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PORTSMOUTH (AP) — A Portsmouth man was arrested Tuesday on murder and gun charges in the February killing of a New Jersey councilwoman who was found fatally shot in her SUV outside her home, prosecutors said. Middlesex County, New Jersey, prosecutor Yolanda Cicconne said in a press conference that 28-year-old Rashid Ali Bynum, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was arrested outside a home in Chesapeake, Virginia, on first-degree murder and two second-degree handgun charges in the death of Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour.

Please note: this article was pulled down offline from Forbes. I will let you draw your own conclusions as to why. Factually, there was no justification for it. This list could be closer to 50 but let’s just stick to a handful of them. I literally live in this business every day, and I’m just so confused. 1. In a world that is apparently getting both warmer and colder because of global warming, how is it that we can increasingly rely on non-dispatchable (i.e., intermittent, usually unavailable), weather-dependent electricity from wind and solar plants to displace, not just supplement, dispatchable...

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a key member the House Freedom Caucus (HFC), indicated Tuesday that if Republicans do not stop the debt deal in committee he would consider ousting Kevin McCarthy from leadership as House speaker. In an interview with Glenn Beck on "BlazeTV" Tuesday morning, Roy called the debt limit deal that McCarthy, R-Calif., struck over the weekend with the White House a "betrayal of the power-sharing arrangement that we put in place" – that is to say, the promises McCarthy made to the HFC to give him the votes needed to secure him the speakership after a 15-voting-round...

In the small print detailing the end of the debt ceiling melodrama which, as we explained, is a farce as it boosts inflation-adjusted spending contrary to Republican promises, there was some actual news: the great student loan boondoggle is about to come to a screeching halt, after a three year "emergency pause" which redirected tens of billions in dollars away from mandatory student loan repayment to other forms of discretionary spending.According to Goldman, the agreement announced on Saturday between uniparty leaders Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy titled hilariously the “Fiscal Responsibility Act”, prohibits the Biden Administration from extending the pause...

CBO says that Deal would expand a welfare program. Fox News Digital asked Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., for her reaction to the CBO update as the congresswoman was leaving a closed-door conference meeting. She replied sarcastically, "Yay debt." The simple answer is the CBO got it wrong," House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said at a late night press conference.

It wasn’t just Spanish boaters feeling blindsided and rudely attacked this past week. Like the yachts sailing through the Straights of Gibraltar who ran into orcas with attitudes schooled in the arts of maritime destruction by a she-whale named White Gladis, the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) – led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez – received a thumping of epic proportions this past Saturday. The results have stove in a section of the Socialist hull, left them rudderless, and they are bailing water madly.Spain’s ruling Socialists suffered heavy losses to opposition conservatives in Sunday’s local election, with around 95%...

Al Pacino, 82, is set to become a dad for the fourth time. The actor’s 29-year-old girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, is eight-months pregnant, according to TMZ. Despite confirming the news to TMZ, reps for Pacino did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment. The actor already shares daughter Julie, 33, with Jan Tarrant, as well as twins Olivia and son Anton, both 22, with Beverly D’Angelo.

Lauren Sanchez’s ex-husband, top talent agent Patrick Whitesell, transferred their Washington estate to her in full following the completion of their divorce, The Post has learned. The former couple had purchased this sprawling 7,000-square-foot Mercer Island home in 2017 for $6.2 million — one year before Sanchez, 53, had entered into an affair with Jeff Bezos. SNIP Meanwhile, the previous owner of the home and interior designer, Vivian Schroedl, told The Post that Sanchez has completely changed the home. “Sadly, Lauren tore out some of the best features in the house,” Schroedl said. The photos below show the home as...

The trend has been called a retail exodus. In the past few months there have been more than a dozen store closures in downtown San Francisco. I’ve written about the closure of a flagship Whole Foods which made 568 calls to 911 over the 13 months it was open. A 300,000 square foot Nordstroms is closing as is Office Depot, Anthropologie, Saks Off 5th and many more. The SF Chronicle put together this map showing the recent closures.And last week another major retailer announced it was closing up. Old Navy will be shutting down its San Francisco store this summer.The...

CNN spoke with four women who “married themselves” — a self-marriage officially referred to as “sologamy.” The left-leaning news outlet painted “sologamy” as pertaining more to mental health and “self-love.” rather than an extension of living an “auto-sexual” lifestyle — being sexually attracted to oneself — which has been addressed in other news articles on the topic. “The concept of self-marriage, or sologamy, has been around for years…No data exists on how many people celebrate sologamy with ceremonies, but the practice has been explored in a handful of recent news articles,” CNN reported. The women interviewed “described the act as...

Jeff Bezos splashed out some major dough on wine to toast his engagement to Lauren Sanchez last week. But a popular New York City wine seller said the billionaire Amazon founder, 59, got squeezed on the reported $4,285 tab for the bottle of French red. “Wine fact of the day: Bezos knows less than you and got mega ripped off in France,” wrote Parcelle Wine on its Instagram account. The post was referring to the bottle of Dugat-Py Grand Cru from Domaine Bernard, which the couple enjoyed at La Petit Maison in Cannes, France.

Dylan Mulvaney was a gay man for years and made his name as the guy who documented his 365 days of girlhood. He transitioned from a man to a woman in a year, we are supposed to believe. He uses tampons now. Uh-huh.He has been celebrated by the alphabet mob as so stunning and brave that the President of the United States sat down with him to do an interview intended to normalize transgender ideology. A vegetable pretending to be a man is interviewed by a man pretending to be a woman.He is also the man who destroyed Bud Light,...

Johns Hopkins Medicine employees have been issued a new guidebook with a list of 50 different pronouns — including “aerself” and “faerself” — that staff can use after a new ID badge policy was implemented, according to a report. Other pronouns listed in the guide include xe, ve, per and ae, as well as directions on how to use the pronouns in everyday sentences, such as “I gave faer the key,” Fox News reported. The guide also details how employees can correctly use titles: “Mr.” for men, “Miss” for women, or “Mx.” for “nonbinary or gender diverse people.” In March...

You probably remember Tara Reade as the woman who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault. Even at the time, the media noticed that Reade had some unusual opinions about Russia and Vladimir Putin. The Krassenstein brothers put together this Medium post collecting all of the information about her fondness for Russia.In 2017, Tara Reade spent a lot of her time on Twitter, like many liberal Americans, attacking Russia and Vladimir Putin for interfering in our elections, among other things. Reade has a plethora of tweets, retweets and/or “likes” attacking Putin and his country, for everything from their inhumane stance on...

The pre-print for this study, prior to the peer review process, came out late last year. It showed, in a nutshell, that more COVID-19 shots correlated to a greater risk of contracting COVID-19.But the COVIDians predictably, in eternal denial as is their nature, pounced on the fact that the initial paper was a pre-print. They dismissed it for not being peer-reviewed, which is often described as the “gold standard” stamp of approval by The Science™.Mind you, the corporate state media expresses no such criticism of pre-print studies that say what they want them to say about the alleged efficacy of...

One Spicy Deluxe, Hold the WokeThe Marxist toilet dwellers have scored a major victory, and this one stings.Chicken sandwich behemoth Chick-fil-A bent a knee, put a shotgun in its mouth, and hired a Diversity, Equity & Inclusivity (DEI) executive.Perhaps they just start selling Bud Light and call it a day.PREDICTION-O-RAMA! The woke social crusader crowd has been boycotting — and harassing — Chick-fil-A since 2012, when a now-former president spoke out against gay marriage. Hiring a DEI clown will not result in hordes of liberal, green-haired dime museums crashing through their doors. But now, many conservatives are thinking about jumping...

As we reported earlier, a lot of Congressional Republicans are mad about the debt ceiling deal that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has struck with President Biden.It’s not clear if McCarthy has the votes for the deal based upon the people sounding off and it also puts his speakership in question, potentially, if he doesn’t have support from people like the House Freedom Caucus. He also went a little too far in what he was trying to sell, claiming there wasn’t anything for Democrats in the bill.When reporters queried members of the Freedom Caucus about whether they would make a “motion...

The prosecution of Kevin Mackie is the latest in a string of cases where people in blue areas face charges for defending themselves from violent leftists.By now, most Americans have heard of Daniel Penny, the Marine Corps veteran being charged by Manhattan’s Democrat district attorney for defending his fellow citizens from an erratic Jordan Neely on the New York City subway. There’s also a good chance they’ve heard of Daniel Perry, the Army sergeant recently convicted in Austin, Texas, for protecting himself from an armed Black Lives Matter demonstrator.On their own merits, both cases represent a seemingly growing trend of...

The homeless are often both mentally ill and addicted. Yet the government persists in treating homelessness as almost entirely a housing issue.Homelessness affects cities across the country, but it’s not just a local issue, though media cover it that way. Nor is homelessness mainly about housing; rather, it’s largely about untreated mental illness and drug addiction. Consistently misdiagnosed, homelessness is being wrongly addressed. And the policies that give rise to homelessness largely come from Washington, D.C., not localities. A bill called “Housing PLUS” has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., with 22 sponsors, to start to rectify...

A vast network of liberal dark money is using ballot initiatives to buy substantial electoral reforms that would otherwise be impossible.Over the past five years, Michigan has been completely transformed by a series of ruinous electoral reforms. This development, however, has nothing to do with some Trump-induced hangover or the popularity of its Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. These reforms are part of a nationwide conspiracy concocted by a vast network of leftist dark money using “nonpartisan” proxy organizations and the ballot initiative loophole to circumvent the ordinary political process.In Michigan, the principal puppet behind these reforms has been a little-known...