Credit: Fairfax County Police/NBC 4 Washington Youtube screenshot
Footage has emerged this week showing the moment a violent felon abducted an innocent child at a mall in Northern Virginia earlier this month.
As WUSA 9 reported, a Virginia family made the mistake of losing sight of their little girl for a moment at Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax back on July 18.
Fairfax County Police revealed the girl wandered away from a play area on the first floor of the mall near JCPenney. Then, a man snuck up from behind and snatched up the child.
NBC 4 Washington on Wednesday shared video from the Fairfax Police Department showing the man abducting a terrified child with the parents nowhere in sight.
He then walks into an another store with the girl in his arms, out of the camera’s view.
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According to NBC 4 Washington, the girl’s father was in the play area with her sibling and did not realize she had wandered off.
Thankfully, the mother noticed the predator holding her child and confronted him. He later dropped the little girl and fled the scene.
He was later arrested at a hotel in Chantilly.
Fairfax County Police identified 26-year-old Andres Caceres Jaldin as the perp responsible and said he had no fixed address.
Police refused to say whether he was in America legally.
Officers also revealed Jaldin stole a car earlier that morning.
“A vehicle was reported stolen from an auto repair shop in the Chantilly area,” said Chambers. “Working again with the Real Time Crime Center with that information, was able to locate that vehicle and track that vehicle to a hotel in the Chantilly area.” said Fairfax County Deputy Chief Frederick Chambers.
Chambers also reminded parents to always stay alert in public areas when it concerns their children.
“Pay close attention to your child because you could see how quickly this child wandered off and was able to be picked up,” he stated.
According to NBC 4 Washington, Jardin had been previously charged with with assaulting his mother, father and brother
Jaldin has been charged with abduction of a minor and grand larceny auto theft. He is currently being held at Fairfax County Adult Detention Center without bond.
The official cause of death for WWE Legend Hulk Hogan has been released.
As the New York Post reported, The Pinellas County Forensic Science Center announced that Hogan died from acute myocardial infarction, which occurs when the blood flow to the heart muscle suddenly becomes blocked.
The New York Post also obtained documents showing that Hogan had a history of an irregular and rapid heart rate.
He also had a history of cancer called leukemia CLL. This cancer affects white blood cells called lymphocytes.
This is the first time it has been revealed that Hogan had battled cancer.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hogan died back on July 24 at 71 years old.
Medics were dispatched to Hogan’s Clearwater, Florida home with operators stating it was regarding a “cardiac arrest.”
TMZ reported that a slew of police cars and EMTs were seen parked outside Hogan’s home and the icon was carried on a stretcher and into an ambulance.
Hogan was known as one President Trump’s biggest supporters. Who can forget his legendary speech at the RNC Convention where he ripped off his shirt as he sang Trump’s praises?
Full Hulk Hogan speech at the RNC where he ripped his shirt to endorse Donald Trump. Watch until the end to see an emotional Trump after a rousing speech:
“My name is Terry Bollea, as an entertainer, I tried to stay out of politics, but after everything that’s happened to our… pic.twitter.com/0qJFP2XmWB
An emotional Trump paid tribute to the wrestling great following his death.
“We lost a great friend today, the “Hulkster.” Hulk Hogan was MAGA all the way — Strong, tough, smart, but with the biggest heart. He gave an absolutely electric speech at the Republican National Convention, that was one of the highlights of the entire week. He entertained fans from all over the World, and the cultural impact he had was massive. To his wife, Sky, and family, we give our warmest best wishes and love. Hulk Hogan will be greatly missed!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
VP Vance torches Europe for their suicidal immigration policies.
Ever since the return of Donald J. Trump to the White House, his Vice President JD Vance has been a staunch defender of the administration’s agenda – and of Conservative values in general.
This includes calling out European ‘allies’ to their very faces on issues like censorship, Ukraine war-mongering, and – increasingly – their disastrous policies regarding unchecked mass migration.
Yesterday (30), Vance took to TV to accuse Europe of engaging in ‘civilizational suicide’ by their lack of control of their borders.
European nations are both ‘unable’ and ‘unwilling’ to curb the endless flow of migration, the VP said.
“’The Europeans annoy me sometimes. Yes, I disagree with them on certain issues’, he said in an interview with Fox News.
The 40-year-old said the idea of Western civilization has its roots in Europe and led to the founding of the US, but added: ‘Europe is at risk of engaging in civilizational suicide’.”
Vance: ‘The Europeans annoy me sometimes’.
Vance had special criticism directed to former European powerhouse Germany.
“’If you have a country like Germany, where you have another few million immigrants come in from countries that are totally culturally incompatible with Germany, then it doesn’t matter what I think about Europe’, he continued. ‘Germany will have killed itself, and I hope they don’t do that, because I love Germany and I want Germany to thrive’.”
The Trump administration has made the combat against unchecked mass illegal migration a core item of the ‘America first’ agenda – and has already proven in six months that mass deportations are possible, and very beneficial to a western society.
Trump talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during the G7 Summit in Alberta, Canada. – White House Photo by Daniel Torok/Wiki Commons.
“He accused some countries of limiting free speech, citing Adam Smith-Connor, a British pro-life campaigner who was convicted for breaching a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic. ‘Free speech in Britain and across Europe [is] in retreat’, he said at the time, before going on to back Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland [AfD] party that has been classified as an extremist group by the German government.”
Vance is widely seen at this point as the leading Republican candidate to succeed Trump in 2028.
The president weighed in on the issue on interview with NBC:
“’I think [Vance is] a fantastic, brilliant guy’, he said. ‘Marco [Rubio] is great. There’s a lot of them that are great. I also see tremendous unity. But certainly, you would say that somebody’s the VP, if that person is outstanding, I guess that person would have an advantage’.”
Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday released the newly declassified annex from former special counsel John Durham’s report
“The Durham annex contains previously classified information exposing a reported Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia,” Grassley said.
Recall that it was just reported that FBI Director Kash Patel recently found the annex to the Durham report in a “burn bag” at the FBI.
According to the newly declassified documents, Hillary Clinton personally approved the Trump-Russia hoax just a few days before FBI counter-intelligence agent Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016 to distract from her private server scandal.
Hillary used a bogus dossier and conspired with foreigners and the FBI to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency.
“HRC [Hillary Clinton] approved [campaign adviser] Julie’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections. That should distract people from her own missing emails, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level. The point is making the Russian play a US domestic issue,” a July 27, 2016 email from Leonard Benardo, a top official at Soros’ Open Society said to Clinton campaign advisor Julie Smith. “In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media, and GRU [Russia intel officers] will hopefully carry on to give more facts.”
On July 25, 2016, Leonard Benardo sent another email confirming the FBI was working with Hillary Clinton to demonize Putin and Trump.
“The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid. This is an important story because it would be the first time (that we know of) that a state deliberately uses the infiltration and publication of data to interfere in the US election,” he wrote.
“Julie [Hillary campaign advisor] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire,” Leonard Benard wrote.
Durham annex Hillary Clinton Russia hoax coordinating with FBI
A few days later, on July 31, 2016, Peter Strzok opened a counter-intel investigation into Trump’s camp dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane” on suspicions (based on no evidence) that the Russians had infiltrated Trump’s circle.
The “electronic communication” that launched Crossfire Hurricane was written by Peter Strzok and obtained by Judicial Watch as the result of a FOIA lawsuit.
The EC revealed Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane based on third-hand information that the Russian government “had been seeking prominent members of the Donald Trump campaign in which to engage to prepare for potential post-election relations should Trump be elected U.S. President.”
Last week investigative reporter Paul Sperry said that the Hillary Clinton campaign was directly coordinating with the Obama White House to launch the Trump-Russia hoax in July 2016.
“I’m told there are texts/emails indicating Hillary Clinton campaign aides directly coordinated with the Obama White House, NSC, State Dept and Intelligence Community officials in efforts to dig up dirt tying Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin in July 2016 …developing…” Sperry said.
DEVELOPING: I’m told there are texts/emails indicating Hillary Clinton campaign aides directly coordinated with the Obama White House, NSC, State Dept and Intelligence Community officials in efforts to dig up dirt tying Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin in July 2016 …developing…
Special Counsel John Durham released his final report concluding the FBI had no verified intel when it opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump in 2016.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is scheduled to deliver a press briefing this afternoon.
This comes amid new GDP data showing better than expected 3% growth, a turnaround from the first quarter of the year, where GDP decreased at a rate of .5%.
President Trump on Wednesday celebrated the “WAY BETTER THAN EXPECTED” GDP, demanding that Jerome Powell lower interest rates.
Still, despite this growth, along with hundreds of billions of dollars in new business investment, and hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff revenues into the United States, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to maintain interest rates at the current level.
President Trump responded to Powell’s refusal to lower the interest rates on Wednesday and slammed “Too Late” Jerome Powell.
“Each point that this gentleman keeps up costs us $365 billion a year,” the President said while highlighting the massive income from tariffs and trade deals. “We should be the lowest interest rate, and we’re not. We’re 38, number 38, because of the Fed.”
Today’s briefing also comes amid the fallout from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification of a December 2016 presidential briefing, revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.
President Trump responded during a press conference last Tuesday and tore into Obama, Clinton, Biden, Clapper, Comey, and the rest of their gang, calling for “ringleader” Barack Obama to face “very severe consequences” for “treason.”
Gabbard further told reporters during a White House press briefing last Wednesday that the DOJ is investigating all of the documents, including criminal acts by Barack Obama.
President Donald Trump called for an investigation into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding allegations of insider stock trading during a bill signing ceremony. He made these remarks on July 30, 2025 in the context of discussions around the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act, a bill aimed at banning stock trading by members of Congress, the president, and vice president.
Trump accused Pelosi of amassing wealth through inside information, claiming she achieved “the highest return of anybody, practically, in the history of Wall Street, save a few.” He further stated that Pelosi “made a fortune with her husband” and that it was “disgraceful,” attributing her success to knowing “exactly what’s going to happen.” Pelosi responded to the accusations by calling them “ridiculous.”
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29-year-old Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes was arraigned in court on Thursday after dousing Danville, Virginia City Councilman Lee Vogler with gasoline and then lighting him on fire at his office.
As reported earlier by Cristina Laila, Danville, Virginia, City Councilman Lee Vogler was doused in gasoline and set on fire in his office on Tuesday.
According to reports, the attacker, identified as Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, of Danville, threw five gallons of gasoline on Vogler before setting him on fire.
3:55 p.m. 7/30/25 UPDATE: The Danville Police Department has charged Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, with attempted first degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding following the attack by burning Wednesday, July 30, on Lee Vogler. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/g0N4rEMZLx
The family of deceased Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre is begging President Donald Trump not to pardon his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Giuffre was found to have committed suicide in April.
Maxwell has formally requested a pardon from President Trump, which he has not ruled out. When asked about it by the media last week, he said he has “not thought” about it.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster who deserves to rot in prison for the rest of her life,” Giuffre’s family, Sky and Amanda Roberts, and Danny and Lanette Wilson, said in a statement obtained by the BBC.
Speaking to reporters onboard Air Force One on Tuesday, Trump said that he and Epstein had a falling out over him stealing employees from Mar-a-Lago, one of whom was Giuffre.
BBC reports, “In their statement, her family members said they ‘would like to clarify’ that their sister was ‘preyed upon’ by Maxwell during her time working for Trump.”
“It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been ‘stolen’ from Mar-a-Lago,” the family’s statement continued. “It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal actions.”
Giuffre started working at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, when she was 16 years old.
The family also condemned the Justice Department for meeting with Maxwell in prison, where she is serving a two-decade-long sentence. They pointed out that she has lied under oath and “will continue to do so for as long as it affects her position”.
“A predator who thought only of herself, she destroyed the lives of girls and young women without conscience,” the statement said.
“Virginia always said that Ghislaine Maxwell was vicious and could often be more cruel than Epstein.”
The statement noted that Giuffre had faced serious threats for trying to help prosecutors in the case.
“She endured death threats, threats against the lives of her children and family, financial ruin, and her physical and mental well-being were destroyed,” the statement said.
For this reason, they urged Trump to “never consider giving Ghislaine Maxwell any leniency.”
“She must remain in prison – anything less would go down in history as being one of the highest travesties of justice,” they concluded.
Prior to her shocking death, Giuffre long claimed that Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her in New York, London, and on Epstein’s “pedo island” when she was 17.
President Donald J. Trump prepares to sign a plaque placed along the border wall Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, at the Texas-Mexico border near Alamo, Texas. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Trump announced on Thursday that he and other White House officials spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and came to a temporary agreement on trade.
“The complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border,” Trump said.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump threatened Mexico with 30% tariffs, citing their continued “failure to stop the Cartels.”
“Mexico has been helping me secure the border, BUT, what Mexico has done, is not enough. Mexico still has not stopped the Cartels who are trying to turn all of North America into a Narco-Trafficking Playground. Obviously, I cannot let that happen!” Trump said.
“If Mexico is successful in challenging the Cartels and stopping the flow of Fentanyl, we will consider an adjustment to this letter.”
After speaking with Sheinbaum, Trump announced a 90-day agreement, where tariffs will remain at 25% on goods to hold Mexico accountable for the fentanyl crisis and on imported automobiles to incentivise American manufacturing. Trump’s 50% tariffs on imported steel, aluminum, and copper will also remain in effect.
Additionally, Mexico has agreed to terminate all non-tariff trade barriers as the United States works to negotiate a trade deal over the next 90 days, Trump said.
It can be recalled that Trump slapped 25% tariffs on Mexican imports to combat the flow of illegal aliens and fentanyl under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in February, as well as 25% tariffs on “all cars that are not made in the United States.”
Full statement below:
I have just concluded a telephone conversation with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, which was very successful in that, more and more, we are getting to know and understand each other. The complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border. We have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same Deal as we had for the last short period of time, namely, that Mexico will continue to pay a 25% Fentanyl Tariff, 25% Tariff on Cars, and 50% Tariff on Steel, Aluminum, and Copper. Additionally, Mexico has agreed to immediately terminate its Non Tariff Trade Barriers, of which there were many. We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer.
Present at the meeting were Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, United States Trade Representative and Ambassador Jamieson Greer, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, and United States Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller. There will be continued cooperation on the Border as it relates to all aspects of Security, including Drugs, Drug Distribution, and Illegal Immigration into the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) runs a global propaganda campaign portraying China as a benevolent power challenging U.S. hegemony and championing a fairer international order. Under the banner of building a “multipolar world,” Beijing claims it seeks a system that benefits all nations equally.
In reality, China’s vision of multipolarity is one in which it stands at the top. At the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared, “A multipolar world is not only a historical inevitability; it is also becoming a reality,” calling for “an equal and orderly multipolar world.” But this rhetoric of equality is sharply contradicted by China’s actions, which are consistently aggressive and self-serving.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the South China Sea. There, China’s version of multipolarity demands that the U.S. cease freedom of navigation operations and allow Beijing to seize maritime territory from the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and others, despite a 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration rejecting China’s expansive claims. Chinese Coast Guard vessels routinely harass Philippine ships, often using dangerous maneuvers and water cannons to assert control.
Part of China’s so-called multipolarity includes deciding what others are allowed to say. In July 2025, Beijing was accused of censorship after pressuring New Zealand’s DocEdge Festival to cancel the screening of a documentary about Philippine fishermen facing harassment by Chinese forces. Despite this campaign, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander observed that “China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the disputed South China Sea, despite its intensifying bullying tactics.”
China also demands global respect for national sovereignty, while simultaneously threatening to take Taiwan by force. Beyond the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, Beijing is embroiled in numerous other territorial disputes, including with India, where Chinese and Indian troops clashed in two recent skirmishes in the Himalayas.
China accuses the United States of bloc-building due to its participation in security alliances such as AUKUS, the Quad, the Five Eyes, and NATO. Yet at the same time, Beijing leads BRICS, a group with the stated goal of challenging U.S. trade dominance and displacing the dollar as the global reserve currency.
While BRICS members have disparate interests beyond opposing the U.S., China is the bloc’s dominant economic power, making it less a multipolar partnership and more a China-centric alliance. Beijing continues to push BRICS to settle trade in yuan as an alternative to the dollar.
Brazilian President Lula has expressed interest in creating a unified BRICS currency, but China has refused to give up the yuan. Since most other BRICS currencies are either too small, unstable, or non-convertible, the yuan is the only viable option. Some bilateral swap agreements have been used to bypass the dollar, but these are essentially prepaid arrangements, limited in scale, cumbersome, and tying up large amounts of capital for extended periods. As a result, BRICS members are left to trade in either dollars or yuan for most transactions.
Perhaps the most ambitious element of China’s “multipolar world” campaign is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure project that, rather than liberating nations from dollar dependence, has created a string of debt-ridden countries and abandoned or substandard construction projects.
In 2025, developing countries will owe China $35 billion in repayments, with $22 billion coming from 75 of the world’s poorest nations. Roughly 80% of China’s government or government-backed loans go to countries in some stage of debt distress, and more than half of those loans are already in the repayment phase.
Chinese loan and aid agreements often “contain clauses that restrict restructuring” and “frequently retain the right to demand repayment at any time,” giving Beijing leverage to pressure recipient countries on sensitive political issues, especially Taiwan. Nations receiving Chinese funds are routinely forced to adopt the “One China” policy, which Beijing interprets as recognition that Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China.
The U.S. also maintains a One China policy, but with a crucial difference: Washington holds that the relationship between Beijing and Taipei must be resolved peacefully, and it commits to providing Taiwan with the means to defend itself against aggression. Ironically, the U.S. position is far more consistent with genuine multipolarity than China’s, as it respects Taiwan’s agency and regional stability.
In its 2025 white paper on national security, the Chinese government accused “some great powers” of “disregarding their international responsibilities” and “damaging global stability,” a thinly veiled reference to the United States. China simultaneously cast itself as a force for good, claiming to be “injecting certainty and stability into a turbulent world.”
But at the end of the day, Beijing views its own expansionist policies and debt-trap diplomacy as stabilizing, while U.S. efforts to preserve freedom of navigation and defend the sovereignty of Taiwan and other partners are framed as destabilizing. China’s multipolarity is not about equality, it’s about controlling the entire planet.
