Trump declares war on cartels: U.S. enters ‘non-international armed conflict’ in extraordinary escalation | 2 Oct 2025 | Donald Trump has declared war on drug cartels and notified Congress that the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict.” The extraordinary escalation by the president follows a series of recent strikes on drug-smuggling vessels operated by “terrorist organizations” in the Caribbean. Trump’s declaration is intended to place an iron-clad legal framework around the military action. According to international law, a country may kill enemy fighters even when they pose no threat and detain them indefinitely without trial. Congress was notified about the declaration of war by Pentagon officials at a closed-door briefing on Wednesday. It refers to cartel members as “unlawful combatants” whose actions “constitute an armed attack against the United States.”

Trump admin says U.S. engaged in ‘armed conflict’ with drug smugglers after 4 boat strikes | 2 Oct 2025 | The Trump administration informed Congress Wednesday that the US is engaged in a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels. A Pentagon notice to lawmakers on several committees stated that “hostile acts” against Americans and allied nations led to the determination, the New York Times and Associated Press reported Thursday. President Trump had boasted about recent airstrikes eliminating four alleged Venezuelan drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean during a speech Monday at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. “If you try to poison our people, we will blow you out of existence,” Trump said, referencing the sinking of ships allegedly smuggling cocaine and fentanyl into the U.S.

Mystery fleet of U.S. Air Force tankers crossing Atlantic stirs echoes of Iran strike ahead of secret military meeting| 29 Sept 2025 | Flight trackers have spotted a fleet of U.S. air tankers crossing the Atlantic just as Donald Trump prepares to meet with generals and admirals on Tuesday. Around a dozen KC-135R/T Stratotankers were making the journey on Sunday night, with several en route to RAF Mildenhall — a major Air Force base in England, open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts reported on X. The presence of air tankers can indicate that the U.S. or Nato is addressing an urgent military requirement for fighter jet refueling capacity. The deployment carries ominous weight, according to three Defense Department sources — two former, one current — who spoke to the Daily Mail on condition of anonymity. Trump is meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday. The movement of the Stratotankers comes as Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are preparing to hold a shadowy meeting of the nation’s top military leaders at Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday.

Israeli navy intercepts boats attempting to break Gaza blockade and arrests activists | 2 Oct 2025 | Hundreds of Israeli police officers were deployed Thursday to the southern port of Ashdod to process some 450 international activists detained by Israeli naval forces hours earlier in the Mediterranean Sea, Israeli authorities said. The activists, including European lawmakers, were taking part of a flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza when their vessels were intercepted, drawing widespread condemnation and sparking protests around the world. The Global Sumud Flotilla was the largest yet to try to break the blockade, and it comes at a time of growing criticism of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, where its offensive has laid waste to wide swaths of territory and killed tens of thousands of people.

Putin hails bravery of U.S. national who died fighting for Russia | 2 Oct 2025 | Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised U.S. national Michael Gloss, who was killed in action in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) while fighting alongside Russian troops in April 2024. Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi on Thursday, Putin acknowledged that he “was quite surprised” when he learned about Gloss, who happened to be the son of CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina. According to the Russian president, he became acquainted with the details during the process of the posthumous decoration of the fallen American fighter.”[Gloss] had undergone special training and was enlisted not simply into the armed forces, but into the elite units of the Russian armed forces, into the Airborne,” Putin revealed. He noted that the 21-year-old U.S. national “was fighting on the front line. He fought with dignity.”

Covid jab caused 35% increased risk of thyroid cancer, risk rose to 53% and 68% for lung and prostate cancers respectively – Korean study | 29 Sept 2025 | Covid vaccines may raise the risk of certain cancers, a study has claimed. Korean researchers said they found proof the jabs raised the risk of six types of cancer including lung, breast and prostate. The fresh study was published in the journal Biomarker Research, owned by Springer Nature which produces some of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals. Medics hypothesised that after a year, those who had taken at least one Covid jab had a 35 per cent increased risk of being diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 34 per cent risk of gastric cancer. This risk rose to 53 and 68 per cent for lung and prostate cancers respectively. Breast and colorectal cancers, meanwhile, had an increased risk of 20 and 28 percent respectively, the medics claimed. Writing in the journal, they said “cDNA vaccines were associated with the increased risks of thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers.”

New CDC travel warnings for virus spreading across the globe – as incurable disease reaches America | 29 Sept 2025 | Americans are being advised to practice caution when traveling to a Caribbean island because of an outbreak of a deadly virus. The CDC has placed a Level 2 travel warning on Cuba after local officials raised the alarm over an outbreak of chikungunya virus, a painful viral infection that can leave victims bedridden for months. The disease is spread by mosquitoes, with patients suffering a sudden fever and then joint pain in the hands and feet that can be so severe that sufferers are left unable to walk for months. In rare cases, the disease can be fatal. Officials in Cuba…said that the outbreak is focused in Matanzas province, 60 miles east of Havana. It is not clear what prompted the CDC advisory, but the alert comes just days after U.S. health officials began investigating a possible locally acquired case of chikungunya on Long Island, New York, the first ever detected in the state.

NYPD cop on sick leave snuck into Ryder Cup in full tactical gear, claimed he was on Trump security – sources | 1 Oct 2025 | An NYPD detective allegedly showed up at the Ryder Cup golf tournament in full gear and claimed he was working security for President Trump — while out on sick leave, The Post has learned. Det. Melvin Eng, who is now facing administrative charges for theft of services, may have even gotten away with the golf course ruse — had he not dropped his gun magazine in the grass in front of real security personnel, according to law enforcement sources and NYPD documents. Eng, 46, who is president of the NYPD Asian Jade Society, allegedly showed up at the Farmingdale tournament Friday in full tactical gear and claimed he was working security for the visiting president. According to the sources, Eng even claimed he was working for the feds.

Two Delta planes collide at LaGuardia Airport in New York City | 2 Oct 2025 | Two Delta Airlines passenger planes collided on Wednesday night in a horror accident that ripped the wing off one jet. The CRJ-900 regional jets — operated by Delta subsidiary Endeavor Air — were taxiing at low speed when they suddenly clipped each other at LaGuardia Airport in New York City about 9.56pm. Miraculously, only a member of cabin crew was injured in the collision despite footage that showed an aircraft wing broken off. All 85 passengers were deemed safe and deplaned to wait until they could be transferred to different flights.

Rep. Maxine Waters admits Dems forced government shutdown to get ‘health care for everybody’ – including illegal immigrants | 2 Oct 2025 | Longtime Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) acknowledged that her party forced the government into a shutdown on Wednesday in order to secure “health care for everybody” — including illegal immigrants. Waters, 87, was questioned outside the U.S. Capitol Tuesday about Democrats’ opposition to a stopgap funding bill in both chambers of Congress that would have kept the government’s lights on until Nov. 21. “Are Democrats demanding health care for illegal aliens?” asked LindellTV reporter Alison Steinburg. “Democrats are demanding health care for everybody,” Waters responded, hours before her Senate colleagues blocked the spending measure.

Defiant Senate Dems block House-passed bill to reopen government for 2nd time in under 24 hours | 1 Oct 2025 | The Senate has just held a test vote on Democratic legislation that would fund the government through the month of October. The bill would also roll back Medicaid cuts enshrined in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and extends ObamaCare subsidies. The test vote failed 53-47, along party lines. Next up, the Senate will vote to end debate on the House-passed continuing resolution that failed last night, triggering the government shutdown.

FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns’ | 26 Sept 2025 | The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI’s rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to “wokeness” and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years. Scores of FBI agents and personnel — many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) — sent anonymous complaints to the after-action team detailing how agents were sent into an unsafe scenario without proper safety equipment or the ability to identify themselves readily as armed officers to other police agencies, the report obtained by Just the News shows… The document has proven a bombshell to lawmakers, revealing for the first time that the FBI had a total of 274 agents deployed to the Capitol in plainclothes and with guns after the violence started but with no clear safety gear of way to be recognized by other law enforcement agencies working in the chaos of the riot.

Biden used notecards with names, photos of prominent Dems such as Hillary Clinton at public events | 1 Oct 2025 | Unearthed note cards from the Biden era show the administration detailed the names and photos of high-profile Democrats, such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as lesser-known individuals for then-President [sic] Joe Biden to ostensibly reference during live events, documents obtained by Fox News Digital show. Five different “palm cards,” which are hand-sized note cards frequently used by politicians for quick reminders or talking points during public events, especially while on the campaign trail, were uncovered amid an investigation of National Archive documents related to the Biden administration’s use of an autopen, and obtained by Fox News Digital. Four of the five cards obtained by Fox Digital are stamped with a disclaimer reading, “PRESIDENT HAS SEEN,” while a fifth card detailing an ABC News reporter’s question to Biden during a press conference did not include that stamp.

YouTube to pay $24.5M to settle Trump’s lawsuit over 2021 account suspension | 29 Sept 2025 | YouTube on Monday agreed to pay 24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump, and the bulk of the m-ney will go toward the construction of the new White House ballroom. Trump sued the Alphabet-owned video sharing platform in July 2021, alleging that YouTube unlawfully silenced conservative viewpoints after the company suspended his account in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol. The Trust for the National Mall, the nonprofit group raising private donations to build the 200 million ballroom on the White House grounds, will be paid 22 million by the tech company as part of the settlement.

Trump administration official physically assaulted at UNGA by ‘deranged leftist,’ White House says | 26 Sept 2025 | A Trump administration official was physically assaulted by a “deranged leftist” inside the United Nations Thursday afternoon during the gathering of the UN General Assembly, Fox News Digital has learned. An official working in international relations for the Department of Health and Human Services was in New York City serving in a support role for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the department’s leadership team at UNGA. “An HHS official was followed into a bathroom, recorded, physically assaulted and verbally accosted by a deranged leftist at the UN who somehow entered the venue past multiple layers of security,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital. “Thankfully, the official is safe, and the lunatic was arrested, but this is part of a disturbing and dangerous set of failures by the UN after their sabotage of President Trump ahead of and during his speech.”

George Galloway detained at Gatwick airport under Terrorism Act | 27 Sept 2025 | George Galloway and his wife were detained by police under the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act at Gatwick airport on Saturday. The former MP was stopped by counter-terrorism officers after arriving in London from Moscow, via Abu Dhabi, according to reports. The Workers Party of Britain, the party Mr. Galloway leads, said the detention was “politically motivated intimidation” and demanded he be freed. The couple were later released without charge. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said Mr. Galloway and Putri Gayatri Pertiwi had been detained under schedule 3 of the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, which allows officers to stop, question, search and detain a person at a border area to determine if they have engaged in hostile activity.

Manchester synagogue incident a ‘terror’ attack – UK police | 2 Oct 2025 | The attack on a synagogue in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester, is being treated as terrorism, the UK police have confirmed. A man rammed a car into worshippers and subsequently went on a stabbing spree outside a synagogue on Thursday morning, killing at least two people. Three other victims are said to be in serious condition. “Based on what we know, counterterrorism policing has declared this is a terrorist incident,” Laurence Taylor, the national head of counter-terrorism policing has said, according to Sky News. Two arrests have been made and the police believe they have established the attacker’s identity, he added.

Michigan church death toll doubles after search of building where Iraq war veteran Thomas Jacob Sanford ‘planted 3 bombs’ and opened fire | 28 Sept 2025 | Four churchgoers have died, with at least eight more injured and others potentially unaccounted for after a gunman set fire to a Mormon church in Michigan and began shooting at congregants. The [alleged] shooter, who was killed by police at the scene, has been identified as 40-year-old Iraq War veteran Thomas Jacob Sanford. Sanford opened fire on hundreds of people, including children, who had gathered for a service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc about 10.25am on Sunday… Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye said the suspect rammed his vehicle through the front door of the building before opening fire with an assault rifle. As of Sunday afternoon, three improvised devices were discovered, two senior U.S. law enforcement officials said, per NBC News.