News and Headlines.9/01/2025.

Trump awarding Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rudy Giuliani after ex-NYC mayor seriously injured in harrowing car crash

President Trump announced Monday that he plans to award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, days after the former New York City mayor was seriously injured in a car accident.

“As President of the United States of America, I am pleased to announce that Rudy Giuliani, the greatest Mayor in the history of New York City, and an equally great American Patriot, will receive THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Country’s highest civilian honor,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Details as to time and place to follow,” the president added.

Giuliani, 81, remains hospitalized as he recovers from a Saturday car accident in New Hampshire.

The former mayor is “in good spirits and recovering tremendously,” according to his head of security Michael Ragusa.


11-year-old boy fatally shot in Houston after ‘ding dong ditch’ doorbell-ringing prank, police say

Photo by: CNN Newsource,Houston Police at a home after a fatal shooting.

An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday.

The boy had been ringing doorbells as a prank late Saturday evening, the Houston Police Department said in a statement. Commonly referred to as “ding dong ditching,” the prank involves fleeing before someone inside the home opens the door.

The boy, who has not yet been identified, died of his wounds Sunday, police said.

Police spokesperson Shay Awosiyan said that officers were still investigating and had not arrested anybody in connection with the boy’s death as of Sunday evening.

Other “ding dong ditch” pranks have turned deadly in the past. In 2023, a Southern California man was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder for killing three teenage boys by intentionally ramming their car after they rang his doorbell as a prank.

And in May, a Virginia man was charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting an 18-year-old who had rung his doorbell while filming a TikTok video of the prank, the New York Times reported.


Chinese networks use U.S. to launder billions for Mexican cartels

Emilee Calametti | The Center Square

Chinese networks are laundering billions of dollars in drug cartel cash through the U.S. financial system, according to a new report from the Treasury Department. 

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said banks flagged about $312 billion in transactions from suspected Chinese money laundering networks from January 2020 to December 2024. That came from 137,153 Bank Secrecy Act reports from financial institutions. 

Treasury also linked Chinese money laundering networks to U.S. real estate transactions, casinos, human trafficking and even laundering through assisted living homes in New York.

The networks also use Chinese students studying in the U.S. to help facilitate some schemes. Real estate alone accounted for about 13% of the total, but the vast majority was U.S. banks.

“Money laundering networks linked to individual passport holders from the People’s Republic of China enable cartels to poison Americans with fentanyl, conduct human trafficking, and wreak havoc among communities across our great nation,” Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John Hurley said.

The report comes after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suspended a Biden-era small business rule in March designed to curb money laundering that small businesses had challenged in court. President Donald Trump said the Corporate Transparency Act, which Congress passed in 2021, was “outrageous and invasive.”

 Bessent said it was costly for small businesses. The CTA would have required small businesses to report information about their beneficial owners to Treasury’s FinCEN. The rules remain in place for foreign businesses. 

The FinCEN report noted that laws and regulations in Mexico and China also play a role.

“Mexico’s currency restrictions prevent large amounts of U.S. dollars from being deposited into Mexican financial institutions, hindering the cartels’ ability to launder funds through the formal Mexican financial system,” according to the report. The [People’s Republic of China] currency control laws limit the amount of money Chinese citizens can transfer abroad each year.”

The two groups have learned to work well together in recent years. FinCEN refers to Chinese money laundering networks as CMLNs. 

“Ultimately, Chinese citizens’ demand for large quantities of U.S. dollars and the cartels’ need to launder their illicit U.S. dollar proceeds has resulted in a mutualistic relationship wherein the cartels sell off their illicitly obtained U.S. dollars to CMLNs who, in turn, sell the U.S. dollars to Chinese citizens seeking to evade China’s currency control laws,” the report said…..


New Czech Gov’t Data Reveals COVID Vaccinated 40% More Likely To Die of All Causes

The Czech government’s own vaccine records have blown the lid off the official narrative, revealing a grim reality: those who took the COVID-19 shots were 21% more likely to die than the unvaccinated. Even more alarming, for people under 70, the risk of death didn’t just rise slightly—it skyrocketed by 40%.

That conclusion comes from a new analysis by entrepreneur and researcher Steve Kirsch, who has created a groundbreaking method—known as KCOR—to measure vaccine safety.

Using only three datapoints per person—date of birth, date of death, and date of vaccination—the method objectively determines whether a vaccine saves lives or shortens them.

Applied to the Czech Republic’s record-level dataset—the only such public data in the world—the results were unmistakable: the COVID vaccines never showed a net benefit at any point.

For those under 70, the risk of death shot up by 40%. Overall, the vaccinated population faced a 21% higher mortality rate compared to the unvaccinated.

This isn’t speculation. It’s not based on models or media spin. It’s straight from government data—and the picture it paints is chilling.

Kirsch applied KCOR to the only publicly available, record-level government dataset on COVID vaccination: the Czech Republic’s national data. Unlike the U.S. or most European nations—where the truth is locked away in secrecy and guarded by “approved researchers”—this dataset provides a rare opportunity for independent scrutiny.

The results? Devastating.

From mid-2021 through the end of 2022, the data show that the COVID vaccines offered no net benefit to anyone—of any age.

Even worse, the vaccinated were significantly more likely to die.

  • For those under 70, the net harm was 40%, nearly identical to findings from other independent studies such as Levi’s analysis of Florida data.
  • Overall, vaccination increased the risk of death by 21% compared to the unvaccinated.

Let that sink in: according to government data, and an objective, reproducible analysis method, people who took the shots were 21% more likely to die during this period than those who didn’t…..



Russia Suspected of Jamming GPS on EU Chief Ursula Von Der Leyen’s Plane, Officials Say

Aplane with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen aboard was allegedly hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation that jammed the craft’s navigation equipment.

The claim was made by a commission spokeswoman and reported by the Associated Press.

The plane landed safely at an airport in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, and von der Leyen will continue her planned tour of the European Union’s nations bordering Russia and Belarus, said the commission’s spokesperson Arianna Podestà.

Von der Leyen, who is a sharp critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine, is on a four-day tour of the EU nations bordering Russia and its ally Belarus, the wire service also reports.

Podestà said the assertion was made based on “information from the Bulgarian authority that they suspect that this was due to blatant interference by Russia.”


CNN analyst voices growing concerns over Democrat chances in 2026 midterms: ‘As good … as the Cracker Barrel rebrand’

The floundering of the Democratic Party is becoming impossible to ignore while Republicans continue to make positive gains in swing states. At least one mainstream media outlet is now admitting that Democrats are in trouble ahead of the 2026 midterms, and the numbers appear to prove it.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten broke down the major gains in voter registration in key swing states for Republicans.

Looking at the data from Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, Enten said, “The Republican Party is in their best position at this point in the cycle since at least 2005, in all four of these key battleground states.”

Enten showed that Arizona had a three-point gain in Republican voter registration; Nevada had a six-point gain. Strikingly, North Carolina and Pennsylvania both had an eight-point gain in Republican voter registration.

“Are there any bright spots for Democrats? Have they picked up any ground since January 1 in terms of party registration? I’m not seeing it in these key swing states, these four key swing states. That’s what we’re talking about: party registration margin gain since January 1, 2025.”

“The Democratic brand is in about as good a position as the Cracker Barrel rebrand,” he added.


A storm is brewing in Iowa — and Republicans should take note: ‘There are danger signs’

In recent years, Republicans have enjoyed sweeping victories in the red state of Iowa, most recently with President Donald Trump’s 13-point statewide victory in the 2024 presidential election.

However, there are warning signs that this monumental lead is beginning to erode.

For the first time in three years, Democrats managed to break the Republicans’ supermajority after Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch for an open state Senate seat on Tuesday.

Drey won the district by a jaw-dropping 10 points, which is a dramatic departure from Trump’s 11-point victory in the district back in November.

Steve Deace, a native Iowan and host of the “Steve Deace Show” on BlazeTV, cautioned that this shift is part of a growing political phenomenon in the Hawkeye State that poses a real threat to Republican leadership.

“This is not an isolated incident,” Deace told Blaze News. “They have been doing this to us for several years now. If they can do it in Woodbury County, which Trump won by 23 points in 2024, then they can pretty much do it absolutely everywhere.”

Normally, Republicans easily sail to victory in Western Iowa, Deace said. They could even nominate “a ham sandwich for Congress” and it would win because “there is no blue area in that part of the state.” But now that Trump will no longer appear on the ballot, Republicans may have a tougher time.

“What we have seen as a trend line for the last several years now is that if Trump is not on the ballot, our people just don’t turn out. That’s just a fact.”

After Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds announced she would not seek re-election, her imminent departure opened the playing field to a slew of candidates. Notably, Reynolds endorsed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida’s presidential bid in 2023.

On the Democratic side, former Assistant Attorney General Rob Sand has pitched himself as a gun-toting moderate in an effort to capture some of the Republican vote. On the Republican side, Congressman Randy Feenstra has been considered the front-runner, but Deace says he “excites no one.”

“This is just a complete indictment of the complacency of Republicans,” Deace told Blaze News. “There’s energy on the other side.”…


Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Movie

I didn’t just leave the Democratic Party. I ran screaming from them. On Friday night, I was reminded once again why.

The news hit X that Trump had died. It wasn’t true, of course, but for some reason, those who think that the only way to gain back power from Trump is “mess with him” or “troll him” seemed to think this was funny.

But as usual, the Left can’t meme. It wasn’t funny. It was chilling because of how obsessed with Trump they’ve been and how their hatred has boiled over into madness.

It became a frenzy, a wild-eyed bacchanalia on TikTok. They were smiling and cackling at the mere thought of “it finally happening.”

After all, the TikTok trend of “when it happens” has been flourishing on the app, along with “somebody just do it,” for quite some time. They’re strung-out junkies by now, hunting for that dopamine hit that comes from blurting out what shouldn’t be said.

Looking at their eyes, their crazy, crazy eyes, always makes me think of the Manson followers who had that same look, especially as they skipped through the courthouse while on trial for having slaughtered innocent people who were enjoying a hot August night in 1969 before the creepy crawlers came.

The conclusion at the time was that they’d been brainwashed by Charlie. But how he brainwashed them wasn’t that different from how the Left has brainwashed their followers. He surfed the wave of the anti-establishment counterculture, finding easy targets to dehumanize and blame. Are you angry? He seemed to say, take it out on them. They deserve it.

The evil was at the top – cops were “pigs,” the rich “deserved” to die, which is why when Susan Atkins, aka Sadie, plunged the knife into the pregnant stomach of Sharon Tate, she only felt relief and a kind of euphoria:…


Watchdog Report: Two Largest Teachers Unions in U.S. Funneled $43.5 Million to Left-Wing Groups

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National nonprofit group Defending Education released a report last week detailing the contributions of the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers to far-left groups and causes, citing disclosures to the Department of Labor, Fox News reported.

“It is clear that the teachers unions’ priorities are advancing far-left politics and radical social justice issues, not the education of children,” Defending Ed researcher Rhyen Staley told the outlet. “This is a slap in the face to families and teachers who want to focus on helping students improve their reading and math skills. It is time that Congress acts to stop this obscene redistribution of public monies to advance left-wing identity politics.”

According to the report, the unions funneled a combined $1.5 million to left-wing and dark-money groups such as the Tides NetworkSixteen-Thirty FundNew Venture Fund, and Future Forward, a pro-Kamala Harris group.

The report additionally found that the unions heavily funded groups that supported left-wing candidates in recent elections, giving significant sums to the Democratic Governors Association as well as the Democrats’ House Majority PAC and Senate Majority PAC.

The unions also donated to left-wing think tank Center for American Progress and its 501(c)(4) arm, which bagged nearly one million dollars from the unions since 2022.

Aaron Withe, an expert on public-sector unions, told the outlet that the NEA spent 38 percent of its budget on funding left-wing groups and causes, while only putting 10 percent of its budget toward “representational activities.” 

“You’d think in light of the decline in union membership in recent years, that they’d start providing value to members that outweighs the cost of membership,” Withe told the outlet. “Instead, they are appeasing the radical base of union members by advocating for men in women’s sports, transitioning minors, antisemitism and other radical ideological stances.”

Withe called the findings the “tip of the iceberg,” considering “there are thousands of statewide and city and county teachers unions that are mostly funding the same causes.” 


WATCH: Fight Erupts in Checkout Lane of Indianapolis Walmart

The incident happened at the store on Keystone Avenue, and Fox 59 reported that a witness, Kind Butler, said he was inside the building and heard the family of an alleged rape victim looking for someone they claimed was involved.

“Tikerra Hicks is the named victim in the police report. She said she had been getting calls about how her friend allegedly raped her other friend. She had just come back from the bathroom when she was ambushed,” the article said.

Hicks said she has known the person accusing her friend of rape for a long time but claims she was not connected to the alleged criminal act.

“Hicks is named as an ‘other person’ in a Beech Grove police report documenting a rape investigation, but she insists the allegations are made up,” the Fox article said.

Video footage shows the moments the fight erupted in one of the checkout lanes, with people screaming and yelling for the group to break up. However, a woman in a pink shirt is seen brawling with a Walmart worker wearing a blue vest. One person holds a small child while trying to stop the fight that eventually moved into the store’s Customer Center area:

Another clip shows a closer view of the brawl when the woman in pink is seen hitting and stomping on the Walmart employee. A man wearing a vest that reads “Asset Protection” on the back is seen watching the fight as it drags on.

Someone behind the camera is heard yelling, “Where he at, bitch? Where he at?” As the brawl continues, the woman in pink nearly loses her shirt:

After the incident, Hicks said Walmart suspended her and the Fox report noted that “no arrests have been made following the fight.”


Kristi Noem’s Labor Day Message: Jobs Are Going Back to American Citizens, Not Foreigners

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“This Labor Day, America works for Americans again,” Noem said, noting that all new jobs gains have gone to U.S. citizens. Further, she pointed out that 2.5 million Americans are “back at work since January.”

“In comparison, 88% of jobs created during the same period under Biden went to foreign-born workers,” she explained.

“Meanwhile DHS reforms have saved taxpayers over $13.2 billion,” she continued. “President Trump and I are putting the American worker FIRST. Happy Labor Day!”

Indeed, Americans have witnessed quite the transformation in the last year, as the American economy has transitioned from former President Joe Biden’s economy built on migrant labor to President Donald Trump’s vision of prioritizing the American worker.

As such, employment among native born Americans has exploded, as Breitbart News thoroughly documented:

Continuing the trend in July, Trump oversaw all net job growth going to native-born Americans while hundreds of thousands of foreign-born workers drop out of the labor market each month — opening many entry-level jobs for America’s working and lower-middle class.

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) told the same story, with all job gains going to native-born Americans rather than foreign workers.

“The July jobs report shows that as illegal aliens continue to exit the labor force, more Americans are finding steady and gainful employment,” DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin said. “President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership is making America both safe and prosperous again.”

In all, an estimated 1.6 million illegal immigrants are said to have left the country this year, and preliminary Census Bureau data shows that over 1.2 million immigrants in general — both illegal and legal — have disappeared from the U.S. labor force in January through July of this year.


Palestinian Authority TV Sermon: Allah Should Attack ‘Aggressive Crusader Christians’

People visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City, April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo

In a sermon from a mosque in Ramallah, a preacher on official Palestinian Authority (PA) TV prayed that Allah “strike the thieving Jews and the aggressive Crusader Christians.”

He then went on to describe them all as “increasing corruption” in the world:

PA TVpreacher: “O Allah, strike the thieving Jews, and strike the aggressive Crusader Christians who have behaved arrogantly and tyrannically on earth and increased corruption on it. 

O Allah, whip them with the whip of torment, and show us a black day for them.”

[Official PA TV, July 25, 2025]

As documented by Palestinian Media Watch, the PA shows complete disrespect for Christianity by hijacking Jesus, turning him into a Palestinian, a Muslim, and the first “self-sacrificing fighter” — a term the PA uses to define Palestinian terrorists, and a “Shahid” –“Islamic Martyr,” which is portraying him as being in Paradise married to 72 virgins.

Now the PA has gone even further, defining Christians as Crusaders, indicating that the religious wars of the Middle Ages are continuing. And since the religious war continues, the preacher prayed for Allah to “strike the aggressive Crusader Christians.”

Another regular PA TV preacher recently insulted the Jews, and called on Allah to “protect Islam, the Muslims and the Al-Aqsa Mosque” from the “impurity, filth and defilement of the Jews”:


Israel pledges victory over its enemies; Houthis pledge to continue attacks TV7 Israel News 01.09

1) Israel warns its enemies that it will not tolerate any type of aggression by state or non-state actor – pledging to strike at any terror elements seeking to harm Israel’s citizens or breach its sovereignty.

2) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts that with God’s help – Jerusalem will prevail over its enemies.

3) The Iranian-proxy Ansar-Allah, which is dominated by the Houthi tribe in Yemen, pledge to continue attacking Israel – despite repeated deadly blows against the terror group’s leadership in Yemen.


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Muslim official tells Belgians to leave Belgium (VIDEO)

Saliha Raiss.

A Belgian official has told critics of her Muslim headscarf to “get out” of the country, according a video circulating online.

Saliha Raiss, a city council member for the social-democratic Vooruit party, made the controversial remarks during a municipal council session in Brussels’ Molenbeek district last Wednesday.

“If people wearing headscarves bother you so much, if you don’t want to see us anymore, move… Go somewhere else, get out!” Raiss is heard saying in the clip.

The footage, posted on X by Georges-Louis Bouchez, leader of the Reformist Movement (MR), quickly went viral and made headlines. In the post, Bouchez accused Raiss of racism and “imposing a new cultural norm” by attacking those who oppose religious symbols in the administration. Elon Musk reposted the clip with the caption: “Belgians must leave Belgium!? This is insane.”

Belgian media came to Raiss’ defense, claiming the words had been taken out of context. RTL Info reported the remarks came during a debate over a Facebook post on the MP party page criticizing the leaders of Molenbeek. The post drew anti-Muslim comments aimed at Raiss, then acting mayor. In the full video, she condemned MR for not deleting the post, calling them “deplorable and disgusting” and accusing the party of “condoning racism.”

Commenting on the incident on Monday, Raiss stood by her words and insisted they were not aimed at Belgians in general, only at those making racist comments…..


St. Louis cop-killer released on bond after paying only $5,000

The bizarro world of criminal justice in the United States reared its ugly head again this week, as an alleged cop-killer in Missouri was set free on bond after paying a measly $5,000.

Accused of shooting and killing an off-duty campus police officer in 2008, Brandon Levy was inexplicably allowed to walk after being required to pay only 10% of a $50,000 bond set by the court.

First Alert 4 News out of St. Louis has more details:

Brandon M. Levy, 46, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Demond Taylor, 34. Days after his arrest, court records showed that Levy had posted 10% of the $50,000 bond.

On June 20, 2008, Taylor was found shot inside a car while waiting at a red light in the 5100 block of Page Boulevard.

Despite possessing an extensive criminal record, Levy’s bond was posted with only a fraction needed to be paid for his release.

After Levy posted bond, First Alert 4 reached out to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office, who responded with the below statement:

‘After a confined docket hearing on August 25, 2025, Associate Circuit Judge Michael Colona modified the defendant’s bond to $50,000 cash-only, requiring 10 percent to be posted. The State requested that the bond conditions imposed on August 23, 2025, remain in place. The defendant posted bond, and the court released him under court-ordered conditions.

The court-ordered conditions require the defendant to attend all hearings, comply with all judgments and sentences, notify the court of any change of address, not tamper with victims or witnesses (and prevent others from doing so on his behalf), obey all laws, and not possess weapons or narcotics unless prescribed.

The Circuit Attorney’s Office does not comment on pending cases.’

If this is how easy they go on cop-killers, you have to wonder how they treat the really dangerous criminals, like nuns who protest at abortion clinics.


The First Private Prosecution of a Grooming Gang Rapist: A Blueprint for Justice

The grooming gangs of the UK blanketed the country. The elites turned their heads the other way.

The grooming gang scandal is a stain on British history. How did we allow hordes of gangs of Muslim Pakistani men to prey on white English girls?

When Sikh girls were targeted, the Sikh community united, forming vigilante groups to protect them. Since the early 1980s, British Sikh organizations have documented sexual abuse and exploitation of young Sikh females by grooming gangs populated by perpetrators of primarily Pakistani Muslim heritage. The Sikh community cared for their girls. The English seemingly did not. In fact, the media, politicians, police, and child services willfully ignored it.

This article chronicles the groundbreaking civil case brought by a Rotherham survivor, anonymized as “Elizabeth,” against her convicted rapist, Asghar Bostan. As the first known instance of a grooming gang survivor securing financial compensation directly from her abuser, this case offers a blueprint for hundreds of other survivors seeking justice.

A Scandal Ignored for Decades
The grooming gang scandal first surfaced in a 1975 Rotherham Advertiser report, but it was much later when national journalists covered it.

Julie Bindel wrote about it in The Sunday Times in 2007, followed by Andrew Norfolk’s front-page coverage in The Times in 2012. For years, the only politician to speak out was Labour MP for Keighley, Ann Cryer, who raised alarms after mothers reported their 12- and 13-year-old daughters being sexually exploited by older Asian men, with police and social services refusing to act.

The first trial and convictions took place in 1997 in Leeds.

Since then, over 450 men have been convicted in over 75 trials across 40 towns, from Rotherham to Rochdale, Oxford to Bradford. Yet, not one of these cases resulted in financial compensation from perpetrators to victims, despite convictions for heinous crimes.

In Yorkshire, a region with a Christian heritage dating back to Roman times, towns like Bradford now have 100 mosques and a 25% Muslim population, a demographic shift intertwined with the scandal’s narrative.

This story exposes the English establishment’s failure to confront these gangs, leaving survivors like Elizabeth to fight for justice…..