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Citizen Frank
March 09, 2025
Good morning. Itās Sunday, March 9.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass deleted her text messages from the first days of the deadly wildfires that destroyed multiple communities in January, according to a report.
Bass was on a trip to Africa for the swearing-in of Ghanaās president when the Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7. The mayor did not get back into the city until Jan. 8.
While Bass and her office have said that she was in constant communication with officials during that 24-hour period of travel, her text messages from that time no longer exist, the Los Angeles Times reported.
An armed adult man was shot by US Secret Service personnel on Sunday morning outside the White House, the agency announced shortly after the incident.
President Donald Trump was not at the White House Sunday morning.
According to Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi, USSS received information about a āsuicidal individualā who was traveling to DC from Indiana. Guglielmi said in a statement that USSS members saw a person matching the description near the White House and found their parked car.
Dry conditions and powerful wind gusts on Eastern Long Island fanned a fast-moving brush fire that burned hundreds of acres and stifled traffic on Sunrise Highway for hours, but by Sunday morning, the fire was mostly contained.
āThis was a very big fire that could have created very big problems if not for all of us coming together,ā Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said during a press conference.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a state of emergency for Suffolk County as crews battled the fire in the Pine Barrens. The fire, which started around 1 p.m. Saturday, caused little damage, but wind continues to threaten the area.
Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from a former global policy director at the company.
The complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team handling China policy, alleges that the social media giant so desperately wanted to enter the lucrative China market that it was willing to allow the ruling party to oversee all social media content appearing in the country and quash dissenting opinions.
Meta, then called Facebook, developed a censorship system for China in 2015 and planned to install a āchief editorā who would decide what content to remove and could shut down the entire site during times of āsocial unrest,ā according to a copy of the 78-page complaint exclusively seen by The Washington Post.
A vocal pro-Palestine graduate student at Columbia University was arrested and is being detained by ICE ahead of a scheduled appearance with a federal immigration judge, according to activists and his lawyer.
Mahmoud Khalil, who was the lead student negotiator for the pro-Palestinian encampment at the New York City college last year, was arrested Saturday night at his university-owned home by agents with the Department of Homeland Security, the Associated Press reported.
The protests at Columbia last year were allowed to run rampant for two weeks. They were marked by violent assaults and instances of Jewish students being afraid to go to class.
President Donald Trump put the figure of illegal aliens in the U.S. under President Joe Biden at 21 million during his Tuesday address to Congress, but the latest arrest figures show his administration on pace to apprehend less than 5% of that amount by the end of his term.
āOver the past four years, 21 million people poured into the United States,ā Trump said. āMany of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world because of Joe Bidenās insane and very dangerous open border policies, they are now strongly embedded in our country.ā
The latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) figures pointed to 20,000 arrests in Trumpās first month. Calculated as 20,000 in 30 days, the daily rate came to 667 arrests, which projected over four years would lead to slightly fewer than one million arrests by the end of Trumpās term, or 4.8% of the 21 million.
FBI Director Kash Patel is ādead seriousā about contracting with the UFC to help train rank-and-file agents, according to the organizationās president, Dana White.
Patel, a Las Vegas resident, was in attendance for UFC 313 on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena and discussed the plan with the head of the Las Vegas-based fighting organization.
āHeās dead serious about that,ā White said. āWeāll see how that starts to come together.ā
Viewers of Love is Blind in the US have been left furious after one of the contestants left her fiancƩe at the altar over his views on Black Lives Matter, sexual identity and vaccines.
Stars of season 8 Ben Mezzenga and Sara Carlton had made it to the final episode where the couples walk down the aisle and choose whether they wish to marry each other.
In a shocking clip, Sara has a sudden change of heart and decides not to marry Ben.
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