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Already known details of how Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed have now been shuttered by the LA County Medical Examiner under a court order sought by the LAPD. The department wants to keep its findings sealed and away from the prying eyes of the “media and the public” as they try to make substantial progress before a potentially decisive court hearing next week. Halting “the public release of any investigative information, notes, reports, or photos” of the Reiners’ death, the judge approved order went into effect on December 29. The order specifically says the Medical Examiner can...

🚨 BREAKING: OVER 40 “daycare centers” in Columbus, OH opened up using the SAME defunct Somali shell company on the SAME day, and collected $14 MILLION in subsidies in 2024 alone Just CUT OFF the subsidies all together! It’s OUT OF CONTROL!

Scavino released a video, without comment, portraying President Trump preparing his team for 2026. Best to watch the entire 44 second video here.Below, I broke the video into 3 clips and typed in the movie dialogue above the clips.Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 @DanScavinoCommander in Chief: "Hold the line. Stay with me. Brothers, what we do in life echoes in enternity."Commander: "Strength and honor."Man replies, "Strength and honor."Commander: "At my signal, unleash Hell." December 30, 2025

The number of violent offences involving an adolescent attacking their parents or step-parents has increased by more than 60% in the past decade, according to figures recorded by the UK’s biggest police force. Data released by Scotland Yard reveals that there were 1,886 such offences recorded in 2015 but this increased to 3,091 in the first 10 months of 2025 alone. The offences involved a suspect aged between 10, the age of criminal responsibility in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 17 who had been recorded as being the child or stepchild of the alleged victim. The Metropolitan police figures...

At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December, authorities said Tuesday. Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young men that is practiced annually by various ethnic groups in Africa, including parts of South Africa. Among them are the Xhosa, Ndebele, Sotho and Venda communities. Traditionally, young men are isolated at initiation schools where they are taught cultural values and responsibilities as they become adults. The circumcision part of the initiation results every year in the deaths of some...

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the former senator and US representative of Colorado known for his passionate advocacy of Native American issues, died Tuesday. He was 92. Campbell died of natural causes surrounded by his family, his daughter, Shanan Campbell, confirmed to The Associated Press. Campbell, a Democrat who stunned his party by joining the Republican Party, stood out in Congress as much for his unconventional dress — cowboy boots, bolo ties and ponytail — as his defense of children’s rights, organized labor and fiscal conservatism.

Shocking videos show a Lancaster, Southern California street fight in broad daylight escalating until a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed. The Christmas Day brawl devolved into a blaze of gunfire that also injured four others.

The Trump administration’s FBI has released more than 100 additional pages of writings from Audrey Hale, the transgender shooter... These newly unclassified documents, part of a massive collection of notebooks and journals, offer a chilling look into the planning and financing of the assault that claimed the lives of three children and three adults. Hale, a biological woman who identified as a transgender man, used federal student financial aid, specifically Pell Grants, to fund the purchase of firearms used in the heinous 2023 attack. The FBI-released documents reportedly include Hale’s handwritten “Account Savings Record” page, tracking federal Pell Grant funds...

Florida man Michael Green is suing the Outback Steakhouse in Ocala because he says a toilet shattered and collapsed beneath him, causing "significant and permanent loss of an important bodily function." The toilet in Outback was allegedly unbolted, which caused it to shift around on the tile. When Green sat down to unload his Bloomin' Onion, he apparently found himself Down Under instead. Green says he suffered severe bodily harm from the shards of porcelain and is suing for damages in excess of $50,000. A jury will decide if he'll get a fair-dinkum payout.

A Year-and-a-Half Later, Commiefornia's Fast Food Minimum Wage Is an Unmitigated Disaster And the Democrats want this for ALL OF AMERICA!................ 2:51 VIDEO AT LINK.................

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained at least 10 to 12 workers Monday morning near a Home Depot on Imperial Avenue in Mountain View, according to witnesses at the scene where dozens of day laborers typically gather seeking employment. The arrests occurred before noon in an area across from the Home Depot, where 50 to 60 workers usually wait for day jobs. However, only a handful of workers were present on Tuesday, following the enforcement action. The Imperial Avenue location serves as a regular gathering spot where workers arrive early each morning, often dozens at a...

A history professor who taught at Harvard University for 40 years has left the Ivy League for greener pastures, penning a biting critique on the state of the school on his way out the door. In a piece titled "Why I'm Leaving Harvard," published in Compact Magazine, history professor James Hankins said he decided in 2021 to leave the school amid a flurry of wokeness and COVID restrictions, but honored a four-year retirement contract that expired just weeks ago. "We had just endured almost two years under the university’s strict Covid regime," Hankins wrote. "This was a form of emergency...

A Newsmax segment featuring California Assemblyman Kevin Kiley and Newsmax’s Joe Moeller focused on new findings of fraud and mismanagement across multiple California state programs, including community colleges, unemployment insurance, and social services, as outlined in the California State Auditor’s 2025 high-risk report. During the segment, Kiley highlighted what he described as a major discovery involving fraudulent applications submitted to California’s community college system. “Now the latest example that we’ve learned is that over a third of community college applications in the state were fraudulent. These were not real people, not real students, actually seeking a spot at one of...

An Oklahoma lawmaker has taken inspiration from an initiative in Massachusetts, to bring additional funding for education. Representative Andy Fugate has plans to introduce a millionaire tax, with the revenue going to low performing schools. ......... “An additional 2% in personal income taxes on your net income over $1 million, and an additional 2% on net income that goes over $5 million,” said Rep. Fugate. .......

Josh Gerstein of Politico is facing an avalanche of critical responses on Twitter/X over a post he published on Monday night in which he implied that Somali daycare centers might start justifiably shooting people for knocking on their doors and asking questions, under ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws. He was responding to the explosive claims made by independent citizen journalist Nick Shirley and the revelations in his recent viral video exposing hundreds of millions in alleged fraud carried out by Somali-owned daycare centers in Minnesota. Here is Gerstein’s tweet (it’s a screenshot in case he deletes it): Liberal journalists support ‘Stand...

Mali and Burkina Faso have said they are imposing a travel ban on US citizens in response to an equivalent measure announced by the Trump administration earlier this month. In separate statements issued by their foreign ministries late on Tuesday, the two West African countries said they were acting in the name of “reciprocity” after the White House announced on December 16 that US President Donald Trump was adding them and five other countries to a list of those subject to a full travel ban. The White House said the expanded ban, set to take effect on January 1, applied...

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett warned that Israel’s status in the United States “has never been so bad” and that it is being seen as a “leper state” in a lengthy social media post on Tuesday. The post castigating the current government’s public diplomacy efforts came after Bennett, who plans to run in next year’s elections, spent 10 days in the US… “The Democratic party hasn’t been with us for some time. We’re also losing the Republican party, whose support for Israel could once be counted on,” he wrote, though he credited US President Donald Trump with retaining support for...

There are now 44 million Muslims in Europe, with more arriving every day. Muslim mothers in Europe have much higher birth rates than do the indigenous non-Muslims. There is still time, however, for the indigenous peoples of Europe to stop the Muslim demographic conquest of their continent. More on the geopolitical consequences of the growing Muslim presence in Europe can be found here: “Europe is drifting away from Israel, toward Iran’s worldview – opinion,” by Micah Halpern, Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2025: Countries, like people, need friends. Those friendships are most often based on economic or military needs or the...

It’s not quite burning-scientists-at-the-stake bad, but it’s close — or at least feels that way. President Donald Trump’s administration is openly waging war against universities, closing independent science review panels, funding fewer grants, and shutting down or raising concerns about the closure of important centers of government research (even though in some cases, they’re probably not supposed to). The evidence is now clear that the modern American structure of science can no longer survive as an apolitical entity that enjoys consistent, bipartisan support. Science is now suffering a generational catastrophe, not just in terms of funding, but in terms of...

Since taking the helm at CBS News, Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has shown no fear, and her response to Hollywood leftist darling George Clooney's attack on her is truly...magnifique. It all started after the 64-year-old actor took a swipe at Weiss' leadership, of course, using broad claims, lacking any detail, about Weiss. The comments came after she pulled a 60 Minutes piece about the alleged treatment of illegal aliens in a CECOT prison in El Salvador. She later explained the reason was that it wasn’t ready, RedState reported. Statement from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss: "My job is to make sure...