An alleged high-ranking member of a Venezuelan gang that surged into the U.S. under former President Joe Biden was extradited to Texas on Thursday, federal authorities announced.

Suspected Tren de Aragua gangbanger Jose Enrique Martinez Flores is scheduled for a Friday court appearance in Houston after Colombian officials transferred him to the U.S. on Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He is accused of an international drug conspiracy and providing material support to Tren de Aragua (TdA), which the Trump administration designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2025.

“This is the first time ever that a TdA member has been charged with terrorism-related crimes and been extradited to the U.S.,” FBI Director Kash Patel said Thursday, calling it “history being made.”

Court records do not yet list an attorney for Martinez.

https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/15/venezuelan-gang-leader-us-historic-first/

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An Iraqi national with suspected ties to terror groups and the Iranian military has been arrested and hauled to New York to face charges of carrying out 20 terror attacks against US and Israeli interests in Europe and Canada — and plotting the bombing of a New York synagogue.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, an alleged “commander” in terrorist organization linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, orchestrated the attacks — including the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon building in Amsterdam and stabbing of two Jewish victims in London — as retaliation for the US and Israel’s ongoing war in Iran, a newly unsealed criminal complaint alleges.

Al-Saadi was also behind a March 9, 2026, bombing of a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, a March 13, 2026, arson of a temple in Rotterdam, and paid an undercover law enforcement officer $3,000 to bomb a “prominent” Big Apple temple in April, court papers allege.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/15/us-news/iraqi-national-with-suspected-ties-to-hezbollah-wanted-to-bomb-ny-synagogue-in-retaliation-for-iran-war-docs/

For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves.

So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades.

That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.

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