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[snip] What started as a peaceful rally and march suddenly turned violent near Los Angeles’ City Hall as police declared an unlawful assembly. Officers were seen using less-lethal munitions on a crowd of people, while officers on horseback pushed into demonstrators. People in the crowd screamed “peaceful protest” but were ultimately forced to run into neighboring Grand Park. Officers were seen wielding batons on some protesters as they retreated. The dramatic turn of events occurred an hour and a half before the city’s curfew was set to go into effect. LAPD said on X that during a march northbound on...

Joe Biden looked lost at a Waffle House after his bad debate with Trump on June 27, 2024. A man in a beige suit signaled Jill Biden and helped get Joe out fast. That man was Anthony Bernal, 52 years old. He works closely with Jill Biden as her top helper and also helps the president. People now wonder if he had more power than anyone knew, especially as Joe's health got worse. A former Biden aide said Bernal had “the most power inside the White House.” A book named Original Sin said Bernal was rude, strict, and tried hard...

By wading into politics, the Church abandons its true mission, weakens its authority, and risks becoming just another partisan voice in an already divided world.One of the great tragedies of the Enlightenment and its aftermath was that Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular lost faith in their legitimacy and in the legitimacy of their mission. As a result, they surrendered that mission’s otherworldliness and agreed to fight only on temporal grounds. In other words, when the Church responded to its attackers, it did so not on its own terms but on the terms—and in the terms—of...

Like the Beatles’ Jo-Jo, Ahmed Mahad Mohamed left his home in Tucson, Arizona, but he wasn’t in search of California grass. Instead, young Mohamed had a loftier aspiration in mind: he wanted to become a great warrior for Allah, wielding his righteous sword to cast off the heads of the enemies of Islam until he was killed and taken up to paradise, where the famous heavenly virgins would be waiting to greet him.It wasn’t the most common career path for a young man from Tucson, but this is not Barry Goldwater’s Arizona, and Mohamed was able to find at least...

Ana Orsini, a local news anchor in Tucson, Arizona, has died at age 28, her KOLD News 13 colleagues announced Monday in a heartbreaking segment. Co-anchor Carsyn Currier said tearfully that they were “devastated” by the news. “Ana was not only beautiful, talented, and hilarious, but she was unlike anyone I’ve ever met,” she wrote. “To know Ana was to LOVE her. She made everyone around her feel so special, heard and understood. Waking up in the middle of the night to go to work is always challenging, but knowing I was going to work with Ana made it...

Barack Obama on Thursday was campaigning for Democrats at an event in Tucson, Arizona, where his event organizers misspelled the city’s name on official rally materials and captioned the event as a rally in Pennsylvania. As Kamala tails President Trump in the polls in Arizona, the Democrats called in the big guns, sending Barack Hussein back to the desert. On stage, Obama was introduced by Arizona Democratic Senate Nominee Ruben Gallego. Gallego is allegedly winning in the polls, according to the far-left fake news media. However, as The Gateway Pundit exclusively reported, a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll did not even mention...

The National Endowment for the Arts is helping fund the production of a play about going back in time to kill Christopher Columbus. The agency recently awarded $10,000 to the Borderlands Theater, which views people living near or on the U.S. border as “citizens of the world,” for the production entitled “Shooting Columbus.” “A collaborative effort between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Arizona artists will combine elements from interviews with tribal elders and community members with movement, media, and traditional theater for a site-based, immersive, interactive performance,” according to a grant for the project. “The guest artists are members of the Shooting...

“Many supporters seated behind Trump onstage went to the ER after the rally with “blurred vision” and “burning” to the eyes. I spoke to several who still have not fully recovered. As many as 20 were affected,” Kelly wrote on X. The cause of the symptoms remains unknown, and an active investigation is underway. Supporters from the “Latinos for Trump” group were among the most severely impacted, including Pastor Eli Moreno and his wife, Francesca. Pastor Moreno described mild discomfort, but his wife’s symptoms were far worse. “Her vision blurred, her face swelled up, and we had to rush to...

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks on our struggling economy and the rising cost of housing in Tucson, Arizona on Thursday, September 12, 2024, at 5:00PM EDT. President Trump will highlight Kamala Harris' devastating policies that have wreaked havoc on Arizonans and the many reasons Hispanic voters are flocking to the Republican Party. For nearly four years, Kamla Harris' economic policies have put unnecessary stress and pressure on Arizona families. Arizona's inflation is at 21.8% -- forcing families to pay an additional $1,178 a month. Since Kamala Harris took office, Arizonans...

The altercation was likely due to the illegal immigrants attempting to cross the border without cartel permission. . Members of a Mexican cartel opened fire on illegal immigrants who were utilizing Uber rides to cross the into the US across southern border unlawfully... The incident occurred in Caborca, an area heavily under the control of Mexican cartels. The victims, all from Ecuador, were traveling in three separate Uber vehicles when they came under attack from the cartel. Tragically, one woman lost her life in the shooting, while four others sustained injuries. According to an internal Border patrol memo leaked to...

A special agent with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is dead after being accidentally shot by another IRS agent during a training exercise Thursday at a federal gun range in Phoenix, officials confirmed. A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirms that an incident occurred Thursday at their gun range, which multiple federal agencies were utilizing at the time through an interagency agreement. The spokesperson said no Federal Bureau of Prisons employees were injured in the incident. Charlotte M. Dennis with the Phoenix Field Office of the IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) division replied to Arizona’s Family on Thursday afternoon,...

A special agent for the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) was indicted in Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday by a federal grand jury on one count of Involuntary Manslaughter of an Officer of the United States. Larry Edward Brown, Jr., 42, of Peoria, is the agent who was charged, according to a press release from the U.S. States Attorney's Office, District of Arizona. It is based on an incident that allegedly occurred on August 17, 2023, at a firearm range at the Federal Correctional Institution – Phoenix that is used for standard pistol qualifications and classroom training. Brown, a special agent...

GOP representative Tom Tiffany (R-WI) spoke to The Gateway Pundit on Monday to discuss his experience at an illegal alien compound, where employees called law enforcement on him in Tucson, Arizona. More than 11 million illegals have been let into our country, transported, clothed, and housed at the expense of American citizens on Joe Biden’s watch. One Border Patrol agent at the Lukeville, Arizona border port of entry told The Gateway Pundit that illegals from all over the world turn themselves in at the ports of entry because they know they’ll be given a free pass on Biden’s invitation despite...

A former FBI informant stabbed Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer who was convicted for murdering George Floyd, according to court documents filed on Dec. 1. John Turscak, 52, stabbed Mr. Chauvin 22 times with an "improvised knife" in federal prison in Arizona, according to the documents. Mr. Turscak was subdued by responding corrections officers. Mr. Turscak later told officers he would have killed Mr. Chauvin if the officers had not responded so quickly, federal prosecutors said in the documents. The stabbing took place on Nov. 24 at about 12:30 p.m. Mr. Turscak waived his Miranda rights and told FBI agents...

Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd in a highly contested decision, was knifed on Friday and almost died. The prison officials didn’t even bother to call his mother, Carolyn Pawlenty. Alpha News reported that she found out through media reports. “How the hell do these news agencies know, and his own mother doesn’t even know? And that [prison] has an emergency contact number [for me],” Pawlenty said, adding that she is “worried and scared” about her son’s condition. “I can’t even think what to say. I haven’t been to bed and made a...

The Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020 has been thoroughly scrubbed of his personhood, let alone his rights. Nobody bothered to tell his family or his lawyer that another inmate had attacked him Saturday. Despite being the most notorious ex-cop in America, he wasn’t protected from violent prisoners. The fact he was even in the ill-run federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., 1,638 miles from his family, speaks volumes. His lawyers argued that he had been denied a fair trial because Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill refused to move to a venue outside Minneapolis despite massive pretrial publicity...

Derek Chauvin the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state and federal courts in connection with George Floyd's death stabbed in a federal prison... In Los Angeles hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters swarming The Grove shopping center and other parts of the Fairfax District... Today a deadline for filing sex abuse lawsuits involving historic allegations of abuse in the state of New York... The Turkish military striking 17 targets in northern Iraq ... North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un inspecting spy satellite photos of 'major target regions'... The Russian military in Syria reports six violations of Syrian airspace by US-led coalition drones...

Ben Bergquam, host of RAV’s Law and Border, was in Tucson, Arizona on Thursday morning showing a group of illegals gathered in front of a hotel. The illegals were gathered in front of the Best Western hotel in Tucson near the airport waiting for a van to pick them up. After a brief stay, these illegals will be flying to their destination cities in the U.S. Let that sink in for a moment. “So I just came from the airport saw that van with the Hyatt Place tags on it followed it, comes out here to the Best Western and...

She was born in New York City on Sept 24, 1941, and died in Tucson, Arizona, in 1998. Perhaps the greatest Beatle mum. She had childhood fantasies of living in a log cabin and spent much of her life living with their kids on farms with Paul. Linda lead her man from the world’s 1960’s obsession with Beatlemania into a rural life raising a family. As his wife and as the mother to their children, she gave him the healthy base where he created what many people now see as the first two great Indie albums, “Ram”, a homage to...

Former Congressman Jim Kolbe was named by Gov. Janet Napoltano to head a task force working to get a NAFTA superhighway built from Mexico through the Southwest and Mountain West to Canada. Kolbe, who retired at the end of last year, will chair the state’s Canamex Task Force. The Canamex highway is proposed to run from Guadalajara, Jalisco, to Edmonton, Alberta. Through Arizona it would use a combination of upgraded existing highways and new highways from Nogales to the Nevada state line, south of Las Vegas