The Motel 6 hotel chain agreed to pay a $12 million settlement on April 4 for routinely cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Washington state sued the hotel chain for complying with requests from ICE to share guest lists, according to Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. The $12 million will go to […]
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Pentagon Awards $976 Million in Border Wall Contracts…
The Department of Defense awarded two contracts worth nearly $1 billion on April 9 for the construction of border walls in New Mexico and Arizona. The department awarded $789 million to SLSCO Ltd., a builder based in Galveston, Texas, to replace a border wall in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The department also awarded $187 million […]
Steve Bannon Accuses U.S. Firms of Selling Out Amid ‘Enslavement of the Chinese People’…
US President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon has issued a blistering condemnation of McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs and an advocacy group representing some of the most prominent Chinese Americans, as he stepped up his rhetoric about the need for Washington to confront China. Speaking on Tuesday at a Washington event organised by the […]
Kris Kobach to Trump: End Remittances to Mexico to Stop Illegal Immigration, Boost U.S. Economy…
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Kobach said Trump should replace his prolonged threat to Mexico — where he said he will wait a year before he puts pressure on the country — with an executive regulation that threatens to end all remittances by illegal aliens in the U.S. back to […]
Teen ‘Lone Wolf’ Gets 20 Years in Prison for Terrorism Plot…
A former Plano high school student was sentenced Monday to 20 years in state prison after pleading guilty to an ISIS-inspired plot to commit mass murder at a Collin County mall. Matin Azizi-Yarand, 18, discussed his plans with an undercover FBI employee to “run and gun” with firearms blazing at the Stonebriar Centre Mall in […]
Navy Cybersecurity Faulted…
An internal Navy study has faulted the sea service’s failure to prevent the leaking of secrets and technology to foreign adversaries, including China and Russia. The cyber-readiness review produced for Navy Secretary Richard Spencer presents a scathing indictment of poor cybersecurity in Navy computer networks. “Competitors and potential adversaries have exploited [Department of Navy] information […]
Grassley Sends the White House a Warning on Immigration…
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley warned the Trump administration to end its purge of top immigration officials, arguing that the changes risk destabilizing the Department of Homeland Security. “The president has to have some stability and particularly with the number one issue that he’s made for his campaign, throughout his two and a half years […]
Judge Blocks Trump’s Asylum Policy but Delays Enforcement…
A U.S. judge decided Monday to block the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases, but the ruling is on hold for several days. Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted a request on behalf of 11 asylum seekers from Central America […]
U.S. Withdraws Troops from Libya Amid Rival Militias Fighting Near Capital…
The United States said Sunday it has temporarily withdrawn some of its forces from Libya due to “security conditions on the ground,” as a Libyan military commander’s forces advanced toward the capital, Tripoli, clashing with rival militias. A small contingent of American troops has been in Libya in recent years helping local forces combat Islamic […]
Car Bomb Kills Three U.S. Servicemembers, One Contractor Outside Bagram Air Field…
A bomb blast outside America’s largest military base in Afghanistan killed three American servicemembers and a civilian contractor on Monday, the U.S. military said. Three other American servicemembers were wounded in the attack, which occurred late Monday near one of the Bagram Air Field’s gates, the military’s Resolute Support command said in a statement. The […]
Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns as DHS Secretary in Midst of Border Surge…
Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary in the midst of soaring illegal immigration levels and an expanded Catch and Release policy under her direction. On Sunday, President Trump wrote online that Nielsen would be leaving her position as head of DHS – “Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be […]
Trump Removes Secret Service Director…
A little backstory… Long-time CTH readers will note we have been recommending since candidate Trump first announced, when Donald Trump won the presidency one of the priorities should be to put the Secret Service back into the U.S. Treasury Department. The reasoning for our recommendations beginning in 2015 was simple: the scale of opposition to […]
‘That’s Leadership’: ICE Employees Cheer Trump’s Move to Dump Agency Chief…
President Trump’s move to dump his pick to lead ICE surprised lawmakers on Capitol Hill and some officials at Homeland Security but it’s drawing glowing praise from a key group of employees, who say the president’s decision showed “courage.” The National ICE Council, the labor union that represents 6,000 of ICE deportation officers, had tried […]
SHOT: Trump Designates Iran’s Guard as Terrorist Organization…
President Trump on Monday designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, saying its sponsorship of terror in Iraq and elsewhere is unacceptable and that he needed to send an “unprecedented” message that it won’t be tolerated. It is the first time the U.S. government has designed a segment of a foreign government […]
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Maryland Man Accused of Plotting to Run Van Into Baltimore’s National Harbor Crowd…
A Maryland man inspired by the Islamic State terror network allegedly planned to ram a truck into “disbelievers” at a popular tourist spot and keep “driving and driving and driving” nonstop, U.S. officials said Monday. Rondell Henry, 28, of Germantown, was charged by federal prosecutors with interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle — but officials […]
BOTHER YOURSELF TO LEARN ABOUT THE DETERIORATION AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER (VIDEO)…
President Trump participated in a livestream Border Roundtable to learn about progress on constructing the border wall, border patrol’s growing challenges and how our immigration system at the border has reached it’s breaking point. At the same time the President was receiving an on the ground briefing the Democrats filed a lawsuit over his National […]
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Long Read. Fascinating: The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s Is the Story of Our Times by Edward Curtin…
When Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968, the American public fell into an hypnotic trance in which they have remained ever since. The overwhelming majority accepted what was presented by government authorities as an open and shut case that a young Palestinian American, Sirhan Sirhan, had murdered RFK because of his support […]
$7 Billion in Equipment Looted From Former U.S. Base in Afghanistan…
The US handed over the Camp Kearney base in Paktika Province to the Afghan government in 2014, with an estimated $8 billion in equipment still inside. Today, the estimation is that about $1 billion worth of equipment is left. So what happened between then and now that cost the site about $7 billion? Mass looting. […]
The Epidemic of Debt Plaguing Central American Migrants by Jonathan Blitzer…
When Elias López decided to leave his home in the western highlands of Guatemala for the United States, in 2014, the going rate to hire a smuggler was ninety thousand quetzales, or about twelve thousand dollars. López, who was eighteen, worked two jobs at the time, one in construction and the other as a day […]
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethopian Airlines Flight 302 Prelimaniry (VIDEO)…
We at Boeing are sorry for the lives lost in the recent 737 MAX accidents. These tragedies continue to weigh heavily on our hearts and minds, and we extend our sympathies to the loved ones of the passengers and crew on board Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. All of us feel […]