Portland Police Chief Cries While Admitting DHS Was Right About Tren de Aragua Ties in CBP Shooting

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Portland Police Chief Bob Day wiped away tears Friday as he addressed new information showing that two illegal immigrants shot during a federal immigration enforcement encounter had ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA).

Day confirmed a Department of Homeland Security statement identifying the two individuals — Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras — as Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens with suspected ties to TdA.

Both were shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent after Moncada, the driver of the vehicle, allegedly “weaponized his vehicle” and attempted to run over agents, prompting an agent to fire in self-defense, according to DHS.

“They do have some nexus to involvement with TDA. We can confirm that,” Day said, pausing and choking up.

Day said he initially hesitated to disclose the suspected gang connection, citing what he described as the “historic injustice of victim blaming” by law enforcement, including within his own agency. (Read more from “Portland Police Chief Cries While Admitting DHS Was Right About Tren de Aragua Ties in CBP Shooting” HERE)

Trump Admin to Carry Out Preliminary Attack Plans on Iran — As Officials Consider What Sites to Target: Report

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The Trump administration is reportedly preparing preliminary plans for an attack on Iran, including the option of large-scale airstrikes.

Officials are considering how to follow through on President Trump’s recent elevated threats against the Islamic Republic, including what sites might be targeted, insiders told the Wall Street Journal.

A massive aerial strike campaign on multiple Iranian military targets is one option being considered — although Washington has not reached consensus on a plan of action.

No military equipment or personnel have been moved for a potential attack, the insiders said.

The conversations do not indicate that the US will strike, with the sources explaining that the planning is routine.

Trump, however, teased that the US was gearing up to retaliate should Tehran continue killing protesters in a post on Truth Social. (Read more from “Trump Admin to Carry Out Preliminary Attack Plans on Iran — As Officials Consider What Sites to Target: Report” HERE)

UK Allocates £200m to Prepare Troops to Deploy to Ukraine, France Reportedly Ready to Send 6K Soldiers

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The British government has announced that it has allocated £200 million to begin preparing the UK Armed Forces for deployment to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping force in the event of an armistice between Kyiv and Moscow.

Following the signing of a declaration of intent by the British and French governments with Ukraine in Paris this week, the Ministry of Defence said on Friday that £200 million has been allocated to help British troops be “ready to deploy if required” to Ukraine.

Additionally, the funds will go toward upgrading military vehicles and communication systems, as well as purchasing new counter-drone protection systems for the British arm of the Multinational Force for Ukraine (MNFU).

The MoD said that the funds demonstrate “a clear signal to allies and adversaries of the UK’s intent to lead the MNFU, fulfil our promises to secure the peace in Ukraine and deliver a ‘new deal’ for European security to make Britain safer.”

Speaking during a visit to Kyiv, Defence Secretary John Healey MP said: “As we approach the fifth year of Putin’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainians continue to fight with huge courage – civilians and military alike. (Read more from “UK Allocates £200m to Prepare Troops to Deploy to Ukraine, France Reportedly Ready to Send 6K Soldiers” HERE)

Trump Puts Political Hit On 5 Republican Senators Who Defied Him — One Isn’t Like The Others

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President Donald Trump called for a group of Republicans to lose their reelection bids Thursday after they voted to check his authority to use military force on Venezuela.

Frequent Trump critics — Republicans Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — were among the group of five Republicans who Trump excoriated for voting to block future military action absent congressional approval. Republican Indiana Sen. Todd Young, who did not back Trump in 2024, also supported the measure. Trump also notably lashed out at Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, a close populist ally who stunningly broke with the president during Thursday’s vote.

“This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President’s Authority as Commander in Chief,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that the five dissenting Republicans should be “ashamed” of their votes and “should never be elected to office again.” . . .

Hawley, a leading populist in the Senate who frequently breaks with traditional Republican orthodoxy on economic issues, said his vote in support of the war powers resolution should not be interpreted as a rebuke of the president.

The Missouri Republican said he voted to check the president’s authority over concerns Trump could send troops to Venezuela. He previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation in November that he opposed U.S. government-backed regime change and feared getting drawn into a costly foreign war.

“With regard to Venezuela, my read of the Constitution is that if the President feels the need to put boots on the ground there in the future, Congress would need to vote on it,” Hawley wrote on X following the vote.

The lawmaker told reporters that he had no reaction to the president calling for an end to his political career. (Read more from “Trump Puts Political Hit On 5 Republican Senators Who Defied Him — One Isn’t Like The Others” HERE)

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Cameraman Catches Moment Grenade Hits Congresswoman, Explodes On Head

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National Party Deputy Gladis Aurora Lopez Calderon of the Honduran Congress was seriously wounded when a grenade detonated near her head at the National Congress Thursday, multiple outlets reported.

Lopez was giving an interview when she was struck by the explosive device that was allegedly thrown by a far-left protester, according to HCH TV, a Honduran media outlet. Videos posted to X by the outlet not only showed the moment of impact, but also the object being thrown by an individual.

“We’re arriving at the emergency room, I’m in a lot of pain. I’m deaf in one ear, I think the cameras captured me being pushed out. I have to ask Human Rights to protect me,” Lopez said after the attack.

National Party Deputy Tomás Zambrano of the Honduran Congress, the party’s leader in the legislative body, said far-left protesters were responsible for the attack.

“We were giving interviews to the media, accompanied by fellow deputies from the National Party to begin the extraordinary session, and they threw bombs at us, with mortars,” Zambrano said, according to Times Now, before going on to accuse National Congress President Luis Rolando Redondo Guifarro of being responsible for the attack.

(Read more from “Cameraman Catches Moment Grenade Hits Congresswoman, Explodes On Head” HERE)

Top Democrats Are Agitating For Insurrection And Political Vigilantism

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Forget January 6. It turns out January 7 might go down as the date when insurrection really arrived in America — not from the MAGA right, but from the anti-Trump left.

In the aftermath of the fatal shooting Wednesday in Minneapolis of a woman who appears to have tried to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced at a press conference that he had issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard to mobilize to “protect Minnesotans” from “rogue ICE agents.”

When asked if the National Guard would be deployed against federal agents, or if anything like that has ever happened before, Walz said, “We’ve never been at war with our federal government,” and at one point told Minnesotans, “do not allow them to deploy federal troops here.”

It’s an almost unbelievable series of statements from a sitting governor. If taken at face value, it amounts to a threat to use the Minnesota National Guard for an anti-federal insurrection — something that has never quite happened in American history (the late 1850s armed conflict between the Mormons and the U.S. Army comes to mind, but Utah was a territory at the time, not a state). If Walz actually follows through with that threat, it will be an open act of sedition.

In that case, the moderate response would be to immediately arrest Walz, federalize the Minnesota National Guard, and declare martial law. Is Walz radical and clueless enough to actually do this? He was willing to let Minneapolis burn in the 2020 BLM riots before he activated the National Guard to restore order, so who knows. (Read more from “Top Democrats Are Agitating For Insurrection And Political Vigilantism” HERE)

Democrats: No One Would Get Shot If We Just Let Them Attack Law Enforcement

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We’re back to pretending there’s a debate to be had over whether someone recklessly disobeying law enforcement was justified in getting whacked. Per usual, Democrats and the dying news media are insisting it’s a civil right on par with free speech to not only interfere with arrests but to endanger the lives of government officials and innocent pedestrians in the process.

Minneapolis this week saw the deadly shooting of a 37-year-old woman who used her two-ton SUV to block a street patrolled by police and immigration enforcement agents. Several videos from different angles all show the same thing.

While officials are posted up in their vehicles, pedestrians are blowing whistles and yelling in protest. Renee Nicole Good, the now-deceased woman, has her Honda Pilot parked longways in the center of the street, obstructing traffic. When three officers approach Good and command her to exit the vehicle, she puts her car into reverse before shifting forward and flooring the gas pedal, apparently striking one of the agents on his left side. That officer had his weapon drawn for her to see, and when she failed to brake, he fired multiple rounds. The SUV then slams high-speed into another parked car on the road’s left shoulder.

An investigation is pending, and in the meantime, Democrat leaders and their supporters in the dying media are faulting law enforcement. “This was clearly not with any sort of intention to run somebody over but to get out of there,” Democrat Minneapolis Mayor and Somali whisperer Jacob Frey said Wednesday on CNN. “And you don’t need a legal degree to know that that does not authorize the use of deadly force.”

The Washington Post on Thursday ran headlines like “ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired at driver, video shows”; “Minneapolis protests remain peaceful after ICE officer fatally shoots woman”; and “Woman killed was a mother of 3 and a poet.” (She may have also been a fan of sunny days and warm blankets, there’s no telling.)

(Read more from “Democrats: No One Would Get Shot If We Just Let Them Attack Law Enforcement” HERE)

Syrian Army Orders Evacuations as Fighting Intensifies in Kurdish Aleppo

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The Syrian Army on Thursday told residents of Kurdish neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo to evacuate in the face of airstrikes, even as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said it was winning the intensifying battle for control of the city.

Aleppo has been restless since mid-December, when tensions between the Kurds and the military government headed by former al-Qaeda lieutenant Ahmed al-Sharaa boiled over into a skirmish at a security checkpoint.

The SDF was a major U.S. ally during the war against the Islamic State and it has been pushing for a degree of autonomy from Sharaa’s government, which took control after seizing Damascus and ousting dictator Bashar Assad in December 2024.

The autonomous zone claimed by the SDF includes a swath of northeastern territory and portions of Aleppo, the most important city in the region. The SDF has its own internal police force, known as the Asayish, which operates in the Kurdish-majority districts of the divided city. The checkpoint where fighting broke out in December was jointly manned by the Syrian Army and the Asayish. Each blames the other for shooting first and triggering the conflict.

The situation in Aleppo seemed to stabilize after a few days in December, but on Tuesday a fresh round of even more intense fighting broke out, displacing thousands of civilians and killing at least four. Tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians were seen fleeing Aleppo for the presumably safer ethnic enclave of Afrin. (Read more from “Syrian Army Orders Evacuations as Fighting Intensifies in Kurdish Aleppo” HERE)

Renee Nicole Good Was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘Warrior’ Who Trained to Resist Feds Before Shooting

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Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.

Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.

“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday.

“I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right.”

Good and her wife Rebecca, 40, were raising the boy together in the mostly working-class, activist-heavy neighborhood of south Minneapolis, which features tree-lined streets and a large number of homes with windows decked out in LGBTQ+ flags or signs depicting George Floyd. (Read more from “Renee Nicole Good Was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘Warrior’ Who Trained to Resist Feds Before Shooting” HERE)

House Passes Obamacare Subsidies, Defying GOP Leaders and Putting Pressure on Senate

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The US House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday extending Obamacare subsidies for three years, upping the pressure on Senate Republicans to reconsider the legislation just months after Democrats forced a government shutdown over the issue.

The House voted 230-196 to approve tens of billions of dollars in Affordable Care Act tax credits, with more than a dozen Republicans crossing party lines to join every Democrat.

The credits expired on Dec. 31, 2025, after having been previously enhanced through legislation passed under former President Joe Biden and a Democratic-controlled Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Roughly 22 million Americans are expected to have higher health care premiums this year as a result.

At least nine House Republicans had crossed party lines to advance the bill Wednesday — and at least 17 GOP lawmakers voted for its final passage. (Read more from “House Passes Obamacare Subsidies, Defying GOP Leaders and Putting Pressure on Senate” HERE)