July 17, 2026

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Illegal Alien Shot By ICE After Allegedly Weaponizing Vehicle; Enraged Anti-Ice Agitators Try to Storm Sen. Collins’ Office › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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An illegal immigrant in Biddeford, Maine has been shot dead by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after he allegedly tried to run over the agent with his car.

Senator Angus King (I-Maine) said that Homeland Security  officials told him the 26-year old man had been ordered to leave the country and that he had “weaponized the vehicle.”

King and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) told reporters they’ve learned little from federal agencies about the shooting, and said they believe the ICE agents were not equipped with body cameras.

An eye witness who drove by the scene as it was enfolding, corroborated what DHS told Sen. King.

The man told the Portland Press Herald that the driver was told multiple times to stop by an ICE agent, but instead of stopping, he put the car in drive and drove toward the officer.

“As I was approaching, you could see flashing blue lights,” the witness said. “The ICE agent was yelling and drew his weapon,” he continued. “And he kept yelling and yelling and warning the person driving—which is when the car was put into drive and was trying to hit the ICE officer—and he fired probably four shots at him.”

Speaker Johnson Issues Chilling Warning: “This is not a GAME! Everybody needs to understand these crazy little Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country — they are a DANGER to you and your family.– gellerreport.com

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Speaker Johnson just dropped this chilling line to every American to block the rise of communism.

It’s later than you think, dear readers.

“This is not a GAME! Everybody needs to understand these crazy little Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country — they are a DANGER to you and your family. This is not a GAME!”

“If they promise you free stuff, there is far more beneath those promises that even some of these people do not understand themselves.”

“And so we are here as the Republican Party to stand on the founding principles of the greatest nation in the history of the world. It is our duty to do that.”

AG Nominee Blanche Faces Loaded Questions at Senate Confirmation Hearing – RedState– redstate.com

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday for confirmation hearings as Donald Trump’s pick to become the permanent AG. As you would expect, Democrats on the committee are trying to turn it into an anti-Trump theater production so they can get their MS NOW hits, and in at least one exchange about FBI Director Kash Patel over unsubstantiated rumors, their questions became “extraordinarily obnoxious.”

 

Lib Sen Says SAVE Act Would ‘Make It Hard’ For Dems To Win– thefederalist.com

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Leftist Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., has lost a lot of weight in recent months. She hasn’t gained any integrity.

At a town hall with constituents, the Michigan Democrat said the quit part out loud, explaining why her party opposes the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, also known as the SAVE America Act. The legislative package would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and photo identification to cast a ballot, and it would demand states clean up their dirty voter rolls. As The Federalist has reported, the vast majority of voters in poll after poll support the election integrity reforms.

So why has almost every Democrat in the House voted against it, and why is every Democrat in the Senate blocking the bill from reaching the floor for an up or down vote?

Slotkin explained what we’ve known for some time: Democrats are much more concerned about making it easier to vote than they are about making it hard to cheat. Democrats, as Slotkin unwittingly noted, lose elections when elections are secured.

Mamdani Intern Says Electing Him Was Part of ‘Holy War’ and Jihad– gellerreport.com

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Zohran Mamdani’s intern Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik reveals that electing him was all part of a Holy War and jihad:

“This is all jihad, this is all ibadah, this is all counted by Allah. How committed am I to this? What am I willing to sacrifice for this noble cause?”

You know her. Remember this? Watch This Animal Who Was Hired By Mamdani

As if we needed telling.

Nick Shirley and Ron Johnson Blow Lid Off Fraud Pipeline That Sent Cash Straight to Somalian Terrorists– townhall.com

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and journalist Nick Shirley blew the lid open on how fraudsters in Minnesota used taxpayer funds to support a vicious radical terrorist group in Somalia.

Johnson questioned Shirley during a Wednesday Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) hearing on government fraud.

“I mean, $700 million in cash flowing out of the Minneapolis airport back to, you know, countries in Africa,” Johnson said. “Have either of you gentlemen kind of investigated the foreign sourcing or an organization of a lot of this fraud? I mean, we’re opening up to foreign governments to fund their own operations.”

Shirley responded by saying “it’s been proven that a lot of the money in suitcases that left Minnesota went back into the hands of people inside Somalia.”

He further explained that in New York, daycare fraud is so rampant that at many facilities, nobody “actually knows who the owner is.”

Cuba plunged into third nationwide blackout in two weeks as power grid collapses– www.euronews.com

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Cuba suffered another blackout of the National Electric System, or SEN, on Tuesday, leaving the entire island country without power, officials said, in what was the third such incident in less than two weeks as a US oil embargo stresses the island’s grid.

Since January, when US President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on any nation that supplies or sells oil to the island, fuel has been scarce across Cuba, exacerbating the island’s continuing financial and economic crises.

Public transportation has largely been halted, and officials have cancelled tens of thousands of surgeries.

Cuba produces only 40% of the fuel it needs, and a solution for fuel imports is not yet in sight.

The state-owned Electric Union reported that a problem with a generating unit in the eastern province of Holguín caused “a sudden frequency change”, resulting in the SEN blackout around midday.

Donald Trump ‘rushed into situation room’ over plans for huge new Iran offensive– www.mirror.co.uk

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Trump is reported to be planning a major new offensive on Iran(Image: Graeme Sloan – Pool via CNP/Shutterstock)

Donald Trump is reportedly planning a massive new offensive in Iran after being rushed to a situation room meeting.

The US President said the fragile ceasefire with Iran was over last week as he lashed out at its leaders – calling them “scum” – which has been followed by missile strikes from both sides in the region over the past few days.

A naval blockade was imposed on Iran today and airstrikes have intensified in retaliation for Tehran’s attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The American strikes hit an Iranian army barracks, killed at least seven troops and wounded more than 260 people across the country, Iranian officials said.

Man Running from ICE Agents Struck and Killed by Tractor-Trailer on Florida Highway– www.westernjournal.com

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The race-hustling mainstream media are trying to stoke public outrage over the death of a Mexican national who was hit by a truck while running onto a highway in order to flee Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

As a reminder, these same media stooges repeatedly ignore or downplay the countless deaths of Americans who are raped, beaten, or killed by illegal aliens.

In the latest example of the Darwin Awards, a Mexican migrant died on Tuesday while fleeing ICE officers he had encountered at a Wawa convenience store in St. Augustine, Florida.

“While running away, the 28-year-old man crossed SR-16 and was hit by a semi-truck,” according to WTLV-TV in Jacksonville. “The truck driver stopped immediately and attempted to render aid, but the man died at the scene.”

New Docs Support Claims Jack Smith’s Team Violated Constitution– thefederalist.com

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Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office analyzed the text messages of some 40-plus Members of Congress, with newly released internal documents indicating that the lead investigators ignored the established filter team review process — a process instituted to protect attorney-client privileged communications. Those documents, released Tuesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, following whistleblowers tips, prove even more damning, though, to the special counsel’s brazen disregard of the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause.

On Monday, Sen. Grassley made public a letter and records he obtained jointly with his colleague, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., as part of their oversight of the weaponization of the DOJ and FBI under the Biden Administration. That cover letter from the DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs explained to the senators that Special Counsel Smith’s team had established a filter team intended to protect privileged communications obtained during the investigators’ targeting of Donald Trump.

While the filter team protocols provided that “[n]o materials shall be disclosed to the investigative team without approval of a filter team attorney,” the DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs explained that documents uncovered based on whistleblower disclosures revealed that the special counsel’s office “apparently bypassed the Filter Team and directly accessed these text messages.” The “text messages” referenced were “text messages between White House personnel and several Senators and Representatives,” namely 44 different Members of Congress.

UK Bans Christian MP Convicted of “Hate Crime” for Quoting Bible Verse– www.lifenews.com

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In a sign of the continuing breakdown of religious freedom in Europe, Finnish parliament member Päivi Räsänen was banned by the U.K. from traveling to Heathrow Airport for a planned layover due to her Finnish Supreme Court conviction in March for authoring a pamphlet containing supposed “hate speech” toward those who identify as LGBT.

Räsänen’s legal saga began in 2019, when she wrote a post on social media questioning why her Finnish Lutheran Church was choosing to participate in an LGBT Pride event, citing the scriptural prohibition against same-sex conduct from Romans 1:24-27. Finnish authorities eventually charged her and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola with “hate speech” for authoring a pamphlet advocating for a biblical view of sexuality and for the social media post.

Teacher Fired After She Tells Students She Opposes Abortion– www.lifenews.com

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A Catholic history teacher was summarily dismissed from her position after honestly answering students’ questions about her opposition to abortion during a lesson on the rise of Adolf Hitler.

Sarah Morse, 66, an American-born teacher at Arbroath High School in Angus, Scotland, was fired on November 19, 2025, after pupils asked about life in the United States, including her views on abortion.

Morse, a faithful Catholic, responded according to her religious beliefs.

“I am a faithful Roman Catholic and I am against it,” she told the class.

US military will be out of Iraq by end of September, Iraqi prime minister and Pentagon say– www.washingtontimes.com

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military will leave Iraq by the end of September, American and Iraqi officials said Tuesday, following a 23-year presence that started with the 2003 invasion against Saddam Hussein and ended with much smaller operations against the Islamic State group.

President Donald Trump, standing alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi at the White House, said “we don’t think we need the military there anymore” and noted Iraq’s growing relationships with oil companies.

“The relationship is a whole big relationship where we don’t need the military,” Trump said. “We’re there to help them. We’re there to protect them if need be. But we don’t think that’s going to be necessary.”

Speaking through an interpreter, al-Zaidi said “U.S. forces will be out of Iraq” by Sept. 30, “while U.S. companies will be inside Iraq.”

Publishers sue Google over alleged use of books to train AI models– www.france24.com

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Multiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and then generating content that “directly” competes with the original authors’ work.

“The scale and speed at which Gemini can create books and compete with human writers is unprecedented,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit, which requests class action status, was filed in New York by Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, author Scott Turow and his publishing company S.C.R.I.B.E.

They allege that “Google secretly copied millions of works” that were provided to Google Books and other services for “limited purposes” and then used that content to train Gemini, its AI model.

Furthermore, they claim the content generated by Gemini directly competes with the authors who wrote the original work.

UK To Announce Midnight Social Media Curfew For Teenagers– www.ndtv.com

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Britain will introduce a default overnight curfew on social media apps for 16- and 17-year-olds, the government said, adding new restrictions for older teenagers to its plan to introduce a sweeping ban on social media for under-16s.

Affected users would be blocked from using apps between midnight and 6 a.m. unless they change the default setting. Features designed to keep users scrolling for longer, including videos that automatically play one after another, would also be switched off by default.

The new measures aim to prevent a cliff edge for those who will gain access to social media when they turn 16, and offer some protection from the negative effects of late-night scrolling.

“These measures will be crucial in helping young people get the sleep they need, focus on school and college, and spend more quality time with family and friends,” technology minister Liz Kendall said in a statement.

Senate Democrats Block Funding For Trump’s Iran War– www.politicususa.com

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The writing was on the wall last month when only 4 Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee voted against the NDAA. The defense funding bill was doomed to fail as Republicans put forward legislation that called for $1.15 trillion for the Department of Defense and to deepen military and intelligence ties to Israel.

Both of those points were non-starters for Senate Democrats.

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The final vote was 50-46. Every Democrat who was present voted no. Republicans Jim Justice of West Virginia and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and Democrats John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Alex Padilla of California did not vote.

Reuters reported:

Democrats are concerned that authorizing a huge Pentagon budget would be seen as approval of the war on Iran that began with strikes by the U.S. and Israel on February 28. They also object to the Trump administration’s push to increase military spending to a total of $1.5 trillion this year, including several hundred million dollars he has requested in a separate spending bill, even as social programs for Americans are being cut.

The procedural vote on the NDAA that failed in the Senate marks a major turning point in support for Israel and defense funding.

Illegal Alien Shot By ICE After Allegedly Weaponizing Vehicle; Enraged Anti-Ice Agitators Try to Storm Sen. Collins’ Office › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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An illegal immigrant in Biddeford, Maine has been shot dead by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after he allegedly tried to run over the agent with his car.

Senator Angus King (I-Maine) said that Homeland Security  officials told him the 26-year old man had been ordered to leave the country and that he had “weaponized the vehicle.”

King and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) told reporters they’ve learned little from federal agencies about the shooting, and said they believe the ICE agents were not equipped with body cameras.

An eye witness who drove by the scene as it was enfolding, corroborated what DHS told Sen. King.

The man told the Portland Press Herald that the driver was told multiple times to stop by an ICE agent, but instead of stopping, he put the car in drive and drove toward the officer.

“As I was approaching, you could see flashing blue lights,” the witness said. “The ICE agent was yelling and drew his weapon,” he continued. “And he kept yelling and yelling and warning the person driving—which is when the car was put into drive and was trying to hit the ICE officer—and he fired probably four shots at him.”

UPDATE: President Trump OVERTURNS Freeze on ICE Traffic Stops– wltreport.com

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On Tuesday, the DHS was heavily criticized after telling ICE agents to halt most vehicle and traffic stops — at least for the time being.

The order came in response to two ICE-involved shootings over the past week.

We covered the full story here:

BREAKING: ICE Agents Ordered to CEASE Vehicle Stops After Recent Shootings

As you might expect, this move proved incredibly controversial.

After all, vehicle stops are one of the most effective strategies that ICE uses to detain illegal aliens.

So, when word reached President Trump, he immediately overturned it!

WW3 fears erupt as NATO member issues warning over Russia ‘planning attacks’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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Lithuania has warned Russia could plan attacks on European countries, also members of NATO, by targeting energy and transport infrastructures. The President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda, suggested security measures in the Baltic countries and Poland should be increased as a precaution.

Mr Nauseda mentioned his concerns during an interview with BNS quoted by Lithuania’s news outlet LRT and said: “We have received such signals from our intelligence services. They do not identify a specific place or time because that is simply impossible to determine. The other side may not even have completed its planning process, and we may only know about the planning itself or the intended objective.”

The Lithuanian President also said: “So yes, I cannot deny that we have such information and that it concerns kinetic operations – not on a large scale, but targeted kinetic operations that are very likely to be directed against critical infrastructure.”

He did not provide evidence to support the assessment or identify potential targets, LRT said.

Starmer says his political journey is over at his last question session as UK leader– abcnews.com

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LONDON — Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that he was leaving the United Kingdom “in better shape than I found it” as he fielded questions, criticism and even a bit of praise from lawmakers in the House of Commons for the last time on Wednesday.

Starmer, who leaves office next week, bid farewell to the boisterous weekly Prime Minister’s Questions sessions where he has traded barbs with opposition politicians and defended his government’s record. On Monday, he will step down as prime minister after losing the support of his Labour Party, handing over power to a new Labour leader, Andy Burnham.

“Every prime minister knows when they take up the torch that the day will come when they have to pass it on,” said Starmer, who has spent six years as leader of the Labour Party and two as prime minister.

“This is the end of my political journey,” he said, though he plans to remain a backbench lawmaker for now.

House Passes SAVE America Act, Tying It to Appropriations Bill– gellerreport.com

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Alrighty then.

Let’s see what the spineless, gutless and dickless Thune does with it.
A weeks-long impasse was broken. This time, the SAVE America Act is tied to an appropriations bill, meaning there’s a chance—perhaps—in the Senate, because it would not be limited by cloture and filibuster. The Hill: The 215-211 vote delivers a key win for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who had spent weeks trying to unify his conference as conservative hardliners pressed leadership to take more aggressive action on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act and legislation to codify President Trump’s border policies. Johnson ultimately won over Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), both of whom had opposed the rule before the July 4 recess, by advancing a plan to merge the SAVE America Act with a fiscal 2027 appropriations bill funding the State Department and national security programs — a legislative maneuver known on Capitol Hill as “MIRVing” (The Hill).

Conservative Politician Ann Widdecombe Murdered in Possible Act of Terrorism– www.cbn.com

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LONDON (AP) – Former politician and reality TV contestant Ann Widdecombe was killed in a “targeted attack,” though the motivation is still under investigation, British counterterror police said Tuesday.

A 28-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder and terror crimes remains in custody on an extended detention warrant under the Terrorism Act that allows police to question him for up to another week.

“It is clear that this was a targeted attack,” Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing told reporters. “We are still working to understand the extent of any planning or preparation, and the motivation that sits behind that attack.”

The death of Widdecombe, 78, a former member of Parliament, shocked the British political establishment, where she was long known for blunt-spoken socially conservative views opposing abortion and the expansion of LGBTQ+ rights.

Canadian woman taken to Delaney Hall after slapping teens in Trump merch– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Kaitlyn Tracey, 33, was arrested Monday in connection with a July 3 confrontation at the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk, where police say she approached a group of teenagers while recording them on her cellphone.

According to police, Tracey became upset over the group’s “patriotic-colored” sweatpants, including clothing displaying the words “Trump” and “ICE.” Authorities allege she slapped one juvenile female once in the body and once in the face with an open hand. The teenager was not injured, and surveillance cameras captured the interaction.

Tracey was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, harassment, and obstruction before being lodged in the Ocean County Jail, which confirmed to Fox News that Tracey was handed over to ICE.

Tracey is a Canadian citizen who entered the United States in 2024 using a passport, according to court documents obtained by NJ.com. After her arrest, she was transferred into ICE custody and taken to the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark. Her husband, Matthew Geroni, posted to social media confirming Tracey had been taken into ICE custody, and the agency’s detainee locator also lists Tracey as being held at the facility.