Day: April 8, 2026

American-Born Pope Leo May Not Visit U.S. While Trump Is President After Diplomat Meeting Disaster: Report

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The Independent   Pope Leo XIV may not return to the U.S. while President Donald Trump remains in office, according to a report citing a contentious meeting between a Catholic official and the Pentagon. The Pope, an American, has been vocal in his criticism of Trump’s policies, particularly when it comes to immigration and war. The Catholic leader has condemned the war in Iran and said that the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants has been “extremely disrespectful.” On Monday, The Free Press reported that in the wake of the Pope’s annual address to the Vatican’s diplomatic corps in January, in which he criticized states seeking conflict around the globe, the Department of Defense invited Cardinal Christophe Pierre for a meeting. At the time, Pierre was serving as Pope Leo’s personal envoy to the United States. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Pakistani Illegal Alien Truck Driver Accused of Killing Maryland Father in Crash

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Breitbart   An illegal alien semi-truck driver is accused of killing Hendry Tamarez Nunez, a father of two and Maryland resident, in a highway crash in Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, the United States and Citizenship Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the arrest of Dawood Hussain, an illegal alien from Pakistan who was previously given a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) to drive a semi-truck on American highways. In October 2023, Hussain was driving a semi-truck in Pennsylvania when he allegedly began driving the wrong way on a highway, hitting Nunez, who died as a result of the crash. Hussain was subsequently charged with felony vehicular homicide. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Pappert: Award-Winning Tennessee Star Reporting Undercuts Abrego Garcia’s Vindictive Prosecution Claim

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, argued that newly confirmed facts in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia undermine the defense’s central claim of vindictive prosecution.

“This fact flies in the face of that narrative because it suggests this case was completely organic and again, came through the media and public reporting,” Pappert said during Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, pointing to federal filings that acknowledge investigators first learned of the case through reporting by The Star.

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White House Warns Iran to Keep Strait of Hormuz Open, Claims Reports of Closure ‘Unacceptable’

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Trump Israel

The White House warned Iran Wednesday to keep the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf open amid reports that it is closing the strait over Israeli military action in Lebanon.

The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire Tuesday night but Iran claimed Wednesday that the U.S. must rein in Israel and end the fighting in Lebanon if it wants to maintain the ceasefire.

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Lawyers for Colombian Journalist Arrested in Nashville Claim She Remains in ‘Custody’ After Bond Release, Cite Retention of Driver’s License

Tom Pappert
Estefany Rodriguez Flores

Attorneys representing Estefany Rodriguez Flores, the Colombian journalist arrested in Nashville last month after allegedly overstaying a tourist visa and missing two appointments with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), on Tuesday argued their client technically remains in federal custody, citing a filing acknowledging her driver’s license may be temporarily in the custody of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Filed in her habeas corpus lawsuit over her detention by ICE, the attorneys made their argument in a reply submitted after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a declaration by an ICE, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) employee, who confirmed communicating with Rodriguez Flores’ legal representatives about the status of her personal documents, including a driver’s license. 

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Obama-Appointed Judge Sets Hearing Date that Could Block DOJ from Appealing Earlier Kilmar Abrego Garcia Ruling

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia

U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis issued a scheduling order on Tuesday, announcing that the court will spend the remainder of April preparing for an April 28 briefing on whether to dissolve its injunction blocking the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The Obama-appointed judge specifically repudiated the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its request for her to announce a decision by April 17, which is one day before the 60-day period to appeal her February order blocking the Trump administration from rearresting the citizen of El Salvador. 

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Immigration Statistics Tracker Swapped Detainees’ Criminal Record for Convictions

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The nation’s main independent database for tracking deportation statistics and which is widely cited by media outlets and fact-checkers appears to have recently shifted from tracking detainees with a “criminal record” to “criminal convictions.” 

This new classification, which was also adopted by another standard immigration tracking database, provides figures widely cited by media and fact-checkers to suggest the Trump administration is detaining large numbers of illegal immigrants not suspected of breaking additional laws.

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Xi Jinping Carries Out Record-Breaking Punishments inside CCP amid Purge of Generals: Taiwan Intel

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China’s strongman leader Xi Jinping carried out a record number of disciplinary actions against Chinese Communist Party members and government officials, a Taiwanese intelligence agency assessed, as Xi conducted a massive purge of People’s Liberation Army leaders ahead of a 2027 deadline to be ready to invade Taiwan.

The Taiwan government’s National Security Bureau reportedly assessed that the CCP had punished nearly one million CCP members and People’s Republic of China officials during 2025, a new report found, which seems to dovetail with Xi’s removal of a host of high-ranking Chinese military brass as he prepares the PLA for war and increases his already iron-like grip on power in the country.

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Tennessee Committee Passes Bill on Biomarker Test Coverage

Zachery Schmidt
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The Tennessee Senate Commerce and Labor Committee passed a bill this week that would require TennCare and public employee group insurance plans to cover a medical test used to assist with diagnosing diseases.

State senators approved Senate Bill (SB) 0435 by a vote of 8 to 1, requiring these entities to cover biomarker testing when ordered by a healthcare provider. The bill proposal now goes to the Senate floor for deliberation.

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Bondi Won’t Appear Before Oversight Panel in Epstein Probe

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Pam Bondi

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear before the House Oversight Committee on April 14 to address the Epstein files, the panel confirmed on Wednesday.

The Republican-led panel subpoenaed Bondi to testify last month amid scrutiny of the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein files and their release. Trump removed Bondi from her post earlier this month and Todd Blanche has taken over in an acting capacity.

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Wisconsin Town Becomes First in Nation to Approve Referendum Against Data Centers

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Voters in a Wisconsin city of 12,000 overwhelmingly backed a novel ballot measure on Tuesday to crack down against artificial intelligence data centers, similar to the massive facility planned for construction with President Donald Trump’s backing.

Port Washington, Wisconsin, voters approved the first-in-the-nation referendum proposed in response to the city’s planned $15 billion OpenAI-Oracle-Vantage data center campus by about a two-to-one margin, with 66% voting “yes,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. While the measure does not stop the construction of the Trump-backed center first announced in October 2025, it adds a requirement for the public to approve hefty tax incentives for developers involved in future multi-million or billion-dollar projects in the area.

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Vance, Witkoff, Kushner to Lead Iran Negotiations: White House

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Trump and Staff

Vice President JD Vance will lead the U.S. delegation to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran over the weekend, the White House confirmed on Wednesday.

“I can announce that [the president] is dispatching his negotiating team, led by the vice president of the United States, JD Vance, Special Envoy Witkoff, and Mr. [Jared] Kushner to Islamabad for talks this weekend,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.

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Mamdani to Prioritize City Resources for ‘Black and Brown’ People

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Zohran Mamdani

Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a “racial equity plan” on Monday, which an assistant U.S. attorney general immediately suggested may be illegal and would be reviewed.

The avowed socialist mayor unveiled his Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan and True Cost of Living Measure during a Monday morning press conference, where he argued the proposed framework will develop a “whole of government approach” to even the playing field for “black and brown New Yorkers.” Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon wrote shortly after that the Big Apple mayor’s newest policy proposal sounds “fishy” and “illegal.”

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Commentary: The Left Is Baffled and Still Repulsed by the White Working Class

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After failing to win Congress and the presidency in 2024, the Democrats conducted an internal postmortem of what went wrong. While they predictably did not divulge the full results, everyone knew what they had found.

Their obsessions with the low side of 30/70 issues had especially alienated Democrats from white middle- and working-class voters. Yet middle-class whites still comprise about 40–50 percent of the population and are perhaps overrepresented in voter turnout.

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