Northeast
Liberal Nantucket reels from migrant crime wave as Biden spends Thanksgiving in rich friend’s mansion
The Biden family arrived at Nantucket Island for their final presidential Thanksgiving on Tuesday despite a spate of migrant crimes that have plagued the vacation hot spot this year.
A small crowd watched as Air Force One touched down at Nantucket Memorial Airport just before 6 p.m., and a presidential motorcade whisked the first family away, the Nantucket Current reported.
The president’s arrival created a bustling atmosphere during the typically quiet holiday week on the island. Hotels in the island’s historic downtown district were fully booked with White House reporters and Secret Service personnel, the local outlet reported.
Nearly a dozen Massachusetts state troopers arrived with motorcycles via the Steamship Authority Ferry on Monday, and vehicles and equipment have been dropped off by a series of Air Force C-17’s over the past three days. More than 200 turkey dinners will be cooked for Secret Service agents at Faregrounds Restaurant.
NANTUCKET’S MIGRANT CRISIS HANDLING CALLED OUT AFTER QUIET ISLAND ROCKED BY WAVE OF VIOLENT ATTACKS
President Biden, first lady Jill Biden and Ashley Biden leave Nantucket Bookworks after having lunch in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Nov. 25, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
For the past three years, the Bidens have stayed at a property owned by private equity billionaire David Rubenstein that overlooks Nantucket Harbor, and their visit this year continues their 40-year tradition of spending the holiday on the island, the Current reported.
The Nantucket visit comes after a rash of illegal immigrants were picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials there earlier this fall.
Five migrants from Guatemala and El Salvador were picked up by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations of Boston over a 48-hour period in September, Fox News Digital previously reported. Since August, the agency has arrested at least eight illegal immigrants accused of various criminal charges on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
On Sept. 10, 28-year-old Salvadoran migrant Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo was charged with one count of child rape with a 10-year age difference and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.
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Secret Service agents walk ahead of President Biden as he visits shops in the island’s Downtown Historic District with relatives in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Nov. 25, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons said Aldana-Arevalo “represents a significant danger to the children of our Massachusetts communities” in a press release at the time of his arrest. Authorities said the victim was just 12 years old, the Current reported.
That day, Aldana-Arevalo and Elmer Sola, another Salvadoran migrant charged with 11 counts of sex crimes against a child, which Lyons said took place on Nantucket, were quietly taken to the mainland in handcuffs via ferry.
Sola was arraigned, charged and released with an ankle monitor Aug. 14 on the condition he stays away from the victim and the victim’s family, according to the Current. However, nine days later, he returned to court after allegedly violating the pretrial conditions of his release.
NANTUCKET PARENTS FEAR FOR CHILDREN AMID SPIKE IN MIGRANT CRIME: ‘AS A FATHER, IT TRULY SCARES ME’
Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an unlawfully present 28-year-old Salvadoran national, Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, and charged him with numerous sex crimes against a child on Nantucket Island. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
On Sept. 11, agents returned to the iconic vacation site to arrest illegal Brazilian migrant Geon do Amaral Belafronte and Guatemalan illegal immigrant Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez. Both had committed sex crimes against Nantucket residents, Lyons said.
Belafronte entered the U.S. lawfully in 2018 but left of his own volition after the alleged assault took place in 2021. He re-entered the country illegally and was picked up on an arrest warrant in March. After his arraignment, Nantucket District Court released him on $500 cash bail or a $5,000 surety bond, according to court records and Boston ERO.
FEAR GRIPS IDYLLIC NANTUCKET AMID MIGRANT CRIME SPIKE: ‘A LOT OF BAD PEOPLE’
ERO Boston on Thursday announced the Sept. 12 arrest of Angel Gabriel Deras-Mejia, a 30-year-old Salvadoran illegal immigrant and documented member of MS-13. (ICE ERO-Boston)
Reputed MS-13 gang member Angel Gabriel Deras-Mejia of El Salvador was taken into custody by the agency on the island on Sept. 12. Lyons said Deras-Mejia “represent[ed] a significant threat to the residents of Nantucket.”
Deras-Mejia was arrested at the Discovery Playground on Old South Road in July. Nantucket Police wrote that he was “drunk and cursing, flaring his arms, yelling loudly and distracting all civilians who were at the scene” and left children at the scene crying. Allegedly, he and the mother of his child were arguing about who would take their child home, according to the Current. In August, he was arrested again for assault and battery on a household member.
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Elmer Sola is charged with 11 counts of sex crimes against a child — specifically, three counts of aggravated rape of a child and eight counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. (ICE – ERO Boston)
Toby Brown, chair of the Nantucket GOP and a Nantucket resident for three decades, was among the few on the island who would openly voice concerns about illegal immigration in the wake of the arrests.
“We need to have this conversation and not just keep having this… idea that if you’re somehow worried, you’re a racist… people just need to not be afraid to speak up,” Brown previously told Fox News Digital. “This island was more worried about when Kevin Spacey got charged back in 2016 [than the recent sex crimes allegedly perpetrated by illegal immigrants],” he said.
‘OBSESSED’ NANTUCKET TRAVELER REVEALS WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO ON THE ISLAND IN THE FALL
Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez, a 41-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was charged with a sex crime against a Nantucket resident. (ICE – ERO Boston)
“[The ICE arrests were] not a surprise to us,” Brown said. “When you follow the court reports in the last year or so, there have been quite a bit of violent arrests… maybe it was surprising ICE came out here, but not surprising that they had to come out here.”
Brown said most immigrants on the idyllic island off the coast of Cape Cod are good and active community members, including those residing there illegally. Many of his friends and coworkers are immigrants, he said. However, many residents are still concerned about those who may be running from violent pasts in their home countries.
“We owe it to our immigrants who have come here, whether they’re legal or not,” he said. “There’s a lot of them that just want a better life. And they come here, and they’re doing the best they can. They raise their children here, and they don’t want this crime.”
“They didn’t come to Nantucket to live the way they did back in El Salvador or Mexico or wherever they came from,” he added.
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New York
Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized in Florida in ‘Critical Condition’
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, is in a Florida hospital in critical condition, his spokesman said Sunday.
The spokesman, Ted Goodman, would not specify which hospital and said that the former mayor “remains in critical but stable condition.”
“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak,” he said, before asking “that you join us in prayer” for the former mayor.
It is unclear when Mr. Giuliani, 81, was taken to the hospital.
President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, called Mr. Giuliani a “True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”
He used the occasion to again advance his false claim that Democrats “cheated” in the 2020 election.
“They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!” he said.
Mr. Giuliani has struggled with legal and financial problems in recent years, and in the summer of 2025, he was involved in a car crash in New Hampshire in which he suffered a fractured vertebra. After that, Mr. Giuliani made at least one public appearance in a wheelchair.
Mr. Giuliani became mayor in January 1994 after he defeated Mayor David N. Dinkins, who was running for a second term. He remained in office until December 2001 and helped lead the city in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Later, he became a personal lawyer to Mr. Trump during the president’s first term and quickly became embroiled in a number of investigations related to the presidency.
Mr. Giuliani was a crucial part of the team that helped Mr. Trump advance the claim that he won the 2020 election. After Mr. Trump left office, Mr. Giuliani was indicted multiple times and contended with a number of costly defamation suits related to those efforts. Now disbarred, he has kept a far lower profile during Mr. Trump’s second term in office.
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.
Boston, MA
2 men arrested after armed home invasion with shots fired in Saugus, police say
Gunshots were fired in a daytime armed home invasion in Saugus, Massachusetts, on Sunday, police say, and the two suspects are in custody.
No one was hurt in the shooting on Oakwood Avenue about noon, Saugus police said. Two Boston men, Derek Matarazzo and Timothy Gregory, are facing felony charges including home invasion after their arrest shortly after the 911 calls came in.
The calls reported two men in masks, dressed in black, armed with guns, breaking into a house, police said. They didn’t share what led to the gunfire or how the men were tracked down, saying only that the department wasn’t speculating on their motivation.
Matarazzo and Gregory are believed to be the only people directly involved in the home invasion, police said, and it’s believed to be an isolated incident, so there’s no danger to the public.
Neighbors who spoke with NBC10 Boston say they are shaken up by what occurred, describing a shootout right outside their homes in the middle of the day.
Ring camera video from a nearby home shows the aftermath, as neighbors say you can see the homeowner running into the middle of the street with a phone pressed to his ear, desperately flagging down police — after the chaos.
A neighbor tells us his family first heard what sounded like a pop — something they thought could’ve been a lawn mower backfiring, until they realized it was gunfire. That neighbor says one of his daughters then saw a man carrying a safe — dropping it in their front yard — while shots were being fired.
“I saw somebody come out of the house shooting and then we all hit the deck, because you didn’t want a stray bullet to ricochet off something and come through the window or anything like that,” George Benn said.
“I saw the shots. I saw a man go down. I thought he was going to be dead but apparently he just flipped on that hill,” Tom Bushee said.
The investigation is ongoing.
Pittsburg, PA
Emotional 2026 Pittsburgh Marathon saw multiple new records set
This year’s Pittsburgh Marathon is one for the record books. More than 52,000 runners crossed the finish line, with more than 300,000 spectators cheering them on.
“We’re welcoming people from around the world,” P3R CEO Troy Schooley said. “This event has turned into an international event for our city. We’re going to show it off today. The runners will run through 14 neighborhoods. We have 33 different countries represented today and all 50 states.”
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Mohammed El Youssfi claimed the men’s division of the Pittsburgh Half Marathon, crossing the finish line and immediately wrapping himself in the Moroccan flag.
“This is my first time in Pittsburgh, but the special moment for me today is the people here cheering me on,” El Youssfi said. “That helped me to win the race.”
Emotions ran high for Pittsburgh’s very own Will Loevner. The Winchester Thurston graduate has run the Pittsburgh Marathon multiple times, finishing as the runner-up in 2024 and fifth in 2025. But in 2026, he took home top honors, crossing the finish line first at 2:14.
“I’ve now won the Philadelphia marathon, the Cleveland marathon twice,” Loevner said. “To win Pittsburgh, I feel like it was the trifecta and the most special one for me. I mean, being in the hometown, nothing even compares.”
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Buze Diriba Kejela is 2026’s women’s Pittsburgh Half Marathon champion, setting a course record for women and crossing the finish line at 1:08:39.
“I’m happy to set the course record. I like it,” she said.
Before the runners crossed the start line, the handcyclists got a head start. Marshall Tempest of Monroeville came out on top in the Pittsburgh Marathon Handcycle Division, finishing at 1:40:16.
“I’ve done 13 Pittsburgh marathons, and this is my 5th time winning it, in a row,” he said. “It feels good. It was a rough one, but I was determined to get that 5th one.”
“I love running,” said Will Henry Lawrence, who ran the half-marathon. “I love being able to have breath in my lungs and let my feet hit the pavement. I had a stroke six years ago, and so I give all glory to God for being able to get out and exercise.”
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Tickets for the 2027 Pittsburgh Marathon are on sale for 48 hours, starting at 3 p.m. on May 3, 2026. You can register at thepittsburghmarathon.com
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