An Afghan migrant has been arrested in France after local farmers repeatedly found their livestock tied and injured.

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A global outage of SpaceX's Starlink satellite network last year left two dozen U.S. Navy unmanned vessels stranded off the California coast, disrupting communications and halting operations for nearly an hour during critical military tests.

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Joe Rogan told Spencer Pratt he is "rooting" for him in his bid for Los Angeles mayor in the upcoming June election. The podcaster, who moved out of California years ago, told the TV personality, "I would vote for you" -- if only he could still cast a ballot in the Golden State.

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Pirates are known for trying to acquire the booty, but this particular Pirates fan may have taken it too far.

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‘Crooks Was Making “Hateful” Comments Toward Trump’

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it forced the release of 27 heavily redacted pages from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that show that would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was reportedly involved in an altercation with a group of people and making “hateful comments” directed at President Trump at the Butler, PA, rally site before the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt.

Judicial Watch filed the July 2025 lawsuit after the FBI failed to respond to a July 2024 FOIA request (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-02216)). Judicial Watch asked for:

All records, including but not limited to, investigative reports, interview summaries (Forms 1023), letterhead memoranda, photos, audio/visual recordings, database inquiries, interagency communications, and any other records, whether contained in the Central Records System or cross-referenced files, related to Thomas Matthew Crooks, born September 20, 2003 in Butler Township, PA and died on July 13, 2024, who attempted the assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024.

All records of communication in any form, including but not limited to emails, text messages, encrypted app communications and voice recordings, between FBI officials and/or FBI sources, contractors, and assets on the one hand, and Thomas Matthew Crooks on the other hand.

A July 17 FD-302 investigative report states that a woman who attended the Trump rally was interviewed by the FBI and reported that Crooks “had an altercation with a group of people in the area [where the woman was standing] prior to the shooting.” The witness continued that “she observed Crooks climbing the building a short time after the interaction.”

The report shows that another rally attendee interviewed by agents said he also heard the altercation involving Crooks at the rally. The report states, “[Redacted] reported just before Donald Trump came on the stage, CROOKS was making ‘hateful’ comments toward Trump. [Redacted] wasn’t sure if Crooks was filming the event or speaking with someone on his cell phone.”

A July 17 FD-302 investigative report shows that a woman contacted the National Threat Operations Center (NTOC) to report that she had attended the Trump rally in Butler and that she had seen a “suspicious individual” at the rally who was acting “very nervous” in the parking lot and she took a picture of the license plate of his Hyundai vehicle.

The records include a July 17 FD-302 investigative report in which a deputy with the Butler Sheriff’s Office, whose name is redacted, tells investigators she was assigned the Trump rally two days before the event and was provided a map of the rally grounds one day prior to the event. The report states:

No other formal briefings were provided. [Redacted] asked [redacted] what the role of posts 3, 4, 5, and 6 were? she was told that those posts were to monitor and make sure the fence line remained secure. [Redacted] was not involved with any of the planning for the rally. [Redacted] was not briefed on the use of deadly force prior to the event.

[Redacted] was not familiar with the Butler Farm Show grounds prior to the rally. [Redacted] arrived at approximately 10:40 am and [redacted] personally drove her to her post. No other ops plans were given to [redacted] position was between the two fence lines with the rally site behind her. [Redacted] could see the front and left sides of the AGR building. [Redacted] had no field of view to the right or back sides of the structure. [Redacted] was unaware of any law enforcement presence at/in the AGR building. [Redacted] didn’t anticipate having any people gather at the AGR building. [Redacted] was surprised that there ended up being approximately 100 in that area. [Redacted] confirmed that the group of people were on the opposite side of the fence line from her position. [Redacted] reported that she and a PSP [Pennsylvania State Police] trooper had to address a few problems “a few hours” before the arrival of Trump.

[Redacted] did state that it was at times difficult to discern what agency was talking on the radio.

At some point prior to the arrival of Trump, [redacted] recalled hearing radio traffic from Sgt. [redacted] on the sheriff’s channel requesting officers to be on the lookout (BOLO) for a man on a bike with long hair, grey shirt, backpack and possibly wearing a hat. [Redacted] asked why they were looking for this male and was told that he was seen with a range finder. [Redacted] had received a photo of the subject via text from Sgt. [redacted] at 5:53 pm. [Redacted] never received information from the crowd regarding the BOLO subject. [Redacted] heard someone on the radio saying, “long gun”. [Redacted] repeated “long gun” on the sheriff’s channel. [Redacted] was in the process of going towards Post 5 to share the photo with PSP when the shots were fired. [Redacted] estimated 5-6 rounds fired. [Redacted] believed the shots came from in front of her at the AGR building. [Redacted] immediately exited her vehicle, withdrew her firearm and was prepared to engage any threat that she saw. [Redacted] was still between the fence lines, so she was unable to move towards the AGR building. [Redacted] did not engage any further enforcement actions.

[Redacted] confirmed that the BCSO [Butler County Sheriff’s Office] is not outfitted with body worn cameras (BWC). [Redacted] did not take any photos or videos from personal devices.

No other media outlets or law enforcement agencies have reached out to [redacted] other than the PSP and FBI. This is the first statement she has provided regarding the shooting at the Trump rally.

A July 17 FD-302 investigative report shows the FBI interviewed a member of the Beaver County Sheriff’s Department’s Emergency Services Unit who was working at the rally. The interview subject reports “that his team did not have communication with the United States Secret Service (USSS) and does not know if USSS was present at the 0900 [9 a.m.] operations order brief.” Further, “his team did not have communications with PSP [Pennsylvania State Police] or [Secret Service] during the event.”

A heavily redacted July 17 FD-302 report shows that its analysts determined that Crooks registered for the Trump rally in Butler on July 6, 2024:

[Crooks], DOB September 20, 2003, registered for the July 13, 2024, Trump Campaign Rally on July 6, 2024, at 5:31 p.m. with the phone number [redacted] from the ZIP code 15102. He completed the two step authentication, validating that he was a real person, with the email address (bcook@mailfence.com). CROOKS requested one ticket for the event. The Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with his registration was [redacted] and conducted by a Virtual Private Network (VPN) associated with a New York area IP address.

According to the [redacted] CROOKS did not register for any other Trump Campaign Rallies and did not provide any campaign financing.

“It should not have taken two years and a federal lawsuit to find out that the Butler shooter was involved in an altercation with Trump supporters and made hateful comments towards Trump at the Butler rally minutes before he nearly killed Trump. These new FBI documents are disturbing and astonishing, detailing more conduct by the shooter that should have gotten the attention of Secret Service,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

In February 2026, this lawsuit forced the release of the first FBI documents (37 heavily redacted pages) about the Butler assassination attempt.

In December 2025, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Secret Service for communications records related to Code Pink protesters who disrupted a dinner held by President Trump at a restaurant in Washington, DC, on September 9, 2025 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:25-cv-04408)).

In September 2025, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for messages among top leaders of the Federal Bureau of Investigation referencing social media posts of Special Agent Jeffrey Veltri, head of the Miami Field Office, which is investigating the September 15 assassination attempt against Donald Trump (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:24-cv-02740)).

In March 2025, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for records related to security provided for the July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, PA (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:25-cv-00704)). 

In August 2024, Judicial Watch uncovered documents from the district attorney’s office in Butler County, PA, detailing the extensive preparation of local police for the rally at which former President Trump was shot. The preparation included sniper teams, counter assault teams and a quick response force.

In August 2024, in response to a separate open records request, Judicial Watch obtained bodycam footage of the July 13 assassination events from the Butler Township Police Department.

In August 2024, following up on reports that the Biden Secret Service denied Trump’s requests for additional Secret Service protection, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit for Secret Service and other records regarding potential increased protective services to Trump’s security detail prior to the attempt on his life at his July 13 campaign rally in Butler, PA (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:24-cv-02495)).

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By Joe Schaeffer

Lost amid the broader cultural and political impact of the rapid demographic changes in America this century are the simple daily life experiences of average American citizens. Imagine feeling like a foreigner in the town you grew up in. It’s a problem confronting longtime residents of Dearborn, MI, square in the face. The exploding Muslim […]

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Please note that it was recorded before Friday’s announcement that the Strait of Hormuz is open. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. 

Victor Davis Hanson: So basically, what the United States is doing is saying, we’re going to control the strait, and we’re going to let anybody who wants to do business with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, but not Iran.

And Iran’s island, Kharg Island, where almost 90% of its oil is, you think they were so smart that they would—they have a port on the other side of the strait, but they were so arrogant and thought that they were always going to intimidate everybody, and no one was ever going to intimidate them. 

They never did what Oman, the Emirates did, and put a port that was a sizable—they have one—but a sizable port in front of the strait. And then had a big pipeline. And they could have got around it because it would have been harder to police outside the Gulf. 

So basically, now where we are is Iran is quickly going broke. It’s going to implode. The population is restive, and we’re in the driver’s seat. So if you game it out, you say, well, how many days can they survive? Probably a week, 10 days. So maybe we should do what they’re doing.

They want to just drag it out, and they can go back to that old metaphor: Can’t hear you, I don’t know what you want. Oh, you want to negotiate? It’s Friday afternoon. Let’s start it next Tuesday. Oh, you want to go to Pakistan? Oh, it’s too far. Let’s go to Saudi Arabia.

You could do that all day long, and we’re not killing anybody; we’re just sitting here, and it’s not that costly. And if they keep—if they say, well, you know, if you’re going to try to do this, we’re going to unleash hell on Saudi Arabia, and we’ll destroy … Oh, you are, are you? Well, we’ve got 10,000 Marines, and we have to decide whether to blow up Kharg Island or take it from you and take your oil. We can do either one. So they’re in a rough spot. 

Then there’s another dimension, two more dimensions, that nobody talks about. So they got this population that’s restive, and all this is coming out. They don’t have internet, but the word’s getting out that they’re broke. And the population is thinking, Do I really want to spend half a trillion dollars and build more tunnels and more missiles and drones and give it to all these Arab terrorists? No.

And they justified their reputation and their oppression of our 93 million people on one thing. Well, you may hate us—this was the subtext—but we are the terror of the Middle East. Everybody’s afraid of us. The United States doesn’t dare go in here. Forty-seven years, we’ve killed Americans with impunity. We’ve got proxies in Syria. We got proxies in Iraq. We got proxies in Yemen. We got proxies in Gaza. We got proxies in Lebanon. We have a ring of fire. Everybody’s afraid. Europeans come begging, and they make these little deals on the side that nobody talks about. Well, we’ll let you in the Gulf, and you can buy… You know, we won’t harass you, but we don’t want any support for Israel. So that’s what they were thinking. 

And now what? The people are going to say, you incompetent buffoons. You told us that everybody… We didn’t like you, but at least everybody was scared of us, and now we’re the laughingstock of the Middle East. The Israelis are laughing at us. The Gulf states know that we’re nothing. Even the Europeans now say that they want to open the strait after the United States has opened it. Let us in, please. We want to get credit. I’m Macron. This is the Napoleonic fleet. As soon as you do take all the heavy lifting and maybe you guys, Americans, can go home and turn over this prize to us.

And so the people are going to get very, very angry. They’re going to say, I don’t want you spending any money on Arab terrorists or any more money on your stupid missiles and nuclear program. I want to eat, and you’re stealing our money. And you know what? We’re not feared anymore. We’re laughed at. 

So I think that this, you know, as I said earlier, the Berlin Wall fell, and then some of the Eastern European countries were free within a month, some three or four months, and the Soviet Union took two years. But it was all predestined once the Berlin Wall fell because they saw what was going on. The Germans couldn’t stop it. 

So I think if we don’t give away the prize—because now what the Left is going to do, European and American, they’re going to say, oh my gosh. This thing, we didn’t anticipate this. He’s flipped the whole narrative. If he bankrupts Iran, and they come crawling on their knees to negotiate, or if the people rise up, we could lose the midterms. He could have a big foreign policy success. It would change the entire world. And with Venezuela and maybe Cuba next, and then the economy coming back, and all this oil money, the U.S. is… this is bad, so we’ve got to stop it. So they’ll do everything they can to stop it. 

And the only thing I’m saying is, I hope that Trump does not stop and negotiate with these clowns. I hope he drags it out. I hope he goes in there and says these are wonderful people. Let’s talk. And then gets on the phone. How many million do they lose today? Keep it up. Keep it up. And then at some point, they’re going to implode.

Because if you let them off the hook and you say, well, you can’t have any nuclear weaponization for 20 years, you’re going to get Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg as president one day, and he’s going to say, oh, I feel so bad what we did. Will you take my apology? Morocco gave you 400 million. Well, I’ll give you a billion at night on a pallet. And please, please, please. That’s what you’ll get. So this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. 

Sami Winc: Yeah, it sure is. I think that the Left and the press has, sort of, relied on the frailty of human memory when they come out with all—because I heard you and Jack talking about The Wall Street Journal and all. It picks on every little thing it can just to say things are going bad. 

Hanson: Yeah, it does. Every day. Every day. Every day. The columnists have even got in on it, who were superb. I don’t know what’s happened. They’ve lost the narrative. I don’t understand why the Wall Street—do they understand that they’re going to lose all their credibility with their conservative audience if they keep this gloom and doom and everything’s so terrible, as this Iranian monstrosity may, may, may just implode? The editorial board has been good, in the sense that they said to Trump not to negotiate. 

But the news section is the one that’s—they’re all, as I said earlier, they’re ex-Politico, Atlantic, Washington Post, New York Times reporters. And I don’t know why they can’t get people out of that circle that are empirical. 

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Pope Leo XIV presided over Mass for 120,000 people at a stadium in Douala, Cameroon on Friday, urging attendees to "reject every form of abuse or violence" and "multiply your talents through faith."

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'Every day that this isn't fixed, more people are getting sick'

Officials in New York City are reportedly refusing to hand over an illegal alien accused of an arson attack that killed 4, including a 3-year-old boy.

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Russini's resignation came after alleged risqué photos of her and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel were published

The Department of Homeland Security says an illegal immigrant charged with a March arson that killed four people is being protected by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Roman Ceron […]

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Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., is working to extend federal concealed-carry authority to elite military personnel—without adding any new rights or weakening pre-existing firearm safeguards.

“Federal law already trusts retired police officers to carry concealed nationwide. That makes sense,” Harrigan told The Daily Signal in a statement.

“But it makes no sense that a retired SEAL or Green Beret, someone who spent a career mastering firearms under the most demanding conditions in the world, has no equivalent recognition under federal law,” he continued.

Harrigan is a decorated veteran who served in the U.S. Army as a Special Forces officer, aka Green Beret.

The Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act defines a “qualified special operator” as an active-duty or honorably discharged servicemember from paygrade E5-E9, W1-W5 or O1-O10.

In the Army, it would include Special Forces, Delta Force, noncommissioned officer and medic roles. In the Navy, the legislation would qualify SEAL officers and special operators. In the Marine Corps, this would include scout snipers, Marine Raiders, reconnaissance, and special operations forces. From the Air Force, this would include combat control, pararescue, and specific specialists.

All of these “qualified special operators” are elite military personnel well trained in firearms who do not have federal authority to carry concealed nationwide.

“This bill fixes that. It does not create new rights or weaken any safeguard. It simply extends an existing, proven framework to the warriors who have earned it more than anyone,” Harrigan concluded.

The bill includes guardrails to protect the right Harrigan is working to extend to the “qualified special operators.”

Specifically, the legislation would amend 18 U.S.C. § 926C. It would grant permanent eligibility for qualified operators without requiring annual requalification. The bill would also require veterans to provide proof of identity, including a photo ID issued by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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REPORT: FBI CLOSES IN ON BRENNAN ... REUTERS: Exclusive: FBI under Trump ramps up probe of ex-CIA chief Brennan over Russia report, sources say WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - The FBI plans to question roughly a half-dozen witnesses in its criminal inquiry into ex-CIA Director John Brennan over a U.S. intelligence assessment that found Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump, said two people familiar with the investigation.

Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl champion Alshon Jeffrey was arrested for insurance fraud and could face up to fie years in prison.

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U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has pulled $73 million in highway grants from New York after state officials have refused to cancel commercial trucker driving licenses the state has given to illegal migrants.

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Despite an all-out corporate media propaganda campaign using a few marginalized podcasters as “proof” there is a growing rift between President Donald Trump and Republican voters, new polling shows the opposite is true.

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