There are now eight members of MS-13 who pleaded guilty in Houston, Texas, to roles in a racketeering conspiracy. The criminal schemes involved murders and witness tampering, according to a report from KRIV-TV. Walter Antonio Chicas-Garcia, Wilson Jose Ventura-Mejia, Miguel Angel Aguilar-Ochoa, and Marlon Miranda-Moran all entered their plea deals...
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Several MS-13 Gang Members Plead Guilty to Violent Crimes in Texas
All eight criminals have previously admitted their involvement with MS-13, a Latin American gang that started in El Salvador.
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Middle Tennessee State University fired its assistant dean Wednesday after disrespectful posts saying she was "celebrating" the death of Charlie Kirk. Laura Sosh-Lightsy, the assistant dean of students, allegedly shared two Facebook posts regarding Kirk's assassination Wednesday on a college campus in Utah. βLooks like olβ Charlie spoke his fate...
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College in Tennessee Fires Dean for Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Assassination, Blasts Her 'Lack of Empathy'
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn called for the assistant dean's termination. Later that night, the university made the announcement.
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The murder of Iryna Zarutska cut short her love affair with America, family members say. The 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee was stabbed to death in August. Decarlos Brown Jr. has been charged in her death. Zarutskaβs uncle, who asked that his name not be used, said the victim, mother, and two...
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Iryna Zarutska's Family Speaks Out, Says She Was Head Over Heels for 'The American Dream' Before Her Murder
Iryna Zarutska was in love when she died -- with the same American Dream generations before her had shared.
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The mother of one of Bryan Kohberger's victims understands that vengeance is God's alone. Cara Kernodle's daughter Xana was killed by Kohberger in November 2022, along with three other University of Idaho students in the town of Moscow, Idaho. In July, he was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. Kernodle...
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Idaho Victim's Mother Offers Forgiveness to Killer Bryan Kohberger: He Was 'Made in God's Image'
The mother of one of Bryan Kohberger's victims has spoken out, finding it in her heart to extend him forgiveness.
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A resident in Austin, Texas, blasted a home invader on Wednesday after the suspect had shot a policeman and a woman earlier that morning. The wounded suspect, 30-year-old Brandon Thompson, was later charged with attempted capital murder of a peace officer and burglary of a residence, which are both first-degree...
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Man Wanted for Shooting 2 People, Including a Cop, Breaks Into the Wrong House for Cover and Pays Dearly for it
Before the incident, the homeowner had received a shelter-in-place text message from the Austin Police Department. He said it saved his life.
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An assistant football coach at a Tennessee high school was forced to leave a Friday night game after he apparently refused to stop praying with students or holding his Bible as he walked the sideline. Assistant Coach Trey Campbell said Northwest High School Principal Brandi Blackley reprimanded him, but he...
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Tennessee High School Football Coach Escorted Out of Game for Praying with Students
A Tennessee football coach forced to leave a game because he refused to give up his Bible says "I stood by my faith."
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The city of Philadelphia is once again making national headlines, and for all the wrong reasons. A woman was executed in broad daylight, but prosecutors have decided it wasnβt a murder. Philadelphia NBC affiliate WCAU-TV reported the district attorneyβs office dropped the murder charge against a man named John Kelly,...
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Philadelphia's Soros-Backed DA Downgrades Murder Charge in Broad-Daylight Execution of Woman
The DA dropped a murder charge against a man who allegedly gunned down a woman in what was by any objective measure an execution.
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Democratic Mayor John Laesch of Aurora, Illinois ordered flags to fly at full staff in the city despite proclamations from President Donald Trump and Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, according to a memo circulating on social media. Authorities have arrested Tyler Robinson, accusing him of assassinating Turning Point USA (TPUSA)...
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Firefighters Defy Dem Governor to Honor Charlie Kirk with Flags at Half-Staff
A group of Illinois firefighters agreed not to follow their Democratic governor's orders to raise flags to full staff.
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An illegal alien is in custody after allegedly beheading a man at a motel in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez admitted to using a machete to behead his co-worker, 50, who worked at the same Downtown Suites motel, according to KDFW-TV in Dallas. He faces a capital murder charge,...
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Illegal Immigrant Arrested in Texas, Accused of Beheading a Man During Dispute Over a Washing Machine
The Cuban immigrant had reportedly been arrested at least twice before, but the Biden administration released him from custody in January.
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Obi-Wan Kenobiβs words in Star Wars have strangely come alive: βIf you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.β Now, Charlie Kirkβs martyrdom is more powerful than you can possibly imagine. Right now his widow, Erika Kirk, endures the greatest grief there is. But...
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Op-Ed: They Have No Idea
The American leftsits have no idea what they have done this week, but make no mistake, they will soon find out.
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The tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump brought in $31.4 billion in August, marking the largest monthly intake so far in 2025. Data from the Treasury Department said that total tariff revenue for this year has meanwhile exceeded $183.6 billion, according to a Sept. 7 report from Fox Business. The sum...
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Trump Tariffs Bring In New Record Amount of Revenue
Data from the Treasury Department said that total tariff revenue for this year has now exceeded $183.6 billion.
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It is difficult enough to write about the most high-profile political assassination in this country since the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy killings of 1968. It is considerably more difficult to do so when the victim was a personal friend. The pain is profound. Charlie Kirk and...
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Josh Hammer: The Martyrdom Of My Friend Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk and I had gotten close, and we had spoken less than 24 hours before the fatal bullet struck to discuss his upcoming campus tour.
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Two American women arrived in Africa instead of Europe after a misunderstanding with their boarding tickets. Brittney Dzialo documented the humorous mix-up in a series of TikTok videos, which included her friend Hannah, according to People on Tuesday. The mix-up began at an airport in Rome, Italy. Brittney and her...
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Lost in Translation: 2 Americans Board Flight Headed to France, Shocked After They Ended Up in Africa Instead
Passengers looked at the American tourists with both amusement and annoyance as they made their way to their seats.
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How did Decarlos Brown Jr., the man accused of killing 23-year-old Ukrainian war refugee Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina, get out of jail? After all, if you've been following the Charlotte light rail murder, you know that the 34-year-old Brown has an extensive criminal history. He's been in local courts...
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Deep Dive: We've Learned Who Appointed Magistrate Who Let Decarlos Brown Allegedly Kill Iryna Zaruska - It All Makes Sense Now
In this case, we can see the judicial ideology that the Democratic Party has developed over the past decade yielding its sad fruit.
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In all facets, the military under President Donald Trump is prioritizing lethality over performative, nonsensical measures that do not make our country safer. Actor Tom Hanks was poised to attend a ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Sept. 25 where he would be receiving the Sylvanus...
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Perfect Priorities: West Point Nixes Tom Hanks Award Ceremony Because It Won't Help Create 'World's Most Lethal Force'
Actor Tom Hanks was set to attend an award ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but now that won't be happening.
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Elon Musk confronted Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis over a violent criminal released back on the streets, prompting a response from the official that failed to acknowledge how he signed a law allowing such circumstances to arise. The exchange came after Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams revealed to residents that...
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Elon Musk Confronts Colorado Governor Over Career Criminal Released from Jail
A community note on the X post from Polis said that Polis was the one who signed the legislation mandating the release of Ephraim.
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After plunging into a ravine and spending a month at the hospital, Missouri teen Cody Trenkle Jr. is finally home. It was July when Trenkle, 13, biffed from his skateboard and fell 240 feet into a ravine in St. Francois County, according to KSDK-TV in St. Louis. βI canβt really...
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After a 240-Foot Fall and Days Alone in a Ravine, Teen Miraculously Returns Home to Recover
The boy had been skateboarding when he hit a patch of grass and fell headlong into a ravine. He was missing for almost three days.
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Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine recently denied that rights come from God rather than government, and President Donald Trump corrected the record in a speech about religious liberty on Monday. In a hearing for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Kaine blasted "the notion that rights donβt come from...
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Trump Puts Democrat Senator in His Place for Rejecting God-Given Rights
Trump made very clear that Kaine had missed the mark by rejecting the truth that our rights come from God rather than government.
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For those of you who missed it, just a reminder: On the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed, Black Lives Matter compared physical violence to a normal bodily function. In a post that's since come down, the official Instagram account of the Black Lives Matter movement posted a reel...
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ICYMI: Just Before Charlie Kirk's Assassination BLM Condoned Physical Violence
The clip BLM posted came from a 1983 indie film by a radical feminist that depicts women's resistance to a government run by men.
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Remember when The New York Times got so angry over a guest opinion piece by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton back in the summer of George Floyd that they chased an editor out the door as retribution for it? Those were the days. Cotton, if you'll recall, had committed the grave...
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Plenty of legacy media outlets had atrocious coverage of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and his assassination on Wednesday. But a purportedly Christian media outlet rightfully drew a special degree of ire for their reaction to his tragic death. Christianity Today, founded by evangelist Billy Graham but run in...
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So-Called Christian Publication Ripped for Thumbing Noses at Charlie Kirk While Praising George Floyd
Christianity Today is facing backlash for its coverage of Charlie Kirk's assassination after many pointed out its coverage of George Floyd.
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