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President Donald Trump unleashed an attack on his own chairman of the Federal Reserve on Monday, calling Jerome Powell "a major loser" and "Mr. Too Late."
His verbal assault on Truth Social focused on the possibility of cuts in interest rates.
"'Preemptive Cuts' in Interest Rates are being called for by many," Trump began.
"With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden's egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other 'things' trending down, there is virtually No Inflation.
"With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW.
"Europe has already 'lowered' seven times. Powell has always been 'To Late,' except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?" Trump concluded.
With a history in investment banking, Powell became a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors after being nominated to the post by Barack Obama in 2012.
During his first term, President Trump elevated Powell to chairman of the Fed in 2018, succeeding Janet Yellen, and Powell was renominated to the position by Joe Biden.
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A Democrat judge in New Mexico has resigned, fleeing his office, after a suspect, allegedly a member of the violent Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela, was found living at his home.
A report from Fox News explains, "Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano's resignation letter is dated March 3, but a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) told Fox News Digital it was not received by the Supreme Court and 3rd Judicial District Court until March 31."
The report explained Homeland Security Investigations in Las Cruces started looking into Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, a native of Venezuela, described as an illegal alien and a suspected member of a criminal gang."
The allegations included that he was living with other gang members and "in possession of firearms."
Then, two search warrants were executed at a home that was identified as owned by Cano's wife, Nancy Cano.
"Ortega-Lopez and his roommates were taken into custody, and agents seized four firearms from April Cano's residence.' April Cano is the daughter of Nancy and Joel, court documents state," according to the report.
Further, Ortega-Lopez had posed on social media with various weapons, the report said.
The suspect admitted he entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico in 2023, and was living in an El Paso apartment with others when he met Nancy Cano "to install a glass door for her," the report said.
When he was later evicted from the apartment, the report said, Nancy Cano offered a place for him to live in the back of the home she shared with husband Joel Cano, the report said.
Property records show the home is owned by Nancy and Jose Cano, "who goes by Joel."
Officials said the state Supreme Court has now scheduled a hearing regarding Cano.
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A new report in the Federalist is warning that the Chinese Communist Party has embarked on a new campaign with the goal of attacking, even eliminating, Christianity.
The new rules, to become effective May 1, are needed to fight "extremism," the party charges, and will require foreign missionaries to get government approval for lectures, sermons and group activities.
"Additionally, the regulation includes a comprehensive set of restrictions that prohibit foreign missionaries from engaging in activities such as 'Recruiting religious believers among Chinese citizens and appointing religious clergy,' 'Organizing and carrying out religious education and training,' 'accepting religious donations from Chinese organizations and citizens,' and producing, distributing, and selling religious materials."
Violators, the CCP charges, are criminals.
A report by Breitbart charges the agenda is "to formally end Christian missionary activity."
And persecution.org explains the reason: Fear of churches.
"The CCP has long viewed independent religious activity with suspicion, arguing that religious loyalty is at odds with the ultimate loyalty demanded by the Communist Party. The government labels independent religious activity as cultish and extremist, regardless of its theological roots, and demands that all Christian religious activity take place within the confines of state-run churches."
The Federalist report explained, "The new regulation is the latest example of the CCP's deep-seated animosity toward all religions, especially Christianity. Between the 1980s and early 2000s, China's Christian population surged significantly, with estimates in 2018 indicating it may range from 100 to 200 million — outnumbering the nearly 100 million members of the CCP itself.
"The CCP, an atheist organization, is alarmed by the rapid growth of Christians. One of the CCP's worst fears is that the devotion to God could erode loyalty to the party and thus threaten its very legitimacy. As a result, the CCP sees Christianity as an existential threat."
China's chief, the report said, has worked to force all faiths and churches to "align" with the CCP agenda, to persecute believers who fail to follow his orders, and use laws the attack religion.
The report explained, "A well-known instance of the sinicization of Christianity is the CCP's insistence on selecting Catholic bishops. This practice clearly violates the Catholic Church's principle that only the pope has the authority to appoint bishops. Other examples of sinicization include authorities' instruction that both Catholic and Protestant congregations must prioritize patriotism over religion. In some impoverished areas, local officials compelled villagers to replace posters of Jesus with portraits of Xi Jinping and Chairman Mao, despite Mao in particular being responsible for the worst mass murders in human history."
The report noted the CCP even has made plans to "retranslate and annotate the Bible to align with socialism and establish a correct understanding of the text."
Primary targets of the CCP now are "house churches," those that do not seek approval of the government to operate.
"The website of China Aid, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting for religious freedom, is filled with stories of religious persecution under the Communist regime," the report said. "For instance, local police in Suizhou City, Hubei Province, arrested 28 Christians from a house church on charges of 'using a cult organization to undermine the implementation of the law.'"
The 2025 report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, in fact, places China among the worst violators of religious freedom globally.
China previously had banned anyone under 18 from entering a religious site or getting religious education, claiming the goal is to establish "a correct worldview."
"This draconian enforcement has led to the closure of Sunday schools and youth summer camps, as well as legal threats directed at Sunday school teachers, church leaders, and parents," the report said.
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In the much-heralded nuclear negotiations between Iran and the U.S., the Omani foreign minister has told the world the Islamic Republic has seemingly been granted approval to continue enriching uranium up to 3.67%. In addition, the New York Times reports that Iran has offered to allow the United States and certain other countries to monitor its enrichment activities at nuclear facilities.
However, the fundamental question remains: Even if such a deal is reached and Iran agrees to strict and permanent oversight, can this truly be considered a successful negotiation?
Claiming that enrichment serves "peaceful purposes" is difficult to believe when billions of dollars have been spent by Iran at the expense of a population plunged into poverty. No country, especially one as oil-rich as Iran, invests such enormous sums for a purely civilian nuclear energy program.
Under the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran was supposed to limit enrichment to no more than 3.67%. In practice, however, the regime broke its promise and advanced enrichment to 60%, turning its nuclear progress into a tool for blackmailing the international community.
Furthermore, $150 billion in frozen assets were released to Iran, yet instead of improving the lives of ordinary Iranians, poverty worsened. By 2017, a nationwide uprising rooted in economic despair broke out.
Meanwhile, the regime redirected the newly available funds to strengthen its proxy forces across the region, turning the Middle East into a battleground of militias and deadly conflict – with Iran playing a central role. One of the bitterest consequences of this policy was the Gaza war, which left tens of thousands dead or wounded, and a whole region destabilized.
Iran's entry into negotiations today should therefore be seen not as a sign of reform or transformation, but as an expression of total weakness – at least for the time being.
The Islamic Republic deeply fears military confrontation with the United States, especially targeted attacks on its nuclear facilities. According to sources within Tehran, in a high-level meeting of IRGC commanders and senior officials, the regime's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was reportedly advised that any military conflict could break the regime's foundation and trigger a massive popular uprising.
Tellingly, in the most recent presidential election, only about 8% of eligible voters – most under pressure and intimidation – participated. Under such conditions, with skyrocketing inflation, 80% of the population below the poverty line and other mega-crises, another uprising could easily bring the regime to its knees.
Indeed, thousands of organized resistance units advancing objectives in the plan for a democratic Iran – put forward by the main opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI – are now active across the country, capable of turning any spark of protest into a nationwide uprising.
Given this, it is not surprising that the regime would temporarily retreat from enrichment and bomb development to avoid imminent collapse. Yet, just as in 2015, it is preserving all the infrastructure needed to resume nuclear weapon development – should political circumstances change, for instance with a different U.S. administration, or other favorable international shifts.
The need to avoid repeating past mistakes has never been more urgent.
In 2015, as now, the Islamic Republic insisted nuclear negotiations focus solely on the nuclear issue. Western powers accepted this framework and the result was a deal that appeared to limit Iran's nuclear program, but in reality gave the nation the resources to intensify its destabilizing regional activities.
The "bitter fruit" of that agreement was a series of proxy wars – including the devastating Gaza conflict with thousands of casualties.
This is precisely the regime's strategy: to restrict negotiations to the nuclear file so that its other dangerous pursuits – terror sponsorship, proxy warfare and regional aggression – remain unchecked.
The fatal mistake of the 2015 negotiators was to assume that the nuclear threat was the only danger, while ignoring the even more deadly consequences of Iran's regional militarism and expansionism.
Has the world learned anything from the war in Gaza, the hijacking of Lebanon's independence, its transformation into a failed state, or the destabilization of international waterways?
The regime's strategy for survival
The Islamic Republic – an archaic construct rooted in medieval religious dogma – was thrust upon the 21st century through a historical accident. It cannot survive without continually fomenting external warfare and internal repression.
It defines its survival in terms of regional expansion. For over three decades, the regime has implemented a deterrence strategy – or more frankly, a strategy of warmongering – built on three pillars:
These three pillars have functioned as an interconnected system, operating within a framework of hatred and hostility, fueled by slogans like "Death to America" and "Death to Israel." Their purpose has been to continually generate conflict and confrontation.
Through its proxy forces, the regime has expanded its regional presence, creating crises and bloodshed across the Middle East – effectively diverting global attention from its unparalleled repression at home.
Therefore, any negotiations aimed at achieving peace in the region must address the entire ideological and operational structure of this regime. A complete and verifiable dismantling of Iran's malevolent regional influence must be firmly guaranteed.
Otherwise, a few years from now, the world will witness yet another cycle of bloodshed in a different corner of the Middle East, and once again – thanks to the radical regime in Tehran – it will be another nation that pays the price.
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WASHINGTON — They came before dawn.
Not with facts. Not with a warrant for justice. But with battering rams, AR-15s, flash grenades, and the chilling certainty of a government gone rogue.
Zachary Rehl, a Marine Corps veteran and former leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys chapter, was yanked from his home at gunpoint by an army of FBI agents as if he were a terrorist.
His wife, six months pregnant, watched helplessly as federal agents dragged away the man she loved.
His crime? Supporting President Donald Trump and walking peacefully through the U.S. Capitol building for 20 minutes on Jan. 6, 2021, a misdemeanor by every legal standard, but under a weaponized, Biden-era DOJ, that stroll became a "seditious conspiracy."
Rehl carried no weapon. He committed no violence. Yet, he was branded an enemy of the state, stripped of his honor, his military benefits were revoked, and he practically starved to death while locked in solitary confinement for nearly three years and denied bail.
His daughter was born while he rotted in a concrete box.
And now, finally free, thanks to a commutation from President Donald Trump, Rehl is exposing the truth in a battle to clear his name that could span years: The FBI didn't just bend the law, he says. They broke it, over and over again.
And laughed while doing it.
The evidence suggests it wasn't Rehl plotting a conspiracy – it was the FBI.
Explosive court filings containing internal FBI communications expose what appears to be a calculated, malicious campaign by activist agents within the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center to destroy Zach Rehl's life, secure convictions at any cost, and shatter his family in the process.
The documents comprise text messages between FBI agents that were accidentally disclosed to defense attorneys by federal prosecutors during the discovery phase of the 2023 seditious conspiracy trial of Rehl and co-defendants Ethan Nordean, Dominic Pezzola, Joe Biggs, and Enrique Tarrio.
According to logs among the agents exhibited in two publicly accessible motions filed by the defense on behalf of Proud Boy leader Ethan Nordean – HERE and HERE – FBI agents are seen discussing spying on Rehl's attorney-client meetings and crafting strategies to secure his conviction.
And bragging about it.
During the 2023 trial, journalist Julie Kelly reported on the accidental "'spill' of FBI secrets" as well as how Judge Timothy Kelly sided with the prosecution in whitewashing the incriminating text messages.
Indeed, she reported, "[Judge] Kelly, outside the eyes and ears of the jury, held a hearing with both sides on March 9 to determine how to proceed after the defense team uncovered messages indicating FBI agents doctored internal reports, destroyed evidence and tipped off prosecutors about defense strategy on the government's highest-profile January 6 case."
Today, in his efforts to obtain full justice and hopefully convince President Trump to turn his presidential commutation into a full pardon as so many other Jan. 6 prisoners received, Rehl is intent on publicizing how unfairly and outrageously he was treated by the Biden-era federal prosecutors and judges.
Some of the text messages exchanged between FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller and twang2@fbi.sgov.gov show they were fearful that Rehl would take his case to trial and expose the government misconduct:
MILLER: Found an email thread with REHL and his attorney, MOSELEY. The attorney raised some interesting points.
WANG: Hopefully all related to him pleaing out.
MILLER: Nope. He mentioned how we (GOV) did things improperly.
WANG: Oy.
MILLER: I need to find other emails, but his one email def indicates that they want to go to trial. But don't freak out, Jason and Luke yet or [yourself].
WANG: I'm not freaked out.
Worse, while Rehl was incarcerated, the agents targeted Rehl's pregnant wife, Amanda, with what appeared to be a malicious scheme to break the family.
Exhibits of their logs in the publicly available court filings show many messages exchanged between agents displaying clear animosity toward the Proud Boy defendant and glee at his misfortune, including advancing a false narrative of infidelity on the part of Rehl's wife with her husband's friend "Aaron."
"They better give you those calls! I want the ones from after the 8th, when we hit Aaron's house! They are going to be SOOOOO good!" Miller wrote to Wang, giddy over the prospects of Rehl's marriage falling apart.
"I know!" Wang replied. "I don't see any emails from Aaron past the 6th, even though there are email as late as yesterday.
"Maybe [Aaron] sent them from Amanda's account. She sleeps over a lot," Miller quipped.
"Bahaha," Wang replied.
The ploy failed – Aaron's girlfriend was the driver – but the agents' glee persisted:
MILLER: Just listened to about 7 min of yelling … Zach to Amanda lol.
WANG: Bahah. Did he find out she's hooking with Aaron?! I'm waiting for this to be a legit thing. And when it is … popcorn!
MILLER: Not yet. Haven't come across that one."
WANG: Dang it
MILLER: Hahaha [I'll] bring beer.
WANG: Yes.
The FBI's vendetta didn't stop at humiliation. Rehl's service to his nation – years in the Marines – meant nothing. The moment "seditious conspiracy" stained his record, the government revoked his benefits and the U.S. Treasury Department demanded $100,000 in repayment, leaving Amanda, a housewife, to fend for herself.
Legal fees bled them dry, thousands a month, while the Treasury Department loomed like a vulture.
The FBI sought to bankrupt the Rehls, a violation of due process, cheering as military benefits were revoked and Amanda faced foreclosure.
"I also want to know if his house got foreclosed," Miller said after laughing at the prospects of Amanda abandoning her marriage.
"Oooh. I wonder," Wang replied. "I hope so."
"I mean, if we really want to work all the PB [Proud Boy] members, he's the one to go after especially his wife's PayPal and her Venmo acct," Miller continued, pushing to choke off any lifeline from supporters.
"I agree with you!!!" Wang replied.
Prosecutors, too, pounced – court records show they attempted to fine over 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants with restitution amounting to the total they would garner in donations to their legal funds, as if asking for help were a crime. In many instances, federal judges ordered defendants to pay the government money they raised for their legal defense.
This wasn't law enforcement, but rather, a crusade to punish dissent, executed with taxpayer dollars.
The logs also hint at evidence tampering, a federal crime.
In a text message to dgsilk@fbi.sgov.gov, Miller instructed the other agent to remove evidence that would show she was working undercover as a confidential human source, or CHS.
"You need to go into that CHS report you just put and edit out that I was present," she wrote.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department has offered no public proof of the Proud Boys organization's alleged plot, yet denies Rehl's motion to dismiss, alongside co-defendants Biggs and Pezzola.
Some legal experts call the presidential commutations – leaving felony convictions intact – baffling, but the FBI's actions are outright lawless.
Their laughter over Amanda "probably leaving" Rehl – "I'll bring beer," Miller quipped – exposes a culture of cruelty that demands accountability. Congress must investigate. Were these rogue actors or does this reflect systemic rot? How many others faced similar treatment?
The FBI's internal messages came to light during the trial when defense attorney Nicholas Smith, representing Proud Boy co-defendant Ethan Nordean, cross-examined Agent Miller.
Miller testified that she filtered a large Excel spreadsheet of FBI messages, submitting only those she deemed relevant to prosecutors, who then shared them with defense teams as part of routine evidence disclosure during the trial's discovery phase.
However, a "hidden" cell in the spreadsheet contained over 1,000 unfiltered messages from other agents, exposing misconduct.
Defense attorneys included a few pages of the unfiltered messages in motions to dismiss, until Judge Timothy Kelly intervened, ordering defense counsel to destroy them, shrouding the scandal that has left the Rehl family fighting to reclaim their lives after a harrowing four-year nightmare.
As WND reported, prosecutors denied Rehl and his co-defendants Joe Biggs and Dominic Pezzola's recent motion to dismiss the Jan. 6 charges against them. Yet, not a shred of public proof shows Rehl plotting violence or orchestrating a "coup," while mounting evidence suggests the FBI orchestrated his downfall, violating his Fourth Amendment rights and federal law in the process.
Nearly three years in solitary pretrial detention broke Rehl's body, but not his spirit. He told the media the judicial overreach felt like "communist China" – words that earned him terror enhancements from Judge Timothy Kelly, despite his having committed no violent acts.
He and his co-defendants fight on, their motions to dismiss denied, while the FBI's own chats expose the real conspiracy: a calculated plot to destroy lives for "wrongthink."
Rehl's former attorney, Carmen Hernandez, who defended him at trial, calls the FBI's conduct unprecedented and like nothing she has seen throughout her 40 years of practicing law.
"These messages were personal, nasty – hidden glee at someone's misfortune," she told WorldNetDaily. "I've never seen such unprofessional animus from law enforcement, even against mafia or murderers. The judge blocked me from cross-examining Miller – said we were 'showing bias.' It was distasteful, unconstitutional."
Hernandez slams the charges as baseless:
"Rehl, Biggs, Pezzola – veterans who own guns – could've brought firearms to D.C. if they'd planned a coup. They didn't. The evidence was ridiculous."
Was this a rogue cell or FBI policy? How many others suffered?
Hernandez argues the lack of Trump pardons for these prisoners shows "whoever reviewed J6 cases [or the president] didn't grasp the evidence – or didn't want to. Seditious conspiracy sounds serious, but dig in, and it's nonsense."
Still branded a terrorist, convicted of multiple felonies despite President Trump's commutation, Rehl is unable to secure employment as he fights to clear his name and support his family.
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If former Vice President Kamala Harris ever makes up her mind about running for California governor, the Democrat will have some well-known competition on the Republican side.
Steve Hilton, who until recently has been a frequent Fox News contributor, announced Monday he's running for governor of the Golden State.
The author of "Califailure" told Fox News Digital: "A big decision that I've made, which I can now share with you, that I am, in fact, going to be running for governor of California for 2026. I love this state. It's the best place in the world as far as I'm concerned."
"But after 15 years of one-party rule, this state is barely recognizable. And I honestly think that the 2026 election in California is a life-or-death moment because if we continue with this one-party rule by the Democrats, things are just gonna really start to deteriorate very rapidly."
Born in the United Kingdom and a graduate of New College at Oxford, Hilton was senior adviser to former British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was leader of the Conservative Party.
"[California] really reminds me of Britain in the 1970s. The U.K. was called the 'sick man of Europe,'" Hilton explained in a campaign video. "There's no other way of looking at California today than the 'sick man of America.'"
"We have a combination of idiots and ideologues who've been running this state into the ground, ruining what I consider to be the greatest state and the greatest nation on Earth, and it's time for change," Hilton said.
"We have the highest taxes in the country, but also the highest rate of poverty. You have one-third of Californians who can't meet their basic needs. We have the highest housing costs. It's the number one reason people are leaving the state."
"California represented the best of America. I think for many people, when they thought of the American dream, they thought of California and the California Dream," he noted.
Hilton eventually landed his own weekly show on Fox News, "The Next Revolution," which aired Sunday nights from 2017 to 2023.
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Congressman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland has chosen to fight President Donald Trump's national security and closed border campaign by advocating for a state resident who has been in the United States illegally for a number of years, and was subject to deportation.
The illegal, Kilmar Garcia, was actually removed to El Salvador's famed anti-gang prison, and Trump critics have claimed he was not supposed to be sent to that country.
So Van Hollen went to El Salvador and hung around until officials let him have margaritas with the inmate, and came home to make a weekend-long round of talk shows on television.
So now four additional Democrats have made the trip, demanding to meet with Garcia, who El Salvador's president says is not being returned to the U.S.
A report revealed that one of them, Maxine Dexter, says "she's NOT LEAVING without the MS-13 gang member" who also has been suspected of human trafficking and accused of abusing his wife.
Dexter said in a video that promotes her own agenda: "Congresswoman Maxine Dexter here coming to you from El Salvador. I flew here last night with three of my colleagues to demand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be released. He is being held in violation of a Supreme Court order, expressly telling the Trump administration to effectuate and facilitate his coming home."
Actually, while the U.S. Supreme Court can issue orders to the administration, those statements have virtually no weight in El Salvador, which is not under its jurisdiction.
Dexter continued, "This is being ignored. This is not just a threat to all people in the United States who could be illegally abducted detained and transported internationally against their will but it is a fact that our president does not recognize the branches of government and the balance of power. This is what we all have been calling a constitutional crisis."
Social media reacted with: "We should send more Democrats down to El Salvador" and "Let her stay."
Another pointed out Garcia actually is a "citizen of El Salvador and "is currently 'home.'"
"Maxine Dexter's El Salvador stunt is peak Democrat delusion. The Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act (H.R. 1050) explicitly bars MS-13 affiliates from asylum or residency—yet she's fighting to smuggle a deported gang member with domestic abuse allegations back into the U.S.," said another.
While Van Hollen was praised by leftists across America for the stunt he pulled in having taxpayers pay for his politically linked trip to visit Garcia, he also is the target of those requesting he be investigated for violating the Logan Act, which bars those who are not president from engaging in foreign policy actions with other nations.
A report at Fox said the three other Democrats joining Dexter were Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Yassamin Ansari of Arizona.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told Fox News: "We're not gonna spend a penny of taxpayer dollars for liberal Democrats to continue their stunts to try to appease the radical left-wing base when the American people spoke loud and clear on Election Day. They want our southern border secured, and they want criminal illegals deported, and that's exactly what Donald Trump's doing."
Trump's response? "Radical Lunatic Democrats and their Comrades in the Fake News Media are falsely making Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia out to be a very sweet and innocent person, which is a total, blatant, and dangerous LIE. Garcia has been found by two separate Courts to be a member of the violent, killer gang MS-13, was in our Country illegally, and is under a Deportation Order.
He continued, "It is despicable and unAmerican for Liberals and the Mainstream Media to hate our Country so much, and be obsessed with protecting criminals, instead of working to keep our Border, streets, and families safe. Those lying to the American People on behalf of violent criminals have to be held responsible by the Agencies and the Courts. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
The report explained Garcia, 29, was deported to El Salvador "in what it described in court filings as an 'administrative error,' and has since said that it is up to El Salvador whether Abrego Garcia returns to the U.S. Meanwhile, a federal court and the Supreme Court have instructed the Trump administration to coordinate Abrego Garcia's return so that proper deportation hearings can occur."
The report also noted the Department of Justice has revealed domestic violence allegations that Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez, included in a court filing in 2021.
And a 2022 Homeland Security Investigations report charge Garcia was suspected of human trafficking.
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An Easter family dinner turned into a nightmare for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as she was robbed of at least $3,000 at a Washington, D.C., restaurant despite having Secret Service protection.
"The thief got away with Noem's driver's license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash," CNN reported.
Noem confirmed the incident with reporters at Monday's White House Easter Egg Roll, saying the matter is still unresolved.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin also confirmed the incident in an email to DailyMail.com and indicated the robbery occurred while Noem was out celebrating Easter dinner with her family.
"Her entire family was in town, including her children and grandchildren – she was using the withdrawal to treat her family to dinner, activities, and Easter gifts," McLaughlin said.
Cristina Laila at the Gateway Pundit called it "an appalling security breach."
CBS News indicates: "Noem was dining at The Capital Burger, a popular and busy locale near D.C.'s downtown. Her purse was placed against her foot underneath her seat, according to two sources."
A law-enforcement source told CNN the Secret Service reviewed security camera footage at the restaurant and saw an unknown white male wearing a medical mask snatch her bag before leaving the restaurant.
The agency has launched an investigation to trace any use of Noem's financial instruments, the person added.
Earlier Sunday, Noem shared a family photo online, saying: "Happy Easter! Wishing Christians around the country joyful celebrations for the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. He is risen!"
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It's no secret to millions of Christians that Jesus was put to death in Jerusalem, according to the New Testament gospels.
But many often wonder about a cryptic statement at the end of the Bible indicating He was crucified in "Sodom and Egypt," two other locations, neither of which is Jerusalem.
How can this be? Is the Bible somehow being inconsistent with itself?
The answer is not difficult to discern, once we take the flesh out of our ears, says a best-selling author.
"There is a very simple answer to this which reveals Scripture is completely true and consistent," says Joe Kovacs, author of the inspiring book, "Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything."
"We all need to realize the Word of God is not always broadcasting on the physical, human level. It's often airing its message on a higher level, often called the parable or spiritual level. It's the method in which Jesus exclusively spoke."
Scripture notes: "Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable." (Matthew 13:34 NIV)
"So in addition to the physical meaning, there's that higher parable meaning as well. I call it 'God speed,' as we're all getting up to speed on the way God thinks, operates, and broadcasts His glorious message," Kovacs explains.
To solve the mystery of Sodom and Egypt vs. Jerusalem, the author of the well-known "Shocked by the Bible" series says Scripture itself indicates on which level it's broadcasting in this case.
The verse in question is Revelation 11:8, which mentions, "the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." (KJV)
The author says: "The Word of God comes right out and tells us in this verse that it's not talking about the physical, geographic locations of Sodom and Egypt. It specifically says 'which SPIRITUALLY IS CALLED Sodom and Egypt.' Other translations use words such as 'figuratively' and 'symbolically' instead of 'spiritually,' but they all mean the same thing."
"It's speaking on the parable or spirit level. It's a metaphor."
"God Himself is a Spirit, as John 4:24 states, and He is training our minds to understand His spirit level of communication. It's not always physical."
So why does Scripture mention Sodom and Egypt as spiritual synonyms for the place where Jesus was crucified?
"The answer is simpler than we think, and emerges when we merely translate the meaning of those words," Kovacs explains.
"The word Sodom means 'burning' or 'flaming' and Egypt is the 'dark place of misery.' Even the Hebrew word for Egypt is MIZRAIM, which looks and even sounds something like its English meaning of MISERY or MISERIES.
"What it's saying is that this world of flesh in which we dwell is a place of darkness, distress and misery where we're being refined in a flaming furnace, the metaphoric 'furnace of affliction,' as God famously calls it in Isaiah 48:10. Hence, spiritually speaking, Jesus was killed in this place where we're all being purified under some serious heat, a place that is quite dark and miserable at times."
"So this mystery about Sodom and Egypt is solved quite easily when we merely open our eyes and ears to see and hear the spiritual message, not just the physical.
"It's stunning in a very good way when we realize the entire Bible is not just full of physical history, but the Creator is voicing additional messages on the spirit level that come to life when we listen at God speed."
Endorsed by Chuck Norris and other Christian champions, "Reaching God Speed" is nothing short of a breakthrough work, as it probes God's hidden messages embedded in popular movies, hit songs from (Adele and the Beatles to Frank Sinatra and Led Zeppelin), the stories we tell our children, everyday phrases we all say, historic news events, famous commercial campaigns, nature itself, and typical life activities such as such as inhaling every breath you take, sleeping, waking up and many more.
It features a myriad of stunning biblical revelations, as the book:
The book rocketed to the #1 position in several Amazon categories even before its official release on Jan. 25.