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Incoming Trump ‘border czar’ has a message for Aurora chief of police after arrest of suspected gang members
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Incoming Trump ‘border czar’ has a message for Aurora chief of police after arrest of suspected gang members

By Ashley Carnahan  | Fox News Incoming Trump "border czar" Tom Homan called on the Aurora chief of police to hand suspected Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents so they can be removed from the country. The Aurora Police Department arrested 14 suspected TdA gang members in a home invasion Tuesday at an apartment complex that was at the center of a viral video over the summer. Aurora Police Department Chief Todd Chamberlain provided an update on the arrests at The Edge at Lowry Apartments, saying the incident was "without question a gang incident." READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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Garbo: The alarming normalization of murder in Brian Thompson’s death
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Garbo: The alarming normalization of murder in Brian Thompson’s death

By C. J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice A recent poll revealing that 41% of young voters find the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson acceptable is deeply troubling. This statistic underscores a dangerous shift in societal values, one that signals a disregard for the sanctity of life and a fundamental misunderstanding of justice. Such attitudes are symptomatic of a society in moral decay, where divisive rhetoric and a growing disillusionment with institutions have fostered a warped perception of right and wrong. Political polarization and incendiary rhetoric have created an environment where individuals increasingly see themselves as arbiters of justice. When leaders frame opposition as not just wrong but inherently evil, it legitimizes extreme ...
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This university wants to use AI to boost China’s military — OpenAI keeps hiring its graduates
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This university wants to use AI to boost China’s military — OpenAI keeps hiring its graduates

By Robert Schmad | Washington Examiner In 2018, a prestigious Chinese university announced to the world that it intended to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster China’s military. Since then, America’s top AI company has hired dozens of its graduates. Tsinghua University has gone all in on pursuing AI research and development for China’s People’s Liberation Army. You Zheng, one of the university’s vice presidents, went as far as to declare the institution’s enthusiastic involvement in the Chinese Communist Party’s “military-civil fusion” strategy.  “In accordance with the central government’s requirements, Tsinghua University has closely integrated the national strategy of military-civilian integration with the strategy of building a strong c...
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Schumann: Socialist seeds in conservative soil? The new battle for Western Colorado’s identity
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Schumann: Socialist seeds in conservative soil? The new battle for Western Colorado’s identity

By Jen Schumann | Contributing Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Beneath the wide-open skies of Western Colorado, a clash of ideologies is quietly unfolding that could shake the foundations of its conservative stronghold.  In towns like Grand Junction and Fruita, socialist ideology is finding fertile ground in the form of The Revolutionist, a grassroots publication distributed across 20 locations — from coffee shops to counseling offices and specialty smoking accessory stores.  This shift raises questions about whether the region’s core principles of free-market capitalism, individual liberty and the rule of law will remain intact, or if they’ll erode under the growing influence of socialist activism. The revival of The Revolutionist draws a direct line to the early 20...
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‘Something is seriously wrong, and we’re going to try and fix it,’ APD Chief Chamberlain says in vision for future
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‘Something is seriously wrong, and we’re going to try and fix it,’ APD Chief Chamberlain says in vision for future

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice It was a long night for Todd Chamberlain and the Aurora Police Department. Oft the subject of news reports during the last year, The Edge at Lowry apartments were yet again the location of overnight police activity Tuesday, Dec. 17. This time, more than a dozen suspected Venezuelan gang members were arrested there in a home invasion. Two victims are hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries. Police are continuing to work toward identifying the suspects in custody, with their leader saying he wouldn't sleep until they did. "This is not an example that the city of Aurora is a gang-infested, drug-infested, crime-infested area," said Chamberlain, Aurora's new police chief. "There are definitely pockets that are problematic." He spent clo...
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Grand jury indicts Luigi Mangione, 26, the suspected assassin of CEO Brian Thompson, on ‘act of terrorism’
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Grand jury indicts Luigi Mangione, 26, the suspected assassin of CEO Brian Thompson, on ‘act of terrorism’

By James Lynch | National Review A New York grand jury has indicted the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on charges of murder as an “act of terrorism” for the cold-blooded killing, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D) announced Tuesday. The grand jury charged 26-year-old Luigi Mangione with first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism and two counts of second-degree murder, including one count for killing in the act of terrorism. Mangione is also facing an assortment of weapon possession charges and one count of carrying a forged document for the point-blank assassination of Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel earlier this month. “We allege that Luigi Mangione carried out the brazen, targeted and fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Bria...
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Aurora picks Amsalu Kassaw to vacated at-large City Council seat
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Aurora picks Amsalu Kassaw to vacated at-large City Council seat

By Kyla Pearce | Colorado Politics via the Denver Gazette Aurora's councilmembers on Monday night picked a leader of the Ethiopian community for the council's at-large seat. The council split, 6-4, in appointing Amsalu Kassaw to the seat. The discussion at times delved into issues of race. Kassaw is the public relations director of the Ethiopian American Civic Council. He is also a lieutenant at GEO Group Inc.'s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Aurora, according to his application for the seat. Mayor Mike Coffman has worked with Kassaw when he served on his congressional advisory committee. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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‘Bound, pistol-whipped, beat, victimized and terrorized’: Aurora PD chief describes home invasion
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‘Bound, pistol-whipped, beat, victimized and terrorized’: Aurora PD chief describes home invasion

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice More than a dozen persons were arrested overnight related to an armed home invasion in the 1200 block of Dallas St. in Aurora. "This is without question a gang incident," said Police Chief Todd Chamberlain. "It could be [Tren de Aragua], it could be [a gang] other than TdA. This is gang activity and there are Venezuelans involved." At about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, Aurora police responded to The Edge at Lowry Apartments related to the home invasion which began about six hours earlier with an estimated "13-15 armed individuals" holding two victims who were "bound, pistol-whipped, beat, victimized and terrorized," Chamberlain said. One victim was stabbed and both were kidnapped, being relocated from one place in the apartment complex to a...
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Three Russia hoax bombshells hidden in IG report on DOJ surveillance of Congress
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Three Russia hoax bombshells hidden in IG report on DOJ surveillance of Congress

By Mollie Hemingway | The Federalist These revelations show why the DOJ needs massive reform in the next administration. Last week the Department of Justice’s inspector general  released a report on some of the DOJ’s tracking of communications from media and congressional figures as part of its purported investigation into who was leaking classified information against President Donald Trump in 2017. Three significant bombshells about the Russia collusion hoax were hidden inside the dense and dry 100-page report. For context, when Trump won the 2016 presidential election, anonymous Democrat operatives in the federal government and Congress began leaking like sieves as part of a coordinated effort to paint Trump as a mastermind spy who had worked with Russian President Vladimir Put...
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Trump meets with TikTok CEO at Mar-a-Lago as ban on app looms
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Trump meets with TikTok CEO at Mar-a-Lago as ban on app looms

By David Krayden | The Post Millennial TikTok CEO Shou Chew met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, a person familiar with the meeting told CNN, as the company seeks the intervention of the Supreme Court in its battle with the federal government. On Dec. 6 the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the federal government’s ban on TikTok over concerns with national security. To avoid the ban of the app, Chinese company ByteDance is required to divest from the social media platform. The Trump-Chew meeting is reportedly the first time the two have talked in person since Trump won the presidency on Nov. 5. Chew has reportedly been hoping to land some time with the President-elect, who has been meeting with other big tech executives at Mat-a-Lago. ...
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