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Eight members of a North Texas Antifa cell have been given decades in prison for their roles in an attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the state in July of 2025. Sentences handed down to the group of eight militants ranged from 30 years to 100 years. Ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song received the highest sentence, with US District Judge Mark T Pittman sentencing him to 100 years, Andy Ngo reported. Song had been convicted of charges that included attempted murder and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, the most serious charges in...

Despite the children speaking multiple languages and being talented piano players, the São Paolo court upholds its position that the couple neglected their kids' education. Audato and Ieda Denardi with their children - ADF International. A Brazilian couple has been sentenced to 50 days in jail for homeschooling their daughters according to their own beliefs and not introducing them to gender ideology. Audato and Ieda Denardi were convicted of “intellectual neglect” after a court concluded that the education they provided at home failed to include programs on “gender and sex education” and “tolerance and diversity.” The girls, aged 15 and...

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The first federal Antifa terror convicts in U.S. history have been sentenced today. The North Texas Antifa cell that carried out the July 4, 2025 shooting ambush on an ICE facility received a combined 450 years in federal prison. READ:ngocomment.com/p/breaking-exc…

Men and women aren’t the same. We’re also not “equal.” There are things men are better at and things women are better at. One of those things is police work. Does that mean there are no good female cops? Of course not. But it does mean there’s a dangerous pattern that’s been forming for a long time, where female officers are being overwhelmed by perps, running from crime scenes, and even killing innocent people in Keystone Cops-style situations. But none of this is the least bit funny It’s actually alarming. And it’s time to ask the million-dollar question: Should we...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun did something almost unheard of last week. In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, He looked directly into the camera and addressed the Israeli public: "Are you fed up with war since 1948?" he asked. "Do you really want to live in peace? Let's sit and talk."In some of his strongest remarks since becoming president, he directly accused Iran of treating Lebanon as a bargaining chip. "It's not your country, it's our country," Aoun said when discussing Tehran's role in Lebanon. President Isaac Herzog welcomed the Lebanese leader's comments and reiterated Israel's stated desire for peace...

Sunny Hostin has long been a prominent voice on issues involving sexual misconduct allegations and the treatment of accusers. In October 2018, while discussing the confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Hostin drew criticism after arguing that "a woman's word is enough," a statement opponents said conflicted with traditional due process principles. The comment in essence says that accusations alone should carry decisive weight when evaluating misconduct claims. (Kristine Marsh, "ABC Legal Analyst Sunny Hostin Argues Against Due Process: 'A Woman's Word is Enough!'", MRC NewsBusters, October 11, 2018. [https://archive.is/kn2OU]) Eight years later, that same Hostin has...

Elon Musk @elonmusk·11m TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~UK immigrant: "You guys started a war that nobody can save you on this (matter?). Nobody. You can join force with America, You can join force with NATO and you can join force with all Germany and nobody gonna save you guys.Trust me. Nobody gonna save you guys. They can put you on the middle of (this?) with (?), RPG, AK47. They surround you, more than 200 billion and 200 billion soldiers and you are in the middle, they cannot save you. Trust me."~~~END TRANSCRIPT

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is challenging defense companies to develop a new generation of low-cost air-defense interceptors within a year, a move that could reshape one of the military's most expensive and strategically important weapons markets, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. The initiative, which will be presented to roughly 100 companies ranging from defense startups to established contractors, reflects growing concern that the Pentagon's traditional approach to weapons acquisition has produced systems that are highly capable but difficult to manufacture quickly and affordably at scale. For investors, the effort could create opportunities for defense technology companies focused on mass production,...

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered that fencing erected around a Eugene federal building that has been the target of violent anti-ICE riots must be taken down. The federal building houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as other federal agencies. US District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai said Monday, "The evidence is clear, convincing, really without any meaningful dispute, that for the time this place has existed, it has been a place where the community has assembled to express themselves." The Biden-appointed judge ruled from the bench following arguments that were held on Monday, per Courthouse News Service. Siding with...

"There is not one nation that came to us and said, 'Please, sir, keep dropping bombs on them [Iran]'; the stupid people say that," President Trump declared last week at the G7 meeting before signing an MOU with the Islamic Republic. "Don't forget, if we were going to drop bombs, let's say we went another month, another two, three months, maybe weeks, it could be another three months. Could be whatever. What do you have left? Maybe nothing... If we keep bombing... you're talking about $500M, $600M, $700M a day. It's a lot of money." Snapshot: This kind of rhetoric...

The Final StandYou have heard me before—on the edge of the field of battle, when the ache in your chest was the only truth left. You heard me again in the quiet of your home, when the weight of the fathers who came before you settled on your shoulders. Now, at the end of all our speaking, I must speak of the instrument by which the enemy has stolen what our fathers built: the corrupted courts, the unaccountable enforcement, the institutions that were meant to limit power have become the weapons of those who would make themselves powerful. What I...

Every four years the World Cup reminds us that national identity still matters. Fans wave flags. Anthems are sung. Rivalries that stretch back generations are renewed. Nations celebrate victories and mourn defeats together. Yet amid all the passion and patriotism on display at the 2026 World Cup, something else has quietly emerged—something far more powerful than national pride. Faith.While much of the media remains focused on goals, controversies, and tournament storylines, many players from multiple nations are using one of the world's largest sporting stages to publicly declare their trust in Jesus Christ. Even more remarkable, players who wear different...

Tesla has finally clarified the situation regarding the viral crash in Texas where a Model 3 slammed into a home. CEO Elon Musk replied to reports on Monday that stated the crash was due to the company’s Full Self-Driving or Autopilot suite, which seemed unlikely to those who are familiar with it. Video showed the car slamming into a house at an excessive rate of speed, making it highly unlikely the crash was due to the suite’s operation, as it does not travel at those speeds in residential areas. Musk said: “This makes no sense. FSD drives slowly through neighborhood...

Hours before the latest round of direct talks between Jerusalem and Beirut were slated to kick off in Washington, Israeli leaders vowed to maintain a presence in southern Lebanon, while the slated negotiations were sidelined to a degree by developments in US-Iran talks. Lebanese authorities, meanwhile, sought to separate their negotiations with Israel from the wider regional talks led by the United States, as Beirut continues to try to minimize the influence of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Trump administration is trying to maintain the legitimacy of the direct channel it created between Israel and Lebanon after...

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred told Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., that the San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps will not face discipline and acknowledged that the league's warning to the players came before MLB learned the team had failed to clearly inform the pitchers they could opt out of wearing the special caps."The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be," Manfred wrote in a letter released by Hawley on June 22.Hawley posted the letter on X, saying MLB had "admit[ted] they were wrong to threaten the Giants players...

Woke Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson declared he was reupping the city’s “Trans Femicide State of Emergency” to highlight violence against transgender women — despite just one reported killing of a trans person this year, compared with nearly 200 other murders across the city. His social media posting announcing the initiative drew widespread mockery as critics pointed out his bizarre focus on a small population as the city is plagued by dozens of weekly shootings primarily involving Chicagoans of color. Johnson’s declaration suggests an ongoing epidemic of trans murders. There have been 14 transgender people were killed in Chicago between 2016...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo’s upcoming consistory will echo Francis’ synodal styleThe June 26-27 gathering will divide the cardinals into 20 groups to discuss evangelization, peace, the common good, and synodality.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican has confirmed that the upcoming extraordinary consistory will be conducted through structured small-group discussions and plenary reporting sessions.On June 22, the Holy See confirmed the program of proceedings for the extraordinary consistory convened by Pope Leo XIV for June 26-27, revealing that participating cardinals will carry out much of their deliberation through small-group discussions followed by presentations to the full assembly, in like manner with...

Members of the United Auto Workers voted Thursday, June 18, to remove hundreds of thousands of dollars in the union's investments in Israeli bonds because of the country's war in Gaza. The vote to divest came at the union's 39th Constitutional Convention at Huntington Place in downtown Detroit as one of the union's last orders of business. The measure was passed by a raised-hand vote of the thousand-or-so delegates, amalgamated from UAW locals across the United States. As early as December 2023, the union had criticized Israel's prosecution of the war, which started with an attack on Israel on Oct....

[Catholic Caucus] McElory bans the installation of communion rails in the churches of the Diocese of WashingtonCardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, has ordered that no communion rails be installed or reinstalled in the churches of the archdiocese, in a new liturgical controversy in the United States over kneeling communion and traditional forms of reverence before the Eucharist.The alleged directive was initially reported by journalist Christine Niles of Stella Maris Media, following a recent meeting with priests. To date, the Archdiocese of Washington has not issued a formal decree or official communication regarding this measure.No communion rails or temporary kneelersThe...

Nigel Farage has said "it's not the public's business" to know details of how he spends a £5m ($6.5m) gift from a billionaire Reform UK donor. Speaking to the BBC, the Reform leader said the money from British cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne was an "unconditional gift, I can spend it on cars if I want to". He went on to say the money was for his personal security and he will need protection "until the day that I die", but declined to confirm how much he has spent. Farage has argued he did not need to declare the gift because...