A repeat felony offender with an extensive criminal history was arrested after allegedly trespassing in the backyard of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s Chicago residence on the night of July 4.

This is what happens when radical Democrat policies put dangerous repeat offenders back on the streets.

Dwayne Milton, a career criminal with more than 10 felony convictions and over 60 total cases in Cook County, was detained by Illinois State Police after he allegedly tried to climb into Governor JB Pritzker’s backyard on July 4.

Milton, 46, was already on pretrial release with an ankle monitor for a felony retail theft charge when he vanished from electronic monitoring for 11 days.

Court records show he started violating his curfew and monitoring conditions almost immediately after the monitor was strapped on in mid-June. A warrant was issued, but he remained free, until he showed up at the governor’s mansion.

According to The Center Square, Illinois State Police troopers assigned to the governor’s security detail observed Milton allegedly climbing over a fence and entering the backyard of Pritzker’s Gold Coast residence at approximately 10 p.m.

Troopers detained him before Chicago police arrived and took him into custody. Milton was charged with criminal trespass.

In classic soft-on-crime fashion, Milton was ordered released pending trial on the new trespassing charge (with instructions not to return to the governor’s property).

However, he was later taken back into custody after pleading guilty to the separate felony retail theft case he was already on monitoring for. He received a one-year prison sentence with credit for time served.

Milton’s rap sheet is a textbook example of the revolving door created by Illinois’ Democrat-backed “criminal justice reform.”

His prior felony convictions include burglary (2024), multiple retail thefts, and two robberies dating back to 2005. He has cycled through the Cook County court system more than 60 times.

For years, Pritzker and his far-left allies insisted that abolishing cash bail would make communities “safer” and “more equitable.” Instead, it has turned Illinois into a revolving door for career felons.

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In a speech before the European Parliament, Cardinal Robert Sarah warned that the rise of radical Islam and the push of gender ideology are “apocalyptic beasts” and an attack on the sanctity of life and God.

The event, “Europe and Africa. In conversation with Cardinal Robert Sarah,” was presented as “an opportunity for reflection and dialogue on the relationship between Europe and Africa, with particular attention to Christianity, culture, human dignity, and the future of our societies.”

During his speech, Cardinal Sarah noted, “The crisis of the Church in the West and the crisis of the West itself are, at heart, one and the same crisis.”

“It is because the Church in many European nations has lost its identity, its prophetic voice, that the West itself has lost the meaning of its own civilization.”

Per LifeSite News:

While decrying the fact that the U.N., as well as European and other Western powers, have sought to impose gender ideology on African nations in exchange for financial aid, Sarah echoed remarks that he made during the 2015 Synod on the Family that gender ideology, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, are “apocalyptic beasts.”

“In 2015, during the Synod on the Family, I said, and I do not take back a single word today, that ‘gender ideology and Islamic fundamentalism each represent, in their own way, two apocalyptic beasts that threaten to destroy not only the family, but humanity itself, the image of God,’” he said.

“Some considered this image excessive. I continue to believe that it contains some truth. Could it be that these forces, though very different in origin and form, share the pretense of rewriting humanity to their own liking?” he added. “One in the name of so-called progress, the other in the name of a so-called return to an original purity, denying in either case that religious freedom and that human dignity.”

He continued, noting, ““When Europe constructs ‘rights’ detached from the truth about the human person – abortion, which some would like to elevate to a ‘fundamental right,’ ‘sexual identity’ reduced to pure subjective self-construction – reason itself is distorted from being an instrument for knowing the truth it becomes an instrument of power capable of imposing itself through the force of law and money on those who do not share those promises.”

Watch (begins at 23:19):

Cardinal Sarah is from West Africa’s Guinea and was considered a potential successor to Pope Francis.

He has been an outspoken advocate for the West to hold on to its identity and principles and has described mass migration as ‘self-destruction’ for Europe, a ‘new form of slavery,’ arguing it is better to help people flourish in their homelands rather than encouraging them to abandon their native countries.

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Kiev was behind the terror bomb in Monaco, says Ermolaev.

About two weeks after his family was targeted by a backpack bomb left on the doorsteps of his Monaco mansion, Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Ermolaiev (another transliteration would be Vadym Yermolayev) sent out a statement, and added pressure on Kiev regime, as he points to the Ukrainian intelligence service as being behind the attack.

This was the first terrorist attack in the history of Monaco, and the businessman sanctioned by Kiev said there is ‘no doubt’ that serving officers of the main intelligence directorate of the military of defense of Ukraine, GUR, are involved in the attempt on his life.

Iermolaiev accuses Ukrainian intelligence officers of trying to kill him in Monaco.

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said previously that the suspects were operating without the knowledge of HUR’s leadership, and that the…

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) July 16, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“The property magnate was approaching his building with his long-term partner and their 13-year-old son when explosives hidden in a backpack at the threshold of the lobby were detonated on the evening of June 29.”

Ermolaev’s partner lost both feet, while his son sustained ‘burns, fractures and severe trauma’.

“’I remain in intensive care and am only now beginning the long process of recovery’, he added, in his first public comments since the blast.”

French police identified Ukrainian Anastasiia Berezovska as the attacker, and she was found shot dead in near Kiev after escaping to the country on July 1.

Vladyslav Reut, a GUR officer, and Vitaliy Zhykovych, a former member of the SBU, have been arrested.

They made bank transfers and cryptocurrency payments to Berezovska that may be linked to the attempt on Ermolaiev’s life.

The prosecutors in Ukraine have tried to say that the murder was the work of ‘rogue operators’ without authorization from their agencies.

But Ermolaev, in a statement distributed by his lawyers, says is sure that the order for the attack on his family came from above.

“’According to the evidence currently available, the conspiracy extended beyond the direct perpetrators and organizers to include serving HUR officers connected to them, including individuals close to the agency’s current and former leadership. This was not a warning. It was an attempt to kill not only me, but my family as well’.

The incident was ‘a matter of international security and trust in public institutions. If serving officers of an intelligence agency used their positions, resources or networks to orchestrate the attempted murder of a family on European soil, then this is no longer merely a crime against my family’, he argued.”

Read more:

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth scored a significant legal victory Thursday after a federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling and allowed the Pentagon to continue enforcing restrictions on press access inside the building while litigation proceeds.

The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit means the Department of Defense may continue requiring credentialed journalists, including reporters from The New York Times, to be escorted inside the Pentagon rather than freely roam the halls without supervision.

The court found that the Trump administration is likely to prevail on appeal regarding the legality of the policy.

The ruling marks another win for the Trump administration’s effort to crack down on unauthorized leaks of sensitive military information after months of escalating tensions between Pentagon leadership and legacy media outlets.

Hegseth has repeatedly argued that unrestricted access inside one of the nation’s most sensitive military facilities presents an unnecessary security risk, particularly as classified information has repeatedly appeared in media reports citing anonymous government sources.

It can be recalled that in October, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges after they refused to sign Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s new security rule.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that reporters agree by 5 p.m. Tuesday to a new policy, under which they would need to pledge to not obtain or use any unauthorized material, even if the information is unclassified — or hand over their press badges in the next 24 hours,” The Hill previously reported.

By that afternoon, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges.

The Pentagon Press Association previously released a statement blasting Hegseth.

“Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution,” the PPA said.

“The Pentagon Press Association’s members are still committed to reporting on the US military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening US commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all,” the statement said.

The Pentagon press pool now includes conservative outlets, including The Gateway Pundit.

The New York Times filed a lawsuit to stop the Pentagon from enforcing its new policy.

US District Judge Paul Friedman, a Clinton appointee, blocked the Pentagon from enforcing its new policy and said it violated the First Amendment.

“The Court recognizes that national security must be protected, the security of our troops must be protected, and war plans must be protected. But especially in light of the country’s recent incursion into Venezuela and its ongoing war with Iran, it is more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing—so that the public can support government policies, if it wants to support them; protest, if it wants to protest; and decide based on full, complete, and open information who they are going to vote for in the next election,” the judge wrote in a 40-page opinion.

Thursday’s appellate ruling reverses that victory.

According to Reuters, the three-judge appeals panel concluded that the Pentagon’s escort requirement does not amount to unconstitutional retaliation against journalists and may remain in effect while the broader appeal moves forward. The Pentagon has maintained that journalists who seek unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information can pose legitimate security concerns inside the building.

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A Clinton-appointed judge has suddenly passed away after freeing a dangerous migrant earlier this week.

As The New York Post reported, a legal source in Miami and a law clerk for Chief Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the Middle District of Florida, confirmed that Senior District Judge John E. Steele passed away at the age of 77.

His cause of death remains unknown at this point.

Back on July 8, Steele, who was appointed to the bench by former President Bill Clinton, infuriated conservatives after issuing a ruling ordering the release of Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.

The agency took him into custody in December 2025 and intended to deport him to Mexico.

Via The Post, here is exactly what Guerra Morales did:

Guerra Morales took over a Cuban commuter plane in 2003 and forced the crew to land at Key West International Airport.

He spent more than 20 years in prison for aircraft piracy and conspiracy to interfere with a flight crew.

Despite these facts, Steele ordered the Cuban native to be released again under supervision. This means agents must try to monitor him before they can deport him.

Steele claimed that ICE could not send Guerra Morales to Cuba because of an anti-torture convention, and that the agency had provided no evidence that he had communicated with Mexico about sending him there.

Following Steele’s ruling, Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) filed an article of impeachment against him. The House Resolution presented by the congressman alleged that the judge had committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

“This is exactly the kind of activist judicial overreach the American people are sick of,” Steube explained to Fox News. “Judge Steele had every legal justification to keep a convicted plane hijacker off our streets, and he chose to let him go instead.”

The Department of Homeland Security also issued a scathing response to the now-deceased judge for his outrageous decision:

“This activist judge forced ICE to release a criminal illegal alien who was convicted and sentenced to 22 years for hijacking a plane back into American communities,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “This is yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump’s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS will continue to fight for the detention and removal of criminal illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country.”

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