White House Correspondents’ Dinner Suspect Called for New Political Party

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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Suspect Called for New Political Party

(José Niño, Headline USA) Social media posts from the man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner reveal deep hostility toward Democratic Party leadership, undermining claims from the administration and major media that he was a radicalized leftist.

Ken Klippenstein reports that Cole Allen directed frustration at both major parties in the months before the attack. Yet the official narrative has gone in a different direction. President Donald Trump declared Allen “radicalized.” RNC Chairman Joe Gruters pointed the finger at a “radicalized left” for the incident, calling it “the inevitable result of a radicalized left that has normalized political violence.” 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that investigators were probing any connection Allen may have had to left-wing groups or were searching for accomplices and co-conspirators.

Allen’s own words paint a more complicated picture.

“If this is the extent to which Democratic leadership is willing to lead, it is time to form an actual third party,” Allen wrote on Bluesky on January 21, 2025.

He returned to that theme repeatedly. “At this point might be faster to replace it with a new party … call it the ‘Do Something’ party, idk,” he posted separately.

“If this is the level of analysis coming out of the leaders of the dem party!!…might need an entirely new party tbh,” he said in yet another post.

“I swear the democrat party does not comprehend the concept of priorities…,” Allen wrote on February 13.

His anger increasingly focused on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “Is there such a thing as a vote of no confidence for Senate minority leader?” he asked on March 13.

A day earlier he had mocked Schumer’s leadership style. “Schumer is acting like an rpg [role playing game] player who hoards every single potion, powerup, and consumable he comes across because ‘maybe I’ll need them later,'” Allen wrote on March 12.

“Schumer’s assignment was not turned in on time,” he joked on April 8, just days before the shooting.

Klippenstein points out that distrust of the political establishment has become widespread rather than marginal. By early 2025, the Democratic Party had collapsed to 27% approval in NBC News polling and 29% at CNN, the lowest figure in CNN’s polling since 1992. A Pew survey showed 59% of Democrats disapproved of their own congressional leadership, a number representing more than 25 million American voters.

“To call Allen a foot soldier of the Democratic left requires ignoring much of what he posted online,” Klippenstein writes. “It’s a convenient narrative — it casts political violence as a product of partisan extremism rather than what the polling actually suggests: a broad, bipartisan collapse of faith in American institutions and their leadership.”

MSNBC correspondent Ken Dilanian echoed the administration’s framing, claiming Allen fits the pattern of attackers “on the far left fringes” alongside Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson. Klippenstein contends that none of these individuals were far left. Instead, they shared a frustration with institutions they viewed as broken and a determination to act in ways that would command attention.

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino 

Congressional Progressives Introduce $25 Federal Minimum Wage Plan

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Congressional Progressives Introduce $25 Federal Minimum Wage Plan

(Sean Reed, The Center Square)  Progressive lawmakers in Washington D.C. introduced legislation Tuesday that would increase the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour.

The proposal could have severe impacts on businesses across the country, according to critics.

U.S. Reps. Delia Ramirez, D-IL, Chuy Garcia, D-IL, and Analilia Mejia, D-NJ, introduced legislation, known as the ‘Living Wage for All Act.’ They gathered with support from a coalition of Democrat lawmakers, union leaders and other national organizations, brought together by One Fair Wage, an organization making the push for an increase.

The federal minimum wage currently stands at $7.25 per hour, which lawmakers noted has not changed since 2009. Ramirez was a co-lead on the 2019 state-wide wage increase, which brought it to $15 per hour, which she said has given her insight when making the federal proposal.

The legislation in Congress comes as state Senate Bill 3033 – which would increase the state minimum wage to $27 per hour – recently had its deadline to pass through committee extended through mid-May.

Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, said she hopes the Illinois proposal will progress.

Of her time working on the Illinois wage raise in the state legislature, Ramirez said one of the biggest issues was ensuring the increase wouldn’t impact small businesses disproportionately.

Noah Finley, National Federation of Independent Business Illinois state director, has argued both the previous increase and new proposal would be harmful to businesses across the state.

“Our members here in Illinois, they’ve been really struggling with the $15 an hour minimum wage in the state. That has been a huge burden for them,” Finley said. “They’ve had to cut back on employees. They’ve had to raise their prices. So, this is bad for workers, it’s bad for consumers and it’s bad for small businesses.”

An NFIB survey of business owners found many would not be able to withstand a jump in labor costs from an increase in state minimum wages.

Ramirez said the lawmakers included language in the bill to reduce impacts for small businesses across the country by phasing in the increase.

“Those large employers would reach $25 by 2031, while the smaller employers would more gradually reach it by 2038,” Ramirez said

Illinois House Republican Leader Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, said a federal increase isn’t a good idea and it isn’t likely to happen under the current administration.

“Most of the people that are, especially in rural Illinois, that are out using the services and the goods are senior citizens and between property taxes and energy costs, the sky rocketing cost of healthcare, they can’t afford one more thing,” McCombie said.

Reps. Ro Khanna, D-CA, Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, and Greg Casar, D-TX, all said rising costs of living as a reason they think the wage needs to be increased. Tlaib took the blame one step further, saying capitalism as a whole is at fault for increased cost of living.

Man Convicted of Aiding IS Group, but Not for Deadly Kabul Airport Bombing

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Man Convicted of Aiding IS Group, but Not for Deadly Kabul Airport Bombing

(Headline USA) An alleged Islamic State group militant from Afghanistan was convicted on Wednesday of aiding the terror organization that took credit for a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport, but a jury couldn’t agree on whether he bears some responsibility for that attack during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from the country in 2021.

Mohammad Sharifullah faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after his one-count conviction in an international terrorism case that President Donald Trump heralded last year during a speech to a joint session of Congress. Sharifullah didn’t testify at his weeklong trial.

Approximately 160 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, attack at the airport, where U.S. troops were conducting an evacuation operation when a lone suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device near an entry point known as Abbey Gate.

A federal jury in Virginia convicted Sharifullah of providing material support to an Islamic State regional branch known as ISIS-K. But the jurors deadlocked on whether any deaths at the airport “resulted from” that conspiracy. Sharifullah could have faced a possible life sentence if the jury had unanimously decided that question.

Sharifullah didn’t appear to have any visible reaction to the verdict. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga didn’t immediately set a date for Sharifullah’s sentencing.

The jury deliberated for roughly eight hours over two days. In a note to the judge, jurors indicated that they quickly reached a unanimous decision to convict Sharifullah of conspiracy but couldn’t agree on the element that could have significantly enhanced the severity of his sentence. The judge rejected a prosecutor’s request to give them more time to deliberate.

Defense attorney Lauren Rosen argued that prosecutors failed to present any evidence tying Sharifullah to the bombing besides his own words during hours of FBI questioning. Rosen said Sharifullah told FBI agents what he thought they wanted to hear, possibly because he was afraid of being tortured in Pakistani custody before he was brought to the U.S.

“The problem was, he didn’t know much about what actually happened that day,” Rosen told jurors during the trial’s closing arguments. “The government has told you nothing about how this attack actually happened.”

Justice Department prosecutor Ryan White said Sharifullah played a crucial role in planning the Abbey Gate bombing and was involved in several other attacks by ISIS-K, including its March 2024 attack at a Moscow concert hall that killed roughly 140 people.

“The defendant thought nothing of killing,” White said. “For him, it was just another day at the office.”

A review by U.S. Central Command found that the Abbey Gate bomber was Abdul Rahman al-Logari, an Islamic State group militant who had been released from an Afghan prison by the Taliban. Sharifullah recognized the alleged bomber as an operative he had known while incarcerated, according to an FBI affidavit.

A former Marine testified to Congress that he and others had spotted two possible suspects behaving suspiciously on the morning of the bombing but didn’t get permission to act. However, the Central Command review concluded that the snipers hadn’t seen the actual bomber and that the attack was not preventable.

A prosecutor assigned to the Abbey Gate case was fired last year after a right-wing commentator publicly criticized him over his work during President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration. Michael Ben’Ary’s ouster was part of a broader purge of Justice Department veterans deemed to be insufficiently loyal to Trump, a Republican.

During his most recent presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly condemned Biden for his role in the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and blamed him for the Abbey Gate attack.

Biden’s White House was following a withdrawal commitment and timeline that the first Trump administration had negotiated with the Taliban in 2020. A 2022 review by a government-appointed special investigator concluded decisions made by both Trump and Biden were the key factors leading to the rapid collapse of Afghanistan’s military and the Taliban takeover.

White, the prosecutor, said Sharifullah told a journalist that he wanted to “catch and kill the crusaders” from the U.S. for invading his country after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“This case is not complicated,” White said. “The defendant told you everything you need to know.”

Rosen said U.S. authorities accepted ISIS propaganda at face value when the group took responsibility for the airport bombing. She suggested that militants from a Taliban offshoot were manning Abbey Gate and could have been involved in the attack.

“You can’t base your verdict on mere conjecture and speculation,” Rosen said. “That’s what the prosecution is asking you to do.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

Man Charged with Trying to Kill Trump at Dinner Took Photo with Knife in Hotel, Investigators Say

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Man Charged with Trying to Kill Trump at Dinner Took Photo with Knife in Hotel, Investigators Say

(Headline USA) The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition bag, a shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife, authorities said Wednesday in a new court filing.

Cole Allen wore black pants, a black shirt and a red tie as he snapped the image in his room at the Washington Hilton, where Trump and hundreds of journalists were meeting for a gala Saturday night, authorities say.

The 31-year-old from Torrance, California, was captured when he tried to race past security barricades near the hotel’s ballroom, prompting an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service agents tasked with safeguarding the event, investigators say.

New details emerged in a court filing made by prosecutors who want Allen to remain in custody. A hearing is set for Thursday.

The government said Allen repeatedly made online checks to keep track of Trump’s status that night, including live coverage of the president exiting his vehicle at the Hilton hotel. Investigators said preset emails with an “Apology and Explanation” attachment were sent at approximately 8:30 p.m.

“He intended to kill and fired his shotgun while trying to breach security and attack his target. Put simply, the defendant poses an uncommonly serious danger to the community if released pending trial. The defendant’s lack of criminal history and other personal circumstances do not alter this conclusion,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Jones wrote.

Trump, a Republican, was uninjured. A Secret Service officer wearing a bullet-resistant vest was shot in the vest and survived.

Allen appeared in court on Monday and was charged with the attempted assassination of the president as authorities suggested an attack that disrupted one of Washington’s glitziest events had been planned for at least several weeks. He did not speak at length during the quick court appearance, as is customary. One of his lawyers, Tezira Abe, noted he had no criminal record and said he “is presumed innocent at this time.”

Trump was rushed off the stage by his security team Saturday night and appeared at the White House two hours later, still in his tuxedo.

“When you’re impactful, they go after you. When you’re not impactful, they leave you alone,” he said. “They seem to think he was a lone wolf.”

An FBI affidavit filed Monday revealed other details about the planning behind the assault, with authorities alleging that Allen on April 6 reserved a room for himself at the Washington hotel where the event would be held weeks later under its typical tight security. He traveled by train cross-country from California, checking himself into the Washington Hilton a day before the dinner with a room reserved for the weekend.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

Supreme Court Hears Challenges to Haiti, Syria TPS

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Supreme Court Hears Challenges to Haiti, Syria TPS

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square)  The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in two cases to determine whether orders ending temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria are constitutional. 

Justices on the court are hearing Trump v. Miot and Mullin v. Doe. The two cases challenge an order from President Donald Trump that sought to terminate the special immigration status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants living in the United States. 

Temporary protected status is granted to immigrants who are fleeing war or natural disasters in their home countries. Haitian and Syrian nationals challenged the Trump administration’s order. 

Kristi Noem, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, terminated the protected immigration status indiscriminately, a lower court judge said. 

The U.S. Supreme Court has previously allowed the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Venezuela.  

Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, said she expects justices on the court to reach the same conclusion as they did for Venezuelan immigrants. Justices on the court are expected to decide if lower court judges have the authority to stop the Trump administration from stripping temporary status from the Haitian and Syrian immigrants. 

“Congress made clear in the Immigration and Nationality Act that for Temporary Protected Status, ‘[t]here is no judicial review of any determination’ regarding ‘the designation, or termination or extension of a designation, of a foreign state,'” Severino said. 

Haiti was first granted temporary protected status in 2010, after an earthquake severely damaged the country’s infrastructure. In 2024, the Biden administration extended temporary protected status for Haiti, based on general concerns about security and humanitarian concerns in the country.

Lawyers for the Haitian immigrants argued that the country is not safe for migrants to return. They also argued that the policy could cause damage to public safety in the United States.

“Stripping TPS holders of their status may discourage them from reporting crimes or seeking medical care due to fear of detention or deportation,” the lawyers wrote.

Syria was first designated temporary protected status in 2012, after the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War. In 2024, the Biden administration extended the cutoff date for Syrian migrants and gave amnesty to anyone who arrived in the U.S. since 2012. About 6,100 Syrian migrants live in the United States under temporary protected status.

Lawyers for the Trump administration cited ongoing diplomatic negotiations between the U.S. and Syria following the end of the civil war in 2024.

“Thwarting the Secretary’s determination of TPS thus undercuts the Secretary’s judgment as to how best to protect the public and how best to further the government’s foreign-policy goals,” lawyers for the Trump administration wrote.

Justices are hearing arguments at the court and are expected to issue a decision in both cases by July, the end of the court’s term.

Opinion: Trump Needs to Axe Secret Service and Have Special Forces Protect Him

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Opinion: Trump Needs to Axe Secret Service and Have Special Forces Protect Him

(By former FBI operative David Gletty) How many chances do we as Americans, and the U.S. president, need to give the Secret Service to help get him assassinated?

For most presidents, this would not be tolerated. But because it is Donald Trump, the leftist hate groups and the media seem to think it is OK and normal business. It is not OK and not normal business.

As a proud American voter, I have always respected the outcome of every presidential election that I have been able to vote in. In fact, I worked with the FBI to disrupt right-wing extremist groups when Barack Obama was president. Read about that here.

Unfortunately, that patriotism has changed in the last 30 years. Peoople treat their political parties like their favorite sports teams, which is not what is best for America.

It’s time to radically overhaul the system before any American president is assassinated. No matter what party they are associated with, we are all in the United States of America. If this ship sinks, we all sink.

Here are my recommendations:

Step 1: Fire, or re-assign to the TSA, every Secret Service agent responsible for the recent assassination attempts. Trump must make an example now and change the attitude of the entire Secret Service. U.S top military soldiers, fully armored and weaponized, will be brought in to bolster the ranks and eventually take over during this time of need. No more chances do they get to help kill the president of the U.S.A through negligence and unprofessionalism. It sounds rough, but it is a rough world out there, and the Secret Service is clearly not up to the job.

Step 2: Training is everything in this business. Quick action responses without thinking, and just look at the video of the one checkpoint. The Secret Service guards clearly weren’t well equipped to stop a bum-rush.

Top NFL receivers can run 40 yards in 4.2 seconds, which is about 20-23 miles an hour. The suspect, Cole Allen, allegedly had a good plan to kill media and administration officials until he had to get through the last few hundred feet of his criminal plan, which depended on him sprinting like an NFL receiver with a rifle, handgun and several knives past at least six armed Secret Service agents. The suspect was stopped at what you might call the “NFL safety level” after getting past the “defensive line” and “linebackers.”

Top military soldiers must be brought in now and be with the president and Cabinet members indefinitely. New soldiers will be trained in close combat and protection methods beyond their current training.

Back to the checkpoint video: The suspect is sprinting past the first several Secret Service agents, with no apparent verbal warnings forward to the checkpoint. An agent is facing towards the ballroom as opposed to the entrance, and has about a second to react. The agent turns toward the suspect and instinctively steps aside, as if that was how he was trained. His training *should* have been to hit—if not tackle— the guy.

We also see nonchalant body posturing by several agents before the incident, which indicates drifting away from high threat alert. In today’s acceptable paraphrasing: “WTF”. How could they be so careless when we know of two previous assassination attempts on Trump within the last two years?

Step 3: I have been slowly building up to this, but I feel I have enough credibility to state with confidence that there are many unqualified/compromised employees/contractors working for the U.S. government while subverting American values. Some may even paid from foreign adversaries.

How do we find unqualified/compromised employees/contractors? A simple audit of their last 20 years tax returns against what their assets are, private properties, boats, children’s education, etc. If assets are more than reported income, boom, corruption and being compromised is going on.

This is very tough to say, but because of what I did for the FBI to get paid and the manipulation from all sides involved, I can safely tell you that there are “planned failures.” This entails employees/actors/contractors of the USA who are not true to the country, and who purposely fail the goals of their job to allow disaster to happen.

Without addressing most, if not all, of what I’ve outlined above, disaster will surely strike again—and probably sooner than you think.

This column is the author’s opinion, and doesn’t necessarily reflect the editorial views of Headline USA or its staff.

DOJ Raids 20 Businesses in Minneapolis, Most Reportedly Owned by Somalis

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DOJ Raids 20 Businesses in Minneapolis, Most Reportedly Owned by Somalis

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Federal agents raided multiple businesses across Minneapolis Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged Somali-linked fraud, according to several reports. Among the locations targeted was the controversial Quality Learning Center.

The raids hit more than 20 locations, including childcare centers, under search warrants signed by a federal judge, Fox News reported.

“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement.

Footage of the raids quickly spread on social media, showing federal agents entering businesses early Tuesday morning. Fox News reported that none of the activity appeared to be immigration-related.

The raids were welcomed by the Trump administration, which has made cracking down on fraud a central priority.

“The task force and the DOJ will be relentless in exposing these fraudsters wherever they may be hiding,” Vice President JD Vance wrote on X.

The raids came months after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced criticism for allegedly allowing fraud to run rampant in the state.

Walz himself drew backlash on X after appearing to take credit for the operation despite the earlier criticism.

“If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today,” he wrote. “We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work, and securing justice depends on it.”

In a follow-up post, Walz added that the raids occurred because state agencies “caught irregular behavior and reported it.”

FBI Director Kash Patel pushed back, emphasizing the federal role in the operation.

“Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today,” Patel wrote. “But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship.”

Meanwhile, the City of Minneapolis said on X that local authorities were not involved in the operation and that the police department “has not been asked to assist with the execution of federal warrants.”

The raids followed reporting by independent journalist Nick Shirley, who highlighted several questionable businesses — some of which appeared to be out of operation while still receiving taxpayer-funded payments.

Trump Consulting With Iran Hawks Who Want Him To Restart Bombing Campaign

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Trump Consulting With Iran Hawks Who Want Him To Restart Bombing Campaign

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Amid a US blockade on Iranian ports and a very fragile ceasefire with Iran, President Trump has been consulting with some of the most rabid Iran hawks who want him to restart the bombing campaign, according to a report from Axios.

The report said Trump has been speaking with the notoriously hawkish Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ret. US Army General Jack Keane, and Marc Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for the George W. Bush administration, who has been urging the president to kill more of Iran’s leadership.

Trump recently shared a post from Thiessen where he called for the US to kill Iranian leaders who don’t want to give in to US demands. “If there are two factions in Iran, one that wants a deal and one that doesn’t, let’s kill the ones who don’t want a deal,” Thiessen said.

President Trump holds a ‘Make Iran Great Again’ hat in a photo posted to Sen. Graham’s X account on January 5, 2026

According to the Axios report, Trump is considering either restarting the bombing campaign or waiting to see if the US blockade and increasing sanctions have an impact. A Trump adviser told the outlet that Trump recently said that “all [Iran’s leaders] understand is bombs.”

Israel, the US’s partner in the conflict, has also made clear that it’s eager to restart airstrikes on Iran. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said last week that Israel is awaiting a “greenlight” from the US to kill the rest of the Khamenei family and plunge Iran into “the age of darkness and stone by blowing up central energy and electricity facilities and crushing national economic infrastructure,” echoing similar threats made by Trump.

In the meantime, the US is attempting to ramp up the economic pressure on Iran, with the Treasury Department announcing more sanctions on Tuesday, part of the “maximum pressure” campaign against the Islamic Republic.

“This is maximum pressure everywhere and from all angles,” a senior administration official told Axios. “That could mean military action, too. It might not. It’s up to the president.”

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com.

Identities of More SPLC Informants Revealed

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Identities of More SPLC Informants Revealed

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Post has uncovered the identities of two more Southern Poverty Law Center informants as the Justice Department looks to prosecute the group for secretly paying Nazis and Klansmen to serve as spies.

The DOJ’s indictment lists nine different informants, but doesn’t name them. The informants include the former imperial wizard of the United Klans of America, a former officer in the National Socialist Movement, the former chairman of the National Alliance, and someone who helped organize the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.

According to the Post, the ex-Klan imperial wizard is Bradley Scott Jenkins, “who remained a committed racist until his death in 2023 aged 50.”

“Jenkins, who died an unemployed father-of-three at 50, was one of the ‘informants’ referred to as ‘F-unknown’ in the indictment against the SPLC,” the Post reported. “The UKA is believed to continue with a new leader.”

The Post interviewed Jenkins’s son, Noah, who said he had no idea his dad was an informant. Jenkins always acted like a true believer, according to the son—an admission that undercuts the SPLC’s claim that it paid informants to disrupt these groups.

Another informant named by the Post is April Chambers, who reportedly a former KKK member whose husband is the “exalted cyclops” of the group.

The Post identified Chambers based on the fact that the indictment says that an SPLC informant in the KKK sued the state of Georgia over their KKK group’s attempt to join the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” program. According to records, it was Chambers who was involved in that legal battle, which the KKK eventually lost.

Chambers declined to comment to the Post.

Yet another informant, “F-30,” matches the description of Paul Mullet, according to the Post. Mullet is a National Socialist Party of America leader, which the DOJ indictment describes as “the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.”

Headline USA was also able to identify at least one of the informants: ‘F-39’ is likely former National Alliance accountant Randolph Dilloway. The indictment says he was paid $6,000 to take the blame for stealing documents. That information aligns with a lawsuit from around that time accusing Dilloway of being paid over $5,000 by the SPLC to steal documents.

Critics have noted that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have used the SPLC’s informant network to skirt constitutional restrictions on domestic surveillance.

“Attorney General Janet Reno would not allow the FBI much latitude in developing intelligence inside the far-right due to concerns that such activities might violate existing departmental guidelines on ‘domestic spying,’” J.D. Cash and Roger Charles wrote in July 2005 for the McCurtain Daily Gazette.

“To skirt Reno’s policies, the FBI developed a relationship with cutouts such as the SPLC that could use their own spies to do what the FBI could not. These non-government agents then passed their intelligence products back to the bureau.”

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Bodega Worker Who Spoke Out on Crime in Viral Video Killed in NYC Shooting

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Bodega Worker Who Spoke Out on Crime in Viral Video Killed in NYC Shooting

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) “Just take care of my kids.”  

Those were the final words of Abdul Saleh, a New York City bodega worker before he died after being shot by a man reportedly known as a menace around the neighborhood. 

In any other case, Saleh’s death at 28 would have been just another statistic of lawlessness in the Big Apple. His death, however, carried a grim twist as he had warned on television just a year earlier about the crime that would later kill him. 

“People got shot, killed, sometimes you got robbed and the police never responds quick,” Saleh told WABC Eyewitness News in May 2025, in a video that later went viral on social media. 

Saleh was gunned down Saturday night outside his family’s bodega, Sal’s Deli and Grocery, during what the New York Post described as a scuffle with an unidentified individual. 

The suspect, Kavone Horton, 28, was apprehended by the New York City Police Department on Sunday night and faces murder charges in connection with Saleh’s death. 

“Before he died, he said, ‘Just take care of my kids,’” Saleh’s cousin, Basam Hussain, said in remarks to the New York Post. 

The outlet reported that Saleh had just returned from a trip to Yemen, where his wife and two children—one aged three and the other two—currently reside. 

It was during that trip that Saleh met his two-year-old son for the first time. Less than 24 hours after returning home, he was gunned down. 

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