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Protesters Killed in Iran

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Iranian Regime On The Brink

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A federal judge on Monday said she will hold a short hearing in the next two weeks on procedures that police said allowed them to seize and look through Luigi Mangione’s backpack when he was arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said the hearing in the death penalty case will be limited to just one witness: an officer from the police department in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where Mangione was arrested in December 2024. The officer, she said, must have “sufficient authority and experience to testify about the established or standardized procedures in use” at the time of Mangione’s arrest “for securing, safeguarding, and, if applicable, inventorying the personal property of a person arrested in a public place.” She ordered prosecutors to confer with Mangione’s lawyers on a suitable hearing date, putting him back in court sooner than a scheduled Jan. 30 conference. Because the hearing will focus on procedures, the officer being called as a witness “need not have had any personal involvement” in Mangione’s arrest, Garnett said. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to federal and state murder charges, which carry the possibility of life in prison. Mangione’s lawyers want Garnett to bar prosecutors from using certain items found in the backpack, including a gun police said matched the one used to kill Thompson and a notebook in which Mangione purportedly described his intent to “wack” a health insurance executive. Echoing their arguments at a recent state court hearing, they contend the search was illegal because police had not yet obtained a warrant. Officers began searching the backpack at the McDonald's restaurant where Mangione was arrested while eating breakfast on Dec. 9, 2024, five days after Thompson was killed as he walked to a Manhattan hotel for UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor conference. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting him from behind. Altoona is about 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) west of Manhattan. Prosecutors say officers searched the bag legally because Altoona police protocols require promptly searching a suspect’s property at the time of arrest for dangerous items and police later obtained a warrant. Among the items found at the McDonald's, according to officer testimony at a recent court hearing, was a loaded gun magazine. Officers continued searching the bag at a police station and found the gun and silencer. They performed what’s known as an inventory search and found the notebook and other notes, including what appeared to be to-do lists and possible getaway plans, according to testimony. That search, which involves cataloging every piece of a suspect’s seized property, is also required under Altoona police policy, prosecutors said. Laws concerning how police obtain search warrants are complex and often disputed in criminal cases. As part of her inquiry, Garnett ordered federal prosecutors to provide her with a copy of the affidavit submitted to obtain a federal search warrant in the matter. Mangione’s lawyers contend that searching the backpack before getting a warrant may have influenced how the affidavit was written, but prosecutors say no specific details about items, such as the notebook writings, were mentioned in the document.

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President Trump says Iran reached out to the U.S. about proposed negotiations. The president said his administration was in talks to set up a meeting with Iranian officials after he threatened action in response to a crackdown on protesters in Iran. Donald Trump said “Iran wants to negotiate.” He also said the U.S. military is looking at “some very strong options.” He promised to hit Iran hard if they killed protesters. And activists say the death toll has reached several hundred.

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Liberals Are Being Trained On How To Fight ICE

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Nurses with the New York State Nurses Association picketed outside NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Columbia campus on Monday (January 12), calling for safer staffing levels, improved working conditions and a fair contract. The action marked what union leaders described as the largest nurses' strike in New York City history, with nearly 15,000 nurses walking off the job across multiple hospitals. "We are participating in the historic largest nurses strike in New York City today," said registered nurse Stephanie Miceli. "We're advocating for our patients for better care and safety while they're in the hospital." Nurses said chronic understaffing has left them stretched thin, limiting the time they can spend with patients and raising safety concerns. "There's too many patients, there's not enough nurses," said AJ K., a registered nurse at the hospital. "I want to be able to be at bedside, but I can't because I'm running from room to room." Miceli, who works in the intensive care unit, said the pace of care can be relentless. "We are constantly running to the point where sometimes we don't even get to take a break," she said. Union officials said the strike followed months of bargaining in which hospital management failed to make progress on what nurses described as core issues, including staffing levels, healthcare benefits and workplace safety. Nurses carried signs reading "Patients Over Profits" and "Safe Nurses = Safe Patients," while supporters waved from a skybridge as ambulances passed. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined the nurses and urged a return to negotiations. "They are not asking for a multi-million dollar salary," Mamdani said. "They are asking for the pay and health benefits that they deserve." He called on hospital management and the union to "bargain in good faith" and reach an agreement that allows nurses "who work in this city to live in this city."

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Iran Has Reached Its Breaking Point

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A man accused of driving a U-Haul truck into a crowd demonstrating in support of the Iranian people in Los Angeles over the weekend was in police custody and potentially facing assault charges, authorities said Monday. The driver has not been identified and was in the process of being arrested and booked early Monday, said Officer Charles Miller, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department. “Right now it’s an open traffic investigation,” LAPD Capt. Richard Gabaldon had said earlier. “We’re looking at possible assault with a deadly weapon, the deadly weapon being the vehicle being used.” Gabaldon said one man was treated at the scene for minor injuries. Two people were evaluated by paramedics and both declined treatment, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Police and Mayor Karen Bass have declined to address other questions. The episode unfolded Sunday afternoon in Westwood, a neighborhood home to the largest Iranian community outside of the country. The U-Haul truck forced demonstrators to scramble out of the way, then pursue it as they tried to reach the driver. The truck had its window and side mirrors shattered and was stopped several blocks away and surrounded by police cars. ABC7 helicopter footage showed officers keeping the crowd back as demonstrators swarmed the truck, throwing punches at the driver and thrusting flagpoles through the driver's side window. Police did not give an update on whether the alleged driver was injured in the confrontation. A banner attached to the truck said “No Shah. No Regime. USA: Don’t Repeat 1953. No Mullah,” an apparent reference to a U.S.-backed coup in that year which toppled then-Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, who had nationalized the country's oil industry. The coup cemented the power of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and lit the fuse for the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which saw Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini usher in the theocracy that still governs the country. A huge crowd of demonstrators, some waving the flag of Iran before the Islamic Revolution, had gathered Sunday afternoon along Veteran Avenue to protest against the Iranian government. Police eventually issued a dispersal order, and by 5 p.m. only about a hundred protesters were still in the area, ABC7 reported. Activists say a crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed more than 530 people. Protesters flooded the streets in Iran's capital of Tehran and its second-largest city again Sunday. The demonstrations began Dec. 28 over the collapse of the Iranian currency, as the country’s economy is squeezed by international sanctions in part levied over its nuclear program. The protests intensified and grew into calls directly challenging Iran’s theocracy.

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With just a few hundred people in the community, it was never particularly easy being Jewish in Mississippi's capital city, but members of Beth Israel Congregation took a special pride in keeping their traditions alive in the heart of the Deep South. An arson fire over the weekend that badly damaged the historic synagogue's library and administrative offices made it much harder and harkened back to an era more than a half-century earlier when the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Jackson, Mississippi, synagogue because of its rabbi's support for civil rights. Authorities early Monday hadn't publicly named a suspect, who was in custody, but the FBI promised to release more information later in the day. Yellow police tape on Monday blocked off the entrances to the synagogue building, which was surrounded by broken glass and soot. Bouquets of flowers were laid on the ground at the building's entrance — including one with a note that said, “I'm so very sorry.” The congregation's president, Zach Shemper, vowed to rebuild the synagogue and said several churches had offered their spaces for worship during the rebuilding process. “As Jackson’s only synagogue, Beth Israel is a beloved institution, and it is the fellowship of our neighbors and extended community that will see us through,” Shemper said. With the exception of the cemetery, every aspect of Jewish life in Jackson was under Beth Israel's roof. The midcentury modern building not only housed the congregation but also the Jewish Federation, a nonprofit provider of social services and philanthropy that is the hub of Jewish institutional life in most U.S. cities. The building also was home to the Institute of Southern Jewish Life, which provides resources to Jewish communities in 13 southern states. A Holocaust memorial was outdoors behind the synagogue building. The congregation was so committed to maintaining Jewish life in Jackson that, when its fulltime rabbi departed recently, congregants decided to pay for the multiyear rabbinic schooling of its cantorial soloist, Benjamin Russell, so that Beth Israel could maintain a fulltime, seminary-trained religious leader. Because of the tiny size of Jackson's Jewish community, many congregants had interfaith marriages but still regularly attended Friday night services with their spouses in a commitment to their faith. Beth Israel as a congregation was founded in 1860 and acquired its first property where it built Mississippi's first synagogue after the Civil War. In 1967, the synagogue moved to its current location where it was bombed by local Ku Klux Klan members not long after relocating. Two months after that, the home of the synagogue's leader, Rabbi Perry Nussbaum, was bombed because of his outspoken opposition to segregation and racism. This weekend's fire ripped through the Beth Israel Congregation shortly after 3 a.m. on Saturday, authorities said. No congregants or firefighters were injured in the blaze. Firefighters arrived to find flames billowing out of windows and all doors to the synagogue locked, according to the fire department. One Torah that survived the Holocaust was behind glass and was not damaged in the fire, according to the congregation. Five Torahs — the sacred scrolls with the text of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible — located inside the sanctuary were being assessed for smoke damage. Two Torahs inside the library, where the most severe damage was done, were destroyed, according to a synagogue representative.

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U.S. President Donald Trump issues a stark warning to Cuba, urging the island nation to “make a deal” or face escalating consequences. Trump says the long-standing flow of oil and financial support from Venezuela will now come to an end, cutting off a vital lifeline for Havana. Cuba has relied for years on Venezuelan crude, receiving tens of thousands of barrels a day in exchange for political and security cooperation. The warning follows a dramatic shift in U.S. policy after American forces seized Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a January operation in Caracas. Since then, Washington has stepped up enforcement by seizing oil tankers carrying sanctioned Venezuelan fuel, worsening Cuba’s fuel and electricity shortages. Posting on Truth Social, Trump says there will be “no more oil or money” going to Cuba, adding that the country should act before it is too late. Cuba’s foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez rejects the warning, insisting Cuba has the sovereign right to import fuel without U.S. interference while the country’s president Miguel Díaz-Canel, stresses that no outside power dictates Cuba’s decisions.

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Mike reacts to the constant fighting between the likes of Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Dave Smith over the Right's direction on foreign and domestic policy.

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Democrats Continue To Lie About Minneapolis ICE Shooting

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The Brand New Food Pyramid With Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

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Mondays With Maguire: The Minnesota Woman Is The New Maryland Man With Erin Magure, Republican Strategist.

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The United States has launched another round of retaliatory strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria following a deadly ambush last month that killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter. The assaults, ordered by the Trump administration, hit multiple ISIS positions across the country and involved partner forces, including the Jordanian military. According to U.S. Central Command, the strikes took place Saturday afternoon and are part of an ongoing operation dubbed Operation Hawkeye Strike, named in response to the December attack near Palmyra that left Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard and interpreter Ayad Mansoor Sakat dead. Central Command said the strikes targeted ISIS infrastructure and reiterated that attacks on American personnel will be met with force. The U.S. has coordinated with regional partners as part of its broader counterterrorism mission in Syria. Protests and broader regional dynamics continue to unfold as the U.S. maintains its military presence in the region and works with allies to prevent future extremist attacks.

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A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges accusing him of planting pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters just hours before the January 6 Capitol riot. Brian J. Cole Jr. entered the plea during a brief hearing on Friday. He faces two counts of transporting and attempting to use explosives. Prosecutors say Cole confessed to placing the devices, which authorities say could have caused serious harm, ahead of the mob attack on the Capitol. The case remains under investigation and continues in federal court.

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Iran on Sunday warned it would retaliate against U.S. military bases and Israel if President Donald Trump were to carry out his repeated threats to intervene in the country to protect protesters. The announcement comes as nationwide demonstrations in Iran have left more than 500 people dead, according to human rights activists. The protests, which began over rising prices in late December, have grown into broader anti-government demonstrations against the clerical leadership that has ruled since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranian authorities accuse the U.S. and Israel of encouraging the unrest, while social media videos, shared despite an internet blackout, show large crowds continuing to gather in Tehran. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf issued a warning to Trump, stating that any attack on Iran would make U.S. bases and Israel “legitimate targets” for retaliation. President Trump responded on social media, saying the U.S. “stands ready to help” Iranians seeking freedom. Meanwhile, exiled opposition figure Reza Pahlavi urged Iranians to “not abandon the streets,” highlighting the ongoing uncertainty about the level of support he commands inside the country.

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the Department of Justice has served the central bank with grand jury subpoenas and is threatening him with a criminal indictment related to his testimony before Congress, escalating tensions between the Fed and the Trump administration. Powell disclosed the subpoenas in a video statement Sunday night, saying the legal threat stems from his June testimony before the Senate Banking Committee about the Federal Reserve’s building renovation project and broader disagreements over the Fed’s interest rate decisions. Powell described the potential indictment as “unprecedented” and said it should be viewed in the context of ongoing pressure from the administration. The move marks a rare and dramatic confrontation between the Justice Department and the nation’s central bank, which traditionally operates with strong independence from political influence. Powell framed the threat of charges as a response to the Fed’s decisions on monetary policy rather than genuine legal issues with the renovation project. Financial markets have reacted to the news, with stock futures and the dollar weakened on Monday as investors weighed the implications for the Fed’s autonomy and U.S. economic policy. This development adds a new chapter to an ongoing dispute between Powell and President Trump, who has publicly criticized Powell for not cutting interest rates more aggressively. The Justice Department has not publicly commented on the specifics of the investigation

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The Department of Homeland Security is sending hundreds of additional federal officers to Minnesota following nationwide protests over the fatal shooting of Renée Good last week. The deployment comes as demonstrations continue in Minneapolis and other cities, with protesters condemning federal immigration enforcement tactics and calling for accountability in the shooting. DHS officials say the additional personnel are being sent to support and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents already operating in the state. The shooting occurred during an immigration enforcement operation and has sparked widespread outrage. Federal officials have said the agent involved acted in self-defense, though local leaders and activists have questioned that account and are calling for greater transparency. Minnesota authorities have opened an investigation into the incident. Protests in Minneapolis have drawn thousands, and similar demonstrations have been reported across the country. Local officials have expressed concern that an expanded federal presence could further inflame tensions rather than restore calm. DHS has not said how long the additional officers will remain in Minnesota, but the agency says it will continue enforcement operations as protests and investigations continue.

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Liberals Don't Want Illegal Immigration Solved

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