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The FBI has caught 5 of the 10 most wanted fugitives in the first year of President Trump's second term. FBI Director Kash Patel said the criminals "spent over three decades collectively evading justice" and they have "been put in custody" in under 1 year. "Under the leadership of President Trump, this FBI is defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and manhunting," Patel wrote on X. On Saturday, Alejandro Rosales Castillo, one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, was being prepared for extradition to face murder charges in North Carolina. During a congressional hearing in September, Patel said the Biden...

BREAKING - The Secret Service are finally taking threats from leftists encouraging violence online seriously, as they showed up at the home of prominent leftist agitator Jamie Bonkiewicz after she called for Press Sec Karoline Leavitt to be killed on television. Now arrest her.

UPDATE: The Rioter who drove off with Law Enforcement rifIe has been Identified as Raul Gutierrez. —— He’s been taken into federal custody. Everyone wave 👋 because this asshole is going bye bye

Scenes of chaos unfolded in Minneapolis on Wednesday night as rioters flooded the streets to protest the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the city. The unrest quickly escalated into dangerous territory, forcing ICE agents to abandon multiple vehicles. In the chaos, sensitive personal information was stolen and left scattered across city streets. One independent reporter who was present during the unrest said he was able to intercept “most” of the personal information stolen by rioters; however, it remains unclear how much sensitive information may still be in their possession. In one alarming incident, rioters broke into...

The Somali-dominated Democratic political machine in Minnesota successfully silenced hundreds of government experts who tracked the huge flow of taxpayer funds through Somali-run businesses, a top Minnesota Republican told a House hearing on Wednesday. Up to 1,000 government auditors, accountants, and program managers were silenced by Democratic threats, Minnesota House Rep. Marion Rarick told a House hearing: The most severe ones was that they would be fired with cause so they couldn’t have unemployment insurance, that they would be blacklisted from all state agencies… [including] Hennepin County, Ramsey County. As you know, those are Democrat-run. Many government experts, non-government professionals,...

BREAKING 🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Karoline Leavitt just ANNOUNCED President Trump is sending the whole Government after Tim Walz and Minnesota to uncover fraud 🔥 - 2,000 Agents on the ground from DHS - FBI is on the ground - HHS Freezing money - USDA is investigating SNAP THIS IS A MASSIVE WINnt after Tim Walz and Minnesota to uncover fraud 🔥 - 2,000 Agents on the ground from DHS - FBI is on the ground - HHS Freezing money - USDA is investigating SNAP THIS IS A MASSIVE WIN

Independent journalist Nick Shirley released a viral video on December 26, 2025, documenting visits to several state-funded daycare centers in Minneapolis. These centers, many catering to the Somali immigrant community, were found empty during operational hours, with no children present and signs of disuse, despite receiving substantial public funding through Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). Shirley’s investigation has uncovered over $110 million in suspicious payments in a single day, building on prior scandals like the Feeding Our Future fraud. The revelations have fueled criticism of Democratic Governor Tim Walz, with Republicans like Rep. Tom Emmer demanding answers and linking...

The Department of Justice faces its legally mandated deadline to release the Jeffrey Epstein files..."I expect that we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today"...Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said during an interview on Fox News.

This announcement (Dan Bongino's resignation from the FBI) does not come as a surprise to those follow the details of corrupt systems closely and who have watched the scale of the problems surface through the years.The problems within the FBI as an institution are systemic. Both Kash Patel and Dan Bongino faced a monumental challenge in trying to get their arms around the scale of the problem within the institution. There is no apple, only worms. Any type of institutional confrontation at this scale can only succeed if the problems are first admitted. Bongino faced a big challenge with Director...

Police probe potential ties between Brown University attack and MIT professor slayingPROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are investigating possible ties between Saturday’s shooting at Brown University and Monday’s slaying of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Target 12 investigators have learned. Senior law enforcement officials tell Target 12 that federal, state and local authorities are now examining a potential connection between the two crimes. Multiple people familiar with the investigation said they have discovered evidence showing the two may be linked. The possible connection marks a shift in the investigation. Ted Docks, special agent in charge of...

As the manhunt for the Brown University shooter entered its sixth day Thursday, sources say police in Providence, Rhode Island, recovered live rounds from the shooting scene.

Washington — President Trump said he will deliver a prime-time address to the nation live from the White House on Wednesday night. The president did not say what the topic of his address will be. It's also not yet clear if the address will be from the Oval Office. "My Fellow Americans: I will be giving an ADDRESS TO THE NATION tomorrow night, LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, at 9 P.M. EST.," he wrote on Truth Social Tuesday afternoon. "I look forward to 'seeing' you then. It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET...

Brown University mass shooting suspect new images released

A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and that person appears to still be at large as police are releasing a person of interest, who was detained Sunday amid their active investigation...

The young woman identified as the first victim killed in Saturday’s deadly shooting at Brown University was Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore and outspoken conservative activist whose death has sent shockwaves through both the campus community and conservative circles nationwide. Cook, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, was serving as vice president of Brown University’s College Republicans and was widely known for standing firm in her beliefs on one of the most ideologically hostile campuses in the country. Friends say she was thoughtful, kind, and unafraid to express her convictions, even when doing so made her a target for hostility or...

Kash Patel is at the center of another embarrassing fiasco after the FBI released a person of interest detained over the mass shooting at Brown University. The FBI had wrongfully detained a 24-year-old Army sniper whose name and photo was leaked to the press by cops, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha admitted on Sunday. A gunman opened fire during a review session for an introductory economics final exam at around 4pm on Saturday. He killed two students including Ella Cook, 19, vice president of the Ivy League school's Republican club, and injured nine others. Forty-eight hours later, the FBI...

Authorities moved to release a person of interest they arrested Sunday over a deadly mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, extending the manhunt to its third day. The FBI and police have not identified a suspect since the perpetrator opened fire with a handgun in the school’s engineering building during final exams on Saturday, killing two students and wounding nine others, officials said Sunday night. The FBI pursued a local police lead to arrest the initial person of interest in Coventry, FBI Director Kash Patel said on X earlier that day, thanking “the men and women of...

My previous immediate Substack column was titled, “Holiday Warnings.” However, unfortunately, we’ve graduated to “Holiday Terror.” This weekend we received chilling news about two mass terror attacks. The first was a shooting on Brown University’s campus and the second was against Jews attending an open-air Chanukah celebration on an Australian beach. We are grieving for all the victims and their families. But lost in this dark weekend was also an explicit warning by the federal government’s Director of National Intelligence that there may be as many as 18,000 terrorists living in our midst. Yes. This extraordinary disclosure by DNI chief...

Barry Loudermilk, Chairman of the new House Republican-led Select Subcommittee on January 6, claims that key surveillance footage showing areas near the RNC and DNC where pipe bombs were placed the prior evening was not preserved. Republican Rep. Loudermilk (GA-11) made the jaw-dropping accusation in a recent interview. "There's still so many questions regarding this, because one of the things that has raised our eyebrows is as we go and we look for video on January 6th, because we want early morning video on January 6th to see, did anybody go back to these locations?" he said. "Unfortunately, that video...

Rep. Eric “Fang Fang” Swalwell (D-China), not known for being overtly masculine, made a grave error on Monday while trying to mock FBI Director Kash Patel’s manhood and ended up with egg on his face. Patel came under fire in a recent New York Post article for supposedly running the FBI like a “rudderless ship.” The piece, authored by Miranda Devine, quoted several anonymous FBI agents in a recent report who trashed Patel’s supposed “lack of experience”, “insecurity,” and “unfortunate obsession with social media.” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino also received scathing reviews from active-duty and retired FBI agents. One...