Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is no longer serving as the Trump administration’s special envoy for the Shield of the Americas initiative, a State Department official said Thursday, though she remains involved in the administration’s efforts to coordinate security cooperation across the Western Hemisphere.
“Kristi Noem’s envoy status expired last month and she is no longer in the role,” a State Department official told CBS News Thursday. “She is now a senior advisor to Deputy Secretary Landau and continues to work on the Shield of the Americas portfolio.”
The Shield of the Americas is a coalition made up of the United States and several Caribbean and Latin American countries established by the Trump administration earlier this year to cooperate on economic matters, anti-cartel enforcement and other issues.
Noem’s envoy designation expired just before the United Nations General Assembly last month in New York, where she continued participating in diplomatic meetings connected to the initiative.
President Trump fired Kristi Noem as DHS Chief in March and announced then-Senator Markwayne Mullin as her replacement.
At the time of her firing, NBC reported that Trump was unhappy with Noem about her decision to approve a $200 million limited-bid ad campaign.
Separately, NBC News reported earlier Thursday morning that Trump was not happy with Kristi Noem’s performance during the Congressional hearings.
If you were eagerly waiting for the opportunity to purchase tickets for the Joseph R. Biden Presidential Library, you might want to pump the brakes.
The former president, largely remembered for his rapidly declining physical and cognitive health, accompanied by his incoherent rambling and nonsensical policy goals, risks being forgotten as plans for a library look increasingly bleak.
The U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Wednesday that the Joe and Jill Biden Presidential Library Foundation, according to tax documents from 2024, has just $4 million in funds. That’s all money left over from the former president’s failed campaign that year. It hopes to raise $11.3 million, but the total still seems modest for a presidential library.
In comparison, the Chicago Sun-Times reported the Barack Obama Presidential Center had a price tag of $1 billion.
Similarly, the Washington Examiner puts the estimate for a Donald Trump Presidential Library at $1 billion.
The lack of funds speaks to the sentiment amongst Democratic donors, who aren’t too enthusiastic about the idea.
“No real library will ever be built,” one said. “Sadly, for him, that ship has sailed.”
“I can’t speak for other donors, only myself, but I will not be contributing to it,” donor John Morgan concluded. “While I still have deep respect for the man I once knew, his legacy was tarnished by the decisions of those closest to him.”
The former president himself expressed hopes of his home state of Delaware being the site of a library, with the Daily Mail naming the city of Wilmington as a candidate.
While a riverfront location was an option, another could be the University of Delaware, but nothing is certain, as Biden’s representatives did not respond to the outlet’s request for a specific site.
The former 46th president’s records are currently being kept at the National Archives in Maryland, and more records from his days in the Senate are housed at the university.
What makes the situation worse comes from how funding could be secured.
Despite the Daily Mail noting federal funds cannot go toward the project under the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955, state funds are still allowed.
Indeed, Delaware taxpayers would be the ones helping make this a reality. One plan indicated $48 to $60 million in construction funding available, but the office of the Mayor of Wilmington did not respond to a request for clarification as to whether that figure indicates the money is available for the project.
Scripture tells us that in the end there is justice, and for one of the worst presidents in history, it’s finding him now.
The sham is over.
Even Democrat donors do not care anymore about a man they once pretended was capable of running the country.
Why would they build a monument to someone who spent four years humiliating their party with his incompetent leadership?
CNN’s Jake Tapper and a CNN legal analyst threw cold water on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) claims that the Trump DOJ is being weaponized against her, with Tapper admitting that she should have turned herself in when the investigation started under Biden.
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig also justified the ongoing investigation by citing a range of potential crimes she committed, while admitting that arguments of a politically motivated prosecution are likely to fail.
“Most federal crimes in the immigration area will have a maximum of a five-year statute of limitations,” said Honig before outlining possible exceptions to the statute of limitations for immigration-related charges.
“We’re obviously well beyond that from 2000, so there could be a couple possibilities: One, some offenses say that if a person gets into the country or gets status by making false statements and then remains in the country, that will extend — the person remaining in the country will extend the statute of limitations,” he said.
“Two, it could be that more recent paperwork was submitted, perhaps a reapplication or renewal; it could be somebody relating to Representative Omar, somebody around her.”
And then three, if prosecutors have evidence that within the last five years there’s been some evidence of obstruction, some effort to get stories straight, to destroy documents, to persuade potential witnesses to say a certain thing, then those obstruction charges, if they happened within the last five years, would also be within the statute of limitations,” he continued.
Tapper then suggested that Omar should have turned herself in long ago, when the Biden Administration opened an investigation into her, in order to receive a slap on the wrist.
“If this is true, would it not have been wiser for the congresswoman to have gone to the Biden Justice Department and said, ‘this has happened, and there was a mistake, and I’d like to come clean and pay whatever fine,’ and then that way this is, you know, not left up to the Trump Justice Department? Is that, I mean, has that occurred to you?” he asked Honig.
That’s when Honig said a damning fact for Omar: While she “might have fared better under the Biden administration,” the fact that the investigation started under Biden destroys her argument that the investigation is politically motivated.
“It’s an important point of all this: There was some investigation… that was started under the Biden administration, reopened under the Trump administration,” Honig said.
“So, I think that’s going to undermine any argument she may have down the line that this is politically selective and vindictive,” he added, arguing that Trump has still “given her plenty of ammo to argue that she’s being singled out.”
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Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the investigation is not just focused on Omar’s immigration and whether she lied to obtain citizenship, according to US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
Pirro said in an interview this week that there are “several investigations going on,” suggesting that the civil or criminal immigration issues and other financial crimes may be involved, including Omar’s financial disclosures and $30 million net worth. Trump also simultaneously signaled that the probe is centered on Omar’s “money that was stolen from her fraudulent activities in Minnesota.”
And on Wednesday, we learned that the Feds seized Ilhan Omar’s phone when they raided her DC residence earlier this week and that members of Omar’s family have been subpoenaed.
Several people were killed in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, sources told CBS News. The suspect was shot and killed.
Bend Police communications manager Sheila Miller said at a news conference at least two people were taken to St. Charles Medical Center and that “the victims include children.” It was not immediately clear if those were the victims who were killed.
The total number of victims was not clear, Miller said.
BREAKING: Multiple people are dead after a shooting at an Oregon elementary school, sources say. The suspect is also dead. https://t.co/lucaoMvdi5
A suspect opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon.
“The Bend Police Department is currently at Silver Rail Elementary School after a report of an active shooter. There is a large police presence in the area. Please avoid the area. We will share more information as soon as we can,” Bend PD said.
The Bend Police Department is currently at Silver Rail Elementary School after a report of an active shooter. There is a large police presence in the area. Please avoid the area. We will share more information as soon as we can.
— City of Bend Police Department #BendPolice (@BendCityPolice) October 15, 2026
Police said there are multiple victims, including children.
The victims were transported to a local hospital. Their conditions are not known.
Police said it is unclear who fatally shot the suspected gunman.
SPECIAL REPORT: Students injured and suspect dead after shooting at Bend, Oregon elementary school https://t.co/k23jB2kPWz
President Trump with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton stands for safe, secure borders. His Democrat foe, James Talarico, thinks funding border security is a waste of money.
President Trump ripped RINO John Cornyn and “Super RINO Karl Rove” on Thursday for their attempts to derail Republican Ken Paxton in Texas.
Paxton is running against the fluffy Democrat James TalaFREAKO (Talarico) who went missing from the campaign for about two weeks this month and is running as a normal Texan, which is a complete lie! TalaFREAKO has lied about ALL of his positions in order to con Texans into voting for the least impressive and most radical candidate put forth in years.
The fake news is hoping desperately that TalaFREAKO is able to fool enough Texans and represent the conservative state in the US Senate. It’s a complete con-job.
And, of course, Never-Trumper Karl Rove, who ran the George Bush campaign is still butthurt that MAGA is running the party today. Sorry Karl, MAGA voters won’t be swayed your toxic RINO nonsense.
President Trump UNLOADED on Rove and Cornyn on Thursday.
President Donald Trump: Sadly, and very stupidly, John Cornyn, and his Liddle’ Buddy, Super RINO, Karl Rove, are doing everything possible to make it hard for Ken Paxton, the Greatest Attorney General in the History of Texas, and one of the Best in the United States, to win the upcoming Midterm Election against a Radical Left Lunatic, James TalaFREAKO, who is the ANTITHESIS of Texas Values.
John Cornyn who, after my Endorsement, lost the Primary to Ken by a very wide margin, and Karl Rove, who shouldn’t be allowed to spew his jealousy on FoxNews, should be ashamed of themselves.
They are hurting Texas and, more importantly, hurting the United States of America! If Ken Paxton loses, it will be because of WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Political Hacks like John Cornyn and Karl Rove, who have ineffectively opposed me for my entire political career.
As your ALL TIME WINNER in the History of Texas, “Trump won 96% of the Counties in Texas, 242 of 254. Harris won only 12 counties (FoxNews),” and by MILLIONS of Popular Votes, the Highest in the History of Texas, your favorite President (ME!) is asking all of those who supported Senator John Cornyn to UNITE, and immediately switch your support to Ken Paxton. He will be a Great Senator, just like he is a Great Attorney General.
We cannot take a chance on having a FREAKO, sometimes referred to as James TalaFREAKO, as our man in Washington, D.C., representing the magnificent people of the Great State of Texas! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Military service in Siad Barre’s army did not automatically invalidate Nur Omar Mohamed’s refugee status in the United States. However, proven complicity in crimes against humanity or deliberate misrepresentation of material facts on his immigration forms could raise legal questions about his admission.
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home on Monday. The Justice Department said Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant, adding that “this enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”
Sources told Fox News Digital the probe centers on immigration paperwork completed by Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, who served for more than two decades as an officer in Somali dictator Siad Barre’s army.
In March 2026, Vice President JD Vance said he believed Omar had committed immigration fraud. Omar has denied the accusations, and her chief of staff, Connor McNutt, called the claim a “ridiculous lie.”
Mohamed was born in Bandarbeyla, a coastal town in northeastern Somalia, and grew up in Mogadishu, according to his 2020 Sahan Journal obituary. A former army comrade who had known him since the early 1970s said he joined the Somali National Army after military training in Russia and rose to colonel. During the 1977–1978 war with Ethiopia, he commanded a regiment and was recognized for his service.
He may have served under a different name. A former Somali army general told the Daily Mail in December 2025 that Nur used the name Nur Said and enlisted in 1966. Snopes reported some evidence supporting claims that his full name was Nur Said Mohamed Elmi. In March 2026, Somaliland’s government identified him as Nur Said Elmi and said the family used multiple names in different countries.
Former generals who served alongside Nur described his career to the Daily Mail anonymously, citing fear of reprisals. Their accounts included training in Egypt, service in air defense and infantry units, postings in Mogadishu and Garbahaarrey, and a transfer to Hargeisa in 1984. Garbahaarrey was Barre’s southwestern hometown and a military hub; Hargeisa was the north’s main city.
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, a historian and Oxford University doctoral researcher, told the New York Post that Nur served under the name Nur Said and remained loyal to Barre’s regime until its collapse. Yusuf Ismail Faraton, who served with Nur and later moved to Minneapolis, told the Post that Nur led multiple brigades and commanded a regiment.
The army Nur served was Marxist and aligned with Moscow until November 1977, when Barre expelled all Soviet advisers, according to a declassified CIA analysis. Nur belonged to the Majerteen clan. After Majerteen officers attempted a coup in April 1978, the regime retaliated against the clan with extrajudicial executions, rape, livestock killings, and destruction of water reservoirs, according to a Canadian government paper citing Africa Watch. Nur remained in the army.
Hargeisa, where the Daily Mail’s source and Ingiriis placed him, became the center of the regime’s campaign against the Isaaq clan. When rebels took the city in 1988, the army bombarded it with artillery and aircraft and attacked survivors fleeing toward Ethiopia from the air, according to an Amnesty International report cited by Canadian authorities. The State Department’s 1989 human rights report found that about 90 percent of Isaaq homes, businesses, and property in Hargeisa were destroyed or severely damaged.
Robert Gersony’s State Department-commissioned study, Why Somalis Flee, conservatively estimated that Somali forces deliberately murdered at least 5,000 unarmed Isaaq civilians between May 1988 and March 1989. At least 500 Isaaq men were rounded up in Berbera, killed mainly by having their throats cut, and buried in mass graves.
The Gersony report also estimated that 300,000 to 500,000 Somali refugees, mainly Isaaqs, arrived in Ethiopia between May 1988 and January 1989.
No document ties Nur Omar Mohamed to specific crimes. The Daily Mail reported that archival footage uncovered by Somaliland academic Hussein Bulhan shows Barre’s senior commanders discussing the destruction of northern towns. One officer reportedly resembles Nur, but the paper did not identify him as that officer and stated there was no conclusive proof he personally ordered or committed atrocities. Somaliland’s government has accused him of participating in the Isaaq Genocide.
After Barre’s fall in January 1991, Darod civilians became targets. United Somali Congress militias that took Mogadishu carried out large-scale violence against Darod clans, according to historian Lidwien Kapteijns’ Clan Cleansing in Somalia, as summarized in Project MUSE. Nur’s Majerteen clan is part of the Darod.
According to the Daily Mail’s source, Nur was then running a military school in Baidoa. Ingiriis told the Post that Nur ran the Daynuunaay military school. The family fled to Kismayo and crossed into Kenya months later, spending four years in the Utange refugee camp. No source describes Nur’s activities during those years.
The family entered the United States as refugees in 1995. After two years in Arlington, Virginia, they settled in Minneapolis’s Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Nur worked as a cab driver and postal worker. His obituary says he later helped rebuild security forces in Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia. He died of COVID-19 complications at Hennepin County Medical Center in June 2020, aged 67.
In her 2020 memoir, Omar describes her father as “an educator.”
Nur’s refugee status placed him in the same legal category as civilians who fled the army he served.
Under U.S. law, an applicant’s own persecution does not offset earlier participation in persecuting others. The persecutor bar turns on whether the applicant ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in persecution. The Supreme Court examined its scope in Negusie v. Holder in 2009. Whether Nur disclosed his military career, and how U.S. officials weighed it, is not public.
Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is being accused again of sex trafficking by two anonymous women who filed a lawsuit against him and two others in federal court on Thursday.
This follows past accusations of sex trafficking, which were weaponized by RINOs in the House of Representatives, despite the Department of Justice declining to prosecute.
It can be recalled that a House Ethics Committee investigation was reopened back in 2023 as Gaetz ramped up challenges to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was later ousted by Gaetz’s Motion to Vacate the chair. When Gaetz threatened to bring the Motion to Vacate against McCarthy in October 2023, McCarthy’s RINO allies began threatening to expel Gaetz based on the committee’s investigation.
The committee’s revival of the junk allegations against Gaetz notably came after the Biden DOJ exonerated Gaetz of criminal wrongdoing and dropped all charges in February 2023.
Gaetz resigned from Congress in November 2024 after Trump announced his nomination for Attorney General of the United States. In an attempt to thwart his Senate confirmation and despite no longer having jurisdiction over Gaetz as a private citizen, the committee later released a report alleging that Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women for sex while he was a member of Congress.
Now, a couple of anonymous accusers under the alias “Jane Doe 1” and “Jane Doe 2” are using the Ethics Committee’s report to dredge up new claims of exploitation in a civil lawsuit nearly two years later.
The complaint also relies heavily on discredited Ethics Committee star witness Joel Greenberg, who previously admitted to working with Democrat prosecutors to take down Republican politicians and that he fabricated allegations of sex trafficking against Gaetz.
The women, identified as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, are accusing Gaetz, former Florida state Rep. Chris Dorworth and Joel Greenberg, a former tax collector in Florida’s Seminole County, of “recruitment and sexual exploitation” from 2017 through January 2019 — while Gaetz was a sitting member of Congress. The lawsuit relies in part on a House Ethics Committee report that concluded Gaetz paid roughly a dozen women for sex between 2017 and 2020.
The plaintiffs’ complaint also draws from Greenberg’s plea agreement, in which he acknowledged engaging in commercial sex acts with the minor described in the complaint as “Victim A” and “introduc[ing] the Minor to other adult men, who engaged in commercial sex acts with the Minor in the Middle District of Florida.” Greenberg is serving an 11-year federal prison sentence in Florida on sex trafficking and fraud convictions.
The accusers allege Gaetz and Greenberg “coordinated the recruitment, payments, drugs, and travel to obtain commercial sexual acts from young women,” and accuse Dorworth of “knowingly” participating.
The 38-page complaint, filed in the Middle District Court of Florida, describes the defendants as “men of power, wealth, and privilege who used their positions not to protect the vulnerable but to prey upon them.” The complaint states that one of the women was 20 years old when she met Gaetz, now 44, and that the other was 22 when she first met Greenberg, now 42.
“I look forward to taking the plaintiffs’ depositions because much of the conduct alleged against me is false,” Gaetz said in response to the lawsuit, according to the Miami Herald.
“The lawsuit relies almost exclusively on a Congressional Committee report that didn’t allow me to confront my accusers. Now I will finally have that chance.”
Gaetz later responded in an X post, writing, “Jane Doe Strikes Again!”
“Two adult women sued me today alleging they were sex trafficked to the Bahamas. I’m shocked nobody responded to their repeated cries for help, posted to instagram,” he said, sharing a screenshot of one of the alleged victims’ Instagram posts from the Bahamas back in September 2018.
“#Bahamas #beers and #babes are all you need,” the woman wrote in her post.
Jane Doe Strikes Again! Two adult women sued me today alleging they were sex trafficked to the Bahamas. I’m shocked nobody responded to their repeated cries for help, posted to instagram. https://t.co/HPvX2xypzs
A Roman Catholic high school in Oregon is taking issue with the foundational football maxim of legendary coach Vince Lombardi that “winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.”
After winning a 63-0 game against Cottage Grove, Marist Catholic High School announced that it had removed Zach Loboy as head football coach, according to KVAL-TV.
The lopsided score reflected only the first half because the game was called at halftime.
Marist tried two onside kicks as it kept up the pressure and racked up more and more points.
Here is a clip of Marist Catholic onside kicking, up 57-0 late in the 2Q…
The first half included at least two onside kicks from the Spartans.
As noted on X, one of the onside kicks came with Marist leading 57-0.
The school did not offer an official explanation, but Mid-Major Media posted on X that the game was a factor.
“It is believed that the reason Loboy was let go was due to Marist Catholic running up the score to 64-0 in the first half versus Cottage Grove, going against the school’s code of conduct,” the post said.
BREAKING NEWS
Sources close to the Marist Catholic Football program have confirmed that Zach Loboy has been relieved of his duties as Head Football Coach.
It is believed that the reason Loboy was let go was due to Marist Catholic running up the score to 64-0 in the first half versus Cottage Grove, going against the school’s code of conduct.
Surprising news out of Eugene, Jake Lowther is set to finish the season as Interim Head Coach.
A report in The Athletic said Marist athletic director Rick Gardner, Cottage Grove athletic director Garrett Bridgens, and Lane County Football Association commissioner Mike Whitty all agreed to end the game.
“It wasn’t a forfeit; it wasn’t that our coaches and players did not want to continue,” Bridgens said. “We were working in the best interest of our kids, our fans — the entire situation — to do what was best for everyone. This was the ADs and the commissioner of officials working together to make that decision.”
Gardner said Loboy’s conduct in the game “is really not reflective of the school’s mission and how we want to treat our opponents.”
“Our athletic program tries to adhere to the mission and the values of Marist Catholic High School,” he said. “In this particular case, we definitely fell short.”
Marist Catholic Principal Bob Fraley wrote to parents and guardians to explain the decision.
“I am writing to inform you that Marist has made the decision to remove Zach Loboy from his position as Head Varsity Football Coach, effective immediately. Following Friday’s game against Cottage Grove, we determined that a change in leadership was necessary to reflect our school’s mission and values,” the letter said.
“For the remainder of the season, Jake Lowther will serve as interim Head Football Coach. Jake joined our football staff this year after previously serving as a Varsity Assistant Coach at Cascade High School,” the letter said.
“We are confident that Jake will provide the leadership and guidance our student-athletes need. Our priority is to support our players, maintain a positive team environment, and help the team finish the season strong,” the letter continued.
“We recognize that a coaching change in the middle of a season can be difficult for players and families.”
Cottage Grove is 1-5 on the season, with a combined score of 206-36 in losing its last five games, according to the New York Post.
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The payment goes out every month, and interest takes its bite before the balance moves. On a fixed income, that bite hurts.
Most people over 55 with good credit were never told why that bite keeps happening. It is not because there is no other option.
It is because talking about it is not in the bank’s interest.
A person over 55 who kept the accounts clean is exactly who card issuers want. Good to excellent credit in that age group is the strongest of any age. That is the customer the other side fights to win.
They stay on the card that is already charging above 21%, and the bank keeps the gap.
Here is what a balance transfer means in plain English: You apply for a card that offers 0% intro APR on balances moved over. Once approved, you move the old balance for a one-time fee, usually 3% to 5% of the amount.
For the length of the intro window, every dollar of the payment goes to the balance itself, not to interest. That’s how you stop the hurt.
A rough example: about $6,800 at 21% is about $1,400 a year going to the bank before the principal shrinks. Pause that interest for 15 to 21 months, keep the same payment, and thousands stay with you. Numbers differ by balance and rate; the bigger the balance and the higher the rate, the more the pause is worth.
These cards are for people with good to excellent credit who will use the window to pay the balance down. They are not a fit for people with serious recent credit damage, or if the plan is to run up new debt on the freed-up card.
On the next page are the card names, the length of each 0% period, the transfer fees, and a secure application for each. Comparing takes about two minutes.
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