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ICE arrests terror-linked Iranian nationals amid growing threat of sleeper cells
Fox News, Approved, National

ICE arrests terror-linked Iranian nationals amid growing threat of sleeper cells

By Cameron Arcand , Brooke Taylor | Fox News Officials tout being 'full throttle on identifying and arresting known or suspected terrorists' as Iran sleeper cell threat looms EXCLUSIVE: At least five more Iranian nationals were arrested on Monday in addition to the 11 announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday morning. On Monday, 45-year-old Mohammad Hassanpoor was arrested by officers in Baltimore and given a "Third County Notice." He was previously criminally convicted of "assault with a deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury," where he was sentenced to just under a year behind bars.  He was also previously sentenced roughly three months behind bars for "battery: spouse/ex sp/date/etc." and sentenced to two years for stalking. ...
State official testifies against Polis in data-sharing dispute with ICE
DENVER7, Approved, State

State official testifies against Polis in data-sharing dispute with ICE

By Danielle Kreutter | Denver7 DENVER — A whistleblower who accused Governor Jared Polis of ordering state employees to hand over personal information to federal immigration officials testified in court on Tuesday. Scott Moss is a licensed attorney and the director of the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics in the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Earlier this month, he filed a lawsuit in Denver County Court, alleging that he was ordered by the governor to turn over information about people providing homes to unaccompanied minors to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in compliance with a subpoena. Moss believed giving ICE the information would violate state laws that ban state and local government agencies from sharing personal information with f...
Trump administration investigating Colorado’s Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants
The Colorado Sun, Approved, State

Trump administration investigating Colorado’s Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants

By Jennifer Brown | Colorado Sun The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid requested detailed information from the state Medicaid program as it investigates “fiscal integrity” The Trump administration is launching an investigation into Colorado Medicaid spending on undocumented immigrants, an extensive data request from federal officials reveals.  The 11 pages of requested information, which The Colorado Sun obtained through the state open records act, asks about Colorado spending and policies, and seeks personal information about Medicaid claims during the past three months, including patients’ immigration status.  In an email accompanying the data request, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it intends to review claims that Colorado submitted ...
Lone Tree man distributed 200K child porn images. 4 years in prison. DA blasts ‘soft-on-crime’ statutes.
KRDO.COM, Approved, Local

Lone Tree man distributed 200K child porn images. 4 years in prison. DA blasts ‘soft-on-crime’ statutes.

By Sadie Buggle | KRDO CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (KRDO) – A Lone Tree man will serve four years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing over 200,000 images of child pornography, the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s (DA) Office said. Following his release from prison, 28-year-old Daryl Henry Joe, Jr. will be required to serve ten years of probation. In March of 2024, Lone Tree police received a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, regarding images of child pornography the agency had traced to a computer at Joe’s address in Lone Tree. According to the DA's office, Joe later admitted to not only possessing but distributing more than 200,000 sexually explicit images of children, including of infants and toddlers. Under Color...
Patel & Bongino: FBI Hid Intel Proving China Interfered in U.S. Election
Just The News, Approved, National

Patel & Bongino: FBI Hid Intel Proving China Interfered in U.S. Election

By John Solomon | Just the News "Previous FBI leadership chose to play politics and withhold key information from the American people," the bureau's new top two leaders say. FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino alleged Tuesday that the bureau's prior leadership "chose to play politics" and hide evidence from the American people of a Chinese plot to hijack the 2020 U.S. election with fake mail-in ballots for Joe Biden. The two FBI leaders' statement came a week after Just the News reported Patel turned over to Congress earlier this month a long-hidden intelligence report raising concerns that China had mass-produced fake U.S. driver's licenses to carry out a scheme to swing the 2020 election to Biden with fake mail-in ballots. Patel located the evidence based ...
Camp Wins Battle Against Colorado Department of Early Childhood Gender Identity Mandates
State, Approved, CBS News

Camp Wins Battle Against Colorado Department of Early Childhood Gender Identity Mandates

By Austen Erblat | CBS News A Christian camp in Bailey is dismissing a lawsuit against the Colorado Department of Early Childhood as part of a settlement, in which the agency says religious organizations are exempt from a rule dealing with gender identity. Camp IdRaHaJe filed the lawsuit in federal court against Lisa Roy, executive director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, and Carin Rosa, director of the department's Division of Early Learning Licensing and Administration, in May. The camp said that a requirement from the department that camps allow children to use facilities that align with their gender identity violates the camp's longstanding practices and their religious freedom. The policy at the time asked the camp, "to choose between upholding its Biblical bel...
Iranian Nationals Caught in Colorado Springs After Alleged Illegal Reentry
Local, Approved, Fox21

Iranian Nationals Caught in Colorado Springs After Alleged Illegal Reentry

By Ashley Eberhardt | Fox21 (COLORADO SPRINGS) — 11 Iranian nationals who were allegedly in the country illegally were recently arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), two of them in Colorado Springs. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), one of the men arrested in Colorado Springs had been ordered to leave the country in January 1987. DHS said on June 22, ICE officials arrested Mahmoud Shafiei and Mehrdad Mehdipour — two Iranian nationals in the U.S. illegally — who were living together. Immigration officials first encountered Shafiei in Seattle, Washington, in January 1981. A judge ordered him removed in January 1987. According to DHS, his criminal history includes state and federal convictions for drug crimes and arrests for assault and ...
Trump Tapped for Nobel Peace Prize After Iran-Israel Ceasefire Win
National, Approved, Daily Wire

Trump Tapped for Nobel Peace Prize After Iran-Israel Ceasefire Win

By Mairead Elordi | Daily Wire President Donald Trump is officially in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize after a Republican congressman formally nominated him on Tuesday. Representative Buddy Carter, a Georgia congressman, wrote to the Norwegian Nobel Committee recommending Trump for the prize “in recognition of his historic role in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Iran and preventing the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet,” he posted on X. On Monday, Trump announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire,” adding that the “12 Day War” should be considered ended. Early the next day, both Iran and Israel accused the other of breaking the ceasefire, and the agreement appeared fragi...
$440/month? Colorado homeowners crushed by soaring insurance bills
CBS Colorado, Approved, State

$440/month? Colorado homeowners crushed by soaring insurance bills

By Sarah Horbacewicz | CBS Colorado Homeowners insurance is getting more expensive, and in a high-risk state for hail and wildfires, some Coloradans are feeling the financial pinch. Rocky Mountain Insurance Association says Colorado ranks second in the nation for hail insurance claims and ranks second for the number of homes in high-risk wildfire areas. Colorado also has the sixth-highest homeowners insurance premiums.  In the 25 years she's lived in Broomfield, Melinda Endres says she's never seen a bill like this June's mortgage. "I thought it was a mistake. I thought, are you kidding?" Endres said, "We get this letter saying that it's going to increase to over $2,000 now, and that's more than $300 a month." So Melinda said she called her broker, and they told her tha...
Energy ‘equity’ exposed: Taxpayer subsidies for wind and solar—oil and gas get zero
Committee to Unleash Prosperity, Approved, National

Energy ‘equity’ exposed: Taxpayer subsidies for wind and solar—oil and gas get zero

Committee to Unleash Prosperity Time to cut the umbilical cord and let the free market determine where we get our energy. According to the Energy Information Administration, per unit of energy produced, oil and gas get zero subsidies (they are net taxpayers), nuclear gets less than $1, wind gets almost $6, and solar gets more than $40. These numbers put the lie to the claim that oil and gas get taxpayer subsidies. This study by EIA was done BEFORE the Biden Administration’s Green New Deal giveaways that added hundreds of billions more gifts to wind and solar and batteries. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COMMITTEE TO UNLEASH PROSPERITY