Mamdani Signs 9/11 Order Recognizing Day Of Remembrance, Then Hands Symbolic Pen To Al-Qaeda Lawyer

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New York City’s mayor turned a solemn 9/11 commemoration into a firestorm by steering the signing pen toward an aide who once defended an al-Qaeda operative.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani gathered administration officials at City Hall on Friday to sign two executive orders ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the New York Post. One order designates the date a citywide Day of Remembrance and Service, while the second strengthens the city’s emergency preparedness and continuity plans, VINnews reported.

Mamdani gave the ceremonial pen to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and quietly asked, “Can you pass this?” according to the Post. Tisch then handed it to chief counsel Ramzi Kassem, who had slipped into the press conference near its end, before she became the first official to leave the room.

Kassem previously represented Ahmed al-Darbi, who pleaded guilty to war-crime charges linked to al-Qaeda maritime plots, including the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker off Yemen, Fox News reported. Al-Darbi was held at Guantánamo Bay, and his sister married Khalid al-Mihdhar, one of the hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which struck the Pentagon and killed 184 people.

Relatives of those killed in the attacks condemned the gesture. “How can you defend a guy like that who wants to do Americans or any innocent person harm?” said Dennis Warchola, whose firefighter brother died in the North Tower, the Post reported. Joyce Cohen Day, whose mother died in the South Tower, told the Washington Times that Mamdani deliberately gave a pen “to an al Qaeda lawyer.” (Read more from “Mamdani Signs 9/11 Order Recognizing Day Of Remembrance, Then Hands Symbolic Pen To Al-Qaeda Lawyer” HERE)

Five People Killed, Others Injured After Amazon Cargo Jet Crashes at Miami International Airport

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An Amazon cargo jet crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday, killing five people and injuring several more.

The crash occurred after the jet overshot the runway, according to reports. Video captured the harrowing aftermath:

According to NBC Miami:

A source with knowledge of the incident told NBC6 that the two pilots were taken to Jackson South, and the three others were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.

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The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at the airport around 2 p.m. ET on Sunday. The plane, a Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft, departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

(Read more from “Five People Killed, Others Injured After Amazon Cargo Jet Crashes at Miami International Airport” HERE)

Report: Trump Administration May Open Funds to Married Couples Who Choose to Have One Parent Stay at Home to Raise Children

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President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly working toward opening federal funds to help married couples who lost income due to one parent staying at home to care for their children.

The policy would “promote a traditional view of families” and “pay parents to stay home and raise their children” by using money from a program that helps parents who work outside the home, the New York Times reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.

“The change would create the only federal subsidy to pay parents to stay home and raise their children, one of the most significant efforts to date by the Trump administration to harness federal funds to promote a traditional view of families,” the article read:

To do so, officials are seeking to use a Health and Human Services Department fund that was created in the 1990s to help low-income and working-class parents afford child care so they could work or go to school.

Under the draft new rule, parents who stay home with their children could benefit from the program, which typically provides about $9,000 per child each year, potentially reshaping which families get federal child care money.

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Pentagon Reportedly Escalates Hunt For Leakers By Ordering Polygraph Exams

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The Department of War is reportedly taking further actions to address sensitive operational leaks.

Federal investigators are requiring around 50 of roughly 2,000 members of the U.S. military’s Joint Staff to undergo polygraph exams following recent leaks to the press, The New York Times reported Friday.

“The Department does not comment on internal personnel or investigative matters but takes all leaks of classified national security information extremely seriously and investigates accordingly,” chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Securing classified information is critical to ensuring the security of the United States and of our troops deployed around the world.”

Among the recent leaks were allegations that the U.S. ran out of crucial munitions during the early months of the Iran War.

The Pentagon announced plans to buy almost 14,000 more Patriot Advanced Capability-3 and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) components. The move followed the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimating in July that the U.S. depleted approximately two-thirds of its pre-war Patriot and THAAD inventories during the Iran War. (Read more from “Pentagon Reportedly Escalates Hunt For Leakers By Ordering Polygraph Exams” HERE)

Mike Huckabee Condemns Violent Israeli Settlers as ‘Terrorists’ in West Bank Visit

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee again denounced violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank, describing their attacks against Palestinians as acts of “terror.”

Huckabee has previously spoken out against settler violence, including after Israeli settlers attacked a home in the West Bank village of Qusra that was owned by an American citizen last month.

“If there are squatters that come in and put up their own flags and take possession of something that does not belong to them, if they burn a car, if they torch a mosque, if they go into someone’s home and vandalize it, paint graffiti on the walls, that’s a criminal act. But it extends beyond a criminal act. It’s an act of terror,” Huckabee said during a visit to the village of Turmus Ayya, where residents have reported frequent settler attacks over the past year. He clarified that his remarks were directed toward the U.S. citizens living among the Palestinians in the region. (Read more from “Mike Huckabee Condemns Violent Israeli Settlers as ‘Terrorists’ in West Bank Visit” HERE)

Trump’s MAGA Inc. Pours $10 Million into Ken Paxton’s Senate Race

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President Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC is putting at least $10 million behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his Senate race against Democrat James Talarico.

A Federal Election Commission filing submitted Saturday shows the group plans to spend $5 million promoting Paxton and another $5 million attacking Talarico. The filing marks MAGA Inc.’s first reported investment in the fall campaign ahead of the November midterm elections.

MAGA Inc. spokesperson Alex Pfeiffer said Saturday that the group plans to focus its campaign on Talarico’s tax record and other policy positions.

“High Tax Talarico wants to take money out of Texans’ pockets,” Pfeiffer said. “MAGA Inc. is going to ensure Texas knows about Talarico’s radical policies and elects Ken Paxton to the U.S. Senate.”

Before entering the Texas race, MAGA Inc.’s only major midterm expenditure was an $827,000 payment benefiting Sen. Darline Graham’s campaign in South Carolina. The group had otherwise spent roughly $18,000 on a midterm contest this year, following about $1.7 million in spending last year. It raised approximately $401 million through the end of the second quarter. (Read more from “Trump’s MAGA Inc. Pours $10 Million into Ken Paxton’s Senate Race” HERE)

Trump Weighs In on Lindsay Clancy Mistrial, $1 Million in Donations Pour in to Accused Mom’s Family

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While debate over the Lindsay Clancy murder case rages with true-crime hardliners calling for the mother to be imprisoned for life, many other Americans are empathetic to her claims of mental illness, as evidenced by a flood of donations to a GoFundMe page set up for her parents.

The donations topped one million dollars following the Massachusetts mother’s murder trial ending in a mistrial after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict — a decision that even drew comment from President Donald Trump, who did not opine on what punishment Clancy may or may not deserve.

Clancy, 36, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder after she admitted to strangling her three children, Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months, with exercise bands.

She entered an insanity defense, claiming she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the January 2023 killings.

“I assume there’s going to be another trial. It’s a terrible situation,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office minutes after Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan declared a mistrial in the case. “Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse.” (Read more from “Trump Weighs In on Lindsay Clancy Mistrial, $1 Million in Donations Pour in to Accused Mom’s Family” HERE)

Mother Labeled Child Abuser, Threatened With 6-Month Sentence For Letting Her Kid Play Outside

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A mother of five was placed on a child abuse and neglect registry and threatened with a jail sentence after being convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for letting her 5-year-old son walk to a pond by himself in their gated community, a report shows.

The mother, Karyann Parkinson, had been living in Williamsburg, Virginia, with her husband so that she could attend law school. She was pregnant with her fifth child when her son asked if he could walk the half-mile to the pond to collect goose feathers, his favorite activity, Reason reported.

Parkinson believed it would be safe. Her son knew the route on the sidewalk through the gated community that was separated from the road by 10 feet of grass. He would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, but she had seen him do so safely hundreds of times before. . .

Her son was spotted by a passerby who called security, who brought the boy back to his mother before chastising Parkinson and telling her son that bad people would want to take him. Soon, the security guard was joined by three police officers and two Child Protective Services (CPS) workers.

Her husband, who was out at lunch with their daughter, hurried home and told CPS that kids need to be able to take reasonable risks “in order to grow up non-anxious,” but the workers said that five-year-olds should never be unsupervised, according to Reason.

CPS would then launch an investigation into Parkinson for alleged abuse and neglect before placing her on the state’s child abuse and neglect registry for the next seven years.

(Read more from “Mother Labeled Child Abuser, Threatened With 6-Month Sentence For Letting Her Kid Play Outside” HERE)

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Inside The ‘Top Secret’ Plan That Led To Biggest Pro-Second Amendment Ruling In 90 Years

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It was after midnight at a small-town Texas gun store. Two men — a state lawmaker and a congressional candidate — were purchasing suppressors in the presence of a congressman and top officials of a pro-Second Amendment organization.

Just hours before, the congressman learned the Trump administration would abide by one of the most consequential Second Amendment rulings in over 90 years. The men proceeded to make history, becoming the first Americans to purchase suppressors without registration since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president. . .

The Daily Caller News Foundation interviewed several key players involved in making this long-sought Second Amendment victory a reality. From the halls of Congress, to the chambers of justice and finally to a Texas gun store, this is the inside account of what led to one of the most significant moments for the Second Amendment community since 1934.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) Federal Affairs Director Aidan Johnston told the DCNF that the origins of the battle happened years before the group launched its “top secret” effort.

“We did a lot of behind the scenes lobbying for about six months… all of this had to be top secret,” Johnston told the DCNF. “We didn’t want the Democrats or the anti-gunners to get any word of what we were planning on the big beautiful bill.” (Read more from “Inside The ‘Top Secret’ Plan That Led To Biggest Pro-Second Amendment Ruling In 90 Years” HERE)

Whopping 9 in 10 Americans Believe There’s ‘Widespread Corruption’ Within US Government: Gallup Poll

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Nearly 90% of Americans now believe there’s “widespread corruption” within the U.S. government, according to a recent poll.

The data came from a Gallup poll published Wednesday. For the survey, respondents were asked, “Is corruption widespread throughout the government in this country, or not?” According to Gallup, 89% of participants responded to the question with “Yes.”

That number, Gallup noted, was the highest it’s been in two decades. Additionally, the figure sat at 73% just two years earlier. That 16-point jump is the highest of any two-year span in the last 20 years.

That sentiment was shared among three major voting blocks, with 91% of Democrats, 90% of Independents, and a staggering 83% of Republicans believing in widespread corruption. Interestingly, Democrats saw a 15-point jump from the previous year. Republicans, on the other hand, had just a two-point increase, as 81% believed the government was corrupt in 2025.

With 2026’s high mark, President Donald Trump had three of the highest years on record when it comes to Americans’ perceptions of government corruption. Last year, 79% of Americans believed in widespread corruption. In 2018 — Trump’s first term — that number sat at 78%. (Read more from “Whopping 9 in 10 Americans Believe There’s ‘Widespread Corruption’ Within US Government: Gallup Poll” HERE)