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Police will release a man detained in connection with yesterday’s deadly shooting, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said late Sunday night. What we know so far • The person of interest detained in connection with yesterday’s deadly shooting at Brown University has been identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson of Wisconsin, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN. • Sources said earlier that the person of interest was found with a revolver and a small Glock handgun in his room at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island. A CNN crew was at the hotel when law enforcement swarmed the location early this morning....

805 Patriots, a conservative activist group in the 805 area code west of Los Angeles staged its 100th rally, featuring cars festooned with flags and signs, on Saturday, December 13. A convoy of cars formed up at Pepperdine University in Malibu. Then it proceeded down the Pacific coast to the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, 40 miles to the southeast.

Roomba vacuum cleaner maker iRobot said on Sunday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, and would go private after being acquired by Picea, its primary manufacturer. The company, which raised concerns about staying in business in March, filed for bankruptcy in the District of Delaware as it grapples with macroeconomic and tariff-related uncertainties. iRobot faces competition from Chinese rivals such as Ecovacs Robotics, which offer advanced features at lower prices.

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ The Berlin Airlift Part 1: The Beginning All info and photos from this website. For the next few weeks, on Mondays, the Hall of the Heroes threads will be about the Berlin Airlift and its heroes. I hope the story inspires you like it does me! The Berlin Airlift PRELUDE TO CONFLICTAt the end of WWII, a...

A man who survived the Bondi Beach attack has described the moment his best friend died a hero while trying to stop the alleged gunmen. Reuven Morrison, who serves as an assistant at Bondi's Wellington Street synagogue, put himself in harm's way after meeting his friend Vladimir at the Hannukah event at Bondi Beach on Sunday. An emotional Vladimir, who says he would have been caught up in the gunfire if he hadn't needed to find parking, said of the shooting: 'I saw everything and now my best friend is dead. He died in front of me.' Vladimir, who is...

A father and son have been identified as the shooters behind the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach that has left at least 16 people dead. Naveed Akram, 24, and Sajid Akram, 50, opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah event shortly before 7pm on Sunday. The 50-year-old was shot and killed by police, while the 24-year-old was shot before being taken into custody in a critical condition. The death toll on Monday morning has risen to 16, including a girl, 10, and man, 40, who both died in hospital. NSW Police say the dead range in age from 10 to 87...

The person of interest taken into custody Sunday in connection to the deadly mass shooting at Brown University has been identified as Benjamin Erickson, law-enforcement sources told The Post. Erickson, 24, was nabbed at a local hotel room after a gunman opened fire at the Ivy League institution’s Providence, RI, campus during a final-exam study session Saturday. The shooter was armed with a handgun and fired more than 40 .9mm rounds during the chaos, law-enforcement officials said.

New South Wales Police say 15 people, including a child, were killed in a shooting at Bondi Beach on Saturday - their ages range from 10 to 87 The attack happened while an event was being held to mark the start of Hanukkah - police say they're treating it as a terror incident The two gunmen were father and son, police say. The 50-year-old man also died at the scene while the 24-year-old remains in hospital in critical condition Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls the attack "an act of pure evil" that "deliberately targeted" the Jewish community One video gives...

In the aftermath of the massive Feeding Our Future scandal and broader allegations of systemic fraud in Minnesota’s social programs, a troubling theme has emerged: accusations of racism repeatedly used to deflect scrutiny, intimidate investigators and stall accountability.

When I was shaken awake by my panicked wife, around 5 a.m. on Friday morning, to the news that our former home had been the target of an antisemitic attack, I was upset—but not shocked. That’s because there is nothing unusual about what happened. As co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, I spend my days advocating for my country’s Jewish community—which numbers around 120,000 people. And since October 7, 2023, I have woken many times to news like this. Staff, journalists, and politicians have all called in the small hours to inform me that a synagogue is burning,...

The House voted 231-195 on Thursday to pass legislation that would nullify President Trump’s efforts to strip more than 1 million federal workers of their collective bargaining rights, sending the measure over to the Senate, where its prospects are less rosy. Twenty Republican lawmakers broke ranks to support the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) on the floor. Introduced by Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., the measure effectively nullifies Trump’s March executive order barring unions at more than 40 federal agencies under the guise of national security and bars federal agencies from terminating any union contracts that...

Rhode Island police say they have a person of interest in custody in connection with the Brown University campus shooting that left two students dead and nine others injured, Fox News has learned.Investigators plan to release more details at a 7 a.m. news conference.

The war on Jews has spread from Israel to the bloodied sands of Bondi. This is our October 7. So with more than 12 people reportedly murdered in Australia’s worst terrorist attack can we finally stop it with the lies and the evasions? Here’s lie one. Standing on the scene of the carnage, a rabbi reportedly dead, a shocked local councillor was still telling a journalist the area was so wonderfully, peacefully multicultural. That, frankly, is bullshit. Multiculturalism has become a curse. We have become a nation of tribes, and we’ve seen very clearly that one of those tribes includes...

Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly slams 'genuinely wrong' pickTime magazine is facing backlash from one of conservative media’s biggest voices over its decision to snub Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as its “Person of the Year” despite Kirk’s death marking the first major political assassination in the U.S. since the 1960s. Instead, the century-old magazine gave its annual award to a collective of tech titans leading the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, framing the year as a tipping point when the technology "roared into view" with irreversible momentum. Time's announcement, unveiled Thursday, celebrated the "Architects of AI" as the magazine's 2025...

House Republicans released legislation Friday aimed at lowering healthcare costs through expanded insurance options for small businesses and unprecedented transparency requirements for pharmacy benefit managers, setting up a crucial vote next week as enhanced Obamacare subsidies expire at year’s end.The Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, introduced by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa-01), is the GOP's alternative to Democratic proposals as Democrats push to extend expiring ACA premium tax credits that help 22 million Americans purchase insurance.Speaker Mike Johnson announced the measure would receive a floor vote next week, though GOP leadership indicated moderate Republicans seeking subsidy extensions may...

GIVING IT ALL YOU'VE GOT Ever hear the expression "Giving it the whole nine yards"? Do you happen to know where it comes from? I used to think it was a sports term. "Not so", say several experts. But there seem to be at least two schools of thought on the phrase's origin. Both seem plausible. I'll let you decide. One explanation says that it's an expression from the construction trade. A full truck load, according to this rationale, will dump nine cubic yards of sand or gravel at your work site. In such a case, I suppose the...

Left-wing Canadian lawmakers are working to introduce a new bill that would end existing protections for people of faith against prosecution under national “hate speech” laws. Canada’s Criminal Code, which bans what the government deems “hatred against any identifiable group,” contains a so-called religious exemption that protects Canadians who “in good faith” cite religious texts or beliefs. But the left-wing Liberal and Bloc Québécois parties are currently negotiating new legislation, Bill C-9, with an amendment that would remove this exemption.

A bombshell new report found “insufficient evidence” to back up most of its supposed benefits — and raised serious red flags about hidden risks. “Patients deserve honest conversations about what the science does and doesn’t tell us about medical cannabis,” Dr. Michael Hsu, an addiction psychiatrist at UCLA and lead author of the study, said in a statement. SNIP Even though more than half of users try it for acute pain, Hsu and his team found no solid clinical evidence that it works. Current guidelines don’t recommend cannabis-based treatments as a first-line option for pain management.

Ronald Exantus was released early from 20-year sentence for stabbing 6-year-old Logan Tipton in Kentucky home invasion A man who was released from prison early after racking up good behavior credits following his conviction for fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Kentucky boy during a 2015 home invasion was arrested weeks later for violating his parole. Ronald Exantus, 42, of Indianapolis, was serving a 20-year sentence for the killing of Logan Tipton, who was brutally slain in his Versailles, Kentucky, home, when he was released back onto the streets in October. Despite confessing, Exantus was found not guilty of murder by reason...

A groundbreaking study from the University of Ottawa, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has uncovered critical insights into Greenland’s hidden geological structures. By mapping the Earth’s temperature beneath Greenland and northeastern Canada in intricate 3D models, this research sheds new light on the historical and future dynamics of the region’s ice sheet. The findings are crucial not only for understanding past climatic shifts but also for predicting the potential impact of Greenland’s ice on global sea levels. Understanding Greenland’s Thermal Landscape The research, a collaboration between the University of Ottawa, the University of Twente, and...