President Donald Trump has endorsed Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez, who recently dropped a U.S. Senate bid to run for the U.S. House of Representatives instead.

“It is my Great Honor to endorse MAGA Warrior, Blake Miguez, who is running to represent the tremendous people of Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District,” the president declared in a Truth Social post on Wednesday. “Blake Miguez has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Representative from Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District — HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!”

Miguez thanked the president for his support.

BLAKE MIGUEZ, WHO SAID SEN CASSIDY ‘SUCKS,’ DROPS SENATE BID FOR HOUSE RUN

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters and members of the media at Mar-a-Lago on Feb. 1, 2026 in Palm Beach, Fla. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

“THANK YOU, President Trump for your ENDORSEMENT! Louisiana deserves true, America First representation in Washington to back the MAGA agenda. President Trump is the greatest president in our nation’s history. I’m honored to have the endorsement and look forward to delivering for Louisiana’s 5th and our country,” he declared in a post on X.

Last year, Miguez mounted a U.S. Senate bid, declaring in a campaign video that he was running for the position because GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana “sucks.”

After the House impeached Trump in 2021, Cassidy was one of the Republican senators who voted in favor of convicting, but the Senate vote occurred after the president had already departed from office and the vote ultimately failed to meet the threshold for conviction.

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Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez, left, and U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy.  (senate.la.gov | SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Last month, Trump threw his support behind Rep. Julia Letlow, pledging to back her for U.S. Senate.

“I am hearing that Julia is considering launching her Campaign for the United States Senate in Louisiana, a place I love and WON BIG, six times, including Primaries, in 2016, 2020, and 2024!” the president declared in a Truth Social post. “Should she decide to enter this Race, Julia Letlow has my Complete and Total Endorsement. RUN, JULIA, RUN!!!” 

Letlow, who currently represents Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District, launched a Senate bid days later.

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U.S. President Donald Trump stands with U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., during the Congressional Ball at the Grand Foyer of the White House on Dec. 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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A press release this week declared that Miguez is now running for the U.S. House seat.

“When I announced my campaign for the U.S. Senate last year, I promised Louisianians I would stand with President Trump and fight for an America First agenda that puts Louisiana families first,” Miguez said, according to a press release. “I remain committed to that promise, and I’m ready to deliver the kind of representation that will support President Trump and help advance the mission to Make America Great Again.”

The lives of more than 30 people who died trying to cross the Channel in a small boat could have been saved had a French warship responded to a Mayday call, an inquiry has found.

Chairman Sir Ross Cranston also said the people smugglers who supplied the unsafe inflatable vessel, and flaws in HM Coastguard’s search and rescue response, contributed to the deadliest incident of its kind on record.

The boat became swamped and capsized while attempting the journey from France to the UK in the early hours of 24 November 2021.

A four-week public inquiry identified 27 men, women and children, whose bodies were recovered, while four other people are missing and presumed dead.

Only two of at least 33 people who boarded the boat survived after they were recovered in French waters nearly 12 hours after the first calls for help.

In his 454-page report, Sir Ross concluded the loss of life “was avoidable” and “some of the deaths could’ve been prevented” as he said: “The practice of small boat crossings must end.”

He said: “Apart from other reasons, it is imperative to prevent further loss of life.

“Travelling on board a small, unseaworthy and crowded boat, and crossing one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, is an inherently dangerous activity.”

Sir Ross said the people smugglers involved supplied an unsafe vessel with inadequate safety equipment for the crossing, then dangerously overloaded in with at least 33 people.

The inquiry heard Mubin Rizghar Hussein, a 16-year-old Iraqi Kurdish boy, made the first distress call to the UK authorities at around 1.30am, telling the operator: “Everything is finished”.

HM Coastguard broadcast a Mayday message at 2.27am, when the closest vessel was the French warship Flamant, which was being used by the French Coastguard, about 15 minutes away.

The reasons why Flamant did not respond to what was called “incident Charlie” are subject to a French criminal investigation, so the report states the impact remains “uncertain”.

“However, given its proximity to incident Charlie at the time of the Mayday relay, and that the small boat was intact at this time, if the Flamant had attended incident Charlie, many more and possibly all lives would have been saved,” it said.

Sir Ross also said “systematic failures, missed opportunities and inadequate resourcing” undermined the UK’s search and rescue response.

HM Coastguard was placed in an “intolerable position”, with “chronic staff shortages” and “staff overwhelmed” at Dover, and other deficiencies, “contributing directly to the failure to rescue people in the water,” the report said.

The issues had been known about for some time, but no action had been taken, representing a “significant, systemic failure on the part of government”, which was then led by then prime minister Boris Johnson, it said.

A total of 367 people were rescued by Border Force in the Channel that night, while 757 people arrived in the UK after crossing by small boat on November 24.

A Border Force cutter boat, Valiant, had left at 2.22am to get to the last location of the boat, but did not find it, which the report said was “not attributable to the captain or crew”.

The search was terminated after one of another three small boats was recorded as incident Charlie, and a helicopter also returned to base.

Sir Ross said a widely held belief that callers from small boats “exaggerated their level of distress” impacted “negatively” on the search and rescue response.

This meant after the last call was made at 3.11am, the search coordinator didn’t give “any serious consideration” to the alternative scenario that those on board had fully entered the water, the inquiry found.

One of the two survivors, Issa Mohamed Omar, from Somalia, told the inquiry he was holding on to what remained of the boat all night and could hear people screaming, with around 10 people still alive as the sun rose.

“I believe if rescue would come quickly I believe half of those would still be alive today,” he said.

“Because we have been seen as refugees, that’s the reason the rescue did not come at all. We feel like we’re treated like an animal.”

A French fishing boat found the first bodies floating in the 13C water at around 12.30pm, the inquiry heard.

The inquiry concluded: “If a search for survivors had been adequately undertaken during 24 November, including daylight hours, more lives would’ve been saved.”

Sir Ross said much has improved since the incident but has made a series of 18 recommendations relating to the search and rescue for small boats and more generally.

Two million dollars.

That’s how much money a 22-year-old woman just won in a New York lawsuit against her doctors. She sued them for medical malpractice after they cut off her breasts when she was 16. They told her she could become a boy, even though that’s biologically impossible. Now she has won the first-ever lawsuit against doctors who try to give sex changes to kids.

That brave young woman isn’t alone.

I’m 21 years old, and I’m also suing the medical system that gave me sex-change treatments starting at age 13. There are so many other young people like us. We were lied to by doctors, nurses and therapists when we were vulnerable and confused children. They did irreversible harm to our bodies and minds, making a mockery of the medical profession. They should absolutely be held accountable for sacrificing us in service to radical transgender ideology.

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The woman in New York has a heartbreaking story. She accused a psychologist and surgeon of pressuring her to get a sex-change surgery when she was a teenager. While her mother was opposed to the surgery, she felt like she had no choice but to allow it. That checks out: Doctors tell parents all the time that without a sex change, their child is going to commit suicide. How can a parent argue with that?

But “fixing” someone with a sex-change surgery is what actually breaks them. The New York woman found that out the hard way. She’s now a detransitioner, and she’ll be dealing with the effects of those doctors’ actions for the rest of her life. In that $2 million settlement, the jury awarded her $1.6 million for her pain and suffering — and $400,000 for future medical expenses. She’s probably never going to stop needing physical and mental health care because of what was done to her.

I WAS TOLD I WAS A BOY. SUPREME COURT MUST DESTROY LIES THAT HARM WOMEN LIKE ME

The exact same thing happened to me. In my pre-teen years, I became deeply confused about my gender because of the influence of social media and video games. But instead of helping me accept that I’m a girl, therapists and doctors told me I was a boy.

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They gave me puberty blockers at age 13, stopping my body from developing naturally. They gave me cross-sex hormones not long after that, altering my brain as well as my body. At 16, they cut off my breasts, too. Years later, I still have bandages on my chest.

My doctors told me everything was reversible. But as soon as I realized the mistake I made, I also realized they had lied. There’s no real going back — not completely, and not ever. Like the young woman in New York, I was misled by the doctors my parents and I trusted. Just like her, I need medical help until the day I die. But the doctors who did this to me wouldn’t even talk to me, much less try to help me regain my life as a girl.

Doctors should know better. They’re dealing with kids whose minds and bodies are still developing. They’re dealing with kids going through the awkward years of adolescence. The best medical path is obviously to wait and watch. Wait to let kids develop naturally. Watch that development with the help of real mental health care, especially therapy that helps kids come to grips with who they really are.

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Instead, these doctors are rushing kids down the irreversible and dangerous path of sex-changes. Do No Harm has found that nearly 14,000 kids have received sex changes in recent years, although the real number is almost certainly far higher. What’s been done to them is the definition of medical malpractice. The doctors who perpetrated this injustice should absolutely pay for the lives they’ve destroyed.

For that matter, every doctor who’s even remotely involved in providing sex changes should stop — immediately. People like me are coming for them. They pressured us and hurt us in profound ways. We demand justice. The $2 million that New York woman just won is a start. But this won’t end until the medical profession atones for its actions and stops giving sex changes to children once and for all.

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