Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says there is serious concern over the scale of infiltration by the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua. Encounters with the gang have spiked at the U.S.-Mexico border. Notorious for engaging in extortion, kidnapping, murder, and sex trafficking, Tren de Aragua has been gaining a foothold amid the ongoing border crisis.
Intelligence from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicates members of Tren de Aragua continue to enter the U.S. illegally. The National Pulse previously reported that the brother of Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan illegal immigrant who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, is a suspected member of Tren de Aragua.
According to Gonzales, the massive number of illegalimmigrants that continue to enter the U.S. no longer consists predominantly of Mexican nationals seeking work. Worryingly, he contended, it now includes criminalelements from other parts of the world.
“It’s no longer passive people just trying to kind of mosey about their business. It is a different element of people,” the Congressman told Fox News. He added: “They’re more aggressive, they’re demanding and they’re culturally not the same. And that’s why, once again, a district 70 percent Hispanic, the people in my district had enough.”
Gonzales said that border agents told him other detainees were afraid of the members of Tren de Aragua.
“You have to have ICE have the ability to go around and actively hunt these criminal aliens that have committed crimes, hunt them down, and deport them,” the Texas Republican said. Arguing for the massive round-up of illegal immigrants, he added: “That has to happen. And when it does happen, it can’t happen in a vacuum. People have to know what’s happening. And it can’t just happen in one part of the country. It has to happen throughout the country.”
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says there is serious concern over the scale of infiltration by the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua. Encounters with the gang have spiked at the U.S.-Mexico border. Notorious for engaging in extortion, kidnapping, murder, and sex trafficking, Tren de Aragua has been gaining a foothold amid the ongoing border crisis.
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The Biden regime’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allocating $300 million to ‘sanctuary‘ cities offering support such as shelter and food to illegal aliens. In light of a surge in border crossings, this funding will be channeled through the Shelter and Services Program (SSP). The SSP funds non-federal bodies such as NGOs and local governments that aid illegal aliens who are released into the United States. Of the total funding, $275 million will be dispensed initially, with the remaining $25 million set aside for later in the year.
The program covers costs related to providing shelter, food, transportation, medical care, and personal hygiene to illegal aliens. Other expenses, such as the remodeling of existing facilities, clothing, translation services, outreach information, and administrative costs, are also included.
In addition to this, DHS disclosed an allocation of $340.9 million for the SSP competitive grant program. This comes after a distribution of over $780 million last year through SSP and another program to sanctuary cities and organizations providing services to illegals.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States has skyrocketed in recent years, with exceptional numbers recorded in FY 2023 and the first six months of FY 2024.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) estimates that nearly 16 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States during President Biden’s tenure. Critics argue that policies under the current government have led to increased illegal entry into the country, citing a significant rise in the number of people on the terrorism watchlist attempting to cross the border unlawfully.
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The Biden regime's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allocating $300 million to 'sanctuary' cities offering support such as shelter and food to illegal aliens. In light of a surge in border crossings, this funding will be channeled through the Shelter and Services Program (SSP). The SSP funds non-federal bodies such as NGOs and local governments that aid illegal aliens who are released into the United States. Of the total funding, $275 million will be dispensed initially, with the remaining $25 million set aside for later in the year.
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Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, has revealed he is in communication with legal defense for ex-President Donald Trump and is open to testifying against Daniels. Avenatti, presently serving a 19-year prison term for multiple federal offenses, including fraud and embezzlement, shared his readiness to testify but added he is uncertain whether it will come to fruition.
The incarcerated ex-litigator did not disclose details concerning his interactions with Trump’s team. A source close to Trump confirmed the discussions are ongoing. Strikingly, given his past critical stance towards Trump, Avenatti voiced concerns over what he deems as a politically-driven trial against the former president.
“There’s no question [the trial] is politically motivated because they’re concerned that he may be reelected,” Avenatti said. “If the defendant was anyone other than Donald Trump, this case would not have been brought at this time, and for the government to attempt to bring this case and convict him in an effort to prevent tens of millions of people from voting for him, I think it’s just flat out wrong, and atrocious.
“I’m really bothered by the fact that Trump, in my view, has been targeted. Four cases is just over the top and I think there’s a significant chance that this is going to all backfire and is going to propel him to the White House,” he concluded.
Avenatti gained public attention representing Daniels in her case against Trump in 2018. The charged central to the current legal case against Trump is the alleged payment of $130,000 in 2016 to silence Daniels about their supposed affair in 2006, a claim Trump has repeatedly denied.
Avenatti’s legal troubles began with domestic violence charges in 2018, followed by a conviction for attempting to extort up to $25 million from Nike in 2020. Later, he was found guilty of stealing $300,000 from Daniels’ book advance, which coincided with him admitting to federal fraud and tax evasion charges, cumulating in his multi-year prison term.
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Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, has revealed he is in communication with legal defense for ex-President Donald Trump and is open to testifying against Daniels. Avenatti, presently serving a 19-year prison term for multiple federal offenses, including fraud and embezzlement, shared his readiness to testify but added he is uncertain whether it will come to fruition.
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Migrant crime, which Donald Trump has described as a “new category of crime” as a result of the border crisis under Joe Biden, is continuing to drain public resources. Wanted murderers, rapists, and kidnappers were recently apprehended, along with predators charged with targeting children in the U.S.
THE MS-13 RACKETEER.
On Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that Jose Lainez-Martinez, an MS-13 gang member based in Silver Spring, Maryland, had been imprisoned for 24 years. Lainez-Martinez had been involved in “a pattern of racketeering activity that included murder, conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, and drug distribution.”
“The acts of Jose Lainez-Martinez and other members of this violent transnational criminal organization led to the tragic loss of a young man’s life,” confirmed a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent.
The investigation into the Salvadoran gangster consumed resources from HSI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Montgomery County Police Department.
In a separate case reported on Wednesday, an MS-13 member described as a “violent felon and a threat to Maryland residents” was arrested by ICE deportation officers. He had previously been convicted of conspiracy, armed robbery, and weapons charges in the U.S.
THE BRAZILIAN PEDOPHILE.
ICE reported the detention of an accused pedophile in Massachusetts on Monday. He was initially let loose among the public by the courts in defiance of a detainer request.
The unnamed Brazilian crossed the U.S. border illegally in July 2021. He was detained by Border Patrol but soon released. By 2023 he had been arrested for driving without a license and, more seriously, rape of a child and enticement of a child under 16.
In January 2024, he was arrested as a fugitive from justice. ICE lodged a detainer request, but Milford District Court failed to honor it when he posted bail. ICE finally took him into custody in late March.
“This Brazilian noncitizen is accused of sexually abusing a Massachusetts minor,” commented ICE field office director Todd Lyons.
“Every second he spends roaming free in our communities, he represents a potential threat to the children of our communities.”
THE RAPIST AND THE KIDNAPPER.
On Wednesday, ICE confirmed the deportation of another Brazilian, wanted in his home country for “the offense of rape of a vulnerable individual, or statutory rape of a minor 14 years of age or younger.”
Altair Jose Portuense-Lana’s deportation was a convoluted process. He first crossed the U.S. border illegally in July 2021, being apprehended by Border Patrol but released under a so-called Alternative to Detention (ATD) program.
By 2022, he had been arrested for the assault and battery of a family member and “intimidation of witnesses, jurors and persons furnishing information in connection with criminal proceedings.” He was hit with “multiple charges of threats to commit a crime and with violation of a restraining/abuse prevention order” later the same year.
Not until March 2024 did an immigration judge issue an order for his removal, with ICE noting he was “being sought for sex offenses in Brazil and represented a threat to New England residents as long as he was walking our streets.”
Also on Wednesday, ICE confirmed the arrest of a Romanian man wanted for kidnapping in his home country. The unnamed 25-year-old, who had been deported once before, was caught reentering the U.S. at the Rio Grande Valley border sector in May 2021. Released with an order to appear before an immigration judge, ICE discovered him living in Fresno, California, in March this year.
THE COLOMBIAN KILLER.
On Thursday, ICE confirmed the arrest of a Colombian illegal alien convicted of premeditated murder in his home country. After serving just four years in prison, the unnamed 44-year-old made his way to the U.S., entering undetected as a so-called “gotaway.”
He was arrested in September 2022 but denied having a criminal record and was paroled through an ATD program. It was a full year before ICE realized they had cut loose a convicted murderer and another five months before he was taken into custody in Hartford, Connecticut.
“This Colombian national lied to immigration officials about his violent past in order to gain entrance into the United States,” commented an ICE field office director. “We cannot allow convicted murderers to roam freely in our New England neighborhoods.”
FREE TO KILL.
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed a driver who killed Kurt Englehart, an adviser to Democrat Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, is an illegal alien.
Elmer Rueda-Linares “entered the United States March 12, 2021, at or near the Rio Grande City, Texas, Port of Entry without inspection by an immigration official,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted.
“United States Customs and Border Protection arrested him, and he was later released on his own recognizance June 22, 2021.”
After years at large in the country, Rueda-Linares was involved in the deadly crash in Nevada on April 6. He was initially charged with a felony hit-and-run, but this has been downgraded to failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM.
The above examples of illegal aliens victimizing U.S. residents and consuming public resources are illustrative rather than exhaustive. Some indication of the full scale of migrant crime, dismissed as “negligible” by leftist commentators such as MSNBC’s Joy Reid, was given by Rep. Glenn Grothman, Chairman of the House National Security, Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, during a hearing on Tuesday.
Grothman indicated that ICE is attempting to monitor at least 6 million illegal aliens. Of these, 617,000 — greater than the population of Wyoming — are known to have criminal records or pending criminal charges.
“The fact is that illegal aliens should not be in the country in the first place and able to commit these crimes,” Grothman said, urging the Biden regime to “stop releasing illegal aliens into the country in droves.”
"We have a new category of crime. It's called migrant crime, and it's going to be worse than any other form of crime," @realDonaldTrump told Laura Ingraham. pic.twitter.com/FrdQLSFKPB
Read The National Pulse’s previous migrant crime round-up here.
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Migrant crime, which Donald Trump has described as a "new category of crime" as a result of the border crisis under Joe Biden, is continuing to drain public resources. Wanted murderers, rapists, and kidnappers were recently apprehended, along with predators charged with targeting children in the U.S.
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Newly obtained emails indicate the whistleblower who sparked the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump with accusations of a ‘quid pro quo’ deal involving U.S. military aid for Ukraine was also connected with the Biden family‘s business affairs in the Eastern European country.
According to White House documents recently released by the National Archives, Eric Ciaramella knew of then-Vice President Joe Biden’s efforts to remove Ukrainian Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the HunterBiden-connected energy firm Burisma.
Ciaramella, who served as a national security analyst and adviser to Biden, responded with surprise in an email to the then-Vice President’s threat to withhold $1 billion in funds for Ukraine unless Shokin was fired. The emails also show that Ciaramella played a key role in discussions within the White House on how to handle Hunter Biden‘s appointment to the Burisma board.
In response to the revelations, George Washington University law professor JonathanTurleytold RealClear Investigations: “It now seems there was material evidence that would have been used at the impeachment trial [to exonerate Trump].” Turley added, “Trump was alleging there was a conflict of interest with the Bidens, and the evidence could have challenged Biden’s account and established his son’s interest in the Shokin firing.”
When then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt emailed a news item to Ciaramella highlighting Biden‘s attempt to extort the firing of Shokin, he replied: “Yikes. I don’t recall this coming up in our meeting with them.”
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Newly obtained emails indicate the whistleblower who sparked the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump with accusations of a 'quid pro quo' deal involving U.S. military aid for Ukraine was also connected with the Biden family's business affairs in the Eastern European country.
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Prince Harry “knew he would get away” with confessing to illegal drug use in his memoir, Spare, and suffer no consequences to his visa status while Biden is in office.
Harry has found himself ensnared in a political and legal clash in the U.S. following recent public disclosures about his past drug use. In his memoir and in supporting interviews, Harry confessed to past use of marijuana, cocaine, magic mushrooms, and ayahuasca, suggesting he lied on his visa application. For the time being, the Royal is unlikely to face any consequences for doing so, with Ambassador Jane Hartley insisting recently that deportation action against him was “not going to happen in the Biden administration.”
“What this intervention by the American ambassador shows us is that the Biden administration were [sic] prepared to allow the king’s son into the country regardless of what rules he may or may not have broken. So, maybe he knew he would get away with it,” said royal expert Lady Colin Campbell.
“The issue that perhaps Harry hadn’t thought about so clearly is what would happen if there were to be a change of government. If Trump wins, Harry may well come to regret these very foolish remarks, made no doubt at the urging of his publisher to sell a few more books,” Campbell continued. “The reality is that no foreigner has an inviolable right to enter another country and you can be made a ‘persona non grata’ at the drop of a hat.”
The Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning public policy think tank, is lobbying for disclosure from the Biden government regarding any drug-use admissions on the Prince’s visa application. Such admissions can typically bar a person’s entry into the U.S., as drug use pertains to applicants’ moral character under visa rules.
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Prince Harry "knew he would get away" with confessing to illegal drug use in his memoir, Spare, and suffer no consequences to his visa status while Biden is in office.
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Maxwell Crosby Azzarello, the man believed to have lit himself on fire outside the Trump hush money trial in Manhattan earlier today, is a left-wing activist who The National Pulse is told worked on the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. According to an individual who has known Azzarello for many years, he suffered from mental illness and was involuntarily committed at least once in the last year.
“This is truly awful. He was actually a nice guy,” the friend told The Pulse. Despite his leftist politics, Azzarello maintained friendships with conservatives as well. The individual we spoke with works in Republican Party politics.
“THE PONZI PAPERS.”
Azzarello posted an explanation for his self-immolation on his Substack page, entitled “The Ponzi Papers.” His post begins, “My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.”
“We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup,” he wrote before addressing his act of self-immolation: “To my friends and family, witnesses and first responders, I deeply apologize for inflicting this pain upon you. But I assure you it is a drop in the bucket compared to what our government intends to inflict.”
Azzarello accuses billionaire investor Peter Thiel of purposefully inciting a bank run last year, causing the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. The purpose of the bank run was part of a larger scheme by individuals involved with cryptocurrency to fake a banking crisis so they could move money out of the banks without the public or media noticing. According to Azzarello, who describes himself as an independent researcher, “the banks were used to move out stolen Ponzi money. This signals that they’re no longer dumping cash in to keep the cryptocurrency Ponzi afloat, and that it will soon go insolvent, as all Ponzis must.”
He goes on to claim that when the Ponzi scheme collapses, “it will take down half the stock market” and is the cause of global inflation. Azzarello additionally alleges the U.S. government unleashed the COVID-19 pandemic to cover up the stock market distortions caused by the cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.
CLINTON AND BUSH CONSPIRACIES.
The rest of his Substack post is a mix of Clinton and Bush family conspiracies that he claims tie them to Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Numerous individuals outside the Manhattan courthouse reported Azzarello was carrying a sign that read: “Trump is with Biden, and they’re about to fascist coup us.” On the back of his sign was a link to his Substack page.
On April 14, 2023, he filed a lawsuit against the Clintons, Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, the Winklevoss twins, Joshua Kushner, Anthony Scarramucci, and dozens of others over the alleged cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, which he claims is bringing down the global economy.
ARRESTED IN FLORIDA.
In August of last year, he was arrested in St. John’s County, Florida, for “criminal mischief” and “disturbing the peace.” According to Azzarello’s friend, he has at least two sisters – one who works in television production in New York City and another who produces public art. The friend told The National Pulse that over the last year or two, Azzarello “lost his mind.”
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Maxwell Crosby Azzarello, the man believed to have lit himself on fire outside the Trump hush money trial in Manhattan earlier today, is a left-wing activist who The National Pulse is told worked on the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. According to an individual who has known Azzarello for many years, he suffered from mental illness and was involuntarily committed at least once in the last year.
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OpenDemocracy, a non-profit news publisher previously funded by George Soros, is facing job cuts and financial uncertainty as the elderly plutocrat’s Open Society Foundations group scales back funding under the stewardship of his son, Alex Soros.
OpenDemocracy revealed it would have been insolvent by June had it not cut its budget by around 40 percent. Cutbacks included around a third of its journalists in the United Kingdom, including Head of News Ramzy Alwakeel.
The outlet’s unionized staff are in uproar and have passed votes of no confidence in both chief executive Satbir Singh and board chairwoman Suzanna Taverne.
During its Soros-funded heyday, OpenDemocracy adopted a strong stance against Donald Trump and “whiteness.” It advocated for Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Mariana Islands, including Guam, to be granted statehood to “end the whiteness of Congress” in 2021.
In 2022, it argued that press interest in the Ukraine war was a racist “dog whistle” driven by the fact the combatants are European.
In 2020, former OpenDemocracy editor Eleanor Penny posted on X, formerly Twitter, that she hoped Trump “dies from anything” when he was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Alex Soros, who describes himself as “more political” than his 93-year-old father, has focused Open Society’s financial resources on the United States. Soros Fund Management has poured millions into buying up radio stations and invested in a podcasting network aptly named Crooked Media.
Alex Soros had already visited Joe Biden’s White House at least 20 times as of June 2023.
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OpenDemocracy, a non-profit news publisher previously funded by George Soros, is facing job cuts and financial uncertainty as the elderly plutocrat's Open Society Foundations group scales back funding under the stewardship of his son, Alex Soros.
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A prospective alternate juror in the Manhattan-based hush money trial of former President Donald Trump was dismissed ‘for cause’ after she repeated the “fine people” hoax and other anti-Trump sentiments as the jury selection process continued on Friday. The former President’s defense attorney, Susan Necheles, objected to the seating of the juror, informing JudgeJuanMerchan, “She said Trump enables homophobic and racist comments.” Assistant District Attorney Susan Hoffinger objected to the challenge, arguing the juror also said she doesn’t hold Trump responsible for the actions of his supporters.
EXCUSED FOR CAUSE.
Judge Merchan asked the juror to elaborate on her views. “His followers feel emboldened by his rhetoric. There was speeches like the ‘both sides’ thing. Does that make sense?” the prospective alternate juror responded. Following additional questioning, Judge Merchan ruled, “I think the safer course is to grant excusal for cause.”
Her reference to the “‘both sides’ thing” almost certainly meant the Democrat and corporatemedia‘s “very fine people on both sides” hoax from 2017. In the aftermath of the Charlottesville protests on August 12, 2017, former President Trump repeatedly condemned the “egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence” that occurred during the demonstration.
WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY SAID.
After being continually pressed by the media to condemn only the pro-Robert E. Lee statue demonstrators in the days following the violent protests, Trump responded: “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides… You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
The National Pulse previously reported that anti-Trump actor and comedian Micahel Rapaport admitted, “I was wrong,” claiming the media had misled him regarding the “very fine people” hoax.
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A prospective alternate juror in the Manhattan-based hush money trial of former President Donald Trump was dismissed 'for cause' after she repeated the "fine people" hoax and other anti-Trump sentiments as the jury selection process continued on Friday. The former President's defense attorney, Susan Necheles, objected to the seating of the juror, informing JudgeJuanMerchan, "She said Trump enables homophobic and racist comments." Assistant District Attorney Susan Hoffinger objected to the challenge, arguing the juror also said she doesn't hold Trump responsible for the actions of his supporters.
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Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says the massive open-source online encyclopedia is likely ideologically corrupted due to the efforts of its former chief executive, Katherine Maher. Maher led the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the online resource, before she was hired as the CEO of NPR.
“For the ex-CEO of Wikipedia to say that it was somehow a mistake for Wikipedia to be ‘free and open,’ that it led to bad consequences—my jaw is on the floor,” Sanger told the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher F. Rufo. He added: “I can’t say I’m terribly surprised that she thinks it, but I am surprised that she would say it.”
Maher, during her tenure as the head of the Wikimedia Foundation, told the Atlantic Council that she “took a very active approach to disinformation” and “through conversations with government” targeted what she deemed misinformation. Sanger, responding to Maher‘s claim, acknowledged that she likely worked with U.S. intelligenceagencies to suppress political dissenters.
‘PROBABLY THE CIA.’
“We know that there is a lot of backchannel communication and I think it has to be the case that the Wikimedia Foundation now, probably governments, probably the CIA, have accounts that they control, in which they actually exert their influence,” Sanger said, continuing: “And it’s fantastic, in a bad way, that she actually comes out against the system for being ‘free and open.'”
He added, regarding the state of Wikipedia: “When she says that she’s worked with government to shut down what they consider ‘misinformation,’ that, in itself, means that it’s no longer free and open.”
Sanger lamented Wikipedia’s ideological capture, telling Rufo: “[It] has not just been taken over by the Left, but that it has been co-opted by and working with the government, is just—that’s not a thing I would’ve imagined happening 20 years ago.”
Concerns regarding Maher’s ideological bias and the Left’s capture of important media institutions were first raised by former NPR editor Uri Berliner. The veteran journalist resigned from the taxpayer-funded media outlet yesterday after being suspended by Maher.
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Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says the massive open-source online encyclopedia is likely ideologically corrupted due to the efforts of its former chief executive, Katherine Maher. Maher led the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the online resource, before she was hired as the CEO of NPR.
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