White House withdraws Oklahoma’s Lance Schroyer as ICE nominee

The former Oklahoma Highway Patrol major’s nomination had stalled in the Senate, and the White House has not publicly explained the withdrawal.

BRIAN SMALLWOOD

SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 12:42 PM

The White House has withdrawn President Trump’s nomination of Richard Schroyer to run Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after Schroyer’s nomination failed to advance in the Senate.

Schroyer was serving as senior adviser to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin when Mr. Trump nominated him in June to run ICE as an assistant DHS secretary. Republican Sen. Rand Paul stalled Schroyer’s advancement as he demanded details of investigations into agent-involved shootings in Minnesota. Schroyer didn’t make it past the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Trump nominates former Oklahoma State Trooper Lance Schroyer to lead ICE

Who is Lance Schroyer?

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Schroyer served for 29 years with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.

He later became a major with the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, overseeing the Emergency Services Unit. DHS said his experience includes inter-agency coordination, tactical planning, and policy implementation involving constitutional safeguards. He specialized in inter-agency collaboration, complex tactical planning, and constitutional safeguards in policy implementation.

Oklahoma’s Own interviewed Schroyer for a story in 2018 as he helped secure the Oklahoma State Capitol during the teacher walkout.

He served as senior adviser to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, also from Oklahoma. This role involves coordinating immigration enforcement strategy and serving as a liaison among local, regional, and federal law enforcement agencies.

Why was Schroyer’s nomination withdrawn?

The White House had not publicly explained the decision as of Thursday.

Before the withdrawal, Schroyer’s nomination had not received a confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

What’s next for ICE?

The withdrawal leaves ICE without a Senate-confirmed director. The agency has not had a Senate-confirmed leader since Sarah Saldaña left the position in January 2017.Since then, ICE has been led by a series of acting officials as nominees have failed to win Senate confirmation.

The White House had not announced a replacement nominee as of Thursday.

https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/oklahoma-lance-schroyer-ice-nomination-withdrawn

Man jailed for attacking pro-Palestinian US politician with vinegar

Anthony Kazmierczak will spend 14 months behind bars for targeting Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar during a town hall

Published 18 Sep, 2026 04:49 | Updated

A man who sprayed vinegar on left-wing US Representative Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis was sentenced to 14 months in prison on Thursday.

Omar, a Democratic politician of Somali origin, was speaking on January 27 when Anthony Kazmierczak rushed toward the podium and sprayed her with liquid from a syringe. He was quickly tackled by security.

According to witnesses, he shouted at Omar, “You’re splitting Minnesotans apart.”The liquid was later identified as apple cider vinegar.

“I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win,” Omar wrote on X following the incident.

Kazmierczak reached a deal with prosecutors and apologized to the congresswoman. According to court documents, he has “a history of mental and emotional health concerns” and other health issues related to his 2022 Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. Judge Joan Ericksen said during sentencing that his actions were premeditated and not “a spur-of-the-moment act.”

Violence against public figures has increased in the US in recent years, with Republicans and Democrats blaming each other’s increasingly belligerent rhetoric.

A vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, Omar has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” and accused him of “actively committing genocide against the Palestinian people.”She has condemned Israel’s war in Gaza and supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.

In 2019, the Israeli authorities barred her and fellow Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib from entering the country. Omar has faced accusations of invoking anti-Semitic tropes in her remarks about Israel and its supporters, and in 2019, the advocacy group StopAntisemitism named her the ‘Antisemite of the Year’ following a public vote.

Omar has denied accusations of anti-Semitism but apologized for some of her past statements, saying her “intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole.”

https://www.rt.com/news/645930-ilhan-omar-attacker-sentenced/

‘Unconditional’ friendship with US is over – Merz

The German chancellor blamed the Trump administration for souring transatlantic relations

Published 18 Sep, 2026 00:37

The era of unconditional friendship with the US is coming to an end, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said, blaming the Trump administration for the deterioration in relations.

Merz, once seen as one of Germany’s most pro-American politicians, has repeatedly clashed with US President Donald Trump over issues ranging from the Iran war to German domestic policy.

“The era of unconditional transatlantic friendship is probably over for the foreseeable future,” the chancellor told fellow members of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Thursday at a campaign event in Berlin ahead of this weekend’s regional parliamentary election.

“We are seeing a change in political attitudes on the other side of the Atlantic, as well as a shift in how the transatlantic alliance is viewed, which we perhaps did not think possible,” he added.

In April, Merz argued that the US lacks a coherent strategy in the Middle East and was “humiliated” by Iran in the conflict. Trump responded by telling him to focus on “fixing his broken country.”

A month later, the chancellor, who previously worked with US financial giant BlackRock, said he no longer views the US as the “land of opportunity,” adding that he would discourage his own children from traveling there for work or study.

This summer, Merz warned the Trump administration against interfering in German elections. His remarks came as the US State Department launched a nearly $5 million grant program to support projects aimed at what it called strengthening democratic resilience, the rule of law, freedom of speech and the press, and human rights in Europe.

“It was long overdue that we now take more responsibility for ourselves,” the chancellor said on Thursday, defending Germany’s increased defense spending. The country will strengthen its military and continue funding Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, despite a “structural crisis” in its own economy, Merz said.

Since returning to the White House in early 2025, Trump has imposed tariffs on most US trading partners and continued his longstanding criticism of European immigration policies.He has also revived plans to acquire Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, and attacked Merz over his criticism of the US war with Iran, accusing him of “doing a terrible job”as chancellor.

In 2025, US Vice President J.D. Vance shocked many European officials at the annual Munich Security Conference where, instead of focusing on Russia, he criticized European governments over what he described as the erosion of free speech and “out-of-control migration.”

Vance also criticized Germany’s ‘firewall’, the longstanding refusal by mainstream parties, including Merz’s CDU, to work with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the second-largest party in the parliament. “Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t,” he said.

In May, the Pentagon announced plans to withdraw around 5,000 of the more than 36,000 active-duty US troops stationed in Germany, marking a further strain on military ties between the allies.

https://www.rt.com/news/645927-us-eu-friendship-over-merz/

What Comes First: The AI False Flag or The Lawsuits Against The AI Developers?

September 18, 2026 | Sundance |

That’s ultimately the question at the heart of the matter.What will come first, the AI false flag event that will trigger support for government regulation that includes liability protection; or the lawsuits against the AI developers for stealing intellectual property?

How you place your bet will likely determine your investment decision.

On one hand you have the AI frontier groups, developers who have stolen corporate secrets, extracted proprietary intellectual property, engaged in widespread copyright violations and built their AI models with mass unauthorized data collection. On the other hand, you have massive corporations, individuals and groups who have seen their intellectual property rights infringed by data harvesting to run the models.

The AI developers are requesting “regulation” which includes liability protection for outcomes as a result of users running their models. The investors into those AI developers also want regulation and liability immunity to protect their investments. This is the group now positioning for government regulation and selling the voices who control that decision (politicians) based on a pitch that includes government control over AI information. This is the group that will trigger the false flag to generate public support for AI safety.

The ordinary individuals & businesses who have seen their intellectual property stolen by the AI groups, the individuals who have watched their copyright protections violated, the corporations who benefit from increased AI efficiency but also see the downside from publicly exposed trade secrets now being widely available, would be the plaintiff group in a series of predictable lawsuits against the AI developers.

This is the core of the matter. Control/Immunity or Risk/Lawsuits. Mike Steger outlines the last two weeks:

Two years ago, I said we would reach an inflection point where the interests of Silicon Valley would conflict with the interests of MAGA. We are on the cusp of that moment. Will the Silicon Valley/Leftist-Govt win through regulatory control under the guise of ‘trust and safety’.Or will the larger population see through the scheme and align with liberty, freedom and the free-market approach.

Place your bets.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/18/what-comes-first-the-ai-false-flag-or-the-lawsuits-against-the-ai-developers/#more-287109

King Charles Launches Sneak Attack Against Trump: The British A.I. Doom Plot to Destroy America

Promethean Overviews

King Charles, President Trump, Anthropic, artificial intelligence, H.G. Wells, and American reindustrialization collide in the battle over who will control the future of AI.

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https://youtu.be/NO0A2ipLX7M

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Donald Trump says he is banning CNN, Politico from White House

Story by Bernd Debusmann Jr - White House reporter

US President Donald Trump has announced that he is "immediately" banning CNN, MSNOW and Politicofrom the White House, the latest twist in his fraught relationship with American media outlets.

In a lengthy post on Truth Social on Friday, Trump said that the outlets "constantly write or report fiction or lies" about his administration, although he provided no examples.

It is unclear what exactly a ban would entail, and whether employees of those outlets would be prevented from entering the White House grounds.

The move is likely to be met with legal challenges from the outlets involved and press freedom organisations.

This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. BBC

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/donald-trump-says-he-is-banning-cnn-politico-from-white-house/ar-AA2cwJgs

Trump’s claim that ‘almost every item’ is getting cheaper comes up against a damning reality

Story by Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN • 2h

The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates to fight inflation that hurts Americans’ pocketbooks,but the move may also make voters feel the pinch in other ways heading into the November election.

There may not be a direct tie between the interest rates set by the Fed and mortgage and auto lending rates. But the Fed’s decision certainly won’t bring down the cost of housing, buying a car or paying off credit card debt. It won’t make it easier for American farmers already contending with record diesel pricesand a surge in fertilizer costs to afford increased interest payments, all of which led the USDA this week to forecast a reduction in farm income for the year.

It is also designed to slow down the economy, something voters might not enjoy experiencing if it leads to jobs cuts.

While President Donald Trump opposed the rate hike, he’ll have to answer for any economic impact, even if his war on Iran and tariff policy helped create the inflation that led to it.

Trump has long groused about interest rates and elections.

He complained when rates were raised during his first term. And he complained when they were lowered before the 2024 presidential election. Earlier in his second term Trump publicly fantasized about firing the previous Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, but ultimately let his term as chairman expire and nominated Kevin Warsh, who Trump in January described as coming from “central casting” for the job.

But while the unanimous decision by the Federal Open Markets Committee Wednesday to raise rates will keep Trump at odds with Fed policy, it also shows that Warsh lives in the reality where inflation and higher costs continue to be a problem for the economy as a whole, and not in Trump’s reality, where inflation does not exist.

And Warsh’s Fed is expected to raise interest rates again this year. The next opportunity is in late October, just before Election Day.

At a press conference Wednesday, Warsh acknowledged the reality that Americans feel every day.

“This summer’s inflation readings do not tell me that underlying trends have meaningfully improved,” he said, arguing inflation has been hurting the country for five years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-s-claim-that-almost-every-item-is-getting-cheaper-comes-up-against-a-damning-reality/ar-AA2cv8Ki

Macklemore controversy EXPLODES as Sheeran loses opening acts

Ed Sheeran's tour is facing growing controversy after Macklemore's 'free Palestine' remarks and reported removal from the tour, with protests planned and Robert Kraft blocking Macklemore from a Gillette Stadium show. Sheeran says the decision to remove Macklemore was made by the promoter and explains why he avoids politics onstage

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https://youtu.be/gyUvViq-6PY

'WAR IN SPACE': Air Force will deploy WEAPONS in space

Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink discusses the U.S. Air Force marking 79 years of service. He talks about the recruitment goals, military readiness and reports of space weapon deployment

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