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More than 160 members of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., last week, just months after Gov. Kevin Stitt indicated his reluctance to send guardsmen out of state.The voluntary, 90-day mission is part of President Donald Trump’s Safe and Beautiful initiative to increase law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital. Critics have argued the executive order amo...

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More than 160 members of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., last week, just months after Gov. Kevin Stitt indicated his reluctance to send guardsmen out of state.The voluntary, 90-day mission is part of President Donald Trump’s Safe and Beautiful initiative to increase law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital. Critics have argued the executive order amo...

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More than 160 members of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., last week, just months after Gov. Kevin Stitt indicated his reluctance to send guardsmen out of state.The voluntary, 90-day mission is part of President Donald Trump’s Safe and Beautiful initiative to increase law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital. Critics have argued the executive order amo...

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More than 160 members of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., last week, just months after Gov. Kevin Stitt indicated his reluctance to send guardsmen out of state.The voluntary, 90-day mission is part of President Donald Trump’s Safe and Beautiful initiative to increase law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital. Critics have argued the executive order amo...

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More than 160 members of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., last week, just months after Gov. Kevin Stitt indicated his reluctance to send guardsmen out of state.The voluntary, 90-day mission is part of President Donald Trump’s Safe and Beautiful initiative to increase law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital. Critics have argued the executive order amo...

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More than 160 members of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., last week, just months after Gov. Kevin Stitt indicated his reluctance to send guardsmen out of state.The voluntary, 90-day mission is part of President Donald Trump’s Safe and Beautiful initiative to increase law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital. Critics have argued the executive order amo...

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More than 160 members of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., last week, just months after Gov. Kevin Stitt indicated his reluctance to send guardsmen out of state.The voluntary, 90-day mission is part of President Donald Trump’s Safe and Beautiful initiative to increase law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital. Critics have argued the executive order amo...

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More than 160 members of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., last week, just months after Gov. Kevin Stitt indicated his reluctance to send guardsmen out of state.The voluntary, 90-day mission is part of President Donald Trump’s Safe and Beautiful initiative to increase law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital. Critics have argued the executive order amo...

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WINOOSKI, Vt. —

Winooski School District Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to testify on his detention earlier this year while reentering the United States.

Chavarria joined others from across the country to testify in a public forum over what are being called unconstitutional detentions by Department of Homeland Security agents. He was invited by Vermont Sen. Peter Welch to be a part of a panel of American citizens who have been detained by immigration authorities.

The head of the Winooski School District was held for several hours at an airport in Houston, Texas by U.S. Customs and Border Protection back in July while returning from a visit to see family in Nicaragua.

A United States citizen, Chavarria was born at a refugee camp in Nicaragua, and several members of his family recently self-deported back to the country after living in the United States.

He told Winooski School Board members that he was separated from his husband and "subjected to abusive interrogation" as well as "treated in a manner that is deeply disturbing and unacceptable," according to a letter about the incident.

In their email, the board said Chavarria was held in custody for more than five hours.

“You feel like you’ve been abducted by a gang of aggressive, violent people who are trying to manipulate you and who are lying to you, and while you are being abducted, you know that these people are capable of doing anything to you because they don’t care," said Chavarria in an interview with NBC5.

Related video: Chavarria speaks about "bizarre" interrogation

Chavarria is one of five people called to Capitol Hill by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) a ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, as well as U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) a ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He is also the only person from Vermont and the only person from the East Coast to be called for testimony.

The public forum began at 3 p.m. at the Hart Senate Office Building. Chavarria said during his testimony that he is scared to leave the country again.

"I do not feel like I am free to visit my mother without being afraid that I will be detained or disappeared at any time for any reason," Chavarria said. "I don't think any American should be deprived of the right to visit their mother."

Chavarria's testimony comes as his district is receiving hateful and threatening messages related to a video of students raising a Somali flag earlier this week.

A Winooski second-grade student and his mother were recently detained over the Thanksgiving break by federal agents.

A Beautiful Wedding Rooted In Love And Two Meaningful Cities

Frens, Senator Cory Booker is officially a married man, and this love story is warming my whole spirit.

Booker and Alexis Lewis tied the knot in Newark and Washington, DC, honoring the places that shaped both of their lives.

The couple exchanged vows in a private interfaith ceremony in DC, blessed by a pastor and a rabbi, then made everything legal in Newark on Monday with their parents as witnesses.

Booker shared photos online and said his heart was “overflowing with gratitude” as they said “I do” in two cities that hold deep personal meaning.

A Blind Date That Turned Into A Five Hour Fairytale

Their romance started with a blind date in May 2024 arranged by a matchmaking friend.

Lewis was living in Los Angeles and visiting family in DC when she agreed to meet Booker.

What should have been a quick hello turned into more than five hours of conversation and connection.

Booker even convinced her to change her flight so they could go on a second date the next night.

Date number two took place in Newark with dinner at a tapas restaurant, a trip to see the Broadway musical “Suffs,” and a first kiss outside the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

If that isn’t romcom energy, I don’t know what is.

From Moving In To A Hawaiian Fairytale Proposal

The couple moved in together this past April and fostered a shepherd mix named Cooke.

Then came the proposal that could make even the coldest heart melt.

Booker proposed in Kauai as a troupe of native musicians performed Lewis’s favorite song, “Dreamlover” by Mariah Carey.

When she told the musicians she dreamed of having that song at her wedding, Booker smiled and said, “This is the song that’s playing at your proposal,” before getting down on one knee.

A cinematic moment for sure.

Celebrating Love In Newark And DC

Their DC ceremony was intimate and filled with family, but it was Newark where they officially became husband and wife at the US District Court.

After the paperwork was signed, the newlyweds celebrated with Italian pastries and a vegan chocolate chip cookie dough cake for Booker’s plant-based lifestyle.

Lewis said she had spent years unsure if marriage was in the cards for her, but meeting Booker changed her life.

She and her girlfriends always say, “Change your flight, change your life,” and in her case, it came true in the sweetest way.

A New Chapter Begins

Booker, once named one of Town and Country’s “Top 40 Bachelors,” has dated high-profile women in the past, including Rosario Dawson and poet Cleo Wade.

Lewis is a DC native with degrees from NYU and Cornell, and she now works as a director of investments at Brasa Capital Management.

Two cities. Two ceremonies. One beautiful beginning.

Are you excited for the newlyweds? Drop down in the comments and let me know, Frens.

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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., announced that he married his fiancé Alexis Lewis on Saturday, sharing photos of himself and his newlywed wife on social media.

Booker and Lewis wed in a private ceremony in Washington, D.C., less than three months after announcing their engagement on Instagram.

On Sunday, Booker posted that they were "overflowing with gratitude," writing: "We said ‘I do’ in two places that shaped us—Cory’s beloved Newark and Alexis’s hometown of Washington, D.C.—first at the courthouse, then with our families. Hearts full and so grateful."

The couple married in an interfaith ceremony — Booker is Christian, and Lewis is Jewish — at an undisclosed venue, The New York Times reported. The couple had legally wed Monday at the federal courthouse in Newark with only their parents present.

The couple told the Times they met through a mutual friend known for matchmaking in May 2024. Their blind date in Washington lasted more than five hours. When Booker asked for a second date the next night, Lewis said she had to catch a flight for a work trip to Newark. Booker persuaded her to delay her flight so they could meet again in Newark, where he was also headed.

Booker later described that second date as "even more magical," saying they ate at a tapas restaurant before he showed her places in the city that shaped his life. The night ended with their first kiss outside the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

Lewis is a director of investments at Brasa Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm, and previously worked for former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. She holds a bachelor’s degree from NYU and an MBA from Cornell.

"My girlfriends and I say, 'Change your flight, change your life,' because it’s exactly what happened," Lewis told the outlet. "After so many years on my own, I’m not entirely sure I believed I would get married. But now, we’ve found each other at this stage of our lives, after epic personal journeys. And that deserves celebration."

The Trump administration is taking an even firmer stance on immigration in the wake of a fatal shooting near the White House Wednesday, which took the life of one National Guard member and injured another.

Additionally, the White House signaled it may ramp up its operations targeting alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean, following months of strikes against vessels accused of trafficking drugs into the U.S.

Here’s what happened this week.

Washington shooting

The Trump administration is moving to impose more limitations on migrants attempting to enter the U.S., after an Afghan national was identified as the suspect in Wednesday’s deadly shooting.

Law enforcement officials identified the shooting suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, who entered the U.S. legally in 2021 under the Biden administration's Operation Allies Welcome program, which aimed to facilitate resettling Afghan refugees in the U.S.

The Department of State has paused all U.S. visas for individuals traveling on the State Department and Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted to X Friday.

U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died Thursday due to injuries stemming from Wednesday’s shooting. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe remains in critical condition as of Friday, per U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.

As a result of the shooting, Trump said in a social media post Thursday that he would permanently pause migration from "all Third World Countries."

Likewise, the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, said Thursday that in accordance with orders from Trump, he has "directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern."

The White House did not provide additional information regarding which countries would be impacted, and referred Fox News Digital to Trump’s social media post.

Venezuela operations

Trump also signaled that his administration would start conducting land operations as it ramps up its operations targeting alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean.

Since September, the Trump administration has conducted more than 20 strikes against alleged drug boats in Latin American waters, and has beefed up its military presence in the Caribbean as part of Trump’s effort to crack down on the influx of drugs into the U.S.

"You probably noticed that now people aren't wanting to be delivering by sea, and we'll be starting to stop them by land also," Trump said Thursday. "The land is easier, but that's going to start very soon."

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital regarding whether the White House was considering land strikes or deploying U.S. troops within Venezuela. However, Trump has previously refused to rule out dispatching U.S. ground troops into Venezuela.

The New York Times reported Friday that Trump spoke with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro in the past week.

Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.