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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) donned a Make America Great Again hat and shirt honoring slain Georgia nursing student Laken Riley as Biden delivered his State of the Union address Thursday. Democrats, led by Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), demanded that Greene remove the hat before Biden, 81, entered the chamber, but the Georgia Republican refused. ... “Say her name. Laken Riley,” read the T-shirt Greene wore under her bright red blazer. The congresswoman also pinned two buttons on her blazer – a “Say her name” one, and another with a photo of Riley. ... “Utter disrespect,” she said in a...

Violent crime is going down in Venezuela just as the United States has been hit with a rash of high-profile violent crimes by illegal immigrants. It’s not hard to figure out why. The killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia, has become the latest and most prominent case of an American being killed as a consequence of President Joe Biden’s open-border policies. The man being held in connection with the killing of Riley is Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who reportedly entered the United States in 2022. Since his arrival in the U.S., he...

The sheriff of the Georgia county where a Venezuelan migrant has been charged with murdering nursing student Laken Riley had campaigned on refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, a resurfaced interview shows. “It is not my intention, when elected sheriff, to cooperate with those detainers,” John Williams, now the sheriff of Athens-Clarke County, said in a 2020 interview with Athens Political Nerds. He was referring to detainers ICE placed on illegal immigrants who were arrested on criminal charges. “I see it as the sheriff’s responsibility, any law enforcement, to protect and serve the community,” Williams continued. “We...

First exploded a car at the busy shopping street Drottninggatan in central Stockholm. Then came another explosion some distance away and one man died. According to news agency TT, the man had blown himself to death. There was a bag on the ground filled with nails, according to newspaper Expressen. Alarm calls poured in to the Emergency Services from concerned residents about the explosions in central Stockholm on Saturday afternoon. But the initial info from the police was extremely unclear. First there was talk of two cars that exploded, later it proved to be just one... At Bryggargatan a man...