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On February 5, 2025, an officer responded to a “suspicious person with a weapon” call near a Jack-in-the-Box located on the 5900 block of Gulf Freeway. The video does not say what department the officer was with. The address is in downtown Houston, so the officer is probably from the Houston Police Department. The officer noticed a young man and started questioning him. The young man stated he had been inside the Jack-in-the-Box watching his brothers sell “waters” outside. A man, with a knife in hand, had rushed at his brothers. The young man said he had pulled out a...

A licensed embalmer from Texas is facing charges after officials say she cut off a dead man’s penis in February with a scalpel after finding out he was a registered sex offender. According to Constable Alan Rosen of Harris County, 34-year-old Amber Laudermilk is charged with felony abuse of a corpse for the incident at Memorial Mortuary and Crematory. Officials say Laudermilk cut off the genitals of Charles Roy Rodriguez, 58, who was a registered sex offender. A report from KPRC said Laudermilk allegedly then stuffed the man’s penis in his mouth before his cremation. According to witnesses, Laudermilk did...

Texas Congressman Al Green was removed from the House of Representatives chamber this evening after repeatedly heckling and refusing to sit down during President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress. Green, 77, announced to the press upon his exit that he once again plans to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump. He threatened the same a few weeks ago, citing Trump’s plan for Gaza.

Authorities raided the notorious migrant development of Colony Ridge just north of Houston on Monday, rounding up 118 illegal migrants — including accused killers and kiddie-sex offenders. Border czar Tom Homan told Fox News that the raid by federal and state agencies was only the first of many that will target the crime-ridden “colonia. “This is something a little different today,” said Homan, who joined in the raid, on Monday. “You know, this is a larger criminal investigation into a network. And a lot of the people we were interested in were located in that area.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...

A prominent Obama administration trade advisor is one of the central players in a series of scandals and ethical rows that have reportedly placed him in cahoots with corrupt Congolese warlords and other questionable figures. Kase Lawal, an oil mogul with longstanding ties to the Clinton family, was appointed in 2010 as a member of Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Since his selection to the trade board, Lawal has become enmeshed in a pact to purchase large quantities of illegal gold from a violent Congolese warlord, according to a U.N. investigation and various reports. The crooked gold...

An early morning attempted armed robbery in Chicago's Homan Square neighborhood ended with an exchange of gunfire and one suspect dead after the victim, who had a FOID card and Concealed Carry License, fired shots, police said. The incident took place around 5:18 a.m. in the 900 block of S. Homan, police said, when two unknown men approached the victim, a 28-year-old male. The suspects displayed a firearm and announced a robbery, police said, and an exchange of gunfire ensued. One of the suspects, a 42-year-old male, sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead on scene....

A furious construction worker has dared President Donald Trump to arrest and deport him as immigration officials prepare for biggest deportation raid in American history. The apparent migrant worker aired his frustration with Trump's immigration overhaul in a taunting video shared to TikTok this week. 'Daddy Trump, you wanna take us the f*** out of here? Come do this s**t, then,' the laborer, wearing an A&M Contractors branded hardhat, jeered. He snidely questioned who would carry out America's construction projects if Trump deports all the undocumented migrant builders. 'Look who the **** built your house, look who the **** built...

The Trump-led Department of Justice has dropped the Biden DOJ’s case against Eithan Haim, a Texas-based doctor who blew the whistle on gender-reassignment procedures that were being performed on minors despite state directives banning the practice. “The United States has finally agreed to drop the case against Dr. Haim, and the Court just granted dismissal,” Marcella Burke, attorney for Eithan Haim, told Fox News. “The case has been dismissed with prejudice so that the federal government can never again come after him for blowing the whistle on the secret pediatric transgender program at Texas Children’s Hospital.” “We took on the...

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Police and city officials in Houston said evidence in storage lockers is being destroyed by "drug-addicted rats." Mayor John Whitmire said at a news conference that drugs being stored in evidence lockers are attracting rats that feast on the illicit narcotics and cause damage to other evidence in the process. "We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying," Whitmire said. The mayor announced the start of an initiative in partnership with the Harris County District Attorney's Office to organize the 1.2 million pieces of evidence stored by the...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Promotes Bishop Who Eliminated the Latin Masses in Strickland’s DioceseBishop Joe Vásquez, 67, of Austin, Texas, was appointed the next Archbishop of Galveston-Houston (1.8 million Catholics). He will succeed Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, 75.Houston is the fourth largest city in the US, after New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago.Vásquez arrived in Austin in 2010. Local Catholics on social media describe him as "horrible liberal" [= anti-Catholic].A native Texan, Vásquez studied theology in Houston before attending the Pontifical North American College in Rome.Francis appointed Vásquez as Apostolic Administrator of the neighboring Diocese of Tyler to following the removal...

Traffic jams continue to plague urban centers across the United States, leading to lost time, increased costs, and frustration for millions of commuters. The 2024 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard sheds light on the cities most affected, providing valuable insights into the challenges faced by drivers. Here are the 10 cities with the worst traffic, according to INRIX: New York City – The Big Apple leads the nation, with drivers losing countless hours in traffic. Chicago – The Windy City ranks second, with congestion remaining a major issue. Los Angeles – LA’s infamous gridlock earns it the third spot. Boston –...

After a New Orleans terrorist attack by an ISIS supporter from Houston, Texas, and amid intensifying warnings of Islamic terrorist threats within the U.S., a resurfaced clip showing hundreds of American children in Houston wearing traditional Islamic dress, chanting references to Iran’s supreme leader, pledging allegiance to him, and praising martyrdom has reignited concerns over growing homegrown Islamic extremism. They sing "Don't look at my young age" "I will be your soldier" "I make an oath. One day when you need me, I will be your martyr" The original Persian song also references slain Iranian General Qassim Soleimani with one...

The man who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's Day revelers in New Orleans was part of a Muslim community in Houston with a scary history of hard-line Islamism, DailyMail.com can reveal. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a Texas-born US citizen and Army veteran, rammed the crowd in the French Quarter, killing 14 and injuring dozens more, after declaring his support for ISIS. He was killed in a shootout with police. The FBI has probed Jabbar's ties to ISIS and hunted for potential accomplices. One focus is his Muslim immigrant community in northern Houston, and nearby mosque Masjid Bilal,...

HOUSTON – ISIS-inspired New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept a bomb-making workbench in his ramshackle Texas trailer home — where a Quran was left open on a page about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show. His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…” Numerous books about Islam were also on the shelf and around the squalid home, while a prayer rug was rolled up nearby. (pictures and video in...

The mosque reportedly attended by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar urged members to refer inquiries from the FBI to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of Greater Houston. More than a dozen were killed and dozens wounded in the terror attack in the early hours of New Year’s Day on Bourbon Street, in which Jabbar drove a truck with an ISIS flag into a crowd of revelers. Newsweek reported: A mosque near the Houston home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who police say carried out the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, has urged its congregation...

Daniel Joseph Maldonado, a former Houston resident who convereted to Islam and admitted training with terrorists, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and given a $1,000 fine. Maldonado, 28, pleaded guilty in April to training with al-Qaida in East Africa. He is the first American charged with joining the terrorist organization in Somalia. The charge carried a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a fine up to $250,000. He admitted his association with terrorists in exchange for no further prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston. Maldonado came to the attention of federal investigators in late...

An influential activist who met with members of the Obama Administration to promote net neutrality campaigned on behalf of a convicted Al Qaeda supporter, Breitbart Tech can reveal. Evan Greer is the campaign director for Fight For The Future, which led grassroots efforts to promote net neutrality to the Obama Administration. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, and she describes herself as a “touring queer riot-folksinger.” For three years, she also campaigned on behalf of Tarek Mehanna, an open admirer of Osama Bin Laden who was convicted of aiding al-Qaeda in 2012.Mehanna was convicted in 2012, after prosecutors proved that in 2004...

The terrorist who killed 15 people when he plowed his truck down crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans was an American-born military veteran who was living in a run-down trailer park where he kept sheep and goats in the yard — just blocks away from the local mosque. -snip- Jabbar lived in a squalid trailer park on the outskirts of Houston that is home to mostly Muslim immigrants. Geese, chickens, and sheep roamed freely in Jabbar’s yard when The Post visited hours after the attack. One neighbor told The Post she spoke only Urdu, Pakistan’s national language. The neighborhood is...

Video of Shamsud Din Jabbar, born in Texas, former U.S. Army soldier.

BEAUMONT - Sources close to the private fundraiser held for Hillary Clinton in Beaumont Wednesday afternoon tell 12News it raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some estimates put the amount collected at half-a-million dollars, making it one of the top five private fundraisers Clinton has had in this country. Pakistani businessman Tahir Javed hosted the reception for Clinton at this home in West Beaumont. Former U.S. Representative Nick Lampson, who attended the event, says 250 people were there. Lampson says Clinton spoke about education, healthcare and individual freedoms for people of all backgrounds and faiths. Many of the Pakistanis at...