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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...

The U.S. has reportedly ordered the revocation of a visa for Brazilian neurosurgeon Ricardo Barbosa after he very publicly celebrated the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. In a post that has since been deleted, Barbosa engaged in a vile public celebration, applauding the shooter’s “impeccable aim,” adding, “cervical spine.” “Of all the depraved online content I’ve seen, this one may be the most chilling,” Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau said. “This is a NEUROSURGEON from Brazil. He not only commends Charlie Kirk’s assassin for his ‘impeccable aim,’ but then with surgical precision specifies ‘cervical spine.’ This...

When you think of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s landslide loss on Tuesday, you should hear the sound of a sad fluegelhorn. Only L.A.’s criminals will be sorry to see him go. Mr. Gascón’s staff rebelled, crime spiked, and the public mood soured. Within three months he faced a recall backed by his own prosecutors and victims’ rights groups. That effort failed, as did a subsequent recall, due to a lack of qualifying signatures. But then he drew the line on that sort of compassion: “Our system of justice can’t continue to rely on policies that create more victims...