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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An investigation is underway after an attack on San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's security team Thursday evening. It happened in the Tenderloin neighborhood just before 6 p.m. near Cedar and Polk Streets. Two suspects were arrested. In video obtained by the local publication Mission Local, the mayor is seen nearby at one point during the confrontation, but moved away while one of the officers was interlocked on the ground with a suspect. Mission Local reports that this happened after a group of people blocked the SUV that Lurie and his team use. Lurie's office and the...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s police security team was attacked Thursday evening near the edge of the Tenderloin — leaving an officer bleeding from the back of his head after a chaotic street confrontation. The mayor was not hurt in the incident, which unfolded just before 6 p.m. near Cedar Street, according to Mission Local. One San Francisco Police Department officer assigned to Lurie’s security detail was left panting and bleeding after he slammed his head during a struggle with a suspect. The mayor had been riding in a black SUV with the officer and a driver — also a...

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The Florida Legislature is close to reforming the requirements for voluntary armed security in churches. The bill exempts voluntary church security members who have concealed carry permits from the requirements of Florida statutes that regulate the members of private security services. Private investigative, security, and repossession services are regulated under Chapter 493 of the Florida Statutes. Section 6102 spells out who the provisions of the chapter shall not apply to. HB 95 has cleared its House committees and was added to the House Second Reading Calendar on Feb. 10, 2026. SB 52 passed the Senate 39–0 on Feb. 11, 2026,...

How a single hack infected the world’s most important operating system. Video is 53 minutes. Yes it's long, but it goes into all the background of what happened, plus a post-mortem and analysis. This is about the xz compression hack several years ago. I remember hearing about it and being thankful we have unaffiliated people who can test things like this when they see an anomaly in the code/testing they are performing.

CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulled out of a speaking engagement at UCLA due to security concerns. “We always follow our security team’s guidance. This situation is no different,” a CBS News spokesperson told Fox News Digital. The lecture honors the memory of slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded by Pakistani jihadist terrorists in 2002. “We are working with the university to reschedule for a different date,” the network spokesperson added. Steve Lurie, UCLA’s Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Safety Officer, told Fox News Digital the university had a “comprehensive security plan” in preparation for Weiss’...

The speech is 22 mins long. "U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized transatlantic unity at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, February 14. He reassured European leaders that Washington does not intend to abandon the alliance, while noting that Europe has made some policy mistakes and should adjust course. Rubio’s message of togetherness was largely well-received by European diplomats and security officials attending the annual forum. The address underscores the ongoing importance of U.S.-Europe cooperation on defense, security, and geopolitical challenges. SNIP

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clashed with a Czech political leader at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday. Clinton was speaking during a panel on the state of the West where she heavily criticized President Donald Trump for his dealings with Europe. Petr Macinka, a Czech deputy prime minister, defended the Trump administration as Clinton repeatedly mocked his statements and tried to speak over him. "First, I think you really don't like him," Macinka said as he began to respond to Clinton's Trump-bashing. "You know, that is absolutely true," Clinton said. "But not only do I not...

A 30-second ad from Ring stood out among Sunday’s glut of Super Bowl commercials shilling myriad forms of artificial intelligence, serving as a frightening reminder of how ubiquitous surveillance cameras have become amid our diminishing privacy. After all, if the “Search Party” function built into the doorbell camera’s app can be used to find a lost dog, as Sunday night’s ad emphasized, there’s little to stop it from being used to track people. The doorbell camera’s feature is especially worrisome now as the government encroaches on our civil liberties. Pointing out the potential of the Amazon-owned Ring being used to...

A vast majority of Americans — including Democrats and ethnic minorities — favor requiring photo identification (ID) to vote, according to an analysis from CNN Senior Data Reporter Harry Enten.The data undercuts claims by some Democratic lawmakers that voter ID laws are broadly unpopular and intended to disenfranchise non-white voters.Speaking during a Feb. 3 segment on CNN, Enten cited recent Pew Research Center surveys showing 83% overall support for photo voter ID requirements. Support has remained consistently above 75% since 2018, the data suggest. 🚨NEW: CNN's Harry Enten: "A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It...

This piece is premised on the book American Stasi, available free at AmericanStasi.com, and at all major booksellers. The book attempts to show that the nations of the West have all deployed East German Stasi-like ground surveillance in their communities, to monitor all the citizens, and make sure none can ever rise high enough in government to see the rampant fraud and abuse. The surveillance is most notable through its vehicular units, which follow established procedures, and which you can even see on Google Streetview, as they perform surveillance on the Google car as it moves through communities. Here we...

In the fall of 1998, I traveled to Denmark to take up my duties as the American Ambassador in Copenhagen. Often referred to as the “Fairytale Kingdom,” courtesy of its native son, Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark is a remarkable country that has been an exceptional ally of the United States for well over 200 years. The Danes have built a nation that combines Viking valor with a deep sense of duty to be one’s brother’s keeper. The admirable character of the Danish people was perhaps best exemplified when it became the only country in Europe to rescue virtually its entire...

President Trump said Thursday that the US will receive “total access” to Greenland under the terms of a “framework” deal announced a day earlier at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We’re talking about, it’s really being negotiated now, the details of it, but essentially it’s total access,” Trump told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria.” “There’s no end, there’s no time limit.” The president, who also ruled out using military force to annex the world’s largest island Wednesday, stressed that Greenland is critical to national security and will be used for his vaunted space-based Golden Dome missile defense...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has insisted that the FACE Act only applies to abortion clinics, coming as the Department of Justice is probing possible violations of the law in relation to the storming of a St Paul church by anti-ICE agitators. Speaking on former CNN host Don Lemon’s podcast, Ellison said, "Yeah, I'm familiar with the FACE Act. You know, in Minnesota, we have—we uphold the right of a woman to choose, and some of the activists, you know, will, you know, sort of—you know, they, so it’s…" He continued, "The law has to do with the, you know,...

🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk ENDORSES Speaker Johnson and Steve Scalise passing an improved version of the SAVE Act that requires PHOTO VOTER ID, on top of citizenship to vote NO EXCUSE! Pass it in the House and the Senate must move quickly! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Greenland rarely draws global attention. But as ice melts and great powers inch closer, the world’s largest island has become a strategic prize — one that caught President Donald Trump's eye long before most Americans were paying attention.

Early Saturday morning, details emerged of a U.S. military operation in Venezuela that effected the successful capture and extradition of Venezuela’s illegitimate president, Nicolás Maduro, to the United States. Delta Force operators executed a daring mission in Caracas while combat pilots led the effort to destroy key military installations on the ground. The narcoterrorist Maduro will no longer wield power over the Venezuelan people or serve as a conduit for America’s enemies to poison Americans and wage hybrid warfare against the United States. Maduro was blindfolded aboard the USS Iwo Jima as he began his journey toward becoming a criminal...

Watchdog group demands answers after ‘unbelievable security lapse’ by Trump’s Secret Service team The Secret Service continues to endanger the president’s life with lax security, and the government is sitting on information that might expose recent failures which allowed President Trump to get shouted down by Code Pink protesters during a recent outing to a Washington DC restaurant, advocates fear. “I’m just really concerned about the president’s safety,” Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch told The Post. “He was almost killed twice supposedly under the protection of the Secret Service and then they walked him into a potentially dangerous ambush,” he...

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump could now deploy the MARINES to Chicago after Democrats brought the case up to SCOTUS "The unintended consequence here might be POTUS has to call the 82nd Airborne, or the Marines, or the 101st Airborne Division, like President Eisenhower did after Brown v Board." "Trump might have to do that first to protect federal buildings and ICE agents. THEN, if they fail, he can then call out the National Guard." HUGE BACKFIRE! DO IT!

Border Patrol officials said the first mile of the new "smart border wall" has been completed in Arizona's Tucson Sector... ...Earlier this year, CBP and the Department of Homeland Security announced 10 new contracts valued at $4.5 billion to add a "Smart Wall" along the southwest border. One of the contracts was to construct 23 miles of new secondary border wall and 66 miles of system attributes in Arizona. "The Smart Wall is a border security system that combines steel barriers, waterborne barriers, patrol roads, lights, cameras, and advanced detection technology to give Border Patrol agents the best tools in...