Donald Trump I'm Sending My Border Czar To Minnesota

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Border Czar Tom Homan's going to get hands-on with the tense situation in Minnesota ... because he's being sent there by President Donald Trump.

POTUS announced his plans for Homan on Truth Social Monday morning, saying Homan "knows and likes many of the people" in Minnesota ... without specifying whom he was referring to.

Trump described Homan as "tough but fair" and said he would directly report to him during his time in Minnesota. Trump did not indicate what Homan will do in his capacity there.

Bangor Plane Crash Seven Dead, One Survivor After Flight Turns Upside Down

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Seven people were killed when a plane turned upside down after taking off from Bangor International Airport and immediately crashed about 236 miles north of Boston, in Maine on Sunday evening.

The FAA tells TMZ ... the Bombardier Challenger 650 crashed as it was taking off from Bangor International Airport in Maine around 7:45 PM local time on Sunday, Jan. 25. Eight people were on board.

One crew member survived the crash with serious injuries, WABI-TV reports.

The FAA and NTSB are currently investigating the incident ... the NTSB says preliminary information shows the plane crashed after departure and experienced a post-impact fire, according to the Associated Press.

Controllers and pilots at the airport had been talking about low visibility and deicing in the minutes before the crash occurred, according to audio obtained from LiveATC.net ... it wasn't clear if the pilots of the crashed plane had been speaking to controllers.

A controller was heard clearing a pilot for takeoff, and all traffic on the field was stopped about two minutes later. Another controller was reportedly heard saying the aircraft was upside down moments afterward.

The Bombardier Challenger 650 involved in the crash was registered to a law firm based in Houston, Texas, reports KHOU-TV.

The crash took place during the ongoing winter storm affecting much of the nation ... it's worth mentioning nearly 12,600 flights were cancelled on Sunday, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.com.

How Ryan Wedding Went From Snowboarding to a $15 Million Reward On His Head

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Ryan Wedding had a promising career as a snowboarder, but he's alleged to have given it all up to pursue the life of a drug lord ... which likely ended with his arrest in January 2026.

Here's a look at the one-time Olympic athlete's background and how he went from carving slopes to cutting lines ... before he ended up in handcuffs.

Ryan Comes From a Ski Family

Ryan was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, in 1981 ... he grew up in a family with deep roots in skiing -- his grandparents owned a ski mountain, and one of his uncles was the captain of the Canadian national women’s ski team, Toronto Life reports.

He started snowboarding at an early age and made the Canadian national snowboarding team when he was 15 years old.

Ryan's talents took him to competitions all over the world. He was a member of Team Canada in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He placed 24th in the parallel giant slalom snowboarding event ... giving up a dream of pro snowboarding not long after.

His First Arrest Was in 2008

Wedding moved to Vancouver, Canada and enrolled at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia while working as a bouncer at a club, according to CNN. He studied business, but never graduated.

He ran into trouble with the law in 2008, when he and two other individuals were arrested, accused of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine.

The other two pleaded guilty, but Wedding took his case to trial ... and was convicted in 2009. Wedding was sent to prison in 2010, and was released the following year.

Wedding Founded His Alleged Criminal Enterprise After Prison

Wedding allegedly founded his criminal enterprise not long after, becoming a target of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Operation Harrington, which targeted drug traffickers in 2015 ... but he was never caught, Rolling Stone reports.

He allegedly shipped hundreds of kilos of cocaine from Colombia to the United States and Canada, reportedly working with Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel.

Wedding has been implicated in the deaths of several people -- including a government witness -- to stop them from speaking about his criminal activities, according to NBC News.

He was added to the FBI's Most Wanted List in March 2025, and a $15 million reward was offered for information leading to his arrest.

Wedding Was Captured in Mexico

Wedding was arrested on the night of January 22, 2026, in Mexico, according to FBI Director Kash Patel. In a news conference, Patel described Wedding as "a modern-day El Chapo."

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on X Wedding was flown back to the United States to face justice. Wedding was set to make his first court appearance Monday, January 26, 2026.

Ohio Double Murder Ex-Husband Pleads Not Guilty To All Charges

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A surgeon who's been accused of murdering his ex-wife and her husband at their home last month in Columbus, Ohio, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of aggravated murder and a single count of aggravated burglary.

Michael McKee appeared via video from the Franklin County Jail for his arraignment Friday, NBC News reports. McKee's lawyer entered his plea for him as the accused murderer remained silent during the hearing.

McKee was married to Monique Tepe from 2015 to 2017. Their marriage ended due to "incompatibility," according to divorce records. Monique married Dr. Spencer Tepe in 2021, and they welcomed two children.

William Kelly I Dared Pam Bondi To Arrest Me ... And She Did!

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A third person has been taken into custody following a controversial anti-ICE protest in Minnesota this week ... after he dared U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to arrest him.

Bondi announce William Kelly's arrest on social media Thursday, writing ... "Our nation was settled and founded by people fleeing religious persecution. Religious freedom is the bedrock of this country."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem later announced -- on social media -- Kelly has been charged with conspiracy to deprive rights.

Earlier this week Kelly -- a U.S. Army veteran who's been active in challenging ICE, CBP and the Trump Administration -- called Bondi a "traitorous b****" and dared her to "come and get" him on his TikTok account, @dawokefarmer2.

In the video he claimed children are being "dragged into concentration camps."

ICYMI ... protestors entered Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, this past Sunday to confront pastor David Easterwood, who is an ICE official. Easterwood wasn't at the church at the time.

Lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong, who was interviewed by former CNN host Don Lemon during the protest, and Chauntyll Louisa Allen have both been arrested in connection with the incident this week. The DOJ attempted to charge Lemon as well ... but a federal judge shot that attempt down.

Donald Trump The U.S. Doesn't Need The W.H.O. -- We're Out!

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The United States has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization ... one year after President Donald Trump issued an executive order announcing his plans to pull out of the WHO.

A senior administration official spoke to reporters Thursday and claimed the United States had "not been getting much return for our value, on our money, on the personnel that we’ve given" to the WHO, CNN reports.

ICYMI ... Trump hasn't been a fan of the WHO, and he tried to separate the U.S. from the organization during his first term as president.

Ivan Raiklin, Michael Fanone Angry Verbal Altercation On Capitol Hill

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A former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who defended the Capitol during the January 6th, 2021 riot got into a raucous verbal altercation with a conspiracy theorist at a Congressional hearing Thursday and accused the man of threatening his children.

Michael Fanone -- who resigned from the Metropolitan Police Department force in December 2021 -- and far-right conservative activist Ivan Raiklin were both in attendance at former DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, according to The Hill.

Raiklin reportedly tried to shake Fanone's hand during a recess in the hearing ... and the former cop apparently started cursing and denied they were on good terms.

Although several people tried to hold Fanone back, he continued to verbally accost Raiklin, yelling ... "This guy has threatened my family, threatened my children, threatened to rape my children."

Raiklin pointed out how physically composed he was during the confrontation, as Fanone called him "a traitor to this f***ing country" and a "sick bastard" as another man guided Fanone to his seat.

Raiklin's spread disproven lies about the 2020 election and the J6 Capitol attack. After Fanone retired, he become an activist and author, speaking out against political violence.

Wunmi Mosaku I Felt Nothing But Love Filming 'Sinners'!

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Wunmi Mosaku must really be feeling all the love from Hollywood, given how she landed her first Oscar nomination Thursday morning ... and it turns out she felt the exact same way on the set of "Sinners."

The actress viewed the movie's team as her family while they worked on the flick, telling Deadline she became "the closest I've ever been to a cast and crew in my whole career" as she collaborated with Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler.

Mosaku played a hoodoo practitioner in the flick, a high-concept premise that portrayed a pair of twin brothers opening up a juke joint in the South during the Jim Crow era, and ending up battling a group of vampires.

Mosaku said the movie was made with "so much love," and she's "so grateful that it’s not been taken in vain."

She added she "never thought about award season when taking a role," which is fine and all ... though she might change her mind after this one, as she's up for Best Supporting Actress.

"Sinners" collected an unprecedented 16 Oscar nominations ... two more than the previous record held in a three-way tie between "La La Land," "Titanic," and "All About Eve."

We've got less than two months until the Oscar Award ceremony goes down ... plenty of time to catch all the other films going up against "Sinners."

Liam Ramos ICE Takes 5-Year-Old Kid Into Custody

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A 5-year-old boy was allegedly used as "bait" by ICE agents making arrests in a Minneapolis suburb Tuesday afternoon, according to the superintendent of the Columbia Heights Public School District.

Zena Stevnik told reporters Liam Ramos was apprehended at his home by ICE agents on Tuesday after returning from school with his father, according to Minnesota Public Radio News.

Stevnik said another adult in the driveway at the house begged the agents to let him take care of the child ... but was refused. Liam was told to knock on the door of the house to see if anyone else was home, MPR News reports.

Agents took Liam and his father away in an SUV, and they were transported to Texas.

A lawyer representing Ramos' family told MPR News ... "just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s moral. Yes, they may have the legal authority to detain a 5-year-old, but why?”

Stevnik said nearly a third of students in the district have been missing classes, as ICE activity in Minnesota has escalated dramatically, and violently, since the beginning of the year.

Three other students in the Columbia Heights Public School District have been taken into custody by ICE over the past two weeks.

Nekima Levy Armstrong Taken Into Custody Following Anti-ICE Protest

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A lawyer and activist who allegedly helped organize a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this week has been arrested.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Nekima Levy Armstrong was taken into custody at her direction Thursday morning, writing in a social media post ... "Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP."

Bondi said Chauntyll Louisa Allen was also arrested.

Uvalde School Shooting Adrian Gonzales Let Off The Hook In Criminal Trial

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A former school police officer who was on active duty during the 2022 Uvalde school shooting has been found not guilty on 29 charges ... nearly four years after the tragic incident in which 19 children and 2 adults were killed by a campus gunman, as police officers waited for more than an hour to engage with the shooter. Ten students survived.

Adrian Gonzales was acquitted of 29 counts of endangering children on Wednesday evening, ABC News reports. Each of the counts carried a maximum penalty of two years in prison. The Texas jury deliberated for more than 7 hours before returning its verdict.

Prosecutors argued Gonzales hadn't followed his training at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas in May 2022 during the shooting. The defense claimed Gonzales had been targeted for a wider failure by law enforcement officers.

Gonzales' lawyers argued the former school police officer did everything he could have and acted according to the information he'd been given ... they added several other officers had arrived at the scene at the same time as Gonzales.

Several family members of the children who'd died in the shooting were present during Gonzales' trial proceedings ... many became emotional when his verdict was read.

Former Robb Elementary student Salvador Rolando Ramos shot and killed 19 students and two teachers before he was killed by a Border Patrol agent who rushed into the school by himself.

Former Uvalde Schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo has also been charged with endangerment or abandonment of a child, and he's pleaded not guilty. His trial's been indefinitely delayed.

Donald Trump Sometimes People 'Need A Dictator!'

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Donald Trump appeared to advocate for dictators at an event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

The president was speaking at the CEO reception and dinner event and reflected on his speech from earlier in the day, in which he claimed the United States wouldn't use military force to take control of Greenland.

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WHO'RE YOU CALLING DICTATOR???

Trump asserted his address was well-received, stating ... "I can't believe it, we got good reviews on that speech. Usually they say, 'He's a horrible dictator type person. I'm a dictator.' But sometimes you need a dictator."

Relish The Moment! Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs Sells For $450 Million

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The winds are changing in the hot dog world ... because Nathan's Famous has just been sold to packaged meat company Smithfield Foods.

The fast-food company's top dogs must really be relishing the all-cash deal, too -- they sold Nathan's for a cool $450 million, The Associated Press reports.

FYI ... Nathan's Famous started out in 1916 as a hot dog stand in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.

The family of the founder of Nathan's Famous sold the business to investors just over seven decades later, and it's grown ever since then. The founder's name is Nathan Handwerker, BTW.

As you know, Nathan's Famous hosts an annual hot dog-eating contest every Fourth of July in Coney Island, where glizzy gladiators like Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi wolf down dogs in heart-stopping amounts.

Chestnut's won 17 out of 19 of the last competitions, setting a world record in 2021 after knocking back 76 hot dogs and buns.

We got scared Nathan's Famous was closing when we first heard the news ... it sounded like our wurst nightmare!

Ted Cruz Appears To Leave Texas Days Before Winter Storm

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Ted Cruz is out there searching for greener pastures ... because he was just spotted flying to sunny California while his home state of Texas braces for a winter storm.

A photo posted on X by political strategist Shea Jordan Smith Tuesday, show Cruz waiting in the aisle of a crowded commercial flight. Smith wrote the plane was heading to Laguna Beach, California.

Although the weather in Laguna Beach is forecast to stay in the low 60s throughout this week, much of Texas is preparing to deal with a massive ice and snow storm set to arrive Friday.

Suni Williams I'm Leaving NASA After 27 Years Of Service

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Suni Williams won't be heading into orbit with NASA anytime soon ... because the astronaut just announced her retirement from the agency.

The news about Williams' retirement was posted on NASA's website Wednesday ... she officially retired December 27, 2025.

In a statement, Williams credited "all the wonderful love and support I’ve received from my colleagues."

Williams joined NASA in 1998, and she went on three missions to the International Space Station.

She was stuck on the ISS for an unprecedented 9 months after heading out on a planned one-week mission in 2024, owing to concerns over the safety of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore made it home in March 2025 after spending 286 days on the ISS.

Williams described working as an astronaut and spending time in space as "an incredible honor."