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  • At least 8 of 30 people detained by ICE at Kings Mountain business face federal charges, documents show (NC)

    07/09/2025 10:05:37 AM PDT · by 11th_VA · 7 replies
    https://www.wbtv.com ^ | July 9, 2025 | By Cassidy Johncox
    KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. (WBTV) - At least eight of the 30 people detained last month by federal immigration officers at a Kings Mountain business have since been charged with federal crimes. Affidavits were filed on July 1 and July 3 by an agent with Homeland Security Investigations, which operates under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE. The affidavits brought charges against eight people who were detained on June 25 when federal agents carried out a search warrant at Buckeye Fire Equipment Company in Kings Mountain. Seven of the people charged, who all appeared to be men, were...
  • Senate GOP not happy with Trump beatdown of Tillis

    07/09/2025 2:43:52 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 69 replies
    The Hill ^ | 7/8/25 | Alexander Bolton
    Republican senators aren’t happy about how President Trump treated Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), whom the president blasted last week on social media after Tillis said he wouldn’t vote for Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Tillis is highly regarded among colleagues as a team player focused on getting results, and many Republicans thought he would have had the best chance of keeping the North Carolina Senate seat in GOP hands.
  • Colorado man sentenced to 210 years in prison for sexually abusing boys at his orphanage in Haiti

    05/24/2025 12:34:06 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 32 replies
    Post Millenial ^ | 5-23-25 | Hannah Nightingale
    A Colorado man who founded and directed an orphanage in Haiti has been sentenced to 210 years in prison for sexually abusing children there. Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, founded the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in 1985, which housed orphaned, impoverished, and vulnerable children in Haiti. In the over two decades that Geilenfeld operated the orphanage, the Department of Justice said that he "repeatedly traveled from the United States to Haiti, where he sexually abused the boys entrusted to his care." The children also suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of Geilenfeld. A federal jury convicted Geilenfeld in...
  • Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon cites political dysfunction in deciding not to seek reelection

    06/30/2025 11:53:12 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 37 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 1:16 PM CDT, June 30, 2025 | Margaret A. Beck
    OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, announced Monday he will not seek reelection next year amid an increasingly polarized political climate.Bacon, 61, said at a news conference at Omaha’s airport that he would not seek a sixth term representing Nebraska’s second district with its so-called blue dot that includes many progressive voters around Omaha.Bacon has had to navigate an ever-thinning line between staying in his party’s and President Donald Trump’s good graces without alienating his increasingly Democratic district. He said he is proud of his bipartisan approach in the face of bitter partisanship in...
  • Key House GOP moderate Don Bacon won't seek re-election

    06/30/2025 10:37:49 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 25 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 30, 2025 | Deirdre Heavey , Elizabeth Elkind
    A House GOP centrist from a key battleground district, Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., announced Monday that he will not seek re-election next year. Bacon's announcement comes as Congress works overtime to pass President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" by their self-imposed July 4 deadline. Through the reconciliation process, the megabill seeks to deliver on the president's key campaign promises, including tax cuts, immigration reform and energy production. The moderate Republican has built a reputation for bucking Trump's agenda in the House. While Bacon ultimately voted with his Republican colleagues to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last month, the...
  • Duke Law Journal Sent a Secret Memo to Minority Applicants Telling Them They’d Get Extra Points for Writing About Their Race

    06/30/2025 6:33:02 AM PDT · by george76 · 39 replies
    Washington Free Beacon. ^ | June 30, 2025 | Aaron Sibarium
    Memo offers a snapshot of how personal statements can be used to skirt affirmative action ban... At the end of finals period each May, the Duke Law Journal hosts a two-week-long competition to select its next crop of editors. Applicants write a 12-page memo, or casenote, analyzing an appellate court decision, as well as a 500-word essay about what they would "contribute" to the journal. Students are chosen based on their grades, casenotes, and personal statements. Less than 20 percent of the class makes it onto the law review, which is overseen by Duke Law School and has no legal...
  • Lara Trump ‘Seriously Considering’ Senate Run to Replace Retiring GOP Sen

    06/29/2025 3:11:55 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 66 replies
    The Daily Beast ^ | Jun. 29 2025 | Josh Fiallo
    There might soon be another elected Trump in Washington. President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is “seriously considering” a Senate run in her native North Carolina, a source told NOTUS. Another source close to the Trump family told NBC News that there is a “high” chance she will run. Word of the younger Trump’s ambitions came hours after Thom Tillis, one of the state’s two Republican senators, announced he would not
  • Thom Tillis says he will retire following Trump attacks

    06/29/2025 10:39:47 AM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 102 replies
    Thom Tillis says he will retire following Trump attacks
  • Trump threatens backing primary challenge against GOP Sen. Thom Tillis over his 'big, beautiful bill' vote

    06/28/2025 9:03:59 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 37 replies
    NBC News ^ | June 28, 2025 | Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Sahil Kapur
    President Donald Trump on Saturday attacked Sen. Thom Tillis for opposing the party's sweeping domestic policy bill, threatening to meet with potential primary challengers to the North Carolina Republican. Tillis, who faces re-election next year in a battleground state, was one of two Republicans, along with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, to vote against advancing the "big, beautiful bill" in the Senate Saturday evening. "Numerous people have come forward wanting to run in the Primary against 'Senator Thom' Tillis," Trump wrote Saturday night. "I will be meeting with them over the coming weeks, looking for someone who will properly represent...
  • Another UNC system administrator gets caught on camera defending efforts to protect DEI

    06/16/2025 8:02:04 AM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | June 12, 2025 | Brendan McDonald
    Undercover video shows a Western Carolina University director of institutional assessment detailing a ‘strategy’ to ‘embed’ DEI. The WCU administrator caught on camera is ‘no longer employed by the university,’ a school spokesperson says. ... She went on to explain that if DEI is not explicitly mentioned in an office or title, it can remain undetected by legislators. “It is easier for them to be like, well, you need to get rid of that position because it has that niche title,” she says in the video. “Well, if we don’t create titles, and that it’s more just the work you...
  • North Carolina State Rep Waves Trump’s Decapitated Head at ‘No Kings’ Protest: ‘Some Cuts May Be Necessary’

    06/15/2025 9:27:13 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 61 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | June15, 2025 | Ben Kew
    A North Carolina state representative has called for President Trump’s beheading. Rep. Julie von Haefen attended the “No Kings” protest yesterday in North Carolina holding an effigy of what appeared to be the decapitated heads of Trump and his senior policy advisor Stephen Miller.
  • North Carolina parents charged after son is struck and killed by SUV while walking with older brother

    06/03/2025 5:58:22 PM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 51 replies
    Fox News ^ | 06/03/2025 | By Michael Dorgan Fox News
    A 7-year-old boy was fatally struck by an SUV last week as he tried to cross a road in North Carolina – and now his parents have been arrested and charged for leaving him unsupervised, according to police. Legend Jenkins was hit by a Jeep Cherokee on May 27 at around 6 p.m. while walking with his 10-year-old brother outside a crosswalk in Gastonia, a city west of Charlotte. Their mother told a local news outlet that it was the first time she had allowed them to walk to a nearby grocery store alone. Jenkins was rushed to a nearby...
  • Senate rankings: The 5 seats most likely to flip

    06/03/2025 7:27:37 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 41 replies
    The Hill ^ | 06/01/25 | Al Weaver
    *** Here’s an early look at the five Senate seats most likely to flip next year.Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff (Ga.) is considered the most vulnerable Democrat on the Senate map …. But ... Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) decided against a Senate bid, depriving the GOP of its top choice across the entire 2026 map. *** ... Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) is in, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is out, and operatives believe Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) may follow Carter into the primary. ***NorthCarolina If Democrats are going to make any headway toward winning back the majority, toppling Sen. Thom...
  • 15 soldiers injured after explosion at Fort Bragg

    09/14/2017 9:05:16 AM PDT · by Raebie · 38 replies
    WRAL News ^ | September 14, 2017 | WRAL
    Fort Bragg, N.C. — Several soldiers were injured Thursday morning after an explosion at Fort Bragg. Authorities said at least 15 soldiers were transported via medical helicopter to Womack Army Medical Center after an explosion on one of the training fields. The soldiers were all members of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, known as USASOC.
  • Charlotte City Council member won't resign after federal fraud indictment

    05/22/2025 10:17:10 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 22 replies
    Axios via MSN ^ | May 22, 2025 | Ashley Mahoney
    Charlotte City Council member Tiawana Brown told reporters Thursday morning she won't resign after being federally indicted with her daughters. "Why would I resign," Brown said. "I haven't been convicted of anything." Why it matters: Brown, who represents District 3 in west Charlotte, plans to run again later this year. Catch up quick: Federal prosecutors indicted Brown on wire fraud charges, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In a release Thursday morning, prosecutors described Brown and her daughters' alleged scheme to fraudulently obtain federal money during the pandemic. The intrigue: In the indictment, prosecutors...
  • Biden pulled a 'bait and switch' with his cancer diagnosis: Rep. Greg Murphy (VIDEO 8 MIN)

    05/21/2025 8:31:59 AM PDT · by bitt · 16 replies
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/ ^ | May 21, 2025 | Mornings With Maria
    Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., on Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis and GOP reconciliation holdouts who want 'more and more.'
  • An Attack on America Is Coming Thanks to Biden’s Negligence

    05/29/2024 3:08:54 PM PDT · by george76 · 55 replies
    Townhall ^ | May 29, 2024 | Kurt Schlichter
    You may have missed the news, but last week an Army colonel – nice to see an Army colonel doing something besides sharing xis pronouns – at Fort Bragg, which communists now call “Fort Liberty,” caught a Chechen illegal alien lurking in his backyard taking pictures of his kids and smoked him like a fatty at a Cypress Hill concert. This colonel might have been from Delta Force, but he is definitely part of the special operations community, and you might well be wondering what some Chechen illegal alien was doing in his backyard. In fact, there were two of...
  • The Ivy League Hoodlums Are Getting What They Deserve

    05/12/2025 4:28:49 AM PDT · by george76 · 16 replies
    Hot Air ^ | May 11, 2025 | Betsy McCaughey
    You and I have to pay more taxes so elite universities that willfully break the law discriminating against Jews, whites and Asians can get tax exemptions. It's a slap in the face. Yet Harvard alum Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is trying to turn the tables, accusing the Trump administration of "weaponizing" the IRS to strip Harvard of its 501c3 tax exempt status. Truth is, Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status because it's guilty of illegally allowing the civil rights of Jewish students to be trashed. The case against Harvard is a slam dunk. Numerous other universities where Jewish students are...
  • Republican candidate in North Carolina Supreme Court race concedes after judge rejects challenge

    05/10/2025 5:43:41 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 5 replies
    CNBC ^ | May 7, 2025 | Erin Doherty
    The Republican candidate for North Carolina’s state Supreme Court conceded the race Wednesday, ending his six-month crusade to overturn the election results in the perennial battleground state. “While I do not fully agree with the District Court’s analysis, I respect the court’s holding — just as I have respected every judicial tribunal that has heard this case,” Judge Jefferson Griffin said in a statement. “I will not appeal the court’s decision,” he added. Griffin’s concession to Democratic Justice Allison Riggs came two days after a judge appointed by Republican President Donald Trump rejected Griffin’s legal challenges to the election. The...
  • The Morning Briefing: Hey, Thom Tillis — the GOP Doesn't Need a Lisa Murkowski Lite

    05/08/2025 6:30:58 AM PDT · by george76 · 16 replies
    PJ Media ^ | May 08, 2025 | Stephen Kruiser
    Within weeks of the embarrassment of the 2022 red trickle midterm elections, Tillis thought it would be a good idea to get into bed with the Democrats on a hideous amnesty bill that was an homage to Barack. The timing was almost as bad as the bill itself. ... Now Tillis is throwing his second hissy fit of the year — opposing Pete Hegseth's confirmation as Secretary of Defense — and has become a fly in the ointment regarding Ed Martin’s nomination as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Tillis takes umbrage with Martin's support of J6 defendants, especially...