A radio anchor for the George Soros-controlled KCBS 740 AM "All News Radio" station who had the gall to unmask the vehicles of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in the gang-infested San Jose, California area in January has reportedly been demoted after MRC Business took him to task. Anchor Bret Burkhart elevated the unmasking of “undercover” ICE agents from the leftist Rapid Response Network, which fights against deportation initiatives during the January 26 edition of KCBS Radio Weekend News. To make things worse, he gave exact descriptions of the vehicles the ICE agents were reportedly using, including specific locations. NewsNation confirmed January 27 that the agents were conducting an operation in the area around that time, meaning their cover was potentially blown and they were placed in significant danger. MRC Business immediately cut the audio and published it in an investigative report detailing the incident in addition to the radio station’s connection to Soros. In February 2024, Soros purchased $400 million, or a 40 percent stake, of the bankrupt Audacy in February 2024. Notably, Audacy, which is America’s second biggest radio company, features or streams at least 16 powerful 50,000-watt radio stations, which means that their coverage is especially widespread. KCBS 740 AM was one of the stations prominently listed in that deal. At the time, FCC bizarrely fast-tracked Soros’s purchase of the radio giant — which was also backed by foreign money — and dubiously allowed him to skirt the rigorous review process for such acquisitions.  You can listen to the insane reporting by KCBS 740 AM unmasking ICE agents below. MRC’s exposé led the Federal Communications Commission under chairman Brendan Carr to open up an investigation into KCBS 740 AM for violating its public interest obligation by blowing the cover of law enforcement officers. Fox News reported February 5, 2025 that the FCC Enforcement Bureau “has already sent a formal Letter of Inquiry to the radio station as part of the FCC investigation.” In accordance with MRC’s reporting, “The formal Enforcement Bureau Letter notes that the ICE agents were operating at the time in an area known for violent gang activity.” After the whole ordeal, Burkhart was demoted and the KCBS 740 AM newsroom was shaken up, per a story from Associated Press published December 15, 2025: Bret Burkhart, who first read the report on the immigration action over the air, was demoted from his anchor position to a less prestigious reporting gig. After a few months, he left the station for a new job, according to current and former staffers. He ended up at KOGO in San Diego. Inside Radio also reported December 16 that “staffers said the investigation had a chilling effect inside the newsroom.” In addition to Burkhart’s fall from grace, “political coverage was scaled back, and reporters were encouraged to focus on human-interest stories rather than controversial topics.”  "Activists posing as journalists always cry 'chilling effect' whenever anyone tries to curtail their activism," said NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham about the response to MRC Business. "They cry that they've been 'neutered.' There ought to be a 'chilling effect' or a 'scaling back' from encouraging insurrection against law-enforcement agencies." The demotion apparently fired up prominent legislators on Capitol Hill, as was exhibited by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) who lost his marbles on Carr during a recent Senate hearing over the FCC's investigation into KCBS 740 AM. Markey went into complete "chilling effect" bluster.  Yikes! Senate Oversight hearing devolves into chaos as Sen. Ed Markey goes berserk over @BrendanCarrFCC holding broadcasters accountable. pic.twitter.com/eI9O9nXGau — Media Research Center (@theMRC) December 17, 2025 Given the Soros empire’s overt obsession with pushing for open borders, it is no surprise that a radio station it controls would be tailoring its reporting along parallel interests. Broadcasters have a duty to the public interest, and that includes doing everything they can to protect the lives of officers working to uphold federal immigration law. By exposing them to potential retaliation by violent gangs within San Jose, Burkhart and KCBS 740 AM violated this principle in the name of illegal immigration activism. MRC Business is proud to have been the first to hold this Soros-controlled station accountable for its actions, and that meaningful action was taken as a response.

An illegal alien in Fairfax County, Virginia with a history of arrests, mental illness and apparent ties to MS-13 was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Wednesday – just one day after the illegal sanctuary county chose to release him rather than honor a detainer request by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Tuesday, 23 year-old Marvin Morales-Ortez - an illegal alien from El Salvador being held in jail on charges brandishing a gun, assault and causing injury - was released after charges were dropped and the sheriff’s office, led by Stacey Kincaid, refused to honor ICE’s detainer request. “If Fairfax County would have simply worked to uphold our nation’s laws, then this tragedy may have never happened,” an ICE spokesman said, commenting on the fatal shooting of a man Morales-Ortez lived with, 40-year-old Marvin Ernesto Morales. "The sanctuary politicians of Fairfax have blood on their hands,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson said. The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office released Morales-Ortez despite court records showing: Morales-Ortez had been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County since 2020, including first-degree murder (charges were eventually dropped). In one case, in which he was found “guilty in abstentia” of petit larceny, Morales-Ortez never paid the fine levied. Morales-Ortez was allegedly a member of the MS-13 gang. He has a history of mental health issues. The sheriff’s office says that ICE failed to obtain and provide a judicial warrant – but, “officials do not need a judicial warrant” in order to honor an ICE detainer, according to DHS. As a sanctuary city, Fairfax County has a practice and history of refusing to honor detainers in high-profile cases where ICE has requested to take custody of illegal aliens. Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Office is headed by Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano, who is backed by billionaire leftist activist George Soros. Sheriff Kincaid is tied to far-left Democrat Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, who is considering promoting Kincaid to a top position with Virginia’s state police. After Morales-Ortez was released from jail on Tuesday, a Community Services Board (CSB) clinician obtained an Emergency Custody Order (ECO) for Morales-Ortez, but Fairfax County police officers failed to take him into custody before the order expired. The ECO, which expired eight hours after issuance, was sought and granted because it was feared that Morales-Ortez’s dubious mental state could make him a threat to harm himself or others. A local NBC affiliate reports that Morales-Ortez is shown on video leaving the victim’s home after the shooting: “New video from a doorbell camera shows Morales-Ortez leaving the home after the shooting and trying to get into a mail truck. A neighbor said Morales-Ortez couldn’t get into the vehicle. Fairfax County police said he ended up fleeing on a bike. “Chopper4 footage shows officers going door to door in the community until officers and K9s eventually found Morales-Ortez hiding in a wooded area about a mile from home.” Morales-Ortez was arraigned Thursday on a second-degree murder charge and is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing in March.

PBS News is still riding the wrecked transgender train. One would have hoped PBS would have hopped off the discredited movement, given the increasing piles of evidence on the consequences of irrevocable “gender-affirming” operations, the lack of science backing up the emotional blackmail claims of the movement, and the departure of trans-obsessed reporter Laura Barron-Lopez. But reporter William Brangham actually outdid Barron-Lopez in his anti-journalistic transgender-teen advocacy and euphemistic tendencies in Wednesday’s segment. There is no dissent allowed. It's the most sensitive profile imaginable, or you can call it propaganda, an infomercial, that makes the red states sound repulsive for opposing trans "rights." The story is a follow-up to a 2023 story about a “transgender” male teen, now named Leah, whose family was feeling persecuted in close-minded Texas. Now they’ve moved to more tolerant Colorado, where the schools feature stories about gay teens. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: In 2023, we introduced you to a transgender girl named Leah. She was living in Texas with her parents, John and Mary. We concealed their identities because families like theirs faced growing threats. Since then, lawmakers have taken steps to further restrict the rights of transgender people. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state bans on transition medical care for minors…. PBS loves to conceal their subject's identities to give their show an added piece of drama about how the conservative half of America is dangerous, as they did in glamorizing an underground network for abortion pills.  After a brief flashback to 2023, Brangham showed his bias on the transgender-teen issue was just as blatant as that of his predecessor. Reporter William Brangham: Leah came out as trans several years ago. First, she transitioned socially, changing her name and her clothes. She did years of counseling, started on puberty blockers, and just over a year ago began taking estrogen. Those steps are all considered gender-affirming care, which is endorsed by major U.S. medical associations. But those treatments have come under increased scrutiny in recent years, and more than half of U.S. states now have laws restricting this kind of care for anyone under 18…. When PBS employs the euphemism “gender-affirming care,” think “cross-sex hormones, castration, and breast removal.” Brangham also adopted the term "trans refuge state." Brangham: In October, they piled into the moving truck and made the over-14-hour trek from Austin to Denver. Colorado is known as a trans refuge state, and many families with trans kids have moved here in recent years. It's one of 17 states in the District of Columbia that protect access to gender-affirming care. Earlier this year, Colorado passed an anti-discrimination law that, among other provisions, aims to ensure that trans people are called by their chosen names. Gay propaganda in the schools earned the family’s seal of approval, as well as that of PBS. Mary: She will share, like, "Today, in English class, we read an essay and the essay was about a gay boy." And she's like, "I'm just — I'm so happy we're here." And I'm just like, OK, this is why we did this. William Brangham: Despite that relief, John especially is shaken by the idea that they have become refugees in their own country. The father offered another ridiculous parallel, with no journalistic pushback from Brangham, only empathetic approval. John: I have been having conversations with my parents about our parallel journeys. Back in the 80s, we fled Central America because of the communist wars and we fled to the United States. And the United States gave us a life, gave us opportunity that we didn't expect. So now we're looking at, we need to keep our family, safe. What does that mean? We're looking at it from one state to another state within the country. Within the country that the world used to flee to for safety and opportunity, we're looking to flee from. And that's just mind-blowing.…. Brangham: Leah says, despite all her parents' efforts, the pressure on trans people in America is pervasive and it's hard to keep it at bay. So how did PBS News react to President Trump’s new move that will end so-called “gender-affirming care” for minor children? Badly—but more on that soon. This blatant trans-teen advocacy was brought to you in part by Consumer Cellular. A transcript is available, click "Expand." PBS News Hour 12/17/25 7:46:26 p.m. (ET) Geoff Bennett: In 2023, we introduced you to a transgender girl named Leah. She was living in Texas with her parents, John and Mary. We concealed their identities because families like theirs faced growing threats. Since then, lawmakers have taken steps to further restrict the rights of transgender people. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state bans on transition medical care for minors. And this evening, the U.S. House passed a bill that would make it a felony to provide those treatments. It still needs Senate approval. William Brangham recently caught up with Leah and her family as they wrestled with their next steps. William Brangham: This is a day that, for a while, Leah hoped would never come. She told us as much a couple years ago. Leah, Teenager: We just have our whole life here, and the last thing I want to do is, you have to move. William Brangham: But now, at the age of 15, Leah and her parents, John and Mary, have decided they must move. They have packed their entire life into boxes prepped for the truck in their driveway. They're leaving Texas for Colorado, seeking refuge in a state with friendlier policies for transgender kids like Leah. Leah: I have lived here pretty much all my life, so definitely it's going to be a big change. William Brangham: Leah came out as trans several years ago. First, she transitioned socially, changing her name and her clothes. She did years of counseling, started on puberty blockers, and just over a year ago began taking estrogen. Those steps are all considered gender-affirming care, which is endorsed by major U.S. medical associations. But those treatments have come under increased scrutiny in recent years, and more than half of U.S. states now have laws restricting this kind of care for anyone under 18. Texas passed its ban in 2023. Last year, Leah and her family began making regular trips to New Mexico for her treatment, traveling hundreds of miles and spending thousands of dollars. Mary, Mother of Leah: We have other kids. We have adult kids, and I feel like we have given them every opportunity for anything that they wanted to do, and we cannot do that right now for Leah. And she deserves that too. William Brangham: Texas now requires a person's driver's license to match the gender on their birth certificate. It bars teachers from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation, and prohibits school clubs focused on those issues. And just this month, a law went into effect banning the use of public bathrooms that don't correspond to a person's sex at birth. Mary: It still didn't feel unsafe necessarily, but it felt — it did feel direct. We had to talk to Leah about just laying low, which it just kind of goes against everything we believe and have always told our kids to, like, be themselves and be proud of who they are. And it was kind of the first time we really had to be like, we can't talk about this at all. William Brangham: So, this fall, John and Mary decided to put their House on the market. John, Father of Mary: We just need to get rid of the anchor. We will hang out here. And then, that way, we can go as needed. The way things unfolded, the house sold within days of setting it up. So we just had to look at the situation and say, OK, maybe it's time to go now. William Brangham: In October, they piled into the moving truck and made the over-14-hour trek from Austin to Denver. Colorado is known as a trans refuge state, and many families with trans kids have moved here in recent years. It's one of 17 states in the District of Columbia that protect access to gender-affirming care. Earlier this year, Colorado passed an anti-discrimination law that, among other provisions, aims to ensure that trans people are called by their chosen names. So, when you saw the "Welcome to Colorado," it felt like? John: As soon as we crossed over, there was a little bit wave of emotion. And I did not expect that at all, the motion of relief. There was a happiness to it, and there was an immediate calmness. Mary: Just today, you said "I haven't felt this peaceful" in I don't know how long. So just that, I think, has made all of this worth it, honestly. William Brangham: Leah, John and Mary are now renting a house in the Denver area. Leah has started at a new school and she recently got into a local clinic for her care. Leah: Everybody is just like — wants me here. It's amazing. Mary: She will share, like, "Today, in English class, we read an essay and the essay was about a gay boy." And she's like, "I'm just — I'm so happy we're here." And I'm just like, OK, this is why we did this. William Brangham: Despite that relief, John especially is shaken by the idea that they have become refugees in their own country. John: I have been having conversations with my parents about our parallel journeys. Back in the 80s, we fled Central America because of the communist wars and we fled to the United States. And the United States gave us a life, gave us opportunity that we didn't expect. So now we're looking at, we need to keep our family, safe. What does that mean? We're looking at it from one state to another state within the country. Within the country that the world used to flee to for safety and opportunity, we're looking to flee from. And that's just mind-blowing. William Brangham: And there's a larger concern that, even in Colorado, the threats are not eliminated. President Donald Trump: Official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. (Cheering) William Brangham: Since retaking office, President Trump has moved to restrict the rights of transgender Americans. The State Department stopped allowing passports that match trans people's gender identities. The Pentagon reinstated a ban on transgender troops. Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary: Expressing a false gender identity divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service. Donald Trump: The war on women's sports is over. (Cheering) William Brangham: The administration threatened to withhold funding from states where transgender girls are allowed to play in girls sports. Donald Trump: We will defend the proud tradition of female athletes and we will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls. William Brangham: And an executive order in January put hospitals and clinics at risk of losing federal dollars if they continued to practice gender-affirming medical care. Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary: The Biden administration peddled dangerous policies that defied medical science in favor of radical transgender ideology. But President Trump has put an end to that, to ensure America's children's innocence is protected. William Brangham: Some providers preemptively stopped those treatments, even in states where they were otherwise protected. Multiple clinics in Colorado stopped care for a while. Mary: We were looking at other states because of that. We ended up here because we have other children and we need to be near them, and this was the closest that we could be to them. But that was definitely something that we took into consideration and for a while crossed Colorado off of our list. But here we are and we feel safe for now. John: At the end of the day, we're going to keep her safe and she's going to transition. Whether we got to do it here in Canada, in Spain, in Antarctica, wherever it is, we're going to do that. And we have decided that we are going to be prepared to pivot as much as we need to. William Brangham: Leah says, despite all her parents' efforts, the pressure on trans people in America is pervasive and it's hard to keep it at bay. Leah: Transitioning is like the best thing that's ever happened to me. So, like, I never take that back. Now that I'm here with my people that want to protect me, I mean, it's a totally different mind-set, because, at some point, I did feel like I hurt so, so, so much from the kids at school and just from people in taxes in general that I started to question, am I the problem? Mary: I didn't know you thought that. She's done a great job of hiding that. She's the bravest person I know, fearless. William Brangham: For the "PBS News Hour," I'm William Brangham in Denver, Colorado.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales denied that the online encyclopedia has banned right-leaning sources, only to reference an example of that practice in the same discussion. In a Wednesday interview with The Verge, Wales responded to growing accusations of bias and Wikipedia’s ban on sources such as Breitbart. His answer? An admission disguised as a denial: “We don’t completely ban sources. We may deprecate them and say, ‘Well, it’s not preferred as a source. We’d rather have something better.’” Wales then went on to further minimize the impact of Wikipedia’s effective blacklist by suggesting that the list merely elevates sources like The New England Journal of Medicine over sources like Breitbart.  In reality, Wikipedia’s own “Reliable sources/Perennial sources” list proves that the platform does blacklist media organizations, including Breitbart, The Heritage Foundation and Project Veritas. Other right-leaning outlets are effectively sidelined through deprecations and usage restrictions, most of which are not imposed on left-leaning sources. The Media Research Center has repeatedly exposed the severity and real-world impact of this blacklist, which goes far beyond prioritizing peer-reviewed journals over right-of-center news organizations.  MRC found that 100% of right-of-center media outlets listed on the AllSides Media Bias Chart were effectively blacklisted at the time of the study, while the overwhelming majority of left-wing outlets were approved. Wikipedia has since added one token right-leaning news outlet, The Washington Free Beacon, to its reliable sources list. The outlets Wikipedia editors deem “generally reliable” are not confined to academic publications such as the aggressively pro-transgenderism New England Journal of Medicine. The list also includes leftist activist outlets such as Mother Jones, MSNBC and The Nation. It elevates a who’s who of elitist media, including the Bloomberg media empire controlled by left-wing billionaire Michael Bloomberg, which has a documented record of coordinated climate pressure campaigns. Overall, MRC researchers found that Wikipedia greenlit 84% of left-wing media outlets.  A separate MRC study revealed that the result is a staggering citation imbalance across Wikipedia: 18.2 left-wing citations for every right-of-center citation. MRC researchers identified 5,320,017 citations from left-wing outlets listed on the AllSides Media Bias Chart, compared with just 292,250 citations from right-of-center sources on searches that took place Nov. 18-Nov. 19. Left-wing citations also dwarfed the 1,595,747 citations attributed to outlets categorized as “center.”  Wikipedia lavished tens of thousands of citations on left-wing outlets, including Jacobin (2,706), Mother Jones (8,326), MSNBC (6,893), The Daily Beast (28,038), The Nation (11,575) and Vox (24,756). By contrast, editors largely sidelined right-of-center outlets such as Breitbart (1,133), Just the News (128), Newsmax (1,123), The Blaze (434), The Daily Caller (665) and The Federalist (389). Project Veritas has 14 citations as of Dec. 18.  Despite its size and influence, The Daily Wire had just 445 citations and is branded by Wikipedia as “generally unreliable.” That designation places it on the same level as satirical outlet The Onion and “Deviant Art,” one of the “furry” art websites allegedly used by Thomas Crooks, the attempted assassin of President Donald Trump. But be assured that Wikipedia editors would never dream of treating The Daily Wire the same as two websites like that. No, The Onion has 720 citations, and DeviantArt has 2,599 as of Dec. 18, both far exceeding The Daily Wire’s total on Nov. 18. Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.  

NewsBusters got under the skin of ABC’s The View when we did our first study counting their infamous “legal notes” (three dozen in one year), back in 2022. Over time, the study appeared to be so effective that the show had completely abandoned the practice. In 2025, The View had issued ZERO “legal notes.” But that doesn’t mean the notes weren’t sorely needed. Previously, The View cast were forced to issue “legal notes” when they would accuse someone of committing crimes before either they were found guilty or before they were even charged; many times baselessly accusing a conservative of a crime without even a hint of illegality. All designed to protect ABC News from legal liability from the wild claimed their news program would make.     Their favorite target to attack in 2022 was Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. They had to issue a total of five “legal notes” regarding their comments against her (the most for any single person). After repeatedly pushing the same false accusation that she was at the head of the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, Hosting would robotically repeat the same lines: Ginni Thomas has denied any conflict of interest between her activism and her husband's position on the Supreme Court. She acknowledges attending the stop-the-steal rally, but says she left because it was cold, and denies she was involved in organizing it. In 2025, multiple members of The View’s cast had alluded and openly claimed three time that President Trump and Elon Musk stole the 2024 presidential election. You can read about those here, here (this one includes an accusation of Musk killing 300,000 kids), and here. Sunny Host insisted that Trump was “certainly” is “guilty of insider trading” for sending out a social media post touting the stock market. You can read about that here. The View also accused the Trump administration of “crimes against humanity” and threatening to kill the families of Republican lawmakers to coerce them into going along with his agenda. And before recovery was even finished, they accused Trump and his voters of being responsible for the deadly mid-air collision of an Army Blackhawk and a commercial airliner just outside Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. They seemed to be aware that their accusations came with possible legal ramifications, because when co-host Joy Behar accused Musk of being “pro-apartheid” in February, they returned from a commercial break with Behar walking it back and begging Musk not to sue her. However, no formal “legal note” was issued. And that was how they seemed to get around issuing formal “legal notes.” They would either walk it back after a commercial, or simply say “I have a note” and treat it like they were adding a clarification. Their newfound aversion to “legal notes” was a major shift for the show and for the network because they had been so proud of them in the past. “But I think that's why people like our show, because they know that we are checked by ABC News...If we're wrong, we have the legal note here,” Behar quipped as she pointed to Hostin on November 21, 2024. On an episode of their Behind the Table podcast, Hostin curiously described “legal notes” as a “necessary evil.” Did they finally cast off the “evil” that’s been haunting them? So, it appears.