On January 6, defendant Erik Herrera announced that the judge presiding over his case has accepted his motion to throw out the Biden-Harris Justice Department’s 1512(c)2 felony obstruction charge against him. Herrera was initially sentenced to four years in prison after taking a photo of himself standing in a Capitol building office that had been trashed by protestors—with the California native already having served one year of his incarceration.
Herrera will now only have four misdemeanor charges on his record, including “entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol Building; disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building.”
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“I feel amazing; I’m no longer a felon,” Herrera says in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter). “This is a long time coming… I’m just very thankful that this thing has officially been taken off my case, and now I have to go to Washington, D.C., on January 24 for my resentencing, and we’re expecting the judge to just give me time served.”
“I know nothing in life is guaranteed, so we’ll just see how this pans out on that date. But I’m feeling very hopeful,” Herrera added.
In June, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Justice Department overreached in using 18 U.S. Code § 1512(c)2 to attain enhanced felony sentencing for January 6 defendants.
The law was originally intended as a felony punishment for individuals engaging in document and evidence destruction during a financial crimes investigation following the Enron and WorldCom scandals.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Nearly 37,000 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees are missing paychecks due to the Democrats’ ongoing government shutdown.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Department of Veterans Affairs employees, VA Secretary Doug Collins, Senate Democrats, and Senate Republicans.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The shutdown began October 1, affecting VA operations nationwide, including regional benefits offices and cemeteries.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The Democrats’ government shutdown is limiting services for Veterans and making life miserable for VA employees, and things are only going to get worse as time goes on.” – VA Secretary Doug Collins
🎯IMPACT: Over one million veterans face service backlogs, with offices shuttered and programs like the GI Bill Hotline and Veteran Readiness and Employment program disrupted.
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Nearly one-tenth of the Department of Veterans Affairs workforce, or approximately 37,000 employees, are missing paychecks this week due to the Democrats’ ongoing government shutdown. The shutdown, which began on October 1, has led to furloughs or unpaid work for these employees, despite some appropriations still being in place when the shutdown started.
VA Secretary Doug Collins criticized the situation, stating, “The Democrats’ government shutdown is limiting services for Veterans and making life miserable for VA employees, and things are only going to get worse as time goes on.” The VA had already been reducing its workforce earlier this year, expecting to have 455,000 employees by the end of the fiscal year.
The shutdown has resulted in significant disruptions to critical services. Over one million veterans are experiencing backlogs, dozens of regional benefits offices have been closed, and more than 150 VA cemeteries are shuttered, except for burials. Programs like the GI Bill Hotline, which assists nearly 900,000 veterans, and the Veteran Readiness and Employment program, already facing a backlog of 60,000 applications, have been temporarily halted. Only one permanent closure occurred at a benefits office in the Philippines.
Medical care centers and outpatient clinics remain unaffected for now, thanks to advance appropriations from Congress. The VA has confirmed that benefits such as compensation, pension, education, and housing will continue to be processed and delivered.
Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have blamed the shutdown on Republicans’ refusal to include an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies in the funding bill, but it is the Senate Democrats who have repeatedly blocked GOP spending legislation up to now. Secretary Collins said, “It’s time for Democrats to stop using the suffering of Americans as political leverage to give free health care to illegal immigrants. I call on them to open the government and enable VA to provide the complete and comprehensive services America’s Veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors have earned.”
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Federal and local authorities in Indiana arrested 223 illegal immigrants, including 146 semi-truck drivers, as part of an operation targeting unlicensed commercial drivers.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Indiana State Police.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The arrests were announced during a news conference in Gary, Indiana, as part of Operation Midway Blitz.
💬KEY QUOTE: “If you are here driving on our streets and highways illegally, you are endangering our citizens, and your days are numbered.” – Kristi Noem
🎯IMPACT: The operation highlights growing concerns over public safety risks posed by illegal immigrant truck drivers and sanctuary jurisdictions issuing commercial driver’s licenses.
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A joint operation between federal and local law enforcement in Indiana has resulted in the arrests of 223 illegal immigrants. Among the arrestees are 146 semi-truck drivers, who were operating illegally as commercial drivers on U.S. roadways. The operation and arrests were announced by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem at a press conference in Gary, Indiana, on Thursday.
“If you are here driving on our streets and highways illegally, you are endangering our citizens, and your days are numbered,” Noem stated. She added, “We don’t want any of these individuals on our roads or in our communities, and we especially don’t want them behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler when they can’t speak our language, don’t understand our laws, can’t follow roadway signs, and can’t interact with law enforcement or our citizens.”
The arrests were part of Operation Midway Blitz, a federal immigration enforcement action underway in the greater Chicago area. Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), revealed that many of the drivers arrested had criminal histories, including drug trafficking, assault, drunk driving, and fraud.
A federal crackdown on illegal immigrants receiving commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) has intensified following a number of recent fatal collisions. In one instance, an illegal immigrant driver accused of causing a fatal crash in Florida reportedly failed his CDL test 10 times before receiving a license. Another crash in California involving a semi-truck driver killed three people, raising further questions about sanctuary states issuing CDLs to illegal immigrants.
“It’s unconscionable that illegal aliens have CDLs and are driving 18-wheelers across our nation,” Lyons said. At the same time, DHS emphasized that the operation aimed to target “criminal illegal aliens terrorizing Americans in sanctuary Illinois.” Noem also noted a similar operation in Oklahoma, which has resulted in more than 250 arrests of illegal immigrant truck drivers.
If you can’t speak English and you don’t know how to operate an 18-wheeler — you should not be operating on American highways.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Senate voted to end President Donald Trump’s tariffs in a 51-47 vote.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski joined Democrats to back the measure.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The vote took place on Thursday in the Senate.
🎯IMPACT: President Trump’s authority to impose tariffs remains legally intact, as the Senate bill is highly unlikely to be approved by the House or signed by President Trump. Trade agreements with key partners are already in place.
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The Senate voted 51-47 on Thursday to end President Donald J. Trump‘s global reciprocal tariffs, with four Republican senators joining all Democrats in supporting the measure. Two senators did not vote.
Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Rand Paul (R-KY), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) were the Republicans who voted in favor of the Democrat measure to end the tariff emergency. Both McConnell and Paul have openly opposed President Trump’s tariff policies for months, despite mounting evidence that the America First leader’s trade levies have rebalanced international markets and encouraged the reshoring of American jobs.
Despite the Senate vote, the Democrat-led legislation is not expected to take effect. The Republican-controlled House and insufficient Senate support to override an almost certain veto from President Trump make its passage unlikely.
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a challenge to Trump’s tariffs in November, with the government expected to emphasize the foreign policy aspect of trade policy, rooting the levies purely under presidential authority.
In April, Sen. Paul announced he would back Senate Democrats’ anti-tariff efforts, declaring that “Taxation without representation is tyranny”—despite President Trump running on tariffs in 2024 and having a clear mandate from the American people.
Also in Paril, Paul and McConnell joined a Democratic resolution challenging President Trump’s tariffs on imports from Canada, which passed out of the Senate on a 51-48 vote. The bill has not moved in the House, effectively being rendered dead.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: King Charles III has announced that his younger brother, Prince Andrew, is to be formally stripped of his titles and honors, and evicted from the Royal Lodge. Andrew, who will now be known as Mr. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, had previously said he would no longer use his titles.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: King Charles III, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and Andrew’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: Announcement issued by Buckingham Palace on October 30, 2025.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease [on the Royal Lodge] and he will move to alternative private accommodation.” – Buckingham Palace.
🎯IMPACT: Andrew will no longer be referred to as a prince; his daughters retain their titles as granddaughters of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
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Prince Andrew is to be formally stripped of his titles and honors by King Charles III, according to an announcement from Buckingham Palace issued on Thursday. The statement confirmed that he will now be referred to as Mr. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and evicted from the Royal Lodge.
“His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew,” the statement reads. “Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.”
The statement adds that “These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” referring to accusations that the late Virginia Giuffre, a sex trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was coerced by the pair into sleeping with Andrew when she was 17.
“Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse,” the Palace added.
Andrew recently announced he would no longer use his titles, while stressing he had done nothing wrong, but the King is now moving to formalize the situation. Notably, the soon-to-be former prince has also been under fire in recent weeks for meeting with a Chinese spymaster on multiple occasions.
While Andrew has been stripped of his titles, his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, are to retain their royal statuses as granddaughters of Queen Elizabeth. A source noted that King Charles III is keen to protect them, saying, “He wouldn’t have wanted to sign off on anything that would impact them.”
The King is understood to have made it clear that further actions would be taken against Andrew if he attempted to resist the process of downgrading his position, citing his “intolerable” behavior and lack of contrition.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) declared a state of emergency as millions of residents face the loss of food assistance due to the ongoing federal shutdown.
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👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Governor Kathy Hochul, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), and other state leaders, including Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA).
📍WHEN & WHERE: The announcement was made on Thursday, with the shutdown now in its 30th day, impacting New York and other states across the U.S.
💬KEY QUOTE: “I am doing everything in my power to soften the blow of the destruction Republicans in Washington are inflicting on our state,” said Governor Hochul, despite the fact that it is the Senate Democrats who are blocking funding.
🎯IMPACT: Around three million New Yorkers could lose benefits worth $650 million a month.
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New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has declared a state of emergency as millions of residents face losing food assistance on November 1 due to the ongoing Democrat-caused federal government shutdown. The governor is trying to blame Republicans in Congress for the funding lapse, saying Democrats have been pushing for clean resolutions to restore funding, despite the fact that Democrats have repeatedly blocked GOP spending legislation.
Hochul announced $65 million in emergency state funds to help food programs across New York. “The Trump Administration is cutting food assistance off for three million New Yorkers, leaving our state to face an unprecedented public health crisis and hurting our grocers, bodegas, and farmers along the way,” she alleged.
The federal shutdown, now in its 30th day, has disrupted the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides food benefits to 42 million Americans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that contingency funds used to maintain SNAP during previous shutdowns have been exhausted, marking the first time the program has faced a complete lapse in funding. In New York alone, about three million residents risk losing $650 million in monthly benefits.
The Trump administration stated that it could not reallocate other federal funds to cover the November payments, citing legal restrictions. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) defended the decision, saying, “If they transferred funds from other sources, it would pull it away immediately from school meals and infant formula. It’s a tradeoff.”
Other governors have also stepped in as the shutdown continues. California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) deployed the National Guard to assist food banks, while Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) announced plans to declare a state of emergency. Hochul’s office stated that New York’s emergency aid is a temporary measure intended to prevent hunger while negotiations continue in Washington.
The crisis follows weeks of partisan deadlock. Earlier this month, House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark boasted that the hardships faced by Americans could be used as leverage against the GOP in the standoff. “Of course, there will be families that are going to suffer,” she said. “But it is one of the few leverage times we have.”
At the same time, President Donald J. Trump has touted a reduction in SNAP dependency since his administration began, saying that more than 600,000 Americans have left the program. Data cited by his team show that from January to May 2025, SNAP participation fell from 42.38 million to 41.73 million, a decline of roughly 645,000 recipients.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Dutch populist Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) appear to be tied at 26 seats with the liberal-progressive D66 party following national elections in the Netherlands.
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👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom and Rob Jetten’s D66 party.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The election took place on Wednesday in the Netherlands.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The difference between the two leading parties was just over 2,000 votes nationwide,” according to Dutch national news agency ANP.
🎯IMPACT: The unprecedented tie is expected to delay the formation of a new coalition government.
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The Dutch populist Party for Freedom (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, and the liberal-progressive Democrats 66 (D66), led by Rob Jetten, both appear to have secured 26 seats in the Dutch legislature with 98 percent of votes counted, according to figures published by the Dutch national news agency ANP. The difference between the two parties was reported to be just over 2,000 votes nationwide, marking the first time in Dutch history that a national election has concluded in such a tie.
The results show Wilders’s PVV losing 11 seats in the 150-member House of Representatives, while D66 gained 11. This razor-thin outcome is expected to prolong and complicate coalition negotiations, a process already notorious for taking months in the Netherlands’ fragmented political landscape.
Wilders reacted to the results, saying, “At the top with 26 seats just like D66. Nobody beats the PVV. Absolutely nobody! The entire campaign attacked by other parties and ‘journalists’, but they won’t bring us down, we stand tall and proud at the top and no other party has more than our 26 seats!!”
The vote follows years of turbulence in Dutch politics. In 2023, the government of long-serving liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte collapsed after his four-party coalition failed to agree on asylum policies, particularly family reunification rules. Migration has remained one of the country’s most divisive issues, fueling the rise of populists like Wilders, who has long advocated for tighter border controls and a tougher stance on immigration and Islamization.
Economic and social tensions surrounding immigration have also intensified. A major study found that mass migration cost the Netherlands nearly half a trillion dollars between 1995 and 2019. These findings have intensified public debate over the long-term sustainability of migration policies and the pressure they place on housing, healthcare, and social welfare systems.
As the vote count nears completion, the tie between PVV and D66 has thrown the process of government formation into uncertainty. Building a majority coalition will require negotiations among multiple parties with sharply differing priorities. Analysts warn that forming a stable government could take months, or potentially trigger another round of elections if talks fail.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: The federal government in Germany has revealed that over 135,000 crimes were committed by Syrian suspects between 2015 and 2024, averaging one every 39 minutes.
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👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Federal Ministry of the Interior, Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel, AfD Bundestag (federal parliament) member Christopher Drößler, and other political figures.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Germany, between 2015 and 2024, with data released in response to a parliamentary inquiry.
💬KEY QUOTE: “This development is not only extremely alarming but also the result of government mismanagement and uncorrected political misjudgments.” – Alice Weidel
🎯IMPACT: The figures have reignited calls for stricter migration controls, large-scale deportations, and increased border security in Germany.
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Newly released government statistics have ignited fierce debate over immigration policy in Germany, revealing that suspects of Syrian origin were linked to 135,668 crimes between 2015 and 2024, one every 39 minutes on average. The figures were disclosed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in response to a parliamentary query from the populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The data has prompted renewed demands for stricter border controls and mass deportations, as critics decry migrants’ toll on public safety.
The report also tallies significant offenses tied to other nationalities: 82,960 from Afghanistan, 69,946 from Iraq, 39,918 from Morocco, and 32,383 from Algeria. In total, suspects from the top 10 countries of origin accounted for more than 460,000 violations over the decade.
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel seized on the numbers to blast the coalition government. “More than half of all women in Germany no longer feel safe in public spaces. This alarming figure is further proof of the government’s failure. Between 2015 and 2024, 135,668 Germans were victims of crimes committed by suspected Syrian perpetrators. This development is not only extremely alarming but also the result of government mismanagement and uncorrected political misjudgments,” she said.
Christopher Drößler, the AfD Bundestag (federal parliament) member who initiated the inquiry, echoed the sentiment and pushed for aggressive action. “Numbers don’t lie. The statistics confirm once again: Germans are primarily victims of criminal foreigners from [Middle] Eastern countries,” he said. Drößler advocated for enabling deportations to Syria, Afghanistan, Morocco, and Iraq, stressing the AfD as the only party with “clear solutions” like fortified borders, swift deportations of criminal migrants, and more police resources.
The controversy unfolds against a backdrop of explosive growth in Germany’s Syrian community. By late 2023, their numbers had ballooned to at least 972,000, a 16-fold increase from 60,000 in 2014. Overall, around one in 20 Syrians now live in Germany. Of these, over half, or more than 513,000, depend on welfare benefits such as Bürgergeld, with migrants comprising nearly half of all recipients. Foreigner-related expenditures reached €50 billion in 2023 alone, part of a €145 billion total since 2010. Studies show elevated violent crime rates among groups like Syrians and Afghans compared to native Germans.
High-profile offenses have heightened fears about migrant crime. On October 28, 2025, for instance, four Syrian teenagers and a 22-year-old Iraqi woman were arrested in Hamburg for allegedly throwing a 15-year-old Iraqi boy to his death from an eighth-floor apartment. Earlier in October, prosecutors in Heinsberg charged five Syrian men, adults and juveniles, with gang-raping a 17-year-old girl. These cases underscore the raw nerves exposed by the data, as the AfD leverages them to challenge the status quo on migration and security.
💬KEY QUOTE: “These are not isolated incidents or clerical errors.” – Dan Backer
🎯IMPACT: Allegations of foreign contributions could lead to fines, but enforcement appears unlikely.
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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s socialist nominee in New York City‘s mayoral race, is under scrutiny following two criminal referrals filed by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation. The complaints allege that Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant, accepted nearly $13,000 from at least 170 donors located outside the United States, which would be a violation of federal and local campaign finance laws.
Dan Backer, president of the Coolidge Reagan Foundation and a national campaign finance expert, stated, “These are not isolated incidents or clerical errors.” He further asserted that this represented “a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race,” accusing the campaign of failing to take meaningful action to prevent such violations despite being “on notice for months.”
The Mamdani campaign has responded by claiming that 31 of the 170 donors have proven their citizenship or legal permanent residence, and that the remaining 139 donations have been refunded. However, the criminal referral argues that refunding questionable donations does not rectify the violation.
“Despite being well aware of this influx of illegal foreign contributions, it appears he did nothing throughout most of 2025 to prevent his campaign from accepting them in the first place,” reads the referral. Notably, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) can only impose fines, and local prosecutors are unlikely to pursue charges.
The National Pulse reported in July that during the Democratic Party’s New York City mayoral primary, Mamdani’s campaign was bolstered by political dark money operations, including over $2 million in PAC spending, mostly from Silicon Valley billionaires and a cadre of elite Democratic Party donors.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: NBC Bay Area is being criticized for omitting the criminal history of an illegal immigrant featured in their report on a federal arrest.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Gerardo Rojas-Leyva, federal agents, NBC Bay Area, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The arrest occurred last week in San Jose, California, as Rojas-Leyva was leaving his home for work.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Why is [NBC Bay Area] peddling a hoax for a PEDOPHILE?” – Department of Homeland Security.
🎯IMPACT: The omission of Rojas-Leyva’s criminal background has fueled criticism of media narratives surrounding federal immigration enforcement operations.
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An NBC News affiliate is facing backlash for attempting to portray an illegal immigrant with an extensive criminal background—including lewd and lascivious acts with a child—as merely an “undocumented father.” The coverage mirrors similar corporate media attempts to portray Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member facing human trafficking charges, as a more sympathetic “Maryland father with protected legal status.”
Gerardo Rojas-Leyva, an illegal immigrant whose arrest by federal agents was covered by NBC Bay Area—a California affiliate station covering San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland—has “a rap sheet including lewd and lascivious acts with a child, battery of a spouse, domestic battery, and providing compensation for prostitution,” according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Despite his criminal record, NBC Bay Area sought to frame Rojas-Leyva as a victim after his arrest last week.
Federal officers approached Rojas-Leyva, 42, as he sat in his black truck at 7:45 AM, instructing him to exit the vehicle. NBC Bay Area reported that his family and neighbors recorded the arrest, with his wife, Idalia, claiming that a woman who was not in uniform struck her 22-year-old daughter with a baton. However, this alleged incident was not visible in the footage.
Following the publication of the story, DHS publicly criticized NBC Bay Area on X (formerly Twitter), stating, “Why is [NBC Bay Area] peddling a hoax for a PEDOPHILE?” DHS went on to detail Rojas-Leyva’s criminal history.
The department also noted that Rojas-Leyva had illegally re-entered the United States after a prior removal, which constitutes a felony. They emphasized the Trump administration’s commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal illegal immigrants, stating, “President Trump and [DHS Secretary Kristi Noem] are removing criminal illegal alien predators from our communities and putting the safety of Americans FIRST.”
Why is @NBCBayArea peddling a hoax for a PEDOPHILE?
Here are the FACTS: @ICEgov arrested Gerardo Rojas-Leyva, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, with a rap sheet including lewd and lascivious acts with a child, battery of a spouse, domestic battery, and providing… pic.twitter.com/BWyUsWjAml
❓WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping has yielded some benefits for American farmers, manufacturers, and consumers—although the meeting appears to have only paused the U.S.-China tradewar rather than brought it to a comprehensive conclusion.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The agreement was announced on Thursday.
💬KEY QUOTE: “So you know, our great soybean farmers, who the Chinese used as political pawns, that’s off the table, and they should prosper in the years to come,” – Scott Bessent.
🎯IMPACT: China agreed to increase its purchases of U.S. soybeans, finalize approval for the sale of TikTok, delay the implementation of rare earth mineral export controls, and crack down on the export of fentanyl precursors. In exchange, Trump agreed to slight reductions in U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
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President Donald J. Trump‘s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping has yielded some benefits for American farmers, manufacturers, and consumers—although the meeting appears to have only paused the trade war rather than brought it to a comprehensive conclusion. China agreed to increase its purchases of U.S. soybeans, finalize approval for the sale of TikTok, delay the implementation of rare earth mineral export controls, and crack down on the export of fentanyl precursors. In exchange, Trump agreed to slight reductions in U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
“It was an amazing meeting,” President Trump said aboard Air Force One after departing the summit with Xi, held in South Korea. He ranked the talks, “Twelve out of ten.”
The most significant development to emerge from the summit was China’s three-year agreement to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually. “So you know, our great soybean farmers, who the Chinese used as political pawns, that’s off the table, and they should prosper in the years to come,” Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent detailed Thursday morning. As part of the trade dispute with the U.S., China had slashed its imports of American soybeans to near zero.
Additionally, Secretary Bessent revealed that President Trump secured Xi’s approval for the sale of the TikTok social media app. “In Kuala Lumpur, we finalized the TikTok agreement in terms of getting Chinese approval, and I would expect that would go forward in the coming weeks and months, and we’ll finally see a resolution to that,” the Treasury Secretary said.
Trump also forced Xi to, at least for the moment, back down from imposing unprecedented export controls on Chinese rare earth minerals, refined rare earth materials, and equipment needed to process rare earths. Set to take effect on December 1, 2025—and impact nearly every country around the world—China agreed to delay export control implementation for one year. However, Xi ultimately did not remove the threat entirely.
Lastly, President Trump announced that Xi pledged to work “very hard to stop the flow” of fentanyl precursors to Central and South American drug cartels. Precisely what measures the Chinese intended to implement to stymie its lucrative illicit drug industry are unclear.
In exchange, Trump agreed to cut a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods, imposed in response to the fentanyl trade, in half. This will effectively bring the overall tariff rate on Chinese exports from 57 percent to 47 percent. While the concessions made by Xi mark a degree of progress and cooling of trade tensions, markets appear to have already largely priced in the progress. By and large, market analysts see the summit outcome as a tactical pause, but expect U.S.-led global efforts to decouple from China to continue.
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