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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show was nearly entirely in Spanish. In fact, the artist only said one line in English.

‘The only thing more powerful than hate is love.’

The rest of the English-speaking was left to singer Lady Gaga, who appeared as a wedding singer for some Puerto Rican nuptials before dancing with Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, aka Bad Bunny.

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A federal judge has ordered the search warrant affidavit justifying the FBI‘s raid on a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility last month to be unsealed.

The FBI raided the election facility on Jan. 28 after securing a search warrant, seizing physical ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images, and voter rolls generated during the 2020 election at the building. Fulton County has since sued the Trump administration in order to get the files back, arguing their seizure was illegal.

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U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, claims that requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections is voter suppression.

Even when shown polls that many Democrats also support voter ID in elections nationwide, Jeffries doubled down on talking points.

“We know that states are the ones empowered to conduct elections. And every state should be allowed to decide the best way to proceed to ensure that there’s a free and fair election in New York.” “What Republicans are trying to do is engage in clear and blatant voter suppression.”

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Why does it seem like the Super Bowl halftime performances get increasingly worse every year? This one wasn’t even in English, and it’s hard to appeal to Americans when you produce the entire show in a language they don’t even understand. If you didn’t watch the show, you didn’t miss much. And if you truly want to know how it went, there’s no better person to ask than one of America’s grandmas.

One grandma is going viral after her reaction to the performances was posted online. She could not stand how there were other flags from so many different countries, claiming the production was so bad she demanded the performers “get off the stage” and to “put the game back on.”

Did Bad Bunny not get the memo that this was an American game? It would appear not, as proven by the fact that he dedicated the entire performance to Latin American culture as if that had ANYTHING to do with this country.

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A TMZ poll conducted following Sunday’s Super Bowl reveals football fans much preferred an alternative halftime show provided by Turning Point USA on social media, compared to the game’s broadcast halftime performance by a notorious, polarizing, anti-American, anti-law enforcement singer with a penchant for explicit lyrics.

The game’s halftime musical break on NBC and streamed on Peacock pitted singer Bad Bunny performing (almost entirely in Spanish) against TPUSA’s halftime show, headlined by singer Kid Rock (who sang in English).

In terms of viewer approval, it wasn’t much of a contest, according to the TMZ online poll.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell abruptly shut down a congressional deposition Monday morning, invoking the Fifth Amendment less than an hour after questioning began.

On Monday morning, Maxwell appeared virtually to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

The closed-door interview is tied to lawmakers’ expanding investigation into the federal government’s handling of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

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The Israeli military captured a senior Islamic terrorist in an overnight raid in southern Lebanon. Arab media reports identified the nabbed terrorist as Atwi Atwi, a top operative of al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya terror organization.

“The Israel Defense Forces said Monday that troops arrested a senior terrorist from the Sunni Jamaa Islamiya organization during an overnight raid in southern Lebanon,” Israel’s Ynetnews reported Monday.

Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya is a Muslim Brotherhood-linked jihadist group that wages war on Israel alongside the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror militia. The terrorist group has a significant support base in Lebanon. According to Alma, “Al-Jamaah al-Islamiyah represents a sizable portion of Lebanese Sunnis and is the second-largest Sunni movement.”

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Canada’s medical assistance in dying program, (MAID) already one of the world’s most permissive euthanasia regimes, may soon extend to disabled newborns.

That possibility is reigniting horror among pro-life advocates who warn of a slippery slope toward eugenics.

The Quebec College of Physicians recently told the British newspaper Daily Mail that it believes “medical assistance in dying may be an appropriate treatment for babies suffering from extreme pain” and that “parents should have the opportunity to obtain this care for their infant,” according to an article by Anna Farrow published in the Western Standard.

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In a further erosion of freedom in Hong Kong, the city’s Chinese-backed government sentenced media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison on Monday.

“Having stepped back and taking a global view of the total sentence for Lai’s serious and grave criminal conduct … we are satisfied that the total sentence for Lai in the present case should be 20 years’ imprisonment,” Hong Kong’s High Court reportedly wrote in its ruling.

As The Federalist previously reported, Lai — a pro-freedom activist and founder of the city’s now-shuttered largest pro-democracy newspaper (Apple Daily) — was previously convicted by the city’s pro-China government in December “on charges of alleged collusion with foreign powers and sedition.” Most of the charges were brought under Hong Kong’s national security law, which was implemented as a means of further criminalizing dissent and solidifying the Chinese Communist Party and its allies’ control of the city.

According to CNBC, Lai’s 20-year sentence “was the longest handed out under the national security law introduced in 2020, surpassing the 10-year term given to activist Benny Tai, a former law professor who was convicted of conspiring to subvert state power, in November 2024.” Barring any shortening of his sentence or an immediate release, it’s likely the 78-year-old media tycoon — whose health is reportedly declining — will spend the remainder of his life in prison.

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A growing welfare fraud scandal in Maine could rival the massive social-services scandal uncovered in Minnesota, according to President Donald Trump’s top Medicare official, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Speaking Sunday during an interview with John Catsimatidis, Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), warned that investigators may be confronting “another big crisis” involving abuse of taxpayer-funded programs.

“It turns out that Maine looks a lot like Minnesota,” Oz said.

Whistleblower Allegations Trigger Alarm in Maine

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During Monday’s Morning Joe, so-called ‘conservative’ writer Matt Lewis alleged ICE was “buying” local police forces across the country through the federal 287(g) program in order to serve as a “paramilitary” force for a possible plot by President Donald Trump to steal the midterm elections.

The federal program referred to by Lewis, titled ICE’s 287(g) program, was a cooperation partnership between ICE and local police agencies that allowed local police to help ICE carry out immigration enforcement in a limited fashion.

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A Portland woman has been reported to police after viral video showed her firing an airsoft gun from a moving car at live streamers outside an ICE facility. Witnesses say the weapon closely resembled a real handgun.

A Portland real estate agent and anti-ICE activist has been reported to police after she was caught on viral video allegedly firing an airsoft gun from her car at a group of live streamers outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

On Feb. 6, around 10:30 p.m., Isis Symone Irving, 28, allegedly fired nearly 20 BB pellets from a moving vehicle as she drove past a group of pro-Trump live streamers near the ICE building in Portland.

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A North Carolina state probe into the horrific murder of Iryna Zarutska led to a stunning video displaying the ignorance of an embattled sheriff.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden was being questioned by Republican state Rep. Allen Chesser when he appeared confused about which branch of the government he serves. He also couldn’t answer how many branches of government there are.

‘This was not where I was anticipating getting stuck. … For the sake of debate, I will move on.’

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Rep. Randy Fine is demanding federal punishment for the NFL and NBC after what he called an explicit and unlawful Super Bowl halftime show.

The Florida Republican blasted Sunday night’s performance by Bad Bunny, arguing that Spanish-language lyrics were used to skirt federal broadcast standards that would never be tolerated in English.

“You can’t say the f-word on live TV,” Fine wrote Monday on X.

Fine said the halftime show crossed clear legal lines and accused the league and network of exploiting a double standard.

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On Friday February 6th, Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the bill that send the deceptive and misleadingly labeled “Right to Reproductive Freedom Act” to the fall ballot. While that is the only official role Spanberger has to play formally in this process, she has been outspoken in her support for the passage of this extreme and reckless amendment to the Virginia Constitution.

Now it is indeed, as she has said, up to the voters of Virginia to cast the deciding votes.

Unfortunately, the proposed language that was passed in both Chambers of the pro-abortion controlled General Assembly does not present an accurate understanding of exactly what the Act will do to the status of abortion law in Virginia. In fact, it is incredibly deceptive and downright misleading.

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In a notable shift in Nevada’s electoral landscape, the Republican Party has achieved a slim lead in active voter registrations over Democrats, marking the first lead for the party since 2007.

As of February 2026, Republicans hold 596,356 active registrations, compared to Democrats’ 593,740, giving the GOP a lead of 2,616 voters. Nonpartisan voters, however, remain the largest group, with 799,056 registrations, accounting for approximately 37.5 percent of the total 2,128,758 active voters in the state.

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has argued that requiring voter identification is “another way to simply try to suppress the vote,” pushing back on polling that shows broad public support for voter ID laws.

Schiff made the remarks Sunday during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”

Host Jon Karl asked whether Democrats could support a compromise requiring photo identification in order to vote.

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The House of Representatives on Monday passed the Housing for the 21st Century Act, making changes to federal housing regulations, which proponents say could drive down the cost of homes.

The bill, sponsored by Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., passed by a 390-9 margin. Eight Republicans and one Democrat voted against it, while 33 members did not vote.

The bill advanced out of the committee on a bipartisan basis in December 2025 and has the backing of ranking member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

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I cannot recall any Super Bowl halftime show ever needing a next-day explainer, but CBS News apparently thinks you need one after the Bad Bunny spectacle during Super Bowl LX. And, as fate would have it, CBS’s self-styled “Bad Bunny correspondent”, Lilia Luciano, handled the segment which quickly descended into outright propaganda.

Watch as Luciano regurgitates Bad Bunny’s fake ICE raids story, and confirms our suspicions regarding Bad Bunny’s “God Bless América:”

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The Department of Homeland Security lashed out at an “absurd” report claiming that a majority of the illegal aliens being deported by the administration were nonviolent cases.

The CBS News report cites an internal DHS document it obtained that showed only 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested in the first year of the Trump administration had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses.

‘We will stop at nothing to remove these public safety threats and Make America Safe Again.’

 

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Younger generations are less likely to support homosexuality and more likely to exhibit “anti-gay prejudice,” according to Northwestern University scholars.

Professor Tessa Charlesworth released a preprint study which purports to find lower levels of acceptance of homosexuality in younger generations, even among liberals. She also commented on the results in a recent New York Times essay.

Although, in the past, there seems to have been a significant increase in support for the gay population, the support for this movement actually reached its peak in 2020 and has been subsequently declining.

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Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has positioned himself as a firebrand when it comes to exposing the Epstein files, and he now has a chance to prove it’s not just partisan grandstanding.

Following the release of more information on Monday, his fellow party member, Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), has been further implicated in the scandal. According to multiple emails, she used a pseudonym to solicit funding from Epstein for a “new voter file” that would help her win elections in the Virgin Islands.

Democratic congresswoman Stacey Plaskett (V.I.) beseeched Jeffrey Epstein for help funding a new “voter file” that would allow her to “completely outperform anyone in any race.”

Using the email handle “LeRoy Daughter,” Plaskett pitched Epstein on the idea in an email on May 5, 2017, according to documents released by the Department of Justice. In the pitch, Plaskett asked Epstein to fund a one-year project to “create a new voter file” of Virgin Islands voters.

The goal, according to Plaskett, was to compile data on Virgin Islanders who had voted in recent elections and update their phone numbers, email addresses, and home addresses to help Plaskett’s campaign and those of her allies in other races.

“This is the most important group to poll for messaging and later phone banking for support and get to the polls,” wrote Plaskett, adding that the list would help candidates decide what political positions to take and assist “messaging and campaign work.”

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CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell may have weakened her own Fifth Amendment protection by previously speaking at length with federal officials.

Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in late July and answered questions about her ties to Jeffrey Epstein and her alleged role in the trafficking network. During a discussion on “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Honig said Maxwell’s decision to speak openly with Blanche may have weakened her ability to invoke the Fifth Amendment.

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Turning Point USA’s “All-American Halftime Show” drew millions of viewers Sunday night as a digital alternative to the official Super Bowl LX halftime performance, drawing a sharp contrast with the Apple Music show headlined by Bad Bunny.

The TPUSA event streamed across YouTube, Rumble, and partner networks including the Trinity Broadcasting Network. According to the New York Times, the livestream peaked at 6.1 million concurrent viewers on YouTube.

‘At least 20 million people tuned in.’

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Rock singer Kid Rock voiced his displeasure with the choice of Bad Bunny as the performer for the Super Bowl 60 halftime show, viewing it as a “middle finger” to conservatives.

Rock led a rival halftime show, backed by Turning Point USA, following conservative backlash over the choice of Bad Bunny. In an appearance on Fox News, the Trump-supporting singer bashed the choice of Bunny, saying the performance was an insult to the MAGA movement.

After going over the most recent performances, painting it as a steady decline into politicization, he said the choice of the Puerto Rican star was a bridge too far.

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Spokesman says university is ‘fully’ compliant with DEI ban, and ‘academic course content’ is exempt

The University of Kentucky says it is “fully” complying with a state ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion after two undercover videos exposed employees suggesting the ideology is still being taught at the public institution.

However, the leader of the investigative group behind the videos – and other past reports exposing continued DEI practices in higher education – told The College Fix that the University of Kentucky is “one of the worst we’ve seen.”

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Embattled professor told The Fix she is ‘fully committed to maintaining an environment of academic freedom where a plurality of voices can flourish’

The University of Notre Dame is defending its controversial decision to appoint a pro-abortion scholar to a leadership post, telling The College Fix the embattled professor is well-respected and also understands the institution supports the pro-life cause.

Susan Ostermann is “a highly regarded political scientist and legal scholar whose insightful research on regulatory compliance — from forestry conservation in India and Nepal to NSF-funded disaster mitigation in the U.S. territories — demonstrates the rigorous, interdisciplinary expertise required to lead the Liu Institute,” Erin Blasko, assistant director of media relations, said in a prepared statement.

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A Maryland resident has been arrested on attempted murder charges after he allegedly showed up at the home of a Trump cabinet official with a manifesto and intent to kill.

Colin Demarco, 26, was arrested by Arlington County Police on January 22 after he showed up at Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought’s Northern Virginia home. Vought was wearing a surgical mask and gloves at the time of his arrest, according to court documents.

According to court documents filed in Arlington County, Virginia, Demarco is accused of plotting to murder a victim identified only by the initials “R.V.” Sources familiar with the case confirmed to CBS News that “R.V.” refers to Russell Vought.

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Oregon legislators introduced a broad bill on Monday that would increase unique legal protections for abortion providers. Presented with little public notice, limiting opponents’ time to react, HB 4088 would further entrench Oregon’s position as an abortion tourism destination, placing women and girls at risk and undermining state laws designed to protect children and unborn babies. Oregon Right to Life strongly opposes HB 4088.

As written, HB 4088 would expand protected interstate actions under Oregon’s existing 2023 shield law (HB 2002) to include “any person who provides or attempts to provide aid, assistance, resources, encouragement or support to a person in providing or receiving or attempting to provide or receive reproductive health care or gender-affirming treatment.”

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris is setting her sights on the 2028 election.

The failed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee has relaunched her “Kamala HQ” account on social media platform X, rebranding it as “Headquarters.”

CNN reported she has partnered with the left-wing organization People for the American Way to create “an online organizing project for next generation campaigning.”

CNN quoted a news release from the new group, explaining its goals.