A man was arrested in Scotland after threatening to blow up an airplane with a bomb while denouncing America and President Donald Trump during his visit to Scotland over the weekend for golf and trade negotiations.
A video was posted to X showing the suspect, who is reportedly a 41-year-old Indian national residing in the United Kingdom, standing up in a planeâs aisle, shouting, âI am going to bomb the plane! Death to America! Death to Trump! Allahu akbar!â
âIâm going to bomb the plane. Death to America. Death to Trump. Allahu Akbar!â
â shouted by a Muslim aboard an easyJet flight from London to Glasgow today, which had to be diverted after he made the bomb threat.
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As the man shouts, a passenger approaches him and tackles him to the floor. Another video reported by The Sun shows the man being interrogated while pinned to the floor, stating that he â[wanted] to send a message to Trump,â who he knew was in Scotland.
EasyJet EZY609, which was flying from London Luton Airport to Glasgow, Scotland, was forced to make an emergency landing at a separate runway in Glasgow to account for the manâs threats, at which point the man was arrested.
Passengers on the plane recalled the stressful event in statements to The Sun.
One passenger said, âIâve never seen that before. The airline staff, they were all girls, they were really shaken up by it, but they were super professional.â
The Scotland police released a statement saying, âA 41-year-old man was arrested in connection and further enquiries are ongoing. ⌠At this time we believe the incident was contained and that nobody else was involved.â
The statement mentioned that the videos available were being âassessed by counter terrorism officers.â
In a statement released by easyJet, a spokesperson confirmed that âFlight EZY609 from Luton to Glasgow this morning was met by police on arrival in Glasgow, where they boarded the aircraft and removed a passenger due to their behaviour onboard. ⌠easyJetâs crew are trained to assess all situations and act quickly and appropriately to ensure that the safety of the flight and other customers is not compromised at any time.â
The witness said that the man âliterally came out of the toilet shouting âAllahu Akbarâ with his hands above his head,â noting that he did not see a cause of the outburst.
After nearly a year as deputy director of the FBI under President Donald Trump, Bongino has returned to Fox as a contributor, according to a Monday afternoon report from The New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum.
His comeback was announced during the Monday night episode of Sean Hannityâs show at 9:00 p.m. ET.
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Grynbaum noted that Bongino has expressed regret at times about stepping away from his former life in media. Just weeks into the FBI role, he admitted on Fox & Friends that he missed what he left behind.
âI gave up everything for this,â Bongino said at the time.
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First Appearance Back Focuses on High-Profile Disappearance
Bonginoâs first major appearance after returning centered on the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC Today co-host Savannah Guthrie.
Speaking on Hannity Monday night, Bongino outlined three troubling possibilities in the case, emphasizing that investigators are still operating with very limited evidence.
âThe first [possibility] would be, obviously, it’s a kidnapping. That was an intended kidnapping for a ransom paymentâŚâ he said.
He then explained a second scenario â that the situation may have spiraled out of another crime entirely.
âThe second possibility would be this was just a crime that went awry. Someone was at the house, maybe it was a burglary, maybe something went bad, and you’ve got some bad actors committing another crime unrelated â in other words, requesting a ransom for something you didn’t do just to take advantage of a situation like this.â
Bonginoâs third possibility raised an even more unsettling idea: that the disappearance may not involve a kidnapping at all.
The third possibility, he said, is that Guthrieâs disappearance could have resulted from a medical emergency or another non-criminal event that was later misunderstood or misrepresented.
Bongino Highlights Lack of Evidence
Bongino pointed to the complete absence of digital and forensic indicators â no DNA, no license plate hits, no cellphone activity, and no surveillance leads â as a major reason investigators are struggling.
He explained that when authorities cannot locate someone within the first few days, it can suggest either extremely sophisticated perpetrators or something else entirely.
âThe story youâve been told, or you may have believed may not be the story,â he said.
While Bongino declined to push one theory more strongly than the others, he emphasized that the lack of proof-of-life communication is unusual for legitimate ransom kidnappings.
He also referenced commentary from veteran FBI Special Agent Lance Leising, noting that real ransom cases typically involve rapid contact and early confirmation that the victim is alive â patterns missing here.
Multi-Agency Search Continues
Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Arizona home earlier this month, triggering a multi-agency investigation that now includes the FBI.
As the search intensified, Savannah Guthrie issued an emotional public plea, describing the situation as an âhour of desperation.â
Authorities are also investigating an alleged ransom note tied to the disappearance, though the deadline referenced in the note passed Monday night without proof of life or resolution.
Back to Media â and Still on Rumble
Bongino will continue hosting his podcast on Rumble, which he recently rebooted after leaving the FBI in December.
Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham said at the time she wasnât surprised by Bonginoâs departure, noting that he âloved his lucrative media lifeâ and wanted to âget back to it.â
President Trump joined Bonginoâs first show back on Rumble.
The president made headlines during his appearance when he said Republicans should ânationalizeâ the voting process in order to block âcrookedâ Democrat-led states from allowing illegal immigrants to vote.
âThese people were brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally,â Trump said. âAnd itâs amazing the Republicans arenât tougher on it. The Republicans should say, âWe want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.ââ
The White House initially sought to soften Trumpâs remarks, but the president doubled down on Tuesday, arguing that federal intervention could be warranted if states fail to administer elections fairly.
âIf states canât count the votes legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over,â Trump said. âThe federal government should get involved.â
Trump framed his argument as a response to what he described as âcorruptionâ at the state and local level, particularly in more than a dozen states he has criticized in recent months.
In response, Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said he plans to introduce a Senate resolution on Monday denouncing any effort by a president to ânationalizeâ or âtake overâ state-run election systems ahead of the 2026 midterms.
California Senator Adam Schiff (D) is under criminal investigation.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham broke the news on Tuesday night on “The Ingraham Angle,” saying the source said a criminal investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Attorneyâs Office in Maryland on possible charges involving mortgage fraud.
The investigation comes a month after a story broke about the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sending a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleging that Schiff, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms.
In a 2011 affidavit signed by the then-California congressman, Schiff certified that a property in Montgomery County, Maryland, is his primary residence.
Schiff also owns a condominium in Burbank, California, which he has also claimed as his primary residence as recently as 2023, during his campaign for Senate.
Pulte later received a memo from the Fannie Mae financial crimes investigations concluding that Schiff allegedly engaged in “a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation” on five Fannie Mae loans.
Schiff and his wife purchased a home in Potomac, Maryland, in 2003 for $870,000, according to the letter. They entered into a Fannie Mae-backed mortgage agreement for $610,000 at a rate of 5.625% over a term of 30 years, asserting the property would be their primary and principal residence.
The letter said they reaffirmed that the Maryland home was their primary residence in mortgage refinancing filings in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013, despite Schiff being an elected official representing the state of California at the same time.
In 2023, the letter notes, a spokesperson for Schiff asserted that, “Adamâs primary residence is Burbank, California, and will remain so when he wins the Senate seat.”
A spokesperson for Schiff in 2023 told CNN that, “Adamâs California and Maryland addresses have been listed as primary residences for loan purposes because they are both occupied throughout the year and to distinguish them from a vacation property.”
The federal housing official wrote that he believes Schiff’s alleged misconduct could be violations of federal criminal codes banning wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, and false statements to financial institutions.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are facing an internal divide over a sensitive and politically risky question: whether Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein, should be considered for a presidential pardon in exchange for cooperation with investigators.
The discussion has largely taken place behind closed doors, but it reflects a broader tension between uncovering new information and maintaining public confidence in the justice system.
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) acknowledged the split, noting that some Republicans believe Maxwell could provide valuable testimony about Epsteinâs network if offered clemency. Still, Comer made clear he is not among them.
He warned that a pardon âlooks badâ politically and ethically
He emphasized Maxwellâs central role in the underlying crimes
He argued that granting leniency could undermine trust in the investigation
Comer summed up his position bluntly, describing Maxwell as one of the most culpable figures in the case.
Democrats Firmly Opposed
Democrats on the committee are unified in rejecting any potential deal.
Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) strongly criticized the idea, arguing that offering clemency to Maxwell would be offensive to victims and damaging to the integrity of the investigation.
Key concerns raised by Democrats include:
The impact on survivors of Epsteinâs abuse
The credibility of any testimony obtained through a pardon
The risk of public perception shifting toward a âcover-upâ
Garcia warned that even considering such an arrangement could erode confidence in the process and send the wrong signal about accountability.
Maxwellâs Leverage and Conditions
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her role in Epsteinâs trafficking operation. So far, she has declined to cooperate with congressional investigators under existing conditions.
Her legal team, however, has signaled a willingness to engage if circumstances change.
According to her attorney:
Maxwell would be willing to testify âfully and honestlyâ
Any cooperation would be contingent on clemency
She is positioned as a key source of information about Epsteinâs network
Her attorney has also claimed that Maxwell could shed light on the involvement, or lack thereof, of high-profile figures, including former presidents. Those assertions have not eased skepticism among lawmakers.
The Political and Legal Stakes
President Donald Trump has not ruled out the possibility of granting clemency, leaving the issue open and politically charged.
The debate highlights a difficult tradeoff:
Potential benefit: New details about Epsteinâs network and associates
Potential cost: Perceived erosion of justice and accountability
For many lawmakers, the question is not just what Maxwell might reveal, but whether the price of that information is too high.
Why This Matters
At its core, the disagreement reflects a broader challenge facing investigators and policymakers:
How far should the government go to obtain critical information?
Can justice and transparency be balanced in a case with this level of public scrutiny?
There is no clear consensus, and the path forward remains uncertain.
What are your thoughts? Should a pardon be considered if it leads to new information about Epsteinâs network? Share your perspective in the comments below.
Former New York Republican congressman George Santos walked free on Friday after President Donald Trump commuted his federal sentence â but the move may not end his legal ordeal. A local prosecutor on Long Island appeared to signal that state-level charges could be used to sidestep the presidentâs act of clemency.
Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said on the social platform X that her office had been âat the forefrontâ of the effort to âbring Santos to justice.â Donnellyâs jurisdiction includes part of the district Santos once represented in Congress.
âI am proud of the work my office has done, and the conviction achieved in partnership with the U.S. Attorneyâs office,â Donnelly said. âWhile the office cannot comment on ongoing investigations, suffice it to say that I remain focused on prosecuting political corruption wherever it exists regardless of political affiliation.â
Her statement â vague but pointed â has fueled speculation that prosecutors could seek state charges mirroring the federal case, a move critics say would effectively undermine Trumpâs commutation and keep Santos entangled in the court system despite his early release.
A spokesperson for the Nassau County D.A.âs office declined to elaborate when asked whether an investigation was ongoing.
Trumpâs Message: âUnequal Justiceâ and Political Targeting
Announcing the commutation on Truth Social, President Trump praised Santosâs âCourage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN,â suggesting the former lawmakerâs punishment was disproportionate.
âGeorge Santos was somewhat of a ârogue,â but there are many rogues throughout our Country that arenât forced to serve seven years in prison,â Trump wrote.
Santos had served just 84 days of a seven-year sentence after pleading guilty last summer to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors had accused him of multiple financial and campaign-related offenses â including money laundering and falsifying records â but supporters argue that he faced harsher treatment because of his party affiliation and outspoken loyalty to Trump.
Possible State Move Seen as Political
Republicans are already warning that a state prosecution would represent another example of âlawfareâ â the use of legal mechanisms to target political opponents.
Santos himself, who had initially said he wouldnât seek clemency before later telling interviewer Piers Morgan heâd accept âwhatever the president is willing to give me,â has yet to comment on Donnellyâs remarks.
For now, the former congressman is free â but the signals from Nassau County suggest that the battle between Trumpâs justice reform message and New Yorkâs prosecutors may be far from over.
Federal prosecutors in Miami say top Smartmatic executives funneled money from a $300 million Los Angeles County voting contract into an illegal slush fund.
According to the Justice Department, Smartmatic co-founder Roger Alejandro PiĂąate Martinez and two others used shell companies and fake invoices to siphon off cash from the taxpayer-funded deal. That money allegedly ended up in bribes paid to government officials in Venezuela and the Philippines.
Smartmatic is suing Fox News for $2.7 billion â alleging the network defamed them by promoting President Donald Trumpâs false claims of a stolen election in the days and weeks after the 2020 vote.
The new filing is part of a corruption case in Florida against the three Smartmatic executives for allegedly operating a bribery and money-laundering scheme in which they are accused of paying off an election official in the Philippines to help secure $182 million in contracts. The DOJ also claims the executives carried a similar plot with a Venezuelan official â whom the executives gave a home with a pool in 2019, according to prosecutors.
The DOJ hasn’t charged Smartmatic as a company, nor has it accused any L.A. County officials of wrongdoing. Still, the department is clearly using the L.A. contract to establish a pattern of corrupt practices tied to the voting tech firm.
The DOJâs latest move builds on earlier charges against the same executives. Federal prosecutors had previously accused PiĂąate of laundering money through a similar slush fund to bribe election officials in the Philippines during the 2016 elections.
To be clear, no one is alleging votes were tampered with or election results altered. The charges focus strictly on financial corruption â kickbacks, shell firms, and international bribery.
President Donald J. Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club dinner in honor of Police Week in the White House Rose Garden, Monday, May 11, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)
The Trump administration is launching a new crackdown on naturalized citizens accused of gaming America’s immigration system, moving to strip citizenship from 17 foreign-born criminals ranging from child sex offenders to multimillion-dollar fraudsters.
The Justice Department is expected to announce Monday that it has filed denaturalization actions against a group of naturalized citizens who allegedly lied, concealed serious crimes, or committed fraud while obtaining U.S. citizenship.
“U.S. citizenship is a privilege, not a right for people who obtained it through deception,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said as the administration unveiled its latest effort to purge what officials describe as bad actors who abused the naturalization process.
Among the most shocking cases is Haitian-born Jean Claude Alfred, 68, who federal officials say was sexually abusing his minor daughter while applying to become an American citizen.
According to the Justice Department, Alfred denied committing any crimes during his citizenship application process despite allegedly abusing his daughter during that same period. He was later convicted by a Florida jury on charges including attempted sexual battery of a child in a familial relationship and lewd assault on a minor.
The Daily Wire reported that another target is Colombian-born Fernando Cristancho, a Roman Catholic priest sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually grooming and abusing a young parishioner between the ages of 11 and 13. Federal officials allege Cristancho concealed his criminal conduct from immigration authorities while seeking naturalization.
The administration is also seeking to denaturalize Delmas Garcia, a Cuban-born woman convicted in a massive healthcare fraud scheme that prosecutors say generated more than $36 million in false insurance claims.
Garcia admitted operating dozens of physical therapy clinics in Florida that billed insurers for treatments that were either medically unnecessary or never provided at all.
Also on the list is Andrea Marroquin, the daughter of a notorious Colombian drug trafficker. Prosecutors allege Marroquin concealed a fraudulent marriage and used drug money inherited from her father to carry out a series of illicit real estate transactions in Miami before becoming a U.S. citizen.
The latest actions are part of a broader Trump administration push to dramatically expand denaturalization efforts nationwide.
Last year, the Justice Department directed federal prosecutors to prioritize cases involving individuals who obtained citizenship through fraud, misrepresentation, or concealment of serious criminal activity. The New York Times reported that USCIS was subsequently instructed to increase referrals of potential denaturalization cases, with reports indicating the agency was expected to identify between 100 and 200 new cases each month.
The administration argues the initiative is aimed at restoring integrity to the naturalization system and ensuring citizenship is reserved for immigrants who follow the law.
“The Trump administration is taking action to correct these egregious violations of our immigration system,” Blanche said in a previous announcement unveiling a separate round of denaturalization cases involving terrorism suspects, war criminals, sex offenders, and fraudsters.
Critics have accused the administration of vastly expanding a legal tool that historically was used only sparingly. For decades, denaturalization cases averaged roughly a dozen filings annually, but federal officials now say hundreds of potential cases are under review.
Under federal law, citizenship can be revoked if prosecutors prove it was obtained illegally or through willful misrepresentation of material facts during the naturalization process. The government carries a high burden of proof and must convince a federal court that citizenship was fraudulently secured.
For the Trump administration, however, the message is straightforward: if someone lied their way into American citizenship, the government intends to take a second look.
And for some of the nation’s worst criminals, that second look could mean losing the very citizenship they worked to obtain.
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Time is running out…
On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team filed a motion urging Judge Juan Merchan to hold off on sentencing him on Jan. 10 in his New York criminal conviction.
Last week, the New York judge announced sentencing would move forward this Friday despite his imminent return to the White House
Trumpâs attorneys told Merchan they are appealing his recent rulings upholding the juryâs guilty verdict and argued the judge must pause the case in the meantime.
âBy virtue of President Trumpâs filing of appellate proceedings raising his claims of Presidential immunity, all proceedings in this Court are automatically stayed by operation of federal constitutional law,â Trumpâs attorneys wrote in the new filing, which was made public Monday.
âIn the alternative, even if such a stay were discretionary, the Court should grant such a stay. The Court should vacate the sentencing hearing scheduled for January 10, 2025, and suspend all further deadlines in the case until President Trumpâs immunity appeals are fully and finally resolved, which should result in a dismissal of this case, which should have never been brought in the first place,â they continued.
They asked Merchan to notify the parties by 2 p.m. EST Monday whether he will cancel the sentencing and said they would be filing two appeals Monday in state court.
âThe Supreme Courtâs historic decision on Immunity, the state constitution of New York, and other established legal precedent mandate that this meritless hoax be immediately dismissed,â Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung, who is set to become White House communications director, said in a statement.Â
A New York jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film performer Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election so she would keep an alleged affair secret.
It is the only one of Trumpâs criminal prosecutions to have reached trial.
Trumpâs sentencing in New York comes after the judge rejected two of his attempts to dismiss the case.
In scheduling Fridayâs sentencing, Merchan rejected a proposal to delay the proceeding until after Trumpâs White House term, calling it âless desirableâ and citing a need for finality in the case.
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to expand his crime crackdown strategy to Chicago, calling the city âa messâ and signaling more federal involvement in local law enforcement.
This move comes after the recent federal takeover of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and the deployment of federal agents â including National Guard troops â across Washington, D.C., as part of the administrationâs ongoing law-and-order agenda.
“After we do this will go to another location, and we’ll make it safe, also. We’re going to make our country very safe,” Trump said to reporters while seated at the Resolute desk. “We’re going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago’s a mess.”
đ¨ BREAKING – CHICAGO IS NEXT: It's official, President Trump will SURGE federal resources and/or National Guard to the blue crime-infested city of CHICAGO after the mission in DC is complete
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Unsurprisingly, progressive Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson isnât on board. In recent weeks, he has fired back at Trumpâs threats, touting a supposed drop in crime under his leadership. Johnson points to homicides being down more than 30% and shootings nearly 40% compared with last year.
He also warned that bringing in the National Guard would only make matters worse, calling it âdestabilizing.â Johnson pointed to the Trump administrationâs record, arguing that its $158 million cut to violence prevention funding created upheaval in underserved communities.
Gov. JB Pritzker â widely seen as a likely 2028 presidential contender â also pushed back, accusing Trump of making personal attacks and defending Illinoisâ progressive approach to criminal justice reform.
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump threatened to federalize D.C. because of the city’s struggle to control crime. The Aug. 3 attempted carjacking and brutal beating of a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer brought the issue back to the spotlight, sparking national debate. The following week, on Aug. 11, Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C., sparking the federal takeover.
“The city governmentâs failure to maintain public order and safety has had a dire impact on the federal governmentâs ability to operate efficiently to address the nationâs broader interests without fear of our workers being subjected to rampant violence,” Trump’s executive order read.
On Friday, Trump declared on Truth Social that D.C. was “safe again” and that it would soon “be great again.” He also praised law enforcement personnel for “doing a fantastic job.”
Under the Posse Comitatus Act and the 10th Amendment, the president canât deploy federal or National Guard troops into a state without the governorâs approval â unless certain rare conditions are met. Without that consent, the move would almost certainly trigger a constitutional fight.
