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It’s so great to be here tonight. I am honored to also be joined this evening by Governor Scott Walker, Chairman Reince Priebus, and Mayor Rudy Giuliani. We are at a decisive moment in this election. Last week, I laid out my plan to bring jobs back to our country. Yesterday, I laid out my plan to defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism. Tonight, I am going to talk about how to make our communities safe again from crime and lawlessness. Let me begin by thanking the law enforcement officers here in this city, and across this country, for their service and...

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered a glowing review of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s speech in Youngstown, OH earlier in the day on how he would handle the threat of ISIS. According to Gingrich, it was the most important foreign policy speech dating back to President Ronald Reagan.

Saturday's machete attack on police officers in Belgium joins the growing list of terror attacks perpetrated by ISIS, chronicled here. Following is a list compiled by AFP of attacks on Western targets claimed by or blamed on ISIS after Saturday's assault on two policewomen in southern Belgium: August 6: Machete attack in Belgium A machete-wielding man shouting "Allahu Akbar" attacks two policewomen in Charleroi, southern Belgium, badly injuring one in the face before being shot dead by a third officer. Investigators give the initials of the assailant as K.B., describing him as a 33-year-old Algerian who had been living in...

Update: When I posted this story Saturday there was still no claim of responsibility and authorities were not 100% certain it was terrorism, though they were definitely leaning that way. Today, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack and authorities seem confident the attacker had a terrorist motive. From Reuters: Islamic State claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack by a machete-wielding man in Belgium that left two female police officers seriously injured, the group’s Amaq news agency said on Twitter.Shortly before the claim, Belgian prosecutors had identified the assailant as a 33-year-old Algerian, K.B., who had lived in Belgium since...

Facebook deletes Israel from the list of Olympic participants .... Anti-Semitism in the UK is the highest since 2009 and the Gaza conflict .... Israel bitterly rejects Obama's claim how it backs now the Iran deal .... The new leader of Boko Haram, who is associated with ISIS, makes a vow to kill every Christian and blow up every church .... Obama will reach next month's target of letting 10,000 Syrian refugees, all Sunni Muslims, into the country .... Clinton got millions from the world's biggest Sharia Law education firm .... Muslim Brotherhood members are part of the Obama administration...

The Islamic State is trying to change up the leadership of Nigerian-based Boko Haram and has appointed a new leader who is vowing to bomb churches and kill all Christians. IS (also known as ISIS or ISIL) announced Wednesday in its al-Nabaa newspaper that Abu Musab al-Barnawi is the new leader of its Nigerian-affiliated outfit, calling him the "Wali" (governor) of its West African Province. In an interview published by the IS news source that was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, al-Barnawi vowed to kill less Muslims and more Christians. Under the leadership of Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram has...

Will Islamic terrorists launch a major pre-election attack to help elect Donald Trump? That’s the scenario Donny Deutsch floated on today’s Morning Joe. Deutsch is an ad man/Hamptons playboy. His pronouncements on national security and terrorism might thus be taken with a giant grain of salt. But Deutsch was responding to a statement by Wapo’s David Ignatius, a serious student of foreign affairs, who said a major attack could be a “game changer” that would aid Trump. Deutsch said if “the terrorists and the radical Islamists want Trump in there. And if the way Trump gets in there is a...

Here is what we know so far: A man targeted six people with a knife in Russell Square, central London, at around 10.30pm on Wednesday night. A woman, believed to have been in her 60s, was fatally stabbed and pronounced dead at the scene. A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Two women and three men suffered "various injuries" in the attack, with two remaining in hospital and the other three discharged. *snip* Counter-terrorism officers are supporting the investigation into the incident, while Scotland Yard said early indications suggest mental health "was a factor". In an earlier...

A woman in her 60s has been killed and five other people injured in a knife attack in central London. Police were called to reports of an armed man attacking people in Russell Square at 10.33pm on Wednesday. A 19-year-old was arrested six minutes later at 10.39pm after a Taser was fired by one of the officers. He is now under police guard in hospital.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE -- Pope Francis on Sunday said he won't label Islam as "terrorist" because that would be unfair and not true. Reporters aboard the papal plane flying him home after a pilgrimage to Poland that began the day after extremists slit the throat of an elderly priest celebrating Mass in a French church, asked him why he never uses the world "Islam" to describe terrorism or other violence. While in Poland, Francis made an unscheduled stop at a church in Krakow to implore God to protect people from the "devastating wave" of terrorism in many part of...

Reports on social media indicated that the electricity in parts of Kabul had cut off shortly before the explosion.

If there is any time that Christians need a Patron Saint for Protection against Islamic Terrorism, it is right now Father Jacques Hamel, whose throat was cut by smiling terrorists on the altar of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Church, was everything his Islamic terrorist killers were not. Still profoundly loyal to his Creator in his 85th year, Father died trying to defend the parishioners who came to church to celebrate Mass. No matter how many years pass after his death, Father Hamel will always be remembered as the rose that took bloom among the bramble of horrific Islamic terrorism, a rose whose petals...

An explosion has been reported near a reception centre for migrants in Zirndorf, Germany. More follows...

Republicans’ claim that Democrats did not mention terrorism or ISIL on the first night of the Democratic National Convention is correct, Politifact said Tuesday morning. Following Monday night’s speeches, Republicans blasted the Democrats for a lack of focus on terrorism from the 61 speakers. “Based on our searches of C-SPAN closed-captioning text, Congressional Quarterly transcripts and other video archiving services, we couldn’t find any speaker who mentioned "ISIS," "Islamic" "terror," "terrorist," or "terrorism" during the first day of the convention,” Politifact wrote. The fact-checking website did add the caveat that the Democrats still have three days to discuss terrorism at...

With ten weeks to go until the end of the fiscal year, the Obama administration continues to admit Syrian refugees at an accelerated pace, and has now exceeded two-thirds of President Obama's target of 10,000 by September 30. The proportion of Christians among those resettled continues to languish below half of one percent, while other non-Sunnis account for just over one percent. As of Monday, 1,515 Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in their homeland had been admitted since the beginning of July, and a total of 6,726 since FY 2016 began on October 1, according to State Department Refugee...

ANSBACH, Germany — A 27-year-old Syrian refugee who blew himself up Sunday evening at an open-air music festival in southern Germany, injuring 15 people, had been twice ordered deported from the country, officials said on Monday.

An Afghan teenager was arrested on Sunday in Germany on suspicion that he was connected to Friday’s mass attack in Munich, police said. The 16-year-old male may have known about the plans of the gunman, who killed nine people, but the teen did not tell authorities, officials said. The teen is also suspected of having played a role in a Facebook post that invited the public to a location near where the deadly shooting later took place, Reuters reported.

Very sketchy details, but here we go again. A restaurant, outside Nuremburg, bombed. Interior Minister says NOT an accident. Details at link.

BERLIN—A man in the German city of Reutlingen on Sunday killed a woman with a machete and injured other people before being detained, police there said. The suspect is a 21-year-old asylum seeker from Syria, the police said. The man was known to the police and had been charged in the past with assault, a police spokesman said. He was housed at a refugee shelter in Reutlingen, he said.

Islamic terror attack in Munich, ten people died targeting mostly children .... ISIS supporters celebrating the killings all over social media .... 200 Jews from France migrated to Israel .... failed military coup in Turkey could have been a setup to give Erdogan more power .... State of Emergency declared in Turkey for three months .... 100 Christian pastors jailed in Vietnam for trying to preach the Gospel .... Christian persecution on the rise worldwide .... Islamic terrorists plan to attack America, British, Israeli and French athletes at the Olympic Games in Rio .... Franklin Graham: America is beginning to...