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January 30, 2025
William Upton
Immigration

Trump’s DHS Has Stopped All Grant Funding for NGOs Aiding Illegal Immigrants.

President Donald J. Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, announced on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has halted all grant funding for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) aiding illegal immigrants entering the United States. Under former President Joe Biden’s Democrat-controlled White House, DHS funneled almost $400 million to various far-left NGOs that assisted with housing, food, and job placement for the millions of illegal immigrants who entered the country under his watch.

During the final year of the Biden government, federal officials across a number of departments and agencies directed nearly $640 million in taxpayer dollars to be spent on assistance for illegal immigrants. However, the DHS grant program was one of the most onerous examples, directly funding highly partisan NGOs—some of which promote radical, anti-American ideologies.


In November last year, now-former Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced legislation to strip Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax-exempt status from NGOs assisting immigrants who cross the U.S. border illegally. Meanwhile, The National Pulse previously reported that at least one of the organizations assisting illegal immigrants also allegedly encouraged them to unlawfully vote for Joe Biden prior to his exit from the 2024 presidential race.

It is not clear how the Trump DHS decision will impact the activities of some of the largest illegal immigration assistance NGOs. The National Pulse reported in mid-January that an NGO network coordinated by the United Nations (UN) appears undeterred in its efforts to fuel mass immigration despite President Trump’s ongoing illegal immigration crackdown.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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President Donald J. Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, announced on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has halted all grant funding for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) aiding illegal immigrants entering the United States. Under former President Joe Biden's Democrat-controlled White House, DHS funneled almost $400 million to various far-left NGOs that assisted with housing, food, and job placement for the millions of illegal immigrants who entered the country under his watch. show more
January 30, 2025
Culture
Immigration
Religion

Qur’an-Burning Activist Assassinated During Livestream.

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi-born critic of Islam, was fatally shot on Wednesday night in a residence in Södertälje, located in Stockholm County, Sweden. The incident occurred around 11 PM local time, just hours before Momika was scheduled to appear in court over charges related to his Qur’an-burning demonstrations.

The 38-year-old, previously identified as a liberal atheist from Iraq’s Assyrian Christian minority, had sought refuge in Sweden in 2018 due to threats of torture and inhumane treatment in his homeland. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports that the attack was captured live on TikTok, with the broadcast only ceasing once police arrived and switched off the device.

Authorities have arrested five individuals in connection with the murder, with investigations considering the possibility of the attacker entering the apartment via the building’s roof. Momika gained attention in 2023 after burning copies of the Qur’an in several protests in Sweden. His actions, particularly outside a Stockholm mosque and the Iraqi embassy, led to Muslim riots and strained diplomatic relations with Iraq and Turkey.

Momika’s demonstrations sparked debates on freedom of expression and religious sensitivity in Sweden, culminating in criminal charges against him for incitement against an ethnic group. The case’s verdict, initially set for Thursday morning, has been halted by his death. A court spokesman said legal proceedings cannot continue against someone deceased.

Momika’s death comes against a backdrop of heightened security concerns over Islamist threats linked to anti-Islam demonstrations.

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Salwan Momika, an Iraqi-born critic of Islam, was fatally shot on Wednesday night in a residence in Södertälje, located in Stockholm County, Sweden. The incident occurred around 11 PM local time, just hours before Momika was scheduled to appear in court over charges related to his Qur’an-burning demonstrations. show more
January 30, 2025
News

Staffing at Reagan National Was ‘Abnormal’ During Crash, Says FAA.

The recent collision involving an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport may have been partly caused by staffing issues at the airport’s air traffic control tower. An internal Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety report highlighted that the tower’s staffing levels were “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic” during the incident.

On Wednesday evening, a single air traffic controller was responsible for managing both helicopter activity in the vicinity and the movements of aircraft departing from and landing at the airport. Two controllers typically fulfill these duties. This practice is part of a broader staffing challenge that the tower has faced for several years, with the current workforce falling nearly one-third below the ideal number of fully certified controllers. As of September 2023, the tower had 19 certified controllers, many working extended hours to meet needs.

Across the nation, the shortage of air traffic controllers is significant, with a reported shortfall of about 3,000 controllers as of early 2024. During the 2023 fiscal year, the FAA recruited approximately 1,512 new controller candidates. However, it also saw a loss of 1,300, including retirements and attrition at various training stages. Of these, 400 failed the FAA’s academy, and 109 dropped out. The National Pulse reported at the time that the Biden government prioritized the hiring of individuals at the FAA with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.

The collision occurred shortly before 9 PM on Wednesday, as American Airlines flight 5342 was approaching runway 33. The plane collided with a Black Hawk helicopter from the 12th Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir, conducting a training flight over the Potomac River.

Tragically, the 60 passengers and four crew members aboard the airline and the three soldiers in the Black Hawk are all presumed dead.

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The recent collision involving an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport may have been partly caused by staffing issues at the airport's air traffic control tower. An internal Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety report highlighted that the tower's staffing levels were "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic" during the incident. show more
January 30, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
Politics

Failed Assassin of Trump Treasury Sec Revealed as Transgender.

The attempted assassin of President Donald J. Trump’s new Treasury Secretary has been revealed to be a transgender after the suspect was arrested earlier this week in Washington, D.C. Ryan Michael English, also known as Riley Jane, is originally from Massachusetts and admitted to police that he wanted to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

English was found at the Capitol building in D.C. armed with knives and Molotov cocktails when he was arrested, along with a note on the back of a receipt that stated, “I can’t do nothing while nazis kill my sisters.”

According to police, English turned himself in, claiming he intended to kill Bessent but had no concrete plan of how to go about it. He stated that he was inspired by Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New York City last year.

Upon searching English’s vehicle, more bomb materials were found along with strong vodka likely used for the Molotov cocktails.

English was also allegedly plotting to murder Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and wanted to set fire to the building housing the Heritage Foundation.

The case comes after a pair of transgenders shot and killed a Border Patrol agent in Vermont on January 20. Teresa “Milo” Youngblut and Felix “Ophelia” Baukholt are both believed to be connected to a larger transgender terrorist group led by a figure named “Ziz,” real name Jack Lasota, based in California. The group may be linked to several other violent acts in the past.

Image by Oriel Frankie Ashcroft.

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The attempted assassin of President Donald J. Trump's new Treasury Secretary has been revealed to be a transgender after the suspect was arrested earlier this week in Washington, D.C. Ryan Michael English, also known as Riley Jane, is originally from Massachusetts and admitted to police that he wanted to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. show more
January 30, 2025
Jack Montgomery
War
World

THANKS, NEOCONS! Syria’s New President is an Al Qaeda Operative.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, until recently known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, has declared himself interim President of Syria following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa, leader of the al-Qaeda franchise Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly al-Nusra, will lead a provisional legislative body that will function until a new constitution is established.

Before Assad’s ouster, HTS was a designated terrorist organization in the U.S., and Sharaa was a recognized terrorist with a $10 million government bounty on his head. The U.S. government’s Rewards for Justice website charged him with crimes, including kidnapping hundreds of Kurds and massacring villagers from Syria’s Druze religious minority.

However, U.S. efforts to bring Sharaa to justice were abandoned in the dying days of the Biden government, with Western media rebranding his organization as “diversity-friendly” jihadists.

The Sharaa government now claims the jihadist militias involved in ousting Assad have been disbanded. However, the reality is that they are being incorporated into, if not outright displacing, the official military.

Sections of Syria remain outside Sharaa’s control, including the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or Rojava, long controlled by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces. However, it is likely that Turkey, which supported Sharaa’s offensive against Assad, will now move to destroy this administration.

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Ahmed al-Sharaa, until recently known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, has declared himself interim President of Syria following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa, leader of the al-Qaeda franchise Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly al-Nusra, will lead a provisional legislative body that will function until a new constitution is established. show more
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January 30, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
UK

Ex-Obama Aide Sentenced to 11 Years for Attempted Child Rape.

A former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama has been sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison for child sex crimes. Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy traveled to the United Kingdom in an attempt to meet a nine-year-old for sex. He was initially arrested last year.

Shy coordinated the U.S. government’s response to terror groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda and was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Wednesday, January 29. Upon his arrest, Shy was found with children’s toys and condoms in his luggage. The nine-year-old he thought he was talking to was, in reality, an undercover police officer. He spoke with the officer online and stated that the child’s age was a “tad late” to begin the sexual activity.

Shy was also found in possession of indecent images of children on his cell phone. Messages showing his sexual interest in children were also discovered. Meanwhile, Shy’s attorneys attempted to claim that the court did not have jurisdiction because the messages were sent in the United States, but the judge overruled this.

The former Obama official is just the latest leftist to be arrested or convicted of child sex offenses in Britain. Among Britain’s ruling leftist Labour Party, over 50 members, including elected officials, have been arrested for child sex offenses, from possession of child pornography to rape.

Earlier this month, another Democrat was arrested for attempting to meet a child for sex in Las Vegas. Matthew A. Inman, treasurer for the Orange County, Florida Democrats, attempted to meet the father of a nine-year-old to meet for sexual purposes. As in the British case, the “father” was an undercover police officer.

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A former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama has been sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison for child sex crimes. Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy traveled to the United Kingdom in an attempt to meet a nine-year-old for sex. He was initially arrested last year. show more
January 30, 2025
News

Trump Blasts Diversity Hiring & Ex-Transport Sec Pete Buttigieg in DCA Crash Briefing at White House.

President Donald J. Trump spent a significant amount of time at the White House Press Briefing room lectern on Thursday morning, railing against “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies that have lumbered American institutions, including the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) with vast numbers of unqualified staff.

The President initially called for a moment of silence before recalling details of the deadly incident over the Potomac River on Wednesday night and laying out the details of those who had lost their lives, currently believed to be 67 people.

Trump also took the time to muse on the causes of the incident, highlighting the Biden government’s focus on DEI instead of passenger safety and specifically pointing out the “bullshit” of former Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

In January 2024, it was revealed that “[t]he Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.

“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”

President Trump was joined by new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who both extended their condolences and blasted the previous government’s DEI hiring policies.

Hegseth explained there was an “elevation issue” involved with the routine military re-training operation, insisting that many different parts of government are now investigating the incident with a view to getting answers in the near term.

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President Donald J. Trump spent a significant amount of time at the White House Press Briefing room lectern on Thursday morning, railing against "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) policies that have lumbered American institutions, including the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) with vast numbers of unqualified staff. show more
January 30, 2025
Media

Ghoulish: CNN Pundit Says ‘I F*cked Up’ After Blaming Trump for DC Air Disaster.

CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers is apologizing after he attempted to quickly connect President Donald J. Trump to the tragic mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, Wednesday night. Following the deadly crash—in which it is feared 64 civilian passengers and crew, along with three military personnel, perished—Sellers posted a screenshot on social media of a Democratic Party press release alleging President Trump froze air traffic controller hirings last week.

“8 days ago,” Sellers wrote on X (formerly Twitter) with the Democratic Party press release screenshotted below. Despite the Democrats’ and Sellers’s claims, the hiring freeze instituted by Trump excludes U.S. military personnel and positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, and public safety. The latter includes air traffic controllers.

Additionally, there is currently no indication that an air traffic controller error caused the collision or that rushed hirings would have changed the events resulting in the deadly crash.


After receiving an avalanche of pushback, Sellers deleted his post and later followed up with a mea culpa. “I deleted the post because timing matters. Politics at this point does not. I f**ked up, I own that,” Sellers wrote on X, continuing: “I am very prayerful but I’m also very frustrated upset and disturbed with where we are as a country. I recognize, and I will do better.”

“The only thing that matters is rescuing the survivors, and ensuring this never happens again,” the CNN commentator concluded.

It was confirmed this morning that there are no survivors.

CNN has not commented on the matter beyond stating that the corporate news network stands by Sellers’s public apology. The National Pulse has previously reported that CNN has suffered a significant loss of viewership over the last year. This has led to layoffs and the departure of several long-time correspondents and other on-air talent.

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CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers is apologizing after he attempted to quickly connect President Donald J. Trump to the tragic mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, Wednesday night. Following the deadly crash—in which it is feared 64 civilian passengers and crew, along with three military personnel, perished—Sellers posted a screenshot on social media of a Democratic Party press release alleging President Trump froze air traffic controller hirings last week. show more
January 30, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Media

Over 7,400 Request ‘New Media’ Press Credentials for Trump White House in Just 24 Hours.

The White House press office claims to have received over 7,400 requests for press credentials after announcing its “new media” seat in the briefing room, which is open to alternative media, podcasters, and online influencers. The swarm of applications came within the first 24 hours of the announcement, which was made during the first press briefing given by President Donald J. Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on January 27.

Leavitt described the new seat, saying it would be open to those who do not have permanent press credentials for the White House and would be rotated among applicants who qualify to attend White House briefings.

Under previous administrations, the White House Correspondents’ Association traditionally acted as gatekeepers for briefings, holding 49 permanent seats in the briefing room. Trump’s move is a reversal of the Biden-Harris regime-era policy that revoked press passes to journalists who did not meet various credential requirements.

“This White House believes strongly in the First Amendment, so it’s why our team will work diligently to restore the press passes of the 440 journalists whose passes were wrongly revoked by the previous administration,” Leavitt said during her briefing.

Leavitt served as national press secretary for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and is the youngest White House press secretary in history at just 27 years old.

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The White House press office claims to have received over 7,400 requests for press credentials after announcing its "new media" seat in the briefing room, which is open to alternative media, podcasters, and online influencers. The swarm of applications came within the first 24 hours of the announcement, which was made during the first press briefing given by President Donald J. Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on January 27. show more
January 29, 2025
Jack Montgomery
News
UK

Driver Prosecuted for ‘Don’t Be a C*nt’ Bumper Sticker.

Georgia Venables, 29, appeared at Chester Magistrates Court in England to face charges related to an allegedly offensive bumper sticker displayed on her vehicle. Prosecutors allege that Venables, residing in Prenton Place, displayed language deemed threatening or abusive on her car. The incident reportedly occurred on January 8 when Venables was observed driving with a sticker on her car reading “Don’t be a c**t.”

Venables has pled not guilty to charges of causing harassment, alarm, or distress. As the case progresses, she has been granted unconditional bail and is expected to make another court appearance later this year.

In a separate incident, law enforcement in Hampshire pulled over a driver for speeding on the M27 motorway at 118 mph, more than double the national speed limit. According to police reports, this occurred on Christmas Day, when traffic was notably light. The driver, whose identity has not been disclosed, was operating a black BMW adorned with various stickers. Among these was one that read: “My driving scares me too.”

Last year, anti-mass migration activist Sam Melia was imprisoned for running a Telegram channel where people could download stickers bearing slogans such as ‘Reject white guilt’ and ‘It’s OK to be white.’ Sentencing judge Tom Bayliss  said that “this kind of material is corrosive to our society,” while the local police force warned, “Those that seek to bring hatred to our communities through actions such as stickering will be identified and brought to justice.”

Image by Simon Dawson/10 Downing Street.

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Georgia Venables, 29, appeared at Chester Magistrates Court in England to face charges related to an allegedly offensive bumper sticker displayed on her vehicle. Prosecutors allege that Venables, residing in Prenton Place, displayed language deemed threatening or abusive on her car. The incident reportedly occurred on January 8 when Venables was observed driving with a sticker on her car reading "Don't be a c**t." show more