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A 59-year-old Uber Eats driver named Randall Cooke was brutally murdered by a “demonic” MS-13 gang member for no apparent reason. Randall Cooke, 59 Oscar Solis, 30, is a paroled member of the violent street gang MS-13. He is a repeat felon with a lengthy rap sheet, including battery, resisting arrest, stabbing a fellow inmate in prison, and assault and burglary. Oscar Solis, 30 After reserving four years in Indiana for the assault and burglary charges, Soli moved to Florida in January and has reportedly been working as a security guard for a strip club. On the night of April...

Steven Spielberg participated in a master class at the Time 100 Summit and announced he regrets editing guns out of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” The film’s 1982 theatrical cut includes a scene of officers chasing young kids with firearms. Spielberg edited the guns out for the 20th anniversary release of the film and replaced the firearms with walkie talkies. “That was a mistake,” Spielberg said. “I never should have done that. ‘E.T.’ is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.” “‘E.T.’ was a...

A man who tried to kill a teenage girl who he hunted her “like an animal” with a compound bow and arrow in an Aldi supermarket will spend the next 10 years and six months in jail. Benjamin Jeremy Bourke, 28, pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court of Australia on Wednesday to the attempted murder of the teenage girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons at an Aldi shopping center in Booval, west of Brisbane, in September 2020. Crown Prosecutor Matt Le Grand told the court Bourke had armed himself with the compound bow, two knives and three small...

Last weekend, mobs of teenagers swarmed into downtown Chicago where they smashed store windows, set cars on fire, assaulted out-of-town tourists, and shot at each other. Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson (D) pleaded with the city's residents to "not overreact by demonizing the exuberance of our youth. They are our future and should not be condemned for expressing their joy in ways that our older residents might find frightening." He then went on to blame his predecessor for "allowing the pall of systemic racism to stifle opportunities for our black youth." Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot denied that her reign stifled black youth...

After a San Francisco Target store was forced to lock down its entire inventory due to skyrocketing theft, a California business leader has slammed the state’s ultra-soft on crime policies for letting brazen shoplifters and drug addicts get away with crimes time and again. “The problem now… is that, people who are drug addicted, who have mental health issues, they candidly will go into stores and they will steal,” Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers’ Association (CRA) told The Post. “They will sell those items out on the street, they then make money, they then continue their habit or...

The House advanced on Wednesday the rules package for the Republican debt ceiling bill, which serves as the last major procedural hurdle before the bill’s planned vote for Wednesday night. The House passed H. Res. 327, with 219 Republicans in favor and 210 Democrats against the measure. H. Res. 327 is the rules package that governs the rules by which the House could consider the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, the GOP debt ceiling bill.

Leftist students at Syracuse University recently voiced opposition to an event featuring Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector. Ahead of the event hosted by the Syracuse College Republicans in partnership with Young America’s Foundation, students destroyed fliers and posted messages critical of Park and the College Republicans in an online forum. Park, who delivered her speech on Apr. 5, “has criticized concepts like political correctness, trigger warnings and ‘woke culture’ in her career,” according to the student newspaper, The Daily Orange.

In a CNN This Morning segment on Fox's firing of Carlson, repeated mentions were made of an alleged culture of misogyny and sexism at his show. Fair-'n-balanced journalistic standards would have made it incumbent on CNN to discuss serious allegations of sexism and misogyny against its own fired host, Lemon. But not a peep about Lemon's transgressions out of his former co-hosts, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, or from CNN media reporter Sara Fischer. The focus was exclusively on Carlson's alleged misdeeds. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Hundreds of professors at the University of North Carolina signed a public letter Tuesday opposing legislation that would require university students to take courses on America's government and founding documents. The 673 UNC Chapel Hill professors revealed the public letter Tuesday, arguing the new courses and another bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives would constitute an infringement on the university's "academic freedom." The first piece of legislation, House Bill 96, would require students to take a 3 credit-hour course covering America's founding and history. Required reading for the course would include the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence,...

Molly Ringwald thinks cancel culture is an "unsustainable" response to the issues that arose with #MeTooMolly Ringwald is still best known for being John Hughes’ leading lady, but she’s also a singer, writer, Riverdale mom, real mom, and a French translator. Her latest work is translating My Cousin Maria Schneider, by Vanessa Schneider. Inevitably, that’s led to Ringwald contemplating the violation Schneider experienced on the set of Last Tango In Paris and how their parallel roles as highly visible film stars differed. “In a way, my experience was the opposite of Maria’s,” she tells The Guardian in a new interview....

PORTLAND, Ore. — The REI store in Portland's Pearl District will close at the end of February 2024, the company announced on Monday. In a letter to REI members, the company cited concerns over safety and an increase in crime over the last few years as reasons for the closure. "The safety of our employees, members and customers is always our number one priority. In recent years, Portland has been dealing with increased crime in our neighborhood and beyond. Last year, REI Portland had its highest number of break-ins and thefts in two decades, despite actions to provide extra security,"...

One of the top diversity, equity and inclusion officials at the University of Alabama at Birmingham earns $407,749.08 annually, or $33,979.09 per month, 1819 News recently reported. The nonprofit Alabama news outlet reported that it calculated the salary of Mona Fouad, associate vice president in the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UAB, based on public records and assuming she did not receive a raise or deduction recently. 1819 News reported Fouad’s salary as well as the other top-paid DEI officials across Alabama’s three largest public universities. Fouad (pictured) is a professor, medical doctor and “a nationally recognized leader...

A female Army commander is under investigation for sexual harassment after allegedly “forcefully kissing” her male subordinates and grabbing them below the belt. Col. Meghann Sullivan, commander of the 5th Brigade Engineer Battalion at the 5th SFAB, has been under investigation over an alleged pattern of assault and harassment against the men under her watch, according to Military.com. Sullivan allegedly assaulted two male subordinates by forcefully kissing them and grabbing a man “below the belt” without consent, sources told the outlet. In addition to the two sexual assaults, the commander faces accusations of sexually harassing several additional subordinates, according to...

'I'm going to get in trouble,' LuPone said before her remarksActress Patti LuPone declared that she doesn't know the difference between "our Christian Right and the Taliban" during an appearance on "The View" on Tuesday. "I could cry… I don’t know why he’s doing this," an emotional LuPone said in response to a question from co-host Ana Navarro about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the LGBT community. "I don’t know, I mean I've said this before and I’m going to get in trouble. I’ve said this before, and it’s been in print. I don’t know what the difference between our...

VIDEO Commentators are hinting stongly about it but your humble correspondent is going to come right out and ask what those listening to them must be thinking: Was Hunter Biden shtooping Antony Blinken's wife? We already know that during campaign 2020, Antony Blinken was so desperate to be named Secretary of State that he was willing demand that 51 intelligence officials flat out lie and declare Hunter Biden's laptop to be probably the result of Russian disinformation. That information was not all that surprising given Blinken's desperation. But was Blinken desperation so far along that he even consented to let...

The Big Apple’s budget will swell to a record-breaking $106.7 billion in 2024 because of the surging migrant crisis, inflation, and a string of new labor deals, Mayor Eric Adams is slated to announce later Wednesday, The Post has learned. The budget deal, which will be formally announced at 2 p.m., is a $4 billion increase over what the mayor had pitched in his fiscal proposal back in January. Hizzoner said the increase in spending will be offset by $1 billion in new state grants that will go toward covering the $1.4 billion the city has already forked over for...

3D printers can create forms that blow today’s buildings out of the water. VIDEO AT LINK........... Tecla was built from locally sourced clay. Mario Cucinella Architects / Wikicommons In architecture, new materials rarely emerge. For centuries, wood, masonry and concrete formed the basis for most structures on Earth. In the 1880s, the adoption of the steel frame changed architecture forever. Steel allowed architects to design taller buildings with larger windows, giving rise to the skyscrapers that define city skylines today. Since the industrial revolution, construction materials have been largely confined to a range of mass-produced elements. From steel beams to...

A Manhattan federal judge blasted Donald Trump’s “entirely inappropriate” posts on Truth Social Wednesday — as witness testimony began in E. Jean Carroll’s civil rape case against the former president. Trump, 76, took to his social media platform about an hour before the second day of the trial began, claiming Carroll’s case was “a made up SCAM” and accusing her lawyers of being “political operatives.” He also called for the dress the former advice columnist wore on the day of the alleged rape to be brought into the trial — something that Carroll sought to do early on in the...

A government debt default would be catastrophic for the US economy, sparking mass unemployment, payment failures, and interest rates rising "into perpetuity," according to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. "Since 1789, the United States has paid all of our bills on time, and it should stay that way," Yellen said at a Washington conference on Tuesday, warning of an economic disaster if the US failed to meet its debt obligations. A debt default will likely result in the government failing to make key military and social security payments, she speculated, and would cause mass layoffs of government officials. Households would...

The San Francisco district attorney’s office on Tuesday dropped the charges against a homeless man who allegedly attacked former San Francisco fire commissioner Don Carmignani earlier this month with a crowbar, sending him to the hospital for emergency surgery to treat a hole in the back of his skull. The case was dropped after prosecutors concluded the attacker, Garrett Doty, was acting in self-defense when he beat Carmignani so badly that he broke the former fire commissioner’s jaw and left him in need of 50 stitches The incident began when Carmignani confronted Doty and two other vagrants who were allegedly...