Katko made the remarks while touring the Southern border near El Paso, Texas with 12 GOP colleagues led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday. The New York congressman claimed that border agents had apprehended people on the terrorist watchlist in recent days, blaming Biden for rolling back the border security policies of former President Donald Trump. “People who they’ve got in the last few days… have been on the terror watchlist,” said Katko....

Brooks warned listeners of the Breitbart News Daily radio show Tuesday that current amnesty proposals will exacerbate the same mistakes which were signed into law by former President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Brooks said the lax requirements which allow migrants to obtain amnesty tell every person in the world, “Hey, break in the United States of America. We’re not going to enforce our laws.” The GOP representative’s Senate campaign was endorsed Monday by Stephen Miller, the so-called “architect” of former President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration plan....

Reacting to the figures posted on social media, Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona simply tweeted: “Americans choose freedom.” He backed the decision of millions of flyers after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned against Thanksgiving travel last Thursday. TSA data from Saturday and Sunday shows that more than two million passengers were screened over the weekend—a notable increase on the two-day totals stretching back to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak....

On Thursday, an image began circulating on Twitter of a letter penned by Mills, a freshman congressman, along with an inert, 40MM grenade produced in Florida that is designed for use in the MK19 grenade launcher—a rapid-firing weapons system first deployed in the Vietnam War. “Welcoming you to a mission-oriented 118th Congress,” the letter read. However, some on Twitter were quick to slam the GOP lawmaker, describing the gesture as “nonsense” or “insane....

The new battleground state survey from Morning Consult found that 48 percent of likely voters in Colorado intended to back Hickenlooper on November 3 as just 39 percent favored Gardner for another term in the upper chamber. When the pollster last surveyed likely voters in the state, Hickenlooper’s lead was three points tighter, with 48 percent leaning toward the challenger and 42 percent backing Gardner. A shift in the mood among independent voters is partly behind the growing distance between the Senate candidates....

Cornyn, who is up for reelection on November 3, made the remarks during a meeting with the editorial board of Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He described his initial relationship with Trump as “maybe like a lot of women who get married and think they’re going to change their spouse, and that doesn’t usually work out very well.” The GOP senator went on to say he’d disagree privately with Trump’s positions on budget deficits, debt, trade agreements, tariffs and border security....

The corruption allegations against former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, are a “smear” and a “comprehensively-debunked conspiracy theory,” the Biden campaign said in a recent memo. Bolton, Trump’s former national security advisor, has written an unpublished book that, according to The New York Times, claims Trump withheld military aid to pressure Ukraine and its government into opening a corruption investigation into the Bidens....

Bannon, who served as the chief executive of Trump’s 2016 campaign and as a White House adviser for several months in 2017, slammed the raid on Trump’s home during a Thursday episode of his War Room podcast. His remarks came as he interviewed the former president’s attorney, Christina Bobb. The search targeting a former has no historic precedent, marking the most serious legal action ever taken against a former commander-in-chief....

Fortunately, the anti-climatic footage posted by @apologyrejected hasn’t gone to waste as it’s delighted millions of TikTok users. The clip has racked up over 1 million likes and has been watched more than 6.3 million times. The owner added the following text to the video: “Sending my dog out to capture something adventurous and all his footage is of me having dinner.” During the hilarious clip, Toby the dog can be seen staring into the sliding doors as the GoPro footage shows his owner sitting at the dining room table, which is just a few feet away from the dog outside....

K’Ogalo captain Musa Mohammed will lead six other members of the champion-winning squad when Harambee Stars report to camp on Sunday in readiness for the 2017 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup. Other Gor Mahia player, who got Put’s nod in his first assignment since he was unveiled as the new head of technical bench are, goalkeeper Boniface Oluoch, defenders Wellington Ochieng, Harun Shakava, midfielder, Kenneth Muguna, Ernest Wendo and George Odhiambo....

Three days down the line, stakeholders are still not aware of the exact amount of money accrued during the match but treasurer Sally Bolo has confirmed to Goal that the figures will be availed before the end of today (Tuesday). Mwendwa: Muhoroni,Sofapaka are not off the hook “We are done with calculations and the details will be published on our official website today.” One VIP ticket was sold at Sh600 while a place at the terraces was charged Sh200 and the ticket-selling exercise started at 9:00am outside the Kisumu Stadium on match-day....

Gordon holding off Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace to win the 1994 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. But it was the celebration afterward that Gordon and fans will never forget. Just 22 at the time, he was choked with emotion, tears streaming down his face in victory lane, crying like the boy he still was. Showing the type of genuine emotion you normally don’t see from a daring racecar driver or a professional athlete....

Five-time world champions Brazil will meet Argentina on June 9 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before facing Australia at the same venue four days later. READ MORE: Luiz settles English business | Dante: Gone but not forgotten | Marcelo matching Roberto Carlos The Selecao have marched to eight consecutive victories in World Cup qualifying since Tite’s June 2016 appointment and, in March, became the first nation to qualify for World Cup 2018 in Russia....

A staff member at the government-run Integrated COVID Control and Command Centre allegedly told the patient who reached out asking for help, due to his COVID diagnosis and symptoms, to “go and die.” The patient, Santosh Singh, a lawyer by profession, tested positive for the coronavirus on April 12 and had been at home quarantine along with his family. On the morning of April 15, he received an audio phone call from the Command Centre inquiring about his health....

Hogan, a Republican, was encouraged to run by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans who were hoping that the governor could pick up a win for GOP in the heavily blue state. With Hogan confirming that he will not run, the Republicans may have a difficult road ahead of them to achieve a majority in a Senate currently divided 50-50. “I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate,” Hogan said at the press conference....

Frayer, 23, died in a March 23 car accident just three days following the Antelopes’ first-round loss to Iowa in the NCAA Tournament. He, his older sister Andrea Moore and a friend died in the accident near Lodi, Calif. Frayer appears at the 1:36 mark in the video. He is shown blocking Iowa’s Connor McCaffery, following him backing up in transition: MORE MARCH MADNESS: Live scores | Updated bracket | TV schedule...

In a viral post published on Reddit’s r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/Broad_Mulberry6823 asked the forum’s 3.5 million members if they were wrong to keep the home their grandmother left them, despite their step-brother’s extensive renovation efforts. Titled, “AITA for ‘making’ my grandmother give me her house after my stepbrother thought he’d get it and had already renovated it?,” the post has received more 10,000 votes and 2,600 comments in just nine hours....

Football unites behind Chapecoense Neymar’s incredulity was understandable. How are we supposed to so suddenly accept that an entire football club has been decimated, entire families destroyed, an entire city devastated? “There are so many people crying here,” Chapecoense vice-president Ivan Tozzo told SporTV. “We could never have imagined something like this. Chapecoense is the biggest reason for joy here.” It was the same for so many citizens of Torino during 1940s Italy....

Larnell Evans Sr. told Chicago Patch that his great-grandmother Anna Short Harrington began appearing on the pancake mix and syrup bottles for the Aunt Jemima brand in 1935 after she was discovered by Quaker Oats, the company which owns Aunt Jemima. Harrington, Evans said, toured the country as the brand’s representative, and served pancakes as part of those duties for two decades. “She worked for that Quaker Oats for 20 years....

Hundreds of pilot whales were stranded on Ocean Beach in Tasmania on September 21. Rescuers have successfully returned 30 to the water, but now authorities need to dispose of the remaining carcasses. Depending on the disposal method, beaching events like this can lure hungry sharks to the area. Even a single whale carcass can elicit a shark feeding frenzy. “Generally it is best to dispose of the whales at sea,” Olaf Meynecke, research fellow at the Coastal Marine Research Center at Griffith University, Australia, told Newsweek....