Free Republic

If Bravo is to be believed, all it takes to sell the world’s richest people the world’s most expensive homes is pulling up in your Lambo, shaking hands and opening a bottle of Krug. But there’s a dark side to the glamor of closing deals that you won’t see on TV, NYC brokers reveal. “We’re like a concierge service,” Peter Zaitzeff of Serhant told The Post. “People want restaurant reservations. They want to know where to take their kids. We scrub toilets.” A couple weeks ago, Brown Harris Stevens hotshot Lisa Simonsen had already wrapped her work for a client...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A 20-year-old Blanchard man is facing up to 45 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to plotting a terrorist attack inspired by ISIS and downloading child pornography, while living a double life, his family was seemingly unaware of. Federal court documents unsealed this week, obtained by News 4, reveal disturbing details about the allegations against 20-year-old Landon Swinford, who admitted to federal authorities that he wanted to carry out an attack at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in 2023. According to the FBI’s newly-released affidavit, when Swinford wasn’t busy telling...

CNN - When the Trump Justice Department took the extraordinary step of arresting a local judge seven weeks ago, plenty feared what it could portend. Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan’s case will play out in the weeks and months to come – she’s pleaded not guilty to obstructing the arrest of an undocumented immigrant – but arresting judges and public officials isn’t something to undertake lightly. Critics warned of the chilling effect it could lead to and the precedent it would set. Virtually nothing in the past seven weeks will have tempered those fears. The fervor to arrest public officials who...

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...

The Trump administration on Thursday began notifying roughly 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants that their legal status has been revoked and they should self-deport immediately. The termination notices went out via email to migrants enrolled in a controversial Biden-era “humanitarian parole” program, which granted foreign nationals from the four countries US work permits and deportation protection for up to two years. “The Biden Administration lied to America,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “They allowed more than half a million poorly vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate...

Police in Miami-Dade County are seeking former NFL star Antonio Brown for attempted murder related to a shooting at a May celebrity boxing match, the Washington Post reported The warrant was signed by a judge on Wednesday and listed a charge of attempted murder with a firearm. The incident reportedly occurred just after midnight on May 16 in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami and Brown had initially been detained by police and released hours later. The warrant, viewed by the outlet, called for Brown to post a $10,000 bond and remain under house arrest.

A no-nonsense Florida sheriff has issued an extraordinary warning by telling protesters that authorities will shoot them dead without hesitation if they commit violence. Violent protests have erupted around the nation inspired by rioters in Los Angeles taking a stand against President Donald Trump and his Immigration Enforcement agents. But in Florida, Sheriff Wayne Ivey laid down the law with a chilling warning that his officers 'are not gonna play' ahead of a scheduled demonstration this weekend. 'If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's LA riots press conference descended into chaos Thursday as a Democrat Senator interrupted the event. California Senator Alex Padilla began shouting over Noem before he was removed from the room. 'I'm Senator Alex Padilla, and I have questions for the secretary,' Padilla said as he was escorted out. Fox News reported Chad Pergram posted on X that a colleague told him Padilla was forced to the ground and handcuffed by the FBI. This is a developing story...

Simone Biles has launched a scathing attack on Riley Gaines, comparing her to a man after the former swimmer criticized a Minnesota high school softball team for competing with a trans player. Gaines, 25, has forged a career as a political commentator following her time as a swimmer, where she competed against trans athlete Lia Thomas. On Friday, Gaines retweeted a picture of Minnesota team Champlin Park celebrating the state high school title that they won with transgender pitcher Marissa Rothenberger on the team. It sparked a blistering response from Biles, 28, who first criticized Gaines's view and then compared...

The Trump administration will be charging rioters and looters involved in the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles under the Hobbs Act, as Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed. Bondi criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), stating that if he wasn’t “going to keep California safe,” the Trump administration would. Bondi continued to point out that Los Angeles had imposed a curfew on Tuesday night, adding that it “helped a bit.” “We’ve been seeing on the news, all of these drug stores getting robbed, getting looted. The Apple store just got raided, I mean, we’re all watching this live on the news....

Several drag queens protested and booed President Donald Trump as he attended a performance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday. The president’s visit marked his first since the inauguration. Video captured the moment several drag queens stood up in the audience as he appeared: The president has always hailed Les Misérables as his favorite musical. As Consequence recently reported, half the play’s cast decided to boycott the performance due to the president’s visit. Several cast members of Les Misérables will not be performing “One Day More” at their Kennedy Center concert next month — instead, they’ll be...

daho (ABC4) — Cenobio Feliciano-Galeana came to the U.S. illegally when he was 18 years old. 18 years since he’s found a life, a wife, and now four children. But after seeing the deportations taking place across the country, he has decided to self-deport back to his home country of Mexico Ashlee, Cenobio’s wife, says she and the family are coming with him. At the end of the year, she plans move with her four children to a country they have never known, just to keep the family together

The mystery donor who distributed war time masks to protesters during the Los Angeles riots has been arrested. Alejandro Theodoro Orellana faces a charge of conspiracy to commit civil disorders after he allegedly distributed tactical gear to suspected rioters on Tuesday. He was taken into custody by FBI agents Thursday morning, US Attorney Bill Essayli confirmed. Shocking video recorded during a local Fox broadcast Tuesday showed dozens of demonstrators rushing towards a Ford F-150 as a woman in the truck bed passed out gas masks and riot shields. Orellana is suspected to have been driving the truck at that time....

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...

A woman photographed in a female bathroom by an infamous trans-identified TikToker has announced she is considering taking legal action against him for violating her privacy. Nicholas Sylvan Cantino, known online as Lily Tino, is a transgender content creator with over 400,000 followers across social media. Cantino skyrocketed to notoriety after repeatedly filming himself berating frontline staff at restaurants after they accidentally “misgendered” him. His most viral video on TikTok, which has over 39 million views at the time of writing, is a compilation of those incidents, where he claims that being called “sir,” despite looking like a man dressed...

Radical leftist agitators are planning a series of coordinated demonstrations across New Mexico on June 14, targeting President Donald Trump with what they’re branding as “No Kings” protests. But what organizers portray as “peaceful protests” have all the hallmarks of the kind of far-left mob activity that has already sparked violent insurrections in places like Los Angeles, where criminal aliens and anarchists recently clashed with federal law enforcement officers. The so-called “50501 Movement”—standing for 50 protests, 50 states, one movement—has aligned with fringe progressive groups to launch what they claim is a “nationwide day of defiance” against Trump’s leadership, coinciding...

The influx of refugees from the mess liberals have made of California threatens to turn the Phoenix area into New Los Angeles. Let’s see if law enforcement can still serve a search warrant to probable illegal aliens without being set upon by moonbats: ***VIDEO ON LINK*** A statement from Homeland Security Investigation, via Fox 10 Phoenix: “Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a federal search warrant in Peoria, AZ. The search warrant was … in furtherance to a narcotics and human smuggling case. One person was arrested on federal charges and one other person was turned over to immigration officials. Special...

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump caused the Los Angeles immigration unrest. Waters said, “The backup plan is the President of the United States should do what he didn’t do when we were invaded in the Capitol. When they had the insurrection that he led, he should get on the phone and talk to the local police, he should talk to the people that he’s had deployed there. And he has a responsibility in all of this. He started this. There should be no violence. He should not continue to support violence.”...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) claimed that immigration raids conducted in Los Angeles on Friday are to blame for the rioting and looting that has occurred in the city. During a press conference on Wednesday, Bass spoke about how “everything was peaceful” in Los Angeles and other cities and that “things began to be difficult on Friday” when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted raids. Bass also suggested that the riots, looting, and violence that have ensued were “provoked by the White House,” and claimed that “maybe we are part of a national experiment to determine how...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Embattled law enforcement officers trying to keep violent protesters at bay now have to wait even longer for help, as news broke that U.S. Marine tanks had gotten stuck in traffic on the 405 freeway. National Guard servicemen and Los Angeles Police Department riot officers had been waiting for the arrival of 700 Marines deployed at the order of President Donald Trump to deal with crowds of anti-ICE rioters, but the Marines were immediately held up in L.A. gridlock. "This is ridiculous. C'mon, people, move it!" shouted one Lance Corporal while poking his head out the...