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A man posted a video on social media explaining how he bought a puppy from an American Bully breeder and soon found out it is actually a hyena. In the video, which has gone viral with more than three million views, the man says he was scammed online over a “puppy” he alleges is a hyena.

Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89. A statement released on behalf of his niece, Noreen Austin, said Blake died from heart disease, surrounded by family at home in Los Angeles. Blake, star of the 1970s TV show, "Baretta," had once hoped for a comeback, but he never recovered from the long ordeal which began with the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, outside a Studio City restaurant on May 4, 2001. The...

Ministry of Defense: Russian Armed Forces launched a retaliatory strike in response to the terrorist attacks of Ukraine in the Bryansk region Moscow, March 9-RIA Novosti. The Russian Armed Forces launched a major retaliatory missile attack on the military infrastructure of Ukraine in response to a terrorist attack in the Bryansk regions, according to a summary of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special operation. "High precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system, hit key elements of Ukraine's military infrastructure, enterprises of the military-industrial complex, as well as the energy facilities...

Former president Donald Trump has been invited by the Manhattan district attorney to appear next week before a grand jury investigating his business affairs, an offer that is mandatory under state law but may mark a significant development years after the start of the probe, three people with knowledge of the proceedings said Thursday.

Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield: "Based on my initial analysis of the data, I came to believe and I still believe today that it indicates that COVID-19 more likely was the result of an accidental lab leak than a result of a natural spillover event."

Authors Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz encountered screaming protesters Wednesday night in Manhattan at a launch party for their book “Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.” The protesters, described as young white women, threw their drinking glasses at the wall where the pair’s books were displayed, Markowicz told The Daily Wire, and Mandel had books and drinks thrown on her, leaving the author soaking wet. ... More female protesters yelled at “Stolen Youth” event attendees, too, the authors said. “At the end of the event as guests were leaving, a different group of young women...

FBI director Chris Wray dodged a question about whether the Hunter Biden laptop story is “disinformation” during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday. “There is an ongoing investigation that is relevant to that. So I have to be careful of what I can share on that here,” Wray said when asked whether the laptop story was disinformation by Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) Stefanik pressed again, and Wray replied: “I don’t think there’s anything I can share on that in open setting.” While much of the mainstream media and a group of more than 50 former senior intelligence officials...

TOPLINE Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has asked former President Donald Trump to testify before a grand jury investigating a hush money payment to a porn star in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to the New York Times, in a strong signal that an indictment against the ex-president is near. KEY FACTS It’s not clear if Trump will accept the offer, though it’s rare for prospective defendants to testify, according to the Times report, which cited four unnamed sources “with knowledge of the matter.” The case centers around a $130,000 payment then-Trump fixer Michael Cohen...

Revisiting the death of Loretta Fuddy, woman in charge of Obama’s Birth CertificateRemember when everyone survived a plane crash but the person who was in charge of Obama's birth certificate?What an incredible coincidence!Via: deveolution45 pic.twitter.com/KIAXEw7D5b— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) March 8, 2023

The MSM is beyond parody sometimes. Most of the time it is lazy, predictable, and boringly obvious in its bias. But occasionally it becomes so ridiculous that it bears noting. Today’s idiocy comes from a local news broadcast where the anchor and reporter were stunned by the hate crime of driving over a transgender flag painted onto the street in order to celebrate the beautiful diversity created by mutilating people. The hate incident took place in Fort Lauderdale, where a person driving a pickup truck is sought in connection with leaving tire marks on a Pride flag painted on the...

A Portland Fred Meyer grocery store has fired a black security guard after white Antifa members complained, accusing him of being a Proud Boy and a "white supremacist." On March 3, self-proclaimed "Antifa scum" and "cop hater" Melissa Lewis, who was recently convicted for slashing up a Portland Police vehicle, shared a complaint made by Antifa riot arrestee Dustin B. Ferreira against 28-year-old security guard Andrew Duncomb, tagging Fred Meyer on Twitter.

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, 36, divulged this week that her 17-year-old son will make her a grandmother next month. Boebert was caught on video by Patriot Takes speaking at an event hosted by the conservative group Moms for America when she shared the news that son Tyler and his girlfriend are expecting a son. 'So I'm going to tell you all for the first time in a public setting, that not only am I a mom of four boys, but come April I will be a gigi to a brand new grandson. And Jason and I are so excited to...

Three Mexican nationals were arrested in El Monte for allegedly possessing one million fentanyl pills and have now been charged with violating federal drug laws. According to the affidavit, Florencio Camacho Allan, Gerardo Gaixola-Patino and Alex Valdez Oroz, all natives of Sinaloa, Mexico, met with two buyers at an El Segundo restaurant on Tuesday to discuss a 10,000-fentanyl pill sale to be followed by a deal for one million pills.

Two of those arrested in Atlanta after far-left extremists torched the site of a future police training center, which they call "Cop City," were members of the National Lawyers Guild. One of those attorneys, Thomas Jurgens, is an attoney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which defended his precense as a legal observer at the site of the demostration. Jurgens can be seen wearing the customary green hat in video from the night of the attack. He was accused of domestic terrorism and was granted $5,000 bond after his arrest. His status as an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild...

Colin Kaepernick accuses white adoptive parents of ‘problematic’ upbringing, perpetuating racism Controversial football star Colin Kaepernick accused his white adoptive parents of perpetuating racism in a new interview. The former NFL star told CBS Chicago he struggled growing up in a “problematic” household, a throughline he details in his upcoming graphic novel, “Change the Game.” “I know my parents loved me, but there were still very problematic things that I went through,” Kaepernick said. “It was important to show that, no, this can happen in your own home, and how we move forward collectively while addressing the racism that is...

The winner of the $2 billion California Powerball, Edwin Castro, has just dropped $25.5 million on a luxe Hollywood Hills mansion, The Post can confirm. Castro, who claimed the winning ticket just last month, opted for the onetime lump sum payment of $997.6 million, lottery officials said. (He also had the option to accept payment in an annuity, which would get doled out in 30 graduated payments over 29 years.) And it looks like he wasted no time putting his new money into some new real estate. Made up of five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, the sprawling property occupies more...

In just the first day since announcing the release of “Jeremy’s Chocolate,” The Daily Wire has already sold more than 100,000 of the non-woke chocolate bars. After chocolate giant Hershey’s announced its “Her SHE” Women’s History Month marketing campaign, then promptly insulted women everywhere with an ad featuring a biological man as the face of the campaign, Daily Wire co-CEO and god-king Jeremy Boreing announced that he would be rolling out his own line of chocolate bars. “Fine, I’ll do it,” Boreing tweeted. “Introducing Jeremy’s Chocolate. Yes, it’s real. We have two kinds: HeHim and SheHer. One of them has...

Three people were wounded, including one critically, one seriously and one lightly, in a terrorist shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening. Two other people were hospitalized for shock. The shooter was eliminated by police and security forces. The wounded, who are reported to be men in their 20s, have been taken to Ichilov Hospital where medical personnel later reported that their lives are not in danger. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai stated that the shooting was a terrorist attack and called on the protesters against the judicial reforms to vacate the scene of the attack. The terrorist has...

Comments A New Orleans man accused of shooting a 14-year-old boy who allegedly broke into his car was being held in jail Wednesday in lieu of $42,500 bail. Denzal Peters, 26, is booked with obstruction of justice, illegal use of a weapon and aggravated battery in the Tuesday morning shooting in the 2400 block of North Tonti Street. Police said they found the wounded teenager on the ground and a stolen Kia Optima crashed about a block away. Emergency Medical Services took the teen to a hospital while police detained another youth for questioning and obtained video surveillance recordings of...

At least six people were killed and several more injured after a shooting in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, Reuters reported. Police in Hamburg tweeted that there was a major police operation in the district of Alsterdorf. Focus Online media reported that the perpetrators are on the run and that emergency services and doctors were at the scene. No details were immediately available regarding the background to the incident and it remains unclear whether the incident was terror-related, though Germany has been hit by several terrorist attacks in recent years. .....