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OMAHA, Neb. — The man convicted of hitting and killing an Iowa woman in an Omaha crash will serve years behind bars. Eswin Mejia received 20 to 22 years in prison for motor vehicle homicide and flight to avoid arrest. Mejia caused the crash that killed Sarah Root near 33rd and L streets in 2016. In December, he pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to appear and no contest to motor vehicle homicide. Authorities said Mejia was driving drunk and street racing when he rear-ended Root's car at a stoplight.

Hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets of a town housing migrants at a former army camp chanting 'Keir Starmer is a traitor'. Locals in the east Sussex town of Crowborough gathered at the gates of the camp before marching into the town. Around 450 male asylum seekers are set to move into the barracks as part of a plan to reduce the number of hotels used to house migrants. For the past 14 weeks, protesters have gathered in large numbers every Sunday to raise their objections to the Labour government's controversial plans. It was also revealed today that...

A San Fernando Valley community is outraged and devastated after federal immigration agents forced their way onto the grounds of a church during a food giveaway and arrested a man who church officials say helps with children’s ministries. Church officials stated that “a beloved community member” by the name of Carlos Chavez was arrested. The raid interrupted the church’s food distribution ministry and an event for mothers and children in the church garden. Speaking to KTLA 5’s Kimberly Cheng, Pastor Aguilon said he was in contact with Chavez’s wife, who said Carlos, the sole provider for their family, has already...

The death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis man killed by federal agents, has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office said. Pretti was shot Jan. 24 during a chaotic encounter with federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Citing government records, ProPublica identified Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez as the two officers who fired at Pretti. The news outlet reports that Ochoa has been a Border Patrol agent since 2018, while Guituerrez had been with CBP since 2014.

Tourists are flocking to view the partially frozen Niagara Falls, despite frigid temperatures, with visitors praising the winter spectacle as a striking sight.

Me looking for all parents screaming about losing their daycare.....

THE TERM "EXTREME WEATHER CONDITION" SHALL MEAN: (A) (I) ANY PERIOD FOR WHICH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN OFFICIAL WARNING OR ADVISORY FOR EXCESSIVE HEAT, DEFINED AS A FORE- CASTED HEAT INDEX OR REAL-FEEL TEMPERATURE OF NINETY DEGREES FAHRENHEIT OR HIGHER; OR (II) ANY PERIOD FOR WHICH THE GOVERNOR HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMER- GENCY UNDER SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW RELATED TO EXTREME COLD, STORM, FLOOD, WILDFIRE SMOKE, OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER EVENT; AND (B) THE SEVENTY-TWO HOUR PERIOD FOLLOWING A PERIOD UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. 2. (A) IN A PROCEEDING TO RECOVER...

An official in Fulton County, Georgia, has announced the county will challenge the legality of the FBI’s search and seizure of 2020 election records. Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. said the effort will seek to “force the government to return the ballots taken.” Arrington said that the county’s attorneys are expected to file a motion in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia to fight the action of Trump’s Justice Department and the FBI. The FBI served a warrant last Wednesday at the Fulton County election office, near Atlanta, Georgia, taking 700 boxes of election materials as it probes alleged...

Our town on the San Francisco Peninsula has had a string of auto burglaries in recent months. The Police Department sent a message to our neighborhood group saying: "We encourage everyone to lock their vehicles and to take out all personal belongings, electronics and valuables. The thieves have electronic devices that detect devices with Bluetooth, so they can use the device outside a vehicle and they will know if there is a device inside with Bluetooth (i.e. laptop, iPad, AirPods, etc) and they will then break into the trunk, even if nothing is visible in the interior of the car....

A total of 933 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats in January, the latest Home Office figures have revealed. It was the lowest number for the first month of the year since 2021, with the stormy weather conditions likely contributing to the fall in arrivals. The figure is 15% down on the 1,098 arrivals recorded in January 2025, and 30% below the figure for January 2024, when there were 1,335 arrivals. A total of 224 migrants made the journey in 2021. A Home Office spokesperson said the government had stopped 40,000 crossing attempts since it came into office through...

1. "I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was going to be a strong suit of mine." a. President Donald Trump, 2019 b. President Barack Obama, 2012

Intel Community Frame Another “Anonymous” Inspector General Complaint Against DNI Tulsi GabbardFebruary 2, 2026 | SundanceThe Wall Street Journal is out with a very specific hit piece against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The article is 100% Intelligence Community insider lawfare against DNI Gabbard; however, in addition to being completely bogus the construct of the hit itself is very revealing.Within this current story we are going to find out why it is so important for someone, anyone to reveal how the 2019 CIA operation against President Trump was created. {GO DEEP}The first CIA operation (2017) involved the National Intelligence...

A new poll released by the firm Cygnal has shown that Trump’s deportation agenda continues to grow more popular with the American people in spite of the best efforts of Democrats and the media to malign the administration. Swing voters and independents overwhelmingly agree that those who have illegally entered the country have broken the law at 82 percent and 70 percent, respectively. Overall, 73 percent of American voters agree with the sentiment, while a surprisingly high 48 percent of Democrats would say that illegal border crossings constitute a crime.

America's most millennial cities have been revealed - and the vast majority of them are liberal strongholds. Census Bureau data from 2024, crunched by the San Francisco Chronicle, identified counties nationwide with the highest concentration of residents from the generation. Millennials - people born between 1981 and 1996 - tend to be found in trendy, Democrat-led cities which are also often the most expensive metro areas to live. he same liberal cities are also favorites among the younger generation, known as Gen Z - people born between 1997 and 2012. According to a Gallup poll, 27 percent of Gen Z...

Kiefer Sutherland is still on the hook for possible charges after his alleged Uber driver assault case was sent back to the LAPD for further investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, a source confirmed to The California Post on Monday. Sutherland was arrested Jan. 14 after allegedly threatening an Uber driver who refused to pull over and let him out, TMZ reported. Sutherland, 59, told cops he called for an Uber Black after having dinner with a friend on the evening of Jan. 11 and asked the driver to take him home. At some point during the...

The United States could record its first population decline in history as soon as this year, decades earlier than previously projected, as President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown sharply reduces net migration, according to new estimates from government agencies and independent researchers, Bloomberg reported on Monday. For decades, population growth in the U.S. has been driven by immigration offsetting lower birth rates and rising deaths tied to an aging population. But experts across the political spectrum now say Trump's second-term immigration policies are accelerating a turning point long expected to arrive later in the century. In its most recent long-term forecast,...

The Lemon Test Journalists don’t have a First Amendment right to break the law.Fake constitutionalism is increasingly becoming a problem in America. There is a marked tendency for public officials, political commentators, and those in the media to invoke bogus constitutional principles or bogus interpretations of genuine constitutional principles. They do this mainly to cast blame on their political opponents or to shelter the otherwise unacceptable behavior of their political allies. Fake constitutionalism undermines constitutional government by spreading misconceptions about what our Constitution means.Regrettably, the First Amendment has become one of the most fruitful areas in which fake constitutionalism thrives....

Much of the power of the Declaration of Independence rests on Thomas Jefferson’s opening line: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” For all of its high principle, there is a dark side to this statement. In the century of the country’s founding, British colonies in the New World imported 1.5 million enslaved Africans. That is more than three times the number of European immigrants who sailed westward searching for some version...

President Donald Trump accused Obama of attempting to conduct a “coup” during the 2016 election and called for his arrest in a post on his Truth Social account Thursday. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has just released HUNDREDS OF BOMBSHELL RUSSIAGATE DOCUMENTS proving that Barack Obama personally ordered CIA agents to manufacture false intelligence on President Trump and was actively “working with the enemy” to undermine and erode Americans’ confidence in our democracy and President Trump’s LANDSLIDE 2016 VICTORY. This was a coup attempt by Barack Hussain Obama and his cronies… As Jesse Watters said “Whatever happens to these...

ST. PAUL, MN — Governor Tim Walz has emerged from the den of the Governor's Mansion to declare that there will be six more weeks of rioting and fraud. "We know this is all silly, but it's fun," said handler Marsha Billingsworth. "It's always rioting and fraud season, but the Governor-coming-out-of-the-den tradition is good family fun that brings in some tourism money, which will help offset the costs of all the rioting and fraud in the state." Once a year, Minnesotans cheerfully gather around the mansion to see what the governor will do, depending upon whether or not he sees...