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Carnival Cruise Line has banned 16 people after a massive fight broke out among passengers as they waited in a customs line in Florida. Dramatic footage captured the moment a group of unruly individuals charged at each other at around 8am on Monday after the Carnival Conquest ship docked at Port Miami following a trip to the Bahamas. Two unidentified women kicked off the brawl as one of them, dressed in a black strapless dress, ducked under a line divider and started swinging at a woman in polka dot pajamas. Another woman, who donned a yellow and white maxi-dress, then...

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police confirmed a 17-year-old was arrested after a man was stabbed to death during an early morning altercation at a northwest-side business on Friday. The suspect, identified as Samuel Davis, was taken into custody after a standoff nearby involving a person of interest connected to the case. A 17-year-old is facing a murder charge after San Antonio police say a dispute over a 99-cent tobacco product turned deadly at a Northwest Side convenience store. Officers were called around 1 a.m. Friday to the Classic Mart & 420 Shop in the 4000 block of Medical Drive...

🚨HOLY CRAP!!! A former Charlotte NC City Councilmember and BOTH of her daughters have now pleaded GUILTY to stealing over $124,000 in COVID relief money... ...for LAVISH BIRTHDAY PARTIES, HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGES, AND A THRONE!!! Prosecutors say she and her daughters, Tijema Brown and Antionette Rouse, filed at least 15 FAKE loan applications for businesses that DID NOT EXIST, using forged tax documents, to drain pandemic relief funds meant for struggling Americans. They got a mind-boggling $124,000. They spent it on Louis Vuitton bags and a $15,000 BIRTHDAY PARTY with horses, thrones, fancy gifts. And this isn't her first time....

An eyewitness to the fatal stabbing that left 17-year-old Austin Metchalf dead claims that his alleged killer, fellow teenager Karmelo Anthony, was asked to leave his team’s tent “15 times” before the fateful altercation that led to Metcalf’s death. The 17-year-old witness who attended Frisco Memorial High School with Metcalf, claims he was among several other Memorial students under their team’s tent when Anthony entered their team space wearing the uniform of his school, Frisco Centennial. The witness claims that Memorial students began telling Anthony that his presence under their tent was inappropriate. “You probably shouldn’t be here, you need...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — It's not even Memorial Day weekend, and Ontario Beach Park in Charlotte has already had two brawls this season. A witness who provided videos of two fights, which happened Sunday and Monday, said it was many of the same people both times. Parents at the nearby playgrounds grabbed their children and fled the scene. The witness estimated that some 200-300 people started running away from the fray. Tom Beaman Jr., owner of California Rollin’ II at the Port of Rochester, said the fights are concerning, and it's way too early in the season for them to...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A South Florida woman was arrested Wednesday after allegedly funding a $1.2 million spree of private jets, mansions, and diamonds by swindling an event decor business. Broward Sheriff's Office Deerfield Beach detectives say the suspect, 32-year-old Keshon Litesha Rivers, operated a scheme from May to August of 2025 to steal over $1.2 million from the owners of Event Décor Direct in Deerfield Beach. An investigation revealed that Rivers targeted Event Décor Direct, a company she had an established professional relationship through her own business, Lock and Key Designs. Detectives say Rivers used the stolen...

The truth of the matter is that bodycams may have been the single greatest idea to debunk the insane claims from the BLM communities that cops are systemically racist.More often than not, bodycam footage from police altercations actually shows the danger that police officers are in on a day-to-day basis rather than showing them acting with impunity and seeking out altercations with minorities.You could make the argument that they have been the driving force in dealing a deathblow to the BLM movement.

A South Carolina woman who believed she was buying a puppy was ambushed by three brutes who fatally shot her, set her body on fire and left her to burn inside a car on the side of the road.Dana Marie Kinlaw, 40, was lured to a rural road in Effingham, South Carolina, on Jan. 22 when she was allegedly killed by 19-year-old Iryanna Jarissa Fleming and 31-year-old Daquinn Taheen Thomas and Nikko Christopher Carraway, according to the Florence County Sheriff’s Office. Officials believe Kinlaw’s death was part of a retaliation murder for a recent killing in neighboring Darlington County, WBMF...

A viral post featuring a notice from a local McDonald’s restaurant is drawing new attention to concerns about rising crime in Uptown Minneapolis. Attached to a door, the sign reads: "Attention guests, effective Friday, December 5th, our dining room doors will be locked and attended [to] during our normal business hours of 5am-10pm to ensure a safe environment." "We will deny access to any individual who we consider a risk to maintaining a safe environment for our guests," it continued. McDonald's confirmed the notice to Fox News Digital. Mike Darula, local owner and operator of the franchise, told Fox News...

The video also showed the black student running back up to the stabbing victim after the attack screaming “white b*tch!” before he was stopped by another individual. Charges in the stabbing were pending after the incident.

The House Democrat accused of stealing $5 million in FEMA funds called the indictment against her an attack on “Black and brown people.” Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) on Wednesday was indicted for allegedly stealing millions in relief funds and using a portion of the money to fund her campaign in 2022. Earlier in the year, the state of Florida sued Trinity Health Care Services for overpaying the company for a Covid-19 vaccination contract. Instead of correcting the supposed issue, the CEO of Trinity — Cherfilus-McCormick — allegedly loaned herself the money to invest in the campaign. The Justice Department accused...

SNAP beneficiaries have expressed outrage on social media over the government shutdown that could affect their grocery benefits starting next month, and some are even threatening to ransack stores if food stamp payments don’t go through starting Nov. 1. "It is the taxpayer’s responsibility to take care of my kids," one emotional mother said in a video posted online. "It is the taxpayer's job to pay for my kids to eat and for my kids to be taken care of." The same woman also complained about how none of her TikTok followers had sent her money, warning she would block...

For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America. Last week's Billboard Hot 100 marked the end of a remarkable 35-year streak, after Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" - a 13-week No. 1 hit - dropped off the chart. With that departure, the genre that once dominated the nation's listening habits found itself completely absent from the chart's upper tier. Not since February 1990 has the Billboard Hot 100 gone without a rap entry in its upper ranks. The gap has been widened by Taylor Swift's...

A new species of butterfly has just been named after Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee who was brutally murdered on the Charlotte, NC light rail in August. The butterfly is very beautiful and has been officially named “Iryna’s Azure.” Take a look: Matt Van Swol @matt_vanswol · Follow 🚨#BREAKING: A scientist who discovered a new species of butterfly has named it after Iryna Zarutska to ensure "she is never forgotten." The scientist said, "Her name will be forever immortalized as a butterfly..." The butterfly is called "Iryna's Azure." 🚨WOW! A scientist has just named a newly-discovered butterfly species after Iryna...

A Biden-appointed judge gave Letitia James her first win on Friday. Corrupt New York Attorney General Letitia James was arraigned in court in Norfolk, Virginia, on Friday morning. Letitia James’ federal criminal case was assigned to US District Judge Jamar Walker, a Biden appointee. Jamar Walker was appointed by Joe Biden in 2023. James was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia earlier this month. According to the DOJ, Letitia James was charged with two crimes: Bank Fraud under 18 U.S.C. Section 1344 and False Statements to a Financial Institution under 18 U.S.C. Section 1014....

Letitia James’ fugitive grand-niece at the center of the federal indictment against the New York attorney general posted a boastful, fib-filled Facebook post after her extensive criminal record became national news. “For all inquiring minds no I’m not in trouble havent been in years at all,” wrote Nakia Thompson, 36. She claimed her extensive rap sheet dating, back nearly 20 years, including two charges of assaulting cops, was “OLD AS HELL” and “fabricated.” “Very much a active mother to my children everyday, work everyday, and very much in college and about to graduate with my B.A. in Sociology with a...

Dorian Johnson, the friend of Mike Brown who started the false rumors that Brown was killed with his hands ups surrendering to police, was killed Sunday in Ferguson, Missouri. Mike Brown’s friend Dorian Johnson speaking with reporters after Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. Johnson was with Michael Brown the day he was shot dead in Ferguson. Dorian Johnson was also with Brown earlier when Brown strong-armed a convenience store owner and walked out with items he stole from the store.

This is not the hill for the Democrats to die on.I haven’t written about it here at The American Spectator, at least that I can remember, but I’m becoming a subscriber to the theory that Donald Trump is the kryptonite to Saul Alinsky’s Superman.What I mean by that is the Alinskyite Left, which encompasses basically the whole of today’s Democrat Party ever since Barack Obama took it over in the mid-2000s, is built on a definite roster of political tactics and principles, and those tactics and principles are calibrated to defeat a certain type of opponent. (RELATED: Hillary and Obama...

US Homeland Security News @defense_civil25 🚨Alert: President Trump orders US Marshals to remove Defiant Fed Governor Lisa Cook after she refuses to step down!

A groundbreaking study reveals racial bias in jury convictions, “When we break down this study we find that - Black juries have a 12% conviction rate against black defendants, vs a 59% against whites. So that indicates that there is a 47% interracial bias when you have black jurors - White juries have a 33% conviction rate against white defendants, vs a 26% against blacks, which actually demonstrates a negative 7% interracial bias Meaning whites are more likely to convict their co-racial group than they are to convict somebody across racial lines Whereas black juries have a 12% conviction rate...