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A newly unsealed FBI affidavit reveals that 17-year-old Wisconsin native Nikita Casap — who murdered his parents, stole $14,000 in cash, and plotted to assassinate President Trump using a militarized drone — was communicating via Telegram with an overseas phone number registered to Vodafone Ukraine, one of the country’s largest mobile carriers. Menu New Exclusive Gateway Pundit Merch Now Available on Sticker Mule Stores! Shop Today to Support FREE SPEECH and American Manufacturing! ADVERTISEMENT BREAKING: 3rd Would-Be Trump Assassin Plotted with Telegram Account Linked to Ukrainian Cell Number — We’ve Identified the Account and Individual It’s Registered To by Jason...

(formerly Twitter) is experiencing its third major outage of the day, with users reporting widespread login and loading issues. The hacking group Dark Storm Team has reportedly claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on the platform, according to a public Telegram post. Newsweek has reached out to the X via email for comment on the matter. What to know: More than 40,000 reports flooded Downdetector during the second outage. The current outage peaked at 29,143 reports and is now slightly declining. Dark Storm Team claims to have targeted X with a cyberattack. Users are unable to access the site, with...

Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a very difficult day, which ended quite dramatically. Wednesday morning began for Putin with a depressing report on the state of the Russian economy and, as a result, a forecast of an aggravation of the situation in the near future. The sanctions imposed on Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine have a heavy impact on the country's economy and the effect of these sanctions is growing and intensifying over time. The main problems in the Russian economy, according to the forecasts of the authors of the report, will occur in the period of...

The Kremlin has poo-pooed a report that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin recently fell down a flight of stairs and defecated on himself. The denial comes after the Telegram channel “General SVR,” which purports to be run by a former Kremlin spy, claimed the 70-year-old leader took an a fecal fall at his residence on Nov. 30. Putin was reported to have landed on his tailbone, causing him to “involuntarily defecate” due to “cancer affecting his stomach and bowels.” The tyrant’s press team has since been trying to clean up after the embarrassing report. “Regarding your request, we can say that...

Andrew Tate is a social media figure with a large audience, estimated in the millions. He is an experienced boxer and mixed martial arts fighter. His audience includes many disaffected men and Muslims. His messaging is misogynist and endorses violent death for nonbelievers. In other words, traditional Islam.Recently, President Trump interceded on his behalf with Romanian authorities who were holding Tate and his brother, Tristan, on human/sex trafficking allegations. This has been an ongoing matter since 2022. Andrew Tate holds dual British and American citizenship. President Trump asked that restrictions against Andrew and Tristan Tate be lifted.It’s unclear why our...

The British paper The Telegraph claims to have has access to a draft of the ‘pre-decisional contract’, sent by the US to Volodymyr Zelensky, dealing with a demand for a $500bn ‘payback’ from Ukraine for the aid already delivered. The document, marked ‘Privileged & Confidential’ and dated Feb 7 2025, has caused ‘consternation and panic’ in Kiev, according to the Telegraph report. The writer Ambrose Evans Pritchard is ‘shocked’ by the draconian terms, calls it ‘economic colonization of Ukraine’, a ‘burden of reparations that cannot possibly be achieved’. (“It states that the US and Ukraine should form a joint investment...

Nearly 100 domains hosting Sneaky 2FA phishing pages have been identified as of this month, suggesting moderate adoption by threat actors. "This kit is being sold as phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) by the cybercrime service 'Sneaky Log,' which operates through a fully-featured bot on Telegram," the company said in an analysis. "Customers reportedly receive access to a licensed obfuscated version of the source code and deploy it independently." Phishing campaigns have been observed sending payment receipt-related emails to entice recipients into opening bogus PDF documents containing QR code that, upon scanning, redirects them to Sneaky 2FA page Sekoia said the phishing pages...

The Philippine Coast Guard saying a Chinese Coast Guard "monstership" is operating... air raid alert in Kiev...Saturday morning...water supplies disputed following explosions in Kiev... Tonight, TikTok saying it will go dark Sunday...adding the shutdown won't happen if... Immigration enforcement by the Trump Administration planned... A Ukranian drone attack in Russia's Tula Region... The founder of the Telegram messaging app remains detained in France... Police in Hungary raiding offices of a corruption watchdog...follows imposition of US sanctions against a key official in the nationalist government... Former CIA analyst Asif Rahman...guilty plea over leaking classified information about Israel's... CNN found liable for...

A Virginia man was arrested after the largest cache of "finished explosive devices" was discovered at his farm by the FBI, The New York Times reported. Brad Spafford was apprehended outside Norfolk on Tuesday, Dec. 17, after more than 150 explosive devices were found in a detached garage on his 20-acre property, the Times reported. The devices were mainly pipe bombs, some labeled as "lethal," prosecutors told the Times. Pipe bombs were also found inside his bedroom — loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading "#NoLivesMatter," the Times reported....

A United States Postal Service (USPS) supervisor was arrested Thursday after allegedly stealing more than 20 checks, totaling over $281,000. Joivian Tjuana Hayes, a worker at the Costa Mesa Post Office in California, allegedly stole numerous checks, including one for more than $114,000 and allegedly deposited them into her account, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Officials said the checks contained forged signatures and surveillance footage allegedly caught the 36-year-old depositing the checks at ATM machines scattered throughout the cities of Costa Mesa, Compton, and Fountain Valley. Hayes allegedly began depositing the checks in...

The founder of Russia’s leading social media network—a wunderkind often described as Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg—has left his post as CEO and fled the country as cronies of President Vladimir Putin have made steady inroads into the company’s ownership. The slow-motion ouster of Pavel Durov from the network known as VKontakte, or “In Contact,” is the latest sign that independent media outlets in Russia have become increasingly imperiled. Although months in the making, the loss of Durov’s leadership in VKontakte means that the space for free speech on the Russian web could shrink even further. …

CIA official Asif W. Rahman was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday and charged with disclosing classified documents allegedly showing Israel's retaliation plans against Iran, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. He was brought to a federal court in Guam to face charges. Rahman was indicted by a US federal court in Virginia with charges of willful retention and transmission of national defense information, the report said. According to the New York Times, the documents were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes US spy satellite information and photos. CIA official had top-secret security clearance Rahman...

To the outside world, he was an introverted loner, but online the Prague University gunman was not shy about sharing his sick fantasies to kill. David Kozak used online platform Telegram to muse on massacres and mass murder, while also boasting of his plans to carry out a school shooting, according to Czech media. He said his Telegram channel would be a “diary” of his life “before the shooting”. “I want to do school shooting and possibly suicide,” the 24-year-old wrote in one chilling post, before adding: “I always wanted to kill. I thought I would become a maniac in...

In Bolivia former Leftist President Evo Morales demanding... In Israel early Tuesday rocket fire from Lebanon rockets landing... Telegram CEO Pavel Durov saying the social media app will share phone numbers and IP addresses with authorities when presented with a valid legal request. Durov currently under the pressure... A police internal investigation order in Israel that's after confrontation between religious Jews (Haredi) and police... The US moving additional troops to the Middle East... The US sanctioning Chinese technology for cars as well as car technology from Russia... At least 30 bodies have been discovered on a boat drifting off the...

Palestinian nationalism has deep Nazi roots. 28 November 1941: The Mufti meets Hitler. 29 November 1941: The Nazi war criminal Reinhard Heydrich sends the first letter of invitation to the participants of the Wannsee conference, to prepare a “plan for the total solution of the Jewish problem”.

The consultations on a new government offered up by President Macron continued Monday with Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen of the National Rally... And by Monday night Mr. Macron was able to say that there was no way for a united Left to lead a new government. The media messaging kept hinting at displaying notions of a government without the LFI that would include other parties of the New Popular Front Left... This weekend plotting to break the Socialist Party away from the New Popular Front alliance through making a Socialist personality Prime Minister in the cards... On Thursday...

French authorities arrested Russian-born dual UAE-French citizen Pavel Durov last weekend as he disembarked his private plane in Paris. Durov, who is the CEO and founder of popular messaging app Telegram, faces a number of serious charges from French authorities ranging from drug offenses to child sexual exploitation offenses.Of course, none of these charges have anything to do with Durov directly but rather refer to activity that allegedly occurred on Telegram, Durov’s privacy-focused messaging app that boasts nearly 1 billion active users. It is unclear from the charging documents what exactly the French authorities’ argument is regarding Durov’s culpability, and...

Two Ukrainian drones shot down over the water near the port city of Sevastopol... The Dutch Defense Minister says that a computer failure at the country's Ministry of Defense was not the result... The Biden-Harris Administration request to allow it to ease student debt loans rejected... In Las Vegas former Democrat elected official Robert Telles found guilty of murdering an investigative journalist... The Biden-Harris Administration imposing sanctions on a Jewish settler group and a Jewish settlement security coordinator in Israel... In Yemen heavy rainfall causing at least 33 deaths... Prosecutors in Sweden charging two men with hate crimes for burning...

Pavel Durov was released. After bail was promptly posted, he left prison. He did not talk to journalists, got into a car with guards and drove away.