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A black-looking black guy who turns out to be part Asian walks into an office building in Midtown Manhattan and murders four people. How do you suppose CNN would report it? Here’s how: In the photos first shared online, [Shane] Tamura, 27, was captured in broad daylight walking into 345 Park Ave. with a Palmetto State Armory AR-15 rifle in his hand. [CNN anchor Erin] Burnett said police knew the gunman had “sunglasses, mustache, male, possibly white” during a broadcast shortly after the shooting Monday evening. Before we knew anything else, we knew that Tamura was not white. The picture...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) fired a warning shot at Democrats amid calls for the upper chamber to cancel its August recess and confirm more of President Donald Trump’s nominees. In remarks on the Senate floor, Thune explained how the Senate has confirmed 107 civilian nominees over the past six months — nearly doubling the pace seen during Trump’s first term. This is happening in spite of Democrats impeding the process by forcing procedural votes in which many of them end up supporting the nominees in significant numbers, he added. Thune described what he called a “historic level of...

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NATIONAL CHICKEN WING DAY On July 29, National Chicken Wing Day encourages a frenzy of dipping and sauce tasting with our chicken wings. With so many choices, be sure to pace yourself because there are a lot of wings to be enjoyed! #NationalChickenWingDay The day celebrates the little appetizer that could. Also known as buffalo wings, hot wings, or just wings, each of us eats about 290 per year. While a chicken has two wings per bird, it produces four of these tasty morsels. That's because when we dissect the wing, we break it down into the wingette, drumette, and...

WASHINGTON—The FBI is investigating the Saturday night beating of a man and woman in Cincinnati, The Daily Wire has learned. The FBI launched an investigation into the matter at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s direction, a Justice Department official shared with The Daily Wire on Monday evening. The official also said the bureau is already conducting interviews with suspects. The news comes after Vice President JD Vance and other members of President Donald Trump’s administration condemned the incident, which took place Saturday night at the Cincinnati Music Festival. Footage showed a violent mob throwing a man to the ground and kicking...

An investigation is underway after a death on the Carnival Dream cruise ship based out of Galveston, Texas, according to reports. At around 4:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday, July 23, passengers woke up to the sounds of sirens alerting them to an incident on board the ship as it was traveling to Costa Maya, Belize, KHOU and the Houston Chronicle reported. One passenger reported hearing an announcement saying that medical assistance was needed on the Serenity Deck, according to the outlets

To typo is human. To falsely attribute quotes in a legal opinion is what’s alleged of U.S. District Court Judge Julien Neals. Neals delivered an opinion June 30, 2025, which caught the eye of attorney Andrew Lichtman. Lichtman had appeared before Neals on behalf of defendants in a recent civil suit. Lichtman issued a letter to the judge “bring[ing] to the Court’s attention a series of errors in the Opinion — including three instances in which the outcomes of cases cited in the Opinion were misstated (i.e., the motions to dismiss were granted, not denied) and numerous instances in which...

Teens in Florida are are doing a TicTok "challenge" where they play ring and run or "johnny doorbell" on people's homes while wearing masks and firing airsoft guns. These not so harmless pranks are done at night and in a state where stand your ground laws will get the homeowner off if the teens are killed.

The "missing minute" from the surveillance video at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center where Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 may not be missing after all, CBS News has learned. When the Justice Department and FBI released nearly 11 hours of footage earlier this month, the time code on the screen jumped forward one minute just before midnight, prompting questions about the one-minute gap. The video shows part of the area near the cell where Epstein was being held the night he died in what the medical examiner ruled a suicide. A government source familiar with the investigation says the FBI,...

A number of “sacred cow” beliefs regarding higher education are (finally!) coming under scrutiny. One of them is that it is important for the American Bar Association (ABA) to oversee law schools via its power of accreditation. In all but a few states, any individual who wants to enter the legal profession must graduate from an ABA-accredited law school before being allowed to sit for the state’s bar exam. That restriction has long been defended as a measure to protect consumers, both students (who might otherwise attend an inferior law school) and people in the community (who might take their...

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok deleted all of his posts on the social media site X Monday. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released documents and a memo July 18 detailing what she called a “years-long coup” against President Donald Trump after he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Strzok had been a key player in the unfounded allegations that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia, including intervening to prevent the FBI from closing a probe into retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was Trump’s first national security advisor in his first term....

Just a third of Americans say they now support Israel’s actions in Gaza, and almost all of them are Republicans, a new poll finds. The poll by Gallup is the latest in a series by the polling firm about U.S. attitudes about the war. Early on, in November 2023, it found that half of Americans approved of the actions Israel was taking in Gaza, and fewer disapproved. (Some said they did not know.) By last June, more Americans disapproved than approved, Gallup found, but there was still 42% approval. Now, after more than a year later, the proportion of Americans...

President Donald Trump issued a statement Tuesday morning addressing the Midtown Manhattan shooting that left four people dead, including an police officer, calling the incident “tragic” and describing the gunman as a “crazed lunatic.” “I have been briefed on the tragic shooting that took place in Manhattan, a place that I know and love,” Trump said in the statement, which was shared on his social media platform Truth Social as well as X, formerly Twitter, by his press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “I trust our Law Enforcement Agencies to get to the bottom of why this crazed lunatic committed such a...

In a move that surprised many on both sides of the political aisle, progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) recently voted — with an overwhelming majority of House Democrats and Republicans — to support funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. To be sure, Ocasio-Cortez’s vote made little difference to the final tally. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), which could have cut U.S. support, was shot down 422-6. Nevertheless, voting to support continued funding was extremely revealing for what it says about Ocasio-Cortez’s grander ambitions. Indeed, not only did her vote mark a clear break with other...

The New York City police officer killed in Monday’s mass shooting at a Midtown office building has been identified by officials as Didarul Islam, a 36-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh and father of two who lived in the Bronx. Islam, who served in the NYPD for just over three years, was working as security in the lobby of 345 Park Avenue when the alleged gunman, 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura of Las Vegas, entered the building armed with an AR-15-style rifle and opened fire. Tamura allegedly shot and killed Islam and then three others, critically wounded one more, before killing himself with...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Hundreds of people packed into a theater at UT Arlington to tell Texas lawmakers their thoughts on plans to redraw state congressional maps, while hundreds of others listened on their phones and in an overflow room outside. The vast majority spoke in opposition to the plans, which come after President Donald Trump called for the state to work to increase the Republican seats in its congressional delegation by as many as five seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The Republican-led legislature has not released any proposed maps, but a letter from the Department of Justice raised...

The boy was left for hours while a contract worker for the state ran "personal errands," the family's attorney says =============================================================== A 3-year-old boy died in a hot car in Birmingham, Ala., this week while with the state's Department of Human Resources — something the child's parents have called their "worst nightmare." Ke'Torrius Starkes Jr., who went by "KJ," was found unresponsive in the vehicle outside a home on Pine Tree Drive on Tuesday, June 22, a Birmingham police spokesperson said in a statement. He was "accidentally left inside ... while in the care of a third-party contracted worker through...

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In political theory, hypocrisy is often regarded as a minor sin, the unavoidable cost of aligning ideology with the messiness of real life. But sometimes, hypocrisy isn’t incidental. Sometimes, it reveals the true nature of the ideology itself. And sometimes, as with Zohran Mamdani’s recent wedding, it isn’t just hypocrisy, it is performance art. The self-described Islamic Marxist and current Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Mamdani has built his career upon the aesthetic of struggle. He rails against landlords, billionaires, private property, and what he calls "capitalist theft." He advocates the abolition of prisons, the dismantling of the...

The Traverse City stabbing suspect is eligible for bond. They just want him to promise not to go back to Wal-Mart or do drugs. What in the world are they thinking? Quote Senator Aric Nesbitt @SenAricNesbitt · 16h Eligible for bond? This individual just went on a rampage, and by the grace of God didn’t end anyone’s life.