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The Denver airport trespasser who was dismembered by a jet engine after he calmly stepped in front of a Frontier flight had a dark criminal past, The Post can reveal. Michael Mott, 41, racked up over 20 arrests in Colorado dating back to 2002 — including for attempted murder. snip Starting when he was just 17, Mott was repeatedly arrested for minor infractions like shoplifting and underage alcohol consumption – but within just a couple of years, he had devolved into a hardened, violent criminal, his public rap sheet shows. By February 2005, he was arrested by officers from the...

Things are popping off in the Netherlands. MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK............ The building used to be the town hall of Loosdrecht. Locals have spent weeks telling the government that they do not want it to be converted into a housing center for more illegal aliens. More from Dutch News on May 8: Loosdrecht, a waterfront village of some 8,600 near Hilversum, has been the centre of several violent anti-refugee demonstrations in recent days. One person, not local, has been jailed for their role in vandalising the building and police say they expect to make more arrests. During the May 12...

This year’s commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities and the Nicholson School of Communication was visibly floored after she extolled AI as the future of industry — to the ire of the school’s graduating students, who ferociously booed and jeered. The speaker was Florida-based businesswoman Gloria Caulfield, the Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Tavistock Development Company, a real estate firm. In her speech, she triumphantly announced that “… “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution.” The job-seeking graduates, however, weren’t exactly thrilled with Caulfield’s AI optimism. They launched into...

The Republican-led South Carolina state Senate rejected a measure Tuesday to take up a redraw of the state’s congressional map despite pressure from President Donald Trump.A resolution that would have extended the state’s legislative session, set to end this week, to tackle redistricting fell short of the two-thirds support needed, with five Republicans voting against it.The vote shuts the door, at least for now, on Republican plans to carve up the state’s lone majority-Black district, represented by longtime Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, before the midterm elections. South Carolina’s primaries are set for June 9.

5 US bases selected for anti-drone pilot program 5 US bases selected for anti-drone pilot program The U.S. task force responsible for countering small, unmanned aircraft chose five military installations to partake in an upcoming anti-drone pilot program. The U.S. Army-led Joint Interagency Task Force 401, which was stood up in August 2025 and included in the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, selected two southern border installations to join and assist the program in advanced directed energy capabilities, according to a May 6 Department of Defense release.

If a man is black, he can be a literal career criminal, high on fentanyl, whose heart and lungs gave out in a struggle with the Minneapolis police, and he'll get monuments erected around the nation. Senators will kneel for him. Celebrities will idolize him. The blackness of his skin will be the center of the story. But if you're a white girl who escaped Ukraine only to get murdered by a black guy who mocked your white skin while slashing your throat? Well, you better not notice any racism there, and if you do, you better not put up...

Asked during a wide-ranging interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” how it is that all those who were in charge of security during the attack have quit or been fired except him, Netanyahu claimed some departed because their terms were up, and only one or two “claimed they took responsibility, but it’s not clear what — what does that mean, you know? What is their responsibility?” The remarks were made in an off-mic section of the interview that wasn’t aired on Sunday, and only appeared in CBS’s full transcript. “Let’s look at the political echelon, military echelon, the security echelon. Let’s...

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate tells THR he would support a lawsuit from the Attorney General to stop David Ellison from owning CNN. He also believes tax credits are only part of the Hollywood solution.As Paramount and California’s most powerful prosecutor volley about the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, the man vying to be the state’s top official has a clear message: it can’t stand. Tom Steyer, the billionaire progressive currently running third in the seven-person gubernatorial race, says he would support a lawsuit against the merger brought by California Attorney General Rob Bonta (or any potential successor). He also said he...

Hamilton School to roll out new degree in ‘war, statecraft, and strategy’ A classical-based school within the University of Florida recently graduated its first three students – and the pipeline is growing even larger. The Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, first established in summer 2022 with a $3 million infusion from the Florida legislature, has continued to grow in the past four years. The school’s “Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law” major now has 146 enrolled students, according to Professor Brandon Warmke. The Hamilton School also offers a major in “Great Books and Ideas” and beginning this fall “will...

A United flight with more than 230 people aboard hit a bakery company's tractor-trailer on the NJ Turnpike Sunday, damaging the plane and the vehicle in a shocking incident caught on dashcam. The driver of the tractor-trailer got glass in his hand and arm, but is expected to make a full recovery. Video shows his view at the moment of impact; he goes from singing to himself to a blur; now new surveillance video shows what the view looked like from the outside United said in a statement that it will conduct a "rigorous safety inspection" regarding what went wrong;...

A shocking new poll from AtlasIntel suggests that there may be a new favorite to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2028. According to the survey, which was conducted between May 4-7 and included a sample size of 2,069 American adults, a plurality (45.4%) of Republican respondents now identify Secretary of State Marco Rubio as their preferred choice to carry the GOP’s banner two years from now. Vice President JD Vance, who has long held the pole position in the race, finished in second with 29.6%, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) at 11.2%.

Far-left Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman wildly accused opponent Spencer Pratt of pushing “fascism” as the former reality TV star gains ground in the race. The socialist-linked Raman appeared on a podcast with progressive host Brian Tyler Cohen and compared Pratt to President Donald Trump while offering her take on who the independent candidate “really represents.” “I think that Spencer Pratt is tapping into a lot of the frustrations that people have in Los Angeles by the way that things are going, and his Trumpian qualities is exactly why I think Angelenos should be taking this race seriously, but...

President Volodymyr Zelensky's former chief of staff has been charged with money laundering tied to the construction of a luxury residential compound outside Kyiv, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) said in a statement. Although not named in SAPO's statement, the chief of staff in question is Andriy Yermak, a source in law enforcement familiar with the case told the Kyiv Independent. Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) allege that more than Hr 460 million ($8.9 million) was funneled through the project over several years using a network of shell companies, cash transactions, and...

WASHINGTON — The estimated price tag for the war in Iran so far has jumped to $29 billion, up from the $25 billion figure given at the end of April, a senior Pentagon official revealed Tuesday. Jules Hurst, acting under secretary of Defense who serves as the de facto chief financial officer at the Pentagon, told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense that the higher amount came from a further crunching of the numbers. “The Joint Staff team, with the comptroller team are constantly looking at that estimate, and so now we think it’s closer to [$]29 [billion],” Hurst said....

WASHINGTON — Vulnerable Rep. Jen Kiggans, a Virginia Republican, is under fire after she agreed with a radio show host who said that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress — should get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” NBC News Icon Kiggans, one of Democrats’ top targets in the November midterm election, later posted that the host “should not have used that language” and that she did not condone it. But that did little to satisfy Democrats, who have condemned Kiggans and urged her to formally apologize. The second-most powerful House Democrat has called...

Almost three years after October 7, a new 300-page report lays out evidence of systematic sexual violence by Hamas. Women were brutalized Watch this episode with no interruptions. More than two and a half years after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, a specially appointed Civil Commission on Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children published on Tuesday the most comprehensive report to date documenting the terror group’s systematic use of sexual violence, rape, and “kinocide” during the assault. Among the key findings of the 300-page report are examples of gang-rape, sexual violence to terrorize families, and even some cases...

And even Kristof himself admits that “it’s impossible to know how common sexual assaults against Palestinians are” -- though that does not stop him from going on about it for almost 4,000 words. It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views on the Middle East conflict, we should all be able to agree that dogs cannot be trained to rape human beings. Yet this is exactly what a New York Times “opinion” piece posing as an in-depth journalistic investigation, perhaps to avoid any real journalistic accountability, published on Monday claims, based on anonymous testimonies and a report by a well-known anti-Israel...

After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – a condition that affects one in eight women – has been renamed. The hormonal disorder, estimated to impact 170 million women worldwide, will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). The name change was published in the Lancet and announced at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday…The renaming was spearheaded by the endocrinologist Prof Helena Teede, the director of Melbourne’s Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation… The first thing Maddy Mavrikis was told by her GP when she was diagnosed with...

Court issues opinions in 2 cases Map of Missouri congressional districts Photo by: Associated Press Who will represent Missouri's 4th Congressional District following Missouri First maps being signed into law. By: Addi Weakley Posted 26 minutes ago and last updated 13 minutes ago KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court issued opinions Tuesday in two cases concerning the state’s latest redistricting map. Both opinions found the map meets constitutional requirements. As it is already in effect, it will stay in effect. "Today's Missouri Supreme Court rulings are a huge victory for voters," Gov. Mike Kehoe said in a statement....

Daily Caller Logo Stay updated with the latest news. Allow notifications from Daily Caller. Allow × Opt-Out Signal Honored The Daily Caller logo The Daily Caller logo US Lightning Literally Strikes Just Feet From Anti-Erika Kirk Protesters At Hillsdale College Commencement US-POLITICS-EDUCATION-KIRK (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images) Prefer Daily Caller on Google Search Mark Tanos Contributor May 10, 2026 3:20 PM ET Font Size: A bolt of lightning struck a tree just feet from leftist demonstrators protesting Erika Kirk’s commencement appearance at Hillsdale College Saturday. Hillsdale history professor Bradley J. Birzer flagged the strike in a...