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President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is celebrating a “record-breaking achievement” in immigration enforcement, touting that more than 2.5 million illegal aliens have left the United States since the president took office in late January.This week, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had successfully deported more than 605,000 illegal aliens from the U.S. since January 20 — noting the majority are illegal aliens with pending criminal charges or criminal convictions.In addition, Noem said almost two million illegal aliens have now self-deported from the U.S. during the same period, as she again encouraged...

Former President Joe Biden’s record-setting waves of mass immigration to the United States sent home prices and rents surging for the lowest-income Americans, a newly published investigation from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reveals.The report, published annually by HUD, looks at “worst-case housing needs,” which is defined as Americans who are low-income but who do not receive government assistance or welfare and who pay more than one-half of their income toward housing costs.“Between 2021 and 2023, cases of worst-case needs remained elevated at 8.46 million households, virtually the same as the 2019-to-2021 period,” the report details, pointing...

Ilhan Omar’s second husband calls himself a “dirty dandy” on social media and has run off to South Africa, dodging President Trump’s accusations he is her brother. Mystery has long swirled about the embattled Minnesota congresswoman’s marriage to Ahmed Elmi, whom she was wed to between 2009 and 2017, which various politicians on the right have called a sham. Elmi, 40, left the US long before he officially divorced Omar and seemingly disappeared. However, The Post can now reveal he’s been studying in the UK and South Africa. The one-time refugee describes himself as a “dirty dandy” on his social...

While shoplifting can be explained as thrill-seeking behaviour among youths, it should not be treated lightly, says SUSS’ Soh Kee Hean.Shop theft has been rising in Singapore in recent years. There were 3,244 cases of shop theft in 2022. This figure jumped 21 per cent to 3,939 in 2023, and again by 7.6 per cent to 4,237 cases in 2024. The first half of 2025 saw 2,097 cases, 4.2 per cent higher compared with the same period last year. Shop theft was the most common physical crime in the first half of the year, and remains one of the top...

We really don’t need to re-litigate this, because we’re right. The Russian collusion delusion was exposed. It was a hoax, and it did irreparable harm to the Democrats and their allies in the media. No one listens to the press anymore, with scores moving onto other streams for information since these clowns cannot do their jobs properly. After the 20th or so ‘bombshell’ in this story turned out to be a dud or fizzed out for lack of evidence, one would think this story smells like a con job. Instead, the Democrats, the media, and the Deep State doubled down,...

Officer Krystal Rivera’s family says in the wrongful death suit that Officer Carlos Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he shot her in her back in Chatham on June 5. The mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday in which she says her daughter’s partner, Officer Carlos Baker, was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase on June 5. The lawsuit, filed in Cook County court against Baker and the Chicago Police Department, says the...

The Trump administration announced plans Wednesday to add another militarized zone to the southern border — this time in California — as part of a major shift that has thrust troops into border enforcement with Mexico like never before. The Department of Interior said it would transfer jurisdiction along most of California's border with Mexico to the Navy to reinforce "the historic role public lands have played in safeguarding national sovereignty." The Interior Department described the newest national defense area in California as a high-traffic zone for unlawful crossings by immigrants. But Border Patrol arrests along the southern U.S. border...

Miami Beach police arrested a homeless man on Wednesday after accusing him of committing an antisemitic attack against a Jewish day school teacher... ... the victim was wearing a Star of David necklace... when Slemons Graves, 33, snatched her phone, hit her and spat on her.

45-year-old Nubia Torres, a jewelry store employee in Miami, is accused of stealing numerous items over several months, selling them at local pawn shops. The store owner discovered the thefts in early September, leading to Torres arrest and charges of grand theft and dealing with stolen property. She remains in custody due to an immigration hold.

A South Florida Uber driver was arrested for allegedly inappropriately touching a teen passenger, authorities said. Jose Miguel Perez-Molina, 39, of North Miami Beach, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child under 16...

LACEY, Wash. — A commercial truck driver was arrested at the scene of a six-car pileup crash that involved a school bus in Lacey on Thursday morning. According to the Washington State Patrol, the driver of a semi-truck that was hauling cars slammed into the back of the school bus just after 7:00 a.m. on I-5 near Martin Road. Troopers said the driver of the semi did not have a commercial driver’s license, insurance, or a valid medical card. “In this situation, there is a lot of negligence involved,” said Trooper Kameron Watts. “We actually dispatched some commercial vehicle enforcement...

A Grammy-nominated musician was struck and killed by a driver with more than 100 arrests and dozens of traffic violations in Rhode Island, police said. Roderick Macleod, 70, was a member of the band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received a Grammy nomination for his work with them. He was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2014, according to local media reports. Macleod was walking his dogs when he was hit by a car on Saturday, the Hopkinton Police Department said in a news release. The alleged driver was identified by police as as...

When the chairman of AI chip startup Rivos wanted Intel to bid for the company, he had no need to phone the chip giant. That’s because the chairman of Rivos was also Intel’s CEO: Lip-Bu Tan. Reuters was unable to determine how much the Intel CEO profited personally as a Rivos shareholder because the financials are not public. But in a blog post on its website, Tan’s venture-capital firm, Walden Catalyst, touted how he had delivered a “successful outcome” for its investors and congratulated the Rivos team for their “remarkable achievement.” The events show one of at least three instances...

Radnor High School and Radnor Township Police are investigating an AI-generated video that allegedly depicts several students inappropriately, according to an email sent to families by Principal Dr. Joseph MacNamara. "I am writing to address concerns and rumors regarding an AI-generated video that was reported to depict several of our students in an inappropriate manner," MacNamara wrote. "We understand how upsetting and serious this situation is, and we want to assure you that we are treating it with the highest level of urgency and care.

A Minnesota prisoner freed early from prison by Governor Tim Walz under a controversial new scheme is being hunted by police. Convicted drug dealer Vance Marie Nin, 23, who has an image of a cannabis leaf tattooed to her face, was released from prison in Shakopee in September despite having a previous assault conviction. Nin had served only 16 months of a 48-month sentence for second-degree drug sales, but was freed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) after she met the requirements for early release under a Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act (MRRA) pilot program. MRRA, signed into law...

An outraged San Diego couple say their Tesla's cameras caught a crooked parking cop ticketing their legally parked vehicle on camera. Vanessa Pearce shared video footage of her trip to the East Village of the California city on the afternoon of December 6, where a parking enforcement officer allegedly issued her a fraudulent citation. The now viral interaction with the unidentified cop has garnered more than 800,000 views and was captioned, 'When your own city tries to scam you! Do better, San Diego!' Before the couple was written the $85 parking citation, they were parked near the Izola Bakery on...

To order the killing of people shipwrecked is clearly illegal according to military justice, according to our own military laws. If our pilots have to eject from a plane, we show that we don’t shoot people. We don’t shoot pilots that are descending by parachute. If we blow up a boat and there are survivors we don’t shoot those people. We don’t sidle up in a boat and take a nine millimeter pistol out, put it to their head and shoot them. Nobody would do that.” “But just because the missiles come from a long distance doesn’t make it any...

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The Charlotte City Council is being slammed for approving $3.4 million to hire a PR company to clean up the reputation of their public transportation after a string of recent stabbings. The city’s latest action comes after two widely-publicized stabbings, including one that ended fatally on Charlotte’s train system and sparked a national conversation on rising crime and lax prosecution in urban areas of the country. On Tuesday, Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris called out the “pro-crime Democrats in Charlotte” for spending the cash on “misleading ads” rather than choosing to “invest in REAL safety to prevent another tragedy...

The Treasury Department sent a letter last week to conservative influencer Erika Kirk with findings that contradict fraud allegations about the finances at Turning Point USA and could help her refute those claims, sources told CBS News. Questions were being raised on social media about the finances at Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, and podcaster Candace Owens and others were urging donors to demand refunds. That led a few of its small-dollar donors to ask for their money back, one of the sources said. Erika Kirk runs the nationwide conservative college student organization co-founded by her late husband, Charlie Kirk....