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(The Center Square) – A King County jury on Thursday found the city of Seattle negligent in its handling of the 2020 Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, or CHOP, zone, awarding nearly $31 million to the family of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr., who was fatally shot during the protests. Mays was shot by an unknown person(s) on June 29, 2023, in the chaotic, barricaded zone that was set up in Seattle in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin the previous month. No suspects have been officially identified or arrested for May's murder. A...

Here are the two problems voters face because of “maverick” congressional Republicans: Their own 'integrity' forbids them to do what voters want them to do. They know better. Their non-combative (weak) nature is a feature, not a bug, and it’s killing the conservative agenda. Frankly, I’d like to strangle any Republican who does not support what Trump is doing.

Gold prices (GC=F) plunges from its record highs above $5,500 per ounce on Friday, while precious metals silver (SI=F) and copper (HG=F) also show signs of retreating.Yahoo Finance Senior Markets Reporter Ines Ferré breaks down the news and pricing dynamics happening in the metal commodities space this morning.

A rising soccer star was identified as the 16-year-old girl tragically killed in a freak sledding accident during a rare winter storm in Texas over the weekend. Elizabeth Angle and one of her teammates hitched a sled to the back of a 16-year-old boy’s Jeep for a high-speed go-around on Sunday afternoon just after Winter Storm Fern passed over Texas, according to relatives and the Frisco Police Department. Elizabeth Angle, 16, died after she crashed into a tree while sledding on Sunday. During a sharp turn, the sled slammed against a curb and careened into a tree, the department said.

This is infuriating, and entirely due to something else in the background {GO DEEP}. Former National Security Council member (Russia/EurAsia desk) Alexander Vindman is running for a Florida senate seat against Republican Ashley Moody. First, Alexander Vindman doesn’t stand a chance at winning; however, that’s not his objective with this announcement. Here is where it becomes important to understand the game. Vindman is directly tied to the background issue of the fraudulent impeachment effort, which I have been working to bring to the forefront. Progress is agonizingly slow but moving forward. Alexander Vindman has two primary objectives in announcing this...

BREAKING: Bexar County, TX Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez ARRESTED for allegedly unlawfully having an attorney HANDCUFFED and locking him in a jury box Rosie was celebrated as the first openly gay judge to be elected in Bexar County

WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump watched a live feed of the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was not in the room. Just two days earlier, she had posted photos of herself on a beach in Hawaii at sunset practicing yoga, sending out a new year’s greeting for “peace.”That she appeared to be on vacation in the run-up to such a high-stakes, ultra-sensitive military operation seemed to underscore the extent to which she has been sidelined by the administration.But there she was on Wednesday, at an election center in...

Summary Asylum seeker Deng Majek is sentenced to a minimum term of 29 years in prison for murdering hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte Whyte died on 23 October 2024, three days after Majek stabbed her 23 times with a screwdriver at a train station in Walsall, West Midlands Delivering the sentence, Mr Justice Soole says the attack "involved a significant degree of pre-meditation" and a "particularly vicious brutality" He says Majek is aged between 25 and 28, following an earlier claim from the defendant he was only 19 Majek, a Sudanese national who arrived in the UK on a small boat...

John Carpenter‘s The Thing has been selected by the Library of Congress as one of this year’s 25 films to join the National Film Registry due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. “When we preserve films, we preserve American culture for generations to come. These selections for the National Film Registry show us that films are instrumental in capturing important parts of our nation’s story,” said Acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen. “We are proud to continue this important work, adding a broad range of 25 films to the National Film Registry...

Greg Gutfield hands Tarlov a defeat over victims of illegal crime: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/greg-gutfeld-goes-jessica-tarlov-virtue-signaling-illegals/ Trump needs to establish something like the Vietnam memorial but dedicate it to victims of illegal crime. Like: Woman who have been raped and murdered. Girls who have been raped and murdered. Men who have been killed. ect. This would give everyone in the administration a talking point when they are jumped by the press on all the victims of ICE. "Since you are interested in victims, the Whitehouse is planning to build a memorial to the victims of illegal immigrants". I'd love to see Leavitt, Noem, Homan,...

David Warrington, White House Counsel to President Trump At SHOT Show, on January 21, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada, David Warrington, the White House Counsel, gave remarks prior to the Governors Forum. Larry Keane, the Senior Vice President & General Counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), introduced David Warrington before the start of the Governors Forum.David Warrington, White House Counsel for President Trump, gave his remarks before the Governors’ Forum began. They were concise and precise. Warrington has been with President Trump for some time. He was appointed as White House Counsel on January 20, 2025, at the...

The Brief Dr. Oz claims to have identified 42 hospices in a four-block radius in Van Nuys, alleging they are part of a $3.5 billion fraud scheme. Gov. Newsom’s office is reviewing reports of "racial profiling" after Oz filmed video outside Armenian-owned businesses, including a bakery and art studio. Despite the high-profile claims, CMS has not yet released specific new case filings or names of the 42 entities allegedly involved in the Van Nuys cluster. SNIP

It's kind of suspicious how many technicalities have been cited as reasons for not wanting to drag the gang-activity-plagued lake. If you were a city councilwoman, and your district included a derelict lake run by gangs, roughly in front of the Mexican consulate, and it was believed to contain a lot of dead bodies, wouldn't you want the potential mass grave cleared? Well, the one who represents Los Angeles's MacArthur Park lake reportedly doesn't. She's denied it, of course. But the California Post reports that a private bid to use sonor to scan the bottom of the lake to locate...

Gold and silver prices plunged on Friday, as President Donald Trump’s nomination for the next chair of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, appeared to relieve concerns about the central bank’s independence. By 7:12 a.m. ET, spot silver was down 10.6% to settle at around $103.81 an ounce, paring back earlier losses. In the early hours of the morning, the metal had plummeted as much as 16% and dipped below the $100 milestone.

Kathy Griffin endorses the Minneapolis insurrection being organized over Signal, says it's time "participate in something radical" Those of you that are awake, that see what's going on, what do you think the solution is? I think the murder of Renee Good, the murder of Alex Pretti, putting children on planes and taking them to detention centers—which are really concentration camps. Call it what it is. They're concentration camps in the United States of America in 2026. So, take that in. And I know you don't want to participate in something radical. I don't either... but it is happening all...

Sen. Thom Tillis said Friday that he will oppose President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair until the criminal probe of the current Chair Jerome Powell is “fully” resolved. “Protecting the independence of the Federal Reserve from political interference or legal intimidation is non-negotiable,” the North Carolina Republican said in a statement on X. Tillis, who is set to retire, vowed earlier this month to oppose any new nominee for the Fed until the Department of Justice’s controversial investigation of Powell is completed. Tillis is a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee,...

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: "Don Lemon has been arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles just after midnight at a hotel — in connection with the storming of a church in St. Paul, Minnesota by the group of anti-ICE agitators." The leftist judges tried PROTECTING Don Lemon in Minnesota, they lost!

GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.N. chief has told states that the organisation is at risk of "imminent financial collapse", citing unpaid fees and a budget rule that forces the global body to return unspent money, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. "The crisis is deepening, threatening programme delivery and risking financial collapse. And the situation will deteriorate further in the near future." The U.N. is facing a cash crisis as the world body's largest contributor - the United States - has slashed voluntary funding to U.N. agencies and refused to make mandatory payments to the...

Leftists’ irrational fury renders them incapable of processing irrefutable facts, videos, or evidence, making rational dialogue impossible as their hatred overrides any capacity for truth or reason. In recent weeks, protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations have escalated across the country, particularly in Minneapolis, where mass deportations under President Donald Trump’s second administration have ignited widespread unrest. What began as demonstrations against what protesters call “inhumane” immigration policies has devolved, in many instances, into violent clashes with federal agents. Critics argue these actions stem from a deep-seated delusion, fueled by “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS)—a term describing an...

30 January 2026 Friday of week 3 in Ordinary Time church of St. Hyacintha in Viterbo, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading2 Samuel 11:1-4,5-10,13-17David and BathshebaAt the turn of the year, the time when kings go campaigning, David sent Joab and with him his own guards and the whole of Israel. They massacred the Ammonites and laid siege to Rabbah. David, however, remained in Jerusalem. It happened towards evening when David had risen from his couch and was strolling on the palace roof, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very...