Alleged UFC White House Terror Plot Exposes Yet Another Security Nightmare

Just when you thought the threat environment surrounding President Trump couldn't get any crazier, federal investigators say they disrupted an alleged terror plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House that involved explosive-laden drones, sniper teams, and plans to storm the White House gates.

And here's the detail that's sure to reignite an already heated immigration debate: the alleged ringleader was reportedly an illegal immigrant who had received protection under the Obama-era DACA program.

According to Homeland Security information first obtained by Fox News Digital, Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, allegedly orchestrated a plan to carry out a mass casualty attack during the June 14 UFC event held on White House grounds. Alvarez reportedly entered the United States as a child and remained in the country after his B2 visa expired in 2001. In 2014, he was granted deportation relief through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals after failing to leave the country.

Federal authorities say Alvarez wasn't acting alone. Five co-conspirators have already been arrested, and investigators have identified a total of 23 individuals connected to the alleged planning network.

According to court documents and DOJ filings, the plot called for drones equipped with explosives to force an evacuation of the event. As crowds scrambled to escape, a sniper team allegedly planned to open fire. Authorities say Alvarez, who allegedly used the alias "Shepherd" in group communications, was "responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the planned attack."

When discussing weaponized drones in the group chat, Alvarez allegedly responded, "As many and as deadly as we can get." Investigators also claim he boasted of possessing a functioning drone capable of carrying out the attack.

The allegations don't stop there.

Federal authorities say the conspirators planned a "second wave" operation after the initial assault, allegedly intending to rush the White House gates amid the confusion. Prosecutors say the group hoped the violence would trigger a broader political uprising, citing grievances that ranged from government corruption and the Epstein files to data center water consumption and perceived Israeli influence over American politics.

ICE has lodged a detainer against Alvarez following his arrest by the FBI in Omaha, Nebraska, on the day of the event.

"This illegal alien from Mexico should never have been allowed in our country," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said. "He was the ringleader of a failed terror attack targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House."

"He will face justice and swiftly be removed from our country," she added.

One question remains difficult to ignore: if investigators identified 23 individuals connected to the alleged plot, why was the event allowed to proceed while many of those suspects apparently remained unaccounted for?

Neither the White House nor the FBI offered additional details when Fox News Digital asked about the whereabouts of other participants allegedly involved in the planning.

Vice President JD Vance sought to reassure the public, arguing that the conspiracy never progressed very far.

"The FBI, our law enforcement partners and our U.S. Attorneys did what they do every day to make America Safe through quick response and vigilance in investigating, disrupting and dismantling this alleged plan before it could be carried out," Acting Attorney General Todd said in a DOJ statement. "We will take immediate and aggressive action to identify and prosecute those who incite and plan acts of violence."

Vance likewise noted that the alleged plans were "not that advanced" and said none of the suspects "weren’t in town" during the event itself.

Still, the case highlights the reality that Trump's public appearances continue to attract dangerous actors.

UFC CEO Dana White acknowledged as much, saying multiple threats had been directed at the event.

"These are the kind of events that bring the nuts out, this is normal stuff," White said.

Normal or not, that's a remarkable statement when discussing an event held on White House grounds.

The alleged conspiracy is merely the latest entry on a growing list of threats directed at Trump since he survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024. Since then, authorities have investigated a second assassination attempt at his Florida golf club, an alleged Iran-linked murder-for-hire scheme, an armed man who rushed the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and countless threats made online and through other channels.

The good news is that this alleged plot was stopped before anyone was harmed. The bad news is that it serves as yet another reminder that the people tasked with protecting America's leaders are confronting an increasingly relentless threat landscape.

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In a first-of-its-kind, Israel seizes property tied to Gaza drone smuggling

In a rare and resolute demonstration of strategic enforcement, Israel has moved decisively to seize property linked to the smuggling of drones into Gaza—the first such action of its kind in this domain. This is not mere policing; it is a calculated strike against the shadowy financial and logistical arteries that sustain terror.

Authorities make clear the intent: to dismantle the economic scaffolding behind these operations, to interrupt the steady flow of illicit goods, and to send an unmistakable message of deterrence to those who would aid the terrorist networks entrenched in Gaza. Working in close coordination, Israel Police, the Southern District Unit, and the National Headquarters for Economic Counter Terrorism under the Defense Ministry confiscated the assets on Wednesday. The targets were vehicles tied to drone smuggling into the Strip since the beginning of the year.

What makes this operation notable is its foundation in precise intelligence and hard evidentiary material, gathered and passed on by police. The owners—residents of Bedouin communities in the Negev—were not caught red-handed, yet Defense Minister Israel Katz had no hesitation in imposing economic sanctions. In the unforgiving logic of counterterrorism, complicity does not require being caught in the act; it requires only the enabling of murder.

The measure, officials emphasize, is designed to target the financial infrastructure of smuggling, to disrupt ongoing efforts, and to bolster deterrence against all those who assist terrorist organizations in Gaza. As Katz stated: "Anyone who smuggles weapons, equipment, or funds to terrorist organizations in Gaza is part of the terrorist network itself and will pay a heavy price."

Israel Katz

Katz framed the decision as part of a broader and more sophisticated policy—one that refuses to limit its focus to the terrorists alone. Instead, it reaches into the economic and logistical ecosystems that keep them armed and operational. "This is another significant enforcement tool in our fight against smuggling infrastructures," added Southern District Unit commander Chief Superintendent Shimon Portal. "Alongside operational and intelligence activity on the ground, we are also working to damage the economic capability of those involved, thereby disrupting their activity, deterring additional actors, and preventing the strengthening of terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip."

There is a refreshing clarity here. For too long, the West has often treated terror as a problem of lone actors and isolated cells, while ignoring the vast, enabling networks that make it possible. Israel, under sustained threat, has chosen a different path: one that recognizes that the financier, the smuggler, and the logistician are as culpable as the man who fires the rocket or launches the drone. This is enforcement rooted in reality, not rhetoric—and in a world grown dangerously tolerant of euphemism, it is a model worth noting.

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SPLC Official Secreted Money to Her Neo-Nazi Lover

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s legal case just got a lot juicier after it was revealed that one of the organization’s leaders had a sexual relationship with an individual who belonged to a neo-Nazi group. She is now under scrutiny for allegedly helping to pay her lover $1.2 million in donor money, according to The New York Post.

The Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment against the SPLC accusing it of funneling donor cash to hate groups they were then telling donors they were fighting. It's like a fireman setting fires so he'd have the chance to put out fires.

One figure, referred to as “Employee-2” in the indictment, is described as a “person who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.”

It also describes how “Employee-2” wrote an article based on material stolen from National Alliance headquarters in 2014 and then paid off an informant to take the blame for the robbery.

Based on the details in the June 2 superseding indictment, “Employee-2” is believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based anti-extremism nonprofit between 2012 and 2019.The indictment alleges Beirich was very close to the informant known only as “F-9” who “infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance.”

“[Beirich] was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts,” the indictment alleges.

“Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account … and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich].”

The indictment alleges that while the SPLC was paying the informant, he was raising money for the National Alliance. Beirich and the informant allegedly used the money to pay for personal expenses as well.

One of the SPLC’s sources broke into the National Alliance’s buildings, stole a number of documents, and took them out of town to make copies. The individual later returned the originals. The indictment claims the SPLC tried to conceal their informant’s identity by paying another informant to confess to the robbery.

Beirich used the information to write a report about the organization.

The National Alliance chairman William White Williams told the Post that some of the informants wanted to leave the organization and went to the SPLC for this purpose. However, the organization persuaded them to remain with the alliance and “get paid.”

The SPLC’s funding for informants took on a variety of forms. It paid white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands to spend on cross burnings and other activities.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is facing a slew of charges for allegedly defrauding donors. Prosecutors say the organization covertly paid more than three million dollars to informants in hate groups between 2014 and 2023. The organization allegedly failed to inform donors that they were using the money for this purpose.

The payments were concealed through shell companies and fake bank accounts, the Justice Department noted. The indictment includes eleven counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the organization was “doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing, not dismantling extremism, but funding it.”

In a shocking twist that surprises exactly no one who has followed the SPLC's long career of smearing grandmas who pray at abortion clinics as "hate groups" while raking in millions, it turns out the fearless Nazi-hunters were actually running a cozy little dating service for domestic terrorists. Nothing says "fighting extremism" like using donor cash to keep your boyfriend's neo-Nazi group flush with cash for whatever wholesome activities they had planned.

Who could have guessed that the group that labels everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders a dangerous bigot would end up in bed, literally, with the very monsters they claim keep them up at night? The SPLC: still the gold standard for turning tolerance into a six-figure grift.

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Convicted Teen Killer Claims He's Penniless, Seeks Taxpayer-Funded Lawyer As Parents Quietly Fire Up New Business Three Weeks After Fatal Stabbing

MCKINNEY, TX — In a plot twist no one could have predicted except everyone paying attention, Karmelo Anthony, the 19-year-old just handed a 35-year prison sentence for stabbing Austin Metcalf to death at a high school track meet, has bravely declared himself "penniless, destitute, and indigent." The broke murderer now wants the same Texas taxpayers whose justice system he tested with a knife to foot the bill for his appeal.

Public records, those pesky things that keep ruining good sob stories, show Anthony's parents activated a Texas business entity called Angelic Obsessions LLC just 24 days after their son's alleged act of community enrichment. The timing is surely a coincidence, like how a lottery winner buys a yacht the day after scratching the ticket.

Anthony filed court paperwork this week sobbing that he is simply too poor to hire a lawyer, despite a GiveSendGo fundraiser launched in his honor raking in more than $633,000 before it vanished from public view following his conviction. Organizers described the cash as vital for "comprehensive assistance" and "family relocation expenses," which in woke-speak apparently means "help us move somewhere the pitchforks can't find us."

Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor has been following this saga of justice and sudden entrepreneurship on "The Story." Sources close to reality note that the records do not prove the fundraiser money flowed directly into the new company. Anthony's parents have not been charged with anything, mostly because modern justice systems prefer to lock up the actual stabber first.Before the stabbing, the family's Louisiana business ventures had all the success of a vegan steakhouse. Angelic Obsessions was formed years ago then revoked. Another outfit called Exclusive Luxury Services enjoyed repeated revocations, like a criminal with a revolving door habit. But hey, nothing says "we stand with our son" like getting that LLC paperwork notarized while the blood is still drying on the track.

Anthony was transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, where he will have plenty of time to reflect on his poverty while the rest of us reflect on how many GoFundMe millions it takes before a guy stops qualifying as "indigent."

Andrew Anthony III, listed as the registered agent for the fresh Texas business, declined to comment. Smart man. In today's America, the real crime isn't the stabbing. It's noticing the timing.

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School Pays $95,000 After Punishing Student for Charlie Kirk Tribute

There are moments that reveal with almost embarrassing clarity the state of institutional America today, and this is one of them. Gabby Stout has just secured a ninety-five-thousand-dollar settlement from her school, Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. The offense? The school had accused her of vandalizing the campus “spirit rock” with a tribute to the assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and had placed her under police investigation.

Only two days after Kirk’s killing, Stout had obtained explicit permission from the school to paint a tribute on the rock, a surface routinely decorated by students. Together with two friends she wrote “Freedom 1776” and “Live Like Kirk—John 11:25,” surrounded by hearts and an American flag. Hours later the school painted over her message and sent a notice to the entire student body declaring that the rock had been vandalized with an unauthorized statement that violated the student conduct code. Law enforcement, it said, had been contacted and an investigation opened.

Stout was pulled from class, interrogated, and made to write a statement. Her phone was searched without her parents’ consent. The following day the school quietly altered its speech policy, closed the investigation, and announced that she would face no discipline. Yet it refused to issue any statement clearing her name. Her parents say the episode left their daughter exposed to threats and bullying, for which the school offered no apology. Only a month later did the institution reverse itself, withdrawing the vandalism accusation and admitting that law enforcement had never been involved.

The Alliance Defending Freedom brought a complaint charging that the school had violated Stout’s First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The filing highlighted the obvious moral double standard. When George Floyd died in 2020 the same rock had been painted with messages supporting Black Lives Matter. Those expressions, it seems, raised no alarms.In a statement to Fox News, Stout expressed the hope that the settlement would illuminate the rights of students:

“I hope they learn that students don’t leave their faith or their free speech rights when they walk into school. I didn’t do anything wrong, as they now admit. I was sharing a message I believe in, a message that inspired me, and a message that honored Charlie Kirk by pointing people to the hope for salvation through Jesus Christ. And they made me feel like a criminal for doing this. School officials can’t just silence a student because they don’t like what the student says or believes.”

ADF Senior Counsel Travis Barham put the matter plainly. “Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools should be ashamed at how it treated Gabby. She did everything right, and they did everything wrong. She got permission, and she painted an uplifting message of faith. They censored her speech, publicly denounced her, and then punished her for expressing her views.”

Beyond the financial settlement, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education has now approved new speech policies intended to clarify the rights of students. One can only hope the lesson is learned. When institutions treat a young woman’s act of remembrance and faith as a criminal matter while indulging other political expressions, they do not merely embarrass themselves. They expose the selective authoritarianism that now passes for education in too many American schools.

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Disgraced Judge Hannah Dugan's Motion to Escape Justice Is Denied

MILWAUKEE, WI — In a shocking development that has left progressive legal activists clutching their emotional support gavels, former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan discovered this week that the legal system she once presided over can, in fact, apply to judges too.

Dugan, who was convicted in December on a felony obstruction charge after helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz evade ICE agents at a courthouse, had hoped to avoid the unpleasant consequences of being found guilty by convincing the court that her conviction should simply disappear. Legal experts describe this strategy as "the Democrat prosecutor's favorite move" and "worth a shot."

Judge Lynn Adelman, however, apparently missed the memo.

After already rejecting one attempt to vaporize the conviction, Adelman denied Dugan's latest request for either a new trial or a judgment of acquittal, forcing the former judge to confront the radical notion that actions may have consequences.

Federal Judge Lynn Adelman denied former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan's request for a new trial or a judgment of acquittal after her felony conviction in December.

Adelman issued a 39-page order Monday explaining, in exhausting detail, why "because I don't like the verdict" is generally not considered a compelling legal argument.

"In any event, defendant fails to show that my response to the jury's second question was wrong," Adelman wrote, adding later that the defense "fails to demonstrate that she was prejudiced by the one I gave."

Sources say the defense team was disappointed to learn that federal courts continue to insist on evidence, legal reasoning, and other outdated procedural formalities.

Dugan also attempted to invoke judicial immunity, a doctrine apparently misunderstood by some as meaning, "I used to wear a robe, therefore the law cannot touch me." That argument met the same fate as the others.

As a result, Dugan's felony conviction remains intact.

The ruling serves as an uncomfortable reminder that while Flores-Ruiz was allegedly being escorted away from immigration authorities through courthouse back channels, the victims of the domestic violence case that brought him to court were still waiting for the justice system to work on their behalf.

Instead, they got a front-row seat to a judge allegedly helping the defendant make an unscheduled exit.

Dugan's attorneys have announced plans to appeal the conviction to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, because no modern legal drama is complete without at least one sequel.

No new sentencing date has been scheduled, leaving observers to wonder whether Dugan's next legal strategy will involve sovereign citizenship, interpretive dance, or claiming the courthouse was actually a sanctuary gazebo.

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PBS Board Chairman Celebrates Trump's 80th Birthday By Wishing Him a Stroke, Public Broadcasting Calls It a Learning Opportunity

America's public institutions continue their inspiring commitment to civility, tolerance, and not wishing catastrophic medical events on political opponents, except when they don't. In fact, when they go low, they continue going lower.

For years, PBS and its affiliates have presented themselves as the wise adults in the room, faithfully serving the public with educational programming, thoughtful journalism, and enough tote-bag drives to fund a small nation. Their boards are supposedly filled with seasoned professionals dedicated to elevating public discourse.

Then President Donald Trump turned 80 on Flag Day [coincidence or celestial message?].

As Trump celebrated his birthday Sunday at the White House during the UFC Freedom 250 event, one prominent public broadcasting executive decided to mark the occasion with a heartfelt message of unity and compassion.

The X account Republicans Against Trump asked, "Donald Trump turns 80 today. Any birthday wishes?"

Bob Greene, identified in reports as chairman of the board for Rocky Mountain PBS [aka Public BS], reportedly responded, "A nice stroke that turns him into a drooling, pooping blob in a wheelchair unable to speak."

The soft, the kind, the sweeter side of scumcrumpets.

Nothing says "public broadcasting leadership" quite like fantasizing about the president becoming a vegetable. And these cretins claim to be the good guys, the compassionate ones.

Greene's post has since disappeared, just like the several decades of PBS viewership among Americans under 40.

Rocky Mountain Public Media quickly distanced itself from the remarks, explaining that the post violated internal guidelines requiring personal opinions to remain separate from station content. Translation: you're supposed to save those comments for private dinner parties and faculty lounges.

The White House responded less delicately. Spokeswoman Olivia Wales described Greene as "a deranged individual who should seek professional help," while noting that Trump had "rightfully defunded PBS last year."

To be fair, wishing debilitating neurological damage on political opponents is apparently considered a perfectly normal expression of democratic values in some circles these days. Perhaps this is due to their own former president and his obvious neurological impairment.

The remarkable part isn't that Greene posted it. Every election cycle seems to produce a fresh crop of people who believe political disagreement is grounds for personal destruction. No, the remarkable part is how little shock the comment generated.

Imagine for a moment that a public broadcasting executive had written something similar about Barack Obama. Cable news panels would still be discussing it. Universities would host symposiums. Journalists would produce twelve-part podcast series examining "the rhetoric of hate in America."

Instead, the post was deleted, a statement was issued, and everyone moved on.

What often gets overlooked is that Trump has already survived multiple assassination attempts. Yet many of the same people who lecture endlessly about dangerous rhetoric seem strangely comfortable when the target is someone they dislike.

Greene merely said out loud what too many people have quietly normalized. The most disturbing part of the story isn't what he wrote.

It's how many people read it and thought, "Seems reasonable."

At this point, PBS may want to consider adding a new pledge-drive slogan:

"Public Broadcasting: Where the compassion is educational."

Please, kind reader, pass this on and make a stink that would put the stink of Joe Biden's skivvies seem like a Lancôme ad.

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Teenage girl and her unborn baby survive forced abortion attempt

A Louisiana 17-year-old Cerencro girl was force-fed abortion drugs by her very own father at only 23 weeks gestation. Incredibly, the baby was born alive weighing around one pound and currently remains hospitalized. Naturally, the baby requires extensive medical care.

Erica Inzina, J.D., Policy Director for Louisiana Right to Life, issued the following statement:

“Our hearts break for this young mother and her baby. This 17-year-old girl was allegedly poisoned with abortion drugs by her own father, a shocking violation of her dignity and her right to protect both herself and her unborn child.

This tragedy reinforces a crisis in our state and nation that the abortion industry and its allies would rather ignore: abortion drugs are being used as a weapon against women and girls. When these substances are freely available and deliberately detached from medical oversight, they become tools for abusers, traffickers, and predators seeking to exert control over the vulnerable.

Thankfully, both victims, the girl and her unborn child, survived. Her baby was born alive at just 23 weeks gestation, weighing only one pound. Now that child is fighting for life in the NICU and will require ongoing medical care because of what was done to them. The world can plainly see a baby whose life was targeted by abortion and survived.

Every person responsible for this act must be held fully accountable. No woman should ever be forced to take abortion drugs against her will, and no child should ever suffer because someone else decided that his or her life was disposable.”

The Louisiana Right to Life asks all Louisianans to join them in praying for this young mother, for her child, and for the medical professionals working tirelessly to care for them.

At this time, it is unclear as to what charges, if any, are being initiated against the teen's father, but it certainly is appropriate that he should be charged with attempted murder of a human being.

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