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A J6 protester pardoned by Trump was killed by an Indiana police officer over the weekend. FOX 32 Chicago reported at 4:15 p.m. local time Sunday that 42-year-old Matthew W. Huttle of Hobart, Indiana, was stopped by a Jasper County sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop near the Pulaski County line. Police say the deputy attempted to arrest Huttle after stopping him, but the civilian resisted. The officer responded by firing his weapon and killing Huttle following a supposed fight. “An altercation took place between the suspect and the officer, which resulted in the officer firing his weapon and fatally...

A veteran borough councilman in Gloucester County berated a police officer, spewed profanities and called the officer’s boss during a routine traffic stop captured by police body cameras .. Paulsboro Councilman Theodore D. Holloway II was stopped for running a stop sign ... When a supervising officer arrived at the scene to assist, Holloway said, “You know who I am, right?” He was eventually issued a citation for driving an unregistered vehicle. ... Police body camera footage shows the councilman was ... The officer told him he ran a stop sign ... Holloway angrily told the officer that, as a...

Someone breaks into your house. They're arrested before they attack anyone or steal anything. Should they be set free because their "only crimes" was illegally entering your house? According to Monday's MSNBC and CNN, the answer would apparently be "yes." On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire fretted: "They said the first wave would be criminals, people who committed violent crimes. But we've also heard rhetoric from those in the administration, including Stephen Miller, who was the architect of this whole program, that suggests that eventually the targets will be people whose only crimes were to enter the United States illegally."Similarly, over...

Before police found a woman in a freezer, Daniel Roush, who became the suspect in her death, told police the woman was out of town visiting her brother. Roush, 38, who is transgender and also goes by the name Jazlynn Roush, faces murder, abuse, burglary and drug charges in connection with the death of 68-year-old Monique Gilbertson. Gina Lopez, Roush’s wife, was indicted alongside Roush and faces burglary and drug possession counts. Gilbertson’s body was found stored in a freezer inside her mobile home in the east Las Vegas Valley on Nov. 6. Body camera footage shows Metropolitan Police Department...

Pop sensation-turned film and TV star Selena Gomez released a sniveling Instagram story, to her 422 million followers, that shows the Only Murders in the Building star sobbing and apologizing in reaction to the Trump administration’s nationwide apprehension of accused child rapists, human and drug traffickers, and gang members, among other violent criminals residing in the U.S. illegally. “All my people are getting attacked, the children. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry, I wish I could do something but I can’t,” the Emilia Pérez star says in the video, which features a caption that says “I’m sorry” with a Mexican...

Newly-confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Monday — his first day in the job — that President Trump will be issuing a spate of executive orders for the military, including one to create an "Iron Dome" defense system like the one used by Israel to deflect incoming missiles.

A historically awkward moment took place at the White House this morning, as an apparently confused Joe Biden showed up for the Monday morning staff meeting. The incident happened in the West Wing conference room early Monday morning, where witnesses said former President Joe Biden arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to attend the staff meeting at the start of the new week. "He was in a chipper mood and ready to get to work," one White House insider said. "He was shaking everyone's hands and cracking jokes about the football games he watched yesterday like it was just another Monday morning....

Per multiple law enforcement sources, within the last hour, Border Patrol agents near Fronton, TX were fired upon from MX by suspected cartel gunmen as a group of illegal aliens were being brought across the river. I’m told BP returned fire, nobody hit on either side, and that the illegal aliens did not make it across. ... Texas DPS @LtChrisOlivarez tells me DPS is now patrolling the area and has a drone in the air and can see Mexi ... Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion: This action reinforces the federal government’s commitment to safeguarding states from external threats, ensuring...

Democrats in Congress hired up an "emotion regulation" specialists to help deal with some of the changes that have been coming with the new Trump administration. Trump, for his part, has hit the ground running, signing executive orders aimed at undoing the failures of the previous Democrat administration. During a mid-January retreat for the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) hosted psychologist Jim Coan and consultant Hal Movius, the latter of which specializes in "emotional regulation" as well as "negotiation," "influence," and "organizational development," according to Punchbowl News.

He saw it I saw it. Everybody saw it. VIDEO AT LINK...................

Social Security beneficiaries who stood to see a boost in payouts as the result of a law approved earlier this month may have to wait a little longer than expected for higher payments. Under the new law, dubbed the Social Security Fairness Act, lawmakers agreed to repeal two tax rules that reduced benefits for many Americans who also receive government pensions, including police officers, teachers and firefighters. Former President Biden, who signed off on the legislation, said at the time that more than 2 million Americans were slated to “receive a lump sum payment of thousands of dollars to make...

Even so, farewells are bittersweet and this one has been made more so because of her replacements. “I think it’s important to have women in these lead anchor chairs, and I think it is a setback that it’s going to be all men,” O’Donnell says. Later, she adds, “I think there are incredible opportunities for women in journalism. But I think it would be a disservice to suggest, especially to young women who are entering the workforce, that they’re not going to encounter sexism and potentially harassment. It exists. It does. And it exists even for the most powerful women...

"My parents.. young couple deeply in love. Before father was taken to a labor camp, mother wanted to become pregnant. My father was against it. ‘You don’t bring a child into a world where sure death is waiting for them everywhere,’ he said. But my mother, so in love, replied, ‘Maybe one of us will stay alive, and they will have a memory of the other.’ "Under these conditions, I came into the world – a world where death awaited me at every corner. "Budapest, 1944. A freezing December night. Mothers are marching with their babies in deadly silence, heading...

Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to seek explanations from the U.S. government over the "degrading treatment" of Brazilians on a deportation flight, the ministry wrote on X on Saturday night. Last Friday, Brazilian deportees from the U.S. arrived in Brazil in handcuffs. Upon arrival, some of the passengers also reported mistreatment during the flight, according to local reports.

Former New York Times columnist and pseudo-economics savant Paul Krugman clearly isn’t taking retirement too well, as he’s taken to going on rants against his former employer and President Donald Trump, who lives rent-free in his brain. In a January 24 interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, Krugman expressed his “rage” at his editors, which apparently began to balk at the extremism that plagued his columns (shocker). “I’ve always been very, very lightly edited on the column,” Krugman whined. “And that stopped being the case [in 2024]. The editing became extremely intrusive. It was very much toning down of my...

Rev. Al Sharpton and about 100 of his followers descended on an East Harlem Costco Saturday in support of the company’s commitment to controversial diversity, equity and inclusion practices. “We’re supporting those who are not rolling back DEI,” Patrice Perry, crisis director for Sharpton’s nonprofit, the National Action Network, told The Post. “It’s very important to be here,” Perry added. The demonstration was in response to President Trump’s crackdown on DEI initiatives this week, which put federal employees working on such initiatives on paid leave and shuttered offices dedicated to it. Trump’s executive order called the practice “illegal discrimination” and...

Explanation: Stars come in bunches. The most famous bunch of stars on the sky is the Pleiades, a bright cluster that can be easily seen with the unaided eye. The Pleiades lies only about 450 light years away, formed about 100 million years ago, and will likely last about another 250 million years. Our Sun was likely born in a star cluster, but now, being about 4.5 billion years old, its stellar birth companions have long since dispersed. The Pleiades star cluster is pictured over Half Dome, a famous rock structure in Yosemite National Park in California, USA. The featured...

(NEXSTAR) – Over 3.2 million Americans are now eligible for new benefits under the recently passed Social Security Fairness Act, but many of them could be waiting for over a year to see their payments.

Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, according to two senior Vatican officials, despite misgivings about his stance on many issues. Brian Burch, who leads a right-wing advocacy group, has said the pope's pastoral agenda, such as being more welcoming of LGBTQ Catholics, was causing "massive confusion" for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. Trump nominated Burch for the Vatican role in December. At the time, Austen Ivereigh, a papal advisor who co-authored a book with Francis in 2020, said the...

In the mid-1980s, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng raped, tortured and murdered at least 11—possibly 25 or more—men, women and children at a remote cabin near Wilseyville, Calif. Now, thanks to genetic genealogy, investigators have identified one of the bodies found in June 1985 at a crime scene linked to the Wilseyville Serial Killings. Identifinders International, working with Intermountain Forensics and the Calaveras Cold Case Task Force, used IGG to identify the body as Reginald “Reggie” Frisby. Frisby, who was born in 1956 in the state of New York, had never been reported missing and was previously not considered or...