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The Department of Homeland Security insisted that a blind refugee from Burma who was found dead after being abandoned by agents had no disabilities.

According to Investigate Post, agents dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam at a doughnut shop last week, 5 miles away from his home. Buffalo police later found the man dead in the snow.

City Hall spokesperson Ian Ott said homicide detectives were investigating the death.

On Thursday, two days after the body was found, DHS released a statement claiming the "Buffalo Police Department alerted Border Patrol about a non-citizen in their custody."

"Our agents confirmed that Mr. Shah Alam entered the United States as a refugee on December 24, 2024, and was not amenable to removal," the statement said. "Border Patrol agents offered him a courtesy ride, which he chose to accept to a coffee shop, determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address, rather than be released directly from the Border Patrol station."

"He showed no signs of distress, mobility issues, or disabilities requiring special assistance," the agency added.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof followed up with a series of questions that had not been answered by the time of publication.

"1. How did your agents determine that Mr. Shah Alam wanted to be dropped off at the coffee shop, since he did not speak English? 2. Since Mr. Shah Alam presumably had no phone or money, how did the agents expect him to get home through 5 miles of snow? 3. What did they expect him to do when the coffee shop closed? 4. How did they determine that a blind man needing a cane had no "mobility issues or disabilities"? 5. In the circumstances, why not notify the police or his family rather than dump him 5 miles from home? 6. Have you verified your information any better than when you declared that Alex Pretti and Renee Good were domestic terrorists?" Kristof wrote on X.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani secured the release of a Columbia University student taken by the Department of Homeland Security after a phone call with President Donald Trump.

On Thursday morning, Claire Shipman, acting president of the university, said agents had misled staff about a missing person to gain access to the student, who was later identified as Ellie Aghayeva.

“DHS illegally arrested me. Please help," the student said in a one-second video recorded from the back of a vehicle.

The New York Times described the incident as a "significant escalation of immigration enforcement on Columbia’s campus."

By Thursday afternoon, Mamdani announced that he had spoken with Trump.

"Just got off the phone with President Trump," the mayor wrote on X. "In our meeting earlier, I shared my concerns about Columbia student Elaina Aghayeva, who was detained by ICE this morning."

"He has just informed me that she will be released imminently," he added.

Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump's former deputy director of the FBI, admitted there was a "good chance" that Republicans would lose both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections.

The former government official made the prediction during his Thursday podcast.

"Folks, I listen, again, I don't want to pile on here, but when something's wrong, it's our obligation to talk about it on the show and call it out," he said just days after Trump's State of the Union address. "The midterms are coming up, and sadly, there's a good chance we may not do well. I'm not a doomer. I hope we do well, but we have to be open to the obvious that we could lose the Senate or the House or both."

Bongino said he hoped Republicans didn't lose the midterms despite his prediction.

"I hope we're okay. Going to fight like hell," he remarked. "But we could lose. If we don't have the majority and the Senate, it goes majority Democrat after the midterms; it doesn't matter. We're not going to get anything passed anyway. We only have this chance now."

Brandon Herrera, the Second Amendment advocate running against a GOP lawmaker facing affair allegations, called to "bring back smoking on airplanes."

During a Thursday interview, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson noted that Herrera could find himself with a seat on the Oversight Committee if he defeats Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) amid the affair scandal. The interview came as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying to the Oversight Committee about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

"I know that the recent polling looks awesome for you," Johnson said.

"And no, I'm looking forward to it actually giving this district a little bit of representation for somebody who wants to actually serve the constituents and serve the Constitution and Republican values and not somebody that's in it to serve themselves and, you know, prey on their staff," Herrera replied before Johnson urged his viewers to follow the candidate on X.

"Somebody told me X is the smoking section of the internet," the MAGA influencer noted. "I remember smoking sections at restaurants."

"Bro, have you ever been to a McDonald's with a smoking section?" Johnson wondered. "That's the generational difference."

"We used to be a proper country," Herrera argued. "Yeah, I think we should bring back smoking on airplanes."

"Dude, I was on an airplane the other day, and they had an ashtray in the back of the room," Johnson said. "And I was like, man, these are like ruins of an advanced civilization."

U.S. District Court Judge Zahid N. Quraishi blasted President Donald Trump's administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi's Department of Justice for the illegal detention of a 29-year-old immigrant who had been released into the United States in 2016.

According to Quraishi's ruling on Thursday, Diana Elizabeth Cartagena Hueso was first taken into custody in 2016 after crossing the border. She was released after she was "found to have a credible fear of returning to her home country, and was therefore referred for removal and asylum proceedings."

Although the woman had no criminal record and was married with a 5-year-old child, "she and her husband were arrested by immigration officials in Elizabeth, New Jersey on their way to a doctor's appointment" on Jan. 26, 2026.

The government then repeatedly moved her to different detention centers as she struggled to challenge her situation in court.

"Where an alien is released outright, even where he is later paroled, he cannot be returned to mandatory detention under the statute because the Government has effectively abandoned its mandatory detention authority by releasing the alien into the United States without parole," the judge explained. "In this matter, the Government released Petitioner on her own recognizance in 2016, and left her at large in the United States for nearly a decade before returning her to custody."

"The Government's handling of Petitioner's detention is emblematic of its approach to immigration enforcement in this state. On the merits, its detentions are illegal. The Government knows this," Quraishi said, noting the government's refusal to release Cartagena Hueso. "Arguably worse, while the procedures for the Government's immigration arrest and detention may have had the initial appearance of negligence, they have since slid downward into manifest recklessness."

"Efforts by the Court in this District to protect detainees' rights have been largely frustrated by the Government," the judge added. "The undersigned will not stand idly by and allow this intentional misconduct to go on. It ends today."

Quraishi cautioned the Department of Justice prosecutors that similar arrests could result in consequences. The judge ordered the woman "released immediately."

Immigration agents working for the Department of Homeland Security were accused of lying to gain entry to a Columbia University dorm on the premise that they were looking for a "missing person."

In a statement on Thursday, Columbia President Claire Shipman said federal agents had detained a student at approximately 6:30 a.m.

"Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.' We are working to gather more details," Shipman wrote. "It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access. An administrative warrant is not sufficient."

"If law enforcement agents seek entry to non-public areas of the University, ask the agents to wait to enter any non-public areas until contacting Public Safety. Public Safety will contact the Office of the General Counsel to coordinate the University's response. Do not allow them to enter or accept service of a warrant or subpoena," she added.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance accused the agents of potentially failing to follow the law.

"If this is true, we've now entered the smash and grab, openly rejecting obligations to follow the loss stage of this administration, and it must not be tolerated by anyone, Republican or Democrat," she wrote on X. "Federal law enforcement has to follow the law."

The hosts of the pro-MAGA network Real America's Voice warned that the End Times could be on the horizon because of a 2014 New York Times opinion piece describing pedophilia as a "disorder."

"Elon Musk is just one of many now out there slamming the Times, the New York Times, for an op-ed they published, look at this," co-host David Brody began. "It framed pedophilia as a psychological disorder rather than a crime."

"Musk called it utterly disgusting, accusing the paper of pushing dangerous propaganda and blurring moral lines that should never be crossed," he continued.

Co-host Terrance Bates dismissed the column as "ridiculous," but Gina Loudon suggested the fate of the world could be at stake.

"The leftists in their movement will try to use all of the victims, right?" she remarked. "They use young people who may be gay."

"Telling you, bestiality is on the table, pedophilia is on the table," she added. "It's all on the table. Here's where we can relax. The Bible was really clear about this from the beginning."

"The Bible called this out. God told us the End Times would incorporate these perversions and call them normal. And that's exactly what we're seeing. So we can rest in the fact of knowing who is on the throne and where we stand in that scenario."

Olympic hockey gold medalist Jeremy Swayman said he regretted laughing after President Donald Trump joked about possibly not inviting the women's hockey champions to the White House.

Following their gold-medal victory over Canada this week, Trump spoke by phone with the men's team.

"I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the woman's team. You do know that?" Trump lamented about inviting the women to the White House. "I do believe I probably would be impeached."

A video of the call showed the men's team laughing at Trump's joke.

"Jeremy, there was some negative reaction to that in the post-game video. Just what is your reaction to that?" a reporter asked Swayman on Wednesday.

"Yeah, we should have reacted differently," the hockey star admitted. "We know that we are so excited for the women's team. We have so much respect for the women's team. And to share that gold medal with them is something that we're forever grateful for. And, you know, now that we're home, we get to share that together forever and see the incredible support that we have from the USA and sharing this incredible gold medal."

Despite being disbarred, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has offered to represent members of the NYPD who were on the receiving end of a snowball fight started by residents.

During an interview on Wednesday, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson alleged to Giuliani that the people throwing snowballs at the officers after a recent storm were guilty of "attempted murder."

"No death, thank God," Giuliani agreed. "Those are not being thrown for fun. Those are being thrown as hard as they can."

"That's a mob!" Johnson exclaimed. "There's a mob of like military-age men that are chasing."

"And it's the symbol of it also," Giuliani remarked. "You have the greatest police department, the largest police department in America, being routed by a group of illegals or otherwise, well, they're all illegal in throwing things at cops."

"I do think the police should have turned around as a group, then arrested every single damn one of them, whatever it took," he continued. "I would defend them against a civilian complaint, although I'm disbarred. Maybe I could do that. Or I could get lawyers to do it."

"And I'm sorry, guys, I love you. I really love you. I love all of you, and I know what you're going through."

The gold-medal-winning U.S. women's hockey team delivered its second rejection to President Donald Trump this week.

On Monday, the team first snubbed Trump after he issued an invitation to hear him speak at his State of the Union address.

"We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women's Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement," the team said in a statement at the time. "Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the Games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment."

The rejection came hours after Trump suggested he would be impeached if he did not invite the women players to the White House.

On Wednesday, the team made it clear that a White House visit wasn't happening anytime soon.

"Players are back competing with their professional and collegiate teams and are in the midst of their season," the women's team said in a new statement. "They're honored and grateful to be invited, and any opportunity to visit the White House as a team will be based on their schedules once their seasons conclude."

During his State of the Union speech, Trump promised that "the American women [players] will soon be coming to the White House."

MAGA conspiracy theorist Alex Jones lashed out at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after she criticized President Donald Trump during his Tuesday State of the Union Address over the killing of U.S. citizens at the hands of federal immigration enforcement agents.

"I mean, she is shouting, she is yelling," Jones said on his Wednesday broadcast. "And when you know about Ilhan Omar, it's incredible... Her grandfather was basically the number-two dictator under the dictator. Her dad was a top general. And they killed a quarter million people, and their family are famous slavers in the ruling class."

"The actual ruling class of Somalia says they're not Black and is very racist towards Blacks," he continued. "She's the equivalent of a KKK Grand Dragon, but because she has brown skin, it's okay."

"And you have the daughter of warlord criminals, slave runners, pirate kings, lecturing us, God. I mean, I don't hate her because she's got brown skin. I hate her because she is a rat-like demonic pig who has total disdain for everyone."

Jones called Omar "disgusting beyond belief" because she refused to stand and applaud during Trump's speech.

"They have boiling white-hot hatred for all Americans who are patriots, who are Christians, who believe in America, who cheer the hockey team winning," he remarked. "I don't see a Black person. She's not Black. I see a slave masterpiece of filth, a true Lex Luthor in the flesh, an enemy."

"It's that simple," he concluded.

MAGA columnist Ann Coulter found out the hard way that President Donald Trump is a second-generation immigrant.

Following the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday, Coulter sought to slam the immigrant community and their families.

"That beautiful ending to Trump's SOTU address reminds me why we can't have a second-, third-, or fourth- generation immigrant as president," she wrote on X. "Love for our country has to be in your genes."

Coulter was quickly informed by X's Community Notes system about Trump's heritage.

"President Trump is a second generation immigrant through his Scottish-born mother and a third generation immigrant through his German-born paternal grandparents," context from readers said.

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Pro-MAGA Bible scholar Jim Moseley argued that God saved the creation of woman for last because he didn't want to hear her criticize him as he worked.

During a Wednesday Real America's Voice segment sponsored by Lee Greenwood's Bible, host Emily Finn invited Moseley to share the story of creation.

"But is that just an ancient fairy tale or is there more depth in the biblical text than we might first notice?" Finn asked. "Let's talk about the making of Eve."

"Well, on Genesis, in Genesis Day 6, Friday, God formed Adam from the dust of the ground," Moseley said. "And he breathed into him, and Adam became a living being. But then God said, it's not good for man to be alone."

"So God's game first let Adam see a critical need, and then God set about answering it," he continued. "God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he took one of his ribs. From that rib, he created the woman."

Moseley insisted that the creation of Eve shouldn't be dismissed as a myth because it was backed up by genetics.

"Every cell in Adam's body carried his complete DNA blueprint," he remarked. "As a man, Adam's chromosomes were X and Y. "So the Creator had no difficulty choosing an X chromosome from one cell, an X chromosome from another cell, and combining them into XX, the genetic code of all women."

"Now, I think I know why God made Eve last of all, while he was creating everything else," he added. "He didn't want to listen to her advice."

"Jim, thank you so much for breaking all of that down for us today," Finn replied. "I learned a whole lot. I didn't know that. So thank you for sharing more insight."

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) found himself in disbelief after CNN host John Berman reminded him that GDP growth under President Donald Trump was lower than it was under former President Joe Biden.

During a Wednesday interview on CNN, Donald insisted that there was "no real GDP growth" during the Biden years.

"You brought up GDP growth," Berman noted. "Inflation was higher, but GDP growth was also higher during the Biden administration."

"That's not true," Donald muttered. "But okay."

"GDP growth?" Berman replied. "You can go check GDP growth. I mean, you can say what you want about inflation, but the GDP is what the GDP was. GDP growth last quarter was 1.4%."

"Under Joe Biden's economy, wages adjusted for inflation were down in America," the lawmaker quipped.

"I was talking about GDP," the CNN host said. "All I was saying was GDP growth, what you said was higher under Trump than Biden. That's actually not true."

Paramount is reportedly edging closer to a deal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN, and other media properties.

In a statement on Tuesday, Warner Bros. Discovery said Paramount's offer could "reasonably be expected" to lead to a "company superior proposal."

Paramount, which leverages the wealth of Larry Ellison's empire, has cultivated a relationship with the Trump administration. The company is in a bidding war with Netflix for control of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Paramount upped its latest offer from $30 per share to $31 per share in cash. Additionally, the Ellison-backed company would pay a $7 billion regulatory termination fee to Warner Bros. Discovery if the deal does not close due to regulatory matters. Paramount would also pay a $2.8 billion termination fee to terminate Netflix's existing deal.