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Trump: US Has 'Lost' India, Russia to China
The United States has "lost" India and Russia to China, President Donald Trump said early Friday.
The president, posting a photograph of Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin alongside Chinese President
Xi Jinping, quipped on Truth Social that it "Looks like we've lost
India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and
prosperous future together!"
Trump's comments were in response to a photo taken during last week's
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, where Xi
hosted leaders of Russia and India along with dignitaries from about 20
Eurasian nations.
Federal agents arrest hundreds at Hyundai plant construction site in Georgia
The raid is considered the largest such action at a US manufacturing site in years
Around 450 illegal migrants were arrested Thursday in a major
immigration enforcement raid at a Hyundai electric car battery factory
in Georgia, Atlanta’s Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives announced.
Several other agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations, took part in the raid
at the Hyundai–LG Energy Solution battery plant construction site in
Ellabell, which is located about 20 miles outside Savannah.
The raid is considered the largest such action at a U.S. manufacturing
site in years and follows major raids at other workplaces over the last
few months under the Trump administration.
The facility, a $4.3 billion to $7.6 billion Hyundai–LGES joint
venture, is slated to supply batteries to Hyundai’s nearby Savannah EV
plant and stands as the largest single industrial investment in
Georgia’s history.
Putin: Western Troops in Ukraine Fair Targets
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that any Western troops
deployed to Ukraine would be legitimate targets for Moscow to attack,
in a warning to Kyiv's allies as they discuss measures for its future
protection.
Putin was speaking a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said 26
countries had pledged to provide postwar security guarantees to
Ukraine, including an international force on land, sea and in the air.
Russia has long argued that one of its reasons for going to war in
Ukraine was to prevent NATO from admitting Kyiv as a member and placing
its forces in Ukraine.
"Therefore, if some troops appear there, especially now, during
military operations, we proceed from the fact that these will be
legitimate targets for destruction," Putin told an economic forum in
Vladivostok.
Leaders in AOC’s ‘red light’ district push FBI’s Kash Patel to end brothel scourge
Frustrated residents are again demanding FBI action against the prostitution hot spot
Local leaders in New York City Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district
have again called on FBI Director Kash Patel to finally crush what they
call the festering scourge of ruthless foreign gangs pimping women in
brothels and pumping drugs into the Queens neighborhood.
The tight-knit group has held several separate protests in recent weeks
outside what they said are well-known brothels in the progressive
champion's district, where women allegedly solicit sex on the sidewalk
outside before Johns scurry inside.
The brothels are located near the troubled Roosevelt Avenue corridor in
Queens, a two-mile commercial strip which has been plagued with crime,
prostitution and violence for years, so much so that it's often
referred to as a red-light district despite repeated crackdowns by the
NYPD. Police told Fox News Digital they’ve arrested 350 people so far
this year for prostitution-related offenses in and around the
beleaguered strip.
DOJ
defeats NYT lawsuit seeking release of Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago report
because judge wouldn't second-guess Cannon's injunction
A federal judge on Thursday sided with the Department of Justice,
dismissing The New York Times' Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit, which sought the public disclosure of Volume II of former
special counsel Jack Smith's report on his Mar-a-Lago case against
President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods, a Barack Obama appointee sitting on
the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,
explained that he would not second-guess U.S. District Judge Aileen
Cannon's jurisdiction in issuing a permanent injunction and, therefore,
the Times' FOIA case was doomed.
"Because the Court declines to hold that Judge Cannon lacked
jurisdiction to issue her injunction, the Court finds that the DOJ is
not improperly withholding Volume II of the Special Counsel's report,"
wrote Woods. "The DOJ's motion to dismiss in this action is therefore
GRANTED."
In July, the DOJ argued that the Times' suit should fail precisely
because Cannon's injunction was still in place. The Times' lawyers had
claimed that the injunction was a legal "nullity" which Cannon had no
jurisdiction to issue.
Here’s what FBI agents took from John Bolton’s house in raid — and what charges he could face
Federal agents seized three computers, two iPhones and reams of
documents from former Trump national security adviser John Bolton’s
house during their Aug. 22 raid, according to court records — which
also revealed that the 76-year-old could soon face charges that may
land him in prison for more than a decade.
The feds raided Bolton’s Bethesda, Md., home and Washington, DC, office
as part of an investigation into allegations that he snuck national
security files out of the White House during President Trump’s first
term by emailing them to family members on a private server,
high-ranking FBI officials told The Post at the time.
In addition to the high-tech hardware, agents confiscated two USB
drives, a hard drive, four boxes of “printed daily activities,” “typed
documents in folders labeled ‘Trump I – IV'” and a white binder labeled
“statements and reflections to allied strikes,” according to an
inventory made public Thursday.
The warrant also revealed that Bolton is being looked at for allegedly
violating two sections of the Espionage Act of 1917 forbidding
unauthorized possession or removal of national defense information, and
another law preventing hoarding of classified files.
Venezuelan military jets buzz US Navy ship in 'highly provocative' move, Pentagon says
Defense Department warns Maduro regime against interfering with counter-terror operations
The Defense Department confirmed on Thursday night that two Venezuelan
aircraft flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters. The
incident, which the department called a "highly provocative move,"
comes as the Trump administration ramps up its anti-narco-terrorism
efforts.
"Today, two Maduro regime military aircraft flew near a U.S. Navy
vessel in international waters. This highly provocative move was
designed to interfere with our counter narco-terror operations," the
Defense Department wrote in a statement posted to X. "The cartel
running Venezuela is strongly advised not to pursue any further effort
to obstruct, deter or interfere with counter-narcotics and
counter-terror operations carried out by the U.S. military."
Venezuela’s actions followed an unprecedented U.S. Marine strike
Tuesday on a cartel-operated vessel. The Trump administration later
said 11 members of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua – a
U.S.-designated terrorist organization – were killed in the strike.
Dearborn Heights Police Department trots out 'optional patch' featuring Arabic and English text
'Pray for Michigan,' Rep Randy Fine declared in a post on X
The Dearborn Heights Police Department in Michigan has announced an
"optional patch" that includes text in both Arabic and English.
The patch includes the words "DEARBORN HEIGHTS" and "POLICE" written in both English and Arabic.
"The Dearborn Heights Police Department is proud to share a new
optional patch that our officers may wear as part of their uniform,"
the department noted in a Facebook post.
"This patch was created by Officer Emily Murdoch, who designed it to
reflect and honor the diversity of our community - especially the many
residents of Arabic descent who call Dearborn Heights home. By
incorporating Arabic script alongside English, this patch represents
unity, respect, and our shared commitment to service. We are proud of
Officer Murdoch's creativity and dedication in helping our department
better represent the people we serve," the post noted.
Russia Faces Gasoline Crisis as Ukrainian Drones Strike
Ukraine has intensified its campaign of drone strikes on Russian oil
infrastructure, hitting refineries in recent weeks and deepening fuel
shortages across the country.
For two years, Ukraine has targeted Russian refineries and depots, but
since early August the pace has quickened, with the country's officials
reporting more than a dozen strikes on refining and distribution sites
over the past month, including Aug. 30 attacks on facilities in
Krasnodar and Syzran in the Samara region, reports The Economist.
Both have been struck multiple times and supply fuel to Russian
military units, according to Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, commander of
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces.
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Trump adviser floats Eric Adams for Saudi Arabia ambassadorship to thin
out busy NY mayoral field, give Cuomo a shot to beat Mamdani
A top adviser to President Trump has been pushing for the chief
executive to nominate Eric Adams as the next ambassador to Saudi Arabia
as part of a seemingly outside-the-box deal that would have the mayor
end his desperate independent bid to hold onto City Hall, The Post has
confirmed.
News of the potential appointment, which was first reported by the New
York Times, comes as the president has begun to try to play political
chess in the crowded field of Big Apple mayoral hopefuls in an attempt
to stop Democratic front-runner and unabashed socialist Zohran Mamdani
from winning.
However, it is unclear how serious those inside the White House are about the appointment.
If Trump wants to shift the mayor’s race, he needs to get more creative
Kudos to John Catsimatidis for his careful account of his last call
with President Donald Trump, which seems to represent the thinking of
Queens’ No. 1 son better than the many “anonymous” rumors floating the
claim that Trump thinks ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the city’s best hope.
Rumors that you have to think are actually “wishcasting” from the Cuomo camp.
We fully believe the prez “is concerned about the New York City race,”
just as Cats tells it, and “does not want a socialist mayor.”
But the WABC CEO isn’t the one claiming the White House offered Mayor
Eric Adams an administration job to get him out of the race.
No, planting that story is far more likely to come from a rival
candidate, perhaps the one who’s been saying for weeks that Trump would
step in this way.
