A 33-year-old Black woman from Texas was arrested in Biloxi, Mississippi, for allegedly placing razor blades in loaves of bread at two Walmart stores. She faces a charge of attempted mayhem.

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Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican candidate for Ohio governor, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that the "Groyper" movement led by Nick Fuentes is gaining influence among young conservatives with blood-and-soil views on American identity.

Ramaswamy insisted true Americanness is rooted in shared ideals, not ancestry, while urging party leaders to reject the notion that Americans are a people bound by ethnic heritage and blood.

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South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee processing center in Johannesburg housing Afrikaner applicants for refugee status, where residents were intimidated.

Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, spoke with one female applicant who reported being threatened with “We now know who you are” and mocked with “Ah, shame, so many whities fleeing.”

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The U.S. House on Wednesday passed the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. The bill makes providing gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers and surgeries, to minors a class C felony.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced new hate speech and racism laws, including a federal offense for "serious vilification based on race" or advocating racial supremacy, in response to the Islamic terrorist attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach.

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance creating a reparations fund for Black residents to address past discriminatory city policies.

The fund has no initial city funding and will accept future appropriations or private donations.

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Two Haitian men who own retail stores in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood face federal charges for allegedly trafficking more than $7 million in SNAP benefits.

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Authorities believe they have identified a new person of interest in the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, that killed two students and injured nine others.

Investigators are probing possible links to the recent fatal shooting of an MIT professor and have tied a rented vehicle to both cases. The masked gunman remains at large.

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Andrew Meismer, a 16-year-old White student at a high school in Baytown, Texas, was fatally stabbed in the neck with scissors by 18-year-old Black student Aundre Matthews, who was arrested and charged with murder.

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Boston 25 News reports that the suspect in the Brown University shooting, which killed two students and injured nine others, was found dead Thursday night in an Extra Space Storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

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Brown University shooting suspect has been identified as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old Brown University student and Portuguese national from Miami, Florida. The Providence Police Department confirmed he took his own life.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the immediate pause of the diversity visa lottery program at President Trump's direction. The action follows the Brown University shooting by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who entered the U.S. via the program in 2017 and received a green card.

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A federal jury in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, convicted Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on Thursday of felony obstruction for helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents in her courthouse.

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The US military has begun conducting large-scale airstrikes across central Syria on ISIS targets in response to an attack on a US convoy last Saturday that left two servicemen dead and several more wounded.

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Vivek Ramaswamy posted a clip criticizing the left’s identity politics based on race, gender and sexuality. He equated the left’s view with the right’s notion of American identity being defined by lineage, blood and soil, claiming both are wrong.

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Vivek Ramaswamy called the idea of a “heritage American” ridiculous, arguing that immigrants who just received citizenship are as American as those descended from the Colonial Era. “We believe in ideals,” he said.

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A video has emerged showing Lawrence, Massachusetts, Mayor De Peña using a translator for English-to-Spanish interpretation during a hearing. De Peña, born in the Dominican Republic, primarily communicates in Spanish in a city where more than 80% of residents are Latino.

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The Department of Homeland Security reported more than 2.5 million illegal immigrants have left the U.S. since President Trump took office Jan. 20, including over 622,000 deportations and 1.9 million self-departures, with illegal border crossings plunging 93% year-over-year.

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DHS has increased its voluntary self-deportation incentive for undocumented migrants to $3,000, plus free airfare to home countries, for those who register via the CBP Home app and depart the U.S. by Dec. 31, 2025.

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A group of Minnesota judges and justices, including Supreme Court members Anne McKeig and Sarah Hennesy, has formed a rock band called Reasonable Doubts to relieve stress and promote the rule of law amid a surge in threats against courts nationwide.

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