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The suspect in the shooting of two West Virginia National Guardsmen in Washington on Wednesday, the latest unprovoked terror attack on the U.S., allegedly had gone through a "thorough screening and background check" process.
That's according to a statement of Joe Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, at the time thousands of Afghans were being brought into the United States by the Democrat administration then.
At the time, Psaki was questioned about the possibility of terrorists being delivered to U.S. shores by Biden's Operation Allies, which was supposed to have been evacuating and resettling U.S. "allies" from Afghanistan, after the U.S. abruptly withdrew its troops of that location.
Psaki said: "I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming into the United States of America who has not been through a thorough screening and background check process."
She continued, "There are many individuals as you noted who have not been through that process. And they have gone to lilypad countries, as that process has been completed. It doesn't mean that there's a flag, it means they have not completed their paperwork."
The suspect has been identified by authorities as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who allegedly drove across the country in preparation for his "ambush" attack on Guardsmen Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24.
Both were hospitalized and described initially as in critical condition.
The suspect, also shot, had lesser injuries, reports confirmed.
Charges against him could include assault with intent to kill while armed and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said, "We are praying that they survive and that the highest charge will not have to be murder in the first degree. But make no mistake, if they do not, that will certainly be the charge."
President Trump has strategically dispatched Guard troops to fight what has been described as out-of-control crime in key locations, a program that so far often has resulted in a significant drop in crime rates in those locations.
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Two National Guard troops have been shot near the White House in what's being called a "targeted shooting" and ambush.
"This is a targeted shooting," Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
Jeff Carroll, executive assistant chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, said: "It appears to be a lone gunman who ambushed these members of the National Guard."
NBC News reported: "Two senior U.S. law enforcement officials say that the man they believe is the suspect in today's National Guard shooting, used a handgun in the attack and has been initially identified as an Afghan national."
Bill Melugin of Fox News indicates: "Per multiple federal law enforcement sources, the suspect in custody for the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in DC is an Afghan national who entered the U.S. on 9/8/2021 as part of the Biden admin's Operation Allies Welcome in the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"I'm told his permission to be in the U.S. expired in September of this year, and he is now in the country illegally."
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey initially announced both members of the Guard have died from their gunshot wounds, but later retracted his statement.
"It is with great sorrow that we can confirm both members of the West Virginia National Guard who were shot earlier today in Washington, DC have passed away from their injuries," he originally said.
Morrisey then walked back his statement, offering a glimmer of hope: "We are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members and will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information. Our prayers are with these brave service members, their families, and the entire Guard community."
The attack occurred about 2:15 p.m. outside the Farragut West metro station in Washington, just two blocks away from the White House.
The Associated Press reported: "A suspect, now in custody, was also shot and has injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening, according to a law enforcement official not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. One National Guard member was shot in the head, according to a person familiar with the details of the incident who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity."
For months now, National Guard troops have been helping patrol the city of Washington, D.C., at the behest of President Trump, and the crime rate in the nation's capital has decreased precipitously.
Trump posted his initial reaction on Truth Social, saying: "The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price.
"God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People. I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!"
FBI Director Kash Patel indicated: "FBI is engaged and assisting with the investigation in Washington, D.C. after National Guard members were shot this afternoon. Please pray for them and we will update with more information as we are able."
Vice President JD Vance, addressing soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, said of the shooting: "It's a somber reminder that soldiers … are the sword and the shield of the United States of America."
"Thank them for what they're doing."
Journalist Benny Johnson noted: "Just a few days ago, six Democrats claimed President Trump was issuing 'unlawful' orders to the military and that troops must resist."
Members of the U.S. Secret Service were photographed Wednesday responding to the incident, Newsmax's Mike Carter posted on X. Fox News reported that one suspect is in custody.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X to request prayer:
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Calling the shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., Wednesday a "cowardly, dastardly act," U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that President Trump requested 500 more Guard troops be called up to serve in the nation's capital.
"This will only stiffen our resolve" to continue to secure Washington, D.C., Hegseth said. "President Trump will never back down."
Several Cabinet members have released statements decrying the shooting and asking for the nation's prayers.
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In a discussion concerning who is President Trump's heir apparent to lead the Make America Great Again movement, fired MSNBC host Joy Reid is pushing the possibility that Vice President JD Vance might throw his "brown" Hindu wife Usha "under the bus" to hook up with "white queen" Erika Kirk, the widow of slain civil-rights leader Charlie Kirk.
"They can't have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the brown Hindu wife," Reid speculated. "They're also Christian nationalists. That ain't gonna work. That's why he's throwing his wife under the bus."
Leftist podcaster Jennifer Welch chimed in to describe Vance's Oct. 29 hugging of Mrs. Kirk at the University of Mississippi, saying: "Playing slap and tickle with Erika Kirk is the weirdest s*** I've ever seen. She's like in her Tammy Faye [Bakker] era."
Reid added: "Holding on the back of his head and rubbing on his head."
"You not doing the right thing. You supposed to be a widow. You wearing leather pants! That's not widow-wear."
"But wouldn't it be the most perfect fairytale, MAGA fairytale, if he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen instead of this brown Hindu? I'm not saying that's happening."
Reid said in her analysis of the vice president: "Vance has a problem in that the base of MAGA is fundamentally racist," claiming both the tea party and MAGA movements are motivated by "race and hatred of non-white immigrants."
"They're obsessed with non-white immigrants and undocumented people. They use the term 'illegals' which is just the N-word for brown people. If you want to say the N-word and it's about brown people, you say 'illegal.'"
Reid said other potential MAGA leaders were Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson.
Erika Kirk addressed the famous hug with Vance, telling journalist Megyn Kelly: "Anyone whom I have hugged, that I have touched the back of your head when I hug you, I always say, 'God bless you.' That's just me. If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead."
Kelly clowned that commentators were acting as if she had grabbed the vice president's "ass."
"I feel like I wouldn't get as much hate if I did that!" Kirk responded.
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A Teacher of the Year at an Alabama Christian School is now out of jail after posting bail following her alleged savage beating of her 12-year-old son caught on camera.
44-year-old Nicole Staples was fired from her second-grade teaching position at Cottage Hill Christian Academy after video of the belt beating went viral. She is now charged with willful abuse of a child under 18 and was released from jail Wednesday after posting a $7,500 bond.
"Discipline is supposed to be for corrective action. That went way beyond that," Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch told WALA-TV.
"Snatch him up by his hair and yell and curse the way that she did, working for a Christian school, I thought was repulsive. It's sickening to see somebody do that to their child."
Burch told NBC 15: "It's almost like a dual personality. Because by all accounts, I'm told she is a good teacher and well respected. And yet what happens in the home is clearly opposite of that."
The sheriff's office issued a statement indicating: "A video recorded by a family member appears to show Randi Nicole Staples instructing her 12-year-old son to lay across the arm of their sofa inside the residence in Grand Bay, Alabama."
"Staples then allegedly struck her son on his bottom and legs approximately 20 times with a belt, during which the son can be heard pleading for her to stop."
"You're not f***ing sorry," Staples yells while repeatedly striking her boy as he screams in pain with each lash of the belt.
"Because if you were f***ing sorry … you wouldn't make extra work for everybody in this house because you won't clean up after yourself. You don't do what you're supposed to do."
The victim's brother, 24-year-old Jackson Staples who no longer lives at home, told Fox10 he was the one who forwarded the video to Cottage Hill Christian Academy, where his mother was awarded Teacher of the Year this past May.
"I didn't feel like, you know, she should be working at the school or even doing that to my little brothers," said Jackson Staples, claiming his mom had "done it to me my whole life."
The Academy told NBC 15 that it is "committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and Christ-centered environment for all students," and that, "This commitment guides every action our school takes regarding student welfare and staff conduct."
"On November 19, 2025, school leadership was made aware of concerns involving the off-campus conduct of an elementary teacher toward her minor child at her personal residence. Although the incident did not occur on school property, the nature of the information required immediate administrative action."
"Upon learning of the alleged misconduct, the school acted swiftly and decisively, relieving the teacher of her duties and placing her on administrative leave pending a full review," it continued.
"Following the findings of law enforcement, which determined that the teacher had engaged in improper conduct unrelated to her school responsibilities, an arrest was made and Cottage Hill Christian Academy terminated her employment in accordance with institutional policy."
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With controversy raging over Democrats urging the U.S. military and intelligence community to refuse to obey "illegal orders" from President Trump, the Democrat senator who is leading the charge that Trump calls "sedition at the highest level" "punishable by death" was asked point-blank Sunday if any illegal orders have been issued by the commander in chief.
On ABC's "This Week" broadcast, anchor Martha Raddatz asked U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., who is a former CIA officer: "Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?"
"To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal," Slotkin responded, "but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela."
As WorldNetDaily reported, Trump took to Truth Social late Saturday night to blast Slotkin and her Democrat colleagues suggesting the chain of command be broken.
"THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK. IT WASN'T, AND NEVER WILL BE!" Trump exclaimed.
"IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID!"
Slotkin told ABC: "He's trying to get us to shut up because he doesn't want to be talking about this," Slotkin said. "In fact, I would argue that one of the things that he's been doing by repeating it and talking about it is trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, which were the [Jeffrey] Epstein files and then the economy."
Slotkin said: "My primary concern is the use of U.S. military on American shores … in our cities and in our streets. We've seen now the courts overturn the deployment of U.S. military into our streets, including here in Washington, D.C.
"When you look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago, it makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military, get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians. It is very – a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for the communities on the ground. So it was basically a warning to say, like, if you're asked to do something, particularly against American citizens, you have the ability to go to your JAG officer and push back."
Raddatz asked the senator: "And with these service members calling you, couldn't you have done a video saying just what you just said? If you are asked to do something, if you are worried about whether it is legal or not, you can do this. It does imply that the president is having illegal orders which you have not seen."
Slotkin replied: "I think for us, it was just a statement widely, right? We say very quickly and very – to all the folks who come to us – this is the process: Go to your JAG officer, ask them for explanation, for top cover, for their view on things. We do that on a case by case basis, but we wanted to speak directly to the volumes of people who had come to us on this.
Regarding the potential for further U.S. military action targeting Venezuela. Slotkin said: "Certainly, the sheer size of the military buildup in and around Venezuela – I mean, you have to assume that when superpowers put that much force into an area that they're going to use it. They brought in aircraft carriers. They brought in F-35s."
"Certainly if we're going to actually think about prosecuting some sort of war or military action against the mainland of Venezuela, I would hope that the president would want to have that conversation publicly, bring in the American people who are not looking to get into another war, who are not looking to get into regime change."
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After Democratic lawmakers, who also are military veterans, released a video this week warning service personnel about following orders of the commander in chief that may be "illegal," President Trump reacted angrily, saying the action was "seditious."
Now a group of Republican veterans have released their own video, reminding Americans in the military of the oath they took to the Constitution and criticizing the "insinuation" of the Democrats that Trump had given "illegal" orders.
The video was put together by the Republican Conference of the U.S. House of Represenatives.
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First, it was a coalition of Democrats in Congress who called for members of the U.S. military to disobey orders from their commander-in-chief that were "illegal," although that wasn't defined.
Then President Donald Trump noted that such actions, determined to the insurrectionist or treasonous, could result in penalties up to and including execution.
Then a "hyperventilating" Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., took to the social media stage to demand that Trump's comments cannot be tolerated, that it is time for Republicans, Democrats, business leaders and everyone else to "pick a f***ing side" against Trump.
Murphy's rant:
The president of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. This is not normal. We cannot allow this to feel normal. This, as far as I know, has never happened before in the history of the country. Every Democratic member of the Senate and the House, their life is in jeopardy right now, especially those that were specifically targeted by this social media post. Democratic senators and House members who were simply saying that no member of the military should act illegally or in violation of the Constitution.
The president of the United States just called for members of Congress to be executed. If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it's time to pick a f***ing side. If you are a Republican in Congress, if you are a Republican governor, maybe it's time to draw a line in the sand and say that under no circumstances should the president of the United States be calling on his political opposition to be hanged. We are at a very dangerous moment right now. The president is engaged in the wholesale incitement, endorsement and rationalization of political violence in this country.
This is a very slippery slope that we are on. This is a moment for people to step up, for republicans to step up, for business leaders to step up. Anybody who has a voice or a soapbox in this country needs to draw a line in the sand and say that it is not acceptable for the president of the United States to call on the murder of his political oppositions."
Trump's comment:
SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, puishable by DEATH!
This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT
And the original call for a military insurrection:
Murphy's diatribe failed to fully explain the call from his own party members for military members to defy the military's chain of command and follow orders of their own choosing, a circumstance that would deprive any military organization in the world of its ability to operate.
The Democrats didn't define "illegal" orders, but those presumably would be orders with which Democrats disagree politically.
Trump accurately pointed out that offense like insurrection, treason, and the like, have been dealt with harshly in America's past.
Further, it is Trump who has survived at least two assassination attempts in the last year or so, and it is Trump who repeatedly has been labeled a "Hitler" by Democrats. In fact, a newly elected Democrat state official openly called for the murder of his political opponent and his children — and Democrats still elected him to office.
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A 7-Eleven clerk in Oklahoma who shot an attacker choking her and threatening to kill her in a dispute over counterfeit cash has now found herself out of a job, as the convenience store fired her.
The mayhem erupted Thursday night in Oklahoma City, where Stephanie Dilyard, 25, got into a confrontation with 59-year-old Kenneth Thompson, who allegedly sought to pay with a fake $100 bill.
"He threatened me, and said he was gonna slice my head off, and that's when I tried to call the police," Dillard told KOKH-TV.
"He started throwing things at me, came behind the counter. I tried to run off, but he grabbed his hands around my neck, and pushed me out of the counter space, that's when I pulled out my gun and I shot him."
Thompson, who was struck by the bullet in his stomach, fled the scene and was later arrested after he called 9-1-1. He was charged with assault and battery, threatening acts of violence, attempting to pass a fake bill and a felony warrant for violating parole.
Police cleared Dilyard of any wrongdoing thanks to Oklahoma's "Stand Your Ground" law protecting individuals who use force in self-defense.
The saga took a dark turn when 7-Eleven terminated the clerk on Monday for using her own gun.
"They said that they were going to separate from employment because of a violation of policy," said Dilyard, who worked the overnight shift alone for more than two years.
"This was a situation where I felt like I was put into a corner between choosing between my job and my life, and I'm always going to choose my life because there's people that depend on me. Just, I'm going, I'm going home, you know. I need to be here for my kids."
"If I'd known that there's a potential that somebody could be for real in taking my life away that I will do whatever it takes. I hope that women see that, and they'll do the same thing. You have the right to defend yourself."
7-Eleven has yet to provide comment on the incident.
A GoFundMe page has now been set up for Dilyard, as she went into further detail about her plight.
"As many already know, us overnight clerks are by ourselves. We have no security, and we are not allowed to carry self defense weapons, including mace," she explained.
"However, working conditions, it was not realistic for me to be able to follow policy AND be able to go home to my kids if a situation happened. That's is why I decided to carry in the first place.
"I never expected for me to be in this situation, but I did what I had to do to go home to my kids. I was a good employee, committed and determined, but in-between a rock and a hard place I had to make a quick decision – lose my life, or lose my job.
"If you can, anything helps my family and I while I take time to recover and look for another job. Whole reason I was working overnight in the first place was to save to buy a home and get out of the city, and now I want that more than ever. "
Some online comments include:
"7-Eleven has a corporate policy prohibiting weapons of any kind. The policy applies to corporate stores and Franchisees. It is a sh*tty policy, but the Franchisees have to live with it. Employees can get another job, if the Franchisee looses the franchise, they have lost their livelihood."
"Sadly, this kind of thing is not uncommon. A far better response from 7-11 would have been: 'In light of this incident, we have reviewed our corporate policies & have decided to encourage employees to lawfully protect themselves. Employee & customer safety is our top priority.'"
"I'm sure they would have paid for her funeral had she followed the employee handbook."
"7/11 wants their employees to let themselves be killed rather than defend themselves. Wtf @7eleven?! Give her her job back!!!"
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Apparently, not everyone named JD Vance is a MAGA Republican.
Consider James Donald "JD" Vance Jr., a Michigan man sentenced to two years in prison for threatening to kill the Vice President JD Vance, as well as President Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk.
Vance Jr., a 67-year-old from Grand Rapids, Michigan, has pleaded guilty to the dastardly deed after using left-wing social media app BlueSky to post several threats, reports the New York Post.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan, Vance used the alias "Diaperjdv."
"If Trump, Vance, or Musk ever come to my city again, they will leave it in a body bag," Vance allegedly wrote in an April 1 post.
"I will either be shot by a secret service sniper or spend the rest of my life in prison. I've only got about 10 years of life left anyway so I don't f***ing care either way," he added.
In another post, on March 7, with the headline "Donald Trump Jr. Considering a Run for President in 2028," Vance threatened the president's oldest son.
"I will murder that stupid f***er before he gets secret service protection," Vance wrote, according to federal investigators.
The Post reports that Vance pleaded guilty to two felonies of threatening to kill or injure the president and vice president, and interstate threatening communications.
United States Attorney Timothy VerHey said in a statement:
"When Vance said he planned to kill our President and the Vice President simply because he disagreed with them, he crossed a line we all understand and so had to be punished."
The older Vance is not related to the veep, whose birth name is James Donald Bowman. He later changed his name to James David Vance.