TX: Final witness to ICE gang murder released from concentration camp, attorney says

Source: ABC 13 Eyewitness News

“The third and final witness to the [murder] of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston’s Magnolia Park in July has been released from ICE custody, according to Attorney Ruby Powers. Powers shared the news with ABC13’s Daniela Hurtado on Sunday evening. Victor Salgado was [abducted] after an ICE agent shot and killed his brother, Lorenzo, on July 7, 2026. His nephew, Ronaldo Salgado, released a statement on social media confirming that his uncle was released Sunday morning.” (08/30/26)

https://abc13.com/post/final-witness-fatal-ice-shooting-houston-released-detention-center-attorney-says/19766690/

Thomas L. Knapp

Convicted cab driver rapist Gurmeet Singh stripped of US citizenship 15 years after assaulting passenger

Source: New York Post

“An India-born cab driver sentenced to 20 years behind bars for kidnapping and raping a woman at knifepoint in 2011 has had his citizenship revoked, the Justice Department confirmed Monday. Gurmeet Singh, now 55, was convicted in 2014 of the violent sexual assault of his young female passenger, who fell asleep as he drove her to her East Village apartment after picking her up from Williamsburg in May 2011, weeks before he filed his naturalization application. According to a victim impact statement read by prosecutors at Singh’s sentencing, the woman woke up to find the cabbie on top of her and holding a knife against her throat, asking her if she wanted to live.” (08/31/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/08/31/us-news/convicted-cabdriver-rapist-gurmeet-singh-stripped-of-us-citizenship-15-years-after-assaulting-passenger/

Steve Trinward

Baiting Turkey: Israel’s Strategy in Syria

Source: Antiwar.com
by Thomas S Karat

“Turkey wants a single Syrian state under Ahmed al-Sharaa, its Kurdish militias folded into a national army, its refugees sent home, its northern border shut. Israel wants Syria kept weak and split, its minorities shielded from Damascus, its south left open to Israeli entry. The foreign minister in Jerusalem has been clear that Turkish radar and air defense and aircraft would close skies that Israeli jets now cross at will, and would make a future strike on Iran harder to fly. Al-Sharaa, pressed from both sides, takes Turkish training and reconstruction while quietly thinning the Turkish-shaped units inside his own army, unwilling to become anyone’s client. Syria is not where the rivalry is happening. Syria is what it is over.” (08/31/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/thomas_karat/2026/08/30/baiting-turkey

Thomas L. Knapp

North Korea: Regime rejects Trump overtures, vows to expand nuclear arsenal

Source: Yahoo! News

“North Korea has reaffirmed its hardline stance towards the US and defended the further expansion of its nuclear weapons programme, a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Pyongyang said on Monday. The spokesman accused the US government of having failed to change its hostile policy, pointing to Washington’s continued insistence on the complete nuclear disarmament of North Korea as evidence. He also noted that the US was planning to hold a military exercise with South Korea and Japan the following week.” (08/31/26)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/north-korea-rejects-trump-overtures-081829149.html

Thomas L. Knapp

Twilight’s Last Gleaming

Source: Tenth Amendment
by Andrew P. Napolitano

“There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning — when spending becomes detached from arithmetic, presidential power becomes detached from law, and Congress and the courts become detached from the Constitution. That’s where America is today.” (08/30/26)

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2026/08/30/twilights-last-gleaming/

Thomas L. Knapp