A prestigious art academy in northern Michigan released an independent report that concluded there were 70 incidents of sexual conduct with their students by 47 abusers over many decades.

The harrowing 100-page report from the Interlochen Center for the Arts says one of the abusers was Jeffrey Epstein, who was a donor at the center and was later convicted of pedophilia.

The incidents were described as physical conduct of a sexual nature and involved adults who were given access to students and campers.

The report relied on 180 interviews of alums from the center, which is a boarding school and summer camp. They reported dozens of incidents both at the center and off campus.

Most of the alleged incidents occurred before 2000, and about a third of the accused abusers have since passed away.

The incidents were described as physical conduct of a sexual nature and involved adults who were given access to students and campers.

Two of the alums reported physical conduct of a sexual nature with Epstein. He was a donor to the center from 1990 until 2003 and had attended as a teen.

The center commissioned the investigation two years ago. Only five abusers’ names were released, and they are all dead or previously accused of abuse. The school has provided all of the names to the Grand Traverse County Prosecutor’s Office for review.

Trey Devey, the president of the center, released a statement along with the report.

“The abuse described in the report is heartbreaking and is contrary to everything Interlochen stands for,” he wrote. “We are grateful to everyone who came forward to share their experiences, and we are deeply sorry for the harm experienced by members of our community. We also want to say clearly: Interlochen will not tolerate predators or those who enable them. Our campus exists to protect, educate, and empower every student.”

RELATED: Epstein victims have identified other ‘persons of interest,’ House Oversight Committee chair says

Board chair Barrett Rollins also released a statement.

“Student safety is a bedrock requirement and fundamental responsibility of this institution,” Rollins wrote.

“We recognize that the steps we have taken cannot erase harm that occurred,” he added, “but we hope they demonstrate our commitment to honoring those who came forward and to creating a safer future for all who are part of the Interlochen community.”

A building that was donated to the center by Epstein was demolished in June.

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The woke backlash against WNBA player Sophie Cunningham defending women in sports has seemingly morphed into fury against two teenage girls who held up a sign at a game Tuesday in Seattle, where the Seattle Storm were taking on Cunningham’s Indiana Fever.

The sign read, “Thank you Sophie for speaking up for girls!” and the girls wore shirts from the XX-XY athletics brand that promotes opposition to biological males in women’s sports.

‘We weren’t trying to be political. We were just trying to support Sophie.’

“We were being super respectful. We were just holding our signs and cheering for both teams,” one of the teens said to investigative journalist Brandi Kruse.

The teens said an older lady confronted them, told them that “Jesus loves everyone,” and then called them “f**king insane” while pointing to her head.

“For you to come here and pull this s**t,” she reportedly added.

Kruse posted video on social media of her interview with the girls from outside the Seattle Storm arena. Kruse also identified the culprit as Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton.

“One of them was left in tears,” Kruse said of the girls. “I tried to get security involved and was told I should email the front office.”

One of the teens said she was shocked by the co-owner’s behavior.

“She’s also a woman, and she just kinda cussed out two 16-year-olds that were just trying to have fun. We weren’t trying to be political. We were just trying to support Sophie,” she added.

The team responded to reports of the incident with a statement from majority owner Ginny Gilder.

“We are aware one of our co-owners made comments to two fans in attendance at last night’s game,” the statement reads. “We apologize that this happened. Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect.”

RELATED: Caitlin Clark puts black lesbians at risk of death, USA Today writer suggests — and cites Emmett Till lynching

Kruse asked one of the teens to sum up her takeaway from the incident.

“Maybe we’re not being very hateful, and maybe they should work on being more kind to people, even though our opinions differ,” she said. “Because we were being respectful and kind people, and I don’t care if you think something else. It’s your opinion, but obviously she was not happy.”

Kruse said she would continue to investigate the incident.

“As usual, the people preaching ‘love and inclusion’ prove to be the most hateful bigots of all. I will have much more … and none of the culprits will be spared my fury,” she added.

The Fever beat the Storm, 105-95.

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An apparent lack of trust in NASA combined with some rarely seen photographs from the surface of Mars has fueled a strange conspiracy theory online.

One UFO researcher says there is a secret hiding in plain sight in an old photo from NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover, which he discovered using only the naked eye.

‘These kinds of open fractures are common in bedrock.’

Star war

The Mars rover has been on the red planet for nearly 14 years at this point, compiling a massive database of nearly 775,000 images.

One of those images from February 2022 has recirculated thanks to UFO researcher Scott C. Waring and outlet the Daily Mail. The U.K. website reported on Waring’s claim on Wednesday, which stated that the four-year-old NASA photo showed something citizens weren’t meant to see.

“This is a[n] unexploded missile laying on the surface of Mars just meter[s] from the NASA rover,” Waring wrote about the photo. “This is undeniable proof that there was a huge war on Mars long ago that killed not only the enemy, but most living things on the surface of Mars.”

The bold claim stems via a photo dump from the rover during NASA’s exploration of the Greenheugh Pediment in 2021. At the time, NASA said the rover was taking a look at “far-field rock targets.”

The space agency has not offered an explanation for the image — which appears to simply be a rock formation — but it has indirectly addressed prior claims Waring has made.

RELATED: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket EXPLODES into massive fireball over Florida

Feb. 2022. Image courtesy NASA.gov

‘Intelligent beings’

NASA images of other rock formations on Mars from May 2022 led Waring to say, “What looks like cut boulders is actually clay-type walls and an entrance way made by intelligent beings who needed protection from the elements.”

“We had them on Earth long ago, and they had them on Mars long ago,” he claimed.

However, NASA described the “door-shaped” opening as a naturally occurring fracture. The agency measured the opening at about 12 inches tall and 16 inches wide, “similar in size to a dog door.”

“These kinds of open fractures are common in bedrock, both on Earth and on Mars,” NASA added.

NASA has revealed other Martian theories in recent months, including claims surrounding the evidence of water and possible life.

RELATED: Start your engines! Climate experts now blame rising temperatures on reduced emissions.

Sept. 2026: ‘Formations suggest ancient groundwater flowed.’ Image courtesy NASA.gov

Home truth

In February, the space agency said that “spiderweb” formations suggested “ancient groundwater flowed” on the planet later than scientists had previously expected. This raised new questions about how long microbial life could have survived on Mars, NASA wrote.

To that end, NASA’s Ashwin Vasavada said in April that a newly discovered set of molecules “increases the prospect that Mars offered a home for life in the ancient past.”

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A woman was decapitated after an “intoxicated” boater allegedly drove around 80 miles per hour on a river in Illinois and catapulted over another vessel, authorities told ABC News.

Richard Stevenson, 45, is facing numerous charges — including aggravated DUI and reckless homicide — in connection with the boating accident on the Fox River near McHenry, the news network said, citing court records. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon.

‘It collided with vessel 2, resulting in the decapitation of a female passenger on the second watercraft.’

Stevenson has a history of driving while under the influence, according to court records, and ABC News said a judge on Monday ordered Stevenson held without release, indicating that his pretrial release poses a “real and present threat” to the community’s safety.

“The defendant, while intoxicated, drove his vessel at about 80 mph in a no-wake zone. Even when warned by a passenger, the defendant continued to operate in that manner. The vessel went over the top of another vessel and crashed,” Judge Cynthia Lamb alleged in court documents, citing evidence presented by prosecutors, according to the news network.

“When the defendant’s boat was on top of the victim’s boat, it decapitated one of the passengers of that boat,” Lamb added in documents, ABC News said.

A witness told responding officers that Stevenson’s boat was “at full throttle as it entered in a no-wake. It collided with vessel two, resulting in the decapitation of a female passenger on the second watercraft,” the news network reported, citing a criminal complaint filed Monday.

Court documents indicate that the boat Stevenson allegedly was operating overtook another vessel before he crashed into the timber on the west bank of the river, ABC News added.

RELATED: Family of Ugandan activist decapitated in bizarre accident at national park wins judgment for $10.5 million

Stevenson remained at the scene and soon was taken to a hospital, the news network said, citing court records.

More from ABC News:

A medical draw showed Stevenson had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.2, according to court records. The legal limit in Illinois is 0.08.

Stevenson allegedly told a witness after the accident that he was operating the vessel and that he had been drinking, according to court documents.

Stevenson also has a criminal history, including four misdemeanor speeding charges, most recently in 2023; three reckless driving charges, one with supervision and two with convictions. He also has two convictions for driving while under the influence, according to court records.

Stevenson is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 5, the news network said, citing court records.

ABC News added that an attorney for Stevenson did not immediately respond to its request for comment.

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For years, critics of Anthony Fauci argued that the nation’s top public health official knew more about COVID-19’s origins than he was willing to admit — and now the release of his diary proves they were right.

And Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been all over it.

“Senator Rand Paul has also been very into this. In fact, he took a beating multiple times in hearings where, you know, look, he was just quite clearly right when he was describing things like gain-of-function research,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments.

And both Stu and co-host Dave Landau support Paul in his fight to bring down the man who led Americans astray, as they believe what he did to the country was unforgivable.

“Fauci made it so kids couldn’t socialize for two years, which means he figured out a whole new way to cause autism without even using a vaccine, and then he was forcing vaccines,” Dave says.

“If you were in the Northeast, I mean, your kids didn’t go to school for up to a year and a half,” Stu agrees.

Dave admits that he has “hate for this guy for what he did to this country” that can’t be faked.

“Like, I f**king hate this guy. I’m sorry, I really do. I really think everything he’s done to a beagle should be done to him and on public TV,” he says, referencing the fatal experiments Fauci carried out on Beagles.

“I hate him,” he adds.

And Paul clearly does too.

In a thread on X, he wrote: “My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary. What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.”

On January 26, 2020, Fauci wrote: “Now we know that the market was not the source. It was the amplifier.”

“He believes the wet market is not the source of this and then goes on for as long as I can remember saying up until now that there was natural origin and that’s where it came from,” Stu explains.

“I believe it was called the Wuhan COVID-19 lab,” Dave adds.

“They’re like, ‘No, somebody ate a bat sandwich four doors down.’ And you’re like, ‘Right, but where was it near?’ And they’re like, ‘Well, it’s certainly not near the Fauci-made-this-disease lab,’” he continues.

In another diary entry from February 1, 2020, Fauci admitted that only 2 out of 12 scientists on a call believed the virus was natural.

“The rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible,” he wrote.

“The lab leak theory. That’s what it is,” Stu says.

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Tyquan Johnson stopped breathing when he was born prematurely in 2007 and was dead for 65 minutes before a physician’s prayer miraculously led to the baby regaining a heartbeat, according to the Catholic Church.

Nineteen years later, police are searching for Johnson under an arrest warrant listing felony assault with a firearm and firing in a compact area.

‘If God didn’t want me in this world, He would just let me die on that table. But he wanted to give me a second chance.’

The revival of Johnson as a baby was considered a miracle because the attending physician had invoked the aid of Father Salvador Valera Parra in prayer immediately before Johnson came back to life.

The Catholic Church investigated the incident for years before Pope Leo XIV officially recognized it as a miracle in 2025.

Johnson is being sought over a double shooting in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 19, along with another man who is being sought for questioning.

Police said they found two victims, ages 22 and 25, who had been shot. They were transported to a hospital for treatment of gunshot injuries that were not life-threatening.

Detectives said they believe the shooting was targeted.

Johnson and the other man sought are believed to be armed and dangerous, according to a police Facebook post.

Johnson’s mother told WPRI-TV that she had not talked to him for several days.

RELATED: Pope calls for gun control in US after Texas mass shooting, Chicago Cardinal agrees: ‘The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai’

Johnson was interviewed in 2025 after his revivification was declared a miracle.

“I feel normal. … I can do everything a normal person would do. It definitely has changed my faith a lot because I’m destined to be in this world,” he told WAVY-TV.

“If God didn’t want me in this world, He would just let me die on that table. But he wanted to give me a second chance,” he added.

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The Department of Justice has announced an investigation into noncitizen voting in New Jersey, but the state’s Democratic governor is resisting the probe.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) admitted on July 21 that about 6,600 noncitizens had been mistakenly registered to vote, and of those, about 400 cast votes.

‘NJ has a legal duty to keep ineligible voters off its rolls … DOJ will get this information through all legal means!’

She blamed the wrongful registrations on a “software error,” though the company working with the Motor Vehicle Commission countered that all the information it transmits “must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections.”

The Department of Justice responded by demanding that the governor hand over a list of those voters, but Sherrill has rejected the order.

“Today, I informed [Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon] that New Jersey will not provide the personal information of thousands of New Jersey residents. The request had no legal basis, and I will always protect New Jerseyans’ personally identifiable information,” Sherrill wrote on social media Tuesday.

She posted her letter response, which claimed that the request violated federal laws, including the Privacy Act.

On Wednesday, Dhillon fired back.

“Gov. Sherrill’s refusal to cooperate with federal law enforcement does nothing to protect law-abiding NJ voters,” she responded on social media. “NJ has a legal duty to keep ineligible voters off its rolls, & our request is grounded in that legal authority. DOJ will get this information through all legal means!”

Sherrill had accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the government when asked if she would comply with the demand from the Justice Department.

“As I have said, I am not in the habit of turning over private, identifying information of the citizens of New Jersey,” said the governor to a reporter. “This federal government is weaponizing the government against individuals that disagree with them. They weaponized my private data against me in my election, and so I am working to protect people and their private data here in New Jersey.”

RELATED: ICE drops fiery response to Democratic governor suing to block new detention center

Sherrill previously said the 400 noncitizens who voted were scattered across the state and were a mix of Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated.

She also said they were immediately taken off of the voter rolls as soon as her administration discovered the error, which she claims was made under her predecessor.

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The first major decision at the Federal Reserve under new Chairman Kevin Warsh has come and gone, but little has changed.

On Wednesday, the Fed announced that the interest rate would hold at between 3.5% and 3.75%, despite calls from Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan and others for a “modest” increase.

‘We will deliver price stability.’

The decision was released at 2 p.m. ET, revealing that Warsh and eight other committee members had voted in favor of a fifth straight hold on rates, while three opposed.

Shortly after the announcement, Warsh spoke publicly.

“The economy is showing impressive resilience,” Warsh said. “Even with recent shocks, the trends are positive and reveal solid growth. Job gains have kept pace with the workforce, and the unemployment rate has changed little.”

Warsh also admitted that “inflation remains elevated relative to the committee’s 2% goal,” but promised: “We will deliver price stability.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

RELATED: Jerome Powell is out — for good reason. Here are 4 of his top blunders.

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President Donald Trump has pushed for years for the Fed to lower interest rates. “Interest Rates too high!” he posted on Truth Social back in May.

On Monday, Trump said of Warsh: “Kevin’s fantastic, but he’s got a board, and the board members are very political. He wants to do the right thing. I know what he wants to do. But you need the consent of some people that have perhaps bad intentions. Rates should be lowered.”

Trump nominated Warsh to be Fed chair back in January, and he was confirmed in May. Warsh replaced longtime Chair Jerome Powell, who repeatedly butted heads with Trump over interest rates.

Trump nicknamed Powell “Too Late” and called him a “DISASTER” because of his reluctance to lower interest rates.

“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell wants to stay at the Fed because he can’t get a job anywhere else — Nobody wants him,” Trump wrote in April.

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Days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released more than 1,100 pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era diary, Fauci — a man who apparently had plenty to say in private — had little to say to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

On Wednesday, Fauci walked in and invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times, according to Paul. When Fauci’s attorney tried to jump in out of turn, security dragged him out, the room erupting in applause.

‘All he had to do today was tell the truth … even if he admitted to destroying thousands of records, which we think happened, there’s no penalty attached. It would just be the truth.’

Democrats called it a “scapegoat” exercise and likened it to the McCarthy trials, but Republicans pressed anyway. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) tested Fauci’s newfound silence with trivia — asking Fauci innocuous questions about the day of the week and the color of a tie and some carpet.

Fauci respectfully declined to answer each time, citing the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

However, Hawley shot back: “You don’t have any rights under the Fifth Amendment, because you’ve been pardoned.”

At the center of it all is Fauci’s pardon from President Joe Biden. Some Republicans argue that the pardon is invalid outright, pointing to reports that it was executed by autopen rather than signed by hand.

BlazeTV host Matt Kibbe argued that the plea itself proves the point: “For perhaps the first time in his life, Anthony Fauci didn’t seem to bask in the flood of cameras and public attention. Pleading the Fifth, not allowed under the terms of his pardon, should trigger criminal contempt of Congress charges. And jail time.”

BlazeTV host Steve Deace went farther, arguing the fight isn’t over even if the federal pardon holds: “There has to be consequences after this. … There’s no way that pardon is legitimate. And there has to be grounds for state Republican AGs to go after him even if it is. Because his pardon would not cover state offenses. And tyrannies and frauds were imposed at the state level.”

Deace’s book on Fauci, “Faucian Bargain,” digs into this argument further.

RELATED: Fauci pleads the 5th, Paul removes his lawyer as hearing explodes

Blaze podcast host Daniel Horowitz argued that the GOP is dodging the real story: “While Fauci’s behavior is obviously criminal and contemptible, it is also very revealing how most Republicans are still obfuscating the most important issue. Senator Ron Johnson continues to be the only Republican willing to discuss the dangers of the COVID vaccines and the questions it raises on the entire vaccine industry.”

After the hearing, Paul was asked whether Fauci had any right to plead the Fifth at all.

He said it’s likely headed to court: “This has probably never been tested legally. … With the grant of immunity, do you still need Fifth Amendment protections, or do they apply?”

He argued that Fauci risked nothing by simply telling the truth: “All he had to do today was tell the truth. … Even if he admitted to destroying thousands of records, which we think happened, there’s no penalty attached. It would just be the truth.”

RELATED: Puppy love: Diary exposes Fauci’s crush on Julia Roberts

On next steps, Paul confirmed that the contempt vote is moving forward, though prosecution isn’t up to him: “All I can do is recommend prosecution. I can’t initiate a prosecution.”

He closed by pointing to public sentiment: “I do know that a great number of the population feels that Anthony Fauci was dishonest because of what he was saying in private was different, or the opposite.”

Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, framed it as an inescapable trap: “He either has that Biden pardon, and he’s not subject to criminal liability for truthfully testifying today, and he refused — he pled the Fifth, illegally. Therefore, Rand Paul should hold him in contempt of Congress. … Alternatively, if he didn’t take that pardon from Biden, he should face charges for his crimes against humanity.”

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A viral nightclub video featuring WNBA star Paige Bueckers during the league’s All-Star weekend has just reignited fan’s love for Caitlin Clark — believing she is the only one who embodies what the “face of the league” means.

In the video, Bueckers’ appears to be dancing and stripping down to her bra alongside other players, including Seattle Storm guard Natisha Hiedeman.

“Could you make Paige Bueckers the face of your league if this is the way she’s allowing herself to be documented out?” Whitlock asks.

“The big story this weekend was Caitlin Clark skipped the red carpet, Cailtin Clark wasn’t at this or that. And this is why, because she doesn’t want to put herself in the stud buds videos that go on at night,” he explains.

“Because she actually does want to be the face of the league and takes that responsibility off court very seriously. But no one else could be the face of the league because it’s a bunch of clowns for the most part,” he adds.

Steve Kim points out that her detractors will likely call Clark out for “white nationalism” and “white supremacy” because she believes in “working hard.”

“But this is the problem though, and we have to be blunt about this … sports mirrors society, and society mirrors sports,” he continues.

“These older women are the role models to the younger generation. That’s at least a theory, right?” he asks.

And Whitlock doesn’t believe they should be any woman’s role model — explaining that he thinks they’re impersonating men — and failing miserably.

Whitlock believes the women of the WNBA are attempting to impersonate men, but failing miserably.

“They’re trying to do a bad man impersonation. And that’s what Paige Bueckers is doing inside the nightclub, doing a bad man impersonation, and it just looks foolish,” he says.

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An immigrant-led nonprofit is preparing to slap New York City with a lawsuit now that democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled plans for city-run grocery stores to sell products at 30% below market rates, the New York Post reported.

The board of the Multicultural Business Coalition voted to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks to block the initiative after Mamdani announced on Monday that fresh produce, meat, seafood, and “20 other essential items like cheese, milk, and bread” would be sold at a steep discount relative to privately owned stores — with “no exceptions.”

‘The mayor doesn’t seem to want to sit down with us.’

A letter notifying the mayor’s office of the coalition’s intent to pursue legal action is expected to be sent in the coming days, the Post reported. Frank Garcia, the group’s chairman, said the challenge “should be a non-partisan initiative.”

“The mayor doesn’t seem to want to sit down with us,” Garcia told the Post, warning that Mamdani “won’t be able to bully these lawyers.”

Founded earlier this year, the MBC represents roughly 65 organizations of business owners and merchants across the New York-New Jersey region, including Hispanic, Asian, Caribbean, African, Middle Eastern, Jewish, and South Asian-owned businesses.

However, the coalition is not alone in the fight against Soviet-style grocery stores in the Big Apple. Several other groups representing grocery store owners have spoken out against Mamdani’s plans, fearing that their bottom line could be jeopardized by city-run markets.

Radhames Rodriguez, president of the United Bodegas of America, told the Post that “having items that sell for 30% less than our prices means nobody will go to our stores.”

RELATED: Socialist Mamdani says city-run grocery stores will undercut supermarkets by 30%

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Grocery executive John Catsimatidis, the owner of Gristedes and D’Agostino Supermarkets, has also bashed the proposal. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Catsimatidis argued that the mayor’s program “would collapse our food supply, kill private industry, and drag us down a path toward the bread lines of the old Soviet Union.”

To address concerns that the initiative could undercut privately owned stores in neighboring areas, Mamdani said the city-run grocery stores would not sell cigarettes, alcohol, lottery tickets, or hot food — items that typically generate some of the highest profit margins for bodegas and convenience stores.

“We know that a lot of what drives revenue for these bodegas, grocery stores, those are things that make it possible for them to continue to operate. Those are not things we have any interest in competing for,” Mamdani said.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement just snagged another batch of career criminals.

The Department of Homeland Security announced another round of arrests, including child molesters, rapists, and drug dealers, on Tuesday. The illegal aliens were apprehended in targeted arrests across the country.

‘ICE is detaining and removing illegal aliens every single day.’

The DHS’ Worst of the Worst program highlights particularly egregious criminal illegal aliens apprehended by federal authorities.

“Just yesterday, ICE arrested child molesters, rapists, domestic assailants, and other worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Blaze News Wednesday. “While sanctuary politicians continue to release dangerous criminals onto their streets, our brave law enforcement will continue to risk their lives to arrest these heinous criminals and make America safe again.”

Salvadoran alien Noe Rios-Hernandez was previously convicted of two counts of child molestation, three counts of illegal re-entry, and assault. She was apprehended by federal authorities in Johnson County, Iowa.

Her compatriot Maria Guadalupe Hernandez-Rodriguez was caught in Montgomery County, Maryland, and previously served time for possession of narcotics with intent to distribute.

Honduran alien and convicted rapist Erlin Molina-Ramos was also apprehended in Goshen, New York.

RELATED: Man accused of horrific sex crime tries — and FAILS — to squeak by CBP

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In Texas, ICE arrested Jose De La Luz Garcia-Pizarro, a Mexican national convicted of family violence and felony trespassing.

Cuban illegal migrant Abel Alejandro Perez-Beltran was detained in Lee County, Florida, and had a previous conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, ICE is detaining and removing illegal aliens every single day,” Bis told Blaze News.

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The Democratic National Committee is circling the drain.

Unlike the Republican National Committee, which had no debt and $128.53 million in cash on hand at the end of last month, the DNC under the leadership of Chairman Ken Martin had only $16.3 million on hand and was over $18.5 million in debt.

‘The result of fraudulent activity by an external third party.’

According to the New York Times, the Democratic Party is so desperate, it has begun asking vendors to put off sending invoices until after the midterm elections.

In its desperation, the DNC had to post something near and dear as collateral in order to secure a $15 million loan from Amalgamated Bank in October — a loan that was reportedly timed to enable seven-figure financial transfers to then-gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey.

NOTUS, citing D.C. deed records, highlighted that the DNC actually put up its physical headquarters at 430 South Capitol Street in Southeast D.C. as a security — but did not explicitly note the building’s use as assurance in the relevant FEC filings.

This evidently prickled those elements within the DNC that have turned on the DNC chairman, who was described last year by party officials as “weak and whiny.”

“Ken gaslighting us about the DNC’s finances and not being transparent about the financial situation makes us doubt if he can oversee the DNC during the most important primary of our lifetime,” one DNC member said, according to NOTUS.

A DNC official said in a statement obtained by NOTUS, “This is not new. The loan documents were publicly released in November, and the DNC’s building was also used as collateral in our prior lines of credit in 2019, 2018, 2014, and many other years.”

RELATED: ‘He’s been lying to voters’: Paxton BEATS DOWN Talarico over alleged election fraud

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Martin tried to paint lipstick on this donkey in a July 20 blog post, stating, “So why does the DNC have less cash on hand than some expect? Because we made a conscious decision to invest money in the work required to win in 2025, 2026, and beyond. We are converting the cash we raise into electoral assets: more people, earlier organizing, better technology, and stronger state parties.”

“A larger bank account does not knock on a door, register a voter, recruit a candidate, or protect the vote,” Martin wrote. “We have chosen to build. We are replacing a boom-and-bust campaign model with permanent political infrastructure. We are not choosing between winning now and building for the future. Our investments are designed to do both.”

Despite his practiced ability to cast failure in a positive light, Martin, who took over the DNC in February 2025 and whose term is supposed to end in 2029, is fast running out of friends and beginning to crack under the pressure.

Multiple sources described to the New York Times an incident earlier this month where Martin, “in a pique of frustration,” allegedly threw his phone at the desk of a junior aide while reprimanding the individual. Martin and the DNC declined the Times’ invitation to comment on the matter.

Around the DNC headquarters, which has been staked as collateral, Martin has allegedly been making dark jokes about his ouster and expressing concerns about leaks and a potential mutiny.

“Ken needs help — H-E-L-P,” former acting DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile told the Times. “And if he’s reluctant to say it, I’m here to help him ask. It’s hard. It’s very difficult.”

Some Democrats are publicly calling for Martin to throw in the towel.

California Rep. Sam Liccardo (D), for instance, tweeted on Sunday, “Ken Martin must resign. As Democrats, we have become too captured by failing strategies. We must fail forward, and pivot. The urgency of this moment will not reward — and our children will not forgive — torpidity.”

The DNC’s humiliation was compounded further this week by the revelation that besides the $75,000 or more the organization is paying in interest on the $15 million October loan, it was scammed out of nearly $29,000 last year, reportedly by an email scammer pretending to be Martin.

A senior FEC campaign finance and reviewing analyst issued a request to the DNC on July 8, 2025, for information pertaining to a “misdisbursement” totaling $28,860.92 referenced in a monthly report that “appears to be related to an apparent unauthorized disbursement of Committee funds.”

The DNC said in response that the “identified transaction was the result of fraudulent activity by an external third party.”

A committee staffer received a fraudulent email from an unknown individual claiming to be Martin in February 2025 — just days after Martin became chairman — and made a hefty payment to the fraudster, NOTUS reported.

The DNC promptly reported the transaction to its bank, Wells Fargo, but was reportedly able to recover only $7,000 of the cash. The staffer is no longer with the DNC, according to NOTUS.

“This was a one-off mistake that was promptly caught and addressed, and no similar issues have occurred since,” DNC spokeswoman Mia Ehrenberg said.

In addition to throwing away money it can’t afford to lose, the DNC is grappling with the party’s historic unpopularity.

According to an Economist/YouGov poll conducted last month, 54% of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party. Among those over 29, the numbers are even worse for the party.

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