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Disgraced Eric Swalwell Swarmed by FBI Agents in Dramatic Airport Search [WATCH]
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Disgraced Eric Swalwell Swarmed by FBI Agents in Dramatic Airport Search [WATCH]

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Newly obtained surveillance video shows former Representative Eric Swalwell surrounded by FBI agents after stepping off a plane at San Francisco International Airport on Aug. 15.

The encounter led to the seizure of his cellphone and laptop under a federal search warrant.

The footage, obtained exclusively by the California Post, offers the first public look at the dramatic airport operation.

Swalwell was wearing a hat, black sweatshirt, and sneakers as agents approached him near the gate while other passengers moved through the terminal.

Swalwell appears calm and cooperative as he speaks with several agents, but the scene quickly becomes more serious.

With a backpack on his shoulders and a rolling bag in tow, he is escorted through the airport, up an escalator, and toward a hallway marked “restricted area.”

The former Democratic congressman then enters a room where multiple people are waiting.

At roughly 8:25 p.m., agents served him with the warrant and took a white Apple iPhone, its charging cable, a wall adapter, and an Apple MacBook Pro, according to the filed property inventory.

Records indicate that the FBI gave Swalwell a copy of the warrant and a list of everything seized.

The video does not show him being handcuffed or arrested, and reports say he was permitted to leave once the search was completed.

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That airport encounter was not the end of the federal activity.

The next day, agents executed more warrants at Swalwell’s Washington, D.C., residence and removed additional potential evidence, according to a source previously cited by The Post.

The warrant used to take the electronic devices reportedly cited a federal civil rights law that prosecutors can apply to public officials accused of abusing government authority.

That detail suggests investigators may be examining whether Swalwell used his office to silence women who accused him of sexual misconduct.

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The investigation does not by itself establish guilt, and the available video does not reveal what agents said inside the secured room.

Still, the spectacle of a former congressman losing his phone and computer to federal agents is hardly the quiet airport arrival any politician would choose.

One former staffer has accused Swalwell of raping her when she was too intoxicated to consent, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Her allegation is among several serious claims that have fueled legal scrutiny and ended his once ambitious political trajectory.

Another woman has accused Swalwell of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2018.

Two other women have alleged that he sent them unsolicited images of his genitals, adding another deeply damaging layer to the scandal surrounding the former California lawmaker.

As the accusations mounted, Swalwell ended his campaign for California governor and resigned from Congress on April 14.

He also faced a looming House Ethics Committee investigation concerning alleged misconduct and sexual assault involving an employee who had worked under his supervision.

Before abandoning the governor race, Swalwell’s attorney sent a threatening letter to people accusing him of “nonconsensual sexual encounters.”

The letter warned that the then congressman could pursue defamation claims over widespread online rumors involving alleged inappropriate conduct with women.

The Justice Department opened an investigation in April while Swalwell was confronting multiple sexual misconduct allegations.

He is also the subject of a state ethics investigation, creating legal and political exposure on more than one front.

Swalwell represented California in Congress for seven terms before his resignation.

Earlier in his career, he served in local government and worked as a prosecutor, and he briefly pursued the Democratic presidential nomination during the 2020 election cycle.

Swalwell and his representatives did not immediately answer requests for comment about the footage or the investigation.

For a politician accustomed to cameras, this is one airport video that offers no flattering angle.

Democrats Promise ‘Healthcare for All,’ Trump Delivers Lower Drug Prices for Everyone [WATCH]
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Democrats Promise ‘Healthcare for All,’ Trump Delivers Lower Drug Prices for Everyone [WATCH]

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President Donald Trump has secured agreements with nine additional pharmaceutical companies to reduce prescription drug prices for American patients.

The expansion advances a signature affordability campaign that the White House says now covers nearly 90 percent of the branded drug market.

The latest participants are Alcon, Astellas Pharma, BeOne Medicines, BridgeBio, CSL, Kyowa Kirin, Sun Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and UCB.

Trump announced the agreements Monday from the Oval Office while surrounded by pharmaceutical executives.

Trump framed the announcement as another breakthrough after years of Washington promises.

“I’m thrilled to announce a major expansion of one of our signature affordability initiatives, something that people have been trying to get for years, for decades, and I’m not even sure that other presidents tried,” Trump said.

The president then delivered the central promise behind the new agreements.

“Nine new pharmaceutical companies are committing to deliver their lowest drug prices for American patients,” he added.

The agreements will give every state Medicaid program access to most favored nation prices for products sold by the nine companies.

The White House projects the arrangement will save Americans billions of dollars, putting actual savings ahead of the usual swamp routine of hearings, speeches, and excuses.

According to the White House, the reduced costs will apply “ on drugs that treat numerous costly, chronic, and even rare diseases, including hemophilia, Parkinson’s disease, macular degeneration, glaucoma, liver disease, skin conditions, and various forms of cancer ,” offering relief across a broad range of medical needs.

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The companies also agreed that newly launched innovative medicines will receive most favored nation pricing.

That commitment is particularly significant because breakthrough treatments can arrive with price tags that place them beyond the reach of many patients and state health programs.

This latest round represents the eighteenth through twenty sixth most favored nation agreements Trump has secured since last fall.

With nearly 90 percent of the branded medicine market now included, the initiative has moved well beyond a symbolic announcement and into an industry wide pricing strategy.

The agreements contain a major domestic manufacturing component as well.

The nine companies have committed to invest a combined $19.6 billion in United States manufacturing, strengthening production capacity while reducing American dependence on foreign supply chains.

Several companies will also donate large quantities of crucial pharmaceutical ingredients to the Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve, known as SAPIR.

The reserve is intended to protect access to essential medicines when emergencies, global disruptions, or foreign pressure threaten supplies.

UCB will contribute 163 tons of levetiracetam, an anticonvulsant used to control and prevent certain seizures.

That sizable contribution will provide the reserve with an important ingredient relied upon by patients managing serious neurological conditions.

Sun Pharma will contribute 71.4 tons of clindamycin and 6.75 tons of doxycycline.

Both are antibiotics used against bacterial infections, making them valuable additions to a strategic reserve designed for moments when dependable access matters most.

Teva Pharmaceuticals will supply 45 metric tons of metronidazole, which treats certain bacterial and parasitic infections.

The company will also provide 4.8 tons of amlodipine, a widely used medicine for treating high blood pressure.

Astellas will contribute 25 kilograms of tacrolimus, an immunosuppressant used to prevent organ rejection following transplants.

For patients who depend on a steady supply of that medicine, domestic reserves are not an abstract policy debate but a genuine medical necessity.

Other companies that previously reached most favored nation agreements include AstraZeneca, EMD Serono, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis, Regeneron, Sanofi, Johnson & Johnson, and AbbVie.

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The expanding roster gives Trump another concrete health care achievement centered on lower prices, domestic investment, and stronger pharmaceutical security.

While Washington has spent decades explaining why prescription costs are too complicated to confront, the administration is pressing companies for direct commitments that can be measured in savings, factories, and medicine reserves.

G20 Showdown: America First Growth Agenda Crushes EU’s Green Transition Money Grab [WATCH]
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G20 Showdown: America First Growth Agenda Crushes EU’s Green Transition Money Grab [WATCH]

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Barbara Boyd said the G20 meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, will highlight competing approaches to economic growth, debt, manufacturing, energy, and national self-sufficiency, pointing to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s agenda as a departure from policies pursued by international financial institutions and European leaders.

“Today, the G20 group of major economies will meet in Asheville, North Carolina. It will be a showdown between two very different ideas about economic wealth. One of them always ends up stealing from its own citizens or the citizens of other countries. The other makes the well-being of its citizens the central goal. Here’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talking about his plan,” Boyd said.

Bessent described economic growth as central to addressing debt across G20 countries.

“We want to bring the G20 back to its core mission, and that core mission is talking about, you know, what can econ- what can countries do, economies do? How can we band together to have better global growth? And our message to, you know, our allies, our trading partners is that global growth is the way to take care of this mountain of debt,” Bessent said.

Boyd traced the modern G20 framework to the 2008 financial crisis, arguing that the response protected major financial institutions while leaving middle- and working-class citizens bearing much of the cost. She also criticized the subsequent shift toward climate policy.

A narrator in one of the clips cited remarks from Lord Malloch-Brown surrounding the 2009 G20 summit.

“In an address to the world’s media at the Foreign Press Association, Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister for Africa, Asia, and the United Nations, said the summit had five main aims,” the narrator said.

Malloch-Brown described those objectives as economic recovery, financial regulation, assistance for poorer countries, opposition to protectionism and an environmentally focused recovery.

“Summarize the ambition of the summit. It is to take coordinated steps which try to first limit the impact of the economic turndown and get the global economy back to recovery as quickly as possible. Second, repair the damage done to the financial system and put in place some regulatory and transparency arrangements, which would ensure it doesn’t break down again. Third, make sure that poor countries and middle-income countries needs are also addressed at this summit in terms of the special financing and support that they need, which is not domestically available to them. Fourth, that we fight against protectionism, and fifth, that we make the recovery as green as possible,” Malloch-Brown said.

Boyd focused on the final objective.

“The recovery had to be green. The result was a ratcheting down of human expectations and existence based on deliberate reliance on very primitive energy sources,” Boyd said.

She then pointed to comments Barack Obama made in Africa in 2013 about rising living standards and energy consumption.

“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody’s mentioned here in Africa, if everybody’s raising living standards to the point where everybody’s got a car, and everybody’s got air conditioning, and everybody’s got a big house, well, the planet will boil over,” Obama said.

Boyd contrasted those policies with the Trump administration’s emphasis on domestic production and supply-chain security.

She cited Bessent’s May remarks at the Reagan Library, where he argued that decades of reliance on overseas production created vulnerabilities for the United States.

“The truth is that for too long, America had been asleep. We mistook comfort for strength, we substituted efficiency for resilience, and consumption as a measure of prosperity,” Bessent said.

“We told ourselves that so long as goods were cheaper overseas, it did not matter whether factories went dark in Michigan, Ohio, or Pennsylvania.”

Bessent connected industrial capacity directly to national security.

“Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of a foundational principle that previous generations understood instinctively: economic security is national security. For a nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others,” he said.

Boyd said the administration’s approach involves securing critical minerals, expanding energy production, strengthening manufacturing and rebuilding domestic supply chains.

“The whole piece by Glenn is well worth listening to. Trump is about making the stuff a country needs instead of financing the stuff other countries make,” Boyd said.

“It’s critical minerals, it’s energy production, it’s the raw manufacturing inputs that turn into everything else,the copper and the lithium and the steel, that never show up in a headline, but show up in every single supply chain that matters.”

Glenn Beck similarly described President Donald Trump’s policies as a rejection of the global economic model followed by previous administrations.

“Trump is the first guy to come in and go, We’re not going to do that. We’re not going to do that. We’re going to have a new golden era, we’re going to have a great age for America into the 21st century. And so he’s not just reshaping America; he is reshaping the world,” Beck said.

Boyd also pointed to the administration’s plans for nuclear power as part of its long-term economic strategy.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently discussed the possibility of using nuclear reactors to power future shipping.

“Imagine shipping where refueling is maybe it’s every few years. It’s not every voyage. And we can have additional power, and we can ship faster. Same number of ships can bring more goods. We can lower the cost of trade and transport between nations,” Wright said.

Wright said the United States previously experienced decades of rapid nuclear development before that expansion stalled.

“We had a surge of development in the United States of about a hundred nuclear reactors built really launched and built over two or three decades. And we had a pause. I think the world, again, as it as it often does, kind of kind of lost its way a little bit,” Wright said.

Boyd contrasted that agenda with European proposals involving private savings and investment.

She said European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have supported efforts intended to channel more European savings into investment, while Boyd argued those resources would support policies including continued assistance for Ukraine and the green-energy transition.

Boyd said the larger dispute at the G20 concerns whether governments should address debt and economic problems by expanding physical production and technological development or by redistributing existing resources.

“Now I can’t tell you what’s going to happen at the G20, only what the big fight will be about,” Boyd said.

She argued that maintaining industrial capacity and pursuing advanced energy and technology are necessary for long-term economic growth.

“If you outsource the making of the means of existence, you not only lose physical plants, you lose the skills to run them,” Boyd said.

“If you cut yourself off from advanced energy sources and don’t pursue the most advanced science and technology, your entire economy begins a slow internal collapse.”

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Glenn Beck Exposes Media’s Weak Attacks on Trump’s Massive Venezuela Oil Deal [WATCH]
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Glenn Beck Exposes Media’s Weak Attacks on Trump’s Massive Venezuela Oil Deal [WATCH]

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Glenn Beck said President Donald Trump’s newly announced oil agreement with Venezuela could significantly expand America’s long-term access to crude oil while providing another source of heavy crude outside Canada and the Middle East.

“On social media, the president announced what he called the biggest oil deal in world history,” Beck said.

“Here’s what it is in plain English, okay?”

According to Beck, the agreement involves Venezuela’s acting government and the creation of a private company in which the United States would hold a stake alongside an unnamed private operator.

Beck said the company would receive development rights to Venezuelan oil fields for 100 years.

“America gets 55% of what comes out of the ground. We have an ownership share, plus the right to buy the oil at cost instead of the market price,” Beck said.

“You want to know how we’re going to fill our strategic oil reserves? This is it.”

Beck said the agreement covers an estimated 65 billion barrels of proven reserves.

If that estimate holds, he said, the new company would become the world’s second-largest corporate holder of oil behind the Saudis.

“The president says it more than doubles American reserves and costs the taxpayers nothing,” Beck said.

Beck said Venezuela’s side of the agreement is expected to involve roughly $100 billion in private investment and more than $200 billion going into its treasury.

He cautioned, however, that proven reserves underground should not be confused with oil immediately available to the United States through the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

“There are two things in this country called reserves, and they are not the same thing,” Beck said.

The 65 billion barrels identified in Venezuela represent oil that remains underground and would have to be developed and produced.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, by contrast, consists of oil already stored in underground salt caverns along the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana.

“That’s not geology. That’s a pantry, okay?” Beck said.

Congress authorized the SPR in 1975 following the Arab oil embargo, and the United States began filling it in 1977.

Beck said its storage capacity is 714 million barrels and that it contained 726 million barrels in 2010.

According to Beck, the SPR stood at 289 million barrels last week, its lowest level since November 1982.

He said the reserve began the year with 415 million barrels before Trump ordered the release of 172 million barrels in March after Iran choked off the Strait of Hormuz.

“So you set the two numbers next to each other: 65 billion barrels under Venezuela that we just purchased, 200 and, I don’t know, 89 million barrels under Louisiana. One of them is a lease, the other is fuel,” Beck said.

“You cannot put a 100-year contract into a salt dome, okay?”

Beck used the historical collapse of the Dutch nutmeg monopoly to explain why obtaining access to a resource does not immediately translate into production.

He recounted Frenchman Pierre Poivre’s efforts during the 18th century to obtain nutmeg and clove seedlings from the Dutch East Indies, noting that the plants required years before producing usable crops.

Beck said the same principle applies to Venezuela.

“These are the seedlings. The seedlings are not nutmeg. You don’t win overnight,” Beck said.

Canada currently supplies roughly 4 million barrels of crude per day to the United States and approximately 60% of U.S. oil imports, according to Beck.

He said about 90% of Canadian crude exports go to the United States.

Much of that supply consists of heavy, sour crude from Alberta, which Gulf Coast refineries are designed to process.

Beck said Venezuelan crude offers a potential substitute because it has similar characteristics.

“Does it take Canada’s leverage away? On paper, yes, in about a decade,” Beck said.

Venezuela currently produces approximately 1.2 million barrels per day, compared with a peak of 3.5 million barrels per day during the 1990s, according to Beck.

Matching Canada’s current supply to the United States would therefore require Venezuela to roughly triple production.

“To stand in for Canada, it has to triple that, and that requires rigs and upgraders and pipelines and $100 billion,” Beck said.

He also raised questions about the durability of a century-long agreement negotiated with Venezuela’s acting government.

“A 100-year lease is only as good as the government that granted it and the one after that,” Beck said.

Beck nevertheless argued that Venezuela’s proximity to the United States gives the agreement strategic advantages.

Venezuelan oil would not have to travel through the Strait of Hormuz or other distant geopolitical choke points.

“The honest read of this deal is: this oil does not have to come out of Saudi Arabia or cross the Strait of Hormuz. It doesn’t need a carrier group to escort it,” Beck said.

“Anything that reduces the number of choke points between us and a tanker is worth having.”

Beck said the agreement should be evaluated over decades rather than according to its immediate effect on American oil supplies.

“If you’re going to be dependent on somebody, a neighbor beats an enemy all the way on the other side of the world,” Beck said.

“A 100-year horizon is the right horizon for refineries, okay?”

For Beck, the central question is how quickly Venezuela can attract the investment, equipment and infrastructure necessary to turn its underground reserves into substantial production.

“So this argument is real, and it doesn’t require anybody to lie about the calendar, but the calendar is the whole thing,” Beck said.

“The mistake is not making the deal.”

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Reporter’s Absurd Iran Question Sends Trump Into a Furious Takedown [WATCH]
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Reporter’s Absurd Iran Question Sends Trump Into a Furious Takedown [WATCH]

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The White House press corps managed to turn a question about Iran into another reminder of why public trust in the media keeps sinking.

A reporter asked President Donald Trump whether using nuclear weapons against Iran was still under consideration, prompting an immediate and visibly irritated response.

At some point, common sense has to enter the briefing room.

If a nuclear strike had truly been part of an active military plan, reporters would not learn about it through a casual exchange after the major phase of the conflict had already passed.

Trump made his position plain in three parts.

He said nuclear weapons were never an option, argued that the United States had already defeated Iran militarily, and said there was nothing left that required another bombing campaign.

The president then delivered the verdict many viewers were likely thinking, calling it a “stupid question.”

Blunt, yes, but Washington journalism has spent years proving that blunt answers are sometimes the only answers it understands.

Even a child familiar with a basic real-time strategy game could follow the logic.

Nations do not generally save their most devastating option for the moment after they have already achieved the military objective and run out of meaningful targets.

That does not mean Trump plays no role in creating these recurring spectacles.

His fondness for deliberate ambiguity, strategic trolling, and treating hostile reporters like the partisan operators they often resemble can invite the same overheated questions again and again.

Still, that is hardly a crisis for a president who has built much of his political brand by refusing to speak in the careful mush preferred by Washington consultants.

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Trump knows the press will pounce, and he often seems perfectly happy to hand it enough rope.

The result is predictably entertaining, even when the underlying question is painfully unserious.

The media get their dramatic clip, Trump gets another chance to swat away the narrative, and Americans get a fresh look at the priorities inside the press room.

That broader media conduct matters because the Iran story is not merely a stage for silly questions.

Over the weekend, The Washington Post reportedly published details from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s orders book concerning worries about a prolonged American deployment in the Middle East connected to Iran.

The disclosed material reportedly dealt with costs and operational concerns that accompany an extended military commitment.

None of that is shocking to anyone who remembers the Iraq War, reads public budget documents, or understands that sustained deployments consume money and resources.

Yet the paper apparently treated the material as if it exposed some grand hidden scandal.

The more obvious effect was to embarrass the Trump administration and feed a political narrative, while putting sensitive government information into the public arena for partisan applause.

This was no Pentagon Papers moment, despite the press corps’ appetite for heroic comparisons.

The information could have been explored through public records, historical analysis, and serious reporting without publishing details from an internal orders book.

The administration should identify whoever leaked the material and determine whether federal law or security rules were violated.

Public employees entrusted with sensitive information do not get a free pass to spill it simply because a newspaper believes the leak might bruise Trump.

So yes, Trump’s trolling can produce some annoying blowback, and his vague phrasing can keep weak story lines alive.

But when reporters ask whether nuclear war remains casually available after the military mission is described as complete, they should not act shocked when the president calls the question what it is.

Daughter Arrested for Checking on Her Dying Dad While Nurse Steals the House for $5 [WATCH]
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Daughter Arrested for Checking on Her Dying Dad While Nurse Steals the House for $5 [WATCH]

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A South Carolina daughter is fighting to reclaim her late father’s house after discovering that his caregiver obtained the deed weeks before his death. The transfer, reportedly made for just $5, was completed without the daughter’s knowledge.

Nora Rowland said nurse Sarah Smalls began caring for her 75 year old father, Robert, through Griswold Home Care in March 2024. Soon afterward, communication with her father began fading in a way that immediately raised concerns.

“My dad was always a daddy’s girl type thing, so it was always him and me throughout my whole life,” Rowland said. “We FaceTimed every week.”

After Robert failed to contact her on Father’s Day, Rowland drove from Maryland to Conway to check on him.

She arrived to find a changed front door and a Ring doorbell camera installed outside the home.

Rowland pressed the doorbell, and Smalls answered through the camera with devastating news.

“She tells me, ‘This isn’t the way that I wanted to tell you, but your dad died, and there’s a bunch of other stuff I have to tell you too. Just wait there,’” Rowland said.

Her father had reportedly been dead for three days.

Once inside, Rowland said the home no longer looked like the place she remembered.

“I went in, and everything was different,” Rowland said.

“She had put up random photographs of people I’d never seen before. The walls were painted.”

When Smalls returned, Rowland expected an explanation about her father and the apparent transformation of his home. Instead, Smalls accused Rowland of breaking in and called Conway police.

Smalls then presented officers with a deed showing the house in her name.

“I’m walking out of the house expecting them to come and help, and they put my partner and me in handcuffs immediately,” Rowland said.

“I just kept saying, ‘I don’t know what’s going on; this is my dad’s house. My dad is dead.’”

Police body camera footage revealed that a neighbor had already raised concerns about activity at the property.

His account suggested the troubling changes had been unfolding for weeks.

“She [Smalls] was allegedly coming here during the day and taking care of him, and one day she started moving furniture out, and he disappeared,” the neighbor shared.

“She was only in here a very short time, and Bob, he was not within his wits at all. You could’ve talked him into just about anything. I even called senior services and asked them to look into it.”

Documents cited by Rowland show significant changes to Robert’s legal and financial affairs before his death.

Smalls was named as his power of attorney in April, and an April 17 quitclaim deed transferred the Conway residence to her for $5.

Bank records also reportedly showed transfers from Robert’s account to Smalls, including transactions made after he died.

Smalls directed WMBF News to her attorney and later called police when a news crew visited the property.

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Horry County Registrar of Deeds Marion Foxworth III said his office determines whether documents satisfy basic legal requirements, not whether the transaction is fair.

“If it contains all the correct information to meet the legal standard, then we record it,” Foxworth said.

“We don’t check whether what’s in that deed is fair or right.”

Foxworth said deed theft is uncommon in the county and has declined as real estate professionals improved identity verification training.

Still, the case illustrates how a properly formatted document can enter public records even when a family fiercely disputes the circumstances behind it.

The criminal charges against Rowland have since been dismissed, according to her account.

She is now challenging the deed and arguing that her father, who had Parkinson’s disease and a brain injury, may not have understood the document he signed.

“It’s so easy for them to get taken advantage of,” Rowland said.

“He was a nice man; he would never think that someone could do this to him. I really can’t emphasize enough how many other people could easily get taken advantage of like this.”

Griswold Home Care previously told WMBF News it had no knowledge of the situation.

Rowland later supplied subpoenaed documents that she says indicate otherwise, while additional calls to the company were not returned.

Florida Dem Angie Nixon Unleashes Wild Claim That Trump is Basically a Communist [WATCH]
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Florida Dem Angie Nixon Unleashes Wild Claim That Trump is Basically a Communist [WATCH]

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Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon took political rhetoric to a bizarre new level Monday, declaring that President Donald Trump “is basically a communist.”

The accusation came during an appearance on MS NOW’s “The Beat.”

Nixon used the interview to promote her campaign and portray herself as an experienced organizer with an expanding operation across Florida.

She also claimed that hundreds of volunteers recently knocked on doors for her campaign throughout the state.

“Folks don’t realize, but I am not someone who just popped up overnight. I have been a union organizer and a community organizer in the state for the past nearly two decades, and so I’ve built a really unique, diverse coalition across the state, and people have been leaning in. Just this weekend alone, we had over 700 volunteers that were out on doors knocking for us across the state of Florida, and that’s only expanding.”

The candidate then shifted her attention to Ashley Moody, arguing that Moody is too closely aligned with Trump.

Rather than sticking to familiar Democratic complaints about the president, Nixon reached for the communist label.

Nixon attempted to connect her accusation to Venezuela and claimed that Trump had taken control of the country and its oil reserves.

Her description of communism, however, sounded more like a political talking point assembled on the fly than a serious economic definition.

She continued, “Ashley Moody is so in total lockstep with Donald Trump. You just had a gentleman on who was talking about how he has taken over Venezuela. That sounds like communism to me. They’re taking over their oil reserves and wanting to sell them off. That is the epitome of what communism is.”

Communism generally involves state ownership or control of industries, property, and economic production.

Selling oil assets does not automatically transform a leader into a communist, no matter how useful the word may seem during a television interview.

Nixon nevertheless pressed ahead, accusing Moody of “kissing up” to Trump while also pointing to the president’s interactions with North Korea.

Diplomacy with a communist government, in Nixon’s telling, apparently becomes evidence that the American president shares that ideology.

She added, “She is, you know, kissing up to a president that is basically a communist. He’s taking control of private industries in another country. He’s also cozying up to someone like the guy in North Korea who is a known communist. And so Ashley Moody is bad for Florida.”

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The charge marks an unusual reversal for Democrats, who have spent years portraying Trump as everything from a capitalist villain to an authoritarian nationalist.

Nixon has now added communist to the collection, proving that consistency is not always required when the television cameras are rolling.

Her argument also treats direct engagement with foreign adversaries as ideological agreement.

By that standard, nearly every American president who negotiated with a hostile regime could be accused of embracing its political system.

Trump has long presented himself as an opponent of socialism and communism, particularly when speaking to voters with family connections to Cuba, Venezuela, and other countries harmed by leftist regimes.

Florida’s political landscape makes Nixon’s choice of language especially striking.

The state is home to many voters who understand communism through personal or family experience, not through cable television word games.

Tossing around the label without a coherent explanation could prove risky in a statewide campaign.

Nixon’s comments were aimed at damaging Moody by tying her as closely as possible to Trump.

Yet the attack may say more about the Democratic candidate’s campaign strategy than it does about either Trump or Moody.

For now, Florida voters have been given a preview of Nixon’s pitch.

She wants them to believe that supporting Trump means supporting a communist, a claim likely to earn applause from parts of the left while leaving everyone else checking the dictionary.

A Quarter Century After 9/11: Never Forget?
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A Quarter Century After 9/11: Never Forget?

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Nineteen radical Islamist hijackers boarded four American airliners on the morning of September 11, 2001. They turned those planes into weapons. The official death toll among victims stands at 2,977. At the World Trade Center in New York, 2,753 people died. At the Pentagon, 184 were killed. On United Flight 93, 40 passengers and crew died after they fought back—“Let’s Roll”—and forced the plane down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, preventing it from reaching its intended target in Washington.

Those 19 men were Muslims acting in the name of al-Qaeda’s ideology. The attacks united the country for a time. “Never Again” and “Never Forget” became national vows. What followed was more than two decades of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, thousands more American dead, and families shattered on both sides of the conflict. Twenty-five years is not ancient history. Yet the question lingers: has America forgotten?

The Muslim population in the United States has grown substantially since 2001, though not at the explosive rate sometimes claimed, but we also don’t know because the census does not ask a question about religion. Pew Research Center estimated about 2.35 million Muslims of all ages in 2007 and 3.45 million by 2017, or roughly 1.1 percent of the population. More recent figures place the community in the range of 4 to 4.5 million in the mid-2020s, with Pew’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study finding that 1.2 percent of U.S. adults identify as Muslim.

Pew’s long-term projection, issued years ago and still widely cited, anticipates about 8.1 million Muslims by 2050—roughly 2.1 percent of the population. Growth has come from immigration, higher fertility, and a younger age structure compared with other groups. The wide-open southern border during the Joe Biden administration allowed millions from all over the world, including Muslims on the terrorist watch list. Mosques have multiplied in tandem. There were an estimated 15 in 1950. By 2000 the count reached 1,209.

The U.S. Mosque Survey recorded 2,769 in 2020, a 31 percent increase from 2010. Estimates for 2026 put the number between 3,000 and 3,400. They now exist in every state, with the largest concentrations in New York, California, New Jersey, and Illinois, and notable recent growth in Florida, Michigan, and Arizona. Friday prayer attendance has risen with the number of facilities. American Muslims are racially and ethnically diverse—no single group forms a majority—and they participate in civic life.

In 2026 a CAIR directory identified 255 Muslim elected officials across 26 states, a record. Four serve in the U.S. House. The rest are concentrated locally: 98 city council members, 63 education officials including school boards, 46 state legislators, 18 judges, and 11 mayors. New Jersey leads with 46, followed by Michigan with 40 and California with 24.

High-profile 2026 races include Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan and Adam Hamawy running for Congress in New Jersey. This is ordinary democratic representation, not a conspiracy. It is also a visible change from the America of September 2001.

Contrast that institutional expansion with the trajectory of American churches. In 2000–2001 there were hundreds of thousands of Christian congregations serving well over 150 million adherents according to contemporaneous counts. By 2020 the U.S. Religion Census tallied more than 350,000 congregations of all faiths, the great majority Christian. Yet the underlying trends have been downward for many denominations. Protestant churches recently closed faster than they opened—Lifeway Research estimated about 4,000 closures versus 3,800 new plants in 2024.

Public Religion Research Institute data show weekly religious-service attendance at 26 percent in 2025, down from 31 percent in 2013. The share of Americans who identify as Christian has fallen from 78 percent in 2007 to the low-to-mid 60s in recent Pew survey, while the religiously unaffiliated have risen to nearly 30 percent. Some measures of attendance have stabilized or even ticked up slightly after the pandemic, but the long decline in affiliation and regular participation is unmistakable.

What might another quarter-century bring for America? Pew’s 2050 projection of 8 million Muslims remains the most rigorous available benchmark; claims of 28 million by 2051 assume growth rates that have not materialized yet, but another Democrat president and an open border can quickly make that projection reality.

Continued immigration and the difference in fertility will increase the Muslim population and political weight. In cities and suburbs with existing concentrations, school boards and city councils could see Muslim majorities or near-majorities in some districts. In some places, it’s already happened. National politics will reflect that also.

The post-October 7 surge in antisemitic incidents and pro-Palestinian activism has already altered campus and street politics in ways unimaginable in 2001. Combined with the ongoing unchurching of large parts of the population, the cultural texture of the country will keep shifting.

None of this requires treating every American Muslim as a threat. The 19 hijackers were a small but dangerous part of a fanatical fringe. Most Muslim Americans live ordinary lives, work, raise families, and vote. At the same time, the ideology that produced 9/11 has not vanished, and demographic change is not cost-free. Churches that once formed the civic backbone of many communities are closing or emptying while mosques continue to be built. Memory of the specific crime of September 11—who did it, why they did it, and what it cost—competes with newer narratives.

Twenty-five years is long enough for a generation to come of age with no personal recollection of the falling towers. “Never Forget” was never only about the buildings or the body count. It was a warning about the ideas that sent those 19 men onto those planes. Whether that warning still shapes policy, culture, and self-understanding is the question America will answer over the next 25 years. The numbers are already moving. The memory is the part that can still be chosen. Has America forgotten ‘Never Again?’

CBS News Faces Liberal Fury Over Report on Abdul El Sayed’s Deleted 9/11 Posts [WATCH]
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CBS News Faces Liberal Fury Over Report on Abdul El Sayed’s Deleted 9/11 Posts [WATCH]

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CBS News is drawing outrage from far-left activists and media personalities after reporting on deleted social media posts from Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed.

The posts addressed the September 11 terrorist attacks and compared their death toll with later American military actions and the coronavirus pandemic.

The controversy arrives as the nation approaches the 25th anniversary of the attacks, a moment when nearly 3,000 murdered Americans will again be remembered.

CBS suggested the anniversary could bring renewed scrutiny and political trouble for El Sayed as his Senate campaign advances.

The network highlighted several deleted posts, including messages from 2020 that compared the Americans killed on September 11 with deaths during the coronavirus crisis.

Another post, published on September 11, 2021, had previously been uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon.

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country.”

That statement placed the terrorist slaughter of American civilians beside the consequences of wars conducted by the United States.

With such a comparison sitting in the public record, CBS apparently committed the unforgivable journalistic offense of telling voters about it.

Instead of confronting what El Sayed wrote, his supporters and liberal media allies attacked the network for publishing the story.

Their response quickly became a familiar exercise in blaming the messenger while treating ordinary campaign scrutiny as something sinister.

Far left commentator Hasan Piker blasted the CBS headline on X, writing, “What an insane headline.”

He then blamed the network’s ownership and leadership, declaring, “This is why the [new Paramount owner David Ellison] bought CBS and put Bari Weiss in charge.”

Weiss became editor in chief of CBS News after Ellison selected her for the position following Paramount’s multimillion dollar acquisition of The Free Press.

Her appointment has become a convenient target for progressives whenever the network publishes reporting that makes a Democrat uncomfortable.

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Zeteo founder and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan also accused CBS of religious bigotry.

He asked, “Hi @CBS @CBSNews @bariweiss do you think it’s super offensive and disgusting and Islamophobic to do a tweet about the potential first ever Muslim Democratic senator which begins by referencing 9/11?”

That complaint ignored the rather obvious reason September 11 appeared in the story.

El Sayed himself published comments about the attacks, and the approaching anniversary gives those deleted statements renewed political relevance.

Representative Yassamin Ansari of Arizona joined the outrage campaign, writing, “What an insane, blatantly racist headline. Unreal.”

Once again, the criticism focused on CBS for mentioning the posts rather than on the candidate who wrote and later deleted them.

Vox host and editorial director Astead Herndon lamented the condition of the press, saying, “The current state of institutional media legit bums me out.”

He added, “We’ve burned through so much credibility in recent years. And our information ecosystem is worse for it.”

A CBS News source familiar with the report dismissed the uproar and noted that stories examining deleted posts from political candidates appear “all the time.”

That is standard campaign journalism, at least when media outlets are willing to apply it to Democrats as well as Republicans.

A local CBS reporter later confronted El Sayed about the deleted posts while he was campaigning.

The candidate responded, “What happened on 9/11 is a disaster. It was a terrible attack on our country.”

El Sayed then argued that Americans should consider how to prevent service members from being sent into wars where the country has no proper interest.

That answer acknowledged the horror of the attacks but did not directly explain why the original posts vanished.

CBS News did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.

The network nevertheless stood by a report that relied on El Sayed’s own words, not anonymous rumors or partisan invention.

The episode offers voters a revealing look at how quickly progressive activists demand special protection for favored candidates.

Apparently, old posts are fair game until the political left decides that basic scrutiny is offensive, at which point journalism itself suddenly goes on trial.

RFK Jr Unleashes Massive Health Victories and Biden Fraud Bombshells [WATCH]
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RFK Jr Unleashes Massive Health Victories and Biden Fraud Bombshells [WATCH]

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a string of major revelations during a town hall with Kayleigh McEnany on Saturday in America.

His remarks highlighted early victories for the Make America Healthy Again initiative while exposing more costly dysfunction left behind by President Joe Biden.

Kennedy said the nation is finally seeing movement against an obesity epidemic that has burdened American families and the health care system for decades.

According to Kennedy, obesity rates declined for the first time in 40 years, falling three percent during the past year.

That development represents more than a favorable statistic for the Trump administration.

It suggests that policies focused on access, affordability, and measurable results may be accomplishing what years of Washington lectures and bloated federal programs failed to deliver.

Kennedy credited part of the decline to lower prices for GLP 1 medications secured by the Trump administration.

Those savings were made available through TrumpRx, the popular platform designed to give Americans better access to medicine without the usual swampy layers of bureaucracy.

The administration has paired its health agenda with an aggressive effort to identify fraud across the health care industry.

Kennedy described a system in which government money continued flowing toward organizations that appeared to provide little or nothing resembling legitimate medical care.

One of his most startling disclosures involved hospice centers in California.

Kennedy said the administration has moved to close “thousands” of government funded hospice centers that were operating without patients, a revelation that raises obvious questions about where the money went and who benefited.

Hospice care is supposed to serve patients and families during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.

A facility with no patients is not compassionate care, it is a flashing warning sign that demands scrutiny, accountability, and possibly much more.

Kennedy also pointed to medical instrument companies that did not produce medical instruments.

Apparently, under the old Washington arrangement, even producing the product named in the company description could be treated as an optional detail while government funds kept moving.

These findings fit the familiar pattern of federal spending under Biden, where oversight often seemed missing until the bill arrived.

The Trump administration is now directing resources toward closing those gaps and stopping operations that allegedly existed mainly to collect public money.

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Kennedy also addressed the dramatic growth of transgender surgery centers during the Biden administration.

He argued that the issue became intensely politicized while investors made billions of dollars from an industry supported by scientific claims that he said had been falsified.

The health secretary cited a European study that found transitioning produced minimal benefit while significantly increasing the likelihood of suicidal ideation.

That finding cuts directly against years of activist messaging that treated serious medical questions as settled doctrine and punished anyone who dared ask for evidence.

For conservatives, the point is not complicated.

Children, parents, and vulnerable patients deserve honest science, informed consent, and medical standards rooted in evidence, not ideological pressure campaigns designed to enrich investors and please progressive interest groups.

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Kennedy’s partnership with President Donald Trump has become one of the administration’s most visible domestic policy efforts.

Make America Healthy Again combines a focus on chronic illness with a broader challenge to entrenched interests that have profited while Americans became sicker and federal spending climbed.

The reported decline in obesity, combined with lower prescription costs and a widening fraud crackdown, gives the administration a strong record to promote.

It also offers a sharp contrast with the Biden years, when radical social policy and loose federal oversight repeatedly displaced common sense.

These accomplishments are likely to receive prominent attention as Trump and Republican candidates prepare for the midterm campaign.

Voters may soon be asked whether they prefer measurable health improvements and tighter accountability, or another helping of expensive progressive experiments served with bureaucratic excuses.


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