9,000 More US Troops Head To Middle East As Trump Mulls Resuming Iran Strikes

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By Daily Caller. While President Donald Trump contemplates further strikes, America is deploying seven more warships to the Middle East, with the fleet carrying approximately 9,000 more troops.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt and three accompanying destroyers left their port in San Diego early this week and they are expected to reach the Middle East at the end of November, The Financial Times reported. It remains unclear whether the USS Theodore Roosevelt will join the USS George Washington and USS George HW Bush in the region or replace them.

Additionally, the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), consisting of an amphibious warship and two docking ships, is traveling to the region, according to the outlet. The ARG also carries the 13th Marine Expidentiary Unit.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) declined to comment to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Altogether, the ships carry around 9,000 troops. Carrier strike groups have approximately 5,000 troops, with dozens of aircraft aboard the carrier, The Financial Times reported. ARGs have about 4,200 sailors and Marines aboard. (Read more from “9,000 More US Troops Head To Middle East As Trump Mulls Resuming Iran Strikes” HERE)

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REVEALED: Eight U.S. Marines Injured In Iranian Missile Strike In Strait Of Hormuz

By Yeshiva World News. Eight U.S. Marines were injured when an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile struck a vessel operating in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, according to a report by NBC news, citing three U.S. officials. The attack and the injuries had not previously been disclosed by the Pentagon.

The Marines, seven enlisted personnel and one officer, suffered smoke inhalation and symptoms consistent with concussions, including headaches. None were seriously injured, and all eight returned to duty shortly after the attack. (Read more from “REVEALED: Eight U.S. Marines Injured In Iranian Missile Strike In Strait Of Hormuz” HERE)

AOC, Bernie Sanders Introduce Bill To Ban Feds From Using Flock Cameras

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Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation Friday to effectively end the federal use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs).

The Ban Flock Act would prohibit the federal government from purchasing, using or possessing an ALPR, accessing its data or using federal funds to purchase ALPRs, but it does not outright ban the cameras, according to the bill’s text. It would block certain federal grant funding for state and local governments that use ALPRs or contract with ALPR companies, such as Flock Safety, although it does not outright prohibit local agencies from purchasing the technologies with local tax dollars.

State and local governments using ALPRs would no longer receive federal assistance from the Department of Justice, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Homeland Security, according to the bill.

The legislation would allow Americans to sue the federal government for violation of their rights through the use of ALPRs.

No lawmakers have introduced bills to ban the cameras altogether. Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said in July she planned to introduce a bill to ban the cameras, although she has yet to introduce the bill.

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Traumatized Witnesses Reveal Christa Pike’s Hair-Raising Question After Botched Execution

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Media witnesses to the botched execution of Christa Pike described how the satanist killer lifted her head and asked if the pain was normal after a second round of the lethal drug cocktail was administered.

Pike, who would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, somehow survived the double dose of the highly potent sedative, Pentobarbital, Wednesday – with reporters describing how the failed execution played out unlike anything they had ever seen.

“They went through two rounds, and she was still breathing at the end, it was very ragged, she lifted her head up and was looking around at one point. She said there was a spot that was burning and hurting and asked if that was normal,” Catherine Sweeney of WPLN said at a press briefing after the execution was put on hold.

“None of that was normal.”

Pike, 50, was strapped to a gurney in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution’s death chamber just before 7:30 p.m. CDT an hour after her stay of execution was overturned by the Supreme Court.

“When they told us to leave at 8:53 Christa Pike was still breathing. They did two separate rounds of pentobarbital – which I’ve never seen before – the protocol does say that they should do a second round if the person is still alive,” Sweeney recounted. (Read more from “Traumatized Witnesses Reveal Christa Pike’s Hair-Raising Question After Botched Execution” HERE)

‘Extremely Rageful’ Trans NYT Exec ‘Rained Hell’ on Family for Years, In-Laws’ Lawyer Claims after Slaying

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The attorney for the alleged killer in-laws painted a drastically different picture Thursday of the transgender New York Times executive gunned down in a Northern California parking lot.

Curtis Briggs stood in front of the court where Jonathan McKinsey’s mother-in-law Shili Chen and father-in-law Shouyong Zhang were attending proceedings Thursday — and told reporters the victim had “rained hell on his family for years.”

“He was extremely rageful, could not control his temper, abused his wife so badly at one point he fractured her spine, abused the kids so badly that a court in Alameda County had to send him to parenting classes,” Briggs said. “McKinsey was extremely violent and dangerous to his family,” he added.

McKinsey faced allegations of spousal abuse and domestic violence from wife Candice Jang, well before he died Sept. 26, after Zhang and Chen allegedly shot him to death.

The New York Times employee was charged last year on two counts of misdemeanor child abuse for the incident, but was ultimately released from jail on the condition that he take parenting classes. Jang called the police after McKinsey allegedly hit their young son. (Read more from “‘Extremely Rageful’ Trans NYT Exec ‘Rained Hell’ on Family for Years, In-Laws’ Lawyer Claims after Slaying” HERE)

Trump’s State Department Revokes Quarter of a Million Visas from Foreign Nationals

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The State Department, led by Secretary Marco Rubio, has revoked more than 250,000 visas from foreign nationals since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025.

This week, Rubio announced that more than a quarter of a million visas have been revoked. On X, officials called it “a historic milestone that reflects our unwavering commitment to protecting the American people.”

In August, State Department officials revealed that most of the foreign nationals who, at that point, had their visas revoked were accused of assault, drunk driving, theft, drug crimes, as well as fraud, immigration violations, and endangering national security. (Read more from “Trump’s State Department Revokes Quarter of a Million Visas from Foreign Nationals” HERE)

Jaw-Dropping Way Trump Allegedly Got Talked Into a War Is Leaked

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Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s AI chatbot about whether Venezuelans would celebrate if he captured leader Nicolas Maduro—then ordered the operation that seized the South American dictator weeks later.

The extraordinary account from a Trump insider was revealed in a new Time report offering a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s obsession with artificial intelligence, which he “officially” rebranded this week as “super intelligence.”

According to the report, Trump has “marveled at AI’s capabilities” ever since he returned to power, and during an Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk in December, he spent hours asking his Grok chatbot questions about his presidency and legacy.

At the time, the U.S. military had been conducting highly contentious lethal strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump had claimed, without presenting any evidence, were smuggling drugs into America.

When the president asked Grok how Venezuelans might react to Maduro’s capture, the chatbot predicted many would welcome the downfall of the “repressive” leader, the official said. (Read more from “Jaw-Dropping Way Trump Allegedly Got Talked Into a War Is Leaked” HERE)

Two US Brothers Busted in $1.7M Hamas Fundraising Scheme — that was Exposed with Help from the NYPD

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Two Louisiana brothers are facing terrorism charges for their alleged role in a twisted scheme to fund Hamas under the guise of Gaza humanitarian aid – and they were brought down with the help of the NYPD.

Abdel Adhami and his sibling Omar Adhami were busted in the Pelican State last month for allegedly raising money online and funneling it to Saleem Alzaq, a member of the terror group who regularly uses social media to post Hamas propaganda, according to newly unsealed federal indictments.

Abdel allegedly funneled more than $83,000 to Hamas from 2023 to 2026 while his brother is accused of sending $6,000.

According to Abdel’s complaint, he used several different Snapchat accounts to post Hamas propaganda and raise funds for the terrorist group, in addition to referring followers to a Telegram account.

The Telegram account “almost exclusively posted pro-HAMAS and pro-Palestinian Islamic Jihad messages, videos, and images, while soliciting donations,” the court docs said. (Read more from “Two US Brothers Busted in $1.7M Hamas Fundraising Scheme — that was Exposed with Help from the NYPD” HERE)

Trump Says He Regrets All 3 of His Supreme Court Picks

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President Donald Trump said he regrets nominating all three of the Supreme Court justices he appointed during his first term, according to an interview published Thursday.

The president told TIME that Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, the three he placed on the high court between 2017 and 2020, have voted against him too often since taking the bench.

Asked whether he regretted the nominations, Trump pointed to the appointments he had handed each justice.

“Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in,” Trump said. “They voted against me too often. I was very—I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too.”

The president tied his frustration to the court’s rulings on birthright citizenship and his emergency tariffs. (Read more from “Trump Says He Regrets All 3 of His Supreme Court Picks” HERE)

Tech Giant Catches Chinese AI Firm Red-Handed In 15,000 Phony Account Scheme

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An American frontier artificial intelligence lab says it caught associates of a rival Chinese firm trying to copy its homework.

OpenAI said Wednesday it shut down an effort by more than 15,000 users to extract the “hidden reasoning” behind its AI models, tying a core group of people associated with Chinese-based Moonshot AI, the creator of the Kimi chatbot, according to a company report. The company warned that the technique could let rivals build copycat models without the safety protections OpenAI incorporates into its own, which risks national security.

“It is unclear whether all operators we observed during the relevant time period originated from a single actor. However, we attribute a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi,” OpenAI said in its report.

The ChatGPT creator said it shut down or limited the fake accounts, made it harder to sign up for new ones and is watching more closely for similar activity, the report stated.

The distillation activity began July 1 and peaked July 24 and 25, when more than 4,000 users sent roughly 16,000 requests, according to the report. OpenAI shut the activity down by July 28. (Read more from “Tech Giant Catches Chinese AI Firm Red-Handed In 15,000 Phony Account Scheme” HERE)

Trump DOJ Confirms It Will Not Appeal Historic Ruling Ending Red Tape For Gun Suppressors

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) formally notified Congress Thursday that it will not appeal a ruling that ended paperwork and registration requirements for suppressors.

United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, handed down a ruling striking down the National Firearms Act requirements on Aug. 5 on the grounds that reducing the transfer tax to $0 rendered the registration and processing requirements of the NFA unconstitutional. In a Thursday letter to Congress, Solicitor General D. John Sauer told lawmakers the DOJ would let the ruling stand.

“The Department of Justice has determined not to file an appeal,” Sauer wrote, noting that the court had also foreclosed the use of the commerce clause to justify the registration and paperwork requirements.

The latest figure posted on the agency’s website indicates that as of Sept. 3, over 6.9 million suppressors were registered in accordance with the National Firearms Act. The National Shooting Sports Foundation reported in June that at least 6.1 million suppressors were privately-owned. (Read more from “Trump DOJ Confirms It Will Not Appeal Historic Ruling Ending Red Tape For Gun Suppressors” HERE)