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Two activists accused of throwing a red powder on the U.S. Constitution display case at the National Archives last month are now facing felony charges, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Friday. Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were charged with felony destruction of government property for dumping the fine red powder all over the display case in an indictment that was unsealed in District Count on Thursday, per the DOJ. Conservationists worked to clean up the building’s rotunda after the protestors dumped the powder as part of a stunt intended to draw attention to climate...

An MTA conductor was slashed in the neck on a subway in Brooklyn early Thursday, police said. The 59-year-old conductor was working the overnight shift on a southbound A train near the Rockaway Station when he was attacked just before 3:40 a.m., according to the NYPD. The MTA worker had stuck his head out the train cab window to look left and right, and that is when he was slashed in the back with an unknown sharp object, police said. The victim was taken to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in stable condition, police said.

Imagine a world where you couldn’t call or text anyone, you couldn’t put gas in your car, you could pay for things, and there was no tap in your water. A nightmare, right? ... Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid is warning that such a scenario isn’t a foreign possibility. During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Quaid highlighted the dangers of a solar storm that could kill more than 90 percent of the population within a year. “Basically, there is a 100 percent probability that our sun, generating what they call a GMD, which is a solar storm, that hits hard, hits...

The crew of a Belize-flagged, British-registered cargo vessel have abandoned ship off Yemen after it was hit by missiles fired by the Houthi movement.

Shocking photos captured the chaotic and gruesome aftermath of a fatal dog attack where a man was mauled to death by his 13 pitbulls in his yard in Los Angeles. LAPD officers were called to the home on the 900 block of Thorson Avenue, Compton, at 7am on Friday after a concerned friend went to the house and discovered his body. Officials believe he was a breeder and had gone into the yard to feed the dogs on Thursday night when a fight broke out between the animals and they turned on him. Helicopter footage showed his bloodied body lying...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the date of the event.Officials with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in Malibu announced the temporary closure of Solstice Canyon after a young mountain lion attempted to attack a small, leashed dog walking with its owner. The encounter, according to officials, happened Tuesday morning. While intervening to protect his dog, the hiker suffered a puncture wound and a scratch on his hand. The dog was uninjured. “A scratch basically, just minor injuries,” Seth Riley, the wildlife branch chief for the US National Park Service, told LAist. “He was able to...

Shocking video shows a pet dog named Holly Jolly getting attacked by a mountain lion in his California yard — then fighting back to somehow live another day. The 3-year-old schnauzer is seen on Ring camera footage casually stepping out for a bathroom break in La Verne, CA around 9 p.m. Feb. 10 when the cougar suddenly appears.

A Virginia woman is facing charges after she allegedly swung a medieval sword at a police officer and another person. The Leesburg Police Department announced on Monday that officers responded on Feb. 8 to the 800 block of Edwards Ferry Road to serve a warrant on 35-year-old Alexandra C. Hopkins. After officers encountered Hopkins, she swung at one of them with a sword that was more than a foot and a half long before fleeing into a residence, police said in a news release.

Shocking video captured the moment a migrant mob pounded a pair of cops near Times Square over the weekend — but the busted cowardly suspects were still released back on the street without bail, sources say. The footage shows an NYPD officer and lieutenant initially telling the migrants to move along around 8:30 p.m. Saturday on West 42nd Street in Manhattan — before things quickly get rowdy as a scuffle breaks out between the cops and a suspect who is wrestled to the ground. That’s when the rest of the punks converge on the officers, raining kicks to the head...

As the Biden administration mulls over how and when to respond to Sunday's deadly attack on U.S. troops in Jordan by Iranian-backed militias, a U.S. patrol base in Syria was attacked, two U.S. official stold The War Zone."On the morning of Jan. 29, multiple rockets were launched at patrol base al-Shaddadi," one of the officials said. "There were no injuries or damage reported." The officials did not specify who carried out that attack.Earlier on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) attributed it to Iranian-backed militias.“Iranian-backed groups fired at last one shell on the outskirts of Al-Tawasu’aeah neighborhood near...

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh responded to a question on whether U.S. strikes against Iran-backed groups in the Middle East have worked by stating that “we have been able to take capabilities off the table of these IRGC-backed groups. The capabilities that they had yesterday, they no longer have today. And so, yes, we do assess that we have been able to successfully disrupt and degrade their capabilities.” But those groups can still attack. Host Katy Tur asked, “There have been a number of strikes. Does the Pentagon assess that those...

Israeli authorities have reportedly foiled a planned terror attack in Jerusalem by two Arab residents of East Jerusalem who had pledged loyalty to the so-called “Islamic State,” or ISIS. The Israeli security forces, including both the Israel Police and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet), said that the two would-be terrorists had hoped to detonate a truck bomb near the Israeli parliament, or Knesset. The Times of Israel reported: “Among the targets and plans considered, the accused wanted to carry out a terror attack by detonating a truck filled with gas canisters near the Knesset, in an attempt...

Sophia Simpson, 10, is still recovering after an adult woman randomly slammed her head into a cookie display at Somerset Mall in Troy. The incident took place last Friday as Sophia waited in line for a cookie from Mrs. Fields at the mall, according to police. She was there with a group of friends and one of their dads. "She took her hand in the back of my neck and slammed it into the glass," Sophia said. "The car ride back, oh my gosh, it was terrible. I was so dizzy. I was actually really tired too." The attacker is...

Shocking dashcam footage captured the moment a drug safety mentor high on marijuana rammed her car into an NYPD officer in broad daylight. Sahara Dula, 24, was caught driving down the wrong side of the road before hitting the officer when he approached her, sending him sprawling over the hood of the car and into the road. She was taken into custody on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Wednesday, with court papers showing she later admitted: 'I told the cop I wanted to go straight, and he wouldn't move, so I hit him. I did it on purpose.' Dula was...

Much like the previous pro-Hamas assaults on… 1. Congress 2. Christmas tree lightings 3. Churches 4. Grand Central Station … except there to be zero consequences for participants in this insurrection beyond a desk appearance ticket. After all, a BLM mob in 2020 assailed the White House, torched the gatehouse and members of the military were investigated and punished for flying a chopper too low over the vicious hate-filled mob. Gen. Milley spent the rest of his miserable career apologizing for the Church of Presidents walk. Most of the media coverage of this assault is glowingly positive. It’s also getting...

Pfizer is investing billions of dollars in treatments to prepare for a looming “heart failure pandemic.”The Covid mRNA vaccine maker is making a big investment in treatment for heart failure as cases of myocarditis and sudden cardiac deaths skyrocket.The pharmaceutical giant recently acquired several companies.This includes a major $6.7 billion cash acquisition of Arena Pharmaceuticals.Arena Pharmaceuticals is a firm specializing in developing treatments, particularly for heart inflammation conditions like myocarditis and pericarditis.Pfizer is now predicted to make tens of billions of dollars in profits from the spike in heart failure.The company is expecting to capitalize on the huge spike in...

Texas National Guards were seen using riot shields in an attempt to hold back a horde of migrants crossing at Eagle Pass. New footage taken of a clash which happened a month ago shows guardsmen narrowly avoid being hit by a rock as they struggle against the steady stream of asylum seekers. A record number of migrants have been passing through the Texan border in recent months, with 14,000 making it over in 24 hour period last month. Video shows the reality on the ground as asylum seekers are seen scrambling over razor wire and through mud in a desperate...

The OK insurrection? Pro-Hamas pro Yemen rioters force partial evacuation of the White House Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas11 - 🚨: DC police and Secret Service had to rush to one part of the security fence to prevent a breach from the '''Palestinian''' crowd. 6:46 PM · Jan 13, 2024 on XWhite House staff 'relocated' after pro-Palestinian rioters damage anti-scale fencing, hurl objects at cops. Fox News

Earlier Saturday evening, RedState’s Nick Arama reported on the violent protests outside the White House as the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel crowd conducted a "March on Washington for Gaza." They climbed statues and waved Palestinian flags – along with ISIS ones – and set off smoke bombs and spread "dead" baby dolls outside the WH fence. WATCH: Pro-Hamas Crew Attempts to Storm WH Grounds; DC Police in Riot Gear, Secret Service EngagingNow it turns out the protests were so serious that a number of White House staffers had to be relocated for their own safety. I don’t know whether President Biden or...

Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters surrounded the White House Saturday night and attempted to breach the security the fencing outside the executive mansion in a threat to national security that prompted Secret Service agents and DC police in riot gear to rush to the scene. “F__k Joe Biden!” the mob demonstrators are chanting as they attempt to breach the White House. The metal perimeter was shaken so hard, that portions of it were damaged shunting backward. Secret Service operatives rushed to prevent an absolute breach that would allow the rioters to march toward the White House. The pro-Hamas rioters are also...