Former President Donald Trump pledged to cut energy bills in half during a Fox News town hall with women voters aired Wednesday.

“Everything starts with interest rates,” Trump said, adding that a solution to the inflation crisis also “starts with energy.”

“I’m making this pledge here,” Trump said. “But I have made it a couple of days before,” Trump teased. “Your energy bill, which is a very big bill, will be down 50 percent starting one year from Jan. 20.”

Harris Faulkner, who moderated the hour-long forum, pressed the Republican presidential nominee on how reductions in energy costs “trickle down” to reduce prices across the economy.

“The interest rates have come down and the inflation rate has come down, but it’s like we are going uphill constantly with these price increases,” Faulkner said.

“The interest doesn’t come down very much,” Trump said. “Everything is revolved around energy. That’s what caused inflation, energy, more than anything else including their stupid spending on the Green New Deal. They spent money, so much money, and that caused it also. But the biggest thing was they went away from my energy policy.”

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris promptly forfeited Trump’s strategy of American energy dominance upon inauguration in 2021 with regulations designed to curb U.S. fuel production. Americans suffered months of record gas prices and the most expensive outbreak of inflation in 40 years just one year into the Democrats’ administration.

“If your energy bills come down to half,

When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1 percent. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.

But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5 percent. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

The Bureau — which has been at the center of partisan storms — made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release. 

RCI discovered the change through a cryptic reference on the FBI website that states: “The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023.” But there is no mention that the numbers increased. One only sees the change by downloading the FBI’s new crime data and comparing it to the file released last year.

After the FBI released its new crime data in September, a USA Today headline read: “Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” 

It’s been over three weeks since the FBI released the revised data. The Bureau’s lack of acknowledgment or explanation about the significant change concerns researchers.

“I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William and Mary who specializes in studying crime, told RealClearInvestigations. “There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from

An election integrity watchdog group’s investigation has found numerous Arizona voters whose registered address on the voter rolls belongs to a commercial establishment.

Published on Tuesday, the documentary follows the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s (PILF) Lauren Bis as she visits bars, gas stations, and other venues listed as the residence for individuals on Arizona’s voter rolls. State law mandates that voter registration forms contain a “registrant’s actual place of residence,” which is to include their “street name and number, apartment or space number, city or town and zip code, or such description of the location of the residence that it can be readily ascertained or identified.”

These registration forms specifically prohibit individuals from listing a Post Office box or business address as their registered address.

“The Public Interest Legal Foundation has found and inspected hundreds of commercial addresses where people are registered to vote from in Arizona,” Bis said. “Some of these addresses include an abortion clinic, gas stations, liquor stores, vacant lots, a high school, a smoke shop, gun shop, fast food chain, strip clubs, golf courses, and bars.”

One instance highlighted in the documentary shows Bis purchasing a bottle of water at what appears to be a gas station. While paying, she asked the cashier if she knows whether “Josie [last name redacted] lives here.” After asking Bis to repeat the name, the cashier looking baffled, shook her head.

Are you asking if “she works here?” the cashier probed, to which Bis replied, “Lives here. This is