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Marco Rubio looks to inspire global crackdown on far-left 'terrorism' – thenationalnews.com

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Marco Rubio looks to inspire global crackdown on far-left ‘terrorism’ – thenationalnews.com
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting an international summit in Washington on Thursday that aims to address the threat of “far-left political terrorism”.

The administration of President Donald Trump says countries around the world have a blind spot for what US officials see as a rising wave of left-wing political violence.

Mr Trump has clamped down on left-wing groups, particularly Antifa, and has proclaimed that the decentralised anti-fascist movement is a domestic terrorist organisation. Antifa has frequently protested against his hardline immigration enforcement.

Mr Trump has also blamed left-wing extremism for the killing of ​conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last year.

At least 65 countries have been invited to attend Thursday’s day-long event. A ⁠senior State Department official told reporters that some interior or foreign ministers would be among those attending.

The summit would help counter-terrorism officials to discuss what the Trump administration says is a growing and sophisticated global threat, the official said.

“Far-left political terrorism is resurgent, manifesting in violent terrorist acts across the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia and beyond,” the State Department said in a statement. “These are not isolated incidents. They reflect a deliberate, ideologically motivated strategy to destabilise free societies”.

Fourteen-year-old boy charged over alleged plot targeting London mosques | Islamophobia News– www.aljazeera.com

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A 14-year-old boy arrested by British police has been charged with a crime related to “terrorism” over an alleged plot to target local mosques.

London’s Metropolitan Police revealed the charge against the unnamed boy on Wednesday, saying he was suspected of preparing to carry out an “act of terrorism” in connection with “extreme right-wing” ideology.

“This is a very ⁠serious terrorism charge ⁠against a young boy and likely to be highly concerning to the public and ⁠the local community,” said Helen Flanagan, head of ⁠counterterrorism policing in London.

Police said they did not believe the ‌case pointed to a wider threat, but added that they had contacted the mosques, located in south London’s Sutton area, and offered advice and support.

“We know this will be particularly concerning to the Muslim community and we are working closely with the venues affected to ensure they are kept updated and to provide advice, support and reassurance, and this will continue,” said Flanagan.

U.K. counterterrorism police take over former MP Ann Widdecombe death probe – National– globalnews.ca

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An investigation into the suspected killing of former British politician Ann Widdecombe is now being led by U.K. counterterrorism police, investigators said, days after announcing there was no evidence to suggest it was an act of terror.

A 28-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder after Widdecombe, 78, was found dead inside her home in an isolated village in Devon, southwest England, on Thursday, was re-arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said in an update Monday, according to The Associated Press.

The suspect was first arrested on Saturday in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, two days after Widdecombe’s body was discovered. Rotherham is more than 320 kilometres from the former MP’s rural home.

The suspect has not been named because he has not been charged.

China ups arrests of Christians, demands cult of Xi– www.americanthinker.com

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The Chinese communist government clearly sees the first of the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” as a threat.

As reported Sunday in The Telegraph, Chinese authorities have intensified a nationwide campaign against independent Christian congregations, arresting thousands of worshippers and forcing many of China’s “house churches” further underground.

Police have raided churches across the country, detained pastors and lay leaders, and expanded surveillance of believers who refuse to worship in state-approved churches.

Several Chinese Christians who fled the country told The Telegraph that believers increasingly feel they are being treated as enemies of the state simply because their highest allegiance is to God rather than to the Chinese Communist Party.

One Christian told the newspaper that “there is no freedom left,” while another described living under constant surveillance and fearing arrest for attending ordinary worship services. Others said authorities have pressured Christians to join government-controlled churches whose preaching is closely monitored by the Communist Party.

Trump Preparing to Challenge Legitimacy of Georgia’s Two Democrat Senators– slaynews.com

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A report circulating Monday claims President Donald Trump is preparing to make a major announcement involving Georgia’s two Democrat senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

The report, citing a “well-placed source in Georgia,” alleges Trump plans to declare Ossoff and Warnock “illegitimate because of fraud.”

According to the post, the announcement could come as soon as Monday evening.

Neither Trump nor the White House has publicly confirmed the report.

No official details have been released.

As of publication, the alleged announcement remains unverified.

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.

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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.”