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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A man who pleaded guilty to murder allegedly punched his attorney in the face after receiving a 50-year sentence, court documents reveal. Jaquarius Lewis, 27, is accused of causing bodily injury to an individual who is at least 65 years of age, according to records obtained by Eyewitness News. The alleged incident happened on Tuesday afternoon, the same day he was sentenced to confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Institutional Division. The bail motion reads that Lewis punched his attorney, John Petruzzi, in the face after the sentence was read. Records indicate Lewis...

ANN ARBOR, MI — The last “Neighborhood Crime Watch” sign in Ann Arbor is now removed. City officials gathered on Princeton Avenue on Tuesday, April 21, for the ceremonial removal of the final sign after weeks of work to remove hundreds of similar signs. “It’s great to see the last of these relics of the past come down,” said City Council Member Jen Eyer, D-4th Ward. Eyer joined Mayor Christopher Taylor and Council Member Cynthia Harrison, D-1st Ward, in lifting it out of the ground to be hauled away and recycled. Despite neighborhood watch programs being defunct, more than 600...

Nigel Farage and Reform are campaigning around the country in the local elections and consistently polling higher than the other parties. Reform’s campaign started with a series of rallies for supporters and candidates, where they asked attenders who were not already members to join the party and put their names forward as candidates. Now Farage is on a busy schedule of walkabouts and meet-ups with prospective councillors and supporters around the country.

Thug Teen Collapses in Tears After Judge Slams No Bond for Cold-Blooded Murder This black 16-year-old killer screamed and fell apart like a weak coward in court when the judge denied bond and charged him as an adult. Sean Simpson, a gangster, gunned down innocent 16-year-old teen Zaquavious Dawkins in a drive-by while the boy ran a simple errand for his disabled mom. No more soft treatment for street thugs—real justice is here, and this black murderer is finally feeling the pain he caused. Lock him up for life.

A manufactured crisis plays out daily in the parking lots of LA’s Home Depot stores. Day laborer centers, seven city-contracted hubs often nestled on private commercial property, have become battlegrounds. And, no surprise, the NGOs now want more of your hard-earned dollars. Nonprofit organizations like CARECEN demand millions in local taxpayer dollars not to help workers find jobs, but to shield illegal aliens from lawful federal enforcement by ICE.

The most effective influence operation in 2026 is the one that does not look like an influence operation. Most Americans, when they think about Chinese influence at all, picture something cinematic. They picture a senator on a stage in the Capitol, flanked by two advisors to the State Council of the People's Republic of China, nodding along to a discussion of how the United States should slow down its own AI industry. That happened on April 29, 2026, when Bernie Sanders convened Xue Lan and Zeng Yi for an event titled "The Existential Threat of AI and the Need...

A White male says he has submitted over 300 job application, he can’t get a single call back So he tried an experiment, he updated his resume to have a common Indian last name ‘Singh’ He says he’s already gotten 3 callbacks This is discrimination based on race and it’s happening everywhere to White people

The war between the US and Iran is “likely” to restart, a senior Iranian official predicted on the heels of comments by President Trump that the US might be “better off” without an agreement. A “renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely,” said Mohammad Jafar Asadi, a high-level officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran’s leadership, which has been decimated by US strikes, wants to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the US blockade before reestablishing nuclear talks, according to details of its latest counterproposal, which was presented to intermediaries in Pakistan. Trump told reporters...

A group financed by a pro-Chinese Communist Party tech tycoon was one of the first on the scene for Friday's May Day demonstrations and socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s remarks. The People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which both receive direct or indirect funding from Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, were key players in the organization of protestors in Union Square ahead of the May Day events. A self-identified speaker from PSL announced a People’s Forum spokesperson who was the second to speak into a microphone. The speaker rallied the crowd of demonstrators, asking them to repeat chants and...

James Comey, former FBI director, former deputy attorney general, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is a friend of presidents and kings, an admired figure who presents himself as a voice of reason and morality, and a pillar of the Washington establishment — or, as the Mafia would put it, a made guy. Surely he would never do something so lawless and undemocratic as threaten the president of the United States, would he? That’s what Comey contends in response to charges that he was issuing a veiled threat to the president when he posted on his...

A patient shows up at the hospital with a pulmonary embolism — a blood clot that has traveled to the lungs. After initially improving, their symptoms start to worsen. The medical team suspects the medication isn't working. In steps artificial intelligence — with its own theory. It has scanned the medical records and suspects a history of lupus, an autoimmune condition which can lead to heart inflammation, could explain what was really ailing the patient. Turns out, the AI model is correct. This type of scenario could become a reality in the-not-too-distant future, according to a study published Thursday in...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned there will be an 'inflation spike' caused by a 'war on two fronts' but says the country must not simply return to the 'status quo' after the war in Iran and instead 'we have to take a different course'. He agreed with stark Bank of England predictions that the UK could see inflation rise above six per cent and warned that even when the Strait of Hormuz was opened 'I don't want anybody to think it will all return to normal'. The closure of the crucial shipping channel by Iran has caused havoc around the...

Deaf children can now hear thanks to a new treatment that repairs a defective gene. Researchers associated with the biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals unveiled the successful gene therapy last week. One patient, who was treated at 18 months old, Travis Smith, can now hear. Overall, 80 percent of participants (aged 10 months to 16), saw significant improvement in hearing, and 42 percent achieved normal hearing, including the ability to hear whispers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already approved the treatment. Medical research on ameliorating physical and intellectual maladies continues apace. For example, researchers at Harvard Medical School reported...

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Revolver News founder and former Chief Editor Darren Beattie warned years ago that China would aggressively recruit top American scientists fed up with the “woke bullshit” and ideological conformity in U.S. higher education.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin are urging the State to approve a budget that will help fund the multi-billion budget gap that the city is facing -- while supporting the State in extending its final budget deadline to June. Mamdani and Menin appeared Tuesday in the City Hall rotunda to announce a new agreement to lobby for a $1 billion tax rollback and more State aid. "New York City faces a budget crisis of historic magnitude," Mamdani said Tuesday during a joint press conference. "We've inherited a deficit larger than any since the Great...

A British diving team located the wreck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1918 with 131 people aboard, officials said. The British diving team Gasperados discovered the wreck about 50 miles from Newquay, a town on the north coast of Cornwall in the United Kingdom, the Coast Guard said in a press release. The ship participated in Allied Powers operations during World War I before she was lost over a century ago. Diving team leader Steve Mortimer said the discovery is “the result of three years of research and exploration” in...

Lewiston is ground zero for the Somali Muslim presence in Maine. And it shows. The Lewiston Police Department has released surveillance footage of a gunman in Lewiston opening fire. The video is of the second of two shootings in four days near a mosque on Bartlett Street. Lewiston police say it’s an area with a high volume of shootings over the past year. What might be attracting these unknown shooters to the area? Besides the mosque? Several witnesses told police a young, black male across the street fired multiple rounds from a handgun toward the Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services...

The U.S. national debt exceeded the total amount of output from the entire economy as of March 31, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The country’s publicly held debt was $31.265 trillion, while the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the total value of goods and services in the economy, was $31.215 trillion. The ratio of GDP to Debt was 100.2%, up from 99.5% in September 2025, according to The Wall Street Journal. The government now spends $1.33 for every dollar it collets in revenue, with budget deficits running consistently at around 6% of GDP. That figure will continue to rise...

An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a national priority: embedding electronics into the human brain. Charles Lieber, 67, is among the world’s leading researchers in brain-computer interfaces. The technology has shown promise in treating conditions such as ALS and restoring movement in paralyzed patients. But it also has potential military applications: Scientists at China’s People’s Liberation Army have investigated brain interfaces as a way to engineer super soldiers by boosting mental...