National and international media news & headlines compiled by CLG

Pentagon directs National Guard troops in D.C. to start patrolling with guns | 22 Aug 2025 | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday directed the National Guard troops who are patrolling in Washington, D.C., to start carrying firearms, though it is not clear when the order will go into effect. The Pentagon has not commented on the reason for the change, but it comes as the Trump administration concentrates on reducing crime in the nation’s capital. President Donald Trump declared a “crime crisis” in the district earlier this month and called up 800 D.C. National Guard troops. He also federalized the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department. The National Guard troops, which have since expanded to 2,000 with assistance from other states, have not taken part in law enforcement activities.

Tulsi Gabbard strips 37 security clearances over Obama-ordered intel report that launched Russiagate | 19 Aug 2025 | Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced security clearances had been pulled from 37 current and former officials who “abused public trust by politicizing and manipulating” information — including several who were involved in a controversial, Barack Obama-ordered assessment of Russian influence in the 2016 election. An ODNI memo announced that the more than three dozen intel professionals — including a former top aide to Obama DNI James Clapper — had either politicized or weaponized intelligence, failed to safeguard classified info or not followed tradecraft standards. “The President has directed that, effective immediately, the security clearances of the following 37 individuals are revoked,” the Aug. 18 memo stated, according to a copy obtained by The Post.

FBI raids John Bolton’s home, office in probe over sending classified documents to family | 22 Aug 2025 | FBI agents raided the Maryland home and Washington, DC office of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton Friday morning in a high-profile probe of allegations that he sent “highly sensitive” classified documents to his family from a private email server while working in the White House. Federal investigators went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post. Agents later went to Bolton’s office in downtown D.C., but did not enter until a judge signed a warrant for that location late Friday morning. “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” Patel said in a cryptic post to X shortly after the raid began.

EU leaders want to overthrow three European governments – Budapest | 15 Aug 2025 | The European Union is attempting to topple the governments of Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia for prioritizing national interests over alignment with Brussels, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has claimed. He made the comments in a Facebook post on Thursday after phone calls with Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar and Serbia’s top diplomat, Marko Duric. According to Szijjarto, they agreed to strengthen their stance on sovereignty and pledged mutual solidarity amid what they described as growing external pressure. “Brussels has ceased to be a factor in world politics. The fact that Europe has been excluded from the Alaska talks proves it,” he wrote, referring to Friday’s summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine conflict.

European NATO states to continue arming Ukraine | 16 Aug 2025 | Western European leaders [lunatics] have issued a statement backing U.S. President Donald Trump’s diplomatic push to end the Ukraine conflict — while also reaffirming their [insane] intention to further arm Kiev and seek to bring it into NATO, the very issues Russia has cited as among the root causes of the conflict. The declaration follows the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, where the two discussed steps toward ending the Ukraine conflict. Although no deal was announced, both sides characterized the talks as highly productive. The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Poland, Finland, as well as the presidents of the EU Council and European Commission, praised the peace efforts in a statement published on Saturday, but vowed to continue providing military aid to Kiev.

Ukraine kills civilians trying to cross into Russia – senior diplomat | 16 Aug 2025 | Ukrainian troops have over the course of the conflict killed hundreds of civilians attempting to cross the frontline into Russia, senior diplomat Rodion Miroshnik told the news agency TASS on Friday. Miroshnik, who serves as the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large for the Kiev regime’s war crimes, said the cases had been documented through testimony and video evidence. “There are hundreds of cases. There are instances where people were shot while trying to cross the [front] line, bombarded with drones, attacked,” the diplomat said. Miroshnik went on to claim that Kiev’s forces deliberately murder civilians in the new Russian region of Donetsk.

Israel wants all of Gaza even if Hamas accepts deal – Netanyahu | 22 Aug 2025 | Israel will take all of Gaza even if Hamas agrees to a hostage deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. The Israeli leader made the remarks after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the first stage of an operation to seize Gaza City in the northern part of the densely populated Palestinian enclave, which it described as a Hamas stronghold. Speaking to Sky News Australia on Thursday, Netanyahu said the goal of expelling Hamas remains unchanged. “We’re gonna do that anyway. There was never a question that we’re not going to leave Hamas there,” he said… UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire on Thursday, warning that the Israeli offensive would lead to “massive death and destruction.”

FDA issues urgent ‘do not eat’ warning for radioactive shrimp sold at major retailer | 19 Aug 2025 | Health regulators are urgently warning Americans to check their freezers after a radioactive substance was found in a popular bag of shrimp sold at Walmart. The FDA has told the public to avoid Great Value raw frozen shrimp due to contamination with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope. Customs and Border Protection agents, who detected the radioactive isotope Cesium-137, or Cs-137, in shipping containers at four major U.S. ports, sounded the alarm to the FDA. The FDA tested the contents of the shipping containers and confirmed on Tuesday that the shrimp, which came from a company in Indonesia called BMS Foods, was contaminated. Once inside your body, Cs-137 acts as a long-term, internal source of radiation that significantly increases cancer risk.

HHS cancels nearly $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccines | 5 Aug 2025 | Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced he had canceled nearly 500 million in federal projects and contracts that went toward mRNA vaccine development. The move is part of the HHS’s larger project to wind down mRNA vaccine activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). The decision comes after the department reviewed mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and includes the closure of 22 projects.

FDA Commissioner Dr. Makary Says NIH ‘Brewed Up a Virus That Killed 20 Million People Worldwide’ | 3 Aug 2025 | Newly appointed FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary pulled no punches as he directly accused the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of funding the lab responsible for creating the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic and claimed the lives of over 20 million people globally. Speaking to NewsNation’s Connell McShane, Dr. Makary blasted the former NIH leadership for pouring taxpayer d-llars into unaccountable pet projects, including the now-infamous lab that engineered the virus that triggered a global pandemic. Dr. Makary said: “We’re planning to change our health agencies for a generation or longer. Look at the NIH. When Jay Bhattacharya came in there, it was a mess. Fourteen percent of the grants were descriptive studies on health equity. And the NIH had just funded a lab that brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people worldwide.”

Clinton judge blocks Trump from releasing Epstein files | 20 Aug 2025 | Donald Trump was handed another blow on Wednesday when a federal judge denied his administration’s attempts to release grand jury testimony from the Jeffrey Epstein case. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman deemed Trump’s Justice Department did not provide adequate reasoning to unseal the highly-protected materials. He also said that the grand jury motion was likely a “diversion” coming from the Trump administration. “[T]he court denies the government’s motion to unseal the Epstein grand jury transcripts and exhibits,” the Clinton-appointed judge wrote in his Wednesday decision. It comes after Attorney General Pam Bondi requested the documents be unsealed in an attempt to satisfy Americans who were enraged over the lackluster review of the Epstein files.

Texas Senate approves new Republican-drawn congressional map – it heads to governor’s desk | 23 Aug 2025 | The Texas Senate approved a new congressional map early Saturday, which is now heading to Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. The new map contains five new congressional districts that lean Republican. Texas Democrats have said they plan to challenge the new map in court. Texas Democrats had left the state to prevent a vote on the new map. They ultimately returned to Austin and the map was eventually passed.

Michigan city councilman caught on camera stuffing election drop box with absentee ballots days before primary | 17 Aug 2025 | A Michigan city council member was caught on camera stuffing an election drop box with apparent absentee ballots just days before he won his re-election bid in a local primary. Hamtramck City Council member Abu Musa was seen in the passenger seat of a car on Aug. 1 handing stacks of paper to the car’s driver, who then dumped them into a nearby ballot box, footage obtained by Local 4 appears to show. Musa held on to his re-election spot in the primary four days later on Aug. 5, beating out 11 other candidates with 1,129 votes. But only 286 of those votes were cast on Election Day — with 843 being cast by absentee ballot, the Daily Mail reported. Musa would have placed fifth without the absentee ballots, according to the Mail.

Trump admin to review all 55 million U.S. legal immigrants to see if they should be deported | 21 Aug 2025 | The Trump administration will begin reviewing all 55 million U.S. visa holders to see if any have committed deportable offenses. Any immigrants holding U.S. visas found with “indicators of overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization” will have their permits to live in the U.S. revoked and be deported, the State Department announced Thursday. State Department representatives told the Associated Press all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” intended to identify deportable offenses.

Trump plans to paint Southern border wall black to make it hotter and harder to climb | 19 Aug 2025 | The border wall separating the United States and Mexico is being painted black to make it too hot for migrants to climb. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem revealed the project was a specific request from Donald Trump as the president celebrated “ZERO releases” of illegal migrants into the country. “In the hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black it gets even warmer,” Noem said during a press conference in front of the wall on Tuesday. She noted the structure is already hard to climb and near impossible to dig under, but said Trump’s latest measure will help to secure the American border even further… The black paint, in addition to making the wall so hot to the touch that migrants will not be able to grip onto it, will have a dual purpose of protecting the steel from rust.

Illegal migrant truck driver suspect in deadly Florida crash was given work permit under Biden after being denied by Trump – DHS | 19 Aug 2025 | The illegal migrant truck driver who allegedly killed three people after making a rogue U-turn on a Florida highway was handed work papers under the Biden administration after they were denied during President Trump’s first term, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday. Harjinder Singh crossed the southern border into California in September 2018 and was processed for fast-track deportation by the first Trump administration, sources told The Post. The Indian national was previously processed for deportation, but was able to stay after claiming he feared being sent back home… After receiving his work permit in June 2021, Singh was able to secure a Commercial Driver’s License in California, according to DHS.

Shocking footage shows illegal-migrant driver make outrageous rogue U-turn, killing 3 – officials | 17 Aug 2025 | Terrifying video shows the moment a minivan ploughed into a tractor-trailer making an outrageous rogue U-turn on a Florida highway last week — with all three people in the van killed and the truck’s illegal-migrant driver now charged with homicide. The roadway horror happened around 3 p.m. Tuesday on the Florida Turnpike near Fort Pierce when the tractor-trailer driven by suspect Harjinder Singh made a hard left turn across the highway and attempted to cross the median through an “official use only” pass, authorities said. The truck’s trailer blocked all of oncoming traffic’s lanes as it nosed over the median — with footage from inside its cab showing a black minivan driving toward it with no time to stop and nowhere to turn to avoid a collision.

Left-wing megadonors, including George Soros, contribute $20M to groups funding protests against Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown | 12 Aug 2025 | Several lefty, dark m-ney organizations, including George Soros’s [WEF terrorists], contributed more than 20 million to groups funding protests against President Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. Free DC, a “fiscally sponsored special project” of progressive nonprofits Community Change and Community Change Action, brought 150 demonstrators near the White House Monday to protest Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops in the district and federalize the city’s police department. “Do not obey in advance” and “Take up space” are among Free DC’s “guiding principles,” and the group urges supporters to “go outside at 8:00 PM and bang pots and pans, sing, chant, or make noise for five minutes” every night “of this occupation.”

White House announces chipmaker Intel to give U.S. government 10% stake | 22 Aug 2025 | US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said on Friday that the federal government will take a 10% stake in U.S. chipmaker Intel. “This historic agreement strengthens U.S. leadership in semiconductors, which will both grow our economy and help secure America’s technological edge,” Lutnick wrote on X in a post accompanied by a photo of himself with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. President Donald Trump revealed the deal earlier on Friday during remarks in the Oval Office, calling it a “great deal for them”. Shares of the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker soared more than 5% on Friday.

Outrage over tripling energy bills in deep blue state threatens to end reign of Dem officials defending hike | 14 Aug 2025 | New Jersey residents are up in arms over huge spikes in their energy costs, leading to speculation it could prove fatal for Democrats. The New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) approved a 17-20 percent hike in June for the majority of households in The Garden State. According to the Wall Street Journal, electric bills in the state now rank as the 12th highest in the nation, with prices 15 percent higher than the national average. The outlet also reported the state is becoming increasingly depending on out-of-state generation to meet the electricity demand.