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President Donald Trump lambasted CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins when she challenged him on his allies referenced in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein files.

Collins also questioned the president on whether the release had been fumbled by officials, after Epstein victims complained about redactions in the releases.

‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile. I’ve known you for 10 years. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a smile on your face.’

“On the Epstein files, you talk about Democrats who were there,” she said. “Elon Musk was also in there, and so was your commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, and correspondence that he had with him.”

She asked him if he read the new files.

“I didn’t. I have a lot of things that I’m doing,” Trump responded. “And I don’t know. You mentioned two names. I’m sure they’re fine.”

“A lot of the women who are survivors of Epstein were unhappy with those redactions that came out,” Collins continued. “Some of them, entire witness interviews are totally blacked out.”

“I think it’s really time for the country to get on to something else, now that nothing came out about me,” he responded.

“But what would you say to people who feel like they haven’t gotten justice, Mr. President?” she asked.

“You are so bad. You are the worst reporter. No wonder CNN has no ratings, because of people like you,” the president said.

“You know, she’s a young woman. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile. I’ve known you for 10 years. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a smile on your face,” he added. “You know why you’re not smiling? Because you know you’re not telling the truth, and you’re a very dishonest organization, and they should be ashamed of you.”

“These are survivors of sexual abuse,” Collins persisted.

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Collins posted video of the interaction on her social media account.

“President Trump argues the country should move on from the Epstein files and lashes out when asked about the survivors’ response to the latest release from the Justice Department,” she wrote.

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A billboard message in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco has outraged many on the left just ahead of the Super Bowl weekend.

The ad in the famed Fisherman’s Wharf shows an ICE agent with the caption, “Defensive player of the year.”

‘It puts fear in me — that it’s desensitizing people to think that it’s OK to be people hurting people.’

One woman reacted negatively to the billboard in comments to KABC-TV.

“It made me sick to my stomach,” said Karen Guerrero, a woman from Chicago. “It puts fear in me — that it’s desensitizing people to think that it’s OK to be people hurting people.”

A group called American Sovereignty took responsibility for the sign.

“We are saluting the brave Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who work every day in defense of America with billboards and ads in San Francisco,” the group said on social media.

The sign was excoriated online as well.

“Who allowed this to happen? This is Sickening,” one user said.

“F**K ICE aka NEOGESTAPOS NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON OCCUPIED LAND,” another message reads.

“Patriots or Brownshirt thugs?” another critic said.

Others said they supported the message.

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“They have a job to do too. That’s it,” said Scott Yurt, also from Chicago. “I don’t have a problem with them.”

More than 1.3 million visitors are expected in the area for the highly anticipated championship match between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium.

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Unless it’s President Donald Trump or a conservative on the chopping block, the media is likely to be silent about it, which is being demonstrated now with one of the latest Epstein files revelations — and it involves Bill Gates.

“I regret to inform you, I’m going to give you a headline that is rather disgusting, but I’m going to have to give it to you anyway,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says, before reading the Daily Mail headline, “Jeffrey Epstein says Bill Gates caught sexually transmitted disease from ‘Russian girls’ … then suggested secretly slipping Melinda antibiotics, new emails in DOJ release claim.”

“It is so crazy to me that the man who wanted to force everyone, wanted to make sure you got your injection, wanted to make sure that, you know, everyone was masked. I can’t remember how many times Bill Gates went out on CNN and MSNBC, and he was like, ‘You better mask up,’” Gonzales says.

“Bill, you could have covered yourself up just the same way you’re asking people to cover their mouths. You could have gave your ding-a-ling a mask, maybe prevented yourself from giving your wife an STD,” she laughs.

In draft emails that Epstein sent to himself, he accused Gates of contracting the sexually transmitted disease and then asking for Epstein’s help.

“I cannot believe that you have chosen to both disregard and discard our friendship developed of over the last 6 years,” one email begins.

“TO add insult to the injury you then subsequently with tears in your eyes, implore me to plase delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis. You also made it clear to me that I am not to refer to [REDACTED] as that is another topic that must remain between the two of us,” the email goes on.

Epstein went on to explain in another email that he was resigning from his position with BG3 and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

“During the past few weeks I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill,” Epstein wrote.

“From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall for bridge tournaments … I feel I owe it to my friends and future colleagues to admit a moral failure, to ask forgiveness and to move on with my life,” he continued.

While the document dump made it clear that Gates is at the very least an adulterer, it also gave Gonzales a better idea of who Epstein was — especially considering how much “pizza” was mentioned in the emails.

“I might do a deep dive at some point, but for now I will just say, there are a lot of mentions of pizza and going to go get pizza and leaving the island to get pizza and come back. And there are a lot of weird code words in there that I’m still putting together,” Gonzales says.

“I don’t think it was that Jeffrey Epstein really loved pizza as much as those emails claim. I think we all know what the code is. And obviously with the document dump, it’s going to take a while to put all of these pieces together,” she continues.

“One thing is clear: He was a really bad guy,” she adds.

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Last Friday, the Department of Justice released another round of Epstein-related documents, videos, and images, some of which accuse President Trump, whose name appears thousands of times, of egregious crimes, including sexual assault of underage girls, sexual misconduct involving minors at events/parties, threatening to kill children, and involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking activities.

One particular FBI-compiled spreadsheet summarizing unverified public tips and allegations regarding President Trump has amassed tens of millions of views on X alone.

“People were claiming, like, ‘Finally, we have a smoking gun on Trump,’ … but the problem with that claim is that it’s just, like, not true at all,” BlazeTV host John Doyle scoffs.

He explains that anyone can file a report with the FBI, which keeps meticulous records of every piece of information — true or not — it receives. The viral document with all the salacious allegations against President Trump is exactly that — records of unverified claims.

“Like, if I file a report today saying that I saw Hillary Clinton shape-shift into a lizard person and board a UFO, that doesn’t mean it’s true,” he laughs. “It just means that I told the FBI that. Maybe I believed it was true; maybe I wanted to sow seeds against people I don’t like. Whatever. The point is, it goes on the record.”

“A low-info, maybe low-IQ schizophrenic, just bored — I can see how that kind of person could read these reports and not know that they contain unsubstantiated information, unsubstantiated allegations,” he adds.

One of the allegations that’s garnering a ton of attention, for example, accuses President Trump of funding or hosting underage sex parties at a Trump-owned golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, around 1995-1996, with extreme claims of some victims being murdered and buried behind the facility.

However, President Trump didn’t purchase the golf course in question until 2002. Further, in the FBI tip summary document, there is a note next to this golf course report stating: “Complainant was spoken to and deemed not credible. Additional research showed 3 separate incidents involving police which requested in mandatory psychiatric evaluations.”

Even still, “that did not stop tons of liberals [and] retarded right-wingers from claiming that Trump was somehow involved in this, like, sex trafficking, rape murder ring out of one of his golf courses,” Doyle sighs.

But the golf course report isn’t even the most ridiculous accusation some people are interpreting as undisputed fact.

For example, one alleged male victim referenced in the documents made a number of wild claims, one of them being that while on a boat with Epstein, his feet were cut with a scimitar that miraculously left no scars. He also claimed that he witnessed babies being dismembered and eaten and that he was raped by Jeffery Epstein, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.

However, a note in the report shows that the FBI agents who assessed this complainant described him as emotionally unbalanced, unemployed, living with his mother, and having ingested hallucinogenic mushrooms. They ultimately recommended dismissing the case because he could offer no evidence, corroboration, witnesses, or supporting details.

“The retard right and the liberals see these emails, and they’re like, ‘See! We freaking told you Jeffrey Epstein was eating babies, and Trump was friends with him,’” but they fail to read “the next part, [where] it says it’s literally not true,” Doyle says.

Trump, whom Doyle calls “a media genius,” knew all along that this was bound to happen. He was well aware that releasing the files would ignite hysteria in “low-info people,” who would see his name in wild, unverified claims and assume they’re reading facts.

This is why Democrats pushed so hard for the Epstein files to be dropped, Doyle argues.

They may package their petitioning as genuine concern for the abuse of children, but that falls flat when you consider that their party platform is built on “the abuse of children — whether directly because of stuff like the transgender grooming or indirectly by the facilitation of mass third-world migration, which famously participates in things like trafficking children [and] sexually abusing children,” he declares.

“Is it just the same thing that it’s always been, which is anything to attack Trump because Trump is literally the only thing standing in between the global leviathan that is the left and American patriots?”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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While Democrats are trying to beat down President Donald Trump over lethal shootings by federal agents in Minnesota, a new poll shows that a slim majority approves of his response to the protests.

The online poll was conducted by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard and the Harris Poll and found that of all categories listed, Trump’s favorability was highest over the Minneapolis anti-ICE response.

A large majority, 60%, said they believed Democratic politicians had encouraged resistance to ICE officers performing their job.

Fifty-one percent of respondents approved of Trump on that issue, 47% approved of his fighting crime in the cities, and 46% said they approved of the president on immigration.

He scored least favorably on the issues of tariffs and handling inflation, at only 39% approval.

The president’s overall approval rating slipped to 45% in the poll after reaching a high of 52% in Feb. 2025.

A large majority, 60%, said they believed Democratic politicians had encouraged resistance to ICE officers performing their job, and only 43% said they supported politicians encouraging that resistance. Fifty-seven percent said they opposed politicians encouraging resistance.

The respondents were polled after the lethal shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and anti-ICE agitator who interrupted federal agents while armed with a gun. Respondents could have also known about the lethal shooting of Renee Good, who blocked ICE agents with her vehicle and swerved into one agent after being confronted.

Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino left Minneapolis after the shootings, and the president sent Tom Homan, his border czar, to oversee the operation and report directly to the president.

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The polls also found that the Republican Party’s approval rating slid to 44% after reaching 52% in the last year. While Democrats enjoyed their highest approval rating in about the same time, they only reached 44% approval.

Both had a higher approval rating than Congress, at 35%.

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Democratic allies and legacy media outlets are celebrating Taylor Rehmet’s victory in Texas Senate District 9’s special runoff as a historic upset for Republicans — but they fail to note that Rehmet will likely never even cast a vote unless he wins again later this year.

Mark Lucas, the founder of Veteran Action, stated that a progressive political action committee funded by George Soros spent $500,000 to flip the Texas Senate race in a district where President Donald Trump secured a 17-point victory.

‘The Democrats were energized. Too many Republicans stayed home.’

“My org @VeteranAction is incredibly important to counter the left’s attempt to chip away at the veteran vote — something the GOP cannot afford to take for granted,” Lucas wrote. “Meanwhile, the radical left is investing heavily to recruit veteran candidates to retake the House in 2026. They will quickly impeach Trump and obstruct our AMERICA FIRST agenda.”

George Soros’ Open Society Foundations provided $2.58 million in grants to VoteVets Action Fund from 2019 to 2024, according to the foundation’s website. The grants included support for the organization’s advocacy of “progressive, diplomacy-first foreign policy,” “congressional war powers,” and “preventing executive abuse.”

On January 31, VoteVets announced in a post on X that it was proud to have endorsed and financially supported Rehmet with “over $500K” in an independent expenditure.

Rehmet defeated Republican opponent Leigh Wambsganss, securing a 14-point victory.

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VoteVets celebrated Rehmet’s victory in flipping the district blue in the special runoff election, noting that a Democrat had not been elected in decades.

Legacy media outlets and Rehmet’s Democratic supporters have portrayed the election as a massive political upset for Republicans.

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Despite the substantial funds the Democrats invested in the race, it seems these efforts were primarily for show, as the seat will be contested again in November 2026 for a full four-year term. Further, the Republicans in the Texas Senate hold a solid majority, and the legislature is not in session until January 2027.

The Texas Scorecard noted that the special election runoff saw low turnout, with just under 95,000 ballots cast, representing roughly 15% of all registered voters.

Rehmet and Wambsganss are expected to run against one another again in the November election.

Wambsganss called the January 31 election results “a wakeup call for Republicans in Tarrant County, Texas, and the nation.”

“The Democrats were energized. Too many Republicans stayed home. … Mr. Rehmet and I will face each other again in November, and I fully expect the results to be different,” she stated. “The dynamics of a Special Election are fundamentally different from a November General Election.”

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Leaders of a Methodist church in California say the church was “desecrated” by federal immigration agents and suggested that their right to worship had been violated by the operation.

The Department of Homeland Security released a statement denying that agents had targeted the church and clarified that the illegal alien who was detained had previously been removed from the U.S. in 2016.

‘This was a violation of our Sacred Right to Worship and Serve our Lord Jesus Christ Freely and Safely.’

Local media reported that the community was “devastated” by the Thursday arrest that ended up on the grounds of the North Hills United Methodist Church in the San Fernando Valley.

“With sadness and pain in our hearts we want to share that on January 29 our Beloved Church was desecrated by immigration agents who entered our property wearing masks and carrying weapons. Despite being asked not to enter, they did not respect our request and forced their way in,” read a statement from the church.

Leaders said they were forced to stop their ministries because of the operation.

“This tragedy caused significant trauma to members of our church and to the broader community,” they added. “This was a violation of our Sacred Right to Worship and Serve our Lord Jesus Christ Freely and Safely.”

The church said that Carlos Chavez, a taco vendor, was arrested and described him as a “beloved community member.”

A nonprofit leader said that Chavez had sought refuge at the church but agents did not hesitate to rush in.

“We realized a second truck had positioned itself at the church parking lot exit, with three additional agents blocking the entrance — all were dressed in tactical gear, fully masked with large firearms,” said Mayra Medina-Núñez. “Their presence terrified children and families on sacred church grounds.”

The DHS issued a statement saying that other illegal aliens were captured during the operation.

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“U.S. Border Patrol did NOT target United Methodist Church or its parking lot in North Hills, California,” said the DHS in the statement.

“On January 29, Border Patrol conducted an immigration enforcement operation in the area of Rayen Street and Sepulveda Boulevard that resulted in the arrest of Carlos Chavez-Guzman, an illegal alien from Mexico who was previously removed from this country in 2016,” the department added. “Chavez-Guzman chose to run from law enforcement, a federal crime, leading them on a foot chase before his arrest.”

Two other individuals from Mexico were arrested and taken into ICE custody, the DHS said.

Chavez’s wife told KTLA-TV that he had already been deported to Mexico.

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“Today” host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, has gone missing under mysterious circumstances. Police suspect she may have been abducted from her home in Arizona.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that the 84-year-old was last seen Saturday night at her home in Catalina Foothills, just north of Tucson.

‘She didn’t walk from there. She didn’t go willingly.’

During a Monday press conference, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said that Guthrie’s disappearance was first reported Sunday morning after a church friend noticed she was absent from services and alerted one of her adult children.

“The family went to the house. I’m thinking they spent some time looking for her themselves before they called us,” Nanos said, according to ABC News.

However, Guthrie could not be found, and now investigators believe foul play may have been involved.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety said in a statement, “All her personal belongings, to include her wallet, cell phone, and vehicle, were still there, but she was nowhere to be found.”

CBS News reported that Nanos added, “We saw some things at the home that were concerning to us.”

“We believe now, after we’ve processed that crime scene, that we do in fact have a crime scene, that we do in fact have a crime, and we’re asking the community’s help,” Nanos added.

Nanos warned, “I hope we find her safe and sound, but we can’t ignore what’s in front of us.”

Sgt. David Stivers of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department revealed that investigators found “circumstances on scene that we believe are suspicious in nature.”

Sheriff Nanos told People magazine that investigators “have taken what we believe is biological DNA-type evidence, and we are submitting it to our labs.”

Law enforcement sources reportedly said investigators found blood inside Guthrie’s home.

The Los Angeles Times reported, “The sources, who were not authorized to discuss the case publicly, said there were signs of forced entry. It’s unclear whose blood was found inside the house.”

Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Kevin Adger told the Los Angeles Times, “At this point, investigators believe she was taken from the home against her will, possibly [in the] middle of the night. Detectives are looking into a possible kidnapping or abduction.”

Nanos said, “I believe she was abducted, yes. She didn’t walk from there. She didn’t go willingly.”

The sheriff said no motive has been established, and there is no early indication Guthrie was targeted because she is the mother of Savannah Guthrie. Yet, he cautioned, “We can’t dismiss that.”

Nanos told CBS News that investigators “will certainly” examine the possibility that Guthrie was targeted.

The sheriff said, “Was she being stalked? Did she have some people out there harassing her or something?”

Nanos added, “We’re not going to dismiss any angles, for sure, but right now, immediately, we don’t know of anything like that.”

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Nanos urged Guthrie’s neighbors to review home security cameras to see if they notice anything suspicious from last weekend.

“They still might see something,” Nanos stated. “Maybe it’s somebody walking by. Maybe it’s some vehicle driving by at that time of day.”

A search-and-rescue team is utilizing drones, helicopters, and heat sensors to try to track down the missing woman.

Two sources told CBS News that the FBI is assisting in the investigation.

Guthrie’s family is working with law enforcement to help find her.

Nanos noted that Guthrie was “not of good physical health, and so naturally we are concerned,” Newsweek reported. Nanos added that her physical challenges and age limited her ability to move around.

“She did not leave on her own, we know that,” Nanos stated.

Guthrie’s family told investigators that she did not have cognitive issues, and the sheriff added, “She’s very alert, and she’s of good, sound mind.”

“This is not a dementia-related; she is as sharp as a tack,” Nanos said. “The family wants everybody to know this isn’t somebody who just wandered off.”

Nanos said during the press conference, “This is an 84-year-old lady who suffers from some physical ailments, has some physical challenges, is in need of medication — medication that, if she doesn’t have in 24 hours, it could be fatal.”

The sheriff’s department said Guthrie is 5 feet 5 inches tall, has brown hair and blue eyes, and weighs 150 pounds.

Savannah Guthrie was absent from the “Today” show Monday and Tuesday as authorities attempted to locate her mother, but the anchor issued the following statement Monday:

On behalf of our family, I want to thank everyone for the thoughts, prayers and messages of support. Right now, our focus remains on the safe return of our dear mom. We thank law enforcement for their hard work on this case and encourage anyone with information to contact the Pima County Sheriff’s Department at (520) 351-4900.

On Monday night, Savannah Guthrie asked her Instagram followers for prayers:

We believe in prayer. We believe in voices raised in unison, in love, in hope. We believe in goodness. We believe in humanity. Above all, we believe in Him.

Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant. Raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment.

We need you.

“He will keep in perfect peace those whose hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord,” a verse of Isaiah for all time for all of us.

Bring her home.

Police are asking the public for help in locating Guthrie.

“Every detail matters. Even small tips could make a difference,” the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said. “Please share this post to help us reach more people. Thank you for your continued assistance and support.”

A reward of up to $2,500 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for her disappearance.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department established a tip line; anyone with information is urged to contact the department at 520-351-4900.

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Cellphone videos caught the moment when an all-out brawl erupted between an adult male with a MAGA hat and over a dozen apparent high school students at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest Monday afternoon in Texas.

The Buda Police Department said a Hays County Sheriff’s Office school resource officer at Moe and Gene Johnson High School in Buda indicated that students were conducting a “walkout” protest on RM967. Buda is about 20 minutes southwest of Austin.

‘Hey, you want another a**-beating, come on out!’

Law enforcement personnel responded to the area to provide safety and security for pedestrians and motorists, police said.

But police added that Buda officers were dispatched to the intersection of RM967 and FM1626 for a fight in progress just before 3 p.m.

Arriving officers were notified that a female juvenile on the sidewalk and an adult male in a vehicle were engaged in a verbal argument, police said, adding that the argument escalated into a physical altercation involving multiple people.

You can view a clip of the brawl in KXAN-TV’s video report about the altercation; it shows what appears to be at least a dozen apparent high school students punching and kicking the adult male, knocking him to the ground, and even putting him in a headlock until he’s able to get up and retreat to his vehicle. There is no audio.

Both primary parties involved were identified, the situation remains under investigation, and no arrests have been made at this time, police said.

A Hays Consolidated Independent School District spokesperson told KXAN-TV that the district is aware of the video of the fight but said police are handling the investigation since the incident happened off campus.

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Buda Police on Tuesday told Blaze News they expect to make an arrest or arrests but have no timeline for when that will happen. Blaze News asked police if the adult male involved in the fight is a teacher — due to numerous social media posts indicating he is — but police replied, “Not that we’re aware of.”

One crucial element police confirmed to Blaze News is that the adult male involved in the fight did indeed have a red MAGA hat on his person during the altercation.

There are a handful of videos of the fight apart from the clip included in KXAN’s video report — and they are linked in comments under the police department’s Facebook post about the brawl.

As police noted, the adult male was in a vehicle when he verbally argued with the juvenile female — and then things got physical. Indeed one clip recorded from a distance shows what appears to be the adult male on the street swinging at a female as they move from the street to the sidewalk and to the grass.

A second clip recorded very close to the fight shows what appears to be the adult male holding a MAGA hat while swinging at a female and pushing her backward as she fights back; she momentarily grabs the MAGA hat before she falls to the grass.

A third clip includes what the KXAN video shows — except with audio. Those fighting and watching the brawl are heard yelling, “What the f**k?” and “Get him!” and “F**k ICE! You’re a bitch!” and “F**kin’ kill yourself!”

Once the adult male is back in his vehicle — and his MAGA hat is back in his possession — one individual from the crowd is heard yelling at him, “Hey, you want another ass-beating, come on out!” The adult male eventually puts the MAGA hat on his head.

What isn’t clear is why the adult male got out of his vehicle in the first place.

When Blaze News asked police if the adult male indicated why he left his vehicle and physically fought the juvenile female, police replied that it’s still under investigation.

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77-year-old William Stevenson, the ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden, was taken into custody Monday and charged in the death of his second wife.

A grand jury indictment filed in Delaware said that Stevenson is facing a first-degree murder charge after 64-year-old Linda Stevenson was found dead on Dec. 28 in their home in New Castle County.

William Stevenson had previously said of Linda, ‘She’s the greatest thing in my life.’

William Stevenson was married to Jill Tracy Jacobs for five years beginning in 1970, until she met then-Sen. Joe Biden in March 1975. Stevenson says she had an affair with Biden and a civil divorce was granted to the couple two months later. She and Biden were married in 1977.

Stevenson then met and married his second wife, Linda, and was married to her for nearly four decades until her death.

Police said they were called to the home on a report of a domestic dispute and found Linda Stevenson unresponsive in the living room. They were unable to revive her, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her body was turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science, which has not yet released a determination of cause of death.

William Stevenson failed to post a $500,000 bail and is being held at the Howard Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington.

Police said Stevenson’s arrest was the result of a “extensive weeks-long investigation” into his wife’s death.

Stevenson had been a supporter of former President Barack Obama but later became a fan of President Donald Trump. In 2023 he called Trump “a president that I love and respect” and accused the “Biden crime family” of unfairly targeting Trump.

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Stevenson also grew critical of Jill Biden as Joe Biden’s mental diminishment became more obvious.

“I just don’t understand why she is so adamant about defending him and keeping him in the race since it appears that he’s struggling,” he said. “It appears that he’s struggling with everybody these days.”

William Stevenson had previously said of Linda, “She’s the greatest thing in my life.”

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A kidnapper and a child predator were apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Monday, according to a press release obtained by Blaze News.

The Department of Homeland Security, which has been tracking and sharing the “worst of the worst” immigration enforcement arrests at wow.dhs.gov, reported that ICE has nabbed more “heinous criminals.”

‘Seventy percent of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the US.’

“While sanctuary politicians and Hollywood were vilifying our law enforcement, our officers we were arresting kidnappers, pedophiles, and drug traffickers,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

The DHS highlighted four of ICE’s arrests from Monday.

The department stated that federal immigration agents captured Armando Miguel Hernandez-Valdez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Hernandez-Valdez was previously convicted in St. George, Utah, for kidnapping, possession of a controlled substance, and escape.

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ICE nabbed Carlos Martinez, a Salvadoran national with a prior conviction in Dallas County, Texas, for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old.

Carlos Martinez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Immigration officers captured Freddy Railandy Medina-Cruz, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic who was previously convicted for crimes in multiple states, including drug trafficking in Massachusetts, fraud in Michigan, and re-entry of a removed alien in Florida.

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The DHS also highlighted the arrest of Jianqiao Lu, a Chinese national who was convicted of criminal possession of an assault weapon in New York. According to a 2023 article from the Hudson Valley Post, Lu initially faced a 113-count felony indictment after police allegedly discovered over a dozen illegally owned firearms.

RELATED: ‘Target their families’: Fetterman slams Democrats’ absurd ICE demands, cites doxxing concerns

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“These thugs have no place in our communities. Seventy percent of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.,” McLaughlin stated. “This statistic doesn’t even include foreign fugitives, terrorists, and gang members who lack a rap sheet in the U.S. With every arrest, we are making America safe again.”

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Inflammatory rhetoric on the left is getting worse, and former Pastor John Pavlovitz’s recent Substack article titled, “A pastor’s warning: We’re not in a civil war, but a Christian nationalist holy war — and they must not win,” could not make that any clearer.

“Conservative white Evangelicals need to be stopped,” one excerpt Pavlovitz proudly posted begins, before he accuses conservative white evangelicals of being “unmatched in their fervor, ferocity, and organization” as “religious extremists.”

“If allowed to continue to hold their death grip on all three branches of Government, Conservative Christians will render this nation unrecognizable. LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, immigrants, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again,” he warned.

BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is rightfully disturbed by Pavlovitz’s piece and points out the glaring flaws in his argument.

“Does democracy mean people who I like are elected? Like, I just want to be clear about that,” Stuckey comments on “Relatable.” “He says we have a ‘death grip’ on all three branches of government. Well, Donald Trump was elected by popular and electoral vote. So, what happened there? Why is it a ‘death grip’ just when the people that you didn’t vote for get elected? Do you believe in democracy or not?”

Pavlovitz went on: “Full-blown theocracy is the plan, and trust me when I tell you that we won’t recover from it if they are given greater power or prolonged influence. If we fail in opposing their Christo-fascist agenda both in the streets and at the polls, they will have a political power that will render every election null and void, and we will never have a voice again in our lifetimes.”

“This is the kind of stuff that inspires, very tragically, people like Renee Good and Alex Pretti to go out into the streets and to bust the taillights of ICE officers and try to run over another ICE officer, because people believe stuff like this without any citation or any source,” Stuckey comments.

Pavlovitz even goes on to accuse white evangelical Christians of being the “source of everything afflicting our nation,” which includes all of the “violence, chaos, dehumanization, and suffering.”

“I just want to remind you that evangelical Christians, Christians who pray every day, Christians who go to church every week, that statistically we give the most in charity, that we adopt the most children, that we offer the most volunteer service hours every year. This is the hallmark of Christianity,” Stuckey says.

But it gets even worse.

“America is not in a Civil War; we’re in White Christian Nationalists’ grim and loveless holy war. All people of faith, morality, and conscience need to stand together and push them back into the hell they came from,” Pavlovitz concludes.

“You cannot get any stronger language that seems to be a death threat without coming out and saying it,” Stuckey says. “Like, that is some pretty radical stuff that is getting almost 50,000 likes on Instagram.”

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Allie Beth Stuckey, the host of BlazeTV’s “Relatable” podcast, joined “The Glenn Beck Program” on Tuesday morning to discuss the hit piece Hillary Clinton wrote about Stuckey last week.

Clinton mentioned Stuckey several times in a Thursday op-ed in the Atlantic, arguing that “Christian influencers” like Stuckey have promoted a distorted view of Christianity that has waged a “war on empathy.” Clinton positioned herself as an authority on Jesus’ teachings, despite admitting that she has “never been one to wear my faith on my sleeve.”

‘Sometimes people need to see that there’s another side of the story that demands your heart too.’

The former secretary of state’s hit piece mentioned Stuckey’s book, “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion,” and mocked the concept that empathy could ever be “toxic,” calling Stuckey’s position “appalling.”

Stuckey told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Tuesday’s podcast that Clinton’s article was a “badge of honor” that had effectively backfired, noting that it had boosted sales for the 2024 book.

Beck called Clinton’s hit piece on Stuckey “a good endorsement.”

Stuckey stated that while Clinton’s op-ed failed to detail how Stuckey had defined toxic empathy in her book, she believes that “the left actually understands the concept.”

“They talk about things like toxic masculinity, and what they’ll say is that not all masculinity is toxic, but this form of masculinity is toxic. And yet when I talk about toxic empathy, they pretend that I say that all compassion is toxic and bad, and that’s not what I’m saying at all,” Stuckey told Beck.

RELATED: Hillary Clinton baselessly attacks Allie Beth Stuckey in desperate op-ed — accuses MAGA Christians of ‘war on empathy’

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Stuckey explained that empathy becomes toxic when it leads a person to affirm sin, validate lies, or support destructive policies.

“Your empathy becomes toxic when you feel so deeply for one particular person, a purported victim, that you are blinded to both reality and morality. You are so focused on this person that you forget that there are other people on the other side of the moral equation,” Stuckey stated.

She contended that toxic empathy is to blame for the support of destructive policies.

“If you concentrate on feelings, then reason shuts down,” Beck said. “You have all of these people that, I think, they’re actually thinking they’re doing the right thing, but they’ve shut down the thinking process so deeply that they’re just trapped.”

RELATED: ‘They’re scared’ — Allie Beth Stuckey fires back at Hillary Clinton’s hit piece on the biblical movement she helped ignite

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“How do you reverse this?” Beck asked Stuckey.

“We need to tell the story on the other side of every issue,” Stuckey responded. “Sometimes people need to see that there’s another side of the story that demands your heart too.”

Stuckey gave the example of the legacy media’s narrative about a woman who wishes to have an abortion but feels forced to carry her pregnancy to term because of pro-life legislation.

“I tell the story from the baby’s perspective. This is what would have happened to this baby had there not been this pro-life law in Texas. She would have been poisoned; she would have been dismembered; she would have been tossed aside like toxic waste,” Stuckey said.

“When you allow people to zoom out and show them there are other people on the other side of this political issue that you’re talking about, sometimes that expands their understanding to the point that they can be persuaded by facts,” she added.

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“Who will rid us of this meddlesome philosopher?”

Arizona State University hopes the Arizona Supreme Court will. I’m confident that my case against required diversity, equity, and inclusion training raises issues far larger than one professor or one ideological program. Fundamental questions about employee rights, public accountability, and the rule of law hang in the balance.

If I succeed in showing that ASU bears legal responsibility — and that employees can hold it accountable — the implications reach far beyond one HR program.

Why would the largest state university in the country defend mandatory DEI training in court? Why would it spend thousands — likely tens of thousands — defending its “inclusive communities” training, a program that teaches employees about the alleged moral and social failures of “whiteness” and “heteronormativity”?

The answer defies common sense. Yet ASU presses forward. In doing so, it has turned what many dismiss as a culture-war skirmish into an employment-rights case with statewide consequences.

Most people hear “DEI” and instantly map the political lines. This case deserves a different reaction. Required ideological training should make any employee — left, right, or indifferent — pay attention.

First, the training relies on racial essentialism. It instructs ASU employees to view themselves and others primarily through skin color, then assigns moral weight and collective guilt on that basis.

Second, it attacks traditional Christian moral teaching, especially marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

Either flaw should have pushed administrators to retire the program long before I raised formal objections.

A third issue should unite every employee, regardless of where they stand on DEI: ASU treated this as an employment matter. The university did not admit error, revise the program, and move on. It hired Perkins Coie to defend racial essentialism. Yes, Perkins Coie — the firm widely associated with the Hillary Clinton-era Steele dossier controversy. ASU employs a full team of in-house attorneys. Why pay a nationally prominent and politically charged firm to defend a training program many already viewed as controversial — and, I argue, unlawful?

ASU’s posture gets stranger. The university has since taken down the required training, yet it continues paying lawyers to defend it in court. When this ends, Arizona lawmakers and taxpayers will want a number: How much did ASU spend on legal fees, and which administrators approved the contracts?

RELATED: Feds probe ASU for racial bias — will other universities be held accountable?

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ASU’s legal strategy aims at dismissal. The university claims I lack standing. Put plainly, ASU argues that an employee cannot hold his public employer accountable for violating state law. At that point, the dispute stops being about DEI and becomes about every employee in Arizona. If ASU wins at the Arizona Supreme Court, employees across the state lose a crucial tool for legal accountability.

Professors to my political left may sneer at my critique of DEI. They should still worry about the precedent.

Imagine a scenario pulled from their nightmares: A future administration takes over ASU and imposes mandatory ideological training from the opposite end of the political spectrum — required ICE-themed training, or MAGA-themed training. If that training violated Arizona law, those same professors would demand the right to sue. ASU’s argument would bar them. This case concerns enforceable employee rights, not just contemporary politics.

ASU’s first bid to dismiss the case failed. A lower court rejected the university’s argument. ASU appealed, and the appellate court sided with the university. That posture put the case on a path to the Arizona Supreme Court.

RELATED: A gay whistleblower just punked Colorado’s DEI machine

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Two facts matter here. The Arizona Senate and the state representative who authored the law I claim ASU violated have filed an amicus brief supporting my position. Their message is simple: A public employee has standing to hold a public employer accountable for breaking the law. The statute prohibits the kind of racial blame and collective guilt that ASU’s training promoted. The principle should not require explanation: Don’t assign moral fault to entire groups based on skin color.

So why does ASU defend this?

Because ASU does not view this fight as one training module that can be swapped out and forgotten. Race-based blame sits near the center of the contemporary left’s approach to education. If I succeed in showing that ASU bears legal responsibility — and that employees can hold it accountable — the implications reach far beyond one HR program. ASU’s initiatives aimed at combatting “whiteness” would come under scrutiny. Its embedded social justice goals face legal challenge and public examination. Students could follow with suits over race blame in a “decolonized curriculum.”

“Who will rid us of this meddlesome philosopher?” ASU really hopes the Arizona Supreme Court will.

Every employee in Arizona should watch what happens next. The outcome will determine whether public institutions answer to the law — or whether employees must comply silently, no matter what ideology administrators impose from above.

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President Donald Trump delivered another hilarious one-liner during a private dinner, this time aimed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Trump has repeatedly trolled the Massachusetts Democrat, namely for claiming she had Native American ancestry, plaguing her political prospects in 2020. Warren even went so far as to list her Native American heritage in university records, but she was quickly mocked when she revealed her actual genetic profile.

‘She “couldn’t find her reservation.”’

Warren released her DNA results in an attempt to combat ridicule, only to reveal that her Native American ancestry went back roughly 6-10 generations, equating to about 1/64th to 1/1,024th Native American.

The scandal quickly became the subject of mockery, with Warren later apologizing to the Cherokee Nation.

RELATED: Trump offers hilarious rebuttal to Tim Walz’s absurd Civil War analogy

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Years later, the controversy remains a hilarious memory for many Americans, including Trump, who has made several references to it since.

Most famously, Trump branded Warren with the nickname “Pocahontas” in reference to the negligible Native American ancestry she made a focal point of her academic and political career.

RELATED: Liz Warren hustles Trump with a housing bill from hell

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His trolling streak has only continued, with Trump referencing the classic nickname during a recent black-tie dinner. In addition to reviving the “Pocahontas” nickname, Trump joked about Warren’s absence from the dinner.

Warren was set to attend the dinner alongside other lawmakers, but Trump noted that she “couldn’t find her reservation.”

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The star-studded Grammys featured some jokes from “comedian” Trevor Noah, who took aim at rapper Nicki Minaj and her support of President Trump.

“Nicki Minaj is not here,” Noah said, to thunderous applause from the audience.

“She is still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues.”

Noah then broke into a Trump impression, mocking, “Actually Nicki, I have the biggest ass … everybody’s saying it Nicki.”

While the crowd may have laughed, Minaj didn’t find it funny.

“Trevor refuses to come out the closet when everyone in the industry knows his boyfriend. Allegedly,” Minaj wrote in a post accompanied by photos of Jay Z on X.

“Your favorite artist has been practicing rituals in a satanic cult where they take babies from other countries & mutilate them & kill them as a form of a blood sacrifice to their God. You see, when your master is satan, you must constantly shed blood. However, the JIG IS UP,” she wrote in another post.

But she wasn’t finished.

“Are y’all understanding that these ppl have been sacrificing children as a way of gaining & maintaining power?” she wrote in yet another post, adding, “If you ever vote DemonCrat again, you’re just as soulless as they are & will perish. Maybe it’s time for me to do some story times — since I was trying to not say what I know — yet they continue to attempt bullying.”

“I’m glad she actually fired back because I thought Trevor Noah was just not funny,” BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Fearless.”

“They just want to keep you pigeonholed to the Democrat Party. And anytime they feel like you’ve stepped away, then they want to ridicule and shame you. As someone who has seen a little bit of Nicki Minaj’s career over the years, it’s very telling that now they have an issue with her being fully clothed and supporting Donald Trump more than they did when she was naked and just saying all types of foolishness,” Michelle says.

“It really, it speaks volumes about the black community in general and about those who are so-called elite or in charge. Now all of a sudden, they want to bring Nicki Minaj down because of her allegiance to Donald Trump. It says a lot,” she continues.

As for Noah himself, Michelle believes Minaj’s allegations may have some merit.

“He doesn’t really strike me as this masculine man,” Michelle says, adding, “So I’m not surprised at all.”

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A Detroit judge described as “progressive” has been federally charged after she, her dad, and two other defendants allegedly schemed to steal money from vulnerable adults.

On Friday, Judge Andrea Bradley-Baskin, 46, of the 36th District Court in Detroit was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and making a false statement to federal law enforcement in connection with the scheme, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Michigan.

‘Regardless of a person’s position in society, no one is above the law.’

Bradley-Baskin coordinated with her 72-year-old father, who is also an attorney, and two others involved with “wards” identified by probate courts as needing guardians or conservators to help with managing their “personal and financial affairs,” the press release claimed. The four then “conspired to systematically embezzle” money belonging to the wards or their estates, it continued.

In one case, Bradley-Baskin is accused of taking $70,000 in ward funds and using it to invest in a local bar. She also allegedly used money from a ward’s estate to lease a new Ford Expedition SUV, prosecutors claim.

RELATED: Democrat darling charged: Dana Nessel ally accused of stealing $50,000 from brain-damaged old woman

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“We respect the authority that covers a black robe. This state judge and her cronies allegedly abused that high honor for personal gain by preying on the needy protected by the court. This would be a grievous abuse of our public trust,” said U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr.

“Regardless of a person’s position in society, no one is above the law. These four defendants allegedly conspired to steal from some of our most vulnerable citizens — looting bank accounts, exploiting legal authority, and profiting off those who relied on them for care and protection,” said Jennifer Runyan, special agent in charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office.

Bradley-Baskin was elected to serve on Michigan’s 36th District Court in 2024. As of Tuesday morning, she remains listed on the court’s website.

Though technically a nonpartisan race, she has had support from Democrat-leaning organizations. Blue Voter Guide described Bradley-Baskin as having “progressive values.” The Detroit Bar Association, which remains steadfastly committed to “diversity and inclusion,” reportedly gave her an “outstanding” rating.

A message left for Bradley-Baskin at a court phone number listed for her was not returned. The DBA did not respond to a request for comment.

Just recently, former Michigan Democratic Party treasurer Traci Kornak, an ally of far-left Attorney General Dana Nessel, was charged in Kent County in connection with similar allegations. Kornak is accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a brain-damaged elderly woman in assisted living who has since passed away.

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A Chinese spy was caught trying to steal Google’s trade secrets while communicating back home to the People’s Republic of China.

The FBI announced a first-of-its-kind conviction with Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, who was taking technology for the benefit of China.

‘A calculated breach of trust involving some of the most advanced AI technology in the world.’

The 38-year-old was initially indicted in March 2024 and eventually charged with seven counts of stealing trade secrets and seven counts of economic espionage.

The Department of Justice announced that between May 2022 and April 2023, Ding stole more than 2,000 pages of confidential information from Google, including trade secrets surrounding its AI model. He later uploaded them to his personal Google Cloud account and then downloaded those to his personal computer.

At the same time, the spy was secretly affiliated with two Chinese technology companies and was in discussions to become the chief technology officer at another. In early 2023, he was even in the process of founding his own tech company focused on AI and served as CEO, federal authorities said.

Some of the spy’s crimes were also revealed in his statements to potential investors.

RELATED: Another secret Chinese biolab found on US soil?

Ding told investors he could build an AI supercomputer by copying and modifying Google’s existing tech. Ding downloaded the industry information to his computer just two weeks before he resigned from Google.

A jury found that Ding had stolen information on hardware and software for Google’s data center that trains large AI models, as well as detailed specs about the infrastructure and functionality of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit chips and graphics processing unit systems.

“In today’s high-stakes race to dominate the field of artificial intelligence, Linwei Ding betrayed both the U.S. and his employer by stealing trade secrets about Google’s AI technology on behalf of China’s government,” FBI Assistant Director of Counterintelligence and Espionage Roman Rozhavsky said.

Rozhavsky called the case the “first-ever conviction” on AI-related economic espionage and said it demonstrates the bureau’s “unwavering dedication to protecting American businesses” from China.

RELATED: Why the FBI ditched Chevy Suburbans for BMW SUVs

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Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg described the case as “a calculated breach of trust involving some of the most advanced AI technology in the world at a critical moment in AI development.”

“Ding abused his privileged access to steal AI trade secrets while pursuing [Chinese] government-aligned ventures. His duplicity put U.S. technological leadership and competitiveness at risk,” Eisenberg added.

Ding faces 10 years in prison for each of his seven counts of theft of trade secrets and 15 years in prison for each count of economic espionage, totaling upwards of 175 years.

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Whatever the scope of Bill Gates’ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Microsoft seemingly had at least a few reasons to ban the shadowy financier and sex abuser from its gaming platform.

Although Epstein was first convicted of sexual abuse crimes in 2008, it appears he had several more years of gaming left in him.

‘”Severe, repeated, and/or excessive” mistreatment of his peers.’

While most were likely gearing up for the Christmas season at the time, Epstein may have been hitting Microsoft’s online gaming platform Xbox Live hard around the holidays. It was Thursday, December 19, 2013, when Epstein got an email from the service that informed him he was getting permanently banned. The document has been made available by the Department of Justice.

The email to Epstein was labeled a “Notice of permanent enforcement action” for “Harassment, threats, and/or abuse” from xlcm@microsoft.com, which has been noted online as Xbox’s official policy and enforcement team.

The ban came as a result of “severe, repeated, and/or excessive” mistreatment of his peers, the email said. It also provided a list of Epstein’s possible conduct that could have initiated the ban:

Threats of death, harm, property damage, or any other act of violence or vandalism Verbal abuse or profanity directed at other players Griefing Extortion or manipulation Libel, defamation, or slander Display or transmission of personally identifiable information, such as name, address, phone number, or IP addressStalking

But that wasn’t all.

RELATED: 25 years later, the gaming console that caused so much chaos is still No. 1

That same day, Epstein received another email to his connected account, jeevacation@gmail.com; the sender has been redacted.

This email informed him that he had been permanently suspended from Xbox Live due to the New York Attorney General’s partnership with Microsoft, which prohibits the service from having “New York registered sex offenders” on its platform.

This was done to “minimize the risk to others, particularly children,” the email stated.

While Epstein was already a registered sex offender years prior, it seems that he did not join the Xbox platform until 2012.

RELATED: OOF: Mark Zuckerberg’s losing metaverse bet cost Meta $77B

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This is evidenced by a 2012 “Welcome to Xbox LIVE” email he received, which was also made available by the DOJ.

Other video game-related emails include Epstein asking his assistant Lesley Groff if he has “an Xbox 360 Kinect?” in 2014, and there is another email from 2016 that talks about setting up an Xbox One that was purchased as a gift.

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U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration’s immigration policy and helped the U.N. secure asylum for so-called refugees — obliged her fellow immigration activists on Monday, blocking the revocation of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status.

That status, which Haitian migrants have enjoyed since January 2010 and over 352,000 Haitian migrants enjoy today, was set to expire on Tuesday. Without Reyes’ intervention, the Trump administration would have been able to immediately repatriate many of those Haitians who have strained citizen resources and displaced American labor in cities such as Springfield, Ohio.

‘Temporary means temporary.’

Reyes, a Uruguayan native, claimed, however, that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not only violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause when terminating the TPS designation for Haiti but had likely done so “because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”

Much of Reyes’ Monday ruling in the class-action lawsuit reads like a piece of immigration activist agitprop.

In addition to characterizing Haitian TPS holders as valuable contributors to American society and some class members’ removal back to Haiti as “devastating because they have no meaningful ties to the country,” Reyes questioned why it was necessary to let the status expire now:

Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our health care system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things — in the public interest is not one of them.

The foreign-born judge suggested further that while the Trump administration “contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS holders are speculative,” the State Department has issued travel advisories to Americans warning of the threats of kidnapping, crime, and civil unrest in the third-world nation.

RELATED: Trump administration halts visas for 75 nations whose people gobble up American welfare

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Noem determined last year after reviewing country conditions and consulting with the appropriate government agencies that the island nation no longer met the conditions for a TPS designation.

Reyes, the same judge who tried unsuccessfully last year to torpedo the War Department’s ban on transvestites in the military, makes no secret of her animus toward the American-born DHS secretary throughout her ruling, using her conclusion, for instance, to cast Noem as a cold-hearted ignoramus.

“Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side — or at least has ignored them,” wrote the Biden judge. “Does not have the law on her side — or at least has ignored it.”

Reyes’ fellow activists celebrated her ruling.

“This was the right decision. There is no evidence that the Trump administration took the time to make a clear-eyed assessment of the risks these families would face back in Haiti before moving to revoke TPS,” Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, said in a statement obtained by GBH News. “On the contrary, the revocation appears to have been driven by racial animus and political ideology.”

“We can breathe for a little bit,” Rose-Thamar Joseph, operations director of the Haitian Support Center in migrant-overwhelmed Springfield, Ohio, told the Associated Press.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in response to the ruling, “Supreme Court, here we come.”

“This is lawless activism that we will be vindicated on,” continued McLaughlin. “Haiti’s TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades.”

“Temporary means temporary, and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench,” added McLaughlin.

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