to vote for a larger package funding both items they oppose, such as deportations, and items they support, such as foreign aid projects. Top Senate Democrat appropriator Patty Murray of Washington has already granted the homeland security funding bill her blessing, so Republicans may not need Kaine’s vote to pass it. Senate Fiscal Hawks There are already signs of dissatisfaction among the Senate’s fiscal hawks. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who voted against the November funding extension that reopened the government, has excoriated the earmarks in the package coming to the Senate. “Just read the minibus Congress plans to pass this year. An unbelievable over $5 billion is going toward refugee welfare programs,” Paul wrote Tuesday on X after House Republicans unveiled their funding package. “I am going to fight like hell to get this removed. In the meantime, call your Senators and tell them to vote NO, and to put an end to the refugee rip-off,” he added. Paul has specifically criticized the renewal of funding both for refugee benefits and the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization some Republicans have criticized for promoting left-wing causes abroad. Earmark Backlash Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., filed an amendment to strike funding for earmarks in the package that passed the House Thursday, but his measure failed when 76 House Republicans joined with 215 House Democrats to vote against it. What happened in Congress yesterday should alarm the nation. Lawmakers voted to fund egregious projects over American priorities.Point blank. https://t.co/iOiu5UZB1J— Rep. Ralph Norman (@RepRalphNorman) January 23, 2026 Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has expressed his displeasure with these earmarks coming to the Senate. “Why are we giving $1 MILLION to the Met for new elevators or $375K to Jacob’s Pillow Festival?! How does that benefit you? I’m fighting to hold Washington accountable for how they spend YOUR MONEY, by stopping earmarks, so we can get our country back on track,” Scott wrote Thursday on X.  Every dime the federal government spends should be used to benefit YOU because it’s YOUR TAX DOLLARS! It’s why I’m mindblown to see upcoming spending bills with massive earmarks. Why are we giving $1 MILLION to the Met for new elevators or $375K to Jacob’s Pillow Festival?! How…— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) January 23, 2026 The bill funding the Department of Education includes a $375,000 earmark for “Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival,” an annual educational arts program in Western Massachusetts. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, both D-Mass., requested the earmark. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has also criticized the House’s slate of bills, writing Thursday on X, “With Republicans passing spending bills like these, who needs Democrats?” The Senate is in recess until Jan. 26, just days before the Jan. 30 deadline to fund the government and avert a partial government shutdown. The post Could the Senate Trigger Another Shutdown in a Week? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Social media companies helped federal law enforcement identify two men this week who allegedly made online threats to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  On Thursday, the Justice Department announced that the social media company X helped identify a 21-year-old Justin Mesael Novoa, who allegedly posted online, “can’t wait to shoot these … p***y ice agents and r******d maga maggots.” MAGA is a reference to “make America great again,” a slogan promoted by President Donald Trump. Novoa reportedly told federal agents, “So Elon does give you access to that [X],” a reference to X owner Elon Musk. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that Google helped identify a 30-year-old Oklahoma Taylor Ryan Prigmore who posted a YouTube video where he said he would kill “as many [agents] as possible.” “As attacks on law enforcement rise around the country, this Department of Justice will continue to identify and prosecute violent threats against the brave men and women who keep us safe,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a public statement regarding the Oklahoma case. “Hiding behind a screen will not protect you from severe legal consequences.” FBI Director Kash Patel also commented on the Oklahoma case.  “If you threaten to harm law enforcement officers, the FBI and our partners will find you and hold you accountable,” Patel said in a statement. “There will be no free passes for threats against the hard-working men and women who wear the badge and protect our communities.” Both men are presumed innocent.  Threatening to kill a federal officer is a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Making threatening interstate communications carries a potential penalty of up to five years in prison. According to the Justice Department, on Jan. 17, Google representatives notified the FBI about several threats made by a YouTube user, Prigmore, of McCloud, Oklahoma.  The federal complaint says Prigmore allegedly left eight comments last week alone expressing his desire to kill federal agents and others. He also allegedly threatened to kill any law enforcement officers who came to his home. The threatening posts began in May 2025, according to the Justice Department. U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester for the Western District of Oklahoma will lead the prosecution. Prigmore is reportedly being represented by the federal public defender’s office for the Western District of Oklahoma.  Jeffrey Byers, the federal public defender for the Western District of Oklahoma, did not have a comment on the case at this time, a staffer in the office told The Daily Signal on Friday.  U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Dominick S. Gerace’s office announced charges against Novoa for allegedly making threatening interstate communications, including threats to assault or murder a federal law enforcement officer. According to charging documents, personnel from X notified Homeland Security Investigations in December 2025 about threats to ICE employees on the social media platform X.  Federal agents searched Novoa’s home in December 2025 and seized multiple firearms, according to the Justice Department. When agents entered his home, Novoa reportedly said, “Alright, you got me. That was me,” and “So Elon does give you access to that.” The federal public defender’s office for the Southern District of Ohio did not immediately respond to phone and email inquiries about this story.  The Daily Signal contacted both Google and X for this story. Neither responded by publication time. The post ‘Hiding Behind a Screen Won’t Protect You’: Big Tech Helped Identify ICE Threat Suspects appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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