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Operation Lone Star officers apprehend human smugglers, gang members
Since Gov. Greg Abbott launched OLS in March 2021, OLS law enforcement officers have apprehended more than 383,000 illegal foreign nationals and made more than 29,000 criminal arrests, with over 26,000 felony charges reported.
They’ve also seized more than 418 million lethal doses of fentanyl, more than enough to kill everyone in the United States.
“Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps left by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott said. “Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden’s open border policies.”
In one recent apprehension, officers located and arrested a Honduran man who was hiding in a grain hauler in Maverick County. Using facial recognition and biometric data, they confirmed he’s an MS-13 gang member on the Transnational Organized Crime Watchlist.
In just the few first months of the year, Border Patrol and CBP agents apprehended 125 known suspected terrorists at the southern border alone.
Teenage Gang Member Armed With a Rifle is Shot by Merced Deputy When He Shot Her in The Ear
Officials say he turned his gun on the female deputy, firing one shot that hit her in the left ear, which led to her returning fire, striking Diaz-Duarte three times.
The suspect’s family members say he had been recently released from juvenile hall and had his ankle bracelet off a day before he was killed.
COVID COVERUP: “China Lied. Fauci Lied. People Died.” America Overwhelmingly Agrees
Most voters suspect U.S. officials covered up China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic, and less than half think Dr. Anthony Fauci has told the truth about the research that may have caused the outbreak.
Judge Cannon Sets August 14 Trial Date For Trump’s Classified Docs Case – Assigns Trial to Courthouse in Fort Pierce
All pre-trial motions and motions in limine must be filed by July 24, 2023.” – Judge Cannon said in a Tuesday order, BocaNewsNow reported.
The trial may not even begin in August.
President Trump’s lawyers will be filing a motion to dismiss based on allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
Sources close to Trump’s legal team told CBS News’ Catherine Herridge the former president’s lawyers are forming a legal strategy to get “under the hood” of Jack Smith’s case.
China weighs putting military troops in Cuba, according to report
China and Cuba are in talks to establish a joint military training facility that could lead to the stationing of Chinese military troops on the communist island less than 100 miles from Florida, U.S. intelligence reports indicate.
News of the development sparked concern in Washington on Tuesday, a day after Secretary of Antony Blinken met in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top officials as part of the Biden administration’s attempt to cool friction with China that has heated up on a range of fronts in recent years.
Tuesday’s developments come just weeks after Biden administration officials said the U.S. intelligence community is monitoring a Chinese spy base in Cuba that Beijing has been operating on the island since at least 2019.
Over half of voters say Trump indictment ‘politically motivated,’ election interference
Over half of registered voters, 55%, say Trump’s federal indictment is politically motivated while 45% say it is valid, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released late last week.
More than a quarter of Democrats, 28%, said the indictment was politically motivated, as did 83% of Republicans.
Most voters, 56%, also said they consider Trump’s “federal indictment to be an interference by the Department of Justice in the 2024 elections” while 44% said it was “the fair application of the law,” the survey also showed.
Nearly one-third of Democrats, 32%, said the indictment was election interference, along with 84% of Republicans.
Hunter Biden to Plead Guilty in Deal: 2 Tax Counts, 1 Gun Charge
Biden will plead guilty to willful failure to pay federal income tax — most likely on his foreign earnings — and will enter a “pretrial diversion program” regarding his gun crime, indicating that he will face no jail time.
Biden’s dubious business exploits came to light during the Obama administration, after he was discharged from the Navy for drug use and immediately found employment on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
The plea deal will likely involve Hunter Biden admitting to misdemeanor charges that will keep him from jail — and will avoid a trial. President Biden could pardon his son at any point, voiding any criminal consequences.
Thousands Protest at Dodger Stadium as Team Honors Anti-Catholic Drag Group
The protest, which was co-sponsored by nonprofits Catholic Vote and Catholics for Catholics, lasted for four hours until Friday evening, during the height of which organizers said up to 10,000 protestors showed up outside the gates.
Many demonstrators wore red and carried signs or symbols of their faith, decrying the antics of the drag group as mocking of their religion and the work of real nuns.
“We wanted to send a message to the Dodgers and woke corporations that enough is enough,” Catholic Vote spokesperson Tommy Valentine told The Epoch Times. “If we stand up and stand together, we can show these woke corporations that they can’t get away with [mocking Catholics]. We’re not going to stop.”
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—a self-described group of “queer and trans nuns”—is known for its controversial showcases, including its depiction of Christ’s crucifixion, where scantily-clad drag queens perform pole dance on the cross, along with other sexually explicit content. The group first appeared publicly in San Francisco in 1979, according to its website.
‘Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities’ Hits the Big Screen
“Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities” is an Epoch Original docudrama examining the complex issues surrounding transgenderism and youth.
The film explores the roles played by the education system, the medical and pharmaceutical industries, the financial interests behind the transgender movement, and the societal and political mechanisms at work.
NTD reporter Jason Perry was at the premiere to speak to some of the participants in the documentary.
Trans-identified male killer Dana Rivers moved to California women’s prison after murdering lesbian couple and their son
Trans-identified killer, Dana Rivers, who was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of a lesbian couple and their teenage son, has been transferred to a female-only prison in California.
On June 16, Rivers, a 68-year-old male, was transferred to Central California Women’s Facility, which is the largest female institution in the state located in Chowchilla, California, records show.
Son of former Minnesota Democrat lawmaker arrested, charged with murder after vehicle collision
Thompson has a previous criminal record, which includes a 2018 hit-and-run incident that took place in California.
The woman involved in the incident was in a coma for several weeks. As a result, he was given an eight-year sentence.
The vehicle Thompson was driving at the time of the incident was carrying 17 pounds of marijuana and $20,000 in cash, per Fox News.
Now Thompson is suspected of killing five women in Minneapolis after he was trying to get away from a police officer.
The Daily Mail reported that when the Santa Barbara County District Attorney was questioned about why Thompson was let out of prison, they did not provide a straight answer.
They said that the state provides a “wide latitude to award additional custody credits, as well as, early parole opportunities.”
World News:
First All-European Anti-Air Missile System Now Operational In Ukraine; Joins US NASAMS, Patriot & HAWK SAMs
France announced the supply to Ukraine of this missile defense system, which is an analog of the American Patriot system.
SAMP/T can destroy aircraft at a distance of 3 km to 100 km and ballistic missiles at a distance of 3 km to 25 km.
French reports said that it is the first medium-range anti-missile system developed in Europe. It is already deployed in Romania to protect the strategically important Black Sea port of Constanta.
Macron made the statement in the closing speech of a conference in Paris gathering defense ministers and other representatives of 20 European countries, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Kiev offers ‘no stable grounds’ for talks – Kremlin
Kiev’s uncompromising stance is leaving no opening for peace talks with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, reiterating Moscow’s long-held position on the issue.
“[Russian President Vladimir] Putin is open to contacts. There was a very productive exchange with an African delegation on Saturday and this dialogue will continue,” the official told journalists on Tuesday.
However, “considering the position held currently by the Ukrainian regime and the background of this position, one cannot say there are any stable grounds for eventual talks,” he added.
During the Saturday meeting, Putin explained to his guests the history of failed truce talks that Moscow and Kiev held in the first months of the conflict. Among other things, he showed the foreign dignitaries a draft treaty, which the Ukrainian negotiators provisionally accepted in Istanbul last year.
The deal would have ended hostilities and enshrined Ukraine’s status as a neutral state with a limited military force in exchange for international security guarantees. Kiev pulled out of the talks shortly afterwards, in what Moscow claimed to be a US-ordered U-turn.
EU preparing $55 billion bailout for Kiev – Bloomberg
The European Commission wants member states to cough up €50 billion ($55 billion) to bankroll the Ukrainian government, so it can pay wages and pensions, and commence reconstruction projects, sources cited by Bloomberg have said.
The terms of the proposed bailout are subject to change pending an official announcement on Tuesday, the outlet reported on Tuesday. The package will be financed by direct contributions from member states, as opposed to borrowing from the market.
The aid will be provided in the form of grants, concessional loans and guarantees rather than some “burdensome reconstruction instrument,” the outlet said, adding that the money would be provided between 2024 and 2027.
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Russian soldier gets £9,000 for destroying tank; Ukraine has eyes on target to strike with US weapons, Moscow claims
France and Italy are united in supporting the war effort in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron has said.
The French president met Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, at the Elysee Palace today.
“We need to continue, in particular so that the counteroffensive launched a few days ago should be as effective as possible,” Mr Macron said.
Russia has “mined” the pond used to keep reactors cool at the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief has said.
Kyrylo Budanov, head of the GUR agency, said on television that it was “most terrifying” that “the cooling pond was mined”.
He provided no evidence for his assertion.
The six-reactor complex, Europe’s biggest nuclear plant, has been under occupation since shortly after the Russian invasion last February.
Ukrainian counteroffensive so far: Latest VIDEOS of destroyed hardware
Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive has had no major impact on the frontline of the conflict so far, but has apparently resulted in large equipment losses for Kiev, according to Moscow.
Up to 30% of the heavy equipment supplied to Kiev by its Western backers has been destroyed by Russian troops, President Vladimir Putin said last week.
Almost a dozen videos, mostly published by the Russian Defense Ministry, have surfaced online in recent weeks, showing Ukrainian heavy equipment pieces being successfully targeted by Russian forces.
Ukrainian counteroffensive to end in weeks – Russian MP
Kiev’s forces will exhaust their offensive capabilities in July if the current Ukrainian casualty rate persists, the head of Russia’s State Duma Defense Committee, Andrey Kartapolov, said on Tuesday.
Ukrainian troops have lost some 900 soldiers to deaths and injuries over the past 24 hours alone, the colonel general explained. According to Kartapolov, they have also lost nine tanks and dozens of armored vehicles over the same period. “If it continues at this pace, I believe we will finish repelling [this offensive] in three weeks and move on to dynamic actions ourselves,” the MP predicted in an appearance on the ‘Solovyov Live’ show.
The lawmaker claimed that Ukraine had already lost around 20,000 soldiers out of the 40,000 to 50,000 it had reportedly trained for the offensive. While he did not name his sources, he claimed the much-awaited Ukrainian operation had largely failed.
Ukraine war: Russian air strikes hit Kyiv, other regions far from frontline
Ukrainian officials said that Russia on Tuesday struck at military and infrastructure targets in the capital city of Kyiv and across other parts of the country. The strikes targeted the western areas far from the front lines, the officials further claimed.
To confirm the Ukrainian claims partly, Russia’s defence ministry said that the forces had hit and destroyed eight ammunition warehouses across the neighbouring nation in the last 24 hours. It also said that forces repelled Ukrainian attacks in three different directions.
The war-torn nation said that at night, Russia launched 35 “Shahed” attack drones, and 32 of them were shot down by Ukraine, further mentioning that anti-aircraft defence operated in most regions.
According to the officials, the Kyiv region was impacted the most as non-residential structures and several private houses were damaged. However, there were no reports of casualties or injuries.
Israel asserts “all options on the table”; UN: ‘regional stability threatened’ TV7 Israel News 20.06
1) Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant asserts that Israel will ratchet-up its ‘proactive’ war on terror, while highlighting that, “all options are on the table.”
2) The United Nations warns that incidents similar to yesterday’s clash in the Palestinian city of Jenin threatens “to plunge the region deeper into a deadly crisis.”
3) The United States voices deep concern over Israel’s intentions to move forward with construction of thousands of housing units throughout the West Bank districts of Judea and Samaria.
Two terrorists killed by Israeli forces after West Bank terror attack
More details continue to emerge from the terrorist attack that killed four Israelis in the West Bank
Four Israelis murdered in West Bank terrorist attack
Our Nicole Zedek brings us the latest information from the scene of the attack near the Israeli settlement of Eli
Only ‘about 40 hours’ of oxygen left in missing Titanic tourist submersible: US Coast Guard
The US Coast Guard said that the air-and-sea search for the submersible is now investigating underwater as well.
Head of the search operation Rear Admiral John Mauger, speaking to the ABC News programme “Good Morning America”, said that the surface ships and planes searching for the small sub are now scouring an area of around 5,000 square miles (13,000 square km).
“As we continue on with the search we are expanding our capabilities … So we have a commercial vessel that is on the scene now that has remote-operated vehicles that will give us the ability to search under the water as well,” Mauger stated.
Controversial online influencer Andrew Tate charged with rape, human trafficking in Romania
“The anti-organised crime prosecution’s unit (DIICOT) ordered the indictment” of the four defendants for offences, including “setting up an organised criminal group… trafficking in persons… rape”, they said.
The four were arrested by the Romanian police in December 2022. They were placed under house arrest earlier this year in the month of March.
Tate, his brother Tristan and the two Romanian women deny all the accusations against them.
Politics:
Congress prepares to unseal testimony, evidence from IRS whistleblower in Hunter Biden case
Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., scheduled an executive session for 8 a.m. Thursday where lawmakers are expected to vote to free the whistleblower evidence and testimony of IRS supervisory criminal agent Gary Shapley from the 6103 privacy requirements that normally shield Americans’ tax information from public disclosure.
The development came just hours after U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware announced in a court filing that Hunter Biden has struck a deal to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay taxes and to enter a probation program that could eliminate a third charge, a felony, accusing him of lying on a gun application.
The vote by the GOP-led committee will allow the evidence Shapley provided in six hours of testimony last month as well as 23 pages of evidence from the Hunter Biden tax probe to be released to the public.
Biden’s electric vehicle agenda can’t go forward without China: Trump-era official
Trump-era OMB Director Russ Vought joins ‘Fox & Friends First’ ahead of congressional lawmakers’ upcoming meeting with Ford and GM to discuss their reliance on China.
Comer, Raskin To View More FBI Documents in Biden Probe (Exclusive)
The claim has been at the center of the Republican investigation into the president and his family, which has taken on enhanced urgency after the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump and a plea deal reached by Hunter Biden, the president’s adult son, on federal tax and gun charges.
Republicans have argued that the bribery allegations were forwarded to authorities in Delaware, where they are now part of an ongoing investigation. But law enforcement has never said that the allegations are being investigated in Delaware, where Hunter Biden reached his plea deal on tax and gun charges.
Raskin asked FBI Director Christopher Wray in a letter last week to provide in writing what agency officials told him and Comer in a closed-door briefing, including that Biden is not under investigation in the bribery scheme.
Republicans Blast ‘Sweetheart’ Plea Deal for Hunter Biden
“Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery,” Comer said.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the number four Republican in the chamber, said the GOP would “not rest until the full illegal corruption of the Biden Crime Family is exposed.”
“A slap on the wrist for Hunter Biden while “The Big Guy” continues to hunt down his top political opponent,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said. “This doesn’t show equal justice. It’s a mockery of our legal system by a family that has no respect for our laws.”
“It’s no coincidence that less than a week after President Trump is arraigned by the DOJ, Hunter Biden is pleading guilty to a sweetheart deal with no jail time,” added Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Twitter.
How Hunter Biden’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal eviscerates his father’s credibility
Conservatives from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on down derided the plea agreement as a “sweetheart deal” and a “traffic ticket” emblematic of a “two-tiered” justice system because it spares Hunter Biden from prison while leaving Donald Trump facing hundreds of years in prison on 71 felonies in two separate indictments.
But the truth is the evaluation of just how much Joe Biden misled the American public to win the presidency is just coming into focus.
And the attacks on journalists, lawyers and investigators like GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson who pursued the truth are now made all the more hideous.
“Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery,” panel Chairman James Comer said Tuesday.
Commentary:
Endgame – Full Film (2007)
For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world’s population, while enabling the “elites” to live forever with the aid of advanced technology.
For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity’s extermination: Operation ENDGAME.
Never before has a documentary assembled all the pieces of the globalists’ dark agenda.
Endgame’s compelling look at past atrocities committed by those attempting to steer the future delivers information that the controlling media has meticulously censored for over 60 years. It fully reveals the elite’s program to dominate the earth and carry out the wicked plan in all of human history.
Endgame is not conspiracy theory, it is documented fact in the elite’s own words.
EXPLAINED: Why THIS Hunter Biden crime update is ‘MADNESS’
Republicans are calling it a ‘slap on the wrist,’ especially since it seems Hunter will receive NO jail time. It’s ‘madness,’ Glenn says, but he also predicts this entire Biden Crime Family saga is FAR from over. Listen to this clip to find out why…
Does RFK Jr. have a point? | Will Cain Podcast
Hunter Biden’s Charges Are Nothing But A Diversion
The feds are notoriously tough on firearms. Nationally, for example, 94.2 percent of federal firearms convictions in 2022 involved some prison time, and the median sentence was 39 months.
Of course, Hunter won’t even have to end up with a conviction. This is an even rarer event. In 2021, fewer than 1 percent of cases filed by U.S. attorneys in federal court resulted in the kind of pretrial diversion offered to Hunter.
Indeed, if Hunter’s were a typical case, we could have expected a much more aggressive DOJ response.
Mixing illegal drugs and firearms is usually a quick trip to the land of five- or seven-year mandatory minimum sentences.
Whole initiatives, such as Project Safe Neighborhoods, have been built around getting offenders combining drugs and weapons off the streets.
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