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Six suspected terrorists with ISIS ties arrested in sting operation in New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia: sources
Six Russian nationals suspected to have terror ties to ISIS have been arrested in a coordinated sting operation spanning Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Two ICE sources confirmed to The Post they arrested the six people, who hail from Tajikistan, over the last week after the FBI contacted the agency to warn it.
Part of the investigation featured a wiretap which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs, the sources said.
The target who was subject to the wiretap was previously released by federal authorities at the southern border with a court date next year, but it has since emerged he has potential ties to ISIS, sources said.
The arrests come after warnings from FBI Director Chris Wray about possible ISIS terror plots being staged on US soil and the group’s potential for exploiting the southern border.
The number of migrants caught at the southern border with suspected terror ties has skyrocketed in recent years, jumping from 11 in the financial years 2017 through 2020 to 362 between financial years 2021 and April 2024, according to federal data.
With migration continuing at unprecedented levels, federal authorities have already accidentally released migrants into the country who have suspected or known terror ties….
RFK Jr. must be in presidential debate: FEC tells CNN | American Agenda
On Tuesday’s “American Agenda,” the FEC has told CNN that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must be included in the presidential debate, or the network would be breaking campaign finance laws. Quisha King and Jason Meister react
Men admit hiding fentanyl in nursery floorboards leading to tragic death of two-year-old
Felix Herrera Garcia, 35, pleaded guilty on Monday to three serious felony drug trafficking charges, including possession of narcotics with intent to distribute resulting in serious bodily injury.
In a major development, prosecutors announced that Parras Paredes, 38, also pleaded guilty to one count of a similar charge.
The pair, from the Bronx, confessed to the chilling act of hiding fentanyl within the playroom floorboards of a local Bronx daycare, according to authorities.
The daycare turned into a scene of tragedy when 22-month-old Nicholas Dominici fatally ingested fentanyl at the Divino Nino facility in September.
Quick action saved three other children as they were revived with Narcan, an emergency medication used to reverse overdoses. The heartbroken father of the young victim who died in a daycare doubling as a front for a narcotics operation has spoken out, saying they had ‘trusted’ the seemingly kind owner who consistently sent them updates…
This LGBT book contains “very difficult” underage incest scenes but an Indiana school board allowed it to remain in a school library anyway
In a 3-2 vote, the Carmel Clay school board accepted a committee’s recommendation that George Johnson’s memoir, ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue,’ be allowed to remain on the shelves of Carmel High School’s library.
The book was challenged by local community member Cindy Black, who said she was “disturbed” by what she read:
‘Because of the book’s focus on themes of incest, sodomy, sexual abuse, masturbation, blowjobs, and radical anti-white rhetoric,’ Black said during Monday’s meeting.
This isn’t California or New York. It’s Indiana. An Indiana school board has decided this is the kind of book that will expand children’s minds.
In case there was any doubt, the book contains graphic sexual descriptions of a boy engaging in sex acts with his cousin. I have censored some of the passages to try to make it as PG-13 as possible.
[Warning: This is really gross stuff]
South Korean troops fire warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly cross border
South Korea’s military said Tuesday, amid soaring animosities between the rivals over the North’s recent trash-carrying balloon launches.
Some North Korean soldiers who were engaged in unspecified work on the northern side of the border briefly crossed the military demarcation line on Sunday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Those North Korean soldiers immediately returned to their territory after South Korea’s military fired warning shots and issued warning broadcasts, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. It said North Korea had not conducted any other suspicious activities.
South Korea’s military has assessed that the North Korean soldiers didn’t appear to have intentionally crossed the border because the site is a wooded area and MDL signs there weren’t clearly visible, Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson Lee Sung Joon told reporters.
The Koreas’ mine-strewn land border is the world’s most heavily armed border, with hundreds of thousands of combat troops facing each other. It’s a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
Moped-riding brute snatches 96-year-old woman’s necklace, knocks her to ground in NYC: cops
A moped-riding mugger ripped a necklace off a 96-year-old woman’s neck and knocked her to the ground in a callous Harlem stick-up, cops said.
The thief rolled up to the nonagenarian at West 127th Street and Eighth Avenue around 5:25 p.m. May 24 and yanked off the piece of jewelry, authorities said.
The force of the pull knocked the senior to the ground, cops said.
Video released by the NYPD late Monday shows the robber sitting on the two-wheeler wearing all black, except for his white sneakers with black stripes…
Key witness in Menendez bribery trial says he made senator’s wife’s car payments for 3 years
A New Jersey businessman who pleaded guilty to paying bribes to Senator Bob Menendez testified Monday that the Democrat politician’s interference in state criminal investigations brought him “peace” and reassurance.
“I begged him to please to do anything in his power to please stop anything that could cause any harm to my family, ” Jose Uribe said during his cooperator testimony in Menendez’s federal corruption trial.
Across two days of direct questioning by prosecutors, Uribe repeatedly explained that he paid bribes through Menendez’s then-girlfriend because he wanted the senator’s official intervention to extinguish a string of looming criminal insurance fraud investigations by state prosecutors that threatened to bring unwanted exposure to the trucking insurance companies he ran with his brother and daughter.
“That was my best hope to get out of these investigations,” he said Monday.
Uribe said he paid the $15,000 down payment for Nadine Menendez’s 2019 Mercedes-Benz convertible and then handled the monthly car payments from May 2019 until June 2022, when FBI agents showed up at his home and seized his cell phones as part of a federal investigation.
The dollar amount of those monthly car payments were approximately “high 800s, low 900s,” he said.
Uribe referred to this arrangement as “part two” of a broader deal he reached with Wael Hana, a longtime close friend of the senator’s then-girlfriend. The first part of the agreement hinged on Senator Menendez pressing for a more favorable outcome in the prosecution of Uribe’s associate, Elvis Parra, a trucking company owner who had been indicted for insurance fraud…..
Malawi’s Vice President and 9 Others Are Confirmed Dead After Wreckage of Their Plane Is Located
President Lazarus Chakwera announced in a live address on state television that the wreckage of the plane had been located after a search of more than a day in thick forests and hilly terrain near the northern city of Mzuzu. He said the wreckage was found near a hill and the plane had been “completely destroyed” and everyone onboard was killed on impact.
Mr. Chakwera said he had been informed by the head of Malawi’s armed forces that the plane had been found and “I am deeply saddened and sorry to inform you all that it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy.”
“Words cannot describe how heartbreaking this is and I can only imagine how much pain and anguish you all must be feeling at this time, as well as how much pain and anguish you all will be feeling in the coming days and weeks as we mourn this terrible loss,” Mr. Chakwera said.
Former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, the ex-wife of former President Bakili Muluzi, was also on the plane, the president had said. There were seven passengers and three military crew members onboard.
The group was traveling to Mzuzu to attend the funeral of a former government minister. Mr. Chilima had just returned from an official visit to South Korea on Sunday.
UAW President Shawn Fain Under Investigation By Federal Monitor
United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain is under investigation by an independent federal monitor over allegations of power abuse and subsequent obstruction of the investigation, according to a court filing on Monday.
The union’s federal court-appointed monitor, Neil Barofsky, submitted a 36-page report to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Monday. The ninth report disclosed that an investigation was launched in February after complaints and that the UAW had recently “lapsed” in its cooperation with the monitor.
In one of the allegations, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock claimed she had faced retaliation for her refusal or reluctance to authorize certain expenditures for Mr. Fain’s office.
Mr. Barofsky was appointed as a federal monitor in 2021 as the UAW grappled with a corruption scandal, which included a $2 million embezzlement scheme. The scandal resulted in the federal convictions of several former leaders, and two former UAW presidents were sentenced to prison time as part of the probe….
Ninth Circuit eyes call to halt US aid to Israel citing violation of Genocide Convention
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will decide if a federal judge was right to dismiss a lawsuit demanding that the judicial branch halt U.S. aid to Israel as it bombs Gaza on the grounds that courts cannot limit political foreign policy decisions.
In a case that gets to the heart of the separation of powers and political question doctrines, a group of Palestinians are seeking a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s U.S. ammunition policy specifically for Israel’s use on Palestinians in Gaza. They say the government violated the 1948 Genocide Convention by failing to intervene in Gaza and directly supporting Israel.
The convention defines genocide as acts committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group,” including through killing, inflicting serious bodily or mental harm upon a targeted group, or by “inflicting upon the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
The federal government argues the claims are preempted by the political questions doctrine, limiting how courts can hear constitutional questions even if other requirements are met….
Hamas gives formal response to Gaza hostage and ceasefire proposal
The latest: Qatar and Egypt issued a joint statement confirming they received a response from Hamas and other Palestinian groups about the Israeli proposal.
- Qatar and Egypt said in the statement that they will continue their mediation efforts together with the U.S. in order to reach an agreement.
- “The mediators will study Hamas’ response and will coordinate with the relevant parties regarding next steps,” the statement said.
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Al Mayadeen on Tuesday that Hamas’ response included several comments on the Israeli proposal.
- He said Hamas is committed to what it said before, which is the demand for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
- Al-Jazeera reported that the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, and the head of Islamic Jihad, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, gave the response to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.
- Hamas’ response included a comment regarding the description of the ceasefire and a demand for the Israeli wi
This School Helps Poor Kids Succeed, Teacher Unions Try To Shut It Down
Low-income minority students from one chain of NYC charter schools rank #1 in my state in math.
Why do they do so well? Because school leaders have high expectations. And unlike government run schools, Success Academy innovates!
School days are longer and all students take advanced tests.
100% of their graduates get accepted into college.
“That is redefining American public education,” says Chief Schooling Officer LaMae de Jongh
Hezbollah-Israel hostilities intensify; US ups pressure re Gaza ceasefire – TV7 Israel News 11.06.24
1) Hostilities along Israel’s northern front with Lebanon seemingly intensify.
2) IDF Forces continue to target terror elements throughout the West Bank districts of Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley in particular – as the number of suspected terror operatives apprehended since October 7th rises to 4,150.
3) The U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 2735, which calls upon Hamas to accept President Joe Biden’s outline for a hostage release deal.
FARAGE RESPONDS TO VIOLENT CAMPAIGN ATTACKS
Hamas commander killed in West Bank clash with Israeli forces
Hamas has said that one of its commanders in the occupied West Bank has been killed in a clash with Israeli forces.
In a statement released late on Monday, Hamas said Mohammed Jaber Abdo was killed along with three other fighters in a village near Ramallah.
A joint statement by the Israeli army and police earlier on Monday said undercover forces had tracked down a suspect wanted in an attack on a nearby Jewish settlement.
According to the statement, the man was hiding in a compound with three other suspects and forces opened fire when they tried to run them over with a car and flee. It also said weapons were found in the car.
It comes as the Israeli military said four soldiers died in an explosion in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli media, citing unnamed security officials, reported that the soldiers were killed on Monday when explosives they were using to clear a building were triggered prematurely, causing it to collapse, killing four soldiers and wounding 11….
Shock as US-Linked Ukrainian NGO Unveils Disturbing ‘Enemies List’ Including Prominent Americans
Daniel McAdams from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity has revealed a troubling US government-affiliated NGO in Ukraine.
This organization has published a list of “enemies,” according to ZeroHedge.
The outlet reported the so-called “enemies” include American journalists, business leaders, media outlets, websites, and essentially “anyone critical of the Biden administration.”
Some of the names are Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump.
It published a report last week titled “American Swing: From Trumpists to Communists, Who and How is Campaigning for the End of Aid to Ukraine.”
A total of 390 individuals and 76 organizations are included in what McAdams describes as Ukraine’s “enemies list.”
Robby Starbuck took to X to highlight more of these individuals, including David Sacks; Jim Banks; Rand Paul; Jack Posobiec; Charlie Kirk; Candace Ownes; Andrew Tate; Laura Loomer; Ron DeSantis; Josh Hawley; Donald Trump Jr.; Ben Shapiro and Robert Kennedy Jr., among others…..
FBI Whistleblower: Punished for Supporting Donald Trump?
New whistleblower documents show the FBI is every bit the politicized secret police force you feared it was.
Rescued Israeli hostages beaten ‘almost every day’ in Hamas captivity
The Israeli hostages who were rescued at the weekend were beaten while in Hamas captivity and left malnourished by a lack of food, the doctor in charge of their treatment has revealed.
“It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr Itai Pessach told CNN at the Sheba Medical Centre in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv. “Every hour, both physical, mental, and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension.”
Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were all kidnapped from the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct 7 and taken to Gaza.
According to Dr Pessach, the hostages were moved on several occasions and kept under the watch of different guards. The supply of food and water was unstable and there were periods where they got almost no food at all.
“They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that,” he said.
He added that the “combination of the psychological stress, malnutrition” as well as “medical neglect, being limited to space, not seeing the sun” had all had a significant effect on their health.
Dr Pessach, who also treated some of the hostages released in a ceasefire deal back in November, said the psychological damage of the four freed this weekend was more intense due to the length of time they were held in captivity…
Nancy Pelosi upends anti-Trump January 6 narrative in new video
On Monday’s “Chris Plante The Right Squad,” the panel discusses a new video that shows Nancy Pelosi admitting she should have had the National Guard “prepare for more” leading up to Jan. 6, 2021.
Biden admin lifts ban on arming Ukrainian brigade associated with neo-Nazis since its inception
Despite President Joe Biden’s sense that white supremacy is the “most dangerous terrorist threat,” his administration is lifting the ban on arming a Ukrainian brigade associated with neo-Nazism since its inception whose current members now reject accusations of extremism.
In June 2015, the U.S. Congress unanimously approved an amendment to the Pentagon budget prohibiting American funds under the Pentagon Appropriations Act from being used to provide arms, training, or other assistance to Ukraine’s 12th Special Forces Azov Brigade, then called the Azov Battalion.
Former Michigan Rep. John Conyers (D) told his fellow lawmakers that the “neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia” group founded by Ukrainian politician Andriy Biletsky had been characterized by Foreign Policy as “openly neo-Nazi” and “fascist.”
Biletsky, who headed the neo-Nazi groups Social-National Assembly and Patriots of Ukraine, was less than subtle about the nature of his variety of national socialism, having reportedly: criticized “Negro-love” and the “blackening” of Ukraine; reminisced about Adolf Hitler as a military leader; denied the Holocaust ever happened; defended paramilitary Nazi collaborators in his college thesis; and adopted for his militia a symbol closely resembling the Nazi Wolfsangel.
After years of urging and the publication of Azov commander Denys Prokopenko’s demands to American officials in the pages of Ukrainska Pravda, the Biden State Department confirmed to the Washington Post Monday that the Biden administration has cleared the Azov Brigade to receive American weapons.
The Post highlighted that the timing of the announcement comes just as “Kyiv starts the summer fighting season.”…
Congress Digs Into Scandals Surrounding Biden Iran Envoy Rob Malley
Few individuals have been more integral to the Obama-Biden project to “realign” the U.S. with Iran and strengthen the Middle East theocracy – at the expense of Israel, America’s Sunni Arab allies and partners, and U.S. national interest – than Rob Malley.
Frozen out of foreign policy decision-making during Donald Trump’s presidency, the lead negotiator behind President Obama’s signature Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Malley was brought back into the fold when Joe Biden came into the Oval Office. Biden tabbed Malley as Iran special envoy to resurrect that nuclear deal. Last summer, however, the longtime progressive foreign policy hand suddenly had his security clearance revoked and was placed on unpaid leave while under investigation by the State Department and FBI for potentially mishandling classified information. The case was already a hot-button partisan problem for the White House before Oct. 7, when Iran-backed terrorists attacked Israel.
For a year, the Biden administration has responded with secrecy and silence regarding Malley’s sidelining, even as a Tehran-tied outlet published details and leaked documents suggesting a breach of U.S. communications, and separate evidence emerged of Malley’s intertwinement with an Iranian influence network.
A May 6 letter from Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Republican James Risch, and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul to Secretary of State Antony Blinken reveal their belief that Malley may have transferred classified documents to his personal email account and downloaded them on his personal cell phone – and that this information was hacked or otherwise obtained by unfriendly sources.
Russia to Construct Floating Nuclear Power Plants
Rosatom, a Russian state-owned energy group, is partnering with the Republican of Guinea to construct floating nuclear power plants, Newsweek reported.
The energy group signed an agreement with the country during a St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week. The floating nuclear power plants will be equipped with RITM-200 reactors, according to Newsweek.
“The cooperation involves joint work on developing a power supply solution both to industrial and domestic consumers in the Republic of Guinea, by deploying floating nuclear power units with RITM-200 reactors, which have already proven efficient,” Vladimir Aptekarev, deputy head of Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering Division, said in a statement.
Rosatom is also finalizing an agreement to sign a nuclear deal with Burkina Faso and is working on a nuclear power plant in Egypt. Rosatom has established relationships with Mali, Zimbabwe, and Burundi and is working to establish relationships with Nigeria and Tanzania, according to Business Insider.
Gaza Chief’s Brutal Calculation: Civilian Bloodshed Will Help Hamas
For months, Yahya Sinwar has resisted pressure to cut a ceasefire-and-hostages deal with Israel. Behind his decision, messages the Hamas military leader in Gaza has sent to mediators show, is a calculation that more fighting—and more Palestinian civilian deaths—work to his advantage.
“We have the Israelis right where we want them,” Sinwar said in a recent message to Hamas officials seeking to broker an agreement with Qatari and Egyptian officials.
Fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas units in the Gaza Strip’s south has disrupted humanitarian-aid shipments, caused mounting civilian casualties and intensified international criticism of Israel’s efforts to eradicate the Islamist extremist group.
For much of Sinwar’s political life, shaped by bloody conflict with an Israeli state that he says has no right to exist, he has stuck to a simple playbook. Backed into a corner, he looks to violence for a way out. The current fight in Gaza is no exception.
In dozens of messages—reviewed by The Wall Street Journal—that Sinwar has transmitted to cease-fire negotiators, Hamas compatriots outside Gaza and others, he’s shown a cold disregard for human life and made clear he believes Israel has more to lose from the war than Hamas. The messages were shared by multiple people with differing views of Sinwar…..
Coast Guard stops US-bound boats carrying over 300 attempted illegal aliens
The Coast Guard reported that it transferred 109 individuals back to the Bahamas and 196 individuals back to Haiti on Sunday and Monday after the groups attempted to enter the U.S. illegally.
The interception, executed as part of Operation Vigilant Sentry, occurred last week after multiple boats were discovered off the U.S. coast.
The USCG reported that the groups were processed to determine their identity, provided with food, water, shelter, and medical attention, and then returned to the countries from which they had departed.
“The crews of Coast Guard Cutter Raymond Evans and Cutter Richard Etheridge transferred 109 people to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, Sunday, following an interdiction near Anguilla Cay, Bahamas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (CBP-AMO) aircrews notified Coast Guard Sector Key West watchstanders of a migrant venture near Anguilla Cay and crews diverted to interdict them,” the Coast Guard’s press release read.
Domestic Terrorist Donated $1K to Rep. Nadler’s Campaign
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., received a $1,000 campaign contribution from ex-convict and left-wing domestic terrorist Susan Rosenberg, for whom he helped obtain a presidential pardon 20 years earlier, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
Rosenberg’s contribution came in June 2021, months after the Capitol Hill riots, an event that Nadler pinned on “right-wing extremists” and “terrorists” who he accused of trying to overthrow the government. Rosenberg was convicted in 1985 for her role with domestic terrorists who tried to overthrow the government in 1983.
Rosenberg also contributed to members of the left-leaning cadre of lawmakers known as “the Squad,” according to the Free Beacon.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., accepted $410; Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., took $362; Reps. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Summer Lee, D.-Pa., also accepted donations, according to the report.
All have accused former President Donald Trump of trying to “overthrow our government.”
Through Nadler’s efforts, Bill Clinton pardoned Rosenberg on his last day in office in 2001 after two terms as president, cutting short her sentence by 42 years.
Rosenberg was pardoned despite protests from current Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., police groups and then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. During a 2011 interview, Nadler said he responded with “so?” when told by prison officials of Rosenberg’s ongoing terrorist affiliations while in prison, according to the Beacon.
Hunter Biden guilty of felony gun charges, faces 25 years in prison
Hunter Biden became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime Tuesday after a federal jury found him guilty of lying about his drug use in order to buy a gun.
The panel of six men and six women deliberated for three hours across two days before convicting the 54-year-old of making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed firearms dealer, and possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of or addict to a controlled substance.
The first son stared at the jury and made no visible reaction as the foreperson read the verdict. Hunter’s wife Melissa sat in the gallery behind him, next to her husband’s “sugar brother,” attorney Kevin Morris.
The first son faces up to 25 years behind bars — though a lighter sentence is much more likely since he has no prior convictions.
The verdict is not the end of the first son’s legal trouble.
He’s scheduled to face a case in Los Angeles federal court beginning Sept. 5 for allegedly evading $1.4 million in federal income tax for the years 2016 through 2019.
Residents left shocked by $165M luxury high-rise for homeless
Los Angeles resident Paul Scrivano joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss the costs facing taxpayers as the city invests in shelter for homeless
He spent $30,000 on makeup?!: Gutfeld
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and guests discuss how Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson reportedly spent $30,000 on makeup during his first year in office on ‘Gutfeld!’
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