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An alleged gunman remains on the loose after “multiple” people were shot and at least two were killed on the campus of Brown University, police said. The Rhode Island Ivy League school sent out a first alert to students on campus shortly after 4:20 p.m. of an active shooter near the Barus & Holley Engineering school building.At least two people have been killed, a law enforcement source said.Providence police confirmed multiple people have been shot.“Multiple shot in the area of Brown University. This is an active investigation. Please shelter in place or avoid the area until further notice,” the PD...

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a case that sparked national attention, watched as new testimony and never-before-seen footage from the day of his arrest in a McDonald's was unveiled during a hearing this week. Mr Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state charges related to the 2024 murder of Mr Thompson, a father of two, as well as federal counts that carry the possibility of the death penalty. The pre-trial hearing is focused on the defence's attempts to keep certain evidence out of the trial, which has not been scheduled yet,...

Ronald Exantus was released early from 20-year sentence for stabbing 6-year-old Logan Tipton in Kentucky home invasion A man who was released from prison early after racking up good behavior credits following his conviction for fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Kentucky boy during a 2015 home invasion was arrested weeks later for violating his parole. Ronald Exantus, 42, of Indianapolis, was serving a 20-year sentence for the killing of Logan Tipton, who was brutally slain in his Versailles, Kentucky, home, when he was released back onto the streets in October. Despite confessing, Exantus was found not guilty of murder by reason...

CHICAGO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The windowless newsroom of The Phoenix, the Loyola University Chicago newspaper, hums like an old refrigerator. A coffee pot burbles in the corner as juniors Julia Pentasuglio and Ella Daugherty lean over a glowing laptop, updating a Google map. Each red pin marks a sighting of federal immigration agents near campus and the surrounding neighborhoods. Nearby, editor-in-chief Lilli Malone scrolls through reports from Rogers Park, a neighborhood along Chicago's lakefront where 80 languages mix. There were new pins from seven sightings that day alone - reports of vans barreling down side streets, masked immigration officers...

A grieving Colorado uncle allegedly body-slammed the defense attorney who was representing his nephew’s accused killer, knocking him unconscious and fracturing his spine. Daniel Ashby, 36, was charged with second-degree assault for using an “MMA-style takedown” on attorney H. Michael Steinberg inside the Arapahoe County Courthouse in Littleton, Colo., on Monday, CBS Colorado reported. Ashby was attending a court hearing for 19-year-old Christopher Ramirez-Rodriguez, who is accused of running a red light and killing Ashby’s 12-year-old nephew in July.

Another one bites the dust.Per a new item from the New York Post, another BLM leader has been hit with a slew of financial crimes charges, centered around an alleged “embezzlement scheme” totaling millions of dollars:The executive director of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Oklahoma City was indicted for allegedly siphoning off more than $3 million in grants to bankroll luxury vacations, shopping sprees, groceries, a car, and six properties over five years, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52, was slapped with 20 wire fraud counts and five money laundering charges for funneling $3.15 million meant for...

A King County judge set bail at $100,000 for a California truck driver accused in a three vehicle crash on northbound SR 167 near SR 18 in Auburn that killed a 29-year-old Bonney Lake man on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. As we previously reported, Kamalpreet Singh, 25, of Elk Grove, California, was arrested Thursday morning on investigation of vehicular homicide following the crash, according to the Washington State Patrol and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. At Singh’s first appearance hearing, prosecutors argued there was probable cause for his arrest and requested that bail be set at $100,000. After hearing...

Warning - a very hard article to read. But not as hard as the actual violence or the perversion of law that allowed this to happen. Progressives made the Blue Line attack possible. It's time to end their stranglehold over Chicago You don’t hate the Neo Machine enough.No matter how much you despise the Godfather of the crimes against Chicago humanity, JB Pritzker, aka Governor “Let ‘em leave” Pritzker.No matter how much you loathe Brandon “Mayor 6.6” Johnson…...No matter how much you detest his bosses: Boss Toni Preckwinkle and the instruments of her evil, late, unlamented apprentices: “State’s Attorney” who...

— Several people throughout California were arrested in connection with a series of semi-truck and trailer thefts in Sutter County and surrounding areas. . The first reported theft was on Aug. 3, when the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office responded to Larkin Road in Live Oak for reports of a stolen semi-truck and trailer. The person who reported the property stolen said the trailer was carrying about $400,000 worth of product. The Woodland Police Department reportedly found the trailer abandoned. However, it was empty. Additionally, the Sacramento Police Department found the semi-truck within Sacramento city limits. Nearly three weeks later, on...

An alleged intruder armed with a hammer was shot dead Thursday morning around 7:00 a.m. by a Gulfport, Mississippi, woman who had a protective order against him. WLOX reported that two women were home at the time of the alleged intrusion and that both women had a protection order against the man. The alleged intruder entered through a window and attacked one woman, who was able to get to another room in the house to keep herself safe. The second woman grabbed a gun and shot the man, killing him. The Sun Herald noted that the alleged intruder, identified as...

Minnesota Governor and failed Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz blamed white men for the widespread fraud in the Somali community. It was recently revealed that Walz and the Democrats allowed a $1 billion heist to take place largely through the Somali community in Minnesota. The massive scandal happened on Tim Walz’s watch. The GOP-led Oversight Committee is conducting an investigation into the Somali fraud ring.

In October, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division sent a letter to the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (BRE) requesting review of the election records from the 2020 election. These records had been previously ordered to be retained beyond the requirements of 52 USC 20701 due to pending litigation. Sheri Allen, the chairperson of the Fulton County BRE, obtained outside counsel, without submitting it to a vote of the Board, to respond to the DOJ that the records requested were not beholden to 52 USC § 20701 and, even if they were, they were not in the...

Maryland will launch a study to analyze the economic impacts of climate change to determine the costs associated with storm damage and health outcomes. The move is part of the Moore-Miller administration's strategic approach to investing in a clean energy economy and modernizing the state's energy infrastructure. "While the federal government has spent the past year rolling back climate protections and driving up energy costs, Maryland is taking a responsible step toward understanding the true price tag of climate change," Gov. Wes Moore said in a statement. "This study will give us a clear, data-driven look at the real burden...

$79 BILLION TAX DOLLARS Stolen from PPP by Applicants who used Barbie Dolls as IDs

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened Friday to yank $73 million in federal highway funding meant for New York after an audit found more than half of the Empire State’s commercial trucking licenses were issued to foreign-born drivers in the US illegally. “What New York does is if an applicant comes in and they have a work authorization — for 30 days, 60 days, one year — New York automatically issues them an eight-year commercial driver’s license,” Duffy said during a press conference at DOT headquarters in DC Friday. “That’s contrary to the law.” “But we also found that...

Cannabis stocks jumped on Friday as the White House prepared to significantly ease federal restrictions on marijuana. President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as Monday that would allow for reclassification of weed, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC. Such a move would allow cannabis companies to fall under different tax regulations and encourage investment.Cannabis stocks took a leg up in Friday’s midday trading following CNBC’s report. The Washington Post first reported on Thursday that Trump was expected to use an executive order to instruct federal agencies to reclassify marijuana as a less...

Representative Delia Ramirez, an Illinois Democrat, demanded on Thursday that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem either resign or face impeachment. The congresswoman requested that House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, carry out an investigation into Noem’s leadership of DHS, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agencies spearheading the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy. “Under Secretary Kristi Noem’s leadership, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has done irreversible harm to our constituents, trampling the rights of all people and disregarding...

SCRANTON, Pa. (WNEP) - Two women were killed and another was hospitalized from a machete attack in Pennsylvania. Police in Scranton said they are still investigating the machete attack at the Hotel Jermyn apartments on Tuesday night. Two women and a service dog were killed, plus a third woman was critically wounded and in the hospital. “The vast majority of this incident, the vast majority is all on video surveillance and it is horrific to watch,” Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher said. “The offender and victims were residents of the Jermyn Hotel, and the motive and reasons for his...

A tourist viciously stabbed by a crazed homeless woman inside a bathroom at Macy’s Herald Square had been changing her 10-month-old daughter at the time, sources told The Post. The 38-year-old mom, who was visiting from California, was in the seventh-floor bathroom with her baby when she was repeatedly knifed Thursday afternoon, the sources said. The victim suffered knife wounds to her back, shoulder and arm in the unhinged attack that unfolded during the holiday shopping rush at the packed flagship store in Midtown. The alleged attacker, Kerri Aherne, 43, was arrested on charges of attempted murder, assault and weapon...

Marjorie Taylor Greene is returning to "The View" for another round. The Republican congresswoman from Georgia will sit for a second interview on the ABC talk show Jan. 7, Executive Producer Brian Teta revealed on his "Behind the Table" podcast Wednesday. Perhaps by little coincidence, Greene's last day in Congress is scheduled for Jan. 5.