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The father of the missing Hawaii woman who vanished while heading to New York City for a vacation was found dead near LAX early Sunday. Ryan Kobayashi, 58, was in Los Angeles to search for his 30-year-old daughter, Hannah Kobayashi, after she missed a connecting flight to New York from Los Angeles International Airport over two weeks ago. Police confirmed that Ryan Kobayashi died after he jumped off a parking structure near LAX sometime around 4 a.m. Sunday, according to NBC Los Angeles. A nonprofit believed to be aiding in the search for Hannah also provided a statement on behalf...

Link at X.com. Shenanigans at Prattville Christian Academy.Response from the school:

CNN has banned a conservative commentator from appearing on the network again after he told a Muslim journalist "I hope your beeper doesn't go off," an apparent reference to the spate of exploding pagers in Lebanon that killed members of the Hezbollah militant group last month. Ryan Girdusky made the comment during a heated debate with Mehdi Hasan, a prominent British-American broadcaster and an outspoken critic of Israel's war in Gaza, on "CNN Newsnight" with host Abby Phillip. The guests were discussing the racist jokes made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, which overshadowed former President Donald Trump's rally at New York's...

The incident happened at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania uthorities announced that misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest were filed against Weiss, who was taken into custody at Friday’s Trump rally. Weiss shared an image of the banner that showed a drawing of the former president with the words, "PA IS FOR PATRIOTS NOT SGT SELFIE." Johnstown police Chief Richard Pritchard said investigators did not know what the banner said because arena staff apparently discarded it. Weiss told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 reporter Marcie Cipriani that he concealed a tube of glue in a metal crutch,...

TLANTA - The family of Nygil Cullins is speaking out for the first time after footage was released of the moment he was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer in 2022. It's something they have been fighting for two years, saying they believe the tape will clear his name. "All I keep seeing in my head is his hands up afraid and running for his life," Nygil Cullins' father, Quinten Cullins, said. In the video, Cullins can be seen at the bar of Fogo De Chao in Buckhead on May 18, 2022, where he used to work. At...

Three passengers are suing American Airlines after alleging employees from the company removed a total of eight Black men from a flight due to a complaint about a passenger with body odor. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, claims that as American Airlines Flight 832 from Phoenix to New York was boarding in January, American Airlines employees removed eight Black men from the plane allegedly over a complaint about "offensive body odor." Video central to the lawsuit displayed a group of Black men who were not traveling together and did not...

Story from ~ 2 Months ago: One of the Army's top generals may have abused his authority and subverted the service's process for selecting senior leadership in what some officials have described to Military.com as a conspiracy to prop up a subordinate officer who was deemed unfit for command. A Military.com investigation found that Gen. Charles Hamilton, who oversees Army Materiel Command, spent about a month last year trying to pull strings behind the scenes for a female lieutenant colonel to breeze through the service's Battalion Commander Assessment Program, or BCAP. This included directly lobbying at least three generals on...

Between the two 737 MAX crashes and a recent door plug that became — less-than-plugged — questions have risen regarding the safety of Boeing aircraft. A widely circulated chart by the popular data visualization team Visual Capitalist shows clear data that Boeing aircraft are not as safe as Airbus. Or did it? (Spoiler alert: It didn’t) Many of you may have seen the chart and thought, “Wait a minute. That doesn’t look right.” Just as many probably saw my near-obsession with setting the record straight whenever I saw the misleading chart shared online. So what exactly happened? The analyst who...

CUPERTINO, Calif. - Just when you thought the Bay Area real estate market could not get any crazier than it is already, a house in Cupertino, basically the size of a hotel room, sold on Friday after just six days on the market. The house does not even have any sort of heating nor a stove, and it is just 384 square feet. The seller’s agent says there were over 100 potential buyers through the home during an open house last weekend. A contract has now been signed with a buyer and the house should be officially off the market...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A jury found former Milwaukee election official Kimberly Zapata guilty on all four counts Wednesday after a three-day trial involving election fraud. She faced three misdemeanors for election fraud and a felony misconduct charge in public office. The 47-year-old woman admitted to illegally requesting absentee ballots for non-existent military voters in October of 2022 when she served as deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission. During closing arguments on Wednesday morning, the state told the jury not to focus on Zapata's intentions, arguing that breaking the law is still a crime. Prosecutor Matthew Westphal said Zapata...

A Florida sheriff's deputy is looking more like a cartoonish cop from "Reno 911!" on body cam footage of him mistaking an acorn hitting his patrol car for bullets ... prompting him to open fire on the vehicle. The video, which was just released, shows Okaloosa County deputy Jesse Hernandez on the job, detaining a guy back in November for allegedly sending threatening texts. Hernandez and his partner cuffed the man and put him in the back of their patrol car. All seemed to be going well, until Hernandez appeared to hear what he perceived as a shot being fired...

Greg Price of the Media Research Center highlights a GMA video of Biden speaking to the parents of a soldier who was killed in Syria.Biden repeats the lie that his son was killed in Iraq. https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1753077595380597246?s=20

US Army vet Dynell Lane needed to use the bathroom at Serious Pizza in Dallas, Texas in the early morning hours of June 10. But two off-duty police officers, working security at the establishment, refused to let him. According to The Dallas Morning news, “Many states — including Texas — have a restroom access law known as ‘Ally’s Law,’ which states people lawfully on the premises of an establishment should be allowed access to a restroom if they provide evidence they have a medical condition that requires immediate access to a toilet facility.” Lane provided the officers with medical paperwork...

Newly released bodycam footage shows police officers in Tampa handcuffing and releasing the Miami-Dade police director after he 'put his gun in his mouth' and threatened to 'end it now' - hours before he shot himself in the head. Around a dozen Tampa Police Department officers were called to a hotel on July 23 at around 6.30pm following reports that a man - now known to be Miami-Dade police director Alfredo 'Freddy' Ramirez - was arguing with his wife and had pointed a gun at his head. After putting Ramirez in cuffs and speaking with the couple, police released him...

A Florida city police officer was reportedly arrested and stripped of his duties after being pulled over by a county sheriff's deputy for alleged reckless driving. Officer Alexander Shaouni was allegedly driving 80 mph in a 45 mph zone in a marked Orlando Police Department vehicle when he was pulled over by a deputy of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, according to police dashcam footage. The deputy activated his lights and raced to catch up with Shaouni's SUV after reportedly noticing him speeding down a local road. "Over 100 miles an hour trying to catch up to him," the deputy...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — San Diego Police are on the scene of a drive-by shooting in Otay Mesa West where a person is dead and three others are wounded by gunfire at a park Friday evening. According to the San Diego Police Department, officers received a call at 7:09 p.m. about shots fired in the 3000 block of Coronado Avenue. When authorities arrived at the Montgomery-Waller Community Park, they found four victims suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers told 10News that one of the victims, who appeared to be in his 20s, was in CPR status, but the victim ultimately died...

The story of Vasquez joining the Ukrainian Army turned out to be fake. In 2022, Newsweek ran a glowing story about an American man who claimed to be a volunteer fighting with the Ukrainian Army. Vasquez claimed in March 2022. that he'd "taken out 7 Russian tanks." Former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger advocated for Vasquez, urging Twitter to verify his account, and posed in pictures with him. Only the story of Vasquez joining the Ukrainian Army turned out to be fake. "Kinzinger’s favorite Ukraine hero just deleted his account after it came out he is a fraud," Jack Posobiec said....

I stumbled across this speech today and found it interesting and enjoyable.YouTube link: Konstantin Kisin | This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far - 7/8 | Oxford Union

Former Buffalo Bills punter and standout SDSU football player Matt Araiza and two teammates had been accused of rape in a civil lawsuitSAN DIEGO — Former Buffalo Bills punter and standout San Diego State University football player Matt Araiza will not be charged in connection with the reported gang rape of a 17-year-old girl at an off-campus party last year, officials announced Wednesday. The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office also said none of his former Aztec teammates will be charged in the case, which rocked the university over the summer when news broke of allegations involving players on the...

A Yonkers police sergeant who did little to stop two men from pummeling a victim as he slumped to the ground has been placed on modified duty, the city’s police force revealed Sunday.In a series of tweets, Yonkers police condemned the apparent lack of action from sergeant Amy Kielb while two brothers punched, kicked and grappled with another man Oct. 25 — all caught on surveillance video. The footage, obtained by The Post, shows Kielb getting out of a double-parked cruiser and saying something to the brothers, but not physically intervening. “The Yonkers Police sergeant who initially responded has had...