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SNIP Kirkland Evan Lehto, 27, sat motionless as Rogers' family described the effect of his murder, committed for reasons not even he could explain. He said he didn't remember pulling the trigger. He said "the voices, the witches" made him do it. Jurors rejected his insanity defense during his murder trial in June, but they didn't think the killing was premeditated, either. They convicted Lehto of second-degree murder instead, sparing him an automatic life sentence and leaving his penalty to the discretion of the judge. Lehto's family and team of public defenders urged Circuit Judge Daliah Weiss to sentence Lehto...

Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) entrance into South Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial primary is setting the stage for a tumultuous intraparty battle as five Republicans vie for the state’s top executive post. Early polling shows Mace and the state’s Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) leading the primary pack, with Mace calling the primary a two-way race between her and Wilson. The two officials already have a contentious history. Earlier this year the congresswoman accused four men of sexual misconduct in a speech on the House floor and accused the state attorney general of not prosecuting the men. However, other contenders, including Lt....

A transgender bus driver took her own life by jumping in front of a train after colleagues kept referring to her as male. Ava Michal Hudson, 27, died on August 7 last year on her way to work at the Chicago Transit Authority, while in her uniform. She didn't leave a note and gave no indication she was suicidal before suddenly leaping to her death, just four days after attending her brother's wedding. 'Sadly, we’ll never fully know the reason for her death, but the pain left behind after her sudden departure has been acute,' her family wrote in her...

In a case of strange bedfellows, William Barr, former U.S. attorney general to President Donald Trump, has teamed up with Fani Willis, the Democratic prosecutor who tried the president before being tossed off the case, to try and take Trump down. A whistleblower in the investigation has alleged that Barr conspired with Willis to stop Trump’s return to the White House through her prosecution, which saw the president and 18 co-defendants charged with attempting to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Barr, whistleblower Patrícia Lélis said, joined Willis and other participants like media figure Armstrong Williams for secret meetings in Washington,...

New York City has officially opened its first shelter for transgender and gender-nonconforming people who are homeless. Officials say it’s the only city-funded shelter of its kind in the country and will help 150 transgender New Yorkers as the Trump administration has rolled back rights for the trans community, barring access to medical care, military service and federal documents that reflect their gender identity. The city is fully funding the facility in Long Island City, which will cost $65 million to operate through 2030. “ We've watched so many other corporations and foundations and businesses just like completely turn their...

With each passing week, Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican-friendly colleagues bestow never-before-enjoyed authorities upon the Trump Administration. The plan seems to be — if we grant the president everything he dreams of, maybe he’ll leave the high court unmolested. The republic may fall but we’ll still have the cool robes and life tenure. John Roberts is becoming the Neville Chamberlain of post-democratic government in America. Recent steps by the Supreme Court have allowed the executive branch to decimate the Department of Education, summarily fire tens of thousands of other civil servants, permit “third country removals” to notoriously dangerous...

In a major move aimed at restoring law, order, and basic sanity and hygiene, President Trump is taking direct action to reopen mental health institutions and end the open-air drug chaos that’s turned once-thriving cities into poop-filled war zones.

A three-year-old girl was triggered to enter precocious puberty following exposure to her trans-identified father’s “gender affirming” topical estrogen gel. The toddler was seen by pediatric endocrinologists after experiencing breast development and vaginal discharge over a time frame of six months. The father, a male who identifies as a “woman,” told clinicians that he was having daily skin-to-skin contact with the toddler girl, despite his daily application of estradiol gel 3.75mg to his chest, abdomen, shoulders, and thighs. He had previously been using an estradiol spray on his forearms only. A case study, first published in the European Society for...

Portland, Ore. — Federal police officers enraged anti-ICE agitators after using a Donald Trump impersonation voice to issue official orders to vacate ICE facility property.

Progressive politics may promise empowerment, but for many liberal women, the result appears to be rising misery and isolation. A growing body of data points to a clear trend: liberal women are statistically the most dissatisfied and mentally unwell demographic in the country, and experts say it may have more to do with worldview than circumstance. According to a 2024 survey from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), just 12% of liberal women aged 18-40 report being “completely satisfied” with their lives. In contrast, 37% of conservative women in the same age group report full satisfaction, a difference that speaks...

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If it were me, and I’d just won a large judgment based on my claim that I experienced forceful sexual assault in a department store dressing room by an aggressive and powerful man who towers over me, an experience that caused me severe trauma after the event, I wouldn’t write a book capitalizing on one of my attackers most iconic catchprases, and I certainly wouldn’t be tweeting about him nonstop, nearly thirty years after the act at the center of my lawsuit. I would want to block that man out of my life as much as possible lest his name,...

BATH, N.Y. (WETM) — A Painted Post woman was arrested on Wednesday after deputies claimed she was driving a stolen vehicle throughout Steuben County. Alesha Hunt, 32, was arrested on Wednesday, July 9, on the Following charges: Grand larceny in the second degree, a class C felony. Criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, a class D felony. Reckless endangerment in the second degree. Stalking in the fourth degree. Petit larceny Aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree. Various other traffic offenses. Hunt’s arrest stems from a reported crash and a stolen vehicle in Thurston on Wednesday. Hunt...

Unmoored from power and panicked by Trump’s momentum, the left lashes out—from Congress to campus to the street—with rage born of fear and fading influence. Across the political left, from orthodox Democrats to Antifa in the streets, the opposition to Trump has lost its collective mind. The House minority leader and now self-styled tough guy, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, poses with a baseball bat to show how dangerous he is in opposing Trump’s budget bill. Jeffries harangued Congress for eight hours; Sen. Cory Booker went on for 25—both to no effect. Bernie Sanders and AOC hit the rally trail in private...

Elon Musk has dropped another bombshell amid his ongoing feud with the White House by claiming that Donald Trump ally and ex-White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is named in the Epstein Files. Mr Musk claimed, without evidence, that Mr Bannon was in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a reply shared on social media. His post on X/Twitter, was in response to Trump ally Roger Stone who questioned why former White House advisor Steve Bannon would meet with the notorious paedophile, Mr Musk said: "Bannon is in the Epstein files." Since being shared today, the post has been seen by...

O’Donnell claimed, without evidence, that Trump’s decisions somehow negatively impacted the early warning systems for the flood waters. “What a horror story in Texas,” O’Donnell, who moved to Dublin, Ireland, earlier this year after Trump was re-elected, said in a TikTok video posted Sunday. “When the president guts all of the early warning systems and the weathering forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we’re going to start to see on a daily basis.” “It’s because he put this country in so much danger by his horrible, horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he just...

The Pennsylvania transgender coach who had been canned for inappropriate conduct, was rehired, but ultimately resigned over a porn video showing him smoking meth, recently admitted he was the one who had sent the incriminating video. David Yates, who coached tennis at Gettysburg High School and switched to the name “Sasha” in 2022, was not rehired following a pair of incidents which included him allegedly “stripping down to bra and panties” in the girls’ locker room. But Yates later reapplied for the position, and had the backing of many who claimed he’d been let go due to “transphobia.” A district...

California will not ban transgender athletes from competing in K-12 school sports or change its anti-discrimination policies to exclude them, becoming the second state after Maine to defy the Trump administration over the issue.

As Twitchy readers know, suspected Idaho gunman Wes Roley allegedly set a fire, contacted first responders, and proceeded to shoot three firefighters, two of whom sadly passed away. And of course, the usual suspects on the Left found a photo of Roley's stepfather, who happens to be a Trump supporter, and proceeded to blame MAGA and, of course, Trump himself. We would think that by now, our pals on the Left would have learned to observe the 24-hour rule, but they're so determined to make every terrible thing MAGA's fault that they can't help themselves. That, or they're all just...

After 17 years in the US Army, Maj Kara Corcoran, 39, was preparing to graduate from an elite military leadership programme. But there was a complication. Two days before the ceremony, Kara was told that she would need to conform to male regulations, which meant wearing male uniform and cutting the long blonde hair she had grown since she told the Army she identified as a woman in 2018. The directive had come from the Pentagon, and filtered down through her chain of command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. "Nothing about me is a man, but we're going to force me...