WASHINGTON (AP) — Charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia announced Friday, while investigators continued to seek a motive. Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sgt....
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Afghan Suspect Faces First-Degree Murder Charge in National Guard Shooting
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office said the charges against Rahmanullah Lakanwal now include one count of first-degree murder.
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Democratic Tennessee congressional candidate Aftyn Behn has entered the spotlight over her dramatic behavior, her far-left agenda, and her admitted hatred for the city she hopes to represent. Behn is running to become the next representative for Tennessee’s 7th district in a special election on Tuesday, which is being held...
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Unbelievable - She Might Actually Win a District Dominated By Trump: Democrat Aftyn Behn's Most Unhinged Moments
Behn is seeking to be the representative for Tennessee’s 7th district in a special election, which is being held due to Green’s resignation.
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This month, Florida Attorney General James Ulthmier filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for false advertising. Not over a billing dispute or a sloppy ad claim. Instead, the country’s largest abortion provider has been telling women that its "product" -- specifically the abortion pill drugs mifepristone and misoprostol -- is "as safe...
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Florida's Lawsuit Against Planned Parenthood Just the Beginning
The FDA should take note and remove its approval of all abortion drugs and review these risks in-depth for the safety of all women.
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The boyfriend of the late Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death in Charlotte, North Carolina, is speaking out after another young woman was lit on fire by a deranged man now charged with terrorism for a crime committed in Chicago, Illinois. Iryna Zarutska, 23, was stabbed to death on Aug. 22...
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Iryna Zarutska's Boyfriend Rips Judge Who Let Chicago Burning Suspect Go After He Had Being Arrested 72 Times
The boyfriend of a Iryna Zarutska is speaking out after seeing a similair miscarriage of justice in Chicago against a repeat offender.
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In the immediate aftermath of the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., this week, FBI Director Kash Patel made a point of noting how National Guard members kept a horrific situation from getting even worse. At a news conference Wednesday, after a reporter asked about whether the...
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Patel: Heroic National Guard Soldiers Captured Shooter, Prevented Further Tragedy After Troops Ambushed, Shot
"The reason this suspect is in custody is because of the bravery of the men and women of the National Guard."
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An Afghan national who came to America under former President Joe Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome program has been arrested on a terrorism charge. Mohammad Dawood Alokozay allegedly said in a video posted to TikTok that he was building a bomb in order to attack a target near Fort Worth, the...
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Only 1 Day Before DC Shooting, Another Biden-Era Afghan National Arrested on Terrorism Charges
An Afghan national who entered the U.S. under the same program as the alleged D.C. shooter has been arrested on terrorism charges.
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DEI will not just DIE. Despite the efforts of President Donald Trump and the Supreme Court, diversity, equity, and inclusion practices are still in vogue for the bluest parts of the country, including Chicago. The Chicago Police Department had a civil rights complaint filed against it Tuesday by America First...
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Chicago Police Department Hit with Civil Rights Complaint for Race-Based Hiring Practices Meant to Address 'Systemic Inequities'
Chicago's police department would rather hire officers based on race than those who will actually make the city safe.
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West Virginia communities and officials were honoring two members of the state's National Guard who were shot in Washington, D.C., this week, lauding their dedication to serving their country. U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains hospitalized after Wednesday afternoon’s...
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West Virginians Gather to Honor National Guard Slain By Afghan Refugee
At a Thanksgiving night vigil at a wall honoring veterans in Webster Springs, West Virginia, a few dozen bundled up people gathered.
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On June 22, 2025, a suicide bomber walked into the ancient Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church in Damascus during evening prayers, detonating an explosive vest and leaving 22 people dead and 63 wounded. The attack hardly registered in mainstream media. It was treated as yet another tremor in a region...
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Christian Persecution Is on the Rise and the Media Is Downplaying It
A once-vibrant Christian community of more than 2 million, about 10 percent of Syria’s population before 2011, has dwindled to 300,000.
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A self-proclaimed transgender employee of the Transportation Security Administration filed a lawsuit over his inability to perform pat-downs under the Trump administration. Danielle Mittereder, a man claiming to be a woman, is challenging the Department of Homeland Security over its new policy ensuring that TSA agents can only screen members...
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Male 'Trans' TSA Agent Wants to Pat Down Women So Bad He's Filing a Lawsuit Over it
Danielle Mittereder, a man claiming to be a woman, is upset that TSA agents can now only screen members of their actual sex.
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The New York Times is trying to run damage control for an illegal alien who stole an American's identity, seeking in desperation to make their readers feel sorry for a man who broke the law and nearly ruined an innocent person's life. On Sunday, The New York Times posted an...
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NYT Says Illegal 'Borrowed' Identities from American Citizens to Commit Fraud, Fails to Report Exactly How Stolen IDs Can Be Returned
A Minnesota man had his identity stolen, but if you ask The New York Times, an illegal alien from Guatemala "borrowed" it.
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Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s cashless bail law enabled a man with more than 70 arrests to roam the streets before allegedly burning a woman alive in Chicago. Local judges gave pretrial release to 50-year-old Lawrence Reed after an August assault charge under Pritzker’s Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today Act,...
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Woman Burned Alive After JB Pritzker Said Cashless Bail Would Keep Cities Safe
Reed is now charged with terrorism against a mass transportation system for allegedly dousing a woman in gasoline and setting her on fire.
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Immigration agents arrested an illegal alien sex offender employed as a professor at a major American university on Nov. 12. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Sri Lankan national Sumith Gunasekera in Detroit, Michigan, the agency confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Gunasekera, previously arrested in Canada and the...
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Illegal Migrant Sex Criminal Worked as College Professor Before ICE Arrest
Gunasekera, previously arrested in Canada and the U.S. for various crimes, worked as a professor of data science at Ferris State University.
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You have to admit it: It's certainly one way to spice up Disneyland's "Gay Day" that doesn't involve an obscene leather harness. According to People Magazine, a conservative group planning a "MAGA invasion" of the SoCal theme park didn't mean for it to coincide with a "pride" event at the...
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Disneyland 'Gay Day' Attendees in for a Surprise as 'MAGA Invasion' Scheduled for Same Day
"The 805 Patriots emphasize that their group intends to participate in the park in the same manner as any other unaffiliated guests."
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Special counsel Jack Smith’s team pressed forward with secretly seeking phone records for Republican members of Congress, even after being warned it exposed them to “litigation risk,” internal emails show. Emails released Tuesday by Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin reveal prosecutors weighing which members of...
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Jack Smith's Team Knew They Might Get Sued for Secretly Seeking Senators' Phone Records
Emails released by Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson reveal prosecutors weighing which members of Congress to target.
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CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings challenged former Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa to name any “illegal orders” President Donald Trump issued during a “CNN NewsNight” panel on Tuesday. Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and five other Democrats who served in the military or intelligence agencies appeared in...
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The Response Was Telling: Scott Jennings Presses Democrat to Name Illegal Order Trump Issued
Hinojosa complained on the panel with Jennings about the FBI arranging interviews with Slotkin and the others who appeared in the video.
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Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell struggled to answer Los Angeles-based musician Tish Hyman during a town hall event after she confronted him over his support for men competing in women’s spaces. After announcing his run for California governor, Swalwell held a town hall event in Orange County. He spoke about...
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Swalwell Short-Circuits When Asked if Biological Men Should Stay Out of Women's Bathrooms
Hyman went on to ask Swalwell if he would take back his dismissal of the issue as not being a “thing” and what he plans to do if elected.
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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed a university professor who has described police officers as “violence workers” to serve on his community safety committee. Mamdani announced Monday that Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, will advise his incoming administration on community safety matters. Vitale has a...
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Mamdani Names Radical Cop-Hating Professor To 'Community Safety' Post
Zohran Mamdani announced that Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, will advise his incoming administration on safety.
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Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson imitated Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” Tuesday while mocking her for a claim she made about a redaction in a document tied to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. House Democrats released a tranche of emails...
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Victor Davis Hanson Breaks Out Jasmine Crockett Impression While Roasting Her
Crockett suggested that Republicans redacted Giuffre’s name, but host Pamela Brown noted it was Democrats who had done so.
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Two young men from Texas had an elaborate plot to conquer an island near Haiti with a sailboat and a makeshift mercenary army, namely by slaughtering all of the men and using the women and children as sex slaves. Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, had their...
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Two Texas Men Foiled for Bizarre and Twisted Plan to Conquer Private Island, Use Native Children as Sex Slaves
Weisenburg and Thomas wanted to take over the island of Gonave, which is controlled by Haiti, with a "mercenary force."
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After President Donald Trump’s reported intervention, Paramount Pictures is set to distribute Brett Ratner’s “Rush Hour 4,” a project that Hollywood had eschewed after earlier sexual misconduct allegations against the director. Paramount Pictures on Tuesday was in closing talks to distribute the film, according to a person close to the...
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Report: After Trump's Request Paramount Greenlights 'Rush Hour 4' Film
Paramount Pictures on Tuesday was in closing talks to distribute the film, according to a person close to the negotiations.
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