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Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 This is what the ACLU and some federal judges including Charlotte Sweeney claim is not an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” by a hostile regime. 5:57 PM · Apr 22, 2025

Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, erupted on the Trump Administration after a conference to address the government’s dispute over discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. The judge accused the Trump Administration of defying her court order and ordered the government to provide more details by Wednesday about its decision to send Abrego Garcia to CECOT. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorian national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US. ...... Snip....... On Tuesday, Judge Xinis accused the Trump...

In an interview this morning with RS, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said there was clearly "no urgency" for U.S. military airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, now in their 13th day. Therefore, the administration should have gone to Congress for authorization and without it, those strikes are illegal. Massie pointed to Vice President J.D. Vance's contribution to the now infamous signal chat which described the strikes as they were happening. "JD" as identified in the chat, which has been authenticated by the administration, among other points, said that "there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the MS-13 gang could be designated as a terrorist organization. Asked by Fox News's Tucker Carlson on Tuesday whether he thinks the designation would be helpful, Sessions replied, “I think so, perhaps. I believe it could qualify for that." "There are rules that I guess the State Department does to establish that," he added. El Salvador's government has already designated MS-13 a terrorist group. Sessions called the gang "one of the most violent gangs in the history of our country." “We can devastate this gang. We’re going after them," he said. "We’re not going to...

Venezuela’s Tarek El-Aissami The Americas Report | Oct 03, 2008  By Nicole Ferrand [...] Mr. El - Aissami is a Venezuelan national of Syrian descent who, before becoming Minster of Interior and Justice, occupied the position of Deputy Interior Minister for Public Security. His father, Carlos Aissami, is the head of the Venezuelan branch of the Iraqi Baath political party. Before the invasion of Iraq, he held a press conference in which he described himself as a Taliban and called Osama Bin Laden, "the great Mujahedeen, Sheik Osama bin Laden." Tarek's great-uncle Shibli el-Aissami was a prominent ideologist and...

EXCLUSIVE: I've obtained the leaked security briefing that's been provided to Trump national security officials in recent months regarding the criminal group Tren de Aragua and the Venezuela government. President Trump designated Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on January 20th by Executive order because it's “conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions” inside the United States. According to the order: “TdA operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking.” It's not a street...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement said on Sunday that a delegation met with the Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov, in the Qatari capital, Doha. “The two sides discussed developments in the ceasefire negotiations, the ongoing Israeli violations of the agreement, and the practices that hinder its implementation, including stalling implementation of the humanitarian protocol, preventing the entry of tents, mobile homes [caravans], fuel and heavy equipment,” explained Hamas. “Efforts to rebuild basic infrastructure are also being hindered.” The “dangerous situation” in Jerusalem and the...

... Now, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP, has released a video boasting about the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and vowing another attack on the scale of 9/11 but even "more painful." The video, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, is titled "A Message to the American People: You Have Yet to Understand the Lesson." It features Ibrahim Al-Qousi, a former prisoner at the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Al-Qousi said, regarding the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, that "the greatest loss America suffered, besides its material and human losses, is its reputation...

WTH, Great Britain?President Trump is working to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student who has been an organizer of pro-Hamas rallies and who has been committing crimes, recruiting others to commit crimes, and illegally supporting a terrorist organization as an alien. John has been doing yeoman's work covering this case. Immigration law is explicit about the last: you may not have, may not now, nor may you at any point as a visa or green card holder support terrorists. It is black letter law. The Left is going crazy, because, well, the Left. If it is bad, they support...

That means they’re eligible for drone strikes

A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont has reportedly been shot and killed by an illegal immigrant on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont. The incident took place around 3:15 PM on January 20 during a traffic stop near the Canadian border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed the death of the agent. The shooter is believed to have been in a vehicle with another suspect. One of the suspects has also been killed. A woman was also injured during the incident. ... News Nation reports that the shooter was an illegal immigrant who had overstayed their visa and...

President Donald Trump, in the first hours of his administration, revoked former President Joe Biden’s decision to remove Cuba from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism (SST). Cuba’s redesignation as a state sponsor of terrorism is part of a list of 78 executive actions signed by Biden that were revoked by President Trump on Monday evening. In the final week of his administration, former President Biden had Cuba removed from the SST list, a designation the communist-ruled nation first receiving in 1982 and held until 2015. At that time, former President Barack Obama removed Cuba from the...

On January 15, 2025, three men entered two churches in Fairfax, Virginia, and began taking photos and videos of the properties. One of the men asked questions about the churches’ security systems, specifically whether their cameras could live-stream and if they were monitored continuously. When challenged by staff, the group left in a Lexus SUV. Their behavior, consistent with reconnaissance tactics often used to plan attacks, raised significant concerns among church leaders and law enforcement. This incident is not isolated. Just days earlier, a similar situation unfolded in Southern California, where individuals displayed nearly identical behavior, including taking photos and...

BALI bombing mastermind Hambali has told interrogators how al-Qaida funded the attack that killed 202, including 88 Australians, a year ago today. The terrorist is being held under strict security by US intelligence agents on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, also has told agents al-Qaida wanted to build a bio-weapons plant in Indonesia to produce weapons to deliver the deadly biological agent anthrax. He revealed that the Islamic network of terrorist cells known as Jemaah Islamiah had recruited American-trained scientist Yazid Sufaat to oversee the project. He has studied chemistry at California...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A former resident of Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, has been indicted after prosecutors said he tried to join the terrorist organization Hizballah and lied about it to the FBI. A federal grand jury indicted 24-year-old Jack Molloy, who was charged last month after he was arrested in Chicago on Dec. 6... According to court paperwork, Molloy was formerly enlisted as an active-duty soldier in the U.S. Army from about March 2019 to April 2019...

Aaron Brown got his start reporting at KING 5 in Seattle before going on to anchor and report at ABC News and CNN.EATTLE — Aaron Brown, a former CNN anchor who got his start at KING 5 in Seattle, has died. CNN, citing a statement from Brown's family, reported that he died Sunday. A cause of death was not given. He was 76. Brown rose to prominence for his coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, where he narrated the events from a rooftop in Manhattan. He got his start in TV journalism at KING 5, where he started as...

The suspect in New Orleans attack made a series of video recordings before Wednesday morning that law enforcement is currently reviewing, according to multiple officials briefed on the investigation. The recordings appear to have been made while driving at night. The suspect is not visible because it is dark, but authorities believe the recordings were made as he drove from Texas to Louisiana, although the exact timing is not yet clear. In the recordings the suspect makes reference to his divorce and how he had at first planned to gather his family for a “celebration” with the intention of killing...

We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion.

Elon Musk@elonmuskThe whole Tesla senior team is investigating this matter right now. Will post more information as soon as we learn anything. We’ve never seen anything like this. ------- 🚨🇺🇸CYBERTRUCK THAT DETONATED OUTSIDE TRUMP HOTEL WAS PACKED WITH FIREWORK-STYLE MORTARS Investigators confirm the Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas was filled with “fireworks-style mortars.” Authorities are treating the incident as a potential act of terror and continue to investigate the motive behind the blast. Source: ABC

ND investigators found several guns, ammunition, explosives in the shooter's vehicle ... Mohamad Barakat fatally shot Fargo police Officer Jake Wallin and wounded two other officers as they responded to a routine traffic crash. Fargo Police Officer Zach Robinson was able to shoot and kill Barakat before what authorities believe could've been a much bigger attack. Investigators found multiple guns, 1,800 rounds of ammo, a homemade grenade, and explosives in Barakat's vehicle. ... an attack authorities say could have been much bigger. ... Mohamad Barakat, shot and killed Fargo Police Officer Jake Wallin and wounded officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler...