Activists pushing to end abortion are fighting back hard after four of their members were arrested for publicly protesting abortion.

The arrests occurred on Aug. 15 near the Alamo in San Antonio, where the abortion abolitionists were holding signs in a public area, according to The Christian Post.

The signs and protests attracted the attention of several Texas Department of Public Safety officers who accused the group of protesting outside a “designated free speech zone.”

In one video uploaded to social media, a DPS officer could be seen threatening to arrest the group unless they “comply.”

BREAKINGPeople demonstrating at the Alamo to end abortion were ARRESTED for being outside the designated “FREE SPEECH ZONE”. Why does the Alamo have “free speech zones” when the Alamo is described as a historically public space?

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— Carlos Turcios (@Carlos__Turcios) August 16, 2026

“All right, you’ve got five minutes to comply to the rules,” the officer said. “If you choose not to, you’ll be asked to leave. If you don’t leave, you’ll be arrested for criminal trespass. Do you understand? I’ll take that as you understand. I’ll see you in five minutes, 9:52.”

Texas attorney CJ Grisham of Texas Gun Rights is representing the protesters.

“When we told them that we have a First Amendment right in a traditional public forum like a sidewalk, they ordered them to leave and gave them a trespass warning if they didn’t,” he told The Christian Post.

When the officer returned, four protesters were arrested for criminal trespass based on what Grisham termed “unconstitutional and unlawful orders.”

Grisham took issue with the orders because the officers were “enforcing rules propagated by the Alamo Trust, the private organization that manages the Alamo property on behalf of the state of Texas.”

“There was no ordinance,” he told the newspaper. “They were only enforcing rules.”

According to the San Antonio Express-News, the Alamo’s official site rules “limit demonstrations to a designated free speech zone.”

“The area is marked by a large star engraved with a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin: ‘Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech,’” the paper reported.

To the activists’ credit, they tried standing in the “freedom circle,” as it’s called, but they could barely fit inside it:

Grisham told The Christian Post that his “next step” is to “get the charges dismissed or fight them in court.” Either way, he intends to eventually sue.

“The big cities are run by anti-Christian leftists and the police do their bidding,” he said. “The police will do anything for a paycheck, including following these unconstitutional rules and enforcing them to the point of violence. It’s a sad state of affairs how far our law enforcement community has fallen from their oath.”

In the meantime, he sent a letter to Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham asking her to look into this matter.

This latest incident comes a month after a Fort Worth police officer threatened to arrest several evangelists during a public event, as The Christian Post reported. The threats infuriated the Trump administration, which fired back with a formal letter raising concerns about viewpoint discrimination.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is threatening to cut electricity supplies to the U.S. amid the ongoing trade war with President Donald Trump.

Ford said Monday that “everything is on the table” after Washington imposed 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods.

Ontario currently supplies enough electricity to power approximately 1.5 million American homes and businesses, particularly in neighboring states including Michigan, Minnesota and New York.

“We power 1.5 million homes and businesses,” Ford said. “Everything’s on the table. I’ll do whatever it takes.”

He also threatened to completely halt exports of critical minerals from Ontario.

“I’ll cut them off,” he said. “You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario.”

BREAKING: Canada threatens to cut off all electricity and critical minerals to the US, including high-grade nickel and uranium, if the Canada-US trade war worsens, per AP.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says “I’ll cut them off… You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario,” adding…

— The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) August 24, 2026

Among the resources flowing south are high-grade nickel and uranium refined in Ontario, materials with significant importance to American manufacturing, energy production and national security.

“What would they do without the high-grade nickel that we ship down to the U.S.?” Ford asked.

Ford suggested Canada could eventually go even further by using its enormous supplies of oil and potash as leverage against Washington.

The threats come after trade negotiations between the two countries collapsed Friday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from negotiations after deciding that Trump’s demands were unacceptable.

President Trump tried in recent days to use an untested legal power to force Canada to swallow trade concessions. Instead, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney quit the negotiations.

50 percent U.S. tariffs took effect early Saturday on an array of Canadian products. Carney said… pic.twitter.com/5OzMcMwMGb

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 24, 2026

The U.S. has since imposed its new 50 percent tariffs, while Canada announced retaliatory tariffs scheduled to begin September 8.

Trump responded to Ford’s threats on Monday with a blistering attack on both the Ontario premier and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“Lots of ‘bluster’ from Doug Ford, who is the Premier of the Canadian Province of Ontario, but who is better known as the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford,” Trump wrote.

“America has been carrying Canada for decades, but no longer! The U.S.A. will always be far bigger, richer, and stronger than Canada.”

Trump: “Lots of ‘bluster’ from Doug Ford, who is the Premier of the Canadian Province of Ontario, but who is better known as the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford. America has been carrying Canada for decades, but no… pic.twitter.com/KLWZ5Dybf3

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 24, 2026

It is not the first time that Ford has made such threats.

Last year, he vowed to make Americans feel “pain like they have never felt before” over a separate trade dispute and has suggested targeting red states that voted for Trump.

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The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

Earlier this month, US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, expanded her previous block on President Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting.

The Boston-based Judge previously blocked President Trump’s March 2025 executive order, specifically his attempt to create a federal voter list.

In March 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14248: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.

“Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic. The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,” the executive order said.

“Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error. Yet the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote,” the executive order said.

“Several Federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. 1015 and 611, prohibit foreign nationals from registering to vote or voting in Federal elections,” Trump said.

Judge Talwani previously said, “The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.”

On August 11, Judge Talwani blocked the US Postal Service from implementing Trump’s executive order that would make mail-in ballots more secure.

On Monday, the high court paused Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling that blocked key parts of President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots.

The three liberal justices, Kagan, Jackson and Sotomayor, dissented.

CNBC reported:

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with President Donald Trump for now in his effort to impose sweeping new restrictions on distributing mail ballots, putting on hold a lower-court ruling that had blocked key parts of the plan ahead of November’s midterm elections.

The justices, over three dissents, paused a ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston that prevented the Trump administration from carrying out portions of a March executive order involving the U.S. Postal Service and voter eligibility lists.

The decision is an interim victory for Trump and does not resolve the underlying legality of his order.

And it does not immediately clear the way for the new mail-ballot system to take effect. A separate injunction Talwani issued on Aug. 11 still bars the Postal Service from implementing the procedural changes for the Nov. 3 elections. The administration would need to overcome that order as well.

This is a breaking story…please check back for updates.

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San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested in a trailer park prostitution bust over the weekend.

York, 46, was arrested in East Palestine, Ohio, and charged with engaging in prostitution.

According to reports, York used an online prostitution site to “arrange sexual activity with a female in exchange for $140.”

The charge was later amended to disorderly conduct.

York is married and has two sons.

The New York Post reported:

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested on suspicion of engaging in prostitution in Ohio over the weekend, the California Post confirmed.

York pleaded no contest on Monday after the state of Ohio amended the one count of engaging in prostitution to a disorderly conduct charge.

Court documents obtained by the California Post on Monday state York responded to an ad on a known prostitution website and “arranged to have sexual activity with the female in exchange for $140.”

The 46-year-old from Youngstown, Ohio was arrested in a trailer park on Sunday in East Palestine, 30 minutes south of Yorktown, and booked into Columbiana County Jail.

He was also convicted of “possessing criminal tools”, with a court filing also showing that York’s attorney stated he completed an online course.

York and his wife Danielle Belluomini have two sons, Jaxon and Brixton.

A judge sentenced York to one day in jail per each count, which will be served concurrently.

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BND wants hackers capable of waging cyberwar on Russia.

The newly beefed-up German foreign intelligence service is trying to get a leg up on its Russian foes by tapping a younger, radically different class of agents: gamers.

The BND has launched a recruitment drive for game enthusiasts, eying a ‘new generation of tech-savvy secret agents.’

Germany wants to turn gamers into spies — The Telegraph

Germany’s BND agency is heading to Gamescom to scout tech-savvy gamers with the skills to help fight Russian hackers

Recruits will face a 5-step cyber challenge with BND even having its own game about stealth & hacking pic.twitter.com/goQEOm8srf

— RTVisual (@RT_Visual_on_X) August 24, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“The Telegraph understands that agents from the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German equivalent of Britain’s MI6, will attend the world’s largest video game festival to recruit young spies.

BND officials said there was a ‘significant overlap’ between the skills possessed by gaming fans and those the agency needs to retaliate against Russian hackers targeting critical infrastructure in Germany.”

Read: German Spies Will Get Much More Dangerous as Merz Draws Up New Law Allowing Intelligence Services to Attack and Sabotage “Enemies of the State’

This is not the first time the BND has tackled gamers, because the exact same drive was enacted last year.

“The recruiting operation, at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, is part of a historic rearmament drive in Germany that seeks to turn the once-toothless BND into a rival of MI6 and Mossad.

An intelligence source said gamers at the festival who fit the BND’s profile would be invited to take a five-step challenge that tests their aptitude for cyber-security and hacking.”

The Gamescom will be held in Cologne, and the exhibition will take place August 26-30.

Read more:

A WORLD OF SPOOKS: Germany Approves New Sweeping Powers for Intelligence Services, Leading to Fears of Mass Surveillance

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