Author: Press Room

Pope Leo XIV issued a categorical condemnation of Iran’s Islamist regime engaging in the widespread massacre of protesters on Thursday, urging the parties involved in the conflict in that country to seek peace, but stating “obviously” he hoped for an end to the execution of dissidents. The earthly head of the Catholic Church made the comments on a flight back to Rome from Equatorial Guinea, where he had just completed a tour of Africa that also included stops in Algeria, once home to St. Augustine, and Cameroon, where jihadist terrorism and a civil war between English and French speakers have…

Coldwater, Kansas, Mayor Jose Ceballos, a green card-holder from Mexico, has pleaded guilty to illegally voting in United States elections and falsely claiming to be an American citizen. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials credited the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, which allows states to enter Social Security Numbers (SSNs) to verify a voter registrant’s American citizenship and thus eligibility to vote, and urged passage of the SAVE Act. “This alien has now been convicted of illegally voting in American elections,” the DHS’s Lauren Bis said in a statement: The SAVE program is a critical tool for state and local…

The Turkish parliament on Wednesday passed the latest national ban on social media for children, joining a trend that began with Australia’s landmark ban in December 2025. Turkey banned social media for children under 15, requiring all platforms to implement strict age verification procedures. The law also covers online gaming platforms, which often have a social media element. In addition to burdening social media and gaming platforms with creating age verification systems, Turkey also requires them to explain the intricacies of the new law to their users, create “user-friendly” tools for parental control, and avoid running “deceptive ads.” Online game…

An al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist who was convicted of plotting an attack on the London Stock Exchange has avoided deportation and been able to remain in Britain on so-called human rights grounds. Shah Rahman, a Bangladeshi native who was jailed alongside three others in 2012 over planning to bomb the London Stock Exchange, served just five years behind bars. While he immediately applied for asylum after his release, his case was rejected by the government due to his history as a convicted terrorist. However, it was revealed this week that Rahman was not removed from Britain after a judge ruled that returning him to his…

The Task Force to Eliminate Fraud headed up by Vice President JD Vance has notched a number of wins throughout April, including uncovering what is suspected to be more than $6 billion in fraudulent government contracts. It has been just over five weeks since President Donald Trump launched the anti-fraud task force and tapped Vance to be its chair. The task force has put together a productive April after hitting the ground running in March. On April 8, a Daily Caller report detailed that the task force had found that almost 400 businesses suspected of fraud had received contracts, many of which…

An Iranian national is accused of smuggling “large numbers” of illegal aliens, primarily from Iran, into the United States under former President Joe Biden’s administration, federal prosecutors reveal. This week, an unsealed indictment against 57-year-old Jafar Tafakori of Iran detailed an alleged southern border smuggling scheme that occurred from at least Dec. 1, 2022 through May 15, 2024. The indictment accuses Tafakori of illegally smuggling illegal aliens, mostly from Iran, across the U.S.-Mexico border for huge payments, some as much as $30,000 per alien. Prosecutors allege that Tafakori worked with other smugglers to coordinate shelter and travel, including airline tickets to get Iranian…

The US president claims to have “total control” of the waterway amid stalled talks US President Donald Trump has threatened lethal force against any Iranian boats suspected of laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, claiming that Washington now has “total control” over the key waterway until Tehran agrees to a deal. The warning comes amid a maritime standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial transit route that accounts for approximately 20% of global oil and gas flows. Traffic has largely come to a standstill following the US-Israeli campaign against Iran and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation. Despite the fragile ceasefire that Trump…

Two separate rounds of materials testing have revealed the presence of cotton from East Turkistan, the occupied Uyghur homeland the Chinese Communist Party refers to by the colonialist name “Xinjiang,” in clothing on Labubus, a series of small impish dolls that have become an international sensation. “Independent laboratory testing of 16 of 20 Pop Mart Labubu dolls sold in the U.S. used isotopic testing to trace their cotton directly to Xinjiang — a region where forced labor is systematically embedded in cotton production,” the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), whose researchers have helped uncover the expansiveness of China’s national…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is monitoring employee activity across hundreds of popular websites and applications, including Google, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia, as part of an effort to collect data for training its AI models. Reuters reports that the social media giant has implemented a new employee tracking tool called Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, which captures keystrokes and mouse clicks from workers using their corporate computers. The initiative aims to gather real-world examples of how people interact with computers to improve Meta’s AI agent development. According to internal documents, the list of monitored sites extends beyond external platforms to include Meta’s own…

Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad has maintained its security lockdown throughout the week in the hopes that U.S. and Iranian negotiators might return to resume the talks that broke down last weekend. On Friday, President Donald Trump said his envoys are returning to Pakistan and Iran’s foreign minister appears to be en route, as well. Islamabad’s lockdown has been close to the pandemic in its intensity, with shops closed, streets empty, and office staff working from home. Public unrest with the stringent security precautions is growing, especially among laborers who cannot earn wages or find lodgings. “It is like we are…