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Federal agents Saturday were rammed and boxed in by 10 cars in Broadview, Illinois, near Chicago, where crowds have been gathered for days protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions. So reports DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
"Pritzker's Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene," McLauglin wrote in an X post.
Reportedly, the agents were unable to move their vehicles and had to exit, Fox News reported. One of the drivers accused of ramming into the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, according to McLaughlin. She said officers "were forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen."
The post indicated that the armed woman "drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds."
McLauglin noted the woman, who was a U.S. citizen, was named in a CBP intelligence bulletin. She reportedly doxxed agents and posted online, "Hey to all my gang let's f–- those motherf––– up, don't let them take anyone."
According to DHS, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured during the incident.
According to Fox, the agents were reportedly performing a routine patrol in Broadview when the alleged assault occurred.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said on Friday that she and her team were blocked from accessing the Village of Broadview Municipal Building to use the restrooms. The secretary and her team were apparently stopping for a "quick bathroom break."
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Nicholas Sortor, an independent, on-the-street reporter who has become famous for his documentation of anti-government actions across America, has announced that the Department of Justice has assured him of an investigation into his arrest by Portland police late Thursday.
The Washington Examiner said the conservative influencer was arrested late Thursday, then released several hours later, early Friday.
He was accused by local police of "second-degree disorderly conduct" while he was documenting violent protests near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Oregon's largest city.
Other reports from the scene at the time said Sortor was defending himself from a woman who attacked him.
"Sortor, a 27-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., was arrested alongside two Oregon residents, according to a press release from the city's police department. All three people were booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on the same misdemeanor charge," the Examiner reported.
But later Sortor confirmed the review of his "wrongful arrest" will be conducted by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon.
He said Attorney General Pam Bondi called him personally with the news.
"The Trump DOJ WILL NOT allow Portland Police to continue to do the bidding of Antifa," he wrote on X, telling Portland police to "f*** around and find out."
The report said he explained he was recording footage of federal agents macing protesters when he was surrounded and assaulted, forced to defend himself.
"Nick says he swung back and missed, then disengaged and walked over to a group of Portland PD. He says he was then shocked to be arrested by them, and he sat in the back of a police cruiser while officers figured out what to charge him with," a witness reportd.
Protests in Portland were triggered by the deployment of National Guard troops to crack down on rampant crime there.
The Gateway Pundit commented, "The woman who attacked him was not arrested."
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A longtime liberal lawyer who has support Democrats for, well, decades, now is pledging his support for Republicans during the 2026 midterm elections.
It was Alan Dershowitz, whose fame in legal circles is unparalleled.
Defendants to whom he contributed advice at different times include O.J. Simpson, Jeffrey Epstein, Julian Assange, Harvey Weinstein, and even Donald Trump.
His new announcement has just made social media.
"I'm going to be supporting the Republicans in the midterm elections," he said.
He continued, "I'm hoping the Republicans maintain control … both of the House and the Senate. The last thing I want is Chuck Schumer to be head of the Senate or Liz Warren to be chairperson of a committee or AOC to be chairperson of a committee."
He explained, "The Democrats not only have lost my votes, but they have made me an enemy."
He blamed the party for having essentially "moved away from American values, Israeli values and values of decency."
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Students attending a football game for the University of Colorado, well known as a party school at least partly because its location in far-left Boulder, Colorado, and its proximity to ski resorts for students to reach during winter months, chanted a slogan.
It was highly critical of CU's opponent in the game, Brigham Young University.
In fact, they said, "F— the Mormons."
And that display of hate and religious bigotry is costing the school $50,000.
The students will be punished, the school said, if they can be identified.
Channel 7, a Denver broadcast outlet, said the Big 12 Conference announced not just the fine but a "public reprimand" for the school.
Shortly after the chant, CU officials condemned the words and called the behavior "deeply disappointing," and then conference commissioner Brett Yormak announced the punishment.
He said "hateful and discriminatory language" has no home in the league.
CU's coach claimed the derogatory slurs are "not indicative of who we are, our student body. Our kids are phenomenal, so don't indict us just based on a group of young kids that probably was intoxicated and high simultaneously."
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With the threat of a looming government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel to discuss whether a shutdown can be avoided.
After meeting with President Trump, Speaker Johnson said the president has asked Mike Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to "stop playing political games."
Regarding the national debt, Johnson said: "What's really important to point out here … the statutes in federal law require Congress to do 12 separate appropriations bills every year. That's the only way to ensure stewardship of taxpayer funds – to spend less money and make government more responsible. The problem is, as you and I both know … Congress hasn't really worked that way in a long time. Typically what we hae instead is a giant omnibus spending bill at the end of the year because the can is kicked down the road all the way to that point."
Johnson stated that the Trump administration is "forcing the muscle memory back" and have gotten "Congress to work again."
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The FBI has confirmed that the suspect in this week's sniper attack on a facility used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in Dallas, a suspect now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, had wanted to deliver "real terror" to the federal law enforcement agents.
The confirmation came in a statement from FBI chief Kash Patel about the shooting that left ICE detainees dead and injured, but no federal officers were hurt:
He confirmed the FBI in Dallas and at its headquarters "have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject's person/residence/bedroom."
The suspect has been identified in several documents at Joshua Jahn, 29.
Patel said, "The perp downloaded a document titled 'Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management' containing a list of DHS facilities. – He conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the 'Charlie Kirk Shot Video' between 9/23-9/24. – Between 8/19-8/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents. – One of the handwritten notes recovered read, 'Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, 'is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?" – Further accumulated evidence to this point indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning."
Jahn is thought to have "fired indiscriminately" at the ICE building on Wednesday morning.
ICE detainees were being loaded out of a van when the gunfire erupted, authorities said.
Authorities confirmed one of the bullets left behind by the suspect was engraved with the phrase "ANTI-ICE."
WND had reported the violence follows a months-long campaign by leftist politicians and their supporting media corporations to unleash inflammatory rhetoric about President Donald Trump's agenda for border security and the deportation of illegal alien criminals.
"This vile attack was motivated by hatred for ICE," charged Kristi Noem, Homeland Security secretary. "For months, we've been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed.
"This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences," Noem said.
In fact, on Rumble, a video of leftist California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasting ICE was posted just hours earlier:
The FBI said the attack happened early Wednesday morning and involved multiple gunshots.
Gov. Greg Abbott said his state supports border security and deportation efforts, and the shooting "will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants. We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Department to get to the bottom of the assassin's motive."
Noem chided those in leftist campaigns who demonize immigration authorities.
"Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences," she added. "The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night."
Newsom's state actually launched a campaign to ban ICE agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities – to prevent attacks on their families.
Federal authorities said that since state officials have no authority over federal officers, Newsom's campaign means little.
Activist Laura Loomer confirmed, "I did a background check on Joshua Jahn, the ICE shooter in Dallas, Texas. Joshua Jahn's profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page, per the background check results, reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery. The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and sickle. The text reads GLORIOUS EXPOSITION, COMRADE. He also has a previous conviction for selling Marijuana. Proof this was Leftist political violence against ICE officers.":
The link between leftists advocating for actions against ICE and the shooting, however, was noted over and over.
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When the Trump White House issued its recent proclamation attaching a $100,000 fee to H-1B petitions, it was billed as a measure to protect American workers. Indeed, the proclamation itself spelled out its pro-American intent in plain terms.
But only days later, federal agencies issued clarifications that narrowed its reach, with the new fee applying only to fresh petitions, leaving existing H-1B holders untouched.
That subtle change, in turn, sparked a reaction overseas most wouldn't expect.
India's Economic Times trumpeted the headline "As White House issues clarification, door opens for laid-off H-1B techies," celebrating the clarifications as a practical win for thousands of foreign workers recently caught up in U.S. tech layoffs.
The article noted that more than 145,000 workers have already been laid off this year by major U.S. tech firms, a wave of cuts they claim hit H-1B visa holders especially hard. For those workers, the clarification offers an easier path to latch onto a new employer, sparing them both the $100,000 fee and the risk of having to enter another visa lottery.
By casting the White House clarifications as a lifeline, they boasted that employers now had every reason to tap into this "ready pool of talent" at minimal cost – and free from any new restrictions.
Meanwhile, Americans who have seen their jobs shipped overseas or handed to contractors and visa holders view the situation very differently. The issue isn't the proclamation's stated intent, but the way its implementation preserves business as usual. The administration openly admitted that H-1B workers have displaced Americans, yet the carve-out exempts those very workers from the penalty meant to stop the abuse.
Instead of deterring corporations from gaming the system, the clarification shields the existing crop of H-1Bs, allowing them to maintain their foothold in the labor market while U.S. citizens remain sidelined.
Since the new rules punish only future entrants, the problem of massive foreign workers depressing Americans' wages and hollowing out the nation's middle class continues.
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President Donald Trump boldly attacked European leaders at the United Nations in New York City on Tuesday, telling them to their faces that their countries "are going to hell."
"It's time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now," Trump declared. "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
"In America, we've taken bold action to shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming. They're not coming anymore."
Trump touted the success of the American energy industry, while letting his world counterparts know that so-called renewable energy such as wind and solar are "a joke."
"The United States is now thriving like never before. We're getting rid of the falsely named renewables. By the way, they're a joke. They don't work," Trump explained.
"They're too expensive. They're not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind doesn't blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate and they have to be rebuilt all the time. They start to rust and rot.
"The most expensive energy ever conceived and it's actually, you're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. You lose money, the governments have to subsidize. You can't put 'em out without massive subsidies."
Without specifically naming them, Trump berated both the United Kingdom and France for recognizing a Palestinian state this week while the Islamic terror group Hamas continues to hold hostages it took in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
"Now as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state," Trump indicated.
"The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities including October 7th."
"This could have been solved so long ago. But instead of giving in to Hamas' ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message: Release the hostages now."
On a humorous note, Trump began his speech by pointing out that both the U.N. escalator he and First Lady Melania Trump got stuck, and the U.N. teleprompter was out of order.
"These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter," Trump noted.
"I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter is not working," he said.
"I can only say that whosever operating this teleprompter is in big trouble."
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A transgender activist has issued a graphic call to assassinate other Americans who think like Charlie Kirk, the Christian conservative champion who was gunned down Sept. 10.
Video of the activist, whom social media users identify as Kimberly McNeely, a purported tarot-card reader from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, reveals a disturbing call for blood recorded a day after Kirk was struck by a bullet while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
"F*** Charlie Kirk," the individual begins. "I don't want to see people hurt. Nobody deserves that. Some people do deserve that. People whose lives are causing death and harm to others, they f***ing deserve it.
"I hope he's the first of many because it's not like our kindness, our empathy is keeping our people from getting killed. It's not."
"It's time for minorities to stop being small, to stop being quiet, to stop being digestible. It's time for minorities to rise the f*** up, to fight f***ing back. And sometimes fighting is messy, sometimes it's bloody. And that's the f***ing way it has to be. I'm not gonna apologize for that. I will die on this f***ing hill.
"Show me a better way, because nothing so far is working," the activist continues.
"Capitalism is growing and growing. Patriarchy is growing and growing. Nothing's getting better. I think people are afraid to do what it takes, you know? Like even when you're not the one getting your hands dirty, don't condemn those who are so f***ing done that they did what they had to do to take a stand."
"No, killing one person isn't gonna fix things. But making people afraid to speak that kind of rhetoric, making people think twice, making people feel not empowered, yeah, that will."
Libs of TikTok noted: "Lgbtq+ t*rrorism is a massive problem."
Others indicated: "This is terrorism and should be treated as such."
"This is just unacceptable. Conservatives are being told they cant live their lives at all, let alone be safe, or exercise their rights. This is absolutely incitement to violence and from the same radicalized subgroup of people who have been disproportionately violently killing people."
"I wonder if this guy knows what he's really asking for. I wonder if he understands how much skilled firepower the right could bring against transtifa? Does he really want to find out?"
Others have been sharing Turning Point USA clips demonstrating Kirk's kindness and empathy toward transgender individuals.
In one video, speaking to a 19-year-old biological male who was transitioning to female, Kirk said: "I'm gonna have an opinion that very few people will ever tell you, which is I want you to be very cautious putting drugs into your system int he pursuit of changing your body.
"I instead encourage you to work on what's going on in your brain first. I think what you need first and foremost is just a diagnosis, just someone that is going to listen to what you'e gone through, listen to what else is going on."
"My prayer for you, and again, very few people will say this, I actually want to see you be comfortable in how you were born. I know that you might not feel that way, but I think that is something that you can achieve."
"I think that with the right team and the right people, you don't have to wage war on your body. You can learn to love your body."
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During Sunday's memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, for Christian martyr Charlie Kirk, the executive producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show" and spokesman for Turning Point USA proclaimed Kirk was a modern day "prophet."
"I see it now clearly," said Andrew Kolvet, "that Charlie Kirk was a prophet – not the fortune-telling kind that could predict the future, but the biblical kind.
"He confronted evil and proclaimed the truth and called us to repent and be saved. Amen.
"And he wasn't mean about it. He was kind. He was loving. And you could hear in his voice that he desperately wanted the best for you and for all of us."
Kolvet had the same message earlier in the day, telling Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" on Fox News: "I believe that Charlie is a modern-day prophet. And prophets go into a culture, into a town, into a city and they call it to repent. And if you don't want to repent, then you're not gonna like that message. That's the history of Scripture."
"Charlie was a guy that confronted evil head-on. He didn't pull punches. He said exactly what the truth was. And if you don't want to hear the truth, you will despise the truth. And that's why they despise Charlie."
Kolvet summarized how Kirk wanted people to spend their time on Earth: "Live a life so remarkable … so extraordinary so true to who you are and what God has called you are that your enemies even in death would still not be willing to concede an inch and still revile you. That's a testament to how effective Charlie is and was and will continue to be."
Kolvet concluded his speech at the memorial service by declaring: "We do not grieve as the world grieves, because it says in Scripture, 'O death where is your victory? O death where is your sting?' (1 Corinthians 15:55) Christ has overcome death!"
Also at the service was Elon Musk, who noted: "Charlie was murdered by the Dark for showing people the Light."