News
Compiled by Mike Hernandez, 10-24-25
There are so many stories making up the mosaic of national/international news that we can’t cover them all every week. The biggest stories now seem to be: Israel and Iran, the Trump presidency (lawfare and judges), immigration (migrants and illegals), wars, weaponization of government (the deep state) against Trump and conservatives, our nation’s debt, massive inflation, climate change controversy and related expenses of government, industry attempting to address these issues, the Chinese threat, national security, abortion, taxpayer cuts, Ukraine peace, and hatred and violence against Christians. Here are just a few:
October 18: RedState By Becca Lower
JD Vance Challenges Dems To Denounce Mamdani Appearing With 1993 WTC Bombing ‘Unindicted Co-Conspirator’
On Saturday, Vice President JD Vance gave his thoughts on the latest revelations involving Zohran Mamdani – the man whom the Democrats are championing to become the next mayor of New York City, who said: “Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century.”
Who is Imam Siraj Wahhaj? That’s a complicated question, not because his background is morally opaque, but because his history of directly supporting Islamic terrorism is so extensive.
The revelation via the Democrat’s own social media posting on Friday came after months of the campaign have dragged on, with few major national Dems willing to give Mamdani an endorsement. And when confronted by the media with pressing questions on Mamdani’s outright refusal to denounce Hamas and radical Muslims.
Vance wrote “I’ve been reliably informed that Democrats are opposed to any kind of political violence, so I look forward to them universally condemning Zohran Mamdani for campaigning with an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist plot that killed 6 New Yorkers.”
In a reply to the tweet, he shared a NY Post story on the radical imam and that damning image of him campaigning with Mamdani. The title spells things out: “New York Post: Mamdani appears smiling, arm-in-arm with unindicted ‘93 WTC bombing co-conspirator and terrorist apologist.”
October 19: Fox News By Hannah Panreck
Karine Jean Pierre Writes She Couldn’t ‘Stomach’ Being A Democrat Anymore After Party’s Treatment Of Biden
Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre unleashed on the Democratic Party in an excerpt from her new memoir, explaining why she decided to become an independent after years as a party flack. In the excerpt, Jean-Pierre detailed the phone call in which then-President Joe Biden told the White House team that he was dropping out of the race.
“Biden seemed to be totally at peace with his decision, but I was stunned, my feelings a blur. I was angry and sad. I was enraged and heartbroken that this man had given more than 50 years of his life to serving the American people, and in the end he’d been treated poorly by members of his own party. It was horrible,” Jean-Pierre wrote.
October 19: France 24 By Shirley Sitbon
Thieves Steal Eight Objects From The Louvre In Daring Daytime Heist
A four man “strike team” broke into the Louvre in the heart of Paris on Sunday and robbed eight objects from the Gallerie d’Apollon, including historical jewellery, as the world-renowned museum closed for the day. French authorities later said they recovered one item, which was apparently dropped by the robbers as they made their escape.
Robbers wielding power tools broke into the Louvre on Sunday and made off with priceless jewels from the world-renowned museum, taking just seven minutes for the broad-daylight heist, sources and officials said. The thieves made off with eight priceless objects, with a ninth that they tried to steal recovered at the scene, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.
They did not target or steal the world-famous Regent diamond, which is housed in the same gallery the thieves hit, Beccuau said on BFM TV. Sotheby’s estimates the Regent is worth over $60 million.
October 20: Gateway Pundit By Joel Gilbert
How Letitia James’s Fake Marriage to Her Dad Sparked a Lifetime of Mortgage Fraud
How did Letitia James’s claim that she married her father in order to qualify for her first loan evolve into a lifetime of mortgage and bank fraud?
It all began in the spring of 1983, when a 24-year-old Letitia James and her father, Robert James, posing as “husband and wife,” took out a real estate loan for $30,300 from Kadilac Funding Ltd. for the purchase of a two-story townhome in Queens. The loan document, signed by both, listed “ROBERT JAMES AND LETITIA JAMES, HIS WIFE” in three separate places. This was no clerical error.
At that time, young Letitia likely lacked sufficient income or credit to qualify for a mortgage as a single woman. The fraudulent claim of marriage to her father allowed her to obtain financing she otherwise couldn’t have, an act that meets the legal definition of mortgage fraud under state and federal statutes.
October 21: Breitbart By Oliver JJ Lane
Alleged Diversity-Hire Head Of Louvre Security Faces Calls To Resign After Humiliating Heist Of Crown Jewels
The head of security at the Louvre Museum was a diversity hire who was chosen because of her characteristics rather than “competence”, French sovereigntist politician Marion Maréchal said as she demanded heads roll after last week’s jewel heist.
The Louvre, the world’s largest museum, has undergone a process of forced “feminization” at the expense of “competence” which endangers France’s cultural heritage, French Member of the European Parliament Marion Maréchal of the famed right-wing Le Pen political dynasty has said. The remarks come as notable figures from France’s right decry last week’s audacious heist — called the largest museum robbery of a generation — as a total humiliation for the country on the world stage.
National Rally party leader — and Maréchal’s aunt — Marine Le Pen said the theft of artefacts of French history including emerald and sapphire earrings, necklaces, and tiaras is a “wound to the French soul” while her party colleague and protégé Jordan Bardella called the theft an “unbearable humiliation”.
October 21: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
O’Keefe Media Group Exposes Massive $100 BILLION Federal Contracting Scam
An explosive new undercover investigation by O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) released Monday on X has blown the lid off a massive federal contracting scandal, a $100 billion scheme exploiting taxpayer-funded minority-preference programs under the Biden Administration.
In a shocking undercover video posted on X, OMG revealed how ATI Government Solutions, a federal contractor supposedly “Native American-owned,” admitted to exploiting the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program to grab over $100 million in no-bid government contracts, while outsourcing up to 80% of the work to other firms.
“I tell you pass-throughs are a great thing! We only do 20%… The rest goes to subs. And remember, there’s no competition.”
James O’Keefe, posing as representatives from a fake cybersecurity firm called “Sev-Zero Solutions,” met Cromwell under the guise of hiring her catering side business. Within minutes, the ATI executive bragged about how the company leverages its Native American tribal affiliation with the Susanville Indian Rancheria to obtain exclusive federal contracts, then turns around and pays subcontractors to do almost all the work.
October 22: Gateway Pundit By Cullen Linebarger
House Democrats Announce Plans To Launch “Master ICE Tracker” To Dox ICE Agents Defending America
House Democrats are ramping up their war against immigration enforcement by taking a page from their far-left supporters and ratting out the location of ICE agents. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee will be launching what he called a “master ICE tracker” to monitor the movements of ICE agents. In other words, a hit list. “We will be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify (location of ICE agents),” he added.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi responded: “Shutdown Democrats are already refusing to pay our law enforcement agents. Now, @RepRobertGarcia and @SenBlumenthal are trying to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs,” she wrote.
Thursday, October 23: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Florida Teacher Wins Right To Hang Charlie Kirk Inspirational Poster In His Classroom
A Florida teacher won his lawsuit against the Orange County School District after they forced him to take down an inspirational poster of Charlie Kirk. The poster read: “Never underestimate the power of your voice and the impact you can have on the world when you speak up for what you believe in.”
The Florida teacher, William Loggans, threatened to sue the Orange County School District for the right to hang the poster in his classroom. Loggans also has posters of MLK Jr., Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan and Mohammad Ali, among others.
Thursday, October 23:
RFK Jr. Gave Ed Martin A List Of 28 Scientific Studies That Defrauded The American Public
On Wednesday morning James Lyons-Weiler joined Steve Bannon on The War Room to discuss the “weaponization of science” and its destructive effects on the American people.
James Lyons-Weiler is an American scientist and activist who operates the non-profit organization Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. Lyons-Weiler holds a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology.
“I know for a fact that if there’s a narrative that the former CDC or NIAID with Anthony Fauci had to have for public health. If you’re at a university and you actually went against the green, your university got a call and all of your NIH funding was threatened over, let’s say, HPV vaccine safety or MMR vaccine safety… There’s a mix of fraud in weaponized science and then use of science in a way that is just fooling the public.”
Thursday, October 23: Gateway Pundit By Mike LaChance
Both Pennsylvania Senators, Republican Dave McCormick And Democrat John Fetterman, Call For End To Shutdown
The rest of the U.S. Senate could learn a lesson from Pennsylvania Senators Dave McCormick, a Republican and John Fetterman, a Democrat. Even though McCormick and Fetterman are members of different parties, they recently united to make a video to call for the end of the government shutdown. Both of these men have voted to end the shutdown as well.
Thursday, October 23: Gateway Pundit By Cristina Laila
FBI Raids NBA Gambling Ring Tied to Italian Mafia – More Than 30 People Arrested, Including Trail Blazers Coach Chauncey Billups And Heat’s Terry Rozier
FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday announced the arrest of more than 30 people across 11 states, including Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat player Terry Rozier, as part of a takedown of a massive sports gambling ring, which included a poker scheme and “sports rigging.”
The poker scheme, which used X-ray tables to read cards face down, wireless devices and chip tray analyzers, was tied to the Italian mafia, La Cosa Nostra. “They used off-the-shelf shuffling machines that had been secretly altered in order to read the cards in the deck, predict which player at the table had the best poker hand, and relay that information to an off-site operator,” US Attorney Joseph Nocella said.
“Defendants used other cheating technologies such as poker chip tray analyzers, which is a poker chip tray that secretly read cards using a hidden camera—special contact lenses or eyeglasses that could read pre-marked cards, and an X-ray table that could read cards face down on the table,” he said. The Bonanno, Gambino, Lucchese, and Genovese crime families were involved.
Terry Rozier allegedly used insider NBA information in a sports betting scheme.
According to NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Terry Rozier actually faked an injury to leave a game early to make sure the bets paid out.
Friday, October 24: Gateway Pundit By Cristina Laila
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Responds To Trump Ending All Trade Negotiations
The Canadian Prime Minister on Friday responded to President Trump’s decision to end all trade negotiations. Mark Carney said he will explore more trade talks with Asian countries.
President Trump announced late Thursday evening that all trade negotiations with Canada had been terminated after the government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio of President Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs. Trump accused the government of Ontario of interfering with the Supreme Court’s decision on his tariffs. The high court is set to hear oral arguments on November 5 on Trump’s tariffs after a lower court ruled they were illegal.
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs,” Trump said. The ad was for $75,000,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts,” President Trump said on Truth Social.
Friday, October 24: RedState By Nick Arama
Coast Guard Base Security Firing On U-Haul At Site Of Protest
Coast Guard security fired on a U-Haul as it backed toward them at a bridge entrance to the Alameda, California base. The security shouted multiple times for the truck to stop before they fired.
“When the vehicle’s actions posed a direct threat to the safety of Coast Guard and security personnel, law enforcement officers discharged several rounds of live fire,” the agency said in a statement.
Reportedly, the truck had been parked outside the base for a good part of the day, and the driver fled after the shooting. A man believed to be the driver showed up at a hospital with injuries, as did a second person, according to the Mercury News. Fortunately, no base personnel were injured in the incident.
Friday, October 24: RedState By Sister Toldjah
Damning Details Released On Harjinder Singh And Deadly SoCal Crash Suspect
The horrific crash back in August involving a tractor-trailer whose driver tried to make an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike certainly shone a brighter light on an issue that, before that time, didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved: CDLs being issued to illegal immigrants, many of whom don’t even speak English.
A minivan that had no time to slow down and stop crashed into the trailer as the driver, Harjinder Singh, attempted to make the illegal turn. Tragically, two of the three in the minivan died upon impact, while the van’s driver later succumbed to their injuries. Videos showed not only the moment of impact but also Singh, who is from India, looking emotionless while standing outside his vehicle as first responders frantically tried to reach the victims.
We’ve learned a lot about Singh since that time, not only that he was an illegal immigrant who couldn’t speak English, but that he had been in the country illegally since 2018, crossing over into the sanctuary state of California from Mexico, and obtaining Commercial Driver’s Licenses from both California and Washington state. As it turns out, Singh, who is facing vehicular manslaughter charges in the fatal Florida crash incident, failed his CDL test 10 times in Washington state within a two-month window back in 2023.
Mike Hernandez, is co-founder of the Citizens Journal–Ventura County’s online news service and writes for Citizensjournal.net and MountainTopMedia.com. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor, writer of “CaliRed News” on Substack.com and “Prayer Over News Daily” and edits the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes” and other columns. Mr. Hernandez mentors citizen journalists and can be contacted at MikeHernandezMedia.com.
