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SEATTLE — A judge ordered a 15-year-old held in juvenile detention Monday in connection with a gunfight at a crowded Seattle food festival that killed three people and injured at least four others. Prosecutors said the gunfight involved the 15-year-old, a 19-year-old man who died at the scene and possibly a third person. The 15-year-old is being held on suspicion of three counts of first-degree assault and one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. He had not been involved in a criminal case before in the county, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office spokesperson Casey McNerthney said. “At this...

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) hit ailing Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) with an ultimatum in his latest demand for transparency about the current state of his health. In a new letter sent to McConnell on Tuesday, Beshear’s ultimatum is simple: Speak up, or resign. The letter comes a day after McConnell’s office released a new proof-of-life photo of the senator alongside his wife, Elaine Chao, and a vague update. “It has now been 43 days since news of your hospitalization, ” Beshear writes. “During that time you have cast zero votes, engaged in no official activities, and aside from two...

Gov. Gavin Newsom's former lover is pulling back the curtain on their affair ... revealing the lengths she went to get him alone -- and the advice Kamala Harris gave her when the scandal exploded. Ruby Rippey writes in a new Vanity Fair essay that professional boundaries with Newsom began crumbling while she worked as his secretary during his time as San Francisco mayor. Rippey says she would scan Newsom's calendar for openings, show up wherever he was expected to be and make sure he spotted her before slipping away. She says her phone would soon light up with a...

Meanwhile, the US still hopes to block ASML from selling and servicing similar machines in China. A Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing deep ultraviolet lithography machines, reports The Information. That's a big step towards China's semiconductor biz standing on its own two feet. It takes a complicated lithographic machine to produce a modern chip, and there are two main types: EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) and DUV (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography). It's the older of the two, DUV, that a Chinese company is said to have figured out. These sorts of immersion machines are still used for modern computer chips,...

An artificial intelligence (AI) video out of the terrorist hotbed Iran threatens President Donald Trump’s wife, First Lady Melania Trump, and their son, 20-year-old Barron. The video encourages supporters of the Islamic regime to target the mother and son, the New York Post reported Monday.

Authorities say the killings fit the definition of family annihilation, one of at least eight in the US this year Authorities in Michigan have identified a man they say fatally shot his wife and six children on Friday in a mass murder that fits the definition of a family annihilation. Citing autopsy results, the Ottawa county sheriff’s office said in a news release Monday that Kristopher Karolkiewicz; his wife, Amanda; and their six children, aged five to 15, all died of gunshot wounds before their bodies were found in their burning home in Grand Haven Township. The agency noted that...

Two Florida death row inmates are scheduled to be executed hours apart on Tuesday, which would mark the first time in more than six decades the state puts to death multiple people within a single day, as state officials continue to ramp up executions. “I’m not shocked anymore by the number of death warrants that are being signed, but it struck me as a kind of rupture to the system that we would execute two people within six hours from one another,” said Father Dustin Feddon, a Catholic priest who has been visiting prisoners on Florida’s death row for more...

A Ukrainian strike last weekend on an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea has underscored the links between the wars that the two countries are fighting, raising tensions between them as well as the risk of more direct confrontation. Ukraine said the ship was carrying military equipment between Iran and Russia. Iranian officials said it was a commercial vessel, and it accused Ukraine of killing a sailor in the attack. ................ Iran and Russia have had a close military relationship for decades. The most visible recent example of this is the long-range attack drones that Tehran has supplied to...

KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat 🚨Fauci's diary says he privately put COVID's fatality rate at 0.2-0.3%. Under oath weeks later, he told Congress it was 10x the flu. The timeline: Feb 8, 2020 (private diary): case fatality rate "more like 0.2-0.3%." March 10 (Hannity): "The mortality for this is about 2-2.5%. It's probably lower than that, closer to 1%. But even if it's 1%, it's 10x more lethal than the seasonal flu." March 11 (Congress, under oath): "The stated fatality rate of this overall... is about 3%. If you count all the cases of asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality down to...

As if Monday's revelations about Fauci were not bad enough, there's this: '[Fauci] got vaccinated at a very, very public press conference in [December] of 2020 … and then five months later, he had - and this is the first time that he knew this, from the diary - he had a pulmonary infarction, which is one of the adverse events NIH, CDC, and FDA said are expected from the vaccine. Even worse, Fauci's diary shows he was aware that the risk of death from Covid was about 0.2% in the general population (meaning it was even lower among the...

GFN – BEIJING: China imported about 173 tonnes of gold in June, the highest monthly total since March 2024 and the third straight monthly increase, according to Bloomberg and Chinese customs data. Ironically or not, this is after the western media has been pulling its hair out, saying that China has made retail purchases of gold illegal due to its deleveraging of trading on the SGE. The June increase pushed China’s gold imports for the first half of 2026 to roughly 820 tonnes. That was nearly double the total from a year earlier and the second-highest first-half figure on record,...

The most destructive power in the world may not be nuclear power, chemical warfare, biological weapons, or any modern invention of military science. Such weapons are terrifying because they can destroy cities, poison nations, and leave generations wounded. Yet hatred has done something even more widespread: it has entered homes, governments, religions, schools, courts, streets, churches, and nations. It does not need a missile silo, a laboratory, or a battlefield. It only needs a willing heart. A bomb may explode once, but hatred keeps reproducing itself. It passes from father to son, from teacher to student, from preacher to hearer,...

MADISON, Wis. — A flyer circulating Sunday night advertising a "Block the Beltline" protest for social justice prompted hundreds of Madison residents to reroute their morning commutes, but the event never materialized — and local advocacy organizations say they had nothing to do with it. The flyer, which spread across social media, contains several major red flags that suggest it was created to spread misinformation rather than organize a legitimate protest. The circulation of the fake flyer comes as Madison experiences a surge in protests following the shooting of Corey Ruiz. The most glaring problem is no one knows who...

In his speech earlier this month, President Trump pointed straight at large numbers of non-citizens on voter rolls, voting machines subject to manipulation, China’s acquisition and exploitation of voter data, and blue-state officials who allegedly buried or covered up these vulnerabilities. Days later, even New Jersey’s Democrat governor had to admit a software error put roughly 6,600 non-citizens on the voter rolls and that nearly 400 of them voted. The same election manipulation game is running full speed in California under Governor Newsom and in Minnesota under Tim Walz. This essay looks at all of those problems. Soft official “investigations”...

Those who want to destroy the United States because of its sins of slavery and colonization are eager to replace it with Islam, which has the same sins. I am beginning to wonder whether we have become too dumb to survive and, given the Islamization of America, whether we are worth saving. How we got here is hardly surprising. One reason is that for the last 60 years, public schools have indoctrinated students into believing that the country, its founders, and its white population are evil. Students are taught to believe they live on stolen land, that prosperity and wealth...

@RandPaul If Anthony Fauci lies before Congress on Wednesday, as he did in previous hearings, his preemptive pardon won’t cover him.

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The office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Monday that she has opened an investigation into an incident last month where former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a high-profile Democratic Party figure and a potential 2028 presidential hopeful, said that authorities were called to his house over false allegations that temporarily led to him being separated from his two children. "The Department of Attorney General has opened an investigation into this malicious act not only to look into the potential unlawful conduct but also to mitigate the risk that this act could trigger copy-cat acts against other well-known residents and...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, congressional colleagues and world leaders Tuesday will say their final goodbye to Sen. Lindsey Graham, the influential and colorful foreign policy hawk whose sudden death this month at age 71 stunned Washington and reverberated in capitals around the globe. Two days of ceremonies and funeral services will begin around 10 a.m. ET Tuesday when Graham’s casket arrives at the Capitol for a brief ceremony in the rotunda that will include nods to both his military service and his more than three decades in Congress. The ceremony will be private but livestreamed. From there, Graham’s casket...

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