Deportees Sent to Tiny African Nation After Refusing to Get Off Plane
August 26, 2026
Six migrants deported from the United States refused to leave a plane in Liberia last week and were instead flown to Equatorial Guinea.
The group included four Cuban men, one Brazilian man and one Cameroonian woman, according to accounts from a person on the flight and a lawyer in contact with them, as reported by NBC News and The Associated Press.
They arrived in Liberia Thursday as part of a third-country deportation arrangement. When the plane landed, the six refused to disembark, saying Liberia was “not their country.”
Other passengers got off because they feared officers would force them, a Honduran deportee on the flight said.
The six were then separated from the rest of the group.
Authorities told them they would be returned to the United States. Instead, the plane continued to Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
They arrived there later the same day.
Equatorial Guinea has a third-country agreement with the United States. Deportees there have been held at a hotel owned by the family of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
The United States has no obligation to keep individuals who have no legal right to remain, especially when their home countries refuse to take them back.
Third-country arrangements exist for precisely these situations.
Deportees who refused to exit a U.S. flight in Liberia are sent to Equatorial Guinea. https://t.co/eLUU3TfpPn
Liberia had agreed to accept up to 1,200 deportees under a deal with the Trump administration. This flight was among the early arrivals.
The six who refused to leave the plane in Liberia are now among roughly 40 people held in Equatorial Guinea under similar arrangements, according to advocates and prior reporting by Reuters.
One of the Cuban men was identified by his wife as Carlos Rodríguez López, 35, who had been living in the Miami area.
A lawyer working with some of the deportees described the arrival in Malabo as chaotic, with some people in chains and in distress, the AP reported.
Equatorial Guinea’s government has not publicly commented on the latest arrivals.
The U.S. government has defended third-country deportations as a lawful tool when home countries will not cooperate.
The six remain in Equatorial Guinea as of the latest reports.
SHOCK: Judge Grants Idaho Quadruple Murderer Bryan Kohberger New Hearing as Convicted Killer Seeks to Withdraw Guilty Plea
August 26, 2026
Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger sentencing – courtroom video
A judge granted quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger a new hearing as the convicted killer seeks to withdraw his guilty plea.
Last month, Kohberger sought to undo his guilty plea.
Kohberger previously pleaded guilty to killing four University of Idaho students. He is expected to claim that he had bad counsel.
Kootenai County Public Defender Anne Taylor represented Bryan Kohberger.
Bryan Kohberger is now claiming he is innocent.
Judge Hippler, who oversaw Kohberger’s previous hearings and accepted his guilty pleas, set a status conference for June 3, 2027, and an evidentiary hearing on June 17, 2027.
Convicted quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger, who admitted to stabbing four University of Idaho students a year before he proclaimed his innocence and asked to withdraw his guilty plea, has been granted two days in court next year as part of his petition for post-conviction relief.
Judge Steven Hippler, who accepted Kohberger’s guilty pleas in July 2025, set a status conference for June 3, 2027, and an evidentiary hearing two weeks later on June 17 of that year, according to a court order dated Wednesday.
Prosecutors had asked the judge to dismiss Kohberger’s petition without a hearing.
Kohberger, who was facing a firing squad if convicted of killing four University of Idaho students, accepted a plea deal and will spend life in prison without parole.
He is currently being housed in solitary confinement on “J Block” – and only gets 60 minutes of outdoor time per day.
The 30-year-old killer was indicted by a secret grand jury in 2024 and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in the slayings of four University of Idaho students.
Kohberger fatally stabbed 20-year-old Ethan Chapin of Conway, Washington; 21-year-old Madison Mogen of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; 20-year-old Xana Kernodle of Avondale, Arizona; and 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves of Rathdrum, Idaho on November 13, 2022.
Kohberger victims: Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle
Kohberger is reportedly being taunted by his inmates as he serves four consecutive life sentences at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution just south of Boise.
At the time, it was unclear what the inmates were shouting, but it was later reported that the inmates were making Kohberger’s life a living hell with vulgar and violent threats.
NewsNation host Brian Entin last year reported that, according to the brief summary of the incident and action taken, one of the inmates who goes by ‘Peru’ allegedly threatened to “b*** f*ck” Kohberger and made other vulgar threats against the quadruple murderer.
Kohberger said that another inmate from tier 1 of J-Block said, “The only ass we’ll be eating is Kohberger’s.”
According to handwritten complaint forms obtained by Brian Entin, Kohberger (a self-described vegan) is also complaining about the food served to him in prison.
Leftist Vanity Fair Dumps Reporter After She Grins, Poses, and Winks at Courtroom Camera During Lindsay Clancy Triple-Murder Trial (VIDEO)
August 26, 2026
Freelance journalist Brittany Romano smiles and winks at a courtroom camera during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. (Credit: Court TV/Pool)
Vanity Fair just discovered editorial standards.
After a video of freelancer Brittany Romano smiling, posing, and winking at a Court TV camera inside the Lindsay Clancy murder trial exploded across social media, the leftist magazine dumped her “personal essay” and told the court she is no longer credentialed by the magazine.
Three children are dead. Cora was 5. Dawson was 3. Baby Callan was 8 months old. Their mother is on trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, accused of strangling them with exercise bands in the basement of the family home on January 24, 2023, after she sent her husband out for takeout. The defense says postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors say she planned it. The jury will hear closings Thursday.
And there sat Romano in the front row of the gallery Monday, in a green dress, mugging for the lens like she was at a cocktail party instead of a triple-murder trial. Other reporters sat stone-faced. She grinned. She tilted her head. She winked. America saw it.
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Vanity Fair drops journalist Brittany Romano after video of her smiling, posing and winking at a courtroom camera during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial explodes across social media.
The magazine says Romano was credentialed to write a personal essay about growing up with… pic.twitter.com/fT0AfXaUxE
Romano was attending the trial using Vanity Fair media credentials. The magazine said it had been considering publishing a personal essay from Romano about her experience growing up with Clancy in Connecticut.
However, after the video went viral, Vanity Fair abruptly pulled the plug.
“We were interested in the prospect of a personal essay by Brittany Romano about her experience growing up with Lindsay Clancy. Yesterday, after clear conflicts with our editorial standards and processes, we informed Romano that we were not moving forward with her essay and informed the court that she is no longer credentialed by Vanity Fair.”
Read that again. Vanity Fair’s original pitch was not hard news. It was a first-person essay from a woman who says she grew up on the same Wallingford, Connecticut street as Lindsay Musgrove Clancy, the same woman who admits she killed her three children.
A New York magazine wanted the childhood-friend angle on a mother who wrapped resistance bands around the necks of a kindergartner, a toddler, and an infant. Then the camera caught the friend performing. Then they ran.
When a streamer asked her outside court why she was smiling on a live feed of a baby-killing trial, Romano said she “grew up with Lindsay,” that Clancy looked at her and she looked back, and that her father had told her she “looked bad” on Court TV, so she was giggling.
She later added that Hillary Duff’s stylist told her to clip her hair back, look forward, and smile. In another telling, it was mascara in her eye. The explanations keep multiplying. The video does not.
1) Did she have a liquid lunch and then go to court?
2) Her dad was like hey I saw you at the murder trial, why weren’t you smiling? pic.twitter.com/mvMMnXMtF1
After the clip went nuclear, Romano posted screenshots of angry messages and wrote: “All for smiling at a camera?! Love it! Tysm for boosting my analytics Xoxoxoxo.”
In a longer statement she declared, “A smile is not a crime. Telling a woman to slit her wrists is.” She said she smiles through anxiety, smiles when she is uncomfortable, and has “nothing to apologize for.”
She also insisted she is a freelancer, never had a contract, and that Vanity Fair cannot “pull credentials” from someone who is not staff. The magazine notified the court anyway. She was gone Tuesday.
The ‘reporter’ Brittany Romano who was grinning and giggling in the Lindsay Clancy courtroom had a total meltdown on Instagram last night
Bodycam Footage Released of SF 49ers Owner Jed York’s Arrest in East Palestine During $160 Trailer-Park Prostitution Sting
August 26, 2026
The East Palestine Police Department has released the bodycam footage of San Francisco 49ers owner and CEO Jed York’s humiliating arrest, and it is every bit as grotesque as you’d expect from a Silicon Valley–style NFL billionaire who lectures America about “values” while texting an undercover hooker from a rental car in a mobile home park.
49ers owner Jed York arrested | KRON4
York, whose family fortune is estimated in the billions, was arrested Sunday morning, August 23, at the Wheat Hill Mobile Home Community in East Palestine, Ohio, the same working-class town the Biden-Harris regime treated like a toxic afterthought after the 2023 Norfolk Southern chemical derailment.
According to court records and the incident report, York answered an undercover ad on a known prostitution website, used the fake name “Joe,” and messaged the “woman” multiple times over two days.
He agreed to pay about $160 for “full service” sexual activity, drove a rental car to the meet, and was carrying the cash when East Palestine officers and the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force rolled him up around 9:35 a.m.
His phone, the “criminal tool,” lit up when investigators sent a test text to the number from the ad. The bodycam is brutal.
York is wearing a New York Yankees T-shirt, basketball shorts, tennis shoes, and his wedding ring. Officers pull him over. He looks stunned.
“Can I ask what you’re doing?” he asks as they cuff him.
There is a discrepancy in the public reports concerning the negotiated price. The initial court affidavit cited $140, while the subsequently reported incident narrative cited $160. Court records show that $160 seized from York was forfeited to the human-trafficking task force.
He was fined $150 on the disorderly-conduct charge and $1,000 on the criminal-tools charge. York received a one-day jail sentence on each count, to run concurrently, and was given credit for time already served. His cellphone was ordered returned, and court records indicate that he completed an online course.
Columbiana County Prosecutor Vito Abruzzino said the reduced charge was routine for a defendant facing those allegations without a prior history of that type of criminal conduct.
The 49ers quickly moved to shut down further questions.
“As this is a legal matter, which has been resolved, we will not be providing any further comment at this time,” the organization said.
The NFL, meanwhile, said it is aware of the matter and will review it under the league’s personal-conduct policy.
Enes Kanter Freedom Demands WNBA Review, Accountability, and a Full Ticket Refund After Sky Guard’s Courtside Meltdown
August 26, 2026
Enes Kanter Freedom is escorted out of the Indiana Fever–Chicago Sky game following a heated exchange with Sky guard Natasha Cloud while wearing a shirt reading, “WOMAN — noun. adult human female.”
As The Gateway Pundit first reported Sunday, former NBA star and human-rights warrior Enes Kanter Freedom was dragged out of Wintrust Arena for the crime of wearing a shirt that told the truth: “WOMAN. Noun. Adult human female.”
Now Freedom has put it in writing.
In a letter to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, Freedom is demanding a formal review of his ejection from Sunday’s Chicago Sky–Indiana Fever game, an explanation of the league’s “selective enforcement,” accountability for Sky guard Natasha Cloud, preservation of all video and communications, and a full refund of his courtside tickets. He wants a written answer in five business days.
This is not a man begging. This is a paying customer who sat courtside, cheered a Sophie Cunningham three-pointer, and then watched a WNBA player walk off the floor, scream at him, curse in front of children, and get defended by her coach, while security marched him out of the building.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the confrontation erupted during the third quarter of Indiana’s 113–90 beatdown of Chicago at Wintrust Arena.
Freedom said he had celebrated a three-pointer by Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, a courageous defender of women’s sports, when Cloud allegedly taunted him from the court.
A few possessions later, Cloud walked toward Freedom, pointing and shouting as security personnel, game officials, and several Chicago players rushed between them.
Freedom stood up and extended his arms before an official ordered him removed from his courtside seat.
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Freedom said he was never given a warning, despite the WNBA Fan Code of Conduct allegedly requiring one before a spectator is forced to leave.
“According to the WNBA Fan Code of Conduct, a spectator should be issued a warning for any alleged violation before being forced to leave the game,” Freedom wrote. “I received no such warning prior to my ejection.”
Meanwhile, Cloud has faced no publicly announced discipline for confronting and allegedly cursing at a paying spectator.
Instead, Chicago Sky coach Tyler Marsh defended Cloud following the incident, saying the team embraces her as someone who “protects our team and people who need to be protected.”
Freedom blasted the apparent double standard.
“According to the WNBA, any physical or verbal altercation with a fan is treated as conduct detrimental to the game,” he wrote.
“Yet Ms. Cloud’s conduct of yelling, swearing, and pointing at a spectator (me) appears to have escaped any accountability and was, in fact, defended by her coach.”
Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter has since banned Freedom from Wintrust Arena, accusing him of attempting to provoke Cloud and claiming the former NBA player had demonstrated the potential to be a “threat.”
Freedom disputes the team’s account of the confrontation. Reuters reported that Freedom stood and stepped toward the court after Cloud began pointing and yelling at him.
Freedom maintains that he followed the applicable rules and was targeted because of the message on his shirt and his outspoken defense of biological women.
“I should not be treated differently because the League, its players, or personnel disagree with my viewpoint,” Freedom wrote.
He asked whether his WNBA Draft announcement, previous communications with league officials, public advocacy for women’s sports, or shirt played a role in his ejection.
Freedom referenced both incidents in his letter, arguing that the league’s treatment of him was not an isolated event.
He issued five demands:
Identify the policy used to treat spectators differently based on viewpoints unpopular with the WNBA.
Identify who ordered his ejection.
Confirm whether Cloud’s conduct will be reviewed and whether she, the Sky, or team management will face accountability.
Refund the full cost of his courtside tickets.
Preserve every record, video, report, and communication connected to his attendance and removal.
Read Freedom’s full letter below:
Dear Commissioner Engelbert,
I write to formally request an explanation of the basis for my ejection from the Chicago Sky–Indiana Fever game at Wintrust Arena on Sunday, August 23, and to request an explanation of the apparent selective enforcement of League and arena policies that raises serious concerns of viewpoint discrimination.
I attended the game as a paying courtside spectator. I wore a shirt stating, “WOMAN. Noun. Adult human female.” Late in the third quarter, Chicago Sky player Natasha Cloud turned from the court, approached my seat, and began yelling, cursing, and pointing in my direction. Security and Sky personnel intervened, and I was subsequently escorted from the arena.
As a former NBA player, I am thoroughly familiar with the rules governing player and spectator conduct. According to the WNBA, any physical or verbal altercation with a fan is treated as conduct detrimental to the game. The WNBA Office holds the authority to issue heavy fines or multi-game suspensions for players who cross the line into berating or cursing at spectators. Yet Ms. Cloud’s conduct of yelling, swearing, and pointing at a spectator (me) appears to have escaped any accountability and was, in fact, defended by her coach. Meanwhile, I remained fully aware that I could not step onto the court and ensured my presence and expression complied with applicable standards. In other words, I followed your rules.
In addition, according to the WNBA Fan Code of Conduct, a spectator should be issued a warning for any alleged violation before being forced to leave the game. I received no such warning prior to my ejection.
The circumstances of my removal only further highlight a pattern and practice of the League applying its rules unfairly. For example, why did arena personnel believe my ejection was warranted while Ms. Cloud appears to have escaped any accountability for clearly violating League rules against the use of profanity and insults directed at fans? Additionally, why was I not issued a warning for any alleged violation before being ejected, as required by League rules? A thorough explanation is greatly needed.
The need for clarity is heightened by my recent interactions with the WNBA. I have publicly announced my intention to make myself available for the WNBA Draft. I have also been an advocate for defending the integrity of women’s sports. The shirt I wore Sunday evening expressed that same position. I should not be treated differently because the League, its players, or personnel disagree with my viewpoint. The timing and circumstances of my removal beg a variety of questions: Did my WNBA Draft announcement, prior communications with the League, public advocacy for women’s sports, or the message displayed on my shirt play a role in the decision to eject me?
The events of the preceding several weeks make the answers to these questions even more urgent. On July 28, spectators outside the Seattle Storm v. Indiana Fever game were treated differently based on their viewpoints. While supporters of women’s sports were told they could not rally on the raised platform outside the arena, transgender activists were allowed to do so. Next, on August 16, spectators at an Atlanta Dream v. Indiana Fever game were instructed to cover shirts supporting women’s sports that were like mine, while allowing pro-transgender shirts to remain. Although the WNBA subsequently acknowledged that the intervention “should not have happened,” it was no more than a week later that I was removed from the August 23 WNBA game wearing a shirt expressing a similar viewpoint.
Viewed together, these incidents raise significant questions about the WNBA’s application of its own rules depending on the perceived viewpoints of its spectators. The League and its teams have long permitted and promoted expression concerning Black Lives Matter, Pride, voting, and other highly debated topics. It goes without saying that when I purchase a ticket to attend a WNBA game, I expect that I will not be discriminated against based on my viewpoint.
Accordingly, I request that the League provide a written response addressing the following:
Identify the policy, rule, directive, or instruction relied upon in treating certain spectators, including me, differently when we express a viewpoint that appears unpopular with the WNBA;
Identify whether the decision to eject me was made or requested by WNBA personnel, Chicago Sky personnel, Wintrust Arena personnel, security personnel, or another individual or entity;
Confirm whether Ms. Cloud’s conduct has been or will be reviewed under any League policy governing player interactions with fans, including rules governing altercations that require player suspension, and state what accountability, if any, she, her team, and management will face;
Provide a full refund of the cost of my courtside tickets; and
Preserve all materials relating to this incident, including relevant video footage, incident or security reports, communications concerning my attendance or removal, communications referring to my WNBA Draft announcement or public advocacy for women’s sports, and any applicable policies or event-day directives.
I respectfully request a written response within five business days. The WNBA’s pattern of viewpoint discrimination against those, like me, who advocate for the protection of women and integrity of women’s sports has created a real and substantial conflict that must be addressed.
Enes Kanter Freedom has sent a letter to the WNBA requesting a review of the incident that led to his ejection at Sunday’s Sky game, and a full refund for his tickets. pic.twitter.com/T43hg3xbVU
Never-Before-Heard Dolly Parton Songs to Be Released Posthumously – One Will Require a 19-Year Wait
August 26, 2026
The world hasn’t heard the last of Dolly Parton — and won’t for a good, long time.
The national icon, who died Tuesday in Nashville, forged a musical career spanning seven decades and making untold millions of fans in the country and around the globe.
And she once said her musical vault contains “thousands” of songs that haven’t been released; one of them won’t be public for almost two decades to come.
The song is titled, fittingly enough, “My Place in History,” the national media company Gray News reported Tuesday.
According to ABC News, Parton wrote and recorded the song in 2015.
The music industry publication Billboard reported Tuesday that “Parton specifically arranged for it to be unveiled on what would have been her 100th birthday: Jan. 19, 2046.”
Dolly Parton wrote a secret song called “My Place In History” that was sealed in a “Dream Box” time capsule at Dollywood that is set to be opened around her 100th birthday (January 19, 2046).⁰
What do you think the song will be about? pic.twitter.com/unptaz72z6
The Gray News story was based on a People magazine report in 2022 about a Parton interview on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
“I have written a song that nobody’s gonna hear till I’m 99 years old,” Parton said. “I might be there, I might not be.”
She said the song had been placed in a time capsule at Dollywood, her theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near Knoxville.
“I put all the things that had to do with the times,” she said. “I put a cassette player, and I put all the … CD player …
“But I had to write this song that nobody was going to hear till then,” she said. “And you have no idea how that has bothered me. I wanna go dig that up so bad. And think, ‘Well, I need to use that song,’ cause it’s like, it’s a really good song …
“I don’t know whose damn idea that was.”
If that song really does stay buried until 2046, Parton fans won’t necessarily be deprived.
In 2020, the singer said there’s still plenty of material yet to come.
“I’ve got hundreds, hundreds, even thousands of songs — a big part of them have never even been recorded,” Parton said during an appearance on the “Dolly Parton’s America” podcast, according to Parade magazine.
“There’s enough stuff to go on forever with my music, to do compilation albums, to do new and original stuff. I am purposely trying to put songs down for that very purpose, to have a click track and my vocals where any arrangement could be done. So I think ahead.”
Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen in 2046, or any time before then, most Americans can probably agree that Parton’s place in history is assured.
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Body cam of Jed York’s arrest shows stunned 49ers owner. 
: East Palestine Police Dept 
