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DeCarlos Brown Jr, the man who was charged with stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on the Charlotte light rail, has been found incompetent to stand trial, according to federal prosecutors. Brown, 34, appeared in federal court on Tuesday morning, where federal Judge Kenneth Bell found ruled that Brown did not understand the proceedings, and could not stand trial. During the hearing, Brown shouted about having "material in his body" and said that he was having a "body emergency" during the brief hearing at the courthouse, per Queens City News. The judge, as the ruling came down, said, “[I]...

The Pacifica Municipal Pier is closed indefinitely following severe, rapidly progressing structural damage that has put the future of the iconic 53-year-old landmark in jeopardy. On June 4, 2026, city engineers discovered significant cracking, separation, and displacement along the concrete walkway near the pier's abutment, forcing an immediate public safety shutdown. The Pacifica council officially declared a local emergency. Over the subsequent days, powerful ocean swells caused the primary fracture to widen to nearly a foot. The catastrophic shifting has buckled structural elements and caused the first section of the pier to tilt precariously downward into the surf.

Killer Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet. Anthony, now 19, sobbed, and his family burst into tears as the judge read the verdict on Tuesday. The jury deliberated for less than three hours after the defense and prosecution delivered closing arguments. Anthony claimed he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Metcalf, 17, with a folding knife after a heated argument at the high school event in Frisco in April 2025. The case shocked America, and the discussion surrounding it quickly became racially fraught....

The following is adapted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on April 28, 2026, in Dana Point, California. At the root of the scientific revolution was the idea that there was not and should never be a scientific authority. For centuries, a small number of ecclesiastical powers had decided such questions as whether the moons of Jupiter move. The scientific revolution placed these questions in the hands of a lot of very smart scientists, including those with telescopes. Unfortunately, we find ourselves back in a situation today, as demonstrated a few years ago by the...

LOS ANGELES, CA — California election officials reminded voters over the weekend that there are just 30 days left to mail in their vote for the Los Angeles mayoral election that happened last Tuesday. With the in-person portion of election day over, officials made sure voters knew that they have just 30 days left to cast their votes by mail before officials start counting ballots to determine a winner. "Only one more month, everyone," California election official Kari Schwimmer announced. "I can say with authority that we will absolutely cut things off right around then. Unless we don't."

Progressive Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is being ripped for unveiling a village of tiny homes being likened to porta-potties — with no rules stopping the homeless people who move in from doing drugs. Wilson, 43, previewed 50 of the 70-square-foot units on Sunday — while readily conceding that she failed on her promise of having half of the 1,000 planned units ready in time for the World Cup, which starts Thursday. The tiny units — barely bigger than a portable toilet, about the size of a jail cell and equipped with just a single bed and desk — cost $16,000...

Explanation: Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown by a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward...

Last Tuesday, both chambers of the New York legislature passed a bill that would insert 22 occurrences of the term “gestating parent” or “non-gestating parent” into sections of law dealing with parent-child relationships and custody. According to the bill’s title, its purpose was to replace terms like “father” and “mother” with “gender neutral language” — and what a way to do so! “This would be almost funny,” said Casey Harper, The Washington Stand’s managing editor for broadcast and guest host of “Washington Watch,” “if it weren’t basically the sign of total moral confusion and departure from the ways of God.”...

Everyone knows you call the cops when you're in trouble. Not everyone knows that you can also call the cops when you're in trouble with the cops. According to [Florida Highway Patrol], a trooper conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for speeding on I-75 by Corkscrew Road at around 7:49 a.m. The driver, identified as Luis Marin Gonzalez, 26, refused to provide ID, became agitated, and then put his window up. Marin Gonzalez then called 911 mid-traffic stop, and the call went through to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, FHP said. You gotta give him credit for originality. Most...

Collins initially supported the SAVE America Act in February. But when Sen. Graham tried to get the measure passed by using an amendment to bundle it into a budget reconciliation/immigration funding package, she voted against it. The issue was that it was reportedly combined with other controversial elements in the broader package. If Collins maintains her support for the bill, the remaining holdouts include Sens. Murkowski, Tillis, and McConnell.

President Trump confirmed Tuesday that Iran shot down the American Apache attack helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz, vowing to respond to Tehran’s latest act of aggression. “I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack,” he added.

An alligator was handed a joke award by a Louisiana sheriff after attacking a man suspected of driving while impaired after he tried to escape across a swamp. The unnamed reptile was given a 'deputy of the year' prize by St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office after the attack on Victor Rivas, 40, on June 7. Rivas was spotted driving a Toyota recklessly along Interstate 10, the sheriff's office said. The car had a blown tire and sustained damage from a collision with a concrete barrier. Louisiana State Troopers conducted a traffic stop on Interstate 310 and reported that Rivas, of...

The ongoing tensions between Turkey and Israel reached another high point on Sunday, after Israeli ministers reacted strongly to the suggestion of Turkey’s interior minister that Jerusalem could one day be reconquered by the successor state to the Ottoman Empire.Speaking at a party convention, Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi said that “just as we witnessed the liberation of Damascus, Aleppo, and Karabakh, God willing, one day we will also witness the liberation of Jerusalem.”This is a reference to the defeat of the Assad regime at the hands of the Islamist alliance led by the now-defunct terror group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS),...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — A woman filed a lawsuit against Outback Steakhouse, stating she had serious injuries after slipping on mashed potatoes. The amount for which she is suing: $1.5 million. Tracy J. Renshaw initially filed a civil lawsuit in Loudoun County Circuit Court in 2025. The company requested that the case be moved to U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, in 2026. According to the complaint Renshaw filed in Loudoun County, the incident, itself, was to have taken place on May 14, 2023 at the Outback Steakhouse in Sterling, Va. That...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A woman from Kanawha County was arrested after investigators said she threatened to blow up a medical facility in South Charleston. J’mece Naquis Young, 26, of Dunbar, is charged with threats of terrorist acts, conveying false information concerning terrorist acts and committing terrorist hoaxes. J’mece Naquis Young, 26, of Dunbar, is charged with threats of terrorist acts, conveying false... J’mece Naquis Young, 26, of Dunbar, is charged with threats of terrorist acts, conveying false information concerning terrorist acts and committing terrorist hoaxes.(WVRJA) According to court records from Kanawha County, the incident happened around 1 p.m....

The number of “threat to kill” knife offences in London has risen to close to a record high, official figures reveal. There were 154 such attacks in April, up from 126 in March, 92 in February and 127 in January, according to Metropolitan Police data. The alarming new figure is the second highest on record, going back to 2015, and sparked a heated political row over law and order in London. While overall knife crime is down in London, the city has been rocked in recent weeks by a series of fatal and other serious stabbings. In what appears to...

In April 2025, amid active congressional investigations, federal FARA violation requests, a sitting faculty member who had publicly hoped Iran would bomb a US military base, Hamas symbols spray-painted on dorm walls, a student body that had just voted 68% to boycott Israel, and an ongoing war in which Iran was targeting American institutions — Georgetown University’s interim president flew to Doha and signed a ten-year contract renewal with Qatar Foundation. He then accepted a ceremony in which Georgetown’s highest honor, the President’s Medal, was given to Sheikha Moza bint Nasser — the Qatari royal who had publicly praised Hamas...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that, despite the exchange of strikes between Iran and Israel, a deal to end the war in the Middle East could be reached “in two or three days.” “They were going back and forth [with strikes], and now they both agreed, through me, to stop, and now we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal,” Trump told reporters in New York, where he was attending the NBA finals in Madison Square Garden. Trump said the deal would stop Iran from having nuclear weapons and result in the...

Steve Hilton, the Republican gubernatorial candidate backed by President Donald Trump, publicly distanced himself from the president’s claims that California’s election results were “rigged” as he argued his team had “seen nothing” to suggest this was the case. Speaking on CNN’s OutFront on Monday, Hilton was pressed by host Erin Burnett on Trump’s repeated allegations, without evidence, that both the California governor’s race and the Los Angeles mayoral contest were “crooked” and “rigged.” “Just in terms of where you stand, are you worried that there’s fraud right now? Or are you just frustrated that the count is slow, but that...

Despite intensified diplomatic messaging, both sides have warned they will retaliate if attacked again, leaving the region in a highly unstable standoff where deterrence and escalation risks remain tightly intertwined.