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There’s a lot of buzz around the upcoming UFC Freedom 250UFC Freedom 250, the UFC event set to take place at the White House, but right now a huge chunk of the event’s setup is sitting somewhere you probably wouldn’t expect: Pennsylvania Amish country.Before moving down to the sunny, state-income-tax-free state of Florida, I was born and raised in south central Pennsylvania, a place with rolling hills and horse and buggies, and where people order scrapple because they want to and not because they’re being dared to.Recently, a giant metal dome popped up in the area near Lititz, PA — just outside of Lancaster and about an hour and a half west of Philadelphia — that left residents pretty confused.Understandably so. I mean, it’s not like the Amish suddenly revamped their barn designs.MICHAEL CHANDLER HOPEFUL TRUMP WILL SHOW FOR UFC 309 FIGHT IN NEW YORK: ‘IT’LL BE AN HONOR’Local news station WGAL did some digging and found that the structure is being built by Tait Global, a company that builds lighting towers and stages for some of the biggest tours and concerts on the planet. According to their website, they built the stage for the Backstreet Boys’ residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas.It turns out that the dome is actually called “The Claw” and will be taken to the White House for UFC Freedom 250.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!But what a lot of people don’t realize is that in Lititz, there is a place called Rock Lititz that is home to a slew of companies like Tait Global that produce sets and provide other support for live performances.Huge-name artists are in and out of the area all the time.In fact, years ago, I worked for a radio station, and we were doing an event at the nearby airport. I was standing in the airport fire department building (I kid you not, I was waiting for the Phillie Phanatic to get dressed to do an appearance at our event) and talking to the on-duty firefighter. He told me about seeing huge stars flying into this tiny airport to go to Rock Lititz.It’s wild to me that this is all happening in what is essentially the middle of Amish country. Now, in just a few weeks, it sounds like “The Claw” will be taken a few hours south to Washington, DC, and will be a part of history.

When it comes to sports superstitions, they don’t make them much more militant than teams and players in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.Everyone on the team has to grow “playoff beards,” and if the team ate at a certain restaurant then had a great game, guess where you’re eating for the next two months during home games?Hell, even Sidney Crosby has been wearing the same jockstrap for 20 years because of how superstitious he was (okay, that was TMI, I apologize).Suffice it to say, teams can get a little paranoid when it comes to luck and bad omens in the playoffs, which is why the Ottawa Senators had to act accordingly after their team fell down 0-2 against the Carolina Hurricanes.JOSH ALLEN ANNIHILATES A BEER TO FIRE UP THE SABRES CROWDFor those who are unaware, the Sens are back in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since their Eastern Conference Finals run in 2017, and one fan decided to create a hype video to commemorate the occasion.I understand If you need a moment for the cringe to subside.Apparently, this isn’t the first time the internet’s least favorite Ottawa fan stepped behind a mic, and the Senators felt as though they had no other option but to get rid of the kid.TEAM USA STAR BRADY TKACHUK BLOODIED AFTER HIT, RECEIVES GAME MISCONDUCT IN NHL RETURNAnd when I say “get rid of,” I mean political exile to Taiwan.This isn’t parody or AI. That is a post from the team’s official X account.They actually made this kid leave the country and get as far away from Canada as possible just so they had a better shot of coming back against the Hurricanes.THE NHL NEEDS TO GIVE US A FLYERS-PENGUINS GAME AT BEAVER STADIUM ASAPI love this.What dedication! You can’t sit here and tell me you would do anything to win a Cup and then NOT banish your most annoying superfan to the Far East.If I were the Taiwanese government, I’d tell this kid to kick rocks too.He’s clearly bad luck, what if China starts acting a fool all of a sudden while he’s hanging out in Taipei for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.The move is being universally celebrated by fans on X, claiming this move may have singlehandedly shifted the series back in Ottawa’s favor.You gotta love playoff hockey!And if you’re feeling bad for the kid, don’t.He seems like a good sport and a real fan. If this works, he will be hailed as a hero for doing whatever it takes to help his team win a Stanley Cup.I’d watch a Gator game aboard the OceanGate Titan if it meant they’d win a national championship.Enjoy Taiwan, kid, and go Sens!

Virginia’s redistricting fight is headed to the state’s high court Thursday after a red-county judge who previously tried to spurn the “yes” camp threw a wrench into the certification process late Wednesday.The situation sets up a clash between the judge who halted certification and the state Supreme Court, which allowed the referendum to proceed while challenges remained under review. Virginia Republicans are urging the courts to take up their challenge to the ballot measure, which voters approved 51%-49% and is expected to redraw the state’s congressional districts to give Democrats a 10-1 majority in the House delegation. GOP officials argue the ballot measure process was illegitimate, and pressure is on to save every Republican-held House seat they can with the U.S. midterm elections fast approaching and the Republican majority in Congress hanging by a thread. “[On Tuesday] Virginians saw exactly what happens when a misleading, rigged question is shoved onto the ballot,” state Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, told Fox News Digital. “If this were really about fairness, the advocates wouldn’t have needed to blow $90 million-plus to trick voters. Litigation is still pending with the courts, but the bottom line is clear: Virginians deserve far better.”The Supreme Court of Virginia (SCOVA) in March stayed an earlier injunction from Tazewell County Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr., clearing the way for the referendum to advance while making clear it had not ruled on the merits. Hurley ruled again late Wednesday, declaring the ballot language unconstitutional and blocking certification of the results.JEFFRIES DEFENDS VIRGINIA REDISTRICTING AS ‘TEMPORARY MEASURE’ TO STOP TRUMP FROM TRYING TO ‘RIG’ MIDTERMSA legislative source familiar told Fox News Digital that SCOVA is not likely to play ball on that matter and instead will continue its own litigation of the cases and potentially rebuke Hurley. Still, certification of the election is now paused despite Thursday’s SCOVA filing date.Shortly after the ruling came down, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, a Democrat who beat GOP incumbent Jason Miyares in November, indicated his office will “immediately file an appeal.””As I said last night, Virginia voters have spoken, and an activist judge should not have veto power over the People’s vote.” Jones said in a statement.Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) chairman Jeff Ryer told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday interview that the party is directly involved in a case before Richmond City Circuit Court that is also challenging the new maps.According to an RPV statement, that case is titled RNC v. VA State Board of Elections, and a decision on any injunction blocking the new maps is expected next week.Koski v. RNC and another case, Scott v. McDougle, were filed challenging the allegedly misleading ballot language and procedures that led up to the map redraw and the election itself.Reps. Morgan Griffith and Ben Cline, R-Va., joined the RNC in its Koski case, which focuses in part on state law requiring an “intervening election” to be held before a referendum can go to voters and argued that early voting having begun before the referendum-drafting process started made the vote “void ab initio.”DAVID MARCUS: RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND SET TO STEAL THE VOTES OF RURAL VIRGIMcDougle’s case argues lawmakers improperly used an old special session called by then-Gov. Glenn Youngkin to push through the referendum, among other procedural violations — a claim that goes to the heart of whether the process itself was constitutional.Hurley ruled in McDougle’s favor on January 27 before SCOVA intervened after a Democrat appeal on February 13 to let the election move forward, but said it would still review the merits of that case.Former U.S. Attorney John Fishwick Jr., of the Roanoke-based Western District of Virginia, told Fox News Digital that the Virginia Supreme Court had issued its postponement hoping that voters would vote “no” and moot any necessary legal action.”Now there is white heat on this Court but there are strong arguments that the legislature did not follow its own rules when it passed this proposed amendment,” Fishwick said, predicting a “prompt” decision.FEDERAL COURT CLEARS CALIFORNIA’S NEW HOUSE MAP BOOSTING DEMOCRATS AHEAD OF 2026 MIDTERMSDel. Wren Williams, R-Stuart, an attorney who had favored allowing counties to decline election preparations until SCOVA stayed Hurley’s ruling, argued the referendum was illegitimate and the results should be tossed.”There are huge constitutional issues with this process to begin with,” said Williams in an exclusive interview. “There’s a 1952 case where Arlington threw out their own referendum. And in this case, people can say the voters decided all they want, but they didn’t decide based on the process that we have in the Constitution.”Williams said a short time before Hurley’s ruling that everything is essentially “parked” at SCOVA in Richmond, waiting to be consolidated and ruled upon.VIRGINIA DEMS ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY ‘STEAMROLLING’ STATE LAW THAT COULD UPEND REDISTRICTING CRUSADEWilliams said it was clear the election was made to be more about President Donald Trump than Virginia voters.That assertion would help the case of Reps. Rob Wittman and John McGuire, R-Va., whose filing challenging Democrats’ “to restore fairness” language describing the referendum at the ballot box is being heard.Ryer said Wittman and McGuire’s case has been consolidated into the Koski-RNC case.He remained optimistic about all cases, and pledged that either way, the RPV will have nominees for all 11 seats, redistricted or not; calling Tuesday’s vote an encouraging sign.”This is the best performance for anything that’s been Republican-aligned in the state since the 2021 election and i think it does demonstrate that Virginia is still a purple state,” Ryer said, as the results depicted about a 12-point swing to the right from former Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears’ loss in November.House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, added that rural Virginia came out strong to try to offset the Washington suburbs.”We’re still fighting. We’re still fighting in the courts. We think we’re going to win in the courts. The language was so misleading. They didn’t follow the statutes they were supposed to follow. There’s a lot of missteps that happened during the process. So we feel comfortable going on to the next phase,” he said.Democrats remained bullish that the election results will stand in the wake of Hurley’s ruling and court activity commencing at SCOVA Thursday, with “Ready for Hillary” founder Adam Parkhomenko saying on X that “Virginia voters spoke. MAGA lost. And now a rogue Republican judge is trying to override the will of the people because they didn’t like the outcome.”If the cases fail, many redistricting opponents still have faith.Del. Delores Oates, R-Front Royal, said in a statement that the “YES” crew did not get a “mandate” and that the new 10-1 map may also be a sign.”Isaiah 10:1 [says] woe to those who make unjust laws; to those who issue oppressive decrees.””Stop looking at Zillow and start planning for November,” Oates said. “We stay and we fight for Virginia.”Fox News Digital’s Ashley Oliver and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.

This week, the Department of Justice dropped a bombshell indictment alleging not just that the “anti-racism” organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been running a spy ring, but that it has actually paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the very White supremacist groups it claims to be fighting.It truly could be a Dave Chappelle sketch, right down to the fact that the SPLC funded, in part, the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which the lie that President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people” was born.Trump never called the White supremacists “very fine people,” but it turns out the SPLC was handing them bags of cash.The biggest takeaway from this scandal is that actual racism is so scant in our society that the SPLC has to fund it to find it.CHARLIE KIRK’S FRIENDS FEEL ‘MORAL OBLIGATION’ TO DEBUNK OUT-OF-CONTEXT CLIPS ABOUT SLAIN CONSERVATIVE ICONBut even without the payouts, they have been little more than an ideological vigilante group for decades.There may have been a time in the 1970s when the SPLC did important work infiltrating and exposing racist organizations, but since at least the turn of the century, the group’s main purpose has been to get conservatives canceled — often through dubious connections.The way this works is that the SPLC keeps a watchlist of individuals or organizations that they say are hateful. Mind you, no real definition of what is and is not a hate group is actually offered; it’s just whatever they say it is. And it’s almost always conservative.THIS SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR WAS ALL-IN FOR BLM, THEN HE ‘ACCIDENTALLY RED-PILLED’ HIMSELFOnce a person or group finds themselves on this blacklist, if you will, the consequences have been grave. In some professions, like academia or publishing, being labeled as hateful by the SPLC is a clear barrier to employment.Likewise, any organization — even one as harmless as Moms for Liberty — that gets a hate group designation is always introduced or mentioned in the media with the grave warning, “… has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.”What makes this ideological vigilantism is that while the First Amendment protects Americans from the state punishing our free speech, the SPLC, through the myriad institutions it has captured, metes out punishment for speech on a regular basis.STANDING UP TO ANTISEMITIC MOBS SHOULDN’T LAND YOU IN PRISONFor more than 25 years, this group has operated as a kind of private thought police — the rent-a-cops of American discourse — who ban conservatives from the conversation by smearing them, while progressives like Hasan Piker talk about killing the rich on podcasts.Calling somebody a bigot, hateful or a White supremacist is a social scarlet letter in our culture. It doesn’t just mean that the person shouldn’t get a job or publish a book; it means they should be shunned in their personal and professional lives.At its worst, the SPLC’s defamation of everyday conservatives as racists may even contribute to violence. After all, the organization absurdly labeled Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA as hateful before a gunman silenced Charlie forever.ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE RETIRES GLOSSARY OF EXTREMIST GROUPS AFTER BACKLASH FOR INCLUDING CHARLIE KIRK’S TPUSAYou see, the SPLC’s mission was once to protect those who were dehumanized in our society, but today, they do the dehumanizing. Showing up on their watchlists doesn’t just put a black mark on one’s resume. It puts a target on one’s back.Whether the SPLC’s shenanigans turn out to be criminal or not, the organization has been exposed as a fraud shop. The SPLC isn’t cracking open cases against criminal organizations. It’s just censoring ideas.Outside of prisons, there is no massive network of White supremacists that the SPLC needs to infiltrate and investigate. It’s all stuff and nonsense.UC BERKELEY’S BLOODY PROTEST OF TPUSA ALLEGEDLY FUNDED BY FAR-LEFT NONPROFITThe SPLC has been trading on its once excellent reputation for decades now. Experts pretend it is nonpartisan, when, in fact, today, it only exists to silence conservative voices.Sadly, the organization no longer deserves the trust that our institutions have put in it to be a fair arbiter of racism and bigotry. In fact, it may be responsible for more racism than it actually fights.It is time for the SPLC and all of its malicious smears to take their place in the dustbin of history and for Americans of good will to have free conversations without facing punishment from a fake civil rights organization.And honestly, it really does show just how far our nation has come in conquering bigotry.

President Trump on Thursday released a statement on ousted Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan.
John Phelan on was reportedly fired by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday.
Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced.
Full statement from Sean Parnell:
Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately.
On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy.
We wish him well in his future endeavors.
Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.

STATEMENT:
Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately.
On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy.
We wish…
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) April 22, 2026

At first it was unclear if John Phelan was fired or resigned but Fox News later reported that he was indeed fired.

NEW: Navy Secretary John Phelan has just been ‘FIRED’, reports Fox’s @JacquiHeinrich pic.twitter.com/8yT324P8mT
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) April 22, 2026

On Thursday, President Trump’s statement suggested Phelan departed on his own accord.
Full statement from President Trump:
John Phelan is a long time friend, and very successful businessman, who did an outstanding job serving as my Secretary Of The Navy for the last year.
John helped my Administration rebuild Sleepy Joe Biden’s rapidly depleted, and almost abandoned, Navy. Now, because of John, and all of the Great Men and Women lovingly and tirelessly involved, we have the strongest Navy in the World — BY FAR!
John Phelan is smart, tough, and respected by all, and although he has decided to move on from his position as Secretary Of The Navy, I very much appreciate the job that he has done, and would certainly like to have him back within the Trump Administration sometime in the future.
A very special thank you to John for his service to the United States of America! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Wednesday’s firing is part of the latest shakeup at the Pentagon.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, earlier this month, ordered Army Chief of Staff General Randy George to step down.
Last summer, Hegseth fired the general in charge of the agency that released the dubious ‘top secret’ intelligence assessment about the US’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Last year, Hegseth formally terminated the service of every member sitting on the Department of Defense’s advisory committees.
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Democrats secured an advantage on the economy for the first time since May 2010, a Fox News poll found Thursday.
From April 17 to April 20, Democrats led Republicans 52% to 48% on the question of who would do a better job handling the economy, according to the poll. Democrats have not beaten Republicans on this question since May 5, 2010, when the party led 44% to 41% against Republicans.
The poll found that 34% of registered voters approved of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 66% disapproved. Trump’s overall approval rating dropped in the poll from 49% in March 2025 to 42% in April.
President Donald Trump won the 2024 election largely on the economy and immigration, particularly since inflation rose to record-highs during former President Joe Biden’s administration. Inflation and gas prices spiked again as a result of the Iran war, with the average national gas price standing at $4.03 as of this writing.
Trump called the word “affordability” a “Democrat scam” in December 2025, claiming that Democrats do not want to fix the economy. However, Democrats largely campaigned on affordability in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections and beat their Republican opponents by double digits.

New – is the economy getting
Worse – 70% (+15)
Better 26% (-2)
Vs 2025
Fox #B – RV – 4/19 pic.twitter.com/OMgpnjtIYZ
— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) April 23, 2026

The White House has touted their economic performance, stating that inflation had been “moderated” and that job creation surged.
“By prioritizing American workers, manufacturers, and energy producers, the administration is strengthening the nation’s economic foundation and reducing reliance on foreign supply chains,” the White House said. “These policies are driving sustained growth, expanding opportunity, and ensuring the American economy remains strong, competitive, and resilient for years to come.”
The prices of other goods have also risen since Trump took office, including beef, which has reached a record-high average of $6.70 per pound due to low cattle inventory. Prices also surged as a result of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs on several nations.
Recent polls found that most Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy. An NBC News Decision Desk poll found that 37% of participants approved of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 63% disapproved. A CNN/SSRS survey also found that Trump’s economic approval rating reached a record low of 31%.

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Marvell Technology (MRVL) is a fabless semiconductor giant with a broad product portfolio. It spans computing, including custom AI chips, optics, networking, storage, and security.The company’s major source of revenue is data centers, and in Q4, 74% of revenues came from that market. The rest of the revenue comes from end markets classified by the company as “communications” and “other.”Unsurprisingly, the key driver of the stock is artificial intelligence. Marvell’s most important products are its custom AI accelerators, XPUs, and data center interconnect (DCI) modules.The company reported its Q4 earnings on March 5. The stock closed 18.35% higher at $89.57 on the next day, according to Yahoo Finance.The earnings were strong, and Goldman Sachs reset its Marvell price target.The stock is up about 95% year to date, at the time of writing, Thursday morning, April 23, according to Yahoo Finance. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 4% in the same period.The stock has outpaced the S&P 500, thanks to several key business deals and a rumor.Key news for Marvell stockOn March 31, Nvidia and Marvell entered into a strategic partnership. The companies plan to connect Marvell to the Nvidia AI factory and artificial intelligence — radio access network (AI-RAN) ecosystem via Nvidia NVLink Fusion.As part of the deal, Nvidia invested $2 billion in Marvell.On April 20, Amazon expanded its partnership with Anthropic.Amazon said it will invest $5 billion in Anthropic and up to an additional $20 billion in the future. Anthropic will secure up to 5 gigawatts of current and future generations of Amazon’s Trainium chips to train and power its AI models.More Tech Stocks:Bank of America resets Nvidia stock forecast after meeting with CFOBank of America resets Amazon stock price target ahead of earningsBank of America resets Microsoft stock forecast ahead of earningsThis means Anthropic has committed to spending more than $100 billion over the next 10 years on AWS technologies. A key part of this news are Trainium chips, which Amazon designs in partnership with Marvell. It’s why this deal is excellent news for Marvell investors.Marvell added roughly $5 billion in market cap on a rumored partnership with Google. The source of the rumor was The Information. The Information’s rumors may not always be reliable, as its previous one claimed that Microsoft was considering leaving Marvell for Broadcom (AVGO). This was refuted by Marvell CEO and Chairman Matt Murphy and completely debunked on the company’s last earnings report.The rumor that Google is looking to replace Broadcom with Marvell also carries little weight, since the two companies just revealed that they are expanding their partnership.On April 22, Marvell confirmed the acquisition of Polariton Technologies, a developer of high-speed, low-power plasmonics-based silicon photonics devices.As previously mentioned, DCI modules are a very important product. Polariton’s plasmonics will improve it, thanks to its advantages over traditional silicon photonics, enabling higher density, massively parallel optical links with ultra-low energy per bit.

Marvell will acquire Polariton Technologies.Shutterstock

RBC Capital Markets raises Marvell price targetRBC Capital Markets Managing Director Srini Pajjuri updated his opinion on Marvell stock following Amazon and Anthropic’s extension of their partnership.The analyst said the agreement includes nearly 1GW of Trainium capacity this year, which he estimates would amount to approximately 1.5 million Trainium2 and Trainium3 chips.Pajjuri believes the deal is a material positive for AWS’s suppliers, Marvell and Astera Labs (ALAB), adding that the agreement gives him greater conviction in his 2027 estimates and longer-term growth expectations for both suppliers.Related: Goldman Sachs resets Broadcom stock forecastHe estimates that each GW amounts to $2.5 billion to $3 billion in the XPU serviceable available market, of which he expects Marvell to account for at least half. He estimates approximately $1.6 billion in custom silicon revenues from AWS, representing 17% growth. Analyst noted that he expects upside to be somewhat constrained due to tight 3nm wafer supply.In a research note shared with me, Pajjuri reiterated an outperform (buy) rating for Marvell stock and raised the price target to $170 from $115, based on a 31 multiple of his $5.51 EPS 2027 estimate.This price target is based on the assumption that Marvell stock will trade slightly above its five-year average over the next 12 months, given 30% to 40% growth potential, share gains, and 35% or more expansion of the total addressable market for AI accelerators.Pajjuri noted risks to Marvell rating and price target:Hyperscaler capex slowdownStronger-than-expected ASIC competitionLinear Pluggable Optics displacing Digital Signal Processor demandRelated: Morgan Stanley resets Intel stock price target ahead of earnings

Law enforcement in Louisiana arrested a former police officer from North Carolina on allegations he planned to carry out a mass shooting.

A video captured New York City Council Member Chi Ossé being thrown to the ground and arrested in Brooklyn while protesting a woman’s eviction. Ossé, a Democratic socialist and ally of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, reportedly was defending a constituent facing eviction after six decades in her home. The office of the 28-year-old said in a statement that “Black displacement is happening right now in Bed-Stuy” and his constituent “is one of many Black homeowners battling deed theft in Brooklyn.” “Motherf—–, that’s a councilman, what the f— are you doing?” a man was heard yelling in chaotic footage showing Ossé being taken into custody Wednesday. A New York City Police Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Thursday that Ossé was one of four people arrested and charged with obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct.NEW YORK CITY LOST RESIDENTS ACROSS ALL INCOME LEVELS LAST YEAR, STUDY FINDS”I will absolutely be filing a misconduct report against the officers who slammed me on the ground. I urge the other folks who were taken into captivity to do the same. I know there are two individuals who were doing the same thing that I was doing, who have reported that they are dealing with a concussion right now,” Ossé said following his arrest. “I would hope to see that they are held accountable. I hope the police commissioner is taking a deep look on their past, on their histories, and I hope they take our complaints seriously,” he added. The New York City Department of Finance describes deed theft as occurring “when criminals record fraudulent deeds, mortgages or other liens against a property without the owner’s knowledge or consent.”Anyone can be a victim of deed fraud, but seniors, immigrants, and people of color are most at risk,” it added. A police spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the New York City Sheriff’s Office and NYC Marshals showed up at an address in Brooklyn “to carry out an eviction and to determine if an individual, who is considered a ward of the state of Georgia and is supposed to be in the state of Georgia but hasn’t been for several years, was at this residence.” MAMDANI DESCRIBES TRUMP RELATIONSHIP AS ‘HONEST’ AND ‘DIRECT’ AMID RECENT BLOWOUTPolice said the NYC Marshals had a signed order from a judge to evict the individual, but when they arrived, protesters were blocking access to her building.”As is depicted on body-worn camera footage, Council Member Ossé was arrested after two protesters were arrested for blocking the gate in front of the building,” the spokesperson told Fox News Digital.  “When those two people were arrested, Ossé was not in front of the gate,” the spokesperson continued. “Once those two were arrested, Ossé pushes past officers who were attempting to block him from standing in front of the gate, and then he begins to block the gate entrance.”Police said an officer then verbally engaged Ossé for a few seconds before trying to arrest him, but that Ossé physically resisted “attempts to take his hands and arms, appearing to flail his arms and hands to prevent officers from restraining him.” “The officers have no room behind them (gate to house up against them and Ossé) to maneuver him and end up taking him down for arrest, as is within guidelines for making an arrest for someone committing obstruction of governmental administration,” the spokesperson added. 

The Justice Department unveiled charges Thursday against two Chinese nationals allegedly behind an overseas cryptocurrency scam center, as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro vowed that the Trump administration is “just getting started” in combating these schemes. Pirro told reporters in Washington, D.C., that cyber-enabled and cryptocurrency investment fraud is “among the fastest growing and the most financially devastating form of cybercrime that is targeting Americans today.” The DOJ’s actions come after Pirro launched the Scam Center Strike Force in November last year, following an executive order from President Donald Trump. “Today, we announce significant milestones in that fight. We have charged Chinese bosses who ran a scam compound in Burma where thousands were trafficked, enslaved, beaten and then forced to steal from Americans for years. We have seized also a Telegram channel, and that channel was luring workers into a forced compound in Cambodia,” Pirro said. “There they were ordered to pose as U.S. banks, as the New York City Police Department, to steal Americans’ life savings.” “We have taken down more than 500 websites. They were used to steal Americans life savings. My office is going to continue to work to identify the funds stolen,” Pirro added. “We have also restrained more than $700 million in cryptocurrency from U.S. victims of fraud. The administration of President Trump is lockstep in combating these scams, and we are just getting started.”PIRRO WARNS CAR THEFT RING USED NEW TECH TO QUICKLY ACCESS VEHICLES: ‘GONE IN 60 SECONDS’The Justice Department said the two Chinese nationals, identified as Huang Xingshan and Jiang Wen Jie, were arrested in Thailand earlier this year after allegedly being linked to “cryptocurrency investment fraud operations” out of the Shunda compound in Burma. The pair were charged with wire fraud conspiracy and the U.S. is working to extradite them to face justice on American soil, according to Pirro. “The Shunda compound operated from at least January 2025 until approximately November 2025, when it was seized by the Karen National Liberation Army of Burma. The compound used scam websites and mobile applications disguised as legitimate investment platforms to defraud victims, including Americans,” the DOJ said. “Workers within the compound were trafficked individuals who were held against their will and forced to defraud victims under the threat of violence and torture.” “According to the investigation, Huang served at Shunda as a high-level manager and enforcer and personally participated in the physical punishment of trafficked compound workers. Jiang served as a team leader directly supervising workers who specifically targeted American victims,” the DOJ added. “Under Jiang’s supervision, one of the people under his command successfully defrauded a single American victim of over $3 million utilizing a fraudulent investment platform. The theft was celebrated within the organization as a paradigm of success.”HOW FLORIDA RETIREE LOST $200,000 IN FAKE PAYPAL REFUND SCAMOfficials said after the Shunda compound was seized, “Huang and Jiang relocated to another scam compound located in Cambodia where they attempted to continue their cryptocurrency investment fraud operation” before their arrests. “The Strike Force conducted a first-of-its-kind seizure of a Telegram channel with more than 6,000 followers that was used to recruit individuals to travel to Cambodia under false promises of high-paying employment. Once there, recruited workers were held against their will and forced to defraud victims, including Americans, as part of a sophisticated law enforcement impersonation scheme,” the DOJ also said. On Thursday, Pirro called on Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov to shut the channel down.”Now, the workers, though, who responded to these jobs, they end up posing as banks, as police officers, as prosecutors. They sound like Americans, directing Americans to fork over their money or be prosecuted. They have backgrounds and backdrops where they actually look like they are from an official agency,” Pirro said. “Folks, this isn’t abstract. It is hitting your neighbors, your friends, and your parents’ retirement accounts. Some of these victims are so distraught that they end up taking their own lives. This is economic homicide,” she added. “We have seized the sites and we are coming for the rest. These criminals thought they were untouchable because they were overseas. Today we are proving them wrong and we are just getting started.”