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Major charity raises legal questions by funding pro-Harris dark money operation
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The Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, the nonprofit arm of the financial giant bearing the same name, transferred $37.5 million to a dark money group that assisted then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election, despite pledging not to give money to political causes, tax records show.

Bright Future Fund, the pro-Harris dark money group, received $37.5 million from the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund in 2024, according to tax filings first reported on by the Free Press. Unlike traditional 501(c)(3) charities, which are barred from participating in electoral politics, the Bright Future Fund is registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(4), a type of nonprofit organization with a broad license to engage in political spending.

Notably, the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund claimed on its tax forms to have only transferred funds to 501(c)(3) organizations, a statement that critics say appears to be inaccurate given its transfer to the 501(c)(4) Bright Future Fund. 

Patrick Sternal, a tax lawyer and former adviser at the IRS’s office of chief counsel, told the Free Press that the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund’s tax forms were “technically inaccurate” and that “it raises questions about whether Fidelity was trying to disguise or downplay their grant to a highly partisan group that worked to benefit the Harris campaign.”

Brian Mittendorf, a professor at the Ohio State University specializing in nonprofit accounting, shared Sternal’s view, stating that it appears the charity “filled out its tax forms incorrectly by saying there were no non-501(c)(3) recipients.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage during a campaign event on Proposition 50, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

The Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund is donor-advised. This means that Fidelity itself is not directly choosing where the funds held by its charity are sent. In a donor-advised fund, individual philanthropists or philanthropic organizations maintain accounts holding assets. The fund itself manages these funds, allowing them to grow tax-free. At the time of the donor’s choosing, they can request that the donor-advised fund donate assets from their account to another nonprofit organization.

Donor-advised funds typically reserve the right to deny a transfer to an organization, raising questions as to why Fidelity made a payment to a 501(c)(4).

The donation to a 501(c)(4) through …

Trump administration pressed to close Cuba embargo loophole with oil set to run out within days
This feels like a quiet policy shift.

EXCLUSIVE: Three members of Congress representing heavily-Cuban-American districts are demanding the Trump administration shut off the remaining commercial "valves" of support for the Communist Castro/Díaz-Canel regime in Havana, after effectively blockading key oil imports in recent days.
The demand from Reps. Carlos Giménez, Mario Díaz-Balart and María Elvira Salazar, all R-Fla., comes as Cuban despot Miguel Díaz-Canel warned his country is "close to failing" — according to German outlet Deutsche Welle — and that oil supplies, amid the threat of U.S. tariffs on exporters to Cuba, may run out within 15 days.
While Díaz-Canel called the U.S.-imposed oil blockade "genocidal" and "fascist," Giménez, Díaz-Balart and Salazar saw it as a positive development and said they will demand Tuesday that the Commerce Department shut off the other remaining lifelines to the dictatorship that Washington can control.
Those valves come in the form of export licenses for more than $100 million worth of supplies they say largely go not to the Cuban people but directly to enrich the regime.
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Luxury cars, Jacuzzi tubs and other luxury items remain open to export through licenses given to several Miami-area firms, according to Giménez’s office — which provided Fox News Digital with a 50-page document detailing manifests of goods cleared by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security to be shipped to addresses listed on the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, as well as Marianao and elsewhere.
Giménez, Díaz-Balart and Salazar wrote to Commerce Undersecretary Jeffrey Kessler and Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control Director Bradley Smith, demanding they take action on these licenses.
"[We are] beyond concerned by U.S. businesses currently engaged in disturbing commercial activity with entities controlled by the regime in Cuba, a listed State Sponsor of Terrorism," the lawmakers wrote.
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"Such activity risks undermining the central objectives of U.S. sanctions policy and contradicts the intent of Congress as reflected in U.S. law, including the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996."
The act represents one of the most stringent sanctions laws imposed on the Castro regime.
The lawmakers told Commerce that the first section of the LIBERTAD Act clearly states that U.S. sanctions are meant to deny economic support to Havana until "concrete progress is made toward democratic governance, the rule of …

Federal judge tosses Trump’s bid to get Michigan voter rolls
Transparency shouldn't be controversial.

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to get access to sensitive voter information from Michigan, marking the latest setback in the administration’s efforts to obtain the data from various states.

The Justice Department claimed the National Voter Registration Act, Help America Vote Act, and Civil Rights Act of 1960 requires states to turn over the full state voter registration lists including voters’ personal information, such as Social Security numbers and driver’s license information, as part of voter roll maintenance. U.S. District Judge Hala Jarbou, an appointee of President Donald Trump, dismissed the lawsuit filed by the DOJ in a ruling released Tuesday.

“HAVA, the NVRA, and the CRA do not allow the United States to obtain the records at issue in this case,” Jarbou said in the ruling. “Therefore, the Court will grant the motions to dismiss.”

Jarbou ruled that finding the NVRA requires “public disclosure of all private information submitted for voter registration purposes would potentially cause the statute to impose an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote guaranteed by the First Amendment.”

She also ruled the Help America Vote Act does not require the disclosure of sensitive information, finding the CRA of 1960 does not require voter registration lists to be shared “because they are not documents that come into the possession of election officials.”

The Justice Department filed the lawsuit against Michigan officials in September 2025, with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying at the time that “clean voter rolls are the foundation of free and fair elections.” Bondi also warned that states that did not hand over the sensitive data would be met with a lawsuit.

The DOJ has sued two dozen states and the District of Columbia for access to the full voter rolls, including the sensitive voter information, as part of its efforts to perform voter roll maintenance. The ruling Tuesday in Michigan marks the third time a federal district court has tossed the administration’s efforts to get the sensitive voter information.

Last month, U.S. District Judge David Carter dismissed the lawsuit seeking to get access to California’s voter rolls, saying “the government’s request is unprecedented and illegal.” U.S District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai also rejected an effort to get access to Oregon’s voter rolls, issuing a sharply worded opinion earlier this month.

“The presumption of regularity that has been previously extended to …

Fox News Poll: Beyond red vs. blue, finding me + you across the political divide
Trust is earned, not demanded.

Encouraging news this Valentine’s Day — love and humor transcend politics, plus an increased number of people say they believe in love at first sight.
What’s love (or politics) got to do with it? The latest Fox News poll shows 6 in 10 voters think it’s possible to find love with someone whose political views are opposite their own, and another 1 in 10 say it’s already happened. Loving those with opposing views is a no-go for the remaining 3 in 10.
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Those most likely to think you can find love across the political battlefield include dads, moderates, men without a college degree, Republicans, White evangelical Christians, independents, Catholics, and voters under age 30.
Humor still beats politics in the quest for love. By a 55-point margin, voters say they'd rather share a partner's sense of humor (77%) than their political views (22%) — even as the desire for shared politics has grown 15 percentage points since 2015.
FOX NEWS POLL: AN EARLY LOOK AT THE 2026 MIDTERMS
Women, voters younger than 30, and Democrats are more likely to prioritize shared political opinions compared to men, voters ages 45+, and Republicans.
While the question has only been asked sporadically since 1997, belief in love at first sight sits at 59%, up from 51% the last time the question was asked in 2015.
Married men with no kids, Republican men, and Catholics are the biggest romantics of the bunch: at least two-thirds of each group say they believe in love at first sight.
But not everyone is head over heels, as the share currently in love dropped 11 points since 2015, from 69% to 58%.  The largest declines were among independents, men, college graduates, and Republicans.
But it’s reassuring that almost all married voters, 89%, are currently in love, making it one of the largest groups saying they are smitten. 
Overall, 4 in 10 are still looking for that special someone, up from 3 in 10 a decade ago.  But love isn’t totally dead: half of those not currently in love still believe in love at first sight.
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Conducted January 23-26, 2026 under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,005 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (106) and cellphones (645) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (254). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 …

DOJ signals crackdown on synagogue protesters using abortion clinic statute
Ask who never gets charged.

The Justice Department is signaling a broader use of federal civil rights law against protesters accused of disrupting religious worship, with officials pointing to synagogue cases as a model for future enforcement.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said the department has applied the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act — a law historically associated with abortion clinic protests — to cases involving disruptions at Jewish houses of worship.
"It was our pioneering application of the FACE Act to defend Jewish synagogues that paved the way for its use to defend churches," Dhillon said during remarks at an antisemitism and extremism conference at George Washington University Tuesday, describing the enforcement approach as a way to draw clear legal lines between protected speech and unlawful conduct.
The FACE Act makes it a federal offense to use force, threats of force or physical obstruction to intentionally interfere with individuals because they are exercising their right to religious worship or to an abortion. Dhillon said the statute allows federal authorities to intervene when protests cross into obstruction, intimidation or trespass at places of worship.
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Dhillon cited a civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against protesters accused of disrupting services at a synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey, calling the case a first-of-its-kind application of the law in that context. She said the department is also reviewing similar incidents elsewhere and warned that additional enforcement actions could follow.
According to Dhillon, the Civil Rights Division has shifted toward more aggressive enforcement in response to a rise in antisemitic incidents since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, including harassment, vandalism and disruptions of religious services.
"Antisemitism is an American problem, not a Jewish problem," Dhillon said. "It strikes at the heart of who we are as a nation."
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She argued that allowing unlawful conduct targeting one religious group risks eroding civil rights protections more broadly, adding that the department’s approach is meant to protect all faith communities.
Beyond the synagogue protest cases, Dhillon pointed to a series of recent Justice Department actions addressing antisemitism, including major settlement agreements with Columbia University and Northwestern …

Mamdani’s antisemitism czar once slammed post condemning Hamas terror attacks
Every delay has consequences.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new antisemitism czar once said she was "floored" by a social media post condemning Hamas for firing rockets toward civilian population centers in Israel. 
In 2021, Phylisa Wisdom, the executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, criticized a post by then-mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, who scolded Hamas terrorists, the New York Post reported. 
In his post, Yang said that New Yorkers "always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere."
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"As an American Jew and a New Yorker, I am floored by this tweet (although never surprised)," Wisdom responded. "NYC deserves a mayor who will stand up for Palestinians in the face of state-sanctioned violence."
In another post, Wisdom bragged about blowing off the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.
"I totally missed Yom Kippur this year,"she wrote in September 2009. "Oh well, I’ll repent next year??? (What kind of Jew flakes on YOM KIPPUR)."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Mamdani's office. 
Wisdom describes herself as a "liberal Zionist" who supports a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. She formerly served as  the executive director of the New York Jewish Agenda, which has criticized Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
Upon being appointed by Mamdani, Wisdom said her office will "ensure that Jewish safety and belonging remains at the core of this administration’s vision for a more livable city. In a time of rising hatred and fear, I look forward to embracing this solemn responsibility—both to represent the diverse array of Jewish voices to City Hall in this critical moment, and to demonstrate the power of pluralistic democracy in the greatest city in the world."
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Middle East Forum Fellow Yuval David told Fox News Digital that he has serious concerns about Wisdom's appointment. 
":Zionism is not politics but identity, history, and survival of the Jewish people," he said. "Efforts that ignore this reality risk failing the community they are meant to protect. She also has challenged orthodox Jewish education in favor of secular Jewish education. Alienating New York’s orthodox Jewish community is not something a person in her position should be doing." 
"The leader of the Office to Combat Antisemitism must understand a basic truth," Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder of the Foundation For Ethical Understanding, told Fox News …

House Dem explodes on top Trump immigration official, says he ‘better hope’ for pardon from president
Every delay has consequences.

Progressive Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., exploded on U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, calling federal immigration officers "thugs" and telling the commissioner he "better hope" for a presidential pardon during a particularly heated House hearing on Tuesday.
Thanedar, who is originally from India and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1980’s, drilled into Scott, saying, "You better hope you get pardoned because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year."
The exchange occurred during a House Homeland Security hearing on "Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS." During the hearing, Thanedar grilled Scott and Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons on the recent shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers in Minnesota.
After Lyons and Scott repeatedly backed their officers through Thanedar’s questioning, the congressman said, "I have heard and seen enough. I'm just sick and tired of your agents running around in our cities, in our streets, causing illegal activities, ICE thugs attacking our communities, using our children as bait, referring to people as bodies and numbers, targeting people for their accents and the color of their skin, and killing American citizens, all while showing zero remorse for their actions."
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Going further, Thanedar asked, "Director Lyons and Commissioner Scott, do you think President Trump will pardon you and your boss, Kristi Noem, before he leaves office, just like he has for insurrectionists and his political allies? Do you believe President Trump will pardon you?"
Scott answered, "I'm not going to speak on behalf of President Trump, but I'll tell you, I signed up for this job to protect America, and I'm very proud of the service that I provide, and I don't need a pardon from anybody."
"Well, you'd better hope so. You better hope you get pardoned," Thanedar shot back. "Because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year."
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Thanedar continued, "Your agencies have lost the trust of the American people, with millions taking to the streets to protect the illegal actions of your agencies. And that's why I introduced a bill in the United States Congress to abolish ICE. ICE must be abolished."
The congressman added that he "also …

Senate GOP investigating Pritzker administration over Illinois health records breach
This is performative politics again.

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the Senate’s health committee, has launched an inquiry into the administration of Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) over its handling of a recent data breach that exposed the private health information of 700,000 state residents.

Cassidy is seeking detailed records from the Illinois Department of Human Services after leaving sensitive health-related information on a publicly accessible website for more than three years and delaying notification to affected individuals, according to a letter sent Tuesday by the senator to the Pritzker administration and obtained by the Washington Examiner.

The congressional scrutiny sets the stage for a high-stakes clash between Cassidy, who’s fighting for reelection against a Trump-backed primary challenger, and Pritzker, a possible 2028 presidential candidate who’s tussled with the Trump administration over its immigration enforcement operations in the Prairie State.

The most recent data breach, revealed by Illinois officials in early January, months after it was initially discovered, “raises questions” about the state’s “commitment to data security,” Cassidy wrote to Illinois health secretary Dulce Quintero and Pritzker. It came on the heels of a 2024 hacking into the Illinois Department of Human Services that exposed the private information of more than 1 million people, including roughly 4,700 whose Social Security numbers were exposed.

“Despite IDHS’ role in helping vulnerable communities, its repeated failures to implement basic security processes highlight IDHS’ disregard of its responsibility to over 4.6 million Illinois residents,” Cassidy wrote.

Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Human Services did not respond to requests for comment.

Cassidy laid out detailed questions in his letter and requested a response by Feb. 25. Being in the majority, the Senate Republican chairman holds immense subpoena power to compel information and testimony.

Cassidy’s line of questioning included why the department did not notify affected parties until January after discovering the security incident more than three months earlier in September 2025, requesting information about its current cybersecurity protocols and what steps were previously taken to improve data security following the 2024 breach.

From l-r: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., attends a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 9, 2025, and Illinois Gov. JB …

Dem lawmaker compares ICE agents to Nazis and Gestapo during fiery House hearing on enforcement
Every delay has consequences.

Democratic lawmakers compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Nazis and the Gestapo during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Tuesday, as the agency’s acting director faced sharp questioning over enforcement tactics and accountability.
The exchange turned explosive when Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., pressed ICE acting director Todd Lyons on whether agents have been asking people on the streets to show proof of U.S. citizenship, citing reports claiming that American citizens have allegedly been questioned during immigration enforcement actions.
Goldman escalated the line of questioning by invoking historical comparisons, asking pointedly, "Is Nazi Germany one?" after Lyons acknowledged that "very nefarious regimes" had required proof of citizenship. Goldman also pressed Lyons on whether the Soviet Union employed similar tactics.
Lyons pushed back, calling the comparison inappropriate and "the wrong type of questioning," before snapping, saying, "The Holocaust Museum is on 14th Street and Independence. If you want to go see Nazis, that’s where it is."
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Goldman reclaimed his time and accused ICE leadership of having it "backwards," arguing that public criticism of the agency stemmed from its own conduct.
"People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist," Goldman said. "So I have a simple suggestion. If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one."
Goldman’s questioning followed Lyons’ own testimony earlier in the hearing, in which the ICE acting director said agents have been labeled "Gestapo or secret police" by elected officials and activists. Lyons tied that rhetoric to what he described as a sharp rise in threats and assaults against ICE personnel, saying it has endangered agents and their families.
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Nazi references surfaced elsewhere during the hearing as well. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., cited "Greg Bovino, who styled himself in Nazi attire," while criticizing federal immigration operations in Minnesota and the use of masked agents during recent enforcement actions.
The hearing focused on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security and its immigration enforcement agencies amid questions about the limited use of body cameras, particularly following the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis …

Minnesota Insurrection Proves ‘Blue State Model’ Has Failed
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’m trying to make one of my haphazard appearances, depending my energy level, after all these medications they put me on, after this lung cancer surgery. But I’m here on the farm, and I’m doing my best.

I wanna talk a little bit about the open defiance of the federal government. I’ve mentioned that earlier, but when you collate everything that Attorney General of Minnesota Keith Ellison has said, Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, it’s unabashed, unapologetic, insurrectionary rhetoric.

It’s not just that they’ve told Immigration and Customs Enforcement to leave. It’s not just that they’ve told their own police forces and law enforcement in Minnesota, in general, not to come to the aid of ICE. It’s that they’re actually working hand in glove with people on the street.

In other words, they encourage them to take pictures, to harass, to block ICE law enforcement activity. And you get the impression that they feel there’s no consequences.

In other words, they’re saying to the rest of us, the 330 million people outside Minnesota, that we, Minnesota elected officials, have the God-given right to pick and choose which federal laws we’re going to obey. And we are just not going to obey the enforcement of federal immigration law. We don’t really care about 10,000 people coming across the border during the Biden administration per day, but we do care about the federal government rectifying that lapse or that crime, by trying to find out where and who and how to get these people out, in Minnesota.

Nor do they care that ICE, according to its own figures, has rounded up 4,000 people with various criminal misdemeanors and felonies, and got them out of Minnesota. And that has contributed to Minnesota’s low crime rate.

But the problem is this, that they understand that the Trump administration, if they were to enforce immigration law to the full letter of the law, that would include collateral people, that when they’re going after criminals, they say, “Or how about you? You’re in the house. Do you have ID?” And if they’re not, then we’re going to deport them. They don’t want any of that. And they don’t want to turn over people, as I said, in the jails.

And that is a model for what I would call the blue states. Is it new? I mean, the Democrats get very upset when you say, you’re the party of insurrection, going back to the civil rights movement and before, the Civil War.

You know, April 12, 1861, when state’s righters in South Carolina said that we’re not going to honor federal law within the confines of South Carolina, along with six other Confederate states, at that time, who had seceded. And we don’t think federal property belongs to you.

So, this is the tradition that Walz, Frey, and Ellison are relying upon. And it’s an unbroken tradition going all the way from John C. Calhoun, as I said, all the way to Orval Faubus, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, segregationists of the 1960s. And the Left …