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‘We’re Taking It Back’: Trump Deploying National Guard To Streets Of Nation’s Capital

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Nicole Silverio

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is deploying the National Guard to combat violent crime in Washington, D.C.

Trump had previously hinted at both a federal takeover of D.C. and the deployment of the National Guard to combat the slew of violent crimes that have occurred in recent months.

“This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we’re gonna take our capital back. We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I’m officially invoking Section 40 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control,” Trump said.

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“In addition, I’m deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law and order and safety in Washington, D.C. and they’re gonna be allowed to do their job properly,” the president continued.

High profile case of violent crime have recently swept across the nation’s capital, particularly among the district’s youth. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer Edward Coristine, also known as “Big Balls,” intervened in a carjacking of a woman at around 3 a.m. on August 5 and got severely beaten by the suspects.

In response to the attack on Coristine, Trump increased the presence of federal law enforcement in D.C. by having the FBI, DEA and Homeland Security coordinate with the DC Metropolitan Police. The president wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday that D.C. had become “one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World,” but promised it would “soon be one of the safest.”

“On Monday a Press Conference will be held at the White House which will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C. It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the safest!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump said.

Prior to that incident, two Israeli Embassy staffers were fatally shot outside of the Capital Jewish Museum on May 22 by 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez. The suspect has been additionally charged as of Thursday with two federal counts of first-degree murder under the D.C. criminal code and with two counts of hate crime that carry a maximum sentence of death or life imprisonment, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reported in a press release.

A gang-related shooting on June 30 killed 21-year-old congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym near a Metro station after the suspects emerged from their vehicle and opened fire on a crowd of people.

U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro stated on Thursday that her hands are tied when it comes to prosecuting violent suspects in the district. She said that a 19-year-old was only sentenced to probation after shooting a person in the chest, which she characterized as being unacceptable.

“The sentence was probation. We can’t have that,” Pirro said. “And by the way, he wasn’t a kid. He was 19. These are the rules of D.C. Council. They’ve got to be changed. We got to have the ability to let people know that they’re gonna be accountable.”

Though violent crime has dropped 26% in comparison to 2024, a total of 99 homicides have thus far occurred in D.C. in 2025, according to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) tracker. The homicide rate has trended higher in comparison to the last decade, according to Axios.

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Canada’s safety minister says he has not met with any members of damaged or destroyed churches

Published on October 11, 2025

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By Anthony Murdoch

Minister Gary Anandasangaree said his priorities are getting a new border bill passed and tackling illegal immigration.

Canada’s Public Safety Minister admitted that he has yet to meet with anyone from 123 Christian, mostly Catholic, churches that have been either reduced to ashes or seriously vandalized over the past four years.

Speaking recently before a committee to discuss upcoming fall bills, Minister Gary Anandasangaree was grilled by opposition Conservative MPs on a host of issues from public safety and illegal migrants to church arsons.

He said his priorities are getting a new border Bill C-12 passed while tackling illegal immigration but made no specific mention of tackling the rise of Christian hate in Canada.

Asked by Conservative MP Dane Lloyd about whether he met with any of the 123 and counting church congregations, he replied that he has not, but he claimed he has met with “many members of different church and faith groups.”

“You said you met with synagogues and mosques, which I do appreciate,” noted Lloyd, adding, “Those communities need your support, Minister, but Christian communities also need your support.”

“Why have you not met with any of those communities?” he asked.

Anandasangaree said he was “concerned (about) every incidence of hate at any place, including churches,” but stopped short of promising anything.

He was also asked about allegations that a government employee who works on a local military base near Montreal was the one responsible for throwing smoke bombs into a church service this summer.

Anandasangaree said he is “concerned” about these allegations but did not add any other context.

Canadian Conservative pro-life and pro-family MP Leslyn Lewis called out the hypocrisy of a new Liberal “hate” speech bill recently for being silent regarding rising “Christian hate,” because it does not even mention church arson.

Hate-motivated attacks against Christians are on the rise in Canada. In 2021 and 2022, the mainstream media ran with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some Canadian residential schools. The reality is, after four years, there have been no mass graves discovered at residential schools.

However, as the claims went unfounded, since the spring of 2021, over 120 churches, most of them Catholic, many of them on indigenous lands that serve the local population, have been burned to the ground, vandalized, or defiled in Canada.

The Canadian media has been rather silent on the church burnings.

The government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) went as far as blaming the fact that it has not covered the arson attacks much on “staffing shortage.

Indeed, the absence of reports about church burnings was uncovered by former CRTC chair Peter Menzies, who could not find any information on the recent arson attack against All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox in Bellis, Alberta.

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Florida teens credited for averting school shooting plot in Washington state

Published on October 10, 2025

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Two teenage boys in Florida are being called heroes for their response to a five-second TikTok video last month that may well have averted disaster all the way across the country.

The video, which has since been taken down, reportedly showed plans for a mass school shooting at Kamiakin High School in Kennewick, Wash.

“The contents of the TikTok were a map of a high school, and it had classrooms that were identified and labeled as targets,” said Kennewick School Board member Brittany Gledhill in a Thursday interview with The Center Square. “It had other classrooms that were labeled as potential targets. It had labeled exits, and it had the security department of the school listed as a potential threat.”

The map in the video did not indicate the location or name of the school.

“But this young man who lives in Florida decided to show it to a brother, and then together they decided that they needed to tell the authorities,” Gledhill said.

She explained that local authorities in Florida contacted the FBI, and within hours, the investigation was underway to determine the TikTok poster’s location.

That was September 19, a Friday.

“We got involved on Sunday, so that we were able to sweep the campus and provide a secure and safe environment for our students and staff, and that was in conjunction with KPD, or Kennewick police department,” said Kennewick School District Superintendent Lance Hansen.

At that point, the suspect, a 14-year-old Kamiakin High School freshman, was already in custody.

According to the Tri-City Herald, the FBI was able to match the layout and room numbers shown in the TikTok video to Kamiakin High School, and at that point, the FBI contacted the internet provider about the IP address linked to the account.

Officials were able to narrow down the location to a few dozen potential residences in Kennewick, and according to the Herald, law enforcement further narrowed the list based on the times the TikTok account was active.

The address was further narrowed to the boy’s home, where he reportedly lived with his grandparents, and more than two dozen firearms were located.

Hansen told The Center Square that officials believe the young man was most likely to carry out his plan had the boys in Florida not done the right thing.

“It was smart and courageous at the same time, and I think that they can be an example or model for others who may see something and think it’s not a big deal. Just the thought that they would recognize this isn’t right and have the courage to speak up … that’s really where I believe the story is,” Hansen said.

Gledhill said the school board, administration and staff members from Kamiakin High School are putting together a gift basket and thank-you notes for the boys in Florida who reported the TikTok post to authorities.

“We averted a terrible tragedy because of these two young men,” she said. “This is my home high school, and I have two of my own children [who] go to that school.”

Hansen said the school community is still reeling from what could have happened, but is also trying to find a lesson in it.

“In times where information can flow so quickly and there’s some level of anonymity that is created in ways that we communicate, like with social media, it sometimes creates some boldness in youth, which I think is a false positive,” he said. “I mean, there are benefits to the way that we communicate, and there [are] some unintended consequences of that. Having said that, as I reminded our parents, every person who’s on a campus is responsible for the safety of the campus. That’s students, staff, whoever is there. So that model … needs to be applied for everything.”

Given that the accused is 14, he is being charged as a juvenile. Assuming he pleads guilty or is convicted, he could only be confined until he turns 21.

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