Aurora, Colo., Officials To Shut Down Apartment Complex Taken Over by Illegal Immigrant Gang

Trump, Vance pointed to apartment complex as example of Biden-Harris ‘open border’ Donald Trump speaks in Aurora, Colo. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) Months after President-elect Donald Trump drew attention to an illegal immigrant gang that has taken over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, the city is working to immediately shutter one of those complexes as gang

Newsom, Bass, and Sacramento: How the LA Fires Became a Conflagration

When tragedy strikes, human nature demands both answers and scapegoats—not that Los Angeles’s devastating wildfires are likely to produce a four-legged culprit à la Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. So, where to point the finger now that some of the wealthier pockets of California lie in charred ruins, with the Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and other adjacent communities

Lame Duck Biden Admin Spends $1 Mil in Taxpayer Funds on Foreign DEI Programs

Money will go to ‘marginalized’ and ‘underrepresented groups’ in Indonesia, Guatemala, and Kenya, documents show Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The Biden-Harris administration quietly pushed out $1 million in taxpayer funding late last year for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs abroad, marking a last-ditch effort to cement

Two Months Before Deadly Blazes, LA Fire Chief Said She Needed More Firefighters—Then Karen Bass’s Admin Scrubbed the Memo

‘In many ways, the current staffing, deployment mode, and size … have not changed since the 1960s,’ wrote Kristin Crowley Karen Bass (Getty Images) Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley warned city officials in November that her department had about half as many firefighters as it needed. When deadly wildfires struck the city two months

How the Left Views Langley

Whenever I meet journalists who’ve recently acquired the intel beat, I pity them. The conundrum before all journalists covering senior U.S. officials—criticism versus future access—is acutely true for those covering intelligence since the avenues of access are often severely limited. Congress is always the best bet for getting info on sensitive projects because partisan disagreements

Losing Their Religion

Elliott Abrams’s book If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century focuses on the great challenges facing American Jewry. Those challenges are not the acute ones—pro-Hamas protesters that make the already overpriced elite four-year college experience an ever worse deal, or the growing acceptance of anti-Semitic violence and vandalism. These are serious

Putting the Thrill Back in the Spy Thriller

Roughly up until the heyday of John le Carré, the British spy novel tended to follow an approved pattern. A well-educated but bored man, somewhere between youth and middle age, would find himself caught up in an international conspiracy that would involve some, or all, of the following: duplicitous intelligence officers, untrustworthy foreign powers, a