Ex-Nazi Terrorist, Who became 1st Inmate to Receive Sex Change, May be Headed back to Men’s Prison

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Ex-Nazi Terrorist, Who became 1st Inmate to Receive Sex Change, May be Headed back to Men’s Prison

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In January 2023, former neo-Nazi bank robber Peter Langan, who answers to the name Donna, became the first Bureau of Prisons inmate in history to receive a taxpayer-funded sex change.

Despite having received government-sponsored vaginoplasty and breast augmentation surgery, Langan still might be heading back to men’s prison due to President Donald Trump’s executive order for inmates to be housed according to their biological sex. Langan revealed this possibility in recent court filings.

“At 6:30 p.m. on [Jan. 24 or 25], I was escorted to the Warden’s presence (Warden Rule) and told I would be sent to a male federal prison within the next week. Because of the executive order in that I was no longer a woman in the eyes of the BOP,” Langan said in a Feb. 12 letter, filed in the decades-old Aryan Republican Army bank robbery case.

“I followed all of the rules and procedures and acted in good faith to get a sex change for medical and mental health reasons. It’s a done deal and can’t be undone. Now, in an ex post facto manner, the current President is trying to make me a political pawn and play politics with my health and safety,” Langan said to U.S. Judge James Graham—seeking an order that would keep the ex-Nazi in a female prison.

Graham denied the request on procedural grounds, he has no power to issue an order for where Langan should be incarcerated. Langan also attempted to file a motion in the sex-change lawsuit, but was not allowed to do so.

As of the publication of this article, Langan was still listed as being incarcerated in a female prison. Langan did note in a recent filing that the BOP’s “Transgender Executive Council” considers him a woman.

The BOP did not respond to a request for comment on Langan’s status, as well as whether Langan would fall under Trump’s EO as a post-op trans inmate.

According to Langan’s former attorney, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, there’s going to be a bloodbath if Langan is returned to a men’s prison under the new Trump administration.

“It’s going to be incredibly dangerous,” Meltzer-Cohen told the DailyMail in January. Meltzer-Cohen did not represent Langan in his recent attempts at a court order to stay with the women inmates.

Headline USA will write an update in the event that Langan files a new lawsuit over the matter.

Meanwhile, the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing is fast approaching, and Langan claims to know about co-conspirators in the April 19, 1995, attack who remain at large.

When he was arrested in 1996, Langan told authorities that his fellow neo-Nazi bank robbers were involved in the attack. However, the U.S. government ignored Langan’s allegations about the OKC bombing, and went as far as to suppress Langan’s testimony about the matter.

Researchers have speculated that the government has ignored Langan and the other Nazi bank robbers’ connections to OKC because many of them were federal informants. Admitting the robbers helped carry out the attack would raise grave questions about government foreknowledge and possible complicity with OKC, according to criminologist Mark Hamm, who wrote about Langan and OKC in his 2001 book, In Bad Company: America’s Terrorist Underground.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

The Real Border Battle: Customs Seizes More Eggs Than Hard Drugs

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The Real Border Battle: Customs Seizes More Eggs Than Hard Drugs

(José Niño, Headline USA) In a surprising twist of events, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is currently carrying out more seizures of smuggled eggs and egg-related goods than fentanyl. 

CBP is tasked with halting the transport of illegal items moving across the United States’ borders. President Donald Trump campaigned on securing the United States’ border with Mexico, specifically to halt the flow of hard drugs such as fentanyl and illegal aliens from making their way stateside.  

According to a report by Truthout, CBP agents carried out 134 fentanyl seizures in January and February — a figure that’s almost 32 percent less than the number of seizures that took place in the same timeframe in 2024. 

In the meantime, there were 3,254 seizures of eggs and egg-related products in the months of January and February in 2025, which constitutes a twofold increase from the same month-to-month period in 2024.

Eggs have become associated with Trump’s efforts to lower the inflation that rocked Joe Biden’s presidency. Thus far, eggs have experienced lower wholesale prices — the costs that distributors incur when purchasing from farmers or other intermediaries. That said, consumer costs remain high. 

Throughout the campaign trail in 2024, Trump repeatedly vowed that he would lower consumer costs. “Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down,” Trump said at the time.

The economy remains a sensitive issue with voters and voters appear to be souring on Trump. According to an NBC News poll, 54 percent of  Americans disapprove of the way Trump has handled the issue, with 55 percent similarly disapproving the way Trump has tackled the issue of inflation. 

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino 

New Poll Shows Mel Gibson as Frontrunner for California Governor

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New Poll Shows Mel Gibson as Frontrunner for California Governor

(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Actor Mel Gibson surprisingly was found to be the frontrunner Republican candidate for the governor of California, according to a recent poll.

The Lost Coast Outpost poll showed the actor coming in third place with 11% of the vote with 2,640 votes cast.

Former Rep. Katie Porter received 25% and former Vice President Kamala Harris got 20%.

While Gibson has support, a source told TMZ he has no desire to run, but is “flattered” to be considered.

Gibson’s publicist, Alan Nierob, also told the California Globe it is not going to happen.

“He’s sticking with his day job for now,” Nierob told the outlet.

If Gibson did run, he wouldn’t be the first actor to be the governor of California. Former President Ronald Reagan and Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger both previously held the position.

Gibson was previously in the news for blasting California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for how they handled the wildfires that occurred in January.

“Governor Newsom and Karen Bass let us all down,” Gibson told a crowd in February. “There is absolutely no adequate excuse the governor or mayor can make for this gross mismanagement and failure to preemptively deal with what they knew was coming.”

He continued to tear into the failed leadership of the state in the roughly six and a half minute speech.

“Was it incompetence? Was it indifference, complacency, carelessness? Was it negligence? Absolutely,” the Braveheart actor said.

In addition to speaking out against the Democrat politicians, Gibson was also named by President Donald Trump as one of his Special Ambassadors to Hollywood. Fellow actors Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight also received the same title. The goal is to bring business back to the area.

“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!” Trump posted in January.

Iowa Review Confirms that Noncitizens Voted Last November

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Iowa Review Confirms that Noncitizens Voted Last November

(Headline USA) A review of Iowa’s voter rolls found 35 people who are not U.S. citizens were among more than 1.6 million Iowa voters who cast ballots in the 2024 general election, despite them being ineligible to vote.

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said Thursday that his office also identified 277 noncitizens who were registered to vote of the nearly 2.3 million registered voters.

Voting by people who are not U.S. citizens is illegal in federal elections.

Pate has regularly reminded Iowans that the state’s laws protect the integrity of the elections but that even one instance of a noncitizen voting illegally is too many. The office will refer the new information to the state Department of Public Safety and the Attorney General for further investigation and potential prosecution.

Last year, Pate’s office identified 2,176 potentially illegal voters two weeks before the Nov. 5 election, after comparing the state’s voter rolls to a list of people who self-reported as noncitizens to the Iowa Department of Transportation. Pate’s office said that was the DOT information was the best source available to them at the time because they did not have access to federal immigration records, which they do now.

Last October, the vast majority of the more than 2,000 individuals Pate’s office identified had told the DOT that they are not citizens but subsequently registered to vote or voted. Because they may have become naturalized citizens in the lapsed time, Pate’s office told county elections officials to challenge their ballots and have them cast a provisional ballot instead.

Voters had a specific amount of time to “cure” provisional ballots, in this case by providing proof that they are naturalized citizens. The review also found five noncitizens that cast a ballot that was ultimately rejected by county review boards.

Iowa’s voter registration form asks whether a person is a U.S. citizen and requires potential voters to sign a statement saying they are citizens, warning them that if they lie, they can be convicted of a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Ed Department Opens Title VI Investigations into Schools Making Race-Based Decisions

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Ed Department Opens Title VI Investigations into Schools Making Race-Based Decisions

(Tate Miller, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Education has opened Title VI investigations into dozens of colleges and universities that are still engaging in race-based practices even after the department sent a Dear Colleague letter explaining what it says is the unlawfulness of race-based decisions in education.

Forty-five universities are being investigated for “allegedly engaging in race-exclusionary practices in their graduate programs“ and seven for “alleged impermissible race-based scholarships and race-based segregation” according to a Department of Education news release.

The release said that the department’s Office for Civil Rights opened investigations “under Title VI” following its Feb. 14 Dear Colleague letter.

The Dear Colleague letter stated that race-based decisions in education are unlawful, and schools that fail to comply with the antidiscrimination requirements could face loss of federal funding, as The Center Square previously reported.

The 45 schools face investigations “amid allegations that these institutions have violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (1964) by partnering with ‘The Ph.D. Project,’” the department’s release said.

The Ph.D Project is “an organization that purports to provide doctoral students with insights into obtaining a Ph.D. and networking opportunities, but limits eligibility based on the race of participants,” the release said.

Of the remaining seven universities being investigated by the Office for Civil Rights, six are “allegedly awarding impermissible race-based scholarships” and one is “allegedly administering a program that segregates students on the basis of race.”

Visiting Fellow for Higher Education Reform at the Heritage Foundation Adam Kissel told The Center Square that “these investigations emphasize how seriously the Department of Education is taking its duty to combat illegal DEI discrimination.”

“These universities paid to partner with the PhD Project when they knew it was discriminating by race and ethnicity,” Kissel said.

“While this discrimination has persisted for decades, the Supreme Court and the Department of Education both made clear that such discrimination will no longer be tolerated since it violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Kissel told The Center Square.

“Title VI investigations are a powerful tool for upholding civil rights because almost no college that gets federal funds wants that gravy train to end,” Kissel said.

Kissel told The Center Square that he also filed civil rights complaints against all U.S. colleges and universities that are listed as PhD Project partners and that he looks “forward to the vindication of civil rights at these institutions.”

As Kissel wrote, the PhD Project stated on its Form 990 to the government that its mission is “to increase workplace diversity by increasing the diversity of business school faculty who encourage, mentor, support and enhance the preparation of tomorrow’s leaders.”

Mention of the PhD Project’s original mission of “diversifying corporate America” has been scrubbed from its website, Kissel wrote.

When reached for comment, the Department of Education referred The Center Square to its news release.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in the release that “students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin. We will not yield on this commitment.”

“The Department is working to reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” McMahon said.

“The agency has already launched Title VI investigations into institutions where widespread antisemitic harassment has been reported and Title IX investigations into entities which allegedly continue to allow sex discrimination,” McMahon said.

“Today’s announcement expands our efforts to ensure universities are not discriminating against their students based on race and race stereotypes,” McMahon said.

PBS and NPR Heads Asked to Testify before DOGE Committee

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PBS and NPR Heads Asked to Testify before DOGE Committee

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The House Subcommittee for the Department of Government Efficiency is calling the leadership of National Public Radio, a news operations that receives taxpayer funding, to testify before Congress, it said Wednesday.

The House subcommittee was created to operate similarly to DOGE, the Trump Administration’s federal effort to cut waste, fraud and abuse in the government. NPR is under scrutiny for its left-leaning political coverage while receiving taxpayer funding.

The hearing is expected March 26, and the leadership of the Public Broadcasting System has also been asked to testify.

“I want to hear why NPR and PBS think they should ever again receive a single cent from the American taxpayer,” U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who leads the DOGE Subcommittee, said.

Defenders of the groups point out that most of their funding is not from the government and that they offer a public service. PBS said it receives about $500 million a year from Congress.

Katherine Maher, CEO and president of NPR, and Paula Kerger, CEO of PBS, were personally asked to testify at the hearing, which has been called “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable.”

The hearing comes as Trump seeks to make cuts to government agencies and contracts across the federal government, leaving no institution safe from possible defunding.

Trump’s efforts to cut funding have hit several legal hiccups as judges question DOGE’s authority. Congressional efforts to make those cuts, however, would likely have little to no questions about their authority, making Congressional attention on this issue important for the long term sustainability of DOGE-like cuts to the government.

“These partisan, so-called ‘media’ stations dropped the ball on Hunter Biden’s laptop, down-played COVID-19 origins, and failed to properly report the Russian collusion hoax,” Greene said. “Now, it is time for their CEOs to publicly explain this biased coverage. Federal taxpayers should not be forced to pay for one-sided reporting, which attacks over half the country to protect and promote its own political interests. I look forward to working with the Trump Administration to stop allowing the blatant misuse of taxpayer funds for partisan ends.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, announced an investigation into PBS and NPR earlier this year.

As The Center Square previously reported, Maher released a statement responding to Carr’s investigation into PBS and NPR, alleging they may have broken the law by running commercials.

“NPR programming and underwriting messaging complies with federal regulations, including the FCC guidelines on underwriting messages for noncommercial educational broadcasters, and Member stations are expected to be in compliance as well,” she said. “We are confident any review of our programming and underwriting practices will confirm NPR’s adherence to these rules. We have worked for decades with the FCC in support of noncommercial educational broadcasters who provide essential information, educational programming, and emergency alerts to local communities across the United States.”

DOJ Rethinks Suppressor Regulations in Second Amendment Shift

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DOJ Rethinks Suppressor Regulations in Second Amendment Shift

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Trump Department of Justice appears to be changing its controversial position of the Second Amendment not protecting firearms suppressors. 

After Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation revealed that the U.S. Attorney Michael Simpson filed a brief this Monday arguing that firearm suppressors are not protected by the Second Amendment, the DOJ is now requesting 30 days to reconsider its brief. 

 The case here is concerned with George Peterson, a firearm business owner who was indicted for possessing an unregistered suppressor under the National Firearms Act (NFA) after law enforcement raided his home. Peterson subsequently challenged the constitutionality of the NFA’s suppressor registration requirement. 

The Fifth Circuit then ruled that suppressors do not constitute “arms” as enshrined in Second Amendment. Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod opined that a suppressor “by itself, is not a weapon” and without being attached to a gun, “it would not be of much use for self-defense.” 

Simpson’s recent contention aligns with the Fifth Circuit’s earlier decision on Feb. 6, 2025, which held that suppressors are not protected “arms” under the Second Amendment. Simpson claimed that the National Firearms Act’s regulation of suppressors is consistent with historical firearm regulations and does not infringe on constitutional rights.

However, pressure from pro-gun organizations such as GOA have prompted the government to request “this Court [to] delay its ruling on Peterson’s petition for 30 days to allow it an opportunity to further consider its position.” 

The topic of firearms suppressors has become a controversial facet of the gun control debate following Luigi Mangione’s assassination of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, where he allegedly used a 3D-printed firearm and 3D-printed suppressor. 

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino 

Top Prosecutor Calls Tesla Violence ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Amid Federal Cuts

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Top Prosecutor Calls Tesla Violence ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Amid Federal Cuts

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) As Tesla boss Elon Musk leads federal cost-cutting efforts, his auto company has drawn the ire of frustrated Americans who have taken things out on his cars, buildings, electric vehicle chargers and everything else that carries a Tesla logo.

President Donald Trump has gone to lengths to protect Musk as the Department of Government Efficiency works to reshape the federal workforce to Trump’s specifications.

This week, the nation’s top prosecutor put vandals and others on notice. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said the Justice Department will investigate the spate of recent attacks on Tesla property. She called the attacks on Tesla “domestic terrorism.”

“The swarm of violent attacks on Tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism,” she said. “The Department of Justice has already charged several perpetrators with that in mind, including in cases that involve charges with five-year mandatory minimum sentences.”

Bondi also hinted at organizers behind the attacks.

“We will continue investigations that impose severe consequences on those involved in these attacks, including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes,” she said.

Since Musk took up the top cost-cutting position in Trump’s government, his Tesla electric vehicles have become a target for vandals of all stripes. Some have graffitied their feelings about Musk on Tesla vehicle chargers. Other have gone after the cars with keys or other forms of vandalism. The same goes for dealerships, car lots and showrooms. No injuries have been reported during the attacks.

Trump is keenly aware of the problem. He recently invited a parade of Tesla vehicles to the White House for some personal car shopping. The president even invited reporters along for the spectacle.

The violence and vandalism come as Trump looks to reduce the footprint of the federal government. Trump, with help from Musk and his team, has virtually shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. Trump has also taken steps to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies that don’t align with his spending plans.

DOGE, with help from Trump’s cabinet, has directed cuts at agencies across the federal government.

Trump has promised to cut “hundreds of billions” in federal spending in 2025 through the reconciliation process. Musk initially suggested DOGE could cut $2 trillion in spending. Musk more recently said the group will aim for $2 trillion, but likely come up with half that amount.

Congress has run a deficit every year since 2001. In the past 50 years, the federal government has ended with a fiscal year-end budget surplus four times, most recently in 2001.

Pentagon Eyes Deeper Cuts after 21,000 Opt to Resign

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Pentagon Eyes Deeper Cuts after 21,000 Opt to Resign

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon is working toward deeper cuts to its civilian workforce after about 21,000 civilian employees volunteered for a federal Deferred Resignation Program.

The department wants to cut 5% to 8% of civilian employees, or about 50,000 to 60,000 employees.

Office of Personnel Management sent an email Jan. 28 to nearly all federal employees in the executive branch offering them a deferred resignation package – similar to a buyout – called the Fork in the Road directive. It gave federal workers a choice: continue working knowing that Trump plans to restructure the federal workforce and expects everyone back in the office or leave with eight months of pay. Defense officials said about 21,000 employees volunteered for the Deferred Resignation Program. The department approved the majority of those applications, a senior defense official said.

In addition to the Deferred Resignation Program, Pentagon officials expect to cut about 6,000 employees per month in the coming months through Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hiring freeze. The largest federal agency also plans to dismiss about 5,400 probationary workers, but those plans remain the subject of litigation.

Hegseth is confident the cuts can be done without affecting military readiness, the senior defense official said.

The U.S. government employs about 2.4 million federal workers, excluding the military (about 1.3 million active-duty military personnel) and U.S. Postal Service (about 600,000 employees), according to 2024 Pew Research report. That report noted that the federal government employed 1.87% of the entire civilian workforce. That percentage includes postal employees, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

The Trump administration said that even government employees who stay on could lose their jobs as the president reshapes the federal government and its workforce.

Just how much Trump can do to reduce the size of the federal government remains to be seen. On Tuesday, a federal judge said Trump’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development “likely violated the United States Constitution.”

‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Could be Classified as a Mental Illness in Minnesota

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‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Could be Classified as a Mental Illness in Minnesota

(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Call it a publicity stunt, but five Republican Minnesota senators are introducing a bill to classify “Trump derangement syndrome” as a mental illness.

The proposed bill would define TDS as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump.”

“Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump’s behavior,” it continued.

The bill aims to include TDS as a mental illness that would “seriously limits a person’s capacity to function in primary aspects of daily living such as personal relations, living arrangements, work, and recreation.”

The bill was co-authored by state Sens. Eric Lucero, Steve Drazkowski, Nathan Wesenberg, Justin D. Eichorn and Glenn H. Gruenhagen.

In recent years the term has been used to criticized the biased obsession against Trump and his decisions.

The bill is not expected to pass as the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer Labor Party hold the majority in the state and is affiliated with Democrats.

Gruenhagen, who is one of the authors of the bill, defended the bill in a Facebook post, according to The Hill.

“People of different political persuasions can differ when discussing issues. We should be able to have civil debates without demonstrating violent and unreasonable reactions such as burning down Tesla dealerships, threatening people who wear Trump hats or committing road rage at the sight of a Trump bumper sticker on a person’s car,” the senator wrote.

He added the behavior that leftists exhibit toward Trump is unacceptable.

“This irrational behavior is unacceptable in a civil society and suggests a deeper psychological problem. That is what this bill addresses, not mere political disagreements,” he continued.

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