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The mother of an 18-year-old man killed in a shooting at an Elk Grove bar has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the bar and the city. The lawsuit, filed Feb. 2 and amended March 11 to include the city of Elk Grove, was filed by Thi Thanh Quyen Nguyen, the mother of Kim Kha Huynh, an 18-year-old man who died in the shooting.

Kermit Gosnell, the infamous West Philadelphia abortion doctor who was sentenced to life in prison on murder and manslaughter convictions in 2013, has died. Gosnell, 85, died earlier this month at a hospital, the state Department of Corrections said. He was most recently being held at State Correctional Institution Smithfield in Huntingdon County, but was admitted the hospital, which corrections officials did not identify, prior to his death. The cause of Gosnell’s death — as well as the exact date — was not clear Monday afternoon. The Huntingdon County Coroner’s Office did not immediately respond to request for comment. Gosnell’s...

Socialists from the US and Europe put on a concert in Cuba — just as the country was plunged into third blackout this month Saturday. A convoy of socialists — including streamer Hasan Piker, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, members of Code Pink and lefty Irish hip-hop group Kneecap — is in Cuba with the goal of supporting Cuba’s oppressive communist regime. But Piker and others have been dogged by criticism for staying in a 5-star hotel in Havana, and Kneecap played a concert in the capital city as the rest of the nation of 11 million people faced...

The Senate voted Monday to confirm Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security as the shutdown of the sprawling agency dragged into its sixth week with no end in sight. The vote to confirm Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, as the head of DHS was 54-45, with Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., supporting his confirmation. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the chairman of the panel overseeing DHS, voted against Mullin on Monday after he clashed with him at his hearing last week and questioned whether a man with “anger issues” could be trusted to set...

PORT ARTHUR, Tx. (KPLC) - Emergency officials are responding to the Valero refinery in Port Arthur as smoke rises from the facility. Multiple people in the area have reported hearing a loud boom that rattled their homes.

Deadbeat drivers left nearly $350 million in tolls unpaid in 2025 — more than double the annual total from three years earlier, a new MTA analysis estimated. The staggering figure comes after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority adopted a “cashless” system — with officials now looking turning for the state to pass legislation that would take extreme measures in some cases, like allow the agency to put liens on the property or bank accounts of scofflaws. “Preliminary data for 2025 indicate that upward trend has continued, and interventions adopted in 2024 have not gone far enough to mitigate impacts of persistent...

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WASHINGTON — Security lines at the world’s busiest airport stretched for five hours on Sunday as the TSA crisis escalated over the weekend. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted that massive waits at airports across the country are about to “get much worse” due to the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Lines stretched around the building at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Monday. And TSA agents told travelers that the wait for some areas at the airport — which handled 106 million travelers last year — was five hours, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Nearly 400 TSA workers...

ransomnote: Elon's DOGE decentralized and are now embedded throughout the gov. agencies. The DOGE referenced below is an agency established prior to Elon's DOGE.https://x.com/USDS/status/2036128942550110443 U.S. DOGE Service@USDSOver $1 BILLION in federal student aid fraud has been stopped since January 2025.This is what was uncovered: 🧵U.S. DOGE Service@USDS·43mNearly $90 million in fraudulent aid had already been disbursed.More than $30 million went to individuals who were deceased.More than $40 million went to bots posing as students.U.S. DOGE Service@USDS·43mFraudsters used AI-generated identities and stolen personal information to create applications that appeared legitimate.These were fake students enrolling to access real money.U.S. DOGE Service@USDS·43mUnder the...

The United States’ largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, on Monday reached Crete, Greece for repairs after leaving the Middle East due to a fire onboard. Photos from AFP show the aircraft carrier arrived at Souda Bay naval base, where it had last stopped in February for food, fuel and ammunition. The ship was damaged due to a fire in the laundry room on March 12 amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war in Iran. With the Ford now in Greece, the U.S. military only has one aircraft carrier in the war against Iran unless Washington sends another such vessel...

1 min video at linkhttps://x.com/NicHulscher/status/2036104059438907745 Nicolas Hulscher, MPH@NicHulscherThis is what can happen to humans after a meningitis vaccination.Alexis Lorenze agreed to the hospital’s requirement to receive three vaccines—meningitis, pneumonia, and tetanus—in order to receive treatment.Within 10 minutes, she experienced an EXTREME adverse reaction.She lost her vision.Her nose began bleeding.She started vomiting.Then purple patches spread across her entire body. GRAPHIC WARNINGransomnote: There is a gory update I wish I had not looked at. Her scalp looks like it has been removed, leaving bloody flesh. https://x.com/llexxiiiiiiii/status/1870452795352240129

he war in Iran has emphatically demonstrated American military might on the world stage. There is only one superpower in the world today, and it isn’t headquartered in Moscow, Beijing or London. Alongside Israel, the United States has decimated much of Iran’s defenses, air force, navy, ballistic missile sites, nuclear infrastructure, and its political leadership. All in the space of just three weeks. The Iran war has also sharply exposed simmering deep-seated tensions in the transatlantic alliance, as well as the open cowardice, petulance and weakness of European leaders, including among its increasingly diminished major powers—principally the UK, France and...

Alleged Iranian spies with ties to regime bigwigs have been charged with infiltrating Silicon Valley. Last month, a federal grand jury indicted three Iranian software engineers for allegedly stealing trade secrets from tech companies, including Google. Two of the suspects are sisters, Samaneh Ghandali, 41, and Sorvoor Ghandali, 32. They were charged alongside Mohammadjavad Khosravi,40, who is Samaneh’s husband, with allegedly using their employment at unidentified technology companies to “obtain access to confidential and sensitive information,” according to the Department of Justice. The tech workers then allegedly “exfiltrated confidential and sensitive documents, including trade secrets related to processor security and...

Captain Steeeve breaks down the tragic runway collision at LaGuardia Airport involving an Air Canada Express CRJ-900 and an airport fire vehicle. Late Sunday night, an arriving regional jet collided with a fire truck that had been cleared to cross the runway — with ATC audio capturing last-second calls to stop just moments before impact. The result was catastrophic, claiming the lives of both pilots and injuring dozens more. In this episode, Captain Steeeve walks through what we know so far, including the sequence of events, how runway incursions happen, and the multiple layers of safety that are designed to...

Undocumented immigrants are increasingly forming Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) in Florida to create a legal mechanism for self-employment, allowing them to work and earn income while navigating stricter employment laws. Florida law allows anyone, regardless of citizenship status, to form an LLC, provided they have a registered agent and a physical address. Why Illegal Aliens are Forming LLCs in Florida: Work Authorization Loophole: Federal law prohibits employers from hiring undocumented individuals, but there is no specific law forbidding undocumented immigrants from creating their own company. Establishing an LLC allows individuals to operate as independent contractors. Response to E-Verify Laws: Following...

Comptroller Mark Levine said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to draw down $1.2 billion in reserves to balance the budget could make things even worse for taxpayers when it’s time to cook up next year’s spending plan. “You do not want to be draining the reserves when the economy is otherwise good,” Levine said Sunday on CBS 2 New York’s “The Point with Marcia Kramer.” Raiding $1.2 billion next year and $2.6 billion over the next two years as the Mamdani administration plans would leave the city flatfooted if the economy goes south. “It’s going to leave us more vulnerable next...

LaGuardia Airport has now experienced two deadly tragedies exactly 34 years apart. A passenger plane was involved in a deadly smash-up at the Queens airport Sunday — the same date in 1992 that a jet crashed, killing 27 souls, as it attempted to take off from travel hub in a snowstorm. On March 22, 1992, Cleveland-bound USAir Flt. 405 tumbled off the runway and spiraled into Flushing Bay, killing more than two dozen of the 51 people on board, including the pilot, the New York Times reported at the time. “Every night, I close my eyes, and I keep seeing...

Today we learned of the death of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion provider whose actions led to the deaths of babies born alive and of women entrusted to his care. As the CEO of The Abortion Survivors Network, and as a woman who survived an abortion procedure myself, I cannot ignore the profound human cost behind his name. For many, Gosnell’s clinic has long symbolized a house of horrors, but for us, it is more than a symbol. It represents real children whose lives were ended after first surviving the trauma of an abortion procedure, women who were impacted, and...

Judging by Donald Trump’s outbursts of late, he can’t seem to decide whether reopening the Strait of Hormuz is easy or hard. He also can’t seem to decide whether he needs international allies to help with this urgent task or not. Iran’s blockade on oil shipments exiting the strait—done in response to Trump’s attack—is causing worsening global consequences daily. So it would be useful for Trump to settle these arguments in his own mind already. But Trump’s incoherence on the Strait of Hormuz actually reveals something else, as well: a massive political weakness. .....

A Sacramento convenience store manager is fighting for thieves and disrupters to be held accountable after dozens of kids rushed Power Inn Chevron’s shop, along Folsom Boulevard, Thursday night.