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Leaders of the Asheville, North Carolina, affiliate of the National Education Association joined activists Monday in calling for the city to block United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using any municipal property.

The press conference followed the arrest of 81 illegal immigrants in Charlotte during the opening phase of ICE’s enforcement effort known as “Charlotte’s Web.”

The event, streamed by the Buncombe County Association of Educators, featured teachers’ union representatives, local pastors, and Asheville City Councilwoman Kim Roney, who is also a candidate for mayor.
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A Department of Homeland Security release connected to the “Charlotte’s Web” operation reported that among those arrested were members of the MS-13 gang, designated as a foreign terrorist organization by President Donald Trump hours after taking office on Jan. 20.

Others arrested included illegal immigrants with convictions for assault, larceny, and DWI.

Target is cutting prices on thousands of food and household items as it works to reverse its sales slump under its new chief executive.

The retail giant specifically will slash the cost of 3,000 items across those categories to help families stretch their budget during the holiday season, Target's commercial officer, Rick Gomez, said.

Gomez said it's one key element of its strategy to boost its value proposition during the holiday season. Target more than doubled its holiday assortment this year, adding 20,000 new gifts, but Gomez said its offering thousands of toys priced under $20. In particular, he noted that there will be affordable holiday home décor such as ornaments starting at $1, candles at $5 and throws at $10.

Former GOP staffer charged with fabricating anti-MAGA assault

Updated at 7:58 p.m. ET: A Nebraska woman who claimed she was the victim of a horrific hate crime in July and subsequently charged with making false claims to police pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge Tuesday.

Police in Lincoln, Neb., who spent weeks investigating the case, arrested Charlie Rogers Tuesday for making a false report. Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly said a judge issued the warrant for her arrest earlier Tuesday.

The Nebraska-based lesbian woman who shockingly staged an anti-gay hate crime has been sentenced to a week in jail.

The Lincoln Journal-Star reports that Charlie Rogers, 34, will also spend the next two years on probation and be required to undergo a psychological evaluation and complete 250 hours of community hours for lying to investigators in July 2012.

Lancaster County Judge Gale Pokorny called Rogers' original claim "an incredible and outrageous lie," according to the Omaha World-Herald. He also pointed to the "disservice" Rogers had committed to the area's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

“For a long, long time to come, when a gay makes a legitimate complaint about unequal treatment or discrimination, there’s going to be a knee-jerk reaction among many: ‘Yeah, well, Charlie Rogers said the same thing,’” he is quoted by the Journal-Star as saying.

Colleges and universities have used an extremely light touch when punishing students who vandalized, occupied, or even assaulted fellow students on campus. The pro-Hamas protests upended colleges and universities because these entitled brats hated Jews and loved destruction.

For that, few received any punishment at all.

But when violations of campus rules or laws were so egregious that students lost grants or scholarships or were kicked off campus, CAIR apparently decided to step in and help out.
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Anti-Israel agitators who spread disruption at US colleges and were punished by authorities were awarded checks for $1,000 by a Muslim nonprofit, The Post has learned.

The money was given to students who faced penalties for leading pro-Palestinian protests before and after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 2023, according to a bombshell report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN).

The cash was awarded from a “Champions of Justice Fund,” set up by the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) as “institutional endorsement,” the report claims.

Late yesterday, the Department of Justice announced an indictment on money laundering and theft against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) and her brother Edwin Cherfilus. The House Democrat is currently serving her third term in office, having won a special election in 2022 to replace the late Alcee Hastings. The DoJ allege that the siblings stole and then laundered millions of dollars in emergency funds:

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Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., was indicted Wednesday on charges she stole and laundered $5 million in federal relief funds and used the money for her congressional campaign, the Justice Department said.

In a news release citing the indictment, the Justice Department said that Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and Edwin Cherfilus, 51, her brother, worked on a staffing contract funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Covid vaccinations tied to their family health care company in 2021 and that the company was overpaid by $5 million in relief funds.

She and her brother are accused of conspiring to steal the overpayment and route it through various accounts to conceal its origins. Cherfilus-McCormick is alleged to have used the money for her own enrichment and to fund a significant part of her congressional campaign.