The FBI arrested two more men accused of plotting to conduct a terror plot at the UFC Freedom 250 event, including one suspect investigators said had experience piloting drones. 
The Justice Department announced Monday that William Lee Spartacus Falkner and Jordan Rincker had been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. The alleged plot was supposed to involve setting off explosive-carrying drones to cause panic before snipers would open fire and target certain political figures. 
Falkner was arrested Friday in Washington and made his first court appearance in Tacoma on Monday while Rincker was arrested on Sunday and made his first court appearance on Monday in Kansas City. 
“Law enforcement continues to do what it does — move to disrupt and hold accountable those allegedly plotting to do harm on the White House Grounds on June 14,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Each and every day, the FBI and their federal, state and local law enforcement partners, along with U.S. Attorneys offices across the country, safeguard American communities and our nation’s security.”  
The plot, which the FBI says was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-masterminded-ufc-white-house-drone-attack-plot-dhs-says">masterminded</a> by an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was uncovered after one of the suspects&#8217; moms called local law enforcement about concerns she had about plans her 19-year-old son was making. Eventually, investigators gained access to multiple group chats where the attack was discussed and planned. 
Communications reviewed by investigators revealed that Falkner had experience in making and piloting drones and that he discussed loading them with explosives, according to the Justice Department. After the arrest of several over the plot last week, investigators said Falkner and others canceled a “work trip” they had been discussing. 
Rincker, 28, is accused of accepting $1,200 in cash from Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, the alleged illegal immigrant ringleader, to make payments to others involved in the plot. Some of the money was supposed to go toward paying for gas for another suspect to go pick up the drone operator before traveling to Washington, D.C., for the attack. 
Investigators said that Rincker met with Alvarez in Omaha, Nebraska, and gave him a 12-gauge shotgun in exchange for a ballistic plate, face shield, 3D printer, 3D printing filament, night vision goggles, binoculars, and a minicomputer.
“These arrests are the latest result of the FBI, teaming up with our great partners, to identify and apprehend those who allegedly wanted to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event — a threat this FBI and our partners prevented,” said FBI Director Kash Patel.

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The Trump administration will probe whether Major League Baseball is discriminating against Christian players who pushed back against “Pride” month messaging.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred on Thursday that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will investigate the league for religious discrimination. The notification came after the league warned several players who wrote Bible verses on the “Pride” caps they were issued for a game. 
“The Civil Rights Act prohibits MLB and its franchises from unreasonably burdening the rights of players with religious objections to serving as the League&#8217;s vehicle for pro-Pride messages,” Dhillon <a href="https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/2067709644185759938">wrote</a> in a letter to Manfred.
Dhillon suggested that she did not buy the MLB’s claims that they only warned the players because of a policy against writing on uniform equipment.  
“Yet, MLB has allowed players to wear uniform patches reading ‘Black Lives Matter.’ This double standard — under which players may not inscribe Bible verses on hats for one game only but may wear ‘Black Lives Matter’ patches for one game only — calls MLB&#8217;s true motives into question and raises serious concerns about MLB&#8217;s compliance with Title VII,” Dhillon wrote. 
“The Trump Administration is committed to combatting religious discrimination,” Dhillon added. “The Department of Justice will use all available means to hold employers accountable for violating the religious rights of their employees.”
The controversy started last week when San Francisco Giants starting pitcher <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/giants-pitcher-refuses-to-hide-christian-faith-during-pride-night">Landen Roupp</a> wrote a Bible passage found in Genesis onto his cap, right next to the LGBT-themed rainbow logo he was directed to wear. Fellow players JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker also added Bible verses to their caps. 
MLB’s Chief Communications Officer Pat Courtney told The Athletic on Monday that these players have been “warned” about “future violations.” He said that writing on the team’s baseball caps “violates our rules.”
Those warnings spurred backlash from elected officials who argued the MLB was targeting Christians. 
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to Manfred asking him to provide further detail about the league’s policies. 
“The freedom to live out one’s faith does not end at the ballpark gate. Americans of every creed are entitled to confidence that the institutions of our national pastime will not single out religious expression for punishment while celebrating messages of the league’s own choosing,” he said. 
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said that the MLB should expect to be hearing from his office “soon.”

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California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, struggled to respond to questions about federal investigations into their finances.
On live television, MS NOW correspondent Jacob Soboroff approached the California couple at the opening ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center. 
Soboroff asked, “We’ve heard from the governor, but we haven’t heard from you yet about this investigation. What do you want to say?”
“I&#8217;m just so grateful for this inspiration and leadership,” Jennifer Newsom said, shifting the focus back to the Obama event. “We need more of this!&#8221;
Then, the potential 2028 presidential hopeful jumped in. 
“This is stuff that happens in other countries, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll say,” Newsom said. “Happens in other countries. He wants to go after me — go after me.”
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The Department of Justice has launched multiple investigations related to the Newsom family, including a probe dating back to the Biden administration, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-says-trump-is-coming-after-him-one-problem-biden-started-it?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Newsom+Says+Trump+Is+Coming+After+Him.+One+Problem%3A+Biden+Started+It.">reported</a>. 
The Monday afternoon bombshell came hours after Newsom accused President Donald Trump of directing the DOJ to investigate him and his wife.
In a nearly five-minute video <a href="https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/2066585778982166808?s=20">statement</a>, Newsom said federal agents have knocked on the doors of his family, friends, and former employees.
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“Today, my wife &amp; I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime — they are simply trying to find one,” Newsom wrote on X.
“They’re demanding records, they’re abusing the grand jury process, digging through years and years of random documents. Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets. He’s coming after me because I’m considering running for president,” the California Democrat said. 
A source familiar with the matter told The Daily Wire that multiple DOJ investigations related to Newsom are underway, though none are directly targeting the California governor himself. One investigation, which began in 2025, concerns his wife and her taxes. A separate DOJ investigation into Newsom’s former chief of staff was launched during President Joe Biden’s administration and remains open and evolving, according to the source. Those investigations originated in Sacramento and involved whistleblowers and sources in the state, rather than coming from the main DOJ. 
In his video, however, Newsom did not specify what the Department of Justice was investigating.
“After calling for my arrest last year, Donald Trump directed his Department of Justice to investigate me, and just in the last week, I’ve learned that his campaign has reached my own home to get me,” he said. “He’s coming after my wife, Jen, a public servant, a woman who’s dedicated her life to supporting women and girls.” 
The investigations threaten to throw a wrench in Newsom’s likely presidential bid. 
A Newsom administration official <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/newsom-orbit-war-trump-doj-00968115">told</a> POLITICO the developments are “creating complications” for the office, a stress point on full display in Newsom’s response. 
“You can subpoena my records, you can investigate me, you can harass me, put my name on every and any enemies list you have, but leave my wife and family out of your personal vendetta.”

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BOSTON— Federal authorities arrested 11 illegal immigrants in Massachusetts they say are tied to a massive taxpayer-funded benefit fraud scheme that exceeded $1 million.
The Justice Department <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/06/18/11-illegal-aliens-indicted-14-million-benefit-fraud-scheme-massachusetts">announced</a> charges against a total of 15 alleged fraudsters, which includes the 11 illegal aliens, during a press conference on Thursday in Boston. Several of the accused fraudsters are &#8220;John Does&#8221; who used stolen identities and their names remain unknown.
Colin M. McDonald, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department&#8217;s fraud division, said federal investigators are &#8220;still working&#8221; to determine the &#8220;true identities&#8221; of the unnamed fraudsters.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t know who they are fully, but we do know who they are not. They are not the American citizens they pretend to be, and from that initial lie the charges [announced] today allege that they gained access to the buffet of benefits generously given by the American taxpayer for needy Americans,&#8221; McDonald said.
&#8220;In some cases, the victims of these crimes, the rightful beneficiaries of these funds, could not access benefits they needed. And why? That was because their identities had been stolen and their names had been already used in the programs to steal benefits. In other words, American citizens were boxed out of these programs because illegal aliens took their names to then take their money, or more accurately your money, the American taxpayer&#8217;s money. Illegal immigration carries real and substantial costs to American taxpayers and places enormous strain on our public benefits systems. And the further we look, the more fraud we find,&#8221; he added.
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Among those charged was 56-year-old Dominican national Santo Escolastico Cuello who allegedly committed aggravated identity theft and made false statements relating to a health care program in connection with $162,180 in MassHealth fraud.
One of the accused illegal immigrant John Does is charged with false representation of a Social Security number, aggravated identity theft and making false statements relating to a health care program in connection with MassHealth fraud totaling $75,000 and aggravated identity theft.
Another John Doe is charged with illegal acquisition or use of SNAP benefits, theft of government funds, and aggravated identity theft in connection with SNAP benefit fraud totaling $11,000.
Federal authorities also charged Mario Baez Romero, a 45-year-old Dominican national who was living in Somerville, Massachusetts, with aggravated identity theft and passport fraud in connection with $26,942 in SNAP fraud, and $48,785 in MassHealth fraud. He was encountered by federal authorities on a recreational boat near Key Biscayne in Miami, Florida, in May.
One of the suspects, Indian illegal immigrant Mitul Patel, 40, allegedly <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/eleven-indian-nationals-charged-visa-fraud-conspiracy">staged</a> at least six false armed robberies of a convenience store to allow the alleged victims, including himself, to seek U visas for victims of violent crimes.
Another accused fraudster was previously convicted in Massachusetts on federal drug charges, officials said.
Authorities are still working to identify the John Does and have asked the government of the Dominican Republic for assistance, U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said during Thursday&#8217;s presser.
Illegal immigrants have traditionally flocked to Massachusetts for the state&#8217;s generous public benefits system, including state health care programs, McDonald told The Daily Wire&#8217;s Kassy Akiva during an interview that followed the press conference.
McDonald also called out Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey, who has sparred with the Trump administration over its demands for the state to hand over data on SNAP applicants and recipients.
&#8220;Things like being transparent for the records that the state maintains because the state is responsible. Not only do they receive the money from the federal government, we give them the money. They are then responsible for the verification checks, the eligibility checks. We are asking and we have been asking for them to give us those records so that we can see and we can pressure test, just make sure that fraud&#8217;s not happening, but they refuse to give us those records,&#8221; McDonald said.
&#8220;It begs the question of what are you trying to hide,&#8221; he said.

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It is the kind of blunder that makes you wonder how it ever got this far. Trump’s own Justice Department is undercutting the administration’s effort to rein in federal climate overreach.
In February, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-repeal-obama-era-greenhouse-gas-finding-large-scale-deregulation">scrapped the Obama-era endangerment finding</a>, the legal foundation for the whole federal climate regime — the basis for a sprawling federal campaign that Congress never clearly approved. That 2009 finding gave Washington, D.C. the excuse to regulate greenhouse gases and use the Clean Air Act as a blunt instrument against cars, trucks, power plants, and the energy economy itself.
Remove that finding, and the whole regulatory scheme starts to fall apart, leaving the EPA’s climate authority without a real legal footing.
Yet the Justice Department’s <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-170/409590/20260521184428959_25-170_Suncor_v_Boulder_Merits_FINAL.pdf">position</a> in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County is a mess. While the Trump EPA is trying to unwind the federal climate regime, the DOJ appears to be leaving the door open to the same broad Clean Air Act theory that made the regime possible in the first place. Climate activists will happily exploit that contradiction.
This case is bigger than one bad brief. The Supreme Court is deciding whether Boulder can use state courts as a backdoor to impose a climate policy that Congress never passed. If the Court lets that theory stand, it will encourage copycat suits, drag energy companies into years of litigation, and invite state-by-state climate lawmaking by lawsuit.
This dispute is important because the fight over the endangerment finding is not some isolated legal squabble. It is part of a much larger battle over whether the Trump administration can actually dismantle the federal climate bureaucracy. If the rescission gets knocked out in separate litigation, Trump’s reform effort can be reversed, and every climate rule he is trying to unwind gets fresh legal cover.
Boulder and its allies are using local lawsuits to do an end-run around Congress and rewrite national energy policy in court. That is lawfare, plain and simple.
The Department of Justice’s position gives the game away because it signals that the administration is still hedging on the basic question of the EPA&#8217;s authority, and that hesitation is exactly what climate litigants will exploit. Once the government starts speaking in two voices, the other side gets to turn its own words against it.
That is not just a bad look. It is a legal problem. Judges notice when the government is inconsistent. They notice when one branch of the administration says one thing and another branch says something else. Credibility counts in court, especially when the issue is whether the EPA has the power to regulate a major part of the economy under a law Congress never squarely wrote that way.
The administration ought to be fighting with one voice. Congress makes the law, not green activists, trial lawyers, or unelected bureaucrats. Instead, the Trump administration appears to be talking out of both sides of its mouth.
The Left does not need a perfect opening. It only needs inconsistency. It will seize on any stray sentence, quote the government back to itself, and argue that even Trump’s own lawyers admit the EPA has broad authority over greenhouse gases. That is how opponents turn a single bad briefing position into a long-term legal weapon.
That contradiction needs to be fixed now, before it hardens into bad law and leaves Trump’s energy agenda paying the price. The White House and the Justice Department need to speak with one voice, or climate litigants will keep using the administration’s own words against it.
If the government keeps stumbling over its own arguments, the result will not just be bad law. It will be a setback for American energy, American industry, and the entire Trump reform agenda. The Left will not hesitate to exploit it. The only question is whether Trump’s own Justice Department will stop undercutting the Trump agenda in court.
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Steve Milloy is a senior fellow with the Energy &amp; Environment Legal Institute.

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The Justice Department announced that another major hospital will provide “detransition” services to those who regret undergoing transgender procedures as children. 
The Cleveland Clinic will allocate $2 million towards services aimed at reversing transgender procedures done on patients before they turned 19, according to a new settlement between the healthcare giant, the Justice Department, and the state of Ohio. 
The settlement, announced last week, will require the Cleveland Clinic to no longer offer transgender procedures for minors and pay the federal government $300,000 and the state of Ohio $8,000 to resolve a lawsuit accusing the clinic of falsely labeling transgender procedures in its medical billing codes. The clinic has denied all wrongdoing. 
“I am grateful that institutions like Cleveland Clinic and Texas Children’s have decided to be part of the solution, not part of the problem,” said Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Brett Shumate. “Cleveland Clinic’s commitment to providing millions of dollars towards care for detransitioners is emblematic of just that.”
The detransition services to be provided include medical care for hormonal balancing, surgical revision and reconstruction, fertility treatments, and mental health support. The clinic must also create a website, appoint a designated care coordinator, and take steps to advertise the services. 
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-monumental-day-hospital-to-create-first-ever-detransition-clinic">similar settlement</a> reached with Texas Children’s Hospital last month required the creation of the first-ever “detransitioner clinic.” In recent years, detransitioners such as Chloe Cole and others have filed lawsuits going after the doctors who pushed them into medicalizing their gender confusion. 
“The Department of Justice is steadfastly committed to protecting America’s children,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. “Just as the resolution with Texas Children’s, today’s resolution with Cleveland Clinic furthers that commitment and puts these providers on notice that this Department will vigorously enforce federal law where children are put at risk.”
The Justice Department praised the Cleveland Clinic in its announcement of the settlement, saying it “remained cooperative, proactive, and solution-driven” throughout the process. 
“We are pleased to have worked collaboratively toward a resolution related to an unintentional coding issue involving a small number of patients,” the clinic told The Daily Wire. “We remain focused on providing exceptional care to our patients and communities. We have complied and will continue to comply with all federal and state laws.”
The settlement was criticized by leftist activist organizations, with the ACLU of Ohio <a href="https://x.com/acluohio/status/2065067567757041860">saying</a> it was “deeply saddened” by the agreement. 
Transgender procedures on children have been banned in Ohio since August 2024 after a ruling from a judge allowed its prohibition to go into effect.

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Federal authorities recently uncovered a scheme carried out by court officials in Utah who helped illegal immigrants evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Jennifer Joma, 27, and Lauren Kelsey Morrow, 26, have been charged with assisting several illegal immigrants avoid arrest after ICE agents arrived at the Logan City Municipal Justice Court on April 9, according to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/two-former-utah-court-clerks-arrested-and-facing-federal-charges-after-allegedly-helping">Justice Department</a>.
When ICE agents showed up at the courthouse with an administrative warrant to arrest an illegal immigrant inside, Joma and Morrow allegedly misused court databases to identify who was illegally in the United States before escorting them out of the building, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
According to prosecutors, the two women began intercepting illegal immigrants, including ICE&#8217;s target, as they were leaving the courthouse and then moved them down several hallways before helping them slip through the back door, allowing them to avoid federal agents.
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The department said Joma later drove three illegal immigrants away from the courthouse in her vehicle before returning to work alone.
Morrow and Joma were captured on surveillance video waving and smiling at the camera as Morrow flashed her middle finger, according to the press release.
Joma and Morrow were arrested and charged with conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens, harboring illegal aliens, and obstruction of proceedings before departments and agencies. Joma also faces an additional charge of transporting illegal aliens.
The case marks the latest prosecution of public officials accused of interfering with federal immigration enforcement.
It follows the conviction of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who was found guilty of felony obstruction after helping an illegal immigrant evade ICE. She was acquitted on a misdemeanor charge of concealing a wanted person.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Trump administration has &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; for such behavior.
&#8220;You don&#8217;t get to choose which laws you&#8217;re going to enforce, just like we don&#8217;t pick and choose which laws we&#8217;re going to enforce,&#8221; Mullin said.
&#8220;Our biggest hindrance are these left, Democrat politicians that are defunding the police and that&#8217;s got to stop,&#8221; he added.

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Vice President JD Vance tasked the Justice Department with probing accusations that Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz looked the other way while fraudsters bilked the state’s social services for upwards of $9 billion. 
Vance referred the Walz administration to the DOJ on Monday night after the House Oversight Committee released a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-bombshell-report-exposing-rampant-fraud-plaguing-minnesotas-taxpayer-funded-social-programs/">lengthy report</a> accusing Walz and Minnesota Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison of allowing their state to be systematically defrauded. The committee also accused Walz of targeting whistleblowers who tried to warn state officials about vulnerabilities in the system. 
“I’ve referred these allegations to DOJ’s new Fraud Division for criminal investigation,” Vance <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/2064146608518746499/photo/2">announced</a> on X. “Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and [intimidated] whistleblowers, they must face justice.”
Leading the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on fraud, Vance sent the referral to Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, the head of the newly established National Fraud Enforcement Division. 
The 200-page report from the House Oversight Committee said that the Walz administration’s lax efforts to combat fraud led to $300 million in federal child nutrition aid being lost and put up to $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds in jeopardy. 
The committee said that Walz and Ellison were aware of major flaws in Minnesota’s administration of welfare benefits since 2019, but took no corrective action. Instead, Walz’s administration took action to target whistleblowers, the House report said. 
“If state officials in Minnesota or anywhere else in the country facilitated fraud or looked the other way while this theft was happening, if they actively prevented state and federal officials from stopping fraud and bringing fraudsters to justice, or if they intimidate and harassed whistleblowers who courageously tried to shine a light on the problem, they must be held accountable,” Vance wrote to McDonald. 
The Trump administration has focused on Minnesota in its anti-fraud crackdown. The White House shut down federal assistance payments to the state after independent journalist Nick Shirley published multiple videos showing apparent widespread fraud at so-called daycare centers. 
The administration is also taking action in Vance’s home state of Ohio after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medicaid-millionaires">reported</a> on Ohio’s administration of funds to questionable businesses that claim to administer home healthcare.

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The Justice Department is expected to announce Monday an effort to denaturalize 17 foreign-born individuals with significant rap sheets.
The naturalized citizens include fraudsters, sex offenders, and drug traffickers, who the Trump administration is targeting as part of a larger effort to strip the citizenship of certain offenders.
&#8220;Gaining U.S. citizenship is a privilege and under the steadfast leadership of President Trump, this Department of Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy for the abuse of this process,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.
“We continue to work around the clock with our interagency partners to make sure U.S. citizenship is granted to those who truly deserve it,&#8221; Blanche added.
In its latest pursuit, the Justice Department is seeking the denaturalization of Cuban-born U.S. citizen Delmas Garcia, 54, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud after she admitted to running 30 physical therapy clinics in Florida that fraudulently billed an insurance company $36,728,595 for services that were not medically necessary or that were never actually provided.
The Trump administration has also set its sights on Haitian-born Jean Claude Alfred, 68, who was sexually abusing his minor daughter while he was applying for his American citizenship, according to the Justice Department. Alfred began abusing his daughter in September 1993, roughly one month before he applied for citizenship, and &#8220;repeatedly&#8221; did so as he waited to become naturalized.
During his application process, Alfred denied having committed any crime for which he hadn&#8217;t been arrested, the Justice Department said. A jury in Florida ultimately convicted Alfred in 1996 of attempted sexual battery of a child in a familial relationship and lewd, lascivious, and indecent assault upon a child under the age of 16.
Alfred became a U.S. citizen in 1994, sparking the Justice Department&#8217;s latest action accusing him of lying during his application process in order to obtain naturalization.
Another target of the latest denaturalization push is Colombian-born Fernando Cristancho, 69, a Roman Catholic priest who used his position in the church to sexually groom and abuse a minor parishioner from age 11 to 13. Cristancho later pleaded guilty to his crime and received a 22-year prison sentence.
The Trump administration alleged that Cristancho concealed his crime from immigration officials in order to obtain his citizenship while also having failed to demonstrate good moral character required for naturalization.
The federal government is also working to denaturalize the daughter of a major Colombian drug trafficker, Andrea Marroquin, 44, who inherited her father&#8217;s riches when he died. Marroquin first got a green card by hiding her bigamous marriage to an American citizen, according to the Justice Department.
Between 2003 and 2011, she used her father&#8217;s drug proceeds to make fraudulent real estate transactions in Miami, the Department of Justice alleged. She allegedly concealed her crimes when she became an American citizen in 2009.
Last June, the Justice Department instructed U.S. attorneys across the country to “prioritize” and “pursue” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-orders-justice-dept-to-denaturalize-new-citizens-convicted-of-crimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denaturalization</a> cases against citizens who may “pose a potential danger to national security.&#8221;
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials received guidance in December to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/trump-immigration-citizenship-denaturalization.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times.
The denaturalization effort is also part of the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;war on fraud,&#8221; USCIS spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a previous statement.

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Three United States citizens accused of helping fund ISIS attacks on American servicemembers were arrested on Friday morning by federal authorities. 
According to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-arrested-kansas-and-california-charged-plot-support-isis">Department of Justice</a>, FBI agents arrested 21-year-old Bisaam Ghafoor of Leawood, Kansas, 21-year-old Elias Shamsaldeen of Porterville, California, and 25-year-old Bereen Dzayee of Lakeside, California.
The three men conspired from at least February 2025 through June 2026 to support the designated terror group, according to a criminal complaint filed in the District of Kansas.
The men communicated through Discord chats, voice calls, and other messaging platforms, where they pledged allegiance to ISIS and promoted violence on the group&#8217;s behalf, according to the Department of Justice. 
According to the complaint, the men repeatedly spoke about violence against Americans and U.S. military personnel. 
Prosecutors say Ghafoor remarked that it would be “sick” to have his name written on a drone used in an attack on Americans, while Dzayee suggested drone strikes should target U.S. Special Forces. Shamsaldeen expressed a desire to stab a U.S. servicemember, and Ghafoor said he had long wanted to behead a female soldier before adding, “I wish I could kill 300,000,000 Americans.”
Federal authorities accuse the three men of collectively providing over $2,000 to a person they understood to be a member of ISIS and trying to develop a cryptocurrency scheme to buy RPGs and drones to enable the designated terror organization to attack U.S. servicemembers. 
According to prosecutors, Ghafoor’s name was inscribed on a rocket-propelled grenade that was purportedly intended for use in an overseas attack targeting U.S. servicemembers. Investigators also say that Shamsaldeen helped finance the purchase of drones that were intended to be used in attacks against American troops deployed abroad.
The defendants also expressed a desire to travel outside the United States to fight and die on behalf of ISIS, according to authorities.
The three men were charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
“This administration has put terrorists, cartels, and gangs on notice,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-arrested-kansas-and-california-charged-plot-support-isis">said</a> Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Today’s arrest of three individuals who allegedly conspired to provide material support to ISIS makes clear our commitment to taking down terrorist networks — anywhere. Thanks to the vigilance of the FBI, their alleged scheme was dismantled and further acts of violence against U.S. service members were prevented.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said the suspects “swore allegiance to ISIS, plotted multiple attacks, and even targeted U.S. service members.”
“The success of this op shows once again this FBI&#8217;s continued record of stopping terrorist attacks before they happen,” Patel said.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said the defendants wished to betray their country.
“According to the complaint, these defendants conspired to support ISIS, a ruthless terrorist organization, with the intent, among other things, to fund plans to kill American servicemembers abroad,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. “Thanks to the work of the FBI, their plans to betray their country in the gravest way lies in ruin. Instead, these defendants will face justice in our courts.”
The investigation was conducted by FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Kansas City, San Diego, and Sacramento, with assistance from FBI field offices in Richmond and Newark.

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An American journalist pleaded guilty Thursday to working as an unregistered agent for China after prosecutors said he helped a Chinese intelligence officer try to steal classified information from the U.S. government. 
Thomas Pauken II, 50, admitted in a plea agreement with Justice Department prosecutors that he acted as an agent of China from 2019 to 2026. Prosecutors said Pauken worked for a member of the Chinese Ministry of State Security who sought sensitive information about the United States. 
“Pauken admitted to being part of a conspiracy to obtain sensitive information from the U.S. government for the PRC,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg. “His actions are a betrayal of this Nation and pose an unacceptable risk to our national security.”
Pauken has lived in China since 2010 and worked for the Chinese state media outlet Xinhua News. At the same time, prosecutors said, he was on the payroll of a member of the Chinese Ministry of State Security referred to in court documents as “Cathy.” 
According to prosecutors, Cathy directed Pauken to meet with human sources in the United States, provide those sources with laptops and cellphones, and send their reports back to China. 
In February 2026, Pauken was arrested after an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-journalist-charged-in-anti-ccp-espionage-sting">apparent FBI sting</a> operation during a recorded meeting at a Washington, D.C. hotel.
At the meeting, Pauken met with an unidentified U.S. government employee who had sought a job in the Trump administration and whom Pauken had allegedly been attempting to recruit on Cathy&#8217;s behalf. Prosecutors said Cathy wanted the official to produce reports she claimed would make their way to Chinese President Xi Jinping and shape policy. 
Pauken offered to pay the government employee a $10,000 bonus and subsequent payments funneled through a bogus nonprofit, according to court documents.  
Court documents state that Pauken himself did not personally handle classified information, but acted as an “intermediary to recruit individuals to provide classified information to the Chinese.”
Pauken also sold multiple reports to a group of Chinese people from Wuhan, according to prosecutors. 
“PAUKEN’s Wuhan clients mainly sought information about technology and the U.S. Department of Justice,” a statement of facts compiled by prosecutors agreed to by Pauken said. “The Wuhan clients wanted PAUKEN to find an expert who would help them engage in cyber espionage.”
Pauken told the FBI he believed his work would deter a military conflict between the United States and China and that he would support greater religious freedom through his contacts in both countries. 
His sentencing is set for September 1, and he faces up to 10 years in prison.
“By his own admission, not only did Thomas Pauken attempt to infiltrate U.S. political circles at the direction of China’s Ministry of State Security,&#8221; said FBI official Roman Rozhavsky. &#8220;But he gathered intelligence on his American targets and reported it back to his Chinese intelligence handlers.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he planned to make Todd Blanche&#8217;s position as acting attorney general “permanent.” 
“Tomorrow I&#8217;m instructing Dan [Scavino] and everybody else that&#8217;s involved in that very complicated process, which is gonna go, I think, very quickly, that we are going to make him permanent Attorney General,&#8221; Trump said during an event at the White House. 
A video of Trump’s comments was posted by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, who wrote, &#8220;congratulations” to Blanche and the Justice Department. 
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President Trump with an announcement tonight at the <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a>…
Congratulations <a href="https://x.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> <a href="https://x.com/DAGToddBlanche?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DAGToddBlanche</a>—🇺🇸🦅 <a href="https://t.co/7C7N0Gjall">pic.twitter.com/7C7N0Gjall</a>
— Dan Scavino (@Scavino47) <a href="https://x.com/Scavino47/status/2062369458723680722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Blanche became acting attorney general in April after Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pam-bondi-out-as-ag-following-months-of-epstein-controversy-criticism-over-lack-of-prosecutions">decided</a> to move on from Pam Bondi. Trump was reportedly frustrated with the lack of criminal prosecutions of Democrats he believed weaponized their positions against him. Bondi also faced much criticism over her handling of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 
At one point it appeared as if Trump was considering other options, including EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, to officially take the helm of the Justice Department, but it appears he has decided to stick with Blanche. 
During an appearance this week on “Pod Force One,” Trump described Blanche as a “very talented guy” and said he was doing “a very good job” at the Justice Department. When asked by reporter Miranda Devine if he believed Blanche would become attorney general, the president said, “I ​think he will.” 
Under Blanche, the Justice Department brought renewed charges against former FBI Director James Comey, along with charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center and a scientist who once served as a top aide to Anthony Fauci. 
Blanche worked on multiple Trump defense teams after his first term as president ended, including the case involving accusations that he falsified business records in New York during the “hush money” case. He also worked to defend Trump against the charges brought by former special counsel Jack Smith related to the president’s handling of classified documents and the 2020 election. 
To become attorney general, Blanche would need to be confirmed by the Senate. He was confirmed as deputy attorney general in a 52-46 vote, but would likely face questions about the scrapped $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.

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