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Brighton Middle School is being evacuated due to a threat. School officials said they received a bomb threat. Students are being evacuated as investigators search the school.

Several top Obama administration officials warned of the potential risks of accepting Syrian refugees before the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks on Paris, France last Friday.Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson, according to CNS News, said Oct. 13 that the U.S. wouldn’t know a “whole lot” about potential refugees.“One of the challenges we will have is that we’re not going to know a whole lot about the individual refugees that come forward from the UN High Commission on Refugees for Resettlement and Vetting,” he said.At a security industry conference on Sept. 9, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the potential for Islamic...

Five foreign nationals were arrested on the Ohio Turnpike, WKBN in Youngstown reported.The arrests happened Friday in Braceville Township in Trumbull County.The Ohio State Highway Patrol said troopers pulled over a car going east on the turnpike for making an improper lane change. During a search, troopers found a machine that helps create and duplicate credit cards, WKBW reported.Jibril Abdiselam, 24; Mohammeddeq Hassan, 27;  Mahamoud Mohamed, 26;   Zakaria Warsame, 25, and Said Abu were charged with possessing criminal tools and forgery.They are being held in the Trumbull County Jail on $25,000 bond each. All five had to surrender their passports.The suspects...

Two federal agents operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are claiming that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector. The federal agents spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity, however, a local president of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) confirmed that Laredo Border Patrol agents have been officially contacting the organization with concerns over reports from other federal agents about Syrians illegally entering the country in the Laredo Sector.

GOP Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump holds a rally at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA at 7:00 PM EST. Post live stream links here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7MrNb5V_xE shift.msnbc.com http://www.necn.com/news/politics/Donald-Trump-Visit-DCU-Center-Worcester-Massachusetts-351440561.html

Original title too long - BREAKING: Honduras Arrests Five Syrians With Fake Greek Passports Heading To U.S.A. – Three More Arrested In St. Maarten Two separate incidents with common attributes. Two independent groups of Syrian males traveling on fake Greek passports trying to gain entry into the U.S. The first group of three was identified/captured in Saint Maarten after a flight from Haiti. The second group of five were identified/captured in Honduras. Group #2 – Honduran authorities have detained five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports, but there are no signs of...

s Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)58% prepares a show vote on the nation’s importation of Muslim refugees, a growing group of Congressional conservatives are calling for a reduction or suspension of visa issuances to Muslim nations with jihadist movements. Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz has explained the details of Ryan’s anticipated “bait and switch”: Instead of listening to their constituents and following the calls of 30 governors to shut down Islamic refugee resettlement, Republicans are about to pull the classic bait and switch: pass a phony standalone bill and decline to defund it in the budget bill… Remember Obamacare, executive amnesty,...

House Speaker Paul Ryan is lining up a showdown vote for Thursday on President Obama's plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States. But conservatives on Capitol Hill who want to see the refugee program halted are warning that Ryan's plan is nothing but a smokescreen designed to give lip-service while refusing to defund the program. Ryan likely has no intention of cutting off the flow of Muslim refugees into the U.S., nor does he plan to ensure Syria's persecuted Christian minority gets rescued from the clutches of ISIS, sources told WND.

Moments ago, French prosecutor Francois Molins gave an update regarding the early morning raid in the Paris suburb of St-Denis that resulted in two deaths and the arrest of seven suspects. The target: the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. French authorities reportedly had Abaaoud's cousin under surveillance and suspected she was hiding him an apartment about two kilometers from the Stade de France. Here is an eyewitness account of how she died:

A top Tennessee Republican lawmaker believes the time has come for the National Guard to round up any Syrian refugees who have recently settled in the state and to stop any additional Syrian refugees from entering Tennessee. "We need to activate the Tennessee National Guard and stop them from coming in to the state by whatever means we can," said House GOP Caucus Chairman Glen Casada, R-Franklin, referencing refugees. "I’m not worried about what a bureaucrat in D.C. or an unelected judge thinks. ... We need to gather (Syrian refugees) up and politely take them back to the ICE center...

Conflict News ‏@Conflicts 43m43 minutes ago BREAKING: Honduras says has detained 5 Syrians who were traveling by land to the United States with stolen Greek passports - Reuters

Federal and local law enforcement agencies have made dozens of arrests of men and women suspected of ISIS involvement. Analysis shows that they include refugees who entered the United States as refugees. Yet Presidents Obama insists says that 'slamming the door' on Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS would be a betrayal of American values.

PARIS - A massive police raid Wednesdays killed the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks during a blitz-style sweep, two senior European intelligence officials said, after investigators followed leads that the fugitive militant was holed up north of the French capital and could be plotting another wave of violence. More than 100 police and soldiers stormed the building during a seven-hour siege that left two dead including the suspected overseer of the Paris bloodshed, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who had once boasted he could slip easily between Europe and the Islamic State strongholds in Syria.

Under federal law, the executive branch is expressly required to take religion into account in determining who is granted asylum. Under the provision governing asylum (section 1158 of Title 8, U.S. Code), an alien applying for admission must establish that ... religion... was or will be at least one central reason for persecuting the applicant. Moreover, to qualify for asylum in the United States, the applicant must be a 'refugee' as defined by federal law. That definition (set forth in Section 1101(a)(42)(A) of Title , U.S. Code) also requires the executive branch to take account of the alien's religion: The...

Today has been another busy news day for all of us. Another great job by the FReepers keeping us all up to date by posting the articles and by those FReepers making comments on the threads to keep us all even better informed. Please don't forget that the FReepathon fundraiser is still in progress even though it may get buried in Breaking News from time to time due to the important events of the day. Also please do not forget that without FR we would be searching high and low, spending a lot of time just trying to find those...

The cost of mobile phone service has been steadily declining over the past decade, as cellphone companies fiercely compete for business. But customers aren't seeing it in their phone bills, thanks to revenue-hungry federal, state and local governments.

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Two people have been killed in gunfire and explosions as French police carried out a raid in northern Paris early this morning.A siege ensued after officers stormed an apartment early this morning which was thought to contain terror suspects behind the attacks on Friday.A suicide bomber detonated her explosive vest during the raid, killing herself and seriously injuring five police officers, a firefighter, and killing a police dog named Diesel.French media reported that another terrorist suspect was killed by a police sniper.Reports initially came through of three deaths as a result of the raid on the residential building, however this number was later revised...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who campaigned as an unstinting champion of social conservatives but found himself crowded out by other more forceful, dynamic personalities, on Tuesday abruptly ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Jindal, 44, had staked out far-right territory but never gained traction during a primary that’s been dominated by outsiders with similar or more conservative views, particularly Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Jindal noted that the policy papers his campaign had unveiled in recent months, on issues such as energy and education, hadn't resonated with voters.