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After three years of focused federal prosecution of armed drug dealers in downtown Portland, Oregon’s U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford announced Tuesday that law enforcement officers will now expand their efforts to target dealers operating in public housing and outside drug treatment clinics. “We saw fentanyl dealers being arrested in the morning, being released in the afternoon and back out on the streets in the evening, dealing this death and poison to our community members,” he said. Bradford described the multi-agency partnership as an “innovative solution” to the state’s fentanyl crisis. “If you talk about a lot of street-level dealers...

The Department of Homeland Security devised an unusual legal tool last year that made it possible for National Guard members to participate in immigration enforcement operations, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO. Officials issued the confidential memo to state attorneys general in April 2025 authorizing Guard troops to “perform immigration functions” outside of their home state, including arresting unauthorized immigrants, although it is not clear whether troops did so. The document offered a way for officials to circumvent a law that prevents the military from performing law enforcement duties, known as the Posse Comitatus Act. National Guard troops...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI/FOX 5) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been on a major arrest offensive in San Diego and Imperial Counties. In July, DHS arrested 1,964 immigrants in our southernmost counties, posting their highest arrest rates so far; that’s according to the Data Deportation Project from UCLA and Cal Berkeley. “Even in Trump’s first administration, we did not see numbers like that,” said Morgan Principi, an Immigration Attorney. Principi says ICE is operating in a far more aggressive posture. “Typically, these individuals are able to legally work here, and in order to have a valid work authorization status...

Fans and media can be cruel when it comes to college football, and sometimes the criticism that programs receive has nothing to do with what is actually going on between the lines. Take Saturday’s Week 0 matchup at the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where No. 14 USC was trying to launch a very crucial 2026 season in a very successful way. There is enormous pressure on the Trojans and specifically on head coach Lincoln Riley to finally get to the College Football Playoff and silence those doubters. The doubt is pointed at USC and it’s pointed at Riley, who...

President Donald Trump announced an historic energy deal with Venezuela in a Truth Social post Friday night. The president called the deal “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY.” Trump wrote that the United States secured “majority U.S. control” of over 65 million barrels’ worth of Venezuelan oil reserves. Trump credited Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez and “a partnership with private business.” The president stated that the deal more than doubles American reserves and will “substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans.” He added that the deal would strengthen the...

A US Coast Guard officer was killed during a suspected random shooting in Washington state as police launched a search for the suspected killer. Coast Guard Lieutenant Connor Overstreet was fatally shot just before 12:40 a.m. Sunday in a residential neighborhood of Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Wash., 10 miles south of Downtown Seattle. First responders found the 29-year-old in the roadway and attempted life-saving procedures, but the active-duty service member later died, Fox 13 Seattle reported. Overstreet’s death was ruled a homicide from a gunshot wound to the chest, the King County Medical Examiner announced Tuesday. No arrests have been made and...

More than 113,000 Russians crossed into Georgia via the Upper Lars checkpoint last week amid growing fears the Kremlin is preparing to announce a new mobilization wave, Politico reported on Aug. 28. The spike in border crossings comes as the Kremlin undertakes increasingly aggressive recruitment measures, expands data collection on military reservists, and broadens the mandate for the National Guard, all of which have fueled speculation of an imminent call-up. Earlier, Ukraine's Presidential Office issued a warning on Aug. 27, saying that Russia plans to mobilize 600,000 recruits over 2026 and 2027, with 300,000 to be called up this year...

Royce White brought his crusade to Indiana. The former NBA first-round pick wore a long blonde wig and sat courtside for the Fever’s 111-91 win over the Sun on Friday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. On his Instagram, White wrote, “The Kweeeen has arrived! They better bow for a beautiful Black Trans Lesbian!” with a smirk on his face. White, who, along with Enes Kanter Freedom, has been trying to push the WNBA amid the ongoing debate surrounding transgender participation in women’s sports. His appearance comes not long after Kanter Freedom, the former NBA big man, was courtside during a Fever game...

Human religion is the godless spiritual philosophy or ideology that attempts to replace Almighty God and ETERNAL REALITY; based on the fallen subjective perception of an unregenerate man (John 3:3-7, Rom. 8:5-8, 1 Cor. 2:14). A man or peoples "religion" will NOT acknowledge the ETERNAL RIGHTNESS of the Person of Almighty God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Their saving propitiation found in the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 3:19-21, Rom. 1:18-32, 10:2-4). Religion is the godless spiritual philosophy or ideology that attempts to replace Almighty God and ETERNAL REALITY based on the fallen perception of an unregenerate...

Do not be distracted by Satan and fallen man's many straw men, which only offer vain and hopeless solutions that are rooted in falsehoods and delusional, optimistic appraisals. The moral collapse of the American family and moral social structure by moral relativism is FAR GREATER a HORRIFIC DEBT and CONSUMING DRAGON for America than any fiscal crisis or nationally manufactured crisis could ever be. No wonder why sound morality is absolutely abhorred by this nation (Republicans and Democrats) and has been replaced with a moral relativism that all (conservatives and liberals) can adhere to in the blindness and deception of...

Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel skipped her party’s convention Saturday after saying she feared being booed, harassed and chased over her support for Israel — amid warnings of tense clashes over the Middle East. “I don’t feel safe going,” Nessel, who is Jewish, warned late last month. “I feel like my presence is not going to be welcomed. I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed. I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I’m saying. And I believe that if...

A high school football game in McKeesport, Penn. was halted Friday night when a gunshot rang out just before 11 p.m., and a 17-year-old suspect was quickly apprehended. Liberty Borough police anticipate filing charges of receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm by a minor, possession of a weapon on school property, reckless endangerment and carrying a firearm without a license alleged to have fired, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. The gun was reported stolen. The game between South Allegheny and Elizabeth Forward high schools was late in the fourth quarter when the incident occurred. The unidentified suspect is...

Radical Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s racially charged swipe at Second Lady Usha Vance is badly backfiring, threatening to alienate Michigan’s 130,000 Indian-Americans and crucial female voters, insiders told The Post. The unprovoked jab at the second lady exposed El-Sayed’s own insecurities said one GOP insider, who accused the anti-Israel Democrat of victimizing women to look tough when he snidely posted to X: “So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no …” “I think Abdul has a Napoleon complex and he victimizes women to look tough instead of the actual men...

A woman is drawing massive condemnation on social media after a video surfaced where she said she killed her baby in an abortion because she “loved him.” Describing abortion as supposedly the only way she could protect the baby from a hard childhood, the woman ignore adoption as an alternative or improving the circumstances to welcome a child. “I got the abortion because I loved my baby, and I could not see a better way to love my baby and protect my baby from a childhood in a world that would not be kind to it,” she said. “I knew...

...Republicans have spent years warning that China should not be allowed to buy American farmland. But some Republican insiders are getting paid by the Chinese-controlled company sitting squarely in the middle of that fight.... ...Among them are former aides to Republican Sens. John Warner and Susan Collins, a former House Republican Conference official, and a former U.S. Department of Agriculture official.... ...disclosure lists DeLacy, Ross, Joel Roberson, and former USDA official Peter Tabor lobbying more broadly on “issues related to foreign ownership of agricultural land.”..

A band tied to The Satanic Temple released a music video this week that depicts a woman carrying out the group’s “abortion ritual” in a Hobby Lobby women’s restroom and supposedly flushing her baby down the toilet. The clip was posted Wednesday on YouTube for the song “Sam Alito’s Mom” by Satanic Planet, a band that includes Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves. The video shows a simulated satanic ritual inside the Christian-owned store. After taking abortifacient drugs, the woman sits on the toilet and flushes her baby. She then turns to the mirror and says, “By my body, my blood,...

Explanation: Eclipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the new and full phases of the Moon, separated by just over 14 days, create a solar and a lunar eclipse. But only rarely is the alignment at both new moon and full moon during a single eclipse season close enough to produce a pair with both total solar and lunar eclipses. More often, partial eclipses are part of any eclipse season. But, the last eclipse season of 2026 did produce this fortnight-separated...

It’s been 18 months since residents of Great Oak, a 291-home subdivision south of Manassas, began to hear the mind-numbing noise—a low-pitched roar topped with a tinny screech—from a complex of Amazon data centers next door. Now, after many meetings with Amazon and costly engineering work, the data center operator has managed to reduce the sound by 10 decibels—cutting its loudness in half. The saga also holds some lessons. One is that neighbors who want data centers to change their ways must be “determined and tenacious,’ said Browne. Another is it helps to get public officials involved. A third is...

A Satanic Temple-associated band has released a new music video in which a “satanic abortion ritual” is performed inside the bathroom of a Hobby Lobby. The craft store chain is known for being a Christian company. Satanic Planet, whose members include Satanic co-founder Lucien Greaves, released the video for its song “Sam Alito’s Mom,” in which a woman is seen going into Hobby Lobby’s bathroom to perform the ritual. The video opens with a statement saying that “on Friday, March 13, 2026, a satanic abortion ritual was performed inside of a Hobby Lobby bathroom.” It cuts to numerous Christianity-related decor...

Conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and his online arch-nemesis was quick to take credit. Laura Loomer boasted that she was the first to claim Yiannopoulos was in the country illegally just moments after news broke of his detention in New Orleans, Louisiana. The British-born’s immigration status has recently fallen under scrutiny by Loomer and other loyalists after Yiannopoulos began criticizing President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Yiannopoulos entered the country legally on May 14, 2019, but that he “chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our...