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The sisters, 5-year-old Olivia, 8-year-old Evelyn and 9-year-old Paityn Decker, were found suffocated to death at an abandoned campsite in Washington state on Monday, police said, sparking an intense manhunt for their father, Travis Decker. Whitney had handed the girls over to Decker, 32, for their regularly scheduled custody visit on May 30, the Friday before the devastating discovery. (snip) Whitney told police that while he had a “good relationship” with his daughters and they enjoyed their time together, she believed he was experiencing mental health issues, according to the affidavit. “But he never displayed any sort of ‘red flags’...

President Trump has long mused about using troops to crush violent protests or riots in blue-state cities. He is now moving to do so in Los Angeles.Setting up a rare use of military force on domestic soil, President Trump ordered the Pentagon on Saturday night to send at least 2,000 National Guard troops to respond to protests in Los Angeles set off by his immigration crackdown.Mr. Trump has long mused about using military force on domestic soil to crush violent protests or riots, fight crime and hunt for undocumented migrants — a move that his aides talked him out of...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Around 300 National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles early Sunday on orders from President Donald Trump, staging outside a federal complex that remained largely quiet and without major protests following two days of clashes with immigration authorities.The deployment appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, a significant escalation against those who have sought to hinder the administration’s mass deportation efforts. On Sunday morning, some of the troops were stationed outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, dressed in tactical...

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass could both face federal charges over their response to ICE raids in the city, President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has warned. As violence tore apart sections of downtown LA, Compton and the suburb of Paramount, the administration has accused the Golden State Dems of fueling tensions, which exploded in riots on Saturday. “Someone is going to lose their life,” Homan warned, speaking to NBC News. He said that he has not ruled out asking the Department of Justice to prosecute the elected officials for allegedly having a role in...

Live coverage of the illegal alien raids and counter protest. This channel restreams other people's streams, and so there may be bad language at times

Roughly 74 percent of California residents want to see an end to sanctuary city policies, according to a poll by UC Berkeley. The issue to end sanctuary cities in the state crosses party lines, with 70 percent of independents, 82 percent of Republicans, and 73 percent of Democrats feel the same.

A 15 year-old-boy has been arrested after a Colombian senator running to be the country's next president was shot and "critically" injured at a campaign rally in Bogota, authorities have said.

SummaryPutin's retaliation for Ukraine drone strike has yet to fully unfold, US officials say Strikes expected to including missiles, drones, US officials say Moscow's retaliation expected to be 'asymmetrical,' official says WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - The United States believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, U.S. officials told Reuters.The timing of the full Russian response was unclear, with one source saying it was expected within days. A second U.S. official said the retaliation was likely...

ABC News has suspended correspondent Terry Moran for violating journalistic standards on "impartiality and objectivity" for a late-night attack on White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, calling him a "world-class hater." Trump had granted Moran an Oval Office interview in April to mark his administration's first 100 days, and Moran repaid the exclusive access with a scathing rebuke of one of Trump's top staffers in Miller.

One normally does not figure anything good can come out of a riot and the destruction but there may be some good here. There are thousands of rioters at these events. President Trump has sent in two thousand national guardsmen to assist ICE and DHS. Many of the rioters are illegal aliens. Now would be a good time for the national guardsmen to make a huge number of arrests under the insurrection act. They may be able to scoop up a thousand or more illegal aliens at one time, detain and deport them. That would be quite a catch. Rinse...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was undoubtedly trying to “lure NATO” into their war with Russia. “There is no doubt, because he cannot win this war on his own. He knows he’s losing,” Tuberville said during a Sunday appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM. However, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously mentioned that the country would never join NATO, although he later walked back the comments. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and has continued to launch deadly drone strikes on the country in an effort to gain more land. The Kremlin...

Police say that around 12:15 pm, a skydiving plane crashed on Old Shelbyville Road in Tullahoma, Tenn., near the Tullahoma Regional Airport on Sunday. Allegedly, there were approximately 16 to 20 people on the plane. Four individuals were taken to the hospital, two of them with critical injuries, while the other two sustained non-critical injuries. Supposedly, the aircraft was reportedly a Tullahoma skydiving plane that crashed after clipping some trees, landing next to the Beechcraft Museum. Local authorities are at the scene, and FAA officials are on their way to the scene to start their investigation. This is an ongoing...

Plane crash in Tennessee. Initial reports indicate 16–20 people on board. Injuries reported some airlifted to hospital , says Tennessee Highway Patrol

Israel has warned its military will "take whatever measures are necessary" to prevent a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid reaching Gaza. ... Katz said the blockade's purpose was to "prevent the transfer of weapons to Hamas" and was essential to Israel's security as it seeks to destroy the Palestinian armed group Hamas. He warned in a post on X on Sunday: "I have instructed the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] to act to prevent the 'Madeleine' [sic] hate flotilla from reaching the shores of Gaza - and to take whatever measures are necessary to that end." Addressing the crew...

An ABC 7 News reporter was on scene in the middle of the fires and violent riots and she claimed the protests were “peaceful.” “The demonstrations have been going on right outside the federal detention center. Most of those demonstrations were very peaceful – they’re chanting, they’re shouting… and again, they’re expressing their anger about the detention of so many immigrants at the federal detention center,” the reporter said as she was harassed and heckled by anti-ICE rioters. Watch in link 🔗

The Department of Homeland Security has deployed elite SWAT units to quell the ongoing insurrection in Los Angeles that erupted on Friday night. After a second consecutive day of rioting and attacks on federal agents conducting immigration enforcement actions, Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks announced that a massive federal response was underway. “Several arrests have already been made for assault on a federal agent. ANY attack on our agents or officers will not be tolerated,” Banks announced at 2:12 p.m. local time. “You will be arrested and federally prosecuted.” Fox News border correspondent Bill Melugin reported that elite Border...

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok Los Angeles City Council Member Eunisses Hernandez (D) calls to escalate the riots against ICE agents. Arrest her. 10:43 PM · Jun 7, 2025

President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles originally intended for Ukraine to American forces in the Middle East, in an interview with ABC News published on June 8. Zelensky said Ukraine had counted on the missiles to help counter relentless Russian drone attacks, which include swarms of Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones. On June 1, Russia launched a record 472 drones in a single night. "We have big problems with Shaheds… we will find all the tools to destroy them," Zelensky said. "We counted on this project — 20,000 missiles. Anti-Shahed missiles. It was not...

Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters is now verbally harassing the National Guard in Los Angeles She was denied entry to an ICE facility

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Deranged Cory Booker is still calling the LA riots “peaceful”: “The reality is, we are seeing peaceful protests launching in Los Angeles.” From Libs of TikTok 1:02 PM · Jun 8, 2025