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Mike Lawler backs conservative challenger to Letitia James in New York attorney general race
This deserves loud pushback.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) weighed in on the 2026 New York attorney general election in favor of Saritha Komatireddy, issuing a scathing rebuke of incumbent Letitia James.

The centrist Republican congressman backed former prosecutor Komatireddy, who is one of two Republicans running to unseat James. Michael Henry, who ran against James in 2022, backed out of the race in January, leaving Komatireddy to take on attorney Khurram Dara in the GOP primary.

“New York deserves an Attorney General who enforces the law—not one who abuses it. @TishJames has turned the Attorney General’s office into a partisan weapon and is the most corrupt AG in America. Saritha Komatireddy will restore the trust we need in our judicial system,” Lawler said in his endorsement.

James has become a high-profile adversary of the Trump administration and New York Republicans, as they have accused her of abuse of office. James’s reputation is the result of her multiple filings against President Donald Trump throughout her tenure as the state’s top prosecutor. After the Department of Justice opened a mortgage fraud investigation into James, two grand juries refused to indict her.

Komatireddy, a former Eastern District of New York prosecutor who also served as the chief of staff at the Drug Enforcement Administration, has prosecuted members of drug cartels, al Qaeda, and ISIS. She is running a campaign focused on public safety with the slogan “If New York isn’t safe, nothing else matters. Saritha will focus on safety so you can focus on everything else.”

“She’s a principled, tough, and fearless advocate for the rule of law who will restore integrity, accountability, and equal justice to the office. @sarithaforny will end the corruption in Albany, and put New Yorkers first —and I’m proud to endorse her campaign,” Lawler said.

In the 2022 attorney general race, James defeated Henry, a New York City commercial litigation attorney, by just over 9 percentage points, a swing further to the right from 2018. In her first run in 2018, James defeated Republican challenger Keith Wofford by just over 27 percentage points in the general election.

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The primary for this election will be held on June 23.

Komatireddy’s other endorsements include Maggie’s List and former Republican New York Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco.

Why the NFL doesn’t care about Bad Bunny MAGA backlash
This affects the entire country.

The NFL has strongly backed Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, sharing a series of reaction videos, captions, and even a social media post from Commissioner Roger Goodell celebrating the performance despite a campaign from conservative activists who tried to turn the event into the latest front in the culture war.

Despite backlash from some, including President Donald Trump, who called his performance “absolutely terrible,” “a slap in the face” to the country, and “an affront to the Greatness of America,” the NFL has remained steadfast in its support for the entertainer.

Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, California. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Having Bad Bunny, one of the most popular singers in the world, perform at the Super Bowl has helped fulfill the league’s top business objective of growing the NFL’s international and Latino audiences, San Francisco analyst Rich Mendelson told the Washington Examiner.

Mendelson added that many team owners, whose average age is around 75, might not be familiar with Bad Bunny’s music and may disagree with his stance on immigration policies, but that they know it is important to “embrace a variety of perspectives” for the good of the league.

“Doing so is crucial if they want to connect with prominent artists and keep their fan bases,” he said. “Adapting to this reality is vital for maintaining relevance in the entertainment world.”

Having Bad Bunny perform at the Super Bowl not only expanded the NFL’s reach but it also drew a record number of viewers and became a cultural milestone because he performed almost entirely in Spanish, Mendleson added.

Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is a six-time Grammy winner, 16-time Billboard Music Award winner, and 17-time Latin Grammy Award winner. His 13-song set at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, earned rave reviews not just from fans of the Puerto Rican-born singer but also from unlikely corners of the political universe, such as Meghan McCain.

“I’m sorry but I just genuinely question your taste level if you didn’t enjoy the Bad Bunny halftime show,” she posted on X. “And everything in life doesn’t have to be ruined with politics.”

Her post had racked up 1.2 million views by mid-afternoon on Monday.

I’m sorry but I just genuinely question your taste level if you didn’t enjoy the Bad Bunny halftime show.

And everything in life doesn’t have to …

FCC investigates The View after Democratic candidate interview on equal time policy

The Federal Communications Commission is probing ABC Network’s The View after a recent interview it conducted with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, according to Fox News.

Talarico, a Texas state representative, appeared on The View on Feb. 2, where he spoke about his primary race against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and his desire to continue fighting “against Christian nationalism” in the Senate. His appearance on the show is what prompted the FCC’s inquiry, as the agency announced last month that it is cracking down on its “statutory equal opportunities requirement.”

The FCC cited the Communications Act of 1934 in this crackdown, which includes broadcast stations giving equal access to “legally qualified candidates for office,” regardless of political affiliation. 

The FCC states in its public notice that it hasn’t been presented with any evidence that an interview portion by any late-night or daytime television talk show program would qualify for its “bona fide news exemption.” It added that a program that is “motivated by partisan purposes” wouldn’t be entitled to an exemption.

Besides Talarico, The View also spoke with Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) on Monday.

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Talarico is vying to win the Texas Senate race against Crockett, who recently received the backing of former Texas Democratic Rep. Colin Allred. Should Talarico win, he will face the Republican nominee, who will either be incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, or Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX).

The Washington Examiner contacted the FCC for comment.

Experts rip college students as reports expose them for abusing system with fake disabilities
Who benefits from this decision?

Reports reveal this week that college students across the United States, including up to 40% of students at Stanford University, are claiming to have a disability in order for special accommodations like more time on tests is prompting pushback from education experts.
Recent data reveals, according to The Atlantic, that at schools like Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are now registered as disabled. At Amherst, that number hits 34 percent. But professors warn that this isn't a surge in physical impairments. Instead, it’s a wave of students acquiring "dubious" diagnoses for disabilities like ADHD, anxiety, and dyslexia that come with coveted perks: extra time on exams and better campus housing.
"She, of course, didn’t have a disability," a Stanford University student wrote in The Sunday Times in an article suggesting that 40% of Stanford students claim to be "disabled." 
"She knew it. I knew it. But she had figured out early what most Stanford students eventually learn: the Office of Accessible Education will give students a single room, extra time on tests and even exemptions from academic requirements if they qualify as ‘disabled.’"
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Fox News Digital spoke to several education experts who said that the systems in place at American colleges are being abused and students with real disabilities will be hurt the most. 
"College Students with real disabilities—like mine— are being passed over for those who, as a result of insufficient high school preparation or otherwise, have sought to make things as easy as possible for themselves in the ordinarily rigorous college environment," Sarah Parshall Perry, Vice President and Legal Fellow at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital.
"The fact that we’re seeing a surge in students presenting with ‘disabilities’ is evidence that the youngest generation is ill prepared for life in the real world."
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Erika Sanzi, Senior Director of Communications for Defending Education, told Fox News Digital that this story "reflects our perverse incentive structure that encourages students to claim identity labels that come with special accommodations, even when they don't have an actual disability."
The "gaming" of the system doesn't stop at medical claims. Sunday Times also reported a trend of students claiming "religious dietary restrictions" to opt out of Stanford’s mandatory $7,944-a-year meal plan.
"Reasonable accommodations rightly exist to ensure equal opportunities for all students," University of Kentucky …

Jury can keep using platforms at center of social media addiction case: Judge
This framing isn't accidental.

The judge overseeing the social media addiction case in California told the jury to continue to use the platforms at the center of the trial that began in Los Angeles on Monday.

The first-of-its-kind trial accusing social media companies Meta, which operates Instagram and Facebook, and YouTube of making their platforms harmfully addictive began with opening arguments after weeks of jury selection. Judge Carolyn Kuhl of the Superior Court of California for LA County told the jurors they may continue to use social media but should avoid changing the way they interact with the platforms and not change any settings, per the Associated Press.

The trial is expected to last several weeks and centers on the claims made by a 19-year-old, identified only as K.G.M. in the lawsuit, that she became addicted to the media, blaming that addiction for leading to her depression and suicidal thoughts.

K.G.M.’s lawyer, Mark Lanier, centered his opening statement to the jury on the features the platforms allegedly use to get their users addicted, including endless scrolling.

“This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains,” Lanier said, per CNN. “The swipe, for a child, like Kaley, this motion is a handle of a slot machine. But every time she swipes, it’s not for money, but for mental stimulation.”

Lanier also claimed that the case is “easy as ABC,” with those letters standing for “addicting the brains of children,” per the Associated Press, and claimed the media companies’ lawyers will “try to blame the little girl and her parents for the trap they built.”

Both Meta and YouTube have strongly denied the allegations made against them about their platforms being harmfully addictive, also claiming that Section 230, a federal statute that generally protects online platforms from liability for user-posted content, should prevent them from being liable in this case.

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Snap, the owner of Snapchat, and TikTok were also named in the lawsuit, but the two companies settled with K.G.M. for an undisclosed amount ahead of the trial.

Social media and its addictive qualities have been increasingly under the microscope for the past decade, with the heads of social media companies testifying before Congress and platforms making adjustments for younger users, but the trial in LA marks a new step in the scrutiny toward the platforms.

Crockett’s ‘political science experiment’ Senate campaign leaves Democrats baffled
What's the endgame here?

Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s (D-TX) unconventional Senate campaign has left many Democrats baffled, as the progressive Democrat has heavily neglected fundraising and political ads.

Since launching her Senate run in December, the progressive firebrand has distinguished herself with an unconventional campaign, eschewing traditional advice regarding key tenets of campaigning, such as fundraising and advertising output. Crockett’s primary Democratic rival, state Democratic Rep. James Talarico, has so far outspent her on political ads by 19-to-1, according to NOTUS. This disconnect, despite all appearances of a serious campaign, has left many Democrats baffled.

“I don’t think she’s a particularly strong candidate,” a Democratic strategist told the outlet, speaking of Crockett. “I don’t think she’s putting together a particularly strong effort. And I don’t think they’re particularly interested in taking any advice on how to make things better.”

He went on to describe her campaign as a “political science experiment,” stressing that she could still win but expressing concern.

One of the Democrats’ biggest concerns is that Crockett doesn’t seem to have a campaign manager, despite announcing her run over two months ago. This contributed to cascading problems, including critical flaws in her campaign website.

After adding a section to her policy agenda and achievements on her campaign website, users were quick to notice several major flaws.

Under the mental health section, her campaign accidentally left the instructions in the published version of her website, with one bullet point reading “Requiring all major insurance providers to include full mental healthcare coverage, including prescription medications and therapies. Write out your bullet points here. Anything from a sentence to a paragraph works.”

Under the section outlining her achievements regarding Social Security, the first sentence read, “In Congress, I’ve pushed for common sense gun reform, including:” followed by her work in Social Security policy.

The errors were soon fixed after users discovered them.

One Democrat in talks with the campaign told NOTUS that along with not finding a “real campaign manager,” Crockett also failed to put together a commanding fundraising plan, especially setting a 24-hour goal.

“There wasn’t that work done ahead of time, but there should have been,” they said. “I just don’t get it. She could have been better organized, but she wasn’t.”

Crockett’s deputy campaign …

ICE nabs convicted pedophiles and murderers over weekend despite smears at Super Bowl: 'Risking their lives'
This affects the entire country.

FIRST ON FOX: A spokesperson for the Trump Department of Homeland Security told Fox News Digital that despite ICE being "demonized" at the Super Bowl, agents continued to carry out operations, arresting pedophiles, murderers and rapists over the weekend.
President Donald Trump and many conservatives took issue with the Super Bowl, especially the halftime show, which featured Latin trap artist Bad Bunny. The performer, whose real name is Benito Ocasio, has been highly critical of ICE and even cursed at agents in a video posted to social media.
DHS said that "while ICE law enforcement officers were demonized at the Super Bowl, our officers were risking their lives to arrest public safety threats from American neighborhoods."
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that "despite smears from Hollywood, ICE is making our country safer every single day."
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"While ICE law enforcement was being demonized at the Super Bowl, the heroic men and women of ICE continued risking their lives to arrest criminal illegal alien murderers, pedophiles and rapists from our communities," said McLaughlin.
According to DHS, among those arrested over Super Bowl weekend was Mario Rosales-Figueroa, an illegal alien from Mexico, who was arrested a few hours from the stadium in Visalia, California. The agency said Rosales-Figueroa was convicted of sex with a minor.
A few hours further away, DHS said that agents arrested Salvadoran illegal Luis Edenilson Ortiz-Lopez in Las Vegas. According to the agency, he was convicted of gross or open lewdness. Also in Nevada, ICE arrested Guillermo Arturo Ramirez-Londono, a Colombian illegal who is convicted of two counts of sexual assault on a minor under 14 years old in Lyon County.
In New York, ICE arrested Rudy Roa-Fuentes, an illegal from the Dominican Republic who was convicted of murder, and Anderson Mejia-Bonilla, from El Salvador, who was convicted of rape.
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Not far from New York, ICE arrested Guatemalan national Eduardo Ramos-Domingo, who was convicted of aggravated assault, attempts to cause or cause bodily injury with a deadly weapon in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.  
In Wake County, North Carolina, ICE arrested Darwin Sorto-Pineda, from El Salvador, who was convicted of driving while impaired and assault on a government official.
In the Midwest, ICE arrested Wilson Perez-Guzman, from Guatemala, who was convicted for statutory …

House Passes Housing Affordability Bill
This is performative politics again.

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.

Waters said in a December statement that it “makes meaningful reforms to housing programs that will make them more effective, efficient, and responsive to the needs of today’s families.”

During a floor speech Monday, Waters praised the bill for including a Democrat-backed provision which would allow states to use Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for the construction of affordable housing.

A press release from Hill’s office says the bill “streamlines housing production and affordability by updating outdated programs, removing unnecessary federal requirements, and increasing local flexibility.”

If signed into law, the bill would require that the Department of Housing and Urban Development publish new recommendations for zoning policy which state and local governments could choose to adopt. Additionally, the bill attempts to simplify federal environmental standards for building projects.

The bill would also simplify the process for providing housing grants, remove a regulation requiring that manufactured homes have a “permanent chassis,” remove barriers for veterans to access public housing, and set up a process for Congress to conduct oversight of HUD.

Additionally, the bill contains multiple provisions to ease regulations on community banks.

“The bill tackles an important roadblock to housing: financing,” reads an op-ed in The Hill co-authored by Rep. Hill and Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb. “Without loans, homes don’t get built, and community and regional banks play a critical role in this.”

Now the House is one step ahead of the Senate in advancing housing legislation. 

The Senate has previously included the ROAD to Housing Act in a version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that it passed in Oct. 2025.

However, in the final version of the NDAA, bicameral negotiators excluded it.

The post House Passes Housing Affordability Bill appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Major housing bill clears House as Senate and Trump grapple with affordability woes
Are they actually going to vote on something real?

The House voted to pass a bipartisan housing bill that would enact new policies designed to boost housing supply and ease the affordability crisis that has plagued the nation.

The highly anticipated housing legislation, the Housing for the 21st Century Act, passed the House in an overwhelming 390-9 vote on Monday. The bill would ease some federal regulations that pertain to housing in the hopes of boosting supply, and would also nudge state and local governments to loosen land-use rules that make it difficult to build housing.

The legislative package could prove to be one of the most significant economic measures passed this Congress. But it faces a complicated path in the Senate. Furthermore, President Donald Trump in recent days has appeared skeptical of efforts to bring down housing prices.

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“This bill represents that consensus of both Democrat and Republican members in the House who want at the federal level to take some steps that we believe will lower the marginal cost of constructing housing, making [Department of Housing and Urban Development] programs more efficient, more effective, more accountable to taxpayers,” House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. French Hill (R-AR) told a group of reporters on Monday ahead of the vote.

Housing costs have been a major component of the affordability problems facing consumers. Home prices and mortgage rates have soared over the past several years, pushing home ownership out of reach for many Americans. The median age of a first-time homebuyer has risen 40, by one account.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), another member of the committee, told the Washington Examiner that the bill is “our best hope of getting housing legislation passed this Congress for Americans in need of a home” and called on the Senate to take up the legislation.

But the Monday passage tees up questions about next steps and whether the Senate — which has previously passed its version, the Road to Housing Act — will take up the House legislation, or perhaps whether there will be a conference and the various provisions that differ in the two pieces of legislation will be discussed and a final bill crafted between the two chambers.

The Housing for the 21st Century Act is designed to help modernize local development and rural housing programs, further expand manufactured and affordable housing finance opportunities, and protect borrowers and assisted families. …

House passes bipartisan housing bill as Trump zeroes in on affordability crisis
Same show, different day.

The House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at making it easier for everyday Americans to purchase a home, an issue that's become a cornerstone of the affordability crisis plaguing much of the United States.
The legislation, which passed with a 390-9 vote, is a rare show of bipartisanship in an increasingly polarized Congress, having gotten a significant amount of support from both Republicans and Democrats.
Housing affordability is also an issue that President Donald Trump has promised to tackle during his second term in office. 
Last month, he signed an executive order making it harder for large investment firms to buy single-family homes that could otherwise be purchased by American families, and his One Big Beautiful Bill Act also included tax incentives aimed at development in economically distressed communities.
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The legislation that passed on Monday is a wide-ranging bill with various measures aimed at growing the supply of affordable housing in the U.S., including incentivizing the construction of multifamily homes, taller buildings on smaller lots, and less restrictive permitting processes in state and local jurisdictions.
The streamlining would include establishing a new pilot program under the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to award grants for creating "pattern books" of pre-approved housing designs that are already compliant with local building codes.
Parts of the bill are chiefly aimed at expanding "missing middle" housing, which is the range between single-family homes and larger apartment buildings.
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The measures are primarily aiding first-time home buyers as well as lower-income Americans, and housing developers focused on small and mid-sized housing rather than larger luxury construction.
Multiple public surveys released in recent months have found that Americans have a strong desire for more affordable housing. One poll shared by the site Affordable Housing Finance found that more than 60% of people surveyed supported increasing missing middle housing.
The bill was also pushed by lawmakers across the political spectrum. Its two main leaders in the House were House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., a longtime Republican congressman, and progressive stalwart Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the committee.
Another proponent of the bill, Main Street Caucus Chairman Brian Flood, R-Neb., hailed it as …