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On Halloween 2024, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the FBI had thwarted a terror attack in Michigan. Most media ignored it. Here's what they found: Two Dearborn residents, Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, allegedly conspired with three others to commit an ISIS-inspired attack on "pumpkin day"—Halloween. Federal agents recovered three AR-15 rifles, two shotguns, four handguns, and over 1,600 rounds of ammunition. The suspects had scouted LGBTQ+ bars in Ferndale, purchased tactical gear, practiced at gun ranges, and communicated on encrypted apps calling each other "brothers." This deep-dive investigation analyzes the full criminal complaint, surveillance evidence, and what this reveals...

Former US President George W Bush has lead tributes to Dick Cheney, saying his death is "a loss to the nation and a sorrow to his friends". Cheney died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease on Monday night at the age of 84, his family said in a statement. He became one of the most powerful US vice-presidents in history under Bush, and leaves behind a controversial legacy as a key architect of the "war on terror", and an early advocate of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "History will remember him as among the finest public servants...

As news of more mass atrocities committed by the United Arab Emirates-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) circulates, the Islamic State has again called for jihad in Sudan. In this week’s Al Naba newsletter, the global jihadist organization made its second call to arms for Sudan this year, while also encouraging foreign fighters to migrate to the country. “Among the remnants of nationalism produced by contemporary ignorance is the denial, neglect, and disavowal of the wounds of Muslims, as long as they do not affect the original homeland in which that ‘nationalist’ being was raised,” the Islamic State’s editorial began. The...

Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani released an Arabic-language campaign ad on social media ahead of Tuesday’s election. In the video, Mr. Mamdani introduces himself and says he may look “your brother-in-law from Damascus,” but that his “Arabic needs some work.” He goes on to say, “Still, I would love to ask for your support on November 4. Life in New York has become expensive for all.” He then stops to pet a bodega cat and promises to freeze rent for over two million city residents, make buses free and fast, and deliver universal child care to all families in his efforts...

Another Hezbollah terrorist killed while gathering intelligence on Israeli troops in the area. A commander of Hezbollah’s terrorist Radwan Force was taken out in an Israeli strike earlier today in southern Lebanon. “The IDF on Monday struck and eliminated the terrorist Muhammad Ali Hadid, a commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force in the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon,” Arutz Sbeva/Israel National News reported. The 2500-strong Radwan Force, trained and armed by Iran’s Islamic Guard (IRGC), spearheads Hezbollah’s terrorist campaign on Israel’s border with Lebanon. 🔴 ELIMINATED: Muhammad Ali Hadid, a commander in Hezbollah’s “Radwan Force,” in the Nabatieh area, southern Lebanon....

A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after police van was set on fire. Police pictured in Leeds city centre just after 3pm following an arson attack on a police van. A police van was set on fire in Leeds city centre this afternoon.

FIRST ON FOX: Two Michigan men have been charged in a foiled ISIS-inspired terror attack that allegedly would have involved a massacre in a Detroit suburb on Halloween, according to an FBI affidavit. Mohmed Ali, of Dearborn, Michigan, and Majed Mahmoud are accused of plotting to launch a terror-inspired mass shooting codenamed "pumpkin," according to court documents. They've been charged with receiving, transferring and attempting to receive and transfer firearms knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that they would be used to commit terrorism. Ali practiced shooting at a local gun range multiple times, including with Mahmoud, a juvenile...

The Knesset’s National Security Committee, chaired by MK Tzvika Foghel, on Monday approved for a first reading the "Death Penalty for Terrorists" bill. The bill stipulates that “a terrorist who murders an Israeli citizen out of racism or hostility toward a public, with the intent to harm the State of Israel or the revival of the Jewish people in its homeland, shall be sentenced to death, and to this punishment alone.” Additionally, the proposal amends the law so that a death sentence could be imposed by a military court with a simple majority of judges, rather than a unanimous decision....

I doubt most people realize that Nigeria, located in West Africa, is the world’s sixth most populous country, with around 213.5 million people. Over 53% of the population is Muslim. That’s never a good thing for the remaining population in a country, because Muslims do not believe in pluralism. Lately, Nigeria’s Muslims have been on a rampage, slaughtering Christians left and right. President Trump announced yesterday that the U.S. will intervene and will do so aggressively if necessary. Democrats were unimpressed—they don’t believe there’s a genocide—but Nigeria’s president, having first rejected the demand, just announced his willingness to accept the...

Freed hostage Segev Kalfon, who was kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7, said his Hamas captors told him they intensified their beatings against him and other hostages because of inflammatory comments made by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, describing a brutal routine of violence and starvation during his two years in captivity. In a Channel 12 interview aired Saturday, following his release under the October ceasefire deal, Kalfon said, “Whatever Ben Gvir said or did, they’d take it out on us.” In a separate interview aired Saturday on Ynet, Kalfon recounted that around the 270th...

There is a hatred in America that still dares to speak its name — loudly, publicly, and without fear of consequence. It doesn’t hide behind euphemisms or coded language. It mocks, it smears and it flourishes in the open. That hatred is Islamophobia. Today, it remains one of the last socially and publicly acceptable forms of bigotry.Muslims are a community that leading political figures can still slander on air, that journalists can frame as suspect by default, and that candidates can use as props in their culture-war campaigns without major consequences or jeopardizing their careers.Recently, Andrew Cuomo, New York City...

President Donald Trump warned that if the Nigerian government continued to allow Christians in the country to be killed, the United States military “may very well” go into Nigeria “guns-a-blazing.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump instructed the Department of War to “prepare for possible action,” adding that if the U.S. does attack, “it will be fast, vicious, and sweet.” Trump also threatened to “stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria” if the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians. “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all...

Tucker Carlson markets his reporting as "real journalism." Yet while he didn't go completely off the deep end in his recent so-called 9/11 documentary, he fell in with big-name grifters who ignore the facts that destroy their 9/11 conspiracy theories. He did little to further serious inquiry into how government agencies and officials failed to thwart the attacks. Carlson proclaims the 9/11 Commission Report "is a complete joke" and demands a second commission as if it would somehow be "bipartisan" and not another "cover up." Tucker did some covering up of his own. In August, it was widely reported that...

The Qatari regime is due to soon fall apart, even as its influence reaches far abroad, including to the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, Qatari dissident Khalid al-Hail told Maariv in an interview published on Saturday. The "regime in Doha is on the verge of collapse and won't last many more years," he told the Israeli outlet. Hail is a human rights activist and has previously been imprisoned in Qatar. When asked to elaborate on his belief that the Qatari government would collapse, Hail said, “It won’t hold for many more years. There will certainly be a fundamental change; not only do...

SUMMARY Emergency services have been called after "multiple people" were stabbed on a train travelling in Cambridgeshire Two people have been arrested, Cambridgeshire Police say - pictures show them responding to the scene at Huntingdon station There are no fatalities, but ten people are in hospital - with nine believed to have life-threatening injuries - according to British Transport Police The train involved was the 18:25 service from Doncaster to London King's Cross An eyewitness told the BBC they saw a man bolting down the carriage with a bloody arm, saying "they've got a knife, run", and a man collapsed...

Since the city of El Fasher in Sudan fell last weekend to a paramilitary force, images and witness accounts have pointed to an unfolding massacre. Residents were shot as they fled the city through fields. hundreds were killed in a day in the city’s last hospital. Videos show victims being casually executed. the fighters rampaging across Darfur, a region in western Sudan, are better armed, organized and funded than ever. Before, they rode mainly on horses and camels; now, they have armored vehicles and pickups. Before, they torched villages; now, they fire heavy artillery, fly sophisticated drones and have the...

FBI agents were conducting operations in Dearborn and Inkster early Friday. It is unclear if these activities are related to a possible terrorist attack plot that was stopped by the FBI. The Brief. The FBI was in Dearborn and Inkster on Friday morning. It is unclear if what they were doing is related to a possible terror attack that was thwarted by federal authorities. Details about the foiled terror attack are limited, but led to multiple arrests in Michigan, the FBI director said.

Neoconservative “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol endorsed socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, saying he wishes he was less “against Israel and all that” but calling him “a very impressive politician.”In an October 9 interview with Claremont McKenna College (CMC) student newspaper The Forum, the ex-Republican political commentator described the prospect of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo becoming mayor as “ridiculous.”##“You know, New York City gets to have a left-wing mayor,” Kristol told the outlet, which noted that he serves as chairman of the CMC center that hosts the student publication.“It’s not the first time, and it’s different...

Socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani fervently shouted about defunding “Israeli settler violence” at a Big Apple rally — just months before Hamas carried out its deadly Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack, newly surfaced video shows. Mamdani was filmed repeatedly leading chants of “not on our dime” at the anti-Israel demonstration in Midtown Manhattan back in July 2023. “That’s what we’re calling for. We are calling for it because we know that the days of inconsistency, the days of drawing the lines in Palestine, those days are over,” he told the crowd.

Resurfaced clip of Mamdani's father comparing Abraham Lincoln to Hitler sparks viral outrage: 'What a joke'. Mamdani's father, Mahmood, is a professor at Columbia University. By Andrew Mark Miller. Fox News Published October 29, 2025. ...Controversy surrounding the Columbia University father of socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani resurfaced on social media after a video of him claiming that Adolf Hitler was inspired by President Abraham Lincoln went viral leading up to Tuesday’s election.