https://kesq.com/news/crime/2026/08/14/man-arrested-after-allegedly-bringing-weapons-tactical-gear-on-school-property-in-twentynine-palms/

>TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) - A 29-year-old man was arrested on Thursday after allegedly being seen with a weapon and tactical gear at Twentynine Palms schools within a week span.

>The investigation started Wednesday just after 1:00 p.m. at the school, located along the 74300 block of Playa Vista Drive.

>According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, a concerned parent contacted School Resource Officer (SRO) Deputy A. Stumbo and reported seeing a man putting on tactical gear while on school campus. Deputies immediately initiated their investigation and reviewed school surveillance video.

>Police said the suspect was seen wearing a tactical-style ballistic vest, a law enforcement duty belt, baton, pepper spray, and a firearm.

>Authorities added that the investigation also revealed that the suspect was on campus at both Twentynine Palms Junior High School and Twentynine Palms Elementary School wearing the same equipment on Aug. 11.

Deputies coordinated with the Morongo Basin Station Detective Bureau and school officials to identify the suspect's residence and associated vehicles. Detectives authored a search warrant for his Twentynine Palms residence and obtained a warrant for his arrest.

On Thursday, just after Noon, prior to serving the search warrant, deputies were notified that the suspect returned to Twentynine Palms Junior High School and attempted to enter the campus while wearing similar tactical gear while armed.

School staff refused access, immediately notified deputies, and placed the school on lockdown as a precaution to protect students and staff.

The suspect left the area in a minivan.

https://www.kcbd.com/2026/08/15/texas-court-order-kicks-striking-federal-rules-silencers-certain-guns/

(AP) - A court order that struck down regulations on firearm suppressors and certain guns took effect Thursday after the U.S. Justice Department did not file an appeal before a seven-day deadline set by a federal judge in Texas.

The ruling allows people to purchase silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and certain other firearms without registration, while also removing an extra layer of background checks.

The order benefits parties that brought the lawsuit, including some dealers based outside northern Texas, but it is not a national injunction. Advocates say there are similar challenges in federal courts in other states. Separately, some states have their own prohibitions on silencers.

U.S. District Judge James Hendrix in Lubbock, Texas, said regulations in a 1930s-era law are unconstitutional. He said the rules must fall after the Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump eliminated a $200 permit tax on the devices.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-22/cinderblock-chunks-la-protest-prison-sentence

A Paramount man was sentenced this week to 10 months in prison for throwing chunks of cinder block at Border Patrol agents, injuring one, during an immigration protest last summer.

Jacob Daniel Terrazas, 31, previously pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor count of simple assault on a federal officer.

Terrazas admitted in his plea agreement that during a protest in Paramount on June 7, 2025, he threw chunks of a broken cinder block at agents. One of the chunks hit a Border Patrol agent in the right shin, resulting in bruising and bleeding, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in L.A.

“We were clear that if you attack federal agents you will be facing time in federal prison,” said First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli in a news release. “This sentence delivers on that promise to hold those accountable who dare to interfere or attack federal agents. Don’t do it.”

Under Essayli, federal prosecutors in L.A. have aggressively charged protesters with assaulting and impeding the actions of immigration agents, filing more than 100 cases.

According to data from June, prosecutors have secured guilty pleas in 40 of those cases — but lost nearly every case that has gone to trial.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/us-news/trump-posts-map-labeling-strait-of-hormuz-new-us-territory-before-announcing-no-talks-with-iran-planned/

President Trump doubled down Tuesday on his claim to the Strait of Hormuz on behalf of America, posting a revised map of the area on social media that labeled the waterway “new US territory.”

Trump posted the image on his Truth Social site, before claiming in subsequent posts that the area had been cleared of Iranian mines and no further talks with the Islamic Republic were scheduled.

The president initially revealed the possibility of a permanent US presence in the strait during a Friday event on Long Island.

“After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated — pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” Trump said while stumping for Republican candidates in New York’s gubernatorial and congressional elections.

During the same event, the president insisted that ensuring Iran could never obtain a nuclear weapon was worth paying “a tiny little bit more for your gasoline,” adding: “I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing.”

ETERNAL LIFE!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-officers-gloves-electric-shocks/

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.

ICE plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million to purchase "conductive distraction and de-escalation devices" for officers and agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.

The devices are known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky. They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.

The notice said the solicitation for a no-bid contract could be published as early as Friday.

A DHS spokesperson told CBS News in a statement: "ICE is constantly assessing the needs of our officers in the field to ensure they have the tools and equipment necessary to safely arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from our country. Every decision is made with careful consideration and appropriately reviewed to ensure that any technology ICE utilizes is consistent with all applicable law enforcement policies and standards."

Compliant Technologies did not comment to CBS News.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/politics/laura-loomer-ukraine-zelensky-trump

For years, Laura Loomer’s unflinching support for President Donald Trump was matched only by her fervent opposition to the US assisting Ukraine in its war against Russia.

The far-right figure has accused Ukrainian soldiers of committing war crimes and President Volodymyr Zelensky of faking his Jewish faith. She once encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to seize the entire country.

Yet, on Friday, Loomer released an exceedingly friendly 45-minute interview with Zelensky recorded in Kyiv where she praised the country’s drone tactics, acknowledged she spread falsehoods about the war and expressed regrets for amplifying narratives that benefited Russia.

“I was bamboozled by Russian propaganda,” she told Zelensky, “and I came to believe a lot of untrue things about Ukraine.”

The admission marked a stunning reversal by one of Trump’s most loyal allies — one the president appeared to immediately embrace. On Thursday, Trump shared a promotional clip of the interview on Truth Social and wrote: “Very good!!!”

Democratic Party committee advances resolution demanding ICE be abolished
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/08/14/democratic-party-committee-advances-resolution-demanding-ice-be-abolished/

At its summer meeting in Austin, Texas, this past week, the Democratic National Committee’s Resolutions Committee approved a resolution that calls for the abolition of ICE, an agency at the center of the Trump administration’s immigration law enforcement effort.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/politics/trump-plane-ruse.html

Top administration officials engaged in an elaborate deception to spirit President Trump out of Turkey during the NATO summit there last month, transporting him in a catering container to a military jet because of a threat against him and Air Force One from Iran, two senior U.S. officials said on Monday.

Mr. Trump and other officials had said publicly that he would be leaving Turkey on July 8 aboard one of the older versions of Air Force One rather than a luxury 747-8 donated by Qatar that he had flown in on. Mr. Trump told reporters at the time that he was making the switch for “old time’s sake.”

Mr. Trump boarded the older plane from the left-side door in view of cameras, and news organizations, including The New York Times, reported that he had traveled on it to Britain, where he switched back to the newer plane. The Times reported at the time that the decision was driven in part by concern about the security of the new plane donated by Qatar, which had not been equipped with all of the defensive capabilities of older versions.

But instead of flying out aboard that older, powder blue, modified 747, Mr. Trump was whisked off that plane via a catering container that had been lifted to the opposite side of the plane from where the journalists traveling with him boarded, one of the U.S. officials said. The president was then taken to a third plane, which he flew in secret to Britain, the official with knowledge of the matter said.

Reporters on the older plane were not told that Mr. Trump had not flown with them from Turkey to an air base in Britain, making them unwitting participants in the ruse and leaving them, along with some White House staff members, to serve as unknowing decoys.