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Hezbollah-Israel exchange blows; IDF prepares for Hamas stronghold offensive TV7 Israel News 23.04
1) Hezbollah launches barrages of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles at Israel on the first day of Passover.
2) Qatar asserts that its decision to host Hamas leaders in Doha was made in coordination with the United States.
3) Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tells IDF troops to prepare for the missions ahead – as operational plans are approved by Jerusalem
‘Fox & Friends’ reveals groups, funding behind anti-Israel protests
Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade and Will Cain breakdown the ongoing anti-Israel protests and how these organizations obtain support.
Trump defends House Speaker Mike Johnson amid ouster threat: ‘Trying very hard’
“Look, we have a majority of one, OK? It’s not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do,” Trump, 77, told radio host John Fredericks on the far-right streaming channel Real America’s Voice on Monday night.
“I think he’s a very good person. You know, he stood very strongly with me on NATO,” added Trump, referring to a campaign rally in which he urged member states to pay more for their common defense — or he would let Russia “do whatever the hell they want.”
“I think he’s trying very hard,” the 45th president concluded.
The House GOP majority has shrunk to 217-213 with the early departures of Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
That means Republicans can only lose one vote by a member of their conference and still get legislation through. (Tie votes fail in the House.)
‘Raging lunatics’ struggling to hide the truth about Trump: Eric Bolling The Balance
“Raging lunatics” across liberal news networks and elected government alike are struggling to hide the truth about Trump and the 2024 election, says Eric Bolling, and the only time they’ll tell the truth is “by accident.”
MRC’s Bozell Seeks to Block Soros Radio Buy Up
Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell on Tuesday filed a formal petition with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to request that the agency not fast-track billionaire liberal George Soros’ attempt to take over Audacy, the second-largest radio company in the U.S. behind iHeart Media.
Soros and his Soros Fund Management (SFM) have pushed for the FCC to approve assignment applications to become the largest shareholder in Audacy, MRC said.
The acquisition of Audacy would give Soros 230 U.S. radio stations, including New York’s WFAN and 1010 WINS, as well as Los Angeles-based KROQ, per bankruptcy filings, the New York Post reported.
“There is no question that George Soros and his affiliated businesses are looking to control these radio stations to advance their particular brand of activism,” Bozell wrote in the filing.
Soros has asked the FCC to disregard the Communications Act, which requires the agency perform a “public interest” analysis before approving such an acquisition.
Israel intensifies strikes across Gaza, orders new evacuations in north
Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the strip, warning civilians they were in a “dangerous combat zone”.
Strikes by air and shelling from tanks on the ground were also reported in central and southern areas in what residents said were almost non-stop bombardments.
In a post on social media platform X, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee urged residents of four zones in Beit Lahiya on Gaza’s northern edge to move to shelter in two designated areas.He said the military “will work with extreme force against terrorist infrastructure and subversive elements” in the region.
Overnight, tanks made a new incursion east of Beit Hanoun on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, though they did not penetrate far into the city, residents and Hamas media said. Gunfire reached some schools causing panic amongst displaced residents sheltering there.
Tuesday’s bombardment came after incoming rocket alerts sounded in two southern Israeli border towns, although no casualties were reported.
Police hunting for ex-cop suspected of killing ex-wife, girlfriend, abducting 1-year-old
Law enforcement authorities in several jurisdictions are looking for Elias Huizar, a former Yakima Police officer, in connection with the killings, according to police.
The West Richland Police Department in a Facebook post said they believe it was Huizar who shot and killed his ex-wife outside William Wiley Elementary School at 3:23 p.m., which is around the time school lets out for the day.
A second person, a woman believed to be Huizar’s girlfriend, was found dead in the suspect’s home.
“A second homicide victim was found inside the residence. No information about the victim’s identity is being released at this time, except to say that it is not Huizar but that the victim is a known associate of the suspect,” police stated in a second Facebook post.
Early Tuesday morning, the West Richland Police Department said that Huizar had been spotted in Portland, Oregon, overnight, possibly driving a black sedan.
Huizar is 39 years old, with brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black hat, black long-sleeved shirt, light blue jeans and black shoes.
Huizar is believed to have originally fled in a silver 2009 Toyota Corolla with license plate number CBZ4745.
LA deputy shot in the back at traffic light, manhunt underway
The search is on for the person who shot a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department motorcycle deputy in the back while he was stopped at a red light.
The shooting happened just before 3 p.m. Monday near Interstate 10 at the intersection of North Barranca Street and East Garvey Avenue, according to FOX 11 Los Angeles. LA County Sheriff Robert Luna credits a bulletproof vest Deputy Samuel Aispuro, 43, was wearing at the time of the shooting for saving his life.
Aispuro was in uniform and was riding a department-issued motorcycle at the time of the shooting, Luna said during a press conference. He was taken by ambulance to a medical center for treatment.
Authorities are now searching for a white sedan with tinted windows, last seen heading west on Interstate 10 from Barranca Street.
Democratic Minnesota state senator charged with first-degree burglary after breaking into stepmother’s house
Sen. Nicole Mitchell, 49, was booked into the Becker County Jail on Monday for a suspected first-degree burglary offense, according to online jail records.
A homeowner on the 700 block of Granger Road in Detroit Lakes reported an active burglary to 911 around 4:45 a.m., Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steve Todd told FOX9 Minneapolis.
During a search of the home, officers found Mitchell dressed in black clothing and a black hat, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the station. A flashlight with a sock over it and a black backpack containing two laptops, a cellphone, a driver’s license, Senate identification and Tupperware.
GRAPHIC: Cartel Gunmen Dump 8 Bodies on Border State Highway in Mexico
Initial reports pointed to as many as 13 bodies, and some accounts pointed to nine bodies. However, Chihuahua state authorities revealed that it was eight bodies that had been left behind. Information from authorities points to the bodies likely having been killed in another location and then moved there since there were no ballistic remains in the area.
Local news outlets pointed to a series of messages scrawled on posterboards left behind at the crime scene. However, authorities did not reveal the content of the messages nor the criminal organization behind the mass killings.
The state of Chihuahua has a long history of cartel violence as various criminal organizations continue to fight for control of lucrative drug and human trafficking routes north. Several smaller organizations allied with the Sinaloa Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, or Cartel Jalisco New Generation have a presence in the region and, at times, have waged turf wars.
Tommy Robinson Cleared of Charges as Judge Rules Protest Ban Was ‘Unlawful’
Mr Robinson, 40, was arrested in central London on November 26th for supposedly violating a ban from attending a pro-Israel demonstration. Police argued that he refused to comply with the order and therefore used synthetic pepper spray on him, placed Robinson in handcuffs and arrested him.
Speaking outside the courthouse on Tuesday alongside one-time UKIP backer Lord Pearson of Rannoch and broadcaster Katie Hopkins, Robinson said: “Freedom of the press is under attack, freedom of speech has been under attack. My freedom of assembly, all these things have been taken from me. I’m now allowed into London. What’s been ruled on is the arrest was unlawful, the pepper spraying was unlawful. They arrested me on my daughter’s birthday, that’s now unlawful. Their bail conditions are unlawful. This is the first time I’ve been freely allowed in my capital city, and it’s on St. George’s Day.
The case centred around a pro-Israel demonstration organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism in central London on November 26th. According to reports, the organisation had contacted police to request Robinson be barred from attending the demonstration, despite the activist’s longstanding public support for Israel and the Jewish people.
NYPD arrests over 150 pro-Hamas protesters at NYU as volatile demonstrations spread
Many of the detained anti-Israel protesters were students and faculty who had set up an encampment on the NYU campus. According to the school’s newspaper, Washington Square News, the pop-up campsite was formed by the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition, which consists of more than 20 on-campus groups.
The protesters demanded that the university divest from entities with ties to Israel and shut down its Tel Aviv site. Similar encampments have sprouted up at a number of universities across the country, including Columbia University, MIT, Yale, and the University of Michigan.
Fountain Walker, NYU’s head of campus safety, warned protesters that they would “face consequences” if they failed to leave the area by 4 p.m., according to Washington Square News.
A video captured by a reporter with the City showed faculty and students creating a human barrier between police and the rest of the protesters.
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Terrifying moment bearded man ‘kidnaps’ petrified woman banging on a stranger’s door begging for help before he drives off with her
Terrifying video captured by a home-security camera is helping police piece together the ‘possible kidnapping’ in suburban Portland as they announced today they had arrested the suspect.
The shock footage shows the woman ringing the doorbell of a stranger’s home near Southeast 32nd Avenue and E. Main Street as a man charges her from behind.
She is heard calling out ‘please help me! Please help me!’
The suspect then appears to drag the woman back to a white pickup truck before joining the traffic and driving off into the night.
Joe Biden Says There Are Very Fine People On Both Sides Of The Oct. 7 Debate
A number of people have pointed out the similarities between Biden’s condemnations and Donald Trump’s post-Charlottesville march “very fine people” comment. It’s a good gotcha. After all, Biden has risibly claimed that Trump’s comments impelled him to run for president (for the third time.)
There is, however, a key difference. Trump’s garbled line was almost surely not aimed at tiki-torch neo-Nazis. Believe what you like about Trump’s motivations, but he also later unequivocally condemned the white supremacists on more than one occasion.
Biden, on the other hand, can’t even get himself to call out Brownshirts without throwing them a bone.
Also, incidentally, unlike the nuts in Virginia, these people will be working at our top law firms, in media organizations, and in the State Department. Oh, the president also wants you to pay their loans.
California unemployment fund ‘insolvent’ due to $55B fraud, businesses to pay
While the state seeks loan forgiveness from the Acting United States Secretary of Labor, who was California’s Secretary of Labor during the COVID-19 era and oversaw the state’s fraudulent payments — including nearly $1 billion to felons in prison filling out fraudulent paperwork — California Democrats have proposed quintupling unemployment insurance taxes and nearly doubling unemployment benefits.
In 2020 California borrowed $17.8 billion to continue payments from its unemployment insurance fund, a number that is projected to reach $20.8 billion by the end of 2024 due to insufficient payments.
With unemployment projected to grow from 804,000 Californians in 2022 to 930,000 Californians by 2025, benefits payments are projected to grow — barring any legislative changes from $5 billion in 2022 to $6.8 billion by 2025.
While California’s unemployment insurance fund already faced poor solvency before the COVID-19 crisis, $55 billion in fraud and overpayments have led the state’s non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office to declare the program “structurally insolvent.”
‘Gutfeld!’: Democrats wave Ukrainian flags on House floor
‘Gutfeld!’ panelists react to the U.S. House passing a $95 billion foreign aid package.
Ingraham: Put Biden’s record on trial
Fox News host Laura Ingraham gives her take on the opening statements in NY vs. Trump on ‘The Ingraham Angle.
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