News and Headlines. 10/23/2023.

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US News.

Inside LA’s brazen sex market — where women sell themselves in broad daylight —emboldened by California’s new laws

A 40-block area of Figueroa Boulevard in South LA sees hundreds of prostitutes, some barely out of their teens, plying their trade since Gov. Gavin Newsom passed the controversial Safer Streets for All Act, which decriminalized loitering with the intent to work as a prostitute in January.

“Before, this type of activity only happened at night where most citizens wouldn’t see it, but now it’s 24/7,” one source told The Post.

“Now you can drive by at 2 p.m. and see it. Families drive by and see 10 girls on the corner, condoms on the ground. 

“You go by the alleys and you see a guy in the middle of the alley and a woman performing [fellatio]. And a mom and her kids have to pass by that. It’s ridiculous, all in the open broad daylight. God only knows the impact it has on those kids who have to see this.”


Off-Duty Pilot Allegedly Tried to Crash Alaskan Airlines Flight

The crew of a Horizon Airlines regional jet diverted their flight to Portland, Oregon Sunday after an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot riding in the cockpit’s jumpseat tried to shut down the jet’s engines on a flight to San Francisco.

Alaska Air Group is the Seattle-based parent of Horizon and Alaska airlines. “The crew secured the aircraft without incident,” Alaska said. The Embraer E-175 flight was met by law enforcement in Portland and the event is being investigated by the FBI, the airline said.

“We’ve got the guy that tried to shut the engines down out of the cockpit and he doesn’t sound like he’s causing any issue in the back right now, I think he’s subdued,” a pilot told air traffic controllers, according to audio recorded by Live ATC. “We want law enforcement as soon as we get on the ground and parked.”


Hezbollah and Hamas Operatives Are Already Here

Real America’s Voice Contributor Tera Dahl joins @DBrodyReports to talk about the increased risk of terrorists crossing the southern border.


LEAKED: Hamas, Hezbollah terrorists could already be in US: DHS report

The memo, obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, was sent by the San Diego Field Office Intelligence Division of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on October 20, as the war between Israel and Hamas continues and pro-Hamas protests spread around the globe.

“San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border,” the memo read.

“Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico,” it added.


CBP Confirms 2nd-Straight Year for 2 Million Migrant Apprehensions at Southwest Border

Photos: Breitbart Texas, Getty Images, and Texas DPS

Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 5.7 million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border between ports of entry, the reports indicate.

The 2,045,838 apprehensions include nearly 1.3 million single adults, 621,000 family units, and 131,500 unaccompanied minors, the report indicates.

In contrast, during President Donald Trump’s last full fiscal year in office, agents apprehended only 400,651. During the last two months alone, agents apprehended 399,000 migrants.

In September, agents apprehended 218,763 migrants. This represents an increase of five percent over the 207,597 migrants apprehended one year earlier.

The two million migrant apprehensions do not include migrants who entered the country through the CBP One app and other immigration blanket parole programs not authorized by Congress. Official U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that include these numbers are not expected to be released until the end of October.


736 known or suspected terrorists apprehended at U.S. border in fiscal 2023

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.Eric Gay | AP

World News.

Two Israeli Hostages Released By Hamas

Hamas releases two more Israeli hostages Yocheved Lifshitz (85) and Nurit Yitzhak (80). Israel Government confirms the development.

Both women are said to be in “poor health conditions.”

The ladies are now in the hands of the Red Cross.

Hamas announced the release through their Telegram channel. The terrorist organization announced that Cooper and Lifshitz were being released for “compelling humanitarian” reasons.

However, both of their husbands are still being held against their will by the terrorist group in Gaza.

The women’s families have also been notified that their loved ones were being freed.

The 85-year-old’s daughter, Sharone Lifshitz, spoke to reporters after her parents were taken, and she described what was left of their home after the horrific incident took place.


Hamas Terrorists Had Plans to Use Chemical Weapons During October 7th Attacks

Two Israeli officials claim the Israel Defense Forces discovered a USB drive containing instructions for creating a “cyanide dispersion device” on a Hamas operative associated with the terrorist groups’ attacks two weeks ago, according to Axios.

This discovery was detailed by two Israeli officials, and the outlet obtained a copy of a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable.

Since the start of the attacks on Oct. 7, Israeli soldiers claimed to be collecting documents from Hamas militants detailing the group’s plans of attack, which include threatening the kibbutz of Sa’ad.

Speaking on CNN on Sunday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog showed a small handbook that he claimed contains torture and kidnapping tactics that Hamas would use on hostages — found on the body of one of the terrorists.


Report: NEWSMAX sees graphic footage of Hamas atrocities | Newsline

On Monday’s “Newsline,” NEWSMAX’s John Huddy reports on graphic footage he has seen from the Israel Defense Forces showing the atrocities from the attack by Hamas.


Israel-US coordinate Gaza’ ground-offensive; Europe ponders support for Israel TV7 Israel News 23.10

1) Israel has entered into the seventeenth day of war, since the Islamist terror groups from the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip massacred over 1,400 mostly civilians in Israel’s south.

2) The United States is set to deploy additional forces throughout the Middle East, amid prospects of wider escalation.

3) European nations voice unequivocal support for Israel’s right to defend itself, while highlighting the need to accommodate the Humanitarian plight of the Palestinian population of Gaza.


“Make It Stop” – Israel Shares 43 Minutes of Gruesome Hamas Attacks to Horrified Journalists in Private Screening Not Yet Released to Public – Includes Young Children Burned and Pregnant Women Cut Open

A Hamas terrorist approaches an Israeli vehicle. Credit: IDF and Times of Israel

The Times of Israel and other outlets printed the gruesome details shared by the IDF. With very few exceptions, journalists were only allowed notepads and pens as the IDF forbade them form sharing the most terrifying footage to the public.

Here are some of the most shocking details revealed:

In one video, a man rolls around on the ground, bleeding from his stomach, as a Hamas terrorist tries in vain to chop his head off with farming equipment.

In another clip, an Israeli woman is trying to determine if a partially burned corpse with a mutilated head is that of a family member.

The dead woman’s dress was pulled up to her waist with her underpants removed. She had been raped and torured by the medieval savages before being set ablaze.

Joel Pollak of Breitbart News then describes perhaps the most horrifying video of all: one child had been blinded by the Hamas savages and was covered in his father’s blood after they deliberately targeted his family:


Politics.

House GOP launches probe into Homeland Security’s hiring of ex-PLO operative

Photo by: Lindsey Wasson
Marchers hold a large Palestinian flag as thousands march during a pro-Palestinian rally and march Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services placed the employee, Nejwa Ali, on leave this week after her history was exposed but has not answered questions about whether it knew at the time she was hired that she had worked less than two years earlier at the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in the U.S.

Rep. Mark Green, Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, demanded that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas get to the bottom of Ms. Ali’s hiring and how she was allowed to remain on the job as an asylum officer and immigration adjudicator, all while attacking Israel and in recent days celebrating Hamas in social media posts.

“It should go without saying that former spokespeople for groups that have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government shouldn’t be working in our Department of Homeland Security,” Mr. Green said. “We’re demanding answers from Secretary Mayorkas as to why Ali, who also publicly espoused pro-terrorist and anti-Semitic beliefs, was allowed to maintain her role as an asylum officer.”

Mr. Green revealed the investigation in a letter to Mr. Mayorkas, which was obtained by The Washington Times. Three of Mr. Green’s subcommittee chairmen also signed the letter.


Anti-Israel sentiment has permeated Biden administration from the start

“Biden has appointed the most anti-Semitic, anti-Israel people to important posts we’ve ever seen,” Zionist Organization of America National President Morton Klein told Just the News. 

ZOA has identified dozens of current and former Biden administration officials with a history of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments. 

For example, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was on the list, in part because he opposed sanctioning Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and designating it as a foreign terrorist organization. Iran is a known funder of terror groups targeting Israel, including Hamas and Hezbollah.

After the Oct. 7 attack against Israel, Blinken made a post calling for Israel to reach a cease-fire with Hamas. He has since deleted the post.

“Almost every person appointed to an important post is hostile to Israel. This is anti-Semitism,” Klein alleged.

Another high-profile example of anti-Israel sentiment in the administration comes from National Security Council senior intelligence director Maher Bitar.

Biden’s campaign was also filled with people expressing anti-Israel sentiments. A 2021 letter signed by more than 500 Biden campaign alumni demanded the president to “hold Israel accountable for its actions” after Israel responded to a barrage of rockets from Gaza.

At least nine of the letter’s signatories are now Biden administration staffers, according to an analysis from RealClearPolitics.

Additionally, Biden partnered with the Council on American-Islamic Relations for his administration’s “Strategy to Counter Antisemitism” earlier this year.


Democrat-Appointed Colorado Judge Green Lights Effort to Kick Trump Off 2024 Ballot

AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

The ruling was issued by Judge Sarah Wallace, a Colorado district court judge.

Wallace was appointed to the bench earlier this year by Democrat Gov. Jared Polis.

Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, faces challenges to appear on the ballot in multiple states based on his alleged role in events of January 6, 2021.

Those lawsuits cite the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, which bans those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office.

Trump has not been convicted of insurrection and was acquitted by the U.S. Senate of charges of engaging in insurrection.


Ben Bergquam On National Effects By Border Crisis: The Border Crisis “Doesn’t Stay On The Border”


Commentary.

Glenn: ‘If THIS goes wrong, we are at World War III’

China is stationing 6 warships in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy is increasing its presence in the area, and Iran might have a nuclear weapon.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration is allegedly trying to delay Israel’s ground invasion, reportedly to free more hostages. But Glenn believes there may be other motives.

Glenn reviews the latest updates as the war appears to escalate even further and warns that we’re entering dangerous waters: “If this goes wrong, we are at World War III.”


MICHAEL SAVAGE ON RADICAL ISLAM (2004 – LIVE AT THE CONCORD PAVILION)