NEW @FreeBeacon: Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Promotes Fundraiser For Pro-Hamas Activist in ICE Custody

The fundraiser has received nearly $270,000 and will bankroll 'long-term justice efforts' to 'hold those responsible for his unlawful detention accountable' 🧵 Isra Hirsi, the daughter of "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), championed a fundraiser supporting Mahmoud Khalil, the student activist and foreign national facing deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Hamas campus organizing.

EXCLUSIVE @FreeBeacon: Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for Storming a Barnard Building 🧵 Nearly half the radical activists arrested Wednesday after storming a Barnard College library are Columbia University students, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

Today marks Day 10 of the high-stakes $1 billion defamation trial against CNN. The jury has not yet reached a verdict and will resume their deliberations to determine if CNN is liable. Stay tuned for a live thread covering the latest developments in the courtroom. 🧵@freebeacon The jurors have been brought back into the courtroom to grab their note pads and drop off their belongings.

Day 5 of the CNN defamation trial is underway in Panama City, Florida. 🧵 @FreeBeacon Retired Army Major General James V. Young Jr. (unrelated to the plaintiff) has taken the stand in defense of the plaintiff

NEW @FreeBeacon: Amid a severe budget crisis, the SF Unified School District decided that some schools needed to close.

To do this, it paid a Stanford University professor $30,000 to create an "equity-centered" formula that targeted a high-performing, majority-Asian school. From the outset of the district's plan to close some schools, the San Francisco school system "intentionally planned for equity throughout the entire process" and Board of Education District Advisory Committee members "raised equity concerns at every meeting."

Protesters have breached Secret Service fencing @FreeBeacon More down

NEW: After distancing himself from leaked messages showing Columbia administrators mocking concerns about anti-Semitism, I reached out to see if the dean of Columbia College, Josef Sorett, would comment.

Rather than answer questions–or decline to comment–he called the police. The Washington Free Beacon previously reached out to Sorett for comment, only to receive no answer. Before contacting him at his residence on Friday afternoon, I tried speaking to Sorett at his campus office but learned he was not there.