FDA Admits COVID Vaccines Led to Child Fatalities

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FDA Admits COVID Vaccines Led to Child Fatalities

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged for the first time that children’s deaths were linked to the COVID-19 vaccine, according to an internal memo. 

The memo, written Friday by the FDA chief medical officer, Dr. Vinay Prasad, notes that an internal review found at least 10 children have died “after and because of receiving” the COVID-19 vaccine. 

Career staffers reportedly conducted the review at the Office of Biostatistics and Pharmacovigilance, part of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. 

“This is a profound revelation,” Prasad wrote in the memo, according to a copy reviewed by Headline USA and first published by the Daily Caller. “For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.” 

He said healthy young children who faced “tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death.” 

Prasad warned that “such mandates were harmful” in multiple cases. “It is difficult to read cases where kids aged 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of covid vaccines,” he wrote. 

According to the memo, the FDA would not be granting market authorization to vaccines in pregnant women “based on unproven surrogate endpoints.” 

Prasad said that he was open to “vigorous discussions and debate” and urged staffers to keep discussions private. Those who disagreed should submit their resignations, he added. 

The latest developments at the FDA follow Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to end COVID-19 vaccine mandates and limit access to remaining doses. 

Under new orders, people seeking the vaccine must first consult with their doctors rather than booking directly with pharmacies. 

Announcing the orders, Kennedy wrote on X: “The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded.” 

“The American people demanded science, safety, and common sense. This framework delivers all three,” he added. 

Left Slams Hegseth’s Narco-Terrorist Strikes but Ignores Obama’s Drone Deaths

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Left Slams Hegseth’s Narco-Terrorist Strikes but Ignores Obama’s Drone Deaths

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The far left has piled on War Secretary Pete Hegseth after the leftist Washington Post questioned the legality of the air strikes he authorized against drug traffickers tied to a foreign terrorist group. 

Some of the criticism went as far as claiming Hegseth could be prosecuted once President Donald Trump’s term ends and that the strikes were war crimes. 

Nowhere in their criticism do they mention that the Obama administration carried out repeated air strikes of its own. Worse, many of those strikes killed hundreds of civilians. 

Hegseth’s supporters noted that former President Barack Obama oversaw more than 500 drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. He killed 3,797 people, including between 380 and 800 civilians, according to different estimates.

At least four American citizens died in the Obama-ordered strikes as well.

Meanwhile, the smears against Hegseth began Friday after the Post reported that the Department of War killed two narco-terrorists who appeared to have survived an earlier strike. 

According to the leftist newspaper, the follow-up strike was carried out in line with Hegseth’s order to “kill them all.” The terrorists were part of the Tren de Aragua gang, which Trump designated as a terrorist organization on Jan. 20, 2026.

The report relied on anonymous sources purportedly with knowledge of the Sept. 2 strike, which Trump himself posted on Truth Social.

The Post cited critics to claim that the operation could amount to “murder” because there is no “legitimate war” between the U.S. and Latin American drug traffickers.

Hegseth quickly dismissed the Post’s narrative, writing on X that the ongoing strikes are targeting drug-filled boats, in accordance with Trump’s armed conflicts with Foreign Designated Terrorist Organizations. 

“The Biden administration preferred the kid gloves approach, allowing millions of people — including dangerous cartels and unvetted Afghans — to flood our communities with drugs and violence,” Hegseth wrote. “The Trump administration has sealed the border and gone on offense against narco-terrorists. Biden coddled terrorists, we kill them.” 

In a separate post, Hegseth added, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” 

Rubio Says US-Ukraine Talks on Russia War were Productive but Much Work Remains in Search of a Deal

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Rubio Says US-Ukraine Talks on Russia War were Productive but Much Work Remains in Search of a Deal

(Headline USA) U.S. and Ukrainian officials completed roughly four hours of talks Sunday aimed at finding an endgame to the war between Russia and Ukraine, just days before a U.S. envoy is due in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters afterward that the session with the Ukrainian team in Florida was productive but work remains in the search for a peace deal.

“It’s not just about the terms that ends fighting,” Rubio said. “It’s about also the terms that set up Ukraine for long-term prosperity. … I think we built on that today, but there’s more work to be done.”

President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is scheduled to meet with Putin in Moscow in the next few days.

Rubio, Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, represented the American side in the high-level talks. 

Diplomats have focused on revisions to a proposed U.S.-authored plan that was developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow. As the meeting began Sunday, Rubio focused on reassuring Ukraine.

“The end goal is, obviously, not just the end of the war,” Rubio said. “But it’s also about securing an end to the war that leaves Ukraine sovereign and independent and with an opportunity at real prosperity.”

“This is not just about peace deals,” the top American diplomat said as the teams sat down at the Shell Bay Club, a golf and racket club developed by Witkoff in Hallandale Beach.

Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s security council, responded to Rubio by expressing his country’s appreciation for U.S. efforts, a message geared toward Trump, who has at times claimed that Ukraine has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. assistance during the war.

“U.S. is hearing us,” Umerov said. “U.S. is supporting us. U.S. is working beside us.”

Umerov, who appeared with Rubio to deliver a brief statement to reporters after the talks, underscored Ukraine’s gratitude for U.S. support during nearly four-year war. 

“Our objective is a prosperous, strong Ukraine,” Umerov said. “We discussed all the important matters that are important for Ukraine, for Ukrainian people, and the U.S. was super supportive.”

Rubio said the talks were comprehensive and went beyond finding agreement on ending the fighting. Trump has repeatedly said that if Ukraine builds deeper commercial ties to the United States it can help deter Russian aggression in the future.

To that end, the U.S. and Ukraine earlier this year signed an agreement granting American access to Ukraine’s vast mineral resources.

Among measures included in Trump’s draft peace proposal is the creation of a Ukraine Development Fund to invest in fast-growing industries, including technology, data centers and artificial intelligence. The proposal also calls for Washington to cooperate with Kyiv to jointly rebuild, develop, modernize and operate Ukraine’s natural gas infrastructure, including pipelines and storage facilities. Russia has repeatedly bombarded Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during the war.

“We also want to help Ukraine be safe forever, so never again will they face another invasion. And equally importantly, we want them to enter an age of true prosperity,” Rubio said. “We want the Ukrainian people to emerge from this war not just to rebuild their country, but to build it back in a way that will be stronger and more prosperous than it’s ever been.”

Umerov has been involved in the talks. But until now, Ukraine’s head negotiator had been Andrii Yermak, the powerful chief of staff of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On Friday, Zelenskyy announced the resignation of Yermak, after his home was searched by anti-corruption investigators.

Zelenskyy’s government has been roiled by fallout from a scandal over $100 million embezzled from the energy sector through kickbacks paid by contractors, causing newfound domestic pressures for Zelenskyy.

It was only a week ago that Rubio had met with Yermak in Geneva, with each side saying the talks had been positive in putting together a revised peace plan.

Among the other members of the Ukrainian delegation were Andrii Hnatov, the head of Ukraine’s armed forces, and presidential adviser Oleksandr Bevz.

The plan, which Trump has since played down as a “concept” or a “map” to be “fine-tuned,” would have imposed limits on the size of Ukraine’s military, blocked the country from joining NATO and required Ukraine to hold elections in 100 days. Negotiators have indicated the framework has changed, but it’s not clear how its provisions have been altered.

It had initially envisioned Ukraine ceding the entire eastern region of the Donbas to Russia — a sticking point for Kyiv.

Trump said on Tuesday that he would send Witkoff and perhaps Kushner to Moscow this week to meet with Putin about the plan. 

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in comments published Sunday on Russian state television, said Putin would see Witkoff before Thursday, when Putin departs for India.

Zelenskyy wrote on X that the Ukrainian delegation would “swiftly and substantively work out the steps needed to end the war.”

In his nightly address on Saturday, Zelenskyy said the American side was “demonstrating a constructive approach.”

“In the coming days it is feasible to flesh out the steps to determine how to bring the war to a dignified end,” he said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

 

US Halts All Asylum Decisions After Shooting of National Guard Members

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US Halts All Asylum Decisions After Shooting of National Guard Members

(Headline USA) The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports, seizing on the National Guard shooting in the nation’s capital to intensify efforts to rein in legal immigration.

The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting near the White House that killed Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and critically wounded Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, both of the West Virginia National Guard, is facing charges including first-degree murder. Investigators are seeking to find a motive for the attack.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a 29-year-old Afghan national who had been living in Bellingham, Washington, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Seattle. He worked with the CIA during the Afghanistan War. He applied for asylum during the Biden administration and was granted it this year under President Donald Trump, according to a group that assists with resettlement of Afghans who helped U.S. forces in their country.

The Republican administration is promising to review Afghans and other legal migrants already in the country.

The two service members were deployed as part of Trump’s crime-fighting mission in the District of Columbia. Trump has sent or tried to deploy National Guard members to other cities to assist with his mass deportation efforts but has faced court challenges.

The office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., said the charges against Lakanwal also include two counts of assault with intent to kill while armed. There were “many changes to come,” she told Fox News.

Trump said the shooting was a “terrorist attack” and he criticized the Biden administration for enabling entry to the U.S. by Afghans who had worked with American forces.

The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, said in a post on the social platform X that asylum decisions will be paused “until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible.”

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his department has paused “visa issuance for ALL individuals traveling on Afghan passports.”

Lakanwal lived in Bellingham with his wife and five children, former landlord Kristina Widman said.

Neighbor Mohammad Sherzad said Lakanwal was polite and quiet and spoke little English. Sherzad said he attended the same mosque as Lakanwal and heard from other members that he was struggling to find work. He said Lakanwal “disappeared” about two weeks ago.

The mosque condemned the shootings. “The Islamic Society of 

Whatcom County is deeply saddened and shaken by the heinous attack in Washington, D.C. Our hearts go out to the victims, their families, and all those impacted. We condemn this act unequivocally,” the mosque said in a statement Saturday afternoon.

The statement went on to say that the mosque is cooperating with the FBI, but that members didn’t know the suspect very well, saying he was “not an integrated part of our community. Like any house of worship, our doors were open to those who wished to pray alongside us,” the statement said, adding that the shootings “do not represent our faith,” and that “no community should be judged by the conduct of a single person.”

Lakanwal worked briefly this summer as an independent contractor for Amazon Flex, which lets people use their own cars to deliver packages, according to a company spokesperson.

Investigators were executing warrants in Washington state and other parts of the country.

Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 through Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden administration program that resettled Afghans after the U.S. withdrawal, officials said. Lakanwal applied for asylum during that administration, but his asylum was approved this year under the Trump administration, #AfghanEvac said in a statement.

Lakanwal served in a CIA-backed Afghan Army unit, known as one of the special Zero Units, in the southern province of Kandahar, according to a resident of the eastern province of Khost who identified himself as Lakanwal’s cousin and spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The man said Lakanwal started out working for the unit as a security guard in 2012 and was later promoted to become a team leader and a GPS specialist.

Beckstrom enlisted in 2023 after graduating high school and served with distinction as a military police officer with the 863rd Military Police Company, the West Virginia National Guard said.

“She exemplified leadership, dedication, and professionalism,” the guard said in a statement, adding that Beckstrom volunteered for the deployment in Washington.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

 

US and Ukrainian Negotiators Meet as Trump Seeks to Broker an End to the War

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US and Ukrainian Negotiators Meet as Trump Seeks to Broker an End to the War

(Headline USA) Top Trump administration officials are meeting Ukrainian negotiators in Florida on Sunday, pushing to broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine and setting the stage for key talks planned this week in Moscow with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, were expected to hold talks with a Ukrainian delegation to further hash out the details of a proposed peace framework. The negotiations come at a sensitive moment for Ukraine as it continues to push back against Russian forces that invaded in 2022.

On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who up until that point had been the country’s lead negotiator in talks with the U.S.

The announcement came after Yermak’s home was searched by anti-corruption investigators. Zelenskyy’s government has been roiled by fallout from a scandal over $100 million embezzled from the energy sector through kickbacks paid by contractors, causing newfound domestic pressures for Zelenskyy.

It was only a week ago that Rubio had met with Yermak in Geneva, with each side saying the talks had been positive in putting together a revised peace plan.

Now, the Ukrainian delegation includes Andrii Hnatov, the head of Ukraine’s armed forces; Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s foreign minister; and Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s security council, Zelenskyy has said.

Diplomats have been focused on revisions to Trump’s proposed 28-point plan developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow. That plan was criticized as being too weighted toward Russian demands. It had initially envisioned Ukraine ceding the entire eastern region of the Donbas to Russia — a sticking point for Kyiv.

The plan would have imposed limits on the size of Ukraine’s military, blocked the country from joining NATO and required Ukraine to hold elections in 100 days. Negotiators have indicated the framework has changed, but it’s not clear how its provisions have been altered.

Trump said on Tuesday that he would send Witkoff and perhaps Kushner to Moscow this week to meet with Putin about the plan. Both Witkoff and Kushner, like Trump, hail from the world of real estate that values dealmaking over the conventions of diplomacy. The pair also were behind a 20-point proposal that led to a ceasefire in Gaza.

Zelenskyy wrote on X that the Ukrainian delegation would “swiftly and substantively work out the steps needed to end the war.”

In his nightly address on Saturday, Zelenskyy said the American side was “demonstrating a constructive approach.”

“In the coming days it is feasible to flesh out the steps to determine how to bring the war to a dignified end,” he said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

An Immigration Crackdown is Coming to Southeast Louisiana

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An Immigration Crackdown is Coming to Southeast Louisiana

(Headline USA)  Around 250 federal border agents are expected to launch a monthslong immigration crackdown on Monday in southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi dubbed “Swamp Sweep.”

The deployment, which aims to arrest 5,000 people, is centered in liberal New Orleans and is the latest federal immigration enforcement operation to target a Democratic-run city as President Donald Trump’s administration pursues its mass deportation agenda.

Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, who has led aggressive operations in Chicago, Los Angeles and Charlotte, North Carolina, is expected to helm the campaign.

Bovino has become the Trump administration’s go-to operative for leading large-scale, high-profile immigration enforcement campaigns. During his operation in Chicago, federal agents rappelled from a helicopter into a residential apartment complex and fired pepper balls and tear gas at protesters.

While federal agents arrested more than 600 immigrants during a surge in Chicago in recent months, just a handful had criminal records representing a “high public safety risk,” according to federal government data.

​​Bovino has doubled down on the efficacy of his agency’s operations.

“We’re finding and arresting illegal aliens, making these communities safer for the Americans who live there,” he said in a post on X.

The Department of Justice has accused New Orleans of undermining federal immigration enforcement and included it on a list of 18 so-called sanctuary cities. The city’s jail, which has been under longstanding oversight from a federal judge, does not cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under most circumstances, and its police department views immigration enforcement as a civil matter outside its jurisdiction.

However, Louisiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature has passed laws to compel New Orleans agencies to align with the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration stance.

One such law makes it a crime to “knowingly” do something intended to “hinder, delay, prevent, or otherwise interfere with or thwart” federal immigration enforcement efforts. Anyone who violates the law could face fines and up to a year of jail time.

Additionally, lawmakers expanded the crime of malfeasance in office, which is punishable by up to 10 years in jail, for government officials who refuse to comply with requests from agencies like ICE. It also prohibits police and judges from releasing from their custody anyone who “illegally entered or unlawfully remained” in the U.S. without providing advance notice to ICE.

In the days leading up to Border Patrol’s planned operations, businesses have posted signs barring federal agents from entry and grassroots advocacy groups have offered rights-related trainings and workshops on documenting the planned crackdown.

While New Orleans is famous for its blend of cultures, only around 6.7% of its population of nearly 400,000 is foreign-born, though that rises to almost 10% in neighboring metro areas. That’s still well below the national average of 14.3%, according to U.S. census data.

The city’s Hispanic population ballooned during rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and now makes up around 14% of the population, according to census data compiled by New Orleans-based Data Center.

The Pew Research Center estimates 110,000 immigrants who lack permanent legal status were living in Louisiana as of 2023, comprising approximately 2.4% of the state’s population. Most of them are from Honduras.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Venezuela Blasts Trump’s Airspace Closure as Imperial Overreach

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Venezuela Blasts Trump’s Airspace Closure as Imperial Overreach

(Headline USA) ​​  President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. His government accused Trump of making a ”colonial threat” and seeking to undermine the South American country’s sovereignty.

The White House did not respond to questions about what Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, and it was unclear whether he was announcing a new policy or simply reinforcing the messaging around his campaign against Maduro, which has involved multiple strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean on small boats accused of ferrying drugs as well as a buildup of naval forces in the region. More than 80 people have been killed in such strikes since early September.

The Republican president addressed his call for an aerial blockade to “Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers,” rather than to Maduro.

Venezuela’s government said it “forcefully rejects” Trump’s claim about closing the airspace and that it was a “colonial threat” intended to undermine the country’s “territorial integrity, aeronautical security and full sovereignty.”

The Foreign Ministry said “such declarations constitute a hostile, unilateral and arbitrary act.”

The statement also said that U.S. immigration authorities had unilaterally suspended biweekly deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants. Following negotiations between the two governments, more than 13,000 Venezuelans have been deported to Venezuela this year on dozens of chartered flights, the latest of which arrived late Friday in Caracas, the capital, according to flight-tracking data.

International airlines last week began to cancel flights to Venezuela after the Federal Aviation Administration told pilots to be cautious flying around the country because of heightened military activity.

The FAA’s jurisdiction is generally limited to the United States and its territories. The agency does routinely warn pilots about the dangers of flying over areas with ongoing conflicts or military activity around the globe, as it did earlier this month with Venezuela. The FAA works with other countries and the International Civil Aviation Organization on international issues. The FAA and ICAO did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.

Trump’s administration has sought to ratchet up pressure on Maduro. The U.S. government does not view Maduro as the legitimate leader of the oil-rich but increasingly impoverished South American nation and he faces charges of narcoterrorism in the U.S.

U.S. forces have conducted bomber flights near Venezuela and the USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s most advanced aircraft carrier, was sent to the area. The Ford rounds off the largest buildup of U.S. firepower in the region in generations. With its arrival, the “Operation Southern Spear” mission includes nearly a dozen Navy ships and about 12,000 sailors and Marines.

Trump’s team has weighed both military and nonmilitary options with Venezuela, including covert action by the CIA.

Trump has publicly floated the idea of talking to Maduro. The New York Times reported Friday that Trump and Maduro had spoken. The White House declined to answer questions about the conversation.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

Attack Foiled in Ft. Worth Day Before National Guard Troops Shot in WDC

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Attack Foiled in Ft. Worth Day Before National Guard Troops Shot in WDC

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Another Afghan-related terrorist attack was foiled one day before two National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, D.C., federal authorities said Saturday.

The alleged perpetrators were released into the country through a federal program rife with failures, prompting for calls for others in the program to be deported, citing national security concerns.

On Wednesday, two National Guardsmen were shot by an Afghan national released into the country through the “Operation Allies Welcome” program created by the Biden administration after its withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died from her injuries; Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition. Both are from West Virginia.

Authorities identified their shooter as Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, who was reportedly part of a CIA “Zero Unit” operating in Afghanistan during the U.S. war against the Taliban, according to multiple news reports. After Beckstrom’s death, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro upgraded the charges against Lakanwal to first degree murder. Initial charges included three counts each for assault with intent to kill while armed and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.

On Tuesday, another Afghan national released into the country through Operation Allies Welcome was arrested on charges of threatening to blow up a building in Fort Worth, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Saturday.

“Mohammad Dawood Alokozay posted a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area,” DHS said. He was arrested by Texas Department of Public Safety investigators and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force members and charged with making terroristic threats. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have lodged a detainer request to take him into custody.

The Afghan men were among more than 77,000 who were released into the country who weren’t properly vetted, according to an Inspector General report. It found that the Biden administration “admitted or paroled evacuees who were not fully vetted into the United States.” It didn’t have their “name, date of birth, identification number, and travel document data, was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing,” the OIG found.

The audit also uncovered that DHS didn’t have a list of Afghan evacuees “who were unable to provide sufficient identification documents,” or have “a contingency plan to support similar emergency situations.” As a result, it “may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”

The program was rife with problems, the audit found, including Afghan men who allegedly assaulted a female Fort Bliss, Texas, soldier; and others housed at Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy charged with engaging in sexual acts with a minor and assault. Republican members of Congress demanded answers about the vetting process and about thousands of Afghans sent to live on military bases and in local communities nationwide, The Center Square reported.

They didn’t receive answers as the Biden administration granted Afghan nationals Temporary Protective Status. The Trump administration terminated Afghan TPS in May, effective in July, according to DHS.

In 2024, an Afghan national released through the program was arrested in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for conspiring to conduct an Election Day terrorist attack on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, The Center Square reported.

In June, he pleaded guilty to two terrorism-related offenses: conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS, and receiving, attempting to receive, and conspiring to receive firearms and ammunition in furtherance of a federal crime of terrorism.

He faces up to 35 years in prison; his coconspirator faces up to 15 years. Once their terms are completed, they will be deported and barred from reentry to the U.S., the Department of Justice said.

“When tens of thousands of insufficiently vetted individuals are let into the interior, this is the inevitable result,” members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee said last fall after the Election Day terrorist plot was foiled. Republican members repeatedly warned of terror threats stemming from Biden-Harris administration policies, The Center Square reported.

Somali Ring Ran COVID Relief Fraud in Minnesota on Tim Walz’s Watch

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Somali Ring Ran COVID Relief Fraud in Minnesota on Tim Walz’s Watch

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is facing renewed scrutiny after his administration turned a blind eye to one of the largest COVID-19 relief fraud schemes over concerns it would anger a subset of Somali Americans. 

The criticism has long simmered but intensified on Saturday on social media when even the leftist New York Times explored how the scheme went largely undetected under Walz’s watch. 

The outlet reported that Democratic officials in the state failed to properly exercise oversight to avoid alienating Somalis, a key Democratic voting bloc that federal prosecutors say was largely responsible for the scheme. 

The political concern cost taxpayers $1 billion in stolen taxpayer money, more than the amount that Minnesota spends annually on its Department of Corrections, according to the Times. 

The scheme involved a non-profit called Feeding Our Future, which partnered with dozens of local businesses. The groups submitted invoices to state agencies, claiming to have provided meals to children and homeless people during the pandemic  

In reality, federal prosecutors said the meals never existed and that the funds were spent on luxury cars, homes and even foreign real estate. 

The program’s original budget of $2.6 million in 2020 quickly spiked to more than $104 million in 2024, as reported by the Times, illustrating how easy it was for companies to receive funds from the government. 

A report from Minnesota’s nonpartisan Office of Legislative Auditor found that the Walz administration ignored red flags over fears that denying reimbursement to minority-owned businesses could park media accusations of racism. 

Kayseh Magan, a Somali American who worked at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office,  told the Times that administration officials were hesitant to scrutinize invoices due to potential backlash from the Somali community. 

“There is a perception that forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash among the Somali community, which is a core voting bloc” for Democrats, Magan said. 

Walz, who is running for a third term as governor, faces mounting scrutiny over his administration’s deliberate disregard of warning signs about the fraud.

Katie Miller Shreds CNN Host Over Nick Fuentes Hypocrisy

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Katie Miller Shreds CNN Host Over Nick Fuentes Hypocrisy

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Podcast host Katie Miller turned a CNN panel on its head after confronting host Abby Phillip over what she called a hypocritical attack on Tucker Carlson for interviewing Nick Fuentes. 

Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, appeared on CNN Friday to discuss a range of issues. The exchange grew heated when Phillip complained that Vice President JD Vance did not denounce Carlson for hosting Fuentes, who is known for his hateful and controversial comments online. 

Miller immediately pointed out Phillip’s double standard, noting that both Phillip and CNN repeatedly host guests who spew hateful rhetoric, including some who have attacked her husband as a neo-Nazi. 

Miller argued the issue was one of free speech and media bias. 

“People on your show all the time who call my husband and myself a Nazi. So how is that any different from Tucker Carlson going on Nick Fuentes?” Miller asked. 

Phillip replied that Nick Fuentes is “actually” a Hitler admirer. 

However, Miller fired back, “You had Jennifer Welch on your show very often and you’ve never pushed back as she called my husband a white nationalist. That is no different than Nick Fuentes going on Tucker Carlson’s show. It’s not, and you should admit it.” 

Phillip tried to pivot, claiming that the two examples were not comparable. Miller countered that both Fuentes and left-wing personalities have pushed hateful rhetoric, and both have been given platforms without pushback. 

“Nick Fuentes can espouse an opinion on Tucker Carlson’s show, and he didn’t push back. The same way you didn’t push back when someone called someone in my family a Nazi,” Miller said. 

The back-and-forth, now viral on X, continued as Phillip repeatedly attempted to interrupt Miller’s remarks.

The clash comes as the elitist media and the Democratic Party try to frame Carlson’s interview with Fuentes as a broader reflection on the Republican Party and the Trump administration. 

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