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Karen Attiah A left-wing columnist revealed in a Substack on Monday that she was fired by the Washington Post over social media posts amid the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Colorado school shooting. "On Bluesky, in the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Utah and Colorado, I condemned America’s acceptance of political violence and criticized its ritualized responses — the hollow, cliched calls for ‘thoughts and prayers’ and ‘this is not who we are’ that normalize gun violence and absolve [W]hite perpetrators especially, while nothing is done to curb deaths," Karen Attiah wrote. Kirk, a leading conservative activist, was...

A new image obtained by Fox News Digital now reveals Frank and Maureen Olton, the elderly Queens couple police say were brutally tied up, stabbed and set on fire after a man claimed he needed to come inside a home to charge his phone. The victims, ages 76 and 77, were "simply spending a Monday morning at home" before they were murdered and viciously tortured for hours in their Bellerose home, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a press release Friday. Jamel McGriff, 42, a Bronx ex-con with a decades-long rap sheet, has been charged with 14 counts of...

New York Liberty player Natasha Cloud unleashed a torrent of racially-charged posts on X Friday after the identity of the suspected assassination of Charlie Kirk was revealed in Utah. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed Friday that law enforcement arrested the suspect, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. Cloud deleted an X post that prompted backlash, in which she made presumptions about the alleged killer's family's political beliefs. "So how y'all gone twist this? Raised in a good middle class family, dad was an officer/church leader, whole family of Republicans and gun owners [and] Trump supporters," Cloud said in the deleted post. Cloud left...

Trial for Troy Davis, charged in the murder and attempted rape of a woman inside her Land Park home in 2021, will not begin until 2026. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman on Friday ordered attorneys to return Jan. 16 for a pre-trial hearing, at which time a date could be set for trial to begin. Mary Kate Tibbetts, 61, was beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted Sept. 3, 2021, in her 11th Avenue home before it was set ablaze in a crime that shocked her Land Park neighborhood and resonated blocks away at the State Capitol and City Hall. Her...

A Chicago-based Marine Corps recruiter was stood down Thursday after he appeared to post a meme celebrating the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. "Another racist man popped," read the post by Capt. Jacoby Williamson alongside images of Kirk, who was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Screenshots of Williamson's account were later posted on Reddit. "The Marine Corps takes this type of allegation seriously,” Capt. Austin Gallegos, a spokesman for the Corps’ Western Recruiting Region, told Task & Purpose Thursday. “The Marine in question has been relieved of his...

University of Michigan assistant professor Charles H.F. Davis stated on Thursday that the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is a “solution” to “violent rhetoric spewed by empowered people.” Davis’ research broadly focuses on “racism, oppression, and structures of domination in U.S. higher education,” according to The Midwesterner. In addition to defending Kirk’s murder, Davis retweeted several posts that celebrated the assassination.

Anglo-Saxons will be played by a diverse cast in a new BBC historical drama about the Battle of Hastings. The eight-part series King and Conqueror will tell the story of Harold and William’s epoch-defining struggle for the throne of England in 1066. Some Anglo-Saxon characters, including a real 11th-century leader, will be played by a diverse set of actors. Jason Forbes and Elander Moore have joined the cast of the drama which boasts James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in starring roles. Adding diversity to a high medieval period setting follows the BBC’s “colour-blind” casting of non-white stars as Tudor courtiers...

A young woman who escaped the perils of war was brutally stabbed to death for no apparent reason on a popular light rail train in North Carolina last week, Tar Heel State law enforcement say. Decarlos Dejuan Brown, Jr., 34, stands accused of one count of murder in the first degree, according to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department. On the night of Aug. 22, Iryna Zarutska, 23, died on the Charlotte Area Transit System's LYNX Blue Line train. She was repeatedly stabbed, at least once in the throat, police claim. The victim, an artist, had recently arrived in the United...

I had no idea things were this bad in Japan, it looks like Dublin on a Friday afternoon.

US Homeland Security News @defense_civil25 🚨Alert: President Trump orders US Marshals to remove Defiant Fed Governor Lisa Cook after she refuses to step down!

The first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve board, Ms. Cook has long been a pathbreaker in a field dominated by white men.Years before Lisa Cook became President Trump’s latest target in his effort to exert control over the Federal Reserve, she wrote about her experience as one of a relative handful of Black women in a field long dominated by white men.“Economics is neither a welcoming nor a supportive profession for women,” she and a colleague wrote in a New York Times opinion essay in 2019. She added, “But if economics is hostile to women, it is...

The family of one of the Cincinnati brawlers claimed the only reason the fight has garnered so much attention was because the person punched in the face is a white woman.

Gruesome photos show the severely bruised and battered face of the woman who was knocked out during a horrifying now-viral Cincinnati brawl. “This is Holly,” wrote Ohio Senator Bernardo Moreno as he shared the harrowing images of the victim who was filmed being beaten so badly he “thought she had been killed.” “She wanted to have a nice evening out with friends. Instead, she got this,” Moreno wrote of the gruesome injuries from the vicious beatdown on a Cincinnati street last Saturday. Five people have since been charged after footage of the attack quickly went viral. The video appeared to...

The head of the NYPD’s Aviation Unit was booted from the elite squad this week after trying to block the feds from probing his dangerous mishaps, The Post has learned. Aviation’s Commanding Officer Winston Faison was an “incompetent boob” who had numerous breaches in safety as he attempted to make himself the unit’s head helicopter instructor, whistleblowers revealed. When FAA inspectors made a surprise visit to the base on July 16 because of internal complaints to the agency, Faison flipped his lid, police sources said. “Do not give them anything!’” he barked at his cops, an insider said. “Who let...

Actual social media comments made by a sitting member of Cincinnati City Council …

Cincinnati cops have arrested three people in connection with a savage mass brawl that left two injured over the weekend. Jermaine Matthews, 39, Montianez Merriweather, 34, and Dekyra Vernon, 24, were taken into custody this week after a couple were violently set upon in the downtown area of the Ohio city on Saturday. Search warrants have also been issued for two other unidentified people accused of jumping into the shocking melee. Footage of the altercation swept social media as the couple were seen being beaten on the street near the LoVe nightclub as a crowd gathered. Cincinnati Chief of Police...

"BREAKING: Active shooter described as a “middle eastern man” opened fire at police in Manhattan"

CNN’s Erin Burnett is being skewered for reporting that the gunman who opened fire in a Midtown skyscraper — killing an NYPD cop and three others — was “possibly white” after viewing the initial security footage released immediately after Shane Tamura’s deadly rampage. In the photos first shared online, the suit-clad Tamura, 27, was captured in broad daylight walking into 345 Park Avenue with a Palmetto State Armory AR-15 rifle in his hand. CNN host Erin Burnett said that police knew the gunman had “sunglasses, mustache, male, possibly white” during a broadcast shortly after the shooting Monday evening. The chilling...

The incident, captured in a disturbing video that has since gone viral, has drawn strong condemnation from law enforcement officials. Cincinnati police are investigating a violent assault in the city’s downtown area early Saturday morning, where a man and a woman were attacked by a group, leaving the woman unconscious. The incident, captured in a disturbing video that has since gone viral, has drawn strong condemnation from law enforcement officials. The footage shows a man being repeatedly punched and kicked by multiple individuals in the middle of the street. He is knocked to the ground, attempts to stand, but collapses...

A Democratic congressional candidate was forcibly removed from the Texas State Capitol Thursday and arrested after he filibustered a hearing on redistricting in the Lone Star State. “It is a shame. It is horrific. For what you have … “ Isaiah Martin shouted as he was dragged out of the House Redistricting Committee meeting in Austin, just before a capitol security official fell on top of the 27-year-old House hopeful. Martin is seeking to replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas), who died on March 5, as the Texas’ 18th Congressional District representative. The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed...