The Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Victim Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office has received nearly 900 calls from victims, Angel Families, or concerned citizens to seek help with cases where illegal aliens have victimized Americans.
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Outgoing Marxist President of Colombia Gustavo Petro will travel to New York on Tuesday to preside over a U.N. Security Council debate as part of a broader two-day itinerary at the United Nations.
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As jurors began deliberations late Tuesday morning in the murder trial of Karmelo Anthony, they were instructed that they could consider a lesser charge of manslaughter, KTVT-TV reported.
Anthony was 17 when authorities charged him with murdering high school star athlete and fellow 17-year-old Austin Metcalf in a stabbing at a Frisco, Texas, track meet in April 2025.
'These guys are much bigger than you. Do you turn your back and walk away and take a chance with these teenage boys with their raging hormones?'
The murder charge is a first-degree felony, the station said, and if the jury decides to convict Anthony on the murder charge, he would face a sentence of five to 99 years or life in prison.
According to Texas law, murder means a defendant "intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual," KTVT said — but manslaughter means the defendant "recklessly causes the death of an individual."
A conviction for manslaughter — a second-degree felony — would mean a sentence of two to 20 years in prison, the station said.
Criminologist Alex del Carmen told KTVT in a separate story he believes Anthony's case meets the threshold of manslaughter: "He didn't get up with the intent to kill someone, but he knew the risks taking that knife to campus and pulling it out. Self-defense or not, rational choices needed to be made."
In addition, Anthony's defense objected to jury instructions that didn't include criminally negligent homicide as a lesser charge available for consideration, KTVT reported.
Criminally negligent homicide is a state jail felony, the station said, adding that it's the lowest level of felony offense in Texas law and would bring a sentence of six months to two years in prison, KTVT said.
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye argued that criminally negligent homicide shouldn't be an option for jury consideration since there is not "any evidence in the record that the defendant was unaware that his actions could lead to death," the station said.
Collin County Judge John Roach overruled the defense's objection, KTVT said.
In addition, the defense objected to jury instructions saying they can find Anthony's self-defense argument not viable if they believe the defendant provoked the attack, the station said.
However, the prosecutor argued that a rational jury could find Anthony provoked the altercation, KTVT said, and therefore the instruction should remain. Judge Roach agreed with the prosecutor, overruling the defense's objection, the station said.
The prosecutor waived the right to begin closing arguments Tuesday morning, so lead defense attorney Mike Howard was the first to address the jury, KTVT said.
Howard focused on his client's self-defense argument, saying, "Austin Metcalf had no legal right to use force to eject Karmelo Anthony from that tent," the station reported.
Howard added that "he had no legal right to put his hands on Karmelo" and that "Karmelo is in a public place," KTVT noted.
Howard also asked the members of the jury to put themselves in Anthony's shoes, noting that it was raining, the station said: "You want to get out of the rain. ... Sure enough, one of the people at Memorial says, 'Yeah, come on over.'"
KTVT said the defense attorney added that "Hunter Metcalf, or Austin, say, 'Who are you? You need to leave.' ... These guys are much bigger than you. Do you turn your back and walk away and take a chance with these teenage boys with their raging hormones?"
"Austin and Hunter had the right to tell Melo to leave, but they did not have the right to use deadly force to make him leave," Howard told the jury, according to the station. "Melo had an absolute right to [defend] himself against that."
Howard also asked the jury, "How do you know in a split second of chaos when it's too late? ... Because if you wait too late to defend yourself, self defense is meaningless," KTVT reported.
Anthony did not take the stand in his defense.
Following the defense's closing argument, prosecutor Wirskye began speaking to the jury and rebutting Anthony's self-defense claim, the station said.
"This is one of those rare cases where every important fact can be boiled down to one sentence: You do not get to meet a shove with a stab, especially if you provoke the shove," Wirskye said, according to KTVT.
"Why didn't [Anthony] just not walk away?" Wirskye asked jurors, according to the station. "You see [he] had a choice to walk away and abandon the encounter."
The prosecutor added that "you can meet deadly force with deadly force in Texas, but you can't meet force — a shove — with deadly force — a stab. Size differential, it doesn't work in this case; you don't get to kill someone just because they are bigger than you," KTVT reported.
Wirskye also told the jury that "self-defense has to be a reasonable belief — a reasonable belief means a belief that would [be] held by an ordinary and prudent person in the same situation as the defendant," the station said.
"It has to be immediately necessary. Where was the immediate necessity to plunge a knife into an unarmed, young man?" Wirskye asked the jury, according to KTVT. "It's not self-defense, folks — it's murder. Murder, plain and simple."
Notably, all prospective black jurors were dismissed during jury selection last week — and one reportedly said he'd have a "hard time putting a brother in jail." Anthony is black; Metcalf was white. They attended different high schools and didn't know each other.
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During Monday's broadcast of FNC's "Hannity," Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, pledged "real accountability" on allegations of fraud committed in Minnesota with federal government resources.
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Vice President JD Vance immediately referred top Minnesota Democrats for criminal investigation after a Republican congressional committee released evidence that they had ignored massive scams.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report released on Monday documented testimony from officials who accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Attorney General Keith Ellison of knowing about the fraud and doing nothing to stop it.
Stolen funds 'likely ended up in the hands of international terrorist networks and certainly funded the lavish lifestyles of criminal fraudsters.'
"I've referred these allegations to DOJ's new Fraud Division for criminal investigation," Vance wrote in a social media post Monday evening. "Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimated whistleblowers, they must face justice."
Gov. Walz, Vance's one-time vice presidential opponent, had been forced to drop his gubernatorial re-election campaign after being accused of collusion in the Minnesota fraud schemes, many of which were centered in the Somali community.
He has denied any wrongdoing and claimed that his administration took many steps to curb the fraud.
The committee claimed Walz and Ellison knew about the scams as far back at 2019. Even worse, Walz allegedly retaliated against whistleblowers speaking out to expose the fraud.
The scams put $300 million of federal child nutrition funds and up to $9 billion of Medicare-related funding at risk.
The committee also claimed that the stolen funds "likely ended up in the hands of international terrorist networks and certainly funded the lavish lifestyles of criminal fraudsters, while vulnerable populations were harmed."
Vance called on the National Fraud Enforcement Division to investigate the allegations against Walz and Ellison.
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A spokesperson for Walz called the Republican claims a "joke" in a statement to KSTP-TV.
"This committee has proven time and time again to be nothing more than a joke," the spokesperson said. "They continue to rehash COVID-era fraud to distract from endless wars, gas prices, ICE, and the president's insider trading. Governor Walz is glad to see fraudsters are going to prison. If the committee is concerned about corruption, they should investigate why President Trump continues to let fraudsters out of prison."
Ellison also released a statement claiming the accusations are "riddled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations in an effort to politicize the issue of fraud, instead of actually helping Minnesota protect tax dollars and go after fraudsters."
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Trump took a flamethrower to Stephen A. Smith's aspirations of running for president, and said Smith has neither the IQ nor the aptitude.
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With about five months to the midterms, the Republican Party leads Democrats by eight points on the question of which party is more trusted on the issue of immigration.
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