The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) schooled CNN anchors, who appeared genuinely confused and shocked after they gave anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil numerous chances to say he condemned Hamas, and he refused.

During a CNN segment on Tuesday, Pamela Brown and Wolf Blitzer asked the former Columbia University protester, who was detained by ICE in early March before being released by a federal judge, if he condemned the terrorist group after President Donald Trump’s administration accused him of being a terrorist sympathizer.

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“Just to be clear here though, do you specifically condemn Hamas, a designated terrorist organization in the United States, not just for their actions on October 7?” Brown asked.

“I condemn the killing of all Pal-, of all civilians, full stop,” Khalil replied. “And, but what I don’t want to get into is-“

The anchor interjected and tried once again to help Khalil out and asked him, “But do you condemn Hamas, specifically?”

“No, I am very clear with condemning all civilians. I’m very straight in my position in that part,” Khalil insisted. “But it’s disingenuous to ask about condemning Hamas while Palestinians are the ones being starved now by Israel. It’s not condemning October 6, where 260 Palestinians were killed by Israel before October 7.”

“So I hate this selective outrage of condemnation because this is not, this wouldn’t lead to a constructive conversation,” he added. “And this is also, like what we want to deal with is the root causes of why that happened. And it’s no way anyone can justify the killing of civilians.”

Third time’s the charm! Brown hits him once more:

BROWN: Just to be clear, Mahmoud, we did ask about-, you know, we’ve talked at length about your views, of course, on the Palestinians. But it is fair to ask you about whether you condemn Hamas because the Trump administration has claimed that you are a Hamas sympathizer. So it’s very important to actually ask that question in this broad conversation.

And to no one’s surprise, he ignored the question and deflected, stating that he “simply asked and protested the war in Palestine … That’s why I wouldn’t really engage much into such questions on condemnation or not. Because selective condemnations is not, wouldn’t get us anywhere. It’s just like a hypocrite, to be honest.”

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The DHS responded to the clip and said Khalil has not been “painted” as a Hamas sympathizer; he is one, and not condemning the terrorist group is just more proof.

“Mahmoud Khalil refuses to condemn Hamas because he IS a terrorist sympathizer not because DHS ‘painted’ him as one,” the Department wrote on X. “He ‘branded’ himself as an antisemite through his own hateful behavior and rhetoric.”

“It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America,” the post added. “The Trump Administration acted well within its statutory and constitutional authority to detain Khalil, as it does with any alien who advocates for violence, glorifies and supports terrorists, harasses Jews, and damages property.”

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Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard revealed that the Trump administration had released more than 200,000 files regarding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In a post on X, Gabbard revealed that included in the 230,000 MLK assassination files were documents that included details regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) “investigation into the assassination of MLK,” as well as “internal FBI memos detailing the progress of the case,” along with other information.

“Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files, available now at archives.gov/mlk,” Gabbard said. “The documents include details about the FBI’s investigation into the assassination of MLK, discussion of potential leads, internal FBI memos detailing the progress of the case, information about James Earl Ray’s former cellmate who stated he discussed with Ray an alleged assassination plot, and more.”

Gabbard continued to praise President Donald Trump Executive Order 14176, which declassified records regarding the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., former President John F. Kennedy, and his brother Robert F. Kennedy.

In her post, Gabbard noted that thanks to Trump’s leadership, “Executive Order 14176 resulted in three, unprecedented interagency efforts to identify, digitize, declassify and release files related to the federal government’s investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. King.”

“I am grateful to President Trump and DNI Gabbard for delivering on their pledge of transparency in the release of these documents on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr,” Dr. Alveda King said in a statement. “My uncle lived boldly in pursuit of truth and justice, and his enduring legacy of faith continues to inspire Americans to this day.”

Breitbart News previously reported that Dr. King’s family responded to the news that Trump had issued an executive order declassifying the records relating to Dr. King’s assassination by requesting that they have the “opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.”

The divide in the Democratic Party further widened this week when Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) publicly said that New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “isn’t speaking for our party.”

As Breitbart News previously chronicled, Zohran Mamdani holds extremely far-left positions, most specifically on private property and Israel, with some questionable views on the Jewish state. Since coming within striking distance of becoming the mayor of New York City, moderate Democrats have been sounding the alarm. Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Rep. Adam Smith attempted to distance Mamdani from the rest of the party.

“Look, the mayor of New York has never, never, ever been the leader of the Democratic Party,” Smith said when asked about Mamdani.

Smith then played off Mamdani’s prominence as being the result of the Democrats’ “Big Tent” platform.

“Mamdani isn’t speaking for our party, any more than I’m speaking for our party. It’s a big tent. It’s a big coalition,” he said before attacking President Donald Trump on his “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

“He says he has secured the border. He’s spending all this money now on going around and terrorizing communities with high-profile ICE raids, which are not effective, which has turned people against him on immigration,” Smith said.

Smith encouraged Democrats to stay on message and not consider Mamdani the leader of their party.

“We, Democrats, have a message, and we have a message to deliver. And I’ll tell you this. The mayor of New York, no matter who he is, is not going to be the leader of our party. And we still need to stay focused on those issues,” he said.

Jewish Democrats also denounced Mamdani for refusing to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” while refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

“To not be willing to condemn the term ‘globalize the intifada,’ it just demonstrates his callous disregard for antisemitism, terrorist activity,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).

“Anyone that I care about couldn’t possibly distance themselves from him more,” Wasserman Schultz added. “It’s really terribly disturbing and potentially dangerous.”

Fellow Jewish Democrat lawmaker Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) said Mamdani is “either ignoring or gaslighting the public” when he said “globalize the intifada” is “a peaceful call.”

“I think he’s wrong on all those things,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL). “If he can’t tell people ‘globalizing the intifada’ — if he can’t say that that’s antisemitic, then obviously he’s going to continue to add to the problem, not deflate it.”

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The more that comes to light about the wastefulness and incompetence of the Biden administration – a fish that really did rot from the head – the more we should be glad to see that administration in the nation’s rearview mirror. In the latest example of wastefulness that should have any sensible person’s eyes rolling like the reels on a slot machine, we learn on Monday that the Biden administration’s Transportation Secretary, “Pothole Pete” Buttigieg, wasted tens of billions on, you guessed it, “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” schemes.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg failed to replace outdated air traffic control systems while in office — with his agency instead shelling out tens of billions of dollars on a DEI agenda, according to federal spending records and airline industry insiders.

Honestly, though, is anyone surprised? The Biden administration, now thankfully defunct, was notorious for this kind of horse squeeze. And aside from pushing the DEI stuff, “Pothole Pete” seemed to have very little idea what his job was. But that’s no surprise; he had very little idea what his job was as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, either.

In one meeting, Buttigieg — who is said to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run — told industry executives that air traffic control upgrades would just allow them to fly more planes, “and so why would that be in his interest?,” sources said.

What his department was really interested in was handing out hundreds of diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling more than $80 billion over four years — at least half of the DOT’s entire budget for a typical fiscal year, records show.

“He was definitely pushing an agenda,” an air industry official said, noting the transportation secretary had “little to no interest” and took “definitely zero action” toward air traffic control modernization.

Buttigieg spent his time in President Joe Biden’s cabinet blaming the airlines for their delays and “vilifying” the industry as a whole while denying his department’s DEI agenda led to any air traffic control staffing shortages or was maintaining an ailing safety system that hasn’t been updated since the Carter administration, sources told The Post.

Another sign of incompetence: Blaming anyone but yourself for the failures of a system you’re supposed to be managing.

Fortunately, his replacement is far more competent.

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The Biden administration dropped many more billions down DEI ratholes than just this, and for what? What value have any of these programs added to any function of government at any level – and more to the point, how many solid, competent people have been screened out and a job given to less solid, less competent people, in order to tick off a “diversity” box?

But Democrats still seem to like Pothole Pete:

As of last month, an Emerson College poll of registered voters found the former transportation secretary leading the 2028 Democratic presidential primary field with 16% support, followed by ex-Vice President Kamala Harris at 13%.

To national Democrats, I will only say this: Please run this guy for president in 2028. Or ever. Please. Please, please, please. It would be worth it, just to see him in one debate, just one, with someone like JD Vance or Ron DeSantis.

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Did the Trump administration arrest and deport an 82-year-old Chilean legal immigrant in poor health to Guatemala? That was the stunning claim that appeared on Friday as several different press outlets repeated a report from The Morning Call, a local newspaper based in Allentown, PA. 

According to family members, who are the entirety of the sourcing on this, Luis Leon and his wife were allegedly arrested by ICE while the former was trying to replace his green card. Both were taken to a detention facility “without explanation.” After 10 hours, the wife was released, but Leon, who gained asylum in 1987, was kept in custody. That’s where the first oddity in this story emerges. Family members talking to the press first claimed he had died in custody. Now, though, they are saying he is at a hospital in Guatemala. 

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Relatives of 82-year-old Allentown resident Luis Leon are headed to a Guatemalan hospital Saturday in hopes of reuniting with the man they say disappeared without a trace into the American immigration system a month ago — and who, for a time, they thought was dead.

The last time anyone in the family saw Leon was June 20, when he went with his wife to a Philadelphia immigration office to have his lost green card replaced.

There, the family says, he was handcuffed by two officers, who led him away without explanation. His wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter, the family says.

Naturally, this story went viral, with left-wing social media accounts vacuuming up engagement by sharing it. 

I’m going to try to tread lightly here because the possibility exists that a mistake was made by the Trump administration and that the family is telling some version of the truth. With that said, I can only go by the evidence we have in front of us. There have been multiple hoaxes perpetrated involving accusations against ICE over the last several months, so unless something is substantiated, it shouldn’t just be taken at face value. 

First and foremost, was Luis Leon ever even arrested by ICE? As of now, his name does not appear in any of their databases, which would be unusual. Secondly, if he was, was his immigration status as in order as the family is saying? As far as I can tell, no one has really dug into that yet, so major questions remain. Was his green card valid? Was there another extenuating circumstance at play? We simply don’t know at this point, despite the enthusiasm of the press to speak with such certainty about the situation. 

With that said, the biggest twist in this story took place on Sunday. Guatemalan authorities put out a statement denying that Luis Leon entered their country, saying no one of his name or age range matches any entries. Further, they confirmed no person of Chilean nationality has been deported to Guatemala either. 

So, is he in Guatemala or not? There’s no evidence to say he is, and you’d think the authorities there would have no problem locating him if he had been officially deported there and had been put in a hospital. Deportation flights are highly standardized. It’s not like ICE just flies deportees in unannounced and dumps them on the street. They are processed by the receiving government.  

Further, Luis Leon’s granddaughter told the press he’s in Guatemala recovering from pneumonia, but that he has “no plans” to return to the United States. Wait, what? So he’s from Chile and has been in America legally for nearly 40 years, but he’s just going to stay in Guatemala? That’s a little too convenient, given the seriousness of the accusation. 

Lastly, a lot of the details provided by the family do not add up. Nicolette Glazer, an immigration lawyer, explained in a recent social media thread how many of their claims are factually incorrect. It’s too much to copy and paste here, but click below and read through all the inconsistencies she notes regarding how the immigration system actually works. 

Again, maybe ICE nabbed the wrong guy and some version of this story happened, but as things stand, a lot of this doesn’t smell right. We need much more information, and the press should be seeking it instead of rushing to profit politically off unsubstantiated accusations. 

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Video has surfaced of a Delta Air Lines flight as one of its engines burst into flames shortly after takeoff Friday from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

The airliner, a Boeing 767, was carrying 226 passengers and 9 crew members and on its way to Atlanta when the two-engine jet turned around due to a problem with the left engine, Delta told news outlets.

Delta flight 446 landed without incident, taxied to the gate on its own, and showed no sign of a fire as it arrived at the gate, the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles reported.

Passengers exited the plane normally and were assigned to a new aircraft, the news station reported.

According to the Air Traffic Insider, which examined its safety record, the Boeing 767 model has been in operation since the early 1980s and is known for its reliability.

Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist running for mayor in Minneapolis, was endorsed by the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party.

In a post on X, Fateh, who is described as the Minneapolis version of socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, revealed that the DFL had endorsed him. Fateh expressed that he was “honored” and added that the endorsement was “a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual.”

“I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor,” Fateh said in his post. “This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us.”

As Breitbart News has reported, Fateh, who is the first Somali American and Muslim to serve in the Minnesota Senate, has accused Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) of being a “white supremacist” for opposing taxpayer-funded college tuition for illegal aliens.

In a post on X from June 2023, Boebert pointed out that illegal aliens would “be eligible for free college tuition” in Minnesota and added that Fateh had noted there was “declining enrollment on all campuses.”

Breitbart News also reported in June 2023 that Fateh had helped to advance a provision to offer “taxpayer-funded college and university tuition to illegal aliens from families” earning less than $80,000 a year.

“We want to make sure that when we’re expanding opportunities for everybody, we’re doing it for all Minnesotans, regardless of background, regardless of their documentation status,” Fateh said at the time.

Fateh has also vowed to protect Minneapolis from a “hostile White House” and to “diversify” Minneapolis’s public safety response.

“To make an affordable Minneapolis that works for everyone, we need a mayor that works as hard as you do,” Fateh said in a video on X. “I’m ready to work hard to, one, build a Minneapolis that working people can afford to call home; two, protect our city from a hostile White House; and three, diversify our city’s public safety response.”

California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t officially announced a campaign for president in 2028, but he sure acts like a guy who wants the job despite his record of extremism and failure in the Golden State. He recently toured churches and community centers in the early primary state of South Carolina, preferring to glad-hand prospective supporters on the other side of the country rather than doing his job in Sacramento.

Appearing Monday on the “Shawn Ryan Show,” the famously coiffed governor sounded nothing like the man who has been pushing extremist gender ideology on his state’s residents for years:

For more than four hours the supremely self-assured governor of California held court, waxing lyrical about his policies, beliefs and vision.

Then came the simple yes or no question which stumped him. Should eight-year-old children be given medical treatments to change their biological sex?

‘Now that I have a nine-year-old, just became nine, come on man…’ said Gavin Newsom, squirming slightly as he spoke. Podcaster Shawn Ryan let Newsom continue.

‘I get it,’ insisted Newsom, leaving unspoken what the ‘it’ was that he ‘got.’

He may claim he “gets it,” but he has a long track record that proves otherwise. He also rambles in a positively Kamala-like manner as he strings together a bunch of words that add up to nothing:

What does this even mean?

‘So those are legit… You know, it’s interesting, the issue of age, I haven’t…’ He then switched to laughing about his clumsy efforts to use a person’s preferred pronouns and spoke about how he was mocked by his Hispanic staff for trying to use the woke word ‘Latinx.’

Perhaps what he now gets is that all his stances have been wrong, anti-parent and immoral. Funny how your “evolution” is occurring now that you’re facing the unemployment line in November 2026, when you will be termed out. Also funny how he says these things on podcasts but has done nothing to change course. 

We have the receipts, Governor:

In October 2021, he ‘proudly’ signed into law the ‘profoundly important’ AB 1184, which allows children as young as 12 to be treated with cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers without parental consent. Only sexual reassignment surgery is restricted.

In September 2022 he declared California a ‘sanctuary state’ for trans kids, ensuring they can receive hormone therapy and puberty blockers which are forbidden in their home states, and shielding them and their families from prosecution.

And in July last year he signed AB 1955 into law, legally preventing teachers from ‘outing’ trans children to their parents. Elon Musk, whose estranged daughter Vivian, 21, is trans, called the bill ‘the final straw’ in his decision to relocate SpaceX’s headquarters from California to Texas.

Newsom tried some other antics on the podcast, as covered by our Katie Jerkovich and Jennifer Van Laar:

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Newsom is so infuriating to California Republicans—and yes, even though we’re outnumbered, there are actually millions of us—because we’ve seen who he is, we’ve seen his vision, and we’ve witnessed just how destructive he can be if given power. For him to now, in the name of political expedience, pretend to be someone he is not now nor has ever been is particularly galling.

Don’t fall for it, America.

If you have four hours of your life you’re willing to throw away, here’s the entire episode:

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped some bombshell documents on Friday that blew the doors off the Russia Collusion hoax. She also made criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. She detailed how important this was to Fox’s Maria Bartiromo’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” 

“The implications of this are frankly nothing short of historic. Over 100 documents that we released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was directed by President Obama just weeks before he was due to leave office, after President Trump had already gotten elected. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue that is so serious it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic.”

Additionally, she said that there were whistleblowers coming forward to detail what happened, and that accountability was necessary to ensure this never happened again. 

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On Sunday, President Donald Trump posted a brutal AI video that smacked the Democrats for their hypocrisy. As our sister site Townhall observed, the video featured a slew of Democrats, including Barack Obama, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and New York Attorney General Letitia James, all saying, “No one is above the law.” The clip ends with Barack Obama being arrested and put behind bars, to the tune of “YMCA.” 

I think we can safely say that video is going to drive Democrats crazy. They should be upset with what people allegedly did in the revelations from Gabbard. The clips of those Democrats may not be wearing well now. People have been waiting for accountability for a long time. On top of the bombshells she’s already dropped, Gabbard promised even more detailed information about what happened and said material would be released. Could there finally be action? She declared that everyone responsible must be held accountable. Let’s see what else she has. 

Grab the popcorn. It sounds like it’s going to be good and things are about to get even spicier. 

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Two American archaeologists claim they have found the resting place of a Portuguese ship from 1721 that was carrying $138 million in treasure near the Madagascar coast.

When the ship, known as the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, embarked from India with a viceroy, the Archbishop of Goa, 200 slaves, and treasure onboard, a pirate named Olivier “The Buzzard” Levasseur took the opportunity to lead an ambush of the vessel. The pirates then sailed it hundreds of miles, Popular Mechanics reported Wednesday.

Over 300 years later, the archaeologists believe they have found the ship’s resting place on the seafloor near the island of Nosy Boraha, according to Smithsonian Magazine.

The two archaeologists with the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation, identified as Brandon Clifford and Mark Agostini, say they have found more than 3,300 artifacts at the site. Although the find has not been confirmed by any other groups, Clifford said evidence points to it being the ship.

The Mechanics report continued:

The loot—dubbed “an eye-watering treasure, even by pirate standards,” according to the hunters—would fetch at least $138 million in today’s money, they pair claimed, with records noting gold and silver bars, coins, silks, and more than 400 gemstones, including 110 diamonds and 250 emeralds, part of the ship’s store, as reported by ZME Science. Denis Piat, in his 2014 book “Pirates & Privateers in Mauritius,” wrote the ship carried blocks of gold and chests crammed full of pearls, Live Science reported.

After years of meticulous searching, the archaeologists said they found statues of the Virgin Mary, plaques honoring Jesus Christ, pottery fragments, and gold coins with Arabic inscriptions.

It is important to note that after the pirates took control of the ship and grabbed some of the treasure, they apparently ransomed the viceroy, the Smithsonian Magazine article said, adding that the fate of the slaves and the archbishop is unknown.

There have been similar discoveries in recent years. In 2018, an underwater robot found the shipwreck of a Spanish vessel that was over 300 years old and held treasure worth billions of dollars, per Breitbart News.

In July 2024, P0lish divers located an 1800s shipwreck carrying champagne.