Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked Dzangola Kilba, a farming village in Gombi Local Government Area (LGA) of Adamawa State, at about 9 p.m. on Thursday, October 15. The attack continued until 5 a.m. the following morning. The attackers locked David Barnabas, an evangelist with the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN), inside his house and set it on fire, according to an eyewitness cited by TruthNigeria. Local residents posting on Facebook put the death toll at 30, but police and government officials have not confirmed that figure.

This was at least the third attack on Dzangola Kilba in recent months. On Sunday, September 6, suspected Boko Haram insurgents killed at least 12 people, injured two, burned a church, and looted three shops, Gombi LGA Chairman Mark Ishaya told The Sun. The newspaper described that raid as the second attack on the community within a couple of months. Reports of the September death toll varied: Adamawa State Assembly Speaker Bathliya Wesley put it at 11, while TruthNigeria later reported 13 people killed and homes burned.

The village is predominantly Christian. During the October raid, the attackers stole food, domestic animals, and cooking utensils and took them to a stronghold a few miles away. TruthNigeria had warned of attacks in the area on October 15, hours before the raid began.

More than 4,000 residents of Gunyaku, Tela-Bala, Sabon-Gari, and Nzangula have been displaced and are sleeping in Yola and Gombi town. Shehu Inuwa, who fled with six family members, said, “Fulani people grazed on my farm, I have nothing left to feed my displaced family.”

Inuwa said about 50 soldiers and forest guards had been deployed after the September killings but left at nightfall on Friday, October 9. “We watched their trucks go,” he said.

No statement on the October 15–16 attack could be found from the Adamawa State Police Command, the state government, or the military’s Operation Hadin Kai.

At about 11:20 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, insurgents on foot attacked Tela-Bala and Guyaku, also in Gombi LGA, Daily Trust reported. Rufa’i Umar Gombi, who represents Gombi Constituency, said he had received reports that four soldiers and one forest guard were killed, but noted that the figures had not been officially confirmed.

The attackers tried to advance on Gombi town early Sunday but were repelled by reinforced troops. At a checkpoint in Guyaku, they tried to seize a military armored personnel carrier. After failing to burn it, they fired at it at close range. Operation Hadin Kai did not comment, and Ishaya responded to a text message with one word: “Later.”

In Benue State, kidnappers abducted Rev. Fr. John Inalegwu Otache on Tuesday, October 13, along the Otobi Amejo–Ajegbe Road in Ohimini LGA. Otache, the parish priest of St. Margaret’s Parish, Ajegbe-Awume, in the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, was returning home from Otukpo.

Benue State Police Command spokesperson Aondongu Peter confirmed the kidnapping and said police were making “frantic efforts to rescue the priest.” Otache is the second priest from St. Margaret’s Parish to be kidnapped.

At about 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 18, police and local vigilantes rescued Otache and three other people who had been abducted along the same route. All four were taken to a hospital. No ransom payment or arrests were reported.

In Plateau State, gunmen killed four vigilantes on duty in Shurum village, Dorowa Babuje District, Barkin Ladi LGA, at about 11:56 p.m. on October 16, Premium Times reported. “They were watching over our community when the gunmen struck and killed them,” said resident Bulus Bature.

Rwang Tengwong Gyang, national publicity secretary of the Berom Youth Moulders Association, confirmed the deaths and called on security agencies to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators.

The association also reported that two men in their mid-20s, Goodluck Bulus and Emmanuel Monday, were killed that day at a mining site in Burdinga, Gashish District, also in Barkin Ladi LGA, according to Sahara Reporters. It blamed both attacks on “Radical Islamic Fulani Militias.” Police could not be reached for comment.

The October 17 attack struck two communities already hit earlier this year. In February, attacks on Guyaku and Tela-Bala killed 29 people, and ISWAP claimed responsibility, according to TruthNigeria. Residents told Daily Trust that the communities lie close to the Sambisa Forest in neighboring Borno State. The U.S. State Department designated Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organization on November 14, 2013, and ISIS-West Africa on February 28, 2018.

Barnabas served the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN), which its president, Rev. Daniel Mbaya, has described as the Nigerian church hardest hit by the insurgency. Speaking at EYN’s General Church Council in late March, Mbaya said, “Over 700,000 members are displaced, and about 25,000 are currently taking refuge in the Cameroon and Chad Republics,” TruthNigeria reported. Church leaders said about 300 of EYN’s 586 churches have been destroyed by fire.

Mbafe Manasseh, secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria’s Hong chapter, said, “Eight Christian communities have already been completely displaced,” adding, “Our communities that are being erased are 100 percent Christian.”

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LinkedIn co-founder and Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman, the same billionaire who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, stayed at his Manhattan townhouse, and once sent the convicted pedophile ice cream “for the girls,” just poured $500,000 into a super PAC backing Kentucky Democrat Zach Dembo.

The cash went to Kentuckians Not Corruption on September 24, according to WEKU’s October 16 investigation into Federal Election Commission records.

The group is running heavy television ads supporting Dembo and attacking his Republican opponent, former state Sen. Ralph Alvarado, in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District.

Advertising records show the PAC’s weekly TV buys on Lexington’s WLEX-TV exploded after the money arrived, jumping from roughly $14,650 in mid-September to nearly $110,000 the week of October 6. By mid-October the group had already spent about $1.6 million on the race.

“This is really, it’s dirty Epstein class money fueling Zach Dembo’s campaign. It’s offensive,” Alvaro told Fox News.

He added that Hoffman “was one of his best friends,” citing the island visits, townhouse stays, and the infamous Christmas Eve ice cream shipment with the note that it was “either for yourself or for the girls.”

The Gateway Pundit has previously reported extensively on Hoffman’s deep and longstanding ties to Epstein. In February, we covered Elon Musk publicly confronting Hoffman over the “ice cream for the girls” remark and the volume of their communications.

Earlier reporting detailed Hoffman’s island visit, his role in helping rehabilitate Epstein’s reputation through MIT fundraising, and his continued contacts years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction.

Hoffman has repeatedly claimed the relationship was limited and strictly for fundraising purposes, claims that keep collapsing under the weight of the documents.

Dembo, a former federal prosecutor and Navy JAG officer who worked as an aide to Gov. Andy Beshear, has built his entire campaign around fighting “corruption” and the influence of “big business and the ultra-wealthy.”

His website declares that the ultra-wealthy “shouldn’t be able to buy influence in Washington” and calls for getting rid of dark money. He has attacked tax breaks for “billionaires and coastal elites” and promised to fight for working families instead of the donor class.

Yet when the biggest single check to the super PAC boosting him came from one of the most notorious Epstein-linked billionaires in Democratic politics, Dembo’s campaign has stayed silent. Fox News said it repeatedly sought comment and received none.

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Gov. Kotek Praised “Everytown Data” Before the Bend, Oregon, Mass Shooting; CNN Cited Its Data Day of Killings

Republished with permission from AbleChild.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek had a confident message when she celebrated the Community Safety Firearms Act in November 2025: “You all know that the data backs us up.” She also thanked Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for their “fierce advocacy.”

Nearly eleven months later, with the Democratic governor campaigning for reelection, three children and a teacher were killed at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend. CNN placed the attack within a national school-shooting tally, drawing on Everytown, Education Week and the Gun Violence Archive the day of the killings.

The connection raises an accountability question: When an advocacy organization statistics help frame legislative messaging and news coverage, is the public receiving an explanation of violence or a numerical backdrop for a gun-control argument?

Counting shootings is not the same as identifying what would prevent them.

At the October 16 news conference, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said he would name the attacker only once!  Early coverage nevertheless carried conflicting versions of the name before subsequent reports identified him as Griffin J. John II, 16, a former Silver Rail student.

An inaccurate identification creates an obstacle for journalists researching an attacker’s history. Limiting repetition makes a clear written identification more important, not less.

Another significant disclosure came from Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Steven Cook: the attacker had previously been a special-education student at Silver Rail. Officials also confirmed that the shooting occurred in a special-education classroom.

A 2025 education-journal article cites research finding that students in special education were four times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medication than students in general education.

That supports not only asking about medication history but also systematically recording verified exposure, treatment changes and toxicology findings to help established motives. FDA antidepressant warnings identify an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in some young people, and medication guides flag new aggression or violent behavior as symptoms requiring immediate attention. These warnings warrant investigation and accurate data collection.

The chief should have explained whether investigators were obtaining and preserving relevant mental-health and prescription records, including any documented medication changes, and examining them alongside the physical evidence.

Krantz acknowledged the uncertainty surrounding the attack: “Everyone wants to know why, including us.… We may never get that full answer, but we want it.” Investigators continued examining motive and how the teenager obtained the weapon.

Krantz sounded defeated when the investigation had barely begun. He limited the naming of the attacker while basic identification became confused, and he left unanswered whether investigators were obtaining mental-health records, prescription histories and toxicology evidence. Before the public even knew what investigators had examined, the chief was already warning that the motive might never be understood. That was a staggering admission at a briefing that should have laid out how police intended to find answers.

News organizations reported that the shotgun used in the attack had been purchased by the teenager’s mother. NBC News, citing two senior law-enforcement officials, reported that she bought it around his birthday in August.

Reporters approached his mother, identified as Shauntai May Nickerson, at her apartment on Friday. She expressed sorrow and declined to explain how her son obtained the weapon. Police said they were still investigating his access to it.

CNN described Nickerson as a health aide at a local nursing home. A LinkedIn profile bearing her name lists her as a “Med Aide” at Touchmark Living Centers, Inc., in Bend, Oregon. The employment information is self-reported on the profile.

Police should have addressed the leaked information about the mother’s reported shotgun purchase at the briefing by confirming what investigators knew and correcting anything inaccurate.  The misleading data on mass murders pushed on the day of the killings doesn’t help stop or prevent violence.

CNN’s tally measured shootings on school grounds, including parking lots, buses and accidental discharges that injured someone other than the shooter not just classroom massacres and mass killings.  It is way to broad and completely lack mental health drugs.

Presented beside the Bend attack, that broad count pushes a guns-only explanation without examining psychiatric-drug exposure or treatment changes, variables Everytown’s public dataset does not systematically record. The tally counts gunfire; it cannot establish what caused it.

Everytown began tracking school gunfire in 2013, before Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action combined under the Everytown banner in 2014, with Michael Bloomberg’s financial backing. Its database sits within an advocacy network that promotes gun restrictions and participates in political campaigns. It is not an independent government statistics agency.

In 2024, its charitable Support Fund, which maintains the database, reported $37.35 million in revenue, including $35.80 million in contributions. Its separate Action Fund reported $57.12 million. Those figures fund the organizations broadly; they do not establish the database’s cost or identify its specific donors.

CNN’s audience deserves to know that its statistical source belongs to a well-funded political advocacy network. Using a massacre to amplify Everytown’s statistics without explaining the limits of its data is unethical and risks obstructing prevention by directing attention away from factors the database does not examine.

“Today, we’re not just signing a bill. We’re saving lives,” Governor Kotek declared. But a shooting tally cannot substantiate that promise. Presenting incomplete incident data as proof of causes or solutions is misleading and risks leaving preventable dangers unexamined while the death toll continues. Cover Story Photo Credit.

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Florida is coming after communist Cuban dictator Raúl Castro, and this time, the 95-year-old brother of Fidel Castro is facing a state arrest warrant in connection with the deaths of four men nearly three decades ago.

A Miami-Dade County judge has issued a NO-BOND arrest warrant for Castro on a state charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, stemming from the February 24, 1996, shootdown of two unarmed civilian aircraft operated by the Miami-based humanitarian organization Brothers to the Rescue.

The warrant was signed Friday, October 16, following an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. It comes as Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier intensifies efforts to hold the former Cuban leader accountable for the deadly attack.

According to the arrest warrant obtained by Fox News Digital, a judge found probable cause to believe Castro participated in a conspiracy that led to the killing of four men aboard the civilian aircraft.

The victims were:

• Carlos Costa

• Pablo Morales

• Mario de la Peña

• Armando Alejandre Jr.

The four men were killed when Cuban fighter jets shot down two Brothers to the Rescue aircraft over international waters during a humanitarian mission.

For their families and Miami’s Cuban exile community, the tragedy has remained an open wound for 30 years.

Now, Florida is pursuing another avenue for justice.

The state warrant is particularly significant because it represents a separate criminal proceeding from the federal indictment already brought against Castro earlier this year.

Unlike the federal case, this prosecution is being pursued under Florida law.

And the warrant comes with NO BOND.

According to local reporting, Florida authorities also intend to seek Castro’s extradition if he is arrested outside the state.

According to the Miami Herald’s reporting, investigators allege that Cuban intelligence operatives working inside Florida infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue and transmitted sensitive information about its operations to Havana.

The affidavit alleges that the operatives monitored Naval Air Station Key West and supplied flight information to Cuban authorities.

Investigators also allege that members of the Cuban spy network were instructed not to board Brothers to the Rescue flights during a period surrounding the attack.

On February 24, 1996, Cuban military jets shot down the two civilian aircraft.

Three American citizens and one lawful permanent resident were killed.

U.S. investigators contend that the operation involved a coordinated conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of Cuba’s communist government.

Castro, who served as head of Cuba’s armed forces at the time, is now accused of participating in that conspiracy.

The Castro government maintained that the aircraft violated Cuban airspace. However, the United States and a United Nations investigation concluded that the planes were shot down over international waters.

WATCH:

BREAKING: An ARREST WARRANT has just been issued against communist former Cuban leader RAUL CASTRO, 95-year-old brother of Fidel Castro

This is STATE CHARGE, conspiracy to commit first degree M*RDER

FLORIDA FAFO!

A FL judge found probable cause to believe he committed the crime in connection for the downing of a plane

Four men from Miami were killed: Carlos Costa, Pablo Morales, Mario de la Peña and Armando Alejandre Jr.

They were flying humanitarian missions to search for Cuban rafters lost at sea

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 19, 2026

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Fulton Board Doxes Challenger Instead of Fixing Bad Voter Roll

The following is from VoterGA

A recent Georgia State Election Board (SEB) meeting revealed that the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections (BRE) doxed citizens who submitted challenges to invalid voter registrations. Jason Frazier, a county resident, originally requested Fulton County to make simple address corrections to invalid registrations. Instead, the county forced him to challenge the registrations and forced challengers to appear at a hearing after sending them letters stating in bold:

“Your right to vote has been challenged by Jason Frazier registered at [address] Roswell Ga. 30075.”

Frazier challenged invalid registrations for reasons such as deceased voter, invalid address, or registration at a P.O. Box, which is legal only for a mailing address. He also provided two letters showing the county sent P.O Box registrants challenge hearing notices addressed to “elector” without the P.O. Box number. That made it impossible to route the notice to the voter. SEB Vice Chair, Janelle King, while visibly upset by Frazier’s testimony, stated: “This is doxing. I mean, giving someone’s name and address of the person who challenged while leaving off who’s being challenged is doxing. You can’t tell me it’s not.”

As a result of the doxing, Frazier was victimized by hundreds of nasty social media comments and over a dozen distorted news stories even though his challenges were correct and the county failed to do its job of removing invalid registrations from the voter rolls. At other times, affected individuals thanked him for his help removing invalid registrations or fixing their registrations, because they could not get comparable help from the county. The doxing led to Frazier’s own registration being challenged in retaliation on grounds he lived at a commercial address. Despite having the capability to quickly verify that he lives in a house, Fulton County set up an unnecessary challenge hearing against Frazier.

Although a Senate sponsored anti-doxing law failed to pass the House last year, Fulton’s actions appear to violate Georgia’s current reckless endangerment law prohibiting any act that: “endangers the bodily safety of another person by consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk…” O.C.G.A. § 16-5-60  Mr. Frazier also contends that the county’s unnecessary retaliatory challenge hearing further violates 1965 federal Voting Rights Act laws that prohibit any “…attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting…” 52 USC 10307(b) as well as 1993 voter intimidation laws that can fine or imprison: “A person, including an election official, who in any election for Federal office… knowingly and willfully … attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for ..voting” 52 USC 20511(1)(A).

Registration manager Kathryn Glenn admitted at the SEB hearing that someone in her office sent the letters that were mailed during the tenure of previous manager Shamira Marshall who now works for the Secretary of State. Fulton Attorney Karen Pachuta would not let Glenn explain why the notices were sent in such an inappropriate manner. Vice Chair King, stated she would open a complaint to find out.

(Note that the raid on Fulton County by the FBI earlier this year was reported but the results from that investigation have not been reported to date.)

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By Wayne Allyn Root

I hear people grumbling that they’re staying home for the midterms because they’re disappointed in President Trump, and/or the GOP Congress.

I hear others saying they will vote Democrat as a protest vote against high gas prices.

Can I be blunt? 

You are either fools, idiots, brainwashed, gaslighted, or dumb as a fu***king doorknob.

No, Trump isn’t perfect, but what’s that famous saying? “Never let the perfect get in the way of the good.” And let me tell you…

Trump is DAMN good!

Trump is the best we’ve ever had…and I promise you, the best we’ll ever again get. He fights every day to make America great again. And who is he up against?

The whole damn world…

The Deep State, DC Swamp, CIA, globalists, communists, the entire Democrat Party, every Democrat in Congress, the establishment of both parties, a ton of RINOS in the House and Senate, almost every judge in America, the entire federal government, government employee unions, and 22 million government employees, the Federal Reserve, the entire mainstream media, the entire social media, the entire education system (the teachers unions, public school teachers and college professors), Hollywood, Madison Ave., the United Nations, World Health Organization, and throw in the governments and spy agencies of every other country in the world- with the exception of Israel and Argentina.

Trump fights all of them every day, 24 hours a day, and still look at what he has delivered…

Trump gave you the largest tax cuts in history.

Trump gave you $43 billion in larger tax refunds this year- the largest increase in history.

He gave you no tax on tips- if you work in the service industry.

He gave you no tax on OT- if you’re a blue-collar worker.

He gave you no tax on Social Security- if you’re a senior.

He gave you $1000 tax refunds- if you’re on Obamacare.

He gave you $90 Medicare refund checks- mine just arrived in the mail a few days ago.

He gave every child born in America in the past year a savings account courtesy of the government.

He cut everyone’s prescription drug costs dramatically.

And now he’s promising (if the GOP House and Senate are re-elected) a $5000 per person bonus, which adds up to a $10,000 bonus if you’re a couple!!

And you’re not happy? You want to stay home and let Democrats win?

But wait, I’m just getting started…

Trump secured the border like never before in history.

Trump not only deported, or forced self-deportation of three million illegal aliens, but most importantly, he kicked hundreds of thousands of serious, violent, illegal alien felons out of the country. That might save the life of your child or spouse one day!

As a result of that, Trump reduced violent crime and murder to the lowest levels in 100 years.

You’re not happy about that?

Trump literally ended DEI at every company in America- which means now you get hired based on your talent, not the color of your skin.

You’re not happy about that?

Now here comes a controversial one- Trump fought a war to prevent Iran (the world’s worst terrorist sponsor) from getting nukes- and whether you approve, or not, years from now we may all look back in history and see that Trump prevented World War 3, or the world being held hostage by Iran, or nuclear Armageddon, and saved tens of millions of lives lost- and all you sacrificed was a temporary rise in gas prices.

And even if you hate the Iran war- Trump never put boots on the ground, and in a 9-month war, we’ve lost 21 American soldiers- more Americans are shot and killed every weekend in one city run by Democrats- Chicago.

Are you outraged over all the deaths from the war being fought on the streets of Democrat-controlled Chicago?

And as far as the economy…

Yes, there is inflation. Yes, prices are high. Yes, I know millions of working-class and middle-class Americans are hurting because of high prices for gas, groceries, health insurance, and energy bills.

But 90% of those high prices were caused by Joe Biden and dumb, destructive, suicidal Democrat policies…

*Like climate change idiocy…

*Green New Deal lunacy…

*Open borders insanity…

*Hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars spent on illegal aliens…

*And trillions of your taxpayer dollars stolen by Democrats and their Somali pals with fake charities, fake NGOs, fake learning centers (with no students), fake hospices (with no patients), and $2 billion to Stacey Abrams’ company with zero sales and $100 in the bank.

But separate from all that, let’s take a deep dive into the Trump economy…

History proves it’s possible to have raging inflation and high prices, at the same time as a booming economy. Guess what?

We have it right now!

Stocks are at all-time highs.

US corporate profits- the highest in history.

GDP- estimated by the Fed at a rip-roaring, booming 5% in the 3^rd Quarter.

Manufacturing- US industrial production is growing at the fastest pace in years.

Jobs Claims are the lowest in 57 years.

Blue-collar jobs are booming.

US poverty rate- the lowest in modern history.

US household incomes- the highest in modern history.

Even with high prices- American paychecks are beating inflation under Trump.

The US is now the world’s top exporter and producer of oil and gas.

If you add all of that together and you still believe the Trump economy is bad…

You’ve been gaslighted and brainwashed like never before in history. 

But hey, forget about all of the good economic news above.

Forget about all of the remarkable achievements of President Trump listed above.

Forget about the $10,000 per couple bonus you’ll get if the GOP wins.

Forget that the radical, extreme Democrat candidates stand for communism, Sharia Law, face coverings for women, forced vaccines, allowing boys to play girls’ sports, and encouraging your son to change into a girl.

All you need to know is…

If you re-elect a GOP House and Senate, we will deport Ilhan Omar back to Somalia.

That, my friends, is like hitting the lottery!

It’s worth voting GOP just to watch Ilhan Omar boarding the US government plane in handcuffs and leg irons, while President Trump waves goodbye from the runway.

That, my friends, is what I call “the American Dream.”

So…

I don’t mean to be rude, but…

If you’re not voting for Trump and the GOP in these midterms, you’re either a communist, radical Muslim, delusional, easily brainwashed, or dumb as a doorknob.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 17 times. Watch Wayne’s TV shows on Real Americas Voice TV- “America Speaks” weeknights and “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on weekends- and his daily video podcast “WAR Zone Live presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily at 4:30 PM ET/1:30 PM Pacific at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Illegal Immigrants Have Made America Great.” It’s 100+ blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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