The Department of Justice (DOJ) has stated that President Donald Trump has the right to cancel national monuments established by former Democrat President Joe Biden.

Nationwide protests have been reportedly scheduled for June 14th, coinciding with President Donald Trump’s birthday, in response to his administration’s policies targeting illegal immigration.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a stark warning in a newly released social media video, cautioning of a potential “nuclear holocaust.” She remained sharply critical of what she describes as “warmongers,” accusing them of driving the world closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before.

Congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would make it a federal crime to block interstate highways after mass demonstrations in Los Angeles caused major backups on key roadways. Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia reintroduced the bill, the Safe Passage on Interstates Act, in February after it stalled in the Senate last year. The legislation would create a federal law against the intentional obstruction of interstate highways. “There is nothing ‘peaceful’ about the riots and looting we’ve seen in Los Angeles. Blue states and cities have shown that they would rather have lawlessness and disfunction over law and order, and we need to get these people off our streets and in jail where they belong,” Collins told The Daily Wire in a statement. “The Safe Passage on Interstates Act would give [Attorney General] Pam Bondi and [FBI Director] Kash Patel the tools to put an end to highway protests and lock these criminals up.” The push to give more tools to federal authorities comes after demonstrators have repeatedly flooded the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles, stopping traffic and causing backups. Protesters again took over the freeway on Tuesday evening, until Los Angeles Police Department officers pushed the mob off the freeway onto a parallel road. Similar demonstrations could break out in major cities across the United States. Protests took place in at least two dozen other major cities on Monday, from Seattle, Washington, to Jacksonville, Florida. Demonstrators marched in opposition to federal authorities enforcing immigration law and deporting illegal aliens. In statements to The Daily Wire, co-sponsors of the bill and members of the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, of which Collins is a member, are pushing Collins’ bill as an antidote to the flashes of anarchy that have broken out on interstate highways. The bill is needed sooner rather than later to prevent riots from spreading throughout the country. California Rep. Tom McClintock said the bill “will save lives.” “All Americans have the right to peaceful protest, but when cars are lit on fire and ambulances are blocked on major roadways, it is no longer peaceful,” said McClintock. Oklahoma Rep. Stephanie Bice blamed the chaos in Los Angeles on “local leaders” such as Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Bice called Collins’ bill “a step towards restoring law and order and safeguarding communities from radical protestors intent on sowing chaos throughout the country.” Ohio’s Dave Taylor said that “From families driving their children to school, to truck drivers transporting goods, to law enforcement responding to emergencies, we all depend on our Nation’s roads being clear and safe every day.” Texas Rep. Andy Weber called the bill “more critical than ever.” “Blocking our highways and disrupting the daily lives of law-abiding Americans is not a form of protest – it’s lawlessness, and it must not be tolerated,” he said.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified Wednesday to a congressional committee in favor of President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” saying it would be “cataclysmic” for lawmakers to let the package die. Bessent’s remarks came in response to a question from House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax Chairman Mike Kelly (R-PA). “Let’s go to what actually is going to happen if this bill doesn’t get passed,” Kelly asked Bessent. “How is it going to affect hardworking American taxpayers?” “It would be cataclysmic,” Bessent responded. “It would be the largest tax hike in history. It would be a disaster for businesses, for working Americans, and for our status in the world.” .@SecScottBessent: If the One Big Beautiful Bill doesn't pass, "it would be cataclysmic. It would be the largest tax hike in history. It would be a disaster for businesses, for working Americans, and for our status in the world." pic.twitter.com/Aaihs72JyP — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 11, 2025 Bessent’s warning comes as the Senate considers whether or not it will pass the bill, which passed the House by just one vote. Two House Republicans voted against it. Senate Republicans seem divided on the bill, with  Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky notably expressing his dissatisfaction with the bill’s debt ceiling. Replying to Kelly, Bessent warned that if the bill does not pass, “We would see increases in taxes of thousands of dollars on working Americans. We would see business contract, and we would see a substantial increase in the unemployment rate.” Proponents of the bill, which extends the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, argue that killing it threatens the national economy, while opponents claim that the bill only adds trillions to the national debt while reducing healthcare and nutrition benefits. Kelly also asked Bessent to comment about what more can be done to move the economy in the right direction. “The combination of small business and manufacturing, along with the President’s tax agenda for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, a tax cut for seniors, and the ability to buy a new, American-made car and deduct the interest will solve this horrendous affordability crisis,” Bessent replied. “The way to think about it, Congressman — we are dealing with two things here: we are dealing with affordability and we are dealing with inflation,” Bessent said. “We are working to pull [affordability] down. That can be pulled down two ways: through price levels or [increasing] real wages. I think we can do both but the real fill-up here would be [to] increase real wages for working Americans.” Later in the hearing, Representative David Kustoff of Tennessee reiterated Kelly’s concerns about the danger of killing the bill. Bessent agreed, saying that, “I think it could set off a financial crisis the likes of which we have not seen since ‘08, ‘09.”

A Washington, D.C., judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s control of the African Development Foundation, a small federal agency that locked its doors to prevent Trump’s staff from entering and had to be physically taken over by U.S. Marshals. The suit was brought by Ward Brehm, a former member of the agency’s board of directors, which is appointed by the president. On February 24, the White House notified Brehm that he was fired. But Brehm later insisted he was not just on the board, but had become president of the agency — not Pete Marocco, the architect of the USAID demolition, who Trump also named as president of the similar African aid group. Senior Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that Brehm “never lawfully held the position, and the Court is not at liberty to unilaterally install him as president. The Court therefore finds that summary judgment is warranted for the defendants.” “The ‘President may remove anyone he appoints,’ unless Congress ‘wishes to restrict the President’s removal power,’ which it ‘must make clear in a statute,'” he wrote, citing precedent. The White House removed all five board members on the same day, but ADF staff would not share contact info for the board members with Trump staff, and notifications to members besides Brehm were sent to invalid email addresses. On February 28, the White House wrote to the African Development Foundation’s Chief Financial Officer, Mathieu Zahiu, that the agency had become “Board-less” and Trump had temporarily appointed Marocco as acting chair. Zahui consulted with the fired board members, then told the White House that agency staff would not recognize Marocco as their boss because “a board nomination requires Senate confirmation.” On March 3, the old board held a meeting that purported to appoint Brehm as the chair. They notified Congress that they had seen the February 28 email, but that Brehm was the new president. Marocco then held a board meeting with only himself and terminated Brehm. “Since then, both Brehm and Marocco claim to be USADF’s president,” the judge wrote. Judge Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote that Brehm could not be president of the agency because he had been fired from the board before it supposedly elected him president. Even the other board members, whose emailed termination notices were bungled, knew they had been fired, he said. “President Trump removed the board prior to Brehm’s appointment, and thus Brehm was not lawfully appointed! Brehm’s removal claims must therefore fail.” He noted that chief financial officer Zahui consulted with the previous board members before refusing the accept the White House’s appointee, and that “Zahui effectively notified the Board members of their terminations.” A Daily Wire investigation found that, according to the USAID Inspector General, Zahui received secret payments to his personal bank account after improperly steering contracts to a friend. One of the contracts was for travel during COVID, when no one was traveling. A search warrant was executed on Zahui’s phone in November, but as of now, he has not been criminally charged. The Daily Wire’s investigation found that the African Development Foundation affirmed many of the fears that critics expressed about USAID, particularly that money advertised as going to poor people in third-world countries was being rerouted to D.C. bureaucrats and their friends. The African Development Foundation sent “grants” to African groups on the condition that they send part of the money to American groups affiliated with agency officials and even wire money directly to the personal bank accounts of Foundation employees in Washington, the investigation found. By law, the group is only permitted to give aid to African groups, and the maneuvering allowed Congress to think it was a low-overhead charity sending the bulk of its money to Africans, when in reality, it was essentially cooking the books. “The grant was provided to an African organization … a grant can pay for people,” Zahiu told the Daily Wire about one instance of the agency forcing an African group to use part of its grant to pay the salaries of D.C. staff. “Yeah, granted, they were in D.C.” He also said that after DOGE changed the office’s locks, he gained access through a back door. One longtime employee said the agency’s staff locked DOGE out because “the contracts don’t make sense, and they know [DOGE] will find lots of wrongdoing and illegal activity.” “I’m not a fan of DOGE, but some of the things they’re doing need to be done. They have been operating like this for years, and no one did anything about it,” she said. Another employee, program manager Kate Ristroph, explained in a videotaped internal investigative interview obtained by The Daily Wire how an agency official gave a grant to an African group on the condition that it route some of the money to his former employer in D.C. “We’re in that murky territory of like, is this legal?” she said. Mateo Dunne, the agency’s former lawyer, said he was summarily removed from his job by CEO Travis Adkins after sounding the alarm about lawbreaking. One piece of misconduct he raised involved one of the now-fired board members, John Agwunobi. Agwunobi was the CEO of Herbalife, a company accused of being a pyramid scheme, and used the federal agency to push the multi-level marketing firm in Africa months after it paid a $122 million settlement to the Department of Justice to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. ADF misrepresented the partnership as being with a nonprofit when it was actually with the for-profit company, and connected Africans with the company’s reps, he said. Adkins also bragged about concealing operations from Brehm and other board members, saying “them white motherf***ers, they don’t need to know … I don’t think I should tell them s***,” his former assistant told The Daily Wire. The assistant, who is black, said in a sworn affidavit that “On at least three occasions, Mr. Adkins told me that he wanted his entire team (to include the General Counsel) to consist only of Black people. He wanted all of his direct reports to be Black.” Related: This Foreign Aid Agency Locked Its Doors To Keep DOGE Out. Now We Know Why.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a stark warning to any potential protesters who had a mind to engage in the same sort of violence and vandalism that has been seen in Los Angeles over the last several days, saying from the press room podium: “You will not succeed.” Leavitt’s warning comes after five days of violent protests and riots in Los Angeles, sparked by protesters who were attempting to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from doing their jobs and arresting criminal illegal aliens. The anti-ICE rioters have damaged property and attacked both local law enforcement officers and federal agents, prompting President Donald Trump to mobilize a number of California National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to get the situation under control. WATCH: .@PressSec: “Let this be an unequivocal message to left-wing radicals in other parts of the country who are thinking about copycatting the violence in an effort to stop this administration’s mass deportation efforts: you will NOT succeed.” pic.twitter.com/bi7mzg4iR1 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 11, 2025 As the weekend approaches with protests already popping up in other cities across the United States, Leavitt warned would-be protesters that it would be in their best interest not to make the same mistakes that some in California had in interfering with the work of federal agents who were enforcing the law. “Let this be an unequivocal message to left-wing radicals in other parts of the country who are thinking about copycatting the violence in an effort to stop this administration’s mass deportation efforts: you will NOT succeed,” she said. “Any lawlessness will only strengthen this president’s resolve to defend the majority of Americans who want to live their lives peacefully, free from the fear of violent criminal illegal aliens.” “As President Trump said, ‘Order will be maintained, and illegal aliens will be expelled from our country,'” she concluded.

The audience attending a Capitol Hill hearing audibly groaned on Wednesday when a House Democrat suggested Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had interrupted her because she is a woman. Bessent attempted to push back against Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) after the lawmaker said prices were rising for “many everyday goods” in the wake of the Trump administration’s trade war with other countries. “No, congresswoman —,” Bessent interjected. SHAMEFUL: @RepLindaSanchez baselessly accuses @SecScottBessent of being sexist because he tried to correct her lie that “prices are rising.” FACT: Under @POTUS, Americans have seen the first overall price decline since 2020. pic.twitter.com/mQUe0D9otw — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 11, 2025 Bessent sought to continue, apparently pointing to the Consumer Price Index showing that inflation slowed in May, but Sanchez wasn’t having it. “Please don’t interrupt me. The time is mine. The time is mine. Please don’t interrupt me,” Sanchez said. “I will ask you questions and I will grant you an opportunity to answer them, but please don’t interrupt me during my time.” Bessent, who had stopped with his rebuttal, responded: “With pleasure.” However, Sanchez kept going. “I know I’m a woman, but please try to limit yourself to answering my questions,” Sanchez said. An uproar of groans ensued, to which Sanchez replied, “No, I’m sorry but we get talked over all the time and I don’t want that to happen at this hearing.” The blowback continued on social media. The X account Libs of TikTok, run by Chaya Raichik, said Sanchez “pretends to be a victim of sexism after getting caught LYING about price increases.” American Majority founder and CEO Ned Ryan quipped, “Suddenly Dems know what a woman is. Fascinating.” The White House’s “Rapid Response” account on X also condemned Sanchez “SHAMEFUL: [Sanchez] baselessly accuses [Bessent] of being sexist because he tried to correct her lie that ‘prices are rising,'” it said. “FACT: Under [President Donald Trump], Americans have seen the first overall price decline since 2020.” Sanchez shot back at the White House. “That’s not the truth. Even Fox News says that prices are rising due to Trump’s tariffs,” the Democrat said on X. Sanchez linked to a Fox Business article on a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey from early May that showed businesses saying that some or all the costs of higher tariffs were being passed on to consumers.

It’s a sad day for music fans. Legendary songwriter and co-founder of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, has died following a long battle with a condition similar to dementia. Brian founded the band in 1961 with his brothers Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and dear friend Al Jardine. Together, the Beach Boys became one of the most successful bands of all time, selling more than 100 million records. According to the band’s website, “‘Rolling Stone’ ranked Pet Sounds No. 2 on its list of the ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time,’ and The Beach Boys No. 12 on its list of the ‘100 Greatest Artists of All Time.'” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Wilson (@brianwilsonlive) Brian Wilson’s Family Broke The News Of His Death On Social Media Brian Wilson was an integral part of the Beach Boys’ success, and his family shared their heartache in a statement. “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy.” A fan shared a sweet condolence. “God Only Knows what we’d be without you. Thanks for everything Brian.” “My heart is broken! We were blessed to have this man and his music in our lives. Thank you Brian,” another fan wrote. Brian Wilson’s granddaughter, Lolo Bonfiglio, posted her own tribute on Instagram with a picture captioned, “i love you grandpa. you changed the world. you have left an invaluable mark on me and so many others and i am blessed to have had you in my life. i will forever do music in your honor. rest in music paradise.” “So sorry for your loss, we’re all thinking of you today,” a friend shared. Brian Wilson was 82 years old. This story’s featured image is by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney. The post Brian Wilson’s Daughters Issue Statement Following Death Of The Beach Boys Legend appeared first on InspireMore.