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Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE After Overstaying Visa, Faces Deportation
The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested conservative political pundit Milo Yiannopoulos for overstaying his visa and that the British commentator will soon be deported from the United States back to Britain.
Federal agents took Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart News editor, into custody Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, Louisiana. Yiannopoulos legally entered the U.S. on May 14, 2019, then overstayed his visa. A federal immigration judge issued a final deportation order against him on July 22 after he failed to appear at the hearing. The British national remains in ICE custody pending removal to England.
Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 28, 2026"Being in detention is a choice. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP [Customs and Border Protection] Home App," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. "The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return."
Yiannopoulos spent a decade as one of President Donald Trump's most ardent supporters. The pundit's run at Breitbart News ended in February 2017, when he resigned after livestream comments surfaced in which he appeared to condone sexual relationships between young boys and older men.
Yiannopoulos later interned for then-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and worked with the superstar rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, as his personal assistant. Ye is scheduled to perform at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Friday night; it is unclear whether Yiannopoulos was in the state for the show. As recently as 2025, Yiannopoulos posted that California needed ICE checkpoints at supermarkets and "on the spot deportation for anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally."
Laura Loomer, who has feuded with Yiannopoulos for years, applauded the arrest, writing that she "was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally."
BREAKING: Illegal alien Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by ICE.
I was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally where he incited violence against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene.
Recently, Candace Owens invited this illegal alien into her home. When Milo called for me to be assassinated, I reported him to ICE and the FBI. I told you all that Milo was an illegal alien. He was detained in Louisiana by @ICEgov.
Milo is going to be deported back to the UK where he can live among the Muslims he has recently chosen to embrace. Today is a great day for America.
Now the man who built a brand on hardline immigration politics is on the other side of the enforcement machine and facing deportation to the United Kingdom.
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FDA Approves 3 New COVID-19 Vaccines
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27 approved COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Sanofi.
A nurse prepares to give a COVID-19 vaccine to a child in Denver, Colo., on Nov. 3, 2021. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)The new shots from Pfizer and Moderna use the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) platform and target the XFG strain, a subvariant of the JN.1 variant.
Regulators also cleared a COVID-19 vaccine shot from Sanofi that targets the XFG strain and does not use mRNA technology.
The approval is for people aged 65 and older, as well as people aged 12 to 64 who have one or more underlying conditions such as obesity that officials say puts them at higher risk of severe COVID-19.
Regulators have been approving updated COVID-19 vaccines for several years, in a bid to better match circulating strains. The previous versions of the vaccines were estimated to provide 58 percent protection against hospitalization, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The FDA did not announce the approvals in a press release, as it has done in the past.
The FDA and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been critical of mRNA vaccines against respiratory diseases, saying they don't work well.
Manufacturers are going to run single-arm studies evaluating the shots in humans, according to FDA documents. The companies were going to be made to run placebo-controlled trials, but officials released them from that requirement "because of operational and feasibility challenges," the documents said.
FDA officials in 2025 said that new placebo-controlled trials were imperative to determine how well the COVID-19 vaccines actually performed, given it has been years since such trials were conducted. Pfizer and Moderna committed to running placebo-controlled trials, as did Novavax, which has since licensed its COVID-19 vaccine to Sanofi.
A sign in a pharmacy advertises the COVID-19 vaccine as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City on March 11, 2025. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)The basis of the approvals was largely not detailed in the documents. During an advisory meeting in the spring, the vaccine manufacturers presented data from animal testing, but no data from human testing. The FDA's vaccine advisory committee then recommended the next round of COVID-19 vaccines target XFG.
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccines has plummeted in recent years. Just 17.5 percent of adults and 10 percent of children received a shot in late 2025 or early 2026, according to the CDC.
COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 47 states, the CDC said in modeling estimates released this month.
Tyler Durden Fri, 08/28/2026 - 17:40