Society.
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Health, crime, culture, daily life — the documented record of what’s actually happening in American society. Straight news on the news desk; opinion-inflected accountability files in the labeled sub-sections below. All sourced. All dated. All named.
Minnesota Sold This Paid-Leave Program at 0.7 Percent. It Opened at 0.88 — and Its Own Actuaries Say It Needs 0.92.
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) signed a paid-leave program sold at a 0.7% payroll tax. It opened at 0.88% — still under the 0.92% its own actuaries say it needs to break even.
The City Let Her Keep the Company on One Condition. She Broke It. The Fine Was $5,000.
Her husband's company has billed NYC schools $1,533,221 since 2023. The waiver barred the districts she oversees; the company took $32,525.16 from them anyway.
He Promised Free Beer on the Day the President Died. Now He Wants Sympathy Over a $500 Tax Bill.
Wisconsin revoked three of Kirk Bangstad's permits over untaxed beer trucked in from Illinois. He blames Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI); the state says it is enforcing alcohol law.
She Was Free on Bail Facing Six Felonies. The Court Found She Removed the Monitor and Sought a Second Passport.
Adva Lavie was released on bail on six felony counts. She was held only after a second arrest, a missing ankle monitor, and a second passport application.
Pack the Court to 13. Revisit the Electoral College. Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico.
Kamala Harris told Nashville Democrats to revisit court expansion, the Electoral College, and D.C./Puerto Rico statehood — then declined to name Biden among her top presidents.
Under Oath, Hunter Biden Says He Owns No Car, No Phone, Nothing of Value — Except the Paintings He Sells for $36,000 Apiece.
A February 2026 deposition over $17M in unpaid legal fees has Hunter Biden claiming he's broke — the same week his own lawyers moved to lien a $1.7M judgment he'd just won.
Autism Therapy Billing Hit $5.15 Billion. One State Audit Found a 47,000% Spike — and No One Had Explained It.
North Carolina Auditor Dave Boliek (R) blames a 47,000% ABA billing spike on lax Democrat-led state oversight; Florida clawed back $136M and blocked 3,200+ providers.
Nebraska's Democratic Nominee for Its Only Swing Seat Once Urged Supporters to the Capitol in "Protect Trans Kids" Shirts.
Denise Powell (D), NE-02's nominee, is on record opposing a 2023 law restricting gender treatments for minors — though the word 'surgery' never appears in her own posts.
She Denied a Killer Parole. He Allegedly Vowed to Torture and Murder Her. New York Fired Her, Not Him.
A 2017 Cuomo (D) appointee who denied a killer parole and reported his alleged threats against her was removed from the Board of Parole in 2025. The commissioner who freed him remains.
A WNBA Co-Owner Allegedly Cursed Out Two 16-Year-Olds. Fox Covered It All Week. CNN Didn't Touch It.
Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton was suspended 5 games after allegedly cursing at two teen fans. Fox's opinion shows covered it all week; a media watchdog found zero CNN coverage.
Bill Maher Said He'd Rather Vote for Sarah Palin Than His Own Party's Socialist Wing.
Bill Maher's July 31 Real Time monologue said he'd vote for Sarah Palin over DSA-aligned Democrats — and cited a 'capitalists, not socialists' pledge only 8 of 212 House Democrats signed.
Bail Cut From $225,000 to $75,000. He Went Home — to the Same House. Four Months Later He Was Found Dead There.
A California man accused of secretly filming women and a child made reduced bail, returned to the same rental home, and was found dead there four months later — ending the case before trial.
She Pleaded Guilty to Being China's Agent. The FBI Is Still Pulling the Thread in Southern California.
Eileen Wang (D) and her treasurer both pleaded guilty to acting as PRC agents. A July 28 FBI raid across San Bernardino County shows the investigation isn't over — with no one else charged.
A County Therapist Had Unsupervised Access to a Boy in Juvenile Hall. Prosecutors Say She Used It.
Sofia Ann-Buitron Drotts faces seven felony counts. A supervision gap spanning two county agencies and four rotating probation officers is the accountability question — she's charged, not convicted.
Three People Died at Bite of Seattle. The Mayor Had Turned Off the Cameras 19 Days Earlier.
Katie Wilson (D) deactivated Seattle Center's cameras July 7. Investigators had no footage to track the shooter — and the police chief didn't know if any existed.
Scott Galloway's Pivot Podcast Rant Went Further Than Even His Co-Host Wanted
Trump joked about Kaitlan Collins and Dylan Mulvaney at the WHCD. Four days later, Galloway's on-air response was profane enough that Kara Swisher told him to back off.
UMN Built 'Transgender Dolls' for 4-Year-Olds. No One Will Say Who Paid.
An 18-month-old public-records request for the project's funding sources remains unanswered. Gov. Walz's only tie is a 2023 award for unrelated actions.
GOP Senator Releases Alleged Biden Memo Aimed at Trapping Trump in TPS Suits
Schmitt says a Biden-era document shows a plan to shield 3.1 million people via TPS. The document is unverified beyond his own thread — but the real extensions, the litigation, and the Supreme Court's ruling ending it are documented fact.
Alaska's Citizenship-Verification Mailing Comes With Its Own Lawsuit
3,048 letters went out ahead of the August primary after an unusual DMV data spike. A separate ACLU suit challenges how the state shared its full voter file with DOJ in the first place.
EEOC Votes 2-1 to Propose Ending Employer Race/Sex Reporting
Chair Andrea Lucas says the 1966-era reports conflict with Title VII's colorblind mandate. It's a proposed rule, not final — and it wouldn't touch voluntary employee self-ID.
Columnist Compares Caitlin Clark Fouls to Emmett Till's Lynching
Nancy Armour's USA Today column drew bipartisan backlash within hours; she apologized the same day and the paper added an editor's note.
Vance Boelter Sentenced to Life Plus 40 Years — State Charges Still Pending
Boelter's federal sentence for assassinating Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) and shooting Sen. John Hoffman (D) is final. Eight state murder and attempted-murder counts haven't gone to trial yet.
NJ Admits 6,600 Noncitizens Were Registered to Vote
Gov. Sherrill (D) says a Motor Vehicle Commission error under Gov. Murphy (D) let thousands of noncitizens onto the rolls. DOJ says the roughly 400 who voted face prosecution and removal.
Two Men Stabbed on Manhattan's Upper West Side — Suspect in Custody, NYPD Weighs Hate Crime
Raul Morales, 51, is in custody but uncharged. Witnesses say he yelled 'Allahu Akbar' during both attacks; city officials call it antisemitic, NYPD is still evaluating motive.
Kamala Harris Is 2028's Frontrunner by Default — the Word Salad Never Stopped
Real word-salad clips, real CBP border numbers from her 'root causes' assignment, and a border wall she now wants finished after calling it a 'medieval vanity project.'
California's Civil Rights Department Has Become a Corporate Shakedown Machine
Riot Games settled for $100M, Activision for $54.875M — and Newsom's own former chief of staff pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about influencing the Activision case.
Rand Paul Just Released the 'Proximal Origin' Scientists' Private Slack Messages
Fauci is subpoenaed to testify July 29 — the documented record of what NIH-funded researchers said privately about a possible COVID lab origin.
One Illinois Judge Was Removed for Pro-Trump Comments. Another's Anti-Policing Columns Drew No Discipline.
Judge James Brown's 18-year clean record ended over a blog post; Justice Ramon Ocasio III's published columns drew no comparable action. Brown's federal suit calls it viewpoint discrimination.
A 2-Year-Old Is Dead in Virginia. The Man Charged Was in the Country Illegally.
Raul Ortiz Moran, 29, is charged with murder and sexual battery. ICE detained him without bond before state charges were filed.
Fergie Chambers Built a Radical Funding Network. Now He's in Jail.
Cox media-fortune heir James 'Fergie' Chambers was arrested in Spain and faces U.S. extradition on a sealed federal indictment.
A Disbarred Democratic Ex-Lawmaker Was Called 'Fit to Practice Law.' Days Later, He Was Charged With Child Porn.
Jesse White (D), disbarred in 2017, was recommended for reinstatement in April. In July, the FBI allegedly found 100+ CSAM files in his home.
A Homeless Man Was Stabbed to Death and Left on a Long Island Expressway
Timothy Stark, 32, was killed in Medford, NY; suspect Joseph Norton, 20, was remanded without bail. Long Island's homeless count just hit its highest since 2007.
Teachers' Unions Spent $23 Million Building AI Guidance for the Classroom — a New Report Says It's Loaded With DEI
A Defending Education report finds equity and bias language embedded across guidance from the NEA, AFT, and four other national education organizations. None responded to a request for comment.
Ruby Garcia's Convicted Killer Sues Trump for $75 Million From Prison
Brandon Ortiz-Vite, already sentenced to up to 102 years, filed a pro se federal suit seeking damages and U.S. citizenship. Legal experts doubt it survives initial screening.
Fall City Man Sentenced to 9 Years — His Second Sex Offense
Paydan Bussey was already a registered sex offender when he was caught with child sexual abuse images. Two more charges from 2024 remain pending.
Capitola Mall Stabbing Suspect Was Out on Release From a Prior Arrest
Rachell Summers, 73, was killed in what police call a random attack. Her accused killer was free on bail/O.R. release — but the underlying case remains undisclosed.
Talarico Confronted by Black Activist at His Own Houston Town Hall
'Black people don't trust you,' organizer Kandice Webber told him — even as Talarico pledged $25 million in outreach and praised the primary rival he'd just beaten.
$340,000 a Year to Wire a Nearly-Abandoned Alaska Island for Internet Nobody Uses
A ProPublica/ADN investigation found not one of roughly 24 residents on Adak Island actually subscribes to the FCC-subsidized service. The subsidy hasn't budged.
FBI Catches Its Third 'Most Wanted Fraudster' in Five Weeks — Caught With a Fake Passport
Khalid Ahmed Satary skipped bond in 2022 over an alleged $547 million Medicare fraud scheme. A July 22 update reveals he was carrying a counterfeit Mexican passport when he was caught.
DOJ Probes Harvard Over 'China-Based' Financial Aid Programs
Harvard has 11 days to produce records after DOJ's Civil Rights Division opened a Title VI review into whether its China-linked aid programs discriminate against American students.
State Dept Report: Cuba Treats Infiltrating U.S. Universities as a Top Priority
A ~100-page report ties decades of Cuban intelligence work — the Venceremos Brigade, ICAP — to campus radicalization, while preserving its own hedge on how directly it links to specific unrest.
Don Lemon Compares MAGA to Nazis, Then Offers to Fight Trump's Cabinet
Days after calling MAGA 'America's version' of the Nazi Party, Don Lemon and Democratic influencer Harry Sisson used Lemon's own show to volunteer to fight Stephen Miller and other named Trump officials.
64 Medicaid 'Adult Daycares' Packed Into One Square Mile of Queens
CMS's Dr. Oz and journalist Nick Shirley's viral investigation builds on $226 million in federal fraud cases and a state audit that found $285 million more in questionable payments — under Democratic oversight at every level.
Ruffalo Calls Musk a Monster — Then Gets Asked About His Own $90 Million
Mark Ruffalo's cartoon telling Elon Musk to give away his 'extra cash' drew an instant hypocrisy charge right back at the multimillion-dollar actor — echoing the same boomerang from 2024.
Flagstaff School District Helped Plan an ICE Walkout, Then Never Told Parents
Internal emails FUSD was sued to release show staff coordinated an 800-student ICE walkout and supervised it — parents learned only after their kids had already left campus.
Teen Shot for Her Purse on a Brooklyn Subway Platform — Gunman Still at Large
NYPD's own mid-year data show subway crime near a 16-year low overall — except robbery, which Commissioner Tisch says is increasingly driven by juveniles as young as 13.
LA Hauled 13 Million Pounds of Trash From One Park in 2025 — It Didn't Stay Clean
Public records show over 7,100 cleanup events at MacArthur Park in a single year. The city won't say what cleaning this one park actually cost.
NYC Makes Cash-for-Syringes Program Permanent With Opioid Settlement Money
Mamdani's first budget wrote a $3 million line for the syringe-redemption program permanently into law. Critics say the money belongs in treatment beds, not cash payments to drug users.
Mullin Calls ABC, NBC 'Shameful' for Skipping Trump's Speech
ABC and NBC aired regular programming instead of Trump's election-security address. DHS Secretary Mullin: 'What are they trying to cover up?'
Paul Pelosi Charged in Napa County Hit-and-Run
The DA filed misdemeanor charges after his Maserati struck a parked Tesla and he drove off; DUI was ruled out. Court date set for August 14.
Sunny Hostin Came to the Scene in Person and Invoked Two Credentials, Fuller Reporting Shows
Newsbusters' fuller account adds an in-person appearance, a 'Yale researcher' credential, and the specific penal-code citation from her letter to prosecutors. Her son's court date is still July 31 — nothing has been adjudicated.
Lawsuit: Kern County CPS Lost Track of Genesis Mata's Family Before Her Death
A grand jury warned the agency was failing four months before an 8-year-old was allegedly tortured to death by her father, who was already under an open CPS investigation.
Lawsuit: Oregon Withheld Its Own Pediatric Gender-Treatment Data
A records requester's federal suit says the state buried its own data — then a 2026 bill nearly blocked that kind of public-records access permanently.
The Smithsonian's Own Watchdog Found Questioned Costs. The White House Says It's Worse.
A Smithsonian IG audit flagged $36,500 in unaccounted federal spending on a Gaza-war exhibit. A separate White House report alleges ideological capture at the National Museum of American History.
ICE Killed Him in a Case of Mistaken Identity. A Week Later, the FBI Said His Van Had Drugs.
DHS says Lorenzo Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle; passengers dispute it. An FBI warrant later described a substance consistent with meth in his van — ownership unconfirmed.
His CDL Restriction Lifted 6 Days Before He Killed 3 People. He Got Under 5 Years.
Jashanpreet Singh's California non-domiciled CDL cleared him to drive interstate six days before a fatal I-10 crash. He was sentenced to 4 years 8 months against a 10-year max.
A Janitor Renamed Her LLC 'Mental Health.' Ohio Says She Billed Medicaid $9.3 Million.
A Franklin County grand jury indicted a couple accused of scaling a fraudulent Medicaid billing scheme to $650,000 a month — then fleeing to Africa.
A Democratic Fundraiser Says the Party Hid Biden's Decline. Her Own Party Calls Her a Liar.
Lindy Li says Biden's memoir launch flopped because Democrats know what she's about to reveal. Jaime Harrison and others directly dispute her account.
Trump Wants Veterans Driving the Trucks Illegal Immigrants Drive Now
Trump announced automatic CDL eligibility for veterans who drove military trucks — building on DOT's non-domiciled-CDL crackdown. No timeline or headcount target exists yet.
Men Filmed Themselves Beating a Sleeping Homeless Man. The Judge Gave Them No Prison Time.
Prosecutors sought the 7-year maximum after a filmed attack left the victim with a permanent brain injury. A Newsom-appointed judge gave 364 days in county jail instead.
A Knifeman Stabbed a Border Patrol Agent on the CA-AZ Line
Border Patrol shot and killed the assailant at Blythe Station. CBP's Commissioner called him an 'immediate threat' — his immigration status remains unconfirmed.
Democrats Called Her to Attack the New AG. She Recommended Clemency for a Man Who Killed a Baby.
Liz Oyer testified against Todd Blanche's AG confirmation. Her own memo recommended clemency for all 40 death-row inmates — Biden commuted 37.
LA Can't Say Where $2.4 Billion in Homeless Funding Went. Its Homelessness-Committee Chair Is Now Running for Mayor.
LA's Controller found $513 million unspent; HUD suspended LAHSA's funding over 'a clear pattern of fraud.'
Newsom Wants Democrats to Be "Culturally Normal." His Own State Built a $633 Million DEI Contracting Rule First.
California's CPUC runs a Supplier Diversity Program projected to direct $633 million a year to LGBT-certified businesses — now under DOJ investigation.
His Own Agency Paused ICE Traffic Stops After Two Deaths. One Day Later, Trump Overruled It.
DHS quietly paused most ICE vehicle stops after two fatal shootings. Trump reversed it on Truth Social less than a day later.
Federal Inspectors Found $255.1 Million in Hospice Waste. One County Alone Is Home to 1,800 of Them.
An HHS audit found Medicare could have saved $255.1 million on undocumented hospice claims — the fraud casework since is concentrated in LA County.
Police Say She Slapped a Teenager Over a Trump Shirt. A County Sheriff's Own ICE Ties Are Why She Didn't Walk Away.
NJ's statewide sanctuary-style policy didn't stop this detainer — because Ocean County's sheriff never adopted it.
A Summer of "Teen Takeovers." A Summer of Statements Instead of Consequences.
Fifty-three arrests in Chicago produced a vote against fining parents. Four arrests in Delaware produced zero charges.
DHS Told Angus King the Man ICE Killed in Maine Was the Target — Then Called Back to Say That Was Wrong
Sen. Angus King (I-ME) says DHS Secretary Mullin gave him two different accounts, three hours apart, of who ICE actually killed in Biddeford — and DHS's own public statement never mentioned the discrepancy.
Six Months After ICE Killed Two Minnesotans — Federal Prosecutors Finally Handed Over the Evidence
DOJ and DHS turned over hard drives of evidence in the shootings that killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti and wounded Julio Sosa-Celis — six months after the FBI first blocked Minnesota investigators from it. Only one of the three officers has been charged.
Trump Pardoned Rep. Cuellar From 20 Years in Prison — Then Called Him 'a Weak and Incompetent Version of Me'
Seven months after freeing Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) from a bribery trial, Trump is campaigning against him and posting that the pardon bought him nothing.
Sunny Hostin Says Graham 'Betrayed His Country for Power.' He Had Been Dead Two Days.
On The View's first broadcast since Graham's death, Hostin read his own reversed Trump statements aloud and endorsed a 'pilot fish' line from Steve Schmidt. Navarro and Haines pushed back on air.
Chicago Teachers Union HQ Hosted a Conference Rehearsing Sabotage — While the U.S. Was Striking Iran
Speakers praised Iran's 'axis of resistance' and rehearsed shutting down U.S. ports inside CTU's own building — during an active U.S.-Iran war. CTU says it only rented the space.
K-12 Fraudsters Stole $225 Million From Taxpayers in Seven Years
Nearly 90 confirmed fraud cases in 24 states and Puerto Rico since 2019 — a charter director's Disney cruises, Indiana's $44 million 'ghost student' scheme, and a systemic finding that only 3 of the 20 largest U.S. school districts have ever been audited.
He's a Democrat. He's Newsom's Sheriff. He Says California's Crime Laws Are Failing Victims.
Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper (D) says Prop 36 got just $50M of $375M for courts, a child-abuse bill died with only 2 Republican votes to save it, and a domestic-violence sentencing fix keeps getting voted down. Newsom's (D) office cites a six-decade-low homicide rate.
SF Charged a Jailer With Groping an Inmate on Camera — A Federal Lawsuit Says It Wasn't Isolated
DA Brooke Jenkins (D) charged Deputy Nanette Musto, 51, with battery and assault — reassigned, not fired, presumed innocent. The DA ties it to a federal class action from 20 women alleging a mass strip search at the same jail.
He Reached for a Stranger's Baby at Pike Place Market — No Felony Was Ever Charged
A grandmother's kick and a father's block stopped a stranger from getting away with an infant at Pike Place Market. Four days later, King County prosecutors said it didn't meet Washington's felony bar for kidnapping.
A San José State Grad Student Is Charged With Faking a Neo-Nazi Bomb Hoax — His Own Politics Ran the Opposite Direction
Ziheng 'Tony' Fang, 30, faces a federal hoax count over 21 months of bomb threats and swastika graffiti — no device was ever found, and his own social media shows the opposite politics of the hate speech charged against him.
He Wore a 'Trump Is a Scab' Shirt at the DNC. Now a Federal Grand Jury Is Investigating Him.
A grand jury has subpoenaed the UAW's own court-appointed monitor over allegations President Shawn Fain misused his office for his fiancée's benefit, then retaliated against the deputy who said no — the same oversight structure that already convicted two of his predecessors. No charges filed.
Spanberger's New Prison Council Reserves Seats for Faith Groups. It's Co-Chaired by the FBI Official Who Once Watched Them as Terrorists.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) named former FBI Richmond SAC Stanley Meador — behind the retracted anti-Catholic memo — to co-chair a new corrections council.
He Bribed the Navy, Then Fled the Country. Now He Wants a Pardon.
Convicted, sentenced to 15 years, and once a fugitive traded back from Venezuela — 'Fat Leonard' Francis has confirmed he's seeking a pardon from President Trump. The White House says it isn't tracking the request.
Two Months Later, It Went National. Raleigh Had No Curfew At All.
8,000 teens in Raleigh, zero curfew, 9-10 shot. DC took four months of emergency orders before a permanent law. Newport Beach and Pensacola show the wave's scale.
The Clip Was Ten Months Old. Justine Bateman Called It Treason.
A year-old clip of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) calling pro-Israel Americans 'genocide enablers' resurfaced on X — and the censure resolution over it never got a vote.
Kamala Harris Gave the Sparks a Locker-Room Speech. Nobody Could Explain What She Said.
Harris called it a 'date night' at a Sparks game, praised the WNBA on air in vague abstractions, then addressed the winning locker room the same way. Conservative media dubbed it 'Coach Kamala.'
ICE Is Waiting at the Weigh Station: The Crackdown on Illegal-Immigrant Truckers
Massachusetts licensed a Haitian parolee now charged with killing a PA trooper. California admits 17,000 illegal CDLs. After 13 deaths in five crashes, Washington is pulling drivers from cabs — and $200 million from Sacramento.
Five Slashed in a 'Mass Stabbing' a Half-Mile From LA's Olympic Stadium
An evolving LAPD count: at least five victims with severe lacerations on a Metro pedestrian bridge near USC, two unnamed suspects in custody, and one phrase of motive — in a city fielding its smallest police force in roughly 30 years during its biggest event month ever, in a district whose councilman awaits trial on 12 felony counts.
110 Unvetted Men, an Indicted Operator, and $186 Million: How City Hall Flipped a Sheepshead Bay Motel
The city is emptying 55 families out of a converted Emmons Avenue motel — across from a playground — to move in 110 single men with zero criminal background checks, as early as next week. The nonprofit operator's ex-leaders face federal embezzlement charges; the Mamdani (D) administration handed it ~$186 million in new contracts anyway.
'This Is What ICE Does, They Lie': Morning Joe Declares a Houston Cover-Up the Evidence Doesn't Show
Scarborough and Brzezinski told viewers there was 'no body cam footage, no body, no evidence, and no witnesses' in the Salgado Araujo shooting. The cameras were never issued, the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide the day before, three witnesses had spoken through counsel — and three investigations are open with no cover-up finding.
America's Highest-Paid City Council Just Voted 12-0 to Ask Voters for a One-Day Workweek
L.A. councilmembers make $245,255 a year — more than Congress — and on June 30 they pulled every reform that would check their own power off the November ballot, while keeping the one that cuts their required meetings from three days a week to one. Monica Rodriguez (D) walked out: 'tone deaf.'
MSU renamed its DEI office to duck the feds — then kept paying five 'inclusion' staffers $879,000
A FOIA request shows five staffers in MSU's rebranded 'Office for Inclusive Excellence and Impact' collecting $879,194.81 — the chief inclusion officer alone out-earns Gov. Whitmer (D) 2.4-to-1 — while the Democratic-majority board raises tuition 3.99% and cuts 9% over two years. Thirteen more salaries are still undisclosed.
California's Open-Air Sex Market
SB 357 decriminalized loitering for prostitution in 2022. Visible trafficking on LA's Figueroa Corridor roughly doubled within six months — and federal RICO prosecutors are now 18 defendants deep into dismantling the gang that runs it.
One Toilet for Every 787 People
San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge fireworks show drew 100,000 people and collapsed into fog, gridlock, and a citywide sanitation shortage. Every official responsible is a Democrat.
Schools Shielding Sex Predators — Feds Open a National Crackdown
A new Department of Education initiative threatens $50M in California Title I funding, layered on top of LAUSD's own federal Title IX probe and a growing list of state-level enforcement actions.
911 Calls Warned of 'Full-Out War' Before Police Were Attacked
Newly released 911 audio from a July 4 block party in North Charleston captures residents pleading for backup as gunfire broke out. Seven are now charged after officers were swarmed and beaten on camera.
California's $104M Cannabis Bust Exposes a Decade-Old Black Market
A statewide task force destroyed 63,000 pounds of illegal cannabis in three months — but ten years after legalization, unlicensed growers still outproduce the legal industry 8 to 1.
Dr. Oz Calls Blue-State Medicaid Fraud a 'Feature'
California's own State Auditor has flagged Medi-Cal as high-risk since 2007. CMS deferred $1.3 billion from the state — its largest deferral ever. National fraud-prosecution data complicates a blue-state-only framing.
'Terribly Corrupt': The Prosecutor Coalition Charging ICE Agents
Ten Democratic DAs formed FAFO to prosecute federal immigration agents — funded, they say, by undisclosed donors. Two ICE agents are now charged; legal experts call the funding arrangement a due-process problem.
8 Indicted in Foiled Sniper-and-Drone Plot Against UFC Freedom 250
A federal grand jury charged eight men with conspiring to attack the White House UFC event with snipers and drones. The alleged ringleader's DACA status has been revoked. All are presumed innocent.
Inside the Tyler Robinson Evidence Hearing
Four days of testimony in the Kirk assassination case — a judge's visible reaction to unreleased footage, a recorded confession, and a widow's denied transparency request.
1,711 Convictions, One Fatal Shooting
ICE Houston's criminal-alien arrest record for May, ICE's recurring 'Worst of the Worst' removals — and a fatal traffic-stop shooting that's drawn 16 Texas Democrats' calls for an independent probe.
National Guard Ambush Suspect Hospitalized, Refusing Food
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, charged with killing Spc. Sarah Beckstrom near the White House last November, was hospitalized in a 'dire,' self-inflicted condition as prosecutors weigh the death penalty.
SPLC's Teacher-Training Reach: 100 Colleges, 38 States
A new watchdog report finds SPLC's Social Justice Standards embedded in teacher-prep programs nationwide, often undisclosed — the same week the indicted nonprofit pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges.
DSA's 27-Member Committee Voted to Abolish the Senate
A narrow internal committee vote — not DSA's full membership — added Senate-abolition language to the party's platform, months before it's set to be publicly unveiled.
NYC's Third Legionnaires' Outbreak in 11 Years Exposes Enforcement Gap
46 sickened on the Upper East Side as city records show roughly half the zone's cooling towers were overdue for inspection — the same enforcement failure that preceded 2015's and 2025's deadlier outbreaks.
Fireworks, a Wounded Officer, and a 100-Year Terrorism Sentence
Eight defendants convicted of material support to terrorism after a July 4, 2025 ambush outside a Texas ICE facility in Alvarado. The shooter got 100 years — and defendants dispute the government's 'ambush' framing.
Three Deportations, One Revoked License: A 6-Year-Old Is Dead
Jaime Santiago Corona was deported in 2019, 2023, and 2024. On July 3, driving on a revoked license, he ran a stop sign and killed Calli Toler. North Carolina's top charge for her death is a misdemeanor.
DHS Says He Was Released at the Border in 2024 — Now He's Charged With Murdering a Coworker in Michigan
Valmir Djempsley, encountered and released at the Texas border in 2024 under the Biden administration, is charged with fatally stabbing a coworker at a Coldwater meat plant. ICE has lodged a detainer.
A Man Allegedly Fired at Two Kids on a Four-Wheeler. Three Hours Later, Four Deputies Shot Him Dead.
WSP's Independent Investigation Team is reviewing the shooting — Washington's newer civilian oversight agency hasn't reached this part of the state yet.
Two SoCal School Officials Stole Nearly $20 Million — One Went to Prison, One Got Probation
A district fiscal chief and a charter-school director drained public education funds meant for low-income students. A new watchdog report ties the two cases together.
A Bus Driver Turned Him Away for Carrying a Machete — So He Used It to Smash the Bus, Prosecutors Say
Daniel Damien Lee Couch is charged after allegedly shattering a King County Metro bus's windows in Seattle's CID — the same corridor as a 2024 mass stabbing.
Truck Driver Admitted Under Biden, Who Spoke No English, Allegedly Kills UMass Goalkeeper
Bekhzod Asrarov entered via the Diversity Visa lottery in 2024. He's charged only with tampering with evidence — not the crash that killed Tobias Forsythe, 21.
DHS Buys Two California Detention Centers for $1.5 Billion
Federal ownership of the Otay Mesa and California City facilities routes around sanctuary-state legal challenges — GEO Group's own CEO says that's the point.
37 Charged as Feds Wipe Out Bishnoi Gang's California Network
The India-based syndicate used Sacramento and LA for extortion and trafficking, and is tied to a 2023 assassination in Canada. No statement from Newsom or Bonta.
ICE Officer Fatally Shoots Man in Houston — Account Disputed
DHS says Lorenzo Salgado Araujo tried to run over an officer. No video has been released, and advocates dispute the account based on witness photos.
20 Years for Trafficking a Minor on Aurora Avenue — One of Six Recent Cases
Seattle has spent millions and made years of promises on the Aurora corridor. Prosecutors say roughly 80% of their trafficking caseload still ties back to it.
John Jay College Bookkeeper Charged in $710,000 Scholarship Theft
A state audit — not the college's own controls — caught the alleged 7.5-year scheme. It's the second nearly identical CUNY case in a decade.
Andrew Gillum Arrested on Meth and Marijuana Charges in Alabama
The 2018 Florida governor nominee's arrest follows a 2020 Miami Beach incident and a 2022 federal fraud case that ended in acquittal and mistrial.
Australian National Charged With Illegally Voting in Two Federal Elections
Louisiana's SAVE database audit flagged 390 noncitizens registered statewide — though the state's own Secretary of State says it isn't a systemic problem.
ABC: FCC's Scrutiny of "The View" Violates the First Amendment
Two open FCC proceedings — an equal-time exemption review and an early license review — have ABC and the FCC accusing each other of bad faith.
Conway Calls Trump a "Rapist." The Actual Verdict Says Something Narrower.
A jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation — not rape under New York's statutory definition. The distinction has already cost one network $15 million.
CID Businesses Call Seattle a "Human Dumping Ground" — Mayor Wilson Goes Quiet
Chinatown-International District sales fell up to 22% during the World Cup while downtown boomed. Mayor Katie Wilson (D) didn't respond to Fox News; her office told local outlets it's 'working on it.'
Newsom Touts an 83% EBT Theft Drop. DOJ Keeps Charging Fraud Rings Anyway.
A state fraud investigators' group calls Newsom's numbers a 'partial mitigation.' City Journal estimates $180-280B in fraud across California's safety-net programs since 2019.
Washington's 'Ghost Daycares' Collected $200K+ Each. No Investigation Has Been Opened.
State auditors flagged $37M in questionable child-care payments. Gov. Ferguson (D) and AG Brown (D) have opened no fraud investigation nearly seven months later.
A Pregnant Teacher Was Kicked by a Student. Then NYC Schools Fired Her.
Lauren Vitale's lawsuit alleges retaliation after a student's kick sent her to labor and delivery — set against NYC's restorative-justice discipline record.
Sunny Hostin: American Flags Make Me Feel 'Unsafe.' Her Co-Host Disagreed On Air.
A viral Patriot Front photo, an on-air flag confession, and the former Trump official who pushed back — Hostin's third TDS Watch appearance this year.
Mamdani's Office Misspelled the Wounded Detective's Name — After Axing 580 Cops
Detective Robert Karroll was shot in the back July 5. Mayor Mamdani's account spelled his name 'Carroll' three times, days after scrapping a $70M plan to hire 580 more officers.
An Idaho Mom Blamed Vaccines for Her Twins' Deaths. A Grand Jury Says She Suffocated Them.
Andrea Shaw spent 14 months publicly blaming vaccines — then became lead plaintiff in RFK Jr.'s former group's federal lawsuit while under active homicide investigation.
The Supreme Court Settled Trans Athletes in June. Five Harder Cases Are Already Stacked Behind It.
Parental standing, a military-ban appeal, a teacher's pronoun case, a felony bathroom law, and a state healthcare fight — the pending SCOTUS docket, case by case.
The Custody Vote Manny Rutinel Doesn't Want to Talk About
Colorado's Democratic House nominee voted Yes on treating a parent's misgendering of a child as "coercive control" in custody court. The provision died in the Senate — his vote for it didn't.
Josh Turek's 'Common-Sense Moderate' Brand Meets His DEI Voting Record
Three Iowa House votes against rolling back race-based DEI programs — two now law. His campaign platform doesn't mention any of them.
A Whistleblower Says This Union Runs on Quid Pro Quo
A letter reviewed by Fox News Digital accuses Hotel Trades Council President Rich Maroko of gifts, missing dues money, and arbitrator pressure. The union denies it — but his 2024 pay, $923,053, isn't in dispute.
Accused of Killing Two Teen Girls, He Kept Livestreaming — Because It Paid
Vincent Battiloro's own parents called police four times before the Cranford killings. A second SWAT call ended with police releasing him to his father.
He Confessed to Molesting an 11-Year-Old. A Soros Prosecutor's Missed Deadline Turned It Into a Misdemeanor.
Virginia's new Clean Slate law could let Ronnie Reel permanently seal that record — and in May, he was found with a missing 17-year-old girl.
The Country Just Turned 250. The Press Corps Couldn't Let It Be a Party.
A NYT columnist who 'can barely tolerate' the flag, a PBS special starring a Trump-critical Bruce Springsteen, and Chuck Todd's viral meltdown — three newsrooms, one instinct, inside 48 hours.
A World Cup Red Card Vanishes, Trump Takes a Bow, and Critics Discover Soccer Overnight
FIFA reversed Folarin Balogun's red-card ban days after Trump called FIFA's president — the first time since 1962 a red card didn't cost a player his next match. Belgium appealed.
Hunter Biden Wants to Lecture Trump on Profiting Off the Presidency. Let's Look at His Own Invoice.
He called the Trump family 'King George.' His own record: an $83,333-a-month Burisma seat, $4.79M from a Chinese energy firm, art sold for up to $500,000, a felony conviction, and a decade-covering pardon.
LA Squatters Aren't Freeloaders Anymore. They're Running Organized-Crime Rings.
Forged deeds, gang ties, and a $500K extortion demand in one Long Beach case. Investigators want a task force — two anti-squatter bills already died in Sacramento.
She Asked for a Female Provider. Brooklyn College's Clinic Allegedly Sent Her Back to Him.
A lawsuit alleges a 78-year-old physician assistant groped a Brooklyn College student during exams while the clinic director waved off her complaint. He's still on the job.
Frozen in January, Funded by July: NYC Council Refunds the Terror-Merch Nonprofit $85K
Six months after freezing it over Hamas-merch sales, two Brooklyn Democrats steered a fresh $85,000 to the Muslim American Society — cleared by the Council's own lawyers.
The Subway's Crime Number Went Down. The Reasons to Be Scared Went Up.
NYPD's midyear 'down 1%' is a composition trick — grand larceny fell 7.2% while subway murder doubled, robbery rose 9.6%, and assault 4.4%.
On July 4, the 1619 Project's Creator Called America's 'Entire Existence' a Crime
Days before the 250th, Nikole Hannah-Jones argued reparations would mean admitting America's 'entire existence' is a crime — the full quote in context, and the record historians put on paper.
They Crossed Oceans to Read the Bill of Rights. Most Americans Never Have.
On the country's 250th birthday, tens of thousands of immigrants recited founding rights on a civics exam that a great many native-born Americans have never sat down to read.
The Fourth of July Is America's Deadliest Driving Holiday. Here's Where Every State Ranks.
Federal crash data ranks all 50 states plus D.C. by July 4 fatal-crash rate. The deadliest roads are rural, not urban; nearly 4 in 10 drivers killed were drunk. New York lands 39th.
Seattle Celebrated a Homicide-Free June. Then a Man Was Killed in Lake City.
A man in his 20s shot dead on 40th Ave NE, July 3 — Seattle's first homicide of July, hours after its first homicide-free June since 1970. No arrest, and SPD's patrol force is still hundreds short.
Massachusetts Dug a $2 Billion Migrant-Shelter Hole. Now It Wants to Let Migrants Sue ICE.
Gov. Healey presided over the only statewide right-to-shelter system as it topped $1B/yr — hotels, a shuttered prison, 'unlawful' no-bid contracts. Now a bill would let illegal immigrants sue ICE agents.
He Faked an Ambulance Emergency to Sneak Back In. His Real Job Was Draining Food Stamps.
Romanian operative Marius Catalin Trica faked border injuries, then skimmed low-income New Yorkers' EBT cards at Los Angeles ATMs. HSI got him 18 months — but the ring has taken $310M+ from California accounts.
Generally Recognized as Safe — By Whom? How Washington Quietly Redefined 'Food.'
A 1958 loophole for salt and vinegar let roughly 1,000 additives into the food supply with no FDA review. The paperwork that redefined 'food,' 'healthy,' and 'safe.'
A Teacher Said She Married a Gaza Man for His Citizenship
An LAUSD dance teacher told a webinar she wed a man in Gaza to hand him U.S. citizenship. USCIS: 'expect to be prosecuted.' No charges have been filed.
'Many Other Things We Could Be Doing': Jayapal Tells Victims' Parents Congress Is Busy
At the House's fourth sanctuary-city hearing, a ranking Democrat called it a distraction — feet from the parents of two women killed in sanctuary Illinois.
735 Arrests, 1,711 Convictions, One City, One Month
ICE Houston's May cohort carried 1,711 convictions — homicides, hundreds of DWIs — as DHS touts nearly 900,000 removed nationally.
Indicted in Texas. Arrested in Austria. There Was No Safe Haven.
A Mexican national accused of producing child abuse material of a Texas child was living in Ireland when a McAllen grand jury indicted him. HSI brought him back; he faces 25 to 50 years and pleaded not guilty.
Turn Off Your AC. Now Buy an Electric Car. Same Grid.
Mamdani asked New Yorkers to ration cooling in a 100° heat wave — while NY law mandates EVs, all-electric buildings, and heat pumps onto a grid the NYISO already rates short.
A Child Rapist Was Days From Deportation. Walz's Board Pardoned Him.
Minnesota's pardon board voted 3-0 to erase a convicted child rapist's felony a week before ICE removal. DHS: 'madness.' The victim asked for mercy. The full record.
The Money Was for Kids. The Contracts Went to Her Own Family.
North Dakota gave a Fargo nonprofit $350,000 in COVID-relief grants for after-school kids. Prosecutors say $131,050 went to the director's own relatives. A jury convicted on all five felony counts.
A Bill to Keep Predators Off the Ballot Passed 60-0. One Senator Buried It.
A registered child-sex-offender ran for Fresno council. California's fix passed the Assembly 60-0 — then died in Sen. Scott Wiener's (D) committee, and a second bill was amended to exempt crimes against minors.
The Single-Sex Restroom Is Disappearing. Columbia Is Exhibit A.
A watchdog group and the federal government have named a dozen universities over the 'explosion' of all-gender bathrooms, locker rooms, and dorms. Columbia's own policies put it in the frame.
Philadelphia Tried to Unmask ICE. The Constitution Said No.
A federal judge blocked the city's 'ICE Out' mask ban on federal officers five days before it took effect — the same Supremacy-Clause theory now stopping CA, NY, and VA.
A Murdered Professor's House, Taken Over by Squatters
A UC Berkeley professor was murdered in Greece. Occupants took his Berkeley home on a $30,000 lease claim the family calls impossible — and California's eviction law keeps them inside for months.
One Year in Jail for the Megaphone Death of Paul Kessler
A California judge gave Loay Alnaji one year for killing 69-year-old Jewish counter-protester Paul Kessler — over the DA's push for prison. Jewish groups called it a 'slap on the wrist.'
The Unions Tried to Kill School Choice in the Fine Print. The Judge Called It Settled Law.
Wisconsin's teachers' unions hid a voucher challenge inside a school-funding lawsuit — then disavowed it when choice families fought back. A judge declared school choice 'settled law.'
The Teacher Was Charged. The Warrants Say Her Students Were Extorting Her.
A 25-year-old Georgia teacher faces a 27-count sex-crimes indictment — and the warrants allege students blackmailed her for grades over an OnlyFans account. The case, the evidence, and the oversight failure.
Fifty Guns, a Grenade Launcher, and an Alleged Vegas Strip Plot
A casino-garage standoff, a 50-plus-gun arsenal, a recorded 2024 threat, and 35 felony counts — but not, at first, a terrorism charge. The record on the Las Vegas terror-threat case.
Fairfax County Got 615 ICE Requests. It Said Yes to 11.
FOIA records show the Democratic-run county refused 615 ICE detainers over 16 months under its 2021 Trust Policy — and three released defendants were later charged with violent crimes.
Buffalo Canceled Its July 4 Fireworks. A Day Later, the Somali Flag Went Up at City Hall.
Mayor Sean Ryan (D) scrapped a 250th-anniversary fireworks show for lack of a 'safe site' — then a foreign flag rose outside City Hall the next day. A priorities-and-trust story, told straight.
New York Ran the Worst Big-State Medicaid Fraud Unit in the Country. Washington Cut Off Its Money.
HHS-OIG froze ~$60M for Letitia James's Medicaid fraud unit: 53 convictions in three years vs. a peer floor of 129, and four patient-abuse convictions on 2,000+ referrals a year.
A Laredo Teacher Drew 33 Years. It Took a Parent's Call to Stop Her.
A Webb County jury convicted former teacher Adriana Rullan of sexually abusing a 13-year-old student and assessed 33 years, no parole. The case surfaced only when the boy's parents went to police — amid a statewide surge in Texas educator-misconduct cases.
A Knife From Three Pens: The Federal Case of Flight 604
He bound three pens into a shiv and admitted aiming for a stranger's brain on a Vegas-bound flight. Guilty plea to a federal felony; up to 10 years.
An Illegal Fireworks 'Grand Finale,' and a Manslaughter Charge a Year Later
A Buena Park man is charged in the illegal-fireworks death of 8-year-old Jasmine Nguyen. The $400 professional-grade device — and California's enforcement gap.
A Fake Ransom Text. A Guilty Plea. A Deal That Ends in Probation.
A Hawthorne man texted Nancy Guthrie's family about bitcoin while the 84-year-old was missing. He pleaded guilty in federal court — and the deal asks for probation, not prison.
A Missing Man, a Stolen Card, and a Body on Army-Base Land
Two 21-year-olds — including an active-duty JBLM soldier — are charged with murder and identity theft after a missing Tacoma veteran's body was found on base land. A stolen-card trail cracked the case. Pending; not-guilty pleas.
Ten Felonies, One Kent Gas-Station Murder, and a 73-Year Sentence
A repeat violent offender barred from owning a gun killed a 23-year-old at a Kent Circle K. A King County jury and judge sent him away for life. The record that put him there armed is the question.
'Kill Your Local Republican.' The Activist Called It the 'Moderate Position.'
A Wisconsin activist with Democratic Party ties urged followers to 'kill your local Republican' and vowed a 'trans jihad.' The campaign fired the volunteer; Rep. Tom Tiffany (R) condemned it; the law likely does nothing.
They Came to Drown Him Out. He Called It the Sound of Ingrates.
Protesters brought whistles, drums, and a trombone to drown out a National Guard ceremony. Pete Hegseth turned the noise into the line of the day.
One Week in the Smokies. 117 Arrests. The Cooperation Was the Story.
ICE and 287(g) deputies arrested 117 illegal aliens near the Great Smoky Mountains — DUI, domestic assault, attempted aggravated sexual battery. Tennessee and North Carolina made the cooperation mandatory.
A Smuggling Debt Came Due in a Missouri Maternity Ward
HSI St. Louis removed a Mexican national who tried to give away her newborn to pay a debt to human smugglers. Inside the cartel debt-bondage system — and the local tip that stopped it.
13 Arrested, 8 Indicted for Using Stolen Social Security Numbers to Work in Kentucky
A window-supply payroll in Paducah ran on borrowed identities for four years. The charge is old-fashioned; the victims are real Americans whose numbers were put to work without their knowledge.
A Mile From Home, a Mother Killed — and the Detainer Georgia Once Refused
ICE asked Gwinnett County not to release the man accused of killing Alicia Thomas, 43, in an alleged DUI crash. It holds only because a 2024 state law forced a sheriff who once refused all detainers to comply.
Twenty Years, One Ocean, No Escape
An illegal alien fled to El Salvador after a 2005 Kansas murder. HSI Kansas City flew two key witnesses to the U.S. to testify — and a 20-year fugitive drew a 'Hard 50.'
A Trailer With No Air, No Exit, and One Body
A Mexican national pleaded guilty to harboring 32 people in a deadly Laredo stash house. One died of heat exposure. He faces up to life under the § 1324 'resulting in death' charge.
New York Released an Alleged TdA Member. ICE and the Marshals Re-Arrested Him.
A suspected Tren de Aragua gang member with a pending felony assault charge walked after New York refused an ICE detainer. It took a joint ICE-Marshals operation upstate to take him in.
A Trained Cop From Nicaragua Beat a Federal Agent. He Got 51 Months.
An illegal alien and self-described Nicaraguan police defensive-tactics instructor slipped his handcuffs and assaulted an ICE HSI agent during a Laken Riley Act arrest. A federal court answered with more than four years.
HSI New Orleans Arrests Honduran Illegal Alien Charged With Child Rape
A Honduran national in the U.S. illegally — with no prior immigration record at all — is charged with raping a child. HSI New Orleans and the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office made the arrest; ICE lodged a detainer the same day.
Iran's Clerical Establishment Calls for Trump and Netanyahu's Assassination
63 of 88 Assembly of Experts members signed a death demand against the two men party to the ceasefire Rubio briefed Congress on the same week — the latest escalation in a year-plus pattern of senior-cleric threats.
SCOTUS Declines Trump's Appeal in the Carroll Case — Verdict Now Final
The Court's cert denial leaves the $5M (now ~$5.8M) Carroll II verdict standing. Carroll's lawyers are demanding immediate payment; the separate $83.3M Carroll I judgment remains unresolved.
Wisconsin AG Josh Kaul Moves To Seal Fake-Electors Case Documents
A protective-order motion in the pending criminal case against Troupis, Chesebro, and Roman invokes crime-victim privacy — a case Trump's federal pardons don't reach at all.
California Senate Democrats Kill Sex-Offender Ballot Ban, Advance One With a Carve-Out
AB 2753 passed the Assembly unanimously, then died when Sen. Scott Wiener (D) voted no. The narrower bill Democrats advanced the same day exempts certain sex crimes against minors.
Birthright Citizenship Survives SCOTUS — So Does the Birth-Tourism Industry
DOJ has real fraud convictions on the books and Border Czar Tom Homan calls it a national-security threat — but no documented case links birth tourism to actual espionage recruitment. Here's the documented record, held apart from the speculation.
Feds Charge a Straw-Buy Ring That Funneled Guns From Georgia to Chicago Gangs
A federal indictment traces at least one gun to a Chicago murder within 36 days of purchase — proof that even Illinois's strict gun laws can't stop firearms bought illegally out of state.
Federal Sex-Trafficking Sweep Hits SoCal — Prosecutor Blames State Law's Gaps
New arrests tie to the ongoing Hoover Gang Figueroa Corridor case. The federal prosecutor's blunt assessment of state law lands as DA Hochman keeps reversing years of Gascón-era charging policy.
A Detransitioner's Essay Lands as WPATH Faces an FTC Fraud Lawsuit
Roxxanne 'Tiger' Reed's personal account of detransitioning arrives alongside a sworn deposition on undisclosed guideline-author conflicts and a federal lawsuit alleging WPATH deceived the public.
Tennessee's Child-Rape Death Penalty Fix Takes Effect Today
Florida and Tennessee built laws to deliberately challenge a 2008 SCOTUS precedent barring execution for child rape. Tennessee's law finally has a usable mechanism — a federalism story about states engineering the next test case.
HSI Agents Confront a Second New Yorker Over Online ICE Criticism
No charges, just a home visit and a hotel confrontation months after a critical email. It's the second documented case in days — part of a pattern the ACLU and NYCLU call a chilling-effect campaign.
A Socialist Wins the Capital, and Trump Answers in One Word: 'Communist'
Janeese Lewis George won D.C.'s Democratic mayoral primary as an avowed democratic socialist; Trump branded her a 'communist' and vowed to block her. Her documented record vs. his characterization — plus what defund and decarceration actually did in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Alameda County.
Lujan Grisham Demands Federal Reparations Over Fentanyl, Blames the DEA
A Democratic governor turns a real DEA whistleblower scandal into a $1–3B reparations demand — while her state's overdose deaths rose as the nation's fell.
Virginia Democrats Delay Their Own Gun-Carry Ban After a Court Loss
A 56–34 budget-amendment vote pushes the semiautomatic carry ban to July 1, 2027 — days after a judge enjoined the companion 'assault weapons' ban as likely unconstitutional. Signed, sued, frozen, and shelved in two months.
Iowa Dem Lindsay James Missed More Than Half Her House Votes
She campaigned on a 'strong work ethic,' then was absent for 51.7% of the 2026 Iowa House session's roll calls while running for Congress — at brewery meet-and-greets and campaign stops instead of on the floor.
Texas Supreme Court Hands a Detransitioner a Historic Win
The state's highest court unanimously revived Soren Aldaco's malpractice suit, holding the two-year clock can run from when treatment ends — reopening the courthouse door for detransitioners.
SF Archdiocese: $395 Million for 530 Clergy-Abuse Survivors
A record single-diocese bankruptcy settlement — survivors control the fund, the church must name accused clergy, and the bankruptcy court will enforce a 14-point reform plan.
A $1.3B Scam, a $37M Yacht, and the Fans Who Cheered Miles Guo to Prison
Ho Wan Kwok (Guo Wengui) got 30 years and ~$889M in forfeiture for a billion-dollar fraud on his anti-CCP followers. As he was led away, hundreds of supporters applauded.
Charged With Murder in a 112-MPH Crash That Killed an LAPD Sergeant — Then He Fundraised for Himself
A 26-year LAPD sergeant stopped to protect a stranded driver on the 405. Prosecutors say a man going 112.5 mph killed them both — and a 'Road to Recovery' fundraiser went up for the driver.
A Long Island Man Billed Medicaid $2.5M for Babies' Formula He Never Bought
Prosecutors say Nduka Ekpenyong's Duke Medical cut sick children off from prescribed formula while he lived large in Hewlett. Charges pending.
She Called 9/11 'Inevitable.' She Just Won the Primary — and Vowed to 'Take the Fight' to Trump.
DSA candidate Melat Kiros defeated 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) 48.6%-44.2%, the third sitting House Democrat toppled by a socialist primary challenger in eight days. Her victory speech vowed to 'take the fight to Donald Trump' — and Democratic leadership's reaction has been notably muted.
A Good Samaritan Stabbed, His Attackers Surrendered — Then Set Free
Two Bronx men accused of beating and stabbing a 73-year-old who defended a pregnant rider on a Manhattan bus turned themselves in — and a judge released them over the DA's $150,000 bail request.
Three Washington Justice Failures in One Week
No charges for the drivers who killed WSP Trooper Tara-Marysa Guting; a Federal Way custody death ruled a homicide for 'prolonged restraint'; and the accused killer of UW student Juniper Blessing found incompetent to stand trial.
PBS Won Its Lawsuit Against Trump — and Still Lost the $535 Million
PBS CEO Paula Kerger calls suing the president 'the most sobering moment' of her life. But the court win came after Congress had already rescinded $1.1 billion in CPB funding and the agency had shut down after 58 years.
Paris Blames America's Air Conditioning for the Heat Wave That Killed 1,000 French Citizens
A record heat wave killed ~1,000 in France, where most homes have no A/C. Paris's deputy mayor's response: blame American emissions. The facts say otherwise.
A Confused Biden Rant Went Viral — and the Democrats' Reaction Said the Rest
Biden (D) called Trump 'a loser' at a Maryland Democratic gala, got heckled by his own side, then couldn't find the exit. The clip landed atop two years of documented party angst.
CNN Said It's Not Communism. David Sacks Said Look at Their Platform.
A CNN anchor drew the line; the White House's former AI czar said read the planks. Mamdani's rent freeze, free buses, city-run groceries and tax hikes — next to what socialism, communism, and democratic socialism actually mean.
A Wrong-Way Driver, a Casino Bus, and a 3 A.M. Fireball on Highway 101
A wrong-way car hit a Chumash Casino employee bus head-on on U.S. 101 in Santa Barbara County's wine country and erupted in flames. One dead, 14 survived; the CHP investigation into the cause is ongoing.
A New 3D Analysis of the Eaton Fire — and the Questions It Raises About Edison
Surveillance footage and a new 3D rendering point to an idle Southern California Edison transmission line as a possible ignition source for the blaze that killed 19 and destroyed 9,000+ structures. Edison's CEO calls its equipment 'likely the cause'; the DOJ has sued. No official cause yet.
NYC Cited Its Own Crews for Breaking the City's Asbestos Rules
DEP writes the asbestos rules — then cited the city's own Roosevelt Island steam plant demolition for breaking them. The 1939 Marvel filming landmark is coming down under an 'emergency' order that skipped environmental review, spanning Mayor Adams (D) and Mayor Mamdani (D).
1 Killed, 6 Shot at a Carson Street Takeover
Seven people were shot, one fatally, at a 3 a.m. sideshow in Carson — the latest casualty count in LA County's street-takeover epidemic, where the laws exist but enforcement arrives after the gunfire.
New York's Children Under Siege
A 13-year-old raped in a Bronx park — the second child rape there in seven months — and an $18M verdict finding the DOE acted recklessly. How New York is failing its kids.
A 10-Year-Old Charged With Murder in St. Louis
7-month-old Kiyomi Parker was shot and killed June 26. A 10-year-old faces a first-degree murder charge in juvenile court — likely Missouri's youngest. His 19-year-old father is charged with second-degree murder over a loaded gun left under a mattress.
A Mother of Five Stabbed in Broad Daylight in Del Rio
Caroline 'Caro' Peña, 32, was killed at a daylight street corner on June 25. Police charged two sisters and a friend with murder. No motive released; all presumed innocent.
Nicolle Wallace Says Obama Had 'No Scandals.' The Record Says Otherwise.
An MSNBC host called the Obama years scandal-free and said Trump 'literally muzzled' the media. A neutral fact-check against TIGTA, two DOJ/DOE/VA inspectors general, Benghazi, and the Snowden disclosures.
Mark Kelly Blames Trump for the Country's Lack of 'Joy' at America's 250th
Days before the Semiquincentennial, a sitting senator says the nation can't celebrate because of one man. The polling shows the gloom is partisan — and it moves with who holds the White House.
Judge Tells DOJ: Unredact the Epstein Files by July 2 — or Explain Every Black Bar
Judge Emmet Sullivan found Acting AG Todd Blanche 'conceded' that the DOJ violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act in Katie Phang's lawsuit. The department says it's shielding victims and will appeal.
Gavin Newsom's Circle of Corruption
A June 2026 City Journal investigation catalogs ~11 Newsom (D-CA) appointees and associates convicted of fraud and bribery — a 2026 chief-of-staff guilty plea, a public-works director doing seven years, a judicial appointee doing 87 months. Newsom isn't charged; the story is proximity.
The Palisades Fire Trial Ends in a Hung Jury
A federal jury split 10-2 for acquittal; Judge Anne Hwang declared a mistrial in the arson trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht (presumed innocent), accused of starting the fire that killed 12 and destroyed 6,837 structures. Prosecutors vow to retry. No LA or California official faces a criminal trial over the response.
A Mamdani-Backed Socialist Won Queens — Then a 2017 Tape on 9/11 Resurfaced
Aber Kawas (D, DSA), Mamdani-endorsed, took the NY State Senate District 12 primary ~60%. A 2017 clip places 9/11 in a 'long trajectory' of capitalism and white supremacy. The verbatim words — not the inflated headline.
Shapiro Calls the Midterms a 'Referendum' on the 'Cruelty' of Trump
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) told a sold-out MS NOW crowd the 2026 midterms will be 'a national referendum on the chaos, the cruelty, and the corruption of Donald Trump.' The verbatim quote, the friendly venue, and the 2028 subtext.
They Hoped the World Cup Would Flop — Then America Threw the Biggest One Ever
A Democratic strategist admitted on the record there was 'liberal wishcasting' that the Trump-era World Cup 'would maybe be a disaster.' Two NY Democrats picked Mexico and Senegal over Team USA on live TV. Then it became the most-attended World Cup in history. Receipts, not adjectives.
The Ohio Arsenal: Inside the Alleged White House UFC Attack Plot
Court records describe the AR-15, flag-painted shotgun, plate carriers, 13 magazines and 1,000+ rounds Tycen Proper, 19, allegedly amassed to attack UFC Freedom 250 at the White House — one of seven men charged in an alleged drone-and-sniper plan. All presumed innocent.
He Jumped Into the Lake to Escape the Dogs. He Never Came Back Up.
A 12-year-old drowned escaping three off-leash dogs at a California City park; his 8-year-old sister was mauled. The owner, a previously convicted felon, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and Penal Code 399 negligent ownership — and fled before his arrest in Lancaster.
One in 240 — What Oregon's Data Says About Girls on Testosterone
A peer-reviewed study of 868,740 insured Oregon adolescents found ~1 in 240 girls on testosterone by 17 — several times the national rate. Nationally it stays under 0.1%, but the evidence base is now disputed on both sides of the Atlantic.
Larry David Says Trump's UFC White House Fight Made Him 'Embarrassed to Be an American'
Asked by Variety about UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn, the Seinfeld co-creator called it 'a travesty' — the latest in a years-long pattern that runs through his 'My Dinner With Adolf' op-ed.
Kelsey Grammer Calls Trump's Reflecting-Pool Critics 'A Virus… Consumed by Hatred'
The conservative actor told Jesse Watters the critics fixated on Trump's algae-stained, $14.7M no-bid Reflecting Pool renovation are 'consumed by hatred,' and prayed for the country at 250 — even as five people were arrested on vandalism allegations.
DHS Has Now Fined Immigrants $84 Billion — and Collected 1.4% of It
103,000 notices, $84 billion assessed under 8 U.S.C. §1324d's revived $998/day penalty. Only about $1.2 billion has actually been collected. Class action still pending.
455 Charged, $6.5 Billion: The DOJ's Largest-Ever Health Care Fraud Takedown
455 defendants — 90 of them doctors — charged in over $6.5 billion in alleged Medicare/Medicaid fraud across 56 districts, plus a separate $270M Medi-Cal case in SoCal. All presumed innocent.
They Shot a Cop Outside a Texas ICE Facility — Federal Court Hands the Antifa Cell 450 Years
Eight defendants tied to a North Texas antifa cell drew a combined 450 years for the July 4, 2025 armed ambush of the Prairieland ICE facility, where Lt. Thomas Gross was shot in the neck. Ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song got 100.
Paroled in February, Charged in a New York Homeless-Hotel Fire That Killed 6
Six people died at the Endwell Knights Inn — a motel the county used to shelter homeless families. The man charged with the arson was on state parole, released months earlier after a larceny term.
The DEA Watched 1.8 Million Fentanyl Pills Hit the Street — and Did Nothing
An AP investigation and a 19-year DEA whistleblower say agents tracked but refused to seize fentanyl in New Mexico to build bigger cases — at least 1.8 million pills let pass while the state's overdose deaths rose 21%.
A Brooklyn Coffee Shop Banned a Jewish Congressman Over Israel. The DOJ Opened a Civil-Rights File.
Poetica Coffee told Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY-10) 'don't ever come back' over his support for Israel; the DOJ Civil Rights Division, under Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon, opened a Title II public-accommodations probe.
Austin Metcalf's Dad Rips 'The View's' Sunny Hostin Over the Karmelo Anthony Verdict
After a jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murdering his son and sentenced him to 35 years, Jeff Metcalf accused The View of profiting off the case — the same week a watchdog told the FCC the show is a 'Democratic Party operation, not a news program.'
How Did She Get Released? DHS Says a Chicago Teacher Helped Tren de Aragua Gunmen
DHS says a visa-overstaying ex-Illinois teacher drove Tren de Aragua gunmen to a Chicago mass shooting that killed three — then walked out of a county jail with no call to ICE. Federal agents had to re-arrest her 17 months later. Pending case; Cook County disputes the account.
Judge Dismisses Trump's Lawsuit Over L.A.'s Sanctuary City Ordinance
Judge Fernando M. Olguin (Obama appointee) held that L.A.'s ordinance governs the city's own employees, not the federal government — so Washington can't commandeer local personnel for immigration enforcement. Claims against Mayor Karen Bass (D) were dismissed with prejudice; the DOJ may amend by July 3.
Khanna Said Musk 'Sentenced 4.5 Million Children to Death' — Then Dared Him to Debate
After Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) tied DOGE's USAID cuts to 4.5 million possible child deaths and demanded Musk be subpoenaed, Musk threatened to sue — and Khanna pivoted to 'let's debate, I'm for free speech, not lawfare.' The receipts, the Lancet projection, and the $550M USAID fraud behind DOGE's defense.
A Warehouse Burned for Days, Smoke Hit Much of the City — and Pratt Blamed Karen Bass
Mayor Karen Bass (D) declared a local emergency over the 500,000-sq-ft Boyle Heights blaze. Spencer Pratt says she was 'sipping cocktails in Chicago' — an allegation her office hasn't confirmed.
Newsom's AB 1955 Blocked Again — Parents Win at the Ninth Circuit
A three-judge panel enjoined key provisions of California's SAFETY Act — the law Newsom signed to bar schools from notifying parents of a student's gender change — for the parent-plaintiffs. The second courtroom setback in four months.
L.A. Sends a Noncitizen-Voting Charter Amendment to the November Ballot
A 10-5 council vote sends a charter amendment to the Nov. 3 ballot granting L.A. the authority to authorize noncitizen voting in city and school-board races by later ordinance — without naming who qualifies.
Joy Reid Won't Vote for Democrats Unless They Abandon Israel — and Calls the Fourth 'Joy-Less'
Post-MSNBC, the former primetime host set a new condition on her vote and called Independence Day a slaveholders' holiday her Black friends aren't marking.
Schiff Itemized Musk's $1 Trillion Into Government Programs
A sitting senator built a public video around spending one named citizen's fortune — then called the wealth a 'corrupt system.' The trillion is illiquid stock, and the Constitution forbids punishing a person by name.
A Congressional Candidate Flipped Off the President's Limo — On Camera
Anti-Trump lawyer George Conway, running for Nadler's NY-12 seat, raised his middle finger at Trump's motorcade on the final day of early voting — days after vowing an 'orange jumpsuit' impeachment ad.
'I'm Done Talking to You': Ellison Dodges Minnesota's Fraud Reckoning
AG Keith Ellison (D-MN) called $250M Feeding Our Future, ~$9B in estimated Medicaid fraud, and a House Oversight report 'a false number' — then ended the interview.
The White House UFC Attack Plot's Alleged Ringleader Was a DACA Recipient, DHS Says
Five men charged in a plot to hit a presidential event with explosive drones and snipers. The FBI says the man who directed it is a Mexican national granted Obama-era DACA in 2014 after overstaying a visa.
Fled Twice, Then a Fireball: A Pierce County Chase Crash That Hurt a Deputy and Two Kids
A 22-year-old allegedly ran from WA deputies twice before crashing into a car with children inside — a snapshot of the state's unresolved police-pursuit fight.
A San Diego 'Gaza Charity' Allegedly Routed Donor Dollars to Hamas
A five-count federal complaint alleges Reda Sabassi raised ~$600,000 under a humanitarian banner and funneled it to Hamas, including $116,000 to a member. Allegations only; presumed innocent.
A Beloved Atlanta Bartender, Identified by His Tattoos After His Remains Surfaced in a Reservoir
Jamal Parker, 37, was identified by DNA after a relative recognized his tattoos. Two suspects are charged with murder and held without bond.
Rosie O'Donnell Told Jim Acosta the 2024 Election Was Stolen and Trump Will Cancel the Midterms
'I think Kamala won. I do,' she said on Acosta's show — and predicted a staged crisis would let Trump cancel the midterms. No evidence offered; the 2024 result is certified and the midterms are proceeding.
Amanda Seyfried Called Charlie Kirk 'Hateful' — Now She Wants the Nuance She Refused Him
She labeled a murdered man 'hateful' and refused to apologize. Now she pleads for 'the nuance of humanity' and hires a bodyguard — demanding the grace she denied him.
An MMA Fighter's Sting Helped Nab a Florida Student-Government Leader
A 561 Predator Catchers decoy set up the meet-up; Delray Beach police arrested FAU's Christian Walden on two felony counts. He's presumed innocent — and his own committee voted him out.
The FTC Says America's Most Influential Transgender-Care Guideline Was Built on Evidence It Couldn't Show
FTC + four states sue WPATH, alleging its Standards of Care deceptively claim a strong evidence base. WPATH calls it baseless. An allegation, not a verdict.
Ilhan Omar's Husband Reported Income as Low as $200 Last Year
Tim Mynett's firm once billed Omar's campaigns nearly $3M; his businesses were briefly valued at up to $30M. The latest disclosure shows earned income as low as $200 — from a winery that has since closed.
Bill Maher Called Trump's Iran "Deal" a Breakroom "Clean Microwave" Sign — Then Reached for Stormy Daniels
On HBO's Real Time, Maher derided the U.S.–Iran agreement as a non-binding memorandum "about as legally binding as the sign that says clean microwave," jabbed the "Art of the Deal" brand, and lumped the deal in with a Stormy Daniels dig.
Trump Said Meloni "Begged" Him for a G7 Photo. Italy Canceled an Official U.S. Visit Over It.
Trump told Italian TV that PM Meloni "begged" him for a G7 photo; she called it "completely fabricated" — "Neither I nor Italy beg" — and FM Antonio Tajani canceled his U.S. trip in response.
Bezos Reportedly Told Trump The Washington Post Was His "Worst Investment" — and Its People "Terrible."
Per the forthcoming Swan/Haberman book "Regime Change," Bezos vented at a December 2024 dinner that the Post — losing $100M+ a year — was his worst purchase. Fourteen months later he cut a third of the newsroom and the CEO stepped down.
He Pleaded Guilty to a $1.2 Billion Medicare Scheme, Then Vanished — the FBI Found Him in Manila.
Herbert Leon Kimble admitted to a $1.2 billion orthopedic-brace fraud in 2019, skipped sentencing in 2024, and fled overseas. Captured in the Philippines and returned home, he's the second fugitive taken off the FBI's new Most Wanted Fraudsters list.
A Taxpayer-Funded College That Trains Cops and Lawyers Put a Professor Tied to a Sex-and-Drug Scandal Back in the Classroom
Two former students alleged four John Jay professors ran a campus 'Swamp' of misconduct, drugs, and coercion. CUNY paid roughly $609,998 to settle, the professors paid nothing, and an arbitrator put the alleged ringleader back in front of students. All presumed innocent — no criminal convictions.
LAPD Releases Video of the 210 Freeway Shooting in Sylmar Involving an Armed Carjacking Suspect
The LAPD posted body-cam and dash-cam footage of an officer-involved shooting on the westbound 210 in Sylmar. Police say a man tried to carjack a pickup, then stood armed in active lanes; after he allegedly ignored commands to drop a handgun, three officers fired. The freeway was shut for ~7 hours. The suspect is presumed innocent; the force is still under review.
A Denver Teacher Made Students Kiss in Class Skits and Graded Them. The Board Fired Her, 7–0.
Students said the kissing skits were graded, the pairings predominantly same-sex, and a 'the answer is always yes' rule left no way to decline without a penalty. An independent review called it 'irresponsible and inappropriate'; the board terminated her unanimously. No criminal charges.
People on Ozempic Lose Weight — and Start Moving Less, a New Study Finds
A preliminary ENDO 2026 study of 753 Fitbit-tracked adults found GLP-1 users took ~560 fewer steps a day after starting the drug. Because the medications erode lean muscle, doctors say exercise 'cannot be optional' — though the data are not yet peer-reviewed.
The FBI Says It Stopped an Explosive-Drone Plot Against the White House UFC Event
FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau disrupted an alleged drone-sniper-and-gate-breach plot against UFC Freedom 250, with five in custody after a family member's tip. No suspects named, no charges yet; all presumed innocent, and details rest on the FBI's account.
A Socialist Leading a New York House Primary Once Cheered a Convicted Palestinian Terrorist
Darializa Avila Chevalier — leading Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) 39–35 with Mayor Zohran Mamdani's endorsement — posted 'Help Rasmea come home' during the trial of Rasmea Odeh, convicted of a 1969 Jerusalem bombing that killed two students. The primary is June 23.
Robert De Niro: 'I Can't Love the Country That's Led by Donald Trump'
At Jane Fonda's 'Rise Up, Sing Out' concert — staged opposite Trump's White House UFC birthday event — De Niro delivered the night's most-quoted line, with Bette Midler and Julia Roberts on the bill. It was the latest of eight years of De Niro anti-Trump speeches.
A UFC Fighter Won at the White House — Then Ended His Interview With a Slur Aimed at Michelle Obama
Josh Hokit's debunked 'Michelle Obama is a man' line at UFC Freedom 250 drew condemnation from Robert Griffin III to Jessica Tarlov. The UFC trimmed it from its YouTube upload — but the unedited version stayed live.
CNN's Kasie Hunt Asks If Musk's SpaceX Wealth Is a Sign of 'American Decline'
Two days after the largest IPO in history made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, CNN framed it as possible 'American decline.' On her own panel, Scott Jennings said the real issue was Musk backing Trump.
Airbnb's Ron Klain Defended Graham Platner's Nazi Tattoo — and Airbnb Said Nothing
Airbnb's Chief Legal Officer called Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner's SS death's-head tattoo 'just a partisan attack.' A year earlier, Airbnb rushed to disavow a cofounder for joining DOGE. This time it stayed silent.
One Policy Reversal Triggered 41,887 Immigration Lawsuits — and Trump's Own Judges Struck It Down
A record immigration-litigation wave — 41,887 suits in a year, per TRAC — traces almost entirely to the July 2025 no-bond detention policy that 225 federal judges, including 12 Trump appointees, found likely unconstitutional.
Britain Will Ban Under-16s From Social Media — and the Child-Safety Campaigners Are Split
Keir Starmer's under-16 ban covers TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X and takes effect in early 2027. The sharpest doubts come not from the tech lobby but from the bereaved-parent campaigners who forced the issue.
Congress Spent Billions Turning Schools Into Mental-Health Clinics. Test Scores Kept Falling.
A bipartisan school mental-health build-out — close to $1B in the BSCA plus billions more — collided with the worst NAEP reading and math scores in a generation. A Manhattan Institute analysis asks whether the money is buying results.
A Wrong Food Order Ended With a Detroit Restaurant Worker Stabbed in the Stomach
Two sisters — one nine months pregnant — face assault-with-intent-to-murder charges after an alleged attack on a 23-year-old worker over a wrong order. Both pleaded not guilty; presumed innocent. The case fits a documented rise in customer violence against fast-food workers.
Swiss Voters Reject a Proposal to Cap the Country's Population at 10 Million
The SVP-backed 'Sustainability Initiative' fell in a June 14 referendum that, had it passed, would have forced immigration curbs and put Switzerland's EU free-movement accord at risk. The population sits near 9.1 million.
Ukrainian Air Force Trainee Convicted for a 3D-Printed Ghost Gun Factory
Yaroslav Vishnevski, 33 — a Boston University magna cum laude graduate who completed Air Force officer training — turned his Harrisburg home into an illegal NFA-weapon workshop: three 3D printers, a Ghost Gunner CNC machine, unregistered short-barreled rifles, and silencers imported from China. A jury took about 30 minutes to convict on five counts.
NYC Schools Chancellor Signed a No-Bid Deal, Hid It, and Promoted the Deputy Who Took the Fall
Chancellor Kamar Samuels faces a criminal probe over roughly $180,000 in contracts with a non-approved vendor — payments allegedly split into $25,000 chunks to dodge oversight. A city report faulted his deputy; he promoted her. Mayor Mamdani (D) stands by him.
When Inclusion Becomes Illegal: The Courts Draw the Line on DEI Quotas
SFFA v. Harvard (6–3, 2023), Duvall v. Novant Health ($4.4M verdict, 4th Cir. 2024), the Fearless Fund injunction (11th Cir. 2024), EEOC/DOJ joint guidance (March 2025), and IBM's $17M False Claims Act settlement (April 2026) all say the same thing: racial and gender quotas violate the civil rights laws they claim to enforce.
NYC Is Paying $6M for Psychiatrists for Its Violence Interrupters
New York City is spending $6 million in taxpayer funds on psychiatric services for formerly incarcerated 'credible messengers' in its $100M/year Crisis Management System. The city's own Comptroller found the program lacks standardized data, suffers 255-day payment delays, and covers only 29 of 77 precincts — as the city faces a $5.4B budget gap.
Nurse Solomon Was Compliant. The Gunman Fired Anyway.
Lartey Solomon, 33, a nurse and Bay Area health influencer with 20,000+ followers, was shot dead during a robbery in downtown Oakland on May 31. Suspect Shacory Daniels, 39, a convicted felon, faces felony murder charges. Oakland's DA — the third in two years — charged him within days.
A Washington Family Sues Over a Girls' Wrestling Match. The State's Policy Is on Trial.
A federal suit in Tacoma alleges a 15-year-old wrestler was assaulted by a male opponent in a girls' tournament — and puts the WIAA, Superintendent Reykdal (D), and the Puyallup district on trial over the policy. Allegations unproven; prosecutors declined charges; the athlete is not a defendant.
$400,000 for Consultants. A Reading Score That Went Backward. This Is San Francisco Schools.
SFUSD spent ~$400,000 on ethnic-studies consultants and a new curriculum — and committed $7M more — while reading and math scores cratered. The board's response to missing its goals: extend the deadline.
They Raised $634,000 for His Defense. Then He Told the Court He's Penniless.
Karmelo Anthony's family raised nearly $634,000 on GiveSendGo for his legal defense. A day after his murder conviction, he swore to the court he is 'penniless, destitute, and indigent.' Spending claims are attributed; the viral '$900K house' story was rated unproven; the donor question is real.
Maddow Drafts the Dead of Omaha Beach Into the Anti-Trump Protest Movement
2,501 Americans died on June 6, 1944. On her one night a week, Maddow folded them into the weekend's anti-ICE protest cycle — 'D-Day heroes, the OG Antifa' — then read out the next protest's start time on air.
Six Acts Fled Trump's Birthday Party. The One Who Stayed Has Some Advice: 'Stay In Your Lane.'
Vanilla Ice — who doesn't vote and isn't MAGA — stayed on Freedom 250 while six of nine acts fled, then told Clay & Buck that entertainers should skip the anti-Trump takes. AP-NORC says only 24% of Americans approve of celebrity politics.
'Get Paid to Have Your Feet Worshipped': Feds Say the Job Ad Was Bait for Rape
DOJ alleges FootPadNYC.com's employment page lured aspiring foot models to Manhattan hotel-room 'interviews,' where owner Jason Khan, 47, raped or assaulted at least three of them. Three counts, 15 to life each. Presumed innocent; the FBI is canvassing for more victims.
He Watched Them Describe the Fire: The Palisades Arson Trial Opens
Fire victims in the jury pool described their losses in front of Jonathan Rinderknecht, who has pleaded not guilty. The contested holdover-fire theory decides the case — while the empty reservoir, the dry hydrants, and Mayor Bass's conduct stay inadmissible.
He Was Already a Registered Sex Offender. Then He Allegedly Drove to Meet a 13-Year-Old.
A WSP undercover sting caught a registered Pierce County offender allegedly arranging to pay a '13-year-old' for sex — $750,000 bail, possible life without parole, and a live bill in Olympia that would soften penalties for exactly these convictions.
Bail Cut From $750,000 to $250 — and the Judge Is Unnamed in Coverage
The state asked for $250,000 for the teen charged as an adult in the Foss High stabbing that cost one victim part of a lung; a Pierce County judge set $250 and sent him home on GPS monitoring. The self-defense evidence is real — and so is the arithmetic.
On Camera, for Pocket Change: Homeless Angelenos Say They Were Paid to Vote for Bass and Raman
New videos — now in DOJ hands — show homeless Angelenos claiming they were paid $2–$5 to mail in ballots for Bass and Raman, one day after a guilty plea for buying Skid Row registrations. Unverified, one claim already debunked; ~7,600 voters registered at LA shelters; multiple federal probes underway.
Vote Illegally, Get Deported: DHS Orders ICE to Remove Noncitizens Who Cast Ballots. No Conviction Required.
The June 9 DHS directive makes noncitizen voting a directed ICE removal priority under long-dormant INA grounds — covering even legally present aliens. The law was always there; the enforcement wasn't.
Newsom Took $50,000 From BYD's Top U.S. Executive. The Pentagon Just Branded BYD a Chinese Military Company.
BYD's Americas chief bankrolled Newsom's campaigns; California gave BYD a $1B no-bid mask deal at four times the market price. The Pentagon now classifies BYD as a Chinese military company — and the governor's office has no comment.
California Is Billing Medicaid $826/Day for Shamanic Drum Circles. Vance Just Froze $1.3 Billion.
Under CalAIM's Traditional Healer Services (CMS-approved Oct 2024), California pays $826/day for residential shamanic programs — more than standard psychiatric inpatient rates. Sen. Kennedy confirmed it under oath. DHCS Director Baass had no data on whether participants were actually Native American.
6.4 Million People Are Getting Obamacare Subsidies They Don't Qualify For. It Costs $27 Billion a Year.
GAO-26-108742 found $27B/yr in ACA improper payments. Florida: 2.46M ineligible enrollees. Brokers Lloyd and Strong convicted and sentenced for stealing $180M. CMS has ignored the same three control-failure warnings from auditors since 2014. Democrats blocked every verification fix.
$259,000 Per Person Permanently Housed. 47% Returned to the Streets. Three Years of Karen Bass's Homelessness Emergency.
Bass declared a homelessness emergency Day One, spent $322M on Inside Safe, and watched the city count rise above her 2022 baseline. Court audit couldn't account for $2.3B. Houston cut homelessness 63% — for free.
The DOJ Just Told Arizona State University to Dismantle Its DEI Programs or Lose Federal Funding.
The DOJ's Civil Rights Division issued a compliance demand to Arizona State University — one of the largest public universities in America — ordering it to end race-conscious DEI programs under Title VI. ASU has 30 days to certify compliance. Failure triggers a referral to cut federal funding.
New York's Legislature Wants to Strip 'Mother,' 'Father,' 'Son,' and 'Daughter' From State Law.
A New York bill would replace gendered kinship terms in ~100 state statutes with gender-neutral alternatives: 'mother' and 'father' become 'parent,' 'son' and 'daughter' become 'child.' Sponsor says it modernizes language. Critics call it a systematic erasure of biological categories from public law. Gov. Hochul (D) has not taken a position.
Detroit TV News Anchor Taryn Asher Is Suing Fox 2 for Race Discrimination. She Says They Replaced Her With a Less Qualified White Anchor.
Taryn Asher, a longtime Fox 2 Detroit news anchor, filed a race discrimination lawsuit alleging she was removed from her anchor chair and replaced by a less qualified white colleague. She claims supervisors made racially coded comments about her appearance and demeanor. Fox 2 denies the allegations.
Scientists Found 5,300-Year-Old Viable Yeast in a Mummy's Gut — and Baked Sourdough With It.
Eurac Research cultured four cold-adapted yeast species from Ötzi the Iceman's preserved gut and baked sourdough. Lead researcher Mohamed S. Sarhan: 'We had a very, very good sourdough.' Beer is next.
615 Indictments, 984 Guns, Half a Ton of Cocaine: Inside the FBI's 'Operation Spring Cleaning.'
The FBI's three-month surge reported 615 indictments/complaints, 1,139 arrests, 984 firearms, and 509 kg of cocaine. Director Kash Patel (R) calls it a 'full-throttle mission.' Indictments are allegations; we lead with the haul and flag the contested arrest stats.
Florida Sued a Big Tech Giant for 'Hawking a Harmful Product.' It's OpenAI.
AG James Uthmeier (R-FL) filed the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman — 10 counts, 83 pages — alleging it knowingly marketed ChatGPT to kids while hiding the risks. Allegations only; OpenAI denies blame.
Seven Dead, Including the Shooter, in a Rampage Across Muscatine, Iowa.
A series of shootings across an eastern Iowa river city left seven dead, including the gunman. Police say the six victims are believed to be his family; two were students and two were school-district employees. Preliminary investigation: a domestic dispute.
A $16.9 Billion Budget, a $642 Million Hole. Cops and Firefighters Got Raises Anyway.
Mayor Daniel Lurie (D)'s $16.9B budget funds a 14% police and fire raise and dodges mass layoffs — closing a $642M deficit on vacant jobs and a hiring freeze. The ~$1B structural deficit still looms.
Mamdani's 'New' Magic Housing Plan Has Been Failing for Decades.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D)'s $22B 'Block by Block' plan pairs a rent freeze with more government housing — NYC's two oldest interventions. The record: a 1.4% vacancy rate (lowest since 1968), NYCHA's $78.3B repair backlog, ~81% of economists against rent control.
Trump's Border Win: The CBO Just Quantified the Collapse in Illegal Crossings.
Monthly border encounters fell from 302,034 (Dec. 2023) to 30,698 (Dec. 2025) — ~90% — in CBP's own data. On May 29, 2026 the CBO revised 2025 net illegal immigration down 1.5 million. FY2025 apprehensions hit a 1970 low.
A Transgender Cyclist Won Two Oregon Women's Races by a Combined 48 Minutes.
Chloë Spritz won the Elite Women fields at Silver Falls XC (by 36:01) and the Sisters Stampede state championship (by 12:16) under the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association's self-ID rule — against USA Cycling, the UCI, and a federal executive order.
Is Foreign Money Fueling the War on American Data Centers? A Disputed Report Says Yes.
A Bitcoin Policy Institute report alleges Chinese state media, the CCP-linked Singham network, and $2B+ in foreign-tied dark money are amplifying the anti-data-center movement. Named groups — Wyss Foundation, CodePink — flatly deny it, and skeptics call it a scapegoat. We document both sides.
Do Socialists Know Why Socialism Fails? New York Is About to Find Out.
A Washington Examiner column asks why socialism's leaders never reckon with Cuba and Venezuela. The data is stark — Venezuela's GDP fell ~80% and inflation hit 130,060%. Now NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D/DSA) is testing the model: $30M city grocery stores at $3,000/sq-ft, rent freezes, a $70M program.
Maine Democrat Graham Platner's Wife Made a Video Defending Him Over Explicit Texts — and a 'Predator's Paradise' App Account.
Amy Gertner called the reporting 'shameful gossip' after the WSJ reported explicit texts to multiple women and the Daily Wire found an active Kik profile matching his tattoos. It follows resurfaced Reddit posts and an SS-style tattoo. Platner +7 over Collins, but prediction markets dropped ~10 points. June 9 primary.
An Arizona School Board Member Threw a Nazi Salute and Shouted 'Heil' at the Board President. She Refused to Apologize.
At a May 26 Deer Valley Unified meeting, board member Kim Fisher raised a stiff-arm salute and shouted 'Heil! Heil!' at President Paul Carver, then called him a 'dictator' on Facebook Live. The ADL, two teachers unions, and a Democratic state rep demanded she resign. Arizona law allows only censure; the seat is nonpartisan.
The View Suggested NFL QB Jaxson Dart Should Be Targeted on the Field for Supporting Trump. ABC Has Said Nothing.
Behar: 'Maybe he needs a little extra padding.' Haines: 'There would be consequences — you're the quarterback.' Hostin: 'You are complicit.' ABC: silence. Dart's teammates: 'Locker room is fine.'
She Cut the Fire Department by $17.5M. Then She Flew to Ghana. Then the Hydrants Ran Dry. 31 People Died. This Is Karen Bass's Record.
Complete accountability record: Ghana trip, LAFD cuts, dry hydrants, fire chief fired, 15% homes permitted, $67M for 255 people. Vote June 2.
Savannah Guthrie's Mother Has Been Missing 118 Days. The Democratic Sheriff Just Got Referred for Perjury.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, abducted Feb. 1, 2026. Sheriff Nanos (D): excluded FBI 4 days, wrong lab, wrong woman's 'LOCATED' alert, perjury referral. No suspect. $1.2M+ reward. Savannah: $500K private investigators. YouTuber found 1,000-yr skeleton independently.
A CBP Black Hawk Stopped a Drug Boat Near Puerto Rico. 30 Years of Democratic Governance Built the Pipeline.
CBP AMO Black Hawk fired disabling rounds May 14, seizing 178 kg cocaine. But: 1,700+ Puerto Rico police charged 2005-2010, fiscal bankruptcy 2016 (43% poverty), Roosevelt Roads Naval Station closed 2004. Three major gangs dismantled in 2026 alone.
$123 Million in DEI Contracts. $669 Million in Union Political Spending. A Report Documents How National K-12 Groups Push It Into Your Local School.
Defending Education (300+ FOIAs): National PTA mandates anti-racism audits, ICE toolkits, gender materials at local chapters. NEA 2025 Handbook (scrubbed): 'white supremacy is root cause of racism.' $19.8M federal grants diverted. 23,683 schools in 46 states implementing DEI.
Supergirl Is Tracking Like The Marvels. Hollywood Is About to Lose $200 Million Because Its Lead Actress Insulted the Audience.
Opening weekend tracking: $47M–$65M domestic on a $250M all-in budget. Break-even: $500M domestic. Lead actress Milly Alcock told Variety critics are 'Dad of four, Christian — which is hilarious to me.' Director: Craig Gillespie. James Gunn cast her. Film opens June 26, 2026.
SAPD Arrested a Texas Man Today for Allegedly Threatening to Bomb a TPUSA Event and Kill CEO Erika Kirk
Early Thursday morning, SAPD arrested Jacob Wenske, 26, of San Antonio. Two felony counts of making a terroristic threat causing public fear under Texas Penal Code § 22.07; combined bond $120,000. Bexar County DA Joe Gonzales (D) prosecuting. SAPD affidavit (obtained by KSAT Investigates) reproduces three alleged statements — Facebook replies + January 2026 email — targeting the TPUSA Women's Leadership Summit (June 5-7, San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter) where Erika Kirk is featured speaker. Erika Kirk unanimously elected TPUSA CEO + Board Chair Sept 18, 2025 — 8 days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at UVU. Presumption of innocence applies.
The Federal Government's Landlord Just Joined the $164B Fraud Hunt
GSA Administrator Edward C. Forst (Trump appointee, sworn Dec 24 2025) formally joins VP Vance's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud (EO 14395). $22.2B PPP/EIDL referred to Treasury (Biden never referred). $6.3B contracts flagged (bulk Biden-era). $164.6B cumulative tally at May 26 AG roundtable. NO GSA building meets 60% USE IT Act floor.
Gen Z Realized Who Built the Wall. It Wasn't the Other Party. It Was Their Parents.
Median home price 1985→2025: $82,800 → $416,900 (403%) vs. ~140% wage growth. Boomers 51.2% of household wealth; Gen Z + Millennials 10.5%. CBO: $25.2T SS unfunded, OASI depletes 2033. Trump 54% of men 18-29 in 2024 vs. Biden 60-36 in 2020. Morning Consult: Gen Z liberal ID down 12 pts since 2016.
$40 Million in Gold Bars. A Navy Pilot Career That Never Happened. One Career CIA Officer.
FBI seized 303 one-kilogram gold bars (~$40M), $2M cash, 35 luxury watches from former senior CIA SES officer David J. Rush at his Fairfax County, VA residence May 18. Arrested May 19. Allegedly faked Navy pilot service while actually enlisted IT (discharged Feb 2015 as Lt O-3). CIA Director Ratcliffe (R) referred to FBI Director Patel (R) and AG Bondi (R). Detention hearing May 29 in EDVA.
Federally Indicted for Assaulting a Reporter. Then They Tried to Make Her Stop Tweeting About It.
TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez was federally indicted-against April 28-29 — Christopher, Deyanna, and Paige Ostroushko of Prior Lake MN. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty (D-DFL) charged only one with a misdemeanor; federal DOJ brought felonies against all three. Defendants then filed restraining orders against HER seeking social-media gag + MN county ban. Petitions list her height as 5'9'' (she is 5'4'').
NJ Governor + 2 Senators Spent Memorial Day Demanding an ICE Facility Be Shut Down
Memorial Day at Delaney Hall: Gov. Sherrill (D-NJ) denied entry. Sen. Kim (D-NJ) pepper-sprayed during clash. Sen. Booker (D-NJ) toured May 27. ~300 detainees on hunger/work strike since May 22. Mullin (R): 'political stunt for fundraising clicks.' Homan (R): force-feeding court order coming. NJ Asm. Kanitra (R-Toms River): 'five-star accommodations.' $164.65/day ICE detention vs. 13,851 unsheltered US veterans.
$1,000 → $300 a Week. A .40-Caliber Glock. A Princeton Graduate.
Thomas Gilbert Jr (41, Princeton class of 2009) gives first jailhouse TV interview on Court TV's 'Interview With A Killer' May 23 with host David Scott from Clinton Correctional. Convicted Manhattan jury June 28, 2019 of 2nd-degree murder; 30-to-life. Killed father Thomas Gilbert Sr (Wainscott Capital Partners) Jan 4 2015 over allowance cuts. Justice Jackson: 'You were not insane then, and you are not insane now.' DA Cy Vance (D) prosecuted; Alvin Bragg (D) holds file. Appeal pending.
The Official DNC Twitter Account Told a Sitting White House Official to 'Shut Up'
May 27 official @TheDemocrats X account posted 'shut up you ugly fuck' at WH Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller (R). Katie Miller identified DNC Deputy Chief Mobilization Officer Paulina Mangubat (D, age 30). 48 hours after DNC quietly deleted a Memorial Day post exploiting 13 fallen US service members. DNC Chair Ken Martin (D) silent on both. Trump endorsed TX Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton over Talarico (D).
38'11.75''. By Two Feet. Then WV's AG Hand-Delivered the Result to the Supreme Court.
Becky Pepper-Jackson (15, biological male, plaintiff in SCOTUS case West Virginia v. B.P.J. No. 24-43) wins WV Class AAA girls shot put state championship at 38'11.75'' May 23, beating Paislee Babiczuk (John Marshall HS, 36'11'') by 2+ feet. Babiczuk had broken her school's 43-year shot put record this season. WV AG McCuskey (R) filed supplemental SCOTUS letter rebutting ACLU 'back of the pack' representation. Ruling expected June 2026.
Newsom Slipped a $20M 'Governors' Legacies Fund' Into His Final California Budget
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)'s May Revision budget contains a $20M line item for "tribute projects" to former California governors. Newsom previously paid $97K for a bronze bust of himself at SF City Hall. Republican Caucus demanding strip.
Medicare Paid $31.4 Billion in Improper Payments Last Year. CMS's Own Innovation Center Has a 93% Failure Rate.
May 25, 2026 — GAO's high-risk list documents $31.4 billion in Medicare improper payments in FY2023. HHS OIG estimates cumulative Medicare Advantage overpayments exceed $50 billion. CMS actuaries project $1.13 trillion in Medicare spending for FY2026. The CMS Innovation Center has produced only 4 successful cost-saving models out of 54 tested.
Detransitioners Are Suing the Doctors Who Treated Them as Minors. The Cass Review Said the Evidence Was Never There.
May 25, 2026 — The April 2024 Cass Review found insufficient evidence to support puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for gender-distressed minors. Twenty-six US states have enacted bans or restrictions. The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's ban 6-3 in United States v. Skrmetti (June 2025). Detransitioners Chloe Cole (v. Kaiser Permanente), Layla Jane (v. UCSF), and Prisha Mosley (v. UNC) have filed civil suits alleging inadequate informed consent and medical harm.
A Biological Male Just Won Three Girls' Jumping Events in California — for the Second Year Running. Even Newsom Says It's "Deeply Unfair."
AB Hernandez, a senior at Jurupa Valley HS (Riverside County), swept long jump, triple jump, and tied 4th in high jump at the May 23, 2026 CIF Southern Section Masters Meet — qualifying for the CIF State Championship (Buchanan HS, Clovis, May 29-30) for the second straight year. Named displaced girls: Gianna Gonzalez (Moorpark), Malia Strange (Shadow Hills), Gwynneth Mureika (Oak Park). Three Jurupa girls and their mothers filed a Title IX lawsuit (C.D. Cal., Sept 9, 2025). U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon (R) has 18 active Title IX probes including Jurupa USD. Trump EO 14201 signed Feb 5, 2025. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) himself called the practice "deeply unfair" on his own podcast in March 2025 — but state Superintendent Tony Thurmond (D-CA) and CIF still defend it.
LA's Mayoral Race Just Got Real: "L.A. Doesn't Have a Homeless Problem, We Have a Drug Problem."
LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt (NPP) told RealClearPolitics on May 22, 2026 that LA's chronic crisis is a drug problem, not a housing problem — echoing Sam Quinones's May 14 RCP long-form on 90%+-pure Mexican meth driving the city's mental-illness encampments. Receipts: California spent $24B on homelessness over 5 years and stopped tracking outcomes in 2021 (State Auditor); LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia (Green) found $513M unspent in FY2024 alone; Mayor Karen Bass's (D) Inside Safe cost $322M for ~1,243 placements (~$259K each). The natural experiment: overdose deaths dropped 22% in 2024 — the year DA Nathan Hochman (NPP, formerly R) replaced George Gascón (D). Bass's "no teeth" remark at a May 20 candidate forum went viral. June 2026 primary on the calendar.
Mayor Mamdani's Office Gave Three Mangione Fans NYC Press Credentials — Then Said They 'Should Not Have Been' Issued.
NY Post's Kirsten Fleming documents three women — Lena Weissbrot, Ashley Rojas, Abril Rios — appearing at Luigi Mangione's Manhattan murder hearing wearing NYC-issued press credentials from Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D-NY) office. On record they call Brian Thompson, the deceased UnitedHealthcare CEO, 'responsible for more deaths than Osama bin Laden.' Mamdani publicly says the passes never should have been issued. Defense attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo disavows them. State trial Sept 8, 2026 (Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg D); SDNY federal Oct 26. UnitedHealth Group $110B+ market-cap loss since Dec 4, 2024. Mangione has pleaded not guilty (presumption of innocence applies).
DSA Membership Doubled in 16 Months. 90% of Progressive Activists Want Schumer Gone. The Democratic Party's Civil War Is on the 2026 Primary Calendar.
NY Post: from coast to coast, the ultra-progressive wing is primarying centrist Democrats. Mamdani (D-NY, DSA) sworn in NYC Mayor Jan 1, 2026; DSA national membership 50,713 → 100,000+ in 16 months. Gallup 2026: 59% of Democrats now identify as liberal (highest ever), yet 45% want party to move TOWARD center vs only 29% further left. Sanders/AOC 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour 261,100 attendees thru Nov 2025. Schumer + Jeffries refused to endorse Mamdani for 17 weeks. Our Revolution survey: 90% want Schumer to step aside. Brandon Johnson (D-IL, DSA-adjacent CTU) Chicago approval 26-31% — worst major-city mayor in country. Justice Democrats recruiting in all 50 states.
Hegseth at West Point: 'You Are Not an Army of Woke. You Are an Army of Warriors.'
Michie Stadium Class of 2026 commencement. Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth (R) anchor line: 'Let me be perfectly clear: you are not an army of one, and you are certainly not an army of woke. You are an American army, an army of warriors.' Also: 'The battlefield does not grade on a curve, and you can't throw your pronouns at the enemy.' The speech formalized 16 months of memos: Jan 29 2025 'Restoring America's Fighting Force' directive; Feb 4 2025 USMA disbanding 12 cadet affinity clubs; Jan 31 2025 end of all Pentagon identity-month observances. Army FY2025 62,050 enlistments vs 61,000 goal (best in 15 years); FY2026 target 4 months early. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) frames stewardship as politicization of officer corps.
Operation Firewall: 341 Arrested, 40 Children Rescued in Multi-County California Child Exploitation Sweep
April 19–May 3, 2026 — 112 law enforcement agencies operating across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties arrested 341 suspects and rescued 40 children in a coordinated sweep targeting online predators and CSAM distributors. Child sex crime arrests are up 145% year-over-year. Daniel Navarro, 42, of Wilmington was sentenced to 45 years. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, LA DA Nathan Hochman (R), OC Sheriff Don Barnes, and First AUSA Bill Essayli (Trump appointee) led the joint press conference. Notably absent: California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D-CA).
'America's Worst Mayor' Just Won a Georgia Republican Primary by Default. She Received the Fewest Votes on the Ballot.
May 21, 2026 — Washington Examiner (Brady Knox): Tiffany Henyard (D→R, filed Republican in Georgia March 11, 2026 after losing Dolton IL Dem primary 88-12 to Jason House Feb 25, 2025) won Fulton County Board of Commissioners District 5 Republican primary UNOPPOSED with 1,136 votes — the FEWEST of any of 18 candidates across 3 Fulton commission seats. Lori Lightfoot (D) June 2024 audit: $9M+ swing from $5.6M surplus to $3.65M deficit; 589 unpaid invoices. FBI subpoenas open (no charges filed; presumed innocent). IL AG Kwame Raoul (D), IL Comptroller Susana Mendoza (D), Emory Prof Andra Gillespie: 'not a viable candidate.'
Doctors Are Taking Cooking Classes Now. 53 Medical Schools Just Committed to 40 Hours of Mandatory Nutrition Training.
May 21, 2026 — NY Post / Fox Digital (Deirdre Bardolf April 17): documented MAHA-era policy shift. 53 medical schools across 31 states pledged 40-hour nutrition requirement by fall 2026 per March 5 HHS event with Sec. RFK Jr. (R) + Education Sec. Linda McMahon (R) (71 competency framework). Tulane Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine licenses 'Health Meets Food' curriculum to 60+ programs. UC Irvine first to require culinary medicine. USDA NIFA GusNIP $59.4M / $20.7M PPR. Rockefeller Foundation $100M Food is Medicine. AHA Journals Circulation outcomes: HbA1c -0.29 to -0.58 pp; BMI -0.52 kg/m²; food insecurity -33%. Counter-evidence: Endocrinology Advisor null effect.
A Town Official Answered a Lost Delivery Driver With Three Shots. The Jury Called It Depraved Indifference.
May 18, 2026 — Hon. Craig Brown (Orange County Court) sentences John J. Reilly III (R), 49, Town of Chester (NY) Highway Superintendent, to 17 years state prison + 5 years post-release supervision for the May 2, 2025 shooting of Alpha Oumar Barry, 24, a French-speaking Guinean DoorDash driver who was lost on a delivery, dead phone, and knocked on Reilly's porch asking for directions. Three .45-Glock shots; one in Barry's lower back; ~25 inches of small intestine surgically removed. Jury convicted March 26, 2026 of 1st-degree assault (depraved indifference), 2nd-degree assault, 2nd-degree CPW, eight counts CPF; acquitted on attempted murder. Wife Selina Nelson-Reilly pleaded guilty April 14 to felony tampering for deleting 17 Ring videos. DA David Hoovler (R): 'depraved indifference to human life.'
American Mothers Say No to China's Vape Dumping Ground. The FDA Has Authorized Six. There Are Thousands on the Shelves.
May 20, 2026 — Washington Examiner op-ed by Emily Stack (Executive Director, Moms for America Action): 'American families are being treated like a dumping ground for products the Chinese government does not want widely sold to its own people.' CBP/USCG/FDA's May 14 Operation Red Mist seized 18M units worth $175M — virtually all Chinese-origin. Moms for America estimates 80-90% of US disposable-vape market is illegal Chinese product, against ~6 FDA-authorized unique devices (all tobacco-flavored). Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) ENDS Chinese Vapes Act (S.4303). Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL): 'FDA is blowing smoke.' Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) grilled HHS Sec. RFK Jr. in Appropriations.
The 107-Day Pipeline — Foreign Dark Money, Chinese Propaganda, and a Federal Bill to Freeze U.S. AI.
May 18, 2026 — Bitcoin Policy Institute (Sam Lyman, ~17 min) documents ~$2 billion from three foreign-funded vectors — Singham (~$278M Shanghai-based), Wyss (~$700M Swiss), Parker/Oak Foundation (~$750M British/Geneva) — flowing into U.S. nonprofit infrastructure that organized the 230-signatory Dec 8 2025 moratorium coalition letter, then S. 4214 (Sanders/AOC) AI Data Center Moratorium Act 107 days later. Federal probe: DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin + War Dept Sec. Hegseth + Treasury Sec. Bessent + DOJ AG Bondi + IC. Ways & Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO), Select CCP Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI), Sen. Grassley (R-IA) FARA demands. Dem dissenters: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) — 'idiocy'; Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) — 'China First.' Singham categorically denies CCP-agent allegations.
Twenty-Six Chicks, One $10B Startup — and the Egg Scientists Say Isn't Really an Egg.
Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based de-extinction startup valued at $10.32 billion, hatched 26 healthy chicks from a 3D-printed, silicone-coated artificial eggshell on May 19. Chief Biology Officer Andrew Pask: 'absolutely mind blowing — you really feel you can grow life outside of the womb.' The stepping stone: resurrecting the South Island giant moa, an extinct 12-foot New Zealand bird whose eggs are roughly 80x the volume of a chicken's. Four named scientists at three institutions (Roslin, Sheffield, Tsukuba, plus Lynch via AP) push back same day — this is an artificial eggshell, not an artificial egg; the embryo, nutrients, and waste handling all still come from real chicken biology. Investors: Paris Hilton, Tom Brady, Peter Jackson, Chris Hemsworth. Cumulative raised: ~$615M.
Two Teens, Three Dead at the Islamic Center of San Diego — and Now SDPD Is Calling It a Hate Crime.
Five dead total. Suspects Cain Clark, 17 (James Madison High School virtual student, wrestler), and Caleb Vazquez, 18, both of San Diego, found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds in a vehicle near the mosque. Three civilians killed at the Islamic Center, including security guard Amin Abdullah, father of eight, credited by SDPD Chief Scott Wahl with 'heroic' actions that 'undoubtedly saved lives.' Anti-Islamic writings, hate-speech graffiti on a Smith & Wesson 9mm, SS sticker on a fuel container, and a suicide note referencing racial pride were recovered. Chief Wahl: 'hate crime until it's not.' FBI San Diego SAC Mark Remily on-scene. Mayor Todd Gloria (D-CA) heckled mid-briefing: 'Direct result of your leadership.'
Mamdani Wants to Tax the Industry That Pays Half of NYC's Bills.
REBNY's Invisible Engine 2025 report: NYC real estate generated $37 billion in real-estate-related taxes in CY2024 (a record), projected to exceed $40 billion in FY25 — 49% of locally-collected NYC tax revenue. Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D-DSA) tax stack: $30/hr by 2030, pied-à-terre $5M+ second homes (Hochul backs), 2% millionaire surtax (Hochul rejected), 1% all-cash transfer tax on home sales $1M+. Comptroller Mark Levine (D): pied-à-terre realistic range $340M-$380M, not the administration's $500M. Honest counter-evidence: $10M+ NYC apartment contracts surged +80% April-May; JLL whitepaper called the exodus narrative a 'myth.'
A 28-Year-Old Killed Her Parents in 2024. The Interrogation Video Just Came Out.
May 13, 2026 — Washington City Police released the interrogation video of Mia Bailey, sentenced Dec 19, 2025 to two consecutive 25-to-life terms for the June 18, 2024 murder of her parents Joseph and Gail Bailey. Plea: 'guilty AND mentally ill.' Court record diagnoses: autism, psychosis, schizophrenia, ADHD, OCD, possible bipolar. Released from inpatient mental-health care 3 days before the killings. Bailey was 28 — Utah's SB 16 covers minors and did not apply. This page does not claim the ban caused this killing, and does not claim gender-affirming care produces violence. Bailey named the trigger in her own interrogation; her diagnosed mental illness is on the court record. Both facts stand together.
FELONY MISCONDUCT — Indianapolis Christian School Teacher Pleads Guilty and Is Sentenced for Abuse-of-Trust Conviction
Torrie Lemon, 24, a former Colonial Christian School kindergarten teacher, pleaded guilty Thursday in Hamilton County to a Level 5 felony under Indiana Code § 35-42-4-7. Sentence: 40 days incarceration — credited entirely to pre-sentence custody — and roughly four years of probation. Two additional counts in Marion County are scheduled for sentencing the next day. Indiana law requires the state's Department of Education to permanently revoke her teaching license.
The FCC Just Sent Three Letters of Inquiry to Minnesota Schools. Walz's $9 Billion Fraud Pattern Is Now a K-12 Broadband Story.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr (R) announced May 15 that the agency's Enforcement Bureau has opened a fraud investigation into the federal E-Rate educational-broadband program in Minnesota — three Letters of Inquiry, three unnamed school institutions, one governor whose state already sits at the center of a federal $9 billion fraud landscape.
Texas Children's Hospital Will Pay $10 Million and Open the Country's First Detransition Clinic
Joint Texas AG / DOJ civil settlement. Five physicians terminated. Hospital denies wrongdoing and settled to end litigation. Whistleblower vindicated.
Snap and YouTube Just Bought Their Way Out of a Federal Trial. Meta Has Four Weeks.
On May 15, three of four big defendants settled with Breathitt County, Kentucky. No admission. 1,199 districts behind them.
The SPLC Wrote Your Kid's 'Anti-Bias' Curriculum. A Federal Grand Jury Just Indicted It on 11 Counts.
April 21, 2026 — a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the SPLC: six counts of wire fraud, four counts of false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Acting AG Todd Blanche + FBI Director Kash Patel. Between 2014-2023, per the indictment, $3M+ in donor money was funneled to KKK and violent-extremist-affiliated individuals via accounts opened under assumed business names ('Center Investigative Agency,' 'Rare Books Warehouse'). Meanwhile SPLC's 'Learning for Justice' K-12 program is in 169 school districts across 42 states + DC, often without parental notification — kindergarten and up.
California Bought Death-Row Inmates 90,000 Tablets. They're Using Them to Watch Porn and Groom Children.
City Journal, May 13, 2026 — condemned CA inmates are using state-issued Securus tablets to watch pornography, hold sexually explicit conversations, and (in at least one federal case) sexually exploit a minor. ~90,000 tablets statewide. Securus contract: $189M base / $315M maximum with optional extensions. Former CDCR Deputy Director Douglas Eckenrod warned about exactly these risks during the internal debate; warnings 'set aside.' Newsom's 'digital equity' framing.
Musk's xAI Quietly Built a 46-Turbine Power Plant in Mississippi. It Doesn't Have a Single Air Permit.
In Southaven, MS — across the line from South Memphis — xAI is running 46 unpermitted methane gas turbines for Colossus 2 (up from 27 when the NAACP put it on notice in February). Potential to emit 1,700+ tons of NOx a year — 17× the federal Title V threshold and the largest single industrial NOx source in the greater Memphis area. NAACP / Earthjustice / SELC sued in the Northern District of Mississippi on April 14; an emergency motion followed xAI adding six more turbines. MDEQ has issued no permit, taken no enforcement action, and offered no public explanation.
She Reported a Man in the Women's Locker Room. Planet Fitness Canceled Her, Forged Her Signature, and Called the Cops.
Judy Walcott, a longtime Planet Fitness member at 89 Fort Eddy Rd in Concord, NH, says staff called her 'transphobic,' canceled her membership on a form she says she never signed, and had Concord Police trespass her on April 17 after she reported a man in the women's locker room. The same corporate self-ID policy — defended by Chief Corporate Affairs Officer McCall Gosselin and inherited by CEO Colleen Keating — wiped $400M off PLNT in 2024 and the stock just plunged 31% after Q1 2026 earnings.
DOJ Just Killed PayPal's DEI Business. $30 Million.
DOJ Civil Rights Division used the Equal Credit Opportunity Act on May 12, 2026 to scrap PayPal's $485M Economic Opportunity Fund (the anchor of Dan Schulman's June 2020 $535M commitment), extract a $30M settlement, and impose a race-neutral 'Small Business Initiative' replacement. Asst. AG Harmeet K. Dhillon signed. Acting AG Todd Blanche announced.
Blinken Wrote DEIA Into the State Department's Core Precepts. Rubio Replaced It With Fidelity.
Sec. Antony Blinken (D) created State's first Chief Diversity Officer role April 12, 2021 and embedded DEIA as the 2nd of 5 Foreign Service core precepts in 2022. Sec. Marco Rubio (R-FL) replaced DEIA with 'fidelity' — cut LGBT/singles/pets/blindfold modules from A-100, paused Pickering/Rangel, 15% workforce reduction. SFRC Chair Risch (R-ID): 'Soviet-style anonymous reporting portals.'
$4.2 Million Undisclosed. 16 Admitted Violations. Kemp Won By 54,723 Votes. Now Abrams Is Subpoenaed.
GA Senate Special Committee subpoenaed Stacey Abrams (D-GA) May 11, 2026. New Georgia Project paid Georgia's record $300K fine in January 2025 — 16 admitted violations, $4.2M undisclosed donations, $3.2M undisclosed spending on Abrams's 2018 race. Sen. Warnock (D-GA) chaired NGP's board during the violation period.
Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang (D) Pleaded Guilty to Running CCP Propaganda. Judy Chu Endorsed Her. Her Campaign Treasurer Was Her PRC Co-Conspirator.
Wang switched from Republican to Democrat in 2022 to win her Arcadia City Council seat, endorsed by Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA-28), L.A. Supervisor Hilda Solis (D), and former Assembly Member Mike Eng (D). She pleaded guilty May 11, 2026 to 18 U.S.C. § 951 — acting as illegal agent of the PRC. Statutory max: 10 years. None of her D endorsers has recanted.
'I'm Not Some Hooker.' The Mann Act Texts the Biden DOJ Buried for Five Years.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released ~150 pages of Hunter Biden texts on May 11, 2026 — produced by Trump DOJ, possessed by Biden DOJ since at least 2020, never charged. Cash App $3,600 payments, interstate arrangements. The federal Mann Act exposure is now absorbed by Joe Biden's December 2024 pardon.
1,150 Detainers Refused. 75% of Fairfax Murders Are Illegal Aliens. ICE Made the Arrest Anyway.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) signed Executive Directive 1 on Feb 4, 2026 terminating 287(g) at four state agencies. ICE arrested four-time-convicted drug trafficker Eduardo Perez-Legra in Newport News on May 4 — despite, not with the help of, Virginia. Stephanie Minter is dead. Spanberger says it's 'not a sanctuary state.'
Ken Paxton Sues Netflix for 'Spying' on Users — 5 Petabytes of Data Per Day, Kids Tracked, Brokers Named
Texas AG Ken Paxton filed suit in Collin County on May 11, 2026 alleging Netflix secretly collects 5 petabytes of user data per day at 10 million events per second — selling it to Experian and Acxiom, tracking children, and violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
The Charity Was Asked to Help During Minnesota's Immigration Crackdown. Its Directors Had Already Stolen $6.5 Million.
We Push for Peace executive director Trahern Pollard allegedly embezzled over $6 million. Co-director Jaclyn McGuigan transferred $1,000/week to herself. A shell corporation called 'Change Makers' was created the day AG Keith Ellison (D-MN) started asking questions. The nonprofit's bank account was empty when the community needed it.
Eight Months After Charlie Kirk Was Shot Dead, Pete Davidson Used the Assassination as Netflix Punchline Fodder. The Audience Didn't Laugh.
Davidson's joke at Netflix's Roast of Kevin Hart referenced Kirk's on-camera assassination as a sex punchline. The live crowd went silent. Kirk Show producer Blake Neff: 'I didn't like it.' Kirk's friend Andrew Kolvet: 'wildly distasteful.' The irony: Davidson lost his own father to sudden violent death at age 7.
AB Hernandez Won Girls' Long Jump, Triple Jump, and High Jump at CIF Prelims. The Girls He Beat Are Speaking Out.
AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete competing under California's AB 1266, won three events at the CIF Southern Section Division 3 Track & Field Preliminaries — long jump by 14¾ inches, triple jump by 32½ inches, and tied high jump. Reese Hogan stood on the podium with a sign. DOJ has sued California for Title IX violations.
She Confirmed She'd Be There. 31 People Are Dead. Now She's Not Coming.
LA Mayor Karen Bass (D) withdrew from a May 13 wildfire accountability forum she had confirmed — after cutting $17.5M from the LAFD budget, flying to Ghana when the fires ignited, allegedly altering the after-action report, and losing a court appeal that opens her deleted texts to discovery.
California Regulators Found 432 Violations in State Farm's Wildfire Claims. The Fine Is $4.32 Million.
$500 average penalty per violation against a company with $91.6B in surplus. Prop 103 is the root cause — it blocks actuarially sound wildfire pricing. Ten carriers have partially or fully exited California since 2022. Commissioner Lara (D) and Gov. Newsom (D) have not moved on reform.
California DAs Revolt as Newsom Frees Rapists, Murderers and Attempted Killers.
271 pardons. 166 commutations. A 1974 rapist-murderer freed over DA Dan Dow's formal written opposition. An illegal alien's 10 attempted-murder convictions erased to block ICE. 5 LWOP murder commutations in one batch. Multiple county DAs pushing back in writing. DHS: 'California calamity.'
She Steered $5 Million in FEMA Hurricane Aid to Herself. Then Won Her House Seat by 5 Votes.
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20) was indicted by the DOJ for allegedly diverting $5 million in FEMA hurricane assistance funds for personal and campaign enrichment. She had won her 2022 special election by just 5 votes — from the constituents whose aid she allegedly stole. Maximum sentence: 53 years.
Deported in 2013. Back in California. Killed a Man Over a Catalytic Converter. California's Sanctuary Law Let It Happen.
Carlos Saravia Sanchez, deported in 2013, illegally re-entered California — shielded from ICE detection by SB 54 — and allegedly murdered a man on February 25, 2026 during a catalytic converter theft in Inglewood. DOJ charged him under 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Named: Mayor Butts (D), Gov. Newsom (D), AG Bonta (D).
He Stabbed Her 20+ Times. A Jury Convicted on All Four Counts.
Nick Pasqual, 38, actor from 'How I Met Your Mother,' was convicted on all four counts of attempted murder after stabbing his ex-girlfriend more than 20 times in a pre-dawn attack. Prior incidents went unfiled under DA George Gascón (D). DA Nathan Hochman (R) prosecuted to conviction.
The NYPD Captain Who Wouldn't Block ICE Got Transferred. Mayor Mamdani's Message Was Clear.
NYPD Captain Wilson was transferred after refusing to order officers to impede ICE enforcement operations — defying Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) sanctuary-city directive. Police Commissioner Mitchell confirmed the transfer. No disciplinary finding: just a quiet reassignment.
Communist and Socialist Activists Are Marching for a 20-Hour Workweek, Property Seizures, and Open Borders. Their Presence at Protests Is Growing.
At a Minneapolis May Day demonstration, RCA, FRSO, Communist Party USA, and DSA demanded a 20-hour workweek with no pay cut, billionaire wealth expropriation, rent capped at 10% of worker income, collective control of factories and businesses, elimination of borders, and universal government housing and healthcare funded by confiscated wealth.
Los Angeles City Council Votes 14-0 to Ban Low-Level Traffic Stops — LAPD's Hands Tied
On May 6, 2026, the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-0 to order the Police Commission to end LAPD 'pretextual' traffic stops — pulling over drivers for expired tags, broken taillights, or equipment violations. The vote strips officers of one of law enforcement's primary tools for catching wanted felons during routine stops.
He Filed Four Police Reports. He Asked for Help. New York City Let Him Die.
Abdul Saleh, 28, ran Sal's Deli & Grocery in the East Village and filed four prior NYPD reports about Kavone Horton, 28 ('Styles'). On April 26, 2026, Horton shot Saleh outside his own deli. Mayor Adams' $1.6M SilentShield program existed; Sal's Deli was never included. Saleh's dying wish: 'Please take care of my family.' His wife and two children are in Yemen.
19% of Universities Require Civics. 67% Require DEI.
ACTA's annual report: only 19.4% of universities require a civics course. 67% require DEI coursework. Only 31% of undergraduates can name James Madison as the author of the Constitution. UMich: 500+ DEI staff, $30.68M payroll. FIRE: 166 of 257 universities earned an 'F' for free speech.
Three-Time Deportee. Greyhound to Texas. A Dumpster in Amityville. A Rape While the Victim Was Unconscious.
Jose Ignacio Bonilla-Garcia, 32, Honduran national, deported 3× under Title 42 in 2020. March 27, 2026: allegedly beat a stranger unconscious behind an Amityville, NY deli dumpster and raped him while incapacitated. Boarded a Greyhound for Mexico. April 4: U.S. Marshals caught him in Rosenberg, TX; ICE lodged a detainer at Fort Bend County Jail. Extradited to NY. April 27: arraigned before Justice Karen M. Wilutis on 2× Rape 1° + Assault 2°. Faces 25 years. Suffolk DA Raymond A. Tierney (R) prosecuting.
Two Men Beat a 77-Year-Old in Broad Daylight. The Cameras Mayor Wilson Wants Off Caught Them.
April 19, 2026, ~10 PM: 77-year-old stepped off a bus at Third & Pine in downtown Seattle, attacked unprovoked. Broken arm, broken knee, deep cut above the right eye, over a week at Harborview. RTCC cameras Wilson (D) paused are what caught it. Osman (29): arrested, charged, released before bail hearing — now at large on a $200,000 warrant. Elion: arrested May 4 by Redmond Police from a community tip; booked without bail. KOMO published the video May 5 via public records. Mangual pushed it past 1M+ views on X.
'If Only.' Mark Hamill Posted a Picture of Trump Dead in a Grave. Five Days After the Third Assassination Attempt.
On May 6, 2026, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill posted to his verified Bluesky account an AI-generated image of Trump dead in a flower-surrounded grave under a stone reading 'Donald J. Trump 1946-2024.' Caption: 'If Only.' Five days after Cole Tomas Allen was charged with attempted assassination at the WHCD — the third documented attempt against Trump in less than two years. White House Rapid Response: 'one sick individual.' Spokesman Davis Ingle tied it to Hamill's Star Wars Day video with Obama (D) and demanded Democratic condemnation. Disney silent; The Mandalorian and Grogu releases in weeks.
An Orthodox Jewish Student. A Rutgers Dorm. 'Hitler Would Have Loved You.'
Three threads, one campus. Rivka Schafer (Orthodox, LGBTQ+) sued Rutgers in May 2024 alleging Demarest Hall had become a 'laboratory of antisemitism.' On Jan 2, 2025 — 18 days before leaving office — the Biden DOE Office for Civil Rights closed a 400-complaint investigation with a settlement requiring Rutgers to write a statement and conduct a review. On May 6, 2026, Rutgers cancelled its School of Engineering convocation speaker over personal social-media posts criticizing Israel.
Operation Free MacArthur Park. 300 Federal Officers. 18 Arrests. 40 Pounds of Fentanyl.
May 6, 2026 pre-dawn: 300+ federal and local officers moved on MacArthur Park, the federal complaint's 'notorious open-air drug market' claimed by the 18th Street gang. 25 defendants charged, 18 arrested. ~40 pounds of fentanyl seized at a Calabasas residence — $8-10M wholesale. The DEA had surveilled the park 45 days. The clean-up came from federal law enforcement, not the City of LA.
Jillian Ludwig Was 18. A Walk in the Park. A Stray Bullet. 83 Days After Nashville Set Him Loose.
Nov 7, 2023: Belmont freshman Jillian Ludwig, 18, killed by a stray bullet from Shaquille Taylor — out of jail 83 days earlier on a competency ruling. May 4, 2026: Taylor pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, 35 years no parole. Her parents called the deal Nashville's 'miserable failure.' Tennessee passed Jillian's Law in 2024 to close the loophole.
Newsom's Office on the Trans Athlete Protest: 'The Right Wing is Trying to Vilify Individual Kids.'
Saturday May 10: CIF Southern Section Division 3 girls' track-and-field preliminaries — with a transgender female athlete from Jurupa Valley HS qualified to compete. Sophia Lorey's Save Girls' Sports announced a protest. Newsom's office: the right wing is 'cynically' weaponizing the issue to 'vilify individual kids.' AB 1266 (CA, 2013, Brown). Trump EO 14201 (Feb 2025). DOJ Title IX probe of Jurupa USD opened January 2026.
They Came for Texas. They Came for Florida. South Carolina Is Growing Faster Than Both.
For three years U-Haul ranked Texas #1 — until 2024, when South Carolina took the top spot. The Palmetto State netted 68,043 domestic migrants, gained 29,000 new tax filers, and absorbed $4.1B in income (IRS). California's own Legislative Analyst documented a $102B AGI exodus 2020-2022; California lost $11.9B and New York lost $10B in the latest single-year IRS file. McMaster (R) signed H.4216 with an auto-trigger toward income-tax elimination.
Coffee Changes Your Gut. Your Gut Changes Your Brain. Even the decaf.
APC Microbiome Ireland and University College Cork published the most comprehensive controlled study to date on coffee's effect on the gut-brain axis. 31 drinkers, 31 non-drinkers, two weeks of abstinence, blinded reintroduction. Both caffeinated and decaf shifted bacterial composition, lowered stress and depression scores, and improved cognition — but on different axes. Caffeine drove focus and reduced inflammation. Decaf drove learning and memory. Per Nature Communications.
He Walked Into a Toulouse ER With a Live WWI Artillery Shell. Internally.
A 24-year-old at CHU Rangueil with an 8-inch, 37mm 1918 Imperial German Army artillery shell — still live. Hospital partially evacuated. Bomb disposal called. Fire brigade stood by. He survived. Prosecutors are weighing Category A munitions charges.
She Drowned Her 3-Year-Old and Her 14-Month-Old. The Parole Board Hears Her Again November 19, 2026.
Susan Smith strapped Michael (3) and Alexander (14 months) into car seats and rolled the family Mazda into John D. Long Lake on October 25, 1994. Convicted 1995. Unanimous parole denial 2024. October 2025 internal SCDC conviction for negotiating documentary deals from a contraband prison phone. Next eligibility: Nov 19, 2026.
'Up Your Game, People.' A Cedars-Sinai Nurse Cheered the Trump Shooter. The Hospital Shrugged.
Matthew Shaffer, NP, replied 'Up your game, people' on X to a tweet mocking the WHCD shooter. UnitedHealthcare fired Alison King the same day for similar conduct. Ohio fired a daycare worker; Wisconsin pulled a teacher on leave. Cedars-Sinai's response: 'doesn't reflect our views.'
Chicago's Police Are Handcuffed. The Teens Aren't.
Ald. Raymond Lopez (D-15) on Mayor Brandon Johnson's snap-curfew veto, plus the cross-city pattern in DC, LA, Baltimore, Detroit, Atlanta, and Memphis. Mayors named, party affiliations on record, sourced incident logs.
Nine Days After the WHCD Shooter, Another Armed Man Closed on the President. Secret Service Shot Him. A Child Was Hit.
May 4, 2026, ~3:30 PM ET: plainclothes Secret Service officer flagged a man as 'suspicious' near the Washington Monument. Suspect drew, fired; officers returned fire. Suspect alive at GW Hospital, in custody. A male juvenile was struck — by the SUSPECT'S gunfire, not Secret Service rounds. Trump unharmed in East Room small-business summit.
Gunman Captured at the Door as Trump, Melania, and Vance Are Rushed Out of White House Correspondents' Dinner
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, charged April 27 with attempting to assassinate President Trump. CNN investigation found Allen repeatedly compared Trump to Hitler on social media and advocated nullifying the 2024 election. Secret Service intercepted him at the entrance to the Washington Hilton before he could enter the ballroom.
EF-4. 9.5 Miles. Zero Deaths.
NWS Norman officially upgraded the Enid tornado to EF-4 with peak winds of 170–175 mph after a detailed Friday damage survey. The twister carved a 9.5-mile, 500-yard-wide path for more than 40 minutes through Enid, Oklahoma. No fatalities — the result of a 25-minute warning window and a community that took shelter.
NCAA Tournament Expands to 76 Teams. First Alcohol Ads Ever. Athletes Still Get $0.
The NCAA Division I Council voted unanimously on May 7, 2026 to expand March Madness from 68 to 76 teams beginning in 2027 — the first expansion since 2011. The same vote approved alcohol advertising in tournament broadcasts for the first time in NCAA history. CBS/Turner's $8.8B deal through 2032 picks up approximately $300M in new alcohol ad revenue. Schools split $131M in new distributions. Student-athletes: $0 directly. NCAA President Charlie Baker earns $3.4M annually.
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