CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; aired an episode focused on a man who was deported to Ghana under President Donald Trump&#8217;s deportation efforts, but the Department of Homeland Security says the network cut out quite a bit.
DHS General Counsel James Percival, who was interviewed for the broadcast, shared a series of clips that were ultimately left out of the final cut. He suggested that those particular bits were left out specifically to further a predetermined narrative: that the average illegal immigrant was just like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/60-minutes-featured-deported-illegals-sob-story-his-asylum-application-adds-a-twist">Moussa Diawara</a>, just a &#8220;Texas father&#8221; who followed the law — with the obvious exception of that visa he overstayed by 25 years.
&#8220;I talked to @60Minutes for nearly an hour. In our conversation, we talked about the vicious killers and rapists we are removing to third countries and the fact that no President before President Trump removed these public safety threats from our community. Unfortunately, as they always do, they selectively edited the video and included none of that. They did promise they would publish the entire interview, so I look forward to my comments being posted in full this week,&#8221; Percival <a href="https://x.com/DHSGenCounsel/status/2114500486997135654">posted</a> on Sunday.
Diawara, 57, described himself as gay and said he feared persecution over both his sexual orientation and his conversion to Christianity if he ever returned to his home country of Mali. He was deported to Ghana over the summer because a judge barred his deportation to Mali. Once in Ghana, however, officials reportedly forced him onto a flight to his home country.
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The first clip from the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview focused on third country deportations — which take place when the United States moves to deport people when there is a court order or some other barrier to returning them to their countries of origin. Because the third countries are not bound by U.S. court orders, there is no way to guarantee that the third country will not return the individuals to their country of origin once they have left U.S. jurisdiction.
&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; contributor Gianna Toboni asked Percival to address that particular issue, wondering why the United States would move ahead with such deportations if the third country in question could return someone to a country where their physical safety might be at risk.
&#8220;You can kind of see why @60Minutes left stuff like this on the cutting room floor,&#8221; Percival captioned the clip.
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&#8220;I guess one thing that I would point out — are you suggesting that when these people went to their home countries that they were persecuted or tortured?&#8221; Percival asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not suggesting that, a U.S. judge said that,&#8221; Toboni replied. &#8220;A federal judge said that.&#8221;
&#8220;That they were persecuted or tortured when they went to their home country?&#8221; Percival asked again.
&#8220;That they were more than likely to be tortured or persecuted if they were returned to their home country,&#8221; Toboni clarified.
Percival kept pressing, pointing out the fact that with or without a judge&#8217;s order, if the people in question had not actually been tortured or persecuted when they returned to their home countries, then the actions taken by the third country were not necessarily out of line.
In a second clip, Toboni questioned the number of deportation orders carried out despite the small percentage of those who were being deported based on convictions or charges of &#8220;violent crimes.&#8221; Percival responded by pointing out just how many horrible crimes — from distribution of child pornography to heroin trafficking — that most people would say warranted deportation but would not officially be classified as &#8220;violent.&#8221;
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Toboni kept at that angle, noting that only 2% of those being deported had murder or rape charges or convictions. Percival asked why the U.S. government would only hold murderers and rapists accountable.
&#8220;Everyone has to follow the law. It&#8217;s not an excuse to say I&#8217;m not going to follow the law because I haven&#8217;t raped or killed anybody,&#8221; Percival continued, also noting that most people who committed petty crimes ultimately committed other crimes — and because all crimes committed by illegal aliens in the United States are preventable crimes, his job was to prevent those crimes by having those people removed from the United States altogether.
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A conversation with @60Minutes on rapists and murderers, which they declined to include. https://t.co/XjUs7uDzj3
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The full interview can be viewed <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2114889154345738266">here</a>.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — whose real name is “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi,” according to the Department of Justice — claimed that conservative media only focused on her because she is naturally pretty.
The Minnesota congresswoman told avowed socialist and Mao Zedong superfan Hasan Piker that she believed the media attention wasn&#8217;t solely the result of investigations into questions about her age, her father&#8217;s background, and ultimately the potential illegality of her United States citizenship. Rather, she argued, outlets wanted a &#8220;natural&#8221; alternative to the &#8220;botox faces&#8221; of women on the Right.
&#8220;I think you just look really good on their screen, that&#8217;s why they like having you,&#8221; she said to Piker. The pair were kicked back on a sofa, clearly relaxed and comfortable, as they discussed the state of media in American politics.
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&#8220;Do you think that&#8217;s why they get you?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;Maybe a little bit,&#8221; she said, laughing.
&#8220;Yeah, they&#8217;re like she&#8217;s so charismatic —&#8221; Piker said.
&#8220;I think that&#8217;s what it is,&#8221; she agreed.
&#8220;I could see that. 100%, I agree with that,&#8221; Piker added. &#8220;Well, yeah, but it&#8217;s very frustrating,&#8221; Piker said.
&#8220;They get tired of looking at their, you know, botox faces,&#8221; she posited, adding that they then wanted to see if they could &#8220;get some nice, natural-looking faces —&#8221;
&#8220;So you&#8217;re saying if the fascists were hotter, then they would get more —&#8221; Piker prompted.
&#8220;There would be less of us on TV,&#8221; she agreed, not even blinking when Piker referred to conservatives as &#8220;fascists&#8221; and adding, &#8220;That&#8217;s what I think.&#8221;
&#8220;I think &#8230; that&#8217;s a fair assessment,&#8221; Piker said, turning to ask about the investigation briefly. &#8220;How are you holding up with everything going on? You&#8217;re good? You&#8217;re strong as ever, resilient as ever?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; the congresswoman nodded her head.
&#8220;It&#8217;s been you know, let&#8217;s just say tumultuous past week or so, but —&#8221;
&#8220;It tracks for me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s kind of most of my weeks. And months.&#8221;
The investigation into Omar actually began during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s term, but the Minnesota congresswoman has not missed an opportunity to accuse President Donald Trump of using it to his political advantage.
Questions have been raised about everything from what her father, a decorated military officer, did during the Somali civil war — and whether or not he could have participated in war crimes under the authoritarian regime of Mohamed Siad Barre — to Omar&#8217;s age at the time that her father became a naturalized citizen in the United States. Further complicating matters is the fact that a 2023 investigation aimed at getting details about that naturalization came up empty — meaning that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service database had no record of his citizenship anywhere.

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This article was written by Jason Foster and published on <a href="https://sportandstate.com/">Sport &amp; State</a>, a new media company founded by Clay Travis that is built around sports, culture, original voices, and live conversation. 
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I didn’t think it would ever happen. I didn’t even think it could happen. I hoped, I literally dreamed, but it just didn’t seem possible. There was no way the Braves would ever be good.
For the entirety of my baseball fandom, this team, my favorite team, was just terrible. The ’80s ended badly, and the next decade appeared ready to carry that lame torch after another last-place finish in 1990. Why would this new year be different? It wasn’t that I was pessimistic — I just had no reason to believe otherwise.
I should mention that I was 15, which means I had been a Braves fan for a total of four years, having discovered them in 1987. As an adult, four years is nothing. Hardly a blip. But as a young teen, it felt like it encompassed the majority of my life.
So, from 1987 to 1990, a young person’s eternity, the Braves let me down a lot. The worst of it came in 1988, when I was 12 and they lost 106 games. This was especially disappointing because I had a dream the night before Opening Day that they won that year’s World Series. I cried more than once that summer.
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Not even Dale Murphy, a two-time MVP and my favorite player, could make much of a difference on those late ’80s teams. And when the Braves traded him to the Phillies in August 1990, I wondered whether the team would even be worth watching without him.
Little did I know.
There are certain things in baseball that almost everyone agrees will never be matched: Cal Ripken Jr.‘s consecutive games streak, Joe DiMaggio‘s 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams‘ .406 season, Nolan Ryan‘s seven career no-hitters, etc.
I’ve got another one: the 1991 Atlanta Braves. Some might consider this a dubious claim, but I consider it beyond dispute.
Even though they broke no big records, lost the World Series and aren’t counted among the greatest teams of all time, there will never be another MLB team like them. And I know there are many others around the country who agree. Because if you were there, you know. Even now, 35 years later, the evidence — emotional and statistical — is overwhelming.
This was a team whose thrilling accomplishments on the field — a worst-to-first season, an NL pennant and runner-up in perhaps the greatest World Series of all time — were matched only by the unity they created off it. Their success that season was so unexpected, yet so enthralling, that it became a notable social phenomenon, a glorious and unique collision of timing and circumstance that will never happen again.
The season was so far out of the ordinary that many referred to the Braves’ success as a “miracle.” I’m not sure whether divine influence played into their success that season, but I do have a funny story about it that I’ll get to.
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In any case, whatever word you want to use to describe it, that summer and fall in Atlanta created a real anything is possible moment for millions of people. It was a season that was felt, not just in Atlanta but around the country.
In fact, one could argue that the ’91 Braves were the closest thing the United States has ever had to a truly national baseball team. Outlandish? Maybe, but it sure felt like observable reality at the time.
Of course, context is important.
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">‘America’s Team‘</h3>
The Braves in those days were beamed to around 55 million homes around the country because they were broadcast on owner Ted Turner‘s WTBS superstation. It’s what led Turner to dub them “America’s Team” in the late 1970s, even though the team was mostly terrible. Turner and TBS leaned into the label during the ’80s, even as the team continued to lose a lot more than it won.
But as the ’90s dawned, even through all that losing, which included four last-place finishes from 1986-1990, the Braves had developed an incredibly strong and loyal following. The reason was simple: In the years before MLB.TV and MLB Network, and before ESPN aired several games a week, the Braves were the only nightly baseball option for millions of people. The Cubs aired on WGN, another superstation, but not as many cable systems carried it, making its national reach far less than that of TBS.
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So, for legions of baseball fans, apart from NBC‘s “Game of the Week” on Saturday or ABC’s “Monday Night Baseball,” it was the Braves or nothing for about 15 years. Not only that, but the Braves’ ubiquity made them a convenient secondary interest for many people who were fans of other teams. This meant that Braves fans of all stripes were easy to find. From Georgia and the rest of the Southeast to Texas, Wyoming, Washington state, California and beyond, their appeal was vast — even though the team kept losing.
Their popularity almost didn’t make sense. But give a lot of credit to the banter of announcing mainstays Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Ernie Johnson and, eventually, Don Sutton, who made the broadcast feel like a gathering of friends — part entertainment source, part learning experience, part comfort. It was almost like watching a baseball game broadcast exclusively for you. There was an intimacy to it all, a sense of shared experience that came from watching years of bad baseball.
It was definitely a parasocial relationship, but the point is that it created a lasting connection with millions around the country. It’s a little hard to explain if you weren’t there. But if you know, you know.
Which brings us back to 1991, when TBS’ already-solid ratings for Braves games began to soar as the team — behind eventual NL MVP Terry Pendleton, eventual NL Cy Young winner Tom Glavine, and the nightly heroics of David Justice, Ron Gant and others — made it clear that something special was underway. As the Braves engineered winning streaks, big comebacks and walk-offs, the network saw its ratings <a href="https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1991/BC-1991-10-28.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">more than double</a> in September compared to the previous year.
Around 1.5 million households, on average, tuned in for each Braves game on TBS that month. That’s an insane number, especially by today’s standards. For comparison, ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” averaged 1.8 million viewers <a href="https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-mlb-attendance-reaches-71-4-million-three-straight-years-of-growth-for-first-time-since-2007?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">in 2025</a>.
Everyone, it seemed, was a Braves fan. There was a vibe as palpable as the cool autumn air, especially around the Southeast.
The tangible evidence went beyond a proliferation of Braves hats and T-shirts at school or around town. It was the PA announcer at a high school football game giving Braves score updates over the loudspeaker on Friday nights. It was the percussion section of the marching band leading an impromptu rendition of the Tomahawk Chop — and the crowd gleefully joining in. It was pastors using the Braves as a sermon illustration.
The vibe traveled well. Even “Saturday Night Live” eventually got involved.
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That “SNL” episode aired during the World Series vs. the Twins, a series that averaged nearly 36 million viewers in the United States. That’s an unheard of number today, when the World Series usually averages fewer than 16 million viewers.
Obviously, media consumption has changed a lot over the past 35 years, and baseball’s place in the overall entertainment landscape has lessened, but that big number certainly speaks to the nation’s investment in the outcome in 1991. And no disrespect to the Twins and their fans, but the investment was driven primarily by a specific, nationwide interest in the Braves. America’s Team, indeed.
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Living on a prayer</h3>
But weeks before that, as the Braves inched closer to their first division title in nearly a decade, the idea of a World Series in Atlanta — or, more importantly, a World Series win — became the most important thing in the world for me. My young teenage mind couldn’t imagine a greater sense of joy. Nor could it imagine anything more crushing than if they somehow lost or, worse, ended up not making it at all.
That was my mindset on Oct. 1, 1991, the first time I remember lifting an earnest prayer for the Braves to win. I mentioned earlier that I had a funny story about divine intervention. This is it.
The Braves entered that day a game out of first place with five to play. They were playing the Reds in Cincinnati, and things went downhill immediately. After one inning, the Braves were down 6-0. My hope plummeted. A 6-0 lead in those days was like a 14-0 lead today. It just felt impossible. I was sure this would be the game that ended the party.
But the Braves chipped away at that lead, causing my hope to flicker, and went into the ninth inning down 6-5. Reds closer Rob Dibble came on for the save. He was a big deal. He threw 100 mph when that was novel. I was really worried. So I turned off my 13-inch black-and-white TV, an already out-dated device I superstitiously believed held some key to the Braves’ success, and prayed.
This wasn’t a brief, typical sports-fan prayer. It wasn’t a “Dear God, please let them win” prayer that’s said or thought thousands of times by thousands of fans in just about every big game. It was a close-your-eyes, take-a-deep-breath-and-really-lay-it-out kind of prayer. Again, I was 15. There was nothing I wanted more than for the Braves to reach the postseason. To come so close and fall short would be devastating, or so my youthful brain thought. So I said the prayer, then turned the TV back on for the start of the ninth inning.
Mark Lemke led off with a single. Deion Sanders pinch ran and stole second. Pendleton flew out. Up came Justice. On Dibble’s first pitch, Justice crushed a fastball over the right-field wall for a two-run homer. The Braves led 7-6. I couldn’t believe it.
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A few minutes later, the Reds went 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth and the Braves escaped. The win kept them one game behind the Dodgers in the NL West. Over the next few days, the tide turned and the Braves finally overtook LA to win the division on the second-to-last day of the season.
Did my prayer actually make a difference against the Reds? I don’t know. I don’t claim to know how God handles such heartfelt but silly requests. All I know is that I prayed for them to win, and they won. So, two weeks later, I tried again during the World Series.
As my hormonal and sleep-deprived teenage body endured a stressful and emotionally exhausting Game 7 — which had been preceded by several other stressful and emotionally exhausting games — I pleaded with God to please let the Braves finally break through against the annoying(ly good) Jack Morris and win it all. The Twins had already won the World Series in 1987. It didn’t seem fair for them to win this one.
Alas, I didn’t get the answer I wanted. The Braves lost 1-0 in the 10th inning on a bases-loaded walk-off single from Twins bench player Gene Larkin. It’s the last time I cried because of sports.
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But America’s Team had put on a good show. Game 7, considered one of the best finales in baseball history, averaged more than 50 million viewers in the United States alone. No domestic World Series audience has matched that number since. For comparison, last season’s Game 7 between the Dodgers and Blue Jays averaged <a href="https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-51-million-average-viewers-watched-world-series-game-seven-in-u-s-canada-and-japan-combined" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-51-million-average-viewers-watched-world-series-game-seven-in-u-s-canada-and-japan-combined">51 million viewers</a> across the U.S., Canada and Japan combined.
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">There’s nothing like the first</h3>
It didn’t take long for me and a lot of other Braves fans to move on and appreciate all that 1991 had been. An estimated 7,000 people showed up at the airport at 4:30 a.m. to welcome the team home from Minnesota. Heck, the city of Atlanta threw the team a parade to celebrate the incredible ride. There was no guarantee that the Braves would ever be that good again, so it was reasonable to think it might’ve been a once-in-a-lifetime happening. That uncertainty only enhanced the specialness.
Of course, 1991 was not the only time the Braves were good. They famously turned that success into 14 straight division titles, five NL pennants and the 1995 World Series championship. Not to mention another stretch of excellence that continues today. But in terms of season-long joy and nightly thrills, nothing will ever top 1991. Because there can never be another first time.
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The 1991 Braves were the first team that got me excited about the future, the first team that made me nervous, the first team that made me truly care about the World Series, the first team that made me seek divine intervention on its behalf, the first team that broke my heart. It was kinda like a first love in that way, and it’s impossible to duplicate your first.
Even for fans who experienced the Braves’ division title in 1982, or even the first one in 1969, the 1991 campaign ascended to an echelon which no other season has ever reached. Not even 1995 or 2021. The ingredients were just different.
For one out-of-nowhere season during one unique point in history, the Braves brought the masses together over a baseball miracle.
That’s why, for me and millions of others, even 35 years later, there’s 1991 and then everything else.

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The Department of Justice has charged former FBI Director James Comey with transmitting national defense information and conspiring to do so in connection with an alleged 2016 disclosure to The New York Times, according to court documents unsealed Monday.
Prosecutors <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28834270/comey-information.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged Comey</a> on October 5 with a criminal information rather than a grand jury indictment, and his attorneys have moved to dismiss it.
&#8220;Well, they’re back again. It would almost be funny if it weren’t such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice, one that we cannot become numb to,&#8221; Comey said in a video posted Monday to his <a href="https://jamescomey.substack.com/p/yet-another-case-now?r=16z5v&amp;utm_medium=ios">Substack</a>. &#8220;Nothing’s changed with me. I’m still innocent. I’m still not afraid of these people, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.&#8221;
The charges became public the same day a federal judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-appointed-judge-weighs-in-on-trump-dojs-move-against-comeys-daughter">ruled</a> that Comey&#8217;s daughter, former federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, had been unlawfully fired from the Justice Department and ordered her reinstatement.
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The case, according to a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-fbi-james-comey-charged-third-time-trump-national-security-rcna342963">report</a> from NBC News, stems from a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/technology/yahoo-email-tech-companies-government-investigations.html">article</a> published on October 5, 2016, about Yahoo&#8217;s assistance with U.S. email surveillance. Prosecutors claim Comey directed staff to give information to Times reporter Charlie Savage to &#8220;correct misinformation&#8221; in a Reuters article published the day before.
&#8220;The United States’ investigation has uncovered evidence that former FBI Director, James B. Comey, sought to correct misinformation which had appeared in the press by way of Reuters the day before. The investigation has uncovered evidence that Mr. Comey directed staff to speak to Mr. Savage about specific accuracy concerns related to the Reuters article, and thereby illegally transferred classified information,&#8221; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Dustin Farahnak wrote in a filing unsealed Monday, according to NBC.
Comey was still serving as FBI director when the article was published. President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-fires-fbi-director-comey-ben-shapiro">fired him</a> from that position several months later in May 2017.
Comey&#8217;s attorneys have argued that the new charges are barred by the 10-year statute of limitations because they &#8220;are based exclusively on the October 5, 2016, alleged disclosure exactly ten years before the government’s filed criminal information.&#8221;
A previous case against Comey — in which he was charged with making a false statement to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation — has already been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-tosses-charges-against-james-comey-letitia-james">dismissed</a>. He has also been charged over a beach photo showing seashells arranged as &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/damage-control-jim-comey-insists-he-found-trump-threat-on-beach-didnt-know-what-86-meant">86 47</a>.&#8221;
Comey has denied wrongdoing in all three cases.

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CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; featured the story of a recently deported illegal alien who had been living in the United States for 25 years — interviewing his tearful wife and children for the show — but the Department of Homeland Security says they left out a few key details.
According to DHS — and an asylum application obtained by Fox News — Moussa Diawara, 57, described himself as gay and said he feared persecution over both his sexual orientation and his conversion to Christianity if he ever returned to his home country of Mali.
&#8220;This illegal alien is @60Minutes poster child for what it claims are wrongful deportations. I pulled his file. His claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is &#8216;gay,&#8217; just in case you’re wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is,&#8221; DHS General Counsel James Percival posted on X.
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Fox News National Correspondent Brooke Taylor shared the asylum application, in which Diawara said his tribal group and his &#8220;community as a whole&#8221; had already somehow gotten wind of his proclivities and had informed his family — meaning that he did not believe he would be safe even from members of his own family if he returned to Mali.
&#8220;Although I was born as a boy, but things appeared differently for me as I was already having female behaviors and feelings &#8230; I was more comfortable being intimate with boys rather than with girls,&#8221; Diawara wrote.
Describing his life in the United States, he wrote: &#8220;Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve.&#8221;
The application listed Diawara as single at the time. The pages Taylor shared do not say when he married.
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🚨 #FOXEXCLUSIVE: 60 Minutes featured a deported Malian national whose wife and two children spoke about how much they miss him and want him home.
But we exclusively obtained Moussa Diawara’s asylum application, where he said he was seeking asylum in the U.S. because he was gay and feared being killed if sent back.
Now, DHS is pointing to his case as an example of alleged immigration fraud.
In his own words, Diawara wrote:
“Although I was born as a boy, but things appeared differently for me as I was already having female behaviors and feelings.”
“I was more comfortable being intimate with boys rather than with girls.”
And describing his life after arriving in the United States:
“Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve.”
Read the asylum application for yourself:
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Diawara also noted that he had converted to Christianity eight months before the statement.
CBS News, in a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/moussa-diawara-third-country-deportation-ghana-mali-60-minutes/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&amp;linkId=1027134581">print article</a> that accompanied the &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/60Minutes/status/2114496884786004327">60 Minutes</a>&#8221; broadcast, presented the story in a slightly different light:
<blockquote>Diawara, 57, came to the U.S. on a tourist visa when he was 32. He overstayed that visa, and later applied for refugee protection, arguing he would be persecuted if he were to return to Mali. Diawara had converted to Christianity, and Mali&#8217;s a Muslim-majority nation with an Islamist insurgency. He has no criminal record.</blockquote>
Diawara, who has been portrayed by liberal media outlets as a &#8220;Texas father,&#8221; was deported to Ghana over the summer because a judge barred his deportation to Mali. Once in Ghana, however, officials reportedly forced him onto a flight to his home country.
&#8220;I cannot call my wife, I can&#8217;t contact my lawyer. I can&#8217;t talk to no one. I tell them, &#8216;This is kidnapping. You guys kidnapped us,'&#8221; he told &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221;
Diawara also said he believed U.S. officials knew he would be returned to Mali once he arrived in Ghana.
Asked whether deportees were voluntarily returning to countries they had fled, Percival offered two possible explanations.
&#8220;Either they would choose to go home, and they might not always be truthful about the fact that they consented, so that&#8217;s one possibility. The other possibility is that the foreign government applied their own procedures and, consistent with international law, determined that it was acceptable to return them home,&#8221; he said.

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A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama ruled on Monday that the Justice Department under President Donald Trump had illegally fired Maurene Comey, former FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s daughter.
Judge Jesse Furman, nominated by Obama in 2011 and confirmed in 2012, declared the Justice Department&#8217;s actions unlawful and that Comey was entitled to back pay. He also concluded that the Trump administration&#8217;s argument, if accepted by the court, would upend the constitutional balance of power, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/nyregion/maurene-comey-firing-doj-trump-epstein.html">according</a> to The New York Times.
&#8220;Defendants’ argument that [Constitution] Article II bars Congress from regulating the removal of AUSAs [assistant U.S. attorneys] flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent,&#8221; Furman wrote in response to the administration&#8217;s claim that Article II of the U.S. Constitution gave the Justice Department the authority to remove Comey.
Furman further claimed that allowing that argument to stand would &#8220;unsettle the very equilibrium established by this nation&#8217;s constitutional system&#8221; and &#8220;risk a return to the spoils system that Congress has sought to end since the nineteenth century.&#8221;
Furman ruled that Comey&#8217;s termination was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/politics/maurene-comey-unjustly-fired-from-doj">unlawful</a>. He argued that while the Justice Department has wide latitude for firing assistant U.S. attorneys — of which Maureen Comey was one — Congress has used the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) to limit that latitude. The Justice Department conceded that Comey was not fired for cause or for her job performance. The administration also did not provide her advance notice or allow her to respond.
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&#8220;Yes, the Attorney General is authorized by law to remove an AUSA. But the Attorney General (and anyone to whom the Attorney General delegates that authority) is also limited by law, namely the CSRA, to do so only in a particular manner and only for certain reasons. And Comey’s removal indisputably violated the CSRA,&#8221; he wrote.
A DOJ spokesperson, according to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-judge-rules-trump-doj-illegally-fired-james-comeys-daughter-rejects-sweeping-article-ii-claim">report</a> from Fox News Digital, confirmed that the administration plans to appeal Furman&#8217;s decision but has not yet determined when it will do so.
Prior to her dismissal, Comey served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York — the same office where her father, former FBI Director James Comey, had worked years earlier — and had prosecuted a number of high-profile cases, including that of the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Comey&#8217;s legal team issued a statement following the ruling, saying, &#8220;This hard-earned victory belongs to Ms. Comey, to all civil servants, and to all fighting for the rule of law.&#8221;

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A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has completely given up on grading homework for accuracy, saying that rampant student use of artificial intelligence has made the exercise all but pointless.
Renowned mathematician Richard Borcherds told <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/25/us-news/uc-berkeley-professor-refuses-to-grade-students-homework-after-spotting-surge-in-ai-usage/">The California Post</a> that so many students are relying on AI to complete regular homework assignments that those doing the work on their own are the ones being penalized.
&#8220;Student use of AI for homework is now widespread. Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework instead of doing it themselves, and penalizes students for honesty,&#8221; Borcherds explained.
Borcherds said he now grades homework based solely on whether it was completed rather than whether the answers were correct, arguing that paying college-level instructors to grade AI-generated answers wastes time and money.
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Additionally, he said that it was becoming more and more difficult to weed out the AI-generated answers from the students&#8217; work — primarily because the mistakes common to earlier AI tools are rapidly becoming fewer and farther between.
&#8220;There is no easy way to tell the difference between human and AI generated work. Occasionally one could tell it is AI because AI made a few characteristic errors, but AI has now improved so much that it rarely makes obvious mistakes,&#8221; he said.
Online exams are also problematic, he said, adding that he has no way to determine which students are using AI tools to complete them. He has seen an overall improvement in the average grades from such exams.
The solution for him, thus far, has been to base the majority of his students&#8217; grades on in-person exams where electronic devices are not permitted.
<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/704090/routine-college-students-despite-campus-limits.aspx">AI use</a> is common among college students, according to a Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education study, conducted online October 2-31, 2025. The survey found that more than half of U.S. college students use AI at least weekly to aid in their studies — and approximately 20% use it daily.
Male students are more likely to use AI than female students, and use is slightly more prevalent in business and technology-related fields than in the natural sciences and humanities.

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Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) trashed an openly antisemitic ad promoting her former primary opponent Abdul El Sayed, saying that it would do nothing to help Democrats win in Michigan.
The ad, shared by &#8220;Young Turks&#8221; host Cenk Uygur, featured a couple at a grocery store arguing over which items they would have to put back. They were unable to afford everything they needed, according to the ad, because they were being forced to fund wars on Israel&#8217;s behalf at the expense of feeding their own families.
&#8220;This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days,&#8221; Stevens protested in an X post. &#8220;Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people’s health care, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!! How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President.&#8221;
Uygur shared the spot — which he claimed was a &#8220;new&#8221; ad made by Rebellion PAC — and then he accused former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) of being &#8220;bought&#8221; by Israel.
&#8220;We have to suffer here at home, so Israel can get all its wars. That’s why they buy politicians like Mike Rogers. He promised to serve Israel &#8216;unconditionally,&#8217; but never made that promise to you,&#8221; he claimed.
The grocery store scene appeared in an ad for Uygur&#8217;s own short-lived and ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign — which he&#8217;d launched in an attempt to challenge then-President Joe Biden in the primary — and has been posted on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYs43NasVSY">YouTube</a> for well over two years. Uygur&#8217;s campaign, launched in mid-October of 2023, was suspended just a few months later on March 6, 2024.
Stevens, for her part, gave a rather lukewarm response about her former primary rival to CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221;
When asked directly whether she would stand &#8220;fully&#8221; with El Sayed — who bested her in the Michigan Senate primary — all she would say was that she was &#8220;still on the team.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump tore into HBO host and comedian Bill Maher in a lengthy social media rant on Sunday, calling him a liar and accusing him of using a &#8220;laugh machine&#8221; on his &#8220;low-rated&#8221; show — despite promising beforehand that he wouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;mean&#8221; things.
Trump, via his Truth Social platform, appeared to be responding to two things at the same time: the recent dinner he&#8217;d shared with Maher, Kid Rock, and Stephen A. Smith and former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt&#8217;s Friday evening appearance on &#8220;Real Time.&#8221;
&#8220;Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not &#8216;HOT&#8217; anymore!&#8221; Trump began.
The president went on to say that Maher&#8217;s friend Chuck LaBella had previously worked as a &#8220;gofer&#8221; on his hit NBC reality show &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221; — and argued that was how he&#8217;d managed to work his way up the ladder.
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&#8220;The Success of the Apprentice was so great that everyone partook — It built many careers, and that is a wonderful thing. Some people say it even built my career, because I became President (I would have won without it!),&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;In any event, over the last few years, LaBella would call me nonstop to say, &#8216;Hello,&#8217; be very nice, and tell me how much Bill Maher &#8216;loves&#8217; and respects me, and would constantly ask of me, even before I was President, for any form of meeting with Maher and, would I do his show?&#8221;
Trump said that he eventually agreed to meet with Maher — which resulted in two separate dinners at the White House — but said he had no interest in ever doing Maher&#8217;s show.
&#8220;It won’t happen! When I have watched the show, which isn’t often, it always ends with dishonesty, about me at least, but, who cares? He doesn’t think it was a good thing to take the Nuclear Weapon away from Iran, which shows you that he is not very smart. If I allowed them to obtain a Nuclear Weapon, the World would be a different place right now!&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Using Fake Polls, he also said I had my Lowest Ratings so far, &#8216;and even the Republican Party doesn’t like him,&#8217; but that’s not true. I have High Ratings and, more importantly, he said that I’m losing the support and approval of the Republican Party when, in fact, CNN just came out with a Poll showing that I’m at 98 and 99% support within the Republican Party, an All Time Record High. Ronald Reagan was at 86%. CNN’s Harry Enten also said I am &#8216;The Most Influential President of the Last Century.'&#8221;
&#8220;CNN did another Poll at who was the Most Popular Person in the History of the Republican Party, and I won that, too, with me being at 53%, Ronald Reagan being at 18%, and Abraham Lincoln being at 8%, and these are CNN Polls, people not exactly in love with me, so, Bill Maher lied, but he lies about everything, and I believe he lied to me when I asked him, with all the applause and laughter he gets after almost everything he says, about things that aren’t funny or even any good, what Laughter Machine does he use?&#8221; Trump continued. 
Trump explained then that the meeting with Maher had been encouraged by LaBella and Kid Rock primarily, and that his response had been, &#8220;Fellas, this guy’s a Goofball.” 
&#8220;They said, &#8216;He wants to go down to the White House, be with you, and talk. He said you’re very smart, but you’re not into the Liberal Platform. Will you start thinking about it?'&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;He invited himself to the White House! We had our first meeting, Bill was very nervous. He asked for a drink. He was very insecure, and he had a seriously bruised eye and nose area, as though somebody had just beaten him up — But it wasn’t me!&#8221;
Trump said that Maher, after the first dinner, had made no secret of his desire to come back — and said that eventually he had acquiesced.
&#8220;I wanted to tell Bill that he’s a major POTHEAD. He’s got to stop, it’s very bad for his health. He looked like hell this time. Bill was drunk and had alcohol in his hand as he walked through the White House. Stephen A. Smith and Kid Rock came along with him. Overall, I thought it was a good meeting,&#8221; Trump said, but he contested Maher&#8217;s claim that the dinner had lasted four hours: &#8220;It didn’t last four hours, it lasted two hours, maybe less, and everybody was happy. We have the timestamps. I learned nothing, and felt it was a waste of time.&#8221;
The president pivoted again to mock Maher&#8217;s show in general before weighing in on Leavitt&#8217;s appearance on Friday evening.
&#8220;Karoline Leavitt was GREAT on the show, but she started with a biased, dumb SLEAZEBAG, asking questions,&#8221; Trump explained. &#8220;She defended me, and herself, so well, but couldn’t be comfortable going against Lie after Lie.&#8221;
Trump went on to lay out one of the things he believed Maher had lied about, namely the number of illegal voters uncovered in the state of California alone.
&#8220;Bill: Don’t call anymore. It’s useless, and tell Chuck LaBella not to call so much, and say how much you love &#8216;TRUMP,&#8217; and want to get together, because you’re a hopeless guy, who is just trying to cater to your small group of &#8216;fans,'&#8221; Trump concluded. &#8220;You’re also a coward who is afraid to tell the truth about how well our Country is running because of your few &#8216;fans,&#8217; and how badly the Dumocrats have done, almost destroying the U.S.A. If I hadn’t won the Election, it would be DEAD! &#8230; I never watched your show much, but I will never watch it again, because it is nothing more than FAKE NEWS that America, and the World, is unfortunately subjected to.&#8221;
Prior to their second dinner, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-says-trump-invited-him-back-to-the-white-house-with-a-promise">Maher</a> said that Trump had promised not to say mean things about him if they met up again — a promise to which Maher had thumbed his nose.
“And I texted back and I said, ‘You know what? You’re the president of the United States, say whatever the f*ck you want,&#8217;” the comedian explained at the time. “I’m just glad we’re talking. It’s like being called a hockey puck by Don Rickles. It’s just what he does. It’s how he talks.”

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Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt weighed in briefly on her successor, Katie Zacharia, who ended up leaving the post after just five days.
During a Fox News digital interview Wednesday evening, Leavitt made it clear she wished Zacharia well and noted that sometimes it&#8217;s impossible to know whether someone can handle the rigors of the job until they step into the briefing room.
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Karoline Leavitt says she&#8217;s helping President Trump find his next White House press secretary after her replacement, Katie Zacharia, lasted just five days in the role — the shortest stint in U.S. history.
Leavitt, who stepped down in August to focus on her two young children, told Fox News Digital that the job &#8220;obviously was not for&#8221; Zacharia but wished her well. She said Trump &#8220;is continuing to look over options&#8221; and that &#8220;a lot of people want that job.&#8221;
Leavitt also shut down any speculation about a future run for office, saying she has no plans to seek elected office &#8220;in the near future at all, or in the future at all.&#8221; She officially becomes a Fox News contributor in November.
Full story here https://t.co/2yKTEiNkg3
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&#8220;White House press secretary is a tough job. I know that because I did it, obviously for almost two years, and many people say it&#8217;s one of the hardest jobs in politics,&#8221; Leavitt said, adding that the job required &#8220;a lot of preparation.&#8221;
&#8220;Sometimes you don&#8217;t know how someone will perform until they go out there,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We wish Katie the best. The job obviously was not for her, but we wish her and her family well.&#8221;
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Leavitt said she offered to assist President Donald Trump as he began searching for a permanent replacement.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve offered my help to the president to help him select someone who can serve him and the country well.&#8221;
Trump, she said, &#8220;is continuing to look over options. There&#8217;s a lot of people who want that job. It&#8217;s an amazing job. It provides you with incredible opportunities.&#8221;
Leavitt also reflected on her own appointment during an appearance on TPUSA&#8217;s &#8220;Make Heaven Crowded&#8221; tour.
&#8220;When he [President Trump] offered me the position, he said, ‘Karoline, a lot of people have called me and told me not to give you this job because you&#8217;re too young, but I told them when I was your age, I was building buildings in Manhattan and you can do it,'&#8221; she said.
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Karoline Leavitt: “When he [President Trump] offered me the position, he said, ‘Karoline, a lot of people have called me and told me not to give you this job because you&#8217;re too young, but I told them when I was your age, I was building buildings in Manhattan and you can do it.’”
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Leavitt held the job from the beginning of Trump&#8217;s second term in January 2025 until the end of August, and is set to join Fox News as a contributor in November.

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A Scottish museum has removed ancient Egyptian mummies from display because there is no documented consent from the deceased or their descendants.
A sign posted at Glasgow&#8217;s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, according to a <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/22/mummy-removed-from-exhibition-over-its-lack-of-consent/">report</a> from The Telegraph, states that staffers have “removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect.&#8221;
Glasgow Life, a nonprofit that oversees cultural institutions throughout the city, said the decision reflected &#8220;contemporary&#8221; museum views on displaying human remains.
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&#8220;The International Council of Museums’ revised Code of Ethics, published in June 2026, states that museums ‘should uphold the inherent dignity of human remains and promote respect for their significance.&#8217; Glasgow Life Museums’ draft Human Remains Policy proposes that human remains should only be displayed where there is documented and informed consent from the deceased individual or, in appropriate circumstances, their descendants,&#8221; the statement read.
&#8220;In the absence of such consent, we believe removing ancient Egyptian human remains from display is more respectful to the deceased individuals,&#8221; it continued.
In addition to the remains of a priest named Nekt, the museum removed a mummified right hand, foot, and head belonging to an unidentified male, reportedly uncovered in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.
During a GB News panel discussion, Will Kingston had a simpler assessment: &#8220;How absolutely insane.&#8221;
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve been wondering where the woke brigade will turn to next,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Gaza, trans, climate change, it&#8217;s all running out of steam a bit, and we&#8217;ve found the next cause celebre: it&#8217;s mummies&#8217; rights!&#8221;
&#8220;The dead can&#8217;t give consent,&#8221; one of the presenters replied.
&#8220;Nekt was unavailable for comment,&#8221; Kingston added. &#8220;How absolutely insane, and it just goes to show that this sort of stuff, there&#8217;s no lengths that they can&#8217;t go to with regard to how ludicrous this stuff is. It&#8217;s incredible.&#8221;
&#8220;That is bonkers,&#8221; the presenter agreed.
Even the liberal on the panel — who stipulated that he did not believe climate change was &#8220;woke&#8221; agreed that the museum&#8217;s actions were &#8220;just mad.&#8221;

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be testing out a new oratory style, and it&#8217;s not great.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-delivers-another-brutal-word-salad">Harris</a>, speaking to a group of Culinary Workers Union members in Las Vegas, sounded more like she was talking to young children as she lowered her voice and dramatically slowed her cadence.
&#8220;That era of feeling powerless, like what can we do, this just keeps happening, that era is over because we are now 13 days away from doing something about it to stop the pain,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;So that&#8217;s where we are right now, and that&#8217;s kind of exciting, right?&#8221; she continued, her tone equal parts airy and condescending. &#8220;This is some good stuff. Like, we&#8217;re taking our power, we&#8217;re using it, to determine who will hold offices like being the governor of Nevada. Which is so important for the people everyday on the most basic issues that affect our lives. Who will continue to walk those halls of Congress being an extraordinary fighter.&#8221;
Harris has often been mocked for her speaking style — and her penchant for word-salad-style answers to even the most basic questions.
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Changes to her overall speech patterns have often been attributed to &#8220;code-switching,&#8221; or adopting different mannerisms based on the audience in front of her. Harris is far from the only politician to do that — and she&#8217;s also not the only one to net disastrous results from it.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for example, was roundly mocked for adopting a southern accent despite growing up in Chicago.
One memorable example came during a 2007 speech at a black church in Selma, Alabama, as she campaigned for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel no ways tired,&#8221; she drawled, reciting the words of James Cleveland&#8217;s classic freedom hymn. &#8220;I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don&#8217;t believe he brought me this far to leave me.&#8221;

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