Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing influencer known for his stint as Kanye West’s chief of staff and current role as his publicist, has reportedly been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

According to sources, the British provocateur was apprehended at a Louisiana airport. Inmate records confirm his present location at a detention center in the area, as detailed by TMZ.

Details regarding his travel motives to Louisiana remain unclear, although it coincides with Kanye West’s scheduled performance at the Superdome in New Orleans this Friday.

Yiannopoulos, who gained notoriety as a political commentator, has consistently championed the causes of immigration restriction and mass deportation.

In 2017, Yiannopoulos stated he was residing in the United States on an O-1 nonimmigrant visa, designated for individuals with ‘extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics,’ according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy manual.

The Daily Mail has contacted Yiannopoulos and ICE for comment. 

O-1 visas, which require sponsorship by an ‘agent’ or employer, can also be given to individuals of ‘extraordinary achievement’ in movies and TV.

Yiannopoulos enjoys a longstanding association with West and acted as director of political operations on his 2024 US presidential campaign.

In 2022, during his time as West’s political honcho, he helped arrange the rapper’s explosively controversial Mar-a-Lago summit with Donald Trump and the self-described ‘white identitarian’ streaming star Nick Fuentes.

Yiannopoulous has since dramatically fallen out with Fuentes, whom he now relentlessly derides on X, formerly known as Twitter. 

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In 2017, he exchanged vows in Hawaii with a black man whom he publicly referred to only as ‘John,’ otherwise carefully concealing his identity.

As such, it remains unconfirmed whether Yiannopoulos became eligible to obtain American citizenship or a green card via marriage to a US national.

Yiannopoulos has characterized himself as ‘ex-gay’ since 2021, and has commenced divorce proceedings with his husband.

His reported ICE woes come after his client, West, was banned from Yiannopoulos’ native Britain over the antisemitic diatribes that torpedoed his career, including praise for Hitler and a vow to go ‘death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.’

West took out a full-page ad apologizing for the comments in the Wall Street Journal this January, three months before he was prohibited from entering the UK.

He was scheduled to a headline a music festival at Finsbury Park in London that was called off altogether after his appearance became impossible.

West has also seen planned concerts canceled in Poland and France this year as a result of the continuing backlash to his past tirades about Jews.

He was set to perform at the Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg in October, which would have made him the highest-profile western artist to play Russia since the outbreak of the Ukraine War, but those shows were also scrapped amid blowback.

However he has been able to mount concerts in America, as well as in Mexico, Turkey and such post-Soviet countries as Georgia and Kazakhstan.

In his Wall Street Journal ad, West blamed his antisemitic remarks on his infamous 2002 car crash, which he claimed left him with brain damage that went ‘unnoticed’ and led to the development of his subsequently diagnosed bipolar disorder.

Authorities confirmed that at least 14 infants perished in the ferocious blaze that engulfed the nursery early Wednesday morning. Despite these grim circumstances, a glimmer of hope emerged as hospital officials revealed that one baby was heroically rescued from the inferno.

The fire erupted at approximately 6:45 a.m., confined to the nursery area following the explosion of an air conditioning compressor, according to statements from hospital and rescue personnel. Fortunately, swift action ensured that the inferno did not spread to other hospital wards, containing the damage to the gynecology section.

Dr. Aneeza Jalil, the hospital’s spokesperson, disclosed that the precious life of one infant was saved by a courageous doctor amid the chaos. She further noted that six of the tiny victims’ bodies have been returned to heartbroken families while efforts continue to reunite the remaining families with their lost loved ones.

Video showed grieving families distraught with sorrow as investigators examined blasted out windows and authorities worked to secure the scene.

“I don’t know what to say or whom to blame,” a woman The Associated Press (AP) identified as Mrs. Mohammad Sami said.

“I have lost my child,” she told the outlet, just three days after she reportedly gave birth.

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The incident prompted Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to remove Health Secretary Aslam Ghauri, the country’s highest civil servant, from office.

Sharif ordered an immediate investigation.

“A tragedy involving children is an irreparable loss,” he said.

Shortly after the incident, Sharif convened a high-level meeting in which he expressed anger at officials for the incident and removed Ghauri.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari also weighed in, offering condolences to the families and saying the deaths amounted to a “heartbreaking and an irreparable loss.”

A recent photograph from the moon’s terrain has generated a buzz with whispers about potential alien life.

Captured by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 3 back in 1967, the image was taken during preparations for humanity’s inaugural journey to the moon.

Fast forward nearly sixty years, and UFO enthusiast Scott Waring suggests the photo may depict something far beyond the iconic lunar surface.

Waring contends that a peculiar elongated shape visible in the image represents an alien spaceship, poised above the surface at a staggering length of 3.4 miles.

To arrive at this calculation, Waring compared the object’s size against Theophilus crater—known to be 68 miles wide—surmising the alleged spacecraft to be roughly one-twentieth its length.

For him, the photograph carries a chilling implication: that humanity was being watched before astronauts ever set foot on the moon.

‘This is 100% proof that aliens were watching humans before we ever stepped on the moon,’ he wrote on his website UFO Sightings Daily.

He even suggested that the enormous vessel would be considered a ‘small shuttle craft’ by its supposed occupants.

However, Waring provides no independent evidence that the feature is a spacecraft, and neither its claimed size nor its alleged extraterrestrial origin has been established.

NASA has also maintained that it has no evidence of extraterrestrial life and has yet to find any signs of current or past life on Mars.

Waring, however, is sure that the mysterious object in the photo is an alien craft.

‘There is a long spacecraft hovering over the moon’s surface in a NASA photo from 1967,’ he wrote in his blog. 

‘I took the measurement of the crater in the photo called Theophilus crater, which is 110km or 68 miles across by 4.4km or 2.7 miles deep, and can conclude that this UFO is 1/20 the length of the crater…equals 5.5km or 3.4 miles long UFO. 

‘That’s huge to us humans, but to aliens, it’s considered a small shuttle craft.’

While the American space agency has dismissed aliens visiting the moon, the Trump Administration’s UFO files have revealed unexplainable phenomena during the Apollo moon missions.

On May 8, the US Department of War released hundreds of pages of documents, pictures and audio recordings allegedly providing evidence of extraterrestrial sightings dating back to the 1940s. 

Included in what has been described as the first batch of UFO files expected to come from the Pentagon this year were the transcripts of the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 moon missions.

Those files and a collection of images taken by the astronauts on the moon revealed multiple encounters with strange objects that appear to fly around their lunar landers.

During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, astronauts Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt and Ron Evans reported seeing a bright object that rotated and flashed rhythmically out in space.

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Cernan said: ‘I’m looking at what – what Jack was talking about; and it’s definitely not a particle that’s nearby because there is another one I can look at and get a three-dimensional comparison with.’

‘It is a bright object, and it’s obviously rotating because it’s flashing. It’s way out in the distance, as I say, because there are particles that are close by and it’s obviously not one of those,’ the astronaut described.

‘It’s apparently rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost – almost on time. And as we look back at the Earth, it’s up at about 11:00 about – oh, maybe 10 or 12 Earth diameters. I don’t know whether that does you any good, but there is something out there.’

During the lunar landing, which was the last time humans stepped on the moon’s surface, the crew of Apollo 17 also reported seeing multiple small objects moving near the spacecraft during their flight.

‘Now we’ve got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by as we maneuver,’ Evans told the command center on Earth.

‘Roger. Understand,’ the center replied. ‘There’s a whole [bunch] of big ones on my window down there – just bright. It looks like the Fourth of July out of Ron’s window,’ Schmitt added.

Evans reported: ‘Yes. Now you can see some of them in shape. They’re very jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling.’

The astronauts revealed that right after they fired their thrusters to change direction, the crew began to see the bright particles and jagged, angular fragments drifting past the windows.

Jack says it looks like the ‘Fourth of July’ out Evans’ window, with big bright pieces tumbling slowly around the capsule.

The astronauts were also recorded describing the strange objects as pieces of something solid, not fluid, very bright, and mostly moving with the spacecraft but with occasional faster ones zipping by. Evans reported taking pictures of them.

Three years earlier, the Apollo 12 moon mission also reported strange sightings as they neared the lunar surface.

The Trump administration’s third batch of UFO files, released on June 12, included recorded NASA briefings after Apollo 16, which referred to an ‘alien starbase’ on the dark side of the moon. 

The comments were not included in the official transcript from the 1972 mission.

Apollo 16 flew from April 16 to April 27, 1972, and saw astronauts John Young and Charles Duke become the first humans to explore the moon’s rugged highlands while Thomas ‘Ken’ Mattingly remained in lunar orbit.

Buried within the 55-minute discussion is a brief exchange about unusual gravity readings, laser measurements and unexplained anomalies detected on the moon’s far side.

The speakers focus on what one participant describes as a ‘great big hole’ near the Van de Graaff crater, a distinctive lunar formation known for unusual magnetic and geochemical characteristics.

‘On the backside of the moon around Fendi graph, that’s where we get our big hole,’ one speaker says.

The discussion then takes an unexpected turn.

‘It could be an alien star base or something. Anyway, the next slide shows the front side of the moon.’

The remark appears amid a broader technical discussion of lunar data and anomalies, although the context of the comment remains unclear from the audio alone.

In a recent legal skirmish, Donald Trump faced another setback as a federal judge dismissed his attempt to overturn a hush money conviction. Efforts to transfer the state court case to the federal judiciary on the grounds of presidential immunity fell flat, with the judge staunchly upholding the original ruling.

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein reaffirmed his prior decision, dismissing Trump’s renewed appeal by indicating that the arguments presented lacked any novel or legally credible foundation.

In his statement, Hellerstein remarked, “There has been a clear lack of compelling cause and due diligence on his part.”

This marks the third instance where Judge Hellerstein has thwarted Trump’s efforts to transfer the proceedings from New York to a U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

The May 2024 trial culminated in Trump’s conviction, an unprecedented outcome making him the sole former—and now once again active—U.S. president to be criminally convicted. Meanwhile, Trump continues to pursue an appeal through the state court system, with that process currently underway.

Hellerstein’s decision came after a federal appeals court last year ordered him to reconsider his prior denial. The