President Trump is escalating his effort to oust embattled Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud.

Trump announced his administrations has established a committee to investigate Lisa Cook.

“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby establish a committee of inquiry (Committee) to investigate allegations that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook made false statements in connection with one or more mortgage instruments. The Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Director of the Office of Government Ethics shall serve as members of the Committee,” Trump said in a memorandum.

In August, President Trump renewed efforts to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook after the Supreme Court ruled she could keep her job.

In June, the US Supreme Court said President Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

The high court, in a 5-4 vote, ruled that Trump cannot remove Cook.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion.

“To accept any of those arguments would in effect transform the Federal Reserve’s for-cause protection into at-will employment,” Roberts wrote.

DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer, in his petition to the Supreme Court, said the lower courts have interfered with the President’s authority to remove members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for cause.

Lisa Cook apparently owns three properties, and she allegedly committed mortgage fraud on all three properties.

According to housing regulator Bill Pulte’s first criminal referral, Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud by lying on her mortgage application and falsifying bank statements when she designated her out-of-state Atlanta condo as her “primary residence”—just two weeks after taking a loan on her Michigan home, which she also claimed as her “primary residence.”

Last August, Pulte sent a second criminal referral on Lisa Cook after she was allegedly caught lying about a third property.

Lisa Cook’s attorneys laughably claimed there would be an inflation crisis if Trump were allowed to fire Cook.

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The violent riots in France have officially been characterized as student protests, while some conservative commentators describe them as a Muslim uprising. One piece of evidence supporting their claims is the video footage on social media showing a disproportionate number of Muslims and young people from immigrant families among the rioters.

Those who maintain that these are student protests argue that the visible presence of immigrants reflects local demographics: the urban areas where the riots have been fiercest have immigrant populations that constitute a majority or a sizable minority. For many conservative commentators, this demographic shift is itself further cause for concern.

You’re right. I smoothed the wording without properly reorganizing it.

In addition to migration, commentators and researchers have pointed to nihilism as an explanation for violent lawlessness among young people in Europe. This interpretation has appeared in discussions of youth riots for more than a decade.

After the 2011 riots in England, Labour MP David Lammy called the violence “an explosion of hedonism and nihilism,” while London Mayor Boris Johnson blamed the nihilism and exclusion the riots revealed. Philosopher Slavoj Žižek described the violence as a “zero-degree protest,” a violent action that demands nothing. Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman called the rioters “defective and disqualified consumers,” young people shut out of a consumer society they wanted to join.

Similar explanations emerged after the 2023 French riots. A government inspection found that participants acted mostly out of opportunism, curiosity or a search for adrenaline, rather than a desire to attack symbols of authority. Some commentators argue that the current unrest was never really about schools and has become an exercise in nihilistic resentment, with students filming themselves and spreading the revolt online.

Political scientist Olivier Roy also applied the concept of nihilism to jihadism in France after the 2015 terrorist attacks. He described jihadism among young French Muslims and converts as a “generational and nihilist revolt,” arguing that their radicalism preceded their adoption of Islam as its label.

Surveys point to a broader malaise among European youth. The European Commission’s 2024 EU Youth Report found that nearly half of young people reported emotional or psychosocial difficulties in the previous year. A 2025 survey across 23 EU countries found that 77% believed the next generation would face a harder life.

However, conservatives still question how pessimism about the future explains the scale of destruction in France, and how the young people involved believe that burning schools and attacking police will resolve their problems.

The riots began September 17 at Saint-Exupéry high school in Créteil, in the Paris region. Students there protested a lack of teachers, nurses and supervisors, and overcrowded classrooms. The blockades spread to Marseille, Lille, Grenoble, Lyon and other cities. On October 1, 1,027 high schools were affected. On October 2, 564 schools were still disrupted. On October 6, at least 250,000 people marched across France, and the Interior Ministry counted 891 high schools disrupted.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu told the National Assembly on October 6 that 715 police and gendarmes, 215 students and 85 education staff had been injured since the movement began. He said most of the students were injured “following assaults or, to a lesser extent, accidents.”

The injured staff included 34 principals and deputy principals. Police made 6,059 arrests between September 28 and October 6, mostly of minors. The government has not released a breakdown of how many students were injured by rioters, by police or in accidents.

In Bordeaux on September 29, a firefighter responding to a fire at a student barricade on Rue Sainte-Catherine, near Lycée Montaigne, was engulfed in flames when an aerosol can exploded. He suffered burns to his legs, and authorities opened an investigation into arson causing serious injury. Video circulating on social media shows people at the scene filming and mocking him.

In Paris on October 1, about a dozen young people chased a trainee police lieutenant near Place Auguste-Métivier in the 20th arrondissement. They threw her to the ground and kicked her while shouting “Tuez-la!” (“Kill her!”).

In Ingré, in the Loiret department, the principal of Lycée Genevoix was punched in the face at the school entrance. The regional education authority filed a complaint. In La Ciotat, a teacher said pupils doused him with petrol as he tried to extinguish a fire outside a school.

In La Rochelle, rioters attacked a bus and threw Molotov cocktails. Eight people were taken into custody, and gatherings were banned around two schools.

Education Minister Édouard Geffray said 24 schools had been burned or ransacked. He estimated the cost, including damage to staff housing, at between €20 million ($22.4 million) and €30 million ($33.6 million). More than 100 schools suffered severe damage. Régions de France, the association representing the regional governments responsible for France’s 3,700 high schools, issued an initial estimate of about €20 million ($22.4 million).

Regional presidents reported estimates for their own territories. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes estimated damage at between €25 million ($28 million) and €30 million ($33.6 million), including damage to school surroundings and vehicles. Île-de-France reported €7 million ($7.8 million), including about 50 destroyed gates.

Pays de la Loire reported €3 million ($3.4 million), at least €2 million ($2.2 million) of which resulted from the arson attack on Lycée Nelson-Mandela in Nantes. Occitanie also reported €3 million ($3.4 million), while Hauts-de-France and Grand Est each reported about €1 million ($1.1 million). Normandy’s president said damage there would reach tens of millions of euros. Combined, the regional estimates exceed €40 million ($44.7 million). Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin instructed prosecutors to hold parents liable for damage caused by their children.

Further violence was reported on October 6 and October 8. On October 6, the Interior Ministry reported 488 arrests and 43 police and gendarmes injured. On October 8, it reported 504 arrests and 48 police and gendarmes injured, and noted “an increase in urban violence.” That day, a deputy principal in Saint-Chamond was burned in the face by a firework mortar, several dozen people ransacked a school cafeteria in Saint-Étienne, and mortar fire hit teachers in Bayonne. In Toulouse, an adult demonstrator struck a principal. A police vehicle was set on fire in Strasbourg, and someone attempted to set fire to a police station in Bordeaux.

Student organizers have called for another nationwide mobilization on October 13, with school blockades and marches planned across France.

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Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
WASHINGTON, D.C. — We’ve all been in gatherings where we’ve sung Christian hymns, and we’re all familiar with so many of them. But when was the last time you heard a verse of a Christian hymn say, “And here comes judicial reform?”

For me, it was this past Monday, as I gathered with Christian conservative leaders and prayer warriors at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC to speak and lead prayer at third annual National Consecration of Our Court. This annual event focuses on prayer for the entire judicial branch of government, from the U.S. Supreme Court to federal appellate and district courts and state courts.

Monday was first day of the Supreme Court’s new term, and the event was organized by the Judicial Action Group (JAG), headed by Phillip Jauregui. JAG works to help citizens understand the judicial branch of our government, including the process of selecting, confirming and electing judges.

The gathering is an important reminder that the courts are just as consequential to the protection of unborn children as the legislative and executive branches. Most people have some experience in dealing with those two branches but are unclear on how to affect the judicial branch.

The way to do that is through keeping informed about specific judicial nominees and paying attention to judicial confirmation processes and elections.

At the gathering, different faith leaders prayed for the various levels of the American judicial system. Retired Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker led prayer for the state courts, while Mike Berry from First Liberty Institute prayed for the federal district and appellate courts. Those courts deserve particular attention because – simply for practicality — well over 99% of court cases are resolved without ever reaching the Supreme Court.

Different faith leaders were assigned to pray individually for each justice and I was given Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In my remarks, I began by thanking God for President Trump, who reshaped the Court for the good of the prolife movement. I also thanked God for the US Senate Republicans who got rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations. That was essential for reversing Roe, because none of President Trump’s three Supreme Court Justices got more than 54 votes.

The reversal of Roe, which Justice Kavanaugh helped accomplish by his vote, was an act of humility and repentance by the Court. His separate concurrence made the point that nine Justices should not presume to decide such a crucial issue for all the people.

I also noted that during his time on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Kavanaugh had previously sided with Priests for Life in our challenge to the federal HHS mandate requiring us to participate in a process that could facilitate the provision of contraception and abortion-inducing drugs to our employees.

Although a three-judge panel ruled against Priests for Life, Kavanaugh dissented from the denial of the organization’s request for an en banc hearing by the full appeals court. He said he would side with us, recognizing that the government had a less burdensome way of accomplishing its objectives without requiring Priests for Life to participate in a process that violated our beliefs.

(We ended up in the Supreme Court, and ultimately won that whole battle thanks to the election of President Trump.)

We all remembered the intense attacks he endured during his confirmation process, as well as the attempted assassination, and prayed for the protection of all the Justices.

The event sponsor, Judicial Action Group, researches and vets judicial candidates before they are nominated, confirmed or elected, helping citizens understand who the candidates are and what judicial philosophies they hold. Citizens can then communicate with their senators during federal confirmation processes and become informed participants in state judicial elections.

Let’s pray regularly for America’s courts (see ProLifePrayers.com) and make prayer for judges and the judicial system an ongoing part of the pro-life movement.

Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life and the national pastoral director of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign..

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Police have finally released the body camera footage of the despicable Georgia cop who gunned down a baby donkey back in late August, and it destroys the disgusting lie he was trying to sell to the public.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Elsberry farm owner Hannah Israel revealed that Cedartown, Georgia police officers entered her family’s pasture and killed her donkey HeeHaw after they perceived him as a “threat.”

In a post on Facebook, Israel wrote, “At 12:45 am cops entered my pasture searching for a missing person WITHOUT permission or warning and shot and killed my bottle-raised BABY donkey.”

She added, “HeeHaw was raised in the house and did petting zoos; he never knew a stranger. And was shot and killed in his OWN pasture for doing what donkeys do. Alerting to a stranger.”

At the time, the police had been reportedly called to assist a bloodhound team that was searching for a missing 12-year-old girl.

Trenton Garner, the officer who killed Heehaw, claimed taking the animal’s life was the only way to protect himself, the K-9 officer, and the team of bloodhounds.

Garner later stated that he informed his sergeant and the animal’s owner.

Now, the body camera footage, released Thursday night, CONFIRMS that Gardner’s statement was a complete lie. The footage PROVES that Heehaw was not threatening anybody.

In the video, a curious HeeHaw walks up to greet what he thinks is a ‘friendly’ police officer. The K-9 handler then shoots Heehaw with a taser.

The donkey walks away, seemingly into the night.

But Garner, who is to the side, is not satisfied and proceeds to unload a hail of bullets into the innocent animal, causing it to fall to the ground several feet away.

Garner then gets on his radio to announce he has shot a donkey and that it was trying to attack him and the other officer in the pasture.

But the video makes clear this was a cold-blooded killing.

The bodycam footage is finally out.

And now the truth is there for everyone to see.

HeeHaw wasn’t charging. He wasn’t attacking. He wasn’t some uncontrollable threat.

He was doing what everyone who knew him said he always did: running up to greet someone in his friendly, curious way.

And for that, Officer Trenton Garner shot and killed him.

Watching the footage makes this even harder to stomach. HeeHaw was a one-year-old miniature donkey, on his own property, being himself. That should never have ended with a gunshot.

For weeks, we demanded answers. We demanded the footage. We demanded accountability.

Now we have the footage, and if anything, it makes the need for justice even more urgent.

There is no world where what happened to HeeHaw should simply be accepted and forgotten.

We are furious. We are heartbroken. And we are more determined than ever.

Officer Trenton Garner must be held accountable for what happened to HeeHaw.

We will not stop speaking his name.
We will not stop pushing for answers.
We will not stop until there is justice.

#JusticeForHeeHaw.
Now more than ever.

— Justice For HeeHaw (@Justice4HeeHaw) October 9, 2026

Based on this horrifying video and other facts in the case, the firing of Officer Gardner is nowhere near enough. He deserves a lengthy prison sentence and a massive fine.

Our nation also needs far more stringent animal welfare laws to deter crooked cops and others from killing innocent animals in cold blood.

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Legendary Chicago Bears coach, Mike Ditka, has passed away at 86.

Before coaching the 1985 team to their Super Bowl championship, he had a tremendous career as a player.

He was drafted by the Bears in the first round in 1961. As a rookie, he caught 56 passes for 1,076 yards and 12 touchdowns, the first tight end to top 1,000 yards in a season, and was the NFL Rookie of the Year.

He made the Pro Bowl in each of his first five seasons, helped the Bears win the 1963 NFL title, and started every game in six years in Chicago.

After playing for two other teams, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys, he moved into coaching.

After serving as an assistant coach in Dallas, he was hired by the Bears as head coach in 1982, and the legend of “Da Coach” was born.

His 1985 team, with Walter Payton and the 46 defense, went 15–1 and beat New England 46–10 in Super Bowl XX.

The Hall of Famer tight end was one of only two people to win a Super Bowl as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach.

“It’s with a heavy heart that I’m sharing the Ditka family has announced the passing of Mike Ditka this morning. Da Coach. Hall of Famer. The heartbeat of the ’85 Bears and a Super Bowl champion. Chicago won’t be the same. Prayers to Diana and the family. RIP, Coach.”

“Here’s a statement from the family: It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Mike Ditka. While the world knew Mike as a Hall of Fame football player, legendary coach, and leader of the Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX championship team, we knew him as the heart of our family. Mike will be missed beyond measure and remembered forever. With love and gratitude, The Ditka Family.”

It’s with a heavy heart that I’m sharing the Ditka family has announced the passing of Mike Ditka this morning.
Da Coach. Hall of Famer. The heartbeat of the ’85 Bears and a Super Bowl champion. Chicago won’t be the same.
Prayers to Diana and the family.
RIP, Coach.

Here’s a statement from the family:

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Mike Ditka. While the world knew Mike as a Hall of Fame football player, legendary coach, and leader of the Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX championship team, we knew him as the heart of our family. Mike will be missed beyond measure and remembered forever.
With love and gratitude, The Ditka Family

— Jarrett Payton (@paytonsun) October 9, 2026

Ditka became a cultural phenomenon, spawning his devoted crew on Saturday Night Live.

After the Bears fired him in 1993, Ditka made a cameo appearance on the SNL cold open with the Superfans. What a loss. https://t.co/zCjVs4waxB

— Rich Luchette (@richluchette) October 9, 2026

Ditka was also outspoken about his beliefs.

During the kneeling epidemic in the NFL, Ditka blasted the America-haters in the NFL.

“If you can’t respect this country get the hell out of it.”

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demanding a “full and independent investigation” of an ICE shooting in the Bronx, and she is blaming Target for letting federal agents use a parking lot, even as the Department of Homeland Security says the man who was shot is a criminal illegal immigrant with gang ties.

The shooting took place at approximately 4:20 p.m. Thursday.

Agents were trying to arrest 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, a Dominican national the NYPD identified and DHS described as tied to the Trinitarios gang. He was shot in his vehicle.

A 5-year-old boy, believed to be his son, was in the back seat and was not hurt.

Bronx: West 225th Street& Marble Hill Avenue, a man was shot and injured during a targeted @ICEgov enforcement operation earlier today, sparking chaos on the streets of the Bronx.

According to the @DHSgov, ICE agents were attempting to arrest a Dominican national around 4 p.m. Department of Homeland Security said the man has a prior grand larceny conviction, multiple arrests for assault, robbery, drug and weapons offenses, and alleged ties to the Trinitarios gang. @DHSgov also stated that he was arrested by the @NYPDnews in December 2023 but released days later. During the operation, an ICE agent discharged his firearm, injuring the man. Officers immediately provided medical assistance, and he was transported to a local hospital. The @FBI @NewYorkFBI and Homeland Security Investigations responded to the scene. The incident remains under investigation.

The federal agent-involved shooting has drawn agitators to the streets of the Bronx, where protests have escalated into chaotic scenes, unrest, and confrontations with police.

— NYC Scoop (@NY_Scoop) October 9, 2026

Belgal was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to survive.

DHS said Belgal has a conviction for grand larceny and prior arrests for assault, robbery, drug possession, and weapons possession.

Sources told the New York Post that agents were also looking at whether he is tied to the migrant moped crew that shot an off-duty Border Patrol agent at Fort Washington Park last year.

Naturally, AOC sided with the violent criminal in a statement posted to X.

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill https://t.co/eDXEv5Vxrr

— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) October 9, 2026

“ICE’s already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today’s shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers,” she said.

The congresswoman called first for “a full and independent investigation of this incident,” then for “a full and immediate release of all body camera footage.”

She also blamed Target rather than the criminal.

“In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering its Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials,” she said.

“Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.”

The Target store is about half a mile from where the shooting took place.

A representative for the retail giant told the New York Post, “Target has no cooperative agreements with ICE or any other immigration enforcement agency.”

Ocasio-Cortez concluded by calling ICE “a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency” that “does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani also sided with the criminal.

Mamdani said he tried to reach President Trump to demand an end to ICE enforcement in the city and that he tried to negotiate Belgal’s release.

“This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities,” Mamdani said.

About 300 protesters gathered outside the hospital, and many clashed with police.

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