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Liu Lijun, a Chinese graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has reportedly had her student visa revoked after organizing pro-Palestine rallies on campus. Liu was arrested in May 2024 during protests related to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, which began on October 7, 2023. According to the Telegraph India, the revocation of Liu’s visa follows an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, which aims to address antisemitism in response to the conflict. The order focuses on what the Trump administration has described as a rise in antisemitism across U.S. campuses and communities....

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., rebuked Democratic Party figures who attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Omar, a member of the progressive "Squad," told CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night that because of Trump’s alleged lack of respect for his political opponents and his "dismantling" of democracy, Democratic lawmakers should not have shown him respect by attending his swearing-in. "So just the level of indignity that was shown and disrespect to tradition, to me, said, no one should show him dignity and respect," the lawmaker said on CNN. The lawmaker grilled Democratic Party members for attending the event on...

President Trump’s long-promised ICE raids continued on Thursday — as the total number of illegal migrants nabbed by federal authorities reached 538, including new arrests of pedophiles, gang members, and a suspected terrorist in New York. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are scouring cities and states, trying to round up illegal aliens who are either wanted for crimes in their home country or who have committed crimes during their time in the US. A source told The Post that many of the migrants rounded up by agents were convicted in “some very heinous cases.” ICE’s crackdown spanned several states...

First responders got a call where a man was "stabbed multiple times." An Afghan refugee allegedly tracked down and stabbed an immigration caseworker multiple times in Michigan on Wednesday. The Orion Township caseworker's job was to help immigrants assimilate into the country. According to WXYZ, first responders answered a call where a man was "stabbed multiple times” on Red Boot Road near E. Silverbell and Kern roads in Oakland County, Michigan. The suspect in the case reportedly took off in a car but was later arrested and identified as a refugee from Afghanistan who was getting help from the victimized...

German authorities keep blaming “knife violence” for Muslim terrorism committed with knives. They’re doing it again after an Afghan Muslim asylum seeker attacked a group of kindergarteners, and stabbed one to death. German authorities are saying that the Muslim child-stabber was an Afghan refugee who was denied asylum and ordered to leave. They’re refusing to blame terrorism and blaming mental illness.Last year, Germany rolled out a “knife control” program after an ISIS terrorist slashed middle-aged Germans at a ‘diversity festival’The ISIS mass stabbing in Solingen came after the previous Muslim mass stabbing attack at a Counter-Jihad rally condemning Islamic terrorism...

President Donald Trump’s executive order on foreigners who “support designated foreign terrorists” could be the start of a previously promised crackdown on radical pro-Palestinian students on American college campuses. The Monday directive from Trump orders the U.S. government to deport foreigners who “bear hostile attitudes toward [American] citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.” That could describe plenty of foreign students advocating for Hamas and other terrorist groups at American universities, an analyst told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “If a student...

#BREAKING: Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv Israel. Two lightly and moderately injured. Terrorist eliminated by an Israeli civilian woman with a gun. pic.twitter.com/k2dNqLH8gW— Breaking News (@TheNewsTrending) January 21, 2025Video at link#BREAKING The Palestinian terrorist from the attack in Tel Aviv is an American Muslim. pic.twitter.com/prAxoD4Mle— Breaking News (@TheNewsTrending) January 21, 2025

President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his presidency. "The President is commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier, so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. He is now 80 years old, suffers from severe health ailments, and has spent the majority of his life (nearly half a century) in prison," the White House said in a statement...

Rubin, widely regarded as the most courageous and intellectually dynamic opinion columnist in the history of American journalism, finally “resigned” from the Washington Post on Monday and launched a “pro-democracy” website, the Contrarian, on Substack. In a note announcing her alleged resignation, less than a week after the Post laid off roughly 100 employees in an effort to stop losing $77 million a year, Rubin accused the paper’s owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, of sabotaging journalism’s “sacred mission” of “defending, protecting and advancing democracy. The Contrarian is built on a premise some would describe as delusional. In Rubin’s view, the...

The struggle continues.. It’s worth asking whether LA’s Mayor Karen Bass is still a communist as we try to understand her odd, defensive behavior regarding the ongoing wildfires in her city, also her ill-timed trip to Ghana when the possibility of these fires was already predicted. I recalled she was an admirer of Fidel Castro, but had forgotten how recent her fulsome praise was, less than a decade ago. From left-leaning Politico August 2020 : “Rep. Karen Bass on Sunday walked back 2016 comments praising Cuban leader Fidel Castro, as scrutiny of her views toward the Communist government threatened her...

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Hollywood celebrities are reportedly getting extra armed protection for Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony in Beverly Hills following the terrorist attack in New Orleans and the Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas last week. Organizers are beefing up security for the stars — many of whom are vocal gun control activists — by rolling out more regional and federal personnel from the Los Angeles Sheriffs’ Department, FBI, and Homeland Security, according to a Deadline report. In addition, snipers will be placed in the vicinity of the Beverly Hilton hotel, another report from Inside Edition states. Snipers are typically deployed during Hollywood...

A university in Canada is employing a terrorist who played a role in murdering French Jews in a synagogue on a Jewish holiday. Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, is employing Professor Hassan Diab, a terrorist who was part of a 1980 terror attack that bombed a synagogue in Paris, murdering four Jews and wounding almost 50 people, wrote The Jerusalem Post. The massacre occurred on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, noted the National Post. Diab was convicted in France for his role in the murders, but managed to flee to Canada, though he still faces a life sentence in...

Jeremi Sensky recounted his experience on New Year’s Eve when a truck driver plowed through crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Speaking to NBC News' Tom Llamas, Sensky described finding himself face down on the ground, hearing gunshots.

A mosque located near the Houston home of the individual suspected of killing at least 15 people in New Orleans in a terrorist attack has instructed members of its congregation not to speak with media or the FBI about the incident. In a post on social media, Masjid Bilal, a mosque affiliated with the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH) published a statement urging its attendees to “[S]tay very vigilant and aware of your surroundings” because “The safety of our community is the most important thing.” If anyone is contacted by the media, it is very important that you do...

The Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion on January 1, 2025, outside President-elect Trump’s hotel has sparked a fervent investigation into the motives of the deceased driver, identified as 37-year-old former army veteran Matthew Livelsberger. Seven individuals were injured in the blast, which occurred in the valet area of the Trump Hotel. Authorities are exploring the possibility of political motivation and are also examining any potential links to a separate incident in New Orleans on the same day, where a truck plowed into a crowd, resulting in 15 fatalities. The New Orleans incident is under investigation as a terrorist attack, with authorities...

Jennie Taer 🎗️ @JennieSTaer The FBI didn’t show up to the NOLA suspect’s address until 1pm today. We were on scene before. No one came out of the home or answered the door. Quote FBI Houston @FBIHouston · 17h Image 3:29 PM · Jan 1, 2025 · 984.6K Views Stephen Hoover Tara Rodas @taraleerodas · 16h 👀 👀 Louis Berry, Writer, Task Force Vigilante @LouisBerryNovel Ad John and Mayme Surrency were murdered the day before Thanksgiving 1936. Garland Headley was tasked with prosecuting the three men involved. What he uncovered sent him and his family fleeing the United States. What...

The mosque reportedly attended by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar urged members to refer inquiries from the FBI to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of Greater Houston. More than a dozen were killed and dozens wounded in the terror attack in the early hours of New Year’s Day on Bourbon Street, in which Jabbar drove a truck with an ISIS flag into a crowd of revelers. Newsweek reported: A mosque near the Houston home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who police say carried out the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, has urged its congregation...

The brother of the terrorist who launched the deadly car attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans says that “radicalization” is to blame for his kin’s rampage. Abdur Jabbar, 24, of Beaumont, Texas, told The New York Times that his brother Shamsud-Din Jabbar — who killed at least 15 people in the New Year’s Day attack — converted to Islam at an early age. The younger Jabbar told the newspaper that what his brother “did does not represent Islam. This is more some type of radicalization, not religion.” Abdur described his brother, who was killed by police after mowing down...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: A huge police presence is unfolding in Las Vegas amid reports of a hostage situation. From Hillnation 7:18 PM · Jan 1, 2025 ·