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San Francisco Drag Queen Detained by ICE
Community activists in San Francisco are rallying to support Hilary Rivers, an immigrant drag queen, who was arrested by ICE agents. He is one of the latest LGBTQ+ victims of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations. Due to a...

Strategic planning pays off for MENA region in QS rankings
Universities across the MENA region have made significant strides in the latest 2026 QS World University Rankings (WUR), reflecting a sustained push in attracting international institutions and students. From a previous list of 88 institutions...

Georgia among top states as non-criminal ICE arrests surge around country
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, along with other federal law enforcement agencies, attend a pre-enforcement meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the...

International adoptions to the U.S. have slowed to a trickle, matching trends in other countries
After peaking in 2004, the annual number of international adoptions to the United States has fallen by 94% as of 2023, according to the most recent available U.S. State Department data. The State Department recorded 22,988 international adoptions...

An Allentown grandfather's reported deportation went viral. Then discrepancies emerged
Federal immigration authorities say a story about an 82-year-old Chilean national being arrested in Philadelphia and deported to Guatemala after trying to replace his lost green card is a "hoax." The tale, reported by the Morning Call on Friday,...

Festival Chapín postponed due to concerns surrounding ICE raids
Organizers of Festival Chapín de Los Angeles have postponed the beloved annual Guatemalan cultural event due to growing concern over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities in the area. Hosted by Chapín Summer Festival Inc., the...
Tina’s Burritos worker killed in industrial meatgrinder identified as 19-year-old Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu Joj
Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu Joj [Photo: Yesenia Chavez]The 19-year-old worker who was killed in earlier this month at the Tina’s Burritos frozen-food plant in Vernon, California has been identified as Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu Joj. He was from...

Homeland security denies reports that Ice ‘secretly deported’ Pennsylvania grandfather
Confusion swirled around the fate of a Chilean resident of the US after the Department of Homeland Security called reports of his deportation to Guatemala a “hoax”. On 18 July, the Morning Call newspaper of Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported that...

DHS refutes media 'hoax’ that Trump admin deported 'Allentown Grandpa'
"This was a hoax peddled by the media who rushed to press without pausing to corroborate the facts with DHS. This was journalistic malpractice." The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a statement refuting that immigration...

"Changed the trajectory of my life" - J.T. Realmuto's wife Lexi pens emotional message about "real man" in her world
Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto and his wife, Lexi, have often credited their faith as one of the most important things in their lives. On Sunday, the couple organized "Faith and Baseball Night" at Citizens Bank Park, where they hosted...

ICE Agents Arrest Mexican Illegal Alien with 21 Prior Criminal Convictions
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested an illegal alien with a lengthy rap sheet, totaling 21 prior criminal convictions. On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials announced the arrest of several...

Undocumented parents prepare for the unthinkable: Giving up their kids
Children attending “Monarcas Luchadoras,” a youth leadership and development program, help pack food deliveries for people in their community who are afraid of leaving home to get groceries because of ICE. Christina House/Los Angeles Times/TNS LOS...
Better Results, Less Stress: How to Get the Insights You Need Without a Costly ERP
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On the path of Chaucer’s pilgrims, wending a way through English history
“The Canterbury Tales,” the collection that every student of English literature has to read, is the ultimate travel story. Winter’s over, spring has sprung, “thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages” — as Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in Middle English...

Daily Wire's Matt Walsh says Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) is “not American” and should "go back to Cuba." She was born in Miami.
MATT WALSH (HOST): Some of our most shameful moments as a country relate to how we treat immigrants, she says. Right. Well, a couple of questions. First of all, what do you mean by our, what do you mean by we Maria? OK. You're Cuban. Your greatest...
The Legend Of Luis Leon: The Media Embraces Another Anti-Ice Hoax
Authored by Jonathan Turley, “When the legend becomes fact…print the legend.” Those words from an editor to a young reporter in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” still appear to be the modus operandi of the media. That was demonstrated this week...

What Is An American?
As a general rule, it’s worth paying attention whenever the big Soros-backed mouthpieces for the Democrat Party go out of their way to defend Republicans. It doesn’t happen very often. And it never happens by accident. If nothing else, Democrats...

Man pleads guilty to 5 New Bedford armed robberies totaling $10K
FALL RIVER – An Acushnet man pleaded guilty to five armed and masked robberies in New Bedford over a six-month span in 2021 and was sentenced to six to eight years in prison. Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced in a...

EXCLUSIVE: Meet 5 Criminal Illegal Aliens No Longer Roaming America’s Streets
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Five illegal aliens with criminal convictions were arrested in cities across the U.S. over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday. The arrests, each carried out by Immigration and Customs...

Book Review | Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan
Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan. By Frank Sobchak. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2024. ISBN: 978168247133. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Notes. Sources cited. Index. Pp. 1-352....