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(Background) US President Donald Trump looks on as he hosts the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. According to the US National Park Service, the egg roll tradition dates back to 1878 when President Rutherford B. Hayes invited children to roll Easter eggs on the White House grounds. Children previously rolled eggs down a hill at the US Capitol in the early 1870s, but a law was passed in 1876 forbidding the Capitol property from being used due to the toll on the lawn. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) The United States Department of Commerce is an executive department of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for gathering data for business and governmental decision making. (Photo via: usa.gov/agencies/u-s-department-of-commerce)

Trump directs Commerce Department to initiate planning for new census: ‘People in our country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED’

President Donald Trump announced Thursday morning that he has directed the U.S. Department of Commerce to commence preparations for a new census, stressing that illegal aliens residing in the United States should be excluded from the final count.

(L) HOUSTON, TEXAS - OCTOBER 18: Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks at a "Get Out The Vote" rally on October 18, 2022 in Houston, Texas. With less than three weeks away from the midterm election, O'Rourke continues campaigning across the state of Texas in his race against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) / (R) NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 30: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton arrives with former U.S. President Donald Trump to court during Trump's trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 30, 2024 in New York City. Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Justin Lane-Pool/Getty Images)

Texas AG Paxton launches probe into Beto O’Rourke-led group over Texas quorum break

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into a political organization led by former Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, accusing it of aiding Texas Democrats in an effort to block newly proposed congressional maps.

(L) KERRVILLE, TEXAS - JULY 11: President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott participate in a round table event at the Hill Country Youth Event Center to discuss last week's flash flooding on July 11, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas. Trump traveled to Texas one week after flash flooding along the Guadalupe River swept through cities, mobile home parks and summer camps, killing 120 people. Ninety-six of those killed were in Kerr County, where the toll includes at least 36 children. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) / (Background) SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 25: California Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on during a news conference with Texas lawmakers at the Governor’s Mansion on July 25, 2025 in Sacramento, California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom met with Texas lawmakers to push back on Texas's redistricting maneuver that aims to tilt the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections and on how California plans to respond. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Source: Calif. Dems consider slashing 5 GOP U.S. House seats, countering Texas

California Democrats are weighing a proposed redistricting plan that could significantly diminish Republican representation in the state’s congressional delegation, potentially eliminating up to five GOP-held seats. The initiative also seeks to fortify Democrat incumbents in key battleground districts.

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 23: White House Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Gabbard: Russia ‘felt it was inevitable’ Hillary Clinton would win 2016 election, intentionally withheld info to later damage her reputation

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says that Russian officials privately anticipated Hillary Clinton’s triumph in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, characterizing her victory as inevitable. She expounded upon a recently released report during her appearance on Miranda Devine’s “Pod Force One” podcast.

(L) Former US presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (C) and Ohio State University President Ted Carter (R) look on as US President Donald Trump hosts the 2025 College Football National Champions, Ohio State Buckeyes, celebrating the team's title-winning season with a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 14, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)/ (R) Mamdani, Democratic nominee for New York City Mayor, speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of SEIU Local 32BJ in New York City on July 30, 2025, to honor the victims of the shooting in Midtown Manhattan that killed four people on July 28. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a memo to league employees on July 29 that the New York office will remain closed through at least August 8 after a gunman attacked their headquarters building. A man identified by the New York Police Department as Shane Tamura of Las Vegas opened fire in the high-rise building where the NFL offices are located and killed four people on Monday while also wounding a man Goodell identified as a league employee. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Ramaswamy: New Yorkers ‘are going to, unfortunately, wake up to the effects of socialism’ if Mamdani wins

Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy issued a warning on Monday morning, asserting that the far-left movement propping up socialist New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani poses a serious threat to the nation as a whole.

(L)WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: U.S. President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House after returning on Marine One on July 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump returned to the White House with his family after a trip to Scotland that was part vacation, part work, as he stayed at his Trump Turnberry golf course, followed by Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire, from July 25 to 29. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) / (R) Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters. (Photo via: Wilfredo Lee | Credit: AP)

Trump endorses Joe Gruters as next Republican National Committee Chair

President Donald Trump endorsed Florida GOP Senator Joe Gruters to succeed Michael Whatley as Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), as Whatley prepares to launch a Senate campaign for the soon-to-be-vacant North Carolina seat.