Sec. Kristi Noem of the Department of Homeland Security was reportedly rushed to a hospital in Washington, D.C., via ambulance on Tuesday.

Few details were available about her condition, but she is said to be conscious and speaking to her security detail. A CNN report cited two sources familiar with the matter.

A spokesperson for DHS released a statement saying Noem was alert and recovering from an allergic reaction.

“Secretary Noem had an allergic reaction today. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution,” reads the statement from Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for the Dept. of Homeland Security.

The development came as top officials of the Trump administration were on high alert due to the war that had broken out between Israel and Iran. Trump has been issuing threats to the Iranian regime via social media and calling on them to stand down and agree to a peace deal.

Iranian officials had previously indicated that they were willing to sign a nuclear deal with the president if all sanctions were dropped.

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In April, Noem was robbed of a purse with $3,000 inside by a masked man as she dined at a Washington restaurant. Police later determined the man to be a Chilean national who did not know whom he was stealing from and was in the country illegally.

Editor’s note: This article has been edited after publication to include a statement from the DHS.

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Illegal aliens are in the crosshairs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — even in the video game world.

Users of the massively popular online game Roblox are not only performing in-game raids on “illegals,” but they are also facing anti-ICE protests in the game’s fictional streets.

‘This is the only thing we can turn to.’

In Roblox, gamers can design virtually anything in a scaled-down, pixelated 3D world, leading to intricate gardens, basketball courts, or, in this case, federal agents sweeping facilities for illegal immigrants.

“Kids are cosplaying as ICE agents in Roblox, staging raids on fellow players who they deem illegal,” reporter Taylor Lorenz wrote on X. “Hundreds of kids are also protesting ICE in rallies across Brookhaven, Roblox’s most popular experience.”

In one staged scenario, ICE agents raid a Roblox version of a chicken restaurant called Los Pollos Hermanos found in the hit TV show “Breaking Bad.”

A firefight ensues, and ICE makes arrests of several employees.

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Other videos posted to TikTok show a raid on a character in his bedroom at the hands of just one ICE agent with a baseball bat, while another shows an organized anti-ICE protest, complete with signs that say “F Ice,” likely because curse words are not allowed on the platform.

Lorenz spoke to a 17-year-old who she said “organized the largest anti-ICE protest in Roblox,” which featured burning police cars and Roblox characters holding Mexican flags while battling police.

“A lot of young people really want to protest and put their words and beliefs out there but are unable to,” the child told Lorenz. “So this is the only thing we can turn to.”

At least six more in-game anti-ICE protests were being organized, according to the teen. Most of the action has reportedly happened in “Brookhaven,” the most popular server in Roblox, which has seen upwards of one million users at one time.

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Blaze News previously reported on Roblox’s enormous user base last year, about 58% of which were under the age of 16, equating to around 46 million children on the platform.

However, Roblox has strict safety measures and a history of taking serious precautions to protect children.

Roblox did not respond to a request for comment regarding whether or not in-game scenarios like the protests and raids went against their terms of service.

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The steel-driving man of American legend, John Henry, attempted to beat the machine — and won, though it cost him his life. At the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League’s (A2RL) Drone Championship in April, man tried to beat the machine and lost — and the technology responsible could soon claim many a life on battlefields the world over.

There were four race formats at the drone competition co-hosted by the Drone Champions League and A2RL this past April in Abu Dhabi: an autonomous drag race where lightweight flyers fired through multiple gates at speeds of over 93 mph; a multi-drone race; an AI grand challenge; and a match pitting elite DCL human pilots against an autonomous drone.

In the fourth type of race, an autonomous quadcopter drone built and trained by a team of scientists and students at Delft University of Technology’s aerospace engineering MAVLab in the Netherlands beat three former DCL world champions, reaching speeds on the winding indoor track of nearly 60 mph.

A2RL concluded in a release that the races demonstrated that “AI, when given the right tools, can make complex, real-time decisions in a dynamic physical world. And it can do so safely, at speed, and at scale.”

‘Autonomous drone racing is an ideal test case for developing and demonstrating highly efficient, robust AI.’

Footage shows the drone whip effortlessly through a series of 22 indoor gates using only a front-facing camera and a motion sensor.

According to the university, the feat — possible because their “efficient and robust AI system [is] capable of split-second, high-performance control” — was historic.

Humans have been losing in games played virtually to supercomputers for decades. However, the university noted that “this achievement happened in the real world.”

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Team lead Christophe De Wagter said in a statement, “I always wondered when AI would be able to compete with human drone racing pilots in real competitions. I’m extremely proud of the team that we were able to make it happen already this year.”

“I hope that this achievement and this type of competition in general forms a springboard for real-world robot applications,” added De Wagter. “Robot AI is limited by the required computational and energy resources. Autonomous drone racing is an ideal test case for developing and demonstrating highly efficient, robust AI.”

The efficacy of autonomous drones on the raceway certainly has implications for the future of warfare.

Already in Ukraine, drones — which Kyiv is on track to produce 2.5 million of annually — have blunted the competitive edge of state-of-the-art bomber aircraft and armor and now reportedly cause an estimated 70% of deaths and injuries. The vast majority of drones in the war are, however, human-operated.

A special report published earlier this month by the Institute for the Study of War noted that “Russia and Ukraine are engaged in an active technological race to develop and deploy drones with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities” as doing so would reduce their reliance on human drone operators and defenders, overcome human limitations in target identification, and accelerate decision-making processes involved in drone warfare.

The warring nations have reportedly demonstrated some integration of AI capabilities into drones as of last month but have not deployed them on scale in the battlefield.

In one instance, a Ukrainian electronic and radio warfare expert observed Russian forces field a swarm of six drones, each of which carry a 6.6 pound warhead and have a range of up to 50 miles.

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ISW noted that Ukrainian forces, on the other hand, deployed a new AI-powered “mother drone” on the frontlines in late May — a drone that can reportedly deploy two first-person-view drones and launch a strike at a range of 186 miles.

The mothership was created by the Ukrainian startup Strategy Force Solutions.

The CTO of the company, who identified himself only as Andrii, told Forbes, “A $10,000 mission replaces what previously required $3-$5 million missile systems.”

“By pairing them [small FPV type drones] with AI mothership drones, we can guarantee precision strikes,” added Andrii.

The TU Delft drone evidences a technological leap that if utilized in the warring nation’s UAVs could mean greater effectiveness when attacking in dynamic combat zones as greater difficulty on the part of targets to evade or shoot them down.

The Dutch university indicated that one of the novel aspects of the racer drone’s AI is its use of a deep neural network originally developed by the Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency, which enables the system to bypass a traditional human controller and direct commands straight to the motors.

“Traditional, human-engineered algorithms for optimal control were computationally so expensive that they would never be able to run onboard resource-constrained systems such as drones or satellites,” said the university. “ESA found that deep neural networks were able to mimic the outcomes of traditional algorithms, while requiring orders of magnitude less processing time.”

“We now train the deep neural networks with reinforcement learning, a form of learning by trial and error,” said De Wagter. “This allows the drone to more closely approach the physical limits of the system. To get there, though, we had to redesign not only the training procedure for the control but also how we can learn about the drone’s dynamics from its own onboard sensory data.”

According to a MarketDigits 2023 projection, the autonomous drone market will reach $53.4 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 18.9% during the forecast period.

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A Florida sheriff issued a fiery statement against singer Lizzo over accusations on social media that he threatened to kill peaceful protesters.

Lizzo, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, posted the accusations and said she was appalled that law enforcement officials would threaten to stamp out the constitutional right to free speech in the U.S.

‘Until earlier tonight, I had never heard of her.’

“I just watched a video of law enforcement saying they would kill — kill anyone who exercises their First Amendment rights to protest. And I’ve never seen anything more unconstitutional in my life. It was actually appalling,” she said in the video on Instagram.

She said that people have to get louder to combat officials acting illegally.

“I want to encourage everybody to remember their constitutional rights,” she added. “I want to encourage everybody to also protect each other. Because the people that we put in position to protect us are not doing that. Know your rights and stand on ’em.”

Jefferson was likely referring to a viral video of Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, who warned protesters ahead of the No Kings demonstrations to avoid criminal behavior or face the consequences.

“If you spit on us, you’re going to the hospital and then jail. If you hit one of us, you’re going to the hospital and then jail and most likely get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs that we have here,” said Ivey in the viral video.

Ivey did threaten to use lethal force against protesters, but he specifically said that about anyone who uses extreme violence during a protest.

“Throw a brick, firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at,” he added. “Because we will kill you graveyard dead. We’re not going to play.”

After hearing about her post, Ivey responded to Jefferson’s post and excoriated her for misconstruing his comments while confirming that he’s not a fan of her music.

“Lizzo who?” he said to Fox News Digital. “Until earlier tonight, I had never heard of her. So what she thinks matters exactly zero to me! She clearly didn’t listen to what was actually said during the press conference, as is evidenced by how inaccurate her quote is.”

The post from Lizzo to her 11 million followers on Instagram had garnered nearly 75,000 likes.

“At no time were people peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights [ever] threatened, as what was actually said was that peaceful protests are part of our democracy, and we will provide a safe environment for peaceful protest to take place!” Ivey added.

“My warnings were directed at violent protesters whose actions would put citizens and law enforcement officers’ lives at risk!” he concluded.

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Fox News Digital said it reached out to Lizzo’s management company but did not get a response.

Millions of people participated in the No Kings protests, and some violence was reported at a number of demonstrations. Statistically, between 1% and 1.5% of the total population joined the protests against the Trump administration.

Lizzo also made headlines when some fat-positivity activists expressed outrage that she had betrayed the movement by seeking to lose weight after initially pushing for more fat acceptance.

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Democrats are up in arms after President Donald Trump has threatened to send ICE into sanctuary cities and start deporting illegal aliens en masse — which he explained on Truth Social in signature Trump fashion.

“Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History …” Trump began in a post on Truth Social.

“ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” he continued.

“In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” he added, before calling these cities the “core of the Democrat Power Center.”

While Republicans are on board, Democrats continue to push the idea that illegal immigrants are at the heart of America, which they say would not be what it is without them.

“It seems like we have this big lie that’s being told in our country that our economy cannot function without the participation of these people in it,” Texas Rep. Mitch Little (R) tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“And to that, I just say, let’s find out,” he adds.

But it’s not just the illegal immigrants whom Little takes issue with.

“I’m also very concerned about the ongoing participation of China in our higher education,” he explains. “This is not really a place for us to be making exceptions.”

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The Minnesota man who is suspected of killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband was caught by police hiding in a rural field, but who he is and possible motives only get murkier as more information is revealed.

Vance Boelter also allegedly took the life of the Hortmans’ golden retriever, Gilbert; shot Democratic state Senator John Hoffman and his wife in their home; and had stacks of No Kings flyers that were recovered in his car. While some have claimed that Boelter was a Trump supporter, the discovered flyers, which simply said “No Kings,” in reference to the nationwide anti-Trump protests, have caused some confusion.

“I mean, none of this makes any sense,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments. “Nobody knows necessarily his motivation. They are calling it political.”

The last time Boelter is known to have been a registered Republican was over 20 years ago in Oklahoma.

But it gets weirder, as Boelter is married, but he has a roommate.

“How is he married, and he has a roommate? I don’t understand this situation. His roommate says he was a big Trump supporter,” Gray explains, noting that his wife was found with passports, food, cash and a loaded-up car.

“Was he going to abandon the roommate and take off with his wife?” Gray asks, dumbfounded, though he does know one thing. “I think we have an idea what kind of guy he is: a psycho murdering kind of guy.”

“Man, what a weird situation,” he adds.

Keith Malinak notes that even stranger, Hortman recently cast a vote that caused issues between her and her own party.

“She’s the one that crossed party lines to go and vote and stop this health care for illegals in Minnesota, which is strange because she’s really extreme left on many issues,” Malinak says.

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New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents after locking arms with a man who was in court for potential deportation.

Lander is also a candidate for New York City mayor in the upcoming primary election. His policy proposals include ending homelessness for the mentally ill, standing up to Donald Trump, preparing for the “climate crisis,” and standing up for “our immigrant neighbors.”

Lander was apparently attempting to do just that when he was filmed near a courtroom at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan following immigration hearings.

‘You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens!’

In the hallway outside of the courtroom, Lander latched onto a man as federal agents approached him. The agents represented ICE, the FBI, and the Treasury Department, according to amNY.

As video of the confrontation shows, Lander refused to let go of the alleged illegal immigrant who was reportedly just seen by a judge for possible deportation. AmNY claimed the man’s case was dismissed but provided no specifics.

Agents attempted to separate Lander from the man, as the comptroller yelled, “Show me your warrant! Show me your badge!”

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Still holding on, Lander took a calmer approach and said, “I will let go if you show me a judicial warrant,” and, “I would like to see the warrant, and then I will let go.”

The agents forcibly separated the two men and took both into custody as Lander yelled, “You don’t have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens!”

Lander claimed he was “not obstructing” and was simply “standing right here in the hallway,” before again telling agents they did not have the authority to arrest him.

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In a statement to Blaze News, Dept. of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Lander was arrested for “impeding a federal officer.”

“Our heroic ICE law enforcement officers face a 413% increase in assaults against them — it is wrong that politicians seeking higher office undermine law enforcement safety to get a viral moment,” McLaughlin continued. “No one is above the law, and if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will face consequences.”

A spokesperson for Lander told amNY that the comptroller was “taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.”

Meanwhile, Lander’s wife, Meg Barnette, posted on his X page on his behalf, saying, “Brad is still in ICE custody.”

“We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza,” Barnette wrote. “Together we are standing up for those with no voice.”

DHS did not confirm the name or status of the man Lander latched himself to.

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An executive order from President Donald Trump opened up records that led to the identification of more than two dozen incidents where noncitizens may have illegally voted in the 2024 election.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement Tuesday that 33 cases of potential illegal voting were referred to his office by Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson.

‘Noncitizens must not be allowed to influence American elections, and I will use the full weight of my office to investigate all voter fraud.’

Paxton said that the data was discovered as a result of Trump opening up access to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s SAVE Database to the states. Nelson used the database to identify the 33 cases.

She said that having access to the database was a “game changer” for the mission of her office.

“Not only have we been able to identify individuals who should not have voted in the last election, we have also been able to confirm naturalization of dozens more,” Nelson explained.

The database is compiled by the federal government to confirm the citizenship status of those who are applying for benefits or licenses.

“Noncitizens must not be allowed to influence American elections, and I will use the full weight of my office to investigate all voter fraud,” said Attorney General Paxton in a written statement.

“In order to be able to trust the integrity of our elections, the results must be determined by our own citizens — not foreign nationals breaking the law to illegally vote,” he added. “These potential instances of unlawful voting will be thoroughly investigated, and I will continue to stand with President Trump in fighting to ensure that our state’s elections are safe and secure.”

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Trump’s executive order in February directed state officials to improve their policies in order to ensure illegal aliens are not abusing the social safety net.

“We are stewards of taxpayer dollars, and it is our duty to ensure states confirm the identity and verify the immigration status of SNAP applicants,” wrote Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in a statement at the time. “USDA’s nutrition programs are intended to support the most vulnerable Americans. To allow those who broke our laws by entering the United States illegally to receive these benefits is outrageous.”

Paxton is running to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) in the Republican primary. Cornyn has been in the U.S. Senate for 23 years and is 73 years old.

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In a New York Times magazine interview published on June 1, 2020, then-Attorney General Bill Barr acknowledged that the Department of Justice was concerned that “there are a number of foreign countries that could easily make counterfeit ballots, put names on them, send them in.”

Weeks later, President Donald Trump tweeted: “RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!”

Election officials, Democrats, and the liberal media were quick to suggest that such claims weren’t just “unfounded” — they were “preposterous.”

Like the American liberal establishment, these strategic dismissals have not aged well.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced Monday that the bureau located intelligence reports from August 2020 that detail “alarming allegations” regarding an apparent Chinese communist plot to interfere in the presidential election for the benefit of then-candidate Joe Biden.

Nearly as damning as the allegations was their alleged cover-up by elements of the intelligence community ahead of the election.

Patel told Just the News that the newly declassified documents “include allegations of plans from the [Chinese Communist Party] to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots — allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.”

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on July 27, 2020, that between Jan. 1 and June 30 of that election year, CBP officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O’Hare International Airport had seized 1,513 shipments containing fraudulent documents, including 19,888 counterfeit U.S. drivers’ licenses.

“The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong, with other seized shipments arriving from Great Britain and South Korea,” noted CBP.

The licenses were mostly intended for college-age students across various states. In many cases, the barcode attached to the licenses actually worked. It’s unclear whether some of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students at universities across the country or some of the nearly 400,000 Chinese illegal aliens were the intended recipients.

“These fraudulent identity documents can lead to identity theft, worksite enforcement, critical infrastructure protection, fraud linked to immigration-related crimes such as human smuggling and human trafficking, and these documents can be used by those individuals associated with terrorism to minimize scrutiny from travel screening measures,” added CBP.

Officials who have seen the newly declassified documents told Just the News that a confidential source provided the FBI with information in summer 2020 indicating that the Chinese communist regime was mass-producing fake American drivers’ licenses in order to create voter identities for Chinese nationals so that they could vote with fake mail-in ballots.

The goal was apparently to help Biden beat Trump.

An intelligence official indicated that despite the gravity of the allegations, the intel report was recalled after just a few weeks and the allegations never fully explored.

‘It was a deliberate effort by the Intelligence Community to hide these facts from the public.’

The reason given was that the confidential source needed to be re-interviewed. However, it appears politics may have informed the decision.

The intelligence community’s then-analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf indicated in a report on a number of election security intelligence issues that “China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the [Trump] Administration’s policies, saying in effect, ‘I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies.'”

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In a Jan. 7, 2021, memo, then-DNI and current CIA Director John Ratcliffe directed the attention of senators on the Select Committee on Intelligence to how the ombudsman found that “CIA Management took actions ‘pressuring [analysts] to withdraw their support’ from the alternative viewpoint on China ‘in an attempt to suppress it. This was seen by National Intelligence Officers as politicization,’ and I agree.”

Ratcliffe went on to defend Christopher Porter — the former national intelligence officer for cyber at the National Intelligence Council, who led the U.S. intelligence community’s analysis of threats to American elections — for refusing to back down from flagging the threat of Chinese election interference. Contrary to the supposed majority view, Porter apparently maintained that “China took at least some steps to undermine former President Trump’s reelection chances.”

Porter, who expressed his gratitude on Tuesday that Patel “is standing up for the truth senior Intelligence Community leaders conspired to hide,” claimed that the CIA and senior leadership at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence harassed him and drove him out of the building when he said that China had interfered in 2020.

“Just remember, this wasn’t an oversight: it was a deliberate effort by the Intelligence Community to hide these facts from the public so President Trump couldn’t defend his campaign for reelection,” added Porter.

The ombudsman took pains to explain that “due to varying collection and insight into hostile state actors’ leadership intentions and domestic election influence campaigns, the definitional use of the terms ‘influence’ and ‘interference’ and associated confidence levels are applied differently by the China and Russia analytic communities.”

RELATED: Chinese official avows Beijing is behind cyberattacks on US, identifies motive: Report

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Zulauf suggested further that the difference in application of these analytic terms led to “differences in the volume, frequency, and confidence levels of the intelligence coming from the China and Russia analytic communities,” though they were “very similar in their potential effects.”

In his report, Zulauf found that “there were attempts to politicize intelligence.”

Zulauf referred to several examples, “the most egregious” of which was delivered by National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director Bill Evanina on March 10, 2020. Evanina delivered remarks that were construed as the opinion of the IC, yet analysts called the introductory statement and talking points a “gross misinterpretation” of the IC’s views.

The ombudsman also highlighted “what appears to be politically motivated editing” of a May 2020 National Intelligence Council Memo in what he described as one example of “the overall pattern of perceived politicization.”

Then-National Intelligence Chair Christopher Kojm, who later ended up on Biden’s presidential transition Agency Review Team, “crafted the language” of the memo, which reportedly “led with intelligence gaps and ‘buried the lead’ regarding what the IC does know about election security threats.”

“The result was a final product whose delayed publication meant it diverged sharply from the up-to-date IC view communicated in other product lines,” wrote Zulauf. “I have e-mail exchanges to document this delay, allusions to political repercussions, and frustration from intelligence professionals with the delay.”

“NIC officials pointed to ODNI senior officials as intervening in the changes to conclusions, saying that they were overly sensitive to political customers who saw the dissonance between China and Russia reporting and the inconsistent application of definitions,” added Zulauf.

The alleged cover-up of the Chinese election fraud plot appears to be par for the course within what the ombudsman referred to as this “hyper partisan state” of play.

It appears this narrative curation ultimately proved successful.

In March 2021, the National Intelligence Council released an assessment report stating with high confidence that “China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election.”

‘They should be investigating and getting this ready for prosecution.’

The report noted further that the intelligence community had “no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.”

Patel told Just the News he declassified the intel documents pertaining to the August 2020 intel report and provided them to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for further review.

The news of the documents’ location and declassification was well received by a number of Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Ana Paulina Luna (Fla.), who stated, “America needs to wake up. Trump is NOT the enemy, it’s the CCP.”

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, suggested to Blaze News that “a limited disclosure to Congress is not sufficient.”

“They’re the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” continued Howell. “They should be investigating and getting this ready for prosecution.”

Blaze News reached out to the ODNI and the White House but did not immediately receive responses. When pressed for comment, the FBI referred Blaze News to Patel’s post on X.

Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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The change in popes earlier this year has enlivened the international debate about the Catholic liturgy and tradition, especially about the traditional Latin Mass. With Vatican deadlines approaching later this year, everyone is anxious to see what Pope Leo XIV’s legacy will be.

Cardinal Leo Burke recently announced his hope that the new pope would “reconsider” the recent teachings of Pope Francis, which led to “persecution from within the Church” regarding the discontinuation of the Latin Mass.

‘Unfortunately, the current restrictions put in place by the recently deceased Pope Francis have caused confusion and hurt to the faithful who are seeking to worship the holy Trinity with the ancient liturgy and rituals.’

During a conference with the Latin Mass Society, Cardinal Burke was asked what he hopes the new pope, Leo XIV, will do regarding the late Pope Francis’ restrictions on the Latin Mass.

“It is my hope that he will put an end to the persecution of the faithful in the Church who desire to worship God according to the more ancient usage of the Roman right,” Burke, over video, told the conference.

Cardinal Burke signaled that he had already expressed his hopes for the future of the Latin Mass to Pope Leo XIV: “I certainly have already had occasion to express that to the Holy Father. … It is my hope that he will restore the situation as it was after ‘Summorum Pontificum’ and even to continue to develop what Pope Benedict had so wisely and lovingly legislated for the Church.”

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“Summorum Pontificum” (2007) was Pope Benedict XVI’s affirmation of the traditional celebration of the holy Mass in Latin. It was later restricted by Pope Francis’ own motu proprio, “Traditionis Custodes” (2021).

Benedict’s letter emphasized that the traditional Latin Mass and Novus Ordo were a “twofold use of one and the same rite,” while Francis called for liturgical unity, limiting the extent to which the Latin Mass could be used.

Pope Francis’ restrictions on the Latin Mass have been met with a great deal of resistance from the faithful, yet some dioceses have insisted on obedience to this order.

Many Catholics have argued against the legitimacy of “Traditionis Custodes,” including liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, who said in a 2021 speech at a Catholic Identity Conference, “The traditional Mass belongs to the most intimate part of the common good in the Church. Restricting it, pushing it into ghettos, and ultimately planning its demise can have no legitimacy. This law is not a law of the Church because, as St. Thomas Aquinas says, a law against the common good is no valid law.”

Charlotte, North Carolina, however, has become a focal point in this controversy because Bishop Michael Martin recently announced that he would expedite the change in his diocese.

On May 23, Bishop Martin announced that the Latin Mass would cease to be offered by the four parishes in his diocese that celebrate it. He said the transition would be completed by the deadline of July 8, 2025.

That deadline, however, is three months ahead of an existing October 2025 deadline for the transition.

But in an unlikely turn of events, Bishop Martin announced on June 3 that he would push back the deadline to the Vatican’s original October deadline. He cited pastoral concerns, both from parishioners and priests.

“It made sense to start these changes in July when dozens of our priests will be moving to their new parishes and other assignments,” Bishop Martin told local Catholic News Herald. “That said, I want to listen to the concerns of these parishioners and their priests, and I am willing to give them more time to absorb these changes.”

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“I support the letter of His Eminence, Cardinal Burke, and his attempt to bring about Catholic unity under the peaceful provisions established by Pope Benedict XVI for the traditional Latin Mass. Unfortunately, the current restrictions put in place by the recently deceased Pope Francis have caused confusion and hurt to the faithful who are seeking to worship the holy Trinity with the ancient liturgy and rituals,” Dr. Taylor R. Marshall, president of the New Saint Thomas Institute, told Blaze News.

“I recently met with another cardinal in Rome who agrees with Cardinal Burke. We hope that the new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, restores the generosity of Pope Benedict XVI by allowing the traditional Latin Mass to Catholics,” Dr. Marshall continued.

Bishop Martin also told the local outlet that the diocese would abide by any formal instruction from the Vatican in the interim.

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Parents of students at a private school in Canada were able to get results after they confronted a bus driver about his creepy behavior.

The video shows the male driver in pink and white “school girl” garb brazenly defying the parents who question him on why he’s wearing the get-up in front of children. The driver reportedly bused students at St. Michael the Archangel Elementary in Woodbridge, Ontario.

‘Our children deserve to be transported by someone who maintains professional boundaries. The optics of this situation were disturbing.’

“I do this every day, and I don’t think … there is an issue,” the driver says.

“So you picked up the kids dressed up like that?” asks one person.

“Yep!” he replies.

“Why do you call your bus the Lolita Line?” asks another male. “Why is it called the Lolita Line?”

The driver does not respond, closes the doors to the bus, and drives away.

The video was posted to social media, where it garnered millions of views.

One social media user noticed that in the video a sign is visible referring to the “Lolita” name. That name could be a reference to the controversial book “Lolita” and movie where a pedophile professor victimizes and sexually abuses a 12-year-old girl. Jeffrey Epstein referred to the book, according to one of his accusers, and called his plane to his infamous pedophile island the “Lolita Express.”

One parent voiced concerns anonymously in a statement published by CAA Magazine.

“The issue is not about personal expression — it’s about judgment and context,” said the parent. “Our children deserve to be transported by someone who maintains professional boundaries. The optics of this situation were disturbing.”

The York Catholic District School Board confirmed that the driver would not be assigned to the routes of the elementary school. However, the board merely requested a reassignment, and CAA noted that it’s unclear if the man is still allowed access to children as a bus driver.

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“Third-party companies provide school busing in Ontario. YCDSB staff immediately brought this matter to the bus driver’s employer. The company acted quickly to address this situation with its employee and assured the YCDSB that this will not be an issue going forward,” read a statement from the Catholic school board to Rebel News.

“All bus drivers in Ontario are required to pass a Vulnerable Sector Screening with their local police department, and they receive extensive training before transporting students,” the statement continued. “The YCDSB followed all of its child protection procedures after this incident.”

Scenes from the school can be viewed on the news video from Rebel News on YouTube.

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