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Left-wing darling Hasan Piker has been booted from the streaming platform Twitch after he suggested that the killing of two Israeli Embassy diplomats in Washington, DC looked like it could be a “false flag” operation. Piker, 33, claimed his account, which has more than 2.8 million followers, was suspended because of his “critical examination” of the manifesto of suspected terrorist Elias Rodriguez, who was charged with executing embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. He said the attack had all the hallmarks of a “false flag operation,” a term used for an...

A 19-year-old man was arrested after spending months planning an attack on a U.S. Army site in suburban Detroit, authorities said Wednesday. The man was planning a mass shooting at the Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command in Warren, commonly known as the Detroit Arsenal, on behalf of the Islamic State group, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. But he didn’t know that he had been scheming with two undercover FBI employees, who recorded audio and video images of their meetings with him, including handwritten diagrams of the site, referred by the Army as TACOM, authorities said.

Portnoy's complaint began when a now-deleted Instagram account posted footage of a bottle service worker at Barstool Sansom Street holding up an illuminated sign that read 'F*** the Jews.' Portnoy immediately fired two waitresses and identified the two people allegedly responsible for ordering the sign - one being Temple University student Mo Khan.

A resurfaced clip of Dem. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive "Squad" in Congress, sparked a frenzy on social media this week with conservatives blasting the congresswoman over her comments regarding the "radicalization of White men." "I would say our country should be more fearful of White men across our country, because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country," Omar said in a 2018 interview with Al-Jazeera while discussing the domestic terrorism threats in the United States and responding to a question on how much concern "jihadism" poses to the United States. "And so...

Mohamed Adan Mohamed was arrested last week; a BCA agent said "there were strong indicators that Mohamed was preparing to conduct some sort of attack (Mass Casualty Event) in the next twenty-four hours." The Blue Earth County Attorney’s Office has filed felony charges against Mohamed Adan Mohamed after he allegedly stole $2,150 worth of firearm magazines and made a threatening, anti-American post on social media. According to the criminal complaint, Mohamed entered a Mankato store last week wearing a COVID mask, gloves, a green stalking cap, and a heavy winter coat. The 24-year-old reportedly began selecting high-priced items such as...

It’s the latest setback to the president’s efforts to wield government power to punish the legal industry. A federal judge called it “a shocking abuse of power.”A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Trump from punishing the law firm Susman Godfrey, calling the retribution campaign he has waged from the White House against the nation’s top firms “a shocking abuse of power.”Ruling from the bench, Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia said that the executive order Mr. Trump signed last week targeting the firm stemmed from a “personal vendetta.” Susman Godfrey represented...

Police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly sending threatening messages to director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her husband. The DOJ announced the arrest of Aliakbar Mohammed Amin on Monday, saying he had sent threatening text messages to Gabbard between March 29 and April 1. The threats included Amin allegedly writing, "You and your family are going to die soon" and "I will personally do the job if necessary." "Death to America means death to America literally, Tulsi is living on borrowed time," another text read.

Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour Ramadan fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, surveillance video shows. The 30-year-old shrieked in fear when an officer in a hooded sweatshirt and hat grabbed her by the wrists as another pulled out a concealed badge on a lanyard and confiscated her cell phone. Soon afterward, the swarm of officers who had surrounded her on the sidewalk pulled cloth coverings over their mouths and noses, some...

Guy on tik tok telling illegal aliens to shoot at ICE agents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RDTbQdhlM

Ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan deleted what he called a “poorly worded” post on X that sparked outrage on Tuesday after two people died in a plane crash at Georgia’s Covington Airport east of Atlanta. The left-wing talking head claimed he posted “Make American Planes Crash Again” in an attempt to mock the “Make America Great Again” slogan and to highlight the spate of recent fatal plane crashes under the Trump administration. But Hasan drew swift backlash and quickly deleted the post. “I deleted this sarcastic quote-tweet because MAGA and Islamophobic folks are clipping it out of context and trying to...

PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks came together on Friday to mourn the first month of Donald Trump 2.0. Together, the trio would lament the supposed lack of “guardrails” that is allowing Trump to run “roughshod” over the government in pursuit of “Ivy League right-wing nihilism.”Nawaz began with Capehart, “Can I just get both of you to briefly weigh in on this? Because we're nearing one month into the Trump presidency. Is it clear to you where the guardrails are, Jonathan?”Capehart was naturally a doomer, “No. No....

Turns out the FBI had evidence that Ilhan Omar did in fact marry her brother which is in violation of immigration laws and did nothing .. Calls for her to be expelled from Congress & deported are growing, this should happen ... Three husbands in time span of 2017-2020 can be difficult to explain ... Fortunately we're gonna have the right people in place to look into this ... Her verbal abuse against citizens who pay her salary -while using official government platforms- should be enough to get her impeached ... That’s why Obama dumped thousands of Somalias in her...

Summary A car has hit a group of people in the Germany city of Munich At least 20 people are injured, several of them critically It's not known if the driver acted intentionally Local reports say the car drove into a trade union demonstration The incident comes the day before the Munich Security Conference - US Vice-President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrive in the city later today

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., rebuked Democratic Party figures who attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Omar, a member of the progressive "Squad," told CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night that because of Trump’s alleged lack of respect for his political opponents and his "dismantling" of democracy, Democratic lawmakers should not have shown him respect by attending his swearing-in. "So just the level of indignity that was shown and disrespect to tradition, to me, said, no one should show him dignity and respect," the lawmaker said on CNN. The lawmaker grilled Democratic Party members for attending the event on...

This was on the news: The terrorist who killed those girls was known to various agencies and nothing was done even when he was buying knives off Amazon they said. Anyone following this? Another costly failure.

Brussels, Belgium — January 6, 2025: A potentially deadly attack was narrowly avoided this morning when a “radicalized” man in his twenties armed with a knife attempted to break into the offices of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. The incident occurred at 16 rue de la Loi as the individual shouted “Allah Akbar,” an Islamic war cry, before being subdued by military police. Authorities have not released his name, sparking criticism over transparency in such cases. A Known Threat Escalates According to officials, the assailant had already been flagged by authorities and was the subject of a Nixon procedure,...

Ahmad Jamal Khamees Alhendi facing multiple charges after forcing major highway closure near GreenvilleICE has issued detainer for suspect, whose origin and immigration status remain unclear Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a detainer for a truck driver who was arrested after allegedly making a bomb threat while pulled over on I-85 in South Carolina this week, indicating he may be in the country illegally.The busy interstate was shut down for hours on Thursday afternoon after South Carolina State Transport Police pulled over an 18-wheeler with a missing license plate in Greenville County.During the stop, the driver reportedly claimed...

There’s a sinister method to this madness The man who plowed his car at top speed into the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on Friday, killing and injuring numerous people, was a curious case. Taleb al-Abdulmohsen had lived in Germany for years, all the while presenting himself as an ex-Muslim and cultivating connections with high-profile critics of Islam. This led numerous media outlets to present him as an “anti-Islam” terrorist, and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who for years has ignored and denied any connection of Islam with terrorism and smeared critics of Islam and mass Muslim migration in Germany...

President-elect Trump settled a defamation lawsuit with ABC News for $15 million. That suit followed a segment in which George Stephanopolous inaccurately said Trump had been found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carrol when in fact, he had been found liable in a civil case for sexual abuse. Amna Nawaz discussed more with New York Times reporter David Enrich. Amna Nawaz: Today, at his first news conference since winning the 2024 election, president-elect Donald Trump spoke about a number of his policy priorities and answered questions on a wide range of issues. Geoff Bennett: Despite the potential U.S. ban...

A car drove into people at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday. Officials said they suspected it was an attack and that people were injured, but it was not immediately clear how many were harmed. The driver of the car was arrested, German news agency dpa reported, citing unidentified government officials in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Regional government spokesperson Matthias Schuppe and city spokesperson Michael Reif said they suspected it was a deliberate act. Reif said there were “numerous injured” but didn’t give a precise figure. “The pictures are terrible,” he said. “My information...