A brush fire erupted in the Malibu area Thursday afternoon as powerful Santa Ana winds and dangerously dry conditions gripped Southern California, prompting officials to issue an evacuation orders and warnings.
The blaze, dubbed the Bryson Fire, was reported in the 400 block of Encinal Canyon Road, near Mulholland Highway, north of Malibu, according to officials with the L.A. County Fire Department.
The fire, burning through medium brush and moving south, had burned approximately 2 acres before spreading to 5 acres by 5:15 p.m. before exploding to 45 acres, according to Watch Duty.
Multiple firefighting helicopters joined the fight, as well as fixed-wing airplanes as the flames continued to be kicked up by high winds. Fire officials were working to get ground crews in place for the firefight and possible structure protection.
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(VIDEO) White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Addresses Claims She Lied About Being a Lawyer
October 15, 2026
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia
White House Katie Zacharia opened up on Thursday about a recent controversy surrounding her resumé as the media tries to spin it into a scandal, claiming she lied about being an “attorney.”
We have not found evidence that Zacharia has ever presented herself as a practicing attorney.
Still, immediately after her first press briefing on Tuesday, the knives were out, with the left-wing media smearing her for her performance and questioning whether she is indeed a lawyer.
CNN quickly published a story with the headline, “Katie Zacharia presented herself as a lawyer. She’s not.”
CNN and other left-wing outlets have been losing it ever since, claiming she lied about being a lawyer.
However, the term lawyer is often used as a broad term for someone who earned their Juris Doctor (JD) degree, while an attorney is a lawyer who has passed the bar exam and is licensed to practice. In simple terms, a lawyer is someone who has studied law and earned a degree, and an attorney is licensed to practice law. It’s a square-versus-rectangle debate that the media is sensationalizing.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Zacharia sat for the bar exam in 2011, all while planning a wedding and planning a move to China with her soon-to-be husband, but did not pass.
CNN reports that “Zacharia said in a statement she had ‘practiced international transactional law, with all the appropriate credentials.’ She told the New York Times that she consulted with Pepperdine’s president about how to identify herself, and that she was told not to use ‘attorney’ or ‘esquire,’ but that ‘lawyer’ was OK.”
Likewise, she told Real America’s Voice’s Jack Posobiec during an interview on Thursday, “I consulted, for a very long time, many people in the field: Is it okay and acceptable if I label myself lawyer, not attorney at law, not Katie Zachariah Esquire, but lawyer, and provide legal analysis, not legal advice?”
“And they said absolutely across the board. You can call yourself a lawyer. You have a JD, and to buffer that, you have international legal experience in transactional law, which gives you the ability to analyze it, not necessarily give advice, and so that’s where a lot of this discussion has come from,” she continued.
“It’s unfortunate that people dub this as some kind of conspiracy or want to put me in a camp. The truth is, I was very careful how I executed this, and I never came across as someone who was an attorney at law.”
Asked whether she would weigh in on legal matters in the White House or provide legal consultation to President Trump, Zacharia responded, “No, no. For the press secretary, my job is to amplify and communicate his message and to interact with the press and build relationships and strengthen relationships and communicate clearly the message of the administration, and I only intend to do that.”
“I’m not being hired as White House counsel, and that’s the long and the short of that.”
RJ Mitte faced an impossible choice in the days leading up to his death … multiple sources close to his family tell us his frustrated fiancée gave him an ultimatum — choose between her and his mom.
Our sources tell TMZ … there was mounting tension between RJ and his fiancée Kennedy Suarez, who felt RJ’s mom was meddling in their relationship.
According to our sources … Kennedy and RJ’s mom, Dyna, did not get along … and Kennedy wanted RJ to favor her, or else.
RJ had an extremely close relationship with Dyna and his sister, Lacianne… and wasn’t willing to cut his mom off … and that caused serious friction in his relationship with Kennedy.
RJ and Kennedy were friends for 10 years before they began dating in 2020. They got engaged October 10, 2025, almost a year to the day before he took his life.
We’re told RJ and Kennedy were still together a week before he died. It’s unclear if they broke up in the days before RJ’s death.
WOW! MTG the Alien Is Furious that Toxic Fraud Ilhan Omar May Be Deported — Then This Clip Surfaced from 2024
October 15, 2026
Marjorie Taylor Greene spouting off against radical socialist likely criminal Ilhan Omar back in 2024. -screengrab
Former Trump supporter and MAGA fraud Marjorie Taylor Greene is still spouting off her hateful anti-Trump rhetoric for some reason.
Maybe she needs more money?
The former representative hit a new low today defending toxic liar and criminal alien, Ilhan Omar.
MTG posted this on Thursday at one of her Trump-trashing X accounts.
Me and Ilhan Omar are far apart policy wise. I’m pro life, she’s pro abortion. I’m pro 2A, she’s pro gun control. And on and on.
But can someone tell me how pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar is going to bring gas down under $2, make health insurance freaking affordable, make a family’s weekly grocery bill make sense, and stop sending our beloved military off to fight for another fucking foreign war???
People are so sick and tired of the bullshit. When you dumb mf’ers at the WH actually release the Epstein files and lock up the pedophiles and rapists you all hang out with, then we will start paying attention. Until then (f*ck off).
Nice mouth you got there.
It didn’t take long for X users to post MTG’s comments on Ilhan just two years ago!
Bad Hombre reported on a video of MTG way back in 2024, “It it were up to me, we would deport Ilhan Omar out of the United States.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is currently on her 9th vacation this year at a resort in Cannon Beach, Oregon, is furious about the idea of denaturalizing and deporting Ilhan Omar.
Here is Marge in 2024: “If it were up to me, we would deport Ilhan Omar out of the United States.” https://t.co/xI52hBfqPe
(VIDEO) CNN’s Jake Tapper Admits Ilhan Omar Should Have Turned Herself in to Biden DOJ, Legal Analyst Says Biden-Era Investigation “Undermines” Claims of Political Motivation
October 15, 2026
Rep. Ilhan Omar
CNN’s Jake Tapper and a CNN legal analyst threw cold water on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) claims that the Trump DOJ is being weaponized against her, with Tapper admitting that she should have turned herself in when the investigation started under Biden.
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig also justified the ongoing investigation by citing a range of potential crimes she committed, while admitting that arguments of a politically motivated prosecution are likely to fail.
“Most federal crimes in the immigration area will have a maximum of a five-year statute of limitations,” said Honig before outlining possible exceptions to the statute of limitations for immigration-related charges.
“We’re obviously well beyond that from 2000, so there could be a couple possibilities: One, some offenses say that if a person gets into the country or gets status by making false statements and then remains in the country, that will extend — the person remaining in the country will extend the statute of limitations,” he said.
“Two, it could be that more recent paperwork was submitted, perhaps a reapplication or renewal; it could be somebody relating to Representative Omar, somebody around her.”
And then three, if prosecutors have evidence that within the last five years there’s been some evidence of obstruction, some effort to get stories straight, to destroy documents, to persuade potential witnesses to say a certain thing, then those obstruction charges, if they happened within the last five years, would also be within the statute of limitations,” he continued.
Tapper then suggested that Omar should have turned herself in long ago, when the Biden Administration opened an investigation into her, in order to receive a slap on the wrist.
“If this is true, would it not have been wiser for the congresswoman to have gone to the Biden Justice Department and said, ‘this has happened, and there was a mistake, and I’d like to come clean and pay whatever fine,’ and then that way this is, you know, not left up to the Trump Justice Department? Is that, I mean, has that occurred to you?” he asked Honig.
That’s when Honig said a damning fact for Omar: While she “might have fared better under the Biden administration,” the fact that the investigation started under Biden destroys her argument that the investigation is politically motivated.
“It’s an important point of all this: There was some investigation… that was started under the Biden administration, reopened under the Trump administration,” Honig said.
“So, I think that’s going to undermine any argument she may have down the line that this is politically selective and vindictive,” he added, arguing that Trump has still “given her plenty of ammo to argue that she’s being singled out.”
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Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the investigation is not just focused on Omar’s immigration and whether she lied to obtain citizenship, according to US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
Pirro said in an interview this week that there are “several investigations going on,” suggesting that the civil or criminal immigration issues and other financial crimes may be involved, including Omar’s financial disclosures and $30 million net worth. Trump also simultaneously signaled that the probe is centered on Omar’s “money that was stolen from her fraudulent activities in Minnesota.”
And on Wednesday, we learned that the Feds seized Ilhan Omar’s phone when they raided her DC residence earlier this week and that members of Omar’s family have been subpoenaed.
The Final Humiliation: Biden Presidential Library May Never Exist – No Site, Accounts Virtually Empty, Donors Won’t Give, and Worse
October 15, 2026
If you were eagerly waiting for the opportunity to purchase tickets for the Joseph R. Biden Presidential Library, you might want to pump the brakes.
The former president, largely remembered for his rapidly declining physical and cognitive health, accompanied by his incoherent rambling and nonsensical policy goals, risks being forgotten as plans for a library look increasingly bleak.
The U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Wednesday that the Joe and Jill Biden Presidential Library Foundation, according to tax documents from 2024, has just $4 million in funds. That’s all money left over from the former president’s failed campaign that year. It hopes to raise $11.3 million, but the total still seems modest for a presidential library.
In comparison, the Chicago Sun-Times reported the Barack Obama Presidential Center had a price tag of $1 billion.
Similarly, the Washington Examiner puts the estimate for a Donald Trump Presidential Library at $1 billion.
The lack of funds speaks to the sentiment amongst Democratic donors, who aren’t too enthusiastic about the idea.
“No real library will ever be built,” one said. “Sadly, for him, that ship has sailed.”
“I can’t speak for other donors, only myself, but I will not be contributing to it,” donor John Morgan concluded. “While I still have deep respect for the man I once knew, his legacy was tarnished by the decisions of those closest to him.”
The former president himself expressed hopes of his home state of Delaware being the site of a library, with the Daily Mail naming the city of Wilmington as a candidate.
While a riverfront location was an option, another could be the University of Delaware, but nothing is certain, as Biden’s representatives did not respond to the outlet’s request for a specific site.
The former 46th president’s records are currently being kept at the National Archives in Maryland, and more records from his days in the Senate are housed at the university.
What makes the situation worse comes from how funding could be secured.
Despite the Daily Mail noting federal funds cannot go toward the project under the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955, state funds are still allowed.
Indeed, Delaware taxpayers would be the ones helping make this a reality. One plan indicated $48 to $60 million in construction funding available, but the office of the Mayor of Wilmington did not respond to a request for clarification as to whether that figure indicates the money is available for the project.
Scripture tells us that in the end there is justice, and for one of the worst presidents in history, it’s finding him now.
The sham is over.
Even Democrat donors do not care anymore about a man they once pretended was capable of running the country.
Why would they build a monument to someone who spent four years humiliating their party with his incompetent leadership?
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