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Nobel Foundation says Venezuelan activist cannot transfer Peace Prize to Trump: ‘The decision is final and applies for all time’
The Nobel Foundation said that its Peace Prize was not transferrable after a Venezuelan activist said she offered her prize to President Donald Trump.
The president acknowledged the offer in a post on Thursday and said that he had accepted the award from María Corina Machado after meeting with her at the White House.
‘A laureate is free to keep, give away, sell, or donate these items.’
“It was my Great Honor to meet María Corina Machado, of Venezuela, today,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“She is a wonderful woman who has been through so much,” he added. “María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.”
The Nobel Foundation released a rare statement Monday saying the prize cannot be passed on to someone else.
“A Nobel Peace Prize laureate receives two central symbols of the prize: a gold medal and a diploma. In addition, the prize money is awarded separately. Regardless of what may happen to the medal, the diploma, or the prize money, it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient of the prize. Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else’s possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” the committee said.
“A laureate cannot share the prize with others, nor transfer it once it has been announced,” they added. “A Nobel Peace Prize can also never be revoked. The decision is final and applies for all time.”
However, the committee also went on to say there was no restriction on a recipient giving away the award.
“The Committee does not comment on laureates’ subsequent statements, decisions, or actions. Any ongoing assessments or choices made by laureates must be understood as their own responsibility,” the committee said. “There are no restrictions in the statutes of the Nobel Foundation on what a laureate may do with the medal, the diploma, or the prize money. This means that a laureate is free to keep, give away, sell, or donate these items.”
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Machado had presented the award to president for his efforts in helping the people of Venezuela resist the totalitarian Maduro regime.
“It was a very emotional moment. I decided to present the Nobel Peace Prize medal on behalf of the people of Venezuela,” she told Fox News later.
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BlazeTV host shares 3 personal experiences PROVING the Islamification of America is happening RIGHT NOW
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has been sounding the alarm on the Islamification of the United States — the deliberate plan to replace traditional American culture, laws, and national identity with Islamic values, cultural practices, and Sharia-influenced demands — but she fears people aren’t taking the threat seriously enough.
On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara shares three personal experiences that make it clear just how far the plan to Islamify America is already underway.
#1: Meta banned Sara’s anti-Sharia ad
Sara is the vice president of Texas Family Project, a conservative advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening the state of Texas by prioritizing parental rights, protecting the innocence of children, and reforming how the state government and its institutions view families.
When TFP recently tried to purchase an ad from Meta (Facebook and Instagram), it was denied.
The ad simply stated: “Sharia has no place in Texas.”
“[Sharia law] is incompatible with this country … the Constitution … the laws in the state of Texas,” says Sara. “That should be something very simple and noncontroversial. We’re not saying ‘get out if you’re brown. Get out if you’re Islamic. Get out if you’re Muslim.”’
Even still, Meta rejected TFP’s ad request with a message stating, “Your ad contains content that is not allowed on Meta’s advertising platforms.”
“You’re not allowed now to say on Facebook, on Meta, that Sharia law has no place in this country, in the state of Texas. That’s how far we’re in with this whole Islam thing,” says Sara.
#2: Dallas suburbs turning into foreign enclaves
“The Texas Muslim population is approximately half a million people. By the way, these are conservative estimates … but just know I believe it’s far larger, far larger,” says Sara.
“I walk around in the DFW suburbs — Plano, Richardson, Irving, Carrollton. I don’t see anyone like me,” she adds.
“I don’t want that to sound like, ‘Oh, if they have a different color skin, they can’t be here.’ No — it’s just like they’re speaking different languages; they’re wearing clothing that we don’t wear here in America.”
On top of these huge cultural differences, Sara’s experience with these foreign-born Texans hasn’t exactly been up to the Lone Star State’s hospitality standards.
“They have no intention of speaking to me or becoming friendly with me. That is very clear,” she says.
#3: Public school sending multi-language ‘holiday’ emails
Sara displays an email about a “holiday party” from a large public school in the DFW metroplex. As you can see in the tweet below, the message is available in multiple languages, including Farsi, Urdu, Arabic, Pashto, and Spanish.
“They couldn’t call it the ‘Christmas party’ … [and] why do we need that many translations for a school newsletter in America?” scoffs Sara.
“How is this Texas? How is this America?”
While the examples above are personal to Sara, her list of ways Texas is rapidly changing under Islamic influence goes on and on. To hear more about the dangers Texans — and Americans at large — face as the country becomes increasingly inhabited by people whose religious doctrine commands them to kill anyone who refuses to convert, watch the full episode above.
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Trump DHS sets the record straight after left-wing critics accuse ICE of dragging ‘half-naked’ American from his home
Critics of President Donald Trump’s administration accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers of dragging an American citizen with no criminal history from his home over the weekend.
Videos circulated on social media of a raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, appearing to show federal agents escorting an elderly man from his home, through the snow, and into a federal vehicle. The handcuffed man was wearing only shorts and Crocs, with a blanket draped over his shoulders.
‘Both of these sexual predators remain AT LARGE in St. Paul.’
Reuters reported that his family requested a Hmong interpreter.
“Marching half-naked elderly people out into the snow, your tax dollars at work,” columnist Jill Filipovic wrote.
Political commentator Ed Krassenstein called the Trump administration “disgusting,” adding that the man detained by federal agents was a “U.S. citizen with no criminal record.”
Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images
“Armed ICE agents broke down the door without presenting a valid warrant, entered with guns drawn, and handcuffed him in front of his 5-year-old grandson, who was left crying and traumatized,” Krassenstein said.
“ICE then drove him around for nearly an hour, questioned and fingerprinted him, confirmed he was a citizen and not the person they were looking for… and dropped him back at home. No apology. No explanation. No accountability.”
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin described Krassenstein’s post as “fear mongering,” explaining that ICE was attempting to arrest two convicted sex offenders.
Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images
“One of the criminal targets had convictions for sex with a minor and sexual assault. The other target had convictions for sex assault with penetration in the first degree, domestic violence, and violating a protective order. Both also have convictions for failure to register as sex offenders. They both have final orders of removal from an immigration judge,” McLaughlin wrote.
“The US citizen,” McLaughlin continued, presumably referring to the man detained in the video, “lives with these two convicted sex offenders at the site of the operation.”
“The individual refused to be fingerprinted or facially ID’d. He matched the description of the targets. As with any law enforcement agency, it is standard protocol to hold all individuals in a house of an operation for safety of the public and law enforcement,” McLaughlin added. “Both of these sexual predators remain AT LARGE in St. Paul. We will be providing the public with photos and descriptors to help us locate and apprehend these public safety threats.”
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Ellen DeGeneres Fires Off Tone-Deaf, Self-Indulgent Minneapolis Post
She placed herself in the center of the conversation
‘Ripped the camera out of my hand’: Minneapolis cops shrug after Nick Sortor claims ‘Somali thugs’ rob him, drag him by car
Independent conservative journalist Nick Sortor has in recent weeks shone an unflattering light on the thuggery of anti-ICE rioters and imported grifters in Minneapolis.
The efficacy of his reportage — which led on Thursday to at least one arrest — appears to have made him a prime target for radicals who have circulated his image for street-identification purposes, mobbed his vehicle, and attacked another journalist whom they mistook for Sortor.
‘At least Minneapolis Police haven’t erroneously arrested me … yet.’
Sortor shared footage taken by fellow journalist Cam Higby on Sunday revealing the latest lengths radicals have gone to stop him: stealing his camera and dragging him down the sidewalk.
“A group of Somali thugs just ROBBED me of my $1,000 camera in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis,” Sortor indicated in a Sunday evening X post. “Then they DRAGGED ME DOWN THE STREET as my hand got trapped in their door handle.”
Footage of the incident shows a black-clad woman wearing a face covering approach Sortor’s vehicle on the driver’s side, grab the journalist’s camera through his open window, and take off running.
Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
In the video, Sortor — who told Blaze News the “Somali thief reached IN to my vehicle and ripped the camera out of my hand, breaking the wrist strap” — quickly exits the vehicle and chases the woman on foot.
“The Somali mob then ran interference for them as I tried getting it back, giving the thief time to flee,” said Sortor.
Video confirms that while attempting to capture the apparent thief — who climbed into a red Kia — Sortor is obstructed by multiple shrieking onlookers and then nearly tackled to the ground by a black male wearing a mask.
Sortor appears to get his hand stuck in the door handle of the fleeing suspect’s vehicle such that when it accelerates down the sidewalk, the journalist is dragged alongside it for a considerable distance.
After the suspect flees the scene, a shaken up and bloodied Sortor tells his associate, “They just stole my camera.”
Women in face coverings and other apparent critics of Sortor encircle the journalist as he makes his way back to his vehicle, ordering him to leave. One of the women admits on camera that they followed Sortor to the scene.
Footage shows a Minneapolis police officer telling the journalist after the incident that he should leave the area and that individuals were calling the department to accuse Sortor of harassment.
“We don’t need this stuff to keep happening,” says the officer. “This level of hostility, obviously, it’s not going away.”
When asked how his treatment by radicals and police in Minnesota has compared with his treatment in Portland, Sortor told Blaze News, “Much like Portland Police, Minneapolis Police submit to the mob and have been completely neutered by the left-wing government out here. However at least Minneapolis Police haven’t erroneously arrested me … yet.”
Sortor was arrested when covering an anti-ICE demonstration on Oct. 2 in Portland, Oregon. After determining that it couldn’t make a disorderly conduct charge stick, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office declined to pursue the case. Sortor indicated last month that he plans to sue the City of Portland for allegedly violating his civil rights when targeting and arresting him.
Sleuths have alleged that the vehicle in which the suspect fled the scene is registered to an individual whose address is listed as the SpectrumWorks Center in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. Blaze News was unable to reach the autism support center for comment.
Cam Higby noted that “it’s the owner of the vehicle who’s address is allegedly the autism center. The robber may have hopped in someone else’s vehicle.”
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‘There will be charges’: Harmeet Dhillon assures Glenn Beck church-stormers will face justice as Minnesota lets chaos reign
Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon criticized Minnesota’s Democrat leadership for failing to enforce state law and arrest protesters who stormed into a local church over the weekend.
Dhillon joined Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” on Monday morning to address the incident, in which radicals disrupted a Christian church in the middle of a service.
‘We will not let this happen to another church in the United States.’
“We don’t want to prejudge, but I think it is fair to say that I saw multiple federal criminal incidents yesterday, and there will be charges,” she told Beck.
Dhillon explained that as soon as she learned about the situation at Cities Church, she immediately activated prosecutors and sent FBI agents to investigate to determine whether the left-wing radicals had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or committed any related criminal offenses, including potential conspiracy charges and material support.
“It’s only a question of when we can get a judge to sign off on arrest warrants and exactly what the charges would be,” Dhillon stated, noting that the federal judges have to be in Minnesota. “This isn’t Texas, and we aren’t getting exactly rapid-fire support for charges there on the pace we would love.”
Dhillon criticized local leaders for failing to enforce the state’s laws by refusing to arrest any of the protesters.
Photo by Octavio JONES/AFP via Getty Images
“There could have been arrests yesterday if Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, enforced his own laws, and Mary Moriarty, the district attorney of Hennepin County, enforced her own laws,” she remarked.
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsed both Ellison and Moriarty for their respective re-election campaigns in 2022.
Dhillon explained to Beck that the federal government “has to jump through some additional hurdles.”
Beck asked Dhillon whether former CNN journalist Don Lemon violated any laws by following the protesters into the church. Dhillon responded that she would reserve comment on that situation but proposed a hypothetical involving “a podcaster, once a news anchor.”
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Harmeet Dhillon. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A privately owned house of worship is not a public forum for protest in the U.S., she stated, adding that charges would likely be imposed in stages.
“We will not let this happen to another church in the United States. It is un-American, unacceptable, and there is a zero-tolerance policy for it at this DOJ,” Dhillon concluded.
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Musk drops $10 million to help MAGA candidate replace ‘trash Trump’ Mitch McConnell
The richest man in the world has made a hefty donation to a pro-Trump Republican looking to take over the Kentucky U.S. Senate seat occupied by Mitch McConnell for 40 years, Axios has reported..
Last week, billionaire businessman Elon Musk donated $10 million to the Fight for Kentucky super PAC, which supports the candidacy of Nate Morris, founder of waste and recycling giant Rubicon.
Axios implied that the Musk-Morris connection may have come about because of Vice President JD Vance.
Morris has billed himself as a MAGA warrior and the antithesis of McConnell. In a scathing campaign video titled “Garbage Day,” Morris suggests that McConnell is a “trash Trump” “career politician” who has been “dumping” on Americans and Kentuckians in particular for decades.
“We’ve let the garbage pile up in Washington, D.C., for far too long. I’m running for Senate to help President Trump clean up the mess,” Morris states in the ad.
McConnell announced last February that he would not seek an eighth term.
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Axios implied that the Musk-Morris connection may have come about because of Vice President JD Vance, whom the outlet described as “close to” Musk and a “personal friend” to Morris.
Axios also indicated that Musk’s massive donation is a sign that he intends to use his wealth in support of Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
Morris did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment but did retweet a post about the Axios report. Requests for comment sent to Musk’s various businesses received no response.
The Axios report did not include a statement from Morris or Musk.
Thus far, President Donald Trump has not endorsed any candidate in the race. In his campaign video, Morris characterizes other Republicans running for the seat — Congressman Andy Barr and former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron — as McConnell’s “puppets.”
Several Democrats have tossed their hats into the ring, including Amy McGrath, who was trounced by McConnell in 2020. However, whoever prevails in the Republican primary is expected to win the general election in November.
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‘Place your left hand on the Quran’: Foreign-born lieutenant governor does not swear in on Bible
In one of the clearest examples of elections having consequences in recent times, Virginia’s new lieutenant governor’s swearing-in ceremony made history for its unorthodox changes.
On Saturday, Ghazala Firdous Hashmi took her oath of office to fill the lieutenant governor seat. However there was one major twist to the proceedings: Instead of placing her left hand on the Bible, Hashmi swore her oath on the Quran.
Hashmi sees her election and inauguration as a sign of Virginia’s ‘continued progress toward a more representative and inclusive democracy.’
“Place your left hand on the Quran,” the woman directing the inauguration instructed Hashmi.
“I, Ghazala Firdous Hashmi, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States,” she said during the ceremony.
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According to her official website, Hashmi was born in Hyderabad, India, and was brought to the United States as a child.
She is the first Muslim woman to hold statewide office in the nation and the first South Asian-American to be elected to statewide office in Virginia.
Hashmi sees her election and inauguration as a sign of Virginia’s “continued progress toward a more representative and inclusive democracy.”
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‘How low can they go?’ Maryland Democrat seeks to punish Trump-era ICE agents for doing their job
Democrats have made no secret of their contempt for the men and women of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who daily put their lives at risk to keep dangerous criminal noncitizens off American streets.
Evidently keen to go beyond just demonizing ICE agents, a Maryland Democrat has proposed legislation that would deny them future jobs in the crime-ridden state’s enforcement agencies.
Adrian Boafo, a Democrat member of Maryland’s House of Delegates who is currently running for Congress, proposed legislation earlier this month titled the “ICE Breaker Act of 2026,” aimed at punishing “those who are motivated to support this Administration’s immigration policies and principles by joining ICE.”
‘The ICE Breaker Act of 2026 is an unserious, frankly stupid bill.’
“Under Donald Trump, Steven Miller [sic] and Kristi Noem, ICE has ceased to function as a lawful and legitimate law enforcement agency,” said Boafo. “Instead it operates as a lawless and unconstitutional paramilitary operation.”
“Accordingly, this bill prevents individuals who chose to join ICE after January 20, 2025 in support of this administration’s immigration agenda from serving in trusted law-enforcement positions within Maryland state government,” added Boafo, who claimed elsewhere that ICE agents are neither trained nor qualified to serve as police.
The Department of Homeland Security recently indicated that ICE received over 220,000 applications and hired well over 10,000 new officers over the past year, doubling the number of personnel from 10,000 to roughly 22,000.
Boafo, the son of Ghanaian immigrants, will reportedly formally introduce the bill when the General Assembly reconvenes this week and has promised to introduce similar legislation in Congress if elected in the midterms.
Adrian Boafo. Photo by Eric Lee/Washington Post/Getty Images
The proposed legislation has been condemned by various officials in the state.
Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler suggested Boafo’s bill was “another poorly thought out piece of legislation and one motivated purely by political purposes.”
Gahler told WBFF-TV that ICE agents “have a legitimate law enforcement mission to fulfill, and this delegate wants to punish them for taking an oath of office and doing the job they are constitutionally sworn to do.”
“How sad can Maryland’s legislature — how low can they go?” said Gahler. “The hate, the Trump derangement syndrome would be the basis.”
Betsy Smith, spokeswoman for the National Police Association, underscored that contrary to Boafo’s suggestion, ICE agents have to undergo strict scrutiny and relevant testing in order to join state law enforcement agencies.
“It sounds as though this politician wants people to believe that an ICE agent can just come into their town and tomorrow be a patrol officer,” Smith told WBFF. “It’s simply ridiculous.”
Smith further stressed that it is “ridiculous to not hire ICE agents during a police understaffing crisis.”
“This is a dumb idea,” Republican Del. Kathy Szeliga told the Washington Post. “Law enforcement hiring should be based on the training, experience, and conduct of the candidate, not a partisan litmus test tied to some president you don’t like.”
Maryland House Minority Leader Jason Buckel (R) cast doubt on the legality of the proposed legislation and suggested it was “not worthy of serious consideration.”
Republican Del. Matt Morgan emphasized the discriminatory nature of the proposed hiring ban, writing, “What about ICE agents hired under Biden or Obama? The ICE Breaker Act of 2026 is an unserious, frankly stupid bill for the purpose of political pandering.”
Despite its vilification by Boafo and other Maryland Democrats, ICE has worked overtime to make the state safer.
For instance, earlier this month, ICE arrested Oscar Miguel Argueta-Del Cid, an illegal alien from El Salvador who was convicted of sexually abusing a minor in Montgomery County, and last month ICE arrested Kevin Alexis Mendex-Ortiz, a criminal noncitizen from Honduras who caused a head-on collision in Prince George’s County that sent an American citizen to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Blaze News has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
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Only Government Force Can Stop Democrats From Plunging America Into Darkness
Democrats created the situation America finds itself in, and only a forceful crackdown on leftist anarchy will restore cultural stability.
