☕ Daily Brief: France Spirals Into Chaos

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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

📰 WH Press Secretary out after five days on the job. Katie Zacharia departed her role as White House Press Secretary just five days after starting, following President Trump's suggestion that she "reconsider" the position. Her brief tenure included a single 14-minute briefing where she took questions from only three outlets, and scrutiny over reports claiming she failed the California bar exam.

🏫 Oregon father kills school shooter, saves countless lives. A father with a concealed carry firearm stopped a mass shooting by confronting and killing the teen gunman in just under three minutes, before police arrived. The attacker had already shot and killed three students aged 5, 8, and 11, along with one teacher, before Giamanco intervened.

🔍 Ilhan Omar raid moved forward after feds seized sister's phone. The DHS search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) DC home was approved after investigators reviewed text messages from a phone seized from her sister earlier this year. Federal agents used those family communications to convince a judge to sign off on a warrant seeking documents from when Omar and her father first arrived in the United States.

💰 Religious charities received $62 million to resettle Somalis. Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services collected $62 million in government grants to resettle thousands of Somali refugees in Minnesota over recent years. Both organizations have been central to shaping the demographic transformation of the region, which now hosts one of the largest Somali populations in the United States.

WORLD NEWS

Behind the paywall: A Vatican documentary with a Hollywood star, Egypt's offer to defend Saudi Arabia, and Trump's endorsement in Israel's election.

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SOME GOOD NEWS

Two Indiana teenagers saved a grandmother and her two grandchildren after they fell into a pond and couldn’t swim. One grandchild, a 2-year-old, was trapped underwater in a stroller and needed help breathing. All three are now in good health, and the town will soon recognize the teen boys for their heroic actions.

EDITOR’S NOTE

France is on fire. Thousands of rioters, looters, and agitators have been arrested. The media claims the riots are the result of French students being upset that there aren’t enough teachers in public schools. In other words, they just want more homework.

Does anyone believe that?

I don’t. Especially not as rioters parade images of the guillotine while wearing Palestinian-terrorist keffiyehs, and yell “Allahu Akbar” as they attack police.

What’s really happening, as brave journalists in France have reported, is the convergence of France’s radical Left-wing fringe, the Muslim Brotherhood’s French youth movements, and young people possessed by the French spirit of revolt. It’s all happening as polls increasingly show France’s right-wing, anti-immigration parties gaining steam.

What’s more, some are reporting that French intelligence believes the violence is part of an electoral strategy by France’s far-left party (which backs Islam) ahead of the next elections.

In other words, it’s the violent clash of civilizations: France’s conservative wing against the Left and Islam. And this may just be the beginning…

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