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At least nine people have been killed after an SUV rammed through a packed street festival in Vancouver on Saturday night. The vehicle rammed through the crowd at the Lapu Lapu Day event at around 8pm local time, leaving multiple people dead and scores more injured. Detectives said a 30-year-old man, from the city and 'known to police', was 'taken into custody by people in the crowd' before being arrested at the scene following the 'mass casualty incident'. Issuing an update on the death toll early on Sunday morning, Vancouver Police said: 'As of now, we can confirm nine people...

Judges play stupid games and win stupid prizes. Another week where America turns its attention to a rotten judiciary which is fast erasing any respect we once had for it. As the prior outrageous injunctions by numbers of (judge shopped) District Courts make their way up the judicial ladder, even more of them were issued this week. I think everything the President has done is the object of at least one District Court injunction. In the meantime, corruption of the judiciary has become so overt that two judges were placed under arrest this week. The case that particularly caught my...

Thursday, April 17, the Crockett County Sheriff’s Department responded to a shooting on Chestnut Bluff and Maury City Road. According to the sheriff’s department, John King III was shot and killed in the 6000 block of Chestnut Bluff-Maury City Road. We learned on April 18 that it appeared to be domestic violence-related, and no charges were filed at the time. Wednesday, we spoke with District Attorney General Frederick Agee. He told us this was self defense and that his office would not be pursuing any charges. “She is six months pregnant and there were two other children in the household,”...

@WallStreetApes A 16 piece meal at KFC is over $55. How can a bucket of chicken be over $50 dollars… Everything on this menu is so expensive Who is buying this, who can afford this? People on EBT?

For Tampa FL's residents who do NOT speak or read Spanish, Walmart's corporate overlords have just declared you to be an official minority. As of yesterday morning, Walmart's corporate (not sponsored) website comes up entirely in Spanish, with no obvious "Press 2 for English" option showing anywhere. Are they for real? A search online resulted in dozens of so-called "explanations" as to why this kind of thing might be happening to you on your computer. One explanation given was that a "business" might switch to Spanish as its default language in corporate communications if/when the demographic in a locality it...

They came into some sleazy money. Bags full of cash fell off a Brinks Home Security Company truck as it drove through a Chicago suburb last week — leaving over $300,000 in cash in the hands of sticky-fingered locals, according to a report. The moolah hauler’s back door became ajar by “unknown means” as it rolled through the Oak Park neighborhood of the Second City on Tuesday — dropping three cash-filled bags onto Austin Boulevard, according to NBC. Brinks claims that between 50 and 100 Chicagoans capitalized on the money mishap — making a mad cash-grabbing dash and fleeing the...

Over a year ago, the Netherlands reported numerous sperm mega-donors within the country, leading to fears of accidental incest. The number of these mega-donors seems to keep growing, with the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (NVOG) now admitting at least 85 men have fathered 25 or more children. The most infamous Dutch sperm mega-donor is Jonathan Meijer, who is believed to have over 1,000 children and was the subject of a Netflix documentary last year. Meijer had been ordered to stop donating sperm, though he appeared not to have complied, just moving his sperm donation business outside of the...

On Tuesday, April 22, a newborn was found dead in a dumpster in Albuquerque, New Mexico. KOB 4 News reported that in roughly three years, this is the fourth case in which a baby was similarly abandoned, resulting in the deaths of three of the infants. According to local station KOAT 7, there are currently no Safe Haven Baby Box (SHBB) locations in Albuquerque. However, every state has a Safe Haven/Baby Moses law allowing for the safe surrender of an infant to designated personnel. In New Mexico, parents may surrender an infant within 90 days of the child’s birth to...

The COVID-19 pandemic raised parents’ awareness of disturbing content in children’s public school curriculum. Many parental advocacy groups continue to argue that the indoctrination in children’s classrooms and libraries effectively grooms children to become future patients of Planned Parenthood. As Live Action News has reported, Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth (with digital media arm AMAZE), and SIECUS are all members of the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) coalition and part of a web of sex miseducators. However, the FoSE coalition is not just providing sex education curricula in classrooms. Because the American Library Association (ALA) and affiliated organizations share many...

Attorney’s Building Blunder In a high-stakes response to a federal criminal referral, Letitia James’ defense lawyer, Abbe David Lowell, submitted a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi that made a stunning error: he fundamentally misunderstood the very property at the center of the investigation. The letter, prompted by the FHFA’s referral for potential mortgage fraud, falsely claimed James’ Brooklyn property “has always functioned as a four-person residence.” But official records, utility infrastructure, and tenant complaints paint a very different—and legally significant—picture.

As soon as Norwegian couple Jan and Lene Robertsen learned their preborn daughter Olivia had Down syndrome, they were offered an abortion. According to Verdinytt, the Robertsens were happy to be expecting a baby and were having a routine check-up when an ultrasound detected a heart defect typically associated with Down syndrome. The couple chose to undergo an amniocentesis so they could get an official diagnosis and then prepare for their child’s needs at and after birth. Just a few days later, they received the diagnosis. “She has Down syndrome,” the doctor said, and then immediately added, “If you sign...

A peace proposal by the Trump administration that includes recognizing Russian authority over Crimea shocked Ukrainian officials, who say they will not accept any formal surrender of the peninsula, even though they expect to concede the territory to the Kremlin, at least temporarily. Giving up the land that was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 is also politically and legally impossible, according to experts. It would require a change to the Ukrainian constitution and a nationwide vote, and it could be considered treason. Lawmakers and the public are firmly opposed to the idea. “It doesn’t mean anything,” said Oleksandr Merezkho,...

Newsdump Alerts: Trump, Zelensky Meet... Hundreds Hurt In Explosion In Iranian Port City... New Round Of US-Iran Talks Slated For Next Weekend... Another attempt at media excellence your host with you again "Senator Dick Turban" announcing his retirement this week... I get the impression President Donald Trump wants peace. His envoy Steve Witkoff talking with both Russia and Iran seeking to avoid warfare... 15 of the 9/11 hijackers came from one nation the President of the United States will visit again next month... Qatar is a nation linked to Hamas, Turkey (Türkiye) and the Muslim Brotherhood. This week King Abdullah...

BREAKING: Canadian police say people killed after SUV plows into street festival in Vancouver. Driver in custody

“This is not normal.” Those words from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., are undeniably true after the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. However, the reason it is not normal is far more debatable. Dugan is accused of becoming a lawbreaker in seeking to obstruct an effort to arrest a man wanted by federal authorities. If true, that is manifestly not “normal.”As soon as the news of the arrest was reported, Democrats declared another constitutional crisis. Klobuchar added that the arrest “is a drastic move threatening the rule of law” and a “grave step and undermines our system of checks and...

U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer warned states of losing federal funding if they fail to comply with President Donald Trump’s directives on rewarding illegal immigrants with tax dollars, according to an April 25 statement issued by the Department of Labor.“Our nation’s unemployment benefits exist solely for workers who are eligible to receive them,” Chavez-DeRemer wrote in a letter addressed to state governors.“To qualify for unemployment, one must be able and available to work, actively seeking work, and be legally authorized to accept employment in the United States. Unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in our country illegally.”The...

Ashley Rindsberg, from whose stories I have riffed on before, has a great piece in Spectator Magazine about the COVID cover-up that adds a new twist.Anthony Fauci, through a Harvard University intermediary, helped funnel money from the Chinese property company Evergrande to Harvard in February 2020. And that contribution was, quite surprisingly, part of a backdoor effort on the part of the Chinese to communicate with and influence Fauci and America's COVID response. The only people buying this are those writing it. https://t.co/P6yiLtlOV4 pic.twitter.com/dZm6VR1ds3— Theo Jordan (@Theo_TJ_Jordan) April 25, 2025On the morning of Sunday February 2, 2020, Anthony Fauci, then...

In October, Mr Musk pledged to cut "at least $2 trillion" from the federal government budget. He subsequently halved this target and on 10 April talked about making savings of $150bn from "cutting fraud and waste" by the end of the next financial year in 2026. ...Doge's largest listed individual saving is $2.9bn. It comes from cancelling a contract - which started in 2023 under President Biden - for a facility in Texas to house up to 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children. Doge appears to have taken the "total contract value" until 2028 - the end date listed - and subtracted...

The mask-wearing thief who stole Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem's purse on Easter, which contained her DHS badge, passport, driver's license, mobile phone, and $3,000 in cash, has been arrested. The New York Post first reported the information exclusively:The masked bandit who stole Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s pricey Gucci bag containing $3,000 in cash and other personal items has been arrested, sources told The Post Saturday. Noem, 53, was on an Easter outing with her family at The Capital Burger in Washington, DC, when the hooded thief stole the luxury shoulder bag, which also contained her driver’s...

Albertsons, America's second-largest grocery chain, is reportedly informing suppliers that will be affected by the new Trump administration tariffs that it's not the company's problem, according to a recent letter:Albertsons, which owns 2,200 grocery stores across the U.S., sent a letter to suppliers in late March spelling out how it would deal with price hikes. “With few exceptions, we are not accepting cost increases due to tariffs,” the letter read (emphasis in the original). The letter laid out the grocer's reason for the policy was "maintaining the value propositions our customers expect.” In other words, to keep grocery prices low...