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(NEXSTAR) – In a wide-ranging interview published Saturday, former President Barack Obama confirmed what many have been waiting for: aliens are, in fact, real. They’re aren’t being kept in Nevada’s Area 51, however. Progressive podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama the question outright during “a little bit of a lightning round” in an interview on Cohen’s “No Lie” podcast published on Saturday.

Probably the most galling thing about Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's open borders was in the surge of fake asylum claims, fraudulently filed, with a whopping fifty percent of them accepted by roundheeled activist Biden administration judges as real. AdvertisementIllegal migrants paid nothing to file them. NGOs and the United Nations coached them in how to use loopholes to win their claims, and Biden's judges were ready with their rubber-stamps, putting the illegal migrants on the express lane for public benefits, with immediate eligibility. With an acceptance rate like that and the payoff that followed, it's no wonder so many...

Pregnant immigrants in Minnesota have been postponing their abortions, skipping aftercare, and delaying birth control visits and urgent cancer screening follow-ups to avoid coming in contact with federal immigration agents. Medical providers say the federal operation — which the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest-ever immigration enforcement raid — has cut off access to time-sensitive reproductive health care, delays that can result in more complicated and expensive care. Border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that the operation — now in its third month — is coming to a close, saying that only a “small footprint” will remain in...

VD for Valentine’s Day? In case you needed a reason to stay celibate this weekend, there’s a sexually transmitted fungus making the rounds and leaving its mark. Experts say the public should be aware of the nation’s “largest known outbreak” of Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII. Known as TMVII, the nasty business is the only known fungal-based sexually transmitted infection. Cases of TMVII have been on the rise in Europe for the past several years, especially among men who have sex with men. In 2024, an NYC man became the first reported US case of TMVII, and it seems the icky...

As pathways to freedom have narrowed in immigration courts across the United States, a record number of detainees are giving up their cases and voluntarily leaving the country. Last year, 28% of completed immigration removal cases among those in detention ended in voluntary departure, a higher share than in any year prior, a CBS News analysis of decades of court records found. That figure only appears to be climbing as the Trump administration's immigration crackdown widens and detention populations swell. The percentage of voluntary departures among those detained grew nearly every month of 2025, reaching 38% in December. The analysis...

US District Judge John deGravelles ordered the release into the community of four previously convicted criminals who were being held by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). All had final orders for their deportation. The individuals and their crimes are... Ibrahim Ali Mohammed (Ethiopian) — sexual exploitation of a minor. Luis Gaston-Sanchez (Cuban) — homicide, assault, resisting an officer, concealing stolen property, and robbery. Ricardo Blanco Chomat (Cuban) — homicide, kidnapping, aggravated assault with a firearm, burglary, robbery, larceny, and selling cocaine. Francisco Rodriguez-Romero (Cuban) — homicide. Judge deGravelles explained "President Biden knew of their crimes, but he still allowed...

Sanctuary officials released Mexican illegal charged with rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, purchasing sex with a minor Manuel Cruz-Ramirez presented false passport at Portland International Airport, feds say An illegal alien arrested at an Oregon airport was on the loose despite being charged with horrific sex crimes against a minor in the sanctuary state.On Feb. 3, a Transportation Security Administration officer working a terminal checkpoint at Portland International Airport encountered 38-year-old Manuel Cruz-Ramirez. Cruz-Ramirez presented a Mexican passport bearing a different name. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was alerted when the passport failed to return...

‼️ Wow Meloni goes hardcore in Italy by using the Navy to block migrant boats from landing. Proposed legislation was agreed by ministers yesterday. She isn’t bowing to the pressure of the UN or the ECHR, she’s protecting Italy and delivering her election promise.

The St. Paul Police Department said a multi-car crash on Wednesday was caused by federal agents pursuing a person in a vehicle. The person being pursued had non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to the hospital. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it was a targeted stop of a person from Honduras who “tried to evade law enforcement and began driving recklessly and ran red lights, endangering public safety and law enforcement.” At least three cars had damage from the crash, which happened outside Nina’s Coffee Cafe at the intersection of Western Avenue North and Selby Avenue....

On X there are a great many genuine posts and truth be known, the news tends to show up on X before it does on television. The problem is you need to sort out the truth from the nonsense, and there is a great deal of nonsense. In vetting with that nonsense, Grok is a treasure. Liberals, AWFULs in particular, are well known for their trafficking in untruths. For example- In her profile Suzie Rizzio describes herself this wayI’m a small town beach girl that loves politics & fostering animals! She posted this yesterday: Fact Check by Mike NetterThe incident...

The government in West Virginia, instead of trying to thwart federal immigration officers, formed a partnership with them that helped put over 600 illegal alien criminals in handcuffs.While Democrat-run California could be on the cusp of releasing 33,000 illegal alien criminals, Republican-run West Virginia is now prioritizing the safety of its citizens. If only more state governments would work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), there would not be so much violence against ICE and it would be much more straightforward to arrest and deport foreign criminals.In just two weeks in January, the state-federal authorities’ partnership resulted in 650 arrests,...

A U.S. Olympic curler has become the latest in a trend of American athletes to use the Winter Olympics as a platform to blast President Trump’s policies at home.Rich Ruohonen, 54, a member of the U.S. Olympic curling team and a native of Minnesota, used a considerable chunk of his time in front of reporters on Tuesday to speak out against the efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in his home state to rid the streets of criminal illegals.“I’d like to say I’m proud to be here to represent Team USA, and to represent our country. But we’d...

A new comparative report found Ohioans have a 1.13% chance of being abducted by aliens, with over 4,000 abduction reports since 2019. Ohio is ranked 21st in the nation for alien abduction odds, according to a report from Canada Sports Betting (CSB) that dove into abduction statistics across North America. According to the report, which considered data from 2019 to 2024, Ohioans have a one in 89 chance of reporting an alien abduction. With a total population of just under 12 million people, CSB found Ohio has a reported alien abduction for every 11,300 residents. Researchers were clear to note...

Regional elections were held in Spain's Aragón area yesterday, and they turned into a rout for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's party. Surging conservative parties either picked up seats or held theirs to be able to form coalitions to fend off the slumping ruling Socialists.Spain’s ruling Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) suffered a crushing setback in the snap regional elections in Aragón.In the ballot yesterday, it slumped to one of its worst historical performance, losing ground amid a surge by the right-wing Vox party.Provisional results from the Government of Aragón and the National Electoral Commission, with more than 98 per cent...

A federal appeals court in San Francisco granted a stay allowing the government to proceed with terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order freezing a lower court ruling that would have vacated Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to end the protections.

There are many drivers behind the new nullification crisis that the left is stoking over immigration, but perhaps the most significant political one is that the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy poses a greater threat to Democrat Party power than perhaps any other single initiative. If federal authorities were to successfully remove millions of illegal aliens from the country, some estimates suggest it would result in the reallocation of nearly a dozen House seats and electoral college votes. Billions of dollars in taxpayer funding would be redirected out of blue states and into red ones. That is because the census...

An Irish man has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record. Seamus Culleton was a “model immigrant” who had become the victim of a capricious and inept system, said his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye. Originally from County Kilkenny, Culleton is married to a US citizen and runs a plastering business in the Boston area. While buying supplies at a hardware store on 9 September 2025 he was arrested in a random immigration sweep, according to Okoye, of BOS Legal Group in Massachusetts. Culleton entered...

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News. The official statistics contained in the DHS document, which had not been previously reported publicly, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's far-reaching deportation operations across the U.S. The internal DHS figures undermine frequent assertions by the Trump administration that its crackdown on illegal immigration is primarily targeting...

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said it was “not realistic” to remove over 25 million people in this country who are undocumented.’#Lawler said, “Look, this is an issue that I’ve been focused on for years. You know, for 40 years, we have not solved our immigration crisis. The American people were rightly outraged by what happened under the Biden administration, where you had over 10.5 million migrants cross our border, most of them illegally. You know, porous Southern border needed to be shut down. President Trump did that. The fact is, we have had nine straight...

It’s useful, if unserious, for congressional Democrat leaders this week to have issued a list of demands in exchange for votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration law enforcement. The administration should see it as a reminder that the default position of Democrats is “pretend to support deporting illegal aliens while overcomplicating the process so as to render it impossible.” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York, published the demands in an open letter on Wednesday, detailing 10 things they say are needed to strike a deal on...