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MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Monday that the Grammy Awards signaled a “total defeat” on conservatives like Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in the culture war.

The man suspected of shooting an off-duty NYPD cop in a robbery gone awry was nabbed hiding out at an upstate hotel Monday, law enforcement sources said. The 38-year-old suspect, identified by sources as Randy Jones, was with his girlfriend and her kids when he was arrested in Rockland County, sources said. Jones was hauled off in handcuffs belonging to the critically wounded cop and taken back to Brooklyn, where he arrived at the 75th Precinct ... His suspected shooter has a lengthy criminal record ...His rap sheet lists 22 busts...

Black activists are slamming New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.) for moving to ban flavored tobacco products while allowing rampant access to flavored marijuana. "You’re telling me that my 21-year-old son can buy all the cannabis he wants, but my grandmother who’s been smoking for 65 years can’t get a cigarette? It doesn’t make sense," said Corey Pegues, a retired black New York Police Department executive who is urging lawmakers to reject Hochul’s proposal. Pegues said the governor’s proposed legislation, which was tucked in her Jan. 10 State of the State plan, will disproportionately affect black voters. Critics say the...

These officers are in the middle of a police escort, but they’re not guarding a VIP or a shipment of cash. They’re protecting trucks full of avocados. That’s because this stretch of highway in Mexico has become quite dangerous, with criminal activity in pursuit of avocados destined for the U.S.

A Republican lawmaker in North Dakota has proposed legislation codifying new responsibilities for tenured professors at two public colleges and making it easier for their presidents to fire them. “In response to the urgent need to accelerate workforce development, the state board of higher education shall implement a four-year pilot program,” House Majority Leader Rep. Mike Lefor proposed Jan. 18 in House Bill 1446. The new program would clarify faculty responsibilities and empower the president of the university could review and fire faculty if they failed to fulfill them. The reforms would be enacted no later than May 1 of...

Shocking video captured the moment a man walked into a San Francisco synagogue and fired several blank rounds in front of stunned congregants after reportedly saying, “I’m going to show you something.” The terrifying episode unfolded at the Schneerson Center, a synagogue predominantly attended by Russian-speaking Jews, where the man walked in at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. He made some hand gestures in front of a group of people, pulled a gun from his jacket and fired the blanks, the video posted by KRON shows. As an elderly man approached him, the gunman saluted and left the synagogue. Police later...

CNN is undergoing a revamp with all its operations, supposedly in a move to make the network more geared toward unbiased journalism—think Bernard Shaw days. Some insufferable clowns have already been fired, but this will be a long-term project if it’s genuine. In the meantime, all doesn’t appear well on CNN’s This Morning set, where Don Lemon reportedly got into a shouting match with co-host Kaitlin Collins during a commercial break. That blow-up occurred on December 8, allegedly ruining late-night plans with the cohosts before a White House Christmas party. Poppy Harlow, another co-host, seems trapped in the middle. The...

Colorado State University (CSU) has apologized for chants of “Russia” form its student section near the end of a basketball game Saturday night while an opposing player from Ukraine was shooting a free throw. “Following tonight’s basketball game, we became aware that a small group of individuals in our student section chanted ‘Russia’ at a student-athlete from Utah State, who is from the Ukraine,” the university wrote in a tweet on Sunday.

Gedera rape: 4-year-old fights man who attacked his mother with toy sword Relative of woman attacked in horrific home invasion and rape says victim's young son displayed heroism in defending his mother. Israel National News, Feb 5, 2023 A relative of the woman who was raped by a home invader in the city of Gedera on Friday spoke with Kan Reshet Bet Sunday about how the family is coping with the horrific crime and the resulting trauma. The relative praised the heroism of the victim's four-year-old son, who witnessed the assault and fought the attacker off with a toy sword....

A former Arizona state trooper will spend five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to multiple sex-related charges stemming from his actions during traffic stops, according to Fox 10 Phoenix. Tremaine Jackson, who was a 13-year veteran of the Arizona Department of Public Safety at the time of his arrest in 2019, was initially charged with 61 counts of sex-related, kidnapping and fraud charges, according to the AZDPS website. Agreeing to a plea deal, Jackson pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment with sexual intent, bribery with sexual intent, attempted kidnapping with sexual intent, fraud with sexual intent and unlawful sexual...

This story from last week keeps getting worse. The husband of 32-year-old Lindsay Clancy went to the store for about 20-minutes. When he returned, he found his three small children unconscious, suffocated by their mother. Now, her attorney is saying she was overmedicated with 13 psychiatric drugs at the time of the murders. According to One America News:

Black History Month is a time to honor triumphs of African Americans throughout history, but students and parents at Nyack Middle School raised the alarm after a racially insensitive meal was offered on the first day of the month. Honore Santiago's mother reassured her daughter, who is in the sixth grade, saying, "You should feel very happy that you spoke up."

A single Kentucky mother posted dozens of lengthy, diary-like posts where she professes her love for Bryan Kohberger, claims to have sent him letters and pictures of herself, and calls the quadruple murder suspect her "divine masculine." The woman, who goes by Brittney J. Hislope on Facebook and claims to have a 16-year-old son, has written about her feelings for Kohberger nearly every day, sometimes multiple times a day since early January. "I know that the last I had heard weeks ago is that Bryan is being kept isolated from other inmates, and so I know that we do both...

A high school swimmer from New Jersey was disqualified from a race for wearing an American flag on his cap in honor of his grandfather who was killed in the September 11 terror attacks. The boy's father, Rob Miller said his son, whose name was not released, was told the flag on his swimming cap was too large and in violation of competition rules. He said the opposing coach waited until after the 400-meter free relay race was over to have the insignia measured.

Digger driver Sasha Walpole, 40, reveals she is the mystery horse-lover who had 'passionate' five-minute sex session with the duke in pub field - after rendezvous was laid bare in memoir Spare

In a series of tweets, the Coast Guard said they were conducting a training mission at the mouth of the Columbia River when two aircrews received a mayday call from a boat named Sandpiper. The video shows the boat was in the middle of the surf just floating back and forth on Friday morning. Since the conditions were so bad, boats could not be sent in to rescue the man. Instead, the Coast Guard said aircrews decided to lower a rescue swimmer and have the man on board jump into the water. The boat capsized right as the man on...

Accused quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger is driving one woman crazy — in love. Brittney Hislope insists he’s the “perfect man” for her. “My love interest … is named Bryan and is accused of murder, and I just wish to connect with him above anyone else,” the 35-year-old Kentucky single mom of a 16-year-old son gushed in one of her many Facebook posts about Kohberger, whom she has never met or communicated with. “One way to describe my feelings for him over the last week or so … is kind of like being lovesick.” Hislope began posting publicly about her infatuation...

Acaddie collapsed and had to be administered CPR during Friday’s second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The incident occurred in the 11th fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links, where the caddie, who was looping for amateur player Geoff Couch but whose name has not been released, was then put on a stretcher and transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital.

Arizona’s Valley of The Sun YMCA branches, located across Maricopa County, in Yuma and Flagstaff, Arizona, were recently briefed on how to handle media attention surrounding the YMCA’s policies allowing individuals who identify as transgender with opposite-sex genitalia to use locker rooms. Men who simply say they are a woman are seemingly allowed to use the women’s locker room in the name of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Horrific footage shows a schoolgirl being brutally beaten by two boys on a school bus – as they rain down punches on her head. The parents of the 9-year-old are now planning to press charges against her attackers after the sickening footage was posted online. None of her fellow students at the Coconut Palm K-8 Academy in Homestead, Florida, intervened in the attack. Instead, her peers filmed the merciless attack from the two boys and started cheering them on throughout the attack as they watched. The schoolgirl's parents have said they will demand criminal charges against the two boys who...