Four suspected illegal immigrants, referred to as “public safety threats,” escaped from federal authorities at a building used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark, New Jersey, as chaotic scenes erupted outside the facility on Thursday. The escapees, identified as two Honduran and two Colombian nationals by the Department of Homeland Security, broke through a wall and escaped from the Delaney Hall detention center, the Associated Press reported. Detainees being held inside Delaney Hall reportedly became enraged over delayed meals, and protesters showed up at the detention center, pushing against the gates and attempting to block vehicles from passing through. Delaney Hall is the same facility where Newark Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka, along with Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), were arrested during altercations with law enforcement after they attempted to storm into the building last month. An attorney representing one of the suspected illegal immigrants being detained at Delaney Hall told the AP that the situation became violent on Thursday after meals for the detainees arrived hours later than normal. “Apparently the guards lost control of them,” the attorney, Mustafa Cetin, said. “And they started to, you know, create a disturbance.” On Friday, the DHS said it is offering $10,000 for information leading to the apprehension of the escapees, identified as Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes and Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez — both Honduran men — and Colombian men Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada and Andres Pineda-Mogollon. Homeland Security added that it has brought in “additional law enforcement partners” as they continue to search for the escapees. DHS pushed back against reports claiming that an “uprising” was taking place at the detention facility. “On June 12, four criminal illegal aliens breached security at Delaney Hall. Contrary to current reporting, there has been no widespread unrest at the Delaney Hall Detention facility,” Homeland Security said in a statement. “This privately held facility remains dedicated to providing high-quality services, including include around-the-clock access to medical care, in-person and virtual legal and family visitation, general and legal library access, translation services, dietician-approved meals, religious and specialty diets, recreational amenities, and opportunities to practice their religious beliefs.” Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! Bautista-Reyes was arrested by the Wayne Township, New Jersey, Police Department in May on charges of aggravated assault, attempt to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes. He crossed the border illegally in 2021, according to the DHS. Sandoval-Lopez, who entered the United States illegally in 2019, was arrested by the New Jersey Passaic Police Department last October for unlawful possession of a handgun. He was arrested again in February for aggravated assault. Castaneda-Lozada, who has been living in the country illegally since 2022, was arrested in May by the New Jersey Hammonton Police Department for burglary, theft, and conspiracy to commit burglary. Pineda-Mogollon, who the DHS says overstayed a tourist visa after entering the country in 2023, was nabbed by the New York City Police Department in April for petit larceny. He was arrested again in May by the Union, New Jersey, Police Department for residential burglary, conspiracy to commit residential burglary, and possession of burglary tools. SCOOP: The @nypost can report that these are the four ICE detainees who escaped from the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark yesterday. A $10,000 reward is being offered to anyone who can help track them down. Franklin Norberto Bautista-ReyesAn illegal alien from Honduras… pic.twitter.com/u6MNhmVaNs — Jennie Taer ?️ (@JennieSTaer) June 13, 2025 Delaney Hall, which is operated by the GEO Group, a private company, has been the center of protests since last month, as Democrats and activists claim that detainees at the 1,000-bed facility are subject to poor treatment. Democrats, such as Mayor Baraka, have attempted to gain entry to the facility, arguing that it “lacks sufficient oversight of every basic detail — including local zoning laws and fundamental constitutional rights.”

Summertime means America’s Got Talent and fans lock in each year to have their minds blown. Charity Lockhart is a 49-year-old mom of two who wanted nothing more than to sing. But life wasn’t easy for Charity who at one point lived with her two sons in their car. But Charity had hope. “All I had was my voice. So I went to clubs and bars, and I asked live bands if I could sing with them,” she told the judges before she sang. “They would give me a little money at the end of the night, so I entered vocal competitions. Not this big. It was a local competition, and we won a monetary award. And that gave us our first apartment.” Charity Lockhart Didn’t Have The Best Performance At First Charity Lockhart began her set with an a cappella version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz. Simon quickly stopped her, but wanted to give her another chance. “I stopped you because I like you. But it just wasn’t working for me. Have you got another song? Anything? I really want this to work for you, and this is a lot of pressure,” Simon said. “But come on, you’ve got it in you. Let’s hear the other song.” After a deep breath, Charity sang a rendition of Golden Slumbers by the Beatles. The performance hit all the right notes and got the audience directly in their feels. “This is what a great audition is all about, you know, when they’re going to talk about you the following day,” Simon said. “That was one of those auditions. It was that good.” It not only brought judge Mel B. to her feet, but she slammed the Golden Buzzer, catapulting Charity Lockart to the Live Shows. Mel B. rushed the stage, hugged Charity, and overwhelmed her, calling her “incredible.” This season is one to watch. This story’s featured image can be found here. The post This “AGT” Golden Buzzer Audition Will Give You Chills appeared first on InspireMore.

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Washington, D.C., police are looking for the arsonist believed responsible for over 30 fires set in the Capitol Hill neighborhood since early March. Four fires were set Wednesday morning and 10 were set the previous night.  Local station NBC4 reported Wednesday that a federal warrant is out for the arrest of 50-year-old Mohammad Al-Rashidi, whom police believe is homeless. Police arrested Al-Rashidi in May after he was caught lighting a fire in a trash can but released him after prosecutors dropped the charges. District of Columbia Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly told NBC4, “The prosecutors didn’t feel they could get a conviction.”  Most of the fires Al-Rashidi is suspected of starting have been in trash cans, but both St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center on Capitol Hill have been damaged from larger fires. The church’s garage, containing the pastor’s car, was lit on fire last month, destroying the car. Police estimate the damages total around $30,000.   The day after the church fire, security footage showed the suspect light a fire in a trash bin and walk away.   Construction equipment on the side of the Kirby Center building was set on fire Wednesday night. Scorching from the flames reached up to 20 feet high. Staff from St. Joseph’s Church, just blocks from the Capitol, discovered another trash can fire on the property Thursday morning.  Donnelly warned, “These fires are happening in the middle of the night. They’re happening where they could grow, and my fear is that one’s going to extend to a house and someone’s going to get hurt or lose their property. … This is a big problem.”  The post Capitol Hill Plagued by Over 30 Arson Fires  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a state Medical Aid in Dying Act into law, there will come a time when we will look back on this week with deep regret.  We’ll see it not as a triumph of compassion, but as a failure of courage, ethics, and love. On Monday, the New York state Senate passed legislation to legalize assisted suicide by a vote of 35 to 27. With just six Democrats joining Republicans in opposition, the Medical Aid in Dying Act now moves one step closer to becoming law and making New York the 12th state in the nation to legalize assisted suicide. But what sets New York apart is not progress. It’s recklessness. This bill has some of the loosest safeguards in the country, stripping away even the bare minimum protections seen in other states. There is no mandatory waiting period. No requirement for in-person evaluations. Mental health screening is only required if a doctor suspects impaired judgment, which, given that evaluations can be done virtually, opens the door wide to inaccurate diagnoses. New York’s bill allows for assessments over Zoom and no follow-up. There is no requirement for physicians or pharmacists to report cases to the state. Supporters insist the law is only for those near death, those with terminal diagnoses who are suffering. But we’ve heard this all before. We’ve seen what happens when assisted suicide becomes legal. In countries such as Canada and the Netherlands, eligibility quickly expanded beyond the terminally ill. In the Netherlands, assisted suicide accounts for nearly 6% of all deaths, and proposals have been floated to allow otherwise healthy seniors over the age of 75 to request assisted suicide after six months of counseling. In Canada, officials have documented cases of patients seeking death not due to pain, but because of poverty, loneliness, or fear of becoming a burden to others. But there is another cost to this bill. The erosion of something deeply precious; namely, our culture of care. My mother worked in hospice care for years in Westchester and the Bronx. It was hard, unglamorous work—physically exhausting, emotionally raw, and often unfolding in the quietest, most sacred corners of people’s lives. She sat with the dying in the middle of the night. She answered urgent calls at 2 a.m., sometimes driving through snowstorms and summer heat waves to be at a bedside as someone took his or her last breath. Her patients came from every part of society. She treated people from old-money families in historic mansions in Bronxville. And she treated people from no-money families in the housing projects, where dangerous streets meant a son or neighbor would escort her back to her car after dark. But despite the enormous differences in wealth, education, and background, those families had something profound in common. They showed up. They made space. They rearranged their lives to care for someone they loved. And it wasn’t easy. Most of them weren’t expecting it. Few were trained for it. But they took on the sacred responsibility anyway. They bathed their loved ones, managed pain medication, and sat with them through the long, quiet hours of dying. Many were holding down jobs or raising kids at the same time. But they still chose to do it. To serve. To love. My mom always said that these were some of the best people she’d ever met. Not because they were perfect, but because they focused on others and didn’t look away. They leaned in. They saw that a life’s final chapter deserved dignity, even if it came at personal cost. That is what death with dignity looks like—not a video call with a distant doctor, but a life ending in the arms of those who care. A family bound together in service and sacrifice. A culture that remembers what it means to love until the very end. This New York bill doesn’t offer dignity. It offers escape. And it teaches the next generation that death is preferable to dependence, that needing help is shameful, that providing care is burdensome. We will come to see the cost of this legislation in the years to come—in the isolation of the elderly, in the erosion of family bonds, in the loss of those small, everyday acts of heroism that keep love alive in a culture drifting toward indifference. There are proactive steps we should be taking on behalf of the dying and the seriously ill, but the Medical Aid in Dying Act isn’t it. We should be fighting for better pain management, for stronger hospice systems, for support for families, for more affordable nursing homes, and for better mental health care. Because in the end, how we care for one another defines who we are. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post New York’s Assisted-Suicide Bill Is a Tragedy, Not a Triumph appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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