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🚨🚨 BREAKING: A federal jury just convicted nine violent extremists for the July 4 attack on an ICE detention center in Texas. They ambushed law enforcement, shot an officer in the neck, and thought they’d get away with it. Today justice prevailed. Terrorists who target our agents will face the full force of federal law. We will continue dismantling violent extremist networks and the funding pipelines that support them. Thank you to our partners across law enforcement and to the Attorney General and the Department of Justice for ensuring these prosecutions moved forward.

The army is meanwhile investigating the impact early Friday in the Arab town of Zarzir near Nazareth, where about 60 people were wounded

TALLAHASSEE – Florida voters could be required to prove their citizenship at the ballot box, but not until after the 2026 elections, under a bill headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The House on Thursday passed a bill (HB 991) on a 77-28 vote along party lines, imposing new identification requirements on voters, but it doesn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2027. Earlier in the day the Senate approved the measure on a 27-12 vote, with Sen. Alexis Calatayud of Miami the only Republican voting against it. Sen. Jason Pizzo, an independent from Sunny Isles Beach, voted for it. “What is...

A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests that the connection between a young adult’s cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes. The findings provide evidence that genetic factors play a larger role in educational and occupational success than environmental conditions. This underlying biology may help explain why some social interventions aimed at reducing inequality tend to fall short over the long term.

A Chinese national has been arrested in Kenya's main airport accused of attempting to smuggle more than 2,000 queen garden ants out of the country. Zhang Kequn was intercepted during a security check at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in the capital Nairobi after authorities discovered a large consignment of live ants in his luggage bound for China. He has yet to respond to the accusation but investigators said in court that he was linked to an ant-trafficking network that was broken up in Kenya last year. The ants are protected by international bio-diversity treaties and their trade is highly...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pushing to reduce the state’s estate tax exemption threshold by nearly 90%, from over $7 million to $750,000, while raising the top estate tax rate from 16% to 50%. The proposal appeared in a memo circulated by Mamdani’s office to state lawmakers negotiating the state budget. New York Focus first reported the memo. Mamdani is confronting a $5.4 billion city budget deficit for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and is seeking assistance from the state legislature to generate revenue to address the shortfall. The memo included nearly a dozen potential revenue-raising ideas....

NORFOLK, Va. -- The Justice Department on Friday charged a man who authorities say sold a gun to the Old Dominion University shooter despite the gunman's previous conviction in a terrorism case. Kenya Chapman is facing federal charges in connection to the sale of the weapon to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guard member who yelled "Allahu akbar" before he opened fire in a classroom at the Virginia school on Thursday, according to authorities. One person was killed and two others were injured in the shooting. Jalloh was barred from possessing a gun given a previous felony conviction...

Iran's mullahs know their regime falling and they intend to take the rest of the world down with them.The missiles currently lighting up the skies over the Persian Gulf are not the precision tools of a confident power; they are the desperate flailing of a regime that has realized its end is near. For decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has maintained a thin veneer of "Islamic solidarity" to mask its expansionist ambitions. But as the "Epic Fury" strikes of early 2026 continue to dismantle the regime’s internal command, that mask has been ripped away, revealing a cold, nihilistic...

Following an over two-week trial, nine members of a North Texas Antifa cell have been convicted of charges that include providing material support to terrorists regarding an attack on the Prairieland ICE detention facility on July 5, 2025. After two days of deliberation, the jurors delivered guilty verdicts for Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, Daniel Ronaldo Sanchez-Estrada, Zachary Evetts, Cameron Arnold, also known as Autumn Hill; and Bradford Morris, also known as Megan Morris.

House Republicans have taken a firm stance in Washington by promising to block Senate-passed legislation until the Senate takes up the SAVE America Act. The legislation, formally called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, requires proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration in federal elections and mandates photo ID at polling places. Lawmakers pushing the measure say the bill protects election integrity by ensuring that only U.S. citizens may vote in federal elections. President Donald Trump has endorsed the effort and signaled he'll prioritize the legislation once it reaches his desk. Republican lawmakers leading the effort have framed the strategy...

Six days in an overflow stretcher. Beds in storage rooms. Patients dying in their seats. No, we're not describing an episode of HBO's gritty medical drama The Pitt. These are real-life scenes playing out in Canada's emergency rooms. From Carbonear, N.L., where a man recently died of a heart attack during a 10-hour wait to see a doctor, to Calgary, where a woman pleaded "please don't let me die" during the hours she bled onto a stretcher in the ER, hospitals are bursting at the seams as backlogs and access issues affect patient flow. "I think we're close to the...

In a phone call with President Trump this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed moving Iran's enriched uranium to Russia as part of a deal to end the war. Trump turned him down, sources tell Axios. Why it matters: Securing Iran's 450 kilograms of 60%-enriched uranium — convertible to weapons grade within weeks, and enough for more than 10 nuclear bombs — is one of the U.S. and Israel's key war objectives. In theory, Putin's offer could help facilitate the removal of Iran's nuclear stockpile without U.S. or Israeli boots on the ground. Russia is already a nuclear power and...

Danclever: HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has not yet appear publicly since assuming power. For a regime that never stops talking, the silence is deafening. #Danclever #usa #iran

Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider said he believes Washington state's new income tax on high earners will eventually have a negative impact on the team's ability to sign free agents. Lawmakers this week passed Washington's first income tax. The so-called "millionaire tax" will impose a 9.9% tax on annual income of more than $1 million beginning in 2028. Gov. Bob Ferguson has already pledged to sign the bill, though it could still be challenged. The Seahawks have been one of eight NFL teams that play in states with no income tax, along with the Las Vegas Raiders, Houston Texans,...

Our Sages tell us that we must always anticipate possibilities of what might happen and look for solutions. Iran - with a GDP smaller than the state of Texas - has pressed pause on the global economy. The Strait of Hormuz, barely 21 miles wide, carries 20 percent of the world's oil supply every single day. And right now, it is closed. The conventional response - to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, broker a ceasefire, rush the tankers through - is available. It is also a missed opportunity of historic proportions. There is another path in which the story of...

The Pentagon is redeploying the USS Tripoli amphibious assault ship to the Middle East as the American military works to dislodge Iranian influence over the vital Strait of Hormuz. The Tripoli, which resembles an aircraft carrier but is smaller and operates closer to shore, is departing Japan with an attached Marine expeditionary unit consisting of roughly 5,000 Marines and sailors, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit will take about two weeks to arrive in the Middle East, Fox News chief national sec Jennifer Griffin reported, adding that a smaller contingent of about 2,500 Marines are...

A man dressed in military-style clothing and carrying a holstered firearm entered Zwink Elementary School in Spring Tuesday, prompting a multi-agency investigation that led to a felony arrest, according to court documents and a letter from school officials. Kyle Najm Chris, also known as Muhi Mohanad Najm, 39, of Klein, was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, a third-degree felony, which prohibits carrying weapons on school premises. The Harris County District Attorney accepted the charges, and Chris was arrested at around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. According to the criminal complaint, Chris entered the front office of Zwink Elementary, which is...

A federal judge on Friday said he was blocking subpoenas that the Justice Department served to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in a probe purported to be about the management of the central bank's renovation. "A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning," Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge on the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., wrote in a court filing. Boasberg continued: "On the other side of the scale, the Government has produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell...

Mar 13, 2026 U.S. war planners are reportedly considering a special forces operation to seize Iran’s Kharg Island — the tiny oil terminal where nearly all of Iran’s exports leave the country. If captured or destroyed, it could cripple Tehran’s economy overnight. But the island is heavily defended and sits within missile range of the Iranian mainland. Here’s why Kharg Island matters, how it’s defended, and what a Delta Force raid could actually look like.

https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/2032317362746048666 Colin Wright @SwipeWright·15h "Why did you identify this as one of the craziest grants?" "Because it references feminist and queer insights into prison abolition and LGBTQ studies.""Any other reasons?" "No." Legendarily based. @grokThis is the deposition of Nathan Cavanaugh, a young DOGE staffer at GSA. It's part of a lawsuit by the American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association challenging the Trump admin's termination of NEH grants. Plaintiffs claim the process (quick keyword/AI scans for DEI/LGBTQ/feminist references like this prison abolition one) bypassed peer review and violated laws. The depo questions how DOGE flagged/cut...