Nearly five years after “live, active” pipe bombs were discovered at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 6, 2021, a suspect is now in custody.

On Thursday, the DOJ announced that 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, Virginia, has been arrested. Cole lives with his mother and other family members and works in the office of a bail bondsman, according to an FBI affidavit.

‘Today’s arrest happened because the Trump administration has made this case a priority.’

At a press conference alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and others, D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed that Cole was arrested for allegedly transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials.

Citing the ongoing investigation, the officials shared few details about the sequence of events that led to Cole’s arrest, but they insisted that the evidence against Cole was not based on any “new tip,” just old-fashioned detective work.

“This wasn’t a new tip. It wasn’t some new evidence. It was the hard work of President Trump’s administration, Deputy Director Bongino, and Director Patel,” Bondi reiterated.

“Today’s arrest happened because the Trump administration has made this case a priority,” Bondi insisted.

“This is what it’s like when you work for a president who tells you to go get the bad guys and stop focusing on other extraneous things not related to law enforcement,” Bongino added.

Bondi further claimed that under the Biden administration, the evidence was “sitting there, collecting dust.” Such “total lack of movement” during the four years under Biden “undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies,” she said.

Bongino did confirm that “forensic evidence” played a role in the arrest, but did not elaborate further. The officials declined to weigh in on a possible motive.

Patel indicated that Cole is believed to have “made [the] bombs,” and Bondi stated he was charged with “placing” them at the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021.

The officials reiterated that further charges may be forthcoming and that the investigation is still in its early stages.

“We are the most transparent law enforcement operation in U.S. history, but we are also going to make sure accountability is delivered to its fullest extent,” Patel said. “And that happens in the courts of law, with our U.S. attorneys and our prosecutors. So we will divulge information when it is prudent and constitutionally permissible, while upholding the safeguards of this case, to make sure that the people that this individual intended to victimize get the accountability they deserve.”

“He will have his day in court.”

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The FBI affidavit dated Dec. 3 revealed more details about the evidence against Cole. Investigators were able to link materials used in the bombs — including galvanized pipes, end caps, wires, nine-volt battery connectors, and kitchen-style timers — as well as other items that may have been used during the construction process — such as wire nuts, safety glasses, and sandpaper — to purchases made by Cole.

A cell phone connected to Cole also pinged off of multiple cell towers near the RNC and DNC during the time the bombs were believed to have been placed, the affidavit said.

At 7:10 p.m. on January 5, a 2017 Nissan Sentra registered to Cole was likewise observed “less than one-half mile from the location where the individual who placed the devices was first observed on foot … at 7:34 p.m.” The alleged 7:10 p.m. observation of Cole’s vehicle came just five minutes before his cell phone “began to interact with Provider towers in the area,” 44 minutes before the DNC bomb was allegedly placed, and 66 minutes before the RNC bomb was allegedly placed, the affidavit indicated.

Cole’s height and use of eyeglasses also seem to correspond to the suspect spotted on surveillance footage, the affidavit claimed.

A Nov. 8 Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources reported that a gait analysis of a former Capitol Police officer was a forensic match to the gait of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect. Today, the FBI announced that a Virginia resident, Brian Cole Jr., has been arrested in connection with the pipe-bomb incident. At this point, there is no indication that the individual matched through the gait analysis is a suspect or involved in the FBI’s investigation.

An attorney for the Capitol Police officer has since denied the allegations on her behalf, and CBS News reported that the FBI ruled out her involvement, citing three unidentified sources who said there was a video of her playing with her puppies at the time the device was planted.

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The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily approved the redistricting map in Texas for the midterm election over the dissent of the liberal justices.

The 5-3 partisan vote means Republicans will likely gain several seats from Texas. The decision blocks a lower court injunction just as politicians begin to qualify for elections in the state.

‘Congratulations to Texas for advancing the rule of law.’

The court has not yet issued a permanent decision on the lawsuit, claiming that the redistricting effort pushed by Republicans is discriminatory and unlawful.

Republicans hope the redrawn map will lead to five additional seats in the U.S. House, but Democrats have countered with their own redistricting effort, including one in California.

The Trump administration is suing against the new district map in California.

“To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey V. Brown previously wrote in the Texas case. “But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”

U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi praised the decision on social media.

“Federal courts have no right to interfere with a State’s decision to redraw legislative maps for partisan reasons,” she asserted.

“A federal district court ignored that principle two weeks ago, and the Supreme Court correctly stayed that overreaching decision tonight,” she added. “Congratulations to Texas for advancing the rule of law, my Solicitor General John Sauer, and our team of lawyers for their excellent brief supporting Texas in this important case.”

RELATED: Gov. Hochul says New York is jumping into redistricting feud between California and Texas

The redistricting effort in California was championed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who campaigned to push the proposition by characterizing it as a chance for Californians to push back against President Donald Trump.

The president accused them of rigging the election for the redistricting proposition, which passed easily.

“The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” Trump said at the time. “All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review.”

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Most parents assume that when they send their children to college in the South, they’ll be marked safe from transgender ideology rearing its head in their classrooms.

However, it appears that they’ve assumed wrong.

Now a student at the University of Oklahoma has filed a discrimination report against a transgender instructor who failed her for referencing the Bible in an essay response to an article about gender stereotypes.

The student, Samantha Fulnecky, disagreed with the premise of the article but made sure her response worked well within the prompt’s guidelines — using the Bible to argue against the notion that there are multiple genders.

“Apparently the trans instructor didn’t like that very much and gave her a 0 as her grade,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

In her essay, Fulnecky wrote, “I strongly disagree with the idea from the article that encouraging acceptance of diverse gender expressions could improve students’ confidence. Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth.”

“My prayer for the world and specifically for American society and youth is that they would not believe the lies being spread from Satan that make them believe they are better off as another gender than what God made them,” she continued.

“My first reaction is why are you asking the students to write an essay about this in the first place? It seems to me like there are far better things that you could be teaching them rather than having them waste their precious time explaining something like ‘boys have penises and girls have vaginas,’” Gonzales comments.

“But then again, we are dealing with a mentally ill professor,” she continues, noting that when the New York Times covered the story, it conveniently left the part about the professor being transgender out.

“I find that part fascinating,” Gonzales comments.

The professor, who calls himself “Mel Curth,” responds, “I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting points for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive.”

“Additionally to call an entire group of people ‘demonic’ is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population,” he added.

“Seems to me like it’s entirely about her beliefs,” Gonzales comments, adding, “and the fact that she stood up for her, of course, Christian worldview.”

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While more and more revelations are being made about massive fraud schemes orchestrated by members of the Somali migrant community in Minnesota, at least one station is making a valiant effort to cover up the problem.

A KSTP-TV report looked at the economic impact of Somali immigrants in Minnesota after President Donald Trump issued a fiery statement accusing them of adding nothing to the economy.

‘It’s easy to “generate” $500 million in “income” when you steal over [$1 billion] from US taxpayers.’

“They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country, I’ll be honest with you,” he said in response to criticism from Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota on Tuesday.

“These are people that do nothing but complain,” he added. “They complain, and from where they came from, they got nothing. … When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.”

KSTP went to the community and got its reaction to the president’s comments.

“We’re a hardworking family. We’re working seven days a week,” said restaurant owner Abdishakur Elmi, who moved to the U.S. in the 1990s.

“Me and my dad, we work hard every single day,” added his son, Abdihakin Daud.

The report went on to claim that Somalis in Minnesota generate about $500 million in annual income and pay about $67 million in state and local taxes. He added that their economic impact to the state could be about $8 billion.

Many online found the stats to be deceiving or unpersuasive.

“So they only owe, what, $933,000,000.00 for the autism center fraud alone? Excellent propaganda point,” replied Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist.

“It’s easy to ‘generate’ $500 million in ‘income’ when you steal over [$1 billion] from U.S. taxpayers. The media isn’t doing its job here,” another user said.

“As several other people have pointed out, this implies that Somali immigrants in Minnesota are large net recipients of state & local public services,” another comment reads.

“It’s bizarre to see the media and politicians defending this massive Somali fraud ring. These criminals stole over a billion dollars of taxpayer money, diverting much of it to Democrat politicians and literal terrorists. That’s bad actually. Objectively so. Stop defending this!” another detractor said.

RELATED: Trump announces investigation into massive COVID fraud scheme by Somali community, accuses Walz of obstruction

“The whole debacle with the Somali fraud in Minnesota is pushing the media into a frenzy of news spinning to the point that they post information that is actually highly negative for the Somali community when you start analyzing it,” another user said.

A Blaze News request for comment to KSTP was not immediately answered.

Daud also told KSTP that they had received threatening calls at their restaurant.

“The guy was cussing my dad out. ‘Go back to your country. You’re a filthy Somali. You shouldn’t be in our state,'” Daud said.

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The American consumer did not fall for accusations of “fascism” and “racism” against a controversial jeans ad featuring Sydney Sweeney, according to the company’s profit margins.

The American Eagle company raised its annual sales forecast after seeing higher holiday sales, and that resulted in its stock price surging by nearly 15% in early trading Thursday.

American Eagle said it expected holiday sales to increase between 8% and 9%.

That adds up to over a 139% increase in the stock price of the retailer since July when the jeans ad dropped.

Leftist commentators on TikTok and other platforms lambasted the video ad for including provocative scenes with the blonde, blue-eyed actress while she praised the quality of her jeans.

“Should we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this? Probably not. But it’s still really shocking. Like, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman is talking about her good genes. Like, that is Nazi propaganda!” one user said.

“If you haven’t fully comprehended how bad it is, I need you to open your f**king eyeballs and listen. This is Nazi s**t, pure Nazi s**t! Saying that a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl has good genes is Nazi s**t! Saying anybody has good genes is eugenics. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed? Nazi s**t!” another user said.

Many on the right mocked and ridiculed the overreaction, and it appears that the consumer was not repelled by the controversy.

American Eagle said it expected holiday sales to increase between 8% and 9%.

RELATED: American Eagle responds defiantly to woke scolds claiming Sweeney ad is Nazi propaganda

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Even President Donald Trump jumped into the debate and praised the ad after being told that she’s a registered Republican.

“She’s a registered Republican? Oh, now I love her ad. Is that right?” the president said to reporters at the White House in August.

“You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans,” Trump added. “That’s one I wouldn’t have known, but I’m glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.”

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement highlighted the Wednesday arrests of several “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens, including a man who had been accused of operating an unlicensed dental practice, according to a Department of Homeland Security press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.

‘ALL of them WILL be deported, never to return and harm another American AGAIN.’

On Wednesday, federal immigration officials nabbed Jose Alfredo Uzeta, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was previously convicted of dentistry act violation and indecent assault in Harris County, Texas.

A 2023 report by KTRK-TV accused Uzeta of operating an unlicensed practice for two decades. Uzeta previously told a judge that he was seeing approximately eight patients a day. During an appointment for her braces, one patient claimed that Uzeta unhooked her bra, massaged her, and attempted to kiss her. Police uncovered the illegal practice when the patient reported Uzeta’s inappropriate conduct.

“For 20 years, Uzeta preyed on vulnerable Americans, charging for dental procedures he had absolutely no business of performing. Worse, he sexually violated one of his patients who trusted him,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated.

“In addition to this monster, ICE also arrested child predators, murderers, and violent assailants — ALL of them WILL be deported, never to return and harm another American AGAIN,” McLaughlin added.

RELATED: Unruly anti-ICE protesters shut down NOLA city council meeting — police carry out activist

Jose Alfredo Uzeta. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

ICE also arrested Mahmoud Telfah, a criminal illegal alien from Jordan. Earlier this year, Telfah was convicted of two counts, including child solicitation by electronic communication device and meets with a child, as well as attempted sexual exploitation of children by prostitution, according to the New Mexico Department of Justice.

A criminal complaint revealed that Telfah attempted to solicit sexual acts from an undercover Albuquerque Police Department detective whom he believed to be a 15-year-old female.

RELATED: DHS slams Newsom over illegal alien accused in death of 11-year-old boy on Thanksgiving

Mahmoud Telfah. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

The DHS press release highlighted ICE’s recent arrest of Hamidou Diallo, an illegal alien from Mali, who was convicted of murder in New York.

Hamidou Diallo. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Agents also captured Santos Guevara-Carrero, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, convicted of manslaughter in New York.

Santos Guevara-Carrero. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Marcos Leon-Sorto, a criminal illegal alien from Honduras, was arrested by federal agents. Leon-Sorto was convicted of aggravated assault causing significant bodily injury and assault on a peace officer or judge in Texas.

Marcos Leon-Sorto. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

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One of the main reasons Americans flock to shows like “The Liz Wheeler Show” is because Wheeler is someone the average citizen can trust to tell the truth — and it’s something that she’s very proud of. Which is why when other members of the new media on the right appear to betray the trust of the American people, she feels the need to call it out.

“These people, who are ostensibly conservatives, began to post on X very long, flowery defenses of Qatar and the Qatari government that didn’t seem to be quite authentic. It didn’t seem to be quite organic,” Wheeler explains, pointing to Rob Smith as one of those influencers.

“My first trip to Qatar has been eye-opening. This is a very different Middle East than I experienced as a U.S. Army soldier deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom,” Smith began in his post on X.

“I wasn’t aware of a great deal of things about Qatar, only misperceptions and half-truths I’d read about online. When the opportunity was presented to me, with full authority and autonomy to ask the tough questions of the officials I’d be meeting with (and I did), I decided to risk any potential criticism and to travel and experience it for myself,” he continued.

The post went on to praise the Qatari government further, finishing with a posed photo of Smith on a balcony.

“If your reaction after hearing that post or reading that post was anything like mine was, maybe you scratched your head after you read that, because it reads a little bit like a scam email,” Wheeler says.

“I mean, to be perfectly frank, my gut reaction when I read that was, ‘Shouldn’t you register as a foreign lobbyist after writing this post, Rob?’” she adds.

In another post from influencer Emily Wilson, she is posed in a photo on a very similar looking balcony, writing only, “So beautiful can’t wait to come back,” followed by the flag of Qatar.

When Wilson’s post went viral, she responded, “I genuinely can’t believe how clueless some people are. Qatar hosts Formula 1 and people from all over the world fly in for it. Tourists, models, celebrities, fans. It is a massive international destination.”

“And honestly it was amazing to finally feel safe and not be surrounded by homeless crackheads and criminals for once. I could actually relax and enjoy myself. Maybe if you salty losers left your bedrooms and visited a place before obsessively talking about it, you wouldn’t sound so chronically online and jealous,” she added.

“Again it just doesn’t ring quite true. Why all of a sudden are these influencers coming to the defense of Qatar?” Wheeler asks, pointing out that Smith happens to be gay, which is considered a crime in Qatar.

“They write these glowing recommendations of Qatar and yet their own behavior is actually illegal in Qatar. If you look at Qatari law, it’s illegal to evangelize for any other religion besides Islam. You can be put in prison or worse from that. You are not allowed to preach publicly about Christianity or distribute any kind of religious materials,” Wheeler explains.

“You can’t even question the tenants, the teachings of the Islamic religion. That is a criminal offense in Qatar. … Same-sex sexual relations in Qatar are illegal and punishable by imprisonment. If you engage in any kind of gay sex, then you are considered a criminal under the Islamic law in Qatar,” she continues.

“They have a two-tier justice system, a justice system that oppresses regular people and lets off the elites, holds them to an easier standard, which is pretty evident,” she says, adding, “That’s exactly what’s happening here to Rob Smith and to Emily Saves America.”

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