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A federal judge with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued a preliminary injunction to block the U.S. government from conducting warrantless civil immigration arrests in the district unless the arrestee is deemed likely to escape before a warrant can be procured. "Defendants are enjoined from enforcing their policy and practice of making warrantless civil immigration arrests in this District without a prearrest individualized determination by the arresting agent or officer of probable cause that the person being arrested is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained, as required by 8 U.S.C. 1357(a)(2) and...

Five women appear lifeless in the pictures. Two more are still missing. Investigators have already counted 58 alleged victims in the digital wreckage pulled from a rotting twin house on Chew Avenue in Olney. And the man who built that house of horrors died in his bed last year at 82, never answering for any of it. Raymond “R.C.” Horsch was a pornographer who wrote books about serial killers preying on women, filmed sadomasochistic filth, and spent decades fishing vulnerable addicts out of Kensington with cash and narcotics. His son Eugene, 44, is the one sitting in federal custody. The...

When TMZ DC asked Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) about Lindsay Clancy's murder case this week, she was blunt. In fact, I think she said exactly what a lot of people have been thinking but are generally too polite to say out loud.(snip) When TMZ DC’s Jacob Wasserman mentioned Reddington’s pardon request to Mace, she vented her uninhibited opinion. "Which is how retarded it is," she said. "He knows, as an attorney in the state of Massachusetts, you can't ask for a federal pardon for a state case. I mean, it doesn't take a lawyer — I’m not even a lawyer,...

Modern investment strategy today includes something called "direct indexing". Direct indexing holds a broad range of individual stocks rather than mutual funds or ETFs. This is a method of investing in a broad market - rather than picking a few stocks based on insider information. A computer algorithm automatically balances these accounts based on whatever investment strategy has been programed. I have seen investment accounts from single individuals with literally thousands of trades. Their accounts looks like a day trader on speed. The idea that Trump is making each of these trades himself is stupid. The Democrats are using this...

The popular gay dating and hookup app Grindr agreed to pay £26 million (about $35 million) to settle a lawsuit over allegations that it shared users’ personal information, including their ethnicity, sexual orientation and, in some cases, HIV status, with third parties, reports The Guardian. The settlement ends the class-action lawsuit filed in the High Court of England and Wales in 2024, though Grindr continues to deny liability. ... Launched in 2009 and based in Los Angeles, Grindr bills itself as “the largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans and queer people. We have millions of daily users who...

Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) has taken direct aim at President Donald Trump and his immigration crackdown in a new re-election ad, warning that the Hispanic voters who helped return him to the White House in 2024 now feel “betrayed.” The congresswoman, who endorsed Trump in 2024 and urged Hispanic voters to back him, delivered the unusually direct message to the president as she campaigns for another term in her Miami-area district. “Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far. In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record. Be careful...

We’re told that most Muslims oppose Islamic terrorism and that it’s only a tiny fringe of radicals and extremists who practice “radical Islamic terrorism” (as opposed to‘moderate Islamic terrorism’ in which the moderate participants moderately detonate bombs, moderately stab civilians and moderately ram cars into pedestrians) and that their actions don’t reflect Islam. Even those who correctly identify the roots of Islamic terrorism in the Koran and Islamic teachings still firmly insist that most Muslims oppose terrorism and only a minority support it. Is that really true? The answer is that it depends on which Islamic terrorism we’re talking about....

U.S. President Donald Trump and his wealth managers executed nearly 28.7K security transactions in the 17 months following his second inauguration—outpacing all members of Congress combined—even as he pushes legislation banning lawmakers from buying stocks, according to a media report Tuesday. During that same period, Capitol Hill lawmakers collectively reported about 22.2K similar transactions, Bloomberg reported, citing security transaction disclosure forms. The contrast marks a notable shift from his first term, when Trump's financial disclosures contained mostly illiquid real estate holdings and other privately held ventures. His portfolio now spans thousands of holdings in stocks (SPY) (DIA) (QQQ), bonds (TLT)...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — At a demonstration against the GOP-controlled Congress, a decidedly anti-Trump crowd has a Democrat's name on its mind: Sen. John Fetterman. "I voted for him. I donated money to his campaign," said Vick Lindquist. "I feel like I've been stabbed in the back as a Pennsylvanian. It's very — I can't even put it into words. I'm so disappointed in him." In his 2022 campaign against Mehmet Oz, Fetterman was hailed as a progressive willing to buck convention, campaigning in what would become his Senate uniform of a hoodie and basketball shorts. While in office, he's grown...

In this outline Promethean Action’s Susan Kokinda summarizes how energy prices are being weaponized to influence the 2026 midterm election. The multinationals, Canada, Europe, NATO and those opposed to America-First sovereignty are waging an economic war against President Trump’s geopolitical and economic reset. This midweek update argues that the midterm elections are being shaped less by campaign ads than by coordinated economic and political pressure: rising diesel prices tied to Ukrainian strikes on Russian diesel infrastructure, energy pricing set by European exchange traders in London rather than producers, and continued Iran conflict framed as being prolonged to affect the vote....

Veteran journalist Luis Galeano, one of at least 94 Nicaraguans whom the Ortega Murillo regime has stripped of citizenship in recent years for opposing the government, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Galeano, who has continued critically reporting on the Sandinista government online through his platform, Café con voz, since shortly after arriving in the US in 2018, has had an asylum application pending for about seven years, according to his wife, Daykel Santamaría. He also has a work permit and a social security number, she said. Nonetheless, shortly after beginning his second job driving Lyft...

Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson stepped into the role of Senate Budget Committee chairman in the most trying of times – he was replacing close friend Sen. Lindsey Graham, who had suddenly passed in July, and about a month into the job he was thrust into the task of trying to rein in a record federal debt of $40 trillion. "It's wrong. It's immoral. It's got to stop," he said Tuesday on the John Solomon Reports podcast about the rising debt. The debt has climbed from $14 trillion to more than $40 trillion in just 15 years, and projections put...

Turns out, had the officials followed the correct protocol during the highly-controversial finish to the Western Michigan versus Michigan game earlier this month, the Wolverines would currently have a loss on their record. The ending of what was one of the wildest games of the season remains a major talking point nearly three weeks after Michigan won on a second Hail Mary attempt in the final seconds of its season opener. Should the Wolverines have been awarded an additional second on the clock? The NCAA's FBS oversight committee doesn’t think so.

The Texas police department that arrested a mother for criticizing the town’s dirty drinking water on social media has been ordered to disband after the state ruled that it provided no “benefit to the community.” The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement sent Trinidad Mayor Dennis Haws a letter on Sept. 9 revoking the city’s license to operate its own police department — determining the department had “failed to meet minimum standards” as a law enforcement entity, KETK reported. The action followed an Aug. 5 investigation in which the department was found “unable to provide evidence that the agency provides public...

The sudden fixation on AI by Democrats — and their coincidental same approach — seems to do more with political power calculations than a general concern about AI. Democrats’ newest existential threat has arrived and, amazingly, all of the party’s leading figures seemingly discovered it at the same time! Over the past few days, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Hakeem Jeffries, and Ro Khanna have begun warning that AI is advancing fast, could be dangerous, and may require international treaties or regulatory oversight or a development moratorium or even a full-on government shut down. Maybe these are all fair...

The American Airlines passenger who had to be duct-taped to his seat after going berserk on a flight to Newark claimed he had no recollection of the mortifying mid-air incident a day after his arrest. “I don’t remember any of what happened,” Layne Lundeen, 67, said as court proceedings in Annapolis, Maryland, got underway, according to The Banner in Baltimore, which obtained audio of his appearance. “I assaulted a police officer? Is that what it says?” he reportedly said. “I don’t have my glasses.” District Court Commissioner George Haag read the accusations against him, as Lundeen moaned, “Oh my God....

Kash Patel confirmed Tuesday the Round River classification banner placed atop documents related to the supposed investigation into Biden-family corruption was “fake” — just as Senate Chuck Grassley suggested in an August letter to the FBI director. In that same letter, the Iowa senator noted serious concerns over FBI agents in D.C. downgrading allegations of criminality relating to the Biden family. Patel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide-range of topics, including everything from the Bureau’s zeroing out of the backlog of nearly two million DNA samples last month, to agents’ continuing disruption of domestic terrorism plots. Under...

Mosquito bites can be more than a nuisance this summer — they can make you sick. Florida has become a hotbed for mosquito-borne diseases, reporting hundreds of cases of dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and even West Nile virus. The state leads the nation in dengue cases this year with 270 reported. Increasingly, residents aren’t just acquiring the virus while traveling abroad — they are getting bitten right at home. Mosquito control experts note that peak dengue season runs from July through September. As many as 111 people as of early September have contracted locally acquired dengue in six Florida counties...

Twin brothers Michael John Null and William "Bill" Null, two of the Michigan men a jury cleared in 2023 after the FBI and Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel spent years painting them as terrorists, have now taken the fight to federal court. They filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on September 15, 2026, Null v. Nessel, naming leftist Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, disgrace-ridden former FBI Special Agent Richard Trask II (who was fired after domestic assault charges), agent Henrik Impola, former Detroit FBI chief Steven D’Antuono, along with the Michigan...

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