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Alexei Saab, a 42-year-old legal immigrant from Lebanon, is accused of helping Hezbollah find a U.S. landmark target for a potential terrorist attack, receiving military-type training from the terrorist organization, and committing immigration fraud in a nine-count indictment that was unsealed this week. Despite joining Hezbollah in 1996 and receiving training in how to make bombs in 2000, Saab was legally admitted to the U.S.

As Breitbart News has chronicled, Abolish ICE Denver, Denver Communists, and Denver Action Network organized outside the home of Aurora’s ICE processing center warden Johnny Choate, arriving in shirts reading, “Let them all in,” and, “Close the concentration camps.” Abolish ICE protesters carried signs demanding an end to international borders and nation-states, chanting, “No nations, no borders, no racist deportations!” In one case, an organizer of the protest blam

The Washington Post broke the story on Thursday, citing “three people present” at a HUD meeting: A HUD official, who had not been present at the meeting, defended Carson, saying he never used derogatory language against transgendered people.

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ campaign says that it has received contributions from more than 1 million individual donors and that it’s the first in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential field to do so. In a statement Thursday, the Vermont senator’s campaign says more than 99.9 percent of those donors hadn’t reached maximum federal donation limits, meaning they could give more. It says 125,000-plus donors had agreed to make recurring contributions. Campaign manager Faiz Shakir says, ‘‘Our strength is in numbers, and that is why Bernie Sanders is t

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has ended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. De Blasio struggled to gain traction in a sprawling field of Democrats seeking the presidency.

The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, arguing that it’s misusing a federal grant to advance ‘‘ideological priorities’’ and unfairly promote ‘‘the positive aspects of Islam’’ but not Christianity or Judaism. An Aug. 29 letter from the U.S.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s “selfie lines” are becoming so well-known that they appear to be popping up spontaneously, including at Chicago O’Hare Airport this week, CBS News reported. As Warren traveled to Iowa on Thursday, a small crowd of travelers gathered around her at an O’Hare gate and formed a line to take photos, according to CBS News reporter Ed O’Keefe, who witnessed it unfold. O’Keefe reported that the crowd included airport employees, travelers, and

The House on Thursday passed legislation to avert a government shutdown and keep the government funded through Nov.