The Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit, with support from Europol and French police, raided X’s Paris offices on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged offenses linked to the platform, including the creation and distribution of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, Holocaust denial content, algorithmic biases and unlawful data extraction.

ICE arrested a New Orleans Police Department recruit who they say is an illegal alien from Cameroon. He has an active deportation order and no work authorization. The New Orleans Police Department gave him a gun illegally. ICE says 46-year-old Larry Temah was one week away from graduating from the New Orleans Police Department Academy […] The post Sanctuary City Hires Illegal Alien as a Police Officer, Gives Him a Gun appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Entertainment outlet TMZ received an unverified ransom letter that demands millions in bitcoin for the release of Nancy Guthrie, the missing 84-year-old mother of “The Today Show” host Savannah Guthrie. TMZ got the note Tuesday morning and reported that it demands the cryptocurrency be sent to a specific Bitcoin address. TMZ verified the Bitcoin address is real. There is a deadline connected to the alleged ransom… in addition to an “element of or else.” The outlet reports the note also described an item that was damaged at her Tucson-area home in Catalina Hills. TMZ contacted authorities at the Pima County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office posted on X, “We are aware of reports circulating about possible ransom note(s) regarding the investigation into Nancy Guthrie.” LATEST: NANCY GUTHRIE https://t.co/bnwTx5VoPM pic.twitter.com/q3pJBoNz2B — Pima County Sheriff’s Department (@PimaSheriff) February 3, 2026   At a press conference Tuesday morning, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos didn’t have an update; instead, he went straight to fielding questions. When asked about blood in the home, which several outlets reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous sources, Nanos said he couldn’t provide verification. Nanos didn’t say whether officials believe Guthrie was targeted or the crime was random. Officials haven’t reviewed any camera footage yet as the cameras are still being processed. The front camera on Nancy’s house is notably not in the holder anymore — but Nanos said Tuesday he currently has no plan to release the footage even after it has been reviewed. Authorities also said the crime scene at Nancy’s house has been cleared and turned over to the family. NewsNation showed video Tuesday evening of what appeared to be blood spots on the front steps of Nancy’s home. Former police captain and Byrna Law Enforcement Director Joshua Schirard said that, in his experience, clearing crime scenes can sometimes take weeks. “So to clear a crime scene in the matter of 24 hours or less tells me that there’s a little bit more targeted search than they’re letting on,” Schirard said. “Either that or there just is nothing to process there, which is kind of hard to believe at this point. I think that moving forward, we’re going to see that hopefully that they’ve identified at least a person of interest at this point and are trying to verify that with the physical evidence that they found on the scene.” The scene at Nancy’s home was described by authorities as “concerning.” Still, because of the ongoing investigation, Nanos wouldn’t give any description of what made the house a crime scene. RELATED: ‘Bring Her Home’: Savannah Guthrie Pleads For Mother’s Return After ‘Abduction’ Officials are still encouraging the public to call in anything suspicious in the area of Catalina Hills from late Saturday into Sunday morning. Time is of the essence in this investigation as Nancy cannot go more than 24 hours without her medication, per authorities. The FBI is on site now helping local authorities. Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the FBI in Tucson, John Edwards, said the FBI is doing everything in its power to bring Nancy home. The agency is analyzing cell phone data and cell tower information, assisting with interviews, and providing local authorities with analytical and technical support. The Sheriff assured reporters at the Tuesday presser that if anything major happens in the case, there will be another media briefing, but the plan is to hold another press conference Thursday. President Trump commented on the situation in the White House Tuesday, saying, “I think it’s a terrible thing. I always got along very good with Savannah. Very unusual situation, but we’re going to find out.”

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * Zohran Mamdani just made a really sad and totally predictable announcement. When the recent winter cold front made it to New York, it was not nearly as bad as the ice storm Nashville residents experienced. There was very little ice in New York, mostly just snow. Nevertheless, 16 homeless New Yorkers died during that brief little cold snap. Here is the new mayor of New York: Mayor Mamdani confirms sixteen deaths during dangerously cold weather in NYC https://t.co/pQ0L9i5Yzz pic.twitter.com/zHAPfvu95u — New York Post (@nypost) February 2, 2026 Credit: @nypost/X.com Mayor Mamdani says, A severe cold front continues to bear down on our city. Today is our 11th consecutive day of below freezing weather, and we could very well be in the middle of the longest period of consecutive sub-32-degree weather in our city’s entire history. Without temperatures rising above freezing, snow has hardened into blocks of ice. But the greatest danger posed by the sustained cold is to vulnerable New Yorkers who remain exposed to the elements. As of this morning, 16 of our fellow New Yorkers have passed away outside during this brutal stretch of cold. In 13 of these cases, preliminary findings indicate that hypothermia played a role, and three of these deaths appear to be overdose deaths. We await final results from the medical examiner’s office and will inform New Yorkers as we learn more. Each of these lives lost is a tragedy. My heart was with the family of those mourning their loved ones. Mamdani blames the deaths mostly on nature, though he admits a few of them were drug deaths.  Unlike other areas of the country where recent ice storms knocked out power for weeks, New York City is built for cold weather. Cold weather hits New York every single year. New Yorkers knows how to deal with cold weather, especially when they have competent management and government. The people who died in New York did not die because their power went out. New York didn’t lose power. They died because they were left to die on the streets. Why were they left to die on the streets? Is this just some immutable characteristic of New York? What can we do? Throw our arms up in the air? A long-standing problem? No, it’s not. They were left to die on the streets specifically because Zohran Mamdani, who has been in office for just one month now, left them to die on the streets. In fact campaigned to leave them to die on the streets. Don’t take my word for it. Here is CBS News. Credit: @CBSNewYork/YouTube.com The reporter states, Local New York Mayor Alexander Mamdani says that he will end the Adams administration’s practice of removing homeless encampments from city sidewalks. But advocates argue it will be a step backwards for the city’s quality of life. Ali Bauman questioned the mayor-elect about this tonight. For the past three years, the NYPD has been systematically removing homeless encampments from New York City sidewalks, a practice mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani vows to end once he takes office — vows to end it. This is Mamdani campaigning and saying we are intentionally going to leave the homeless — who are almost entirely drug addicts and mentally ill — on the streets. And this is supposedly going to be compassionate. That’s a change of policy from the previous administration, which just left office. A little history of New York City during the 1970s and 80s may be helpful. Back then, there were a lot of bums, a lot of criminals, and a lot of homeless people on the streets. Then-mayor Rudy Giuliani came in in the 1990s and got rid of all that. He said, No, no, no — if you’re homeless, you need to go to shelters or we’re going to arrest you, but we’re not going to leave you on the streets. After he was mayor of New York, Giuliani reiterated the same idea about the Occupy Wall Street protests. When people set up encampments all over the city, he said, No, no, no, you can’t do this. Sleeping on the street is a dysfunctional act which harms society and the individual. In other words, letting the homeless stay on the street is contrary to the common good. It’s not just that letting the homeless stay on the street is good for the homeless but bad for the rest of the New Yorkers who don’t want to see them — that’s how Mamdani is presenting it. The real argument, however, is no, it’s actually bad for everyone. Because it’s bad for the law-abiding New Yorkers who don’t want criminals and drug addicts and crazy people running around the streets all the time. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show It’s also bad for the homeless because they’re susceptible to crime — susceptible to being assaulted or raped or killed. And they’re also vulnerable to the elements. It’s very, very dangerous to leave them on the streets year round, especially in the winter. And now we see the results.  This is the “warmth of collectivism.” This is the compassion that Mamdani has promised. Leaving 16 New Yorkers dead during a totally predictable, minor cold front. And he even gives away the game in his speech by trying to mitigate his culpability by saying, “In 13 of these cases, preliminary findings indicate that hypothermia played a role, and three of these deaths appear to be overdose deaths.” They basically froze like Jack Nicholson at the end of “The Shining.” He then seems to avoid taking responsibility by saying, “…and three of these deaths appear to be overdose deaths.” Like that’s better. Like it’s good that they chose to die, as if they were consenting adults. First of all, you can’t consent when you’re crazy, or when you’re addicted to all kinds of vices, or when you’re underage, or when there are all sorts of things that compromise our consent. So Mayor Mamdani’s whole policy is based on a misconception of freedom — what freedom really is. Like all liberals, he thinks freedom is just neutrality in choosing. Well, some people choose not to do heroin, but some people choose to do heroin, and who are we to say which is the better choice? It’s a misconception of freedom. It’s a misconception of the common good. It’s a misconception of what’s good for everybody. The common good is not just the random collection of all the individual goods of people, some of which are contrary to each other. In this kind of utilitarian calculation that tries to lead to the greatest utility for the greatest number, the common good is what we all share — what is good for all of us, what is not diminished by any individual good. It’s also a misunderstanding of compassion. It is not compassionate to just ignore people. It’s funny because the Left accuses the Right of this: you just ignore people. You retreat to your nice neighborhoods and your penthouses and your money, and you ignore your common man. You don’t think you’re your brother’s keeper. Sometimes the Right is guilty of that, especially the more Libertarian Right. The Left is just as guilty of that. Oh, just leave people to their degradation. Leave people to their vices. Leave people to their destructive behaviors — be it sexual ideologies, be it just license more broadly, be it with regard to living on the street — just leave them there. It’s fine. You know, who are you to intervene? Who am I? Well, I’m a reasonable person, and I’m a member of society, and I’m a citizen. And the consequences of all three of those misconceptions from Zohran Mamdani are that 16 people die on the street, whether from drugs or from exposure. That’s the “warmth of collectivism.” What would have been more compassionate for the homeless: Zohran Mamdani, who says all sorts of sweet things about the homeless and leaves them to die on the street, or Rudy Giuliani, who talks a little tougher, who seems a little bit meaner, but who protects those people? Where’s the real compassion? That’s it. We’re one month into Mamdani — one month in — and you’ve got homeless ice cubes lining the streets of New York, some of which also have heroin and fentanyl in their blood. We’re in for a real treat with Mamdani.

The man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at a Florida golf course during the 2024 presidential campaign may never step outside of a federal prison after Wednesday. Ryan Routh, 59, will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for plotting to shoot Trump while he golfed at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September 2024. Routh was convicted in September 2025 of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate. The Justice Department has requested that Routh be sentenced to life in prison. “Routh’s crimes undeniably warrant a life sentence—he took steps over the course of months to assassinate a major Presidential candidate, demonstrated the will to kill anybody in the way, and has since expressed neither regret nor remorse to his victims,” the department wrote in a January sentencing memo. “The Constitution affords citizens many peaceful avenues to oppose or express strong dissent about a Presidential candidate—murder is not one of them.” The attempted assassination took place on September 15, 2024, after weeks of planning when Routh was spotted by Secret Service Special Agent Robert Fercano embedded in a hedge near the sixth hole of the golf course with a rifle. Fercano opened fire on Routh, who fled the scene, leaving behind an SKS-style rifle with scope, an extra magazine with 19 rounds of ammo, steel armor plates, and a camera. Justice Department. Routh fled the scene in a black Nissan Xterra before he was arrested by officers with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, heading north on Interstate-95. Inside the vehicle, officers found multiple cell phones and a list of flights out of the country. A search of cell phone records found that they had pinged near the golf course and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home multiple times from August 18 to September 15, 2024. Investigators also said that one of the phones had searched how to drive from Palm Beach County to Mexico. Another list contained dates and venues where Trump was set to appear and a notebook that contained ramblings about how to fight on behalf of Ukraine. Routh was also the apparent author of a book called “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea, WWIII and the End of Humanity.” Routh wrote in the book that he “must take part of the blame for the [person] that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless, but I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake and Iran I apologize. You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal. No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection.” According to another filing from the Justice Department, Routh communicated with a person he believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military-grade weapons and requested a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG), lamenting that then-presidential nominee Donald Trump “is not good for Ukraine.” Over a year before the assassination attempt, Routh was quoted in The New York Times talking about recruiting foreigners to fight for Ukraine. Routh detained in Florida: Photo by Martin County Sheriff’s Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images. The FBI also obtained a letter from Routh that was delivered in a box to a civilian witness. “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you,” Routh wrote. “I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.” The letter also attacked Trump for ending “relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.” The would-be assassin was also convicted in September of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, assaulting a federal officer, felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Routh had previous convictions in 2002 for possession of a weapon of mass destruction and in 2010 for multiple counts of possession of stolen goods. As the verdict was delivered, Routh attempted to stab himself in the neck with a pen, prompting law enforcement to restrain and shackle him. Routh has argued that his charges should not be enhanced with federal terrorism classifications. The Justice Department says he is a threat to American society. “Routh is also a threat to the public collectively,” the Justice Department said in its sentencing memo. “He attempted to prevent the American people from exercising their right to elect the President of their choosing, by killing one of the two major candidates in the 2024 Presidential election. His conduct jeopardized the democratic process as well as multiple human lives.” Cannon, the judge who will sentence Routh, was appointed by Trump. She previously dismissed the classified documents case against Trump, saying that special counsel Jack Smith was appointed unconstitutionally to oversee the case.

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