Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida accused a top Code Pink organizer of berating her before smacking her, and the entire exchange is on video.

Luna was walking from Congress after questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio when Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin peppered her with questions.

‘These are not “allegations.” It happened. My staff was there when it happened and wrote statements.’

TMZ obtained the video from the anti-war organization and published it online.

“Marco Rubio has been sanctioning the Cuban people, which is hurting them by the billions!” Benjamin said to Luna.

“You just touched me! You’re going to walk away right now, or else I’m going to call Capitol Police!” Luna said to Benjamin.

“OK, I will walk away. Bye-bye!” she responded.

Luna posted on social media that she would be filing charges against Benjamin.

“After I questioned Secretary Rubio on Code Pink and their ties to the CCP, their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me. I will be filing charges,” she posted.

“Btw these are not ‘allegations.’ It happened. My staff was there when it happened and wrote statements for LEO,” she added.

Benjamin posted about the incident and accused Luna of lying.

“Today, a congresswoman lied to have me detained by Capitol Police. Why? To try to silence our work against U.S. wars in the Middle East and sanctions on Cuba,” she wrote on social media.

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Benjamin admitted that she “tapped” Luna with her hand but claimed Luna accused her of assault.

“Instead of defending these wildly unpopular policies, members of Congress target the activists working to stop them,” she added. “Thankfully, I was released without charges. No amount of intimidation will change that the majority of people in the U.S. want to stop U.S. wars and aggression. We won’t be silenced.”

The Code Pink organization did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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The U.S. House of Representatives successfully passed a rebuke against the president’s U.S.-Israeli joint strikes on Iran on Wednesday.

Democrats in the House narrowly passed the resolution by a vote of 215 to 208, with four Republicans joining their political opponents.

‘I told Iran, “It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You’ve been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!”’

A White House official expressed to ABC News the view that the resolution is unconstitutional.

“President Trump will continue to protect our national security using his constitutional authority as commander in chief while being transparent with Congress,” the official said.

The official added that the resolution is unlikely to pass in the Senate, but even if it were to pass, it would have “no force or effect.”

The four Republicans who voted with Democrats were Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Tom Barrett of Michigan, and Warren Davidson of Ohio.

The Senate is working on a separate version that would force the president to end the war, but even if the Senate passed it and got approval from the House, Trump could easily veto it.

The president has been trying to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Iran, but the regime’s nuclear program and control of the Strait of Hormuz have been sticking points between the two nations.

Also on Wednesday, Iran’s foreign ministry defended the regime’s attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait by accusing the Middle Eastern countries of allowing the U.S. to launch attacks from bases within their borders.

“Any hostile act will be met with an immediate, decisive response. What sanctions and war failed to achieve won’t be won with more war,” Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi said.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana told reporters the wartime resolution was “dangerous” and “untimely.”

Trump berated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Axios, for threatening the peace negotiations by attacking Lebanon.

“You’re f**king crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” the president said, according to a summary by one of the officials.

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On Tuesday, the president posted an update on negotiations on Truth Social that denied some media reports claiming talks between the nations had ended.

“The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today,” Trump posted.

“Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, ‘It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You’ve been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!'” he added.

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As fears over the impending AI takeover continue to mount, some politicians are proposing solutions. Earlier this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) published an opinion piece in the New York Times in which he announced a bill called the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act.

In short, Sanders argued that big AI companies got rich by using everyone’s data, writings, and ideas without permission or compensation. His bill proposes that the government take 50% ownership of the biggest AI companies — including voting shares and board seats — and place them into a public sovereign wealth fund that would supposedly benefit all Americans.

Glenn Beck believes this might be Sanders’ worst idea to date.

“For the love of little baby Jesus, hear me!” he pleads. “Do not allow our government to get deeper in bed with these AI companies.”

While Glenn agrees with Sanders that AI developers “have taken and built this entire system on your back,” government involvement will only further corrupt an already depraved system.

He explains that for years, AI developers have been using Google data to “map” human brains to learn how to effectively “manipulate” us. In other words, they’re learning how to bring about “the death of free will.”

Couple this astonishing power with the government’s “evil schemes,” and you’ve got a dystopia that would shock even Orwell.

To illustrate the danger of public-private partnerships, Glenn recounts how during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government made secret agreements with companies like Pfizer to receive royalty payments for every vaccine sold.

“Now you want to give Bernie Sanders 50% of these AI companies, which would give [the government] a seat at the table? … Not on your life,” declares Glenn.

“That is unimaginable power that you’d be giving to the United States government.”

Executive producer for “The Glenn Beck Program” Ricky Ratliff-Fellman notes the hypocrisy of Sanders’ sudden desire to work with AI developers. “It’s interesting that Bernie Sanders, who has historically been very skeptical … of Big Tech, is suddenly finding a way to get into bed with them,” she remarks.

Glenn believes the unprecedented power such a union would create is just too tempting even for Big Tech skeptics.

“Can you imagine how far in the rear-view mirror we would be if we had politicians on the board of directors of these tech companies, where [they] had a 50% vote and voice?” he asks.

“We will be the Soviet Union making the ZiL, the worst car ever made, overnight.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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A far-left radical who made millions as a Silicon Valley software engineer and then worked on Wall Street before going into politics just ran into a political brick wall.

Saikat Chakrabarti worked on the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) presidential campaign in 2016 before founding Justice Democrats to push the party to the far left. His signature victory was helping Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) oust a party boss in New York in 2018.

‘We’re thinking about kind of, like, how much of myself I’m pouring into this and how much of myself we want to make sure that we’re, you know, pouring into the task at hand.’

Now he’s known for spending the most money in the primary race for California’s 11th district — and failing to even compete.

Despite outspending his main competitor $9.2 million to $3.9 million, Chakrabarti was able to garner only about 15% of the vote and was boxed out of the general election.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, got the most votes at 41.3%, while San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan (D) progressed to the next election stage with 28.6% of the vote.

Chan was able to soundly defeat Chakrabarti despite spending only $650,000, or about 7% of the massive spending by Chakrabarti. As of Wednesday afternoon, the final tally for the primary has not been reported, but the election has been called for Chan and Weiner by NBC News and others.

Chakrabarti worked as the chief of staff to Ocasio-Cortez for a time before branching out on his own. In that time, he was accused of illegally funneling money to her campaign through payments to her boyfriend.

Ocasio-Cortez denied the allegations but did not answer directly if the description of the transfer of money was accurate.

She also shrunk back from endorsing Chakrabarti in the campaign to replace 86-year-old Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is retiring from the seat after winning it 20 times.

“I think for me overall it’s more about I’m trying to think about the role that I am trying to play more broadly in these things,” she said in April when asked about a possible endorsement for her former chief of staff.

RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez tosses her former chief of staff under the bus over Pelosi feud

“We’ve got 435 seats in Congress, right? And there is this kind of moment where it’s like when — and not just with this race, with any race — once you go in, then it’s like, what about this? What about this, what about this one? And I’m one person with, you know, a pretty amazing crack but also lean team,” she added helpfully.

“And so we’re thinking about kind of, like, how much of myself I’m pouring into this and how much of myself we want to make sure that we’re, you know, pouring into the task at hand,” she continued.

She went on for almost another minute.

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Despite plenty of video footage showing former President Joe Biden stumbling through basic sentences and forgetting where those sentences were going, Jill Biden is once again dismissing concerns about his cognitive fitness.

In a recent interview on CBS with Rita Braver, Jill claimed more than once that Biden was “fine” when asked about his frequent gaffes.

“But what if that had happened during a meeting with foreign leaders or something like that?” Braver asked the first lady.

“I don’t know how to answer that,” Jill responded.

“Yeah, because you can’t answer that,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray chimes in on “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “He should not have been president is the only answer to that.”

“Next time you steal the presidency, make sure it’s someone with a pulse,” executive producer Keith Malinak adds.

Braver also pointed out that while “President Biden had said that he would never pardon his son,” he then pardoned him.

“Did you urge the president to think again about that?” the reporter asked.

“Well, you know, Joe said in the beginning, ‘I won’t pardon Hunter. I won’t pardon Hunter.’ And then the Justice Department changed, and I think that the process was not fair to Hunter,” Jill answered.

Jill was also asked about Biden’s mental decline, with the reporter asking, “Did you ever see signs that he was falling into cognitive decline?”

“No, no,” she answered.

Malinak isn’t amused by Jill’s claim, commenting, “You’re a liar.”

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A former Army combat surgeon and 9/11 first responder with a history of befriending convicted Islamist terrorists emerged victorious in Tuesday night’s Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District.

Adam Hamawy — having received endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) — beat out 12 other Democratic contenders in the contest to replace retiring Democratic Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman.

Hamawy led the race in fundraising by a significant margin, with the pro-Palestinian super PAC American Priorities spending an additional $2 million on his behalf.

‘[Hamawy’s] testimony … did more to bolster the prosecution’s proof of a jihadist terrorism conspiracy against the United States than to help the accused.’

Notably, Hamawy, 56, is drawing intense backlash for his past connection with Egyptian terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman — known as the “Blind Sheikh” — and for his defense testimony in the 1995 trial that ultimately saw Abdel-Rahman put away for life.

Hamawy, then a 26-year-old medical school student, was put on the stand by Abdel-Rahman’s lawyers to deny that the Blind Sheikh had solicited various people to carry out the assassination of then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

According to court documents, during a 13-hour car ride from New Jersey to Detroit in 1991, Abdel-Rahman encouraged FBI informant Emad Salem to turn his “rifle’s barrel to President Mubarak’s chest, and kill him.” However, Hamawy testified that he sat behind the two during the ride and never heard any such statement, adding that he did not hear Mubarak’s name come up at all.

“Did you ever hear Sheik Omar say to Emad Salem to turn his gun on Mubarak?” Lynne Stewart, Abdel Rahman’s lawyer, asked Hamawy.

“No,” Hamawy replied.

Hamawy went on to tell prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that he heard the word “jihad” more than once that weekend as they attended the “Towards a Global Islamic Economy” conference, which featured numerous other Islamist terrorist speakers, including Osama bin Laden associate Hassan al-Turabi.

When Fitzgerald asked if Hamawy had heard “about how Muslims had to do jihad against the enemies of Islam,” Hamawy replied, “That’s what [Abdel-Rahman] always talked about. He talked about jihad, you know?” Hamawy confirmed that Abdel-Rahman considered the United States and Israel enemies of Islam.

At the time, Abdel-Rahman also preached at the Al-Salam Mosque in Jersey City, where the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspirators met.

Abdel-Rahman was ultimately convicted of seditious conspiracy, solicitation to murder Mubarak, conspiracy to murder Mubarak, solicitation to attack a U.S. military installation, and conspiracy to conduct bombings. The bombing targets consisted of the U.N. General Assembly building, the New York FBI building, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, and the George Washington Bridge, according to evidence presented at trial.

Andrew McCarthy, the chief prosecutor of the case, said: “As was uniformly the case with witnesses presented in the extensive defense case, [Hamawy’s] testimony, once cross-examination was over, did more to bolster the prosecution’s proof of a jihadist terrorism conspiracy against the United States than to help the accused.”

Hamawy’s campaign told Fox News Digital that a past affiliation with Abdel-Rahman amounts to “guilt-by-association” shaming.

Hamawy is also attracting criticism for working in a Gaza hospital that served as a command center for Hamas.

In May 2024, he did a three-week tour of duty at Gaza’s European Hospital. When Hamawy returned, he told Rowan University’s student newspaper, the Whit, in October: “I didn’t see any guns in the hospital. There was no one that I could identify as a combatant. There were definitely no tunnels underground and no command base there.”

One year later, in May 2025, Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, one of the architects of the Oct. 7 attacks, was killed by the Israel Defense Forces in a tunnel directly under the emergency department of the hospital while meeting with other senior Hamas terrorists, many of whom also died.

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The Times of Israel reported that Hamas also held hostages in the tunnel at some point.

Hamawy’s connections to Hamas-related controversies do not end there. He received the endorsement of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose executive director, Nihad Awad, said he “was happy to see” Palestinians “breaking the siege” on October 7.

In April, Hamawy appeared on the far-left streamer Hasan Piker’s podcast, where he discussed his desires to “abolish ICE” and “dismantle the DHS,” while also attacking what he referred to as “the department of war crimes.”

Jewish Insider recently published a detailed description of Hamawy’s history of volunteering in Bosnia during the summer of 1994 with a nonprofit called the Benevolence International Foundation that aided Muslims in the region.

Hamawy had worked in the cities of Sarajevo and Zenica, the two cities in which Benevolence maintained its offices. In 2002, Bosnian and U.S. authorities raided those offices and allegedly found documents, correspondence, and materials linking Benevolence to al-Qaeda operations and financing.

Hamawy himself has not been charged with terrorism or accused by authorities of participating in terrorist activity.

In the November general election, Hamawy will face off against Republican Gregg Mele in what is considered a solidly Democratic district.

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Move over, Charlize Theron!

Jennifer Lopez is the latest star to flaunt the decade’s must-have celebrity accessory: a “trans” kid.

‘[The kids should] go where they want to go and do what they want to do.’

Twins

Emme Muniz — one of a pair of twins Lopez shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony — recently graduated from Los Angeles’ Windward School under the new, more gender-identity-appropriate moniker Oskar, according to Page Six.

The last name Muniz comes from Anthony’s real name, Marco Antonio Muñiz; the singer and Lopez were married from 2004 to 2014.

The nepo baby formerly known as Emme is no stranger to the limelight; when she was just 11, her mom brought her onstage to perform with her at the Super Bowl LIV halftime show. Since then, the superstar scion has made the scene at a number of screenings and red carpets.

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Status symbols

In a since-deleted post from Windward’s Instagram account, the school congratulated one “Oskar Muniz” for gaining admittance to Sarah Lawrence College, a private liberal arts college in New York.

The post was “liked” by actress Jennifer Garner, who was once married to actor Ben Affleck; he was married to Lopez for three years.

The post tagged an account belonging to Oskar, which also notes the same college, along with “he” as a preferred pronoun, as well as symbols for gay (“⚣”) and trans (“⚧︎”).

RELATED: Let them ‘rot’: Former Marine’s solution to fixing California is about as anti-establishment as it gets

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All in the family

Dad Anthony apparently failed to attend his daughter’s graduation, but other members of the extended family were there to pick up the slack. Among them: 14-year-old Samuel Affleck, Anthony’s ex-wife’s former stepson.

While Samuel continues to identify with his biological sex, his older sister Seraphina recently came out as trans.

Anthony was born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents and has multiplatinum albums in both English and Spanish. He is 57 years old and has seven children in total.

Lopez, 56, had previously said she wants her kids to “be happy and go where they want to go and do what they want to do.”

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Bodycam footage from the United Kingdom has turned Henry Nowak’s death from a local outrage into a national indictment. The footage appears to show officers handcuffing an 18-year-old stabbing victim, dismissing his pleas for help, and treating him as the suspect while he bled to death.

Nowak, an 18-year-old from Essex, reportedly told officers, “I can’t breathe,” and “I’ve been stabbed.” Officers mocked him, denied that he had been injured, and debated whether they had any obligation to check. The case has drawn comparisons to George Floyd in the United States. The comparison is imperfect, but the contrast is obvious: In Nowak’s case, the police had every reason to believe the man on the ground needed urgent medical care.

The purpose of a system is what it does. British police no longer appear organized to protect the people of Britain, but rather to eliminate them.

In December, Nowak was walking home from a pub while recording himself on social media. He encountered Vickrum Digwa, a 22-year-old Sikh immigrant, who claimed Nowak intentionally bumped into him. The recording stopped during the initial encounter, so the exact sequence remains unclear. When it resumed, Nowak called Digwa a “bad man” before Digwa grabbed his phone and the recording ended.

Digwa then allegedly stabbed Nowak multiple times in the jaw, legs, and heart with a ceremonial dagger. Britain imposes strict anti-knife laws on its native population, yet Sikhs receive exemptions to carry kirpans. That fact turned Nowak’s death into a symbol of Britain’s two-tier society.

Digwa did not immediately summon help. He recorded himself mocking Nowak as the wounded teenager tried to escape over a fence. Nowak told his attacker more than once that he was dying. Digwa’s brother eventually called police with a story that Nowak was a violent racist who had insulted and assaulted the Sikh man before injuring himself while climbing a fence.

The police appear to have accepted that story instantly. They treated the bleeding English teenager as the threat and the immigrant suspect as the victim. They handcuffed Nowak, and he reportedly choked to death on his own blood in police custody.

Even before the bodycam footage emerged, Nowak’s death had become a flashpoint in a deeply divided Britain. Despite the clear wishes of voters, British politicians have allowed mass migration to transform the country. Immigrants have strained the welfare state, crowded the job market, driven housing pressure, and changed the country’s culture. But nowhere has the transformation become more obvious than policing.

The Pakistani grooming-gang scandals revealed the pattern. English girls were raped across the country while police, terrified of being called racist, ignored or minimized the crimes. In some cases, victims were treated as the problem. In others, fathers who tried to protect their daughters faced the law instead. The message was clear: The state feared accusations of racism more than it feared the destruction of its own people.

RELATED: ‘White lives matter’: UK erupts over footage of English teen’s demise in handcuffs after stabbing by Sikh thug

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Immigrant stabbing attacks have also helped justify sweeping bans on defensive weapons, including knives and pepper spray. Yet Nowak died from a ceremonial blade Digwa was permitted to carry. Immigrants enjoy exceptions while native Britons face disarmament. That is not equal justice. It is hierarchy.

After a stabbing spree last year left three young girls dead, riots broke out across Britain. The government response was brutal. Authorities did not merely arrest violent offenders or street protesters. They escalated social media arrests so aggressively that Britain now jails people for speech and political offenses at levels no free country should tolerate. At every turn, the government has privileged the comfort of foreign communities over the safety and dignity of the native population.

Americans often fail to grasp how deeply George Floyd’s death reshaped the Anglosphere. Britain, despite lacking America’s domestic history of slavery, endured its own Black Lives Matter revolution: protests, policing struggle sessions, and attacks on statues of figures such as Winston Churchill. Keir Starmer, now prime minister, bent the knee for a foreign criminal. A country convulsed itself over an American drug addict, yet struggles to muster the same moral energy for murdered English children. The implication is dark.

The Nowak footage poured gasoline on a smoldering fire. Officers assumed the white teenager was guilty without evidence. They joked as he begged for help. They placed him in cuffs when he posed no threat. One image now circulating shows officers shackling Nowak’s pale hand, ghost-white from blood loss. It captures the moral condition of the British state.

RELATED: Free speech in Britain is worse than you think

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The purpose of a system is what it does. British police no longer appear organized to protect the people of Britain. Too often, they protect the regime’s migration project and punish anyone who resists it. When mass migration produced predictable violence, the government minimized, excused, or concealed it. When victims and their families protested, the government disciplined them. When citizens took to the streets to demand justice, the government crushed them.

The British state has made mortal enemies of the English people. That may sound extreme, but what better explanation fits the evidence? The system treats white Britons as permanent suspects and immigrants as protected classes. It uses “racism” not as a neutral moral category but as a weapon to silence, disarm, and destroy the native population.

One officer involved in Nowak’s death has reportedly resigned. According to the Telegraph, the other three remain on duty and have not been suspended.

White lives matter. Henry Nowak’s life mattered.

A real price must be paid for his death, and radical reforms must follow. If British elites attempt to bury this case, they will be playing with righteous fire.

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The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest is a Roman Catholic society of apostolic life that boasts “solid and well-rounded” priests.

Rev. Canon Jean-Baptiste Commins, one of the institute’s priests who has served as rector of Detroit’s historic St. Joseph Shrine since 2021, demonstrated his solidity on Monday, coming out on top after a round with an 18-year-old suspect accused of stealing a car and crashing into another vehicle outside the church.

‘I had to, unfortunately, give him a few punches.’

The young priest — a Franco-American citizen who grew up in a military family and was ordained in 2015 — told WJBK-TV that he was in the church parking lot when he heard the screech of tires followed by a loud crash.

Moments earlier, police spotted a vehicle they believed to have been stolen and attempted to initiate a traffic stop. The suspect clearly had other ideas.

Commins, wearing his priestly cassock, bolted to the source of the commotion and spotted a bloody man wearing only one shoe fleeing the scene. Hearing a cry for someone to stop the one-shoed suspect who was running his way, Commins rushed in for an interception.

The priest tackled and, aided by a parishioner, detained the 18-year-old suspected car thief until police arrived on the scene.

Commins — sporting some scrapes on his knuckles and a pair of bandaged fingers — told WJBK that he “grabbed him and put him down.”

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“He was resisting a lot, trying to run away, definitely,” the priest continued. “So I had to, unfortunately, give him a few punches and hurt my hand a little bit — nothing major — but making sure that there was no threat since I didn’t know if he had a gun, if he had a weapon. It was definitely suspicious behavior and probably guilty of the accident.”

After police officers took over for the man of God, Commins rushed back to the site of the accident to check whether the woman in the vehicle that had been struck needed any help, the sacraments, or perhaps even a blessing.

Although Commins said the woman was initially “not very responsive,” police said the victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Commins told WJBK that once the situation outside his church was resolved, he said his prayers “as usual” and had dinner with the community.

“Just another day in the D!” Commins said, laughing.

The suspect was arrested in connection with the incident, and three others were detained. The Detroit Police Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

The advocacy group CatholicVote called the priest “legendary.”

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Nearly 100 children were rescued and almost 300 people were arrested as part of a sweeping law enforcement operation against child exploitation in Texas, according to authorities.

The FBI on Friday revealed the results of Operation Soteria Shield — a “coordinated law enforcement effort focused on rescuing children from online sexual exploitation and bringing offenders to justice.”

‘Every single day, this FBI is moving more aggressively than ever before to destroy child predator networks and save innocent victims all over the country.’

“Investigators, analysts, digital forensic examiners, prosecutors, victim advocates, and child advocacy partners worked together to identify offenders and protect vulnerable children,” the FBI Dallas branch stated.

The joint operation included almost 200 law enforcement personnel from agencies across Texas. Key participants included the FBI’s Dallas North Texas Child Exploitation Task Force, the North Texas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Dallas Police Department, the Plano Police Department, the Wylie Police Department, and the Garland Police Department.

Between March and April, Operation Soteria Shield aimed to expose “offenders who exploit children through online platforms, social media, messaging applications, and other digital environments.”

The FBI said, “Investigators pursued individuals involved in the possession, distribution, production, or promotion of child sexual abuse material, online solicitation of minors, trafficking, sexual assault, and other child exploitation-related offenses.”

As a result of Operation Soteria Shield, 276 people were arrested for child exploitation and 89 children were rescued.

“Investigators also worked to locate children who were being exploited, identify previously unknown victims, and connect children and families with appropriate services,” the FBI said.

The FBI noted that the cases in Operation Soteria Shield remain active, and “additional charges may be filed as forensic examinations and follow-up investigations continue.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News, “Every single day, this FBI is moving more aggressively than ever before to destroy child predator networks and save innocent victims all over the country, and today’s brilliant numbers out of FBI Dallas and partners are the latest milestone in that righteous mission.”

FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock said, “Together, we were able to make a significant impact in the ongoing battle against predators who exploit children in our communities.”

Dallas Police Department Chief Daniel C. Comeaux added that these are “not victimless crimes” and that they can “leave lasting trauma on children and families.”

Plano Police Department Chief Ed Drain said the operation has “changed lives.”

“Every child deserves to grow up safe, protected, and free from exploitation,” Drain remarked. “This operation reflects our shared commitment to defend children wherever abuse occurs, whether that is in a home, on a device, or through an online platform.”

Wylie Police Department Chief Anthony Henderson proclaimed, “What is done in the dark will be brought to the light.”

“Through the coordinated efforts of all participating agencies, hundreds of predators have been identified and removed from our communities,” Henderson continued. “This operation reflects our collective commitment to protecting children and pursuing those who seek to exploit or harm them.”

Garland Police Department Chief Jeff Bryan added, “Protecting our most precious resource, our children, from online exploitation requires vigilance, strong partnerships, and a relentless commitment to pursuing those who seek to harm them.”

Operation Soteria Shield is part of Operation Iron Pursuit — the FBI’s nationwide effort to locate victims of child sex abuse and detain child sex predators.

The Department of Justice said in a statement last month that “more than 200 child victims were located and over 350 child sexual abuse offenders were arrested” as a result of Operation Iron Pursuit.

The DOJ highlighted the rescue of a 10-year-old in Utah with a transgender parent and partner during Operation Iron Pursuit.

The child was supposed to be on a camping trip with a transgender parent, partner, and another child. The group instead flew from Canada to Mexico and then to Cuba; concerns existed that the 10-year-old child was taken to Cuba for gender reassignment surgery. FBI Victim Services Division assisted with the recovery of the children, providing crisis support and stabilization.

Law enforcement officials are advocating for parents and guardians to remain vigilant by talking openly with children about online dangers.

Authorities stress that caregivers should “monitor digital activities” and “report suspicious communications.”

“Online child exploitation often begins with seemingly ordinary digital contact, and early reporting can be critical to stopping abuse and identifying victims,” the FBI declared.

Anyone with information about child exploitation is urged to contact local law enforcement, contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI, submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov, or contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at cybertipline.org.

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