A minor was reportedly struck by a vehicle Monday afternoon during a student-led protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Palm Beach County, as hundreds of high school students walked out of class and took to nearby streets.

According to the West Palm Beach Police Department, officers responded around 12:30 p.m. to a pedestrian-vehicle crash near South Wind Plaza on North Military Trail.

‘Students retain constitutional rights to … engage in peaceful protest when such expression complies with applicable law and school district policy.’

Authorities said the minor — believed to have been participating in the protest — was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver reportedly remained at the scene and cooperated with law enforcement.

Video obtained by CBS12 shows the minor lying on the pavement as police and fire rescue personnel render aid.

The incident unfolded amid coordinated walkouts involving students from at least four Palm Beach County high schools: Lake Worth Beach High School, John I. Leonard High School, Royal Palm Beach High School, and Palm Beach Lakes High School.

According to CBS12, the incident occurred in connection with the walkout at Palm Beach Lakes.

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Students exited campus during school hours in protest of federal immigration enforcement policies. The demonstrations drew large crowds downtown and near major intersections.

A memorandum written by Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas for the Florida Department of Education, released on Feb. 3, warned districts about student protests occurring during instructional time.

“Students retain constitutional rights to free expression, including the ability to engage in peaceful protest, when such expression complies with applicable law and school district policy,” Kamoutsas wrote in the memo dated February 3. “Any student whose actions are to the contrary should be appropriately disciplined.”

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The memo further directs administrators not to organize or facilitate protest activity during the school day and to address violations promptly.

Palm Beach County School District previously stated that leaving campus during school hours violates safety protocols and could result in disciplinary action.

When reached for comment, the district directed Blaze News to school police, who have not responded. Palm Beach County Police Department declined a request for comment.

Authorities have not released additional details about how the crash occurred or whether any citations were issued.

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A new report from CNN host Pamela Brown examining what she describes as the rise of “Christian nationalism” is drawing fierce criticism from BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales — who is disturbed by the concerted effort to discredit Christianity.

“For the past several months, I’ve been working on a special project examining the growing influence of Christian nationalism in America. If you’re not familiar, Christian nationalism is an ideology rooted in the belief that our country was founded as a Christian nation and that our laws and institutions should reflect Christian values,” Brown reported.

“I’d imagine she makes a s**t-ton more money than me to stand there and lie to the American people and try to gaslight them and try to explain to them why Christianity is evil,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments.

“Do I need to bring up the Pledge of Allegiance? You know, the thing that you guys are trying to get us to not say in schools because it says that dastardly word ‘under God.’ Can’t have that. And somehow this woman Pamela Brown has spent several months — several months! — just scratching her head trying to research a way to gaslight America into thinking that these basic founding principles never existed,” she continues.

“Now you might be thinking, ‘Boy, that’s sh***y.’ And it is. But I regret to inform you, it gets worse,” she adds.

The mainstream media are not only attempting to bury the Christian values our nation was founded on, but they’re attempting to make Charlie Kirk “the villain in the afterlife.”

“Now they’re like, ‘Well, his death is being used as a launching point for this evil Christianity movement,’” Gonzales says, before playing another clip of Pamela Brown explaining her “research.”

“With the assassination of Charlie Kirk last year, experts say it was a pivotal moment for the movement and an occasion where the tragedy of his loss unified Christian nationalists and the Trump administration as they honored him,” Brown reported.

In an interview Brown shared with “expert” Matthew Taylor, he claimed that the “memorial service was one of the most potent examples of this shift in our culture that we’re experiencing right now.”

Taylor went on to lament that a “large segment of American Christians are being activated by these ideas — radicalized by these ideas that say that they are the persecuted ones and that they need to stand up for Christians’ rights.”

“Are you denying that Christians are constantly targeted in this country? Have you forgotten? Have you forgotten how the Biden administration actually went after Christians? Like, sir, are you living on this planet?” Gonzales asks.

“We’ve got all of these transgenders, and when they feel like they are being persecuted or oppressed, even though they’re not — it’s the mental delusion — they actually go out and kill people,” she continues. “What did we do? What did we do that day?”

“I was in that stadium. … We gathered there not just to celebrate Charlie’s life, but to celebrate Jesus. That’s not radical at all,” she adds.

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President Donald Trump said that former President Barack Obama revealed classified information when he made comments that appeared to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial aliens.

Obama made the comments during an interview with Bryan Tyler Cohen, and they quickly went viral on social media, though both he and Trump had previously spoken about the possibility of aliens.

‘He’s not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information.’

On Thursday, Trump was questioned by Peter Doocy of Fox News, when he appeared to confirm that Obama had spilled classified information.

“Barack Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of non-human visitors to Earth?” Doocy asked the president while they were both on Air Force One.

“Well, he gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that,” Trump replied.

“So aliens are real?” Doocy asked.

“I don’t know if they’re real or not,” Trump responded. “I can tell you he gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information.”

He went on to say that he never talks about classified information about aliens and doesn’t have an opinion about the topic.

“I may get him out of trouble by declassifying,” he joked.

Obama referred to the famous Area 51 facility in Roswell, New Mexico, in his interview.

“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” said Obama about aliens.

“There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”

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Obama walked his comments back after they went viral.

“I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” he added.

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A Tennessee pastor has been indicted on horrific charges related to the alleged abuse of a child in Memphis, after another pastor was convicted on similar allegations.

The mother of the child told WHBQ-TV that Martineous Tyler was the second pastor from the same church arrested in connection to alleged sexual abuse of her child.

‘It wasn’t enough time, because I don’t think it’s enough time in the world to give somebody for a crime like this.’

The mother, who wanted to remain unidentified, said her son first met Tyler in 2024 when he went to work for him at his businesses, the Memphis Obituary Company and Tyler’s Graphics and Printing.

“He liked doing graphic design, and the guy has a business, so he used to take him to the business to print out things and get little orders together; he liked that,” said the mother.

Another pastor by the name of Demarcus Smith was charged with sex crimes in 2025 involving the woman’s son after she looked at her son’s phone.

“When I opened it up, my heart shattered,” she said.

She said that she had found nude photos and sexual conversations on her son’s phone and called the police.

Then she discovered that Smith had previously been in prison for a conviction related to his coercing a boy to send him sexually explicit photographs of himself. Smith had been a pastor during that time, and when he was released from prison in 2023, he became a pastor at the same church as Tyler.

WHBQ reported that social media indicated Smith had preached at a “Clergy Appreciation Celebration” in Sept. 2024 at the Jordan River Missionary Baptist Church.

On Feb. 10, Tyler was indicted on state charges of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and human trafficking. His bail was set at $200,000.

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Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to the newest federal charges in May 2025.

“It wasn’t enough time, because I don’t think it’s enough time in the world to give somebody for a crime like this,” said the boy’s mother.

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A grandmother named Forlesia Cook stole the show at the White House Black History Month reception on Wednesday while praising President Donald Trump’s anti-crime policies.

Cook told critics to back off the president and thanked him for sending federal troops into Washington, D.C., to quell the crime there.

‘When is she running for office? Forlesia, when are you running for office? You have my endorsement.’

“One thing I like about him: He keeps it real, just like Grandma,” said Cook. “I appreciate that, because I can trust him because he tells exactly how he feels and what he thinks.”

The audience at the White House applauded loudly for Cook’s speech.

“Thank God for this president! I am filled. My cup runneth over! Because he allowed his … people to come to my house … to talk about the murder of my grandson. It seemed like nobody cared,” she continued.

“Nobody heard me, Democrats … until this Republican,” Cook said.

She said that the president had invited her twice to go before Congress and testify in favor of his crime policies.

“I love him. I don’t want to hear nothing you’ve got to say about that racist stuff,” she continued.

“And don’t be looking at me on the news, hating on me because I’m standing up for somebody that deserves to be stood up for. Get off the man’s back! Let him do his job! He’s doing the right thing! Back up off him!” she added.

“And Grandma said it!” she concluded.

The president jokingly asked Cook to run for office after the rousing speech.

“Wow, that’s pretty good,” Trump said. “When is she running for office? Forlesia, when are you running for office, please? You have my endorsement.”

The White House posted video of Cook’s comments to its official social media account.

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Trump went on to note the passing of activist Jesse Jackson, whom he called a “real hero” with real “street smarts.”

Cook’s grandson Marty William McMillan Jr. was gunned down in 2017 by a man who found him in bed with his significant other. The killer was sentenced to 16 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter and for tampering with evidence.

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr accused “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert and Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico of spreading a “hoax” about their interview segment.

Colbert claimed during his Monday-night show that the FCC’s new guidance on the equal time rule forced CBS to block Talarico from appearing on his program.

‘This was a decision by Colbert, by Talarico to put a hoax out there that they knew the media would run for purposes of Talarico, apparently, scoring political points against Jasmine Crockett.’

“[Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert told his viewers.

CBS released a statement explaining that Colbert’s show was “provided legal guidance” that broadcasting the interview “could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates” running against Talarico for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas. The network stated that it “presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled,” but that Colbert’s team instead “decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel.”

During a Thursday episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn Beck asked Carr whether the FCC had provided any legal guidance to CBS concerning the interview. Carr insisted the FCC had not.

He told Beck, “I woke up Tuesday morning and logged onto social media, and that was the first time that I’d even heard about this. And I woke up to a politician claiming that the FCC had somehow not aired — is what they said — the FCC refused to air this segment, and that wasn’t true at all.”

“Not only was that not true, but the subsequent claim that it was CBS that refused to air it was also proved to be a hoax as well,” Carr continued. “In fact, CBS, apparently, had advised Colbert they could run the exact interview that they wanted, and they just needed to be mindful that it could trigger an equal time obligation for other candidates.”

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He accused Colbert of running a “hoax,” arguing that “he knew he could fool … the legacy media by claiming he was censored.”

Carr speculated that the alleged trick aimed to give Talarico “a leg up” on his Democrat opponent, Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas.

“This was a decision by Colbert, by Talarico to put a hoax out there that they knew the media would run for purposes of Talarico, apparently, scoring political points against Jasmine Crockett,” Carr told Beck.

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Beck also questioned Carr about “The View” after reports surfaced that the show is facing an FCC investigation for possible equal time violations.

Carr explained that “The View” has argued that it is a “bona fide” news program, meaning that it should be exempt from the equal time rule, which would allow the ABC program to have a political candidate on the show without providing an equal opportunity to other candidates running in the same election.

Carr insisted that “The View” has “not made the case to the FCC that they do, in fact, qualify for the exception to the rule.”

“And so we have started an enforcement inquiry, taking enforcement actions to explore this issue with them and move forward,” he stated, adding that the FCC is “actively looking” at the show’s claim that it is a bona fide news program.

CBS, ABC, Talarico’s campaign, and representatives for “The Late Show,” “The View,” and Colbert did not respond to a request for comment.

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When late-night host Stephen Colbert told viewers CBS wouldn’t air his interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico due to FCC pressure from President Trump, the segment’s ratings went through the roof on YouTube.

The problem with this is that while Talarico championed their forbidden interview, it turned out that Trump had nothing to do with the FCC pressure.

“He is getting a lot of good press in this moment. This quote-unquote ‘forbidden’ interview that he had with Stephen Colbert is working really well for him,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

“On Monday night, February 16, during a segment of ‘The Late Show,’ Stephen Colbert told his audience that the show’s parent company, CBS, was stopping him from airing this pre-recorded interview that he had done with Talarico, due to pressure from the FCC,” she explains.

Colbert then pointed his audience to YouTube to watch the interview.

“So saying, ‘This is a big forbidden interview. Trump doesn’t want you to see this,’ it’s brilliant marketing. Both in the actual interview and in the promotion afterward, Colbert and Talarico reinforced that narrative, saying that, ‘Hey, Trump, really, really, doesn’t want you to hear what this guy has to say,’” Stuckey says.

“This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they’re trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture — the kind that comes from the top. They went after ‘The View’ because I went on there. They went after Jimmy Kimmel for telling a joke they didn’t like. They went after you for telling the truth about Paramount’s bribe to Donald Trump,” Talarico said in the “forbidden” interview with Colbert.

And in a post on X, Talarico wrote, “This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.”

“The problem is it’s fiction,” Stuckey comments. “It’s not true. The FCC — what they’re doing — this has nothing to do with Trump. They are enforcing a rule that has existed for a long time — that’s been around for almost a century — that says that you have to give equal airtime to a politician who is running, to their opponent.”

“Colbert and Talarico made it sound like the Trump administration is controlling free speech, but what the FCC is actually doing is just encouraging the networks — requiring that the networks actually give equal opportunity to all candidates,” she explains.

“So in this case, it’s not that the FCC is actually saying, ‘Hey, you’ve got to get Ken Paxton or another Republican on here.’ They’re saying in this case that he needs to have Jasmine Crockett on and Jasmine Crockett needs to have an equivalent time to also promote her campaign,” she continues.

“So this doesn’t even really have to do with Republican versus Democrat,” she adds.

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Two Democrat members of Congress are pushing legislation that would enact a “Bill of Rights” for transgender-identifying people.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said the bill would combat the “cruelty” of policies of the Trump administration and other Republicans.

‘She’s a toxic person who is damaging our country.’

“The resolution creates a comprehensive framework to protect trans and nonbinary Americans from discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression,” read a press release about the bill.

The bill would change the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to “explicitly include gender identity and sex characteristics” and add protections in federal education laws for trans-identifying students. It would also reinforce the right of transgender-identifying people to access health care for their gender identity and would ban “conversion therapy.”

The bill was widely opposed and ridiculed by many on social media.

“What civil rights do ADULT trans people currently lack?! This is just a slippery slope to reach the kids. Absolutely not,” read one response.

“We don’t need her demanding a bill of rights for transgender people. She’s a toxic person who is damaging our country,” wrote another critic.

“The bill of rights is the same for all Americans regardless of race or gender. There is no special treatment for gender confusion,” said another X user.

“The Dems cannot define a woman, but they can do this!?!?! Now you know this is just made up to have some undermining influence on America’s history!” wrote another detractor.

Jayapal has said previously that she is the “proud mother of a transgender child.”

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Rep. Sara Jacobs (D) of California also issued a statement in favor of the bill.

“We need protections for the transgender and nonbinary communities at the federal level, because no one should live in fear of being who they are,” she wrote. “I’m so proud to co-lead the Transgender Bill of Rights as proof of our commitment to protect the health, safety, and well-being of trans people in this country. To the trans community: We see you, and we will not stop until you can live freely and authentically.”

Democrats are unlikely to gain support for the bill, as both houses of Congress are controlled by Republicans, but their chances may improve if they make enough gains in the midterm elections. However, the bill would still need to be signed by the president, which is very unlikely.

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