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NEW YORK, NY - Several of the 19 Islamic terrorists who hijacked commercial planes on September 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 Americans, were able to stay in the United States after overstaying their visas thanks to a loophole used by almost a million foreigners in 2022.
All of the September 11 terrorists arrived legally in the U.S. with 16 securing tourist visas while three obtained business and student visas. Eventually, on September 11, the terrorists executed attacks in New York City, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania that killed 2,977 Americans and have since left thousands more dead with illnesses related to the attacks. Click here to read more.
SPRINGFIELD, OH - Unsubstantiated claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating neighbors’ pets have gone from city commission meetings to the 2024 presidential campaign. But the attention has led to a larger discussion about the impact of immigration on U.S. communities.
During his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump repeated claims that immigrants in the Ohio town are eating neighbors’ pets. Springfield city leaders have said those claims are unsubstantiated.
Springfield is a town of just under 60,000 people, according to the 2020 Census, and since then an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 migrants have settled there looking for work, many of them from Haiti.
Its city leaders are faced with the same reality many other midsized manufacturing towns are faced with — balancing the need for workers versus managing finite resources in the community.
Residents who spoke with NewsNation say the situation is out of control and the city lacks the ability to handle the 20,000 Haitian immigrants. Richard Jordan addressed the issue at a city commission meeting. Click here to read more.
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RIDGELY, MA — 80-year-old Lorraine Gerson proves it's never too late to try something new— even skydiving.
Just a few months shy of her 81st birthday, Gerson decided to go skydiving through AARP’s Wish of a Lifetime program.
Lorraine is a resident at Cadence at Olney, a senior living community in Olney, Maryland. A busload of her friends and family came to watch her skydive and cheer her on. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris made a series of false statements during their first debate against each other this week.
It is difficult to put an exact number on all of the false claims made by each candidate since some of the statements are made more as an opinion versus a statement of fact and some false claims are more egregious — outright lies — versus being slightly misleading, like mixing up a location.
The difference between their false claims was that Trump was repeatedly fact-checked and hit with followup questions by ABC News debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis while Harris was never fact-checked once and the moderators never asked her any followup questions after she finished talking. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Direct evidence linking DEI to declining recruitment is hard to come by, though whistleblower complaints and polling make a connection hard to dismiss. DEI was quietly introduced government-wide by executive order in 2011, but only after the military explicitly embraced DEI in the wake of the BLM riots and presidential elections of 2020 did recruitment collapse—at least for the services that most visibly embraced it. The Marine Corps, which did not aggressively push DEI, has not suffered the same steep drop in recruitment as the other services.
The results? After persistent recruiting challenges since 2020, the Coast Guard—which is facing a 10% shortage in crews—last year took the remarkable step of sidelining 10 cutters and shuttering 29 boat stations. The Navy, meanwhile, missed its recruiting goals last year by 7,000 and has shrunk by 21,000 sailors since 2021. Then there’s the Army, which reduced its goals rather than acknowledge even larger recruitment gaps. Click here to read more.
