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A Milwaukee woman claims she was defending her children when she fatally shot an intruder who entered her home. The mother of two, who asked to remain anonymous, said she was showering before work Monday morning when she heard her 12- and 14-year-old screaming from the living room, news station TMJ4 reported. She immediately ran to her room, grabbed her gun, and confronted the intruder, who was undeterred by the family’s two pit bulls. She then shot him multiple times.

Auction sales at the Monterey Car Week are expected to total between $300 million and $490 million, according to Hagerty Automotive Intelligence, the classic-car insurance and collector-lifestyle company...Here are the top five cars, by estimated value, expected to sell this week in Monterey...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The prosecution rested Thursday, Aug. 18 in the trial of two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The prosecution rested after testimony from an undercover FBI agent with supposed access to explosives. Barry Croft Jr., 46, of Bear, Delaware, and Adam Fox, 38 of Wyoming, Michigan, are on trial in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids. Special agent Tim Bates, known as “Red,” said he joined alleged conspirators – in three vehicles - in a night-time reconnaissance mission in September 2020 to the governor’s place in Elk Rapids. He said Fox took photos...

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...Bannon, who was the chief strategist of Trump's 2016 campaign and of his administration during 2017, said of Pence: 'This is an individual who has done more damage to this country than any other person in modern political history. He's gutless.' 'Just even the sight of you bugs me,' he said of Pence. 'Just a disgusting coward. Of course, we're the party of law and order, right. But this is not what we're talking about. We're talking about a police state. And you don't have the guts to stand up to it.' Trump accused the FBI of corruption after it...

On Thursday, August 18, for the first time since July 6, Russia did not declare "territorial achievements in Ukraine. Ukrainian official sources also did not declare new losses of territories. This is reported by the American Institute for the Study of War (Institute for the Study of War, or ISW). At the same time, it is noted that Russian troops continue to make limited and unsuccessful ground assaults in eastern Ukraine. Also, the Institute for the Study of War draws attention to Russian reports of explosions throughout the Crimea on the night of August 18, probably caused by Russian air...

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Defenders of Ukraine again staged an "enchanting evening" for the Russian invaders in the temporarily occupied Kherson region. "Cotton" in the evening of August 18 again happened in the city of Novaya Kakhovka. This was announced by the deputy of the Kherson Regional Council and military Territorial Defense Sergey Khlan on his Facebook page. He noted that now it is worth waiting for the count of the Russian invaders destroyed by the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "Kherson region. Apu in Novaya Kakhovka again arranged an enchanting evening for the Russians. We are waiting for the morning and...

On Wednesday morning, August 17, and on the night of August 18, explosions occurred in the southern part of Melitopol, Zaporozhye region. It was the Ukrainian partisans who blew up the electrical support to prevent the ZAES from being reconnected to the Russian power This is reported by the local newspaper "RIA-Melitopol". It is noted that after the explosions, the invaders blocked the southern exit from the city and allowed transport to detour through Sadovoye. "On August 17, at 10: 58, an explosion occurred in the southern part of the city, after which the invaders blocked the southern exit from...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, who earned former President Donald Trump’s primary-race endorsement in April, is going down in flames according to a new GOP poll. Republican-affiliated Public Opinion Strategies reports that surgeon-turned-TV-host Dr. Oz trails Democrat John Fetterman by nearly 20 points!Trump gave Oz his “complete and total endorsement” before the wide-open GOP primary of six candidates, a move that probably sealed the deal with Pennsylvania Republicans. The doc won in a squeaker, barely beating out second-place finisher David McCormick, 31.2% to 31.1%. The former president praised Oz’s positions on abortion, crime, the Second Amendment, border security, the military, education, energy...

In case you missed earlier installments of this story, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is in territory controlled by Russia; however, the Ukrainian energy company, Energoatom, is still operating the plant. There have been reports that Russia is using the site to launch artillery attacks on the Ukrainian front lines, knowing the Ukrainians don’t dare fire back for fear of damaging the reactor.Earlier this month there was a report from Energoatom claiming that Major General Valerii Vasyliev, the Russian in charge of the surrounding area, had mined the facility and was threatening to blow it up rather than leave. He was...

The Biden Department of Justice must release part of the affidavit that provided probable cause for the federal ransacking of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on August 8. Katie had the story earlier this afternoon. It’s a little shocking since most were probably expecting the judge to side with the federal government, who moved to block its full release citing damage to the investigation’s integrity and potential risk to the witnesses involved. Every update about this raid has done nothing to cast off the stench that this wasn’t a politically motivated hit job. Spencer has written extensively about the judge, Bruce...

(The opinions expressed in guest op-eds are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.)The U.S. Tax code should be scrapped, and the IRS abolished, and in its place, a flatter, simpler and fairer single tax rate system should be created. We can call it the Tax Code Complication Act to gain approval from the Democrats. Meanwhile, if you need me, I’ll be over here holding my breath.And now, with the Inflation reduction Act, a total farce that funds 87,000 new IRS agents, get ready, find that lunch receipt from 7 years ago because they're...

The FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home is still a hot-button topic as the talking heads and politicos debate and speculate over the matter. But on the political stage, it does not appear to have made much of a splash so far.One would think the fact that the FBI conducted a search of Trump’s home would do at least a modicum of political damage to Republican candidates – especially those linked to the former president. But the first poll taken after the raid shows that this is not quite the case.An Emerson College poll conducted between August 15...

My Red State colleague Bonchie predicted that Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg would plead guilty in his tax-evasion trial in New York, and Thursday he did just that. The judge promptly sentenced him to 5 months in jail at Rikers Island and ordered him to pay nearly $2 million in fines and penalties.Many are touting that the big news coming out of this case is that Weisselberg agreed to testify against the Trump Organization in a trial this fall. Notably, he will remain free on bail until that testimony is complete. Never Trumpers are licking their lips—but this is not...

The Russian government announced it is reviving the Soviet-era honorary title “Mother Heroine” for women who have 10 or more children, as it confronts a population decline that has accelerated since its invasion of Ukraine. According to a decree signed this week by President Vladimir Putin, the title will be awarded to those who “birth and raise” 10 Russian citizens, with a lump sum of 1 million Russian rubles ($16,645) received when the 10th child turns one. There are some additional qualifications, however. The children must have been given the “appropriate level of care for health, education, physical, spiritual and...

US Congressman Thomas Massie claims in a widely shared tweet that a series of photos shows Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recruits learning to use firearms and make arrests. This is misleading; the pictures show students with toy guns in mock IRS criminal investigations at a university in October 2017 and March 2022, and relatively few agents are authorized to carry guns. “These are not auditions for the next Police Academy sequel," said Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, in an August 16, 2022 tweet with three photos that show people wearing police vests and holding what appear to be firearms. "This...

Just to create a public record of the absolute stupidity of the people who are moderators at F-Book—assuming they are people at all—I am going to share my history of posts over the past year that resulted in my account being restricted. Here's the first one, posted September 29, 2001, during the height of the COVID vaccine mandate foolishness: Want to know what this video is? See below. It's an undercover video from Project Veritas showing two employees from Johnson and Johnson expressing doubts about their company's vaccine. [Insert video here] If anything, the supposed "false information" on this video...

@RepThomasMassie Retweeting this for @billdmccarthy who thinks he’s a fact checker but he either can’t read or he chose to lie. This tweet got 5 million impressions and the regime just couldn’t let that stand. I’ll repeat what I said “This is an actual IRS recruiting program.” @RepThomasMassie Bill’s lyin’ fact check: @billdmccarthy New @AFPFactCheck: US GOP Congressman Thomas Massie claimed to show photos of IRS recruits learning to use guns and make arrests. But his tweet was misleading; the photos are outdated and show college students with toy guns during a mock IRS investigation.

An inflammatory signaling protein called interleukin-6 has been linked to the progression of acute myeloid leukemia, according to a study. Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are aging-related disorders in which the body produces blood cells ineffectively, which carries the risk of progression to acute myeloid leukemia. While the increased risk of leukemia from MDS has been well-established, the exact mechanisms behind the progression, especially in relationship to aging, have been poorly understood. "We are surprised to find that IL-6, among many other inflammatory signaling proteins, plays an essential role in MDS to AML progression during aging" said Peng Ji, MD, Ph.D., GME....