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The family of 17-year-old murder suspect Karmelo Anthony revealed to use a portion of the $400,000 in online donations—originally raised for legal defense—to buy a new home and hire private security, citing “racist threats” they claim to have received following the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, a 17-year-old student and beloved member of his high school’s football team. The shocking revelation came during a court hearing in which Anthony’s bond was reduced from $1 million to $250,000 by Judge Angela Tucker of the 199th Judicial District Court, with only 10% required for his release. With the donation pot overflowing, Anthony...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday chided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to purchase Patriot air defense systems. Zelensky made that statement during an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News‘ 60 Minutes program.“He’s always looking to purchase missiles,” Trump said when asked about Zelensky’s offer. “Listen, when you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war, right? You don’t start a war against somebody that’s 20 times your size, and then hope that people give you some missiles.”

WEST POINT, Ky. (WDRB) -- Some Kentucky flood victims say they’re being denied federal assistance, not because they weren’t impacted by the recent natural disasters, but because of where their mailbox happens to be. Tommy Stucker lost two homes on Dixie Beach Road near West Point — one damaged by a tornado, the other by flooding. But despite the devastation, Stucker said he’s been told by FEMA that he does not qualify for aid. “They said that my area was not under a disaster relief yet,” Stucker said. Stucker’s property is technically in Jefferson County — just feet away from...

The transgender movement and their allies are angry that their agenda across the country is losing ground. Their full-court strategy – reiterated on this past Monday’s “Transgender Day of Visibility” – is to claim as loudly as possible that they are being attacked. Americans have had enough of the transgender agenda, particularly targeting children. We’re all familiar with the trans outrages, including: - Radical gender ideology in nearly every grade - Transgender-themed library books and other material - Secret transgender “counseling” of confused children - Organized school events (GLSEN, GSA, etc.) in schools pushing “gender” propaganda - Children encouraged to...

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Monday that he “finally” got an answer to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands for peace during their meeting last week in Moscow. Witkoff, who’s taken a leading role in Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks, called his five-hour meeting with Putin “compelling” and said he sees a deal “emerging,” speaking in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on Monday night. “It was a compelling meeting,” Witkoff said. “And toward the end, we actually came up with — I’m going to say ‘finally,’ but I don’t mean it in the way that we were waiting, I mean...

The medical establishment has a troubling track record of confidently stating things that just aren't so — as became clear to Americans who suffered injuries from supposedly safe and effective vaccines during the pandemic. There was a damning admission in New York Times Magazine over the weekend that may inspire new doubts about the credibility of the so-called experts advising the masses on matters of health, namely that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may not have a basis in biology after all. That admission was not volunteered from some activist or critic but rather by the Dutch neuroscientist who apparently misled...

Criminals ICE could remove are released from prison into the warm embrace of sanctuary jurisdictions to destroy the lives of more victims.. In more than 200 sanctuary city, county, and state jurisdictions across the United States, illegal aliens gather where they know they will be protected by local government authorities from deportation, no matter what crime they may commit. They hide in plain sight in any neighborhood: in pockets of ethnic communities among legal, law-abiding immigrants, and in upscale areas if they are working in the lucrative trafficking industrial complex. A 40-year-old citizen of El Salvador was arrested after he...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law that will spend $181 million on fire prevention in the state — and $2.8 billion on Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid provider, whose costs have ballooned thanks to his decision to cover illegal aliens. The San Jose Mercury News reported on the bill, which Republicans opposed — despite the provision for fire prevention, including controlled burns — because of the massive spending on Medi-Cal: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Monday that allocates $180 million for wildfire prevention projects, such as prescribed burns and vegetation management, throughout the state. …...

Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters on Monday that the government was right to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador, to his Central American homeland because he was in the U.S. illegally and there is evidence that he is an MS-13 gang member. The legal battle reached a new step late last week when the Supreme Court ruled that if El Salvador were to return Garcia, then the United States must facilitate his trip back to the U.S. The ruling did not, however, mean the U.S. had convinced El Salvador to give...

Politics is the domain of the president, not the oath-bearing members of the uniformed services.. There is a cancer in America’s military ranks, and it must be expunged before it’s too late. That cancer lies in uniformed service members’ widespread rejection of the uniquely American concept of civilian control of the military and disregard for the absolute necessity that America’s military officers remain apolitical in the face of the constitutional will of the electorate. Recent events reveal this cancer, and they include the relief for cause of Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield after she reportedly refused to hang photos of...

Pro-Second Amendment legislation is flooding the U.S. Capitol under President Donald Trump and Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, best response to date is to claim Trump is protecting “gun CEO profits.” Giffords posted to X: What Giffords calls a “special interest task force” is, in actuality, a Second Amendment Task Force announced last week by Attorney General Pam Bondi. Breitbart News noted that task force was created to prevent 2A rights from being treated like second class rights. NBC News published parts of the memo Bondi used to announce the task force, wherein she emphasized, “For too long, the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden returns to the national stage Tuesday to elevate liberal concerns that President Donald Trump's agenda is threatening the health of Social Security. The 82-year-old Democrat has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, which is typically the tradition for immediate past presidents. That's even as Trump frequently blames Biden for many of the nation's problems, often attacking his predecessor by name. Biden is expected to fight back in an early evening speech to the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in Chicago. While Biden has...

John S. Wilson, former president of Morehouse College and a three-time Harvard graduate, didn’t shy away from the topic, stating, “From even a casual read of the Trump administration’s bizarre demands, any reasonable person would fully expect Harvard University to articulate the kind of clear and compelling objection they announced on Monday. Had Harvard leadership done otherwise, it would merely be the first of many bows to a chainsaw-wielding authoritarian regime.” He continued, "In fact, it might have been the first step toward Harvard University declining and deforming into something more akin to Trump University. Instead, Harvard now has an...

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WASHINGTON—Just days after Kristi Noem took office as President Trump’s head of Homeland Security, she accompanied U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on a predawn raid of several neighborhoods in New York City. “Live this AM from NYC. I’m on it,” she posted on Jan. 28 at 4:43 a.m. on X, with a photo of herself sporting an ICE baseball cap and getting into a car. The problem: The raid was still ongoing when Noem posted about it, undercutting the element of surprise, according to people familiar with the operation. Noem’s handling of that early raid was emblematic of the...

Woke officials in Maryland called the police when a Baltimore County high school student asked why there were no American flags on display in classrooms. Parker Jensen, a senior at Towson High School and an aspiring U.S. Marine, was suspended for seven days over the “incident.” Jensen and his family have now filed a lawsuit over the punishment, citing what he believes to be a violation of state education policy and his constitutional rights. The teen came under fire after he visited the Baltimore County Board of Education to inquire about the lack of patriotic flags in school classrooms. However,...

[OFFICIAL.] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 15 -- 1:30 A.M. Maj.-Gen. Dix: This evening at about 9:30 P.M., at Ford's Theatre, the President, while sitting in his private box with Mrs. LINCOLN, Mrs. HARRIS, and Major RATHBURN, was shot by as assassin, who suddenly entered the box and approached behind the President. The assassin then leaped upon the stage, brandishing a large dagger or knife, and made his escape in the rear of the theatre. The pistol ball entered the back of the President's head and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal. The President has been insensible ever...

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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Monday introduced legislation that would sell off millions of dollars of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) firearms to pay for the national debt. As America approaches Tax Day on Tuesday, Ernst introduced the Why Does the IRS Needs Guns Act to reform how the agency handles firearms. The Iowa senator introduced the legislation after reports from Open the Books have suggested the IRS would one of the top 50 largest police departments based on its headcount and stockpiling of firearms and ammunition. “Why is the IRS wasting millions of our tax dollars stockpiling guns and...

“Let those peasants in the United States wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization,” he added. The official went on to say that bullying tactics like the ensuing tariff war had never worked on Chinese people, including those from Hong Kong. “The Chinese people do not cause trouble, nor are they afraid of trouble. Pressure, threats and blackmail are not the right way to deal with China,” he said. A top Chinese official warned Tuesday that President Trump’s “extremely shameless” tariff war would backfire soon — leaving “those peasants in the US” wailing. Xia Baolong, a senior...