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Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of Iran's Parliament, argues that "we need nuclear weapons to deter our enemies from infringing on our right to conquer the world for Allah. Islam is not a 'cheek-turning' faith. Allah commands Muslims to fight for our beliefs. Yet, every effort we make is condemned as 'terrorism' by Jews and their henchmen throughout the world. We have twice been bombarded by the United States and Israel. Trump threatens us with annihilation. If we had nuclear weapons they wouldn't dare attack us in this way. They know that our jihadis would eagerly carry nuclear suicide bombs...

The announcement of the scheduled December 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan for his "Fort Hood" murder of 13 people and wounding of another 32 in 2009 has inspired Al Qaeda "to avenge this unwarranted slaying of a righteous Muslim. If the US dares to go through with this evil deed we will respond in kind by abducting Americans, killing them, and showing the video of their deaths to the world." "Trump may think that executing Hasan for successfully carrying out a jihad attack on infidels will deter us from our goal of conquering the world for Allah,...

In 2025 the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recommended that tax dollars going to USAID were of no benefit to the US. Later the Trump Administration cut those subsidies. Since then, eight leftist governments in Latin America have been ousted by elections favoring free-market oriented governments. The countries in which this occurred include Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Columbia and Brazil. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called these trends "encouraging. It was shameful that prior administrations were covertly propping up regimes that were oppressing their own people, wrecking their economies with socialist nostrums, and actively expressing their enmity...

The narrowly averted hijacking of Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv in Israel inspired Al Qaeda to call for more copycat hijackings. A public statement issued by the terrorist organization pointed out that "it has been 25 long years since the 2001 triumph of taking down the twin towers in New York City showed what courage and self-sacrifice could accomplish against the evil American empire. Hamam al-Hammami showed that a single man could have succeeded in crashing a major airline craft. If he had chosen a softer target than a plane carrying so many battle-hardened Israelis he most...

With estimates of the annual toll on taxpayers for welfare fraud now estimated to exceed $250 billion, an outraged President Trump is demanding that "Congress enact a law mandating prison sentences for individuals who are stealing this money from hard working Americans. I think if you steal from the American people, you should go to prison and for a long period of time. And the more you steal, the longer you'll stay in that prison." "In addition, if a state or local politician knows about fraud and has the ability to stop it, but does nothing about it, they should...

Judge P. Kevin Castel for the Southern District of New York ruled that "any ICE arrest of a person who enters the country without legal authorization that doesn't occur at the scene of the commission of the crime is arbitrary and capricious." Judge Castel rejected the government's "argument that an arrest policy, or absence of an arrest policy, is beyond judicial review because the place of an arrest is left entirely to the discretion of the agency." Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin called the ruling "absolutely bonkers. In essence, the Judge is saying that unless a criminal...

US District Judge David Leibowitz dismissed a case against Florida non-citizen resident Chelsea Cox for voting in the 2020 election on the grounds that "under the US Constitution each state has the right to decide who will be allowed to vote in elections. Article I, Section 4 explicitly states that 'The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.' There is no requirement regarding citizenship mentioned. Therefore it is my ruling that the federal government lacks the authority to prosecute Ms. Cox for illegally voting. The authority...