US counterterrorism chief Joe Kent has resigned over Washington’s war on Iran, saying he cannot support the conflict.
Published On 18 Mar 2026
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Homan blasts ‘agitators’ after ICE tip-off delays rape suspect arrest
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Border czar Tom Homan blasted anti-ICE activists after an incident in Boston where they tipped off a child rape suspect wanted in El Salvador, allowing him to evade arrest for weeks.
“I can’t tell you how many serious public safety threats and national security threats escaped because of these heads-up,” Homan told “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday.
“These agitators… they’re just idiots,” he continued. “But they need to understand [that] 70% of everybody arrested is a public safety threat or a criminal. That’s who we’re going to arrest.”
White House border czar Tom Homan criticized “agitators” accused of tipping off a child rape suspect in Boston in February. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)
Homan’s criticisms were in reference to an incident involving illegal immigrant Walter Roberto Vides-Ortez, who is wanted in his native El Salvador for alleged child rape.
Video taken by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on Feb. 12 in Boston showed activists shouting obscenities at an agent and recording from inside a vehicle.
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Walter Roberto Vides-Ortez, who is wanted in his native El Salvador for alleged child rape, was arrested last week. Anti-ICE protesters blew a February operation to capture Vides-Ortez in Boston, Fox News has learned. (ICE source)
During the February incident, agents were waiting in their vehicles outside Vides-Ortez’s East Boston home when activists surrounded them, blowing whistles, cursing at them and accusing the ICE agents of traumatizing children at a nearby elementary school.
Their cover was blown, and no arrest was made at the time. Vides-Ortez was later apprehended on March 12.
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Homan said the incident highlights a broader issue he has long warned about, arguing that activists’ interference and sanctuary policies are making it harder for ICE to detain dangerous individuals.
“The people we’re arresting are terrorizing communities, and that’s why we’re out there putting our lives on the line to arrest these people and take them off the street and make this country safer again,” he said.
Fox News’ Louis Casiano and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
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CM Devendra Fadnavis’ disclosure, 4 accounts of Guljhar-e-Raza frozen, ATS is investigating the matter.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has made a big and shocking revelation regarding the ‘Guljhar-e-Raza’ funding case in the Legislative Council. The Chief Minister said that this controversial institution was getting funding at the international level. Seeing the seriousness of the matter, now the Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) has also started a parallel investigation of this case.
The Chief Minister informed the House that about Rs 25 lakh had been deposited in the account linked to Guljhar-e-Raza by an international organization named ‘Dawate Islami’. Taking immediate action, the investigating agencies have so far frozen about 4 accounts related to this. Investigation has also revealed that some money was withdrawn from these accounts by transferring it to different accounts, which is being tracked.
400 drop boxes and more than 18 thousand donors
Throwing light on the method of raising funds, CM Fadnavis said that in the last 4 years, about 400 drop boxes were placed in 4 districts of the state. This huge fund was collected from 18,573 donors through these boxes. However, complete information of all donors is not available. The work of identification and verification of those who have given money through check or other bank means is going on.
Fear of misuse of funds worth Rs 4 crore
After a new angle of funding from foreign and controversial institutions came to light, ATS is investigating this matter in depth. In the initial investigation, it is feared that this huge fund of about Rs 4 crore deposited by Guljhar-e-Raza may have been used for some suspicious or different purposes.
At present, all the concerned suspicious accounts have been sealed and every transaction done so far is being investigated in detail.
Polish court clears extradition of Russian archaeologist to Ukraine | Arts and Culture News
Alexander Butyagin, an academic with Russia’s Hermitage Museum, is accused of illegal excavations in occupied Crimea.
Published On 18 Mar 2026
Poland is set to extradite a Russian archaeologist accused of carrying out illegal excavations in occupied Crimea to Ukraine, deepening tensions over a case that has raised questions about cultural preservation amid the war in Ukraine now in its fifth year.
Polish state media reported on Wednesday that a court in Warsaw had approved Ukraine’s extradition request for Alexander Butyagin. His lawyer, Adam Domanski, said he would appeal the decision.
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list of 3 itemsend of listA well-known academic with Russia’s Hermitage Museum, Butyagin had worked on archaeological digs in the Myrmekion site, located in Crimea, both before and after Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014. The work helped discover ancient artefacts, including Alexander the Great-era coins.
Poland arrested Butyagin in December on the request of Ukraine, which alleges he is responsible for the “illegal partial destruction” of an archaeological site, with damage exceeding 200 million hryvnias ($4.5m).
Kyiv also claims Butyagin seized 30 gold coins, of which 26 were inscribed with the name of Alexander the Great and four were minted during the reign of his brother Philip III Arrhidaeus.
Butyagin’s arrest provoked a furious reaction from the Kremlin, which accused Poland of “legal tyranny”. In January, Russia summoned the Polish ambassador to demand his release.
Moscow argues the charges against Butyagin are “absurd” as it views Crimea as Russian territory. It has called Warsaw’s decision to detain the archaeologist politically motivated.
If convicted in Ukraine of the “partial destruction” of the Myrmekion site, he would face up to five years in prison, according to the Polish News Agency.
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Did America and Israel just ramp up the war in the Middle East? | World News
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They assess the reaction of the Gulf states to the war and look at how possibly putting troops on the ground could affect the conflict.
Meanwhile, Israel says its forces have begun “limited and targeted” ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. What’s the justification? The pair examine the possible reason and talk about when they were both there in 2024.
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Jerry O’Connell says he’s quitting podcasts after Bill Maher interview
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Actor Jerry O’Connell said Tuesday he wasn’t going to do podcasts anymore following his recent interview on Bill Maher‘s “Club Random” podcast, during which he said his wife and children got “physical” with him after statements he made on election night in 2024.
“Okay. @ClubRandom_ was my last podcast. Can’t do anything right. @x is mad at me. My family is mad at me,” O’Connell wrote on X, in response to a headline about Maher making fun of O’Connell for attending a Harris rally.
O’Connell made headlines for revealing during the podcast that his wife, actress Rebecca Romijn, and their daughters “became physical” with him after he criticized the Democratic Party’s lack of planning on election night in 2024.
The actor added in the post that he would go on the “Pardon My Take” podcast to discuss fantasy football, but that was it.
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Jerry O’Connell speaks onstage during the ADL Never Is Now Summit at The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on March 16, 2026, in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for ADL)
It was unclear if his X post about quitting the genre was tongue-in-cheek. In another post to X, he said that he would go on Meghan McCain’s podcast as well, “BUT THAT IS IT.”
O’Connell, known for his roles in movies like “Stand By Me” and “Jerry Maguire,” detailed the election night spat during the podcast interview that aired on Monday. He was critical of the process that installed Harris as the Democratic nominee before she lost to President Donald Trump.
“I said something along the lines of ‘there was no planning. This is what they get. There should have been a primary.’ I said something along those lines, you know, like I was just spitballing ideas. It was a shock. My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage,” O’Connell said.
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Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell attend CAA Kickoff Party for The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Weekend at The Henri on April 28, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for CAA)
He continued, “So if I am being careful with you in how I say things, yes, I live in California. I live with not one, not two, but three people who, if I made any kind of joke, they’d become very angry with me.”
Maher responded by saying he could not live that way.
“Whatever household situation I’m in, I say what I truly think, and if it makes you angry, I’m sorry. We’ll have to work that out. But I am not going to tuck my tail between my legs and just shut the f— up,” Maher said.
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Ransomware gang stole data of 672K people in cyberattack
Marquis, a Texas-based financial services provider, revealed this week that a ransomware gang stole the data of over 670,000 individuals in an August 2025 cyberattack that also disrupted operations at 74 banks across the United States.
The company provides digital marketing, data analytics, compliance, and CRM services to more than 700 banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders across the United States.
In data breach notifications filed with U.S. Attorney General offices in early December, Marquis said it suffered a ransomware attack on August 14, 2025, after the threat actors compromised a SonicWall firewall.
After breaching its network, the attackers stole a wide range of personal and financial information, including affected individuals’ names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, Taxpayer Identification Numbers, and financial account information without security or access codes.
“The incident was limited to Marquis’s systems and did not affect our customer’s systems,” the fintech company said in data breach notification letters sent to 672,075 affected people this week.
“Our customer reviewed the affected files on December 10, 2025, and afterwards worked to validate and identify individuals whose information may have been affected by the incident, and our customer worked as quickly as possible to obtain individuals’ most recent mailing address information.”
In January, Marquis blamed the ransomware attack on a security breach disclosed by SonicWall on September 17, when the company warned customers to reset their MySonicWall account credentials.
At the time, SonicWall said the incident affected only about 5% of its firewall customers using its cloud backup service and warned that the attackers could extract access credentials and tokens, which would make it “significantly easier” to compromise affected customers’ firewalls.
A Mandiant investigation into the September attack also found evidence linking the incident to a state-sponsored hacking group.
In February, Marquis filed a lawsuit against SonicWall, accusing the cybersecurity company of gross negligence and misrepresentation, which allegedly led to the ransomware attack on the fintech firm’s systems in August 2025.
“As a result of SonicWall’s conduct, Marquis has suffered, and continues to suffer, damages; a loss of customers; harm to its business reputation; lost business opportunities, revenue and profit; and substantial diminution in its enterprise value,” Marquis noted in the complaint.
The company also noted that it was defending over 36 consumer class action lawsuits stemming from the August 2025 cyberattack and the resulting data breach, and it was seeking monetary damages, indemnification, contribution for any judgments in the related class actions, attorneys’ fees, and equitable relief.
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Concerns over US involvement
The war has reignited a debate within the Iranian diaspora about what role the US should play in Iran’s future.
This question is more than a distant geopolitical issue for Iranians in Los Angeles.
Many residents explained that their family histories had been shaped by US involvement in the region, whether it was through US support for Iran’s fallen monarchy or through the US decision to back Iraq’s invasion of Iran in 1980.
Aida Ashouri, a human rights lawyer who is running to be Los Angeles city attorney, was among those publicly condemning the latest US campaign in Iran at the city hall protest on February 28.
“This is a US imperialist war, and we have to make that clear,” she said. “Call a spade a spade. This war is not to liberate the women of Iran or the people of Iran.”
Ashouri was born during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Her hometown, Isfahan, was also bombed in June last year during the US and Israel’s 12-day war with Iran.
For Ashouri, it was telling that the US and Israel once again launched the first strike in the current conflict. For many legal experts, that made the conflict an unprovoked war of aggression, in violation of international law.
“A war implies two sides are actively engaged, but Iran has done nothing to be involved,” Ashouri said.
“This is a unilateral military invasion, an aggression of the United States and Israel. They are the ones with the power to end it by stopping the bombing.”
She and other protesters drew parallels between the current Iran war and the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched in 2003 and 2001, respectively.
“I lived through the shadow of the war on terror, all the propaganda talking points,” said Shany Ebadi, an Iranian American antiwar organiser with the ANSWER Coalition. “What the Trump administration is saying reminds me a lot of the Iraq war.”
As someone who follows the news closely, Ebadi remembers feeling alarm when the first strikes were launched in February.
“When I got the breaking news notification of the initial attack, my whole body felt paralysed. I felt anger and frustration,” she said.
She and Ashouri both said they fear the military operation in Iran could spark a regional war that might further destabilise not just Iran, but the entire Middle East.
“I fear that war will repeat the disasters seen in Palestine, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan,” Ashouri said, listing countries targeted in the US’s “war on terror” over the past two and a half decades.
The question of whether bombs can pave the way to freedom in Iran is a simple one for Ashouri and her fellow antiwar activists. The answer, they say, is simply no.
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