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A teenage armed robber was shot dead when he tried to mug a man minutes after stealing another car from a woman at gunpoint. Daone Feazell, 18, was gunned down in Humboldt Park, on Chicago's West Side, at 10.48pm on Tuesday, ending a brief but violent crime spree. He was shot after approaching a man unloading his car on the 1400 block of North Artesian Avenue, brandishing a gun and demanding his property. The 36-year-old would-be victim quickly pulled out his own gun and shot Feazell several times in the chest and head, Chicago Police said. Feazell, who goes by...

BREAKING: California Democratic Senator @AlexPadilla4CA just crashed DHS Secretary Noem’s press conference in LA and was forcibly removed. https://x.com/i/status/1933222907398008912

BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif. (KABC) -- A man was arrested in Boyle Heights Wednesday morning after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents rammed into his car and pinned it between two unmarked cars. The collision was reported at 10:47 a.m. in the 3700 block of Whittier Boulevard, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told ABC7. Witnesses said federal agents in two unmarked vehicles -- a pickup truck and an SUV -- were involved in the incident, along with a civilian vehicle, a white sedan. LAPD said the crash was being investigated as a possible assault with a deadly weapon...

Carl Sprayberry — a former Democrat candidate for Georgia’s 139th House District — has been arrested as part of a sweeping, multi-agency child sex trafficking operation known as “Operation Lights Out.” The sting, conducted between April 25 and April 28, resulted in the arrest of 19 suspects accused of attempting to exploit children online, according to WTVM. Sprayberry, 32, who once ran for state office and publicly called for the assassination of President Donald Trump in a social media post, is among those charged with human trafficking. In February 2025, Sprayberry tweeted: “Donald Trump has committed an act of High...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/breaking-department-defense-branch-chief-caught-undercover-video/Nicolas Turza, the Department of Defense Branch Chief who was caught on undercover video calling President Trump “illegitimate” has resigned. The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released undercover video of a Defense Department Branch Chief attacking President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Nicolas Turza, a Department of Defense Branch Chief, called President Trump “illegitimate” and vowed to “resist him, everything he does.” Turza also attacked Hegseth and said the 44-year-old is “insanely young” and unfit to lead. “The same guy who tried to overthrow an election is just, like, truly setting us down a path of dictatorship. He’s illegitimate....

Mahdawi was arrested after arriving at a citizenship center in Vermont, The Intercept reports. ICE’s database appears to confirm Mahdawi’s detention. The database says Mahdawi is in ICE custody, listing his birthplace as Jordan. Mahdawi was born in the West Bank, but the ICE database does not have a category for the Palestinian territories. Several Columbia University anti-Israel activists have been targeted by the Trump administration, starting last month with protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. Mohsen Mahdawi’s Calls for Israel’s Destruction, Justification of Hamas Terrorism and Support for the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University (Columbia). Mohsen Mahdawi’s Calls for Israel’s Destruction,...

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens and cheesecake before he was executed on Friday night. Mikal Mahdi, 42, had three slugs fired into his heart by trained correctional volunteers at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia and was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. for the ambush killing of Orangeburg Public Safety Captain James Myers in 2004. Mahdi, who washed down his hearty last meal with a sweet tea, did not make a final statement before his execution,...

Space Force Col. Susan Meyers, commander of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, sent out a base-wide email after a visit by Vice President J.D. Vance last month that undermined President Donald Trump’s position on the territory of Greenland as a vital national security interest being mismanaged by Denmark that would do better under the United States, according to a scoop by Military.com reporter Thomas Novelly published Thursday afternoon. “I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik...

Space Force Col. Susan Meyers, commander of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, sent out a base-wide email after a visit by Vice President J.D. Vance last month that undermined President Donald Trump’s position on the territory of Greenland as a vital national security interest being mismanaged by Denmark that would do better under the United States, according to a scoop by Military.com reporter Thomas Novelly published Thursday afternoon. The visit by the vice president on March 28 was originally planned as a trip by Second Lady Usha Vance and a few Trump cabinet officials to attend a dogsled race but...

WorldNetDaily Friday, Mar. 28, 2025 ADVERTISEMENT WND Big mouth illegal who boasted of squatting in U.S. booted back to Venezuela So-called influencer had explained, "I didn't cross the Rio Grande to work like a slave' By Bob Unruh March 28, 2025 Leonel Moreno Leonel Moreno A big mouth migrant who arrived in the United States promising to move into Americans' homes, claim "squatters' rights" and then control those properties, even making it a business, has been deported to Communist Venezuela. The Gateway Pundit described Leonel Morena as a "freeloading illegal alien influencer." The report said Moreno's return was confirmed by...

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public... Dr. Marks resigned under pressure, according to a person familiar with the matter who said an official with the Department of Health and Human Services told Dr. Marks on Friday that he could either resign or be fired...

Arrested on corruption charges and charged in court. By the feds. So far, it look like almost every African American woman elected to office is corrupt. Tiffany Henyard comes to mind for starters.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared South Africa's ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, persona non grata and ordered him expelled from the United States. This immediately deprived him of diplomatic immunity and required him to leave the US in just a matter of days.Using X as his medium to announce the defenestration of Rasool, Rubio was blunt.South Africa's Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country. Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.The...

The Trump administration has ejected South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool out of the country, declaring him persona non grata after he gave a lecture claiming that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist leader. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Rasool’s expulsion via X on Friday afternoon:

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in the Hampton Dellinger case even though he did everything to stop the court. The DC Circuit court judges Henderson (George W. Bush appointee), Millett (Obama appointee), and Walker (Trump appointee) ruled against Dellinger. The Appeals Court, citing Seila Law and Collins, claimed the government satisfied its burden and said it would likely succeed in arguing the US President has the power to remove the head of an agency with a single top officer. “On the first factor, the government has satisfied its burden. “[T]he Constitution prohibits even ‘modest restrictions’ on...

The Trump administration has reportedly revoked the visa of a student who protested in favor of Hamas, the Islamic terrorist organization which attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Fox News.

One of the key figures involved in former White House occupant Joe Biden’s thousands of pardons to violent criminals has been terminated. Liz Oyer, the head of the Justice Department’s pardon office, revealed in a LinkedIn post on Friday that she was ousted after three years in the position. “I’m sad to share that I was fired today from the job I have poured my heart and soul into for the last three years,” Oyer wrote on Linkedin. “I am so proud of the team we built in the Office of the Pardon Attorney, who will carry on our important...

Soon after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, acquired The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, he assured its editors and reporters — myself included — that he would give us the freedom to do our jobs and “follow the story” without interference from him. At a 2016 Washington Post tech forum with Marty Baron, who was then executive editor, Bezos quoted a phrase he had heard from the legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward: “Democracy dies in darkness.” It was a perfect motto to advertise the mission of one of America’s most storied and respected news organizations — a...

Sylvester Turner, a far-left Democrat who briefly served in Congress after decades in Texas politics, has died at 70.Turner, born in Houston, built his career in law before entering the Texas House of Representatives in 1989, where he served for over 25 years. As mayor of Houston from 2016 to 2024, he backed left-wing policies, including expansive LGBT initiatives, mass migration policies, and taxpayer-funded abortion programs.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The head of the FBI in New York forcibly resigned Monday in the latest high-level shakeup at the bureau under the Trump administration. James Dennehy, a well-regarded leader in the New York law enforcement community who also served in the U.S. Marine Corps, told the office he was forced to submit his resignation as assistant director-in-charge of the FBI's New York field office, one of the bureau's most visible posts. "Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not given a reason for...